Resident Evil: The Final Chapter
Chapter 17: Assault In The Hours Of Darkness
A/N: Aight, this chapter got up REALLY quick, right? Well, as always, thanks for the reviews, please keep reading! Enjoy the next chapter!
The flames in the fireplace, giving the place a nice cozy feel, provided the only light in the living room. The coffee table in the middle of the three couches had been moved and replaced with four makeshift beds made of blankets sheets and pillows. The night was pretty cool, even though the day was relatively warm, so he and everyone else were all thankful for the fire that cast warmth through the room.
A few shadows were moving around on the walls as George entered the room, followed by Ada, he was carrying a tray with mugs of hot cocoa on it, and Ada was carrying a mug. George handed everyone a mug, in which Jeff was thankful for, and sat down on a couch next to Ada. Steve, Claire, Jeff, and Tara, were lying in the floor on the beds while Rebecca and Jill were sitting together on a couch and Billy, Chris, and Barry sat on the other unoccupied couch. Leon had just left and went upstairs to check on Ashley about a minute ago.
"So," George said as he settled himself into the couch, "What's your story, Jeff?"
Jeff swallowed a small sip of the hot liquid and peered up at George. He was sitting Indian-style, with Tara sitting next to him with her legs tucked under her. Jeff frowned a bit. "I was a high school basketball player before any of this happen." Jeff bit his bottom lip. "Tara was a cheerleader for our team, and we were heading to D.C for the first championship game. Our bus flipped when the driver spotted a person in the road, she turned the wheel too far and it turned over. Turns out it was…one of those things."
George nodded. "How many survived?"
"Only us and my best friend Xavier." Jeff felt a knot in his stomach, he didn't tell George that Xavier had died, but he could see by the expression on his face that he got the message.
"Jeff survived the virus, mid-infection, too." Ada added on a much happier note. George nodded interested by this. "Yeah, Jeff's a die hard."
Jeff grinned at the Asian woman and sipped his cocoa.
"Well, I'm going to hit the sack." Barry said, standing up. "I'm sure Ada will want us to get up bright and early tomorrow morning." He added with a laugh. Ada just nodded her head and laughed.
CRACK!
Splinters of wood burst from the doorframe, and the door flew open, smashing into the wall as it did so. Jeff craned his neck around as soon as this happened, and someone rushed into the living room and opened fire. There were three blasts from the persons firearm, Jeff fell belly-first on the floor and pulled Tara down with him. He noticed quickly that everyone else did the same thing-
"MATAR!" The person shouted, and there were footsteps. Jeff looked around; panicking-and saw Barry and Billy already forming a plan. Barry was pointing toward the entrance that led to the kitchen. He yelled that he'd hold them back, and he didn't even worry about being quiet about it.
BAM! A crack came from Barry's weapon and it smashed into the doorframe that lead into the hallway where the front door was. Jeff rushed to his feet, pulling Tara up at the same time just as another crack sounded from Barry's fire arm, his magnum he still had from awhile back. Along with everyone else but Billy and Barry, Jeff and Tara scrambled toward the kitchen.
Just as he stepped into the kitchen there was a bright flash from behind him and then multiple blasts of something much more powerful then a handgun, more like a Assault Rifle that was firing three-burst shots…a few of them that is. The sounds of the machine guns drowned out whatever George was trying to yell at Jeff, but he was pointing at a shelf up on the wall.
Jeff spun around and opened the shelf, moved a few things aside hastily, and quickly found what George meant for him to find. It was a small firearm, but looked powerful, and he recognized it without a doubt. Small and concealable, complete with an extra long magazine…an Uzi. There were a few extra magazines and he grabbed them, there were three. Chris quickly held his hand out for Jeff to hand the Uzi to him and Jeff complied. Chris took the Uzi and tucked the magazines into his pants.
The blasts finally died down and Billy and Barry rushed into the room as Chris started firing as soon as they were inside.
"Back door!" George yelled and Billy disappeared through another door. The only one who was unarmed was Jill, but Rebecca quickly gave her weapon up to her seeing as how Jill was a better shot.
Chris halted his firing, and ejected the clip and smacked another in just as more bullets soared into the room and reduced parts of the back wall into dust and fragments of drywall. Jeff squatted down and made sure Tara was behind him as Chris spun around and out of the line of fire and sat against the kitchen counter.
Leon jumped up and ran over to where his stuff was laying on the chair. He quickly put the belt on, followed by his jacket, and he opened the door and started out into the hall. There was a set of stairs at the end of this hall that would lead him down into the living room, so it was possible that the assailants could come up those stairs. There was also another set of stairs opposite of the ones that lead to the living room, the other stairway lead to a dining room.
Leon crouched down low and ordered Ashley to stick close and behind him. There was a burst of firearm blasts that echoed up through the stairwell. Beretta drawn, Leon made his way toward the stairs without a sound. He stopped, took a breath, and swung around the corner and pointed his handgun down the steps. Nothing.
Leon placed a foot on the first step and went down as easy as possible. The burst of fire died off, but only to be replaced by an even stronger burst. Another step, and he looked up to check on Ashley. She was sticking close, just like she had been instructed. Leon continued down, and when he finally came to the end, he stopped, crouched as low as he could get, with his back against the wall.
Another quick glance at Ashley, and he swung around the corner. This time, it wasn't a repeat of before, and he saw the backs of two of the assailants as they fired off rounds from their machine guns. A brilliant flash erupted from the tip of the guns barrel as a bullet exploded from the tip of it. The bullet hit its mark, and dug a hole into the base of one of the assailant's neck. The other turned around, and Leon fired just as quickly. This time the shot went wild and blasted a hole in the guy's collarbone. He growled oddly, blood oozing from its wound, and it raised it's automatic rifle and fired off its remaining round at Leon who ducked behind the corner quickly.
Los Illuminados! He thought as he sat there, bullets smashing into the wall not a foot away from him. The stream of bullets ended and he spun around the corner and let off another round. This time it got the attacker in it's head, and it fell backwards with a final moan of agony.
Leon motioned his head for Ashley to follow him, and she did so, and the two started through the living room. A figure in the next room poked its head out, and through the dim light, he couldn't make out who it was and he raised his handgun-
"Wait!" The person yelled. "It's Chris!" Leon lowered his handgun and holstered it as he walked into the kitchen where Chris and the others, minus Billy, were packed into the room. "You two alright?" Leon nodded a yes-BAM! BAM! BAM!
Billy fired off three rounds, four, five, and finally the person fell with a final gasping moan. He didn't have good accuracy in the dark, and was pretty much firing with his eyes closed, only using the red orbs that were the assailant's eyes as his guide in where to shoot. There were probably more, he was almost sure of it, he just hoped he'd see them before they saw him…
"Billy! You alright!" Chris' voice came from the back door of the house.
Billy didn't bother turning to look at Chris; he just kept scanning the wide plains that seemed to stretch out forever in an endless sea of black. Although the moon was full, those big ass trees pretty much blocked out ninety-eight percent of the light. Billy grimaced at them for a moment before turning and walking back into the house. The coast seemed to be clear.
"I killed one, that's all I could see out there." Billy announced as he regrouped with the others. There was a silence. In those moments of silence Billy wondered how the hell those 'Los Illuminados', as everyone seemed to like calling them, had found them? Was the virus spreading faster then it should have? But wasn't it just the T-Virus being spread? He was pretty sure Ada had told them that the Los Illuminados were created from a different virus called the…Los…or Las something-or-another.
"We should leave." Ada said flatly. "Wesker must know where we are, and is probably sending reinforcements." As if on cue, there was a horribly distinct, inhuman, but talking, cry from outside the house.
"Deeestroyyy!"
"Run!" Jill was the first to yell this, and she ran away from the sound, which seemed to be coming from the back of the house. Everyone else followed, Billy was the last out of the kitchen-and him and a few more were sent tumbling to they're feet from the force of a huge explosion inside the kitchen. Before the dust had a chance to settle, Billy was scrambling to his feet and helping Rebecca and Leon to their feet.
"Hurry!" Jill yelled, standing in the doorway of the house and motioning for them to run faster. Her eyes suddenly got bigger, and Billy turned and looked over his shoulder to see what he saw-and the tyrant-like monster was standing in the rubble of the Kitchen, it's rocket launcher propped on it's shoulder and ready to fire off another missile.
As Billy passed Jill, she followed directly behind him-and another ear-popping sound erupted behind them. Before anyone knew it, the entire chimney was coming down like a falling tree. It fell in the driveway, just feet away from one of the SUV's, in a large heap of scarlet stone.
"Get in the cars!" Barry was yelling. The cars weren't far away and they all started for them-when at that second the whistle of another rocket was heard and not a few seconds later the smaller SUV that was parked in the driveway was sent airborne in an explosion of fire and black smoke. The SUV flipped a few times before crashing back to the earth in a heap of blackened, twisted, and burning metal.
No one was hurt, from what he could see, and he didn't see anymore of the Tyrant's standing around, only two from behind them closing in very slowly, along with another to their left. Everyone scrambled to the remaining vehicle-except for George who retrieved a handgun from his back pocket and released multiple rounds into the creatures.
"Hurry up!" Ada yelled, but he yelled for them to leave. Billy didn't have to be told twice, and he put the SUV into reverse and started backwards down the driveway. Even when they were about thirty yards away, George was still firing off rounds at the creatures-until one charged at him, and grabbed him by his skull and lifted him off of the ground. George screamed in pain and crimson ribbons spurted out of the back of his head, a long tentacle-like appendage sticking out of the back of his head glistened in the SUV's headlights, before it retracted and the creature tossed George aside like a mere doll.
Ada screamed. Others gasped. Billy drove. Finally hitting the road, he put the SUV into drive again, and started down the street at full speed, not caring where the hell they were going, as long as they would be safe. A loud roar was barely audible as they road down the streets, the sound of the powerful engine drowning almost everything out.
That was too close for comfort. How did Wesker know where to find them? Was he keeping tabs on them? Would it be safe to stop at a restaurant? A rest stop even? He didn't know, and at this point he didn't care, all he knew is that he had to keep driving.
"WHAT?"
The Los Illuminados soldier stared blankly at the enraged shades-wearing Ex-S.T.A.R.S. Commander. The Los Illuminados didn't exactly understand what was being said, but it understood anger.
"Alive? How the hell did they escape alive?" Eyes flaring red behind dark sunglasses, Wesker grabbed the Los Illuminados by it's neck, lifted it up a full foot from the ground and slammed it against the wall, squeezing the Los Illuminados' neck even tighter. "I sent three goddamned Tyrants equipped with rocket launchers, and they still got away?"
The Los Illuminados' body started to tremor, and it started to gasp for air as its eyes started to roll back in its head.
"Next time I give you an order, I expect you to carry it out! Understand me?" Dark blood dribbled out of the Los Illuminados' mouth, and started to run over Wesker's gloved hand. Wesker grimaced and the smell of something burning was heavy in the air…and smoke started to come out of the Los Illuminados nose and mouth along with the blood. It's skin started to smoke, and slowly started to split open and fire spurted out of it's body.
Wesker thrust the smoking and burning heap of flesh to the side and took off his stained glove and threw it to the ground. "Clean this up." Wesker said, pointing back at the burning Los Illuminados body. Two other Los Illuminados nodded their heads and rushed over to the dead body and stupidly burned themselves on the fires that were practically incinerating the body.
Wesker shook his head and walked out of the room to let them figure out how to put out the fire. Waiting for him outside was Glitter, who was standing with her back against the wall, arms crossed over her chrome chest. Wesker stopped in front of her and stared into her eyes for a long time before anyone moved or spoke.
Glitter pushed herself off of the wall and the chrome that encased her body melted off like a liquid and seemingly was absorbed into the soles of her feet because it disappeared as it touched the floor. Wesker slipped his hands onto her hips and stepped closer to her, and he stared into her eyes again, both of them grinning.
"I love you, Grace Wesker." He whispered, and she smiled at back at him before they locked lips…
"…Yes, thank you for understanding…" Ada said into the payphone as she stood out in front of the gas station. "Alright, we'll meet you there in two hours then? Okay. Thank you." Ada hung the payphone up and looked back at the others. "We need to get to a place called Levin's, it's a small shop about one-hundred miles from here. George's friend said that he'd give us the plane tickets then."
She received nods from everybody, and Billy got back into the SUV and as did everyone else. Ada took a seat in the back, there were no seats besides the driver and passenger seats, and so everyone was forced to sit in the floor. She sat in the very back with her back resting against the back hatch.
Sadness was poking at her as she sat there, not wanting to believe that George was dead. She'd known him for almost ten years…He was a faithful friend with a great personality and a sort of big brother vibe that she got when around him. A tear rolled down her cheek and she wiped at it quickly. Everyone else was lost in their own worlds, and she wasn't exactly sure about a lot of things at this moment.
Out of all the people in this group…how many actually trusted her? Most of all, she wanted Leon's trust, but she wasn't sure why, but there was a hunch that it had something to do with the fact that she felt somewhat attracted to him. She could never really gain his trust, no matter how hard she tried. She'd been dishonest back in Raccoon City, and had been false-hearted in Europe.
Did anyone here actually know her secret? Didn't the question of 'how' ever occur to Leon? He hadn't asked her, not even back in Europe, how she survived that attack from the Birkin monster…why so many questions all of a sudden? It probably had something to do with the fact that there wasn't much else to do…
Ada slid down in a more comfortable position, legs tucked underneath her so that she kept what was under her dress concealed. Closing her eyes, she started to drift off, while her pupils glowed slightly crimson…
A/N: Well now, anyone surprised yet? Ada has red eyes; Glitter is Wesker's wife? Whoa, right? It'll all be explained as the story goes on, don't worry. Umm…yeah, I can't say that each chapter will be up this quick, unless I stay up all night again and not go to school lol. Oh well, I hope you guys enjoyed this chapter. PLEASE REVIEW!
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