Author's note: This the chapter where I let you know who the mystery person is! Mu hu ha ha! Just a couple more chapters left and this story is complete. Thanks to everyone that reviewed!

Reviewer responses:

Luna-starr- Thanks for the review! I hope you update your resident evil story soon, gotta love the humor! And don't worry, Ada won't kill Leon.

Foggy Brains- Hey you! Ha ha you had to go to school on tuesday! Anyways you should get your internet back just poke your dad until he falls over. Mu hu ha ha ha. And I'll give you one hint about the mystery person: it's not Rebecca. I feel evil :D

KhasKlwn- Yes Wesker knows that she can talk, but he doesn't kow what's going to happen in this chapter:evil laugh:

crazygirl306- Thanks for the compliment. I can update this story way more often now that school is basically over so expect maybe two every week, it all depends.

The one and only-Ace- Thank ya for the review...I feel like a cowboy now...

I put the reviewer responses here because I felt that I had to otherwise I wouldn't put them in again.

Bitter hate fuels my existence
Emptiness fills time
A constant state of mental illness
Self worth decreasing
Demoralize
Drown myself in a black sea of agony

My conscience with grief
Led myself astray once more
Nothing seems real
Disillusional shadow

"Burried into oblivion" By: Into Eternity

How long is the night?

Chapter 25

Make me free

October 2, 2004

It had been a day since the truck containing Barret inside had slipped off the little tree. A day of nothing but mourning. A day and nobody knew where they would go from where they were. A day where they all felt like turning back, but they couldn't.

The brisk morning air engulfed everyone that sat around a little makeshift campfire. They were all cold and hungry, having nothing left to eat anymore after their bag full of food was in the truck that they were riding in. Each of their noses was a cherry color and each of them were sniffling.

A strong breeze came up and blew the fire out. They all just stared at the charred place where the flame had once been. None of them moved. They just didn't want to.

Leon couldn't stand this anymore. They were going to end up as food for the creatures that Wesker had created. If they just sat where they were then nobody would be able to take Wesker down, nobody would be able to rescue Ada.

Sitting up and surprising everyone present, Leon looked at them all.

"We have to get moving."

There was no reply.

"Then I'm going alone."

"I'm going with you." It was Michael. He also stood up and went to go stand by Leon.

The others slowly stood up, they didn't want to be left behind. Leon went over to the bag that Jill had and threw it towards her.

"Get ready, we're going."

Gun in hand, they all started heading further into the forest.

Nothing attacked them. The forest was silent, much to their displeasure, but it was better than having the noises of those things all around them.

The morning breeze had lifted and was replaced with a warmer one and the sun as well. It shone through the trees, creating shadows of the leaves that clothed them. Every once in a while they would hear the odd chirp of a bird. Now there were some noises and it actually made everyone at ease for the time being.

In the distance Leon could make out a couple of large rocks that provided some shade. He directed everyone there and they all sat down, thankful for the break in their walk.

Jill and Michael went to go look for berries and other edible items while Ashley went in search for some water. Leon stayed behind and kept a look out just inncase someone or something happened along their little resting area.

Ashley was the first one back, having no luck in finding any water besides a dirty pond that wasn't all that far away. Jill and Michael returned shortly after with handfulls of berries, their shirts and pants stained with the juices that the berries held.

When everyone was settled they began to eat their share of food. Their hungry stomachs were put to rest, if only for a bit. The shade cooled them off and it turned out to be a pretty good afternoon. After everyone was finished eating they prepared themselves for another long walk and headed back into the forest.

Leon kept to the back while Jill was at the front of their travelling group. Michael and Ashley stayed in the middle of them, not having as much experience with the undead as the other two.

While they were walking along in a single file line, something beside them moved. Everyone froze and drew their guns out and pointed it at the bush that began to rustle.

They all rested their fingers on the trigger of their gun and were about to shoot when someone emerged from the bush, someone they hadn't seen in a long time, well at least Leon and Ashley.

There, standing before them was someone that they were not expecting to find in this forest.

It was Vivica.

Her skin was pale, a lot more than it was before. Her hair color was still the same although it had some leaves and branches embedded in it. Her clothes were a bit torn and her eyes looked rather bland, not even simular to what they were when Leon and Ashley had first met her.

"Is that you Vivica?" Ashley asked, uncertain that she was real or not, dead or alive.

"The one and only. Where were you guys anyways?"

"What do you mean?" This time it was Leon who asked a question.

"I went to Washington, but you guys were no shows."

"There was an inccident," Leon stated, trying not to become angered that Barret was dead. After all that was where they had first met him.

"So what happened to you while we were gone?" Ashley questioned yet again.

"I..." Vivica looked to the side for a moment, then back to Ashley. "I don't really remember." She let out a nervous laugh. "I'm always so forgetful...heh heh."

"Well," Jill said breaking the uneasy silence that had started to bloom. "We better get moving."

"I'm coming with you."

Several rocks bounced down the mountain side under their feet. This was the last stretch of land before they would reach Raccoon City. It was really starting to become quite humid out and they were all having a hard time keeping their balance on the slippery rocks that gave them no foot holds whatsoever.

Michael was making his way around some boulders when his feet slipped from underneith him. He felt his body plummet down and could hear the wind rush over his ears creating a sound simular to a whistle. Bracing himself for the impact of the rocks, Michael closed his eyes.

But he never made it.

Michael looked up to see that he was hanging there, Vivica holding onto his hand.

She helped him up and he began to wonder how someone that young could do that. He looked away when he swore that he saw a hint of red flash through her eyes before she hauled him up and they began walking again.

Vivica kept mostly to herself. She didn't want to carry out what she was destined to do. She had just remembered all their names. Life wasn't going all too well for her. Not at all.

Kicking a rock that was in her way, Vivica watched it fly up above her and land in her hands where she threw it up and down. She had no idea that Michael had informed Jill on what had happened and now they both had their eyes trained on her to make sure she didn't do anything out of the ordinary. But Vivica soon sensed their gaze and looked to the ground just before she had almost tripped over one.

When Michael and Jill looked away and started up a quiet conversation while Leon scouted behind and Ashley just behind them, Vivica glanced behind her and caught a glimpse of Leon. Suddenly, in a rush of seering hot pain, memories came flooding back. Her head felt like it was pulsing and her mind ached from them.

Not wanting to draw any attention to herself, Vivica bit her lip and drew a fair amount of blood in the process. She felt her eyes want to burst out from the pressure that the memories seemed to cause. Vivica was about to scream when a voice filled her mind, ripping the memories in half and tossing them to the side like pieces of torn paper.

"Don't give in so easily," the voice echoed inside her head, one that Vivica knew all too well. It disgusted her.

"Get out of my head!"

"I'm afraid that's not possible. Remember you have a job to do here."

"And if I refuse?"

"Well..."

It felt like a million tonnes of rock had been dumped on her head at that moment. There was a feeling in her stomach that made her organs twist and turn. She could help it this time, she just had to. Vivica released her hold on her lip and screamed.

Everyone was at her side in an instant. They watched as she clutched her skull and began mummbling something about trying to escape. Everyone was about to get up, thinking that it must of been some kind of freaky headache when they saw a thin line of blood trickle down each side of her head that came out of her ears.

Jill, despite the suspicions she held towards Vivica, got some medical items right away. She rushed to the younger girl's side and was about to wipe the blood away when she noticed that it wasn't there at all. Not a sign that it had once been there, no wipe marks. There was nothing.

"Did you learn your lesson?"

"Fuck you," Vivica spat. She wished so much that she could strangle that cold hearted bastard.

"So do we have an understanding?"

"No. I'm not doing it."

"You can't prevent that and you know it."

"You'll just have to kill me then."

"No, I think it would be much more entertaining to watch you murder Leon."

"Go to hell."

"I think I've had enough of you."

There was a tingling sensation that crept up Vivica. She became numb and felt that she couldn't speak, couldn't move. She had no control over her body. She felt helpless and wanted nothing more than to die. Slowly she felt an unwelcomed presence enter her.

She was losing control...

Jill watched as Vivica stood up and seemed to be uneffected at all from the outburst that she had just had. She watched the girl as she looked at everyone and pointed to the left of them. There were mountains and also a place where they could easily pass through without much trouble.

"Sorry about that. If we go that way we can make it there before sundown."

"And how do you know this?" Jill questioned.

"I've already been through there. Lets go before we're too late."

"Wait a minute. Are you leading us into a trap or something?"

"Jill, that's enough," Leon interupted. "We were going to go that way anyways so don't worry."

They became quiet until Ashley spoke up.

"We should rest, everyone is tired."

Everyone agreed and everyone had gone off somewhere, promising to return to the place where they had departed.

Vivica sat on an old, uprooted tree. She had been aloud to have some control for the time being and was now weeping silently. She held her knees to her chest and let her long hair cover her face, away from the world, away from him.

She had one moment of peace before the damned voice entered her head once again. This time there was no one around and Vivica felt safe enough to talk out loud.

"Go away," she said in a stern voice.

"No such luck."

"Leave me alone."

"You're going to kill Leon. I've set up a ambush in the pass. Lead them there and I'll grant you some more control," the voice echoed.

"I'm not going to kill Leon."

From behind a fairly large boulder, Ashley quietly gasped. She had been making her way over to ask if Vivica was alright. Now she couldn't believe what she was hearing. Silently, Ashley retreated and went to go warn the others when she bumped into Vivica.

"Hello," Vivica said in a voice that did not match the one that she had once owned when Ashley had first met her.

"Um...hello to you too." Ashley turned around and slowly walked away. She wanted to warn everyone but thought otherwise when she saw Vivica's eyes turn a different color which she mistook for insanity. There was nothing wrong, what she heard had to of been her imagination.

Vivica watched Ashley leave and was commanded to head back to the meeting spot where everyone else was waiting. After everyone had showed up they started towards the pass.

Gunshots echoed all around. Hundreds of undead beings flung themselves towards the little group. Half of them lay dead and half of them were still trying to get a bite to eat.

Standing beside Vivica with her gun drawn, Ashley chanced a look at the younger girl and saw that her eyes were not a normal color. They were a deep red and Ashley also noticed that Vivica's behaviour was not so normal either.

Alarm bells went off inside her head when she saw Vivica make her way towards Leon. She suddenly regretted not informing everyone before and dashed head long after the strange youth.

Ashley's path was blocked off by a line of zombies. The seemed to form a wall behind Vivica to prevent her from getting to Leon before Vivica did. Ashley loaded her gun and brought down two zombies out of the seventeen that blocked her way.

Leon wasn't paying too much attention to the approaching person. He was too worried about the zombies that were stumbling towards him. He found it odd that they weren't attacking him. When Leon turned around he came face to face with a huge zombie and had no choice but to retreat further away from the group to get away from it.

"Kill him."

Vivica stumbled along the pass. Her body was directed to Leon by the voice that echoed inside of her head. She watched as the zombie also controlled by the same voice was felled by a single bullet from Leon's gun.

He had served his purpose, and that was to lure Leon away from the others so they couldn't stop Vivica from what she was about to do.

Leon noticed Vivica and ran up to her.

"Everything all right over there?"

His question reached deaf ears. All Vivica could hear was the voice telling her what to do, even though she detested it.

"Do it now. Reach for the gun and shoot him in the head."

Then the voice heard something that he wasn't expecting.

Vivica spoke back.

"No."

"Now!"

"You wrecked my life, took away my freedom. Your god awful virus killed my family and my friends. I will not do what you tell me to!"

"Suffer for all I care."

The same feeling that had crippled her earlier began to spring back into life.

Vivica was fighting for control while the voice inside her head was fighting for the control over her body. Vivica grasped the gun inside her pocket and raised it so that Leon had a nice view of the deadly weapon.

From a few feet away and finally zombie free, Ashley ran as fast as she could when she saw the gun.

Vivica's finger graced the part of the gun that would release the bullet and in one slow motion, she pulled the trigger.