Well chapter 11 is here, I've had this for awhile but it seems once again my Beta Reader is M.I.A but I understand the heavy burdens of school. So here enjoy the new chapter filled with grammatical errors and such, lol. Once again I will say this over and over and over again. I have no real understanding of this so called war this is just fiction coming all out of my head so try to enjoy this fiction! FICTION! Ah well I hope someone out there enjoys this and just for safety measures this is becoming a mature content story thing. Ok then read on!
I will be King
Kensei looked at me oddly before slowly shrugging his shoulders. I sat there looking at the light bulb there was nothing interesting to do and Kensei had fallen asleep from hunger. There was a soft metallic sound coming from the distance. It was the sound of a one of the metal doors latch being opened and the squeaking of the rusted hinges. I could hear the voices of men speaking in Arabic and someone yelling at them in English. I rolled my eyes I knew that annoying voice anywhere but his voice was soon quieted. The metal door closed and the voices of the men came closer and closer to Kensei and my cell. The rusty door was pulled open and a young man stood there. Two older men stood there behind him with there weapons in hand. The young man placed two trays down and looked at me. I looked him in the eyes. He shivered, stood up and quickly disappeared behind the large rusty door. It squealed as the rusty hinges were forced to close the door. I held my hands up to my ears trying to block out the annoying squeal my sensitive ears couldn't take it. Looking down at the trays I stuck my tongue out in disgust. The food looked worse than the c-rats given to us. I grabbed the only edible looking piece of food. The bread was stale it was hard as a rock if I threw this at someone it could probably knock them out. I heard Kensei groan and eye the trays of food.
"Food? I think." he said warily. I pushed both trays to him but took the cup of water. I looked into the cup and sighed. The water was dirty and like hell I was going to risk getting sick. Kensei slowly ate the food while I just sat there watching him. There was a squeak and a mouse came out from a hole in the wall. It was eying the food on the untouched tray. Kensei had finished his tray and was reaching for the other tray when the mouse hissed. I stood up and kicked the grotesque little animal away from the tray. "It's hungry just like us you know." he said. The mouse scuttled away and back into the hole.
"I never said I was hungry." I placed the piece of stale bread by the hole maybe the little thing would come back to eat or try to eat.
"You will be." he said with a smirk.
"I'll be out of here before that happens." I growled and sat back down on the floor. Again I heard the squeak of the mouse. It came back and was eying the piece of bread. It chomped down on the stale bread it kept biting until a chunk actually came off. Kensei finished off the last bit of food on the tray and looked at me.
"Thanks. So what makes you think you'll get out of here?" he folded his arms across his chest; he had an amused smirk on his face. I grinned wickedly and pulled my left pant leg out of my boot. Kensei's eyes widened as he noticed the 44 magnum pistol strapped to my calf. Pulling up the right pant leg his eyes became wider if possible at the ammunition strapped to my right leg. "How?" he whispered. I stuffed my pant legs back into my boots and smirked.
"Young ones weren't smart to search thoroughly why else would you have had candy for the first time in what? Months?" I said more than asked.
"True that." he said. I stood up and walked over to the door. I could feel Kensei's eyes on me but I could care less. "What are you doing?" he asked.
"Getting us out of here. You're lucky that I was thrown in here." I said. I could hear Kensei shuffling around as he stood up. He placed a hand on my shoulder; I turned to look at him he was shaking his head.
"Not like this. You're too rash." he said. I rolled my eyes and fully turned to look at him.
"Why should I listen to you." I asked. He smirked and sat back down on the floor.
"As a Command Sergeant Major of the Army I out rank you so you should listen even if you are a Marine." he said with a smirk.
"Bah! We're in the E-9 pay scale I don't consider you being a higher rank." I said and sat back down on the floor my arms folded across my chest.
"Hahaha! True, True! But if I were a Sergeant Major for the Marines would you still be using that tone with me?" he asked. I grinned wickedly and looked up to the ceiling once again.
"Of course E-9 is E-9. Sergeant Major and MgySgt are in the same payroll I consider it same rank." I said. He laughed and shook his head.
"I haven't had a good laugh in such a long time. I'm kind of glad you let yourself be captured." he smiled and leaned back against the wall. I began to think of ways to try and get out of here and take those two back with me. Kensei was right trying to escape the first day was a little rash so I would wait just a little longer.
"Hey why do they keep us alive in the first place?" I asked. Kensei thought it over for a minute before answering.
"I would have to say they think we have information." he said while shrugging his shoulders. I sighed heavily we had no information that could be used. We weren't Generals in the armed forces what information could we possibly have. I took orders (unfortunately) not give them out. Kensei was falling asleep again. I guess that's all we could do here sleep: eat: and . . . I looked at the toilet in the corner in disgust. I wondered if that thing even worked properly and if it did it would be a miracle. The small mouse from before came scurrying in the room again going after the stale bread. It stopped and stared at me with its small red beady little eyes. It cautiously walked toward me and stopping at my foot. It sat up on its hind legs and sniffed the air. It started to chew on the piece of bread he had broken off.
"What? Rubbing it in my face you have food and I don't?" I said. It tilted its tiny head to the side before getting back on all fours. It climbed onto my shoe and laid down there I growled but left the little shit to sleep. Who was I to disturb the little thing? I was basically a little shit to the men who were guarding us. I folded my arms behind my head and leaned back. Maybe my escape plan would come to me in a dream if not I go with my original plan. Bang on the door really loudly hoping someone would come and then kick the shit out of them. I awoke later not knowing how long I slept or if it was light or dark outside. There was a loud bang and the earth shook. Kensei sat up with shock the little mouse that had made my boot its bed had fallen to the floor and scurried off. The silver haired man looked at me as if I had the answer. I shrugged my shoulders and stood up; I started to bang on the door trying to get someone's attention. "HEY WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON!" I yelled hoping someone would come by. Then again I might not have gotten an answer I didn't understand Arabic. If only Hernandez was here he could translate for me. I heard someone walking toward the cell and stopping in front of the door.
"Why should you care you're going to die anyway." the man said I understood shit of what he said. I growled and punched the metal door regretting it seconds later. I sat back down on the floor the silver haired man sitting next to me laughed. He grabbed my injured hand but I pulled it back. He sighed heavily and sat up on his knees. He grabbed my hand again examining the extent of the injury. He smirked and shook his head.
"You fucking stupid?" he said. His attitude seemed to have changed now that he had more energy he became more blunt and aggressive. He stood up and walked over to the door. "Hey! I need someone to check out an injury! Come on I know one of you can hear me! I know you don't want us to die until you get information!" he yelled out in Arabic. He started to piss me off this bastard knew what they had said to me and he didn't tell me. He sighed heavily and plopped down on the floor next to me. He noticed me glaring at him and smirked. "I was tired why the hell do I have to translate for you? By the way this is the way I really I am." he said. I huffed and looked toward the door holding onto my injured hand. I heard the tearing of cloth; Kensei's rough hand grabbed mine and he started to wrap my hand in makeshift gauze. I noticed he had torn a big chunk of cloth off of his army jersey.
"It's not that bad you know." I said. He scoffed and smacked the injured hand after finishing wrapping it. I hissed and glared at the silver haired man.
"Not that bad huh?" he said with a laugh. "Your eyebrows match your eyes . . . blue." he smirked. I deadpanned I think I knew more about myself than he did.
"Why point out the obvious?" I asked. He pointed toward my dyed hair I placed a hand on top of the messy hair.
"Cause that's black." he sighed and looked up at the ceiling. He reached into his boot and pulled out a combat knife. I looked at him with a glare if he had that thing all along why didn't he use it? Then again it would have been what? Ten against one that would be suicide I guess you could say. Then again I was willing to try it; I was willing to run out there just to leave this hellhole. "Tachikaze. You're right young ones aren't through in searching." he said while looking down at his combat knife. I smirked and pulled up my left pant leg and pulled out my gun.
"Pantera." I placed it back and stuffed my pants back into my boot. He was about to say something when the door squealed opened. A man came in and dragged me out with him. Another man placed a gun on my back and started to push me forward. I let myself be led to a small room with a table and a chair in the middle. I was shoved down onto the chair the metal chair squeaked as I sat down. I was afraid it would break under my weight and cause me to look like a total jackass in front of these men if I fell over. One of the men came toward me and grabbed my injured hand; he was a much older man looked to be about in his late forties early fifties. He turned to look at another man and gave him some orders I guess because seconds later the man left and returned with a box. Two other men were pointing at me and saying something laughing away knowing I had no clue what they were saying. The man looking over my injury smiled down at me and removed the makeshift gauze. He turned to the box on the table and grabbed some gauze and a wrist brace. He wrapped my hand up and then took the brace and tightened it. I looked up at him and nodded my head in thanks.
"Your hand should be fine now." he said with a thick accent. I grinned at least one of these men spoke English.
"Ah right thanks." I said. My stomach growled loudly the men glared at me while the old man just laughed. He said something to the men they looked reluctant at first but gave the older man an approving look after cuffing my hands in front of me.
"Come, come. I will lead you back to your cell." he said. I stood up and followed the older man back to my prison. He shakily opened the door and stepped aside to let me in. Before he shut the door he smiled at me, removed the cuffs and said. "I will bring you two some real food in a minute. That crap they give you even the rats wouldn't eat it." he said with a smile before leaving and shutting the metal door behind him. I glanced at the stale piece of bread which I had left there for the mouse.
"Bullshit, a rat would so eat that shit they call food." I grinned and turned to look at Kensei who was glaring at the wall.
"You think he might do something to the food?" Kensei asked. I scoffed and glared at the man how could he be so skeptical? Yet he had been in this prison longer than I have he probably had his reason to believe something was off about that old man offering us good food.
"I don't think so but leave a piece out for the rats if something happens to them then we don't touch the food." I said. Kensei nodded his head and watched as the light bulb swing back and forth. The door opened and the old man walked in with two trays of food. He handed one to Kensei and the other to me. "Aren't you afraid?" I asked. The man smiled and nodded his head no.
"Why should I be?" he asked. I grinned wickedly and placed the tray down on the floor.
"Because I don't care who it is if you get in my way I will kill." I said looking up at the man who just kept smiling.
"No not frightened. You don't seem like a bad boy your heart is not tainted by murder and blood." he said and left the room.
"That's what you think old man." I whispered. Kensei took a piece of the food off of each tray, stood up and placed it by the stale bread. We watched for the little mouse to come back. It took only a few minutes before the little thing scurried into the room. It sniffed the piece of meat and took it; it hungrily ate the meat. The little mouse scurried over to my foot and again made it its bed. Kensei smirked and folded his arms across his chest.
"You have a way with animals." he laughed.
"Che I kick the little shit and it decides to make me his mother." We stared at the animal for what seemed like hours and it was still alive.
"I guess we could trust the man." Kensei and I reached for the trays but stopped when the mouse started to squeak oddly. Its beady little eyes opened and looked up at me before coughing and sneezing. I looked over to Kensei his face was emotionless before he busted out laughing. "The little shit has a cold!" I picked up the small thing off of my shoe and stared at it. It squeaked and stared back at me with his little red eyes.
"I'm keeping this." I said. Kensei looked at me oddly before asking me why.
"Really now why would you keep that thing?"
"The people I hang around with are boring. I think Little Shit here will be more entertaining." I said while placing the mouse back on the ground.
"You named it Little Shit?" he asked. I nodded my head and picked up the tray of food; shoveling down the last bit of good food into my mouth Kensei shrugged his shoulders and did the same. We sat in silence for awhile after eating thinking of ways to get out of this hellhole. "Anything?" he asked. I growled and threw the fork across the room.
"Like hell I have to get your ass out of here plus those two." I sneered. Kensei sighed heavily and looked at the mouse who was laying there by my foot.
"Maybe you should have thought of that before getting captured." he said. I glared at him and shook my fist at the silver haired man.
"Bah! It was pushed onto me hours before I was to start my original mission." I said. He sighed heavily and closed his eyes.
"I'm going to sleep." he said. I grabbed the fork on Kensei's plate and tossed it at the light bulb. I watched as the dying source of light sway back and fourth. I began to wonder just how those two had been captured in the first place they weren't weak. Well maybe that pink haired bastard was but still he wasn't dumb enough to be captured. That horse toothed jackass must have dragged down the pink haired bastard with him. Then a thought came to mind did they do it on purpose like I had. Was it there orders to get taken so I could be tested? Was I the cause of their grief? I laughed and shook my head if I was the cause of their grief even better I hated those two. Well either way it didn't matter to me I just wanted my seat of power and I was willing to do anything to achieve it. I had the inherited money coming to me from my parents and with the help I was receiving from that man it meant closer to a seat of true power. "Bah you can't sleep well in a place like this!" screamed Kensei. I turned to look at him he was looking at the light bulb. "Think of anything?" he asked.
"No." I quickly answered.
"It looked as if though you were thinking about something." he said. I shrugged my shoulders and flicked a rock that was on the ground.
"Maybe I was but it wasn't an escape plan." I sighed. He sat up as straight as his tired body would allow him which wasn't much.
"What were you thinking about?" he asked.
"Not much, just things back home." I said. He was smiling, I wanted to know why and I quickly received my answer.
"Ah miss the family huh? I guess you are human." he said with a smirk.
"What is that suppose to mean?" I growled what did he mean that I am human.
"You know what I mean. When you came in here you acted as if killing someone wasn't a big deal. Like you weren't human." he leaned his chin into the palm of his right hand.
"Che, I wasn't thinking about my parents I could care less about them. They give a shit about me so why should I love them? I was thinking about the money I would get from them." I said with a laugh. Kensei lifted an eyebrow the look on his face was that of total confusion. "Not everyone loves their parents you idiot." I said with a sigh. He nodded his head slumping down I guessed his aching body couldn't stay seated upright for too long.
"So you just want the money, I guess I can understand but really why do you want it so much?"
"Because . . . I will be king." needless to say I had ulterior motives.
Sorry for the wait but I hope you guys enjoyed this, like I've said before this is going a different direction than I had originally planned which I'm glad it is =D ok well
nilla-out!