Witch Hunter Robin
Rebuilding from the rubble
Chapter 19
The Hunt Begins
A Fan Fic by Prospero53223
Robin had found herself on another patrol with Brooklyn and some soldiers from the UN's coalition in a Huey observing the distribution of food and clean water to the local people. To no ones surprise the efforts to supply the local people with the food they needed went to hell in a hand basket yet again seeing Malik Uchenna's militia men speed into the distribution center in there tactical vehicles, shooting at the civilians who stood in line trying to get their family's rations.
"This is the property of the Messiah." One man yelled in his native tongue to the people as they all ran away in fear.
Once again Robin and the other who were up in the Huey could do nothing to stop Uchenna's militia since his men never fired their weapons at them.
"You know just once seriously just once I wish they would fire at us even if it was a miss fire you know like a ricochet off the damn truck or something." Joe vented as he and Robin walked back into base when they returned from patrol.
"I know Joe; really I do, because I would love to do nothing more then to just to turn them all into dust." Robin replied as Amon and John had walked up to them.
"So how did patrol go?" John asked the both of them.
"Same old shit just a different day." Joe answered.
"Any sign of Malik while you were out there?" Amon had asked this time.
"Not one." Robin replied in a tone that could have been mistaken as slightly pissed off.
Both men nodded their heads before they repeated the same line of 'don't worry we'll get them' to those who just coming back from patrol.
Amon and John then walked over to the briefing room so they could make their report at yet another Joint Chief of Staff meeting with some of the SOLOMON big bosses also being present. Everyone took there seats as they waited for the meeting to begin which wasn't too much longer. The weather was hot and dry, and they were all crowded into a room no bigger then the meeting area of Raven's flat minus the air conditioning.
"Gentlemen we are going to make this meeting as quickly as possible so please hold any and all questions until the end." One of the Generals asked the group at lager.
The men nodded their collective heads as the meeting went under way. "We have an informant who is able to pin point the exact location of the next meeting for Malik and his militia who should be meeting here, " The General said as he pointed out a location on a map of the city, "at this building today at fourteen hundred."
"Now remember our Intel is from the few people brave enough to come forth and tell us what is going on out there" Another General pointed out to everyone in the room, "so the information is sketchy at best but its all we got to work with; chalk leaders one, two, and, three will be descending from Huey's while chalks four, five, and, six will go by humvee." The General cleared his throat before talking with the last three chalk leaders.
"Now chalk leaders four, five, and six which are Senior Hunter John, Hunter Benjamin, and Hunter Amon it is not our practice to allow women into combat but seeing as you hunters are a strange breed keep an eye out on the women in your team."
The Solomon big bosses along with John, Amon, and Benjamin all gave the General a few glares seeing how the women they trained could take better care of them selves then those the military had trained. The General upon receiving these glares gave a nervous chuckle before addressing Solomon and the hunters again. "Now were not saying that you're girls are not capable of doing there job far from it two of them got some damn good aim that put some of my soldiers to shame; but don't tell em that I said that though cause I will deny it with every fiber of my being."
Some of the men chuckled to break the nervousness that filled the room while the rest just sat there stone faced and made no sound. "And that one girl Sena, whoa boy; make sure she uses that craft of hers to only block any of Malik's men from leaving and to shield any bullets that come flying her way but not to attack. Girl could probably turn this whole province to dust if she wanted to and we don't want any of the militia dead nor Malik if at all possible."
A SOLOMON director cleared his throat before interrupting the General. "General I know the orders to your soldiers is not to kill Malik or any of his men but the hunters on our orders are to kill Malik. He is to powerful a witch for any of our SOLOMON run prisons to hold. Though I do agree with you on Sena she does need to keep her craft in control or else."
"She's is in my chalk I will make sure she knows of your concerns General as well as yours sir." Amon said his voice cold and stern as he eyed the SOLOMON director.
"Good to hear that." The General said before he wrapped the meeting up. "This whole mission should only take two hours which means you'll be back on base before night fall. Just to be safe though have your chalk members pack as if this was going to be an all nighter that includes night vision goggles. Mistakes learned from the past should all tell us sometimes things don't go as planed."
The men nodded there heads in agreement as the General paused for a second clearing his throat and to take a sip of water. "Now the code name for this mission is Golgotha; are there any questions."
No one raised there hands as the General gave a curt nod of his head and adjourned the meeting. The chalk leaders were now pulling there teams aside to pass down the orders from the General. The hunters though had there own little group meeting together with the soldiers that were assigned to them for cover.
"All right you guys," John said as he addressed the soldiers that were in there chalk. " First things first guys, I know you see we hunters do things a bit different then you guys but just bare with us cause we all have the same objective, which is to stop Malik Uchenna." The soldiers nodded there heads as John continued to talk. "We will all break into three separate groups so please pay attention when you hear your name called."
John flipped through his files and started to read out the names of the assigned men to each chalk. "Amon's group will consist of Robin, Ian, Sergeant Walker, Courpal Yu, Anisa, Blaise, Private First Class Hawkings, Lance Courpal Davis and Ken. Benjamin's chalk will have Cathy, the triplets, Evelyn, Daria, Private Gurney, Sergeant Smith, Courpal Erickson and Staff Sergeant Jones. While my chalk will consists of the twins, Joe, Gaius, Steven, Akin, Mike, Zena, Leigh, Lance Courpal Dustin, Ron, and Courpal Biscotti. Are there any questions to this placement? No? Good." John paused for a moment clearing his throat as he drew out the plans.
"Now chalks one, two, and three will be dropped off by Huey's here and here," John X'd the spots where the choppers would drop off the first three chalks. "While our three chalks along with four extra humvee's will drive right into the heart of town. The last four humvee's will be for prisoners and for anyone who is wounded. Now I know none of us are going to get shot all to shit out there, this mission is to take only two hours but the higher ups want you to pack as if this was an all nighter do I make myself clear.
The hunters all answered with a simple yes sir while the soldiers made there famous hoo ra grunt.
"Good, we strike this building," John circled the satellite image he was given, "in three hours; code name Golgotha, so when you hear it make sure your ready to go. Now for my craft users especially you Sena, Military brass and SOLOMON want you all to only use your craft to shield and block, get it shield and bock do not kill with your craft they want these guys alive and to stand trial."
The craft users nodded their heads as John called the meeting to an end so they could all pack there gear and be ready to go. It was the longest three hours of there lives as the informant who was to show exactly which building Uchenna and his men were to be meeting in was showing signs of backing out. The soldiers with the hunters on the other hand found a way to keep themselves quite busy seeing how they were all staring at those weird bullets the hunters had.
"Hey Amon what are those markings on your bullets?" Courpal Yu asked.
"These are Rune markings and they're the only bullets that can penetrate a witch's craft and injure them since there craft has no effect on them."
"Come off it," Courpal Yu began to laugh, "you're telling me that my M-16 rounds wouldn't do shit to one of those witch things you guys hunt? They look like just regular people to me." Yu continued to say.
"You want to see how well these work?" Amon asked.
"Yeah, sure." Yu said with an ear to ear grin on his face.
Amon nodded his head as he took the clip with the live ammo out and placed in the two blank rounds he always had on him for demonstration use. One was a regular plain old bullet while the other was a rune bullet.
"Robin I need you're help with something for a second." Amon yelled over in her direction.
"What is it that you need help with?" Robin's silent church voice could barely be heard over all the excitement from the other soldiers.
"I need you for a demonstration mind taking a walk with me and Courpal Yu for a moment?"
"All right Amon but only if they're blanks."
"Of course," Amon scoffed at Robin just as he was about to talk to John. "I'm giving a little demonstration on the rune bullets to Courpal Yu here do we have any other soldiers who are questioning there use?"
"We sure do Amon." John answered, "Lets take it outside the bay doors ok."
"All right have them follow me."
John then turned to the remaining soldiers that were in their chalks as Amon and Robin left the building with Courpal Yu. "Well you heard the man if you're that curious about the Rune bullets then go and watch."
The soldiers did as they were told and soon they were all standing outside watching as the flames in Robin's emerald green eyes came to life as a fire shield blocked the front of her body. Amon aimed his weapon then fired the gun as all the soldiers watched as the first bullet designated when it hit Robin's fire shield. They then watched in amazement as the second bullet with the Rune markings went right through Robin's shield like a knife through butter. When the bullet dropped to the ground Robin dropped her shield while the soldiers stood there jaw dropped and not knowing what to be more amazed by either Robin's craft or just how well those Rune bullets really did work.
"Are we able to get some of those?" Sergeant Walker asked.
"Yeah how do we know if any of Uchenna's militia men and his own generals don't have a craft as well?" Private First Class Hawkings asked
"What you guys don't understand about witches is this most are loners who try to keep there abilities a secret from the world; but when you have a witch like Uchenna he would want all the power and fear for himself even from his own men. Witches like Uchenna do not take competition even when there is no threat of competition from another witch very well. "Robin said as she walked up to the group.
The soldiers nodded as they all went back inside to finish gathering there equipment when the code was given.
"Golgotha, we are code Golgotha everyone to your stations." The soldiers and the hunters heard over the PA system along with the alarm.
Everyone ran to there assigned choppers and humvee's weapons in hand as they made it to the heart of the city. Amon sat next to Robin as he gave her one more order, "When the first humvee is full I want you back at the base with the prisoners."
"No I won't leave you or the chalk behind Amon." Robin was in shock she could handle this she new she could and began to protest his order.
Amon could hear the hurt in Robin's voice even though she tried to hide it but there was no way he was risking her life after all they had all ready been through." Robin please for me do this one thing the first humvee you are able to get on that has prisoners I want you on it and back on the base, its an order."
Robin would have argued more but she couldn't she knew if she did she would be disobeying a lawful order something neither one of them could afford to do with Solomon practically breathing down their necks. "All right I'll go with the first humvee I'm able to get on."
Amon nodded his head as they rode into the city weapons at the ready for when they exited there vehicles; the whole mission unfortunately went to hell in a hand basket before it even began. Uchenna's militias were ready and waiting for them firing upon the humvee's and hueys before any solider was able to get out. Both Robin and Joe were able to block a good portion of the bullets with there craft from inside the humvee so the soldiers could get out. This gave Mike the perfect opportunity to start casting images into the minds of the militia men causing many of them drop to the ground in complete and total fear. The triplets earth craft also came in handy as they used the ground around them to build a wall to block the any of the militia from escaping. The soldiers were able to clear the building getting as many of Uchenna's generals and militia captured and into the humvee's. What the soldiers and hunters weren't expecting was the second wave of militia that was now coming right for them. The militia was reckless as they as they speed through the streets in there tactical vehicles firing machine guns and rocket powered grenades not caring if they injured innocent civilians or the soldiers in uniform.
"What the hell!" Amon yelled as he tried to get to cover so he could fire off his gun while Robin put up another fire shield to block any bullets that came there way.
"We need to get back to the first floor of the building Amon." Robin yelled over the gun fire as she threw yet another wall of fire in front of the militia who tried to sneak up from behind.
"Agreed, lets move." Amon said as he and Robin ran to the stairs while he yelled into his com devise, "Chalk four move to the lower level of the building now, now."
The solders and hunters followed suit as they made it to the first level Amon shoved Robin out of the way as an RPG was fired in there direction. Joe handled the tactical vehicle that fired the RPG by using an energy blast to blow up the truck.
"SENA, SENA!" Robin heard her name yelled by one of the medics as a solider lay dying in the young man's arms there was nothing more the medic could do for him out there in the field.
"I'm dying man you got to mail that letter to my dad for me." The scared twenty old looking solider said to another one of his buddies who was trying to calm the young man down as Robin approached to see what she could do to help.
"What's wrong what does this solider need?" Robin asked the medic.
"He wants his last rights." Another solider answered for his friend dying in the medic's arms
" I don't want to die but if I must I want my soul to be saved I know I am a sinner and I know I've done some bad things in my life and they tell me you were a sister in training before you joined SOLOMON I want you to read me my last rights."
"Ok, I will." Robin knew even as nun in training she could not officially give the last rights it had to be done by a priest; but seeing how there was no priest around she hoped God would forgive her and let this solider's last confession be heard
"Do you want it in Latin or English Courpal…"
"Courpal Boston my name is Courpal Allen Boston and in Latin."
Robin nodded as she made the sign of the cross on the young man's head. "In nómine Patris , et Fílii , et Spíritus, Sancti, exstinguátur in te omnis virtus diáboli per impositiónem mánuum nostrárum, et per invocatiónem gloriósae et sanctae Dei Genitricis Virginis Mariea, ejusqye inclytu Sponsi Joseph, et ómnium sanctórum Angelelórum, Archangelórum, Patriarchárum, Prophetárum, Apostolorum, Mártyrum, Confessórum, Virginum, atque ómnium simul Sanctórum. Is there anything you would like to confess Courpal Boston? Courpal Boston?
"Shit everyone clear" The medic yelled as he laid the young in his arms flat on the floor and began CPR to try and bring there comrade back from the dead. It was no use though the Courpal died while Robin was speaking the last rites. She then placed the sign of the cross on the young man's chest right over his heart and continued as quickly and respectful as possible. "Kyrie eléison.Christe eléison.Kyrie eléison Amen."
"Let's load him and go." She heard the medic say as they ducked more gun shots as Robin threw up her shield trying to keep it up as she ran to the humvee. Amon was right behind her as he grabbed a hold of her arm and tossed Robin in.
"Amon, no I'm not going." She was willing to disobey his order so she could help the rest of the team.
" No go, its an order Robin this humvee is full with injured, dead, and prisoners and they'll need your help back on the base now go."
With that Amon slammed the back of the humvee shut as Robin watched him become smaller and smaller until he could be seen no more.
Amon then ordered his chalk to press forward along with the other chalks to find Uchenna; little did they know that Uchenna was no where in the city and the military along with the hunters would be stuck fighting the militia for hours.
Uchenna and his men waited along the path the humvee's were taking so he could strike and rescue as many of his men and kill as many military and hunters as he could. When he saw the convoy Robin was on Uchenna gave the order to attack. The soldiers were at a disadvantage, there were low on ammunition and they only the only craft user with them was Robin. From the size of the militia that was coming to attack them there was no way the soldier were going to leave Africa alive.
Translation for last rites:
In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, let there be extinguished in you all power of the devil by the imposition of our hands, and by the invocation of the glorious and holy Mother of God, the Virgin Mary, and of her illustrious Spouse, St. Joseph, and of all the holy Angels, Archangels, Patriarchs, Prophets, Apostles, Martyrs, Confessors, Virgins, and of all the saints together.
Lord have mercy.
Christ have mercy.
Lord have mercy.