Resident Evil:

The Whole Story.

Chapter Eleven.

Samantha Jones was once again wondering how her friends had managed to drag her into this stupid camping trip as she watched the trees of the forest zipping by the window she was looking out of. To say she wasn't looking forward to this two week long stay in the mountains was a massive understatement, it wasn't that she didn't like nature per say but she was used to modern convinces and luxuries so spending fourteen long days in some dirty old hunting lodge was not her idea of a great final party to send them all off to collage.

She would much rather spend the two weeks she had before she had to leave at home in bed flicking through one of her photography books. some people might tell her to be grateful, after all the forest was a great place for an aspiring photographer with lots of amazing photo opportunities and while that was true she had taken plenty of photographs in the forest, there was only so much mileage you could get out of nature and wildlife, it was fairly predictable all things considered.

Samantha sighed and glanced around the large van which she was stuck at the back of, her friends were all to busy chatting to themselves to notice the funk she was in. She didn't think of herself as self-centred but it wouldn't hurt if they cared or even noticed that she really didn't want to go to the cabin, surely Talia, her best friend, should at least knew her well enough to know that she didn't want to go.

But right now Talia was too engrossed in talking with her new boyfriend Jack to notice anything around her, which wasn't surprising because if she was dating the most popular, and the hottest, boy in school then she supposed that she would be more than a little distracted to notice anything around her either.

It was Talia's older cousin Aaron's idea to come out as it was their family's lodge, apparently they had always use to come up in the summer when they were younger but they hadn't been up since they were kids because their parents had apparently had a massive fall out when they were kids and the hunting lodge had apparently just been left to rot up here.

Aaron was actually the one driving the van and sitting next to him was his girlfriend Emily, Emily was one of those people who always seemed to be blessed, beautiful with long black hair and small eyes which hinted to her Asian ancestry and intelligent with one of the highest IQ's in the history of Raccoon High School and lucky enough to have a scholarship to go to any ivy league school she wanted.

Aaron was tall, nearly six foot five he tried to avoid the worst of the bumps in the dirt road so he could avoiding bumping his head on the roof of the van, he was muscular, with biceps the size of Sam's head and thick thighs which had come from years of playing line-backer for the high school football team.

Despite finding him attractive Sam really didn't like Aaron as a person, he was one of those guys who seemed to think he was god's gift to women but at the same time tried to act all humble while not really meaning any of it. It was the inherit hypocrisy there that really irritated her about him, if it weren't for that she didn't think that she would mind Aaron too much.

Sam sighed and brushed a lock of dirty blond hair behind her ear before she started to glance around the large van to look at the other people she was going to be trapped with for a fortnight.

Sitting next to her was Tamora, a girl with long red hair who if she remember correctly was a part of the cheerleading squad. She wasn't related to anyone else who was coming to the cabin but she was one of the most popular girls in school so of course somebody had invited her to come.

Sitting next to Tamora was her best friend Meg, wherever Tamora went, Meg went and Samantha had to admit it, she found it quite sad. It was obvious to everyone that Meg was head over heels in love with Tamora but Tamora clearly didn't feel the same way, given the fact that Tamora had a boyfriend that she was serious about any chance Meg might once have had was now long gone.

Said boyfriend was sitting on the other side of Tamora, Issac was the captain of the football team and the nicest thing that Sam could say about him was that he wasn't quite as big a jerk as Aaron was in her opinion but that really, really wasn't saying much.

Behind them on the last row of seats in the van sat Jacob who was Sam's younger brother who she had been forced to look after when her parents had left Raccoon for a brief holiday, they wouldn't be back until the day before she was going off to collage so he had to come with her, which sucked cause she was hoping to use him as an excuse for why she wouldn't be able to go to the cabin.

But Jacob had jumped at the opportunity to spend time with high school seniors and had practically begged her to go, there was no way the others would take him to the cabin without her and he had always been able to get her to do anything, he had been her weak spot since the day he was born.

He been able to bring his two best friends with him, a girl called Kendra and a boy called Ian, Sam didn't really know that much about them but Jacob seemed to like them well enough and her brother had a pretty good sense of character so that was good enough for her. Kendra was a black girl with long curly hair and warm hazel eyes and Ian was white with spiked black hair.

That was everyone in the van but there was another van following behind theirs, there were a lot of people combing to this cabin and most of them she hadn't met until this morning.

She knew the guy who was driving the van, Eric Chapman was another of Tamora's friends, he was average height and had cropped black hair and he always seemed to be the guy who knew how to get beer. Sam liked Eric, he was funny and pretty good at puzzles as he was once able to solve a Rubik's cube in under a minute, apparently he learned how to from his older brother Jim who was also really good at puzzles, though apparently he preferred crosswords.

And she knew his girlfriend Nicole who would most likely be sitting up front with him, Sam liked her as well but she was very shy in her opinion and didn't say much but aside from that she thought that she was okay.

Everyone else she didn't met until the morning, there was Natalie, a punk girl with long red hair who was a year older than the rest of them do to being held back a year so she was graduating along side the rest of them. Then there was Tyler who she wasn't sure invited him cause he hadn't spoken more then two words, at least he hadn't said anymore than two words to her.

There was also Alan who was head of the Raccoon City High School Basketball Team who she hadn't even spoken too and only knew him through reputation and seeing him at pep rallies.

It suddenly hit her that it was going to be so crowed up at the cabin that her dread of how much this weekend was going to suck increased, she would've done anything to get out of it but it was too late now. The cabin was deep in the woods and they had been driving for nearly four hours now and there was no way someone was going to drive her back down to the city.

She was drawn out of feeling sorry for herself when she heard Aaron cursing. "Oh shit!" The van suddenly swerved to the left and skidded to a sudden stop, the interior of the van was filled with screams and the sudden motion made Sam feel as if she was going to be sick.

When the van stopped moving Sam groaned and held her head. Her skull suddenly felt like it was two sizes too small for her brain and the back of her throat felt like there was something fuzzy crawling around in it.

She checked herself over and was comforted by the fact that there didn't seem to be anything wrong with her.

Jacob!

Sam quickly stood up, as much as she could in the low van any way, and half walked half crawled to the back so she could check on her brother and his friends, quickly sparing a glance to make sure that Talia was alright..

Jacob was holding his head but didn't seem to be in pain, Kendra was holding her stomach and looked a bit queasy but other than that seemed fine and Ian seemed to be a little shocked but he seemed to be near enough okay. "Are you alright?" She asked Jacob, looking him over to see if he was hurt and she had just missed it the first time.

"I think we're alright, what happened?" Jacob asked as he looked up at his big sister.

"That is a very good question." Sam glanced around, ready to yell at Aaron for doing that but stopped when she noticed the van had suddenly emptied, the sliding door built into the side of the van was wide open and she could here the others talking about something in hushed whispers.

"You guys stay in here, you do not come out unless I tell you too, got it?" She asked while making sure that it was clear that she was not asking and if they tried to follow her out there would be serious trouble.

Once she got three nods of agreement she stepped out of the van and automatically rubbed her arms, even with thick jacket she was wearing it was always so cold up in the mountains despite the fact it was starting to turn into summer.

The second van had stopped behind and it's occupants were standing with the others a little way down the wide dirt road, they were all standing around something in a wide semi-circle but Sam couldn't see what it was from here.

When she got closer however, she saw far too much.

It was a deer, a large one. It had a shiny brown coat and strong legs and it's antlers were pure white and looked to be at least two feet long.

It was an incredible animal.

It was also lying on it's side, breathing weakly with a ragged hole torn in it's throat.

"Oh god, the poor thing. What did this to it?" Nicole asked as knelt down next to the animal and gently stroked it's head, trying to give the poor animal some comfort.

"A mountain lion probably or maybe a pack of wolves, my dad said that sometimes they'll team up to take on a bigger animal." Aaron said as he looked down at the deer pitifully. "They usually finish there prey off though, I guess whatever did this wounded the poor guy and it got away and then it just ran out of strength to keep going."

For a long moment there was only silence, aside from the ragged breaths of the dying animal. The silence was broken by Tamora, who looked very awkward. "What...What do we do?"

Everyone turned to look at herm, Tamora rubbed the back of her head. "I mean, we can't leave it here. Do we go back to town and get a vet?"

"It would be dead by the time we got back." Natalie said as she knelt down next to Nicole. "I don't think it's got much time left."

And again there was silence, it was a sobering thought. Aaron turned and walked back to the van and got inside. He came back out a few moments later with a woodcutting axe in his hands, Jacob, Ian and Kendra following him out.

"I thought I told you to stay in the van until I came and got you!" Sam yelled at her brother in annoyance, was the stupid kid just allergic to doing what she said?

"Yeah, well we decided to ignore that when the driver came for his axe." Jacob said with a nod towards said axe.

"Aaron...Babe, what's that for?" Emily asked quietly as she looked down at the axe her boyfriend was holding.

Aaron sighed and rubbed a free hand through his hair before grabbing the axe with both hands once again. "It's for the big guy."

"The hell Aaron!?" Alan shouted at him, not caring that he was holding an axe.

"Look, just here me out okay?" Aaron pleaded. "Natalie's right, it's going to be the dead by the time we got back with help but it's still got an hour or so before it dies and it's clearly in a lot of pain, I just think that this is...kinder."

And again there was silence aside from the rustle of bushes and the chirps of insects and the deer's pain filled noises.

"I mean, he might be right." Eric said. "It would be quicker at least."

Nobody said anything but everyone glanced at one another and it seemed everyone was in agreement. Aaron nodded and turned to face the deer and raised the axe, as everyone turned away he swung it down and then everything was silence.

No one said or did anything, Sam reached out and rubbed Jacob's back comfortingly. Jacob smiled back reassuringly.

Aaron sighed and walked back to the van silently, the blood stained axe hanging from his hands limply, Emily followed after him and then everyone slowly but surely made their way back to the vans.

Sam was the last to enter and just as she placed her foot in the van her attention was drawn by the sound of a twig snapping and what sounded like a low, hungry growl.

She suddenly really wanted to get to the cabin so she practically flung herself into the van and slid the door shut behind her.

As the two vans speed down the dirt road, a pack of animals came on to the trail. Their fur bloody and large chunks of flesh missing from their bodies, some had such large holes that you could see their rib and their internal organs flopped about outside their bodies and yet it did not seem to bother them at all.

They surrounded the dead deer but after a few sniffs they found it held no interest for them.

They wanted fresh meat.

End of Chapter Eleven

(A/N, please review, favourite and follow everyone, also just so everyone knows, the next chapter will be a continuation of this one. I didn't want this chapter getting too long. And of course constructive criticism is always welcome)