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Chapter Three

My smile was definitely short lived. As me and Leon crept through the double doors, we witnessed something was truly disturbing. We had entered what appeared to be a village where these nut-jobs lived. I was almost relieved to see slight normality, until I caught sight of what was in the middle of the village; there was a man in uniform who seemed to be tied to a wooden pole in the centre of a fire. It almost seemed like some sort of sacrifice, or shrine. Or maybe it was a warning. While this man was burning, the crazy villagers seemed to be going about their daily lives as if this was normal to them, feeding chickens and bringing food to their homes. What the hell was wrong with these people?

Leon and I gave each other equal looks of shock. He took out his binoculars and I heard him let out a small gasp.

"What?" I breathed, trying to look over his shoulder.

"You don't even wanna know. Come on, we'll try and sneak around them." He stashed his binoculars into his jacket and then withdrew his gun.

Even though I kind of did want to know, I was very aware of the fact that I had an extremely sensitive stomach, and it had already heaved when I spotted the guy burning. I decided to let that one slide.

There was a direct path into the centre and there was one going around the side of the village, we chose the one going around the side of the village. Well, more like Leon chose and I followed. What else am I supposed to do? I'm useless to this man; I'll probably end up getting us both killed. Plus he seems to know what he's doing.

I stayed close behind him, glancing around me with every step I took. Just as I was glancing behind me, I walked into what seemed like a cement block and fell back onto my butt. I looked up, confused and realised it had been Leon I'd walked into.

"Jeez, what the hell do you eat? Rocks?!" I asked incredulously.

Then I heard the same shout from back when I was at the house and got an axe thrown at my head, except this was a woman. And a hormonal looking one at that.

"¡Un forastero!"

Then she started to walk towards us, knife in hand and she was making a hissing sound. We heard more shouts and running footsteps. Leon grabbed my arm and yanked me to my feet.

"Come on!" He urged, pulling me towards a house. There had to have been around twenty of these crazy villagers, all walking towards us with the same blank, but somehow evil, expressions on their faces.

I hated to admit it, but I felt like peeing myself. I'm definitely not somebody who is cut out for this. I had never seen anything like this in my life, only in movies and video games. Leon kicked open the front door to the house and dragged me inside, closing the door and shoving a book case in front of it. The windows were blocked off with planks of wood, other than that there wasn't really much in this house except for a filthy kitchen table and some equally dirty chairs placed around it.

"You okay?" Leon asked while looking through the cracks in the boarded windows. He found some ammo on the table and stashed it away in his pockets.

"Sure, I'm great." I replied sarcastically, my voice was shaky.

I was suddenly aware of how quiet it was outside, had they just left or did they think we had left? If they did, they were pretty stupid.

"Leon," I said slowly, "Why is it so quiet out there?"

Just as I finished that sentence, we heard the villagers shouting to each other and then what sounded like a chainsaw getting louder and louder. I must have had a look of pure shock horror on my face because I'm pretty sure Leon nearly cracked a smile, this man must have seen a lot worse than this if he was willing to see the humour in this situation. He walked to the boarded up window and looked through.

"Great. A chainsaw. " Leon said, "Get upstairs, now!"

I was definitely going to take that order. I scrambled up the stairs as I heard the door starting to be bashed down. Just as I took one last glance down the stairs, the book case had fallen over and the blade of a chainsaw was ripping through the door.

I was terrified. My whole body was trembling, tears were stinging my eyes and my legs threatened to give way.

No, I tried to convince myself, you are not a weak person. You'll get through this, and you're not alone. Leon knows what he's doing, he won't let anything happen to you.

No matter how many times I thought this to myself though, there was always another voice in back of my mind telling me Leon had no reason to keep me safe or help me. He didn't even know me. And as for being a strong person, this was a whole different situation than my normal life of college assignments and dealing with bitchy friends.

I shook my head to get rid of these thoughts.

"I can do this," I whispered to myself, "I will get through this."

I spotted a shotgun that had been hung on the wall, Leon could use this. Sure he had a handgun, but that thing would be useless when there were so many crazy villagers. All while hearing the roar of the chainsaw and Leon's shooting from downstairs, I hurried to the wall and took the shotgun from where it was hung. It was heavier than I thought, I nearly dropped it. As I was about to creep down the stairs to throw the gun to Leon, I heard a crash from behind me.

The window was smashed and there was broken glass all over the floor. I ran to the window and looked out; one of the villagers had positioned a ladder against the house and was climbing up. The first thing I thought of to do was to push the ladder with all my strength, the man fell onto the ground with a yelp. It wasn't a very effective thing to do, but it wasn't like I could use a shotgun. I'd probably end up blowing my own head off.

I realised then that the sound of the chainsaw was gone, all I could hear was the mumbling of the villagers and Leon's shooting. I turned around just as he was running up the stairs.

"I'm out of ammo." He said, slightly breathless.

Then he noticed me just standing there casually with a shotgun in my hands and his slightly panicked expression turned to one of confusion.

"Where the hell were you hiding that?!" He demanded.

I actually laughed, which only made him look more bewildered. He thought I was hiding a shotgun this whole time? Seriously, do I look like I carry around shotguns on a daily basis? Women's handbags aren't that big and scary.

"I found it mounted on the wall, I was actually about to give it to you." I threw shotgun to him (with some difficulty, that thing was heavy!) and he caught it, "I advise you to start shooting."

He spun around and I was rather impressed. Every time one of the villagers got to close, he would jump in the air, spin and kick them back. He also took a protective stance in front of me as he shot the villagers, I don't know whether it was because I was pretty much cowering in the corner and that was the safest place to be, or he was actually protecting me. I'm going to go with a bit of both.

"Shit!" Leon said as he pulled out his last round of shotgun ammo.

New hoards of them were making their way up the stairs and through the windows. All of a sudden, we heard what sounded like a bell ringing. I peeked out from behind Leon just in time to see the villagers all drop their weapons, this included pitchforks, knives and axes. They no longer looked murderous; their eyes had taken on a glassy quality.

"Lord Saddler..."

Who the fuck was Lord Saddler?

They all started to make their way out of the house, dragging their feet and mumbling things in Spanish as they went. Leon looked around at me questioningly, but all I could do was shrug my shoulders and give him the same look. We followed them down the stairs cautiously and out through the front door just in time to see them all piling in through a door to one of the houses. Leon scoffed beside me and I looked up at him.

"Where's everyone going? Bingo?"

Before I could tell him off for his seriously cheesy and bad joke, something began to ring in his pocket. He pulled out his walkie-talkie.

"Hunnigan, I have some bad news. I've confirmed the body of an officer. Something's happened to people here."

Well shit, there's my suspicions confirmed. The Hills Have Eyes 3, here I come.

"Leon, you need to get out of there. Look for a tower. Follow the trail near it."

"Got it." He replied and he put the walkie-talkie back into his pocket.

"There's the tower over there." I pointed to it.

Leon looked over at the tower and then back to me.

"Eva, as far as I can tell this isn't going to be easy. I understand this is tough for you, you've never gone through an ordeal like this before but if this village is any clue, I have a bad feeling that it's going to get harder as we go on. I don't know how long this will go on for but we have to stick together. If we don't, we're pretty much screwed. But I will say one thing, I promise to get us out of here and get you to your sisters in one piece. Okay?" Leon finished, his hands were on my shoulders.

I felt my eyes water as I nodded.

"I dunno, I think my sister would be pretty happy if I arrived without a head... She says I'm pretty irritating once I get talking." I tried to joke, wiping underneath my eyes with the sleeve of my jacket.

Leon smiled at me sympathetically.

"Well I'd rather you arrived with your head still intact."

I laughed shakily and took a few deep breaths.

"Ready?" Leon asked, one of his hands was still on my shoulder.

"Ready." I responded.

We set off towards the tower. I was determined to not be a burden to him; I'd have to find some way of helping instead of just hiding behind him whenever there was trouble, but I was useless with firearms.

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