Ryan jumped up hearing the voice walking into the dining room. Seeing her on the floor he turned around to see Momo rushing in. Walking past her he grabbed the assault rifle up and looked at the door. Just as he though the infected heard her. Seeing them rushing over to try and get into the house Ryan quickly lifted the gun an started firing shots off. Killing them as they got close. Not really knowing what else was going on in the dining room he opened the closet quickly grabbing the other guns then a detonation remote. Quickly shutting the door he turned around walking back into the Dining room now seeing her up he grabbed the two girls then Zentyu heading to the corner leaning them down he pressed the button.

In a sudden flash the house shook as the floors rumbled and the atmosphere became hot. Outside cars began to blow up killing alot of the infected as they ran towards the house. Ryan's body covering the three up he quickly stood up with the gun aimed around the room. Looking back at them he gave quick orders to quickly get out and get somewhere safe. "Alright we don't have much time. Mariel you take Momo and Zentyu out the back of the house to a SUV that is parked. Its black. " he said throwing the keys to her knowing she could protect them. As for him, he had some other things to grab not to mention at the moment he still had to head up stairs for some things.

Walking out the room he quickly turned and headed up the stairs, running down the small hallway he made it to his room. Searching through everything he set the gun by the bed looking. Finally finding it he pulled it from the back of the closet, It was a small chest he kept with some personal things in there. Turning around he dropped the chest seeing a Creeper right in front of him. Going to dart away towards the gun the Creeper grabbed the back of his shirt slinging him against the wall. Hitting the wall Ryan winced abit before falling to his feet. Looking at the Creeper then hearing it's scream he quickly darted at it now kicking it into the face then punching it several times knocking him back long enough to grab the assault rifle an turned to unload several shots into the Creepers face.

Grabbing the chest he headed back down the stairs unloading on the infected making their way into the house. At the bottom of the stairs he grabbed his belt filled with the guns and the swords he always kept on them tuning down the hall to make it out the back door the room was filled with the infected. Dropping the assault rifle cause it was out he drew their attention. Pulling his sword out he smirked now darting towards them as they began to run at him. Slicing through them he managed to get cut once. It was a deep slice but at the moment he didn't realize it. Making it to the back door he kept fighting them off until the others were ready.

Mariel looked up with blurry eyes as Zentyu told her that she was free now, she didn't have to be a weapon if she didn't want to be. She shook her head when he mentioned leaving him "I have...no purpose other than my directives" she sniffed, and I know things that I could never tell you, she thought to herself this time. She looked back down and let the tear slide from her fingertip and hit the carpet, the soft touch of his skin on her hand made her look back at him. The warmth of his hand in hers made her close her eyes and sigh out softly, she felt no warmth inside, for some reason her body was always cold. Was she even alive? She opened her eyes when Zentyu started to stutter and realeased her hand but his next words almost made her crumple to her knees. The picture was thin and worn around the edges but the images inside were clear, it was a family and the girl in the middle...she reached out and ran a finger over the girls face. Suddenly she dropped to her knees as pain rocketed through her brain, a scream echoed through the house as memories broke through.

She wasn't supposed to remember....she chose not to...for the sake of her mission....a males face swam into view, dark hair and bright green eyes, father. A woman with pale blonde hair and gentle blue eyes, mother. A small ten year old girl standing over their bodys with blood slicking her hands moaning "I just wanted to go home, I just wanted to go home..." then a truck pulling up and letting out a single man, the doctor, Zentyu's father. He came to her and gathered her in his arms "you may be a monster but you're my little monster now" he had said almost affectionately. Antoher face appeared to her, a boys, he was beautiful. Dark gold hair, ruby eyes that seemed to glitter no matter the light and a dazzling smile...Leriam...

Mariel opened her eyes with a gasp and felt the coolness of the carpet beneath her face, she must have collapsed. Around her was a different story, a metal shell seperated her from Zentyu and she head his faint cries. She let the shell ease away and pushed herself up, huffing "I...I remember" she said in a flat tone "my family died...by my own hand" she finished. She stood up and shook the hand he offered off of her shoulder "I will be fine, at least I know" she said. Vaguly her mind wandered back to the boy...who was he, she remembered a name Leriam but it meant nothing to her.
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Momo woke with a start when a high pitched scream echoed thtough the house and she jumped to her feet with a scared expression. She saw Ryan and she rushed towards the dining room where he seemed to be headed, when she came in she saw the girl and the boy they had met earlier. The girl was crumpled on the floor and a metal shell was starting to form around her body, the fibers seeming to come from her body like spiderwebs until she was hidden from view. "W-What happened?" Momo asked and looked between the two boys.

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Zentyu looked to her. He then again averted his gaze. He could barely look at her. As he looked up to her once more trying to summon the courage, and nerve to tell her. He looked up watching her wipe a tear from her face. He felt as if his heart had dropped. "Mariel...you know...You are free now. You don't have to stay with me. You can do whatever you want. I don't want you to merely be used as a weapon. I'm not absolutely sure what my father had in mind in the long run, but...that's not what i want." Zentyu held the journal to his chest. He was still wrestling with the emotions that went on in his heart. He listened to what she said. He looked up to her shaking his head no. "Listen to me Mariel. You are not a monster. You are a human who was taken advantage of for the sake of another, and by a man unfortunately." He gently took her hand. "I think it is because you are sad." He gently held her hand. "Mariel it is a normal human emotion to cry. If nothing else this proves that you are not a monster." His hand shook. "Mariel...i found...i found something." He gently handed her the picture. "You are a human, and this...this is your familiy." He looked away from her.

Zentyu looked up to her. He only hoped the darkness hid the red in his eye's from the tears of sadness he shed. He could barely look her in the eye's, and when he finally did. He turned from her quickly. 'Father...why did you leave me with such a burden....i think...i know i would have preferred you using me. I would never ask you to do this to someone father. To think of what you did. Even if it was for Zentyu's sake. Zentyu felt sick to his stomach thinking of his father.' He fought the urge to lie to her. His hands trembled as he opened the book. He still was having trouble looking at her. "Mariel..." He didn't know how to say it. "Mariel...hypothetically...what would you do if my fa- if the man who did this to you. My father was before you. What if you had the man responsible for turning you into...an infected. Would you kill him, would you curse him." He didn't know how to tell her still. He pressed his hands to his forehead. "How would you feel?"

Ryan looked at her as he tried to think of an answer. "I mean like is there a feeling in your gut when your around him or you two kiss or.." he paused trying to think and he was drawing blank. "Are you two in love with each other." he rambled now inches from her. Realizing he took a couple of steps back looking at her," Sorry" he stated for being so close to her. Something about her made him want her more, but again he didn't understand why or how. Looking around he smiled to her before looking away. "You might want to check on Zentyu." he stated not knowing that he was asking for her. Walking away from her he tried to calm himself now walking up the stairs to check out the place making sure there was no one able to come in or there were anyone here.

Walking back down the stairs he walked to the front door looking out the peep hole once more. He was always this cautious and it made him the person he was today. A little paranoid an uptight but what could you suspect just because of everything that has happen. Walking back into the living room he moved to the chair leaning the assault rifle against the chair his ear twitched hearing the two talking. After all to a point he felt like he had a right to know about Mariel abit as he listen to the two talk.

Zentyu read the journal. His eye's widened. A splash of water hit the book distorting some words, and wrinkling the page. "Father..." He muttered. "I would never as you to do this for my sake..." He didn't even realize he was tearing. He didn't know what to think. Should he be grateful...should he be mad? Should he be impartial, and just what should he say to Mariel. He'd heard what she said. She had no memories. Would the picture hurt her reminding her she didn't have a family. Would she want to know what happened to them? What would she think of him? Would she kill him in retribution? wouldn't that only be fair? He thought in counter to his previous question. He wiped the tears of confusion from his eye's. He wanted to scream to run to slash at something, he wanted an escape more than he ever had. He felt so helpless, and trapped in his own skin. It was the first time he'd ever done this. He concentrated, and used the telepathic link. "Mariel..., Mariel can you hear my thoughts? I've decided there is something i need to tell you. Please come to where i was sleeping." No matter what she was not some doll created she was a human just like him. No, she was more of a sacrificial lamb. He wanted to talk to her, but he didn't think it was any of Ryan's business.

Mariel felt sadness at Ryan’s tale about his family being bitten and turned into infected, she could guess pretty accurately what happened after since he stood before her now and she shook her head lightly. “I am so sorry Ryan…I will not ask anymore” she promised and let her eyes drop to the floor. She was sad for Ryan but at the same time she felt a deep envy that he had memories of his family, he must have happy memories before the sad while she couldn’t even recall if she had a family before the labs. Ryan was quiet for a moment and she almost thought that he was done speaking to her but he continued on a completely different subject then the one that they had just discussed. Her eyes widened and she looked up with a pale pink blush staining her pale cheeks, he thought that she was beautiful. She watched him come towards her and shook her head lightly at his next question “Dating? Together?” she asked in confusion “I’m not sure what you mean? What do you do when you are such things?” she asked with a slight curious edge in her voice. She cocked her head to the side and her pale blonde hair lightly shadowed her eyes as she looked at him.
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I have decided to keep a journal regarding Project S.I.N. so that if the experiment fails I can assure that no others will make my mistakes and if it succeeds that the precious knowledge will not be lost.

We have started our search for prospective candidates today and so far it is yielding more results than we could have ever hoped for. We are looking for subjects whose DNA has a high rate of mutability as the S-Virus will bind to the DNA and mutate it for maximum results.

We have picked out our best subjects for the project and started our first round of injections and testing, so far the results have been favorable with increases in the subjects physical abilities. We shall see if their mental capacities raise as we hope they will.

The experiment was a failure, the virus reduced the subjects to some kind of brain dead, cannibalistic, creatures. I would be hard pressed to call them zombies as they are still alive and not dead in the least.
They feed off the living, we have lost six lab hands to them, they must be terminated immediately!

The S-2 Virus was more of a success than its predecessor but with one flaw, the subjects have become horribly mutated in appearance. The mutations don’t seem to hinder them but help them so we are not worried.
The life span of these subjects was not long, we must keep perfecting the virus.

A disease has broken out in the towns near us, we must hope that our virus is not responsible and forge ahead with the experiments even if it is.

There are only two subjects left in the area that match the DNA that we need…a young girl in the next town over…and my son.

The girl is the same age as my own son and her parents are refusing to release her to us, I must obtain her or the board will force me to use Zentyu. That can NOT happen. They must be exterminated for the sake of my son…forgive me. A picture of the target family is beneath to forever remind me of my atrocity.

Zentyu was sleeping well until he had a sudden nightmare that he was being consumed by something. He couldn't make out the figure. For some reason He felt as if he was looking at a humanoid figure, but a beast at the same time. It didn't really scare him, but it startled him, and left him with an uncomfortable feeling. He woke up suddenly with a gasp. He panted. He looked at the journal in his hand. He gulped. He realized that it wasn't things that were keeping him from opening the journal. It was fear that was keeping him from opening it. What if his father was the monster that everyone made him out to be. He looked at the book. He was about to open it when he heard Mariel's voice. He snuck up, and followed the sound of it. He listened. He could hear the sadness in her voice as she asked about the people in the picture. 'Do you yearn for memories Mariel.' He looked at the book. Maybe there would be some information in the book. He found a seat, and after taking in a deep breath opened the book.

Ryan looked over to see Mariel right next to him then hearing words out of her mouth he cringed abit not wanting to have that conversation. "It was...." he paused a second to take a breath. "It was my family yes." he answered sitting up his eyes closed gripping the gun even tighter. "They were bitten and infected and..." he paused as they memory shot back into his head with him killing his daughter and wife so they he could live. Opening his eyes he saw the ring still on his finger before looking away. "They are dead." he stated standing up looking to her, "I'm sorry its a subject I don't like to talk about, So if you could I would appreciate it if you could drop it." he stated leaning the gun into the chair to show he was trusting them. "What about you Mariel?" he asked looking into her eyes. "Your very beautiful, your voice is sweet are you and Zentyu dating or together?" he asked wandering.