Delilah and Julius where just about to sit down to eat breakfast when Al came into the kitchen in a hurry.
"We've got, like MAJOR problems kiddos! Finish your breakfast quick and come to my office man!" Al seemed a little more worried than usual, so they did as they where told. Al still looked as frazzled as ever when they walked in.
"Here's the deal children, Lady Devilish is destroying the Cameroon, Gabon and Congo rainforest in Africa, and she's doin' it fast. She is setting fire to the surrounding villages and she is killing anyone who gets in her way," Scarlet showed them images of all the destruction to the villages and the forests as well as all the dead bodies that had been piled up. "Your job is to stop her and get her into our hands, dig?"
"Do you have any other information on her?"
"No man we've got like nothing; she seems to have just come out of nowhere. We have no records of her anywhere. It's like she never existed until right now!"
"Follow me and I'll get you geared up, kittens," Delilah and Julius got set up with every thing that they needed for the mission.
As they flew over the rainforest they could see how much destruction had already been done. There was smoke and flames everywhere. Delilah decided to brush up on her Bantu (native language of the Pygmy people who lived in those forests).
"We will get you as close as we can without being detected, I'm sure you won't have a hard time finding her after that," it was going to be no problem at all, but they didn't know what they where up against. They knew absolutely nothing about her or why she was doing any of this. "Here we are children," Scarlet said and Delilah and Julius got their parachutes on.
"Ready partner?"
"Ready," they jumped off the plane and landed in an area that had been burned down not to long ago.
"What kind of person does this?" Delilah asked with disgust.
"We will find out soon enough," and with that they headed out to find Lady Devilish and stop her.
As they got closer and closer the smell of burning trees and small hunting villages was stronger and much more pungent. They soon came across the ruins of a very small hunting village. The smell of burnt human skin was in the air and they soon found the source. There was a pile of dead, burnt bodies almost directly in front of them. This village was touched very recently and they could still see fire burning what was left of a little hut.
"We're close, lets pick up the pace," Julius said and started running with Delilah close behind. As they ran on they got into thicker forest and eventually had to slow down.
"Where-"
"Stop," Delilah interrupted and pulled Julius back. "I saw something moving just up a head of us." They waited for a moment and they both saw something move.
"There!" Julius pointed and they began the pursuit. As they came closer they could see that it was a person. He looked native so they expected he had escaped from the last village.
"Acha ndisi arithi katika lumba enye enyi!" Delilah said in Bantu, the native language. (English translation: Stop we want to talk to you!) Surprisingly the man stopped.
"Wow, I didn't know you could speak… What is that language?" Julius asked with slight amazement.
"Bantu. I took a crash course on the plane, guess it came in handy," she approached the man carefully. He was bruised and burned with a few cuts here and there but other than that he was fine.
"Amba ni enyi?" (English translation: who are you?)
"Angu jina kuna Miska. Gani kuna zako amali bi angu chaka?" (English translation: My name is Miska. What is your business in my forest?)
"Ndisi ni duala kidalali na sisi ni hapa katika acha le angamizi a le chaka. Debe enyi msaada sisi?" (English translation: We are government agents and we are here to stop the destruction of the rain forest. Can you help us?)
"Abe, gani amili enyi haja msaada na?" (English translation: Yes, what do you need help with?)
"Amili enyi atikali pi bi kishetani kuna?" (English translation: do you know where Lady Devilish is?)
"Mie aza ake dungu kuna kwamba jinsi," (English translation: I think her shelter is that way) he pointed north-east. "Lakini mimi wa simo hakiki," (English translation: But I am not sure)
"Marahaba," (English translation: Thank you.) Before they left, they gave him some minor medical attention but they couldn't waste time.
They ran north-east and the rain forest started to get less thick. They came to a clearing that looked to be man made.
"I think we are getting close," Julius surveyed the surrounding carefully.
"I think your right, let's keep moving." Within an hour they reached a building. It was relatively large, but just a plain gray building. As they walked in they had no idea what harm would come to them.
To Be Continued