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I'm living on shattered faith
The kind that likes to restrict your breath
never been a better time than this
suffocate on eternal bliss

In a city
that swells with so much hate
you seem to rise above
and take its place
the heart pumps until it dies
drain the blood, the heart is wise

"Drain the blood" By: The Distillers

How long is the night?

Chapter 27

Imposing confrontations

October 3, 2004

Deep inside his secret lab, Wesker sat in a chair that was leaning up against the cold cement wall. From behind his shades, bright glowing eyes stood out in the dark room. Although Wesker was alseep for the time being, the monster inside him that he had injected himself with, was not. It twisted and turned inside of him, begging for freedom, but Wesker's body would not allow it to do so.

There was a soft knock on the door. Wesker shot awake from his previous slumber and glowered at the scientist that interrupted him. His red glowing eyes fadded as he stood up to his full height and glared at the puney human that stood before him.

"Speak."

"The fighters are growing restless. Everyone is wondering where you are, Wesker."

Wesker looked at the scientist, taking in his features. The man was nothing more than a whelp to Wesker. Clad in a white lab coat much like the one that he was wearing, with a set of small glasses gracing his face. His hair was a dark brown color, greasy from the lack of sleep and food for he had been working non stop on the creatures that would be released today. The tiny scientist looked up to Wesker before quickly averting his gaze to somewhere esle.

"Keep them here for some other time, there's no need to waste them on a group of four people."

"But sir I-"

"You will do as I say. Now get out of here," Wesker snapped, the inner monster inside of him wanting to rip the man to shreads.

The smaller person left as quickly as he could, not wanting to suffer the wrath of his boss. Once he had left the lab, Wesker sat back in his chair and strolled it over the desk that occupied the far right corner of the fairly large space.

He had to find a way to keep the thing in check. Quickly looking through numerous files and pieces of unimportant papers, Wesker clenched his teeth in frustration. The Infinity virus was proving to be very hard to keep in check and now he had to obtain some sort of information to stop the damn thing or else things would prove to be...difficult.

There was a sudden erruption of pain in his stomach as he finally found the file that contained the information he needed to create some sort of medication for the Infinity virus. Wesker began to feel something simular to the feeling of something growing inside of him. He pulled his sleeve up once again, expecting the same reaction that had occured earlier, but was confronted with something else.

His skin was a gray color. Emerald green and blue veins wrapped around his forearm and were pulsing rapidly. Raising his shakey hands to his face, Wesker rested his finger tips on the skin that should've been normal. Wesker ran to a mirror that was hanging over top of a sink and saw the horror that he had gave in to.

There was no mistake that now he was no where near close to being mortal. His eyes flashed red before they stayed that way and no matter how hard Wesker tried, he could not get them to fade away. Turning away from his reflection, Wesker retreated back to his desk and found a folder that contained some vital information.

A piece of thick, cardboard like paper was the one that he had been looking for. Skimming through the contents that contained the name of the creature and the side effects of being injected with it, Wesker finally rested the tip of his index finger on the name andthe effects that he had been having.

Typed onto the paper in bold print, was the word 'tyrant'. It wasn't just any normal tyrant, no this type was stronger with the aide of the Infinity virus. Beside the word the effects and ways to point out that a creature had indeed become one. All the things that had happened to him were all listed on that piece of paper and it caused Wesker to throw it away in a rage that began to build up inside of him.

Sure,a tyrant had some sort of brain capacity and along with the Infinity virus a tyrant was around ten times smarter, but Wesker did not intend to be one.

Wesker concentrated on something else besides his well being. He had to attend the 'welcoming party' that was all set and ready to go for Leon and the others. Wesker took his shades off and cleaned them before he put them back and and hoped that nobody would see the piercing red eyes that stood out more than ever.

Glancing one more time in the mirror, Wesker noted that his skin did not return back to its normal color and still remained gray. Cursing the Infinity virus, Wesker exited the lab and made his way to the outside world.

The day turned out to go along with them instead of against them. It was warm out, not even close to being hot. The sun would sometimes vanish behind a stray cloud, giving the small group a chance to be out of the rays of the glowing fireball.

A twig cracked under his shoe. Leon glanced down before looking up and spotting the white outline of the buildings that made up the new Raccoon City. They seemed so close now and Leon could faintly make out the form of a bubble that surrounded the entire city. He began to ponder up ways on how they could get past it, but knew the battle would most likely take place outside of the city that was shunned away from the outside world by the bubble.

Leon sparred a glance to Jill, Michael, and Ashley who were all following behind him, weapons drawn, ready to fire at any time. He stopped and faced everyone, telling them that they needed some sort of plan.

"Charging in there is out of the question," Jill said as they sat down on a couple of rocks. "There's no doubt that Wesker has set up some sort of ambush, so we'll have to be careful with whatever we plan."

"We should make our way to Wesker and try to kill that bastard," Michael spoke.

"Whatever we do," Leon said. "We need to be careful, avoid being infected, and watch out for any traps that may be set up."

They got back up and readied themselves for whatever was about to come their way. Quickly, in a single file way with all eyes alert, they made their way closer to Raccoon City.

It was about a half an hour later and there was still no sign of Wesker or any of the infected creatures that weren't really a threat. Everyone became suspicious and they were all on their nerves' ends.

Leon, who was at the front of the line, spotted one last hill they had to round before Raccoon City would be just before them. He slowed down his pace greatly and signaled for eveyone to keep quiet as he stole a glance around the hill only to find nothing.

There was no waiting group of creatures like they had all anticipated. Jill and the others stood along side Leon as they looked at the empty area around them. Leon wasted no time in moving forward, not wanting to give the creatures any sort of an advantage if they were waiting in the trees around them.

Ashley began to chew on her bottom lip because she was becoming so nervous and felt like screaming at everything that moved. She was so concentrated on trying to listen and was looking into the forest the best she could, that she ran right into Michael's back without knowing it until she fell onto the ground.

Michael quickly helped her up and put a finger to his mouth to indicate that she should be quiet before they both looked ahead and saw some one walking casually towards them. That was when they began to hear whispering noises all around them, clearly not allowing them to know where they were.

Leon was paying close attention to the figure that was walking up to him. He saw the figure tilt its head to the side and whisper something. Leon didn't waste any time. He quickly glanced back to Michael, Jill, and Ashley before taking off with them not too far behind.

There was an ear splitting sound as multiple bullets sprung out of the trees towards them, luckily none of them hit their intended target.

The group of four crashed through the forest, not taking any time to stop. There was a break in the trees and they all froze for a moment and looked up at Raccoon City then back to the forest where the same figure that had been walking up to them emerged.

The blond hair and black shades were a dead give away to Leon and Jill, but Michael and Ashley aslo knew who he had to of been due to the half of group and the way their facial expressions changed upon the sight of the figure.

"Wesker," they all said quietly at the same time.

Ada and the president ran towards the sound of gunfire once they had heard it. The woman in the red dress was hoping that it was Leon and the others, but when they stumbled upon the area where the noises had come from, they were only greeted with nothing more than the trees that surrounded the city.

"We have to get out of here," Ada hissed, sensing danger.

They made it out of the forest and just in time before gunfire was heard once more, this time towards them.

Ada stopped once she saw Wesker advacning towards Leon and some other people that she had no clue who they were. She grabbed the president by the sleeve and quickly ran over to the group and was greeted by Ashley first, who ran past her and embraced her dad.

There wasn't any time for happy reunions because Wesker started to address them.

"So you managed to escape," he said in a calm voice.

"What do you want?" Leon demanded, standing in front of Ada with his gun pointed in Wesker's direction.

Leon tried to move when he saw Wesker come running towards him but the older man was too fast and within seconds Wesker was holding Leon by the throat, several feet in the air.

Michael directed Ashley, her father, and Ada to a safe place before returing and firing a round of bullets towards Wesker. He was shocked when the bullets seemed to bounce off of Wesker's skin and land on the ground uselessly.

"What the hell?"

Wesker turned towards Michael and laughed before tightening his grasp around Leon's neck, then he through him five feet away.

There was a loud noise from the woods. Around a hundred gray creatures showed themselves and began running towards the others, cutting Leon off from them so Wesker could finish him off. They were met with multiple bullets that felled a quarter of them, but they would not stop before they had the taste of flesh one more time.

Leon began backing up a small rocky hill, scraping his back but not much caring about it because some inhuman freak was about to kill him. He then reached for his gun, seeing that Wesker was a fair ways away, but he felt incredible pain in his wrist as Wesker kicked it out of his hand.

Wesker brought one of his boots up to rest harshly upon Leon's rib cage and brought down enough pressure for the special agent to scream out in pain. The older man reached inside of his coat and produced a Desert Eagle and aimed it directly towards Leon's forehead. Before he could pull the trigger white hot pain shot through his hand and he looked down to see that there was a bullet hole there.

Both Leon and Wesker looked towards the sound of the bullet and they both rested their eyes upon some one that was mistaken as dead.

The cut on his hand had ripped down even further, about five centimeters and went well into his hand, instead of just being on the webbed skin. He face was burnt slightly and his hair was an utter mess. The expression he wore on his face was anger. And Barret was one pissed off person at the moment, not matter how much pain it caused him, he wanted to kill Wesker.

Wesker was distracted for a breif moment so Leon took the chance and kicked him in the stomach, just barely knocking Wesker back a couple of feet. He quickly stood up and told Barret to go help the others before Wesker punched him in the face, sending Leon flying through the air with a bleeding nose.

"Defeating me would be most impossible," Wesker said before he punched Leon again, only to be met with thin air because Leon was already up and was now firing as many bullets as he could in Wesker's direction.

One bullet, the last one to be fired out of Leon's gun, went straight for Wesker's head. The inhumane man moved to the side but the bullet hit his shades, broke them, then dug into his skull.

Wesker felt something stir inside of him before he felt the veins on his arms enlarge and his eyes began to glow a bright red. All he could see was red and the only thing he could feel was blood lust. He felt powerful, although he could not contain the power of the virus anymore this was something completely different. Why hadn't he done this before?

His thoughts were cut short because he could no longer think, he had lost the ability to. The only thing that seemed like the right thing to do was kill the person who stood before him that was now retreating towards the growing group of people that were fighting off the creatures that he had created.

Wesker let out a blood curling snarl before running after Leon, his shirt ripping in the process due to the fact that multiple spike like things had sprouted from his body and were covered in blood. He stopped when around twently of the things he could barely recall stood in front of him.

There was a wet noise of flesh being ripped as long, razor shapr claws broke out of his hands and gleamed in the sunlight. Wesker then brought them in front of his face to study them before slashing through the group of gray creatures, cutting them all in half with one swing.

He stepped over the clump of bodies that were all a bloody mess and made he way towards the group. Everything around him became of no importance, not even the few bullets that were aimed towards his side from the gun that Ashley was holding.

"Leon look out!" she yelled as she watched the Wesker-turned-tyrant creature run towards her protector.

Leon turned around and saw a blur coming towards him but watched as Wesker stopped and turned his head towards Ashley once she shot a bullet directly into his face from the far side of the hill they were standing on. It was only supposed to hit him in the side but Ashley figured it was just as well that it hit him in the face, as long as it distracted him for the time being.

On the hill, farther away from the others and protecting the president along side Michael and Barret, Ada watched as the scene folded before her and ran towards them.

"Are you crazy?" Barret yelled after her. "You're going to get yourself killed, ya crazy woman!"

Ada ignored him and continued to run towards Leon, Ashley and Wesker, content on helping Leon with the problem. She begged her legs to run faster and they seemed to do so, much to her surprise. She reached them just before Wesker thrust his clawed hand towards Ashley.

There was only one thing on her mind before she jumped and everything seemed to go black for a moment.

Wesker expected to hear the sound of Ashley being impailed and her screams of pain, but the screams that came from his victim were not those of Ashley, but those of the same person that had once worked for him.

Convulsing violently as she was thrown to the ground with blood coursing down the side of her mouth, Ada looked at the tyrant form of Wesker and smiled before she turned her head slowly to the side to face Leon, who had been running in their direction with an utter look of shock written all over his face.

Through glossy eyes, Ada looked at Leon. She could feel her body closing down to death, she could feel the virus that had been injected into her slowly dying as well. She looked at Leon once more before closing her eyes in pain. She brought forth enough energy to be able to speak and used it as wisely as she could.

"Good-bye Leon."

"Ada why?" Were the only words he could come up with.

"At least you haven't failed your mission. At least she's safe."

"I-" Leon was cut off.

"Here, take this," slowly, in very deep pain, Ada reached up to her throat and untied the dark ribbon that was around her neck. She held it out to Leon and opened her eyes one last time then closed them. Between her last dying breaths she whispered another quiet good-bye.

Leon watched as one crystal clear tear slid from Ada's pale face and evaporated within seconds. Her chest slowly rose one last time before it went back down and her heart died.

Everything seemed to go silent as Leon stared at Ada's dead body, anger and sadness creating something new, and now he wanted revenge. He reloaded his gun and began firing at Wesker in a blind rage, the bullets causing no harm to the tyrant form of the older man.

Leon was about to tackle him to the ground when a loud buzzing noise filled everyone's ears. They looked towards a radio that had fallen out of Wesker's pocket and all listened as the person on the other end began to scream.

"Sir! The monster's have escaped sir! The self destruct system has been triggered, what are we going to do?"

There was a loud noise from the other end before they heard the person start to scream out in pain, which was soon followed by the sound of tearing flesh before the line went dead. Everyone looked to the side to face Raccoon City, deciding it was best to get away from here as quickly as they could.

A siren went off, it was so loud that everyone could hear it and felt like falling to the ground in pain from the intensity of the noise it was creating. However, Wesker was faced with a problem, he could not move at all. Having super senses, the noise was a thousand times worse, and he was toppled over in pain. He hissed while he watched everyone retreat to a safer place.

Ashley tripped multiple times as she attemted to get away, but was helped by Jill before a loud explosion came from behind them and the last thing she felt before she slipped into unconciousness was the feeling of a hot ball of air pass over her back.

A loud popwas the last thing everyone esle heard as the bubble around Raccoon City exploded from the pressure.

Leon woke up, a thin layer of dust entered his eyes. He rubbed it all out and got his first glance at the land around him.

Several trees had been laid down from the explosion, rocks that hadn't been on the ground before now littered it. A large cloud of smoke was hanging above the remains of what used to be the second Raccoon City to stand in that very spot. The sun seemed to be blocked out by the smoke, making it colder out and causing Leon to shiver before he made it his duty to wake everyone up, or at least try.

Once awake and well, everyone looked upon the ruins of the place that had been there only seconds before. The cloud of smoke seemed to vanish and the sun was once again shinning down on them. They had no idea how late it was.

Everyone walked away from the place, the golden sun blazing behind them. A red and orange sky lit up the area and for once the world seemed to be at peace.

Covered in pieces of rocks and chunks of buildings, a figure lay on the ground, unable to breath but somehow managing to. In the rays of the setting sun, blood trickled down the side of it's hand. Minutes later it twitched and the figure seemed to come back to life.