Author's note: Well, well, well I finally got 100 reviews! Faints This rocks! Anyways In a couple of weeks I am leaving to go to Calgary and will be staying there from the 17th of May to the 19th. And since my birthday is coming up soon I plan on writing a HUGE chapter, I'll update that on the 8th so that will most likely be my next update time. So here's chapter 17!
Dedicated to Cyram, who is my 100th reviewer!
With this ink in our skin we've sealed our fate,
and the axe comes early
(only naturally) So what does that matter?
There's a bed of skeletons waiting for me,
on the other side
They're waiting for my next move (next fatal breath)
Human lives to me seem so unreal, can't see through the fog
(nothing past a grey wall) see past the stereotype
Belief, structure built up in you.
I'll tear you down and the one who created you
Reminissions" By: Avenged Sevenfold
How long is the night?
Chapter 17
The call
Leon woke up. His body was limp and he was sprawled out on the burnt grass that lay under him. Leon stood up and found Ashley not too far away with her face burried in a flower bed. She opened her eyes and began to cough up dirt.
Leon looked around and searched around the crisp area.
Ada was missing.
"Damn it."
"What's wrong?" Ashley asked, her face still full of dirt. "Where's the woman in the red dress?"
"Gone."
Leon turned around and walked to the end of the lawn. When he reached the road he called back to Ashley to follow and they began to make their way towards the city.
They stopped at a park full of trees and shrubs and quickly ducked behind a bush when several people walked by. Leon and Ashley leaned closer to the to try to hear what they were saying but their voices were muffled when a shout came from behind them.
Leon grabbed his gun and pointed it at the person who was yelling something to them in a strange language that disturbingly reminded him of spanish.
Ashley stood up from her position and glanced at the person, studying it's skin to make sure it wasn't gray, only to find that it was discolored.
"Leon I think it'sa plaga victim!"
The person ran forward, arms extended, the desire to strangle Leon burning in its eyes.
Leon shot the person once in the leg to see if Ashley was right and was rewarded with blood and a pus-like color of blood. He shot it once more in the leg, trying to topple it over but the person stood back up and staggered after Leon.
Finally Leon pulled the trigger one more time and felled the parasite victim. A single bullet to the head did the trick.
"So this place is full of Ganados?" Ashley walked over to Leon and glanced down at the body lying in a pool of it's own blood. She froze when the body began to twitch back and forth in a spasmodic way.
They watched as the body began to pulse. It started in the lower left leg of the body, then slowly came up to the left arm. They could see something wriggling around inside, trying to make its way out by the looks of it.
Leon and Ashley stepped back at the same time when the arm exploded in a mess of muscle and skin tissue.
There, inside the arm wrapped tightly around the bone of its victim, a parasite sat starring up at them with beady eyes. It cocked it's head to one side then lunged forward, opening its mouth and reveiling a very sharp looking set of teeth.
It leaped towards Ashley, landing just infront of her feet. Then it looked up at her and jumped up.
Leon shot the parasite and watched as it slumped down and went still. He made sure that it wasn't alive, then gestured for Ashley to follow him as he walked down the road where the other Ganados were walking down.
The parasite opened its eyes and looked around. It's eyes rested on the body of the fallen Ganado and then it dragged its body over to it's victim. The parasite lodged itself deep inside the wound on the left arm and began to quickly make the Ganado into a new puppet.
Leon and Ashley looked down the street and around every little corner but found none of the people that had walked past earlier. They found a back alley that was very open and it was good in a way that if they got cornered they could easily fight the Ganados off.
By now Leon and Ashley were near a bunch of abandoned whearhouses where the windows were dusty and broken, the roofing was coming off and the whole area screamed 'danger'.
Ashley had found one that looked like some one had just been in recently. She walked up to a greenish-brown door that almost hung off its hinges and opened it. She stepped inside and coughed when her lungs filled up with the dust the floated around everywhere.
Leon entered shortly after Ashley did and looked around. He saw something on the dusty floor and knew that they had to be shoe prints. Leon warned Ashley to be on the look out for anything then continued to look around himslef.
They found a tiny office room filled with nothing more than business papers and a tipped over desk. Ashley suggested that they leave because it was creeping her out just by being in an old building that smelt like mold and was completely deserted.
So Leon and Ashley made their way back to the door and walked outside, breathing in the fresh air.
Ashley was wandering down the hallway when she saw something coming around the corner. She tried to turn around and run but the thing through itself at her and landed on her legs, causing her scream out in pain.
Leon whirled around to see the Ganado that he had killed trying to take a bite out of Ashley. He ran towards them with his gun loaded but it was too late because the Ganado had it's mouth open and was just inches away from biting Ashley.
To Leon's surprise he saw the Ganado suddenly fall back. He saw a trail of blood seep out from a tiny dot on it's head.
Ashley stood up and turned around. Then they both looked around for whatever had killed the Gandao.
Up on the roof of an old building they saw a figure. They watched as it neared them and dropped down from the roof and was walking down the back alley.
The man stood about six feet high. He had wavy dirty blonde hair. On his face there were multiple scars and fresh cuts and he wore a black patch over his right eye.
The man held onto a sniper rifle posessively and held out a gloved hand to shake with Leon.
"Hello there. The name is Barret."
"Leon." He shook the stranger's hand and then watched as he introduced himself to Ashley.
"What are you guys doing in a place like this? Are ya crazy or something?"
"Looking for the president."
"Him? Well you won't be finding him anywhere around here. Some guys in black took him away in a helicopter just before all this sickness spread about."
Ashley looked at Barret. He had to be in his mid-thirties. It looked like he had done a lot of fighting. She began to wonder if he knew about any of the other cities, or the rest of the world.
"Excuse me Barret, but do you know anything about any of the other cities?"
"They're all the same kid, death and destruction is all you're going to find."
Ashley cursed under her breath and looked down at the ground. Then all her thoughts focused on her father.
Where could he be?
The car rolled along the cleared off highway. Ada sat in the back seat watching the driver with little intrest. She looked out the window, resting her head on her fist.
When she had woken up from the explosion she expected to find Leon, but instead was met with a needle point that had been driven into her neck to knock her out once again. Then she had woken up sitting upright in the back seat of a car.
She knew where she was going...Wesker's hide out.
Ada hadn't had any major headaches or memory blockage for a while now. She could never remember anything except Leon, who kept on appearing all the time. She always had some faint memory of who Wesker really was too.
Then the mention of the plaga sample seemed to stir up some more memories that would never stay in her head for a long enough time for her to remember them correctly. As soon as she got a chance to talk to Wesker she was going to find out what had happened to her.
Ada began to trace her finger down the scar that ran down her face.
Did this have something to do with her memory loss? Or the strange headaches?
The car began to slow down and Ada looked through the windsheild to see some mountains starting to spring up. She averted her attention back to her window and stared blankly out of it at the changing scenery.
A beeping noise filled the car. The driver reached down to his belt and grabbed a phone. He held it to his ear and mumbled something that Ada couldn't understand. Then the driver looked back and spoke quietly into the phone.
"She's up."
Ada watched as the driver shook his head and then put his phone away. He turned around and brought out another needle to put Ada to sleep.
She tried to get as far away from it as possible but she just couldn't. The needle went into her leg and then soon everything began to fade slowly away...
When Ada awoke for the third time that day she was sitting in a black leather chair. She looked around and saw a wooden door to the far side of the room that she was in. The door opened suddenly and a tall man walked in with his hair plastered back to the shape of his skull.
"Wesker," Ada said, pointing to the scar on her face."What's this scar from?"
Leon, Ashley, and Barret were sitting down under a tree in the park where the Ganados had been seen walking earlier. Barret had shot about fifteen of them and five or so more gray creatures.
The sun was warm but the air was slowly beginning to get colder as the late afternoon was aproching. There were no noises in the city, making it calm and peaceful but it always held a mysterious silence to the ears.
Barret was giving Leon some more handgun ammo when the beeper on his phone went off. He grabbed it quickly, not wanting to attract any attention. He flipped the top of the phone up and held it to his ear.
"What do you want?"
There was no answer. Barret shut the phone and placed it on the ground in front of him.
"Who was it?" Ashley asked.
"Nobody was there, must be the phone."
"So what are you planning on doing Barret?" Leon questioned.
"Guess I'll just stick around you guys. There's no one else here that's for sure."
The beeper went off again. Barret grabbed it and answered with a little more forced in his voice.
"You know this isn't-"
"So you must be Barret?" Came a cool, calm voice from the other end.
"Yes, who's this?"
"Give the phone to our little friend Leon."
Barret shrugged his shoulders and handed the phone to Leon.
"What?" He said in a pissed off tone.
"Calm yourself Leon."
"What do you want?"
"A little visit of course."
"Who's this?"
Leon heard the person from the other end take the phone away from their ear. Then he heard some one trying to scream but it was muffled. Then he realizd who it was.
"What did you do to Ada?" Leon snapped.
"Nothing, I think we should have a meeting. Don't you agree?"
Leon looked up at the sky for a moment and sighed. He looked at Ashley and Barret then concentrated on the call. "Where is it?"
There was a light chuckle from the other end, then silence.
Leon was about to hang up when he heard the caller speak again.
"Raccoon City."
Reviewer responses:
KhasKlwn- Ashley was stuttering because she was cold I kindda meant tried to make her sound like she was shivering. Thanks for the review.
Cyram- Ah ha you gave me review #100! dances around I hope thisout reviews my other stories! I hope you update your story soon! It'sawesome!
crazygirl306- They'll be getting into way more trouble now! evil laugh
The one and only-Ace- I'm glad you liked the self destruct idea. Thanks for the review and don't worry I try to updat every week.