Chapter Eight

Lilia was half asleep in Leon's spare room, she kicked the blankets off her, the heat was unbearable and her head was pounding, she'd drank so much that night she couldn't even pass out. She wondered where Ada was, she wasn't asleep with her in here so she must have finally got the guts to go into Leon's room. She hoped they'd finally be together instead of wasting time. She yawned and sat up and pushed her lank hair out of her face, she groaned, she felt so awful. Seeing Wesker had been interesting, she was genuinely beginning to think he didn't care about anyone or anything. She knew he'd been there with his girlfriend or his sex partner, whatever she was, and she didn't know why he'd talked to her. Her head was hurting too, he was capable of losing his temper and killing her, although, she was beginning to feel more of a challenge the more she got used to channelling the virus inside her, she just hoped it never took control.

'What to do' She muttered to herself her voice sounding strange in the dark, silent room. She climbed out of bed and wrapped her arms around her, she was dressed in a small black top and her pants, her head felt dizzy with the alcohol and her conflicting feelings about Wesker. She yawned and decided she'd make the most of the ensuite shower.

'Time to get clean' She said to herself, she crossed the room, stopping to peer out the window, the city stretched out before her, it was still alive with cars and the sounds of people, clubs and bars. She had a quick shower and was just towelling her hair when her mobile phone rang.

'Hello?' She said, wondering who was calling her so late

'Good evening Lilia' Said Wesker's voice

'It's more like early morning' Lilia replied 'and why are you phoning me? I've just spent ten minutes washing blood out my hair because of you'

'Lilia I didn't mean to hurt you' He said quietly.

'Wow that was almost an apology' said Lilia her temper beginning to boil to the surface. 'I'm sick of you Wesker, I've trusted you too many times, I cared about you, I really really cared and I know you have problems and issues, and that's an understatement, but, I don't believe your totally evil, or didn't believe. Now I see you are just a heartless monster' she pressed the red button and put the phone down on him before he could say another word. It was true, he was a heartless monster and she'd make the mistake of trusting him too much.

'Lilia?' Said Ada from the doorway, her hair was softly tousled and she was dressed in one of what Lilia presumed was Leon's shirts. 'Who were you yelling at...and why have you showered?'

'Take one guess, and I had blood in my hair' Replied Lilia 'I wish he'd leave me alone' She said frowning.

'Uh oh' Said Ada 'You really care about him don't you' Ada's eyes were dark with anger at the thought 'I can't believe it Lilia, he's left you to die so many times without a care or thought for you'

'I know this' Said Lilia brightly 'and it's not like I'm married to the guy, I just have lots of feelings for him, mostly hate, but there's a little lust and love in their too'

'LOVE' Said Ada her eyes widening 'LUST' She said, her eyes widening even more 'Oh Lilia its Albert Wesker for Christ sakes, he was with Umbrella, he's responsible for racoon city and have the viruses that are currently ready to destroy the planet'

'Umbrella's no more' Said Lilia quietly, 'I can't help it, there's something...'

'There's nothing' Said Ada 'He's a monster, like you said, and like you know, and he'd have Umbrella back in a shot, the only reasons he's with us is because he got double crossed and he needed us'

'I know' Said Lilia shrugging 'lets not talk about him anymore'

'Ok' Said Ada 'I just feel for you and how he's let you down and you've trusted him...'

'Enough on me, I take it from your lovely blue shirt you've decided to tell Leon how you feel?' Said Lilia smiling brightly at her friend as she picked up a brush to start combing her wet hair. She was feeling a little more sober now.

'Yes' Said Ada 'Were officially together'

'That's good news' Said Lilia, she was truly happy for them they'd wasted too much time. Her phone rang again.

'If that's you again Wesker you can fuck off' said Lilia angrily.

'No I'm not Wesker' Said the cold female voice on the other end 'but just to let you know; you'll be dying very soon'


Genevieve was sat at her desk reading the latest reports from the Zoo Island incident, it had all gone wrong and it was terrible to have lost her best soldier, and she had almost been caught as much of the evidence led back, however thanks to the island being destroyed she was safe. But her quest for money and her quest for revenge were now fighting head to head. She wanted Lilia dead, and the best way to do that was too almost destroy her own company. If she did this she'd have to go into hiding, their company would be ruined and revealed to the public. But she'd have money, and comfort and her research could be taken underground. It was worth it. She had four new mutated monsters in her domain. The first was Angelica, a beautiful blonde girl who'd been infected with the new virus they'd been working on, she now had claws and inhuman strength. There were two improved tyrants and another strange mutant. They were currently being transported into the main area of the city, to be released; there was only infection if they wounded a human so she doubted an outbreak of too much severity. Terrence when hearing of her idea had cut his losses and ran. He'd told her she was insane and she'd ruined all they had worked for. Genevieve agreed. But she'd still have her research and that was the most important thing to her. After killing Lilia.

'Adams' she said looking up at her second in command. He nodded. His face was pale with the shock of his orders, but he'd carried them through like she knew he would. 'Make all the preparations for it all to to be moved to the new laboratory, and now is the time to release the creatures'

'Thousands could die' Said Adams 'You know this...and the company will go down...the people driving the vehicles will be caught...interrogated, it will be the end'

'I know' Said Genevieve 'but it is time, and in time, we will be rich, we can sell our information around the world, you will be rich' Adams nodded.

'It will be done' He said, Genevieve picked up her phone and dialled.


'What does that mean exactly?' Said Lilia her face pale 'That we'll be dying soon?'

'It was Genevieve' Said Ada 'I bet you,'

'It was' Agreed Lilia rushing around the room she pulled on her only clothes, her outfit she'd worn out, she tied her hair back haphazardly and that's when they heard the sirens. Lilia's phone rang again.

'Lilia' Said the voice on the other end 'Its George here from headquarters, there's something happening downtown, be there NOW' He ended the call and Lilia rushed out of the building.

'Ada' Said Lilia 'Catch up with me when you're ready' Ada opened her mouth to speak but Lilia was already out of the room and out of the apartment.


Lilia was rushing downtown, she still felt drunk but she was running on adrenaline, the buildings were a blur as she ran as fast as she could, she could heard the sirens and hear the screams long before she got there, the only weapon she had was a knife, she searched for the van for AUCOS and found it.

'George, weapons now' Said Lilia, George chucked her guns and she carried on, she could hear the roar of a tyrant in the distance, she knew people needed help and the rest of AUCOS would be there soon, but she couldn't wait for them. There were helicopters circling and police firing shots at the monsters in the town, it would take time for the armed services to arrive, time they didn't have. There were people running away and bodies already strewn on the ground, she could see three large monsters in the centre of all the commotion, a woman on the ground called out to Lilia.

'Help me' she said quietly, her face was bleeding, and Lilia bent down

'Help will be here soon' She said quietly, she saw one of the monsters and was about to make her way towards it when something propelled into her, she was pinned to the ground by a female shape, sharp claws connected with her face and she felt them slash through her skin like butter, with blood pouring into her eyes she could barely see to defend herself. She tried to push the thing off, put it wouldn't be moved. It looked like a normal woman but her fingers were huge long claws.

'Get off me' Lilia screamed and punched the thing hard, it shook its head almost dog like and moved off of her slightly, it made a strange guttural sound. Lilia wiped the blood out of her eyes, the thing had the face of a beautiful woman but her hair was matted with blood and her skin was a strange mottled colour. She let out another scream and slashed again at Lilia, she dodged the claws bending almost to the ground, she began to shoot at the thing, she saw red flowers bloom where the bullets connected but it didn't slow her down.

'Lilia!' Said a familiar voice, It was Ada 'Ada stay away!' Said Lilia 'One slice of her claws and your dead'

'She won't get that close' Said Ada, the thing rushed at Ada who began shooting at it, she gave it a hard kick to the abdomen and it went flying backwards, Lilia kept shooting at it, impressed by Ada's skill and strength.

'Where's Leon' Lilia called breathlessly.

'Dealing with the other three' Said Ada 'Its absolute carnage, but they caught Genevieve's workers, and it's now being reported to the news that hers and Terrence's company is responsible, they have finally gone down' She dodged the thing and Lilia made a grab for it, catching it by the wrist she slammed it face forward to the ground, it struggled but she had both its arms.

'Ada' Said Lilia 'You gotta knife?' Ada grinned.

'Stupid question' Ada knelt by the scrabbling mutant and swiftly decapitated it, it fell quiet.

'Eugh' Said Lilia who had blood all down her. 'Im not sure if it's my blood or the mutants'

'Lilia your face' Said Ada in shock, 'it's pretty torn up'

'It'll heal' Said Lilia 'I'm pretty sure, if it doesn't then I'll never marry Wesker' Ada punched her hard on the arm.

'Very funny' she said rolling her eyes 'Now I think we've got some mutants to sort out'

They rushed to where most of the fighting was going on, the two tyrants had already been taken down and any people who'd been infected were receiving the antidote and those who were dead were being taken away to be disposed of, all to prevent outbreak. The only mutant still moving was huge, it was the size of a two storey house, easily, and solidly built, the bullets were merely reflecting off its armoured skin and it was killing.

'Holy cow' Said Ada staring at the massive monster who was destroying houses, throwing cars around and killing people as easily as if it was swatting flies.

'That's terrifying' said Lilia 'It's huge, bullet proof and has claws' Lilia saw Leon run over, his hair was tousled and his eyes were bloodshot with tiredness.

'Guys' Said Leon 'Good news is, Genevieve's company has been brought down, bad news is we can't bring this bastard down' Lilia groaned, she felt hung over and tipsy and she didn't need this right now.

'God Lilia your face' He said his own paling in shock,

'It'll be ok' said Lilia shrugging, she was feeling the cold now in her outfit, her hair was matted with blood again and her face was throbbing with pain. 'We have to stop this'

'I doubt it'll be the last we hear from Genevieve' Said Ada quietly 'She may have destroyed her business but I bet she'll be carrying on with research' Leon put his arm around her and gave her a quick kiss.

'Good luck' He whispered to her. 'Let's go guys'

They made their way over to the thing. It was grotesque, its face was mutated and had strange bumps and lumps all over it, and its veins across its body throbbed and pulsated. It roared loudly and picked up someone from the crowd, the woman screamed as it crushed her, they all heard the sickening crack as it broke all the bones in her body and then tossed to the ground, someone else who got in its way was crushed under foot. It grabbed another and ripped off their head like they were a doll. Lilia swallowed hard feeling nauseous at the loss of life and the gore. She saw a man standing at the foot of the beast. Wesker. He was dressed in a red leather coat, his hair swept back, he jumped at the thing and began to climb up its back, it scrambled at him but couldn't reach. Lilia followed his lead and ran at the beast, sticking her knife into its back she used it to climb up, it was hard to pierce its skin but with her super human strength she could just about do it.

'Wesker!' She screamed, 'What's the plan!' Wesker turned to answer her but the thing grabbed him in one hand and regarded him with its red eyes. Wesker's face paled with fear and Lilia tried to stab it in the back of the head but nothing would work. It was squeezing Wesker and she heard his bones break, she stabbed it as hard as she could and it dropped Wesker to the ground and grabbed her instead, it threw her to the floor and raised its foot to stamp on her, Wesker pushed her out of the way and instead its foot landed on him, she saw an explosion of blood and as it lifted its foot she could see his broken and crushed body, bones protruded from his flesh and he was bleeding from the eyes and mouth, she ran to him and flung herself across him, she felt the blood soak her through and she saw his eyes flicker up at her.

'I'm sorry' He muttered and she grabbed his head in both hands, she brought her mouth down and kissed him ignoring the blood that she could taste, when she brought her head up he was smiling slightly, she squeezed his hand, a rage filling her like she'd never felt before, she felt the virus bubbled towards the surface and she ran at the huge beast and jumped, pushing with all her might it fell backwards and landed with an almighty bang, she scrambled up towards its face and bought the gun to its eyes, she squeezed the trigger again and again until its brain was destroyed and it fell quiet. She slowly slid of the body, and scrambled towards Wesker, praying he was still alive.