We entered the shed that was to our left. There was another note, which was written in Spanish, so I translated it.

"Closer of the Church." I began.

"Regarding the three fugitives, the… apprehension… of Luis is our top priority: The American agent and the girl, and distant second.

"What Luis stole from us is far more important than the- Wait. Ashley's the president's daughter?" I asked, astonished.

"Yeah, why?"

"So she's not your girlfriend…?"

"What? No! Why?"

"Oh, n-no reason… j-just wondering…"

He gave me an odd look and I kept reading.

"Uh… Unless we get it back, she will become useless to us. We must get it back to execute our plan to the end.

"If it gets in the wrong hands, the world would become a totally different place than what Lord Saddler had envisioned. At all costs, we must not let that happen.

"Nevertheless, we're not letting go of the girl. To ensure that the agent doesn't get to her, I have locked the church door where the girl is being held.

"Anyone who needs access to the church must first get approved by Lord Saddler.

"There is a key beyond the lake, but it should be safe now that the 'Del Lago' , comes from the lake, belongs to the lake, something like that… has been awakened by our Lord. No one will get across the lake alive.

"Plus, our same blood courses through the agent's veins, and we are working on getting Las Plagas into the girl. It'll be just a matter of time before they join us. Once they do, there will be nobody else left that will come looking for the girl… Leon, what are they going to put in me…?"

"Nothing. I won't let them do anything to you. Now come on. Once we get Ashley, we can all go home, and forget about this whole mess."

I nodded and we kept walking. There was another gap, and when he grabbed my waist, I didn't blush. I was too busy thinking about what he had said: "We can all go home..."But the thing was, I didn't have a home. My parents were both killed; I had no one else left. And I didn't turn eighteen for ten more months; I wasn't even legally allowed to live alone.

Leon must have noticed the tears forming in my eyes because he said, "Hey, look." We stopped walking in front of the door we had to go through and he made me look him in the eyes.

"I promise I won't let anything happen to you, okay? And if something does, I'll let you hit me. Right here in the face."

I smiled and wiped at my eyes, looking at the ground. I felt my face heat up when I looked back up to find him staring at me.

"There we go," He said with a smirk, making me blush even more. Damn you, cheeks! Why do you have to get red every time he looks at you? What made it worse was now he knew it happened!

When we walked through the door, there was a big, empty area with birds everywhere. We walked past a few shacks, seeing that they were empty, and walked down a few steps and through a green door. There were more stairs, and then a ladder, which we jumped down from, and then I immediately saw a blue light.

"Ooo! Merchant!"

I ran up and greeted the merchant, Leon following slowly behind.

"So, Stranga, I see you've shot all fifteen medallions. As promised, here's your specialized gun. Don't worry about money, this one's on the house."

He gently set the gun in my eagerly awaiting, outstretched hands. I turned around quickly to show Leon my new gun.

"Isn't it awesome?" I turned to him with excitement.

"I'll take that…" He snatched the weapon from my hand.

"Hey, wait a minute! I was the one who shot all of the blue thingies!"

"Yes, but you're still new at this kind of thing," he said while selling his handgun and putting the Punisher in its place.

"But I thought you said I had really good aim…?"

This made him laugh. "That's true, but playing video games doesn't make you experienced hun, practice with real guns does."

I honestly didn't know what to say to that, so I figured my red cheeks could do the talking for me.

We used the other door this time, and robbed the shed that was there. Right past it there was another creepy signpost.

"Heads up…" I warned, and we slowly walked forward.

Yep, I was right. We heard a loud rumbling and merely side-stepped the boulder that came rolling down.

"Losers…" I said, making Leon laugh.

When we got to the end of the hill, we were standing in front of the dock to a small lake. There were a lot of creepy men in this area, but most of the time they were stupid enough to blow themselves up in the tripwire bombs, so we didn't use much ammo. We did, however, have to walk in the water, which didn't help the fact that my shoes were completely ruined.

We walked up a ramp, and across the bridge, onto dry land. There was another hill, but no sign, so there weren't going to be any boulders this time.

At the top of the hill there was a door that led to two different directions. We could go right, which led to another shed and a dock with a boat, or we could go straight, which was just a cliff looking out onto the lake. Leon and I took the straight path first. When we got to the top, we heard a boat. Crouched down behind some brush, Leon pulled out his binoculars. It looked like the two men in the boat dumped something into the water and Leon said, "Shit…"

"What is it?" I asked.

"One of the police officers." He looked back into the binoculars.

Once the men drove away, there was a loud roar and I snapped my head up just in time to see what it was: Del Lago. He was big, at least fifty feet long. He was a dirty green color, like the color of the lake, and his mouth was huge with razor sharp teeth that looked like they could shred you to pieces.

"Okay, now would be a good moment for the Jaws theme song…"

I turned around and noticed the agent was walking away.

"Wait, Leon! What are you doing? How are we going to get across the lake with that thing…?"

"I'll kill it."