Left 4 Dead: Gemini Strain.
Chapter XXX: Simple Point-and-Click Interface (Initialization Alpha) – Adam
"Respond or I will shoot!" came a flustered
voice from behind the door. The supposedly male voice from what
I gathered almost made me chuckle. Latvia opened her mouth
to say something but stifled her words as a snicker escaped. I rolled
my eyes with a grin on my face and responded as strongly as I
could.
"We saw your signal from outside, could you let
us in?"
There was a silence beyond the door that
changed our faces readily enough. Latvia gave me a peculiar look
that I only returned with one of my own. We were almost too
preoccupied to notice the faint click of a lock opening or the slight
creek of the door slowly opening.
We wasted no time in
entering the shadowed room, quickly shutting and locking the
door behind us. I was hoping for at least a flash of lightning to
illuminate the room but as always opted for the usual sweep of my
flashlight. The room was abundant in reams of paper and boxes
containing a variety of things like manila envelopes and various
writing instruments. My flashlight shined to the few bodies that were
sprawled in a corner, piled up precariously. From what I gathered
from my distance they were covered in bite and slash marks instead of
bullet wounds. Probably bled to death these bodies.
There
were only two individuals alive standing up and looking at us with a
mixture of distrust and paranoia as their guns even know were still
focused on us. The one holding a shotgun had a sneer plastered
on his face. Weeks' worth of stubble lingered on his grime covered
face that matched his deplored and disgusting attire. The other one
was a rather lanky fellow with a bowl haircut and glasses that
screamed he got beat up in high school. The fellow with the
glasses was obviously the one who had made the announcement at the
door.
"Oh, it's only two of you...?" The nerdy
fellow said with a disgruntled sigh that we both completely
dismissed. We weren't too concerned about his disappointment.
"Were you expecting an army?" Latvia asked coolly, giving
both of the men a withering look. I suppose she was trying to assume
dominance.
"Yeah you cunt. Be any more of a bitch and
you won't like it." The haggard looking man said to hear with a
voice that sounded oddly like a growl from a beast. I arched an
eyebrow at his comment and put my hands in my hoody pocket.
The nerdy fellow became rather animated with his nervousness,
stumbling over his words and doing his best to calm his associate.
"Lukas, c'mon now. No need to make enemies at this point."
The man named Lukas gave the meek individual a look that was more
than withering. I noticed that the man with the glasses cringed with
a fright that only made the man seem more like a pushover. He glanced
with fear at the man once more before darting his eyes to the two of
us. He readjusted his glasses and prepared himself to speak. Only
thing was that his words were drowned out by Lukas'.
"Get
out Arab. There's no point in you being here."
It was
funny how that comment made me command everyone's attention. I wonder
how I would have reacted if I were not already used to this kind of
misinterpretation.
"You have got to be kidding me..."
I groaned as I shifted me weight around.
"C'mon Lukas,
be reasonabl--" The nervous fellow said as he slowly made his
way over to Lukas. He was unfortunately cut off by the butt of Lukas'
shotgun straight to his face. The blow knocked his glasses off and
sent him crashing into the wall. Lukas took that opportunity of
confusion to grab Latvia roughly by the neck, breaking the strap to
her assault rifle and putting her in a position that caused her to
struggle. Her hands were on his massive forearm doing their best to
pry his hold off of her.
"Let her go!" I told him
strongly as I could manage, my hands still in my hoody pocket. "If
you do, I promise no harm will come to you."
"Shut
the fuck up!" He yelled back to me with wild abandon, his grip
tightening on her as her face began to change color. Her action would
have been commendable if it had worked. She brought out the handgun I
had given her and began to aim it at his head. Thing was that Lukas
dropped the shotgun upon noticing her intentions and grabbed her
wrist. Her hold faltered on her gun
and he took it readily enough from her.
"I will say it
once more...
Keep
your voice steady. Don't panic. Don't run away.
Let
her go."
He looked at me with an all too familiar grin
plastered on his face and with words that knew fate. "Go to
hell."
Latvia tore free enough to scream in anguish as
Lukas emptied the clip in a cacophony of stringed bursts as my
flashlight went out.
All the noise that was left was the
sound of the rain hitting the windows, the thunder rustling in the
distance, and the frantic protests and cries coming from Latvia.
These were things no one should have to suffer from.
A bolt
of lightning surged forth and bringing light into the room and
allowing Latvia to see what was going to happen.
"I
warned you." I whispered to him and a bullet entered his skull
and exited with a sound that was almost music to my ears. His body
collapsed off of Latvia as she readily got up, quickly covering her
breasts with fluidity and standing behind me.
"Shoot
him again..." she whispered.
I did such, unloading my
gun again into his skull, increasing the bloody mass that was once
his head.
"Shoot him again..." she whispered
again.
I obliged.
"Shoot him again."
I obliged.
"Shoot him again!"
I
obliged.
Shoot
him again
I emptied my gun into the now unrecognizable corpse, still pulling
the trigger even as I heard the empty click over and over again.
"Bastard deserved every bullet..." Latvia muttered as she
kicked his believed torso, getting more blood on her shoes. She
looked at me through the dim glow of far away bolts of lightning in
the distance, her face streaked with tears yet her eyes cold and
stoic.
"I was not sure what happened to you, what
happened to your light."
"A better question would
be how I managed to have my flash light shine on him without even
holding it." I replied to her as I grabbed her hand softly and
led her to where I had stood previously. I reached into the darkness
and pulled out my trusty SIG 226. "I balanced the gun between
reams of paper, I'm actually surprised that no one noticed how odd it
was my flashlight was shining and yet my hands were in my pocket."
She had nothing to say to me. Mere words could not express her
gratitude and I knew it. I shined my flashlight over to the pansy in
the corner and made my way to him, gazing at his purple bruise
enveloping his face. I wasted no time and smacked his already damaged
face, causing him to awake with a gasp of pain and a wide-eyed
look.
"Oi," I began as I shined my light into his
eyes, "What was your name again, I didn't quite catch it
earlier."
