The warehouse.
The road had collapsed in several areas and many doors had been locked, so the road led Leon and Tim to a Warehouse on a street (they didn't exactly know were they were, as they had no map).
Leon spoke-
" Lets go in here."
Tim looked around to see any other possible places to go and saw none.
" Sure" he shrugged.
They pushed open the heavy double doors and stepped into a large room.
"This looks like were you fight the village chief in Resident Evil 4." Said Tim, scanning for any lurking RE baddies.
" I've only played RE 2&3." Said Leon.
They looked around for a while and tried the back exit. Locked.
Suddenly, they both stopped. There was a sound from the upper area of the warehouse. A baby crying softly.
" Shhh…." whispered McGee.
"Ill take the stairs, hand me the shotgun… You go up that ladder (he gestured to the ladder) with the pistol."
Tim crept closer to the stairs, Leon waiting till he reached them before he started climbing to be sure they reached the top at the same time. Tim took the stairs slowly, mentally preparing himself for whatever monster awaited him. He reached the top of the stairs and saw Leon on one of the catwalks. Leon gestured over to the centre, were all the catwalks met.
Tim's jaw dropped.
Sitting cross-legged in the centre were a trio of little monsters, about a half a size taller then toddlers. Tim snook over a little closer to get a good look at them. they had greyish pinkish skin, and were shaped like toddlers, only their faces were upside down with their tongues sticking out of their mouths and trailing down to the ground.
They were chatting to each other in some strange language.
Tim looked to Leon, who was closer to the monsters now, and he was mouthing the word 'key'. Sure enough, the creatures were sitting around a small rusted key. One of the Children stopped talking and looked right at Tim. It pointed at him, chilling him to the core.
"weersiamd ekhtig!" It yelled.
It stood up and so did the others. they began to walk towards Tim, their tongues wagging. Tim froze in panic and his fingers felt numb, he couldn't fire the shotgun. The Children's tongues reached out like tentacles towards Tim-
BAM!BAM BAM!
Leon! He was shooting into the air! The monsters turned and toddled towards him.
" OVER HERE YOU LITTLE SHITS!"
He mouthed "key" to Tim again, who ran over to the key.
The Children gave a roar and suddenly burst into flames! Their tongues melted away and they got taller, only slightly shorter than Tim now, their skin cracked and brown.
" Oh shit!" Leon shouted and made a break for the stairs.
Tim stood up to call Leon but he slipped and knocked the key off the catwalk!
Shit…
The Burning Children loped towards Tim and he managed to fire a shotgun round at one. It flew backwards off the catwalk and landed on the ground. Tim's eyes watered up from smoke and he realised the warehouse had caught fire.
" LEON!" He screamed
" YEAH?"
"GET OUT!"
"I CANT! THE FRONT DOORS STUCK!"
"FIND THE KEY!"
how did the door close?
Tim looked over at the stairs. It was on fire. He turned and saw another Burning Child pointing at him, warbling some gibberish at him. He chambered a round and brought the gun up to face the monster.
KER-BLAM!
The Burning child tumbled off the catwalk. Leon needed help, all those monsters were down there with him now and Tim could hear him shouting profanities and firing his pistol. Tim summoned up his courage and, shotgun in hand, jumped off the catwalk and prayed not to land in fire.
Leon heard a thump beside him, he shoved the pistol in the head of- Tim!
" I almost shot you man!" He said.
The smoke was choking them both. Tim got to the ground and commando crawled along. Leon threw his coat at one of the Burning Children and it thrashed around in the coat for a moment before the coat burnt itself up. Another Child was running towards him. He fired at it until it went down.
Click.
His weapon was empty. His vision was going dark, the smoke was
smothering him! he bitter taste of ash hurt his throat as much as the sparks searing his skin.
"GRRRRRR!"
He tossed his gun at a monster sneaking up in Tim, knocking it over, and then picked up an axe that was just lying on the ground and hacked at it.
Another monster was charging, he couldn't see. He threw himself to the ground so it wouldn't get him.
he landed in the fire.
Meanwhile…
Tony heard gunshots coming from the burning warehouse.
Somebodies in there!
Tony used the steel pipeto bash down the charred wooden wall. suddenly, a Burning monster charged him! He smashed the thing in the face and it crumbled into dust. He crawled under the thick smoke and spied a shotgun on the ground.
BINGO!
he commando crawled over and dragged it along with him.
Suddenly, he saw a monster dragging someone out a back door and decided to crawl out through the door.
Could that have been McGee being dragged?
he got closer and closer to the door. When he finally reached it someone smashed it in his face!
He stood up and banged his fists against the door.
"LET ME OUT!"
the door swung open and he fell into the grass.
"oh, sweet non-burning ground!"
" DiNozo?" a familiar voice asked.
Tony stood up and saw McGee standing next to a tree with some dude covered in sores lying In the grass looking at him (at Tony not McGee).
"Oh, hey McGee… Who's this?"
"Um.. This is Leon!"
Leon waved.
"Hi. Tim here pulled me out of the fire. Can I have my shotgun back?"
DiNozo put the gun next to Leon.
Tony grinned.
"So how did Probie react when he saw his first monster, pissed his pants and screamed like a girl?"
Leon shook his head.
"More like shot it with a shotgun and sent it flying over a balcony thingy."
DiNozo frowned, remembering how he reacted when he "fought" the Lady.
McGee looked around.
" We must be in the forest, can you walk Leon?"
Leon stood up.
"yyyeaahh…"
They walked down the path.
" So… DiNozo?" Tim asked.
" Yeah?"
"What did your monsters look like?"
"My monsters?"
"Silent Hill apparently takes things from your mind and turns them into monsters."
"Women" He said morbidly " And Doctors… Yours?"
" Baby monsters. But I don't think they were mine."
"And they weren't mine. Mine look so much cooler" Said Leon.
"Who's were they?" said DiNozo
" I dunno" Said Tim.
It suddenly stopped snowing and the fog disappeared. It was suddenly night. Howls rung out all around them in the trees.
" Now! them…..They're mine" said Leon.
The howling grew louder.
chk-chk!
"what's the sitch with weapons!" Asked Mcgee.
Leon- "Axe"
Tony- "Pipe"
"And I have a shotgun with 5 rounds and one chambered. I have 3 shells in my pocket." Said Tim.
"I have 11 shells in my utility belt." Said Leon.
that was the first time Tim noticed that Leon was wearing a janitors utility belt.
The monsters had stopped howling but were now mumbling in some guttural voice. The three compadres could hear rustling and plodding footsteps.
" They're circling…" whispered DiNozo.
Tim was pointing Leon's gun towards every noise they heard.
DiNozo and Leon had their weapons ready.
There was a sound that was similar to a man retching from the bushes.
" What are these things?" rasped Tim.
"I call them Lions" Said Leon.
Tony got a glimpse of a monsters scaly hide behind a bush and shivered involuntarily.
There was a howl and one Lion attacked. it jumped out of the bushes in front of Leon.
Tim saw it. It was a large creamy coloured scaly beast, like a bear crawling on all fours, with a smoothed scale(and skin)less human head with no nose ears or mouth, just eyes. It had long claws on its front legs and a lions mane of tentacles on its neck.
Leon shouted- "TIM!"
"OUT OF THE WAY!" Tim yelled.
Leon tumbled out of the way as it swiped at him, howling. Tim fired a shot and hit it in the head.
"GRRRAAAWWW!"
It backed into the trees and another one crept out behind DiNozo.
"Monster!" He yelled.
DiNozo swung at it with his iron pipe. He hit the Lion in the head and it stepped back, black blood oozing from the crack in its skull.
The lion swiped at DiNozo but he deflected the claws with the pipe. Then the creature pounced on him, pinning him to the ground.
Oh shit not again!
Tim chambered a round and shot it in the back. It recoiled and bled but didn't retreat. Leon ran over and started hacking at its head as dripping tentacles grew out of its stomach and reached for Tony's eyes.
"GET THIS THING OFF ME!"
Tim tried to hit it again but couldn't get a clear shot, he circled around but there was to much of a chance of hitting either Leon or DiNozo.
The tentacles were probing his face, going into his mouth. They tasted like old rotten egg. DiNozo threw up in his mouth and shook his head trying to dislodge the tentacles.
Leon leapt backwards.
" Shoot the bastard!" Said Leon.
ker-blam!
The shrapnel hit the monster and killed it, lumps of tarrish blood flying everywhere. it let out a gurgle and fell onto DiNozo, who scrambled out and stood up.
" THATS THE SECOND GODDAMNED TIME THIS HAPPENED TODAYY!"
Then he threw up all over the ground. The first Lion plodded out again, howling.
"RUNN!" yelled Tony.
They bolted through the forest and the Lion gave chase, joined by two others.
Tony remembered he had one last clip in his pocket.
WHAT IS WRONG WITH ME TODAY! FORGETFUL BASTARD!
he loaded his pistol while running and fired at the Lions until he ran out of ammo.
" That slowed 'em down!" Shrieked Tim.
They ran and ran, adrenaline pumping through their veins, and then found themselves running into a black hole that opened up in front of them.
They fell for at least five minutes, and while they were falling Tim called over to Leon-
"YOU WERE RIGHT!"
" HUH!" Leon replied.
"THOSE MONSTERS WERE COOL!"
smack!
Tony fell on his face AGAIN! he stood up, looked around and saw nobody.
He was in a stone tunnel under the forest.
Alone.