"I don't like the sound of that" Jay said quietly as he readied his pistol aiming it at the steel door a few feet in front of him. After a brief silence Jay opened his mouth "Boss?"
A loud thud like a heavy footstep echoed into the hall as a large dark green monster entered the hall. Upon seeing Jay and Rebecca the monster shrieked and sprinted towards them. Without hesitation Jay and Rebecca began firing at the strange creature which merely flinched with each bullet that hit it. Stopping in front of Jay the monster quickly crouched down on all fours and swiped at his legs with one of its claws.
Before his leg gave out Jay swiftly brought his other leg up and kicked the monster back before falling to his knee "Don't let it get close" he yelled dropping the empty gun from his hand and using the pistol he took from Chase. After one final shot from Rebecca the monster let out a shrill shriek before dropping to the floor.
Breathing heavily Jay used the wall to pull himself back to his feet and yelled "I hate this place". Hearing gunshots from both outside and the hall behind them Jay said "We should get back to the lobby an open room gives us a better advantage".
Slowly pushing away from the wall Jay tried placing his injured leg on the ground and immediately doubled over. Swearing under his breath he pushed himself back up and leaned against the wall "Why is it always my leg that gets hit" he complained as Rebecca shouldered him "Let me help you" she said quietly as they slowly walked towards the next door.
Grabbing hold of the door knob where the gunshots were coming from Jay quickly pushed it open and aimed his gun down an empty hall. "Sam" he yelled after the gunshots stopped. "Jay" a female voice called from the balcony above them.
Hearing footsteps speed across the balcony Jay limped over to the stairs with Rebecca's help and was relieved to see Sam was unharmed. Stopping when she saw Rebecca, Samantha gave Jay an unsure look before proceeding towards them. "I see you've met my friends" Jay joked seeing the body of one of the reptilian creatures on the upper balcony.
"Are you all right?" Sam asked him seeing his leg injury and the bandage on his forearm. "Definitely been better, but I've been worse too" he joked after releasing himself from Rebecca and falling under the pain of his leg "Actually this one might be the worst" he grunted as he pulled himself up and leaned against the railing of the stairs.
"In here" Sam said walking past Jay and Rebecca and opening a door. Helping Jay inside Samantha quickly walked over to a large crate in the back of the small room and opened it. "Let me see your leg" she said retrieving several medical supplies from the crate.
As Sam began treating Jay's injury he introduced her to Rebecca and explained to her what happened since they last split up. "I haven't heard or seen William since we split up, but I don't think he's dead" Sam told him just as she finished lacing a tight bandage around his ankle.
Placing his injured leg on the ground Jay slowly shifted his weight over to it measuring how much he can place on it "I won't be able to run, but it'll keep me going" he said before looking over to Rebecca. "I'm going to head back to the lobby will you be ok here?"
Rebecca nodded "Don't worry I'll be fine by myself for a while".
Jay nodded his head "See ya soon" he said before leaving the storage room with Sam. As the two of them climbed the staircase and turned to head for the lobby they heard a faint gunshot from the hall ahead of them. "Let's go" Sam said drawing her pistol and swiftly opening the door.
"William" she gasped seeing their mission leader standing over another reptilian monster. "Glad to see your still alive Sam, I was getting worried with these things running around" Will said reloading his pistol.
"Find any useful information?" Jay asked limping through the doorway. After giving Jay a suspicious look William said "Nothing particularly interesting. But I think we should give this place one last go over before making any final decisions about what to do". "We're going to split up again and search solo".
"Yea because that worked so well last time" Jay said in an annoyed voice. "There is no splitting up this time. In case you haven't noticed Joe is dead I'm injured and we're all running low on ammunition and medical supplies". "Now you can go solo if you want, but I'm not searching alone".
William turned to look at Jay and met his glare with his own "We'll find more information and cover more ground if we split up and that's an order".
"Shove it" Jay said practically yelling. "What kind of leader are you? You're pretty much telling us to go off and die in a corner. I'm not listening to your orders if they're gonna get me killed".
After he finished arguing Jay forced himself to walk straight and moved past William and headed for the lobby with Sam next to him. After exiting the hall and reentering the lobby "I understand how you feel Jay, but you shouldn't talk to your superiors like that" Sam said to him as she helped him down the stairs.
At the bottom of the stairs Chase and Stephen were waiting for them "Sam" Stephen said surprised to see her still alive "Thank God I was worried".
"Are you all right kid?" Chase asked seeing Jay's leg. "I'm fine right now we have to focus on getting out of here" Jay replied sitting on the stairs to rest. "I'm tired of William's pompous attitude. We're not searching solo we're going in pairs and we are not to leave the others side at all. Sam and I will make one last sweep of the west wing starting on the first floor. Chase you and Stephen take the east and be careful, aside from these new monsters, remember that giant snake is still around this place somewhere".
Chase had a small smile on his face, but quickly dropped it "You're going to make a great leader one day kid". Turning around chase walked towards the dining hall with Stephen leaving Sam and Jay in the lobby. After the door closed behind them Sam looked down at Jay, he had his eyes closed and was leaning back against the stairs.
After a few minutes had passed Jay pulled himself up "Ready?" he asked Sam. Sam nodded as she readied her weapon and followed Jay to the single brown door at the west side of the mansion. Using the wall for support Jay quickly limped down the hall and slowly peeked around the corner before continuing "I still don't know how we're going to get out of here, we could go through the forest, but there's probably more of those things out there as well".
Sam looked back at Jay as he said those words and she began thinking he's right. Their organization wouldn't send anyone to look for them and they don't have any working radios, they were on their own.
Opening the door and entering the next hall they quickly proceeded through "There's got to be something we missed" Jay said turning a corner. After thinking for a moment Jay remembered the locked door on the far side of the balcony upstairs. "Come on" he said to Sam as he opened the door and reentering the back hall.
"The door at the far end of the balcony should was locked if we can get it open there might be something useful in there" he said opening the door to hall where he separated from Rebecca. Walking over to the storage room he opened the door he saw that Rebecca had left "We should find her we'd be better off traveling together" Sam said after grabbing a clip she left in the storage crate.
Just as they were about to exit the room the heard a scream and then a gunshot, it came from upstairs. "Jay" Sam called seeing him bolt from the room and ran up the stairs completely ignoring his injured leg. As Sam reached the top of the stairs Jay had already opened and gone through the door to the hall.
Slamming the study door open Jay saw Rebecca crawling away from a hunter that was slowly walking towards her "Get away from her" he yelled firing his gun at the monster. The hunter quickly turned around and shrieked at Jay before leaping at him, taking a quick step back Jay jumped forward and threw his good leg up intercepting the monster and knocking it down.
His injured leg gave out from his weight and Jay fell to his knee clenching his hand around his lower leg he aimed his gun at the hunter as it scrambled to its feet and fired every round he had left into the monster. Sam entered the room just as the hunter fell onto its back and started flailing around before dying. Quickly helping Jay to his feet they both checked on Rebecca, someone shot her in the leg.
"What happened?" Jay asked kneeling next to her. Waiting to catch her breath Rebecca handed him a book that she found in the desk that was in the corner of the room "I…I came back up here to search, but someone was already in here. Before I could say anything to him that thing came into the room and then he shot me before running away".
Jay looked over his shoulder at Sam before looking back at Rebecca "Let me guess, he was one of the guys from my team right?" Rebecca nodded "Yeah, it wasn't Chase or Stephen though".
Jay got to his feet and held his hand out to help Rebecca "Sam look after her, I'm going to kill that bastard" he said pulling the hammer back on his pistol. "Jay wait" Sam called after him, but Jay had already kicked open the damaged door and sprinted down the hall.
Stopping in front of the locked door at the far end of the balcony Jay reached for the handle and pulled the door open. Now inside a library he quickly moved past the various bookshelves and heard the door behind him close and lock "Get out here Dammit I know you're in here" he yelled dropping down from the second level of the library, a mere five foot drop.
Hearing the window he passed by shatter Jay readied his gun and waited. Hearing a loud hissing sound Jay steeled himself and waited for the next move. Looking to the upper level he watched as a bookshelf was knocked over and behind it was the giant snake he encountered in the attic. "Time for round two huh?" Jay said as the snake slithered down to him.
As the snake lunged at him Jay stepped to the side and tried to run away, but his leg slowed him down. Just as Jay was about to take a shot at the monstrous snake it used its head and whipped him into the wall, quickly getting to his feet he fired a single shot at the monster he managed to hit its eye and duck under its head as it began flailing in pain. "Why did I go off alone?" Jay swore at himself as he ducked under the snake's head once again.
Looking above him he saw the bookshelf was wobbling each the snake hit the wall, "It's a long shot, but its all I've got" he thought as he lured the blinded snake over to him and waited for it to strike. As the snake lunged for him Jay jumped to the side and covered his head as the bookshelf fell over and onto the snake's head burying it.
Climbing back up the ladder Jay made one last look over to the snake to make sure it was dead before leaving the library. Walking over to the door he grabbed the handle, but it was locked from the other side "Damn it all" he growled before looking at the window the snake came through.
Cautiously approaching the window he looked out at the dark forest that covered the Arklay Mountains and stepped out onto the balcony. "Got to find a way back inside" he said to himself as he ran around the balcony. Seeing a large hole in the wall he turned on his flashlight and shined it into the hole before he crawled through it. "I hate this place I hate this place I hate this place" he repeated as he slowly crawled through the snake's tunnel.
Making a turn Jay finally climbed out of the snake's tunnel and saw he was back in the attic "Well at least I know where I am". Opening the attic door and returning to the lobby of the mansion he saw Chase and Stephen waiting for him along with Sam and Rebecca "You missed the party" he said to them as he limped down the stairs.
"What happened to you this time kid?" Stephen asked seeing the dust and dirt that covered Jay. "Long story short I killed the giant snake and its burrow was the only way out of the library".
"Any sign of William?" he asked them. Sam shook her head "Not a thing he's still got to be here somewhere". Jay dropped to a sitting position and took a long breath "Well let's think. He's not in the east wing, so he's either outside or…" Jay turned himself around and looked at the staircase as if seeing right through them "I'm an idiot" he said as he jumped to his feet and tried running around behind the stairs.
"He went through here" he called to the others, seeing the steel gate behind the stairs was opened. "You're kidding right?" Stephen said looking down the dark staircase that was behind the gate "We're going down there aren't we?" he whined.
"Feel free to stay up here, but I'm going to find William and then I'm going to shoot him" Jay said opening the gate and proceeding down the stairs with Chase and Rebecca behind him. "We're going to make one last sweep up here then we'll join you" Sam called after them.
Finally arriving at the bottom of the stairs the three of them were in some kind of underground tunnel around them were various machines and equipment "A mining shaft or another death trap?" Chase said looking at the only available path in front of them.
A/N. I know I mixed some of the rooms up in the mansion, its been a long time since I've played Resident Evil and its hard for me to remember the exact layout of the mansion and the tunnels beneath it, I'm trying my best to re memorize the maps.