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this means someone is speaking

Now that I told you how I got to the underhive I am now going to tell you what happened after that.

I was wondering around the underhive looking through the garbage for something edible when I saw a little child around my age looking through the rubbish.

When I saw him I was happy because I saw someone from my age and that I could start enacting my plan, but also interested because I wanted to know how he got there.

So then I went to the boy and said hi.

The boy was immediately alerted but when he saw me he relaxed just a little only because I wasn't an adult who would most likely kill you when he saw you.

He still stood on guard cause I could still be a kid who kills you and stale anything you have.

It was a little bit tense so I began with breaking the tension so hi my name is Anthony who are you ?

The boy said my name is Marcus he was still tense but he relaxed a little more because I didn't actually attack him yet.

Then I said to Marcus well nice to meet you Marcus how are you ? when I said that Marcus immediately relaxed a bit more.

It looked like he hadn't had a friendly talk for months and from someone my age for years so grateful he looked at being able to talk to someone friendly.

Marcus reacted with well I am having a good day today as far as you can have one here.

We both laughed a little at that.

I reacted with ; so let's talk a little bit with each other shall we since I don't think you have very much contact with anyone.

Marcus finally fully relaxed and started to talk with me well what shall we talk about ?.

Then we started talking about each other's live before this.

It turned out Marcus had a bit more interesting life down here than I had before on the upper level.

Marcus was born and raised in the underhive.

He was left by his father after a one night stand with his mother.

After that his mother tried to feed him but she just couldn't keep up with the need for extra feed so she wanted to put him on the street.

At that moment the local gang leader came to her house and asked for protection money.

Because she didn't have anything useful at the moments he decide to give Marcus to the gang leader as protection money.

she half expected him to refuse it but he accepted him and raised him with the rest of the gang.

Marcus till last week worked as errand boy for the gang bringing packages from one base to the other.

All that changed when another person took power in the gang, killed the current leader and threw Marcus out saying he didn't need another mouth to feed.

Since then Marcus was in the underhive looking for food and trying to survive just like me.

That was how he came here.

Then I told Marcus about my life until now from the beginning till the end, since the day my father angered the factory boss till the day he was put in the underhive with me.

We both had a pretty interesting life stories and after we told each other our life stories we started talking about our personalities and our interests.

He told me that he was very good in being silent, running quickly and evading danger since that were things he needed to know as an errant boy.

He also told me that in general he learned things quickly and that he was also talented in general because if he had the time to practice he could learn almost all things quickly.

I told him that I was personally talented in engineering and technical things cause I worked in a factory and that I was told by people that I was extremely intelligent because I could think more logically than most persons, think better on problems, think like if I had an education while I never had any and have a photographic memory but I also act a lot above my age.

Later I also told him that I was a very quick and talented worker in anything that could possibly be learned.

As a reaction Marcus asked if I wasn't overkill and actually bragging a lot.

It was easy to believe Marcus's reaction because a lot of times I also couldn't believe all the talents I had so I told him that maybe if we worked together he would see it.

After that I and Marcus decided since we were both in the same situation it would be smart to work together and try to survive better.

At that moment although I didn't know then I gained my best friend and my right hand.

When we had decided to work together we decided that we should work together and try to find some food and water.

I already knew of a place where there was water clean enough that if you boiled it and let it cool down and then drink it that you shouldn't get water poisoning because of all the pollution in it.

Marcus told me about a location he knew where there was a hidden field that maybe because of a miracle had apple trees and fertile grounds where we maybe later could make a large farm.

As an extra boon for the place there was a forest close by that had a lot of wildlife in it.

Both locations were hidden and surprisingly close to each other.

That way we both had enough food and water so we shouldn't have enough to worries about food and water anymore now we needed to know how to survive this place.

I didn't question how we goth the 99,999% impossible ideal locations in this place because I knew that sometimes miracles did happen in one way or another.

We decided that if we were to survive with all the other gangs around the place we needed to have a larger group.

So we explored the nearby area in the underhive for homeless children and others of our age and maybe slightly above to try and help each other to survive.

After 2 weeks of exploring and searching we had a decent group of 23 children.

Whilst Marcus and I looked for children for the group we commanded that the other children also did their fair share of work.

We decided that for any path we went on with our group we needed to have tools.

So I split the children in two groups, A group to try and find building materials and fuel for the forge and other workbenches and another group who searched for anything we could use in particular Iron and Steel.

When me and Marcus had found a decent group we came back to base (the clearing from Marcus) we found that the one group had enough to materials to create a small forge to create tools and weapons and a work table to make other tools and variables with.

The other group had found other material we could use from pieces of wood to a lot of items with Iron and steel In them and also a few which had aluminum in them.

So the next 3 days we worked with stones mud and wood to make once work table to make items we need in general and most importantly a forge which could make us weapons and tools we could use.

But alas we had a minor setback that would slow us down.

All the moving of materials and the decreasing number of orphans alerted a small group of gangsters in the area.

It was a small gang of 8 people who wanted to have our piece of land and our materials this is how our meeting went.

The small gang followed one of the children who were gathering materials.

When he didn't look he was picked up by the group of 8 well little child it looks like your all alone the gang leader said maybe we can help you.

The child was very scared and cried for help the gang leader reacted with nobody is going to help you now you little child so now bring us to your home or there will be unintended consequences.

As he didn't have a choice the child brought him to the clearing.

When they came we were just making sure that the forge was working and started to have our first test with the making of knives for everyone so they could defend themselves better.

4 were already just finished.

We saw one of the children coming back with a group of people we didn't know.

I saw that the child was very scared and that those other people were clearly trying to intimidate him.

quickly the knives were distributed to me, Marcus and the 2 oldest children (we didn't have time to train them yet).

The gangsters said hello kids we heard that you were living here in our territory and we don't like that so we think that you should go away or give us all your stuff.

They did notice that they were with less people but they weren't concerned because they were just children.

That was the biggest mistake they made.

I said to them well maybe we are having it good here so shall we just discuss this like gentleman here have a stool.

When I said that I threw my sharpened stool leg into the eye of the leader of the group.

With that the fight began.

I quickly walked 3 steps toward the nearest gangster and stabbed him in the neck before he could react and threw his body towards his friend to my left.

Then I quickly dodged a knife that came from my right by quickly sidestepping it and then quickly breaking the gangsters arm which my elbow while his arm is still stretched.

After that I kick him in the stomach and leave him to be killed off by another member of the group.

There were still 5 members left one of them still under the body of his former comrade.

Whilst I was doing that and the gangsters attention was on me he sneaked behind them and stabbed another person in the neck.

Still none of those stupid gangsters had their attention on him and he stabbed another person who was still having his eyes on me.

The person I had earlier thrown a body on stood up and tried to charge at me I quickly faced him and waited for him to charge at me and at the right timing threw my knife at his right arm where he also had a knife thus making him incapable of using it then pulling it out and hitting him in the face.

There were still 2 persons left and one of them while I wasn't looking quickly tried to sneak behind me trying to copy Marcus but was caught by one of the 2 children with a knife and was sneaked upon.

The last person then ran away as hard as he could but tripped on a stone and landed with his head on a stone and died.

When I recovered my breath it just hit me what I had just done, I had killed 5 human person, 5 human beings , 5 people who lived their whole life's just to be ended by a child of 7(I just had my birthday).

I didn't know if I should laugh because 5 hardened gangsters were killed by a small child or cry because I killed 5 people today.

But I couldn't have the image of a lunatic or a weakling so I did neither.

I cried in silence.

After the battle I was wondering if I did the right thing then I remembered that I didn't have a choice I needed to help the children and I couldn't let them live on the streets like rats again.

So in that way I justified myself and started to look if other children had any mental scars.

Luckily the older children mad sure that the really small children didn't look at what happened and didn't look themselves afraid of what would happen so luckily no trauma for them.

The boy with the knife was also scared and thinking about what he had done but when I talked to him and saying that he did good.

It wasn't as bad as first and at least at a reasonable level that he himself could deal with and said to him that if he needed any help he should ask me.

Marcus was unsurprisingly ok because he had already seen a lot of death so he wasn't so afraid of it.

After that luckily there wasn't any major incidents that would need to be said.

We quickly continued whit what we were working on by giving a knife so they were at less risk and to be used as other things like cutting small pieces of wood.

The next thing we did was make a shelter for everyone to sleep in.

We made a simple but effective construction by making strong wooden pools as foundations and pillars between them we put pieces of stone between them and putting mud between them to make sure it was stronger and as last touch make a roof out of wooden planks which we could climb on and throw rocks at people who tried to attack.

The area was about 10 by 10 meter so we had a lot of room for new recruits and people in general

The door was made of strong oak that we cut from the forest and was quickly installed so we were a bit safe for new attacks that would be made.

Now we have the basis of a community we had to make some choices to decide which way our group would go.

At the first meeting there had been a few new recruits which had come here to try and don't be homeless and have a place to sleep.

Because we needed new recruits and had enough food we accepted them and our number rose to 31 people so we had 8 new recruits to join.

I started the meeting by asking if anyone had suggestions.

The first suggestion was by an older person who was recently new and he said maybe we should have a warrior group that secures an area and for a small fee protects the people in that way making sure they are safe and we gain more power.

Another person reacted by do you really mean a small fee or like one of those oppressive groups who bleeds everyone dry and doesn't protect them.

I reacted by no we are not going to do that because we are not villains and have all our best interests at heart.

Everyone agreed by that because they were young and bright enough to see that it would not be the good thing to do and not resourceful.

Then a younger girl said maybe we should be spies and have a large spy network all around the hive to make sure we know everything going on.

Then another boy said what do we do if we have the information but nothing to do with it.

At that moment everyone started talking with each other and it became chaotic and everyone tried to shout when I shouted

SILENCE.

We are humans not a group of dogs listen to yourself and don't try to think about an answer because I already have one to stop you from bickering with each other.

Everybody came close to listen if I had any idea about how to make an effective route.

I said well both sides have both good arguments and they don't rule each other out, they help each other because with the intelligence you can know when to act and not just attack everywhere without any information.

As I said that everybody was mumbling to their neighbors saying it was a smart thing to do.

Then I said everybody who agrees say aye.

Everybody says aye.

Then I said we still have another issue we need to democratically need to choose a leader anybody want to put someone else forward.

All the children raised their hands up I sighed thinking they all would choose themselves or another person so I asked a child of 5 close by who do you want to nominate as leader.

He said you Anthony till now everybody has listened to you and you planned this all out so and defeated the bad men I think you should be the leader.

I said ok who want me as leader of the group raise your hand.

30 hands went up.

Well now that we have that done and our path is chosen I will make sure that the most important thing till now is done.

All the children listened closely to what it was.

I said we are going to create.

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Work and training schedules to make sure we are all trained in what we are going to do and that we make sure we are effective.

Everybody looked disappointed at that.

So I said because this was a tiring day you now the rest of the day free to play with each other

And with that everybody cheered and a new age began for us.

So what did you think about the chapter and combat scene ?

Any comments about how to improve?

And do you think my combat scenes should be rated T or M?

Well I hoped you enjoyed till the next chapter