Ch.11-Lost in the Sewers
Disclaimer- I don't own Resident Evil and most likely never ever will.
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"LILIE!" Billy's voice echoed through the hole in the college. No response from Lilie or even Michael came. Quickly, Billy ran down to the first floor, where the hole was gone. The others followed him.
The hole on the first floor was completely closed off by broken parts of the floor, trapping Lilie and Michael underneath. There was so much rubble that it could not be moved by hand and there was no machine around that would be able to remove the rubble.
Billy turned to Jill and asked, "What's underneath this place?"
Jill looked over her map and shrugged, "I don't know. The sewers most likely, but…"
"I'm going there. I'm going to find Lilie and I'm going to bring her back." Billy interrupted before heading out of the college. Rebecca, Barry, and Leon followed him.
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Lilie was laughing. She saw herself at age five singing in front of a large group of people and getting applauded for it. Then she saw herself at age ten walk into a karaoke bar and earn the name 'Karaoke Queen' and then at age thirteen having her first kiss with her boyfriend as the Fourth of July fireworks went off. Then she saw herself at fourteen, spending a week with Carlee, her sister, and brother-in-law in Seattle visiting the space needle, taking a ferry to Whidbey Island to walk along Deception Pass Bridge, and having a great time.
But then she stopped laughing. She saw herself at just before she turned fifteen when she played the main character in a play set up by the drama club at Marysville High School. She was Ellen, a beautiful maiden with an angelic voice who was searching for her lover who was lost in a war. When Lilie sang one of the sadder songs in the play, she stood on a catwalk above the stage, but one day as she was in the middle of her song, the catwalk began gave out and she fell onto the stage and was knocked into a coma. But this time, instead of hitting the stage like what happened at the play, Lilie saw herself crashing through the stage and fall into a pit of darkness, so she screamed.
DRIP! DRIP! Water drops fell on top of Lilie's cheeks. Lilie softly groaned and opened her eyes. Darkness. That's all she saw. No stage, no hospital, no bedrooms. Just darkness.
Lilie wrinkled her nose at the sickening smell in the room she lay in and carefully stood up on her own two feet and tried to remember what happened.
Then she remembered. Carlee and Amy and that blonde bastard. He changed Amy and killed Carlee. Lilie thought as she felt around for a wall to guide her to the end of wherever she was.
The whole place was pitch-black, the walls felt slimy, and there was water up to her calves. The water seemed through a small tear in the jeans she borrowed from Rebecca back in Raccoon City, but Lilie didn't care. She'd repay Rebecca when they made it out of Marysville. If we make it out.
Suddenly, an extremely bright white light shined in Lilie's eyes, blinding her temporarily. The girl closed her eyes and started to stumble into a cold stone wall. When she opened her eyes, a gun was pointed at her head. "Don't shoot!" she shouted, covering her eyes from the blinding light.
"Who are you?" the familiar voice of the light owner shouted.
"Michael! It's me, Lilie!" Lilie shouted.
"Lilie who?" the voice shouted back.
"Lilie Coen! We were fighting the monster on the college when my best friend was killed."
The light was gone. "Were you bitten?"
"I don't know."
"What do you mean you don't know?"
"I can't see my hand in front of my face. It's too dark."
Michael grunted, pulled out a spare flashlight from his pocket, and held it out in front of him. "Walk forward and take the flashlight from my hand." Michael commanded.
Lilie obeyed him and grabbed the flashlight from his hands and flipped it on. She looked around and let out a low groan, "Oh no. Come on, anywhere but here."
"Why? What's wrong with this place?" Michael asked.
Lilie frowned, "Michael, we're walking through the sewers."
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Billy was searching the grounds for any entrance to the sewers that he could fit through, but had no luck even after a half and hour of searching. It seemed like such an easy task: find the sewers and listen for movement, but with Lilie gone, Carlee dead, and no town map to show where the manholes were placed, the task was extremely difficult. There weren't even that many sewer drains around and the ones that were around were so small that Billy couldn't fit any more than his hand through them.
"Dammit! Where the hell are the manholes? Where the hell is my sister?" Billy shouted, kicking over a nearby garbage can angrily.
Rebecca frowned and placed a hand on his shoulder. "It's okay, Billy. We'll find her. Don't worry, I'm sure she can take care of herself. She's a big girl." Rebecca told him.
Billy turned to her. "But she's only fifteen and what if one of those…things comes after her? How the hell is she going to protect herself if her friend couldn't?" he argued.
Barry let out a heavy sigh and answered, "We'll keep looking and if we're lucky, we'll find a map telling us where the sewers are. Don't give up. We'll find her."
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"Are you afraid of spiders?" Michael asked as soon as Lilie stopped looking around the area where they stood.
Lilie shook her head, shaking out drops of the sewagey water from her partially damp hair, "No, I'm not. I've never been. But Carlee was." She frowned at the thought of her best friend and held back the tears that stung her eyes. Quickly she turned to Michael and shouted, "Have you seen them? Carlee and Amy?"
Michael raised an eyebrow and shook his head, "They weren't near me when I woke up. I don't really see why you want to see them. Both are dead and aren't coming back."
Lilie glared at the taller boy and shouted, "One of them was one of the best friends I've ever had! How could you be so damn insensitive!"
Michael stared at her, "I'm not insensitive. In fact, you should be thanking me. If it wasn't for me, that leech thing could have killed you and if you had survived, you'd be trapped down here in the dark, not knowing where you are or what things are down here and have been unable to defend yourself because you couldn't see!"
Lilie grumbled, but nodded. "Fine. I'm sorry I called you insensitive, but just under an hour ago, the last of my friends died…and I'm still a little freaked about what's happening around here with the monsters."
Michael aimed his flashlight down the sewers and took a few steps through the sludgy water. "Come on. The sooner we move, the sooner we'll be out of this place." He said to Lilie.
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Chris, Jill, Claire, and Tom left the college about twenty minutes after Billy, Rebecca, Leon, and Barry did. None of them knew their current destination, but they could easily tell where the other four were just by using one of Orion's walkie-talkies. It was Lilie and Michael they didn't know about, so Chris led Jill, Claire, and Tom to the nearest place that could possibly lead to where Lilie and Michael could be: a warehouse.
Claire questioned her brother about going to the warehouse, but he only told her that the warehouse would have an entryway to the sewers and the sewers was definitely where Lilie and Michael were.
The warehouse was not like Chris expected it to be. There were tons of wooden crates and boxes along with heavy machinery, but no entrance to the sewers. The place was completely useless. Only one of the machines, a forklift, actually worked and none of the boxes and crates would open, but that didn't mean that there wasn't anything inside them.
As everyone walked around the inside of the warehouse, Jill accidentally knocked into one of the larger crates.
The crate started shaking wildly, causing Jill and the others to jump and aim their guns at the box. With a loud bang, the box fell to its side and opened on contact, releasing what happened to be inside: a licker…and it was angry.
Instantly, the four shot wildly at the monster and killed it quickly, but unfortunately called something much more dangerous and powerful than the simple licker that came from the crate.
Another child-tyrant in a heavy black trench coat crashed through the roof of the warehouse and on top of the heaviest crates in the warehouse, crushing them and the monsters inside quickly.
Quickly, the four humans shot at the creature with their guns. Most of the shots struck the creature's head and chest and although the creature was plagued with heavy bullets, it was still going after its enemies, swinging its enormous hands at Chris, Jill, Claire, and Tom.
One of the enormous hands knocked Claire to the ground and caused her to hit the opposite wall and her handgun to leave her clutches, the creature then headed for her, ignoring Chris, Jill, and Tom and got ready to strike her down.
Chris, full of fear of losing his sister like Billy lost his, screamed and shot the creature multiple times in the neck until the head was severed due to the many bullets in his neck.
Claire paled when she saw the mountain of blood spurting from the creature's neck like a broken fire hydrant and had the sudden urge to vomit, but as soon as she saw her brother standing in front of her, the sickening feeling escaped her body and she smiled. "Thanks, Chris." Claire said to her brother as he helped her to her feet and handed her back her gun.
Chris smiled back at her, "No problem."
"Holy shit!" Tom yelled from behind Chris and in front of a large, crushed wooden crate, "We hit the jackpot."
Chris, Claire, and Jill walked over to him and almost instantly, their eyes widened. As Tom said, they certainly hit the jackpot. Weapons and ammo were buried under the destroyed crate that lay in front of them. Tom was smiling and holding up an assault rifle, which happened to be loaded.
From the within the pile, Chris grabbed a modified shotgun with an extra box holding 100 extra shells. Claire took a bow gun with 120 extra arrows. Jill grabbed the modified handgun with just a few extra bullets since she still had many left.
"So, are we finished here?" Jill asked.
After a minute of looking around the warehouse, Chris nodded, "Okay, let's go."
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"Hey! I found something!" Rebecca shouted, carefully removing a piece of paper from a bulletin board next to a nearby restaurant.
Billy ran up to her side and partially smiled. The map was one of Marysville, and though it was made by a seventeen-year-old named Jamie Gordon(it was autographed on the back with Jamie's name and age) it was very accurate and easy to read. The only thing that was upsetting was that the nearest manhole was almost a mile away, next to a hotel, but that didn't prevent Billy from heading in the direction of the manhole immediately.
"Billy! Wait up!" Barry shouted, rushing after the younger man with Leon and Rebecca quickly following him.
Billy didn't stop. He couldn't stop himself from rushing to the manhole. Not even a few of the zombies wandering the streets could stop him. He simply shot them as he walked and didn't stop to see if they were actually dead or not. Hang on Lilie. I'm coming.
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"So, what do you think is down here?" Lilie asked, shuddering as the sludge entered her shoes.
Michael didn't look at her and shrugged. "I don't know. Anything, I guess. Zombies, spiders, Amy, Mr. Hankey the Christmas Poo." He told her.
Lilie let out a sigh. "Yeah, right. A piece of shit that comes out at Christmastime from a cartoon is really going to be found in the sewers." She said sarcastically.
Michael rolled his eyes and asked, "Okay, little miss smart-ass. What do you think is down here?"
Lilie shuddered and answered, "Gary Aslin."
Michael paused and asked, "The crazy old man who lives in the sewers? He's still alive?" After seeing Lilie nod, he couldn't help but to shudder, too. He remembered the man who lived in the sewers and rarely came out. He had filthy clothes, wild gray hair, and his only teeth left were a sickening yellow color. Once or twice when Michael was a little boy, he and his father ran into Gary, who happened to always scare Michael.
"Still alive? How long have you been away from Marysville, anyway?" Lilie asked him.
"I left ten years ago." Michael answered.
"You've been gone for ten years? Where the hell have you been and why did you leave?" Lilie asked.
Michael grunted, "That's none of your business, girl." He then started to walk away from Lilie, down the filthy sewers with an emotionless look on his face.
Lilie began running after him and shouted, "Hey, wait!"
Michael stopped and asked, "What? Are you scared?"
"What? Of you? No way." Lilie stated. Michael shrugged and kept walking. Lilie followed him until she felt a slimy hand grab her bare arm. She turned around to see the owner of the hand and screamed like she never screamed before.
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A/N: Okay, that's chapter 11. I tried to focus more on humor than on horror. R/R if you want and if anybody has any ideas, don't hesitate to send it in an e-mail or a review. I'm always open to any questions or ideas. And it seems that there's been some confusion about this chapter, so I fixed it up a little to make it easier to understand about the manholes and sewer drains. Oh, and in case some of you didn't know. Mr. Hankey the Christmas Poo is from South Park. Damn, that show is funny.