Well, here's the next 3 chapters. I hope you enjoy.
The thing never showed up by me, I guessed he was too distracted by the hot guy running around. I pressed the button and it stopped flashing. A few seconds later, an alarm was sounded and the whole container-rig started shaking, but just enough to feel it.
"Leon…?" I shouted out, panic clear in my voice.
Just then, I heard a shot-gun, and the shutter next to me opened, followed by Leon, who was then followed by It.
"Leon, hurry!"
He ran up to the door, pulled it open, and the second we ran through, the one behind us dropped. One down, two to go.
"Did that thing fall, too?" I asked Leon as he was reloading his shotgun.
"I doubt it," he said and began looking for the way to go. We went forward and turned right, but that was a bad move. Suddenly, the creature jumped down from the roof right in front of us. But, not to worry- Leon and I just shot it until it ran away again.
Just like last time, there were two red buttons to push and they were both behind shutters. Leon and I both went different directions, and once again I got the one closest to the door; all I had to do was round a corner and I was there, but I waited for Leon before opening it.
"Last one." I said after taking a deep breath, and we stepped onto the final rig.
He walked over to a button that was right by the front door and pressing it opened a shutter, revealing a long dark hallway.
But before we could enter it, the creature dropped down from the roof once more to reveal a giant tentacle that had sprouted from its back. It had a gaping mouth, lined with dozens of teeth. This tentacle also sported a very heavy pair of pincers, which acted as giant scissors and were most likely used to slice us in half.
Leon quickly threw out a Flash grenade, temporarily blinding the monster, grabbed my hand again, and bolted for the newly revealed hallway. The hallway led straight to the door, but there wasn't a button anywhere to be found.
"Well what do we do?" I asked.
"Hold on…" We kept walking left and found a shiny green button. Leon shot at it and a shutter from the other side of the rig opened up. We ran back through the hallway, turned right, and there it was. Leon pressed the button, and we sprinted back down the hallway. He kept grabbing my hand, making me blush and wonder if he did it so I could keep up with him, or so he wouldn't lose track of me.
When we got to the door, Leon opened it and it lead to a balcony overlooking the deep abyss. There was a hook connected to a very long, fragile looking chain in front of it.
"Wh-where do we go now?" I asked, absent-mindedly squeezing his hand tighter.
Apparently, that gave him an idea. "Have you seen any James Bond movies?"
"Well, yeah but… what does that have to do with anything?" I looked up at him in confusion.
He grinned at me, squeezed my hand tightly, and said, "Just don't let go."
Suddenly we were running, and then we were in the air. Leon had jumped off the balcony, and grabbed the hook just before the container-rig dropped deep into the never-ending chasm below. I hadn't let go of his hand like he told me to, so at that moment, he was the literally the only thing keeping me alive. If he let go, that was it. I'd fall to my inevitable death.
"Smart move," I said, not being able to keep the panic out of my voice. I was literally dangling below him and had to crane my neck upwards to meet his eyes. "Now uh… how exactly do you plan to get down from here?"
Apparently, he was stronger than I thought. He pulled me up with his one arm, the other hanging onto the chain, and held me close to him so I wouldn't fall.
Of course, my face was completely flushed, but that didn't stop me from being terrified of what was about to happen next.
"Just hold on tight." At those words, I wrapped my arms around his torso, buried my face into the side of his chest, and held on for my life as he swung the chain back and forth, and then let go. Those three seconds we were free falling in the air, I had squeezed him harder than I thought possible, probably leaving nail marks in his skin. But then we were safe on the ground, and I was still holding onto him.
After catching his balance he looked down at me. "You can let go now."
"Are we on the ground?" I asked, not looking up at him because my eyes were shut tight.
He chuckled. "Yes, we're on the ground."
I opened one eye, then the other, and then reluctantly let go of the man who had potentially just saved my life. Who knew what could have happened if that stunt didn't work?
I slowed my heart rate and looked up at Leon. "Don't you ever do anything like that again."
He laughed loudly. "Come on, it seemed like you were having a great time."
"We could have died! Why don't you leave stuff like that to James Bond?"
He laughed again. "Alright, come on." We began walking towards a grey door, but then a loud roaring came from the trench as the monster scaled the walls, climbing back up for revenge.
This time, Leon practically ripped my arm off as he grabbed my hand and began sprinting forward; ignoring the door we were headed for a few seconds ago. I couldn't keep up with him, and I felt like my legs were about to break off. 'It' jumped at us, just barely missing, and then bars shot down from an arch in the rocks, blocking us from going back. This area was pretty small, with a tunnel to the left that simply curved back around, a giant rock in the middle of the area, and only ten feet from said rock was a cliff.
"What do we do?!" I shouted as we ran through the tunnel, away from the creature.
Leon quickly pulled out a magnum, receiving wide eyes from me, and began shooting the thing on the tentacle's mouth.
"Where'd you get that?!" I shouted, pumping TMP bullets along with Leon's shiny new magnum.
"At the Merchant guy, earlier, while you were off in your little daze."
I froze. My cheeks were crimson red, and my finger relieved itself off the trigger for a split second. Turned out, that split second was just long enough for the monster to escape, burrowing underground and vanishing from sight.
We were silent and stiff as boards. That thing could show up at any time, in any place.
After about four seconds I looked up at Leon. "Is he gon—"
Suddenly a strong force pushed up and forward, coming from behind me, and I was shoved forward, screaming, into the man I was speaking to. He caught me just in time and stood me upright as it burrowed itself again. The things pincers kept shooting out of the ground, and we ran out of the tunnel, dodging the lethal attacks. There was a flammable barrel right next to the boulder and that, apparently, gave Leon an idea.
"Come on!" The agent shouted, grabbing my hand roughly and sprinting forward. I swear I was going to have bruises after that.
We ran behind the boulder and the barrel and waited until the monster was right in front of it to shoot the barrel and make it go up in flames. That stunned the creature just long enough for Leon and I to keep shooting it. M with the TMP shooting the pincer, and Leon and his Magnum shooting his head. In just five seconds, the thing was shrieking in pain, and it collapsed to the floor.
"I-is it dead?" I asked, taking a few steps back just in case.
Just then the bars trapping us in the little area rose.
"Yeah I think so." Leon said with a nod.
We reloaded all of the guns and I handed him his TMP back before walking back to the grey door we couldn't get to before. As soon as we started walking back I smirked and looked up at the tall man beside me.
"What, you're not gonna hold my hand this time?"
"Hey, I had to or else you would have gotten cut in half by that thing."
I laughed. "Yeah, and thanks for that and everything, but I think you could have been a bit more gentle."
He smirked at me as he opened the door. "I'll keep that in mind."
