Author's note: A few annoying mistakes were took out, a few new scenes added, and all that fun stuff. More updates will be made soon. Also, reviewer responses were taken out since FanFiction no longer allows them.

Medicate the mind
Recover and Evaluate
Pills swallowed
Sleep sets in
Enter the other side

Splintered visions
Brought on by your mind
Splintered visions
Believing the lies

Recollection thoughts.
Trying to understand.
One more pill to sedate.
Diminishing the pain.

Splintered Visions- Into Eternity

How long is the night?

Chapter 3

Red eyes of the past

They were looking into a hoard of red eyes. Big, red, evil looking eyes that were just waiting for some new prey. Each and every one of them were armed with some form of a weapon, mostly axes and household tools. There were masses of them, watching and waiting for their them to make the slightest movement.

"W-w-what are those things?"

When Ashley didn't receive an answer from Leon she knew that he must have been debating on what to do. After all they were faced with a tight situation. Finally, several minutes later the older man spoke, calm and unaffected at the obstacle that lay ahead.

"Don't move."

"Why not?"

"Because they're waiting for us to move, it's not that hard to figure out."

"Then what the hell are we supposed to do?"

Leon opened his mouth to speak, but he was cut off when he spotted a massive wave of flames, the intense heat brushing past their faces as they pooled over the red-eyed humans, if you could call them that. He grabbed Ashley's hand and quickly ducked behind a broken concrete wall.

The heat that was produced from the flames was so hot that a sign overhead began to drip away. Every big bold letter was reduced to liquid, just as threatening to them as the flames were, especially since its minimum temperature could fry their skin off. Looking upwards, they watched, horrified, as a large drop of molten plastic came hurling towards them. Once again Leon saved them both.

Once they were out of danger, Leon and Ashley stood back up from their fallen positions on the ground and turned to face the path of destruction. Silently, they looked at the disaster caused by the flames. Crispy bodies lay sprawled out on the road, any billboards or signs had been demolished, leaving no traces of them whatsoever, and several buildings had been set ablaze.

"I wonder what that was," questioned Ashley.

"Some sort of explosion, by the looks of it. At least it got rid of those things."

"What were they anyways?"

"I hope I'm not right," was the only answer she got.

They looked around before they began to walk up the road in silence. Ashley bunched her face up with disgust as they stepped over the burnt bodies. Her shoes came in contact with the side of a crispy corpse; this caused her to jump in the air in horror.

"That was disgusting!"

"Relax, you've seen enough of that to have gotten used to it by now."

"Whatever," Ashley grumbled.

Now they were in the exact same spot that the things had been standing in. Leon looked around, catching a shinning metal object to the side, followed by a very large clutter of various sharp weapons. Black blades of the once shiny knives were scattered all over the place. Leon even found a burnt pistol at the corner of one of the streets.

"Something really bad must have happened here," inquired Ashley.

The main road that they were traveling on ended at an intersection. Buses were tipped over and many other large vehicles. Together they formed a wall that looked like it stretched on through buildings and back alleys too.

"It looks like they're trying to block us off," Leon said.

"And we're going over it because...?"

A loud noise erupted from the side. They looked over to see a staggering human making it's way towards them. It was making savage noises and was wildly swinging a really sharp looking butcher knife in the air. Blood stained it's burnt face and pooled out from underneath whatever clothes, which wasn't much, that hadn't been incinerated in the blast.

"Ashley get back." Leon pulled forth his shotgun, which surprisingly, even to him, had survived everything so far. He aimed it expertly and fired off a single round, hitting his intended target.

It's body was flung back with the force of the blow. Skin tissue and blood flew everywhere. The knife it was holding fell from its lifeless hands and made a clanking noise and echoed as it hit the ground.

"I don't think that was the last."

"Was it infected like all the others were at the strange village and island?"

"I don't know, but we should get moving."

Leon walked over to the wall of vehicles and placed his hand on one of them and pulled himself up. He stood on a trashed bus and glanced down at Ashley, who looked rather clueless.

"You want me to climb up there?"

"Well if you want to get home."

Ashley took a cautious step forwards, unsure if the wall was solid enough to climb on, but did regardless of what she thought. She saw Leon aim the pump action shotgun behind her and quickly turned around to see a rather grotesque being staggering forwards. She let out a high-pitched scream as it drew out a weapon.

Leon shouted for the President's daughter to hide behind something so the pellets within the shotgun wouldn't find themselves into her skin and aimed the gun once she obeyed, killing whatever the thing was in a single hit.

Ashley came out from her hiding spot, placing her hands on her hips and glaring up at Leon. Instead of commenting on the fact that if she hadn't been any quicker the pellets would have hit her, she moved forward, only sparing a quick glance backwards at the lifeless body sprawled out on the ground.

The girl quickly started to climb the wall of wreckage. It was tricky getting past all the broken windshields and sharp pieces of twisted metal, but Ashley managed. She reached Leon's spot after working hard not no fall backwards. From up high she turned carefully and looked down at the road. She felt her stomach turn. They really were up high.

Leon signaled for Ashley to follow him once she was done fretting at the height they were at and walked to the other side, Ashley in tow. They stood on the side of a crushed bus and looked down at the ground from their new position. Ashley quickly looked up instead of down, afraid that she might throw up whatever contents were in her stomach.

"Ashley, keep a watch out behind us, looks like we've got another problem."

She nodded her head and did what she was told.

Unstrapping several grenades that he had managed to save from the insane island, Leon watched as a group of disfigured things neared and tossed it into them. Some of the walking abominations failed to stop so Leon once again resorted to using his shotgun, quickly reloading it, and fired away. When they should have fallen down, lifeless and unmoving, and hadn't, Leon reached for his binoculars and zoomed onto them, disbelieving what he saw.

One remained out of them all, sauntering forwards with a blood stained mouth. Leon noticed that this guy was not infected at all. The way he walked was abnormal and his eyes looked very weird, making them appear like they were rolled back inside of his head. The blood around the rim of it's mouth only proved his dreaded suspicions to be correct.

Leon aimed for the head, pulled the trigger and watched as it finally died. He turned to Ashley and answered her silent, but obvious question as to what exactly that thing was.

"They aren't infected like the villagers were, they're zombies."