The Resident Eviloves : Connections (Lady Dimitrescu - Resident Evil)

Chapter 5 - Duel of Monsters part 1

Unaware of everything that had just happened at Dimitrescu Castle, Donna had spent much of her day making new dolls to add to her already huge collection. This talent for making puppets and dolls, which had been transmitted in her family for generations, an art that her parents and their relatives had also practiced in their lives. Her ancestor and founder of the Beneviento family, Lord Berengario, was apparently also a doll maker, and it is even claimed that he had whole legions of murderous automatons under his command, but that remained of the order of the legend, as well as was the fact that Lord Cesare, the ancestor of Lady Dimitrescu, would have been considered to be none other than the legendary Dracula, but again, nothing could prove it.

Once the new dolls were completed, dressed in elegant old-fashioned dresses, Donna proceeded with the usual ritual, affecting their inert plastic bodies with her Cadou, thus giving them "life", allowing them to move and thus be able to control them and see through their eyes, like a puppeteer manipulating her puppets without the help of wires.

But while she was in full swing, Donna was startled by the sudden, recognizable sound of breaking glass. Taking Angie in her arms, she left her workshop in high gear to return to the living room, to discover that one of the windows had been broken, the icy wind insinuating itself through the hole. It couldn't be the wind that had done this. Suspicious, Donna, along with Angie, looked around in the house, as around them several dolls came to life, arming themselves with built-in blades in place of their hands.

_"Show yourself right now!" Angie ordered in her disembodied voice at the obvious intruder who had just entered the house.

But suddenly, without being able to anticipate it, Donna received a projectile similar to a metallic dart which was fired from outside. Immediately, a violent electric shock went through her, causing her to scream in pain and fall to her knees, dropping Angie who rolled on the floor. Donna moaned, trying to crawl up to reach Angie, but another similar projectile hit her in the back, adding another blast of volts that shook her and weakened her even more. Unable to maintain control due to the pain, the dolls fell back, inert.

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Having guessed what was going to happen following the deliberately provocative message from this mysterious man, Mathias and Alcina had agreed on the way forward. While the countess remained at the castle to watch over and protect her daughters in the possible event of a double attack, Mathias had taken a horse and was hurrying towards Donna Beneviento's estate to go and warn her or help if needed.

Sitting firmly on his horse galloping at high speed on the forest road, the young man hoped that it was not too late. In a year, he had had time to learn horse riding perfectly, and Alcina had of course refused to let him go alone. Around Mathias, a group of lycans was there, armed with axes, spears, bows and arrows, and also riding, like an escort of guards accompanying a medieval lord. Although he has a sword and his mutant power of pyrokinesis, Mathias had to admit to being rather reassured not to be alone. They didn't know anything about this new enemy, so now was not the time to play the reckless.

Once past the forest path and the suspension bridges, it didn't take long for Mathias and his escort of lycan riders to finally reach the cliff where the Benevenito mansion was located, just in front of the huge waterfall. The house seemed very calm and silent, but this peace of mind made Mathias feel bad and he picked up the pace.

BOOM! A massive, brutal explosion erupted from the ground just a meter ahead, kicking tons of rocks and dust into the air. Blown away by the shock wave, Mathias, the lycans and the horses all fell to the ground. Half stunned by the blast and shaking his head to recover his senses, Mathias straightened up quickly, the lycans behind him doing the same, and stared in amazement at the huge, smoking, blackened crater in front of him. C4! But who could have concealed explosives here?