Invoking the Devil, Chapter one: Back in Action
Ex STARS member Jill Valentine sat at her table reading the newspaper, another child in Racoon City had gone missing:
22nd June 2001, Racoon Times issue 403: Irene Ashcroft aged ten disappeared from home yesterday. The young girl seemed to be obsessed with the new neighbour and was saying she wanted to go to her. The neighbour Alison Taylor says she hadn't heard from the girl or seen her at all but admits to finding the child's doll in a rubbish skip not too far away, Police are looking into this.
Below the short piece was a small picture of the missing girl, she had a chubby face and brown hair, Jill pushed the paper to one side thoughtfully. She hadn't been back to Raccoon since the past horror of Nemesis but she was interested in these strange disappearances. She got up and went into the living and picked a postcard up off the shelf from Carlos who was visiting Spain on vacation, she smiled as he rambled on about the weather and reminded her of an old man writing to a relative. She put it down looked at a pile of papers left on the coffee table, nine children had gone now and it seemed to her that the police were doing nothing or couldn't do anything. She didn't quite know if she should go herself to Raccoon but being there on your own could be pretty dangerous although mostly everything was cleared up now and people were starting to settle there again although Jill wondered why as she certainly wouldn't want to live there. If Carlos were around she could have got in touch with him and gone together but he would have moaned the entire way. "Well I can't just sit here" Jill said to herself "I'll go and see what I can find…if anything." She smoothed out a short leather mini skirt and went to the door, she looked in the mirror as she reached for the knob, she'd changed so much since she had been with STARS but that didn't matter one bit. Jill smiled slightly and jumped as her phone rang but she dreaded to answer it in case it was Chris again, the last time they'd spoke he was impossible to shut up but she guessed it was OK since he'd finally got his sister back. She decided to wait for the answer machine to click in and hear who it was. Click! "Jill? This is Barry" A deep male voice came out, Barry Burton had been with her when they'd stumbled into the old Umbrella mansion, he'd saved her ass a couple of times too. "Look Jill, if your there please pick up the damn phone!" It sounded urgent and Jill jogged over and picked up
"Hi Barry, sorry I was just on my way out and…"
"It doesn't matter but look, I'm with Rebecca in Raccoon and I really need some backup, something rotten is going on here and I want you to come over…. what's so funny?" Jill had started to laugh because she was already about the do what Barry was asking.
"Nothing…I'll tell you later but I'll be over as soon as I can." With that she hung up and ran out the door.
Barry Burton and Rebecca Chambers waited outside a gas station for Jill and looked as if they were getting impatient, Jill ran over to them after searching around the wrong side of town. "Sorry, I was looking somewhere else"
"Well if you hadn't hung up on me I might have told you where to come" Barry said gruffly "but forget all that and let me explain why I called you here, you see a lot of children have gone missing lately and Rebecca and I decided to investigate. We searched round the street where to latest kid's gone missing and we think that Alison Taylor's behind it. We looked round her bins and found this" He reached into his pocket and pulled out a gold pendant "This belonged to one of the kid's." Jill looked at it and nodded "so what are we going to do?" Rebecca jumped in before Barry
"We found out that this woman goes out every morning about eight so we decided to go into her house and look for clues, that's why we wanted you as you are the Master of unlocking, right?" Jill smiled tightly
"I guess so, haven't had to unlock anything for a while though."
"Can we move on now?" Barry said, "We've really got to get going and if we don't get much done this morning we also found out that once a week she goes out till the early hours of the morning." The three set off done the pavement until they reached the street where Irene Ashcroft lived, they watched carefully as Alison got into her car and drove off. "Ok let's go, Jill I got you this…" Barry handed her a lock pick
"Thanks…I guess" Jill said and checked both ways before she moved in and picked the lock on the door, quickly the three ex STARS ran into the house and closed the door. The hall was lined with chests, each containing creepy stuff, skulls, shrunken heads and bones. "What the?" Barry looked in disgust at one object in the chest, a preserved baby, a low growl interrupted. A large dog most likely a German shepherd moved from the room opposite, it snarled angry with the intruders, Barry pulled out a combat knife and slashed at the dog, it whimpered as the knife caught it across the neck and slowly bled to death. "Well that was clever" Rebecca sighed "now what's she going the think when she comes back?" Barry shrugged and couldn't care less
"OK, Jill you looked upstairs, Rebecca outside and I'll look around down here, call me if you find anything useful" The women nodded and ran off to where they were told and how much trouble could a house hold? Well they are about the find out…
More to come, please don't flame because at the moment I've only read the books and am about to start the first game.