They Are On Their Way To Help

Sarah was watching at the back part of the humvee. "Are we sure we're not forgetting something? are we totally sure we're ready to depart?"

Ethan rubbed his chin as he counted objects. "I think some supplies rations are missing... at least I could say that considering we're bringing a new person with us."

"Also, I notice it, my slave is missing." Sarah looked around but his face was nowhere to be found.

"He said he was going to the bathroom or something like that." Ethan shrugged as he started to leave. "I'll get us more food!"

"Good." Sarah nodded, loaning on the vehicle. During the waiting, she observed Lelei and Rory approaching with an elf making them company. As they had reported her, the elf was a woman with white hair and caramel-colored skin. That elf woman was, however, not paying attention to what was in front of her because she had some headphones.

"Tu prestar... prestaste eso a ella? (You lend... you lent that to her?)"

"Tenía tantas preguntas como nosotras cuando cuando llegamos aquí (She had so many questions as us when we arrived here)" Lelei commented.

"Era natural querer mostrarle lo que tanto nos había sorprendido (It was natural to show it yo her what surprised us so much)." Rory said.

"Tan.. to?" Sarah inclined her head.

"So much." Lelei translated.

"Oh, entiendo. Gracias (Oh! I understand. Thank you)."

Yao was trapped in another world metaphorically speaking. Her other senses weren't exactly working, only her ears detected that... marvelous orchestral music made by the gods themselves...

How was it possible that these tiny articles could play something as complex as this and also ensure only she could hear it?!

This must be some powerful type of telepathy!

It was pock on her shoulder that returned her to the real world.

She took off the magic musical tiara and only then, she saw a green woman.

What she remembered of the imperial army was that women used not to be allowed... and according to Lelei, this woman was the leader of a squad.

"Yo soy Sarah Brewster... un gusto (I am Sarah... nice to meet you)." the American extended her hand. Yao didn't understand at first until Lelei explained the meaning of that hand gesture.

"Yao Haa Dushi, un gusto también (Yao Haa Dushi, nice to meet you too)." then both shake their hands.

Sarah was about to say something more... until she realized she didn't know enough vocabulary to communicate what she wanted to say.

She needed to study more... by the moment, she would need to rely on the good Lelei.

"Sarah dice que no deberíamos tardar mucho en iniciar el viaje y que no tarderémos más que un par de días (Sarah says it shouldn't take too long for the trip to start and it won't take more than a couple of days)."

Less than three days?! but it took her at least two weeks!

However, once she remembered the metal eagles moved that fast... what prevented this metal carriage to be as fast as that?

It didn't sound so implausible then.

"Te ofrece entrar al auto para descansar mientras esperas. (She's offering you to enter the vehicle to rest while you wait)"

"Gracias, muchas gracias (Thanks, thanks a lot)." It wasn't only that sitting sounded good at this moment... she also felt curiosity about how comfortable those things were. Both Lelei and Rory followed her to the inside.

Sarah, on the other hand, was happy to see her slave had returned.

"Are we leaving right now?" Manuel asked as he rubbed his hair.

"Almost, we're waiting for Ethan."

"But he was here when I left... where is he?"

"Looking for more food."

"Ah! good then..."

Sarah frowned. "You are forgetting something"

It wasn't a question at all. It took him two seconds to connect the cables.

"Uh?... ah! right..." He approached his lips, Sarah received them with pleasure... however she could say her boyfriend wasn't enjoying this as much as her.

When they separated, she didn't waste the time to initiate an interrogatory.

"Okay, what's wrong?"

"Eh... nothing..." he looked away.

She crossed her arms. "Very convincing. Now, tell me."

"I said is nothing..." He tried to walk away...

The next thing that every member of the team saw was their leader holding the arm of her boyfriend in a way that, putting just a little more effort, it would be broken.

"And now?"

"I... argh... I cannot tell you right... argh... now... would you mind if... urgh!... if we talk about this after the mission is completed?"

"DURING the mission."

"If we get to be alone."

"Sounds good."

Manuel fell when Sarah let his arm go... and then she helped him to stand up. "I thought that as a mature couple we were going to trust each other."

"It's not like I don't want to talk about it... I just don't want to do it right now..."

"Then just tell me that!"

"Uh... well... um... sorry, you know I am... em..." Not wanting to make his girlfriend mad again, he just shut up.

However, Sarah also noticed another weird thing. "Usually Emroy reacts much more than this when we have a situation like this one."

Manuel reflected about that... and he felt more uncomfortable thinking that it was true... he usually even complained when he and Sarah kissed... remembering that his mind and the god's one were merging slowly made that a possible explanation crossed his mind... and also taking into consideration that the god seemed to enjoy anything from the other side of the gate...

It was weird being jealous of something that, in another context, could be understood as an imaginary friend...

"Are you done?"

Both gasped as they noticed Ethan was behind them.

"Uh... yeah!" Manuel frowned as he watched the space left in the Humvee. "How are we gonna fit there?"

"I can sit on your legs." Sarah shrugged.

"Uh... are you sure about that?"

"Unless you want Ethan to sit on your legs." she smirked.

Ethan rolled his eyes as he opened the door. "Just pass me the keys."

"Take them!" Sarah threw the objects in question.

"Well... I'm not gonna complain."

"Also, I need your help to learn more Saderian."

Two F-35 Lightning II were flying in circles around the zone their superiors had indicated.

The orders were to take down 3 targets that were terrorizing the locals with its power looking for food... and considering that both pilots had a tiny competition against each other for discovering who was the one that killed the most quantity of those monsters... the fact they had been spending hours without finding anything was... annoying and frustrating.

After all, when you get the unique opportunity in life to kill dragons using a military plane what you want is to have some entertaining.

"I was hoping to take first place." commented one of them.

"And I was hoping to leave even more behind... unfortunately, our fuel is running out."

"What a shame." the pilot of the first fighter turned his plane to return to base.

"I suppose this means each one pays his won beer this time." commented the second pilot.

They repeated the next days their efforts to locate the beasts only to find nothing again... at least at the beginning.

"How are we even sure if those dragons even exist in the first place.

"Some forests have been burned to ashes in this zone... but who knows? perhaps it happened thanks to natural causes."

"Maybe it was just a stupid pra-... wait... is that one of them?!"

Indeed, a lizard-like figure colored in blue was flying at low altitude.

Although the planes accelerated and prepared to aim... the target landed inside a mountain with a crater.

"Should we shoot a missile?"

"Even if we did that, we wouldn't get confirmation whether we killed it or not... on the good side, apparently we've found their nest."

"There's a racon team approaching, right?"

"It would be a good idea to request them to force them to get out."

"It's the best option available."

"Roger." Sarah placed the radio in its place as the order had been transmitted. "Nothing ever goes as expected, right?"

"It seems we're going to hunt dragons!" By a reason he didn't understand so well... no, he actually understood... Manuel was much more excited than usual regarding fighting... or rather... about murder.

"You both can take the glory this time." Ethan sighed. "I already tasted it and it wasn't that good." The Canadian yawned. "Are we already near her home?"

Lelei translated that to Yao. "Nos escondemos en unas cuevas cercanas, solo debeís seguir derecho por aquí (We are hiding inside some caves around here, you just need to continue like this)."

The elf, however, wasn't really sure if her people still existed. Who knows what could have happened in all that time she was gone.

Once they arrived at a zone Yao recognized perfectly, she asked for the team to stop.

"She says she's gonna tell the dark elves about our presence," Lelei explained as the elf began to jump and leave.

"Good." Sarah decided to extend her arms for pleasure.

"Hey! Sarah!" The American turned around to see Emma.

"Want one?" The medic of the team had a bag with candies.

"Sure thing." She smiled as she took an orange one.

Some other members of the team started to have talkings with each other. Rory relaxed on the top of the Humvee.

Ethan and Manuel, on the other hand, were sitting on the border of the road, looking at the river at the bottom.

"There's no official answer to whether we can visit home already, right?" Ethan sighed.

"You're asking the wrong person. Sarah is the one who knows all that stuff." Manuel threw a rock. "Not that I'm very interested though."

"And that's why?" Ethan raised his eyebrow.

"My parents died time ago in a car accident... and I was never that united with my siblings so..."

"Oh... sorry."

"Meh... I suppose the case is the opposite with you."

"My father is an expert at cooking. My family didn't exactly have much money when I was a kid, so he had a tiny restaurant. It's thanks to my brother who became a programmer that we commenced to live better. It's thanks to him that, as a teenager, I had my own computer and consoles. He gave them to me."

"I don't believe in god... at least the ones they speak about back home..." Manuel scratched his hair. "But, if there's actually one of them, your brother does deserve the heaven."

Ethan laughed. "Yes, he does... in a way, I felt like my contribution to the family wasn't enough compared to his..."

"Is it that the reason that made you join the army? to help to bring the meal to the table by sending money?"

"In part. The other was my liking for war movies. I once considered became an astronomer. I like the stars and all those things but liking something and being good at that something are things that may be different."

"True... let's just hope they allow you to return soon... again."

Ethan bitterly laughed. "Yeah, let's hope..."

"There are two things that worry me." Manuel's voice tone became as sad as his friend's one.

"So you want to speak about them with me and not with Sarah?"

"I mean... the first one is a secret right now... the second one is that... I'm scared."

"Of what?"

"Well, Sarah's father is also a soldier so... make a guess."

"The classical: he's gonna test me to determine if I'm worthy to be by his daughter's side?"

Manuel snapped but he didn't answer.

"Just don't tell him you became a soldier to massacre criminals and instead say something about the proud of our nations and you won't ruin it from the very beginning."

Manuel laughed. "Yeah, I already supposed I should do that."

"Good. Regarding the rest, I cannot help you."

"Thanks anyway."

Both didn't say anything else. They just waited... until somebody yelled.

"WE'RE SURROUNDED!"

Both quickly stood up and prepared their weapons.

"¡¿QUIENES SOIS VOSOTROS?! (Who are you?!)"

Dark elves... probably a patrol.

"¡SOMOS AMIGOS! (We are friends!)." Manuel yelled.

At first, the elves were skeptical... but then seeing Rory... and noticing these people wore green... they got an idea of who they could be.

It helped that Yao returned with some friends after that."

A short chapter, but that's in part because I want to focus the next one entirely on assaulting the dragon's nest.

Actually... this was going to be released sooner... yet, while I managed to keep the Switch away and my PS4 hasn't been touched... there was a certain archive that captured my attention when I turned on my pc.

Minecraft.

it does not help that I just have run out of good ideas for this and the ones that I still have are for the final chapters. I've already decided. They kill the teen dragons, we see Piña being crowned and then a chapter to show you the past of our three characters and that's it (a chapter per character or a very big chapter of more than 5000 words). That and the epilogue draegpm75 mentioned if I somehow manage to make it make sense. It's not that I don't appreciate you and I wouldn't like to make 20 new chapters with perhaps a new enemy to face... but it's better to end this when it's still good... than ending it when it has decayed...

I don't think I have anything else left to say so... let's answer reviews:

BigBadAud666:

Now it was Minecraft... at least it wasn't as bad as the last time.

Draegon75:

Mmmh... if you could explain that to me much better by inbox better perhaps I'd be able to write something like that.