Leaving the fort

Steve's watch started to beep, it disturbed the cold quiet night. Both Steve and Joe jumped out of bed with a fright. Steve took some breaths and then he wiped the sweat off his face. He had had another dream of his sister's death. Every night he had that dream. It was horrible. He had to relive the death of his sister and her baby every night now. Strangely, now, every time he had the dream, it seemed to get more real, everything happened a lot slower and he was starting to get a weird vision in his dream. When he was running over to the car, through the window, next to his sister, he could see a faint figure, like a ghost. He couldn't't make out any detail of it, he could only make out the shape. It was big and it had two horns, it sort of looked like what the devil was supposed to look like. It was like the thing that Steve had seen behind the door on the Starsailer, when he was going to Urup. It was SIN.

Steve suddenly remembered where he was. He was still sitting up in his floor- bed, thinking. Joe had already gotten changed and was making his way down the stairs. Steve pulled himself out of bed. He walked over to another table which was hand carved out of wood and he grabbed a pair of black tracksuit pants which were ready for him on the side. He then grabbed a bulky white t-shirt and then he put it on. He then grabbed a black beanie and then he put on his boots that Master Shakkitta had given him. He then picked up his ruck-sack with all his other clothes, his gun and all of his other personnel belongings. He was about to walk out and then he remembered the picture of his wife. He didn't't have time to put it into his pack so he just put it in his pocket. He was now ready. He walked through the door and then ran down the staircase. When he came outside, he felt the rush of cold air hit him at once. It was snowing quite heavily. The mountains surrounding the fort were covered in whiteness. Steve couldn't't see anyone so he walked inside, to the dinning hall. Along the way, there were many people getting ready. He walked through all of the corridors until he got to the dinning hall and that was where everyone was. The were all changed and having breakfast. Again, there was a blank spot between Joe and the ghost. Steve walked over to the part of the hall where you get the food, the best thing was that it was for free. Steve's personnel favourite meal was the White Duck in Sha-man sauce. It was a Japanese duck that was only found up in the mountains. It was cooked in a beautiful sweet and sour sauce. That was what Steve got for breakfast. He then took his plate of food over to the table.

"Good morning Steven, did you get a good sleep?" Master Shakkitta asked. Steve didn't get a good sleep, even though he was asleep, he had had such a horrible dream that he felt as though he hadn't had any sleep at all.

"Yeah, I had a pretty good sleep" He said. Master Shakkitta took another bite out of his large sushi roll.

"Good, your going to need all the energy you can get for today" Master Shakkitta said. Steve started to eat his breakfast. Master Shakkitta continued to speak.

"So, after breakfast, we're going to assemble at the front entrance and then we'll be split into groups, it's too dangerous to go as one large group, with all the Sinforr out at the moment" He said.

"Are we all going to be together?" Steve asked.

"Yes, we'll have some soldiers to accompany us as well" Master Shakkitta said.

Steve finished his breakfast quite quickly and would've happily went back for more but they had to leave. Everyone was soon waiting outside the fort at the entrance. All of the soldiers were assembled. Steve was amazed at how they had organized themselves. It was like the Lord of the Rings. The army wasn't quite as big but it could still do a lot of damage. They were all very well trained as well. Master Shakkitta was instructing them on what to do when they leave.

"We will stop at nightfall and meet up to set up camp together! there will be no need for breaks unless it is completely necessary! Does everyone understand that!" Master Shakkitta shouted.

"Yes Master!" The army yelled in unison.

"Good!, lets move out!" Master Shakkitta yelled. The army started to run into the mountains, breaking up into four different groups, each with about fifty men. Roughly twenty-five men came over to Steve's group. Master Shakkitta came as well.

"We'll be the last group, in case the Sinforr are waiting to bombard us, the rest of the men will take them out" He said. Everyone hoisted up their packs and then they started to follow Master Shakkitta through the snowy foggy path which led into the mountains. The soldiers were behind everyone else, Master Shakkitta was leading the whole group. Steve started to get tried straight away when they hit the snow, it was almost thirty inches deep and it was terribly cold. Steve knew that this wasn't going to be an easy journey.