Hey guys, I'm back! Sorry for such a long wait I just lost interest in writing for a while but I re-read bits and pieces of FFOL and IOJB yesterday and it reminded me how fun writing was, and you guys's reviews were also very very lovely. I love hearing how you all like my stories and what not and I'll try and figure out something new to write soon. Any ideas? How would you guys feel about another RE fic with Leon and Emily? Or something completely unrelated to this series would be fine too. I've also been wanting to experiment with writing a novel or something as well. So we'll see how that turns out. Anyways! Here are the next 10 or so chapters to make up for my absence. I really am so so sorry! I hope you like them. Enjoy~
The room was dark, and all I could see was a faint light coming from the end of a hallway in front of me. I looked around for a table or something, when I saw a typewriter and an object sitting next to it. I slowly walked up to it and saw a flashlight. Quickly snatching it up and turning it on, it appeared as if there were fresh batteries in it, because the light was bright. There was a strap on it to place on a belt, and that's exactly what I did. After doing a little mental happy dance, I proceeded down the hallway, and stopped when I saw someone standing in the room it led to. Instinctively, I reached for my gun before realizing I had no bullets.
"Aii esta…" The thing said and it slowly began walking towards me.
I had nowhere to run. Turning around and heading back to Leon would be useless, so I just ran. I sprinted straight past the thing. I figured since they were usually slow, I'd have no problem getting past him, and I didn't. I saw a few book cases and tables, and two of the tables had lanterns on them. My eyes grew wide and I suddenly got an idea. I ran over to the closest table that had a lantern on it, picked it up, and chucked it at the guy. The lamp immediately burst into flames and after it died out, he began dissolving into the floor as they usually do when they die.
"HAH!" I laughed, sticking my tongue out at the spot where the body once lay.
I turned back around and looked for a door. Instead, there were bars blocking the path to the next room, and a crank behind one of the tables. I casually hopped over said table and began turning the crank. It was hard to turn at first, but after I loosened it up a bit it took about fifteen more turns before the bars were completely raised off the floor. I hopped back over the table and was surprised when I saw another cloaked freak in the next room. Spotting another lantern on a table in the back of the room, I sprinted for it. He was down before he could even finish saying "Mátelo!" There were two more cranks on the walls and I hurried to turn them. One pulled back the vertical bars, and the other horizontal that was finished, I ran straight for the door in front of me.
"Great…" I said aloud to myself. There were bars covering every path to get to the door on the other side of the room. But beside all the bars, there were pillars with gaps in between them big enough for a person to fit through standing on a wall almost as tall as me. I figured I could climb up the wall and squeeze through them and I did. Once I was standing in the middle of the room, I noticed a square shaped stone placed on the mantel piece above the fireplace. Unaware of its purpose, I felt the urge to pull it off and keep it, something about the tablet felt important. I climbed the wall again and quickly left through the door.
This hallway was dark. I could barely see anywhere my flashlight wasn't pointed. Slowly, I crept forward, ready for anything to jump out and scare me as I rounded corner after corner. Finally, the last part of the hallway was lit well enough that I didn't need my flashlight, but the room it lead too was even darker than the hallway. I couldn't see much in it, just a few random suits of armor, and a little dais standing in the middle of room. On it were eight squares, and an empty slot in the middle. It kind of reminded me of those puzzles I could never figure out as a kid… that's where I got the idea to try and rearrange them.
Sighing and thinking I would never figure it out, I just started randomly moving the pieces around. I started with the middle left piece, and moved it to the center. Then, I moved the bottom left corner up, and followed order, moving them around clockwise. After I moved the pieces nine more times, I was shocked at what I saw; the puzzle was solved, and you could see an actual picture in it. That was the very first time I ever solved one of those. But there was still a piece missing.
I pulled out the stone tablet from my back pocket and looked at it: it was exactly the right size and shape, and looked like it would complete the picture. I placed it in the slot carefully, and suddenly a door on the wall in front of me rose up.
"… I DID IT!" I exclaimed, but then remembered I had no one to share my joy with. It still didn't wipe the smile off my face, though.
I walked through the doorway and shined my flashlight on everything in the room. There was no door, making me wonder what the point of making it so hard to get in there was, when suddenly I saw a flash. My flashlight was shining on something in the back of the room. I walked over to it and examined it carefully. There was the upper part of a knight suit sitting on top of a fireplace, with something shiny and circular embedded in its chest. It was about the size of my palm, and I carefully plucked it out, then nearly dropping it when I heard the door I had come through slam shut and the part of the wall the armor was leaning up against flipped around and revealed a blue and gold chest. I opened the chest and inside it was a blue piece of stone shaped like an animals hind legs, and a serpent for its tail.
As soon as I picked it up, the door rose again and I heard clanging coming from the next room. As I moved closer, it kept getting louder and louder. When I reached the door, I shined my flashlight into my room and saw that the suits of armor were moving! They had somehow sprang to life, and were now walking towards me wielding axes as big as my face, on poles about as tall as me. Suddenly the closest one stopped and began raising this axe. I screamed loudly, and dropped my flashlight as I ran around them and back out into the hallway. I could hear them following me, and I kept running. Then I remembered seeing more suits of armor in the hallways and began sprinting even faster. Every time I passed one, I would jump out of the way just before it sliced me in half, and then crumpled to the floor. Finally I reached the room with the pillars. I jumped over the wall and through them in record time, before stopping dead in my tracks in front of the door; there was another suit or armor. I carefully backed up and stepped to the right, hopping it wouldn't sense me there, but it did. Right as it swung its axe down, I fell on my ass, sure to leave a bruise. Once the thing had crumpled, I bolted out of the door.
Back in the area after the room with the second zealot in it, I stopped to catch my breath. My heart was pounding. When I could finally breathe normal again, I noticed a blue door to my right that I hadn't seen before. I slowly prodded it open with my gun, ready to attack the next person who dared to try and mess with me. Even though it was empty, I figured I could still do some pretty serious damage if I hit someone upside the head with it.
There was no one in the room, only a large painting on the back wall and some sort of bird-bath-looking thing in front of it, with a pole coming out of its side. But as I got closer, I realized it wasn't a birdbath, it was another dais, this one circle shaped, and you used the bar to turn it. I took a closer look and saw a hole in the center about as big as my palm. Immediately after I placed the round insignia I had gotten from the top half of the armor, the wall with the painting rose up to reveal a ladder. After eagerly climbing up it, I bolted straight down the long hallway, running as fast as I could, hoping the next door I walked through would lead me to Leon.
I took two rights and a left before I came up to a door. Something about it just seemed… right. Like Leon would be waiting there for me after I opened it. I reached my hand up and turned the lock. I slowly pushed the door open and looked up; a blonde man was nervously pacing back and forth in front of me.
"Leon!" I exclaimed. I had so much excitement built up in me at that moment, I ran up and glomped the man. Not the kind where you fall to the floor, but I was hugging him tighter than I'd ever hugged anyone else before in my life.
He was laughing. "You did good…" he said as I buried my face in his chest.
I slowly pulled away after another second. "I'm… sorry for… well yeah…" I said, looking down at my shoes.
"Hey, don't worry about it."
"I was so worried about you!" Ashley ran up.
"Well there wasn't much to worry about." I smiled, and then continued. "Unless you count the giant suits of armor that kept trying to cut me in half… I'm not even joking." I said after seeing the confused looks on their faces.
Leon shook his head. "Well, come on. Let's move on." He said that with such a big smile on his face, it was hard not to smile back.
Then, suddenly his walkie-talkie thing went off. I thought that didn't work?
"Aww… what a touching moment we have here…" I heard Salazar speaking from the other end.
"All spoiled thanks to your interruption." Leon replied, making my face turn a deep shade of red. "Why don't you just do us all a favor and leave before the audience gets pissed off?"
The man on the other end laughed. "You're nothing but an extra in my script, so don't get too carried away. Your biggest scene is over."
"I don't ever remember being a part of your crappy script." Leon replied sarcastically. I was in awe at how awesome his comebacks were.
"Well then, why don't you show me what a first-class script is like; through your own actions." And with that, he hung up.
"What… the hell." I said. "Who the hell is that guy, anyway?"
"You were there. He owns this place." Leon said.
"Yeah but he thinks he's such a badass! Compared to a cat, maybe. But compared to you? He's gotta be smoking some pretty serious stuff."
Ashley full out guffawed and Leon shrugged. "You know, I'm not as awesome as you think I am." He said.
I scoffed. "You keep telling yourself that, cowboy." I said while patting his chest as I walked past him. Ashley followed me, still giggling, and Leon followed too, after a short laugh.
