Starting Over Again (Book 1: Leon Kennedy)

Chapter 15: Save Her

LEON WOKE UP AFTER A while, confused at first with what happened. He moves around and feels a sharp pain on his shoulder making him wince. He looks down at his shoulder and sees it bandaged. Memories of earlier came flooding through his mind and he looks around. He spots Justine next to him, her head leaning against Luca while they slept. He felt a tingle of jealousy in his chest at the sight of the two but he quickly shakes the thought out of his head.

Don't think like that, Leon, you don't have the right to! He reprimands himself. He accidentally moved his wounded shoulder a bit rougher than he intended to, making him whine in pain. The sound made Justine wake up. She turns to Leon as she sleepily rubbed her eye, "Leon, how are you feeling? Does your shoulder hurt?"

"A little, but it's nothing serious—wait, where's Ada?" Leon asks, now fully awake.

"She went after Annette, said that she couldn't let her get away," Justine replies.

"We have to find her—it's too dangerous for her to be alone!"

"You're right." Justine replies before turning to Luca, "Hey, wake up we have to go!" Luca groggily wakes up but obliges nonetheless.

"Have you guys seen where she went?"

"No, she took off while we were patching you up," Justine replied. "Maybe we can use that lift over there!" Justine points to the lift that was a couple of meters from them. A green light came from its controls. They all agree and went to the lift, Leon pressing the glowing green button. The lift went up and they ended up in a room filled with sealed cargos. At the end of the room was a white door and on its left was a wrecked lift. The trio first went through the door. It was a break room. There was a table big enough for six people to sit on and on top of it were various files scattered. There were also computers at the end of the room behind the table, and various bulletin boards on each wall of the room. It looked like an office of some sort.

The door at the end of this room was locked, so they had no choice but to go down the wrecked elevator. Passing through it, they ended up in another control room, this was bigger and in the very right area of the room was a heavily sealed door. Leon walked towards a large window, leaning his empty hand on the glass as he looked down.

"Ada!" Leon gasped. Justine's head snapped to Leon. She rushed to him, looking at where Leon's eyes were.

And there Ada was, unconscious and surrounded by garbage.

"How on earth... what happened?" Justine mumbles, her and Leon's eyes looking at each other.

"Hey guys, take a look at this!" Luca calls out to them. Their heads snap to where Luca was. He was standing near the sealed door, but that wasn't where his attention was. The two walked towards him and they were greeted by various fuse boxes, some already had plugs inserted in it.

"This must be the way to get to her," Justine points out.

"Let's hurry," Leon replies before checking his magazine. There were still enough bullets in it. "It's not safe for her to be alone down there."

The three began to walk to another exit. "This place looks huge, how are we—agh!" Justine's eyes snap to Luca whose face was contorted in pain as his hand was set on the wound on his rib.

"I don't think it'll be safe for you to move too much. Stay here, we'll go and look for the plugs."

"No, I'm fine, I can—"

"Luca, please," Justine says in a pleading tone. "You've pushed yourself too much, just wait for us here,"

"Don't worry, I won't let anything happen to her," Leon reassures him. Luca sighs, agreeing with Justine.

"Just... be careful you two, all right?" Luca tells them and the two nod, reassuring him that they will be safe.

"Here, you guys can have this," Luca takes Justine's hand and places a couple of bullets in it. Luca hands Leon the switchblade he had found earlier.

"What about you?" Leon asks, still holding out the knife in his hands.

"I'll be fine, I still have a full magazine," Luca says.

"Okay. Thanks. We'll be back as soon as we can." Justine replies. The two rushed out of the room and they were greeted by a larger room with the bottom of it filled with the sewage water. Leon walked ahead first while Justine followed from behind. They walked along the steel bridge, Justine keeping her eyes straight ahead so her knees wouldn't feel too wobbly as she walked. When they got to the end of the bridge, she quickly let out a breath of relief.

"A cablecar? In here?" Leon says, confused. Justine looks to where Leon was looking. Out of curiosity, the two approached it, and when they got close to it; a robotic voice spoke.

"THIS TRAM IS BOUND FOR N.E.S.T. ACCESS DENIED, PLEASE PRESENT AN I.D. WRISTBAND," It kept repeating.

The two left the tram alone and went through the green door that they had walked past by. It leads to an underground path that was the entrance to the sewers.

There were three zombies when they got to the bottom. Luckily this time they were able to kill them a lot easier. The two walked closer to the edge of the sewer and Leon pulled the lever next to him. It opened up another section of the sewer.

"Is there really no other way?" Justine mumbled, disgusted with the murky and smelly water below her. She sounded like a child but she didn't care. She was afraid that something would crawl out of the water or that something would touch her in the water. And of course for the most obvious reason, its sewage water.

"You can stay if you want, watch over Luca instead," Leon suggests and Justine shakes her head.

"No, no! I'm going with you!" Justine says, more-so convincing herself.

Leon chuckles at Justine, making her blush in embarrassment. "All right. Let's go then." Leon jumps in the water and Justine follows.

"Ugh, now I'm going to smell like shit literally," Justine groans as she followed Leon.