Chapter 20:Just a Teenager
Europe-Castle
I took a quite step into the next room and left Leon S. Kennedy in the statue room. I appeared to be in a library room that was filled with books and stuff. Where I was standing, there was 2 book shelves next to me and a path leading toward and then hooking a left that was lined with book shelves. The room was also kinda damp feeling as if it was raining out and some had leaked into the walls. I lifted my shotgun into a ready position and gripped the smoothed, waxed stock and put it against my elbow firmly and gently put my finger on the trigger and my left hand on the pump. I carefully stepped toward and toward and toward. I reached the end of the path and put myself against the bookshelf next to me that was making a turn around the corner and rolled my head to the side to see if anything was there. Nothing. where are they hiding now? I turned the corner and, still in the ready position, looked at the reading area. There was 4 tables all aligned in a square and one again, the book shelves lined the walls until it got to the door at the end that was wooden and old looking. I slowly walked toward to the door and reached for the wooden door knob and gently turned it with my left and my right hand still on the shotgun's trigger and the door cheeked as it opened to a room were concrete now lined the wall in yet another single, small path. I stepped in and listened for movement and nothing. The path was plain with concrete so, as I walked down the hallway, my boots made a clicking noise until I reached the corner and I turned to see a dead end. At the dead end was a big symbol of probably a family crest and it was concrete. It was too big to describe but I moved up closer to expect it and there was something else on it. There was a small, palm sized crest of the family crest that was sword that was wrapped with 2 golden snakes wrapped around it.(fake of course) I put my hand on it and pulled tight and it finally popped out and I hit the floor and from behind me the old door slam shut and locked itself. Clunk. "Ow!" I yelped and got up and started walking back to the door and then, it happened. The wall at the corner slid down with a bang and then another wall fell that had 3 big spikes on it and it started to spin. RRRR! "Holy !!!" I yelled and ran for the door. I was coming fast for me and closing in. I'm done for God! I can't open a locked door that fast! Then I remembered that it was pretty old looking so.....I was 2 feet from it and the spikes were 1 ft from me. I began to run faster and shoved the shotgun in my big hustler on my back and moved my arm out and braced myself for impact and boom! I flew threw the door and hit the floor as splinters of the door fell on top of me and BOOM, the spikes hit the wall and stayed as I laid on the floor!
"ARRRR!" a terrifying scream came from in front of me. I lifted my head up and saw 2 worshipers standing there and they changed at me with their big nails again. I jumped up and the wreckage fell off me. I then grabbed the shotgun from my back and boom! The kick from the shotgun once again did not hurt me because I was used to it and watched the 2 be blow back in mid air and hit the back bookshelf. I smiled with victory and walked back to the statue room.
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Leon lifted his gun and entered the room that was a stairwell that lead up. It was cold and musty with a smell of flesh and the walls were made of bricks and the walkway was smeared in dry blood. Oh God no.....This better not be the presidents daughter's!!! I swear..... Then I was interrupted by a roar and some of the things were coming down. One of them jumped down in front of him and it grew long nails and it started to swipe at him and bam! Bang,Bang,Bang,bang! Fluids squirted across the room as the worshiper that was covered like the rest grabbed his neck in hope for oxygen and finally hit the floor. Leon had to be more careful now and he continue up the stair well. It was an around-about like in the old ages. Leon finally ended up at a door and he entered. It lead into a dining room and there was a big, long wood table in the middle filled and piled high with dog, fish, cow, and deer meat. There were about 60 chairs around it that were turned over or sideways and a trail of blood leading right up to the table. Whew, it wasn't the daughter's blood.....What a relief. Leon cover his nose from the stench and examined the room and saw that the floors were brick and the walls were concrete. There was another door at the other end and Leon continue toward and he opened it. It lead into yet, another stairwell that was cold again. He continued up the round-about and opened, this time, double doors. It lead to a hall that was lined with statues and scrolls in front of them that were spread out and at the end was a plague. Leon was warmer in this room and he continue toward and to the plague. There was 2 golden statues next to it and the floor was not a read carpet now, it was marble. Leon looked at the brown plague of a Umbrella Corp. symbol and in the middle was a family crest that had a shield and 2 golden turtles were pictured on it. Leon grabbed it and pulled at it until it came out. He turned and walked toward the door reached for the nob but then....
"ARRRR!!!!" Another worshiper came out from behind the statue and hit the floor in front of him. Leon jumped back and started to run but was iturpted because the walls were closing in and spikes snapped out of the statues. Leon stopped dead in his tracks and whipped his gun and trained it at the worshiper and shot. Bang, Bang. It dropped dead and Leon ran through the door and he ran down the steps in a rush not wanting to see what happens next if it did.
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I entered the statue room and sat on the marble floor waiting for Leon. I shut my eyes a bit and thought about some things. I was just about to fall asleep when the door next to me swung open and slammed shut. I jumped up and pulled the shotgun out and aimed at the person that stood there breathing in heavily like as if he ran down 2 flights of stairs and down a long path. He scared me half to death. It was Leon,"What happened? Did you find her yet?" I asked and Leon shook his head.
"Nothing." he said as simple as it was.
"Damn! Where else can we look now?!"
"I did find something else."
"What is it?"
"We overlooked something." Leon said as he stopped resting and put his hand out, his fist clenched, and opened his hand to reveal the same symbol he had.
"I have that thing too on my end. Here," I lifted my hand out too and showed him the symbol,"but mine has a sword and snakes." I put it back in my pocket and walked over to the statue of Jesus. I shook my head and closed my eyes to it as if it was going to tell us what we're missing but it did practically! I opened my eyes and there in plain sight were a space of a shape of a sword and a shield on the base of the statue! "Wait, over here! Look at this, it's a miracle for Christ's sake!!!!" I jumped up and down and dropped to the floor and put the snake in and then Leon threw his over and I slipped mine in and boom! The stature moved back and into the wall. In there was a path turned from the statue. I grabbed the shotgun out of the hostler and ran down the path and Leon followed suit. When I turned from the statue, the sword fell out and I grabbed it. There was a metal door at the end and I grabbed the handle bar sticking out and pulled at the cold bar. It wouldn't budge, then Leon came over with the heavy sounds of his boots against the floor. He gabbed the bar too and we pulled together. It finally opened and hot, musty air came rushing out of the boxed, dark room behind it. Click, Leon turned his flashlight turned on and he shown it into the darkness and we stepped in. It was quite and the room was plain concrete and it was just a big boxed room.
"Is that her?" Leon said and I turned around to see what her was talking about and there, there was a teenage girl slumped over against the wall with her eyes shut. I jumped over and quickly put my index finger and middle finger together and gently brushed my fingers on her neck feeling her smooth skin and checked for a pulse. She opened her eyes but I was to busy to notice and she punched me hard in the gut and I fell back and grabbed my stomach in pain and she jumped up. She did a round-about kick and it hit my skull knocking me way back and I hit the floor hard. "Oh Jesus! What did you do to him? Wait, are you the president's daughter, Ashley?" Leon asked as he forgot about me laying on the floor in pain.
"Y...Yes...Yes, I am Ashley. What do you want with me you, you bastards!" she yelled out.
"I am from the US government. Agent Leon S. Kennedy and this is Mark Enco, who is a weapon specialist. You father sent me here for you so we can get back home." Leon said proudly and he saluted her. She followed suit.
"Thank you. I knew my father would send someone for me." she said happily and they started to walk out of the room. I got up from my position and felt kinda dizzy and slumped out of the room.