The River's Nightmare
By Alex Barbour
Chapter 3…The T-Virus Expanded
Disclaimer: I do not own Resident Evil or Capcom. I tried once and it led to some strange parties and well… I'd rather not talk about it. Suffice to say tequila was involved, Any who on with the story.
Dan and Alex traveled in an uncomfortable silence, truly afraid of the possibility that they would die if they slowed down for a second, the radio now providing the mood destroying sound of static. They continued on up until Dan reached forward, turned off the radio and looked to Alex.
"Turn here" Dan said forcefully.
"Why?" Alex replied.
" I need to go to my dad's house."
"Uh…No offense dude, but your dad's probably dead. I mean, you saw those things back there…didn't you? I mean, there's no reason and y-"
"I need to search for some things, and I need a new weapon" Dan interjected. Alex watched as he pulled out a bloody and broken sword hilt. " The decorative piece of shit broke on me when I killed one of those fuckers with it. Little too late though…" Dan said, remembering the gruesome disembowelment of his mother. Alex thought he might ask what Dan was talking about, but decided better against it and simply made the turn as Dan wished. The turn led them to a dirt road and into a grove of trees. They continued into the darkness of the small forest until they came to the end of the road where a small house stood.
"Wait here. I'm going inside." Dan said.
"Oh HELL NO dude! I'm not staying here on my own and I sure as hell am not letting you go in there without me."
"Ugh. Fine whatever, let's just move quickly, ok?"
Dan exited the car first. Alex grabbed his Crowbar and followed him. They encountered nothing outside except the eerie silence of the forest. They neared the dark and creepy farmhouse, weapons drawn, eyes darting around looking for any moving shapes. When the reached the front porch Alex noticed the door was slightly ajar. Fearing the worst, Dan slowly pushed the door open with his foot. As the door swung open with a slow creaking sound, Alex and Dan walked in side by side into the darkness. As soon as they verified that the front room was clear, they lowered their weapons. "OK Alex, you search the basement and I'll head up to my Dad's room. If you find anything that could be at all useful, take it and-"
Dan didn't get to finish his sentence because at that moment, a tan blur Flashed between them and let out an inhuman howl. Dan turned at looked at the new threat and saw what it was. The creature was roughly two feet tall and had no skin. You could see the creature's muscle structure. It had 5-inch long fangs and a barbed tail. It was also vaguely feline. " Mr. Whiskers?" Dan said. Suddenly another creature jumped at them from behind the couch, and another one, this one much bigger came stalking out of the darkness, then another screech was released and jumped towards Alex's face, but Alex was ready this time. As the monstrous feline leaped at his head Alex wound back his crow bar and smacked the creature in the head as if it were a baseball. There was a loud snap as the creature flew backwards and slammed into the wall. Not at all alarmed by the death of their comrade, the creatures proceeded to attack. Two came at Dan with bloodthirsty vigor, Dan sidestepped around the animal and punted the creature in the stomach and stepped on it's back, slamming it into the ground and breaking it's spine, distracted by his victory, Dan didn't notice the other animal as it leaped at him and coupled with the back of his skull. The monster than proceeded to claw at his scalp, Dan reached back and grabbed the monster at the middle, and threw it at the ground, he got on his knees and pounded the cat-thing with the broken sword's hilt, blood spraying everywhere in quick spurts. Alex was fighting the last creature, while Dan was dealing with the other two feline monsters. The large gray one had rushed forward and clamped its jaws on Alex's leg. Alex cried out in pain, wrenched his leg free and swung the curved part of his crowbar like a golf club. His crowbar then impaled the creature through the neck and the end of the semi-sharpened part came out the top of the creature's skull, bits of brain stuck to its sharpened edge. Alex planted his foot on the creatures face and pulled his crowbar back violently, ripping the monster's skull in two. Blood and pieces of bone sprayed all across the room until the heart stopped and the blood stopped coming, then all was silent.
"Your dad have anymore cats?" Alex asked in a grin. Dan thought he looked evil in the darkness but that was only due to the fact that he was covered in blood "No… my dad liked cats but he drew the line at 4. Now, as I was saying, we should split up and search for anything useful, supplies, lighters, especially weapons."
"Uh, yeah yeah, ok, sigh alright let's go then, I'll take the upstairs, you can have fun in the basement." Alex said cheekily, and dashed upstairs before Dan could say anything.
"Dumbass" Dan said, as he reached into a desk, pulled out a Mag-light and proceeded to inspect the bottom floor.
Alex walked forward carefully with his weapon raised, wishing that he had a flashlight. He stopped at every room and inspected them, but he didn't find much. In a computer room he found some books on wilderness survival, he finally found a small, ultra-violet flashlight (a/n you know, those ones that make night into day. Damn, those things are BRIGHT!). With his newfound light Alex continued to search the area with vigor. As he searched the area he noticed a drawstring leasing up to an attic. Alex neared the pull cord, yanked it down and climbed up the ladder.
Dan searched the kitchen for anything that might give him and Alex a better chance of survival. So far he had in his possession two canteens, a travel bag full of canned and dried out food, and a med kit, which he had already used to disinfect the cuts in his head. He continued his search until he found the door to his basement, opened it and walked down. This floor was completely alien to him, his dad always keeping a strict taboo on entering the basement. Scouting around the area Dan saw a door, he had never noticed it before and headed for it. As Dan neared the mystery door, he noticed that it was a heavy steel blast door and that it was slightly ajar. Dan walked in to the room and noticed it was a laboratory. Dan continued inside the room, avoiding long tables with beakers and test tubes. Unbeknownst to him, Dan walked in front of a motion sensitive lens, turning on the lab's independent source of power and bringing the place to life. Dan watched in awe as robotic arms rumbled and awakened lifting beakers of strange red liquid and mixing it with a florescent green causing both liquids to turn deep black and then blue.
"Damn dude! What the fuck is going on here, eh?'
Dan spun around and saw Alex looking around with deep interest and lugging a large bag with him. "Holy shit dude, you scared the hell out of me. Ah, cool, what did ya find?"
"Hella shit dude. I went in your attic and found some thick ass leather jackets that might stop teeth if those people really try and bite us. I mean, remember that radio thing, pah, the living dead that's bullshit. Anyway, I also got a wind-up military radio, a tinderbox, and this."
Alex then pulled out a godsend, glinting in his hands was a Springfield '45 lever action sniper rifle, fully loaded and with two boxes of ammo. "Haha thought you might like that, and I found a couple of survival handbooks and a ultra violet flashlight, how bout you?" Alex said
"Ummm, I found some canteens, some food and a first aid kit, then I found this place. And before you say anything, I have no idea why there is a laboratory in my basement."
As soon as Dan had finished they put on the leather jackets and Alex used the med kit on his injured leg. They tried the military radio, but to no avail. They then split off to explore the lab.
"Hey Alex." Dan yelled across the room
"Yeah?" Alex replied
"What do you think those things causing all kinds of hell are?"
"I don't know. I think that they're druggies or something, but that doesn't explain why they look so, well, dead."
"Yeah, I know what ya mean."
Dan then stumbled across a computer and began to search through it while Alex kept searching and looking around. Dan searched for the most recent documents sent and received on this computer.
Date: 10-11-04
Dr. Patrick McCoy…
"Dad?" Dan whispered under his breath
We have just hit a breakthrough step on the T-virus hybrid with the natural occurring Virus Sollenum; we have discovered several new species susceptible to T-viral infection the list of total subjects is as follows:
Human
Canine
Feline
Lizards
Snakes
Certain species of Fish
Amphibians
And Birds
As far as we know doctor, only humans infected with the T-virus can infect others. As you know, the T-virus normally takes dead cells and rebuilds them, but with the virus now coupled with the rare composite Sollenum, It now causes a tumor to grow in the brain cavity and literally revive dead tissue. In short doctor, it brings the dead to life twice as fast and the viral strand can be cloned to produce mass amounts of the substance. Dr. Mason will be pleased with these results.
01-25-05
Dr. Patrick McCoy…
The new advances with the composite T-virus will push Umbrella back into the light, soon the president will have no choice but to forget those unfortunate happenings in Raccoon city. Continue your research.
03-19-05
Dr. Patrick McCoy…
You have direct orders from the umbrella hub in Washington to discontinue your research. You must fulfill their wishes and stop all of this.
03-22-05
T-virus Variant Released per your orders doctor McCoy
Warning: T-Viral infection reaching critical levels in your immediate area doctor and- doctor, hello...? Oh god no….
-Transmission terminated-
Dam's eyes grew wide in horror as he realized what had happened.
Woohoo fun little chapter in case your wondering, Alex is the main character, not Dan, he's more the discovery character, any way next chapter is where Cameron and Dylan come in I promise now plz review PLEASE
II
II
IIthank you
II
V