Chapter 21
Resident Evil Pt. 2
The Escape
"Man this is easy." Faith said as her group emerged out of the sewers and into a long corridor. They were making good time through the complex, after they moved the truck out of the way of the exit. They came across a few zombies, but by the mere number of their group they were easy to take down.
"That's easy for you to say." Johnathon said with a grimace. "You're not the one that had to figure out all of these wierd ass puzzles."
"Hey, I figured out most of dem." Kendra said with a pout. After reading a few journal's from the scientist's of the labs they knew not to touch to much of anything. Especially not the zombies. Or they might get infected.
"Hey guy's pipe down." Xander suddenly says as he stops.
"What is it X?" Faith asked.
"Shhhhh... just listen." he says as he cranes his neck to listen to something. The others follow suit. As one they all seem to hear a metallic sound. It's almost as if something metal is being dragged along the floor.
"What is that?" Faith asked no one in particular.
"I don't know but I think we should keep moving." Johnathon said as he opened one of the only two doors down the long and narrow hallway. As Xander and Kendra check out the other room, Faith and Johnathon go inside and see that they are in what looks like an office.
No longer pristine, it's wrecked, torn apart. Files are scattered everywhere along with smashed fragments of furniture and computer hardware.
In a corner of the room, with the back of the chair turned away from them, there's a man, in a lab coat, sitting at a desk, writing on a note pad.
"Hey." Johnathon says as he walks closer to him. What he doesn't see is that the man's hand is flaking and decomposing. The pen it holds is making only random, erratic marks.
"Hey." Johnathon says again to get the man's attention.
The man turns his head, slowly, to look up toward the voice. There's nothing left of his face. Raw tissue seeps odd- colored fluids. A single eyeball is nested tenuously in the ooze. Something like a mouth, recognizable only because of its position, opens... and groans.
"Oh shit!" Johnathon yelps as he jumps back as if he's been bit. Raising his glock, he fires off a shot, that makes a fist sized hole in the zombies head. As the little blood the zombie had left in it's head, splatters on the wall, the zombie falls over and dies.
"Come on Faith, let's get out of here and check on..."
With a lightning move, Faith draws her pistol and...Blam! Fires... at Johnathon. He flinches. The bullet flies past him and shatters the skull of another zombie doctor, that having stood up, was about to attack Johnathon from behind. The zombie doctor drops... dead again.
"T...thanks Faith." Johnathon stuttered out as he turns and looks at the blood-splattered body. "I owe you one."
"No prob soldier boy." Faith says with a smile. "Now let's see what Xand and Ken found." she says as she turns and walks out of the door, Johnathon hot on her heels.
As they go into the other room they see a room similar, but bigger then the one, they just came from. Only Kendra and Xander were just standing there feeling about on the wall.
"What are you guy's doing?" Faith asked. Only for Xander to jump a little.
"Damn Faith." Xander groaned as he turned around to look at her. "Don't do that."
"Oh, stop being such a baby." Faith teased. "So what are you guys doin'?" she asked again.
"It's another one of those damn, puzzles." Xander said as he took his hands off the wall.
"One dat doesn't make any sense." Kendra said as she turned to look at them. "So what did you two find in your room?"
"Some zombies." Johnathon answered.
"Well besides this damn puzzle me and Ken found some lab notes." Xander said as he took them out of his back pocket. "One of them is talking about some kind of man made diesease called the T-virus. The other one is a diary of a lab worker, that says Umbrella was responsible for what happened to this lab and I'm guessing the whole city."
"Let me see those?" Johnathon said as they moved to a desk to read over and discuss the documents.
"So what does the puzzle say?" Faith asked as she moved over to where Kendra was.
"Here read it." she says as she shows her the inscription on the wall. Faith looks at it for a minute then she reads it out in her mind.
'Whenever you're in peril the king and the queen shall light your way, as you descend into hell.'
"Hmmm...doesn't that just give you a warm feeling inside?" Faith quips as she looks over at Kendra.
"Xander seems to tink dat it means some kind of an emergency elevator." Kendra says as she turns to face her. "Just in case somethin' like dis happened."
As Faith looked around the room, she saw four candle holders, in the wall at the farthest end of the room. Walking over to them she saw numbers written over them. Taking a zeppo lighter out of her leather jacket pocket, she lights the two candles that have the highest number. As she does this, something behind the wall could be heard moving.
"Faith what did you do?" Xander asked as he, Johnathon and Kendra ran up to her.
"Finding our exit." she says as the wall suddenly goes up, revealing a elevator platform.
As they slowly walk in, Johnathon pushes the button that says "down" and the platform begins to sink beneath the ground. Faith watches amazed as the floor they are sitting on slips gracefully beneath the earth. Ancient wood paneled walls are being replaced with polished high tech steel plates.
The platform carrying Faith and the Scoobies comes to rest in a vast underground cavern. This is a natural creation, but the hand of man is everywhere. As well as the hydraulics for the platform, there are also several temporary structures used for storage.
A set of runway lights are laid out on the stone floor. They lead to a pair of thick steel doors set in the cavern walls. The doors bear the logo of the UMBRELLA CORPORATION.
As they walk out of the elevator platform, they stay side by side, jacked up on adrenaline. They're ready for anything.
"Everybody stay close." Xander calls out.
Faith shoots him a look. That's one major piece of unneeded advice. Johnathon takes the lead as they head through the giant room. But the deeper they go, the greater the sense of unease.
Walking up to the steel door Johnathon, reads the journal to get the code for the door. After reading what it is he punches in an access code - 667 - and a heavy steel door slides away to reveal a vast room filled with specimen tanks. The tanks are made of circular plexi and reach from floor to ceiling. There are literally hundreds of them, and with no clear way through the room, they form a grotesque kind of maze.
Each tank is filled with a viscous liquid and some new exciting monstrosity. Animals spliced together. Skeletons that look barely human. Some that clearly aren't.
Bioengineering run amok.
The labyrinth of horror, looks even worse by the dim glow of the emergency lights.
"What the fuck happened in this place?" Faith asked as she looked around. "This is some night of the living dead type shit."
Suddenly there's a flash of movement. A glimpse of something hideous, seen through the curved glass of the specimen jars. Was it just a trick, a distortion of the glass, or is there something else in here with them?
Unease suddenly becomes dread.
The shuffle of feet then could be heard. And a low moaning noise. Almost human. Almost.
"What is dat?" Kendra asks.
Faith and Johnathon share a look. This is the same noise they had heard upstairs. Only now it's closer. Now it's in the room with them.
"I don't know what it is but I'm getting the fuck out of here." Faith says as she sprints ahead, straight into a figure in a lab coat. A woman. Her tongue is swollen and bloated. Her death was painful and slow. You can see it in what's left of her face.
THE UNDEAD HAVE ARRIVED.
Faith screams as the undead woman hinges onto her. The woman's actions are slow and jerky, but Faith is caught by surprise and knocked to the ground. She struggles to get up, but the weight of the Undead Woman keeps her pinned to the floor. She then hear's the sound of gunfire around her.
Faith looks into the Woman's dead eyes, which stare straight back at her. There's no life left here, but there is something else. A terrible, terrible hunger.
Kendra kicks the woman off. She rolls over and begins to get up. Broken ribs mean nothing. Pain means nothing.
Kendra empties a round into her chest. Then another, then another. Still the Woman advances. Bullets mean nothing. The 9mm clicks dry. Empty.
Johnathon moves to help when two more undead loom behind him. One grabs his arms, the other his hair. He struggles to break free, but can't.
"Help me!" Johnathon shouts out. But Xander can't hear over the boom of his own gunfire. He's blasting away at the rising tide of undead.
Faith sits with her back against one of the tanks. In a state of shock. Traumatized. Her earlier enthusiasm gone, because she can see in her minds eye, the death's of her and her new friends.
Because of her fear she doesn't see a figure moving behind the tank, circling towards her. Its monstrous face distorted even more by the coned Plexiglas.
Kendra struggles with the Undead Woman, trying to hold her off. To keep her teeth from her throat. Using her Slayer strength, Kendra grabs her by the head and twists. The woman's neck snaps with a hollow crack and she falls to the ground. Unmoving. She then put's another clip in her gun and moves over to help Johnathon.
The figure behind Faith walks closer behind her. She's still unaware of the danger. It's a zombie scientist. A fire axe dangles uselessly from his right hand. His face is bloated and swollen from what looks like him being drowned. Death by drowning always looks bad. Especially when the bodies start to walk around.
He reaches for Faith. His fingers are mere inches from her skin.
Two more Undead have surrounded Johnathon. The four of them have wrestled him to the ground and are about to bite down on him when.
One of the undead creature's looks up in surprise as Kendra blows the back of its head off. Surprisingly, there's very little blood. Inside, the creatures are dry, withered husks. As she kills the rest of them, she helps Johnathon to his feet.
A scream brings her attention back to Faith. The Undead sceintist has a hand on her throat. He drops the fire axe and secures his other hand around her wind pipe. Kendra carefully takes aim. The head of the sceintist is in her sights then she squeezes.
Click. Empty.
Faith is slammed against the plexi tank. The last of her breath leaving her body. She's passing out. She feels the zombies saliva on her face. It's rank and fetid. Faith is choking. dying.
BAM! The Zombies head is suddenly pinned against the Plexiglas by the fire axe, it had dropped earlier. The axe has gone clear through his skull, in one ear and out the other. His hands drop away from Faith throat, but the zombies body remains standing. His head pinned to the specimen tank.
Looking up at her savior she see's that it's Xander.
"Come on we have to get out of here. There's more of them on the way." he says as he fires off another round from his shotgun.
The Scoobies race for an exit. They can't go back the way they came because behind them, a dozen Undead are slowly following.
As they come up to another elevator door, Johnathon reads the journal and tries to type the entry code in. The sound of Xander and Kendra's gunfire is deafening.
"What's taking so long?" Xander asked, as he and Kendra try their best to hold the zombies at bay.
"I'm trying." Johnathon informs him. His hands are shaking so hard, he can't hit the keys.
"Out of the way soldier boy." Faith says as she pushes him aside. "What's the code?"
"6634." Johnathon replied, visibly shaken.
"See how easy that was?" Faith asked as she punches in the code. The door slides smoothly open to reveal...A DOZEN UNDEAD! Their hands reaching for Faith. Grabbing her, dragging her into the dark void beyond.
"No!" Faith yells out. "JL, help me!"
Johnathon is frozen with fear and can't move.Suddenly other hands reach for her and try to drag her away from the undead. It's Kendra and Xander. Playing tug of war with the undead, and Faith is the rope.
But it's hopeless and Faith is dragged deeper into the ravening horde.
"Oh my God!" Faith yells as she feels the drool from an undead on her shoulder. "Please help me!" she says never taking her eyes off of Johnathon.
Her pleading eye's were enough to snap, Johnathon into attention. He runs forward, two guns in his hands, both blazing. Faith has almost disappeared under a mass of rotting undead limbs.
"Faith! No!" Johnathon plunges into the doorway after her. His hand grabs hers, and for a moment she holds on.
"J.L. ... don't let go! Please! Don't let go!" Faith yells out pleadingly. With strength he didn't know he possessed, Johnathon was able to pull Faith out of the grasps of the undead. But his action cost him dearly, because an undead lurched forward and bit his arm. Johnathon Levinson was now infected.
As Tara dodged a lunge from the eyeless beast, she fired a quick burst into it's chest. The bullet's seemingly have no effect, as it goes after Amy and Leon. Just as Leon took a shotgun out of his back holster, they hear the sound of a door opening.
Letting out a few blast's of his shotgun at the beast known as the licker, he chances a glance up and his eyes widen in surprise. There's a beautiful girl with long brown hair in a ponytail, wearing boot's and a dark pink rider's outfit on. It's Claire Redfield and she has a little girl with blonde hair, with her.
Lifting up a Sub-machine gun, Claire riddles the body of the licker until it's dark black blood splatters on the ground and it lays there motionless.
"You made it." Leon says as he steps around the very dead Licker and hugs Claire.
"Yeah." Claire said as she hugged him back. "And I got a little present with me too." she said as she looked back at the little girl.
"Hey there." Leon says as he walks up to her. "What's your name?"
"Sherry." the little girl answer's shyly.
"Who are these people?" Claire asked as she looked up and saw Tara and Amy.
"Oh sorry, Claire this is Tara Maclay and Amy Madison."
"Maclay?" Claire said. Recognition dawning. "Did you say Tara Maclay."
"Yeah Claire it's me." Tara said as the two quickly hugged. "How do you know me?"
"Oh please." Claire said dismissively. "The way my brother alway's talked about you, we're practically sisters. Now what are you doing here? I thought you lived in California?"
"I do. I just came by to visit, Chris."
"So this is like the vacation from hell for you then isn't it?" Claire asked.
"That's an understatement." Tara muttered. "Now where's Chris?"
"I have no idea." Claire said sadly. "Just like you, I came to town and found it like this."
"You don't think..."
"I don't want to think anything right now." Claire said cutting her off. "I just want to find my brother."
"Yeah." Tara said as she moved off from Claire. "Yeah Xander it's me." she stopped to listen again. "Yeah I'm doing this by telepathy. So did you guys find a way out. Okay...What! He's infected...I'm sorry I don't know of a cure."
"I might." Claire spoke up, looking at Tara strangely. She didn't see her talking into a phone, but she was clearly talking to somebody. "My people taught me medical techniques when I was younger. There's a plant that kills off infections. The only two problems are that the only plant's I saw like that are outside in the garden beside the police station and if it's not given to the person with the infection in time, it's useless."
"Did you hear that Xander, Johnathon's going to be okay. You haven't found a way out...Damn. Okay new plan." she said pulling out a map Leon had given her earlier. " Look at your map of the sewers. Go back the way you came and we'll meet you at the u-junction. Alright, I'll see you then."
"What was that all about?" Leon asked as he walked up to her.
"I'll tell you later." Tara said with a worried look. "You guy's go ahead on to the u-junction, I'll meet you there."
"I'm going with you." Leon told her.
"No." Tara replied. "I can take care of myself. Right now I just need you to get to the other's. They'll need your help, much more then I would."
"Okay." Leon said, strangely believing her. "Just be careful."
"Is it dead?" Amy suddenly asked, not daring to get closer to the licker.
"It looks that way to me." Claire says as she pokes it with her gun.
"Incente!" Tara shouted as a jet of flame came out of her hand. The strange creature let out a squeal as it burned and melted into goo. "It's dead now. Now come on let's move."
With a boom from Xander's shotgun, he made the zombie fly back into the other one's. As he and Kendra managed to close the elevator doors, Faith examined Johnathon's arm.
"Johnno I'm sorry man. Are you okay?" Faith asked.
"Hey I'm okay." Johnathon said even though he knew it wasn't true. "I owed you one remember?"
"Damnit, JL don't play like this!" she shouted. "You know that you're infected."
"Yeah." he said quietly as he hung his head low.
"Damnit, where's Tara and the other's?" Xander asked no one in particular. "Tara?" he asked hearing her voice in his mind. "Yeah how did you...oh telepathy. No we haven't found a way out. If anything this place is leading us further down. But listen though, Johnathon has been infected. He saved Faith but, one of those things bit him, do you know of a cure?" he asked hopefully.
"Okay, good...good, I'll look at the map now. Okay seeya."
"What did she say?" Kendra asked as she walked up to him.
"She said she want's us to go back into the sewers. She's going to meet us at a u-junction with Johnathon's cure."
"You make it sound like I have Cancer." Johnathon said as he walked up to him.
"Johnathon, now's not the time to make jokes." Xander said, feeling strange for saying that at all. He himself alway's laughed and made jokes in the face of danger but this was different. For the first time in a long time he actually felt as though he would die. "Now come on let's get you to the u-junction." he said as he grabbed his arm.
"I can walk by myself." he said as he jerked his arm free and walked off. Xander, Kendra, and Faith stared after him sadly and then follow.
Twenty minutes later
A deserted hallway. Nothing moves, but still we hear something. A low scratching noise. Like rats running behind the wall. Without warning, there is the muffled burst of automatic gunfire and a section of the roof collapses. Pipes and plaster fall to the floor, followed by Kendra and Faith. Xander brings up the rear, propping up a near dead Johnathon.
"We're almost to de U-junction." Kendra says as she looks around, getting her bearings. The more they walked Johnathon seemed to be getting worse.
"Go...good." Johnathon croaks out, while he sweats perfusely. 'Because you guys are starting to smell so tasty.' he thought to himself.
"How much further?" Xander asks.
"According to de map, it should be another fifty yards." Kendra says as she hears a noise. Before she could alert her friends to the danger that might be in the room, a large tongue comes down and slaps her on the chest. The force of the blow sent her flying back into a wall, where she fell unconcious.
Xander looks up to the ceiling. Hanging there is a licker.
Four claw like talons dig into the rock face, holding it in place. Its long fleshy tongue uncoils, snaking down towards its prey. We see the razor sharp barbs that cover the tongue's grotesque length.
Xander races forward, but is sideswiped by the creatures tongue. He is flung through the air and crashes in a heap, up against a wall. And just like Kendra, he lies still, like a broken doll.
The creature's mouth opens to reveal row upon row of teeth. This thing is built to kill.
It rears triumphant above Faith, who is shooting desperately at it. It's tongue suddenly retracts, leaving the Licker free to feast upon her.
As it's about to jump down on her...Bam! A boom of a shotgun sounds off in the room. It's bullet hit's the Licker square in the middle of the forehead. As it falls to the floor, machine gun fire could be heard. Letting out a wail, from being riddled with bullets, the beast falls over and dies.
As Faith looks up, she see's Leon, Amy, a little girl, and a woman with long brown hair, holding a smoking automatic machine gun.
"It's about time you guy's got here." Faith says as she stands to her feet.
"Yeah it's nice to meet you too." Claire says as she walks fully into the room.
"What hit me?" Kendra asked as she stood to her feet and looked around. "What's going on?"
"Nothing we can't handle." Leon informs her. "Now come on we have to...oh man." he says as he takes a look at Johnathon. His skin is deathly pale and his face takes on a ashen grey color.
"I'll be alright." Johnathon said as he stood to his feet.
"Alright." Leon said with a grim look on his face. He knew if Tara didn't get here soon, that her friend was going to become one of the undead. "Let's just get to the U- junction then." he said as Kendra revived Xander.
Tara spun around and emptied an entire clip into the monster chasing her, before she took off again. She had found the plant that Claire was talking about and quickly turned it into a liquid form. After that she went back into the police station and that's when the fun started.
She shot down the corridor at top speed, dodging here or there to avoid the corpses that were reaching for her with skeletal fingers. She heard a monstrous roar behind her and quickened her pace. Using her Dragon Guanlet's for extra speed, she pushed herself to the limit in order to escape the beast pursuing her.
What she didn't know was that it was actually Sherry's father, or what was left of him. He was the creator of the T-virus and, he used it upon himself to escape death from the hands of the Umbrella agents that had tried to kill him.
He stood over 7 feet tall, bristling with muscles. One of its appendages was long and dragged the floor, while the other sported 3-foot retractable claws. A large, bulbous muscle that could only be its heart lay on the outside of his chest wrapped around his head. His cold, emotionless eyes seemed to stare right through you.
Tara turned the corner and saw a sight that actually brought a smile to her face "The sewer access." The creature, which had been gaining on her, shot its claws out toward's her in a sweeping blow.
Sensing the attack, Tara dodged to the side and hurled herself through the doorway even as she emptied another clip into the hulking beast. She hit the ground rolling and rose to her feet. She quickly slammed the heavy steel door in the creature's face and slid the bolt home. Turning she ran off to meet the other's at the U-Junction.
The Scoobies and Leon's group run down the corridor of the U-Junction. Shapes appear at the far end. ZOMBIES! Twenty. Thirty. Forty. More. Suddenly near the door where they came in at, more zombies shuffle into the room. They are surrounded on both sides. The walking remains of humans who were infected in the labs, crawling over each other, hungry for living flesh.
Claire, Faith, and Amy fire into the crowd on the left of them. While Xander, Johnathon, and Leon fire into the group on the right of them.
The zombies start shuffling towards Xander. There are three of them. Xander shoots at the one in front. Misses. His second shot hits the thing's brain. One zombie is dangerously close. Xander fires two more rounds. No head shot, but the zombie staggers and, though not dead, falls...directly toward Leon.
The rookie rolls on his back, kicking himself away, managing to get clear. He uses his own pistol to blast the zombie.
"We are so fucked." Xander stage whisper's to Leon over the blast of their gun's.
"You said that already." Leon replies back.
"Well now I really mean it."
The undead are everywhere. Leon, Xander and the bloodied Johnathon keep firing, but nothing can hold back the tide.
The slide on Johnathon's automatic racks back and stays there. He's out of ammo. Johnathon struggles to load another clip, but his injured hand and arm makes it difficult. He fumbles and drops the spare mag. He stoops to retrieve it.
Xander looks around. A sea of undead faces. It's hopeless. Then suddenly a miracle. The dead sea parts as Tara carves her way through it. She ducks, she kicks, she weaves, she rolls. And everywhere she goes, things die.
Tara's sudden arrival has thrown the undead into confusion, but it won't last long.
"Here Johnathon, drink this." Tara says as she practically pushes the vial of green liquid down his throat.
"Tara how the hell are we going to get out of here?" Xander asks, as he starts back shooting at the undead. Tara quickly scans the room and see's wave after wave of zombies from both direction's.
Looking to the wall she saw a red button, that led to a red escape ladder. Quickly pushing the button a fire escape like ladder telescopes down. Looking up she see's a manhole cover.
"Kendra, help Johnathon get up the ladder." Tara told her. "Everybody else start climbing."
"What about you?" Claire asked as she walked up beside her. Kendra was already climbing up with Johnathon on her back, followed by Amy and Faith. Xander and Leon mowed down another wave of Zombies so Tara could have some space.
"Don't worry about me." Tara said as she smiled at her. "Just get everybody out of here."
"Trust me Claire." Xander said as he grabbed her arm. "Tara know's what she's doing, now come on." he said as he climbed up the ladder, followed by Leon and Sherry. Her and Tara made sisterly eye contact. Claire gave Tara one last look and then climbed up the ladder.
As they got to the surface, a smile spreads on all of their faces as they see...
"Tara's car?" Xander asks as he runs up to it and starts it up. The car is, for their sakes intact. Everybody then piles into the convertible, as they see that the coast is clear. They are all cramped in the vehicle but it's better then nothing. All eye's are on the manhole however, as they wait for Tara.
Putting her arms out on either side of her body, Tara willed power into her hands, as her Dragon Guaunlet's appeared. She concentrated all her power and energy into her chest. She could feel it welling up inside her as if it was willing her to release it.
She started to focus on the zombies and instantly sweat drew up onto her forehead. Her chest began to feel like it was on fire because she was trying to draw more power then she'd ever done yet.
"Kah…me…ha…me…HA!" Tara yelled out as blue and red fire erupted out of her hands. The fire engulfed the zombies on both sides and their wails could be heard all through the early morning.
"Dragonball Z?" Xander asks as he helps Tara out of the manhole.
"Hey it saved our ass didn't it?" Tara asked as she got in the driver's seat. "Now let's get the hell out of here." she said as she started to drive out of the city. As they get a few miles out of the city they hear a loud explosion.
Looking back they see a large mushroom cloud looming above the, morning sky.
Two day's later
After dropping Claire, Leon, and Sherry off at the nearest town, the Scooby Gang get some rest at a hotel. They had given Leon all of the document's they had found, so he could put them to use. Giving them a little money and getting Claire's contact number, the group quickly left town. After checking Johnathon into a hospital, they found that the plant worked and that he was okay. As he checked out of the hospital, the group got back on the road.
"So where are we going now?" Faith asked as they got on the highway. Tara sat there and thought about that for a moment. That was until Angel whispered something into her mind, instantly putting a smile on her face.
"Somewhere over the rainbow." Tara replied as she turned and looked at them. Everybody looked at her strangely and then shrugged. Although they silently wondered what new adventure they would embark on.
TBC...
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A/N to Darklight I did think to give Faith some powers now, but I only want to crossover with other peoples universe's a little bit. But believe me when she does get the power I plan on her to have it's going to be very emotional for Tara and the rest of the Scooby Gang. She's also going to help steal, part of Angel's destiny. Stay tuned to much later in the fanfic and you'll see what I mean.
Also as far as what Tara thinks of Faith, moving fast Angel and Tara just thought that maybe some of her dormant Slayer powers are awakening. She is supposed to be the Slayer after all. Faith also want be sharing Giles. I plan on giving her another Watcher, instead of the one intended. Also I put the dragonball Z attack called the Kamehameha wave in because I just wanted to have fun. I hope you guy's like this chapter.
And try to guess what Tara meant by, their going over the rainbow. Also about the comment Claire made about her people. Well I've been a fan of resident evil for a long time and I'm just now finding out that Claire and Chris were of native american descent. I also planned for their to be a bigger battle scene with Sherry's father, but it was taking so long to put the battle scene together, so I decided to end it like this.