I am glad to bring you guys the second chapter to The Path of A Warrior, thank you everyone for all the wonderful reviews so far, I really appreciate the support, don't forget I am accepting any OC's and suggestions for the story, and now onto the chapter.
2. Infiltration
I opened my eyes groggily, I was still laying on the cold jungle floor, and all that could register through my mind was the excruciating pain that erupted through my body. Somewhere off in the bushes I heard footsteps, the footsteps approached where I lay, and I saw a pair of black rubber boots next to my head. Before I could look to see who it was I was roughly dragged to my feet, and was being pushed into the tree in front of me. I groaned as a new wave of pain overtook my body. I looked behind me at the black and yellow uniformed man tying my hands behind my back.
The events from last night suddenly flooded back into my memory, Citra and I, the uniformed men...gunshots! My eyes widened and I looked around, I noticed that Citra was nowhere to be seen. It was like a switch went off in me, turning me back on, because as soon as I realized Citra was gone, I shoved backward into the man behind me. He fell backward, startled from the sudden burst of energy from me, but shoved me off of him. I rolled onto my side, I tugged on the ropes that constricted my wrists, but it was useless.
The man looked angrily at me and began to stand up, I noticed him look at his gun, and he lunged for it. I quickly swept his legs out from under him with one fluent motion, I brought my legs around his neck and began to squeeze with all my strength. It seemed the man was not particularly strong, because he was not able to pry my legs off his neck, he scratched at my leg, but I did not loosen my tension until the man let out a final breath of air and went limp between my legs.
I kicked the man away from me, I noticed he was not breathing and the realization of what had done processed through my mind, I had just killed someone! The feeling was indescribable. Even though I have killed animal after animals the feeling of killing a man could not be comparable, even though I was still in shock, I couldn't help but think of how instinctive it was, I had acted without thought, as if I had done this before.I scolded myself pushing these thoughts out of my mind, I kept reminding myself that it had to be done, it was either him and me.
Then the thought of Citra came to my mind, captured by those cruel, and harsh men in black and yellow.
My eyes wondered over to the corpse of the dead man, I ran over to his body and began to remove his clothes, while I was putting the black and yellow uniform on, I noticed in small print on the jacket, sewn onto it was the word Privateers.
"So these men call themselves the Privateers?" I asked myself. This little bit of information did not help me with the location of my sister, but it did tell me that this wasn't just some gang of unintelligent villagers gone rebellious, these men were organized and meant business.
'Okay, I've got the clothes, I've got the agenda, now it's time to find that camp.' I grabbed the machete I had found on the man's body, I placed it on the holster of the uniform, which was firmly placed around my waist, I grabbed the gun the man had been carrying up off the ground, and I headed into the jungle.
10 Minutes Later
It wasn't too hard finding the camp, when I climbed the biggest, and safest tree I could find, it was not difficult spotting the smoke rising from the clearing no more than a mile away. From there all I had to do was walk toward the smoke, and ten minutes later, I stood at the edge of the trees, looking down at the camp.
I made a quick observation, the camp seemed to have been one of the smaller villages, to my disgust I could see the piles of dead bodies laying outside the camp. The camp was made up of small bungalows on the rim, and in the middle one huge bungalow that looked as if it were some sort of gathering place, I decided I would look in there first and see if they were holding any prisoners inside.
The "Privateers" littered the camp, covering posts for every inch of the camp. Although I wore their uniform I was still nervous as hell that they would discover my true intentions, I kept reminding myself to stay low, act natural, and do not get in any conversations.
I took one deep breath, and stepped out of the cover of the trees, I glared my eyes and frowned my face to hid the nervousness I really felt inside.
I walked up to the gate, and briskly walked by the two guards that were posted there, neither of them turned to look at me, they only continued their conversation. This made me feel a little bit better about my disguise, and I found myself walking a bit more confident than I had before.
I noticed next to one of the bungalows, a group of cages, and inside a pile of village people. I walked by and examined the villagers, who cringed at the sight of me. I noticed one of the Privateers glaring at me, so I quickly continued on my original route to the main bungalow.
When I was a little more than ten feet away, a group of Privateers stepped out of the Bungalow, laughing and talking among themselves. I waited patiently until the group was a good distance away from the bungalow until I walked in. My eyes scanned the room quickly, there were no prisoners inside, but I noticed a pile of papers littered over the large table in the middle of the room.
I ran over and began looking through the papers, they listed names, I felt sweat running down my face as I searched desperately for Citra's name.
"Come on, Come on" I murmured to myself, starting to get frustrated.
Slam! I flinched at the sound of the door being slammed shut, and the sound of footsteps approaching me. I quickly put the papers back on the table, and turned around, trying to keep my composure so I did not blow my cover.
The Privateer that had entered the room, was smiling to my surprise. He walked over to me and clapped a hand on my shoulder,
"I see your looking through our sells…eh?"
I smiled along and nodded, "Yeah, making some real money huh?"
"Hell yeah we are, can you believe how much money these worthless villagers are getting us?"
I could feel the anger inside of me at the man's words, I clenched my fists tightly, restraining the urge to punch him in the face.
"Yeah…."
The Privateer turned away from me, "Well come on, we're all heading to the meeting together."
"Oh…um…I sort of got some business to deal with here."
"Mandatory meeting, no option man." He opened the door, and I could hear the engine from the cars, I took a final look at the papers and followed the Privateer outside,
"So who's called the meeting?" I asked him.
"The boss, he's the one that always calls the meetings."
I jumped into the car, along with all the other Privateer's and we set off, somewhere Eastward, I watched the camp behind, in the distance, and finding Citra seemed hopeless to me right about now.
'What have we gotten ourselves into?'
That is the end of chapter 2, hope you are enjoying my story so far, and don't forget to send in those reviews and tell me what you all think^_^ until next chapter
