"Clear!" I yelled after I examined one of the rooms of the houses we thought was boobey trapped.
"Clear!" I heard Crystal, my best friend, in another room down the hall yelled.
"I'm going to go call base camp." I said as I turned swinging my gun on my shoulder strap from its firing and armed position.
"I'll stay and continue the search." Crystal said nodding in approval as I headed out of the hall into the living room area and out the front door heading to our camouflage Jeep that we had took. I didn't get half way to the Jeep when I heard an explosion erupt from behind me diving as far as I could throwing my hands over my head to protect myself feeling light debris landing on me before I begun getting up turning around seeing the house I just exited up in flames and most of it was gone by now.
"CRYSTAL!" I yelled in hopes to hear her voice or her able to get to her feet, but I logically knew she couldn't have survived that. I slid to my feet running to the Jeep reporting and called for backup due to man being down, I begun running back towards the burning building in hopes to help my best friend and to see in hopes that she magically survived. I was making good time until I felt a sharp sudden pain in my back getting me to fall forward yet again rolling over onto my back looking down my body seeing blood running out the front of my body right below my breast knowing that a bullet had just went straight through me pushing my hand against the blood stain that was becoming more apparent. I rolled over to crawl back to the Jeep to warn the others looking at the surrounding buildings to see a sniper in a window as I began slapping for the gun I was holding but it must have dropped. I looked around for my gun but couldn't find it nor was I able to find myself crawling towards the Jeep because I was even having trouble fighting to stay conscious with the blood I was losing. I was able to stay awake repeating Crystal's name as loud as I could as I was slowly getting weaker until I saw another Jeep of more men pull up feeling my eyes winning and not being able to keep them open.
"Leanna, Leanna…stay with me…where's Crystal?" I heard Michael ask. And all I could do was look up at him between slits I had for eyes.
"The house." I whispered out when I saw him look up at the house before he scooped me up into his embrace running me back to the Jeep they just pulled up in rushing me back to our first aide tent our base had.