Theory of a live man
Shane pulled the H3 into the apartments garage and parked it in his regular spot, they all got out and Shane activates the alarm system.
"I forgot my gloves."
Rike touched the H3 and was zapped, he pulled his hand away holding it.
"Ow!" Rike then curses in Spanish, Jade pulls out her Spanish Translation book and looked up some of the words. She blushes at what she finds.
"Oh my, Rike sure does have a colorful vocabulary."
Shane chuckles when Jade said that, Rike looks at Shane.
"What happened to the old fashion car alarm?"
"It gets annoying after it keeps beeping so I changed it to zap people when they touch."
Rike again curses and Shane deactivates the alarm, Rike opened the door and grabbed his gloves.
"You and electronics."
As they walked across the garage they took the stairs and climbed up fourteen floors, Rike pants when they reach the fourteenth floor stair exit.
"Man, why didn't we take the elevator?"
"Jade has a fear of them."
Jade looks at him and blushes.
"I hate them, I'm afraid that the cable might break. It's a phobia I guess, anyway taking the stairs is good for you!" She said with a smile, Rike chuckles as they enter the hallway.
"So, Jade? How's life living with your pops?"
"He's really good with homework!"
Shane grins and they reached the door, its number was 345. Rike recognizes that number, it was Shane's asylum number.
"You noticed the number, didn't you Rike?"
He looks at Shane and shrugs.
"You're old asylum number, I remember."
Shane opens the door and they walk in, Jade took of her shoes and hanged up her coat before disappearing into the bathroom that was around the corner. Rike walks onto the wood floor and looked at the room, a big plasma Tv, a large stereo system, two large lazy chairs, a big blue couch, the kitchen in the same room. A small dining table, a small counter, a few cupboards, and a fridge.
Rike looks at the deck, it over looked the street and the buildings across from them, an electric guitar and speaker stood beside the deck doors. On the shelves beside the TV were full of CD's, DVD's and many others. Papers, books, magazines, many things were on the shelves and some on the coffee table. A few plants marked the corners of this large room, Rike looks up at the ceiling, it was at least twenty feet tall, he looks behind a pillar to see a punching bag. He chuckles at the sight, he opens the door to his left it showed a big bedroom with two beds, in the far left corner was a bunch of electronics and computers. Rike looks at Shane and smiles.
"Hacking funds?"
"Yeah, I need the money to do what I do. Hey Rike, I have to go back to work will you watch Jade till I get back?"
Rike tossed off his coat, flipped off his shoes and plops backwards onto the couch.
"Su casa es mi casa!"
Rike heard a beeping noise he looks behind the couch to see a robot cleaning the floor when it reached his shoes it opens up and an arm comes out, it grabs the shoes and placed them next to Jade's and it hangs Rike's coat up as well.
"Impressive, next thing I be expecting is a robot maid."
"I'm still working on that." Laughed Shane.
Jade came out and hugs Shane as he left, she runs to the deck doors, opening them she walked out and watched Shane pull out. She waves to him and goes back inside, Rike was at the fridge looking around.
"Where's the beer?"
"Dad doesn't drink, or smokes, or drugs, or anything that harms your health."
"Pity. Oh, Pepsi!"
Rike grabs a can and walks back to the couch, he opens it and drinks some.
"So Jade what do we do now?"
She pulls something out from under the couch and sets it up.
"Guitar Hero 3?"
Rike busts out laughing and grabs the guitar as a Jade sets the system up. She then sets everything up and the game starts.
"Okay. You know how to play right?"
"No. Never played before."
"I'll teach you!"
After four hours of playing Guitar Hero 2 and Dance Dance Revolution, Rike was so tried he fell asleep while Jade continued to play. The door opens and Shane walks in with two bags that said Subway.
"Yeah! Subway!"
Jade runs to the table and Rike sits up, yawning and stretching he looks behind him.
"Subway? Healthy food, it's good for you right Jade?"
"Yep!"
Rike staggers off the couch and walks to the table as Shane laid out the food, Jade turns the TV to the news channel. As they ate they catch the news, the reporter came on.
"Twelve years ago this asylum behind me was destroyed. Today many people that live near by are reporting to police of strange activity at this place. Many do not know how it was destroyed but the reports say that there were no survivors. As police investigate the rubble they came across the Umbrella Logo. Many know that Umbrella was shut down in 1998 and that many of their buildings confiscated but as it turns out that they were experimenting on their patients at this asylum. I will have more to report later at 11 tonight."
Shane just stared at the images they were showing, Rike notices and taps Shane. Jade was looking at him with sadness on her face, she then continues eating her meal.
"Strange activity? Umbrella, they must be looking for something."
"Those files that went missing."
Shane looks at Rike.
"Files?"
"Yeah, I was order to collect files but never got the chance neither did my team but someone did take the files and burned them onto CDs. They still think thy're in there, thing is we couldn't get those files unless we burn them off, the system there was not connected to Umbrella so that no one would know that they owned it. Plus trying to get to that floor was really hard, my team set the bomb up earlier to destroy the place with everything in it."
"So your saying that someone worked on the inside, took and burned the files onto CDs and escaped with them and now they are looking for them?"
Rike looks at Jade and points his fork at her.
"You sure do take after your dad."
Jade smiles pridefully and continues to eat. After finishing their meal Jade went to bed. Shane came out and closed the bedroom door and looks at Rike.
"She's sleeping now."
Rike grabs his coat and looks at Shane.
"Where you going Rike?"
"Out."
"You don't have a room do you?"
"No."
"Stay here, we don't mind. You and I got to catch up."
Rike smiled and hung his coat back up.
"Thanks man!"
Shane walks to the couch, he pulls a pillow and blanket out from under the cushions.
"What? No high-tech surprise?"
"Not this time."
Shane then walked to the deck doors and looked out while Rike jumped over the couch and sat down. He fluffs the pillow and fixes the blanket.
"So Shane, tell me about Beast?"
Shane looked at the falling snow, he shivered and rubs his arms.
"At first I thought Beast was killed, but days later after I returned to the world and moving was coasting me. I had to walk most of the way, I had very little to bring so travel was easy. But one day, in a city which I forget, I was ambushed by a small group of gangsters, they were going to kill me and he saved me. He killed them and helped me escape."
"You mean to tell me that The Beast is still alive and he's helping you? You're loco man."
Shane looks at Rike and smiles, there's a knock at the door. Shane walked to the door and looked through the peep hole.
"Well he's early."
Shane unlocks the door and left the tall man in. Rike just stares at the seven foot tall man, he was soaked from melting snow.
"Rike this is my body guard, Beast."
Beast pulls his hood back as Rike took cover behind the living room chair. Beast's appearances were that of a normal man now, Shane took his coat as Beast took off his boots. Beast sat down in the other chair as Shane grabbed him a soda.
"Rike you remember Beast?"
Rike remembers him well, Beast smiles at Rike. Then memory of Beast scaring the shit out of him plagued his mind. Rike points at Beast.
"I swore I was going to kill you!"
"Yes I remember that well, I still wonder if you're blood is perfectly aged." Beast said with a toothy grin. His fangs clearly seen, many would think he's a vampire.
"If I had my crossbow with me, I'll be shooting you full of arrows."
Shane gives Beast the soda and he drinks it, he gave the empty can to Shane and he looks at Rike again.
"Rike, Beast is here for many reasons."
The bedroom door opens and Jade walks out rubbing her right eye. Beast looks at her and smiles, she looks at him and her face lights up.
"Beast!"
She runs to him as he stood up he caught her in his strong arms holding her above his head. He then hugs her and she hugs him back.
"I was wondering when you'll be back!"
Rike jaw drops in terror, shock and awe.
"What the hell?"
Jade looks at Rike and smiles.
"He's my best friend." She looks back at Beast. "Did you bring me something?"
"I always do."
Beast sat her down and pulls out a necklace made of roses.
"I made it myself, just for you."
Rike fiddles with his necklace made of human teeth, he couldn't believe what he was seeing, Beast was acting like a... human.
"Boo!"
Rike jumps over the chair and looks at Shane, Rike's face was covered in fear, Shane busts out laughing.
"You should see your face!"
Jade pulls at Rike's shirt he looks at her.
"Why are you afraid of Beast?"
"He... he..."
Beast sat down in his chair Jade runs to him and sits on his leg. Beast looked like Santa Claus and Jade a simple child with many requests.
"You see Jade, I did many things back at the asylum."
"Killing?"
"Yes. I killed many people and creatures, I killed his friends before his eyes and drank their blood. I even scared him, doing so he swore to get revenge on me for scaring him and killing his friends. I did what I was told, they were intruders in the asylum and needed to be killed. But soon I met your father, my connection. After nearly killing him countless times, I soon found out he was my connection when he died, thus I swore to protect him from anything that would kill him."
"Wow, I wouldn't of guessed that!" Jade yawns and looks at Beast. "Mind tucking me in?"
Beast smiles, he picked her up and walked into the bedroom tucking her in, he came back out and sat down in the chair. Rike remembers Beast's children.
"So where are your kids Beast?"
"Where they belong, in me."
MEMO: The Beast has returned! This time he is Shane's body guard and would give his life for Shane to live! Thanks for reading please review!