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Chapter 19

(Leon's POV)

"I have commanded Shadow to stay by her maybe he can hold that BOW off, if we are a bit late", I said as I pushed the door open and found Shadow standing by the door of monitor room wagging his tail and I slapped my face in frustration. He must have followed me here; he really does stupid things sometimes.

Seeing Shadow here made all of us run towards Kate's room and I accidentally bumped into a woman. I apologized to her in a hurry but Shadow started growling at her. And it took me a couple of minutes to make Shadow follow me; he was really acting weird now. As we ran past reception we saw Feisher with a whole bunch of Agents along with him.

"Kennedy", Feisher yelled stopping me.
"Not now Feisher", I said calling him by his last name and he seemed offended and he bugged me the whole way to Kate's room making us more late. I was relieved to see from the glass doors that she was playing with her cat and looked really bewildered as we all burst into the room, "Can you walk? Or should I carry you", I asked her.
"I can walk", she answered with a nod.
"C'mon we have to go", I said to her helping her get off the bed, holding her hand tightly in mine thinking, 'I won't let her slip this time'; and then we hurriedly walked out of the room, to where I don't know, while Feisher shouted something about Kate's arrest order or something but we didn't pay too much attention to him. Right now our first priority was to get Kate somewhere safe.
"Where are you taking her?", Feisher said holding Kate's other hand, "We have her arrest warrant and have come to take her."
"She's not going anywhere with you", I said to him, "Leave her hand."

But before he could say anything Shadow began barking and it made me look at him. I noticed he was again barking at the same woman, who had made us late in the corridor because like this time Shadow was barking angrily at her and wasn't budging from his spot growling at her, "Mad dog", Feisher said and I looked at him just briefly.
"Shadow here", I said to him and whistled to call him over. He just looked at me and shook his head barking, again pointing towards the woman. He was so stubborn that I had to drag Kate with me to that woman.

"No point in hiding, I guess", the woman sighed but what got my attention was her next sentence, which she didn't want to say that's why she mumbled but since it was all quiet due to the commotion, all that could be heard was Shadow's angry barks, "Wesker is going to be so mad."
I instinctively withdrew my gun, "Not going to happen", the man said appearing out of nowhere by her side and there was sounds of withdrawing guns and civilians yelled and ran, to where I don't know, but they should run somewhere good, I had a feeling that this is going to be bad.

"Shit", the word just made its way through my mouth as I backed away slowly.
"You know you can't run, so just surrender", he said smugly crossing his arms, reminding me of Krauser.
"Urgh… this dog is making me nuts, kill it Frank", the woman said.
"I hate to listen to you but on this one Tiera, I'd like to say 'Glad to'; I hate them, always use to tell us apart from humans", he said taking out his gun aiming it at Shadow.
"They can't harm you why kill them; you're here for us, kill us then", I said to him trying to save my dog.
"Kill you?", the woman named Tiera laughed a cold laugh, "We were worrying for no reason. They don't know anything. Now Wesker would really be mad. I can't believe this guy was able to kill you."

I know everyone must have looked at each other thinking how can a dead BOW come back to life again, "He didn't kill me you fool, it was…", he began but I didn't wait to listen to the name of my rescuer as I took my chance running away from the two BOW, as one of the my friends shot the lights so that it was all dark. I hid myself behind a wall and peeked to look at them and thank god Shadow had followed me. I saw the two of them, they were just looking around, "It's really boring", Frank said out loud since he wanted us to listen.

"Come out, come out wherever you are", Tiera said playfully laughing and I looked at Kate, she looked worried but she was alright. I hadn't left her hand for one moment.
"Tiera, I found someone", Frank yelled from a distance and I cursed wondering who'd been found out, "Found you!", he said as they both appeared in front of us.
Shadow growled again and this time Kate's cat joined him, "So where were we", Tiera said looking at the Shadow.
"I remember", Frank said as he aimed his gun at Shadow again and he was about to pull its trigger but then everything happened fast. There was a gunshot but Shadow wasn't shot, instead the gun from Frank's hand flew and fell to the floor.

"Bitch showed herself for a dog", Frank said looking at Kate, because she was the one holding my gun and the one who shot before Frank shot Shadow. It was not Kate, but it was Kat.
"Gone soft hasn't she?", Tiera smiled at her and she smiled too, not one of the smiles Kate smiled but it was cold and a sarcastic one, "But still no match for us", she said as both me and Kathleen went flying off to a distance and I landed near Redfields.

"Thank god Leon you're okay", Claire said as her brother pulled me behind the cover.
"So does that mean Kate?", Jill queried.
"No, she was the one who fired the bullet", I answered coughing a bit and before I could tell them anything more Frank appeared in front of us.
"Ah… here you are", he said as he made to grab me but I rolled out of his grip as Redfield fired at him. I doubted if Chris even put a scratch on him, owing to his super human speed.

"Man, he's a blur", I heard Chris as I readied my gun as well. I could hear more gunshots at a distance, which meant Tiera was after god knows who and then there was this sharp whistle which I used to blow to call Shadow, and indeed I saw Shadow running in a particular direction. I ran after him as other Agents came to Redfields aid to fight with Frank.
"Going somewhere", he said appearing in front of me.

I got distracted as I saw Shadow lunge at Tiera but before she could hurt him, Kate kicked her, making her slide to a distance. I watched Kate turn her head in my direction as she began running towards me and the next thing I knew was Frank grabbing hold of my neck. I struggled to get free of his tightening grip, cursing myself again for not carrying my army knife. But within the next moment John was helping Kate up in the air as she kicked Frank in the same manner, she kicked Tiera and he let go off me and I fell to the floor coughing, gasping for air.

"You okay?", Kate asked pulling me up with John's help, keeping her eyes on the two BOWs.
"So you found the weakness huh?", Frank said getting up as Tiera walked towards us to join Frank.
"Was easy", she said smugly.
"Still no match for us", Tiera said angrily and disappeared and Kate pushed me as Tiera went past us.
"How were you able to read my moves", Tiera said frustrated as both the woman circled, their eyes locked on to each other, "Frank", she said and he moved towards Kate but she moved just in time, before anyone could do anything, but maybe she was not fast enough because now there was a cut on her arm.

"Tell you what let's play fair and square", Kate, sorry Kat said.
"You never play fair", Tiera said scornfully.
"Oh c'mon this is no way to talk to your best friend", Kat taunted.
"You… ", Tiera said and really this time she seriously disappeared and Kathleen wasn't able to read her move. We watched her taking the hit and without any delay I ran to her aid, saving her from being rammed into the wall, while the others just shot at the BOWs.

"Gotcha", I said as I caught her and my back slightly hit the wall, "They're fast", I said watching their blurs dodge the bullets.
"Not exactly", Kathleen coughed a bit keeping a hand on her chest.
"What do you mean?", I asked her puzzled.
"You people are so stupid, I tell you", she said getting up, as everyone who was firing was hit by the two BOWs and some flew, some skidded and most people they were knocked out.
"Launch me in air", she said and I did what she told me to do. I saw her jump up high doing a back flip like a cat as she kicked the approaching BOW again landing on her feet, guess John wasn't wrong to give her a nickname Kat, because she was indeed like a cat. And I don't know what was the weakness but I guess it was something related to kicks I guess and just then Kathleen yelled, "Use Melee attacks their reflexes are not fast enough…", okay I guessed wrong, "Plus they can't infect you with virus in their current form."
"Guess we have to show them", Tiera said panting, as both the BOW again slammed the attacking people again, and mutated into their hideous monster form.

"BACK UP, WE NEED BACK UP. GET EVERY DAMN AGENT OR THEY ARE…", Feisher was yelling on his phone, when Kathleen snatched and threw it on the wall.
"What now? I bet you never thought of this", I said to Kathleen and she looked at me casually telling me, she planned this and said that reflex thing so that they would mutate.
"Rebecca is on her way", she told me, "Do me a favor…", she said but didn't tell me what I had to do as she pulled me to dodge a tentacle, "We won't survive if she takes too much time."

Kathleen couldn't tell me what she wanted me do as we dodged one attack after another. The BOWs literally ignored everyone else who were trying to shoot them and kept their attention on eliminating us, well more precisely Kate. I didn't understand however, why they wanted to eliminate her now and not before. I didn't get enough time to ponder on it or ask Kat about it, as Rebecca almost ran to us and finally the BOWs decided to get rid of others people that were definitely being a hindrance to them.

"I am sorry but I kept getting things wrong in a hurry", Rebecca said giving her a briefcase.
"I thought so", Kat said opening it, "Cover me", and again she started mixing things again.
"You can trust me", I said and she looked up at me briefly before getting back to it and I could see her smile while she mixed god knows what. She loaded the thing in a virus gun and gave it to Rebecca.
"It's for the BOW with plaga arm", she told her.
"My aim is not perfect", Rebecca spoke out her concern.
"Give it to the big guy", she said mixing more things and Rebecca looked at me bewildered.
"Chris, I suppose", I told her looking at Kathleen, who was shaking her head in disbelief, with a smile on her face.
"Okay", Rebecca turned to spot Chris, "there is he."
"Wait", Kathleen stopped her, "Tell him to do it in one shot, it's G-virus in your hands", she said coldly, "Don't drop it."
"Okay", Rebecca said with determination as she ran to Chris.

I watched Kathleen thinking as she studied the other BOW and then again mix the contents of vial, and load it in another virus gun. She stood up and kicked the empty briefcase away, "I am counting on you", she said handing me the gun.
"What are you doing?", I asked her. I knew she could have kill both of the BOW by herself and I didn't understand why she was entrusting me and Chris on this when a small mistake can lead to a disaster as Raccoon.
"Just take a shot", she said running away to the centre of the big area.

Kathleen yelled for John and Claire explained something to them pointing to me and Chris. John agreed but it took some time to convince Claire or so I guess, but she finally succeeded. Claire ran to Chris who was standing with Rebecca trying to shoot the BOW while Billy and Jill covered him as the two BOW were being fought by Bruce, Sheva, Carlos, Ark and couple agents. By the way I should be doing the same, but all my attention was on Kat and John as she explained something to him and he nodded listening to her. I thought he would run to me after they were finished but it didn't happen.

And Kat ran along with John towards the one I was supposed to be targeting, "We'll cover you", I looked sideways Claire and David were standing there and I nodded and readied the gun but again my attention was on Kathleen as John helped her up the way I did some time ago. John said one time we were fighting machine together then, 'why is she fighting alongside him', I thought, as she back flipped to kick the one I was supposed to be targeting but she was caught by the tentacle in the midway.

We all watched in surprise as the tentacle slowly contracted transforming into a hand as the agents attacking the BOW stopped in horror, "No match for me", it said and it was Tiera as she choked Kathleen.
"Haha… good work Tiera", Frank laughed knocking every agent by his plaga arm and we all were just watching the show, overwhelmed by the power of these hybrids.

"Leon, shoot the BOW before she dies", Claire said and it reminded me what I must be doing, so I aimed my gun at Tiera but noticed Kathleen hadn't loaded it correctly and it took me sometime as I watched Kate from the corners of my eyes. She lifted her one hand and poked the Tiera's throat as I was done loading the gun and shot.

"She did the same to me except she poked my stomach", Frank said and Chris's shot hit him simultaneously as my shot hit Tiera and they both fell.

Kathleen was released from Tiera's grip and was caught by John as we ran to them. John lowered her to the floor. Her head was resting on his chest and she was breathing deeply catching her breath and felt a little envious for the moment, possibly because I was too used to her being dependent on me, for the smallest of her needs.

"Kennedy! You tell me what is going on here", Feisher said suddenly coming out of nowhere and Shadow started barking at him. He had every Agent behind him. It seemed like he somehow managed to call them, even after Kat broke his phone.
"Yeah did she kill some more people", Ada said moving by Feisher's side.
"Ada, she helped us", Feisher said holding back the urge to fall to his knees and cry, and it also seemed he had a change of heart.
"What are you saying", Ada said angrily looking at Kat, who just smiled at her icily.
"That she helped us", Feisher said chickening out a bit.
"And I am not done", Kate said as she just stopped Ada from stabbing Feisher and shot something in her neck.

It all felt like a Déjà vu since she shot Ada the same way, she shot Sherry months back. I caught her before she fell to the ground limp and everybody was looking at Kate. Shadow was still barking but he was not barking at Feisher, he was barking at Ada. I looked around for Kathleen's cat she was on a medicine trolley hissing at Ada, 'I hate them always used to tell us apart from humans', I remembered Frank's words. I looked at Kathleen in search for an answer but she didn't say anything and moved to the trolley that was nearby and started to bandage her arm.

There was nothing to do but to ask, "What did you shot her with?"
"Hopefully the cure", she replied not looking at me.
"For what?", Feisher asked, he looked a little pale.
"And what do you mean hopefully?!", one of the agents asked her.
"It's too complicated for you to understand, only the survivors of Raccoon city and likes can understand", she said again still not turning back.
"We have every right to know", one of the Agents, who helped in the fight said.
"I'll tell but first we have to tend the wounded and Ada", she said and yeah she was right so we all helped as much as we could to get every wounded person settled.

A/N: Thanks for reading. I hope you enjoyed the story. I apologize for any typos or mistakes in the context that might have caused an inconvenience. Feel free to share your views about the story.