Luka, the name echoed in her head. Was it her name, or was it nothing but a codename. She hadn't been called anything for the last couple weeks, or months, or maybe even years, no one knew how long it had been, since the war started. Everything was peaceful, she was an ordinary girl. She even had a dream, she dreamt if becoming a pop star. Now she was nothing but a elite soldier of the VDA (Voluntary Defense Army). Every day a battle occurred, VDA's and the Liberation Army's troops clashed with mighty explosions, incinerating lasers and storms of bullets. The biological and nuclear weapons used had quickly lowered the population from around eight billion to a few hundred millions.

Chapter 1. Storm

A heavy explosion was heard to the right of Luka. She turned her head to observe the situation, the ground was black of ashes with a shallow crater in the middle. She stood still for a quarter second before leaping to the left, dodging a lethal ray of bullets from a enemy war machine. During this Kaito launched an exothermic grenade from his hand-held mortar. The grenade hit between some enemy soldiers who quickly died due to the heat. Kaito a friend of Luka, he was another of the nine still living elite soldiers, these soldiers were herself, Kaito, Miku, Len, Gakupo, Miki, Rin, Meiko and Anon. A missile hit the war machine that just tried to annihilate Luka, as the missile hit the machine exploded in a massive wave of heat wounded all nearby soldiers, both ally and enemy. Luka rose her gun and fired a ray of bullets killing the already weaken enemies around the destroyed was machine. Huge amounts of smoke covered the scene making it pointless to even try to count how many soldiers were hit, and how many of them died. Suddenly the foe retreaded, rendering VDA victorious. Some soldiers was of course lost but that was to be expected, Luka walked around the battlefield searching for information about the Liberation Army, like a computer or something. A certain corpse disturbed Luka, she turned the dead body and identified the remaining parts of the face, Miki. Miki lied there dead in the mud. Her entire body had been impaled by bullets. Slowly Luka returned from the battlefield, she and Kaito were transported to their base. "Where's Miki?" Kaito asked, he had of course no idea of the fate of Miki. Luka swallowed.

"Dead" she answered. Kaito didn't say anything, he just looked down. Soon the transporting vehicle would arrive at their base.