DISCLAIMER: I don't own anyone or anything in RE4 or Sly3.

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN:

AMBUSH!

Leon led Sly and Ashley up a small path and stopped in front of another merchant. "Dude, do you have to visit every freakin merchant that you see?" Sly asked, slightly irritated. Leon ignored him and looked at the weapons the merchant had to offer. He spotted something and picked up an odd looking gun. "What the crap of a gun is that?" Sly asked, ripping it from Leon's hands and looking it over. THe gun had an old engraved handle and a slim, sharp nosed barrell. Leon grabbed it back from him. "Oh stranger, that's a Red 9, a very old and EXPENSIVE gun." The merchant looked at Leon hopefully. But Leon shook his head and handed the Red 9 back to the merchant, much to the merchant's disliking.

The three followed Leon across the bridge, stopping suddenly when Leon's radio went off. Leon brought it out of his back pocket and brought it up to his ear. Why did he do that? Sly didn't know. You could hear the woman's voice too loud and clearly fine without putting it up against your ear.

"Leon I'm afraid I have some bad news." They heard the woman, Ingrid, say. Sly sighed loudly. Leon glanced back and motioned for him to be quiet. "I'd rather not hear it." "Well, I'm afraid you'll have to. The copter that we sent to pick you up at the evacation point was shot down, we don't know by who. And it'll be awhile before we can send in another one." Leon sighed inwardly but kept his poker face. "Alrighty then, where do you want us to stay put until you send in another?" "Leon just keep going for now. I'll send in a signal when we send another copter. Out." Leon put up the radio and turned to look at the anxious duo.

"The helicopter that the government sent was shot down, as you might have already heard." Both faces dropped and Leon felt sorry for them and him. He wondered how in the world they were going to get out of this place alive. Sly looked at Leon expectantly. "So... what do we do for now until they send in another one?" He asked. Leon shrugged. "Ingrid told me to keep going. So, lets keep going." They started across the bridge, running now. "Intrusos!" They all stopped and looked around.

At the two ends of the small area, about thirty and more male Ganados with weapons were quickly descending upon them. "Oh sh---" Sly started but Ashley interrupted. "Leon what do we do?" Leon shrugged a shoulder. "I don't know, we're sandwiched alright." He looked around and spotted a large cabin. He grabbed Ashley and Sly's arms and hurried them the rest of the way across the bridge and burst open the cabin door. Leon quickly searched the cabin for enemies, then allowed Ashley and Sly to come in and quickly closed the door behind them and locked it.

"Leon!" The three whirled around just in time to see a large stick being thrown at them. Leon calmly caught it and barred the door. A spaniard male around his late twenties stepped out of the shadows. "Small world, eh?" He asked as he looked SLy up and down. Sly moved uncomfortably. He really didn't like spanish people anymore, even if this one seemed trustworthy.

"Who the hell are you!" Sly demanded, to his and Leon and Ashley's surprise cursing also. Sly didn't like to curse, but this place just had him freaked out and on the edge of his seat. The spaniard held up his hands. "Whoa! Senor fox calm down. I'm friend not foe." Sly glared at him. "I'm not a fox, I'm a raccoon you moron!" The spaniard smiled and shook his head. "Sorry Senor, eh, Raccoon. Mi amor Luis Sera, and your's?" Sly looked at Luis funny, making Leon laugh. "Mi amor means name. His name's Sly." He told the spaniard still smiling.

Luis turned his gaze from Leon back to Sly and looked him up and down again. "Why in this world is a raccoon as tall as an average eight year old and dressed in clothes, walking around on two feet and carrying a cane?" Sly was about to answer when Ashley interrupted with a loud gasp. The men (I guess you could call Sly a man) whirled and saw that the villagers were closing in on them fast from the outside. "Ashley upstairs!" Leon instructed. Ashley nodded and unhesitantly ran up the stairs. "I'm with her!" SLy yelled and ran up the stairs following Ashley. He looked for her at the top and saw her dash inside a medium sized, old wardrobe. "Make room!" Sly yelled as he dashed across the small room and threw open the door.

"Hey!" Ashley cried angrily as he squeezed in with her. SLy rolled his eyes at her. "Aw, shut up. You're not the only one who wants to get out alive you know." Sly and Ashley listened, hardly daring to breathe, as Luis yelled to Leon to go upstairs. Instantly they heard alot of gunshots and pounding feet heading upstairs.

"Intrusos! Intrusos!" The sound of glass breaking in all three windows in the room. Leon's figure rushed over near to the wardrobe and knocked down a ladder that had appeared at the window, causing a scream to come from a spaniard as he fell to the ground below...

"Leon use this!"

"Luis are you alright!"

More and more gunshots...

Then everything quieted down suddenly as one villager tiredly and frustratingly waved his hand at the cabin and turned the other remaining villagers around and walked away.

Sly and Ashley listened a minute longer before cautiously opening the wardrobe door and heading downstairs. There they found Leon standing and looking out of the wide open door, a look of anxiety on his face. "Hey, what happened to Luis?" Sly found himself asking afraid for the answer. Leon glanced back at him and Ashley and stood up straighter, looking down absentmindedly at his gun and putting in another magazine.

"He left, said he forgot something. Come on guys, we gotta go." Without another word, Leon led them outside into the silent and cold night.

NOTE: I don't know when you'll hear from Murray again. Weird though. They just got him back only to lose him again... kinda like what happens when you play RE4 when you have Ashley... Never mind, read and review please. And no Leon's not gay, Luis is just his good friend and he's worried about him.