Resident Evil:

The Whole Story.

Chapter Thirteen.

Sam sighed in comfort as curled up on the couch with one of her favourite books in front of the blazing fire that was roaring in the fireplace. She hated to admit when she was wrong but she was actually very glad she had been talked into coming up the lodge. The atmosphere was incredible and a part of her was sad they were only going to be up here for two weeks.

Earlier when she, Talia, Tamora and Meg went up to the room they would all be sharing she had stepped out on to the balcony as the sun went down and took some photos of the forest and the mountains in the distance. The setting sun had painted the forest in gorgeous shades of deep red and golden yellow and bright orange, despite what she had thought earlier about nature being overrated those photos had been some of the best she had ever taken.

She looked up and smiled as Jacob plopped down next to her on the couch. "Still regretting coming up here?" He asked with a smirk because he knew for a fact that she didn't.

Sam chuckled and rolled her eyes. "Okay, fine. I'm having a nice time but don't get too smug. You and your friends wouldn't even be here unless I had said yes."

"I know, and I am grateful. You have any idea what will happen to us popularity wise when it gets out that we spent two weeks with some of the most popular kids in school." Jacob said with a wide grin. "I am going to getting so many cheerleaders on my arm it isn't even funny not to mention all the sex."

Sam sighed and rolled her eyes. "I am so very happy for you and on that vomit inducing note I am going to go to bed," She said as she closed her book and walked over to the staircase but as she made her way up she stopped as she saw Emily sitting on the steps with her head in her hands. "Emily? What's wrong?" She asked gently.

Emily looked up, her brown eyes were filled with tears. "Aaron's been gone too long, something's happened to him."

"Em...He was really upset, he probably just wants to be alone for awhile." Sam said comfortingly as she sat down next to and placed her hand on the other girl's shoulder.

Emily shrugged her hand off and turned her head to face and though her eyes were wet they were also defiant, she shook her head slowly. "No, something happened to him, I know it, if it hasn't why aren't the lights on? he went out to switch on the generator, he would've done that first. and where are Eric and Nicole? They should've been back by now, something's wrong. Can't you see that?"

Sam bite her lip, she didn't want to admit it but it did strike her as odd that none of them were back yet. Eric and Nicole, she could hazard a guess as to why they wouldn't be back yet but Aaron not being back yet even if he did want some time alone was odd. "So, what do you want to do about it?" She asked.

Emily was quite for a moment before she nodded and stood up with a determined look on her face. "I am going to go and grab a flashlight and my coat and I am going to look for my boyfriend." And with that she began to walk down the stairs while Sam followed behind.

"Hey, what's going on?" Alan asked as Emily opened the storage cupboard next to the front door of the lodge and pulled out a flashlight and her leather jacket.

"I'm going to find Aaron, he's been gone to long and don't try to talk me out of it Al cause you know that you can't." Emily said as she zipped up her jacket and tested to make sure the flashlight was working.

"I'm not going to try and talk you out of it, in fact I'm coming with you." Alan said as he got his own jacket out of the closet and picked up another flashlight. "I really wouldn't be a good best friend if I didn't look for him or let his girlfriend go look for him alone."

"Thanks Al." Emily said with a genuine smile as the rest of the group came up to the three of them, clearly curious as to what was going on.

When Emily explained what they were doing Natalie snorted. "You're kidding right? You're going to go out in the pitch black to find your boyfriend just because he's been sulking a bit too long for you?"

"No one asked your opinion and when I want it...I'll never want it." Emily said with a glare, Natalie simply shook her head with a smirk before she walked back to her couch and laid down on it, listening to her Walkman once again like nothing was happening.

"I'm coming to." Talia said with a shrug. "My cousin can be a dick but he's still family and I'm not going to let anything happen to him." Jack of course wouldn't let his girlfriend go without him so he decided to come.

Sam also agreed to go because as much as she didn't like Aaron she didn't think she would be able to live with herself if something happened to him and she wasn't around to help in anyway she could, Jacob also decided to come and though she wished she would be able to convince her little brother to stay she knew that there wouldn't be much point in trying.

Kendra and Ian both volunteered to come but they were convince to stay behind because the search party was becoming a little too big and they didn't want anyone to get lost and having to add more people for them to find.

Tamora had run up to her room and came back with two radios which she had brought just in case, she gave one to Emily and told her that she would radio her if Aaron came back while they were gone.

And with that the group set off in search of Aaron, Talia vaguely knew where the outbuilding was but she did make sure that they knew that she had never actually been to it so they would probably have to search for a little while before they found it.

Sam breathed heavily as she directed her torch light deep into the forest, the forest that surrounded Raccoon City and all the other towns in the Arklay region was huge, if Aaron had wandered off into it then the chance of finding, even if they contacted one of the ranger's stations that dotted the landscape they organised a full search, were slim to none.

A few people went missing up in the woods and the mountains every year or so, most likely eaten by a wild animal after they had gotten lost.

Sam shook her head and sigh, thinking that had not helped and she suddenly was back to regretting to ever decided to come to this stupid thing.

"There it is!" Talia shouted and Sam's head shot up and she smiled as she saw the outbuilding through the trees, her smile dropped however as a sudden putrid smell hit here. She couldn't describe it but it smelt awful and heavy, she didn't think she had ever smelt anything quite so horrible in her entire life.

Looking around her it was clear that the others had smelt it too with the looks of varying degrees of disgust on there faces...

They stepped closer to the building, with each step they took the smell grew more and more intense, Sam had to swallow to resist the urge to vomit that was building in the back of her throat.

Eventually they were all standing in front of the door of the building that was firmly shut, none of them said because the smell was nearly overpowering them now and though none of them said it was clear that all of them at least had an idea as to what it was.

Alan swallowed deep and reached out, placing his hand flat against the door and gently pushed it open, revelling the contents of the outbuilding to their wide, horrified eyes.

There was silence, none of them said anything or made a sound. It was as if what they were seeing refused to register in their minds and thus they simply didn't react. It was like they were under a spell.

The spell was broken when Emily screamed loudly and ran to knell down next to her boyfriend's mutilated corpse.

It was awful, one his leg's had been ripped off and his stomach hard been torn open with his guts lying all around the room, his throat had torn out, his neck nothing but a ragged hole and the floor of the outbuilding was sticky and red with blood.

From behind her Sam was vaguely aware of someone being sick but she couldn't tell who it was but it sounded like a girl from the sound of the chocking noises. "We...we have to get out of here."

"She's right!" Jack exclaimed fearfully, his skin pale and his eyes wide. "We need to go and get back to the city, whatever did this might come back!"

Alan nodded and knelt down next to Emily, trying hard not to look at his best friend's corpse. "Em...Em, I am so sorry, I am so so sorry but we have to go now we can't stay here."

Emily said nothing, merely kept sobbing and shaking her head wildly as she tightened her grip on her boyfriend, refusing to let go of him.

Suddenly the entire group was arguing, some wanted to get back to the cabin and go but others pointed out that there was still no sign of Eric and Nicole and they couldn't leave without them. Alan and Talia, who had finished being sick, wouldn't leave Emily behind despite others pointing out if she didn't want to go then they couldn't make her and carrying her would just slow others down.

The argument stopped however when a low, ragged moan sounded from the outbuilding. It's source was from Emily's arms.

"He's still alive..." Jacob whispered in disbelief.

"That's not possible." Sam muttered, more to herself than answering her brother's question. His throat had been ripped out, his neck was shredded how could he still be alive?

Everyone watched, almost in a trance, as Aaron propped himself up in his girlfriend's arms, moaning all the while and his eyes a solid milky white, and stared at her blankly before leaning forward and savagely biting into her neck.

Emily screamed in pain and Alan burst into action, rushing forward and using all his strength to haul Aaron off of Emily and half threw-half shoved him into the corner of the outbuilding, picked Emily up and carried her outside and slammed the door the outbuilding shut behind him after he laid Emily down on the grass as gently as he could.

Sam and Talia quickly knelt down next to Emily but it was clearly to both of them that there was nothing they could do, half her neck was torn up by the bite and while Sam wasn't a medical expert she was fairly sure that from the look of the heavy blood flow that was slowly turning the grass green that her jugular had been severed. There was nothing they could do.

Sam sniffed and reached out to take Emily's hand gently and gave it a squeeze, trying to offer her even the slightest comfort. It wasn't much, it wasn't enough but it was the best she could do.

She could only despairingly as the light slowly but surely died from Emily's eyes and she stopped squeezing back.

Talia sobbed and stood up before rushing over to the edge of the forest, Alan swore and rubbed at his eyes and Jacob and Jake clearly didn't know what to do or say so they simply kept quite.

Sam stood up and took a breath to try and calm herself and stop her hands from shaking. "We have to get the hell out of here and back to the city, right now."

Jake and Alan both nodded but Jacob looked uncertain. "What about Eric and Nicole?"

"We can't worry about them right now, we have to save ourselves. Once we're safe we can tell the police what happened and they'll come and look for them." To be honest, as cold as it sounded Sam didn't really care about Eric and Nicole, she cared about getting herself and her brother the hell out of here.

"She's right." Alan said with a nod. "We can't risk staying and looking for them because god knows what is happening in these woods but I know it's not normal and I am not staying a second longer than we need to." He turned to call for Talia. "Come on Tal! Fall apart when we're safe, we're going!"

Talia slowly turned on her feet, her face was pale and her eyes were red from crying. She opened her mouth to say something but she never got to say it as something large and heavy collided with her and knocked on to her stomach, it was a dog but it was clearly not a normal dog.

Sam didn't mange to make out much detail before it started to maul Talia, the vaguest notions of going to help her suddenly left her mind when she saw there were several pairs of milky white eyes coming out of the woods into the clearing. More dogs.

"Run!" Alan shouted and turned on his feet and bolted for the trees away from the dogs, everyone else turned to run but only Jacob and Sam got going as Jake fell to the ground in pain as Emily had sunk her teeth into his leg and ripped away a chunk of flesh.

Sam kept running, not stopping despite the sound of Jake and Talia screaming in pain as they both died horribly, she didn't stop when she got separated from Jacob and Alan and simply kept running faster, she didn't stop when she realised she couldn't here their voices anymore, she just didn't stop running.

She ran down the dirt paths that marred the forest floor as fast as she could, twice she had to jump over fallen trees and run around one or two that she could not. Every second she was terrified that she would trip over a root and become one of those hellhounds meal.

But eventually she realised that she couldn't hear the dogs barking any more, it seemed impossible to think and she didn't dare hope but it seemed as though, through some excellent luck, that she had managed to lose them.

She didn't want to stick around to find out for sure however, she had to get back to the lodge and meet up with the others before they decided to leave without her, she didn't think that Jacob would of course but he was only one person and if the others decided to leave then there wasn't much he could do to stop them from going.

Sam set off in the direction that she was fairly sure would take her back to the lodge, it wasn't perfect and it was more than possible that she was in fact heading in the entirely wrong direction but it wasn't like she could just stand around waiting for someone to come and find her.

After a little while she found her way to a path that looked vaguely familiar and she began to follow it, she looked up in the sky and smile relived when she saw smoke in the sky that was clearly from the lodge's fireplaces. She was almost there.

The smile slipped from her face when she heard the distant screaming of multiple voices.

They were far away but she could here them and one of them was unmistakeable.

Jacob.

No, not her baby brother!

Sam took off in a sprint down the trail, going as fast as it was possible for her to go. She had to get to the lodge!

Her eyes widen and she came to a dead stop when she saw what was laying in the middle of the trail.

Alan, it was too dark to make out the full extent of his injuries but what from her flashlight reviled to her he was obviously dead.

Sam swallowed and knelt down next to him and began to pat him down, smiling slightly when she found what she was looking. A separate set of keys for one of the vans, she knew that he most of had one when he wasn't concerned with finding Eric despite him having the other keys and not searching Aaron for his.

She pocketed the keys quickly and stood up before continuing her sprint down the path, and just in time as from behind her she heard a low moan, eventually she arrived back at the lodge and the path had taken her to the back of it.

From here she could see into the lodge through the glass patio door and what she saw made her blood curdle.

She could Kendra, Ian and Meg. All bloody with chunks of their flesh missing and their eyes were solid white like Aaron's had been and she could see more of those monstrous dogs roaming around inside, she couldn't see Tamora or Isaac but that didn't mean anything.

On the balcony she could see someone was moving around but the lights weren't on so she couldn't see who it was but she knew that she had to find out.

Thankfully their was a drain pipe she could scale with little difficulty so she was spared from having to go inside on the ground floor, she approached the balcony door and opened it slowly while shinning her flashlight inside.

The first thing she was Jacob who was huddled near the bedroom door, the second thing she was the ragged bite mark on his arm.

"No..." She breathed in disbelief. "Can't be."

Jacob looked up at her smiled sadly, tears in his eyes. "Got here a few seconds too late sis, my kind of luck don't you think?" He said with a laugh that turned into a sob on it's way out.

"I've got the keys to the van, we can get out of here!" Sam exclaimed tearfully as she tried to keep herself from completely breaking down in tears.

Jacob shook his head sadly. "We can't, we know what those things are. I don't know how they can actually be real but a zombie is a zombie and if there are anything like the movies we know what a bite means, we've seen what it means!" He shouted sadly. "You have to get out of here by yourself."

Sam sobbed sadly and kissed his forehead gently, like she used to do when he was just a baby and she helped their mother put him to sleep. "Bye baby brother, I love you."

"I love you to." Jacob said with a sob. "Now go!" He shouted.

Sam ran back out on to the balcony and scaled down the drainage pipe and ran into the woods, not once looking back at the lodge.

She very nearly made it back to the footbridge, she was very nearly safe but it wasn't to be. Just as she saw the foot bridge come into sight a dark shape came barrelling out of the woods and collided with her, knocking her down to the ground.

She tried to get back to her feet and run but the dog was on her and bit deep into one of her legs, burning pain knocking her down. The dog then leaped on to her back and bite deep into her shoulder.

As Sam laid there in pain she found herself praying, she didn't pray for someone to come and save her, she knew it was already to late for that. She simply prayed that she wouldn't come back as a zombie.

And in a way her prayer was answered for as the dog clamped it's powerful jaws around her neck and bite it deep, it severed her head from her neck and the last thing Sam ever saw, even if it was only for a few seconds, was her own headless body.

End of Chapter Thirteen

(A/N, Please review, favourite and follow. So, yet more victims of Marcus's plan have been claimed and while it might be a while before anyone notices these kids are missing, rest assured that people will notice.)