Fight for the future
Chapter 20: The new generation
Disclaimer: Do I look like I own the well-known characters?
Authors note: This takes place a day after the events of seven days of glory.
Hotaru walks into Trista's tent and looks at her.
"I suppose you've heard?" Hotaru said.
"Yes, they're all dead…"
"Do you think?" Hotaru asked.
"No." Trista replied.
"Why didn't we go to their aid?"
"You know as well as I do everything happens for a reason." Trista replied as Hotaru left and sees the rest of the people standing around in mourning for what happened yesterday as she goes to find the others.
Elsewhere Adam finishes digging a grave and places Yuki in it before filling it back in and placed his rifle as a marker to show where he had buried her before moving on to the next, Hotaru, Mara and Reiko are on their way to where Adam is.
"Tell me again why are we going?" Reiko asked.
"To get Adam, then the new generation'll be complete." Hotaru replied.
Adam stands on the north wall with a rifle when he sees three people in the distance; he leaves the wall and runs out and hides in a tree before cocking his rifle and waits till they get to a distance before he opens fire and they duck before opening fire causing Adam to jump out of the tree and runs back into the garrison and into a foxhole by the palisade as Hotaru and the others walk into the garrison.
"Where is he?" Reiko asked.
"I saw him run in here." Mara replied.
"Check everywhere for any survivors." Hotaru said before they go to check the barracks and rooms to find dead soldiers everywhere but none of the defenders.
"Found him?" Hotaru asked.
"No." Reiko replied.
"Check down by the palisade."
"Okay." Reiko said before she leaves for the palisade and finds him sitting in a foxhole with a rifle beside him and he puts his hands up as he stands up.
"FOUND HIM!" Reiko shouted back and they run over to them.
"You can put your hands down." Hotaru said "we've come to take you away from here."
"I'm not leaving until I've buried everyone I fought beside, I watched them die." Adam said.
"Let us help…"
"No." Adam replied as he finishes digging a grave and puts Ricky in it and a bottle of tequila before filling it back in.
Two hours later
Adam finishes filling in a grave and marks it like he has with the others before they leave and they head off back to camp where they introduce him to Trista.
"It's been a long time Adam." Trista said.
"I've never met you before." Adam replied.
"You have, you were just a baby."
"Heck, I never even knew my parents really." Adam said.
"I knew your mother."
Trista passes Adam a photo of the senshi long before the conflict started and he looks at it.
"That's the girl who…"
"That's Hotaru." Trista replied.
"How old is she?"
"A lot older than you think." Trista replied.
Adam's jaw drops to the floor when he heard how old Hotaru actually was.
"Let's get you settled in." Trista said.
Trista and Adam leave her tent and go to find a tent and Adam gets settled in, as Adam lies on the bed When Hotaru and the others enter.
"Hi Adam." Hotaru said.
"Hi." Adam replied as he sits up and looks at them.
"Can we come in?" Mara asked.
"Sure." He replies and they walk in.
"What were you doing there?" Mara asked.
"I was helping to defend it." Adam replied.
"What happened?" Hotaru asked.
"We held out for seven days, on the seventh they attacked early hours of the morning and everyone including the civilians were murdered."
Authors note: I know this chapters a little short, I couldn't think of anything else to put in it… R&R
