Inkyu Kim
15:35:01
Operation Los Angeles
"Green lights! Go! Go! Go!" yelled Lieutenant Connor as paratroopers jumped out the cargo bay, I jumped out with my team following right behind me. Lieutenant Connor also jumped after we were all out of the plane. The wind started to pick up; we were being flung all over the place. I grabbed on the ropes praying to Apollo for my life. A few minutes later I looked behind me nobody were in sight.
I finally reached the ground and I quickly cut off the wiring to my parachute. I was alone in the middle of an empty Los Angeles. I drew my sword and started to patrol. I kept looking for another thirty minutes, no enemies in sight, what was going on?
I soon arrived at the base of operations; there were heavy thunder and heavy winds. There were soldiers running around evacuating civilians. I walked over my friends were there, "Alright, we should make an IM." I said and just then rain started to pour, "Thank you Poseidon." I got out a golden drachma and threw it in a rainbow as an offering, "Camp Half-Blood, Long Island." soon a picture appeared in the middle of the dining hall. Everybody stared at me. Chiron trotted over.
"Where are you?" Chiron first asked.
"We are in Los Angeles it seems like something serious is happening here heavy rain, thunder, winds, and even a hurricane warning, is something going on that I should be informed about?"
"There has been a security breach in the underworld, we don't know who did, but we are pretty sure it's not a big deal, just stay up there and try to evacuate the civilians, other then that just stay." Chiron ordered, with that the message disappeared.
"Alright, trouble in the underground we are to proceed with continuing to evacua-" I heard a loud boom, we all looked around trying to see where the sound was coming from.
"Run!" yelled a soldier from far away.
"What the hell is that?" yelled another.
"Aghh!" screamed the final. I drew my sword and started to run, my friends and Lieutenant Connor followed. About thirty soldiers also followed.
We soon reached the area of the sound, there was a huge hole in the ground. "I don't like the look of this." said Ariella while investigating the hole.
Boom! We looked around again, "Come on we got to find out what that is." I said while slowly starting to run. Boom! I fell backwards and fell on the ground, in front of me was some type of half scorpion and half snake. The bottom half was a yellow snake and the top half was a yellow scorpion. The monster was massive, about five stories tall and who knows how long. I kept looking in shock and fear.
Wham! I quickly rolled just in time before it stabbed down at me. "Fire!" yelled Lieutenant Connor. The soldiers open fired shooting the new celestial bronze bullets. The scorpionsnake soon retreated, slithering away to it's hole. "HQ, we need a black hawk evac, we don't have wounded or dead, but if we wait we will have some." We heard helicopters overhead, about four landed and everybody got on board.
"Well this is exciting." said Anthony apparently enjoying the fact that he was in a huge war.
"So, the CIA has created an entire division just for supernatural encounters?" asked Ariella to Lieutenant Connor.
"Yeah,"
"So how many battles like this did you guys fought?"
"None, first battle. Yours?"
"Hm, about eighty-six." Boom! Crash!
"We just got hit by lightning!" the Pilot press some buttons, "We lost power!" He pulled out his personal radio, "This is Echo 1, repeat, this is Echo 1 we are going down!" he quickly looked at us, "Hang on to som-!" the helicopter ripped, I was flung out. Smack! I landed, crashing against the roof of an apartment. I slowly got up, feeling extreme pain of the impact.
"Stupid inertia." I grumbled as I walked towards the stairs to the building's stairs. I opened the door and smoke of burning smoke and ash rushed out. I started to head down, the smoke was overwhelming, I used the bottom of my shirt to cover my face. I started to move even faster down.
"Hello? Anybody there? Please help me!" yelled a voice, I looked around a quick 360 check.
"Hello! Whoever yelled yell again!" I yelled out, I coughed.
"In here!" said the voice again, I ran towards the voice, there was a fallen wooden plank blocking the doorway, I drew my sword and started to hack on the wood until it finally broke. I then kicked the door open. There was a girl standing up who was about 13 and there was a boy who looked 16. There was a couch that seemed to have fallen from the level above, I quickly grabbed the couch and lifted it. The girl dragged the boy from underneath and I dropped the couch.
"The building is going to collapse soon." I said looking up. I helped the boy up and we all started to go downstairs and outside the building and placed the boy down on the sidewalks. I got my radio and turned it on, "This is Echo 1A, repeat Echo 1A, I have an injured civilian here that need immediate medical support, what's the status on the storm?"
"We copy you Echo 1A we are sending an ambulance over, the storm's status got worse, Hurricane 'Poseidon' will be here and flooding this place ETA one hour. We are trying to evacuate the troops now. Ambulance is on the way." replied a man behind the other radio. I heard a siren and saw a bright red ambulance, the ambulance stopped and two EMTs got out. An EMT quickly lifted the boy and placed him in the ambulance with an air mask over his mouth and nose the girl followed. "Echo 1A, you need a ride?" the paramedic asked me.
"Yeah, isn't everybody evacuating?" I replied and got on. The paramedic also got on and the ambulance was soon away to the main base.
"What's your name?" asked the girl, "besides Echo 1A something."
"Ian- Ian Hunter." I replied still looking out the window, there was fire everywhere and crumbling buildings.
"Allison." she said, "This is my older brother John." I looked at John who was still breathing.
"Nice to meet you." I kept looking out the window trying to scan for any one from my helicopter.
The ambulance arrived at the main base there were evacuation helicopters everywhere. I got out of the car and looked around, I found Lieutenant Connor and the rest of the group. I ran to them, Anthony first saw me.
"Ian! Your alive!" yelled Anthony joyfully.
"We all thought you were dead!" added Ariella.
"It's good to see you alive." said Ltd. Connor, looked at his fist. I peered over, he was holding dog tags, about fifteen of them. His face was mournful. He saw me staring at his hand. "This is my squad alone, our casualties are overwhelming, eight-hundred and ninety-four, and even more accounted for dead. We weren't prepared. Our training didn't train us for anything we saw today."
More and more helicopters started to lift off. Ltd. Connor pointed at a transport Mi-17 helicopter, "That's our ride." He said putting the tags in his pocket, we walked to the transport helicopter and climbed onboard. Our helicopter was the last one off, I looked outside, the flood started, the costal part of Los Angeles. People were dead and nothing changed since we got here. I pounded my fist on the ground as I watched Los Angeles being engulfed by the water tides.
"Pilot, turn back around get us to the DOA Recording Studios." I commanded, the pilot and some soldiers looked at me as if I was crazy. Ariella and Anthony looked at me if I went nuts.
"Alright, kid." the pilot turned the aircraft around and headed for the studio racing against the flood to get there on time. Boom! Crack! There was heavy thunder. "What in the lord's name?" he said looking up, our helicopter was pretty high up, but the waves were taller than we were, I looked out the open back of the Mi-17, there were tornadoes, massive tornadoes, about five of them at once destroying the city. More thunder and lightning. "ETA, two minutes!" I looked out the back, I said a quick prayer and jumped out.
"Ian!" I heard Anthony yell, Ltd. Connor jumped out too and following him Ariella and then Anthony. I crashed into the tide and was quickly engulfed by it, I quickly looked for the studio while holding my breath underwater and being pulled across by the currents. I saw the building and I was quickly being pulled, I reached out my arms and grabbed the handle of the door, the door flung open. I looked for my friends, I saw Ltd. Connor and reached my spare arm and he quickly grabbed it, then Connor reached over and grabbed Ariella, who also grabbed Anthony. I pulled myself in using my foot and all my strength to go inside the studio.
"Aggggghhhh!" I grunted my words just becoming bubbles, Come on! I can do this! I pulled and pulled, then splash. I was inside the building, the entire building was dry and completely unaffected by the storm. We were all on the floor gasping and breathing heavily. "Thank you laws of physics!" I cried out, the man at the reception desk looked at us.
"Welcome to DOA Recording Studios, how may I help you?" asked the man. I lifted my index finger, wait, and continued to breath.