Resident Evil:

The Whole Story

Chapter One

Most people in her life had told Lisa Anderson that it was dangerous to go into the forest at night but she didn't care, she had been doing these late night hikes ever since she was a little girl with her father and she continued to do so ever since he had died three years ago from stomach cancer. In a way it was as if still doing these hikes was sort of keeping him alive for her.

And she liked how quiet it was at night, in the day the forest was so noisy, so many people who lived in Raccoon and other towns and cites in the Arklay region went camping and hiking fairly regularly so it seemed as through even in a place where you tried to escape all the noises of city life and in a place where it was supposed to be quite and you could only hear the sounds of nature you hadn't actually managed to escape it as you could always here the sounds of kids screaming and adults arguing over something or over and teenagers were whining about how uncool hiking or camping was.

And that's why she loved coming into the forest at night, there were no other hikers out this late and all the campers were asleep in the tents so in a way it was as if she had the whole forest to herself, the only sounds the sounds of insects chirping and wolves howling in the distance.

She brushed a lock of blond hair behind her ear as it feel into her eye. She really needed to make an appointment with her hairdresser it was getting far too long. Lisa wished she had brought something that she could use to tie her hair back.

The path she was currently on lead to a small secluded lake that was surrounded by trees, at nights like this when the moon and stars were out full and clear they were reflected so beautifully in the lake that it was like something out of an illustration of a storybook, the path itself was a little uneven but she had walked it so many times and she had her lucky flashlight that her Father had given her on her tenth birthday with her so she felt no fear.

Lisa used her hand to stifle a yawn and decided it was time to head home. She had to be up fairly early in the morning anyway as she had to go into town and pay the rent and then head to the law firm where she worked as a legal sectary.

Also her Mother was going to call her tomorrow for what she didn't know, probably to ask if she had gotten a boyfriend yet and if her job was alright. Deep down Lisa knew that Mother was only asking because she was concerned about her it had been a long time since she had been in a relationship and her last one had ended badly, to say the least.

But that didn't change the fact that her Mother was being so irritating about it! It seemed as through she only called nowadays to see if she had a boyfriend of wither she had been fired. Lisa couldn't remember the last time they had talked about something else.

Lisa missed her Father, he would talk to her about anything and everything even if it was just to hear her bitch about how much work had sucked he always made time for her regardless and was always ready with a sympathetic ear, a kind smile and a cup of coffee.

Lisa took a shuddering breath as the pain that always followed memories of her Father bloomed in her chest. They were days that she still couldn't believe that he was gone, the worst days were when she woke up in bed in the morning and she forgot that he had died, there were no words to describe the pain that came when she remembered that he was gone.

She remembered the last few days of her father's life, when he was lying in that stupid hospital bed in the room that smelled like a swimming pool. Her father had looked so small and pale in that damn bed, his eyes unfocused due to the drugs that were being constantly pumped through his system to keep the pain at bay.

It was so hard to believe at the time that man who had raised her, her entire life were one and the same. Her father was such a large man, he always seemed like a giant to her and he was so small in that bed and he was so weak and her father had been the most alive man and the strongest man she had never known.

Lisa had to fight to hold back a sob as she felt unshed tears stinging her eyes, she suddenly wanted to get home even more than she had before probably to due with the fact that she wanted to get under her bedcovers and hide herself away from the world.

Lisa spun on her feet and started to walk back up the path that she had been following for the past hour, if she kept at the pace she had been walking at so far then she should be able to get back to her apartment a little before midnight. She might be able to have a cup of coffee and a cookie before she went to bed.

Lisa was about halfway back up the path when she heard it. A long, low moan that chilled her to the bone. It seemed to come from deep within the forest. Lisa turned and shinned her flashlight into the dark and deep words. The leaves on the trees rustling in the cold breeze.

Lisa felt compelled to go and see what that was, she knew that it sounded like the beginning of a bad horror movie but whatever had made that noise was human and she had only heard someone make a noise like that if they were in pain and she knew a little first aid and is she could help and she didn't then she wouldn't knew how she would live with herself.

Walking through the thick trees and the uneven grass was somewhat different than walking down a path she had memorised like the back of her hand but she was coping well enough due to her flashlights bright beam helping her to find the way.

Her light caught something shinny and she walked faster towards it. She came into a clearing and her eyes widened and mouth dropped open in shock as she gazed in disbelief at what she saw.

It was a campsite or rather it had been a campsite until something had torn it apart, the three tents looked as through something had been clawing at them, the fire was currently blazing low in the corner and it was obvious that no-one had been tending to it in a while, around the fire were overturned folding chairs and a camping lantern was broken near one of the tents.

Something awful had happened here, but what? Had a bear attacked? Lisa wasn't an expert on animals but she thought that bears only attacked if they were either very hungry or if they felt threatened why would a bear attacked whoever was camping here?

Before Lisa could investigate any further the moan that had brought her here sounded out once more and this time it was very, very close. She spun on her feet to face where it came from and her eyes widen once more.

A woman was slowly stumbling towards her, her long dark hair covering her fair and her one of her arms was mess of blood and muscle, the skin almost seemed to be completely stripped away.

Lisa knew that she had to call an ambulance, her basic first aid knowledge did not equip her to deal with injuries such as these but she didn't have a mobile phone on her and it would take her an hour or so to get back to city even if she ran and that wasn't counting the time it would take her to find her way back to the path.

Lisa walked over to the woman slowly and carefully before gently taking her uninjured arm in her hand. "Hello, now don't worry I am going to help you. My name's Lisa, can you tell me what happened hear and do you have a cell phone so I can call for an ambulance?" Lisa asked gently, she didn't want to frighten the poor woman more than she already was.

The woman slowly lifted her head to look at Lisa and Lisa's voice caught in her throat and she quickly let go the woman's arm and took a step back in horror and disbelief. It wasn't possible, it simply wasn't possible.

Half the woman's face was gone. The left side of her face was nothing but bloody muscle and her left eye was gone leaving only an empty socket and the right side of her face was stained with blood.

For what seemed like an eternity Lisa and the woman stared at one another, neither breaking their stare until the woman suddenly lunged at Lisa, her mouth open and teeth bared ready to bite into Lisa's soft flesh.

Lisa screamed before falling on to her behind and the woman tried to bite into her throat as she fell on top of her. Lisa used her hand that wasn't busy pushing at the woman to search the forest floor to try and find something that she could use as a weapon and she nearly sobbed in relief as her fingers felt the unmistakable texture of a large rock.

She grasped it in her hand and with all the strength she could gather she picked up the rock and swung it with all her strength towards the woman's head and she couldn't help a victorious feeling welling in her chest as the woman stilled above and collapsed on top of her.

Lisa let out a cry of disgust and pushed the woman off of her, what just happened? There was no way in hell could that woman have been alive, no-one could survive the injuries she was suffering from and yet she was walking and had attacked her.

She knew it was ridiculous but the only word that came to her to explain it, the only word that even remotely describe how someone could be walking despite those injuries was…zombie but that was ridiculous…wasn't it?

Regardless she had to get back to the city, she had to report what happened and whatever had caused all of this could still be nearby.

As Lisa stood up and set off into the trees she didn't notice a pair of glowing eyes watching her from the tree line. His children were still hungry were asking his permission to attack, to feed but he held them back, there would be other meals in the days to come and besides, the woman was obviously going to report what happened to the local law enforcement in the large city nearby which would also serve his purposes quite nicely.

Umbrella would come to investigate sooner rather than later.

Till then, James Marcus decided that he would go and have a look at the Arklay Research Laboratory, it had been years since he had seen it, it would be…interesting to see how things had changed.

As Marcus walked off deeper into the forest, his many, many children following after them, none of them noticed the woman that had attacked Lisa slowly get and start to stumble off into the forest.

End of Chapter One

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