Mission 1

MISSION 1
Cheiron Group, Retreival Division
Agent: Miho Kuna
Date **/**/****

Being part of the Cheiron Group I receive little trust from the members of TFV, while our still unnamed cell is off duty my teammates are free to continue having normal lives and roam around, but I am made some sort of prisioner within HQ. My time is spent training, reading or skating. But there is only so much I can handle of this monotony.
Its been a while already, as stated by the differences in dates from my last report to this one, but finally a new code blue arrived.
We are gathered and breifed about people disappearing in the lake, not far from where our last mission took place, not only this but the area too was recently abandonned by Umbrella, the same company that competes against the Cheiron Group in medical research, and who has been recently buying quite a large part of Racoon City´s real state. Behind they only left a small lakeside house standing, our mission is to get there and see if we can find anythign useful or at least related to these disappearances.
As the night falls we get there, the place is fenced with simple mesh, Claire managed to open the lock holding the door shut, letting us in. The first thing to be examined was the pool, mostly empty and covered with a coat of dry leaves. Claire started poking the bottom with a cleaning net she found, finding nothing. Starkiller found the valve controlling the drain, and with it we emptied the pool, leaving only some dry leaves . He jumped in to have a closer look, and only a small crackling noise warned us of the thinness of this pool´s bottom, the floor beneath his feet collapsed, making him fall in an underground pool or something of the sort, the light was too dim for us to see anything but darkness, still he dived deeper in order to see what that underground pool was. His effort paid shortly after, a strange creature aproached him, we saw little of it, only glimpses of it moving as we heard noises similar to the songs whales make. A short time after this encounter, maybe some seconds, we saw blood coming out of the until then clear water, it was then that we moved, and dived to find out what was going on, the creature and Starkiller were fighting, the creature was easily overwhelmed by us and soon swam away through a small hole in the wall, to small even for me.
For strict reference, what I saw was this: a seal-like creature, taller than me but shorter than the average American, where seals would have fins this creature had small arms and legs, not very suited for life outside the water we found it in. strangest of all was its head, round skull, much like seals have, and a very large snout that divided in four, within each edge many lines of sharp teeth. The eyes of this creature were large, yet they were dark, more sharklike than anything.
We surfaced again with little wounds on us, almost unscathed, it was then that the air now stank of amonia. The scent came particularly from the bloodstained water, unpleasant as it was, we continued.
Once inside the house we searched fro the main switch and with it the search was much easier, the house was empty, only one thing left, a portrait of some family hanging attop the chimney, Claire touched it and moved it , this triggered something, the chimney moved and behind it was a stairwell leading down.
We found a secret laboratory of some sort, comnputers, desks, some papers scattered, and a wall of glass leading to some large accuarium that seemed to be connected with the lake outside. Claire hacked into one of the computers, important reports were still in it, claiming that Umbrella had found traces of a civilization long lost under the lake, among the ruins they found eight eggs, and from them creatures hatched, the description matched the creature we saw and battled. That they discovered the creatures were inteligent, and seemed to have learnt some of the language we use, since they seemed to be able to solve some of the mathematical problems someeone had written on the computer. They mentioned that they practiced some necropsy on one fo the creatures, and remarked that it was unwise to kill them. Two more were sent to Umbrella, shortly after the order was given to abort the investigations taking place around the creatures, and to set the creatures free.
We continued exploring the underground instalations, finally getting to what used to be the feeding grounds, the tank below us, covered with mesh, broken and torn at some points, bloodstains everywhere.
We retreived what seemed to be the corpse of the creature we fought with, it was lying in the tubes that connected the lake to the underground tunnels, it was decided that we should take it back to TFV HQ so that it could be analyzed and examined, luckyly for us the refrigerated room where they kept the creature´s food was still working, we dragged it into the room and locked it behind us. Not many words were said among my teammates when some banging noises reached our ears from the recently locked room, Starkiller opened it only to be attacked by a white and blue shadow that resembled the dead creature, it leapt forward and went through him disapearing in mid air, Starkiller then shouted and screamed, as his shirt became bloodstained, we took it off and found his torso covered in bitemarks, strangely enough, the bites seemed to come from within him.
We inmediately returned to hq carrying the information we had gathered and asking for someone to bring the creture´s corpse and to have Starkiller treated.
We were told later that Umbrella had discovered that the creatures leave behind something like a spirit when they die, this spirit is totally incorporeus, still it is capable of causing damage, the weak spot of this spirit si sunlight, thus the order not to kill the remainign creatures. Starkilller recovered slowly, some of his wounds were still deep but still he was put into action. TFV had told the community of a Cholerae outbrake, limiting the access to the lake, we disguised as sanitary inspectors diving. We carried some arpoons to fight the remants of the creatures and UV lights hoping it was enough to fight the spirits, and again the lights were justified as water purifiers.
By now Umbrella had sent someone to destroy the house and the secret lab, covering their tracks, as for the dead creature, it refealed little beyond a strange evolutionary route, a missing link some suggested, I leave such decission to those in Charge of the Cheiron group, hoping that some samples are of use.
We dived and found a small cave among a crack on the bottom of the lake, after some meters the structure changed, a perfectly square tunnel with ordered stones describing an entrance. It lead us to a great chamber with what seemed to be old buildings, the outermost wall had niches where small cocoon shaped things laid, mummified eggs, or embryios of the creatures, and carvings that seemed to describe how they once interacted with the first human inhabitants of these lands. But our orders arrived, we were to destroy this completely, Chris held the C4.
As we prepared to detonate the charge, we heard the noise we expected, the whale songs of the remaining creatures, they lasted little, injuring us even less, and every time one fell either Starkiller or I aimed the uv light at the corpse, the spirit seeed to dissapear inmediately, when the final one fell, the dim lights we had let us see many spirits emerging from a large cave at the very bottom, they were charging against us, but the UV lights destroyed them all. We emerged leaving the UV lights on within the cave in case any spirit still remained, the C4 made everything trebmle behind us, a civilization disappeared, Claire did not like it. I am not sure I have an opinion about it. Still, the Cherion group might take over what Umbrella left behind.