South Pearson

Kara awoke suddenly, breathing heavily. For a split second she was staring at a dimly lit ceiling, multiple lamps overhead, only one was on, and the next second, she was standing in a long hallway, the lights here were blinking. She looked around and at herself; the hallway was painted white and had linoleum flooring. There was a man about 10 meters away from her.
“Hey! Excuse me sir!?” she said to the man, her voice was a bit raspy to begin with, but became much smoother near the end of her statement.
The man slowly turned around, he was wearing tattered clothes with dirt and blood on them, when his face became visible, it was distorted, the eyes were pure white and his mouth was gaping open.
“Umm… sir?” Kara said, backing away a bit, “Are you okay?”
The man burst into an all out sprint and lunged at Kara, the second he bit into her shoulder, Kara was back on the ground starring up at the dimly lit ceiling.
She screamed and quickly checked her shoulder; it was perfectly fine, so marks, no blood, nothing.
“What in god’s name was that…?” she asked herself slowly getting up. She wiped a few tears from her cheeks and began scanning the room, the one lamp overhead was lighting the room just enough that she could make out all the details. She saw a crossbow and a machete on the ground a couple meters from her and a note next to them.
She crawled over to them, and then read the note, it said, To my favorite, Dr. Simon Belshire.
She looked behind her and there was a dead body, it was missing its head. Kara screamed for a good 20 seconds before she calmed herself down. She got up and walked over to the body, then crouched down and began to examine it, trying to ignore the fact that it’s head was missing. The body had a white coat on, as well as an ID card that read Assistant Director of Genetics Division Dr. Simon Belshire. The body belonged to the man who left the weapons. He had nothing else of interest on him, she stood up again.
She then noticed that the button on her pants was undone, and one of the straps of her tank top was down, she fixed these then found a mirror on the wall. She gazed into it at herself, panicking initially, ready to scream, but she calmed herself down before that. Her face had many streaks of blood on it; she wiped it off with her hands immediately. Then as she looked in the mirror she noticed something in the corner, unable to see what it was from the mirror she turned around and walked closer to it.
Once she was about a meter away from it, she collapsed and screamed again, it was the disembodied head of the doctor, not only did it include his head, but also his spine was connected to it, there was a good deal of blood around it. She stopped screaming, but continued crying while starring at the head. She crawled away from it, and wiped the tears from her face.
She tried getting her bearings, who was she? Where was she? Why did that man attack her? Why was she in a small dim room with a dead body? She had no answers. One thing she did know, was her name Kara, she didn’t know how, or why, but she knew her name. She had no memories of any childhood, or anything, but she knew her name, and she knew that she had to get out, because staying in the room wasn’t getting her anywhere. She took the doctor’s belt and put it on, she then slipped the machete there and held the crossbow, it had one arrow loaded, and three more attached to it.
She went to the only door and opened it slowly, she stepped out, and into an electronics store, further away from the door, was a large glass wall, with an archway leading out into a long hallway with even more stores in it.
“A mall?” she heard herself blurt out.

She slowly walked through the electronics store, there were computers and wires all around, and no one seemed to be near. She stepped outside of the store, into the mall, there were three floors, and Kara could see a large circular end of the hallway with elevators and escalators. I wonder if there’s a directory down there, she thought to herself. She decided to go and check.
As she wandered down the long stretch of open mall, it was relatively silent, she heard her own footsteps against the decorated linoleum floor, and some ambient noise from a few of the shops. When she got to the circular area, she found the directory. It seemed as if there were three main exits, all an equal distance from her. When she stopped walking, she heard another pair of footsteps. She lifted her crossbow and pointed it in the direction of the sound, it was a man, and he had the same eyes as the creature before.
“Stop!” Kara yelled, “Stop or I’ll shoot!”
He burst into an all out sprint when he was about 30 meters away; Kara screamed and fired an arrow, it launched right into the man’s skull. He stopped, and fell.
Kara walked over to the body, and ripped out the arrow. No sense in losing it I guess, she thought to herself. She then realized how oddly calm she was about it, just minutes before she was screaming over blood on her face, and now she seemed fine with killing a person… No, no it wasn’t a person, it was a monster, she told herself over and over again.
Kara looked up at the ceiling, there was a large window showing the dimly lit sky, clouds filled the area, showing no sign of the sky, nor of the sun. She continued looking up at the sky for another moment, then a large black helicopter appeared over the window, Kara was surprised to say the least.
“HEY!” she yelled, “Down here! Help me!”
The helicopter hovered overhead, then four people jumped out attached to the helicopter with wires, they crashed into the window, shattering it. Kara screamed and covered herself as the glass shards fell down, she heard the people’s feet hit the ground, and she looked around her, somehow all the glass had completely avoided her.
There were two men and two women, all dressed in tactical gear and gasmasks, each of them had their guns pointed at Kara, and each of them had a bulletproof vest with an Umbrella corporation logo on it. How do I know that logo? Kara thought to herself.
“We have the target surrounded,” one of the women said.
“Umm… what do you want with me?” Kara asked, beginning to freak out.
“The target seems to have no idea who we are,” The woman stated again.
Kara raised her hand at one of the men, and was about to say something, but he fired his gun, it scrapped her arm. She fell to her knees, held her arm, and screamed.
“Martin!” the woman said, “Stand down!”
“She seemed as if she was ready to attack!” he responded.
A voice in Kara’s head said, “Project, let me take over…”
“What?” Kara said out loud.
“Project,” the voice said again, it sounded like Kara’s voice, but deeper and darker.
“What are you talking about?” she said again.
“Martin, neutralize her.” The woman said.
The man that shot at Kara pulled out a taser. He stepped close to Kara and shocked her with it, the second she felt the shock she was in another room, it was the hallway were she first saw one of the monsters, it was still there.
Kara reached for her machete as it began to walk closer, but she didn’t have it. She looked down at where she had kept it, and then noticed that she wasn’t wearing any clothes.
“What the fuck?” she said to herself, and then she realized that the monster was closer than she thought, it began sprinting after her.
Not wanting a repeat of the last time they had met, Kara ran in the opposite direction, for a good 30 seconds Kara ran at top speed, significantly faster than the creature, the odd thing was she wasn’t breathing heavily or anything, in fact she wasn’t breathing at all.
“What the fuck!?” she said to herself again, stopping and looking behind her. The creature was a good 50 meters behind her; she took a few seconds to figure out what was going on, and then charged at the creature. It tried to bite her in the shoulder again, and as soon as it touched her, she was back in her normal body.
She was holding the machete, it was covered in blood, and so was her shirt and pants. She looked around, one of the bodies had its arms cut off and its throat slashed open, another was missing its head, and another had a large gash in their side, probably piercing the heart. The fourth person was lying on the ground below Kara, her leg was cut off and she was screaming.
Kara dropped the machete and fell to her knees next to the person, “Oh my god what happened?” she said, panicking.
“What the fuck are you talking about you psycho bitch!?” the woman yelled, screaming in pain the whole way through.
“Who did this!?” Kara yelled.
“You did you crazy bitch! Get away from me!”
Kara stood up and said, “But I could never do this!”
“My fucking leg says otherwise!”
Kara stepped back a little and said, “No… NO!”
Kara broke off in an all out sprint away from the bloody scene, the screams of the last woman resonating throughout the mall.

Kara reached a door in the mall, it was barricaded with benches and things; outside there were around five dozen of those creatures. The screams of the last woman ended, she probably bled out.
How would've barricaded this? Kara thought, looking around, there was a dead body with a bullet hole in its head, holding a small child with a bullet hole in its head.
Kara looked outside the mall, there was no way she could get through that many of them. So she looked at a directory nearby. There was a large outlet store not too far, I could probably fashion something together there, she thought.
Kara slowly walked through to dark mall, the sun was setting and the only light was from the windows on the ceiling. She walked into the department store, she collected a full propane tank, lighter fluid, a lighter, and some rags, as well as a bottle of vodka, and some energy bars. She proceeded through the silent, and now dark, mall to the roof. She looked at the other two entrances, both had even more monsters than the first one.
"Okay, now to see if this will actually work..." Kara said to herself. She wrapped one of her arrows with a rag doused in lighter fluid, then tossed the bottle aside, then she opened the nozzle on the propane tank and threw it in the crowd of monsters at the front entrance, it hit one in the head, killing it. She waited a few moments, then lit her arrow on fire and fired it into the crowd of monsters, the propane ignited and exploded, killing many of the creatures and blowing out all the windows at the entrance.
"Better than I expected..." She said to herself, smiling at her handiwork.
There were maybe two or three left standing, but then Kara noticed more flushing in towards the hole.
"Fuck!" She yelled, but then she started thinking. She rushed over to the side of the roof and looked at another entrance, all the creatures were rushing towards the sound of the explosion.
Kara sprinted down the stairs to the bottom floor, she looked at the front entrance, nearly a hundred of the creatures were rushing into the newly opened area, "Oh shit..."
Kara ran as fast as she could to the western entrance, she ripped the blockades asunder and charged through the doorway.
The large parking lot was nearly empty, but a few cars remained, but Kara had no time to saunter about looking at all the details, she charged through the parking lot into the street, it was filled with crashed cars and dead bodies. There were multiple creatures strewn about through the street, not organized, just waiting for prey, which now ran into their laps...
Kara reloaded her crossbow and fired an arrow into the closest creature's head, two more came rushing at her, she dropped the crossbow and whipped out her machete, which she used to decapitate one of the creatures, the other she slammed it down into his skull, when she ripped out the blade, blood splattered onto her, when she looked she remembered that her clothes were covered in the blood of the Umbrella people... She had no time to dwell on that, she needed to find someone... someone that isn't trying to kill her or eat her...
Kara dropped to her knees and looked up at the clouded sky, fitting for such a day, black and depressing, no stars, no moon, nothing... Kara removed her arrow from one of the creature's heads, and started walking north, she felt drawn to the north somehow...