'Geez, what a scary place,' Amber shivered.

The rest of the group agreed. They stood at the large gate that was the entrance to Thyme's grounds. Dominic was busy in the back of his truck equipping himself with weapons. He was on his knees, digging his head into his trunk of artillery. He studied his shot gun, rifle and of course, his machine gun. Harry jumped into the truck and stood beside the leader. Dominic looked at him in an irritated sort of way.

'What do you want?' he snapped. Harry shrugged. 'Well get out then!' Dominic turned back to his task. Harry sneered at him before walking around the back of the truck. He paused to look at weapons hung on the walls. One caught his eye.

Dominic stood and was angry to see the dark haired boy still in the vehicle. Unfortunately his eyes did not catch the movement of Harry's hand as it slid an object into Harry's pocket. 'Come on, move!' Dominic snarled. Harry gave a two finger salute and jumped of the truck and onto the grass. He wandered over to the others, who were arming themselves. Kevin looked around nervously. He only had a shotgun. It wasn't that he couldn't handle any more or difficult weapons; he just didn't like the idea of him hurting someone. He only had his shotgun for defence. His whole reason he was on this mission was to help with his knowledge, which was in his head, not in his hands where guns are kept. Dominic slammed the truck shut. He was behind schedule. His had hoped to be in the manor by now. It was already eight o'clock in the evening. As the leader, he stepped up to the gates and unlocked them.

'Ladies first,' Gavin grinned, receiving worried looks from all the females.

'Hurry up, I still want to be young enough to walk after we finish this mission.' Dominic said. They went through the large gate and found themselves in the biggest garden they had ever seen. The grounds seemed to be acres in area, and it seemed to surround the whole manor, which was huge itself. The garden had many ponds, flower patches (even though the flowers were long dead), trees and even a maze in the distance.

'Wow, just get my mum in here and we'll win the world's best garden hands down…' Amber said.

'It's cold,' Tiffany stated, wrapping her arms around her.

Dominic nodded. It was misty and was very cold. He'd send some men out later to check the garden. 'Let's get inside so we can get started.' They made their way up the long drive towards the oak door which leads inside. 'Now, as a reminder, we're looking for any sign of life, any bodies and any other clues to what happened before so-'

'Hey,' Gavin cried. 'I deserve a cookie!'

'How'd you figure that out?' Kevin asked.

'Cause, I'm first to see life!'

Gavin pointed to the distance to a running figure. Not a human. It was on all fours and was going too fast.

'I think it's…isn't that a dog?' Kevin asked.

'Yeah it is…and I don't think it's coming to lick our faces…' Tiffany said softly.

The dog began barking angrily. It was slobbering and bearing its sharp teeth. Its eyes were black and bloodshot-looking. 'Run!' Dominic ordered. He wasn't wasting precious bullets on some mutt. They bolted for the oak door. Harry was a good runner and reached the door before the others. He tried to open it but it wouldn't budge.

'Out of the way!' Gavin yelled, aiming the gun at the door lock.

'No, no, I got it!' Harry argued. He stood in front of the lock so it was out of view. Seconds later the satisfying sound of a click was heard and the door was opened. Harry rushed through it followed by six others. Kevin, who was weighed down by his back of instruments, was running the best he could, but not as good as the dog behind him. The dog had gained on him and pounced.

'ARGH!' Kevin screamed. The canine attacked his shoulder violently. Kevin nearly blacked out before he heard the gun shot.

'Harry!' Becky cried.

Harry stood at the door, arm outstretched, his gun aimed at the dogs head. The dog collapsed on Kevin and its teeth lost its crunching power. Gavin and the girls ran to the boys' aid. They pulled him up from under the beast and tried to cover the wound. Kevin groaned in pain, clutching his shoulder dearly. With a weak smile he looked at Harry. 'Thanks mate…'

Harry saluted him. Dominic glared.

'What the hell are you doing!' he yelled at Harry. He received a confused look. 'Look mate, you act when I tell you to act, if I say nothing, you do nothing!'

'Oh, give him a break!' Tiffany snapped, 'he just saved Kevin's life and you yell at him? If we're gonna finish this mission you have to grow up and quit being such a prat!'

Dominic ignored her. 'And also you just wasted your bullet! I was going to shoot the dog so you would have more bullets!'

Harry smirked. 'That's the thing, Dommy, I never wasted my bullet.' He laughed at Dominic's angry but confused face, 'I wasted hers!' he tossed the shotgun over to Katy, who caught it only out of instinct. The others, besides Harry, expected her to be annoyed or irritated that he stole her gun, but she stayed silent and started to bandage Kevin's shoulder. Dominic was livid. He seemed to keep his anger inside as he stormed into the manor. Harry leaned against the manor wall, smiling. Tiffany, Becky, Amber and Gavin stared at each other before heaving Kevin to his feet and helping him walk indoors. Harry waited till everyone was in till he gave one last look to the garden. His smile widened at the sight of blood on the grass and he closed the door.

AN. Oooooohhhhh what's he up to? Hee hee

Just to let you know I have not seen the second Resident Evil film yet but I've seen the first and I've played all the games on Playstation with my dad.

Answers to reviewer:

Kirei Baka Kasumi: thanks for your review, I will try to see the second film before I get into the depth of the story so I can add those lickers in. what are they like? Anyway, thanks for reading and I'm glad you liked it!