Fenrir's Fangs

James had lead the assault team down into the depth's of the Secronum facility in persuit of a force comprised of members from numerous clans, they had laid a trap for them in the lobby of the building, but after a full day of waiting the enemy had not shown themseles again, James had decided to move into the complex in persuit.

They met with no resistance all the way down, on the 12'th floor down however they came across an unnerving sight, the enemy were all dead, bodies lay brutally disfigured all over the corridor, empty shell casings lay everywhere, the unnerving thing was though that there were No dead infected, even a behemoth would have fallen to such a well armed and large group...

James ordered his men further into the facility, they descended down two more floors, the lack of infected presence was strange considering this was the source of the outbreak in the first place, there was a sudden sound of deep, heavy breathing heard, noone could tell what direction it came from but it put them all on their guard, the soldiers, despite their extreem mental training began to show signs of fear, James was the only one who seemed to keep his calm.

The sound continued, and didn't seem to get any louder or quieter wherever they moved, they checked every room along the way but there was nothing there, there was a sudden flash of movement and a soldier dissapeared, his dying screams could be heard echoing in the distance, gradually growing quieter, several soldiers opened fire in the general direction but hit nothing, before long another soldier was whisked off lightning quick by another black shadow, then another, and another.

Panic broke loose and the remaining men all ran off in different direction, most trying to get back to the exit, ll firing randomly as they went, James had removed his revolver from his holster and was crouched in a corner, ready to fire upon anything that came into view, something flashed past and modem fired, whatever it was was too quick and James missed, it flashed past again, this time closer and James missed again.

James frowned, the figure came rushing toward him this time, Modem fired once more, this time hitting whatever the thing was, it went flying backward for a spit second then moved off in another direction, James had cought a glimpse of the creature in the moment it was stationary, James's eyes were wide in shock and for the first time in as long as he could remember he began to feel fear, the creature was ghastly, its skin was deathly pale, it's eyes were glowing red with a small black pupil, and it's mouth....it's mouth was deformed, it stretched back at least twice what a normal human mouth size was, and it's teeth were jet black, it had set it's eyes on James in that split second and smiled, it was wearing the tattered remains of a lab coat, it probably used to be one of the scientists who worked here, off in the distance he could hear gunfire and the dying screams of his men.

James made a dash for an open door as the creature moved off, he had almost made it through when he felt a searing pain, he looked down and saw a clawed hand protruding from his stomach, it withdrew as fast as it had come, before collapsing James used the last of his strength to pull the door shut, it automatically locked into place, the door was made of glass but it was a type of shatterproof glass, James guessed it was a cell used to hold the early experiments in the lab, James crawled to the opposite side of the room and put his back to the wall as he sat looking at the door, the creature appeared on the other side of the glass almost instantly but made no move to attack or try to break through, it just stood there, staring with a hellish fanged smile, James looked down at his wound and saw something he did not like the look of, black vein's had begun working their way outward from the wound, spreading slowly, it was painfully obvious he was infected with something that would turn him into whatever that creature was that was staring at him through the door.

James pulled out his revolver and looked through the side barrell. "One left....How cliche.." he then looked at the creature with his usual cold emotionless stare restored to his face, without breaking the staring contest he had initiated, he removed his packed of smokes from his pocket, placed one in his mouth and light it, the creature cocked it's head, still with that permanent disfigured smile on it's face as if wondering what James was doing, James then did something he had not done since the start of the outbreak, he smiled, then the smile turned into hushed laughter, then grew louder, he couldn't stop laughing, he threw the butt of the smoke as hard as he could against the glass window in a last act of defiance "Too bad that crazy Russian bastered aint here to fix me up this time..." he said as a trickle of blood ran down his mouth, still smiling.

James lifted the barrel with great pain and placed the well polished gun to his head, the creature seemed to understand what James was about to do because it started banging against the glass with all it's might, a small crack appeared but the glass would hold up awhile before breaking, James thought about his friends who he would never see again, Flynn, Viktor, Ryan, Mel, everyone, he had failed them all utterly, yet all he could do was smile as he prepared to take his own life.

The smile faded from his face and was replaced by a look of utmost sadness as his thoughts moved to the only person he had ever loved in his life, the person that was taken from him soon after the outbreak started, a tear rolled down James's face, he closed his eyes and the last thing that he ever heard was a scream from the creature as it struggled to break through the door click he pulled the trigger and everything seemed to slow down, the force of the bullet pushed him to the left, he was still completley aware for a moment as he felt the bullet burst through the other side of his skull, everything began to fade to blackness as he fell, he could no longer hear the creature,could no longer see him, James's dead body slumped to the floor, he had slipped into everlasting darkness....