After several minutes of rolling around on the ground, Jill and Claire were finally able to break up the fight and get Wesker and Chris back to their respective seats. Brad was having a total freak out, and the stories hadn't even started yet. Despite his earlier promise, Billy was serous considering feeding him to Nemesis.
"Alright, who wants to go first…yea?"
Miss Perky looks over the assembled campers, who are doing their best not to make eye contact with her. Without losing an centimeter of perkiness she plunges on.
"Ok then. How about this, we'll go around and say what we're all afraid of first, yea! Claire, you go first."
"Uh…yea…sure. I'm afraid of spiders."
"Alligators and being portrayed badly in a game boy color game." Leon shudders a bit.
"Hmm…" Chris finally shrugs. "Rats I guess."
"Blonde haired Russians with bad accents, and of course a grown up Nemmy." Jill smiles sweetly.
"Crows. Giant, black, man eating crows." Forest shudders.
"Umm…Wesker?" Barry says, grinning like an idiot.
"Good answer." Wesker grins evilly. "I fear nothing."
"Yea right." Chris rolls his eyes.
"What did you say Redfield!" Wesker snapped, jumping to his feet. "Come on say it again!"
Chris imitates Wesker. "I fear nothing. Is that why you ran from Alexia like a scared little bitch?"
Wesker winces. "That was not fear. It was a tactical move, you insolent fool!"
"Hey man, it's your story, you tell it however you want."
Wesker glares evilly at Chris while Chris laughs at Wesker's pain. Those two just get along ever so well.
"starrrrsss…"
Everyone just stares blankly at Nemmy for several seconds before moving the sharing onto William.
"I fear only that which could take the G-Virus away from me."
"I guess that would be the U.B.C.S. guys then huh?" Carlos says.
"I doubt that, as they were unsuccessful in their attempt."
"Wait, didn't Hunk get away with a sample?" Leon thinks for a moment. "I'm pretty sure he did anyway."
"Ya, he did." Claire nods in agreement. "He was the fourth survivor in RE 2."
"A minor oversight."
"Hey, you're afraid of the U.B.C.S. guys, but not Claire and Leon, who roast you alive on a train?" Carlos does not look convinced. "That is such a lie."
William looks a bit uncomfortable. "Very well, I do have a slight phobia concerning trains."
"I fear spies with bad fashion sense." Annette mumbles. "I mean really, black leggings with a mini dress?"
"I'm afraid of…uh…Nemesis…I…guess." Carlos mutters.
"I fear being left to die in a police station by uncaring parents." Sherry glares at her two parents. "Oh, and being infected by my father with a little snaky thing."
"I'm afraid of small children with bad English accents." Ark whispers, looking around.
"I'm afraid of zombies." Kenneth mutters.
"Muffle…muffle."
"What did he say?" The campers say in unison.
Rebecca sighs. "He said he's afraid of dogs. I'm afraid of leeches."
"Giant T-Virus enhanced monkeys and frogs." Billy sighs as Brad grabs his arm.
"I'm afraid of everything." Brad squeaks, looking around wildly.
"Wow, we'd never notice." Enrico said, rather sarcastically. "I'm afraid of dying in a dark dank tunnel."
"I'm afraid of becoming a monster." Steve says looking forlorn.
Leon rolls his eyes, mumbling. "Oh yes, and everyone was sooooo sad that happened."
"I'm afraid that my sister will someday leave me, and I'll lose my mind." Alfred squeaks, hugging Alexia.
"Guess you're last then Alexia." Chris mutters ignoring how close Alfred is to him. "What are you afraid of?"
"I fear nothing."
Everyone stares at her not looking convinced. Alexia shifts uncomfortably and finally clears her throat.
"chickens."
Everyone stars at Alexia with befuddled looks, trying to figure out why someone as powerful as Alexia would be afraid of chickens. Wesker bursts out laughing.
"Chickens! That is so lame!"
"Yes Chickens!" Alexia now looks more than slightly upset. "Have you ever been chased by a chicken! Well, I have! Evil little feathered creatures. They even eat ants! Ants I say! My precious ants…"
Everyone tunes her out as she starts going on a tangent about her precious ants, and preparations of a new virus.
"Alright! Now, who wants to tell the first story?"
"Wait a minute." Jill holds up her hand, stopping Miss Perky. "We told you what we were afraid of, now it's your turn."
"The blood, that's what I'm afraid of. Yes…" Miss Perky stares at her hands, looking unusually dark and brooding. "it never comes off, you see. No matter how many times I wash them. And the faces, oh yes the faces of those I have damned…I see them…"
Brad whimpers loudly and takes refuge behind Billy. Everyone else appear confused and somewhat nervous All of them will be sleeping with various weapons in their sleeping bags tonight. Chris finally laughs nervously.
"Ah…well, thank you for sharing. Who wants to tell the first story?"
After several; arguments and two slap fights, the group finally has a rousing game of Paper/Rock/Scissors…
"Alright William you go first."
"Yes well. Long ago, before there were electronically devices, there was a man, a lord. He had supreme power over all the land. But like so many men, he bowed before only one person. A beautiful and tempting young woman, named Alicia. He adored this female, and kept her memory close to his heart. Shortly before they were to be wed, the young lord left his kingdom, to fight. Leaving his betrothed alone and awaiting his return. He fought valiantly, and many of his enemies were left with their heads impaled on the end of a pike. Unfortunately news was relayed to his beloved that he had been killed. Who or even why this news was delivered to the beautiful young woman has been lost to history. But Alicia was so bereaved over the loss of her one love, that she flung herself out of the tallest tower of the castle, and into the moat below. When the lord returned, he found her body lying in the chapel wet and cold. The priests refused to give her a Christian burial, as she had committed suicide…"
Jill whispers to Chris. "Doesn't this sound like the movie version of Dracula?"
"I was wondering why it was familiar." Chris whispers back. "Except I think he screwed up the chick's name."
"Leave it to William to tell a story, no one, is gonna be afraid of."
Brad is whimpering loudly and clutching Billy's arm.
Some time later…
"And thus the great vampire was vanquished. Mina left the land of the Vampire, returning to her husband. The End."
"Alright! That was great!" Miss Perky shouts with her usual enthusiasm. "Wesker! Your turn…yea!"
Everyone is startled awake by her screaming, except Brad whose been huddling close to Billy since the story started.
"Very well, if I must degrade myself in such a fashion, so be it." Wesker cracked his neck, yawning. Long ago there was a beautiful princess of Japan. She was betrothed to an evil and somewhat dimwitted young lord named…Chris."
Chris glares at Wesker, mumbling. "Chris isn't even Japanese."
"The young girl could not stand to be married to such an insolent young man. And so the day before her wedding, she thrust a knife deep into her chest, effectively ending her life. But she had angered the young man, and in a fit of rage, he cursed her to roam the earth in a hideous and malformed body. They say when the night is at it's darkest and the moon is hidden from view you can hear her soft crying as she wanders…"
Somewhere in the darkness a twig snaps. Jill laughs nervously, and clutches Chris's arm. Brad grabs Billy in a bear hug, whimpering even more loudly than usual. Leon in the meantime, elbows Steve out of the way and puts an arm around Claire's shoulders.
"Don't worry Claire, I'll protect you."
Then without warning a woman in a white kimono appears. She is beautiful in face alone, as she has fifty arms, all of them reaching for our poor campers. The campers stare at her for several seconds…then all hell breaks loose…
"AHHHHH!" Brad goes crashing off into the brush.
"Damn!" Billy quickly follows and actually passes him.
"SHIT!" Chris runs for the trees, dragging Jill behind him.
Wesker looks shocked. "Uh…uh…uh…"
Once Wesker runs for the trees everyone else that hasn't already left, scatter like New York cockroaches when a light comes on. The Ghost woman looks around and sighs heavily.
"Oh dear, all I needed was directions…"
A/N: Well, I hoped you enjoyed this chapter, and my shameless if somewhat screwed up rip-off of fatal frame. So keep those reviews coming and you will receive, at no cost to you, chapter 11 insert creepy music Within the Woods. Gets ya all scared don't it?