Author's note: Chapter 2 is here! Took me a while to get this chapter to how I wanted it, but it feels right now...sorta. Enough to where I feel it's good. Most of this chapter is about introducing characters that will play a bigger part in the story, so it would be nice to get used to them. Maybe even see them develop and change, making them go from someone you hate to someone you like or even vice versa. Since this is my first story, I am not sure about what to expect from reviews, but all are welcome to review. So do so! (LOL) Seriously, it helps me and it helps you. I want this story to be the best that it can be. Hope you enjoy this latest chapter. :) (Again this is also a second edit I did on the chapter to make it sound a bit more normal than before.)
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Chapter 2:
Figuring Out A Plan
"Te voy a matar!" they said in unison.
This definitely has to be Resident Evil 4, but how did we get here and more importantly, where's Leon? Isn't he suppose to be here? How is he going to get across the bridge now that it is out? So many questions running through my head and no one to answer them. They approached closer, but we couldn't move back.
"Move out the way guys!" Someone yelled, it was hard to tell who it was in this big crowd of people so cluttered together. As that person shoved pass me, I got a glance at their face. It was Karla! What is she doing?
I pushed my way to the front to see what she was gonna do, but before I could make it to the end, another gun shot was heard. I pushed through even harder, maybe knocking some people on the outside of the crowd down, but I made it and saw Karla aiming a gun at the man with a pitchfork. He readied his pitchfork to lung at her, but Karla quickly shot him in his weak spot, the head, and killed him instantly. She prepared to shot the other man in the head, but was not fast enough as he threw his sickle at her. I was not sure what came over me at that moment, but the instant the sickle left his hand, everything slowed down. I lunged at Karla, pushing her out of the way, barley in time for the weapon to miss her, but not me. The handle of the sickle hid me in the rib, with such force, it felt as if it was close to breaking. I got lucky as hell, but that impact left me on the guard groaning in pain.
"You alright?" I tried to groan out, when I saw a shadow standing over me. Instead of picking up his weapon to finish me off, the man reached for my collar, picked me off the ground, and began choking me as he looked at me straight in the eyes. He was putting all of his strength into his hands to choke me out, making it extremely hard to breathe. Before it went on any longer another gun shot was heard and the mans head jolted to his left and his grasp loosen, leaving me gasping for air.
"Are YOU okay?" Karla asked me, helping me to my feet and giving a face of concern.
"Yea" I quickly replied to her. I tried to control my breathing to stop myself from getting light headed, at the same time I was rubbing my ribs to see if any were broken.
"Thank you for helping me out." She said in a low tone.
I took a second to get my composer together. "Thank you for saving me and everyone else." I responded. "Um, this may be a little straight forward, but how do you know how to use a gun?" Before she was able to respond to my question, we were interrupted by someone walking out of the group.
"You two done having your little moment?" Kevin said as he walked out of the group along with Alexis. Kind of a rude thing to say considering none of you guys helped her or me out. I looked around at everyone else, they all had the same expression fear and confusion about what they just saw.
"Yea" I coughed out. "Oh yea, thanks for the help too!" adding the last part to sound as rude as him. See how you like it!
"No problem" he responded blandly. "I'm not trying to be the hero here" I simply rolled my eyes and signed. "So what game where you talking about Karla?" bring that topic up again.
"Yea, about that..." Karla still seemed very hesitant about the name of the game.
"This definitely has to be Resident Evil 4" I butted in for her, Karla raised an eyebrow at me.
"I thought so" Alexis added.
"So have you played it?" Kevin asked. Karla, Alexis, and I all said yes. "I see" he responded rubbing his chin, lost in thought. "Listen everyone!" Kevin turned to face the group behind him. Seems like he is going to address this to everyone as well, but not everyone was listening. "LISTEN!" he yelled again, this time grabbing everyone's attention. "Have any of you every played a game called Resident Evil 4?" there was a lot of in talking between the group, when someone from the front of the group walked forward. It was Adam with a very unpleasant expression.
"What the FUCK does a game have to do with any of this!" Adam yelled, looking annoyed at the stupidity of Kevin's question. I saw Kevin clutch his hand into a fist so hard, his knuckles were going pale. Holding back the urge to punch him square in the jaw and put him in his place he responded.
"First off, EVERYTHING!" he responded just as loud, if not loader than Adam. "Second of all, you better get back in your place, before I forcefully put you back in it!" They had a little stand-off before Alexis when between them and pushed them away from each other.
"Listen you two, we don't have time for a pissing contest now. So both of you calm the hell down now!" Alexis had a point, but this would eventually become a problem sooner or later. "So I'm guessing that is a 'no' from you, right?" Adam simply shook his head in an annoyed way and returned to the group. "What about you guys?" Nobody seemed to know what she was talking about.
"Well that settles it" Kevin stated.
"What does that mean?" I asked, hoping he would not be a smart ass with me.
"It means that we are the only ones that know what will happen" Kevin was thinking of what else to say. "That is if everything does go the way of the game and..." he trailed off.
"And what?" I dared to ask again.
"And" he snickered. "The other characters show up, but considering the bridge is already out. I don' think that Leon will be helping us any time soon. Then there is the question about Ada. Will she help us? Better yet, is SHE even here yet?" Many more questions, but he had a point. How do we follow a storyline if none of the main characters are here?
"Do you have any ideas on what we should do then?" this time Karla asked.
"Some ideas, but the thing is..." I think I know what Kevin is going to say. "I'm not sure if any of us are going to survive this..." Just as I thought. "Regardless we have to figure out a course of action before it becomes dark. I really don't want to fight those parasites that pop out at night." He definitely had a point, but there was only one way to go and that was through the village, which has a crowd of those guys that we call Ganados.
"If you are suggesting that we fight our way through those things, what are we gonna do about ammo?" the question I asked caught Kevin off guard. "I mean, I'm sure there isn't gonna be ammo and grenades scattered everywhere like in the game."
"Yea, your right, but there is a shotgun in the two-story cabin" Alexis stated.
"Yea, but that would make the chainsaw guy come out and that would probably be one of the worst things we are going to face!" I responded, but I felt that we really needed that weapon because this pistol wasn't going to last long. Suddenly we heard a small bubbling sound and it was the villager's body dissolving to nothing and even dissolving their clothes as well. A long silence fell upon us.
"I have an idea" Kevin said breaking the silence. "But I will need EVERYONE'S help!" he added turning to the group of students again.
"How the hell do you expect us to help you? We don't even know what is happening!" Adam yelled out.
"I expect YOU, specifically, to SHUT UP AND FUCKING LISTEN!" Kevin yelled back taking a few steps toward Adam. That extreme reaction seemed to make Adam back down a bit, but he clenched his fists and looked as if he was going to punch Kevin.
"Hey, come on. Let the team player give us his plan." Dennis said stepping up next to Adam and lightly putting his hand over his shoulder. This caused many people to laugh. Kind of a weird situation to be laughing in, but it seems necessary with all that going on.
"Since when have you ever been a team play?" Irvin stated, from the very back of the group.
"I have been a team player since, SHUT UP!" Dennis retorted back. "How's that!"
"Back to the situation at hand!" Kevin sounded frustrated. It wouldn't hurt to have a small laugh here and there, but we were still stuck without a plan and he was the only one that had one. "Since the Ganados' bodies dissolve, I assume it is too hot for the clothes to withstand, that is why they also dissolve. Going by that logic, it is safe to say that their weapons and money will not dissolve because the weapon is not close to their body and their money is gold." I think he is expecting us to use their weapons against them and take their money when they are dead. "So we use their weapons against them and take the money they leave behind." That's just what I said...in my head.
"Hold on!" Irvin was making his way to the front of the group so he would not have to yell. "Why are we going to need their dirty ass money?" I lightly tapped my hand on my face from the stupidity of his words, but it made me giggle a bit.
"Why?" Kevin looked at him. He then looked at the rest of the group. "Okay, first things first! Has anyone here, beside Mondo, Karla, Alexis, and myself, ever played or ever heard of Resident Evil 4?" There was a lot of looking around in the group, but to avail. No one else knew about this game.
"Kevin..." I grabbed Kevin's shoulder and made him face me. "I think we should really consider another plan because I don't think anyone is going to survive this." He looked frustrated and pressured. "I think we should at least move along and think of a plan because standing here talking all day isn't going to help us at all." With that he gave me a small nod and then faced the group to move them out.
"HEY EVERYONE!" Kevin got everyone's attention. "We are going to stick with my plan for now and move out because we are just sitting ducks here!"
"HOLD ON!" Adam yelled. "Who died and made you leader?" Kevin smiled slightly and walked up to Adam.
"Okay, Adam, tell me this... Do you have any better ideas or even a slight clue about where we are?" Kevin argued. A small beat of sweet ran down Adam's head as he thought about what to say. "Of course you don't" and with he walked away and headed to the front of the group. "Let's go!" There were only three weapons on the ground that the ganados had left, Alexis grabbed the sickle, Kevin grabbed the hatchet, and I grabbed the pitchfork. We had to conserve ammunition and these tools would help out in the long run.
As we began to walk, I couldn't help, but think of how quickly things have changed. I mean Karla was someone I didn't know at all and with in a few minutes I got to know her a lot more. Kevin went from a guy no one paid any attention to, to the guy that is leading this whole group. Alexis is a lot nicer than what I made her out to be and she is actually being normal with us. Sure, Irvin is still a smart ass and Adam is still trying to be the center of the world, but shit hits the fan people have the potential to do great things. Another hand, I also had the thought of how we were going to get out of this situation alive. If we somehow make it through to the little village, how are the events in the Separate Ways missions going to play out if Ada isn't here, or at least I don't think she is gonna be here. So many more questions develop and still, not a single one answered.
"So I'm guessing that you're gonna be the leader of this group?" I asked Kevin. He quickly turned around and raised an eyebrow at me.
"Not necessarily, but if the group wants to view it that way, then I guess I am..." he replied. He seems really pressured by the question, as if he feels responsible for being the leader. As we past the house, we saw a little cabin at the entrance to the little path way to the village. "I doubt there is gonna be ammo for our pistol in there, but maybe a green herb may be there." Kevin and I both went inside of the cabin to see three box crates, two on the right side shelf and one on the middle table. We broke all three, one contained the green herb we were talking about and the other two contained gold coins. We were not sure on how much money this was, but we knew we had to collect a lot more. "Lets keep going." While I grabbed the green herb, Kevin walked out of the cabin and ran into a confused looking Karla. Scratching her head and everything.
"Umm, what are we going to do about the bird on top of the sigh in front of us?" Karla knew that bird had a hand grenade on it in the game, but what would happen if we shoot it now.
"Shoot it, its worth a try. If it has a grenade then that is good for us, if it doesn't that is just one bullet less we can use on the ganados." Kevin's response sounded very grim, but we will never know if it had one unless we do shoot it. Karla took her time to line up the shot, but when she did, the bird was dead on the ground. We slowly walked up to it, to see that it had a big, green, egg-shaped looking thing grasped in one of its claws. It was a funny looking grenade, but a grenade nonetheless.
"That was a lucky gamble, now we have something to use against that chainsaw guy!" Alexis shouted with a smile. Wow...she actually smiled, a small smile, but... just wow. After a few more steps of kind of being creeped out by her, we ran into a dog that had its left leg stuck in a bear trap. Without hesitation, Karla quickly ran to the dog and released it.
"Hey! I know you wanna be nice and save that dog's life and everything, but I think our lives are more important than that dog's, don't you think?" Erika yelled out from the group.
"You'll see when the time comes" I said to her with a wink. It gave me a small laugh after seeing her reaction as if I was pervert. Soon after that, Kevin lead us around the bear and explosive traps that were prepared for us. Any ganado that got in our way got dealt with by Kevin and Alexis while I stood as back up if they needed it. Kevin would lure them to attack and when they missed Alexis would ram her sickle into the ganado's head killing them. If the ganado did not die, Kevin would slam down his hatchet on the ganodo's head when he got stunned. It was kind of difficult to see them killing people, but they couldn't really be alive right?
As we finished off everything in the area, we looted the houses as well, but we were only able to come up with a few more coins and one more green herb. Unfortunately, we still don't know how we are going to use the herbs to heal ourselves. Once, we reached the end of the trail we came across a tall gate. The four of us that were leading looked at each other, knowing what was on the other side and how things would turn out.
"Hold on guys, before we go through that gate, let's think about why they are attacking us." the four of us turned around to see Stan, Kyle, and Kenny had made their way to the front of the group to discuss what they had in mind. "They didn't attack us for no reason, I mean we are invading their village." Stan was the one talking out of the three. "This is probably just one big misunderstanding, so I'm sure they will allow us to leave."
"Stan, let me tell you something..." Kevin said as he walked over to Stan and put his arm around him and made him walk a bit away from Kyle and Kenny. "You don't understand what is happening here" Stan looked very intimated by Kevin's respond or it was just the hatchet he had in his other hand, but intimated nonetheless. "They killed all five of our teachers, they even killed our bus driver, and I don't know if you noticed, but they tried to kill us without hesitation. So I don't think the people behind this gate are gonna be any different." and with that Kevin left Stan side and headed back with us. "I HOPE YOU TELL YOUR FRIENDS ABOUT OUR CONVERATION!" He added not looking back.
"Kevin, who are we going to send to go ring the bell for us?" I asked him. He scratch his head and cursed.
"Well is was hoping Ada would do that for us, but I'm pretty sure she is not here" he responded in deep thought. "We will need to send a group out to ring the bell." after a long pause he looked at Karla and Alexis. "YOU TWO! I need you girls to get five people from the group and head out to go ring the bell because we will not last forever against these ganados." Alexis and Karla looked at him with wide eyes, Alexis even dropped her sickle.
"Well as easy as that sounds, one of us still has to get on the roof and get the key to open the door to the hidden path... On second thought why don't we all make a run for the door?" Alexis said second guessing herself.
"While that is a great idea, I don't know how having everyone bum rushing a small door is going to plan out. It's going to be complete chaos out there, so I don't think it is going to work out very well." Kevin replied back.
After a couple of minutes of ta;ling between Alexis and Karla, they looked at Kevin and nodded. Karla was to get the key and lead the group, while Alexis took tabs on everyone else in the group she brought. Alexis chose Krystal, Catherine (because if Krystal went she had to go as well), Vanessa, David, and Adam (to get him off of Kevin's back) to help them go ring the bell. After that got taken care of, we began to proceed through the gate.
Now this is the moment we will test if we can survive this horror...