Nine Flowers

Chapter Seven

You had no luck unlocking the cage full of weapons, you did however manage to get the red herb from the office room. Plucked it right from the dead mans desk. Now you just needed the green one, the other two would be completely useless without it. You came out of the elevator that lead to the main hall on the bottom floor.

A set of large stairs lead down into the lobby. The front wall lookjng out to the street was made of glass, various plants were scattered around for decoration and chairs where people waiting would sit. Now it was all gloom and doom with blood stains dragged across the floor and a few broken windows. You slowly mives down the stairs, your now blood stained dress moving elegantly around your body.

Once you reached the bottom of the stairs you looked to the display case where the green herb was suppose to be there. Instead the case was broken and the herb gone.

Heavy foot steps rung out as the tall zombie came out from behind the case and stood next to it, his white blank eyes staring at you. You saw the herb clutched in his free hand.

"Your to smart to be a normal zombie..." You said to him, numb from your last experience in the security you were more apathetic. You cocked the gun in your hand, as if youd done it a thousand times and held up at him, hand unwavering.

The zombie put the herb in a leather puch he had strapped to his side and held his Large axe in both hands. He opened his mouth and spoke.

"Koa Pono."

You tilted your head to the side. You had no idea what he said, but you were stunned he could say anything at all. He suddenly clacked his Axe several times intothe floor and with a warriors howl leapt into the air at you.

Without hesitation you fired off three bullets. Two of them missed but the third one slammed into his shoulder and you barely managed to roll to the side. Your dress was caught by his axe but you ripped it free and stood tall near by, firing two more bullets. Both of which embedded into his back.

You decided to call the Zombie Koa, sense just referring to him as big zombie was kinda dumb.

Koa swung his axe in a rage but you could easily avoid it. You took one step everytime he howled and tried to hit you. If this was suppose to be a boss fight it wasnt that bad- although that could just be the apathy talking.

The fight was full of lots of dodging and lots Koa's Angry shouting.

To shorten what happened you wound up pinned to a wall and as Koa lunged at you, screaming of course, you pulled up your hand gun and managed to shoot him in the mouth. He stumbled back with a pitiful groan then fell over heavily.

You took a long deep breath then slowly moved off the wall. You kicked him softly before leaning down and taking the herb you needed. "Now to get back to Leon..."

As you hurried through the building star case you were scared to death you would stumble apon him being eaten or dead from his wounds- the apathy must be wearing off.

As you round the stair case leading to the fifth floor you saw Leon still pressed up against the wall. His eyes were closed and he looked too pale.

"O-oh god..." You rushed over and grabbed his gloved hand. He slowly squeezed your hand and relief washed over your being. He was alive.

"Did you get it..." He spike softly, he was gettinf weaker by the moment.

"I- I did! What do I do!?" You pulled the ingredients out of your pouch and held them up. Leon's now cloudy blue eyes looked over the herbs and the brown bottle.

"You... Need..." He coughed violently, blood falling down his chin. Your heart lurched at the sight and you had to hold back tears in front of him. You had to be strong for him now, other wise you may loose him. "You need... To mix them all in the bottle.... Mix well..."

Without hesitation you unscrewed the cap of the bottle and started to smash the herbs in the tiny hole. To your surprise the whole thing foamed and over flowed but after a few moments it calmed down and was just fluid again, nothing was left of the herbs they completely disolved.

"Now what?!"

Leon didn't respond.

You stared at him, to scared to move. "Leon, now what..."

Still nothing.

Your hand shot out to touch his face, he was still warm enough to be alive, but so pale. Your dainty fingers pressed against his throat and you felt a faint pulse. You sighed relieved then quickly crouched on his other side.

"Get ready..." Your earning fell on deaf ears as you gripped the pipe and slowly pulled it out of Leon side. His unconscious body jerked and he cried out in pain, whike he twitched violently and started to clear profusely from the now open hole you quickly dumped all the bottles contents on his stab wound.

At first it did nothing and you were ready to break down and cry. But then there was a low hissing noise and you watched with wide (e/c) eyes as the skin around his wound started to come back together. Once it was done and healed you gently dragged your fingers over the skin. It was soft now and full of color.

"A-amazing..."

Leon suddenly took a heavy gasp and his chest heaved with every breath. He looked around until his wide blue eyes fell on you. "You- you did it..." He sounded in disbelief.

You let out a soft laugh and it got louder, and then it turned into a sob. The built uonstress falling down kn you like bricks. You sat there and wailed for so many reasons. The things you did- you saw, Leon almost died. The one person here who knew what he was doing. You almoat lost him.

You were surprised when you felt the blonde agent pull you in a hug, his arms full of life and strength again. "You did good..." He whispered into your ear. "You did a good job..."

Your arms wrapped around him and you clung on tightly as you cried jntk his shoulder, your body shaki g with every wail. Leon didn't seem to care that you were getting tears on his shirt, he understood better than anyone how you must be feeling. God only knows what you had to do to get all those herbs.

After what felt like hours you were finally okay enough to pull away from Leon and rub the tears from your eyes. "I'm sorry... I'm so sorry..."

"Its ok." He interupted you. "Its not easy to go out and deal with those... Things..."

You looked up at him, he spoke from experience and you sensed that. "Im sorry..." You apologized again, but not for what you did- because of what he must have done.

His gloved hand came up to wile your cheek. "Its ok... Youve been through a lot."

So have you. You thought.

Suddenly Leon was tru ing aroubd and bending down, offering to carry you on his back. "Lets go, girly."

You blinked several times. "Are- aren't you still hurt...?"

He smiked back at you and you blushed. He was very attractive when he smiled. "Im good as new thanks to you and the first aid you gave me. You seem like you need to rest."

With pink cheeks you slowly climbed onto his back and he stood up. "Thank you..." You spoke softly.

"It's no problem." He replied. And then he was walking down the stairs, avoiding all the zombies they came across.

Your muscles ached and you relaxed against him breathing in his scent. Before you knew it you were passed out in his back.

Authors not-
*peeks in slowly* so uh... Hi. don't mind me... Just... Leaving this here to say that I'm sorry that the first like.. Boss fight(?) Was really disappointing. I decided to just do that up there ^ because I've already thrown a lot of 'intense"-ish scenes into this so far. And I didn't think to many people would like that. Not only that but its not easy to write out a fight scene with crazy zombie monster and I just kept rewriting the scene and I was finally like "naw man. Its super short now"
I plan to make other fight scenes coming up to be more detailed. They'll be easier to write with the other characters involved ;u; okay thanks!

Thank you for reading <3