Leon groaned as he now opened his eyes, everything was hazy at first until it all started to come clear. He lifted his head to look down at the weight over his legs and chest. Dropping his head back with a heavy grunt, he soon remembered. The bus driver had took it upon himself to run over a lone zombie, which then resulted in them hanging over the edge to have a lorry give them the final push.

"Helena," he raised his hands to each side of her shoulders as her head rested on his chest. "Hey, Helena!"

She was out cold unfortunately.

"Helena!" he tried again, lifting his head to look down on her.

The young woman groaned as she now stirred.

"Leon," he just made out as she lifted her head to then drop it back down again.

"Come on, Helena." He soothed softly. "We can't stay here."

The flames were growing warmer and he wondered how long it would be before they reached the fuel tank.

"Helena!" he became a little more forceful with her. "Any longer here and we'll be roasted like marshmallows."

Helena groaned again, pushing herself off of him with great effort.

"Easy now," he helped ease her up so he could slip out.

She dropped back down as soon as he crawled out.

"Helena, come on!" he held out a hand for her.

She turned to him, holding out her hand to then be heaved out. He dragged her out as far away from the bus as possible, and not a moment too soon as it now exploded right before his eyes.

"That was too close," he now breathed a sigh of relief.

Helena was now pushing herself to her hands and knees after finally coming round.

"Glad to see you're alright," he turned back to her.

She pulled herself to her feet, stumbling slightly while resting a hand on her abdomen to then turn back to look at the bus.

"I can't believe we survived that," she thought bewildered.

That was until Leon turned to see the ground now tearing up as skeletal hands broke through.

"Helena!" he pat her on the arm. "We need to move, now!"

She turned to see what he was looking at, seeing for herself a skeleton now forcing its way out of the ground.

"What else is going to happen?" she frowned as she pulled out the Hydra to quickly put it down as soon as it appeared.

"Move!" Leon pushed her as more skeletons now started to emerge."We'll try to get there before they reach us!"

Helena quickly followed him on.

"I'll find you, Deborah." She vowed.

"You know you could at least tell me what I'm going through all this for," he brought up once again.

"I told you, I'll inform you of everything I know as soon as we get inside."

"You'd better," he frowned before a walking corpse ran out of nowhere to split the pair up.

"Leon!" Helena screamed. " Are you alright?"

He made quick work of the skeletal corpse before sitting up with a groan.

"Nothing broken thankfully," he responded over the earpiece. "I doubt you'd be willing to come back for me if I had."

"You never know," came her light response.

"Nice to hear," he smirked as he made his way back to her after dealing with a few more skeletons. "Hey, stranger."

She turned to face him while waiting at the gates.

"So, you coming with me?" she asked.

He hated being left in the dark, but he desperately needed to get to the bottom of why it was her fault with the President.

"As long as you keep to your end of the bargain."

She nodded in response, looking him in the eye. "I promised, didn't I?"

He gestured to the gates. "After you."

Soon the pair were at the church doors. Helena was now banging her fist against it.

"Hello! Open up, I know you're in there!"

"Are you crazy? We're not opening these doors now that you've brought those things with you!"

"Let us in!" Helena screamed.

"Yeah, sure. So we can die too, I don't think so."

"Fine, we'll get rid of them." Leon sighed as he raised his gun.

"Just let us in!" Helena almost begged.

"Helena!" Leon turned to her as the skeletal creatures moved in.

It wasn't long before the hoard of walking corpses filled the yard, throwing in a shrieker or two along with the odd bloodshot their way.

"Not these things again," Leon grimaced as he covered his ears.

The sound of a window being smashed shortly after was a sure sign that someone was willing to help as bullets soon flew past them.

"Glad to see someone has a backbone," Leon thought rather thankful.

Once they were on their last few, the door opened and a man waved them over.

"Quickly get inside!" he yelled and Helena was soon to realise why.

"Church bells," she frowned. "Are you kidding me!"

Leon quickly headed for the door, followed closely by his partner.

"Are you..." one man walked over to ask.

"Sorry guys, we're not the rescue team you were hoping for." Leon replied glumly.

They could hear people now complaining at them for coming and bringing those things with them. Helena couldn't care less what they were saying, she needed to get to the altar.

"Shit," she groaned. "It was open the last time I was here!"

Leon looked to her.

"Please, Leon, don't ask." She stopped him.

"You're in for a whole lot of questions, Helena." He frowned as she headed off to find out what was happening next.

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After finally getting through a heap of traps only for two statues that would now open up the altar, they now found they had to deal with a B.O.W. that had spores all over its body. Something which they'd come to find, when hit, the spores released a gas that turned people into flesh eating lunatics once again.

"How do we defeat that thing?" Helena asked as she waved a hand in front of her face because of the gas.

"No clue," Leon thought. "The more we damage it, the more it'll infect the people here!"

"Everyone smash the windows and stay as close as you can to them, the less you breathe in the better!" Helena warned.

"Good idea," Leon agreed.

People rushed to the windows, finding anything they could to let the air into the place rather than have the gas fill the area. The spore creature sounded as if it were laughing as it let loose it's gas without any help from receiving damage.

"Time to let loose on this thing!" Leon yelled.

Helena pulled out an incendiary grenade and threw it at the creature to neutralise the gas, it also had the creature screaming out.

"Nice," Leon smirked. "Got anymore."

"One," she told him.

"Alright, light it up again!"

She pulled the pin and threw it at the creature, which screamed in pain as it ran towards them. The pair ducked and rolled aside, quickly turning to unload a few rounds into it. Finally it dropped to its knees, Helena quickly ran over to finish it off with a lunge kick.

"Everyone alright?" Leon now asked.

"We would have been better off if you haven't let that thing out in the first place!" someone snapped at them.

Helena was just about to have a go back, when Leon stepped in.

"Come on," he told her. "We've more important matters at hand."

Helena settled down again and headed off down the stairs of the opened altar. They headed down corridor after corridor until ending up in a room which held two chairs.

"You'll pay for what you did!" she vowed as she looked at the chairs which she and her sister had been forced to sat upon. "I'm coming, Deborah!"

"Who?" Leon asked.

Helena didn't answer him, instead she was now running down the halls frantic at having not found who she was looking for. "She's not here!"

"Who are we looking for!" Leon frowned.

Helena was quick to move on again, forcing Leon to catch up with her. Once he had done, he pinned her against the wall.

"Let me go!" she snapped.

"Stop ignoring me, Helena. I'm getting real tired of your secrets, I want answers!" he knew she could easily knock him back and he was awaiting it, but the tough girl he'd been with all this time had gone.

Helena was now shaking her head, tears in her eyes as she looked to him. "Just give me a little more time," she pleaded. "I promise I'll tell you."

He knew better than to kick her while she was down, so he backed off.

"You better have a good explanation for all this," he warned her again, though a little more softly.

She sniffled, wiped her eyes and pulled herself together.

"If I'd just told you outright, you wouldn't have been willing to help me."

"It depends on what it is."

She nodded at the response.

"Exactly," she sighed before moving on.

He reluctantly followed her on until they finally reached their destination.

"Deborah!" Helena called out while running over to a young woman lying on the floor.

Leon followed her on to stand over the pair.

"Well?" he asked.

"She's my sister!" Helena turned to him. "Yes, you can say it. I dragged you all the way down here to save my sister!"

He was slightly annoyed, but wondered himself if he would have actually followed her for one person only. But then again there must be more to it.

"There's more to this, isn't there?" he now asked.

Helena looked up at him.

"Yes," she nodded. "As soon as I get her out of here, I'll explain everything. I promise."

"You said that before," he glared at her.

"I know," she sighed as she turned back to look at Deborah, before looking back up at him. "I promise."

"Can she walk?" he now asked, dropping everything to get the younger woman out of here.

Helena turned back to her sister, who looked rather sickly.

"Deborah, can you stand?"

Her sister gave a nod, but cried out as she was pulled up. She raised a hand to her head making her sister look on with worry.

"Deborah?"

"Come on," Leon now held out a hand to help her up.

Once she was standing, Helena draped one of her arms over her shoulders while Leon took point.

"I'll deal with these, you concentrate on getting her out of here."

Helena nodded to then guide her sister out.

"You'll be alright, Deborah."

"H-Helena," her sister's voice was low and hoarse. "What am I doing here?"

"Shush, everything's alright." Helena tried to comfort her as well as herself.

"I don't remember anything," Deborah went on. "I've been forgetting things."

Helena felt guilt well up inside her, Deborah had been left here for four days straight.

"It's going to be alright, Deborah." Helena reassured her again, hoping it would actually work for her too.

"Don't feel well," Deborah told her weakly.

"I know," Helena sighed as she rubbed her sisters arm in comfort, all the while following on after Leon.

"That must be the exit," Leon now pointed our as the crossed yet another rope bridge. "We're close."

"You hear that Deborah?" Helena turned to her.

Her sister nodded in response as Helena helped her over to the next tunnel. Thankfully there was no more skeletons to hinder them as they headed closer to freedom.