The Academy
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Sorry this one is a little short
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Alina woke up with a sharp intake of air. Her heart was thudding against her chest and body moist with cold sweat.
She rubbed her eyes and took a minute to adjust to the darkness around her.
As far as she could see the room she was in was messy, wooden, and old. She could hear the roof creak as rain hit it.
It was completley dark except for small flecks of moonlight leaking in through diminutive cracks in some of the boarded up windows.
Alina looked down at her arm and saw carefully placed gauze length had been slipped around the bite.
She breathed deep and wrapped the blanket that had been keeping her warm around her body and got to her feet.
The lights flickered on weakly and Alina felt her heart skip a few beats.
She noticed the reason why she was cold was because her Recon uniform had been all removed except for her pants, leaving her only with the thin pink tank top she had worn to school.
She looked at her 'blanket' and saw it was a camoflauge cloak made of thick material, its coloration slowly changed as its edges were dragged along the floor. Alina marvelled at this and set it down more watching it change from grey to a wooden brown.
"Camoline cloak, it changes its colours to that of the enviroment." Talon said, watching her from a chair at the end of the room near the bed Alina had been sleeping on.
Alina felt her heart skip a few beats and she snapped her body around to him. He sat quietly on his chair with the rifle he had salvaged. He carefully draggeda cleaning rag across its surface and rescrewed the barrell in.
She saw that he had been hard pressed dragging her here, wherever they were, he looked like he had been bitten quite a few times by those monsters on their way out.
His dark skin had grown pale and he had wrapped gauze around the top of his head and bandaged his cheek, a black kit sat near his chair along with a few expended needles.
He had removed his BAG's uniform top too and had washed it with the weak water that had poured into a nearby tub.
Alina sat back down on the bed and coughed again.
"Where are we?" She asked tired.
Talon shrugged.
"I found this two story cabin on the map and wondered if it would be a good place to set down for the night."
"Oh." She replied and wiped the blood off around her mouth on the cloak.
Talon sat by her, he was obviously about ready to pass out.
"Don't worry about standing watch, I mined the area around here with a cache of motion trackers I found, first sign of trouble they sound off in my ear bead and we ditch out of here." He explained tiredly as he unhooked his web belt and offered her a canteen.
Alina crossed her legs and took it, letting the water our into her mouth.
She emptied it then handed the canteen back to her Vigilant.
He put it down on the floor, laid back on the ratty old matress, then passed out.
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"Dom, keep awake will ya?" The sniper said and hit her lightly on the side of her head.
The French girl flinched and snuck back up onto her scope.
She had not even noticed when her eyes had closed.
She checked her watch.
I've been out for at least half an hour.....did he even notice?
Most likely, he had probally just let her sleep so he could think clear without her asking what to do.
She glanced at Nicholai, he had his VSS Vintorex aimed at a clearing where the trucks were suppossed to come.
Dom looked at her target's picture again, then back up to the spotter tripod.
The rain was leaking through the roof they had set up onto Dom's precious caculations. She had done the math on how fast a vehicle would be moving in this wheather safely and what angle the shot would have to go, over one hundred times.
Her notepad had too many different scenarios in which Nicholai would have to readjust to get his one shot in.
And she guessed now was the time to use one of them.
She zoomed in and saw a small convoy of technicals coming down the steep clearing.
She whispered a series of caculations and adjustments to him on the first vehicle.
His rifle chirped and the first truck fell over and landed on its hood.
The next vehicle hit it and killed the firsts occupants, Nicholai finished them off with a quick shot to the gas tank.
The last somehow managed to gun past the first two and was getting away.
"Adjust two degrees to the right and four down." Dom whispered.
"Check." Nicholai said.
"Clear to fire."
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