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The Past Will Haunt You
After Dyana almost was fried by the sun, Amanda seems to be in some sort of a state; a state that has something to do with her past. After healing Dyana up, she drags Leon and Hayden away, into the computer room to have a private conversation. But is it really so private? With Sora feeling left out, he decides to listen to their conversation, but how well will that go? What happens when someone else from Leon's past crashed Amanda's story, right at the end? Who is he and why does he seem very pissed off? Add the wizard who took the girls powers and you'll have one hell of a showdown…
"The reason I brought you here is to tell you both the reason Dyana and me do what we do." Amanda said grimly. Leon nodded respectfully, while Hayden plopped onto the computer chair that looked like it was twenty years old.
"We weren't born like this…" Amanda said, "At least… not COMPLETELY like this. Dyana always had 1/4th of a whole vampire resting within her, we just never knew. I always had a talent for saying spells and receiving small premonitions everyone in a while, but my mother always told me that it was my all in my head and that I always used to watch too much TV. But she was hiding the fact that really, my ancient ancestors were descendants of the most powerful witch and wizard in all of the 14th to 15th century.
"I moved to Raccoon City when I was eight…" Amanda said, reliving the memory as she told it.
(A/N: WORDS IN ITALIC ARE AMANDA SPEAKING IN THE PRESENT)
FLASHBACK
Little Amanda could be scene in the back of her parent SUV, staring out the window as her 2 year old sister played with a stuffed animal while riding in her car seat.
I was afraid that I'd never meat any friends at all; that I'd always be lonely and an outcast. When we moved to the house, I spent most of my days inside my room, playing with dolls and doing what most little girls did… without friends…
Little Amanda sat in her room, playing with her dolls two weeks after moving to their new home. She hadn't been outside once, seeing as the kids all loved to play around this neighborhood and they'd probably only make fun of her.
Little Amanda's mom walked into her room, caring her younger sister Alexis.
She'd always tell me to go outside for once. One day she demanded I go outside, or else she'd call my father to take me to work with him. Though I probably would've had fun, I didn't like the idea of smelling the garbage from his trash truck. So I did as m mom told me too, and I went outside.
Little Amanda sat on the curb in front of her two story house, watching the other kids play. Suddenly their ball rolled over to her, and she looked at it oddly as another blonde girl about her age ran up to her.
'Can I have our ball back?' She asked Little Amanda, who nodded shyly and grabbing the ball, lifted it up to her. The girl took the ball, but didn't leave.
'You live here?' She asked Little Amanda, who nodded quietly.
'Cool!' The blonde girl exclaimed, 'I live in that house!' The girl pointed to the neighboring house next to Little Amanda's, 'My name is Dyana! What's yours?'
'Amanda.' Amanda said sheepishly, 'I just moved here two weeks ago.'
'How come you didn't come out and play?' Dyana asked her. Amanda shrugged.
'C'mon!' Little Dyana said, extending a hand to Amanda to help her up, 'You can play kick ball with us! Wanna be on my team?'
'Sure.' Amanda said, her eyes beaming with joy. The duo then walked towards the playing area, not knowing what fate had in store for them.
From that day on, Dyana and I were like to peas in a pod. Where ever one went, the other followed. The neighborhood nicknames us 'The D.A.' Though Dyana had two older sisters and one younger one… she seemed to be like a sister to me. We made friends with this girl named Leanna, who lived right across the street from us, but at the age of 11, she moved away.
Eleven year old Amanda and Dyana hugged their friend Leanna good by as her parents loaded her stuff into the car. Time passed and a month later, another family moved in…
Young Amanda and Young Dyana sat in Amanda's living room, playing the Nintendo 64 platform Amanda had since she was six. As the two raced each other, they heard car doors slam, and looked at each other mischievously. We loved making trouble… the two of us… but nothing to severe…we'd heard rumors about the next family that had bought the house, that they had a son about the same age as us. We thought we could spook him out be telling him a horror story about the house, so we went to greet him. We didn't know the rumors were wrong…
Young Dyana and Young Amanda walked out of Amanda's house, and sat on the porch as the moving van unloaded the beds, and furniture.
'That's odd…' Amanda said, watching as they pulled out a glossy dark brown dresser with a flower engraved on each of the dressers. Dyana shrugged as a nightstand of the same collection was pulled out, also engraved with a flower.
'Maybe he's gay…' Dyana shrugged. Amanda started laughing.
'Great!' She said, 'Maybe this guy and Kyle can hook up!'
'God only knows that kid had problems…' Dyana shook her head, referring to their neighborhood friend Kyle Gumby, who despite his goofy outlook, was a decent guy… at times.
'Diffidently.' Amanda agreed.
After the moving van unloaded everything, it drove out of the driveway and parked on the sidewalk. Then a black pick-up truck drove into it, with two doors. A couple walked out, both looking in their early thirties. The woman then reached into the back seat and suddenly, a kid about their age hopped out, bouncing around excitedly.
'Oh my God!' Amanda said, 'She's a GIRL!'
'Who told you that rumor?' Dyana asked Amanda, who shrugged sheepishly and muttered, 'Kyle…'
'Ugh, no wonder it was only a rumor!' Dyana said, playfully pushing Amanda. She grinned widely as she straightened herself up.
Two hours later, Amanda and Dyana had gone inside to resume their game, which Amanda sister had turned off to watch TV with Dyana's younger sister Katrina. Both girls were around the age of 5 years old, and they were friends just like Amanda and Dyana were, only Dyana and Amanda were the best of friends ever. As the younger version dynamic duo sat on Amanda's bed, bored as hell, Amanda's mom came in.
"Why don't you girls go greet the new girl?" She suggested, "Make another friend or something…"
"We don't need another friend!" Dyana said happily, swaying back and forth proudly.
"We're the D.A.!" Amanda exclaimed.
"Add another letter to it!" Amanda's mom said, "Oh c'mon girls! Get out there!"
"Fine mom." Amanda said, and nodded to Dyana.
'We don't want another friend, we were perfect the way we are!' We used that excuse over a million times. I think what we really wanted, was another friend who wouldn't leave like Leanna did.
Eleven year old Dyana and Amanda walked out of Amanda's house to see the new girl sitting on the curb, staring at the ground. Dyana gave Amanda a funny look and said, 'She reminds me of someone…'
'Oh shut up!' Amanda said, going to whack her. Dyana laughed and dodged her hit. Then the duo ran over to the girl.
We really didn't want to talk to her at the time. She looked like she was upset. But I told my mom we would and I always kept to my promises.
'Hi there!' Amanda greeted the girl as Dyana and Amanda approached her. The girl looked up with teary eyes.
'What happened?' Dyana asked, worried that they had already done something to upset her.
'My hamster died while we were moving here…' The girl said, her brown eyes showed her depression.
'I'm sorry.' Amanda said, looking at Dyana for support. Dyana shrugged helplessly as she watched the girl start to cry quietly. Amanda sat down in the street, right in front of the girl.
'Don't cry!' She said, 'I'm sure your hamster is happy up in heaven right now!'
'He was so young…' The girl said mournfully, then sniffling, she whipped a tear from her eye.
'You ever hear the saying 'Bad things have to happen for good things to occur?' Dyana asked the girl, bending down next to Amanda. The girl nodded silently.
'Well, maybe you hamster died for a reason… so something good could happen!' Dyana exclaimed.
'Like what?' The girl asked miserably. Amanda bent her head in thought then looked up, the same glow in her eyes that she had when her and Dyana first meant and Dyana wanted her to play ball with the gang.
'Like meeting us.' I said to the girl. Somehow I felt like she was my friend already, and I to this day, haven't figured out why… but that day, The D.A. changed. Now we were known as D.A.M. The trio of the neighborhood. We used to laugh and have the best times together…
You see the trio as 11 year olds, playing playing pretend and pretending to fight each other.
You see the trio as 12 year olds, at the mall, shopping for girly stuff, laughing when Amanda trips over her shoe laces.
You see the trio as 13 year olds, listening to music in Dyana's room, all laughing and talking about celebrities.
You see the trio as 14 year olds, all in karate uniforms, taking classes. The trio walking home from a class.
You see the trio as 14 year olds again as they hide in the bushed and waiting for Kyle Gumby to rid by on his bike so they could toss eggs at him.
Our life was almost perfect… We had each other, and that was all we ever needed really… One night we made a promise; we'd never let any guy stand in the way of our friendship. That promise didn't last long though… We started to date guys, and we'd break out hearts. But there was one guy our third seemed to turn back to every time, despite Dyana and my opinion of him. When she finally got back together with him for the 5th time, that's when everything went crashing down in a spiraling pit to hell.
Around the end of the school year, that was when the Raccoon City incident occurred. We had just gotten back from Kyle's Pool Party, and they had decided we'd stay at my place.
Fourteen year old Amanda walked into the living room, with a bowl of popcorn and a tray with three sodas. Her two dogs, Thunder and Dozer followed her, almost tripping her three times trying to beg for popcorn. Amanda finally made it to her friends and they all gorged on popcorn and watched a horror film on the SciFi channel.
'I hate these movies!' Their friend wined.
'To bad!' Dyana and Amanda said each throwing a handful of popcorn at her. Mari giggled and threw some back at her. Suddenly the news flipped on.
'Attention citizens of Raccoon City… There has been a break out of a deadly virus that is injected into the human body by means of biting human flesh. Please lock all your door and don't leave your homes as we await the rescue choppers.' The reporter said, while standing in front of a flaming building. Dyana and Amanda exchanged curious looks.
'Guys…" Their friend warned them. Dyana and Amanda grinned mischievously at each other.
'My dad has two pistols…" Amanda said. Dyana nodded her head rapidly.
'Yeah! Yeah!' She practically exploded. Their friend tried to stop the duo as they rushed up to Amanda's parents room.
We thought it'd be cool to be zombie hunters. Save the town! Be heros. We were only fooling ourselves though…
Dyana and Amanda stood back to back shooting zombies. Amanda watched in horror as she actually shot the trigger, and blood splattered everywhere. Suddenly Dyana shouted, "WHERE'S MARI?"
Amanda looked around frightened, and realized they had lost their best friend. 'MARI? MARI!'
When she turned around, she didn't see Dyana anywhere. She collapsed on her knees, fear over powering her.
That was the last thing I remember before waking up in the Umbrella Corp. Research Center like I was a test subject. Though they found hard to recapture us, what they'd done to us was far beyond their control. We escaped with our lives, knowing of the new Virus they created.
END FLASH BACKS
Amanda looked up from the ground and meant Leon's eyes. He looked sorrowfully at her, wondering how it must feel to have the burden of your past be as heavy as hers was.
"Did you ever figure out what happened to her?" Hayden asked, on the edge of his seat.
"Who?" Amanda asked, almost as if to evade the question.
"You know, that Mari girl you were talking about!" Hayden said. Amanda's expression suddenly changed, her eyes showing an anger inside her that almost scared Leon.
"We don't talk about that." Amanda said in a voice that basically told then both to never ask that question again.
Meanwhile, Sora had been sitting outside the door, listening to the whole conversation. A witch huh? He thought to himself, All those things ever bring is evil. And what the hell is a vampire? Never heard about that on the Islands… He leaned up against the wall, wondering why it suddenly fell silent. Then it occurred to him, the door was cracked. He looked up to see the Amanda girl opening the door, and looking directly down at him.
"What the hell are you doing?" She demanded from him. He scrambled up to his feet, not wanting to be on the ground in case this 'witch' tried anything funny.
"I can't just sit where ever I want?" Sora asked in reply, trying to play it off coolly. It didn't work.
"Not when the room that you decided to sit next to is the room that-" Amanda started angrily, but suddenly a wall in the computer room exploded, sending everyone flying. Amanda almost fell flat on her face, when Sora caught her.
"Thanks." She said, gratefully.
"Yup." Sora said. Then the two looked at each other and through for a moment before Amanda shot up and dusted herself off and Sora jumped backwards, edging away from her. They looked awkwardly at the wall momentarily, before Amanda suddenly shot back in the room.
"Leon?" She called through the debris and smoke. No one responded. Then Sora entered the room, though he pretended she was nothing more then a bystander.
"LEON?" She called again, though she figured it was useless to call him, "HAYDEN?" She tried, "GODDAMMIT YOU TWO, SOMEONE ANSWER ME!"
"I will." A masculine voice said, stepping into the room. Amanda watched as a very muscular figure stepped through the smoke, closer and closer to where she was standing. Suddenly she heard footsteps behind her and the next thing she knew, she saw Ada standing next to her, her guns up and ready to fire.
"Well if it isn't Krauser…" Ada said.
Oh no! Krauser is back, and he isn't happy. But what happened to Leon? And Hayden? Where did they go! Then what about Mari… why is Amanda so reluctant to say anything? Something else she neglected to tell Leon? And what will happen now that Sora knows the girls secrets? He may not know what a vampire is, but God only knows about witches-the evil kind anyway. So how will he coup with Amanda now? Review please!