Silent Evil

Chapter 2

"Man…..my feet hurt." I muttered, rubbing my ankle tenderly as I walked.

"What did the girl look like again Brad?" Joseph asks.

"Black hair, wearing a blue dress. She looked to be about 13 or 14 years old." Brad answered. "Are we getting any closer to the town?"

"To be honest…." Wesker lowered his gun. "I'm not quite sure."

I scoffed. "Great, we're lost."

RUSTLE

Both me and Joseph gasped and held onto each other like a couple of frightened children. "W-what was that?" I ask.

"I think it came from over there." Jill pointed over to the woods, which were right next to the cracked road.

We heard the rustling again and then something jumped out. Both Joseph and I screamed and Joseph jumped into my arms, Scooby-Doo style. "Joseph…..you're too heavy." I struggled.

"You two are morons." Wesker said.

"Ahhhh!" I yelped when Joseph's weight took me down and we both were on the ground. "My back….!" I moaned, holding my head as Joseph and I looked at what had jumped out. A deer.

Everyone glared at both of us. We chuckled nervously. "Sorry."

The deer froze and looked at us before running back into the woods.

"I think it was afraid of you Joseph." Brad snickered.

"Shut it!"

"You mind getting off my back?" I ask.

"Sorry man."

"Alright, now is everyone done screaming?" Wesker asks in an annoyed voice.

We all nodded.

"Good, let's get a move on."

We walked for what seemed like 30 minutes and it began to get really foggy to where we couldn't see. "Hm, I think I have a flashlight in here somewhere…..aha!" I pulled out a flashlight and turned it on, shining it into the team's faces.

"Don't shine that in my face." Brad said.

"Did anybody else bring flashlights?" Wesker asks.

In total, I had brought five flashlights and both Brad and Joseph brought one. I gave one to Wesker, Jill, Chris and Rebecca, so everyone had a flashlight.

"Man, this fog is so thick." Chris commented as we trailed further down the road. The fog only got thicker.

"I highly doubt we'll find those people now." Joseph says.

We walked until we came to an observation deck. "Hey, a lake!" I said and went to the edge of the deck, looking at the lake. "Then we must be close to the town."

"You are correct Hartford." Wesker said as he came out of the restroom with about 4 maps. "We are on the observation deck right now and that lake is called Toluca Lake. There's a trail that leads to the town and it should take about 15 or 20 minutes."

I frowned. "Why so long?"

….

Once we finally entered the town, we noticed something was falling from the sky and some of it fell onto my face. I rubbed it off. "Ash?"

"Ash falling from the sky?" Brad commented. "That's weird."

Since Wesker was right beside me, I felt him shudder. I raised an eyebrow when I glanced at him. Since when does he shudder? "Wesker…? What's wrong?"

"Nothing. The town is too big, so we'll split into four teams. Team 1 is Hartford and I, team 2 is Chris and Jill, team 3 is Rebecca and Barry and team 4 is Joseph and Brad." He handed out a map for each team. "Split up and search for the missing persons. If you happen to find any, radio me immediately."

I looked around and spotted a flower shop near us. As the others began to walk off in different directions, I walked towards the flower shop.

"Where are you going?" I heard Wesker ask.

"Checking out the flower shop. If we're gonna find these missing persons, we need to search this town from top to bottom." I answered as I tried to open the door, but it was locked. I brought out my gun and readied it. With a grunt, I kicked the door open, nearly breaking it off its hinges and stepped into the flower shop, looking around.

"Breaking and entering, nice." The captain said as he walked in behind me.

"It's not necessarily breaking and entering unless someone is here." I said with a grin.

RUSTLE

My gun and flashlight went over to the counter where the rusting cash register sat. "Captain." I whispered and I motioned him over to the counter. He nodded and quietly moved around the counter while I went to the other side.

I silently counted to three and we both pointed our guns behind the counter, but saw nothing. I raised an eyebrow. "I swear I heard rustling." I said as I walked behind the counter, searching around.

"Maybe it was your imagination." Wesker said as he began to search around the shop.

I knelt down and moved a box out of the way when a rat jumped out at me. I yelped and jumped onto the counter, watching the rat scurry off. "Ugh, I hate rats! This place is fucking creepy." I jumped off the counter, returning with Wesker.

"There's nothing here. Let's move on and see if we can find any of the missing persons."

I nodded and we left the flower shop.

Chris and Jill

Jill shuddered. "I don't like this town at all." She shined her flashlight down the foggy street.

"Me neither. It gives me the creeps." Chris agreed.

Jill suddenly happened to shine her flashlight at the sidewalk and saw the body of a male adult. "Chris! Over there!"

The two rushed over to the male and Chris knelt down, checking for a pulse. "He's dead. Looks like he was attacked by something." He said as Jill pulled the wallet out of the man's back pocket.

"I found his ID. John….Howards. Radio the captain and see if he was one of the missing persons." Jill says.

"Chris to Wesker." Chris said on the radio. "Over."

There was static for a moment. "What is it Chris?" the captain asks.

"We found a man named John Howards. Was he on the missing persons list?"

"Shell, check to see if a 'John Howards' was on the missing persons list."

"On it." Shell said. There was some rustling. "Yeah, is he alive Chris?"

"No, he's dead. It looked like he was attacked by something." Chris answered.

Wesker sighed. "Alright, I guess we'll mark him off. Radio if you find another."

"Got it."

Wesker and Shell

I marked a line through John Howards and sighed, folding up the paper and putting it into my back pocket along with the pen. "Remember when I said I wanted to come here?"

"Yes."

"Well, I regret it now. I wanna go home….."

"We can't leave until we find all the missing persons…..alive or dead."

I sighed. Great, I'm gonna die a horrible death in a town that I wanted to come to.