A/N: New chapter...!

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Izzy's POV.

With Leon, this wasn't so bad. He made it easier for me and Ashley. He was genuinely a nice guy and he was funny. But I needed to get out of here, I didn't want to stay here. It was too grueling for me. I wanted my old lifestyle back.

I was feeling strange though. As me, Ashley and Leon fought our way through the graveyard quickly, I was getting strange lurches of adrenaline like something was fighting inside me.

We got to a wooden hut with a ladder inside.

"I'll go first and make sure everythings okay down there." Leon said, moving by us and descending the ladder quickly.

I stood at the top and watched as Leon caught Ashley.

"You need catching too?" Leon joked, grinning up at me.

"Pahaha..." I laughed back sarcastically, while Ashley looked slightly sulky.

I followed them down and righted myself. We continued down the path of the tunnel and turned a corner.

There was a man in a black over coat with a scarf over his mouth. There was a blue lamp next to him.

I prepared to attempt defend myself but he spoke.

"Welcome!" He said in a rough voice, opening his coat.

At first, I thought he was going to flash us, but there were a few items on the inside of his coat. I stepped closer and realised they were guns.

Leon walked over.

"I need to tune up my shotgun and my TMP." He said, handing over the pesetas.

I looked at the guns.

"Got a selection of good things on sale, stranger!" The merchant said, looking expectantly at me.

I shook my head.

"I'm pretty sure I can't, and I have no money." I said regretfully.

The Merchant considered that.

"Whaddaya sellin'?" He said hopefully.

"Er. I don't think I have anything to sell." I said, raising an eyebrow at him.

Leon chuckled and handed me a handgun.

"Shoot that candle." He said, pointing to a candle that was nestled in a hole in the dirt.

I stared at him.

"But..." I tried.

"Try." He said, nodding to the candle.

Ashley just watched, waiting for what was about to happen.

When I raised the gun, she ran behind Leon and I gave her a glare.

"Pull back the catch on the top of the gun and shoot." Leon said from behind me.

I pulled back the catch on the gun and aimed, pointing straight at the candle, which was a good few feet away. When I was satisfied, I pulled the trigger.

I flinched slightly when the bullet went through the candle and it broke into pieces on impact.

"Your aim isn't bad, Izzy." Leon said, taking the handgun back. "If you find some things to sell, you may as well buy a gun to help you on the way. It can't hurt."

I nodded, not entirely convinced. I'd probably end up blowing somebodies foot off or something.

We continued down the tunnel after Leon got two first-aid sprays.

After a while, we got back to the village that I'd first been in. Leon led me and Ashley over to a tower and told us to wait up there for him while he cleared the area.

"Hurry." I said quietly, waiting for Ashley to climb up.

Leon nodded and headed back. I climbed up to join Ashley and stayed hidden up in the tower.

We heard various shouts and growls, as well as gunshots. Gunshots were good. They meant Leon was alive.

Me and Ashley heard a shout from the village.

"¡No dejes que se escape!"

"That means: don't let him escape." Ashley whispered.

"Least one of us knows." I replied in hushed tones, she smirked slightly.

Smug cow.

When the shouting and gunshots ceased, we heard running footsteps. Ashley crept behind me and I cursed her.

We heard Leon call up the ladder.

"It's clear, c'mon you two!"

Ashley jumped down into Leons arms and I climbed down after her.

We hurried up a path beside the tower and went through metal double doors.

The place we came to was the place where I woke up the second time. We spotted villagers and Leon told Ashley and me to hide in a red metal container.

While crouching in the metal container, I was thinking about what Leon had said earlier about the gun. Maybe I should get one, I'd need to defend myself. What if Leon got killed? I'd have to get me and Ashley out of here safely, and I couldn't do that without some means of protecting myself.

The container lid opened and I stretched out my back.

"You're not used to this, are you?" Leon teased, helping us out of the container.

"Nope." I said, laughing.

He led us to an area which was closed off from the rest of the village with wooden pikes around it.

I noticed the torch light glint off something shiny and I went to check what it was.

I picked it up and examined it. It was an pocket watch. It also seemed like it was solid gold.

I pocketed it as Leon checked the door leading out.

"There's something blocking it from the other side, most likely just a bar from the sound. Izzy, d'you think you can get over and unlock it from the other side?" Leon asked, gesturing that he would give me a boost.

"Yeah sure." I replied, Leon bent down and joined his hands together, making a step.

I put my boot carefully into his hands and grabbed the top of the door, pulling myself up and over.

There was a plank of wood barring the door and I lifted it off a chucked it away.

"It's open!" I called.

I stepped back and Leon pushed the doors open.

We came to another new path where we found another Merchant.

"Welcome!" He said again, opening his coat.

I waited while Leon tuned up his guns again and bought stock for his TMP.

I stepped over when he was done.

"Whaddaya buyin'?" The Merchant asked.

"Actually, I'm selling." I replied.

"Whaddaya sellin'?"

Does this guy say anything else?

I showed him the pocket watch and he examined it.

"Ahhh, I'll buy it at a high price!"

"Great, can I buy a handgun?" I asked hopefully.

"Blacktail?" He suggested, picking up a gun that was similar to Leons handgun.

He can say other things, I thought, amazed.

"Perfect!" I said, smiling. Then it dawned on me, I'd actually bought a gun.

"Heheh, thank you." The Merchant replied, handing me the gun.

I turned around and Leon handed me some ammo for my new gun.

"You'll need this." He said, smiling.

"Thanks!" I said, shoving it in my jacket pocket. In an after thought, I added: "Er, where does it go?"

Leon laughed and took the gun off me, he showed me the chamber where the ammo goes.

"Thanks." I said, feeling like an idiot.

We came to a bridge that was leading across to a house at the other side.

Just as we were crossing the bridge, Leons video-com beeped.

"Leon, I have some bad news."

"I'd rather not hear it." Leon replied.

"Well, I'm afraid I have to tell you anyway. We've lost contact with the chopper. Somebody must have shot it down, though we can't determine who." The voice of Leons support rang from the little video-com.

"Great..."

"We're preparing another chopper for you. Meanwhile, I want you to head towards the extraction point!"

"Got it." Leon said and ended the call.

Me and Ashley exchanged looks. Just as we reached a half-way point between the bridge, we started to hear shouts from more villagers, they were surrounding us.

"What are we gonna do, Leon?" Ashley asked him, looking scared.

"I hate to say it, but we're sandwiched alright," Leon looked around and noticed the house at the edge of the bridge, "Quick, in that cabin!"

We bolted for the two-story cabin. Once we were inside, me and Leon attempted to jam the door when I heard a familiar Spanish voice.

"Leon."

Leon turned around just in time to catch a doorjam thrown by Luis Sera.

"Luis!" I said, shocked to see him again.

"Small world eh?" He said to me, smiling. Then he looked at Ashley, though he was looking down slightly. "Well, I see that the President's equipped his daughter with ballistics too."

Ashley looked livid.

"How rude!" She raged. "And I don't believe there's any relevance with my figure and my standing. Who are you?"

Luis chuckled.

"Ho ho, excuse me, your highness. Perhaps the young lady might want to introdruce herself first before asking someone his name?"

"Her name's Ashley Graham, the President's daughter." Ashley replied, putting her hands on her hips.

Luis looked at Leon.

"Is she, you know?" He asked, suddenly tense.

"Don't worry. She's cool." Leon replied.

"Ehh, nevermind. There's supposed to be some obvious symptom before you turn into one of them anyway." He waved his hand and looked away.

"Look!" Ashley cried suddenly.

We looked out the window and saw loads of villagers trying to get in. I panicked, that was the biggest amount yet.

Luis came over to look beside me.

"Ashley, upstairs!" Leon said, pointing upstairs.

Ashley nodded and ran up the stairs to find somewhere to hide.

"Okay... It's game time." Luis said, pulling out his own gun and winking at me.

I grinned back, depsite my nervousness, and pulled out my own Blacktail. Hopefully I could use it. I knew how to shoot, I just needed to get the hang of shooting alot.

"Izzy, think you're ready help?" Leon said, pushing a cabinet in front of the window.

"Sure." I said the word fast, hoping my fear wouldn't show.

"You'll be fine, amiga." Luis said, doing the same thing as Leon. "Leon, hold the fort upstairs. Izzy, you stay down here and stop them coming in."

Leon nodded and hurried up the stairs. I noticed a few items strewn around the room, like ammo and herb plants. I gathered them all up, shoving them in my pockets for when I needed them.

Luis and me stood beside eachother, watching a cuboards that were pushed in front of the windows and the door. We heard Leon's footsteps upstairs and I spoke.

"Okay, I don't mean to sound like an idiot here, but what the hell is going on here?"

Luis stared.

"You don't know what's going on?" He asked, shocked.

"Nope..." I mumbled.

Luis stared some more and then answered.

"Didn't you hear about the outbreak a few years ago?"

"Outbreak?" I replied, looking confused.

Just as his mouth dropped, we heard the boarded windows crack and shatter under the villagers fists. The cuboards fell down and they started to climb through.

"Shoot!" Luis shouted and we both started to shoot them back out through the window.

We stood back to back, shooting them as they tried to climb into the cabin.

I turned around as Luis yelled and shot a villager that was attacking him. Luis grinned at me and continued to shoot the oncoming villagers.

Just as I turned back around, one of the Ganados grabbed me and forced me into the wall, I winced when my back hit a nail that was jutting out of the wall.

The villager came at me again and I shoved the butt of my gun into his face, he cried out.

"¡Basta, hijo de puta!" He shouted, but I cut him short by shooting him in the face.

I kicked, punched and shot for at least a half an hour straight. I felt drained, I'd never done this much before.

Luis helped by tossing ammo and first aid sprays to me when I needed them and I did the same for him.

"Upstairs, now!" I heard Luis shout and we rushed up the stairs, going backwards so that we could shoot the villagers that followed us up.

We joined Leon upstairs and I started to shoot again. But my handgun ammo was running out, and there was no more to be found.

"I'm running out of ammo!" I shouted over the noise, kicking a villager back out a window.

"Here!" Leon said, "Use this!"

He threw me his TMP while he used his shotgun, taking out two villagers at a time.

"Thanks!" I yelled back, but I had to figure out how to use this one quickly.

I firgured it could pretty quickly and I had to say, I loved this gun. I could take out three villagers in less than five seconds.

One of the Ganados came towards me and I panicked, not have enough time to manage my gun, and brought my fist back and let it snap forward.

It had a good effect, I heard a snap and the villager howled in pain and stumbled backwards.

I lifted my TMP and fired at his head. It exploded.

I felt my stomach lurch but I didn't have time to pay attention to that, something came out of the place where his head should have been.

It was a mutated semi-head that had a long tentacle like thing with a large spike that was coming out of it. I stared in shock.

"Throw a flash grenade at it!" Leon yelled, while fending off the ganados that were coming at him.

I took his advice and grabbed the flash grenade that was on the table behind me.

I pulled the key out of it and threw it to the ground just at the mutated villagers feet and covered my eyes just as it blew up.

I heard the thing die and I started to shoot the rest of the Ganados.

After shooting a few more down, we heard a roar from outside.

We headed back down the stairs and looked out the window.

"Looks like they're backing off." Leon said, not putting away his gun.

Ashley descended the stairs behind us.

"So, what do we do now?" Luis asked, putting his gun in his belt.

"The bridge I crossed to get here is out, so I guess we have no choice but to keep moving." Leon replied.

"Er, I forgot something. You guys go on ahead." Luis replied, distracted.

Luis left the cabin quickly and I sighed.

How will I ever get out of this... I thought.

A/N: Ended it here cause it's the end of a chapter in the game.. :)

Not much happened in that chapter.. but some twists are coming =3

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