"Leon!" Ashley and I screamed in almost perfect unison.
When he didn't respond, I took my gun out from its place on the holster and checked to see if it had ammo in it: fully loaded.
"Ashley, you stay here."
She grabbed my arm. "But wait, he said to stay here."
"Ashley, he could be dead out there, or very close to it. I need to go see if he's alright." I checked my belt and grunted. "Do you have any first aid sprays?" The blonde shook her head and I sighed. "I know Leon does. I'll just use those."
"What if they're damaged?"
"… I'll be back soon." I tossed her a box of ammo. "Here. Only use it if you need to."
She nodded and took out her gun.
It felt weird being the one in charge; I was so used to Leon always telling me what to do. It was different… and it didn't feel right seeing as she was so much older than me.
I took a deep breath and popped my head around the corner. I didn't see anybody, just some dude in a red cloak and some sort of goat mask or something standing up on a higher level. Leon was nowhere in sight. I glanced back up at the cloaked man and noticed a red barrel sitting next to him.
Narrowing my eyes, I raised my gun up and concentrated. I focused on the wind, the sound of my heart beating in my chest, and blocked out all outside thoughts. As soon as I pulled the trigger, it hit the barrel dead on. Fire flew everywhere and the cloaked man collapsed to the floor after being engulfed in flames. I did a little victory dance in my head before bolting straight out into the open.
I got about halfway to the entry way across the room when I glanced to my left for a split second; Leon was standing in an arch-way reloading his gun.
I did a double take. "Leon?"
He looked at me, and then above me and his eyes grew wide. "Move!"
Not understanding why he said that, I turned around and looked up. There was a giant ball of flames headed right for me.
The next thing I knew, my legs were moving on their own. I was running faster than I thought possible, but it wasn't fast enough. Right before the fire hit me, I did an impressive summersault dive that would have at least scored me a nine at the Olympics. As soon as my face was about to meet the ground, I tucked and rolled into the arch-way that Leon was standing in, and as far as I was concerned, into safety.
I stood up and dusted my shirt off. "Did you see that?! I knew those few months of gymnastics would pay off!"
The man smiled for a second, and then pointed at my left leg. "You scraped your leg, though."
My adrenaline was pumping so fast at the moment, I couldn't have cared less. "Yes, but Leon, it's better than being engulfed in a fiery death."
He shrugged. "Where's Ashley?"
"Over there by the stairs. We thought you were dead so-"
"You really don't have much faith in me do you?"
"Leon, if I didn't have any faith in you, I wouldn't have trusted you with my life and followed you all the way here, now would I?"
He smiled and brushed a hand through his hair. "Yeah, I guess not."
I smirked at him in a sort of 'I told you so' kind of way. "Kay, so what do we do now?"
"Well, I guess we could slip by that guy quick enough to get over there." He pointed to the other arch-way that led to a square section with what looked like stairs that led to an upper level.
"Well, what about Ashley?"
"Right… they'd fire at her at her if she tried to come over here."
"But doesn't Saddler want her alive? He'd be pretty pissed if she was killed."
"True…"
"… ASHLEY!" I yelled in her direction and Leon quickly wrapped his left arm around my rib cage, holding my back against his chest and used his right to cover my mouth.
"Do you want to get us killed?!"
I shoved his hand away and tried to look at him, which was pretty hard considering the position we were in. "It's not like those freaks know what I'm saying."
"But it's still a sound and that's what sets them off."
I laughed. "We're talking right now, isn't that sound?"
"No, we're talking softly enough so that they can't hear us."
"Uh… should I come back later…?" Ashley was standing right beside us in the arch-way, with a huge blush on her face.
"Yes." "No." Leon and I said in unison, except I was the one who said yes this time. Leon quickly let me go and I was left with this strange, wandering feeling.
Ashley giggled at our disagreement, and Leon looked at me with a look on his face that said 'Really?' I shrugged and smirked at him in a flirty way and he rolled his eyes.
We all walked up the first set of stairs and stood in the corner of the platform that comes before the second set of stairs. Leon turned to Ashley and me and spoke in a stern voice.
"Stay… here…" Call me crazy, but it felt like that was mostly directed to me.
Once again, as soon as Leon stepped out from our hiding place, fiery balls of death were thrown at our rescuer. I had to physically resist the urge to go help him. It was horrible. My heart was racing a million beats per second. I was scared he wouldn't dodge in time, and he would be crushed and burned to death.
But he always did. I mean, he was Leon Scott Kennedy for Pete's sake. He could do practically anything. I smiled, thinking to myself how awesome he was. He could have been Chuck Norris's son. Oh boy… time for the jokes.
Jesus walks on water, Leon S. Kennedy swims through land. I thought.
Leon S. Kennedy can make lemonade out of oranges.
When doing pushups, Leon isn't pushing himself up – he's pushing the Earth down.
Fear of spiders is called arachnophobia, fear of tight spaces is claustrophobia, fear of Leon S. Kennedy is called Logic.
Leon S. Kennedy can make a woman climax by simply pointing at her and saying "Booya."
I couldn't stop myself from bursting out laughing at the last one, receiving a look from Ashley like she thought I was insane; which I probably was.
"No-… It's just…" I tried to explain, but I couldn't stop laughing.
"Okay…" She gave me another 'what-the-hell-is-wrong-with-you' face while saying that, making my laughing fit even worse.
"Girls!" Leon called from across a bridge. And how long had that cannon been there?
I quickly pulled myself together and we both ran to where the agent was standing.
"Okay, I'm about to fire this thing and blow down that door. I want you girls over here just in case I miss."
We nodded and stood behind him. A split second later, there was an ear-shattering Boom! followed by a crashing sound. Ashley and I looked up from covering out ears to find that Leon had blasted open the front gate.
"I'm sure the owner of this dump won't be too pleased to find out that you blasted his door down with some rusty old cannon."
"Yeah, well, he'll just have to deal with it." He looked down at me and grinned as he said this, making my face turn a deep shade of red. I tried to shake that image out of my head as we all began walking over to the gaping hole in the stone wall.
