Chapter 5

Chris entered the room labeled only as Chem. Labs. He cautiously made his way to the center of the room where he saw a spray can. Once in the center of the room he saw the spray can was a first aid spray. "SCORE!" yelled Chris with joy. His yell was followed by the sound of something moving in the corner of the room. Chris brought his pistol up ready to shoot what ever it was in the corner of the room. But when the figure made it out into the little light that was left in the room Chris noticed that it wasn't a zombie. It was just a little girl who was possibly trapped in the building or maybe she worked here or something he wasn't really sure.

"Hey little girl what are you doing here?" Chris asked softly but still had his gun ready.

"My mommy worked here before those things got loose I was trying to find her but i got lost in the hallways." said the little girl with obvious fear in her voice

"I'm trapped in here to. You should stick with me maybe we can get out of here together. By the way my name is Chris whats yours?" Chris asked sticking his hand out in a friendly gesture.

"I'm Layla nice to meet you Chris." said the little girl

"Layla thats a pretty name." Chris said

Chris and Layla began looking through the remaining stuff in the room in hopes of finding something that would be worth using. After about thirty minutes of ransacking the room they had found only five things; First aid spray, Ammo, medical tape, Green herb, and a Lighter.

Blade walked through the door that he had just opened only to find what he didn't really want to find. The room labeled only as testing because of the condition the door was in turned out to be animal testing there were dogs that had rotting flesh on them and there was what appeared to be a gorilla that had green flesh. Blade surveyed the room hoping to find a way around the dogs and the "Gorilla" but saw none so he slowly moved forward only to bang his foot off of a cage. The noise startled the dog and it slowly turned and sniffed the air and immeaditely pointed at Blade and snarled its lips and lunged at him.

Blade quickly unslung the shot gun and fired a round right through the decaying head of the dog. By this time they had gotten the "Gorilla"'s attention and it turned on Blade almost instantly it went from looking at a gorilla to something Blade would expect to find in a freaking comic book. It lunged at him like a hunter would to its prey, Blade moved out of the way at the last second and turned to fire the shotgun only to have it knocked away by the things huge claws.

"Whoa those things look sharp" Blade said aloud

Blade jumped backwards to get some distance from the monster and unslung the assualt rifle and pointed at the monster ready to pull the trigger he had forgotten that he was airborne and crashed into another cage. Landing in a heap he imeaditly tried to re aim the rifle but the damn thing was faster then it looked and moved out of the way and started to close the distance between it and Blade. Blade had almost had the rifle reaimed when the thing jumped on the wall and started to run along the wall. He gave up on the rifle and pulled out the magnum and fired a well lead round into the things back it dropped to the ground. Blade walked up to the thing put the barrell less then an inch away from the things skull as it hissed and growled in pain.

"Say Goodnight Magilla." BANG! the shot rang through the room and into Blades ears.

"Ouch can't say that was the smartest thing I've ever done." said Blade as he reached for the shotgun his ears still ringing from the shot.

Blade walked through the door in the back of the room and into another stair well. As he decended the stair well he heard that unholy Howl once again and decided that he should pick up the pace and haul some ass to get to the bottom of the stair well and on to the next level. When he opened the door at the end of the stairwell he found something he definately was not expecting. His Friend from high school James was standing in the door with a nasty looking cut on his arm and a look on his face that could scare even lucifer himself.

"James?" Blade asked Cautiously

"Yeah thats me. Is that you Karl?" said James through clenched teeth and pain

"Yeah its me. By the way they call me Blade now. What exactly are you doing in this hell hole any way?" Blade asked

"Well I was minding my own business smoking some mary-jane and some fucker come up behind me and hit me with something very big and very hard." James said angerly

"How did you get that cut if they hit you on the head." Blade asked gesturing to the gash on James' arm

"Oh that. Well I got that from that thing over there in the corner." James said gesturing with his uninjured arm

When Blade looked in the corner he saw one of those things he had just killed in the other room only this one was missing a hand and said hand could be found in its skull. Blade stood there looking amazed. What took him four tries and a magnum to kill took James a sharp object with an edge the creatures hand and an unmatchable anger.

"HOLY SHIT JAMES!" Blade yelled

"What?" James said kinda of stupified

You killed that thing with your bare hands!" Blade said still kind of in shock

"Yeah Fucking thing pissed me off." said James

"I can see that." Blade said

When the two friends were done catching up with things Blade patched up James arm with the remaining items of the Medkit he found in the armory. They started to make their way to the lower levels with James having half of Blades weaponry just to make it fair.

Chris and Layla were about two floors down from where they met and had met no oposition, which was good cause who wants to get in a fight with a little girl behind you. They made their way to the top floor of the building and opened the last door that led to a room and when they opened it they immeadiately shut it as fast as they could. Inside the room was another one of those things that was howling throught the stair wells only this one was standing in one spot with obviously nothing to terriorize. Chris looked at Layla and the two exchanged worried glances as Chris reopened the door and carefully took aim with his pistol for the back of its head hoping it would kill it.

BANG! the shot rang through the room hitting the thing in the head. It stumbled but turned around bore its teeth let loose a blood chilling howl and gave chase. Chris picked up Layla and started running for his life. Instead of taking the stairs he wouldgo low enough so when he jumped he wouldn't hurt himself when he landed and would jump. In about a thrity minutes they were halfway to were Blade and James were casually walking along meeting no opposition.

Blade and James were walking along when they heard a loud crashing noise behind them. They whirled around to find that huge thing that Chris had accidently let out and apperantly pissed off in the process and it was definately chasing them. They looked at each other nodded silently and jumped in opposite directions and started opening fire straight at the thing. James with the shotgun Blade with the M-4. The shots rang in the room the creature began to stumble loosing its balance and falling to the ground. Blade and James got up from their positions walked up to the thing put the barrells to its head and pulled the trigger.

By the time they were finished cleaning off their barrells from the creatures blood Chris burst through the door Layla in his arms yelling...

"GET YOUR ASSES IN GEAR THEIR IS ONE PISSED OFF THING BEHIND ME!"

Blade and James started running after Chris cleared that thing they downed in one jump they figured that if he is that pumped to do that then we should run. The three of them were running with no regard as to what was near them in front of them or behind them they wanted out. An hour later they were busting through the front door where they collapsed from all the running.