Chronicles of the Darcsen Brotherhood

Chapter 20: Enmities

We got to the location were Clementia Forster supposedly was, but instead of finding he we were welcomed by a rain of bullets from hostile troops, we tried to ran away but we were cornered and we ended up entering the caves that were near us. An avalanche broke out and now we are separated, me and Nanah are stuck here in this cave, and it looks like there is now way out, that's why we continued to walk further in the tunnel of the cave, tom see if it leads to the outside…

We continued searching for an exit at the end of the other cave, but when we got there, we found out that there was no exit, we were stuck in here. We walked back to the entrance of the cave that was blocked by the snow.

"We're stuck…" Nanah said, with a disheartened voice.

"Don't worry, we'll be fine, we just have to wait for a rescue team to come." I set next to her.

She looked at me and asked:

"How do you know that there is a rescue team coming?"

"I said to Richard that we would keep contact with him, with an interval of one hour, if in the next thirty minutes we don't contact him he'll send a rescue team for us…"

"I see… So, I guess we will have to wait here for some time hun?"

"Yeah… Hey, I got an idea! Why don't we get to know more about each other" I asked her.

"More? Like what?" She asked, she got close to me.

"Well… Zanna did said that you helped her make the uniforms, and they seem pretty resistant, did you had any experience doing sewing before?"

"Yep! When I was little my dad worked at the mines to support our family, unfortunately what he was paid for was not enough, so my mom had this idea of sewing the workers cloths that were always torn so we could earn some extra money, and with time I learned with her."

"Well, I guess you're really good at this hun?"

"Yeah, I think that when this war is over, I'm going to open a clothing store."

"That's sounds like a nice plan!"

"I know, right? Even though I'm better at making dresses than other types of cloths… So, what about you?"

"Me? Well, I guess I could be a music teacher."

"Really? I though you would say that you were going to be a military engineer, you know, because of your father…"

"Well, don't get me wrong, my dad was really great and I would have loved to follow his steps, but I always had a talent when it comes to music."

"I guess that's true, you're really good playing the guitar."

"Yes, my dad always said that I got that from my mom's side."

"She must have been a good mother…"

"Yeah, she must have…"

"Hmm…?" Nanah looked at me confused.

"Oh! I never told you, didn't I?"

"What happened?" She seemed curious.

"Our father told me that a week later after that she had given birth to Zanna she was captured by the Empire and was never seen again…"

"I'm so sorry…" Nanah looked terribly sad.

"But don't worry, he always remembered us of how much she loved us, especially in Zanna's case, because she really didn't our mother, she was always crying, but our father always told stories of our mother to her, and with the time, she stopped been so sad."

"What about you Neroh? Do you remember her?" Nanah asked.

I looked at her and she looked away…

"I'm sorry… I shouldn't have asked about it."

"No problem at all, even though I was older than Zanna I really don't remember much, only that she was a kind person…"

We stood quite for some seconds. I noticed that Nanah was freezing when started to shake while she was hugging my arm, I pulled a blanket out of my backpack and putted around us.

"We better take some rest now, it won't be long before rescue appears." I said to Nanah.

"Okay." She answered and afterwards she landed her head on my chest and I put my arm around her shoulders, we approached each other very close and slept. A few minutes later and we heard the sound of shovels hitting the snow that covered the cave entrances, in a few more seconds and the entrance was clear, and to welcome us out of that hell hole was Richard himself…

"I'm glad to see that you are not hurt." He said to me.

"And I'm glad to see that you came to help us." I answered.

I looked to my right and saw a line of bodies on the floor, all of them were soldiers from the brotherhood.

"How many?" I asked Richard.

"Seven, but we are still looking for the rest of all three warpacks."

While I was talking to him I saw that Nazir and the others had escaped as well, as they come out of the other cave systems, and Adrian and Bianca as well.

"Let me help you, give me a shovel."

"Are you sure? Are you not injuried?" Richard asked me.

"I'm fine! Just give me a shovel, if there are any survivors there we need to find them quickly before they ran out of air."

We continued digging the region were the avalanche had strike, and in the end we found a total of sixteen bodies, three from Heaven arms, three from Colossal amazons and ten from us, it was day of sorrow…

"Well, at least the day wasn't totally lost, the enemy took great part of the trash with the avalanche my friends!" Adrian said, while he laughed with the members of his own warpack.

I felt the blood going to my head when he said that. I clenched my fist and punched him, he didn't even had time to dodge it. He hit the floor on his back and before he could get up I pointed my pistol at his face.

"Don't play with the deaths of our comrades spiral priest…" That was all I said.

I got my pistol back to in the colt and looked at him, he's face was palled, I think he got the massage, he got up afterwards to defend himself but it didn't had time to do it. We heard the sound of cannons in the distance, one of Richard's soldiers came running to him with the radio on his back…

"Sir! Incoming transmission from our troops that are at the foot of the mountais!"

He handled over the radio phone to Richard.

"Here's commander, what's your situation?" Richard said at the radio.

"We're been under heavy attack by imperial squads sir!" The soldier answered back.

"How many?"

"At least three sir! We're getting support from the tanks of the Darcsen Brotherhood, but without more troops, we'll be destroyed here!"

"Could it be that this was the Empire's plan all along?" I thought to myself.

"Hold on! We're going right now!" Richard said to the radio.

He then turned to me and Adrian.

"Sorry boys, you'll have to continue you're little fight later, now we need to get down there quickly!"

"Okay!" I said it.

"Roger that!" Adrian said.

"But Neroh, are you sure you can fight, I mean, the injury on your head…" Nanah said.

"Don't worry, I'm better now, besides, I can't just sit here and do nothing while our comrades are been attack right?" I said to her.

She looked back at me and answered with a smile:

"Right!"

I looked around and saw the others, they were all prepared to go.

"Is everyone ready?" I shouted.

"Yes sir!" They all shouted back.

"Then let's move!" I shouted.

And we rushed to get down the mountain, I hope we get there before it's to late…