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Chapter 1 Nightmares
Renzo felt a growing wetness spread over his torso, he looked down and saw a fist sized hole in his stomach.
He fell to his knees and another bullet hit his shoulder knocking him down onto his side. In the distance he could see his comrade the one he tried to save reaching out to him, clutching the bullet wound in there leg. He could see that they where yelling to him, but Renzo could not here them as darkness clouded his vision and he blacked out.
+Onboard the "dawnshadow" battlecruiser, high orbit Sera+
Renzo woke up in his bunk and sat up adruptly, hitting his head on the bed above him.
Frank his bunk buddy snorted and rolled over in his sleep,
pulling the rocket launcher in his arms closer to himself.
Renzo was in his early twentys had black hair buzzed to his scalp and his eyes slightly glowed red in the dark allowing him to see most of the room clearly, a mutation from the atmosphere on his home planet.
Another bad dream, the third one he woke up from this night, they were all the same.
Him dieing on the battlefield as he tried to save one of his squadmates.
"Just nervous about the drop tomarrow," he thought to would be his first real battle, nothing like the minor skirmishes he fought in back dureing the rebel uprises in sector 8 colony.
He liad back down in his bed and closed his eyes, but he didn't feel tired so he decided to go down to the target range, Renzo got out of his bed and pulled on his boots,
He was already in full armour in preperation for the drop onto Sera tomarrow.
Renzo then searched blindly in the dark for his lancer,
his hand brushed against it and it fell from its place leaning aginst the wall to then fall and knock over Frank's much larger mulcher chain gun.
It fell to the ground with the great loud clatter of metal on metal.
The sound scared Frank and he rolled off his bed from the top bunk and fell to the ground creating an even louder thump,the rocket launcher he had in his arms falling and hitting him in the head.
Renzo cringed and quickly grabbed his lancer and ran out of the cabin away from the deadly beast he had awaken from his slumber.
Renzo continued down the halls of the ship, he could still hear the yelling and cursing of Frank drowning out the yells of others telling him to shut up.
Renzo slowed down and looked out a window down toward a dark green and blue planet called Sera, somewhere down there was his landing zone, his own personal peice of hell, as he fought to save what was left of humanity on that planet against some of the most inhumane enemies he had ever seen, they where called locusts and the C.O.G has been fighting them for 20 years barly making a scratch on thier forces.
It was 4 years after E-day when the Terran Defence Network recieved a distress signal from a Colonal Hoffman,
T.D.N immediatly sent the 3rd company drop troopers to answer and investigate the distress call.
Renzo was in Bravo squad in the 3rd company commando divison, nicknamed the "Reapers".
It took them 15 years of space travel to get to sera, 3rd company spent the time in cyro sleep.
Lost in his thoughts Renzo almost passed the door to the firing range, he opened the door and steped in and saw it was empty nobody was even at the ammo dump to work the counter so Renzo walked over and went behind it to get some ammo for his lancer when he heard a voice,
"Hey I need some sniper rounds"
Renzo looked up and saw a curvy female figure with green eyes and long shiny blonde hair tied back behind her head, she was in full armour too.
"Shit Liah ya scared me, I didn't even hear you come in."
"Thats cause I'm the scout remember, I have to be quiet, besides I was behind you the whole time." she leaned on her rifle, shifting her weight onto it.
"Since I left my cabin!?" Renzo said with surprise on his face.
"Yep, Frank's yelling woke me up and I came out to see what happened when I saw you run out of your room, like a child from punishment."
"Ya, you don't stay in the same room with Frank when he's angry."
"What happened anyways?" asked Liah.
Renzo answered her question.
Liah let out a long whistle, "No wonder he's angry." observed Liah
"I'm screwed aren't I?" asked Renzo.
"Probably not, your his friend, he'll let you off easy, but if it was me you'd be screwed."
"You should go back and stop putting off the inevetable." Liah gave him a shove towards the door.
"See you later Lorenzo." she called to him
"Thats if I survive." replied Renzo, walking out the door.
Him and Liah Have been friends since grade school, Renzo was orphaned and living with foster parents when they imegrated to a diffrent planet to get away from a war, he met Liah in his new school and the've been friends since then, even joined the service together, and are now in the same squad.
Renzo stoped in front of the door to his cabin and took a deep breath, He opened the door steped in and braced himself.
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Renzo got an earfull from frank so he'll be alright in the next chapter just a little shaken up, next chapter will be up soon