Claire and Chris Redfield were sitting home after the last zombie fight, when they realized that they didn't have vacations in a very long time. After a very short discussion, they decided heading to Europe, to the sunny Algarve in Portugal.

They found a very nice hotel in the Internet, and flight to there. After leaving the luggage in in the room, they headed to the beach.

They had been catching sun and listening nothing than the waves hitting the sand for over an hour,

when Claire starts listening someone moving right next to her. She moves her body to allow her to look to the place where the noise is coming, and she sees what appears to be a Zombie. "No way, a Zombie, in here? How can that be possible, how did the T-virus get in here?!".

Thinking that she's dreaming, she rubs her eyes just to realize that there are two zombies looking at her, and murmuring something that she doesn't understand.

Immediately she gets up and pulls Chris, this movement causes the zombies to step back. Chris was sleeping, and the first thing he sees is a zombie looking at him, bringing the horrible memories of Raccoon City and the horrible mutations caused by the virus.

After about 5 seconds of inertia, Chris and Claire step back towards the water, as the Zombies continue to whisper something unintelligible.

Chris recovers from the initial shock, and starts looking for his weapon. With is brain still not 100%, he takes a while to realize that it isn't with him. He could kill the zombies in 2 seconds with his excellent aiming capabilities, but firearms are not allowed in air-planes and he had to leave his at home.

"I don't have my weapon with me" -- he says to Claire.
"Ok, then just run" -- she replies.

They start running, with the zombies following them. Chris noticed that they were not as slow as usual, "they must have been infected with a new virus variant". After a few minutes of running, they arrive at the end of the beach, with a very tall stone wall. They only notice it too late, now there's no room for escaping somewhere else. They turn around and decide to face the zombies.

Chris thinks: "Come on, I've faced hundreds of guys like you, some of them with just a knife, why am I running away from just two of you?" Of course deep inside Chris knew that he ran away because this time he couldn't count with his knife. That was when Claire remembered that inside her bag she had a knife.
"Come on, I'm waiting for you" -- she says whilst withdrawing the knife.

The zombies immediately stop, and one of them talks in simple English:

"Oh, sorry I didn't realized you were not from here. We are just looking for the party of Mr. Ronaldo, since you were dressed like that on the beach we thought you were also part of the invitees. Sorry if we scared you."

After a minute of silence, Claire and Chris looked at each other: "We definitely need some vacations."

Claire turns her head towards the normal human beings just dressed as zombies for a party: "do you think Mr. Ronaldo would mind if we joined the party?"

Thus, Chris and Claire join the party and spend a very nice evening drinking and talking.

The end.

Note: This story was created only to participate in this Capcom Europe contest. It is not related to any real event.

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I've always looked to my PS3 and thought that something was missing. I'm not saying it is ugly, I like the simplicity of all that black with "PlayStation 3" on it, but some colour was missing.

I had already searched for skins for my PS3, but since I live in a small town local stores don't have them. Of course, theses days the Internet has everything a gamer want, I looked for them at amazon.co.uk (there is no amazon.pt) but the price never tempted me (besides the shipping costs could also reach a big % of the skin value).

However, in my recent business trip to USA I ran into a Gamestop shop, and decided to enter look for some cool skins. Transformers, Batman, quite disappointed with those, than I found on sale the official one for Resident Evil 5. Perfect! Bought it, bring it home, and used it on my PS3 and controller. I was only surprised that the controller one was rigid, it feels strange when I push a button, but it's just a matter of being used to it.

Final result: