Hey guys I'm back! I present not only my first major fight scene but also longest chapter!
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0700 hours, June 2545
Holly Madison sat under the huge rock to get shade from the rising sun. The team arrived here after making a night trek in panic with only flashlights. She could hear the creatures in the forest as the roamed around and Lee even had to give warning shots a few times to scare them.
They were finally getting a break at a huge rock in the middle of a clearing. The trees were clear for a few meters out, enough space for the whole party to sleep near each other. The trees were definitely getting thicker so she could tell they were in the middle of the valley. Holly could smell so many different aromas it almost made her dizzy.
She was the only one up at this time so she sat there and thought about their situation. Why are the military doing this to us? We could die so easily against these monsters! They really want us to be serious about this military stuff. Holly thought this as she saw Jake wake up. Oh God, this is awkward!
But soon enough he approached her and sat next to her. "Hey, I just came to ask you something," Jake asked obviously sensing her discomfort.
Holly nodded not wanting to say a word.
"Well why did you one moment hate me then the next have googly eyes and now, yet again hate me?" He asked sounding almost exasperated. He obviously thought about this quite a bit.
"Because ever since that first day of Camp you've had that cocky look at me or anyone when you beat someone. I hate people like that."
"But that doesn't explain the googly eyes," He replied already knowing the reason she hated him.
She just stared at him and that look gave him enough information. As their eyes looked into each other something happened in both of them. It wasn't love, Holly was sure of that but it was something along those lines and somehow the exact opposite.
Jake and Holly both blushed as Jake left stumbled away. What just happened?! I don't even know how I feel about him anymore. She thought helplessly laying down trying to go back to sleep and forget it all.
Later that day…
Holly shot at the Officer elite with her carbine like a mad woman. She was behind a tree avoiding the fire of the Officer. The elite killed someone from Blue Cabin when the group was just moving from the rock outcrop. It was able to pick up the deceased girl's gun after hitting her in the chest with a rock. During that moment all the members were in shock of the ambush.
Soon the elite was dead and the leaders went to the body preventing anyone from seeing. Holly's heart was heavy. No one ever expected a trainee to die yet it just happened. The entire group was silent, fear rising in them. Holly saw Lee Riu on his knees crying as Jake tried hard not to do the same. The other leaders were solemnly standing nearby.
After a moment they left the two Blue leaders and went straight to all the Blue Cabin members who already knew who it was. They were already either sobbing or just staring at the ground.
"Why!" Lee wailed from behind them. Holly's hair on her neck raised from the wailing. She never wanted to hear something like that again.
The leaders then proceeded to the rest of the group.
"The one who lost her life to the monster we just slayed was... Kylie Heyde." Khan Riu announced his voice cracking.
Holly heard gasps as other members began to break down. Holly did not personally know her but that explained why Lee was devastated. They were always seen together and some said they were even dating. Holly felt anger as she thought about their trainers allowing this. It depressed Holly and she did not want to continue this nightmare of a trip.
"We must keep moving. We will honor Kylie at this moment," Khan continued. With that everyone went near the body and some of the kids almost vomited from the site. Her face looked calm despite the dent in her chest.
Lee stayed in the same position as Jake stepped in front of everybody. "Today we honor our first and hopefully last fallen member of Camp Semper Fi. She was a shining star in many of our lives every day we woke up in Camp and we hope she still shines bright wherever she is now." He finished hesitantly.
"Let's get a move on," Damien ordered pulling everyone from the scene. Holly looked back as Khan went to talk to Lee.
This trip just got a lot harder, Holly thought.
Lee looked at his watch to see it was 1000 hours. It felt like Kylie's death had happened seconds ago. His heart ached each time he thought of it, which was all the time. He didn't like the idea of Kylie being with everyone on this trip. She was capable but if he could, Lee would've made her stay at Camp. And each second of the day he couldn't stop thinking, it is all my fault.
As the group traveled closer to the LZ they were all dead silent out of sorrow or alertness it wasn't known but Lee could feel it in the air. The only person who could talk to him about anything was Khan. Khan just told him some encouraging words every now and then which helped Lee little but he appreciated it.
As the group began to get closer to the LZ the trees thinned out and the valley wall was getting closer and closer to their right. The bird chirps died down near this area but Lee was oblivious.
A whistle sounded and Lee knew that was one of the scouts up ahead. Jake went to meet them and bring them back to the leaders.
It was a Red Cabin member girl that began talking, "We saw a huge cave with what appeared to be deer skeletons outside of it. It reeked of carrion but there was nothing in sight."
Lee had a budding idea of whose lair this was but did not have the energy to pursue the idea, he could not think of anything but Kylie.
"Couldn't be a bear," Connor said. He was at home in these forests and had been micromanaging the whole trek with advice on where to go and what to eat. They would probably be dead without him. Strangely Kingston didn't say a word. It was obvious Connor was taking lead of the Blades. "Show me this cage," He said to the scout. They left and Alexia turned to the group.
"It's gotta be the Elites. It might be their home base." She said this with edge to her voice. With this comment something stirred in Lee. A deep anger in him that almost hurt.
"If it is them," Lee spoke up his voice cracking from little use, "then they're dead."
Everyone looked at him with wide eyes until a huge roar sounded near them. Lee turned to see an elite running straight toward him but before the elite could even reach him lead filled his body in a millisecond.
"Form up into pods!" Jake ordered as every one turned back to back in pods of five or six. Lee and the other leaders did the same as they had their weapons ready. Lee heard a yell and gunshots in the direction of the caves.
"It's Connor!" Kingston yelled but he didn't budge. Lee and Jake went into a dead sprint forgetting about the others as they crashed through the thin tree line.
Soon they arrived to a huge cave opening in the side of the valley. In front of the cave was a terrible sight. Connor and the scout girl from Red Cabin were behind a freshly fallen log hiding from a line of elites. There was only one elite on the ground dead. There were nine of them coming from the cave but they had weapons, human ones. The trainees could not see Jake and Lee.
"They found the depots," Jake told Lee, dread in his eyes.
"Alright but-," as soon as Lee was about to finish his sentence an Elite grabbed him by the back of the neck. He flailed around as the Elite kicked Jake aside like a fly.
The elite turned Lee so he could see the fear in his eyes. It grumbled something to Lee. His grip began to tighten around Lee's neck. Lee's eyesight began to flicker as he tried to hold on to his life and kick the alien down with little success. Lee began to go through all his memories and painfully through his most recent ones and he almost wanted the elite to kill him but as he thought this the elite fell to the ground dropping Lee as well.
Dizzy, Lee got up to see the elite's purple blood pouring from two wounds in his back. He looked slowly up to see Ricky and Ryan moving toward Lee quickly.
"Why are you here?" Lee asked slowly. It was obvious his mind was going back to Kylie as he saw no danger nearby.
"Mary sent us to back you up, you needed it." Ryan replied his voice trembling. Ricky saw Jake a little ways off and went to tend to him.
Lee nodded as he slowly stood up. He could not let his team down. He picked up his assault rifle and cocked it. "Is Jake okay?"
"Yeah I just got the wind knocked out of me and I think a few broken ribs," Jake himself said standing up.
"Okay good," Lee replied. "So Connor and his partner are hiding behind a log from a lot of Elites. I need Ryan and Ricky to take some shelter on one of their flanks while Jake and I go backup Connor." Lee still had a good view of the scene and the Elites were getting closer. The Red Cabin members nodded and went off to the right.
This is the Elite's last strike, they are gonna kill or be killed.
Ryan Dyvers followed Ricky as they went to the right of the standoff happening near the tree. He was scared out of his mind but he knew this would save his friends and that was the only thing holding him back from running from this miniature hell.
They crept through the light undergrowth and finally got to the side of the cave where the trees broke off before touching the rock wall. All the two boys had as cover was a boulder that barely covered the both of them. The elites were getting closer and closer to Connor.
"Why don't they just kill them?" Ricky asked this with malice in his voice.
"Simple, they want to scare the living daylights out of them first."
Ryan then saw Jake and Lee crawl to the log unseen by the elites. The fighting would start as soon as Ryan or Ricky shot. Ryan aimed first since he had the battle rifle and zoomed on the closest Elite's head. He pulled the trigger and the recoil of three bullets kicked as they flew into the monster's head. This alerted the aliens who immediately began firing at the two Red Cabin members. They buckled down behind the cover as bullets whizzed by.
All Ryan could do was pray he didn't get hit by the barrage as he looked over to see Ricky with a scowl on his face. He saw an elite without a weapon coming at them the opposite way of the gunfire. He gunned it down and reloaded quickly.
"They must have the others surrounded," Ricky said.
"And this firefight alerted them." As Ryan said that the gunshots that were hitting the rock stopped. Ryan took a peek to see that the Elites were all dead and saw the trainees were okay.
Ryan and Ricky ran to the guys and told them their revelation. "Okay we have to go and tell them because there's no way we can find each of the Elites that are hiding."
The group began to move back to the main group with Torri limping slightly from a few bullet nicks. As they arrived to the clearing guns immediately pulled up on them but were relaxed an instant later.
Mary ran to them and asked them what happened. They told her the story and she followed with hers.
"We saw they were surrounding us and trying to push us closer together but we routed them out. So is that all of them?"
"We believe so but we should just head to the LZ, it's almost noon." Lee said as he looked at his map. "We will be moving immediately back on our course."
Soon Ryan and Ricky were behind the group making sure no one got picked off. The group was at a jog right now and Ryan felt as though they should be at a full sprint to the LZ.
"You think it was that easy?" Ricky asked. He seemed to be thinking like Ryan.
"No I don't something feels wrong," he heaved. The jog was starting to tire him out. They had been at this jog for about fifty minutes.
Ryan weaved between two trees as he kept up with Ricky. The whole group was doing this so they had a straight path to the LZ. Ryan believed they would make it since it was currently 11:30 and the ships was to arrive at 12:00.
The group made it to the LZ without a hitch and were ten minutes early. Ryan was still on edge though. Where was that Officer? He thought, he didn't want to ruin everyone's high spirits though. The trainees were ready to get back to Camp. They chattered happily and without worry. Ryan and Ricky sat in the middle of the clearing.
Ryan saw a shimmer float up behind Kingston who was near the tree line and Ryan immediately shot at it. What appeared was a large Spec Ops Elite that fell to the ground causing Kingston to panic and shoot at the dead body more. Ricky who was next to Ryan shot at a blank space which was really a now dead elite.
Ryan turned to see the Officer hit Lee in the chest propelling him back a few feet. The kids tired and demoralized by this ambush began to run to the trees. The only people standing in the clearing ready to fight were Ryan, Ricky, Mary, and Yuri who stood their ground closer to the Officer than Ryan or Ricky.
The Officer had a shimmering cloak around his armor which appeared to be a shield that made all of Yuri and Mary's bullets bounce away but Ryan was torn away from that scene to see another Spec Ops Elite about to clobber him. He ducked to the ground and Ricky shot the alien all over his chest dropping him right next to Ryan.
"Thanks," Ryan said and got back up to see Mary was on the ground unconscious as the elite laughed. Yuri was next but both Ryan and Ricky began to move forward on him using everything they got on it. They reloaded but with that the elite turned his attention to the boys but it was too late, Ryan pierced the shield and it's jaw as Ricky took it's legs out.
Ryan ran to Yuri as Ricky went to Mary. As they did what they could the Pelicans landed and medics came running to help them. The other kids began to cautiously come back to the clearing ashamed that they were scared so easily. As the medics took the two girls away the Red Cabin boys got on their Pelican silently worrying for the girl's safety.
The ride back to camp was silent as the members of each Cabin thought about what happened and why they were put through this. Ricky had fallen asleep next to Ryan as he sat thinking,
What did we do to deserve this God?
How was the fighting and did the trainees at the end of the chapter running in fright seem bizarre? Review to tell me!
Hope you enjoyed!
