Resident Evil: Underworld by S.D. Perry

Author:S.D. Perry [Perry, S.D.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2011-03-05T06:00:00+00:00

Cole nodded shakily. “Yeah, okay. Sorry. I just -

- I’m scared.”

“Join the club. Birds give me the creeps. The flying part’s cool, but they’re so weird, got those beady eyes and scaly feet - and have you ever seen a buzzard?

They got scrotum heads.” John mock-shivered, and saw Cole relax a little bit, even trying on a quivery smile.

“Okay,” Cole said again, more firmly. They walked back to where Leon was standing, still watching the air above.

“Henry, since we got the guns, how ‘bout you lead?” John asked. “Leon and I will keep watch, and we’ll need a clear route so we won’t have to worry about tripping over stuff. Think you can handle it?”

Cole nodded, and though he still looked too pale, John could see that he would hold together. For a while, anyway.

Their guide stepped in front of Leon and headed roughly southwest, weaving a crooked path through the strange forest. Leon and John followed, John realizing pretty quick that having Cole lead didn’t make much of a difference.

If you don’t look where you’re going, you’re going to trip, John thought wearily, after the sixth time he ran into a fallen “log.” No way around it.

The Dacs, as Cole called them, hadn’t put in an appearance or made any other sound. Just as well; John thought walking through a plastic forest was enough for them to handle. It was a bizarre sensation, seeing the realistic-looking trees and undergrowth, feeling the moisture in the air, but also being aware that there were no smells of earth or growing things, no wind or tiny sounds of movement, no bugs. It was a dream-like experience, and an unnerving one.

John was still edging forward, his gaze fixed on the crisscross of branches overhead, when Cole stopped.

“We’re … there’s kind of a clearing here,” he said.

Leon turned, frowning at John. “Should we skirt it?”

John stepped forward, peering through the seemingly random scatter of trees to the opening ahead. It was at least fifty feet across, but John would rather they go out of their way; being dive-bombed by a pterodactyl didn’t sound like fun at all.

“Yeah. Henry, veer right. We’re going to…”

The rest of his words were lost as that high, warbling screech blasted through the unnatural forest, and a brown-gray shape dove into the clearing and flew at them, extending talons a foot across.

John saw a wingspan of eight or ten feet, the leathery wings tipped with curved hooks. He saw a screaming, toothed beak and a slender elongated skull, flat black eyes the size of saucers, glittering -

- and he and Leon both opened fire as the creature hit the line of artificial trees in front of them, its huge claws gouging into the solid plastic. It held on, spreading its vast membranous wings in a struggle to balance -

- and bambambam, holes punched through the thin flesh, streamers of watery blood trickling down from the openings. The animal screamed, so close that John couldn’t hear the bullets, couldn’t hear anything

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