Enduring the Evil

Disclaimer: This is my first attempt at a Resident evil Fanfic. The story is the Resident Evil plot but due to some changes I have put into it, it is non-canon, and takes place during the mansion incident. Seven friends decide to go on a camping trip and go to the Arklay Mountains. However they later find out something is wrong and with their car broken down, they decide to travel deep into the forest and take shelter in a mysterious mansion, only later realising that the mansion may be just as dangerous as the outside. All OCs in this story belong to me and my friends. Story has been updated, all spelling mistakes and errors that I could find have been fixed.

Chapter 1 - Camping Trip

July. 1998 Raccoon Forest

"Alpha Team is flying around the forest zone, situated in northwest Raccoon City, where we are searching for the helicopter of our compatriots, Bravo Team, who disappeared during the middle of their mission."

The pilot of the helicopter looked over at one of his teammates. "Chris you haven't found it yet?"

Chris shook his head. "No, not yet Brad."

"Bizarre murder cases have recently occurred in Raccoon City. There are outlandish reports of families being attacked by a group of about ten people. Victims, were apparently...eaten. The Bravo Team was sent in to investigate, but we lost contact."

"Look Chris!" Jill said as the helicopters searchlight illuminated a part of the forest revealing something just up ahead. A helicopter.

Everyone immediately jumped out of the helicopter as it landed and rushed towards the sight of the helicopter they saw.

Joseph knocked the helicopter door open and raised his weapon while looking around for survivors.

"Bravo Teams helicopter was a derelict."

With his weapon in hand, Joseph leaned over the seats to see if there was anyone in the cockpit, all he found was a body, slumped over the edge of the seats.

"Save for the remaining body of Kevin."

Joseph leaned in closer to get a better view of who it was, and immediately regretted it when he found out it was Bravo Teams pilot, dead, torn and clawed to death from the looks of it. After getting a large scare from the sight, Joseph jumped out of the helicopter and rushed back towards his teammates.

"We continued our search for the other members, and it turned into...a nightmare."

The five STARS members searched around the forest and split up into groups to cover more ground. Through the course of their search, they continued to find nothing, and their search was only more difficult due to the heavy fog that made it much more harder to see.

Jill and Joseph stumbled upon something though, a wrecked campsite, tents destroyed and a large backpack, from the looks of it, someone had been camping here not too long ago. Seeing how much of a mess it was in, they were immediately brought to the assumption that something must have happened to the people who were camping around the area. "Let's move on." Jill said as she went on ahead.

Joseph followed but started to fall behind. Just as he was about to catch up, a sound stopped him in his tracks. No, not a sound, a growl. Joseph glanced around and aimed his shotgun at the source of the growl, but there was nothing there.

He remained where he stood with his gun raised for a quick minute, it was so quiet that the only sound he could hear was his heavy breathing. After assuming he was just hearing things, he sighed and lowered his weapon.

However, as he was about to move on, a sound immediately forced him to fully face a pack of dogs that rushed towards him. He was only able to fire off one shot before the dogs brought him down and started to gang up on him.

Jill was immediately aware of what was happening when she heard the shot and his screams, when Joseph fired his handgun to try and get the dogs off of him, Jill assisted. But their efforts started to slow down when Joseph's screams started to diminish as dogs tore him apart. Jill stopped firing her handgun and just watched in shock as Joseph went silent, whereas the dogs continued to eat away at him.

Eventually, one of the dogs stopped and slowly turned to her. She was unable to move as she was still frozen in shock at Joseph's death, and immediately she fell to the ground as the dog rushed towards her.

But as it leaped into the air at her, it got blasted aside by another gun. Chris ran over to Jill and helped her to her feet, both of them noticed the rest of the pack had turned their attention on them. "Come on!" Chris shouted as pulled Jill to her feet and ran away from the dogs.

As they ran, Chris' attention went towards the helicopter that flew above and away from them. "Hey! Brad! Where the hell's he going?!" Chris shouted.

Chris and Jill stopped when they knew the dogs had caught up to them. They both turned and braced themselves for the impact as one of the dogs jumped at them.

Before it could strike him, the dog is blasted aside by a gunshot.

"Chris this way!" Wesker said with his gun aimed at the pack.

The two STARS members rushed past Wesker as he fired a few more shots before following them.

Barry himself fired a few shots as he ran, both of them managed to hit the dogs and took down a couple of them, but even then there was still a few in pursuit and the majority of their bullets missed. "Dammit!" Barry growled.

"Make for that mansion!" Chris shouted.

Jill and Wesker increased their pace and followed Chris until they finally made it to the mansion up ahead.

"There are only three STARS members left now. Captain Wesker, Jill, and myself. We don't know where Barry is."

The three STARS members rushed through the entrance and slammed the doors shut behind them before the dogs could follow them in.

Jill took a few deep breaths before breaking the silence that followed. "Is everyone all right?"

Chris nodded and looked around. "Barry...where's Barry?" He said, the sound of thunder followed.

"He's..." Wesker was about to say something but stopped.

Jill just looked at him in shock. "No..."

Before anyone could say another word, a gunshot filled the air. "What was that?" Jill said as she glared at the doors at the left side of the hall.

"I'll go and check it out." Chris said as he faced Wesker.

Wesker nodded. "Alright, Jill and I will stay and secure this area."

Chris returned his nod and turned to leave. "Chris?" He stopped and turned back to Jill who was giving him a look of worry. "Take care."

"Yeah." Chris replied before moving on.

The STARS officer entered into the dining room and looked around for the source of the gunshot but saw nothing. He slowly made his way through while keeping an eye out for anyone or, anything. He even had a feeling right now, a feeling that he was being watched, this caused him to look up at the upper level of the dining room but he saw nothing and decided to move on.

As Chris got halfway through the dining room, he heard someone shouting. "JAMIE! WHERE ARE YOU?! JAMIE!"

This forced him to sprint his way to the door at the end. As he rushed through, he immediately figured out where the source was when he saw a bloodied man ontop of someone, trying to bite them from the look of it. "JAMIE!"

Refusing to let something bad happen to possibly the only survivor in the area, Chris pulled out his handgun and fired a shot right through the mans head. He lowered his weapon and watched as the teen pushed the dead man off of him.

Chris walked over to the teen and extended his hand. "Are you all right?"

1 Day Earlier...

Raccoon City, Alex's House, 10:00 AM

Alex woke up to the sound of his alarm and got up. "Thank god it's a saturday..." He got out of his bed, yawned a few times as he put on his pajamas and went downstairs into the dining room. Inside, his friends, Jamie, Connor and Andrew were sitting at the table eating breakfast, Scott was reading the newspaper and Bryan and Danny were playing the Playstation.

"Morning guys..." Alex said with another yawn.

(Alex Robertson, 22 years old, Bare-Knuckle Boxer, Teacher at a Bare-Knuckle Boxing school)

"Mornin'."

"So what's happening today?"

Scott looked up from the newspaper and raised a brow. "You serious? Why don't we start the mornin' off with a nice breakfast and then think of what we're gonna do for the day."

(Scott Calver, 22 years old, former military, gun shop owner)

Bryan paused his game and faced them. "Well I know what I want to do and it's not look forward to next week, seriously I'm getting sick of work."

(Bryan Hunter, 18 years old, martial arts freak)

Danny looked at him. "Bryan, the only work you do around here is sit indoors, play games, eat and drink all day and that's not even half it. Besides we're on our break now, we don't have to go back to work for about three months."

(Daniel 'Danny' Bleyker, 18 years old, rock band maniac, works at a guitar store)

Alex nodded in agreement. "Yup."

Bryan smirked and went back to his game. "Well...you got me."

Andrew spoke up. "Why don't we go bowling!"

(Andrew Warren, 17 years old, brainiac, works at a local library)

Alex shook his head. "Nah...do you remember what happened the last time we went bowling?"

Bryan laughed. "Yeah! Scott broke the bowling pins because he threw the ball too hard and then he set about like five bouncers because they tried to escort him out!"

Andrew laughed with him. "Yeah! Then the police came, and Scott took 'em both out and we had to get back home before more came!"

Bryan went back to his game. "I'll remember that night for as long as I live."

Scott looked back at his newspaper. "So? What we gonna do?"

Andrew was about to speak but Scott shut him up. "Your suggestions suck Andrew so be quiet."

Alex spoke up. "Hey, how about we go into the Arklay Mountains on a camping trip?"

Everyone stared at him.

Bryan paused his game and slowly turned to him. "You're kidding right?"

Alex shook his head. "No...why what's wrong?"

Danny spoke up next. "Well..."

Bryan spoke again. "Haven't you heard all the bullshit that goes on over there?"

Scott cut in. "Stop being a bunch wussies. I think a camping trip is a great idea, I can't even remember the last time we even left the city to go on a small trip."

Connor nodded. "Yeah, he's got a point, we should spend our break by going on a camping trip. I know there's a forest at the foot of the mountains there, we can go use that part of the area."

(Connor Anderson, 18 years old, football pro, works at a sports shop)

Jamie shook his head. "No way man! What if there's wolves! Or bears! Heck...there could be worse!"

(Jamie Anderson, 17 years old, quiet pacifist, works at a local shop)

Alex smiled. "Come on Jamie...look...if you're that worried then we'll go to the gun shop and buy a couple of hunting rifles to defend ourselves, how does that sound?"

Jamie sighed with relief. "Yeah...that sounds better."

Bryan nodded. "Ok just let me finish this boss battle..."

Alex poured himself a drink in the kitchen and walked back in, sat down and watched him. "What you playing?"

Bryan smirked. "Legend of Dragoon, I love this game."

Alex raised a brow. "Oh yeah? I played some of it before, what part you at?"

Bryan kept his sights on the tv. "I'm at the part where I'm fighting Fruegel in order to save King Albert, Lavitz is seriously kicking ass right now, I fucking love Lavitz."

Alex stopped drinking. "Oh..yeah...well in that case...I'd brace myself if I were you."

Bryan looked at him. "What for?"

Alex crossed his arms over his chest and lay against the wall waiting for Bryan to come out of his room, he could hear Bryan talking to him from inside. "Go away, I'm sad."

Alex sighed. "Come on Bryan! It was for dramatic effect to enrich the story, something like that had to happen."

"Not Lavitz man! Not Lavitz!"

Alex shook his head and tried to change the subject. "By the way if you're gonna finish that box of celebrations then you've gotta buy the new box, I'm not buying the new box."

"The celebrations don't fill the hole he left behind!"

Alex continued to try and change the subject. "Hey I wonder if I should go to the apartments and ask Louise if she wants to go camping with us."

Bryan exited his room and glared at Alex. "Umm...no. It's supposed to be just the seven of us going camping."

Alex raised a brow. "Come on man, the more the better."

Bryan shook his head. "Do whatever the fuck you want! How the hell are we gonna get there anyway?"

Alex smiled. "Kyle says he's gonna come down here tommorrow and drive us."

Bryan nodded. "Ah yeah Kyle, the one we used to hang out with when we were in High School?"

Alex nodded also. "Yeah, he's got a car, I called him a few minutes ago and asked him if he could drive us there."

Bryan took a sip of his drink and went back into his room. "Cool, he coming to pick us up tommorrow then?"

Alex nodded again. "Yeah, tommorrow, Scott said he's gonna have a talk with his buddy at the gun shop and get us a couple of hunting rifles for tommorrow."

Bryan smirked as he opened his window. "Hey, while he's at that, why doesn't he get me a rocket-"

"We're going CAMPING BRYAN! Not to a bloody war! Jeez..." Alex cut in.

Bryan shoved his clothes on and exited the room. "Can't blame a guy for trying, come on. Let's go out and buy some tents and whatnot, we'll need em if we want to survive motherfucking nature."

Raccoon City, Ennerdale Street, 11:30 AM

"Ennerdale Street, our neighbourhood, we've been living here for like what? Two years now?" Bryan said as he, Danny, Andrew and Alex walked down the street.

Alex nodded. "Yeah, two years ago we moved from the United Kingdom to here, we should actually go back so you guys can visit your parents when we get back from our camping trip."

"Well that's if we dont have any problems with the trip." Andrew added.

"What could possibly go wrong on a camping trip?" Alex continued.

Andrew shrugged. "I dunno, we could probably run low on food..."

"We'll have plenty of food."

"We may not have enough tents."

"That's why we're gonna buy one for each of us."

"We might get attacked by a pack of wolves."

"That's what the hunting rifles are for, to defend ourselves and to hunt for food...anything else?" Alex replied.

Andrew remained silent.

Alex stopped walking and looked up ahead at the apartments. "Hey you guys go on ahead and get the camping stuff, I need to check something."

Danny and Andrew gave a confused nod and walked on, Bryan then followed after he watched Alex enter the apartments.

"Why is he going in there?" Danny asked.

Bryan shrugged. "He went in to see Louise, he wants to ask her if she wants to come camping with us."

Andrew smirked. "No surprise, meaning we need to buy an extra tent?"

Bryan nodded. "Yup."

Raccoon City, Aparments, 11:45 AM

Alex knocked on a door and stood still patiently waiting for it to open.

The door opened revealing a short girl. "Oh Alex! I wasn't expecting you."

Alex nodded. "Hi Louise, can I come in?"

Louise stood aside and let him in. "Sure come in!"

Alex walked in and sat down in the dining room.

Louise sat down on the opposite side and faced him. "You know back in the days, I never saw you alone without the others, they're fiercely loyal to you and not once have I saw you without them by your side."

Alex shrugged. "Yeah...we all hang out with each other when we're in the house, and when we're out having some fun."

Louise laughed. "Hahaha! I'm not surprised, in any case, where is everyone? What's the occasion?"

Alex continued. "They're away buying some tents."

"Tents?"

"Yeah, that's what I came here to ask, me and the guys are going on a camping trip tommorrow and I was wondering if you wanted to come along."

"Well...it sounds fun but I'm afraid I won't be able to, I'm going to be very busy tommorrow, maybe another time?"

"Yeah that sounds good, another time."

"But hey if I'm not busy then maybe next time too right?"

"Yeah..."

Raccoon City, Local Camping Store, 12:00 PM

Bryan, Danny and Andrew romed about the store picking up tents, food, and other things needed for the camping trip.

"Well you think we got enough?" Danny said.

"Eight tents, four weeks supply of food...I think that should be enough." Bryan said as he gave the merchandise to the grocer.

Danny nodded. "Alright, so we got the food and the tents, anything else?"

"No, Scott is already out taking care of the hunting rifles. And Alex told me that Kyle will be driving us to the Arklay Forest, so we've pretty much got everything sorted, now all we have to do is wait until tommorrow." Andrew said.

"Fuck!"

"What's up Bryan?"

"I forgot to buy a box of celebrations, I'll be right back."

Andrew and Danny both raised a brow and watched Bryan run off. "He was actually serious on buying a box..."

"Well you know what he's like when it comes to celebrations."

"Whatever, let's wait outside for him and then we'll go back to the house."

Raccoon City, Grocery Store, 12:05 PM

Bryan walked around looking around for spare food while carrying his box of celebrations, the only thing that caught his attention was the recent newspaper. Bryan exited the grocery store after purchasing his products and sat down right outside and read the newspaper.

He set his sights on a certain title of the newspaper, reading it out. "Murders in the Arklay Mountains?"

Before Bryan could turn the page to read it someone nudged him. "Hey! Oh...Scott what are you doing here?"

Scott just stared down at him. "Well I was on my way back to the house and saw you sitting here so I figured I'd check out what you were doing."

Bryan threw the newspaper in the garbage can. "Eh...forget todays news, nothing important."

Scott shrugged. "Whatever."

"Hey guys!"

Scott and Bryan turned to see Danny and Andrew running towards them. "Hey guys."

"So Scott did you talk to your buddy at the gun shop?"

Scott nodded. "Yeah, he said he'll deliver some hunting rifles to the house tommorrow."

Bryan smirked. "Alright, let's head back, I'm hungry."

"You're always hungry." Danny said.

"Well it's not my fault, I have to eat alot of food for various reasons."

"Don't give me that crap."

"I don't crap about when it comes to food."

"Yes you do."

"No I don't."

"Yes you do."

"No I don't."

"Yes you-"

"Both of you shut up or you'll be going to the hospital instead of a camping trip." Scott said in a cold tone, silencing them.

Raccoon City, Alex's House, 1:35 PM

Everyone sat in the dining room having lunch, since everything was ready, all they had to do was wait until tommorrow and then it would be time for their camping trip.

"So guys what's the first thing we're gonna do when we get to the Arklay Forest?" Jamie asked.

"Well obviously we're gonna set up the tents first, unless you want to sleep in the dirt." Scott said.

Jamie shook his head. "No way, ok then, what about after we do that, we'll have some hunting rifles right? Because I don't wanna go out into that forest without something to defend myself with."

Scott spoke again. "Yeah don't worry that's taken care of, you got anything else you want to cry about or can we eat our lunch in peace?"

Jamie stayed quiet.

"Good." Scott finished.

Alex walked into the dining room and sat down.

"Hey Alex, what's up?" Connor said.

"Well...Louise ain't coming with us." Alex said quietly.

Bryan smirked. "Told ya. Cheer up man, all of us are going, you don't need anyone else."

Alex nodded. "I know..."

"Join in Alex, get something to eat, tommorrow we'll be going camping." Andrew said.

Alex managed a smile and sat next to them. "Thanks."

Raccoon City, Alex's house, 6:00 PM

"So, Andrew and Scott went to bed early so they could get up early, you think we should do the same?" Jamie asked as he sat down watching Bryan play the playstation.

Connor shrugged. "I dunno, I'm not tired really, I might stay up a little bit before I go to bed."

Jamie nodded. "Ok...Connor, are there any bears in the Arklay Forest?"

Bryan spoke up instead. "Yeah and they're gonna eat you when you're sleeping."

Jamie glared at him. "SHUT UP MAN! Seriously I don't even want to imagine the forest filled with bears, I'd rather stay here if there are."

Danny shrugged. "Jamie you need to get it through your head, we, have, hunting rifles."

Jamie shook his head. "But I'm a pacifist!"

Bryan raised a brow. "You do know that self-defence and hunting for food is far different than fighting right?"

Jamie stayed silent.

Danny got up. "Well, I'm off to bed."

Bryans eyes widened. "What? But it's only Six PM."

Danny shrugged. "Well, I'm just doing the same as Scott and Andrew, going to sleep early so I can get up early."

Connor stood up. "You know what? I agree, I'm off, night guys."

"Night." Connor and Danny left the dining room and headed upstairs to bed.

Jamie sat quietly and looked around the room, Bryan was playing the playstation, and Alex was reading a book, what should he do he thought. "Hey Alex how long are we gonna be out for?"

Alex looked up from his book at Jamie. "Well...probably three or four weeks."

"That's not enough, we should stay out longer." Bryan added in.

"I think it is enough, I mean come on, it is crazy enough as it is having to spend even one week camping." Jamie said.

Bryan turned his game off and shrugged. "Well Jamie...it's not as if there is gonna be a pack of hungry wolves or a bear in the forest, we'll be fine so just stop complaining already." Bryan exited the room.

"Alex?"

Alex spoke up again. "Well he's right, I can't really imagine anything that could go wrong for us in a camping trip, look, when we get up in the morning, we'll set up a campsite when we get there, wait for Kyle to pick up and drop off the others and then we'll have fun, that sound good to you?"

Jamie sighed. "Yeah...I guess..."

Alex closed his book and stood up. "Alright well I'm off to bed, I suggest you do the same." He said as he left the room leaving Jamie alone.

Jamie stayed silent for a moment and then turned off the light as he headed upstairs.

Raccoon City, Outside Alex's house, 10:30 AM

Alex packed his bags and put them in the back of the car. "There we go...alright now listen up, Kyle is going to drive us to the Arklay Forest, there's not enough room in the car for all of us so only three of us can go at a time."

Kyle nodded. "Yeah...don't worry I'll come back and pick the rest of you up...however you will need to give me the gas money when we're done."

Scott shrugged. "Right, well Alex, you, Bryan and Jamie can go first, we can wait. Kyle, when you drop them off, pick us up next."

Kyle nodded. "Got it, but remember you guys owe me gas money for this."

Bryan sighed. "We know, you just said that dude. Anyway Scott..."

Scott nodded and gave them a few hunting rifles. "Ok listen up, these hunting rifles are dangerous so I hope and pray you know how to use 'em."

Bryan smirked. "Scott, I went to a shooting range with you and Alex once, of course I know how to shoot."

Alex nodded. "Yeah, you shot me in the foot back then didn't you? It's a good thing Scott taught you how to shoot otherwise we would be in trouble, because we would end up getting injured because of your shitty accuracy instead of nature."

Bryan shrugged and entered the car with Jamie.

Alex turned to Scott. "Ok Scott, did you put the radios in the bags too?"

Scott nodded. "Yep."

Alex opened the car door. "Then I guess I'll be seeing you guys in the Arklay Forest pretty soon then eh?"

Scott stepped back and gave a slight smile. "Yeah, just watch yourself, and try not to kill each other."

Alex closed the car door followed by Kyle who got in the drivers seat. "Alright guys, let's go."

Scott watched as the car drove off and went back inside to pack his own bags.

Author's Notes: Well, it's been a while since I last saw this story, anyway, I came back because I've started editing it so I can fix all of the spelling errors and mistakes that I can find, I said I would and I will. Anyway, I updated it and made some changes too, a major change being the beginning which is the opening scene from the Resident Evil Remake, hope you liked it. Please Review, feedback is always appreciated.