CHAPTER 1-3
Shadow's communicator beeped. He took it out of his pocket and answered it, "What's up, Cream?"
"Shadow, I found some interesting information about the villagers."
"Well lets hear it."
"The villagers call themselves the Los Ganados."
"Los Ganados? That's a mouthful. Anything else?"
She nodded, "We have reason to believe that they may be keeping the subject in a church."
"A church? Yeah I think there is a church around here. I think it's near the village too. I'll check it out. By the way I just ran into the chief of the village."
"Oh are you hurt?"
He shook his head, "Not really, but he said something about the same blood. I'm not sure what he meant."
"You'll figure it out in time. Good luck, Shadow." She shut the communicator off.
Shadow placed his communicator back in his pocket and looked at the door that the red echidna went in. He took his handgun out of his pocket, "That son of a bitch is going down." He kicked the door open and as soon as he went into the room, he was grabbed by his arm and the gun was knocked out of his hand and slid on the floor in a distance away from where he couldn't reach it.
The red echidna pushed Shadow down to the floor and set his foot on top of his chest. It seemed that he was about to kill Shadow until he was shot in the back and the bullets had bounced back off his back and hit the mirror that was hanging on the wall. He turned around, looked in the mirror, and saw a woman wearing a red dress with a machine gun in her hand smiling. He looked over to the window and saw her hanging from a grappling gun.
The strange woman placed her gun back in her garter and used her grappling gun to go up towards the roof.
As the red echidna ran towards the window and jumped out of it, shattering the window into pieces.
Shadow quickly got off the floor and picked up his gun. He walked towards the window and started to look around for the woman or the red echidna, but he didn't see neither of them. "Woman in red. That's somehow...familiar", he decided to get off the subject. He looked at the door, "Maybe I should go check out that door in the village now." He went through the door and was back in the hallway. He went downstairs and started to check around the room. He saw a door near the stairs and slowly opened it. It looked like a small bathroom and a man was in there.
The man quickly spun around and started to grab Shadow around his neck.
Shadow quickly took out his combat knife, stabbed the man in his stomach, and kicked him off him.
The man fell to the ground holding his bleeding stomach.
Shadow took out his gun and shot the man in his head making him die a quick death. He lowered his gun and stared at his dead body for a while until it had all of a sudden melted on the floor. His eyes widened, "His whole body...melted into the floor. I've never seen that before. Maybe their not normal after all. If they're not zombies and they're not humans, what exactly are they?" He took his eyes away from the floor where the body melted on. He started to look at the paintings on the wall. He saw one picture that caught his eye. One painting was of a church and it had the same insignia that was everywhere else on top of the roof. "That must be where Amy's hiding. I hope she's still safe." He saw another door beside an old typewriter. He went through the door and saw two men with pitchforks in their hands and a man with a chainsaw in between them.
The man with the chainsaw started it up and started to come towards Shadow with his chainsaw raised in the air along with the other two men coming as well.
"Damn, him again", Shadow placed his handgun back in his pocket and got out the magnum that he bought from the merchant. He loaded it with bullets and pointed it at the man with the chainsaw, 'I hope this works.' he pulled the trigger and the bullet had shot into the man's chest knocking him back killing him instantly. Shadow smiled and pointed the gun at the other two men shooting them in the head making their heads explode.
The ganado's bodies melted into the ground.
Shadow stared at his gun, "This broken butterfly sure kicks ass." He started to run down a pathway through the woods until he saw a door that was being guarded by ganados. He took his gun, pointed it at a woman's head, and pulled the trigger making her head explode into pieces.
The rest of the ganados pointed and shouted at Shadow coming at him with their weapons.
With ease, Shadow shot all of their heads off and ran towards the door they were guarding. The door had a large piece of wood on it preventing the door from opening on the outside. He took the large piece of wood off it and went through the door. Once he went through the door, he found himself back in the village. "I'm back in the village. Now I can go through that black door." As he headed down the path he was on, he heard voices near him meaning the ganados were coming for him. He checked the bullets in his gun and he didn't have many. "That crocodile didn't give me that many bullets. I'd better use this unless I really need too." He put the magnum back in his pocket and took out his handgun. He looked ahead of him and saw about six ganados ahead of him approaching him slowly. He took his handgun and started to shoot them easily. He ran past them while shooting them at the same time until he finally got to the black door with the weird insignia on it. He searched for the key through his pocket until he finally found it.
There were still ganados behind him with their pitchforks and hatchets raised in the air.
"Please god let this work", he quickly placed the key in the key hole and turned the door knob making the door open.
A man raised his hatchet in the air about to throw it at Shadow.
Shadow ran into the building and shut the door behind him making the hatchet hit the door. He looked around the small room not seeing any ganados in sight. There wasn't much to that room, so he walked into the next and saw a secret door on the floor. He opened it and jumped down. It looked like an underground passage. He still saw no ganados, it looked pretty safe. He walked around a corner and he was startled by a green crocodile making him draw his handgun out.
He raised his hand in the air, "Hello again, stranger."
He placed his gun back in his pocket, "It's you. How did you get down here?"
"Quit asking questions and buy something, stranger."
Shadow then remembered that he had found some gold coins and had put them in his pocket. He took them out and showed them to the merchant.
"Want a new weapon?"
"Uh no, I'm pretty happy with the guns I have...for now anyway. I just want some more handgun and magnum bullets. Will this cover it?"
The merchant took the coins from his hand and handed him more bullets, "There you are. Be careful out there. Those people mean business."
Shadow saw a door near the merchant, "Uh thanks. Does this door lead to a church?"
The crocodile nodded, "Sure does. It's just through that door. You can't miss it."
"Thanks", he went through the door and was in a small room. The only thing in there was a ladder. He climbed up the ladder and once he made it to the top, he was surrounded by trees and the sky had turned a little darker than it was. He got off the ground and started to walk down a path until he saw a church with the insignia symbol on top of it. "That's it. I finally made it. Now I can rescue Amy and we can both get the hell out of here." As he approached the church, he looked around the graveyard and stared at more weird symbols on top of the tombstones with crows standing on them. Soon he heard voices ahead of him, "Oh no, not more of these bastards." He took out his handgun and ran up the hill ahead of him spotting three villagers ahead of him.
One of them lit a dynamite stick and started to run towards Shadow.
Shadow pointed his gun at the dynamite stick and shot at it making the dynamite blow the villager and the rest of them up. Afterwards Shadow ran up the steps of the church and tried to turn the knob but couldn't. It was locked. He hit the door with his fist, "Shit! I was so fucking close! What the hell!" He reached for his communicator, "That's it, I'm calling that brat!"
Soon Cream appeared on the monitor noticing Shadow looking pissed off.
"Cream, we got a problem."
"What problem?"
"I made it to the church and now the door's locked. I can't get in."
Cream sighed, "Didn't they teach you how to pick locks back at the academy?"
"Heh, I must've skipped that class a couple of times."
"Is there anything unusual with the door."
Shadow looked around the door and saw a big circle carved into the door, "Well there's a giant hole in it."
"Maybe something fits. You just have to find something that's round and that's exactly that size."
"Okay I'll get on it", he shut off the communicator and placed it back in his pocket. He looked over to the right of him and saw another path leading to a bridge. He walked down the steps of the church and followed the path then ended up on a bridge. He looked down at the water and was a little nervous about the long fall down, "I'd hate to fall down there." He looked away from the water and looked ahead of him seeing that a woman was coming towards him with a sharp knife in her hand. He raised his gun at her head and shot her.
She dropped her knife on the ground and fell off the bridge and into the water.
He continued to walk on the bridge and soon came to another door. He went through it and was in an empty area of land. He heard strange noises coming from somewhere. He began to look around until he spotted a giant door off in a distance. He heard more noises coming from it. The noises sounded like a groaning noise. He stepped back from the door and looked around again and spotted another door. "I think I'll leave that door alone for now", he never wanted to admit to himself that he was scared. He went through the next door and there was a big hill ahead of him. He began to walk the hill until a boulder rolled down the cliff from above him. He started to run down the hill, "Not again!"
The boulder began to get closer to him, until Shadow jumped over to the side and the boulder had missed him. It bursted into pieces when it smashed into a wall of other rocks.
Shadow noticed that he was at a lake. He saw another bridge, but it was a lot more closer to the water and ganados were all around it. He took out his handgun and reloaded it with bullets. He pointed his gun at the first villager until he spotted two red lights behind him. He smirked and pointed at one of the red lights.
By the time the ganado saw him, he was already blown into pieces. With that, the other ganados heard and saw the explosion and began run over to Shadow.
Shadow run up to them as well and just shot them anywhere on their bodies. Though he wasn't comfortable fighting on the bridge. It had a ton of holes in it and it didn't look very stable, but he never fell through which was a surprise. He had taken out half of the ganados until he decided to leave the rest of them and proceeded on. He ran off the bridge and came to a shed, but two men were in it with axes in their hands. He didn't fight them, instead he ran up another path and came to another door. He was still near the lake, but this time he saw no ganados around. He looked around and saw two paths. He decided to take the left path first. He walked over there and all he saw was a perfect view of the lake. He walked closer and he saw two ganados in a motorboat. He couldn't see so well far away so he took out his binoculars and looked closer.
The two men ganados stopped the boat and threw a corpse of a cop in the water.
"Shit", he muttered.
After when the two men left, a giant monster fish arose from the deepwater and ate the dead man in one bite. It went back into the water leaving some blood of the corpse floating on top of the water.
He took his binoculars away from his eyes, "What the hell?" Was the only thing he said at the moment. He slowly turned away and began to walk on the next path. He saw two cabins along the way, but he never looked in them. He figured that the key to unlock the church door wouldn't be hidden in such obvious places. He spotted another motorboat on the dock ahead of him. "Well...the path leads here. I guess I have to go across the lake to move on. Damn...damn it all", he really didn't want to go near the water, but knowing that the only reason he was there, was because he had to bring Amy home safe and unharmed. He had to do it, to save her. He got into the boat and started the engine. He began to go towards the other side. He nervously looked around for the giant fish monster, but didn't see it so far, until the boat started to shake. "What the-" Then the giant monster fish came from the water and tried to attack Shadow, but it fell back into the water. He started to look around for the creature again, "Damn!"
Underneath the water, the creature's skin scrapped against the bottom of the boat and the anchor grabbed on its skin making it pull on the boat.
The rope of the anchor was set around Shadow's foot. He looked down and saw the rope wrap around his ankle. The fish made the boat and Shadow drag along with it. Shadow had reached for a harpoon on the floor of the boat. There was three of them. He hoped that they were enough to kill the creature. He aimed it at the back of the fish.
It let out a cry of agony as its blood had risen from the fish's flesh and scattered all in the water. It spun around and hit the boat knocking Shadow out of it.
Shadow fell into the dirty water, but luckily for him he knew how to swim. He spit the water out of his mouth, "Ugh, this water sure tastes like shit." He looked ahead of him and saw the fish coming after him. He began to swim as fast as he could to the boat. When he got to the boat, he quickly got in it and reached for another harpoon. This time the creature had its mouth open. He aimed down the creature's throat.
The fish began to scream in pain louder and fell into the water sinking into the depths of the lake.
As the fish began to sink towards the bottom, Shadow would be dragged along with it. The rope tightened around Shadow's ankle making him feel pain. He took his combat knife and started to cut the rope before he would sink down to the bottom along with the fish creature. Lucky for him he successfully cut the rope off his ankle just in time.
The large monstrous fish sunk down to the bottom dead with the harpoon still shoved down it's throat.
Shadow then fell to the floor of the boat not feeling very well after the fight. He got back up and continued to cross the lake. After when he did that, he found another cabin. He flung the door open and just fell unconscious on the dusty floor.
N/A: Most of you will notice that the lines of the chapter is more spaced than usual. I don't know when I'll fix the problem, but I'll probably fix it when I'm working on my next story. So this shouldn't effect anything.