I personally love this chapter! But that's YOUR judgememt that matters. Any way, another one of the new characters comes into play. Enjoy
Eliza Thornbred was having a near death experience. Or maybe she was dying, but it was going down as a near death experience in her book. It was all so strange; her muscles locked and she felt a strange feeling of pain and change run through her body. Eventually it stopped, well not completely. She got up slowly but not at all unbalanced. She put a hand to her throbbing forehead and groaned.
She looked wildly around the room. The first thing she noticed was a dead body that belonged to Aston, one of the men that brought her here; and the next thing was Albert Wesker typing commands into a large computer. She tried to take a step forward but her head exploded into a frenzy of pain.
"Ow," she whimpered causing her to stagger against the wall. Wesker looked at her.
"Don't worry," her said, venom dripping from his words. "I intend to find this poor excuse for intelligence's brother and get the anti-virus and reverse the effects of the prototype virus you were injected with."
"W-why are you helping me?" Eliza asked through clenched teeth.
Wesker sighed, almost unwilling to say anything regarding the past, until he finally spoke.
"I knew your father," he admitted at last.
"He was a researcher and scientist, one of the most brilliant you could find. He had been working for Umbrella since he turned twenty. I first met Daniel Thornbred when I first started working for Umbrella, he seemed to be working on a side project of some sorts but he reveled no information on his motives. We had no intentions on reporting to our higher ups about his secretive project because Daniel was not only bright but also very charismatic and had a wife and daughter at home. I was merely curious on this so called project but Daniel was wary of me for awhile.
One day I asked him straight forward on what he was working on.
'A cure,' he said, 'For my daughter, Eliza.'
'What is work with her?' I had asked.
'She's deathly sick. My wife, Morgan, and I are terrified of losing her.'
'How old is she?' I asked careful not to ask too many questions concerning the cure, not wanting to make Daniel think I was trying to pry information.
'A year; I've finished it, it's just a small sample but I pray it works.'
'Do you mind me asking what it contains?'
He smiled wearily.
'No, it contains small samples of the research we've been working with along with… some of my own personal discoveries… I'll try it tonight. Just a small portion though, too much could cause cellular mutations.'
That night he did try it and happily reported to me that it cured, well almost, his daughter. There were still a few side effects of the sickness that remained, but that was all. Unfortunately Umbrella found out and briefly decided to, how should I put this, take him out of the picture. Before he was… killed he left me with another sample of the E.K.T test virus."
"E.K.T?" Eliza asked.
"The Eliza Kellan test virus."
"So he was killed? My mother too? It wasn't a car crash?"
"It was a car crash. The car that crashed into them was under Umbrella orders and it seems your mother was in the car as well."
"Umbrella goes a little too far sometimes," he added, reading he expression.
No words could describe the emotional and physical pain Eliza went through. But she was strong so she boxed it up and sighed.
"What now?" Her voice broke on the last word.
"When you were undergoing the transformation process, I discovered there had been a viral leak in this facility. Therefore I plan to trap the remaining employees and B. and use the building's manual self destruct system to destroy any traces of my presence. The only ones that will escape shall be you and I," Wesker explained.
"But all those innocent people…" Eliza said. Wesker shrugged.
"I will go find this Joel Green and set the plan in motion. You will go to the meeting room on the main floor and wait for me."
Eliza nodded.
"Here take this," Wesker said, tossing her a gun.
"Oh my gawsh, A Lightning Hawk!" she exclaimed.
"Hmm guess you know your weapons," Wesker muttered.
She nodded excitedly examining it carefully.
"Alright," Wesker instructed, "Remember, the meeting room on the main floor."
Eliza walked carefully down the eerily lit hallway. Her eyes sifted around the room uneasily; she was well unaware that the color of them had changed from a cold blue to a startling golden yellow. Her head aches came back often, though they weren't very painful.
Not this time though. No, this one came with much force causing her to slump against the wall dropping her head in her hands.
She whimpered. Something new came over her, something fighting for control; A compulsion to kill. She tried to fight it but it was stronger than her. She hopelessly tried to hang on to her human conscious but these new compulsions won. She closed her eyes, hiding their yellow glow; she listened. She heard the shuffles and groans of the infected, than a new sound. A sound she knew was human; she left to find it.
Natalia Dodds was a rookie member of S.T.A.R.S. She had no idea who signed her up for this mission, though she tried not to complain knowing it would irritate her higher up and partner for this mission, Chris Redfield. Not that she would mind ticking him off though. She was still a little freaked after she almost got attacked by one of those things; luckily for her, Chris had shot it before it could bite her. For that she was thankful.
She had her dark red hair pulled back and her nine millimeter handgun pointed ahead.
Wish I'd brought my AK. I had no idea we were dealing with zombies let alone Umbrella!
She looked over her shoulder at Chris. "Chris! Duck!" She commanded.
Chris automatically dropped down and Natalia fired her handgun thrice before the creature fell.
"Thanks Nat," Chris said, "I was almost zombie food."
She laughed. "Like it would've eaten you, you would have given it indigestion or something."
They continued walking down the eerily empty halls. They had a few close calls with "Lickers" but that was about it, or so they thought.
"Uh… Chris?" Natalia whispered.
"Yes?" He replied.
"Something is watching us," She said, panic creepy into his voice.
"I know," He said.
"I-I don't think it's like the others, or it would have attacked us already," she continued, goose bumps appearing on her arms.
"Uh huh," Chris muttered, reloading his shotgun.
"What is it?" She asked.
"I don't know," He said honestly.
"You're the master at this!" She hissed, "What do you mean 'you don't know'!"
"I just don't! How can I know what it is if I can't see it?"
She sighed then gasped as something ran by her.
"C-Chris?" she forced herself to whisper.
"Yeah?"
"Something just ran by me."
"I know, something moved by me too."
"Wait! I just saw it!" Natalia exclaimed.
"Mmm hmm," Chris breathed taking aim and then fired.
A figure fell to the ground.
"Dammit! You only shot it in the leg!" Natalia growled, "Let me-"
But Chris cut her off, "Look!"
"Hey it's just a kid."
"Can't be a normal kid, she's probably a B.O.W," Chris mused.
"I-I'm fifteen," she said in a hoarse whisper.
"Umm who are you?" Natalia asked. She got no response.
"Well, she's out," Chris remarked.
"Do you think we'll get any information out of her?"
"I don't know. It's worth a shot," Chris said going through the contents of a wooden desk drawer. "Found a key card." He waved it around for epenthesis.
Natalia rolled her brown eyes.
"Yo, Chris, think you can take her to that room we found the rifle in?"
"Sure… wait does she bite?"
Natalia laughed. "I'm not sure but since you're the master at this…"
Albert Wesker held Joel Green up against the wall by his throat.
"Please *cough* I d-don't know where my brother *gasp* put the anti-virus."
Albert had to admit the sounds of this feeble human's sufferings almost made him smile.
Almost.
"I know you know where he put it, you pathetic human. You actually thought you could deceive me." He smirked a slowly closed his hand, watching Joel's eyes pop out a bit and his neck vain slowly bluging out...
"No! Please! I'll talk! I'll talk!" Joel gasped,
Albert loosened his grip slightly. "Talk!"
"He said he was going to destroy them. He- he told me you were coming to steal them from us."
Albert's eyes narrowed and he threw Joel to the side leaving him gasping on the floor.
Then he remembered something, a faint memory.
"Albert, take this,"
A vial was handed to him.
"You never know when you might need something." Then Daniel Thornbred turned toward the door for the last time…
Eliza awoke feeling like she, well, just got shot. She opened her eyes slowly, bracing herself for the worst. She was in on of the supply rooms, that she knew, but what she didn't know was the identities of the two standing in front of her, backs turned. One had long red hair tied back by a black band, and was shorter than the other one. The other was taller, more muscular and had short red, brown hair.
She tried pulling her hands forward but, to her dismay and shock, she found they were cuffed behind her back, holding her to a rusty pole. She gritted her teeth and tried to find a way to free herself, closing her eyes in the process.
"Well, good morning Miss. B.O.W girl," A female voice said.
Eliza snapped her eyes open and glared up at the red haired women. The lady gasped at the sight of Eliza's glowing, yellow eyes.
"Listen here chick," Eliza snapped, "I. Am. Not. One. Of. Those. Things!"
"Chick?" the lady said narrowing her eyes. "I don't take shit from anyone, not even little kids!"
"I told you I'm fifteen. Are you slow or something?" Eliza growled.
"Why you little b-"
"Nat! Calm down," The man instructed. "Can you tell us your name?" He asked Eliza in a gentler voice, treating her like a child; which Eliza didn't like at all."
"Why no freaking duh!" Eliza hissed. "Tell me yours first."
He smiled. "I'm Chris Redfield, and this is Natalia Dodds."
Eliza almost gasped at the name. Was he the Chris Redfield Wesker had mentioned?
"I'm Eliza Thornbred," She said ruefully staring at the ground.
"Can you tell us anything about this facility?" Chris asked.
"I could… but I won't."
Natalia snorted.
"We could help you, but you would have to help us first. You know take you back to your family or find away to help you find the cure for whatever Umbrella did to you."
"Hmm," She pretended to think. "Nope."
"Chris she won't tell us anything. We should just get ourselves out of here. C'mon lets go."
Finally Natalia was able to convince Chris to leave. Now Eliza was alone again. She flexed her arms once then took a deep breath before pulling her arms apart which shattered to cuffs into a few pieces of metal on the floor. She stood up then dusted off her jeans before walking toward where those idiots put her Lightning Hawk. She reloaded it and opened the door –checked the area- and left to find the meeting room on the main floor. And about half way to her destination, it happened again; she found herself fighting the urge to kill. She put up a decent fight but it won yet again. And only two faces were on her mind as she heard gun fire from down the hall; a sadistic grin appeared on her face.
This time when Eliza found Natalia and Chris, they had an idea of what was coming. This time Natalia used the shotgun and decided to end this nonsense once and for all; she wanted to go home. She fired the gun hitting Eliza in the most vulnerable area, the head.
Natalia was happy but Chris seemed slightly disturbed.
But as Eliza's mind slowly faded into blackness, Eliza heard the last thing Natalia uttered.
"Don't worry Chris, it's just another B.O.W. Just another of Umbrella's failures…"
Bitter resentment filled Eliza's dying mind.
Albert Wesker walked quickly (quickly to him) down the soon the be destroyed halls. Eliza hadn't met up with him yet so he assumed the worse.
But then he found her.
"God damn it! I leave you alone and you get shot."
But now that he thought about it, the head wound wasn't as bad as it should have been. No, her body was able to heal some of it but she was still on the verge of death.
He picked her up careful not to injure her any further.
"This should work," He muttered pulling out a syringe with crude writing on the side. He injected her with it, all of it unlike the feat performed by her father. Albert hoped the results wouldn't be too disastrous.
Wesker was correct. He and Eliza were one of the few that escaped. The only others were Natalia Dodds, Chris Redfield, and Joel Green. Eliza's fate though, was still uncertain.
A/N: Reviews will help pay for Natalia's anger Management classes...
Natalia: I DO NOT NEED ANGER MANAGEMENT CLASSES!
Me: What ever -rolls eyes-
Chris: -laughs- You know Debbie can kill you off right?
Natalia: ***k you!
Me: You said a baaaaaaaad word!
Natalia: bitch...