Ok, here's the chapter, I've uploaded it quick, haven't I? XD
Yeah, I even had holiday, but, stuff came in around, that was? Japanese. Yes, I'm learning Japanese on this site called Memrise, I've learnt Hiragana in 2 or 3 days, so I guess I'll stick to it for now…
Why learn the language? Not because I'm an weeaboo, I mean, I'm not randomly speaking Japanese, and I'm not learning the language through and only through anime, I'm actually using that site which it's dedicated for learning not just Japanese, but also other languages. Although, someone who really knows the language might be of a bigger help…
Another thing? Well, I do have some problems with one of my friends, and since she, it's a she, yes, I'm trying to resolve her problem, my time was pretty much consumed. Not to speak, don't think I haven't written on this at all, right now, as I've wrote and finished this, It's 6:11 AM ! So don't think I was just slaking off, well, truth being said, I've also slaked off, just a little, but not a lot. So basiclly, the only time I had to work on this was at hours of 2 AM to 5-6 AM when I'll fall asleep…and I want to become and manga artist, have I told you? I guess what I'm doing now is training for the program of a manga artist…
Also, *laughs* this might not be the last filler xD
I might do more in the future, but they might not be as big as this one, I'll do when a random character appears, some I may even include them at the start of the main storylines.
Ok, nothing much to say, see ya at the end of the chapter.
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Chapter VIII
The "Expedition" riding forward, the plan was a success, they've managed to stop the assault at Iasi.
The surroundings were…plains, they've entered what was left of Ukraine, passed the Prut and Nistru river, and headed to a specific checkpoint.
"Ey, Alex! Do you remember the ambush?" Romeo asked. While riding with a smile on his face, they've managed to win a colossal victory over the vampires.
"Yeah, I can remember it nicely." Alex said with a smile, it was about time, humans totally defeating the vampires.
Flashback.
"FORWARD!" The commander shouted, every rider went forward, the vampires sure heard this, but since, here unlike Japan, the vampires underestimated the humans, by lot, at least they did until what was to come.
After an hour or so, Iasi could not be seen, the horses were sure fast, that to be said, but now the vampires appeared.
"Sir! Vampires charge! Straight forward! And from…the back?" A scout said, but the commander just smiled,
"No problem, luck's with us, that must be it…"
They've waited, and waited, kept waiting, some were scared to the bone, the vampires were just meters away, and then, the green flare was sent, in two directions.
"Now! The signal is now! Put the plan in action!" The group then just…went in two directions, if the vampires would've came from North and South, they've gone in East and West but then they've moved in such a way, that they've reached behind the vampire that would've came from the north, the vampires just stood in defense but another green flare came from behind the vampires, now the vampires were at middle, those from the 'South' were actually soldiers from Iasi that awaited the signal, and that was the flare, it could be seen from Iasi, since it gone into the air, and until the expeditionary army reached it's position, it just gave time for the garrison to reach the other position, now the garrison was charging full onward, and so did the expeditionary army, but the vampires have placed their best troops in the from line where the expeditionary army is, well, the commander thought of that, so when they were just 50 meters away, they've the same tactic they've did when they escaped the squish they would get, now they were on the sides, and with full force, charged forward to the vampires, they were basicly attacked on three sides, some humans died, but the vampires were vastly damaged, in the end, the battle ended in victory for humans, with them getting just a 50 men killed out of 5000, and vampires 1000 out of 2000, and 50 taken captives, meaning 50 escaped, they did so because they still had a gap, meaning escape was still possible.
Flashback end.
"By the way, how much do we have until the checkpoint?" Alex asked while looking at Romeo.
"Hmm…some 10 more kilometers…I think the village was called Lyubashivka…"
Romeo answered, but didn't looked at him, he was paying attention to the front.
"From what I've heard, there might be survivors there?"
"That's right, but the problem is, that the survivors are highly sympathetic to vampires, you see, even before the apocalypse, Lyubashivka was just a normal village, and kids there had to survive with that they had for the following month, until vampires came around…now they gave them resources, in exchange for the blood, and since the kids there were naïve, they accepted, because they were hungry, however, the conditions were, as you could expect, bad."
"Damn vampires…"
"You're telling me…"
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After the following hours, it was quiet, and calm, but they knew it won't last, they had to free the people there and wake them back to reality.
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"Sir! I can start to see the village! But there are no vampires around…" A scout came from scouting mission back to the general, but he had no good news of life even being present around there.
"That's…strange…our reports should've said that the village should've been filled with people…" The general answered back.
"Sir…" A guard said quietly looking at the general.
"Be on your guard men, at how relevant we are, they must've found us out, meaning they've prepared an ambush, somewhere, around."
And then, one of the soldiers shoot a orange flare, signaling to be on guard for any ambushes.
In the end, they've reached the village, and night was settling, there were no vampires or humans in the village, it was simply just like any other village around, abandoned.
Since they needed rest, the expedition decided to camp here for tonight, but still keep some Night Owls on watch.
The Night Owls were people who were trained to stay awake in such situations, they could stay awake for three days before going to sleep for about 6 hours, and then be ready of use again. The ones who took part of the Nigh Owls had a psyche of stone, meaning that they could resist the most toughest of interrogations, and still not say a word.
However, the Night Owls were kept out of battle as much as possible, due to the fact that only a few people could actually resist the toughness of a Night Owl training, and since their number was small, they were kept at a safe point in formations, however, they could still defend themselves if the situation needs it.
However, not only the Night Owls were keeping watch, but also, the Path Finders were looking for stuff around the village.
The Path Finders were masters of survival, parkour, and dangerous missions, a bit weaker than Night Owls, still did as a nice job as scouts, and also, they could stay awake for only two days, and sleeping for 7 hours, but their agility was impressive. And the thing that they are of good use.
So these two groups were the eyes and ears of the formation, without them, they were a soap balloon flying through the air, ready to be popped by some three year old.
The morning came, everyone fell asleep the last night form the journey due to the fact that not only they had to ride, but also traverse two rivers, which was a pain.
In the following days, the expedition didn't encountered too much things, in fact, it was too suspicious, in all of Eastern Ukraine, they've had only two battles, and those were at Uman' and Petrushki, where in total, vampires were all killed due to their small number when comparing to the expedition, and humans lost only 10 people, where 5 were wounded.
Now they've reached Dnieper River, at a small village called Lozivok, they've avoided to go B-Line to East due to cities that are suspected of having some population of vampires, like Kryvyi Rih and Zaporizhia, but still they were under pressure of Kiev, the now-ruined-capital. What luck they had was due to the fact that they were riding on plains, so if vampires were to come, they would get discovered fast.
In the end, the river was traversed in a day, but it's way too suspicious…no vampires…no humans….
Meanwhile, when they've begun marching again, they were near Poltava, a small town, but where activity was thought to be existent.
"What's your opinion about this city? Teo?" Alex asked his old friend about his opinion on the situation.
"I can say that it's been dangerously quiet, not only there weren't vampires, but humans weren't present too." Teo responded back staring forward, not giving any expression.
"Perhaps they concentrated most of their population in Kiev and other important cities?"
"No, otherwise they must've been centralized enough to attack us, and I know, I just know that they know we are here, it's just that, they don't attack us, we're passing like ducks on water…"
But as they spoke, the flare that was the most unexpected, happen to appear.
"Red Flare!" A soldier shouted and pointed twords the flare.
"Vampires sighted!"
"They must've came to charge us?"
"I think-wait, no, look…oh God…" A soldier said as he pointed to the left flank, a horde of vampires were charging full on to them.
"Send in a black flare! We've been amushed!"
"We've got to do the ambush tactic, right?"
"Yeah…more exact, the 2nd one." Alex said as he assured the soldier who asked.
"That's a relief…" The soldier responded back.
The ambush tactic was used only when the march was needed, but that was the 1st version, the 2nd version of the tactic was that the ambushed part was "left behind" giving the impression that the guys were left behind as dead-meat, but in truth, while the main group marched, small parts would move out of the formation, and get to the flanks of the enemy, this must've been done in fast speed, in order to minimize the losses.
While the 1st version was to leave a slightly bigger part of the group to defeat the ambush, while the main group marched onward to the destination, but at a slower pace, so it could give time for the ambushed group to reunite, the ambushed group had three days at disposal to come back, otherwise they would consider them as dead-meat, and move onward.
As for the battle, the group Alex-Teo-Romeo-Andrei were ravaging in terms of cooperation, vampires have concentrated a lot more on them, but by doing this, they've left the others nearly free, this gave them an opportunity to try and flak the enemy a bit, giving to the humans a slight bonus, however, the odds were still in the favor of the vampries, the humans were just 50, while the vampires were ~200, they had them in both terms of quality, since their biological superiority, and quantity, however, they would soon balance things in quantity, and even gain supremacy when the plan was placed in action.
Alex was nearly hit in the head by a vampire, but Romeo shoot an arrow, as a weapon of choice he had compound bow, one of the main weapons used now-days as a ranged weapon…
However, Andrei had something…unusual…he had a gun, yes, a gun, however, since ammunition was like…the holy grail, he used in only in needed situations, and as a main weapon, he used a nicely made army knife, he was doing his job well, and Alex had his Uchiha blood combined with the use of a Katana.
As for Teo, he used both a bow and a sword, given the moment, he was…a fighter to say the exact.
One hour has already passed, and the humans drastically fell to a number of 20, they've retreated to a hill, awaiting a signal, a specific signal that would start everything, and, here it came as we've spoke about it.
A yellow flare was in air, meaning in this situation "Where are you guys?" and a green flare "Right over here!"
Now the plan was in action, perhaps the vampires observed or not, it was too late, all of their flaks were attacked, the ambushers became ambushed.
"Hah, look at that, we're getting the upperhand!" Romeo shouted as he was shooting his bow, but missing everything.
"Romeo…" Teo said while walking to Romeo with a serious expression.
"What is Teo? Why the serious face?"
"It just…dosen't seem right…why are vampires so…weak…I mean, something must be happening, if they were so weak from the start, humanity would've won by now, but, look."
"You're just paranoid, calm down for a little, it should help."
"I cannot calm down, something is brewing, the vampire and human absence from Western Ukraine, the failed attempt to destroy a good portion of us here while they had the chance…"
"…"
Romeo didn't knew what to say, as he looked around, he could see that Andrei was just calm, but Alex looked like he thought of something too, he too must feel nervous about the turn of events.
"Let's go back to the main group before we're getting too behind." Alex said as he got up on the horse.
"Are you two guys coming or not?" He said again while heading off.
"Yeah." Romeo said as he just got up on the saddle and rode off.
They have eventually reached the city where they were going to fight the vampires there, it wasn't an capture mission, but a hit-and-run, or scouting mission at first, to see the surroundings and the places around the city. There were four groups, one of them being Team 7, Alex, Teo, Romeo and Andrei.
Team 7 was moving forward into the city, they had to cover an area of 10 km around the ruined buildings, while keeping an eye out for vampires.
"Alpha 1, report in." Alex said sign language, since radios were out the calculus, sign language was a need-to-be in the army, because it was the main tool used in these missions.
Team 7 separated into two groups, Alpha Group being Alex and Teo, and Beta Group being Andrei and Romeo.
"Alpha team, reporting in, area clear, no vampire ass around." Romeo said in sign language while looking around.
"Copy that Alpha team."
As they kept walking around, trying to stay in the shadows, a scream could be heard in the hallway, since now, they were in an apartment building, after getting out of the street they were.
It was a girl, running around the hallway, but a vampire came in and cut her head off with his hand, damn blades they were!
"Have you killed her? Leon." Another vampire came in and asked the obvious.
"Yeah, good we killed her, she could've revealed the Contractor." The vampire known as Leon said as he turned to his friend.
"Contractor?" Alex thought as he kept listening to what they were talking, which it didn't mattered much, but that Contractor…
In the end, the vampires left, and the squad kept on watching, until they were gone for good.
"What was about that Contractor?" Andrei asked as he turned his attention to his group.
"Hell that I know." Romeo answered as he sat for a little.
"Let's keep on going, we'll report this back to the main HQ once we've settled our mission here." Teo said as he got up and made ready to move.
After the mission, they've came back to the HQ, but they could see that they're the last to come.
"Sir! I belive we have some news about a-" Romeo said, but he was soon interrupted by Rommel, the General.
"With the Contractor? Yes, we know about it, we've received the information from our other groups, what about the area?"
"The area is clear! True some vampires here and there, but we've eliminated them, Sir!"
"Good job soldier, now I'll be having an announcement to make, which I belive Team 7 should take part of it too."
"Sir, yes sir!"
Everyone gathered to the main courtyard where the HQ was placed, awaiting for Rommel's announcement. Everyone asked, what could it be?
"Attention! Attention!" Rommel came out in front and prepared to say in the announcement.
"As you may know, in the day time, we've sent one of our best troops out in the field alone to scout it for any vampires, and this time, we've did found them! But that's not our only discovery made today! But also by this 'Contractor' of theirs, which by all information we have, through him, the vampires get information about our expedition everyday, we belive that this, 'Contractor' might've been on their side since the start of our expedition in these parts, and the reason why the vampires are not to be seen around the villages in the Western Ukraine. In other words, we have a worm in our ranks. As of methods of finding the said worm, we're yet to investigate, everyone! Dismissed!" Then the General quietly left the stage and headed to his quarters in his tent.
"I knew it." Teo said as all the Team was at a bench enjoying the rations.
"Who could it be?" Andrei asked while taking a glass of water.
"I don't know…" Romeo said.
"Me neither…" And Alex said in the end…
In the end, everyone just took a breath of air and whined in their fail.
The night time came, and everyone was just tired, and went to their tents to sleep.
Ok, chapter finished, whew, I just want to sleep…actually, go to the toilet…yeah…
No Omake this chapter, I basiclly haven't accumulated any random stuff to add to the Randomness, so this chapter, which is a rare thing, won't have an Omake, way to, both lazy and tired to write any Omake right now, as of the next chapter? I won't say anything, fast, quick, all I want to ask is, should I come back later to the chapter? And continue on in the present? Or finish the filler arc? By the way, it won't last too long too, just two more chapters, because it'll be in Ukraine, now then B-Line to past the Caspian Sea, and then Mongolia, which these two should be two or three chapters or so…
Well, see ya on the next chapter! And good luck!
