Resident Evil: Absolution

Chapter 12 of my Resident Evil story, enjoy.

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Chapter 12

Lydia nodded to the others as they took up their positions, ready to enter the main castle.

"This is it, Kiko will be inside." She said.

Shayla nodded. "We're ready, let's do this."

Ayame was the most determined of the group. "She has to pay for what she's done, this is the end for her, let's go."

They all agreed and swiftly made their entrance, soon they were within the main hall, guns at the ready, aiming at Kiko who stood in the middle of the hall, glaring at them.

"You idiots just don't know when you're beaten." She spat.

Ayame spoke up first. "Shut up, you betrayed me, betrayed our family, you..."

Kiko scoffed. "Betrayed, I did no such thing, I merely distanced myself from weak fools, who deserved their fate. Humanity is ruined, only Trevor can save it, that is what he is doing."

"You're insane!"

Kiko shook her head. "No, I am awakened, unlike you all...You disappoint me Ayame, my own sister...You are the traitor and therefore, just like them, you must die."

Jacob shot back. "Don't know if you noticed this, lady, but you're all by yourself, there's five of us."

"Ah, but I have a...trick up my sleeve." Kiko replied smugly.

With that she suddenly pulled out a hypodermic needle and injected, herself. They gaped in shock, Kiko had willingly infected herself with Uroboros. She screamed and dropped the needle which rolled towards them. She growled, glaring.

"Now, you will all...perish; Trevor will save us, all!"

With that she staggered forwards, clearly unable to control herself as her infection reached critical levels.

With a scream of pain and rage she transformed into an Uroboros that, according to the label on the hypodermic needle, was named Aheri. The Uroboros Aheri was huge, its head brushing the ceiling of the room, the tentacles formed a large tree like shape, there were four small cores on its body and, as it was taking shape, the agents got a view of a fifth, larger core in the centre of its body. With an almost deafening roar it lashed out with its 'arms'.

The agents quickly jumped out of the way, having gotten used to the pattern of the Uroboros forms they knew they had to shoot the cores. Lydia signalled to Ayame, she used a grenade to distract it with a minor injury.

Taking advantage of that Lydia, Shayla and Jake quickly opened fire with their submachine guns, Ayame also joined in after throwing a second grenade. Jacob also opened fire, but it was clear things were desperate. Each of them was focusing on one core, intent on destroying it.

However the Uroboros Aheri seemed to realise what they were doing and suddenly flailed out with its 'arms' again, only reacting more violently this time, not caring what it hit. The agents were forced to back away again, this time they ended up in and adjoining room, Trevor's personal armoury. They carefully examined the weapons in the room, Jacob then got an idea.

"Guys, we can use this RPG, the only problem is, we've only got two shots," He informed the others, "If we're careful we'll get two of the cores, if not, we're in trouble."

"Hold on Jacob, there's a second one, we could get all four," Jake pointed it out.

"Right, let's go."

Taking the two RPG's they hurried out and prepared themselves, Shayla and Jake fired at the Aheri to distract it. Lydia and Ayame took up their positions and fired. The two rockets flew through the air and struck two of the cores, completely destroying them.

The Uroboros shrieked and flailed out with its 'arms' but the shots fired by the female agents still distracted it. Taking a new position Lydia and Ayame quickly readied themselves again and were about to fire, Ayame managed to fire and strike the third core. Before Lydia could fire however one of its arms struck at her sending the rocket into the wall and leaving the fourth core intact.

Lydia quickly got back to her feet and the agents regrouped and quickly dodged another attack from the Aheri. Once regrouped the agents spoke.

"Okay, we got three cores but at this rate we're not gonna get that fourth without a challenge." Shayla replied.

Ayame thought for a moment and then.

"I've got it, we need to distract it again, if one of us can get close enough then we can use our shotgun to blow the core up at point blank range." He informed them.

"Risky, but it's our best chance," Shayla replied.

Jake quickly volunteered to be the one to actually shoot the core, the other three took up positions throughout the room and then opened fire on the Uroboros, it shrieked and flailed out at them, blind to Jake's advance until it was too late.

Jake quickly pressed the barrel of his gun against the core which had lowered towards the ground and fired. With another loud shriek the Uroboros lashed out and nearly hit all three of them, all four of its minor cores were destroyed and now all that was left was the main core.

The agents took cover behind pillars near the main door, the Uroboros seemed to realize the danger it was in and wasn't letting them get close, lashing out and attacking the moment any of them showed their faces. They reloaded their weapons and soon they were once again trying to come up with a way to achieve victory.

Finally, it was Jake who spoke up.

"I don't see any other choice guys." He said sadly. "It's an all or nothing gamble..."

He quickly shared his plan with them and they reluctantly agreed, there was no other option, so far as they could see. So they attacked, launching all their grenades at the Aheri; the massive explosion was then followed by a torrent of gunfire as they unloaded their weapons into Aheri, the combined force of the damage actually turned out to be enough much to their great surprise.

The fifth core shattered, Aheri shrieked and then crumbled away. They had done it. Catching their breath and lamenting the fact they had now used up all their ammo, they nevertheless reported their success to HQ and prepared to head for the extraction zone, hopeful that the others had succeeded in their missions too, that finally, the nightmare would be over.

End of chapter, hope you enjoyed it, read and review please.