Spain, 2004
It's almost afternoon while I was driving to a small village in Spain with my cousin Leon Kennedy. He's on a mission to safe a girl names Ashley Graham, when I'm honest.... I don't even know what I'm really doing here, but after the incident in Raccoon city, Leon and I promised each other to take off the other one since we lost everybody and that's how I ended up here. The view out of the window was boring, everything looked the same.
In the same moment the driver stops, it starts to heavily rain. We got out of the car, and I'm looking around the small street with a few little houses that looked pretty broken and uninhabited. Leon and I moved forward to the old Village, but the villagers seem to be very unfriendly and uncooperative, giving us the cold shoulder at every turn. We tried to gather information from them, but it seemed like they were under strict orders to keep quiet about any information where the girl could be if they even knew something. The village wasn't huge, but big enough that it would take hours to surch for something.
I couldn't help but thought it's the best idea to split up, till we would find something it could be already too late for Ashley especially because we didn't know what's going on in here yet.
So I made my way through the village. It didn't take long till the first villagers moved from weird looks to coming closer, I didn't know their habits, so I ignored it at first till I saw what he was holding. It was an axe. I knew that something bad will happen, so I started running, but it was already too late. I felt something hard knocking against my head and everything went black.... That's all I remember.
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"That's everything? More than I thought" said a voice with a hard Spanish accent. I'm sitting on a cold ground in a barn or something like that. It's raining outside, I can hear it splashing on the roof.
I think that the villagers might bring me in here after they knocked me out for some reason. The first thing I saw when I woke up was the man which is locked in here in with me. "Well yeah that's all" I answer, "Who even are you?" I say afterwards in a tone I didn't intend. "Wow, wow no need to get harsh" he said with a smirk "Luis Sera, Luis for a señorita like you" "Ahh...well... Luis...what brought you here?" I said while standing up. He brought a little laugh "Unlike you, I'm just a Spanish man who's obviously in Spain right now, if you ask me, nothing unusual. What are you doing here?!" I sigh, seemly annoyed by his humour. "I see....on secret missions?"
"No, not at all, just surching for someone." I reply. "Ah well-DAMN" Luis was going to say but got disturbed by a Villager which comes in with a pitchfork, holding it in my direction. The villager comes menacingly closer, I'm taking long steps back while trying to unbuckle the strap over my gun, but unfortunately I overlook the box which is laying on the ground behind me. I stumble and fly into the corner, crashing my head again on the gate of the barn. The villager is about to kill me with his pitchfork when I suddenly hear a shot, and he fell next to me.
"You alright?" Luis asks with his Spanish accent, running over to me. "That was close, sorry that I shot so late" He reached me his hand to help me up, but I refuse to take his help.
"It's alright nothing happened, thanks" I said in an unimpressed tone because I didn't want to make him feel more special than he already does. "God damn Ganados" he whispers while inspecting the dead body on the ground. "Gana what?" I ask him. "Ganados, or Los Ganados how you want to call 'em, are those villagers. I expect you to know that since you're so well-informed about this place" he winked at me. I rolled my eyes, "No, I didn't know that. What the hell is wrong with them?" "Oh girl, you know nothing, do you? They're infected, isn't that obvious" "It's obvious that they're not normal, but how should I know that they're infected?! What are they infected with anyway?"
I step next to his side also looking at the guy on the ground, the blood is floating out of him, and it makes me feel nauseous. "Las plagas my dear, it's a parasite, and you're infected too"
"That's not funny you know that right" I said in a serious tone,it really wasn't funny not just because it came out of his mouth. "No, no, I am serious! I was infected too, see!" he showed me a scar on his chest "you can get rid of it, not easy, but shouldn't be a problem for someone like you... look here" he pulled my hair on the other side and pointed on a red blue bruise on my neck which starts to hurt after he touches it. "Fuck" I said after he touches the bruise. "What am I supposed to do now?!" "Trying to get rid of it?" Luis shrugs, "I could help you..." "You would?..." I ask. "Sure, a real Gentleman doesn't let a señorita down in a critical situation, does he?" He smirks. His acting annoys me, but I didn't say something because I need his help, I knew I definitely wouldn't make it and with him, I had at least a little chance, if he was lying or not it wouldn't make a difference.
"Thanks..." I said. "But before we do anything, we need to get out of here" Luis says and points to a broken window which is attached to the top of the wall. "I will lift you up, and you climb out of the window, you can open the door from the outside, they are not locked"
I look critical to the window. "But what if one of the villager...or Ganados see me?" "Then we can't change it, we will be out of here faster than they can see with their roddy red eyes"
I believe him. Luis lifts me up, and I'm able to smell his perfume. It smells good and fits to him. While I'm trying to climb out of the window, I felt Luis hands on places I didn't want to feel it, but I didn't mind. I jump through the broken window and accidentally cut my cheek on a shard of, which was still sitting in the window frame. The ground is muddy from the rain and I almost slipped out. The air smells fresh and it was still raining. I open the door and Luis was already waiting. "Sorry that it took so long" I say to him while holding my cheek which was bleeding. "Next time, if you're more careful, I have nothing against waiting even longer." said Luis while taking out a handkerchief and holds it against the cut. "Now tell the real reason why you're here" "I owe you what, huh?" He nods complacent. I take a look-up in the sky which is getting darker. "Seems like it's going to thunder the next time, where do we have to go?" "We best go through that building right there" he points to a church looking thing. I sigh, "seriously?" "Yap"
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We start moving closer to the middle of the village while trying to stay hidden, but it came how it had to come. A Ganado notice us. I turn around to Luis. He's staring at the Ganado. "Look, they don't harm us" he says. "How is that possible they were trying to kill us a few minutes before" I answer in confusion. But Luis just shrugs. We went deeper into the village, but the villager is still just staring, like they were waiting for something to happen. I kept looking around, the worry of getting attacked again was too big.
"Hey, beautiful," Luis said with a grin while he walks alongside me. "Don't worry, I've got ya back."
I rolled my eyes at his blatant flirtation, but I cannot help but feel grateful for his company. We're almost there and made our way through the village. Of course, we're trying our best to avoid drawing attention to ourselves, but the villager didn't care at all. It was too strange and too good to be real.
As we came into the near of the church, a group of Ganados appeared in front of us, brandishing their weapons. "Seriously?!" I yelled while taking out my gun. The villagers keep whispering their words in Spanish, but I ignore it. "Oh, you really think so?" Luis says to a Ganado and holds his gun on the head of the Ganado. He shot, and I have the feeling that I'll never get this picture out of my head.
"Looks like we've got some trouble, be happy that you don't understand them" Luis says with a smirk. "Don't worry, I'll take care of them." I also try to eliminate the ganados, but I didn't hit any, my vision was blurry and my head was buzzing. I look at Luis, his movements swift and calculated. He seemed to be enjoying himself, his laughter ringing out through the village.
I couldn't help but smile at his infectious energy. "It's okay, I can handle it. Enjoy the show" Luis says after he notices that I was watching him. But I couldn't let Luis defend me, he would use that, so I was keep shooting till my magazine was empty. "Fuck..."
After a few minutes, the Ganados were defeated. And Luis came closer.
"Liked what you saw?" he smirks. I still feel dizzy in my head and my legs start shaking a bit. "Madre mía please not yet" Luis says and holds me to give me a stable stand. "You alright?" he asks. "I don't know..." I almost whisper. "C'mon, I will help you" and he puts my arm over his shoulder and helps me walk.
We approached the church, Luis turns to me with a grin. "You ready for this?"
I nod, trying to muster up as much courage as I can.
We enter the church and immediately met with a wave of Ganados. "Jesus, we don't have time for that" Luis says and pick me up. He carries me through the church while we're getting chased by Ganados and getting carried by him did everything to me but not making me comfortable for some reason. After a few minutes we made it to the end of the church, and he let me down, but it came different than we thought. I open the door, but what I saw wasn't the help for my problem.
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