Hello again my minions! I forgot to apologize about taking forever with Ch.6. The whole spider thing took forever to figure out since I didn't plan on making that illusion. Besides writer's block, the reason why this took a long while was because Ch.6 and 7 were originally all Ch.6, but since so much happened and it was longer than Ch.1 (which was over 20 pages) I decided to break it into two. With that said, enjoy:D

Chapter 7

Connecting Blood

Back when Fangora turned around the corner to face the spider nest, Billy and Rebecca expected to see her shred another tarantula for them. However, she just stood there, staring into it with a look of confusion on her face.

"Is everything okay, Fang? What do you see?" Rebecca asked. She didn't answer or move. Fangora after a moment or two looked very angry. What did she see? What was making her so mad? Rebecca peeked around the corner to see what Fangora was looking at. Billy would have too, but he was too paranoid about another tarantula attacking him. Rebecca saw nothing, but darkness and danger. Fangora suddenly started running down the hall. Well, at least she tried to run. The webbing on the floor stuck to her feet and caught around her ankles as she ran.

"No! Stop! Let them go! " Fangora blurted out.

"Fangora! Stop! What are you doing!" Rebecca cried out.

"What the hell is going on?" Billy asked as he and Rebecca stepped around the corner to where Fangora stood only moments earlier. They backed up against the wall behind them, not wanting to risk being attacked.

"Leave them alone!" Fangora was almost to the turn when she tripped up from the amount of webbing on her feet. She fell on her hands and knees and tried to get up. What was she talking about? Did she see something with her enhanced eyes? Did she hear something in the other rooms? That was unlikely with the things she said. What was going on with her? What was she seeing? The two humans didn't want to go in the nest for fear of being attacked, but they didn't want Fangora to get hurt.

"Fangora! Get up! Turn back!" Rebecca yelled, hoping Fang would listen and she wouldn't have to go in after the B.O.W. Was she even listening? Couldn't she hear them?

"Billy! Rebecca! Get over here! Some people are being taken hostage! I need your help!" Fangora ordered.

"There's nothing there! Get back here! Whatever you're seeing, IT'S NOT REAL!" Billy screamed trying to snap her out of whatever trance she was in.

"Guys?" Fangora called. She looked behind her and stared straight at Billy and Rebecca. She looked at them as if they were transparent and saw only the wall behind them.

"Come back!" Billy ordered, "Don't you see us! We're right here!" Fangora looked forward again as if they didn't exist and tried to get up again. She struggled for a moment, but she was finally able to get up and move again.

"NO!" Billy cried out in fear for Fang's life. What was he going to do? She'd get killed for sure. She couldn't hear or see them. He wasn't going to like it, but he had to go in himself and drag Fang back to safety.

"Maybe Rebecca can go in. No! I can't send her into the lion's den! She has a lot to live for and I don't!" Billy thought, "Besides, I have to confront my fears sometime. It's the only way to beat them."

"Rebecca," Billy said with a gulp, "Cover me. I'm going in after her. Stay here!"

"Okay." Rebecca nodded.

"I can't believe I'm about to do this. Why me? Why me?" Billy whined in his head as he entered the nest. He trotted as quickly and lightly as he could without getting caught and falling like Fang. He tried not thinking about spiders, but just focused on saving Fangora. Billy could hardly see from the lack of light and went as fast as he could given the sticky danger grabbing at his feet. He just wished he could've moved faster and see what was around him. Then again, he didn't want to see another spider try to kill him. He just wanted to get out of the nest, not caring if the spiders were still alive and well.

"Fang, wait!" Billy pleaded as he watched her turn the corner. Billy caught sight of the cause of the bad smell: shriveled bodies wrapped in the webbing on the walls and ceiling. Billy gasped, "Holy crap! Shit, shit, shit!" Billy was completely terrified now. All he could think of was what would happen if a spider got to him.

"At least the corpses won't wake up," Billy thought, "They've been sucked dry and damaged their brain badly in the process, rendering them very, very dead. Oh damn it! I'm gonna die! I'm dead! I'm dead! I'm dead! I'm gonna kill you, Fang!" He was putting himself in so much danger and fear all because Fangora kept running deeper into the nest. He felt like strangling the girl for this. He saw a metal door through the spider's webbing on the right wall and was tempted to try and run through it. Any chance he saw to get away from the nest was tempting to take, but he knew he couldn't run away from it.

"Don't go any further!" Billy pleaded as he turned the corner and stopped to see Fangora. She was halfway down the hall that was revealed. She seemed to have stopped in utter shock. She slowly turned to look at Billy with a confused and scared expression on her face.

"What's wrong with you? What do you think you're doing? Are you out of your mind!" the ex-marine rambled in a panic. Did she actually hear him this time? Was she seeing him instead of an illusion now? Billy was about to step forward and grab Fangora's hand when a tarantula dropped on top of her from the ceiling and pinned her to the floor. Billy screamed in utter horror and quickly hid around the corner again. He felt like shooting himself. If it weren't for his arachnophobia, he would have been able to think straight and take care of the horrendous creature himself.

"Billy! What happened?" Rebecca called from down the hallway.

"Fangora's in trouble! Come on! I need you here!" Billy's voice cracked. By the fearful sound of his voice, Rebecca knew exactly what was wrong. Once again, she saw what fear could make somebody do. Rebecca sprinted down the hallway, not caring about her feet getting caught in the webbing. Billy looked back around the corner at the defenseless Fangora. He winced and turned back towards Rebecca again. He couldn't even look at the spider. It only made his inability to shoot it even worse. Rebecca was about ten feet away from Billy when another tarantula jumped off the inner wall and landed in between them and faced Billy.

"Oh my god!" Rebecca yelped in surprise.

"HOLY SHIT!" Billy screamed as he and his partner took aim with their weapons. The monster reared up on its hind legs, hitting the shotgun up and out of Billy's hands. It landed on a part of the web that connected the right wall to the floor. Neither Billy nor Rebecca could get to it because the spider was in the way. When the spider reared up, it startled Rebecca and she stepped back. Billy quickly pulled out his pistol and started firing into the animal's head once it came back down. He fired in a fearful rage, only wanting to get the thing away from him. He hit the eyes a couple times, making it screech. The tarantula stepped back a little, trying to protect its head with its pedipalps.

Rebecca was about to fire too when the monster lifted its abdomen up and sprayed a heavy layer of webbing at her. She screamed as the sticky substance knocked the pistol out of her hands and stuck it to a wall. The spray covered her waist and stuck her hands to her stomach. The monster turned and faced her with the intent of injecting her with its deadly venom. Rebecca whimpered as the arachnid advanced. She thought about running, but the spider would probably get the instinct to chase her and she wouldn't be able to outrun it. She tried desperately to get her hands unstuck so she could rip her gun from the wall and defend herself, but the webbing was too strong.

Billy knew the dangerous monster was about to attack Rebecca, but he was caught in fear. Why did his arachnophobia have to put everyone else in danger? It wasn't fair! He dropped his pistol without knowing and just stood still panting with his heart rate rising. He was shaking uncontrollably and could barely get a grasp on the situation anymore. He felt like Fangora: helpless and caught in a confusing trace.

"Billy! Help!" Rebecca cried out, scared out of her mind as the spider was backing her into the wall. Billy suddenly snapped out of it from the call for help by Rebecca. He suddenly felt no fear of the giant spider, but only rage and the desire to protect her. Billy looked down and saw the shotgun up for grabs, since the tarantula had moved out of the way. He jumped for it and grabbed it with his right hand. He rolled to the left and underneath the spider's abdomen. Luckily, the part of the floor Billy touched had no webbing on it, so he didn't get stuck. The spider was bending down, about to thrust itself up onto its hind legs so it could leap at Rebecca and make a fatal strike. When it bent its cephalothorax down, its abdomen raised just enough so Billy could fit under it. He jammed the barrel of the shotgun against its hairy flesh and pulled the trigger. The abomination screamed as a huge, gaping hole was torn in its fragile abdomen. Yellow guts sprayed everywhere, including on Billy's face. The creature fell to the floor with only a few twitches left in its system.

Billy stood up and used his shirt as a towel to wipe the tarantula's insides off his face. He put the shotgun in its holster and picked up his pistol again. He slipped it into his pocket and walked to Rebecca. He proceeded to help get the webbing off of her.

"Thanks, Billy," Rebecca said gratefully, "You came through for me again."

"What?" Billy asked as he freed her hands.

"You killed the tarantula. You overcame your fear and saved me." Rebecca told him. Billy looked behind him and saw what he did to the monster. He surprised himself at what he was able to do. It was like he did it all on instinct and didn't remember doing it. He grabbed Rebecca's pistol from the wall and gave it back to her. They heard a scream of pain and suddenly remembered Fangora. The two ran down the hall without a second thought.

Fangora lay on the floor, still in somewhat of a trance as the spider tried to bite her. She could see the spider, she could feel the prickly hairs from its feet on her skin, but she still couldn't react or move. Fortunately, without her knowing, her instincts took over her mind enough to make her move her head out of the way each time the spider tried to bite her. Her awareness had not completely come back yet from the shock of the connections and transitions between the world of illusion and the world of reality.

"Snap out of it!" the voice in Fangora's head ordered, "You're back in the real world now and you've got yourself in trouble! Wake up already! Hurry and kill this thing before it kills you!" Fangora stayed in her overwhelmed and confused trance, "Fine. Then the spider will wake you up for me!" Fangora stopped resisting and the spider bit into her neck, injecting venom into her system. The sudden pain brought Fangora back from her zombie-like trance with a loud scream. She screamed out of anger towards herself and the monster and pain and surprise from the wound. She was mad at herself for having a weak mind, which caused her to be vulnerable. This in turn would put Billy and Rebecca in much more danger than they already were in. Fangora could sense her friends were fighting another enemy, but she wouldn't be able to help them unless she killed this monster first.

Fangora's claws were already unsheathed, so she moved her hands up and let them pierce the feet of her attacker. It struggled and tried to get away, but the girl's claws held fast. Eventually the giant spider pulled away from the girl, shredding its front two legs and freeing Fangora's feet. In insane anger, Fangora sheathed her claws and grabbed the severely injured legs. She pushed her legs up and kicked the spider, throwing it over her head and behind her. Her back was to the spider as it jumped back onto its feet. It tried to charge and strike her from behind, but Fangora delivered a spin-hook kick to its face. She pointed her toes at the end of her attack and scratched two of its eyes with her sharp toenails. The monster stumbled back and covered the two eyes while shrieking in fury and pain.

The pain from the bite was still stinging her neck. The wound still bled, but it wasn't that that caused the pain. She suddenly realized that the venom was slowing her down and very slowly making her sick. The venom couldn't kill her because of the strength the T-Virus gave her body, but it would weaken her for a little while. If she used a blue Mbiriri herb or a first aid spray, she'd feel fine again in a matter of minutes.

As the tarantula regained its composure, it opened its mouth and spit acid at her. She jumped lightly left and right on the walls, dodging the attacks as she moved closer in for the kill of the spider. The streaks of acid hit the walls and floor, burning the webbing and small pieces of the cement away. She was getting close when she barely dodged one spray. Part of it hit her upper right arm and started burning through her skin, putting more venom in her system. The rest of the acid stream hit a hidden egg sack in the top corner of the wall behind her. The acid sizzled through the webbing and destroyed the eggs of the unborn tarantulas within. Fangora knew of the defeat of the group of arachnid babies, and stayed alert to the possibility of more. The added dosage of venom stung her arm enough, but the acid eating away at her flesh felt a million times worse. She usually could cope with a lot pain because of the enhanced stamina she possessed. She tried to ignore the intense pain even though she felt the acid stop dissolving just before it hit bone.

When Fangora was close enough, she launched herself off a wall, falling towards the monster. She thrust her clawed left hand in the space between its cephalothorax and abdomen. The spider screamed loudly as the sharp forms of fused keratin pierced its body. The two body segments were hanging on by a thread. Fang's momentum continued and she brought her legs over her head and did a front hand spring, her feet contacting the ground one after the other. Her claws still held onto the spider as she came upright again, which pulled the arachnid onto its hind legs. The young B.O.W. jumped and pushed both legs back at the same time, pulling her weapons out of her enemy and making herself horizontal. She kicked the spider where her claws once were, breaking the monster in half and throwing it across the hall. Blood sprayed against the walls and Fangora. The girl did a front roll as she contacted the floor and stood up, the spider's blood dripping off her body. She was getting used to being covered with the blood of others and her instinct made her like it. She licked and sheathed her claws and turned around to see her friends now standing next to the fallen tarantula.

"I thought you wouldn't make it with you in that trance and all." Billy said.

"We heard you scream! Thank God you're-" Rebecca stopped when she saw the acid burn on Fangora's arm and the bite marks on her neck, "Your arm! Your neck! What happened?"

"I got bitten on the neck, sprayed on the arm by acid, and envenomated. It won't kill me, so don't-" Fangora stopped when she heard a pop and the sound of a lot of small objects dropping on the floor. It came from the corridor behind Billy and Rebecca. Fangora suddenly gasped when she realized what it was.

"What's wrong?" Billy asked.

"Get over here, quick!" Fangora ordered. The two humans complied without a second thought. She was back to normal and after what happened with the centipede, if she said to run, they would obey.

"What is it this time?" Rebecca inquired, full of worry.

"There was an egg sack in the second hall. It just burst!" Fangora said, hearing the scuttling of hundreds of baby, mutant tarantulas.

"Oh, damn!" Billy panicked, his arachnophobia kicking in again as he readied his shotgun.

"Billy, stand down! Rebecca, replace the grenade rounds with napalm rounds from your bandolier! Hurry and wait for my command!" Fangora ordered like a captain on a battlefield. Fang's two comrades obeyed. Billy was happy to not do anything in this situation and just hoped it would be over soon. They could easily just run through the door behind them, but when they'd have to return through the same door, the spiders would get them. They had to kill them all off now when they had the advantage of the creatures all coming at them at once in the same direction. Billy and Rebecca could now hear the scuttling and the corridor began to swarm with baby tarantulas the size of the giant tarantulas in South America.

"Can I fire now?" Rebecca squeaked.

"Not yet." Fangora answered. She wanted to wait until more came so they could kill all of them with one round. They got closer and closer faster than any of them hoped.

"Now?" Rebecca trembled.

"Fire one!" Fangora screamed. The young cop quickly opened fire. She had to restrain herself from firing more than once out of fear of the hoard of smaller arachnids. A few would be easy to take care of, but in a group that huge, not even Fang would be willing to risk it, since she was already being slowed down by the venom in her body. When the special grenade round hit the floor, a wall of flame erupted like a hundred Molotov cocktails. The flames spread out and burned all the tarantulas in its path as well as the webbing. The baby monsters screamed when they were engulfed by the outcome of the powerful weapon in Rebecca's hands. The spiders could run no further when their legs turned into ashen twigs and one-by-one, they dropped in flaming piles. When the hall was silent with the exception of the crackling fire, Fangora smiled and turned around. As she cut through the webbing around the door behind her allies, the flames started to die down and finish staining the cement walls with permanent, dark marks. Billy and Rebecca trusted Fang's judgment that the danger was gone and they gladly followed after she opened the door.

The three entered the room and Billy closed the creaky, wooden door behind them. It was a small room made out of cement and like the hallway, it was wearing away. There was an old-style heater to the left of the door and the floor held power cables that stretched to the walls. There was a desk with stacked papers, books, a telephone, bottles of pills, and a lamp against the wall opposite the door. Luckily the lamp was working. To the right of the door was a small alcove with a smaller desk that had pretty much the same things on it, with the addition of a typewriter and no meds. On the wall to the right of this desk was a map of the facility's basement. To the left was an observation window covered with an iron grille that was illuminated by the small light of dancing flames inside. To the left of the window was a rack of chains and handcuffs and another old looking, wooden door like the one they just walked through. Except this new door had a little window in it that was protected by iron bars. Under the rack was a blue herb.

"Phew! I'm glad that's over." Billy sighed while slumping against the door.

"Don't celebrate yet, Billy," Fangora warned while sitting down at the desk across from him, "Who knows what we'll run into next. Maybe there are more of those things."

"No," Billy whined looking up at the ceiling and shutting his eyes, "No more of those! They are the worst monsters yet!"

"Hey, I thought you conquered your arachnophobia when you saved me." Rebecca teased, sitting by Fangora on the desk.

"That was just a moment of insanity. Don't count on getting such luck again." Billy told the cop, while looking around the room.

"Well, if there are more, next time we'll be ready for them." Rebecca assured.

"And next time I won't fall for anymore illusions!" Fangora announced.

"An illusion, huh? So that's what made you go all weird." Rebecca said, taking out some first aid spray after noticing Fangora's injuries again.

"Yeah. It was so weird," Fangora explained, "That little voice in my head kept telling me that something wasn't right and I should turn back, but I didn't listen. And by doing that, I got you in trouble. I'm really sorry, guys. Luckily Billy found a way to handle himself."

"Indeed," Rebecca agreed, "Now show me your injuries and I'll fix them up for you."

"No," Fangora resisted, "I'll be fine. I'm stronger than you, so I can deal with it. Save that stuff for yourselves when you get in trouble. You need it more than me."

"Fang, you got envenomated and burned by acid! You need medical treatment no matter how tough you are!" Rebecca said sternly, trying to reach for Fangora's arm.

"No, really! The injuries don't bother me that much and the venom won't kill me. It will just weaken me a little for a while. When I was envenomated, I was still able to take down the spider on my own. I can handle things, really I can."

"Come on, Becca. Leave her alone. You heard her: she'll be fine. She's a tough soldier." Billy seconded while taking the map.

"Stay out of this, Billy!" Rebecca snapped.

"Ok, ok," Billy submitted, "Don't go all PMS on me."

"Why you-" Rebecca was cut off from her threat when Fangora grabbed her arm to get her attention.

"Ok! You can spray me up! Go for it!" Fangora agreed so Rebecca and Billy wouldn't get into another fight. Her scheme worked and Rebecca turned back around as if nothing happened and went to work on Fangora happily.

"Thank you." Billy mouthed to Fangora who winked in response. If there were two things in the world that scared Billy the most: they were spiders and angry women. Fangora winced and clenched her fangs when Rebecca sprayed her arm and neck. She didn't scream, but just took a deep breath. It did hurt, but not as much as it would hurt Billy or Rebecca. When the pain was gone, Fang felt her wounds to see they were gone.

"There. Good as new." Rebecca commented.

"I should be back to normal strength in a couple minutes." Fangora informed.

"Ok." Billy said as he studied the map. Rebecca picked up the blue herb and put it into her med pack along with the remainder of the first aid spray.

"So what was that illusion you saw?" Rebecca asked while looking at the map. Billy gave it to her, moved to the papers next to Fangora and started looking through them, but ready to listen to her at the same time.

"Well when I turned the corner, all of the webbing was gone and everything looked normal, but there was a fight going on in the third hall," Fangora told, "A Japanese guy and a Caucasian woman ran around the corner, trying to escape from guards just like I was in the memory I had earlier. The man was a skilled fighter, but like me failed to escape. They both were shot by tranquilizer darts and carried into here. I called out to them and tried to help, but I was going so slowly. That must have been the webbing on the floor that was catching my feet. I couldn't see or hear you, just as they couldn't see or hear me. But just before I snapped back to reality, they said, 'Remember us!' The man said it in Japanese and the woman said it in French. They were the same voices that were talking to me when I was looking at the painting. They were my parents. I know they were." Fangora felt like she was reliving the illusion and she started to go back into a trance of shock and wonder about her parents.

"Wow," Billy said, bringing Fangora back to reality, "So do you remember them entirely? Their names?"

"No. My mom called my dad, Naoto. That's all I know."

"What did they look like?" Rebecca asked.

"My mom was 5'4", chubby, not very pretty, but had shoulder-length curly blond hair, and blue eyes. My dad was 5'8", fit, handsome, was middle-aged like my mom, and had dark brown eyes and long raven black hair."

"Interesting." Rebecca commented.

"What? Why did you ask?" Fangora questioned.

"No reason, really. Just curious."

"Looks like somebody was obsessed with work, here." Billy said looking at what the contents of the meds were.

"Why do you say that?" Fangora asked, looking behind herself at him.

"Because one of these is for headaches and the other is to keep someone awake."

"Naoto," Rebecca pondered when she thought about Fangora's illusion again, "I've heard about him somehow. I know that name."

"Probably in a missing persons report?" Billy asked.

"If I knew the last name, I'd know," Rebecca said, "I'm good with names, but not faces. Your theory does make sense though."

"Hey. Listen to this," Billy said while holding a piece of paper and facing the two girls,

" 'Correctional Institute Inmates List

Matthews, K.
Deceased. Disposal Complete.

Midge, D.

Deceased. Disposal Complete.

Keith, W.

Preserved as specimen.

Savage, C.

Transported to research facilities.

Royce, M.

Transported to research facilities.

Davids, A.

Preserved as specimen.

Clarke, A.

Transported to research facilities.

Ellens, J.

Transported to research facilities.

Terrence, O.

Deceased. Disposal Complete.

Kait, A.

Transported to Arklay laboratory.

Gerry, O.

Deceased. Disposal Complete.

Scott, S.

Transported to research facilities.

Mitchel, F.

Transported to research facilities.

Kerry, T.

Transported to Arklay laboratory.

Robert, A.

Transported to research facilities.

(Transported individuals to be deleted from the records).' "

"These people just keep getting better and better, don't they?" Rebecca said sarcastically.

"Yeah," Billy agreed, "Wait, this mentioned the research facilities here, but what's this Arklay laboratory? Don't tell me there's another one of these facilities in this forest!" Billy knew the answer would be yes, but he still hoped it would be no.

"There is," Fangora said, "I read up on it. The Spencer Mansion is the other lab that document is talking about."

"Oh! Of course! Sir Spencer! He must have a lab underground, beneath his mansion!"

"Sir Spencer? You mean one of the top Umbrella guys?" Billy asked worriedly, "He has a hidden lab beneath his mansion which is also in this forest?"

"Bingo." Fang retorted.

"Crap! Do you know if the Spencer Mansion had a leak too?" Rebecca inquired.

"I don't know. I half hope not."

"Half?" Billy asked while looking through more papers and books.

"I hope it didn't leak because if it did that means more unleashed monsters to cause trouble, but I hope it did leak because those sickos working there deserve it and when they're zombies, they can't go around ordering inmates and kidnapping people!" Fangora finished with a huff. She knew she and her parents were kidnapped and tested on. It made perfect sense. But what if her parents were working for Umbrella? What if they betrayed and tested on her and then other scientists tested on them? Even though Fangora didn't remember her parents' character, she thought it unlikely that they were a part of developing such atrocities.

Billy and Rebecca knew what Fangora was thinking and they believed the same thing. They thought it best to leave Fang be and let her think and blow off some steam on her own. So they continued to look around and distract themselves, trying to find more answers to questions.

Fangora sighed and stood up. She went to open the door to the room the observation window was looking at. She was now back to her full strength, but afraid of what she might find inside. She wasn't afraid of monsters, oh no. It was memories she was still afraid of. After the visions and voices she remembered and saw, she wasn't sure if she wanted to find out. At the same time, something drove her desire to remember. Everything couldn't be all bad, could it?

Fangora twisted the knocker doorknob and stepped inside. The place reminded her of a dungeon from the Middle Ages and it stunk. She put her hand over her mouth and nose, trying to protect her sensitive nose from the stench. The place reeked of blood, feces, and decay. Flies bussed around the room, which was lit by one torch next to the observation window. Many chains and shackles hung from the walls and the pillar in the middle of the room. Many of them were broken and hooks and ropes hung from the walls. Blood and old flesh clung to the shackles. There was a large bloodstain on the wall opposite the door that had drizzled down and pooled on the floor. And to her right the remnants of a spray and a wide pool of blood on the floor. There was a small vent with the steel grille cover hanging off of it in the far corner of the opposite wall.

"I was held here." Fangora whispered when she recognized everything.

"What was that?" Billy asked, coming up behind her. Fangora walked in further and looked around, taking in absolutely everything to see if they were familiar.

"I was here," Fangora said again, "I was held in this room those months ago. I'm sure of it! My parents must have been too!"

"Yeah. That sounds right, considering what you saw in the illusion." Billy answered walking to the open vent.

"They were kidnapped like me. I'm pretty sure that's how it happened," Fangora said to him, "But, but do you think there's a possibility that they were working for Umbrella?"

"They were kidnapped." Rebecca corrected through the observation window.

"What? How do you know?" Billy asked trotting back to Rebecca.

"Look at this," Rebecca said, showing Billy the old research diary she was looking at, "The names of the people the scientist talking about in this entry are names that I recognize in missing persons reports. He says they lived nearby and kidnapped the daughter first. Then when the parents went looking for her, they got caught too. The dates on the kidnappings happened soon before the time Fang was transferred to that perv in the labs. These three names have to be Fangora and her parents' names."

"Hey, you're right. Good work, Becks!" Billy complimented, making Rebecca grin. On the pillar were three sets of chains and shackles that spawned some interest and wonder in Fangora. The scents were what interested her the most. She made her way over and inspected them as Billy and Rebecca talked to each other. She looked at them and smelled the blood. Of course they all smelled different because there were different people in each set of shackles. She knew the scents very well, but whose blood was it?

"Hey Fang, are you back to full strength yet?" Rebecca asked.

"Yeah, why?"

"Just checking."

"What are the names?" Fangora asked, not looking up.

"The first one is Naoto Mitsusango." Rebecca told her.

"That's my dad," Fangora told them as she remembered the name. She looked at the pair of shackles on the side of the pillar that was facing the vent. She smelled the blood and recognized the scent, "He was right here. This is his blood on the inside of these shackles." Fangora moved to the shackles to the right of her father's and proceeded to smell the blood on them. Billy and Rebecca faintly heard her talking to herself but continued on with the names.

"The second one is ChloƩ LeClair Mitsusango. That one must be your mom." Billy said through the window.

"It is," Fangora answered, "And this is her blood." Fangora moved to the shackles on the opposite side of the pillar that her father's were on. She knew this scent very well and didn't have to think about it before she knew.

"The last name on the list must be you, then," Rebecca told her, "It's-"

"Liana Akiko Mitsusango," Fangora finished, "That's my name and I was chained right here. I know the scent of my own blood better than anyone else's." Billy and Rebecca were shocked.

"You remembered." Billy stated.

"I remember more than that." Fangora said looking around the room. Billy and Rebecca put the diary down and walked in. Rebecca stopped suddenly when she walked in.

"Oh no." Rebecca breathed.

"What? What's wrong?" Billy asked.

"This is the room from my nightmare!" Rebecca started backing up.

"Nightmare?" Liana said confused.

"Rebecca had a nightmare before she woke up in the infirmary," Billy explained, "It was about her being trapped in a cage and having to watch the ones she loved getting torn apart by some creepy, infected primates."

"Whoa. That sucks. I'm sorry to hear that." Liana commented sympathetically.

"The cage was where the pillar is now." Rebecca added nervously, keeping an eye on the floor. She felt paranoid that it would open up and release evil primates. She started backing up more when Billy grabbed her hand and pulled her back.

"Don't be scared. That nightmare won't come to life," Billy reassured, "Even if it does, we aren't helpless against them," Rebecca hesitated to come back, "Come on."

"Okay." Rebecca sighed nervously as she walked back to her original place by Billy's side, still clinging to his hand. If her nightmare did come true, she didn't want to be alone and isolated like she was.

"What do you recall?" Rebecca asked Liana.

"They threw me in and chained me right here," Fangora pointed to the spot, "A day later, my parents came and were chained on other sides of the pole. We were tested on a lot and tried to escape several times," Fangora looked up at the vent, "My dad and I plotted in Japanese and I'd explain it to my mom in French, so no one would understand what we were planning. One time when the scientists fell asleep, my dad and I managed to get out of the shackles. He helped me break into the vent and I tried to go around so I could get on the other side of the observation window and unlock the door. I managed to get through the vent and into another room but soon after I walked straight into the guards' quarters and got caught. After that escape attempt, they separated us so we couldn't help each other as easily."

"Do you remember where they put them?" Billy asked.

"I'm remembering as I speak." Fangora informed as she closed her eyes, trying to picture the past, "They put my dad over there by that blood stain on the wall," Fangora pointed to the spots as she spoke, "And they put my mom in that corner, past the torch."

"Whose blood is this?" Billy asked pointing to the old splatter on the walls by the window and the huge puddle beneath it. Fangora took a deep, shaky breath. The scent was strong and she didn't even have to put her face in it to identify whose blood it was. The large bloodstain on the wall was the same case. When she first walked in she recognized the scent like she did with the shackles, but from the amount of blood she saw she was afraid to pay attention to the familiar smell.

"That's my mom's blood," Fangora answered with fear in her voice, "And that big bloodstain on the wall over there came from my dad."

"Oh man," Billy sighed, "That's a lot of blood. I wonder what happened to them. By the amount of blood, I don't think they survived." After Billy said this, Rebecca jabbed him hard in the ribs with her elbow and gave him a scolding stare.

"Don't say that to her!" Rebecca whispered, "You're crushing her hopes of her parents being alive when she's trying to remember them!"

"I heard that Rebecca," Liana informed, "Don't get mad at Billy. I understand your concern, but he's right. That's a lot of blood. Even if they did survive, it's highly unlikely they would make it through a place like this in such a bad condition. It's better to have someone remind me now than to wait until my hopes get higher before getting broken. That would just make things worse."

"Sorry, Bill," Rebecca apologized. Billy responded with a smirk and a playful punch in the shoulder, "Hey Fang-I mean, Liana! Sorry." Rebecca thought that Liana might be offended if she was called by her code name since it represented what she hated the most.

"It's okay, Becky," Liana chuckled, "You can call me what you want. Fang, Liana, Fangora, Akiko- it's all the same to me. They all fit me well."

"I'd prefer to call you by your real name," Rebecca said, "Fangora is a heartless killing machine. You aren't her." Billy nodded in agreement.

"Thanks," Liana smiled, "But I can't really call myself by my real name. I don't remember who that girl is. She's dead now. Whoever she was, I'm not her anymore and there's nothing I can do to change that. Whoever I used to be, it was better than what I am now." The girl lowered her head in sorrow. She hated what she had become. She only hoped that the sacrifice of her humanity would not be in vain.

"Hey Akiko," Billy asked, "What's the last thing you remember about this room? Do you remember what happened to your parents?" Liana understood that remembering what she most likely knew would give her closure and eventual peace, but she was so afraid of what she would recall about her past. She looked at the shackles her parents occupied in the corners of the room. She closed her eyes and concentrated: What happened after they were separated? After about a minute, something started coming back to her.

"I remember that I woke up because I heard my parents pulling against their chains," Liana explained as she saw it playing out in her head, "They didn't look very good and were acting really weird, so I asked if they were ok. They didn't respond. They were trying to get to me for some reason. There were a few rusty links in their chains, so they eventually broke free. They were slow and uncoordinated and they kept coming for me, not answering me. What's wrong with them? What's going on?" Billy and Rebecca exchanged worried glances. Whatever she was seeing, it wasn't good. Suddenly Liana put her hands on her head and kept her eyes tightly shut. She started shaking her head as if trying to throw the image in her head away.

"Liana?" Rebecca reached out to her slowly, "What's wrong? Are you okay? What's happening?"

"No," the girl murmured, "Oh God, no! Why did it have to be that? I don't want to remember anymore!" Whatever this teen was seeing, it must have been really bad to make her so scared. Billy couldn't stand to see her so pained. From what Rebecca knew was happening she was going through a painful nightmare, like herself except hers was real. For this she was very concerned for the girl.

"Akiko, what's happening?" Billy asked. When she started sobbing and letting out small, short screams he turned her around, "Don't remember anymore! Forget about it! Don't watch!"

The girl backed away and started hyperventilating. She pulled her hands over her face as her claws revealed themselves. She couldn't stand watching anymore, so in attempt to make the images go away, she forced her eyes open and pulled her hands away from her face as if the nightmarish memory seeped from her eyes into the palms of her hands where she could dispose of it and never be haunted by it again. This was only the half-truth. For when she looked down at her hands she saw a piece of the memory in them. Of course through the eyes of Rebecca, Billy, and in reality she only held air. If they knew what Liana saw in her hands, they'd understand why she reacted the way she did. All color drained from the girl's already-pale face. She was shaking with her eyes wide in absolute horror.

"Liana, are you okay?" Rebecca knew that was a dumb question, but that was the first thing that came out of her mouth when she tried to communicate with the girl and get some kind of response out of her. No matter what she would have said or done, she'd get no reply from the B.O.W. It is very strange what total terror and shock could do to someone. Akiko heard and would have seen her friends if she looked up, but she acted as if she didn't. She didn't do this intentionally of course. She was so frightened at what she saw that she couldn't move or respond to anything even if she tried. She heard them, but at the same time she didn't. Her fear made her focus unwillingly on what she saw in front of her. Oh she wanted so badly to look away, but it was like Rebecca's dream: she couldn't look away. She was forced to mentally absorb what she saw, which only scared her more with each second's passing. She could hardly breathe or make a sound. Her heart was pumping faster and faster, trying to get more oxygen to her brain. She felt as if she were drowning or being strangled. If she were forced to look at what she was seeing for eternity, it would be the true definition of the torments of hell.

Eventually, she was able to make some sound. It was hardly more than a series of squeaks and quick, small gasps. Billy couldn't take it anymore. He had to pry her away from her hands. Then everything would stop and her nightmare would end. Then he and Rebecca could give her the comfort she needed. Billy walked to the traumatized girl and was about to reach out and turn her head away, but before he could Liana let out a blood-curdling scream. Billy and Rebecca jumped back when they heard it. Their comrade had screamed before, but only out of rage or pain. But this was a cry they never thought they'd hear from her: pure fear. This girl was strong and brave enough to fight against any horrifying creature without fear or worry. And now she was completely terrified. About what? They didn't exactly know. Rebecca feared to guess what Liana saw and could only hope what she was experiencing wasn't worse than the nightmare she had not long ago. However, if what Akiko was seeing was even less than what Rebecca's nightmare was, it would still be so much worse because it was real. Judging by the scream, it had to be really bad to start with.

The scream was long and loud and forced the humans to cover their ears. It was almost like the ear-piercing shriek of a banshee. When the scream ended, Liana collapsed onto the floor and didn't move or make a sound.

"Liana!" Billy and Rebecca rushed to their friend's side. Billy turned her over onto her back and Rebecca checked her vitals.

"Is she okay?" Billy asked very concerned.

"Yeah. She's just unconscious," Rebecca gratefully informed, "Physically she's fine. Her breathing and heart rate are coming back to normal and her color is returning."

"Good," Billy sighed, "Poor girl. I wonder what she saw."

"Let's just pray that things will be better when she wakes up."

"We should keep going and let her rest." Billy suggested as he stood up.

"But when she wakes up, she'll need someone to be here with her." Rebecca protested. She knew from experience that having someone with you when an ordeal like that was over makes all the difference in the world.

"Good point," Billy agreed, "Well since I'm too big to fit in the vent, I could boost you up and while you're doing your thing and exploring, I could stay here with Liana."

"Okay. That sounds fine," Rebecca stood up and walked to the vent, "So how are we gonna do this?"

"Well you can't go head-first or else you'll have problems when you try to get out on the other side. Can you do a hand-stand?"

"Yeah, why?"

"Good. Okay, here's what we'll do. I could lift you up and you could do a handstand on my shoulders. I'll slide you in the vent with your belly down."

"Alright, but I'll have to take my stuff off or I won't fit," Rebecca unclipped her medpack, "I'll need a boost to toss my stuff in the vent before I go in." Billy leaned up against the wall and entwined her fingers together so Rebecca could have a good foothold to stand up on. Rebecca put the medpack straps in her mouth and stood up on Billy's hands and then his shoulders. She took the medpack out of her mouth and tossed it into the vent. She removed the grenade launcher from around her shoulder and neck and pushed it through the vent along with her pistol and radio. Rebecca jumped off and she and Billy switched places. Billy held onto Rebecca's hips and Rebecca put her hands on Billy's shoulders.

"Ready?" Billy asked with a feeling of awkwardness in his voice. He didn't know why standing like that with Rebecca seemed embarrassing to him, but it just did. The position seemed a little awkward to Rebecca too and she almost blushed. She nodded in response to Billy's small question, "Okay. One, two, three, and up." As Billy said this, he lifted and held Rebecca up as she pushed down on his shoulders so she was almost upside down.

"Don't you dare drop me." Rebecca warned.

"Don't worry. I won't even though this is harder to hold you up than it looks." Billy strained.

"Oh, that's very comforting!"

"Then hurry up and find the wall! This is getting too awkward and tiring!"

"I can't unless you move forward so I can touch the wall, you ding dong!"

"Okay, okay. Hold up. I'll try to move without falling backwards." Billy steadied himself and started inching forward.

"You better not! I don't want to crack my head open just because you're being an uncoordinated idiot!"

"I'd like to see you try this, Ms. I-Know-Everything." Billy retorted as he slowly moved closer to the wall.

"Okay, my feet are touching the wall now." Rebecca told him.

"Good. Now just walk up the wall and get your feet into the vent." Billy grunted. Rebecca followed directions until her feet slipped inside.

"I'm in."

"Alright. I'll push you inside now." Billy worked his hands up her vest as he pushed her further into the vent. Doing that necessity felt very awkward to both people and Billy apologized for a certain place he touched while doing it. As Rebecca was pushed in, her feet shoved her stuff out the other end.

"I'll take it from here." said the cop as she scooted herself the rest of the way in. It was a tight fit in the vent and made Rebecca feel claustrophobic. She scooted down the vent until the opening to Billy's side was a few feet away. Then her feet came out of the vent followed by the rest of her body. She dropped down into the new room and put her equipment back on. Rebecca gasped when she turned around to survey the room.

It was a torture chamber. There were bloodstained iron maidens and a well with a cage above it to drown people in. There were torches around the room, chains, bloodstains, and ropes. All of them had obviously been put to use, but not recently. Rebecca was filled with an overwhelming sense of fright and hatred. How could Umbrella do all of that to innocent people? Why? Why torture them? At least (as far as she knew) there wasn't anyone else in the facility that could capture and torture her and her friends.

"It's a torture chamber in here, literally. Over." Rebecca said over the radio.

"What the crap?" was Billy's response as he sat by Liana, "What's in there besides torture devices? Over."

"The room splits to the left, right, and directly in front a row of metal electric chairs that are scarred with numerous claw marks. The texture of the chamber looks the same as the dungeon. Over."

"Claw marks? I don't like the sound of that. Be careful over there Rebecca. Over."

Rebecca walked to the right and saw a rusty metal door. She opened it with her pistol ready and stepped inside. It was dark and smelly inside with only the flickering light above working. She saw a bed, a broken locker, a gas canister, a desk, random junk, and some trashed monitors and control panels in the side of the room where another light sat.

"I've entered a different room. I think it's the guard's quarters. Over." Rebecca told him.

"See anything useful? Over."

"Yeah. There's a ZOMBIE!" Rebecca screamed out of surprise as a zombie grabbed her foot from underneath the bed. She quickly shot it in the head and it let go.

"What was that? Over."

"Under the bed, there was a ZOMBIE!" Rebecca yelled again as another dead guard grabbed her from under the desk. She killed it just as she did its comrade.

"Are they gone yet? Over." Billy asked with a laugh.

"I think so. I found three clips of handgun ammo and seven shotgun rounds. Over." Rebecca responded as she packed them away.

"Hey Becca? Over."

"What? Over." Rebecca asked as she tried to open a metal door on the other side of the room. It was locked and had some spider webbing that had seeped in the cracks a little.

"When did we start saying over? Over."

"Just now. Over." Rebecca smiled.

"Why? Over."

"I dunno. Is it a problem? Over." Rebecca chuckled.

"Yeah. It's freaking annoying!"

"Okay, okay we'll stop," Rebecca laughed, "There's a door to the spider nest here, but it's locked."

"Alright, I know what door you're talking about. Head back to the torture chamber and see what else you can find there."

"Heading out." Rebecca said as she left the room.

Rebecca walked back into the torture chamber and saw a piece of paper on the floor. She picked it up and read it over the radio.

" 'About the Power Regulator

Due to the recent lightning strike, the power regulator continues to be inoperative. I wouldn't really care about the power, except for the fact that the boiler room equipment is on the same grid. The equipment is so run down, I'll probably have to have it fixed up all the time. If you wish to exit rapidly set the indicator to 70. Check first though that everything is connected to the chain.' "

"Okay, it looks like we know how to get passed the boiler now. Do you see the power regulator?" Billy asked.

"Yeah, I see it." Rebecca said as she went to the left of where she started. She saw a power regulator in an alcove. There was a dial with a needle that pointed to the voltage, which was currently on zero. It went up to 100 and 70 to 100 was in red. There were five switches below it with swaying needles above each. If she flipped it down, the main needle would go down in voltage. She messed with them trying to get the needle on 70. She eventually got it by this order in switches: up, up, down, up, up. When this happened, Rebecca heard the metal door to the spider nest unlock and the pressure in the boiler down stairs went down so the steam stopped spraying out of the pipe.

"Billy, the door is now unlocked and the wall of steam from the boiler downstairs should be gone now." Rebecca said though the radio.

"Good. Come on back here and we'll wait until Liana wakes up before we leave again." Billy answered.

"Roger. Over and out." Rebecca clipped her radio to her pants again and headed for the door.

"You said over!"

"Shut up, Billy!" Rebecca yelled at the vent. She heard him laugh and continued on.

As Rebecca was speaking to Billy she didn't know someone was watching her through surveillance camera.

In a dark room, the mysterious young man watched Rebecca on the camera monitor.

"You are wasting your time," the man droned at the monitor, "I have already claimed this place for myself. Which means that you are trespassing. And I am very territorial." He let out an evil laugh as he pressed a switch on the control panel below the monitors. Somewhere in the facility, a group of monsters were released from the shadows of their cages.

Rebecca didn't move far when one of the new monsters screamed in a raspy voice and jumped onto Rebecca's back. It dug its small claws into her shoulders and bit her neck. Rebecca screamed out of surprise, terror, and pain. She eventually was able to throw the thing off. When Rebecca turned around to see what the creature was, her breath caught in her throat. The yellow eyes, the decaying gray flesh, the small body, the white fur, and the salivating mouth. It was the primate from her nightmare. She slowly backed up and stood by the power regulator. She heard the floor cracking and tried to move but the primate jumped on her again. The addition of weight made the floor break and both fell into the unknown with a scream.

Yey! Evil monkeys! Those things drove me nuts in the game though! They just won't die! And my buddy, Jessica, was a genius again with fighting choreography. The majority of it was her work. After Liana got burned, then I planned the rest. So if you thought it was cool, thank her. Now review again while I go back to school! Ya know? I think I've been writing for almost a year now! OO Yey!