You Saved Me (Resident Evil) #wattys2015

You Saved Me~Chapter Twenty Three

*Chris's POV*

I was still staring at the big blank screen. I had seen things like this happen before. When Wesker and the Umbrella Corporation started the wars with the BOWs I was there. I had lived through it since the beginning. So had the rest, except for Jake, my partner, and Sherry's new partner.

"C-Captain?"

I turned to face O'Connor. His face was still white. He had his gun poised like he was ready to shoot something.

The buzzing in my ears from the rage I felt in my heart had covered up the soft shhhhh of a door that was opening up in the wall to our left.

The loud breathing we heard was coming from a creature that looked like a mutated bear. It's skin was almost naked. There were patches where it looked like there was no skin at all. Just mucle.

Long, snake-like tongues lashed out at us from the creature's sharp-toothed mouth. One of them managed to slash a gash across O'Connor's arm. The material of his uniform split open to reveal a wide, bleeding slice. He screamed in shock when he noticed it.

The monster had reared it's tongue back to take another hit at O'Connor. I raised my gun to my shoulder, squeezing the trigger when I thought I had it in the right position to blow the tongue off.

Bullets flew from the gun. Black and green blood spewed from the tongue as it fell to the floor. It kept writhing, twisting like a dying snake.

It was stunned, like it hadn't known that something could hurt it. It raised a paw to its mouth, a very strangely human gesture.

It felt the stub of the tongue that had been chopped off. Anger sparked in it's eyes, and the paw it had raised looked like it was getting bigger.

No. The paw itself wasn't actually getting bigger. There were Claws growing out of the skin.

The monster roared as it raised up on it's hind legs. It had to be at least six feet tall, maybe even closer to seven. The claws were growing to almost the length of the bear's height. The tongues were waving wildly in the air again.

O'Connor raised his gun. He was shaking, but at least he was doing something.

Something long and hard hit my side. I went flying through the air, dropping my gun.

My back slammed into one of the white walls. My vision exploded into nothing but stars as I slid down to the floor. The buzzing was back in my ears while I tried to make sense of the surroundings. Was someone screaming?

"Captain!!! CAPTAINNN!!!!"

My vision was blurry. All I could see was a huge dark shape trying to make it's way towards me, an even smaller dark shape in front of it trying to ward it off.

My shoulders and my back ached. I groaned as I pushed my torso up with my hands and put my knees under my body. It took every ounce of my strength to get myself onto my legs.

I placed my hand on the wall to steady myself. I shook my head to clear my eyes and ears.

When I opened my eyes, I was shocked. O'Connor was a trained sniper. But right now, he was doing something I had never seen another rookie do before. Especially since this was something he had not been trained in.

He was in close combat with the beast. I could see a blade expertly slicing through the tongues. He would bob and weave as the monstrous claws whipped at him, making the monster slice itself.

The green and black blood covered the floor. None of it was red, except for what covered the sleeve of his jacket.

He had a look of pure concentrated rage on his face. His teeth were clamped so hard together I could have sworn they would crack.