Y/n and Jill shut the door to Donna's residence as they set out in the early morning where they'd gather their beast army underneath the Dimitrescu castle.

The two would travel through the village which was oddly quiet, even though he had taken the Alpha position Y/n still expected to see the lycans watching them; however, that wasn't the case as they only heard the winter wind.

So you have Wolf Squad, Terra savers, Stars, RPD, the Lords, and an army of mutant beasts at your command... You think that'll be enough?

Makes me feel but I don't wager a war on numbers, what I'd like to know is what Travis is planning.

Then why not just ask me old friend.

Jill and Y/n look up at a nearby roof and spot Travis leaning against a chimney.

Go figure the cockroach comes crawling out again, just refusing to die aren't you?

Same could be said about you. I mean I ground your skull to paste and STILL you get in my way... But im not here to dig up old problems, im here to negotiate.

Negotiate what exactly?

Why your surrender of course!~

Still such an egotistical twat I see.

Travis rolled his eyes and stepped behind the chimney, then reappeared sitting on a tractor behind the duo.

I'm being serious Y/n, I'm willing to let you and all your friends walk away... Excluding the Lords, their betrayal has to be answered for.

Just walk away? Bullshit.

Seriously! I don't even want Alcina anymore, you helped me realize how toxic my obsession was but after seeing Evelyn's truth I get it now.

Evelyn?

Miranda's daughter whose consciousness lives in the mold... But what could she show you that you suddenly had this change if heart?

I'm so glad you asked... Let me show you~

Travis stepped off the tractor then lunged, Y/n stepped in front of Jill to block the attack but found himself airborne. Y/n soon hit a roof and fell through it landing in a small kitchen, Jill barged through the door firing covering shots through the door way supposedly at Travis.

She presses herself up against the wall narrowly evading a tree like branch made of solidified mold.

You okay?!

He tossed me like a rag doll...

Focus Y/n!

The windows burst open as roots of hardened mold crawled inside, one tries to grab Y/n's leg but he stomps it out as Jill busts down a back door.

Y/n goes to follow but before he could step outside Travis jumped down from the roof dividing them.

Going somewhere? We just started playing~

Travis voice had changed, it sounded as if he and a young girl were speaking at the same time through his body.

Jill fires 4 bullets into the side of Travis' head but to no effect as the mold filled the holes like nothing happened.

Ladies first~

Like a blur Travis spartan kicked Jill into a wall, she dropped her gun and rolled into the snow. She was forced to roll again or take a mold spear through the face.

Jill tried to go for her gun but her leg was wrapped in mold pulling her towards Travis. Travis lifting the spear up as he aims it at her back, his murder attempt interrupted when pale frame of Y/n burst through the mold and grabbed the spear.

To Y/n surprise Travis was able to hold his ground, the two deadlocked in a struggle of strength. Travis tries to pull the spear free but instead ends up pressed against the wall of a house, a loud crack as the wall begins to crumble.

Y/n pulls out his axe but a tendril of mold stabs his arm from the earth; nevertheless, he rips his arm away from the spike and tosses the axe towards Jill.

Travis knees Y/n in the groin and pushes him back, on the ground Y/n must grab the mold spear head or let himself get speared through the throat.

You should have walked away but it's better for us if you stopped existing entirely!

Oh grow up!

Y/n breaks the hardened mold spear and lays his boot into Travis' chest, he jumps and uses his magnetic power to pull the tractor through the house and slam it into Travis' back exploding into pieces as it barely knocks him over.

Jill follows up by throwing the axe directly into Travis' face after freeing herself.

Jill go get the others!

Got it!

Jill runs towards Y/n and he lifts up to the roof of a house as she disappears over the top, turning back in time Y/n catches the axe just before hitting his face.

Careful pal, woman actually wanna ride this jaw~

I have no need for such frivolity anymore, now die!

Travis coiled mold tendrils around his torso and arms as he tackled Y/n, Travis was clearly less combat talented as Y/n rolled back and kicked Travis off him and into a tree.

The tree collapsed and Travis stumbled to stand up and Y/n charged but was countered as Travis used the fallen tree as a club and batted Y/n back through the house wall.

Evelyn's blessing will embrace the world, from the sea of black will rise her utopia! I shall be her prophet, the voice of a new era!

Travis marched in and wrapped his hands around Y/n's neck, his new ungodly strength proving difficult to oppose as Travis choked the life from him. Y/n's punches did little to actually offend Travis but once Y/n's fingers felt the edge of a glass shard he took his chance.

Stabbing Travis in the wrist twice finally broke the grip he had on him, Y/n stabbed Travis in the neck and ripped it forwards gouging a chunk of Travis' throat; however, it's as if it never phased him as Travis stomped on Y/n's head three times before pulling him up to his feet.

Pathetic.

Travis aimed a coiled-mold hardened punch at Y/n's head until a metal pipe and a metal knife flew into Y/n's hands where he stabbed Travis in the head on each side.

He channels his electricity through the metal objects arcing through Travis's brain to the point where Travis' eyes burst into flames.

The push each other back as Travis fights to extinguish his eye sockets, once put out the first thing he saw was Y/n's fist a moment before colliding with his face.

Travis' head hit the last intact window shattering it as he got a glimpse of the sky before getting yanked back inside.

Y/n picked Travis up over his head then slammed his Travis' spine down on his knee with a loud snap.

Y/n then tossed the body into the ceiling, then against the wall. That was the breaking point as the house began to crumble. Y/n stepped out to let the house collapse on Travis, a large cloud of dust slowly evaporating.

There was silence.

Then gurgling.

He turned slowly to see Travis' corpse standing there, the upper half of his body limp and dangling behind him as the legs shuffled towards Y/n.

Even basically broken in half Travis was still faster then he could process, bones snapping back into place as his body stood upright again.

I expected more from you.

You talk too much.

Y/n was ready to end this but Travis raised a single hand and Y/n's body tensed up. No longer in control of himself he could feel his lungs filling up with water or something thicker.

You're no fun to play with anymore... I thought mother picked you because your special but all you've done is get in my way.

Travis' voice was slowly becoming more girlish, almost to the point as if someone else was talking entirely but Y/n could barely focus as he watched parts of his arms decay. Liquid mold pouring out from pockets under skin as the pearly white bone was soon exposed.

Then he impaled him, a long tendril of mold through the chest pulling out his beating heart. Travis pulled the heart back to his hand as he watched it slowly stop and white callous crust grow over Y/n's body.

He couldn't breath anymore.

The crust was cold yet it burned what skin remained.

He watched as Travis dropped the motionless heart on the ground, not bothering to watch as his enemy died.

He couldn't be bothered.

The crust overtaking Y/n's eyes as he fell unconscious in the dark.

-Towards the Castle

Jill burst through the castle doors as Sheva and Chris ran up to her with concern.

Jill your injured?!

Weren't you with Y/n?

Can we do questions after we deal with them!

Just then the windows beside the door burst, molded claws reaching through as Jill braced the door while something bashed against it.

Chris charged the door and helped Jill lock it then pulled a cabinet in front of it as Sheva put a shotgun slug through the window.

Sheva! Go get Leon and Claire, Jill alert the Lords-

I already know.

Miranda approached the group hy herself.

You better not be here to tell me you brought them-

No... Eve feels I abandoned her, but its her who has abandoned us... If she can't have a new vessel then she'll corrode the world till everything and everyone is trapped just like her...

Well how does that help us now?!

Beneath the Castle their is a labyrinth that eventually leads you outside... Alcina.

Miranda turned and looked to the balcony where Alcina and her daughters stood.

Can you take them?

I cannot abandon my Castle nor will I abandon my daughters!

Then take your daughters with you!

She can't... Their bodies cannot endure the harsh cold outside these walls... I will stay behind to look after them Alcina.

Not likely! To leave my daughters with you is like leaving them in the den of a feral dog-

We don't have much time people! The doors about to give so either we stand and fight or jump ship now!

I'll stay behind as well.

Leon and Claire group with the others.

You can't stay here with her-

Redfield I know I haven't earned your trust but-

But nothing... Leon and I will stay behind with the daughter's to hold them off... The rest of you follow Alcina out the back!

Chris!

Claire please...

Chris approached Claire and held her shoulders as he spoke softly for maybe the first time here.

I need you watch over the other and help Sheva... Find Y/n and tell him what's happening.

Claire reluctantly agreed and she gave her brother a hug just before the group gathers what they can. Leon, Chris, and Miranda waited for the door to fall while the daughters secured anyone other entrances.

Still sticking around?

This is my fault... I intend to right my wrong, maybe then she'll realize how wrong this is.

Chris takes the AMG gauntlet while Leon aims his Thunder Hawk at the door, Miranda unfolds her cloak revealing her 6-black wings as she musters the last of her power.

For the others they rush through the underground tunnels till Alcina stops in front of a stone wall. She pulls a lever and the wall moves aside revealing its the same entrance Y/n used awhile back the bridge and river underneath the castle overlook.

Alright we'll regroup at Heisenberg's factory. Where the hell is Wong?!

I didn't see her inside, knowing her she bailed before the molded even shown up-

Just then the doors started closing with Alcina on the other side still.

Castle Dimitrescu has not been without a mistress for years, that will not change now.

The last they saw of her was the extension of her claws just as the stone wall closed.

I guess we'll see them all again at the factory...

With that the remainder of group A headed for the factory while group B held the fight at the Castle.

In the village...

The white mold crusted form of Y/n stood still in the village center like a statue as someone threw a rope around his neck and pulled.

Your supposed- To be this- Great bioweapon- but you let yourself- get knocked out by- that prick...

Each break in her complaining came from the strenuous effort of trying to pull him over, maybe breaking the crust around him would wake him up.

But as she came around the front of him she would stop to run her fingers along the indent in his chest where his heart had been ripped out.

If only it was the first time this had happened... You'd probably say something on how im on expert on breaking hearts... Should have been faster, could have at least stopped this from happening long enough to form a Plan B... You better not die, not before I make things right... But how the hell am I supposed to resurrect the only B-strain specimen in a village overrun by mold?

It may not be the divine sign but an omen as her current dilemma was interrupted by more uninvited guests, she watched as two BSAA helicopters flew overhead just as the sun began to set.

Whatever final better was about to occur would decide the future of the world's evolution, when the sun rises only the victor will remain.

Chapter End