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Chapter 1: The Prologue to DestructionSeptember 20th 8:25 pm
Pouring some orange juice into the cup, I set the glass down on the table with my cheeseburger and began eating. The taste soothed me after a tough day at School. Algebra was being introduced at 6th-grade math, and an accusation of participating in a fight both had me working much harder for my good grades. As I finished eating, my father, Jon Toleman, entered the house.
Hi, dad.
Hey, Marcello. How was your day today at school?
Not too good. I was accused of being part of a fight between P.J. and Johary by the stupidest person in the school. Still, I managed to get through it. There were witnesses who saw the fight and reported that I was not involved… Actually, that was a good thing, I had to miss out on geography class and Science. Math was still unavoidable, and we began the new unit on Algebra.
I sighed in annoyance, and finished my dinner. That night, I finished his homework in an hour before going to watch the Dawn of the Dead.
September 21st 7:30 am
The next morning, I got himself ready for school. I slept in unfortunately, and had only 20 minutes to get ready for school, instead of the usual hour. In my rush, he misplaced an important paper among my father's files. I had about 1 minute left, and I needed his paper on that day. I knew it was somewhere among my father's papers in his office, and went looking through the pages for the paper. As luck would have it, I picked just the right place to look, and found the report.
As I picked it up, I noticed there was a green illustration on the paper behind his report. He looked through it, and saw that a picture of a strange reptilian humanoid creature inside a tall liquid tube, unconscious, was on a paper titled ''Hunter MA-121''. Stapled to the sheet were several other papers, and the name MA-121 was continuously brought up. I was a curious kid at the time, and decided to see if there were any other sheets like this. I looked around the mass of papers for a few moments, and saw an illustration of a gruesome creature with a long sharp tongue.
Then my father called my to hurry before I had a chance to pick up any more sheets. I snuck the 2 sheets of the licker and hunter information in my school agenda, and quickly ran to get my backpack and go to school.
During the short amount of time I had my break, after lunch and P.E., I decided to get out the pages and read what they were about. I dug deep in his cluttered agenda, and got out the hunter information first. I was more curious about this creature than the licker. I began reading a small part titled combat data.
''Tests on stationary animals have shown that the MA-121 prefers to deal swift kills. It has repeatedly ran up to animals and decapitated them before eating. The Hunter Alpha is capable of climbing nearly any surface, much like the Licker, and its jumping height is almost double that of a human. Its claws are extremely deadly, and the record for least claw length is a staggering 4 inches, 3 centimeters.
Attempts to measure the biting force of the Hunter have not yet been made, but further research will …''
Before I could continue reading, the bell rang. I put away the exciting paper, then turned around to go to Science class. When I turned around, I saw that the most irritating student in the school, Tyler Bahl, had been reading over my shoulder the entire time. I frowned and sighed.
What are you doing?
Reading, and I would like to continue reading. So give me the paper, will you?
No…And as I attempted to walk around Tyler, he blocked me from proceeding. He grinned and repeated.
Oh no, I insist. Give me the paper.
He punched me back to the wall, the blow causing me to drop my agenda. Tyler picked it up, and grabbed the paper. He opened up to the page with combat data, then looked up to laugh at me and bask in his glory. However, I was striking back. He clutched as the punch bruised his chin, and I grinned.
I then picked up the paper and once again, placed it in my agenda. The rest of the school day went on without any interesting events, since the math teacher was gone and Tyler didn't have any other chances to get near me. At 8:00, after homework and dinner, I turned on the light in my room's closet, shut myself in, and began to continue reading.
''… reveal how powerful the hunter truly is. However that is of little or no concern, since the hunter, even tested in a natural combat scenario, never attacks by biting.''
I'd never seen any of my father's files before, and I was never allowed to. My father always told him it was top-secret information, and it was. So asking him what this all meant would not be a good idea. I decided to read about how the creatures were created, I wanted to find out what this thing came from.
'' Log 1: A normal ovum, 5 days in age, has been successfully stored after being extracted from the captured subject from the Netherlands.
Log 2: DNA mixed from an alligator and snake has been easily injected into the ovum, and the ovum has been placed in an artificial growing environment.
Log 3: After 3 weeks of growth, we have injected the t-virus into the ovum. Without the virus, the BOW would be unable to survive, as its organs would be too weak.
Log 4: A reptilian humanoid BOW is growing in the artificial growth chamber. Our experiment is only to be dubbed successful once an adult has been grown.
Log 5: After 6 months, the BOW has hatched and already displays inch-long claws.
Log 6: 1 year after birth, the experiment is deemed successful. The Hunter MA-121 is set for mass production beginning August 1996.''
I gasped in shock of what I was reading. I couldn't have imagined the creature being created in this way. I then snuck up to the office and grabbed more information sheets. In the end, I managed to retrieve 5: The hunter, licker, drain demos, Lurker, and Chimera. I read bits and pieces of all the papers, and said to myself.
My father is a medicine-producer at the laboratory, he wouldn't create abominations like this…He couldn't have. Umbrella makes medicine, not monsters…
As he was sitting on the floor, pondering what he would do about and with the information in these papers, he heard a knock on the door, and a voice.
Marcello, have you been in my office? I found some papers missing.
I then quickly put the papers under some stuff in my cluttered closet, and went to the door. I opened it, and spoke to my father.
How could I possibly be in your office? I was here reading a book.
Well, many of my papers are missing and I need them for work tomorrow.
I understand, I will look for them if I can, dad.
I closed the door quickly and laid down on the bed, tired. It was almost my bedtime, 10:30, so I decided to go put the papers back in his father's office and go to bed. I was tired, the punch made me sore. Little did I know what was about to happen would change my life forever. Not in a day, a week, a year, but only a few hours…