Dragonslayers

by BananaJoe64

In the heat of the Vietnam War, a squad of American troops are ambushed by mysterious men with medieval armor and weaponry. The men, seeming to have come from a mysterious structure which leads to another world, leads to U.S. troops being ordered to investigate this other world. Follow through the eyes of an infantryman as he recounts his experiences in that strange, new world.

1. Nothing but the Truth

Author's Note: First of all, I'd like to thank you if you're here reading this right now, I realize that there are many other stories out there that you could be reading right now as well as a lot of other things you could also be doing right now. But the fact that you chose to take a look at my story really makes me happy. Anyways, this is my first story on this website, so any criticism is helpful. Hope you enjoy! (I'll also be posting at least two chapters of the by the end of each month, starting with these two)

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Nothing But the Truth

All of this is true.

At the time of writing this, only a decade has passed since the conflict in Vietnam came to an end. And yet, it seems like an eternity ago. An eternity where I myself served as an infantryman for the Army, an eternity where I lost friends, an eternity where I killed. Do I have regrets when it comes to the things I did back there? No, I did what I had to, and so did many of my other brothers in arms. But this story isn't focused on my experiences in Vietnam, no, this story is about another world. One which was far away from Vietnam yet ended up being just as bad.

This other world was similar to ours in many ways: they walked like us, talked like us, loved like us, and fought like us.

But this story isn't going to be centered around that, it won't be, because we weren't always fighting in that world. Sometimes, we all just took a moment to appreciate the sun setting over there; creating a beautiful haze of orange and purple in the sky. Sometimes we just sat down with those strange people and just had a couple of drinks, talking and laughing.

This is a war story, this is a love story. One filled with craziness that is the truth, one that is so unbelievable that you may call me insane after reading it. But it happened. All of it.

I have no way of verifying this, of course, all traces of that place are gone now, along with it the lives of American soldiers - which is why I tell this story. I tell it because my friends can't. I am telling it so that they're not forgotten.

I can't make any promises to you, the reader, on how this story will play out. But I will make one promise when telling it: I will tell nothing but the truth.