Failure (Resident Evil Village)

I Won't Give Up

"I won't... Give up...!" she said as she tried to stand up.

She succeeds as she stands up straight for the first time after awhile.

She bares her teeth at the child as she clenched her hands.

"I won't... Ever... Give up! I'll save Mia, Rosemary, and Ethan... I'll beat Miranda. Just you watch!" she shouted determinedly as she felt herself slowly lose consciousness again. Her eyes were forcing themselves close as the cold made them water.

The silhouette didn't say anything about her outburst.

Instead, it only laughed.

"Go ahead then. Let's see if you'll win this time!"

The child said lastly as Bela fully lost her consciousness.

She fell backwards as she drifted back to sleep.

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Once Bela came to, her body ached everywhere.

She doesn't even know if she's dead yet or not. But she hopes it's the second.

She hears voices, familiar voices, but she has yet to open her eyes.

She breathed in the air in where she was and it smelled like smoke.

She opened her eyes slowly, and she felt as if she had just woken up from a bad dream.

Her heart was beating rapid–her heart was beating?

But didn't Miranda take it from her?

She noticed it was cold.

But she does not crack yet.

She shakes her head slowly as she tried to comprehend where she was and why the voices were familiar.

"...And the moronic freak. Don't you get it? Ethan, you're being–"

"Lord Heisenberg?" Bela croaked as she sat up, slowly.

The bearded man seemed irritated by the disruption but his irritation faded when he saw Bela.

Ethan, sitting just in front of a hatch, also turned his head towards her.

"Blondie? Good god you're awake. And here I was thinking I lost a soldier." Karl said as he approached her.

Once she sat up she eyed the room first. It was a room she hasn't seen before.

But what caught her eye the most were the pictures on the wall, with metal blades pierced on each of them except a large picture.

Ethan frowned as he watched Karl reach his hand out for Bela to grab on.

Bela saw the hand and grabbed it, then standing up.

She stumbled for a while before straightening up.

She glanced around the room.

"Welcome to my abode, niece. I'm glad you lived." Karl continued as he controlled the metal on the pictures to retract. He brought the metals down somewhere on the floor once he took all of them out.

"Bela! Do you know this man!?" Ethan asked as he stood up from the chair he was sitting on.

Bela nodded.

Ethan was about to say something but he stayed silent.

"...I'm glad you're alright." he instead said as he changed the chair's position, far from the hatch, and sat back down.

She saw Karl eye him down before his attention returned back to Bela.

Bela was touching the middle of her chest, checking for any signs of the hole. But there was nothing.

It was just like she wasn't even scratched other than the obvious blood on the dress shirt and the sides of her coat.

Karl walked back to Ethan and returned to talking.

"...anyway, Ethan, all I want is for you to help me grind Miranda into paste!" he said as he made the metal around the room float.

Bela saw Ethan looking down, thinking about it, before sighing.

He reached into his pocket and pulled out a blade, wrapped gently in a white cloth.

Bela went in front of Ethan and grabbed the blade from Ethan's hands.

As she examined it, Karl watched.

She took the white cloth off and it revealed the Dimitrescu dagger.

Bela turned to look at Ethan, "How did you find this?"

Ethan shrugged as he stood up.

"I found it accidentally in the castle while I was walking out." he answered as Bela nodded, acknowledging his explanation.

"So, this is the rumored dagger. But does it really have all kinds of poison ingrained on its tip?" Karl asked as he approached the duo.

Bela nodded, but at the same time she was also unsure.

"I don't know. I'll take my chances." She said as she held the blade up and shined it to the light. She closed one eye and watched it shine.

She put it back in the cloth and put it inside her coat.

Karl cleared his throat, "So, will you help me?" he said as he held out his hand for a shake.

Ethan paused for a moment before nodding, also taking his hand and shaking it thoroughly.

The three of them then heard revving.

"...It's sturm again. Nevermind him." Karl said as he gathered the floating metals into one big pile floating just behind him.

He looked back at Bela and Ethan. "You both'll help me, right? Then follow me." he said as they followed him down the hatch.

Ethan and Karl had to slide down while Bela only swarmed her way.

Soon enough, they reached the ground and the revving was now closer. Bela thought it reminded her of the chainsaw but she pushed that thought away.

Karl turned to them one more time before walking to the direction of the revving.

"Let's prepare the army."