Resident Evil:

The Whole Story.

Chapter Twelve

It took them another hour to finally reach their destination, which was a small wooden footbridge that crossed over a small river, everyone got out of their vans and made sure they had their luggage with them before they crossed the bridge on foot. The cabin was a little deeper in the woods but it would only be a few minutes walk.

Samantha wasn't sure about the others but she couldn't get what had happened out of her mind, she knew that all things considered it wasn't that much of a big deal. Death was a part of life and animals died and got killed by other animals all the time but even so, every few minutes or so she found her thoughts drifting back to that poor deer.

It had been in so much pain and it was awful to watch it slowly die and what Aaron had done had been far kinder but that wasn't what had really been bothering her about it.

There had been something odd about the whole thing, the fact that a deer had been just left on the middle of the road to die seemed wrong. From what little she knew about wolves they were both hunters and scavengers, they didn't leave much behind. But the animal was still alive with no sign of it's attackers in sight despite the fact it was still bleeding and surely a wolf would be able to follow it's scent?

Maybe because they had all been standing near it the wolves or whatever had attacked it decided not to attack such a big group? The thought that she might have been so close to the deer's attacker's caused her to shiver slightly from the chilling thought.

She shook her head, she didn't want to think about it anymore. She and the others were going to be up here for two whole weeks and if she spent all that time worrying about it then even the slightest enjoyment she might possibly get out of this holiday would be completely lost to her.

"Aaron, man how much further is it?" Eric asked, trailing behind the group.

"It's not much further now, a couple of minutes." Aaron was leading them but he was pretty far ahead of the rest of them, Sam had to wonder if he was maybe feeling guilty about killing the deer.

"You said that a couple of minuites ago!" Meg said with a whine as she tried to keep up with the rest of them. "My feet are killing me!"

"I told you to wear hiking boots instead of heels, but you didn't listen to me." Tamora said with a laugh which only got louder when she saw Meg pout. "Just a bit longer and you can put your feet up, right Aaron?"

Aaron didn't say anything but nodded, Emily tried to match her boyfriend's pace. She was obviously concerned about him but she clearly didn't know how to talk to him about it.

They all walked in the silence for the next couple of minutes but it was eventually broken by Talia's enuthastic shout. "There it is!" She said as she pointed further down the path to where there was a wide open clearing in the middle of the trees.

When Sam saw it her draw actually dropped.

She wasn't expecting it to be a small building all things considered, the word lodge had been used after all. But she didn't expect a building that looked like it should be in a magazine about where celebrities would go on vacation.

The building was at least three stories tall and was made of stone and wood, there were large bay windows at both side's and there was a balcony that ran all the way around the second floor. A large slanted roof topped it and a chimney that stretched up in to the sky seemed to draw everyone's eye.

"Damn, not bad." Eric whistled as he craned his neck to take it all in. "I mean I know you described it but there's having it described to you and then there's seeing it, you know?"

Aaron nodded and he seemed to be feeling a little better now, perhaps seeing the lodge had brought up some good memories and had driven the bad ones away for now. "I know right? It cost my granddad over seven hundred thousand dollars to make this place and that was back in nineteen-forty five."

If Samantha has picked her jaw up by this point it didn't matter as having heard that it made just drop all over again, she knew that Talia and Aaron's family were quite well off but she didn't know that they were that well off, she didn't know much about money but she knew that seven hundred thousand dollars was a lot of money and it was worth a lot more in Nineteen-forty five.

The group slowly made it's way inside and if the outside was impressive then the outside blew everyone away. The living area was wide open was a large round fire pit dominating the room, there were also two smaller fire places on either side of the room with a few couches and chair surrounding them. There was a large staircase that lead up to the inside balcony that went all around the room and from here Sam could see that there were several doors on that balcony.

There was a large sliding glass door that lead out on to the patio where there were three large hot tubs and just like that Sam was suddenly very glad that Jacob had begged her to say to coming up here.

"This is going to be so awesome!" Tamora cheered and suddenly everyone was caught up in her energy smiling and joking.

Except for Natalie walked over to the light switch next to the door and flicked the switches but nothing happened. "The light's aren't working and is it just me or is it freezing in here?"

Aaron sighed. "There's a generator for the power in an outbuilding not to far from here, I'll go and switch it on while I'm doing that you guys go and put your luggage away and try and get a fire going." And with that Aaron left the lodge before anyone could say anything.

Emily shoot a glare at Natalie for ruining the mood before she staked over to the staircase and rushed upstairs, Natalie shrugged her shoulders and pulled her Walkman out of her pockets and put her earphones in before vaulting on to one of the couches.

Eric held up his hand. "Can you guys put me and Nic's stuff in our rooms, we're going to go for a little walk."

Nicole suddenly burst out laughing and Sam got the notion that there wasn't going to be much walking done. "Sure." Sam said with a smirk before she picked up Nicole's suitcase while Alan picked up Eric's.

When the couple left the building everyone else aside from Natalie went upstairs to put the luggage in their rooms.

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Aaron sighed as he walked deeper into the woods, he know that the outbuilding was somewhere around here but he hadn't come up here since he was a kid so his mind was a little fuzzy on where it was exactly.

He knew that Emily and the others were worried about but he was honestly fine, sure he was a little upset but he had to figurer that it was pretty natural. Being on his own actually helped a bit, getting away from being asked if he was okay actually helped a hell of a lot.

He smiled when he saw the outbuilding through the trees, he would turn on the generator and take a slow walk back.

As soon as he stepped closer to the edge of the treeline however he heard the sound of an animal growling, whatever it was it was close by and it sounded angry and hungry at the same time. He turned on his feet and saw the animal and when he did his breath caught in his throat and his blood turned to ice.

It was a dog, a Doberman but it was...wrong. Great chunks of it's body was just gone, Aaron could see it's rib through the large holes. It's body was stained red with blood and it's eye was a solid milky white, it's other eye was gone, ripped away. It's teeth were clenched together and there were wet with it's salvia.

It was impossible, couldn't be real but it was. It was standing right in front of him plain as day, a monster that should only be found in bad horror movies and video games.

He had to run.

He had to get to the outbuilding.

He spun on his feet and sprinted to the small wooden building, going literally as fast as he could which, being the line-backer of the football team, was pretty damn fast.

He could hear the monster dog behind him, despite the fact it was rotting it didn't seem to have lost any of it's mobility and judging by the sound of it's barks it was right on his tail.

Every second the outbuilding seemed to grow closer, almost like he could reach out touch it. He was nearly safe, just a little further, a little further.

"Don't be locked! Don't be locked!" He prayed as he made a dive for the door and nearly sobbed in relief when it flew open, he dived inside and slammed the door shut behind him, holding it shut with his weight.

Aaron closed his eyes and took in some desperate gulps of air, he wasn't safe yet. The dog was still out there, he could here it scratching at the door and barking loudly and he was basically trapped in here until it decided to find some other prey but for now at least he was safe and he decided to count that as a major victory.

After a few minutes the scratching stopped as did the barking and Aaron was suddenly surrounded by silence.

Aaron held his breath but he was fairly certain it was gone, after a few long seconds passed he heaved a massive sigh of relief.

And then the small square window on the side of the outbuilding burst inward, sending a shower of glass on to the floor and the dark heavy shape of the dog landed in the middle of it.

Aaron gasped before turning and reached for the door handle but it was too late, the dog had surged forward and clamped it's powerful jaws around his leg and bite down hard.

Aaron screamed as his leg gave away and he fell to the old wooden floor the building, he was suddenly hit by a burning pain in her leg and he tried to scramble away but the dog's teeth remained clamped around his leg.

He pulled his other leg back and kicked the dog with all his strength and sent it flying with a whimper. Aaron looked down at his leg and gave a whimper of his own, his pant's leg was torn but that wasn't the worst of it. The ragged bite on his leg was bleeding heavily and it already looked like it was becoming infected.

With what was not a question he wanted to consider right now.

He was so deep in his thoughts that he almost forgot the dog, it surged for his face and held up his arm to block it but it simply bit down on it hard and Aaron screamed in pain again as he felt the teeth sink through his flesh.

The dog pulled back and Aaron could see the wound on his arm, he could see white.

But he didn't have time to worry about it, the dog surged forward again and bite down deep on his stomach, he screamed in agony and that only seemed to encourage the dog as it continued to bite harder and faster, trying to get all the meat that it could.

Aaron's screams started to die down even though the pain did not, everything was getting dark and he could barely see when the dog pulled it's head back with a portion of Aaron's intestines in it's mouth.

Aaron whimpered as the dog dropped the intestines down to the floor with a wet plop and it stared at him, it lunged and the last thing Aaron ever saw was the dog's teeth clamping around his neck and ripping his throat out.

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Nicole and Eric, hand in hand, walked slowly down the path they had found. They had been walking for about an hour and a half by now. They didn't really have a destination in mind but a nice slow walk together was more than they really needed.

Eric still didn't know what he had done to deserve Nicola but he thanked god for whatever it was, she was kind and funny and smart and beautiful of course but that wasn't important and it went without saying anyway with her long golden hair and clear blue eyes and one day she sat down next to him in history class and just started talking to him like they had known one another all their lives.

And from there their relationship grew and in a matter of months they were dating, it seemed like something out of a crappy romance movie but it had happened and it was the best thing that had ever happened to him. So he would take the cliché with a smile.

As they walked they came to a small lake with an old wooden pier stretching out to the middle of it. "Oh, we could go swimming!" Nicole said with a smile.

Eric laughed. "Girl, I didn't pack my swim trunks and I don't want to go all the way back to the lodge for your case yet."

"I didn't pack any swimming clothes anyway, doesn't matter to me." Nicole said with a teasing grin as she took a step on to the pier. "What do you say big boy?"

"Oh hell yeah!" Eric exclaimed with a wide grin as he realised what she was suggesting. "Just, uh, give me a second. I need to go and answer nature's call." He said and he nodded his head to the trees.

"Well, hurry back cause I'm not going in on my own." Nicola said as she sat down on the pier.

"I won't be long." He promised with a grin before he turned and ran into the woods, wanting to get this done and get back as soon as possible.

As soon as he found a suitable tree he unzipped his fly and let nature take it's course, as soon as he finished up he zipped up and began to walk back. As soon as he was nearly halfway back to the path there was a bone chilling scream.

Nicole!

Eric picked up his pace and was back at the path in a matter of minutes and what he saw made him want to be sick and run away as he stared at it in horror.

Nicole was laying on the wooden pier, being held down by three people. One was an old man that was dressed in gardening overalls, another was an old woman dressed in a flower print dress and the other was a woman with long dark hair dressed in a red shirt and brown cargo pants. They were biting her, her arms and her legs and her neck, blood spraying everywhere.

"Get away from her!" Eric shouted as he ran forward, not sure how he was going to get them away from her but knowing he couldn't just stand their doing nothing while his girlfriend, his Nicole was being attacked.

Nicole's attackers looked up at him and Eric stopped dead in his tracks, the old man and woman both had ragged, gory holes where their throats should have been and their skin was deathly pale as well as having bite marks on their arms and legs.

The woman with the long dark hair had half of her face missing, the three of them did as he wished and left Nicole, lethargically getting to their feet and stumbling towards him.

He knew what they were, they were the cause of too many nightmares after staying up late at night watching to many horror movies but even so he couldn't say the word, because if he did then that meant it was really happening.

Eric spun on his feet, he couldn't do anything without help but there was no where he could go. A man, his arms covered in large open wounds stared at him unseeingly with solid white eyes before lunging forward and sunk his teeth into his throat while dragging him down to the peer, landing on top of him.

Eric tried to call for help but all that came out was a wet pain filled noise, he was surrounded by Nicole's attackers and they fell forward to join in on the feast.

A few minute's later, Nicole, her eyes white and her wounds having long since stopped bleeding stood up and walked over to join her attackers in feasting on her boyfriend.

End of Chapter Twelve

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