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Chapter 4. "The troubling creatures."
Two flashes of light escaped the barrel of Jill's weapon.
The thing it just jiggled from the vibration and wormed forward.
Leon provided the same help with his Wing Shooter. It slowed down a little, showing a leech- like organ and it was coming at her.
The leech thing lifted the front part of itself to expose what appeared to be a mouth. Jill's weapon clicked. It was empty… With no option, Jill walked backward for 5 steps as Leon picked up the pace with his gun.
To the left and Leon fired three more bullets at it head. "Not today!" he shouted.
Still it kept going, spreading a white liquid over the ground. The new magazine entered his weapon, then Jill came forward feeling the anger boiling within her, "The hell with you!" The barrel snapped fiercely as she looked forward. Just in time for Leon to reload as well.
The leech thing was a dozen feet away as she fired her weapon. The front end of the leech lifted for her fire into the mouth like opening.
Leon's Wing Shooter clicked as the front end of the leech dropped to the ground. It seeped up then it died at last. Jill still frowned at the leech. The outer layer of it seeped some kind of fluid and it continued to shrink in size. Eventually, a puddle of blood was all that was left… "We have to show this to O'Brien," she said as she took out a tool that appeared to have a hand and a trigger.
The top portion of it had a green lit screen that provided a clear view of what it was aimed at. The barrel it wasn't for bullets but for a laser scanner. The tool was called the Genesis Scanner. "You think this thing was a human?" she asked.
"We only saw the effect on the fish, but this thing is humanoid in shape." Leon responded."Maybe it was."
He shuffled around the room moving the pots and pans out of the way and nothing seemed to be useful. At the end of the large room, there is another door. It was a heavy steel door, it obviously need two people for it to open. "Are you done?" he called her. "Coming." Jill holstered the Genesis Scanner. Leon stood at the door and flicked the handle. The thing felt stiff on the hinges. "What did you find out?" Leon asked as he continued with the door.
"Well, that leech thing. It matches the composition of humans but without the bone structure. 90% of it was water. I never seen anything even similar to this." Jill said back as she watched Leon at the door. "Need help?" Jill tilted her head. "I got it." Leon grumbled.
"On three we give it a go." Jill took a deep breath.
"One… two… three!" Jill counted off as both of them raised their left legs and kicked the center of the door.
The door flopped to the ground as Jill stepped over it. 'The hinges must have been loose.' Jill thought to herself. Leon walked over the door with pursed lips. Jill didn't notice it as she walked past him with her weapon at the ready.
Leon did the same with the Wing Shooter. "Ladies first." Leon clicked the safety off. Jill chuckled, "Really?"
She did the same with her weapon. Leon knew what Jill was packing. A PC356.
Great ammo capacity in the magazines, the grip was modified to be slightly smaller for her fingers.
Something Leon noticed that plenty of B.S.A.A. troops use them. The next room was dark, there is no source of light in there.
Not even a port window. Leon put on his headlight while Jill used a flashlight that was strapped to her uniform. The two continued in parallel to each other in case of danger. That humanoid leech thing was still fresh in their minds. The two continued down the hallways until a room with a glass window showed the inside. "Look at that," Leon whispered. "It is an altar right?"
Jill nodded. Not so much the altar itself as what was in the wall. A yellow flag, with an image of a dark blue dog. "Veltro was here." Jill stated. Around the altar, there were four burned down candles, and a sign of blood stains and hand prints, it was in a word creepy.
"Jill you have to see this," Leon said, raising his voice slightly.
He held the paper in his hand as he read it. "He promised me, none of this will happen, he said I'll gain power and find the answers I want." He looked at the back of the paper, "It is over, I swear I'm going to kill him." The second paper has few words, and most of them are blurred out. "Vengeance is what we seek...Sea...Terragrigia's last... lost...heart. Jack Norman."
"Jack Norman," Jill murmured, "where did I hear that name before? I'm not sure. Maybe he is the one mentioned in the Federal Bioterrorism Commission." Leon started to fold the paper. "I think Hunnigan will be Interested to investigate the name, see where it will lead us." He pocketed the paper
and Jill nodded in agreement. "Alright," she said stepping back—and then something huge and green was swooping down toward them from the high ceiling, something that have an incredibly high pitched screech, and he flapped giant tentacles- like arms.
The thing stopped for a moment, long enough for Leon and Jill to get a clear look at it. It was another strange creature they hadn't seen before, it look like a hunter almost, but much bigger.
It pulled up at the last instant, and jumped very fast back into the wall, but had come close enough for stains of it liquid to be over them.
Leon pushed Jill forward with one arm, toward the door in the other side. The door though won't open. "Open the door hurry!" he screamed.
"Right," she shouted and started to use her lock pick.
Leon fired at the fast creature, but it seems much stronger than the bloated corps, it didn't seems to be much effected.
He could see the creatures claws come toward him, in a hurry he kneeled down and fired at it arm. "Hurry Jill!"
He stood up and searched for the creature, 'damn it where did it go?'... He thought.
It took him by surprise, the tentacles hold into his throat. He could feel his pulse quicken.
His left arm reached for his knife, and he stabbed it multiple times, until he was free. He fell to his back and shook his head.
At last, he heard the sound of the lock, "Go!" Jill yelled.
They ran inside and tried to close the door, but the creature arm stopped them.
Jill fired twice while Leon pushed the door close. A latch could be heard as Jill and Leon panted for air. They were silent for a moment, taking their breath after the scary thrill they went through. "Leon, Jill are you two alright?" Hunnigan's voice buzzed.
"Hunnigan, you won't believe what we saw here, a new mutation..." Jill spoke to her and walked forward slowly.
Leon winced, because of a feeling in his leg. It was like his veins are about to pop. 'That wasn't easy.' He thought.
Leon didn't pay attention until the end of Jill and Hunnigan's conversation.
"Jack Norman, I will talk to you when I find Information about him," Hunnigan said. "Leon! The B.S.A.A. agents are still on their mission in the mountains. It seem that they found something. I'll keep you posted okay?"
"Yeah. Got it." Leon responded. "A guy named Quint is watching over, he will report back in to you next time. Good luck." Hunnigan cut out on the radio. Leon knew it meant she was done informing them.
At last they went through the small, closed corridor.
"So, how long you have been working for the government?" she asked, in an attempt to change the mood.
"I started in 2002. with a mission in south America. It's been four years, and I feel like it went like a blink of an eye, unlike you." he chuckled. "True, I've been an agent for almost nine years now." Jill felt some comfort know that she was with an experienced agent was alongside her.
Once they were in the other side if the building, it happened: he felt his heart slammed against his rib cage, and his breathing quickened.
Without any control over his movement he touched Jill's hand."Wai..."
"What is it?" he heard her voice, but he couldn't see her clearly. It was like she is far away and he was painfully falling in a dark abyss. His eyes had some color and faded to black after several seconds.
...
"Leon, can you hear me?" Jill's soothing voice echoed in his ear as his senses returned to him. Slowly he opened his eyes to the light, he could feel a sharp pain in the back of his head.
He moaned and closed his eyes again."Not my lucky day." he whispered.
"Good." She put her finger in her right ear. "Hunnigan, come in?" she called, but she couldn't hear an answer. "Hunnigan do you read me?"
Jill felt Leon's hand on hers, "Let's just finish our job here already, I don't think she'll answer you." he said and pulled himself up.
"Take it easy." She pressed her hand on his chest to try to keep him on the ground.
"I can manage, believe me." he said and pushed her hand away.
He leaned up and placed his left hand on his forehead, taking a moment to feel better.
Something obviously rattled him again and he couldn't stand. Jill again offered a hand to help him onto his feet.
Once he was on his feet, Jill signaled him to follow her. Leon and Jill moved through the east side of the building and back out into the small hall where he fainted. They searched for anything useful that could help their investigation and came up with nothing.
They agreed to head to the west side.
They found a small door that would take them to some place, it was the same color as the wall which make it hard to notice.
It was locked by password. "This must be one of the secret doors." Jill pointed out as she kneeled down to get a look at the lock.
Leon pressed his index finger on his ear. "Anybody, do you read me?"
"This is Jackass, I read you Leon" A quirky deep voiced buzzed in their radio. "Can you hear me? Hello?"
Jill looked away from Leon and pressed her hand on her left ear. "We copy Quint."
"How are you two holding up?" he asked.
"Aside from the ugly B.O.W. we are doing fine, and we discovered some things. This place is more than just a factory, I hope what we gathered is enough for the Investigation." Leon answered.
"We found a secret door, can you please hack it?" Jill whispered anxiously. After a moment of silence, Quint answered like a drunk party guy. "Sure, give me a few seconds okay."
"Copy." Leon lowered his finger from his ear. He remembered from a document Hunnigan gave him which informed him of Quint Catchem. Single, anti social and an excellent computer data technician. Leon knew his background enough to trust him and so does the B.S.A.A.
"What do you think we will find in there?" Jill asked to break the awkward silence. "Don't let your guard down," he said coldly, "We'll probably encounter that green thing again." "Nothing ever stays dead…" Jill thought out loud which caused Leon to chuckle in response. "Jackass here," the radio buzzed. "The password is 3b 248c."
Jill was about to turn her body back toward the door, when Leon stopped her. "Hold on, you always get the door work."
Jill stood up and looked at him. "My turn." Leon knelt in front of the small screen."3B 24..." he murmured.
Jill ejected the magazine of her pistol to get a look at it. It felt half empty which didn't sit well with her. So she swapped that magazine for a new one. The weapon clicked and as Leon finished the code. "Let's go." Leon said after they heard the sound of the click.
"On three." Leon said, ready to kick the door. "One… two… three!" The two agents entered with weapons drawn, their faces determined and seemingly unafraid to fight whatever they could see inside, after everything they saw so far. There was a stairs in front of them, leading to another door up. "Seriously?" Leon said in an obvious annoyance. "What kind of a place is this?"
"One with terrible taste." Jill replied. Leon took point while Jill aimed from the opposite wall.
The tactic was that so the both of them could make a crossfire to suppress their targets. In their half way there, Leon's ears caught the sound of a groaning up ahead. Leon raised his left hand in a fist for Jill to stop in place. His index finger pointed ahead. Jill nodded as her grip on her pistol tightened. She inched step by step as Leon did the same. Their footsteps made a little sound as possible as they found a slightly opened door in the hall. Leon turned the door handle and pushed it open, the room is a little wide, right in the middle two bloated corpses like they thought. Leon frowned at their targets. Jill was about to whisper something, but her voice was cut off by a sound of a movement, a heavy steps that reverberated through the room.
Leon and Jill both stared at one another, like they asked each other. 'What's that sound?'
The sound came again. It was the sound of something hard clattering against the steel. Whatever it was, it was big and getting closer from the sound of it. It was hard to tell where it came from; the echoes masked the direction. Leon blinked his eyes to signal Jill.
He directed her at a shadow down the room. A shadow threw the two corpses aside. A giant bulge of rotten flesh, then came forward repeating the words. "It is over." Jill's heart started to pound in her chest. "Run." Leon broke the silence.
The both of them opened fire as Jill's heart hammered within her as she was afraid to look at the creature.
Jill moved first as she walked backward for provide cover fire for Leon to back away as well.
They ran down for their lives, a stink has appeared in the air, a terrible sour smell that would have made Jill throw up in mere seconds if she'd had time to bother.
She wasn't sure if that smell is coming from the creature or something else inside the room.
The two burst through another room as Leon scanned the room for anything they could do. There was another door in the room. Leon reached the door and hold it, "Hurry." Just as she reached Leon, he fired with both of his Wing Shooters.
She ran past him and went through the door. The second she was out, he leaped back into the next room. Jill slammed the door shut the moment Leon entered, they heard its body brush against the door, the sound of its large body trying to break through the door. They waited and stared at the door. The creature didn't beat the door like how most have done in the past, but it was trying to push it. "So now what? Do you think our weapons are capable to hurt that thing?" Jill asked.
"We're on luck I have two grenades." he said and both of them walked backwards with their weapons at the ready. Leon took one grenade out and offered it to Jill. She accepted it and placed it into her rear pocket. Jill ejected the spent magazine for another one. "I'm ready." The door flow open and a pillar like legs appeared. They are slightly taller than an average human. Leon's Wing Shooter did the talking and two flashes appeared in the room. Four bullets went straight through the creatures head, but it did not slow him down. Jill fired four more bullets.
The creature groaned loudly and raised his right arm, it was extensively muscular and tipped with an organic mimicry of a buzz saw. It looked like some sort of mangled bones. One leg lumbered forward as the saw revved up. The teeth of the saw clearly had blood caked on it. It stepped forward as the fat of it wiggled as the saw lifted toward the ceiling. "Run." Jill shouted while her gun fired and she trembled as she aimed.
The saw came down for her upper body be pulled back which helped her dodge the creature's arm. She saw Leon move from her left to get behind it, and fired again. "Try to slow it down!"
Jill walked backwards while firing multiple times, "Come at me." she taunted with new found confidence.
In the middle of the excitement her gun clicked. "Damn it." she said in a half panicked whisper. Leon fired at it legs again, "Hold on!" he shouted. Jill reached for her knife, swiftly she throw it at the left leg of the creature. Another loud screech came out of it and it kneeled on the ground, stunned for a moment. "Now!" Jill screamed and took a grenade out of her pocket... Leon followed her with another grenade and they jumped in the opposite direction A loud explosion echoed in the building.
The bone saw stopped revving as the creature took a step back from all the damage Leon and Jill did. It roared to the ceiling as the body started to seep and it melted to the ground… dead. The blood made that clear. "Good job." Leon said in an obviously sarcastic voice.
He took a moment to catch his breath. "Yeah." she gasped. "Let's go to that room now." They went through the broken door and up the stairs. "I hope we find some clues in there, after what we just went through." Again they had to use their lights to look around the room.
Both of their ears had a low ringing sound to it. They knew it just meant the fight with the creature was just really loud. It had two offices that faced to each other. All the windows in the place were bolted with large wooden parts. Jill checked the desk, and looked through the stained papers.
One lone paper caught her attention, large title on it. 'Project NEMESIS.'
"No way." she said in a somber tone to catch Leon's attention.
"What did you find?" he inquired as he walked beside her. Her hands trembled as she gave him the paper. Leon pretended not to notice. and he read it carefully, each word, it awakened old memories in his mind. "Wasn't this supposed to have been destroyed in Raccoon City?" he said. "It cannot be revived, unless there is some possibility of..." He stopped after he heard a pause in her breathing, "Jill?"
She was frozen in place, in her eyes there is fear like he never seen in anyone before. "What's wrong?" he asked again.
"Not that," she said like she is talking to herself. "Not again, I thought I killed that thing."
The realization hit him hard, he was working with another damaged heart. "Are you another survivor of Raccoon City?"
Jill looked back at him. Her shaking stopped as she holstered her pistol. "Yeah, I... was there…" Jill noticed his eyes softened, it was like she could see sympathy in them, almost."Where were you?" he was about to talk more,when they heard another groaning sound, coming closer. she walked passed him."Ask questions later, after we take care of whatever is coming."
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