Fight for freedom
Chapter 8: A traitor among us
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Adam loads the field gun and lowers the barrel of it into the attacking ranks and fires it before he grabs his rifle and takes up position next to the field gun and opens fire "I LOVE THE SMELL OF CORDITE IN THE MORNING!" Smitty shouted as he dropped a grenade down the wall into the enemy at the bottom and watches as it explodes.
"Shut up and keep firing."
They battle it out for an hour before the enemy retreats before Adam sits down placing his rifle beside him.
"How long do you think we'll hold out?" someone asked.
"We've still got a long way till the actual battle." Adam replied before he grabs a box of rations and opens it before taking some out and starts to eat as an explosion happens in side the school making Adam run down the ramp and jumps over the palisade and runs towards the school.
"What the hell?" Raye shouted as Adam helped to put out the fire. "Shit, we're really fucked now." Adam said.
"Why, what was in that room?"
"Artillery shells, meeting in the hall in five." Adam replied as he went back to putting out the fire.
"Just us?" Raye asked and Adam nodded back.
Five minutes later the senshi and Adam and the others all stand in the hall. "What's this all about?" Amelia asked.
"As you all know some of the artillery shells we're destroyed, no field gun could have made that shot."
"What are you getting at?" Amara said.
"We have a traitor." He replied before he leaves and the others look at each other. "He's going to do something stupid isn't he?" Hotaru asked making her older self look at her.
"Yes, he is."
Outside Adam goes to the gate to check for any explosives but finds none before he goes back to the west wall.
"Destroyed?" Smitty asked.
"Yeah, completely obliterated the entrance."
"I'm surprised no one was injured." Smitty said as he leaned against the wall looking at Adam.
"We sure killed a lot." Someone said making Smitty and Adam look out at all the dead that they have killed "we sure have" Smitty replied.
"What are you lot going to do when this is all over?" Adam asked.
"Settle down."
"Travel around for a bit."
"I've got a promise to keep." Adam said making everyone look at him " it was during the Serenity war, me and over two hundred people held onto a school similar to this one for seven days. I was given a palisade to defend on the west side, when the actual battle started they came over the walls and killed everyone except me. After the war ended I went back and made a promise never to forget what happened."
"At least we've got the hero of Japan on our side." Smitty said making Adam look at him.
"I'm no hero, I left Juuban to try and get away from that."
"Why?"
"I never wanted to be a hero, I just wanted to be a normal person who grew up to be the sole survivor of a refugee camp." Adam replied, meanwhile the senshi ask Mirai Hotaru about her relationship with Adam.
"We're just friends."
"Yeah, very close friends." Amara replied.
"Look, I'm the only one he'll really talk to… especially after his little suicide attempt." she said the last part quietly but Mina hears it.
"WHAT!"
"It was a few days after the war ended, no one had seen him so I went to the shrine and found him with his wrists slashed and his Bowie knife on the floor so I healed his wrists and a day later he left."
"I'm going to have serious words with him." Mina said.
"He kept his promise though."
"What promise?" Michelle asked.
"That he would come back."
Outside, Reiko stands at the south wall; the others sit down with their guns beside them some getting some sleep as others stand watch. On the east wall people get some sleep except one person. On the north wall a few people play a card game.
"What are they building over there?" Adam said as he points to where the enemy are building something as Smitty pulled out a scope from his jacket pocket and looked through it before handing it to Adam.
"We're screwed."
"No, we're not. They haven't got enough materials to build enough siege ladders." Adam replied as he handed the scope back to Smitty who puts it away and leans against the wall.
"Maybe we should leave?"
"We do that and this place will fall, I'm keeping a promise." Adam replied as a sniper fired a round making them both duck and they pop their heads up a few seconds later looking at each other before Adam stands up and runs across the wall as people duck and return fire before he ducks and grabs a bolt action rifle and grabs a handful of tracer rounds and loads the rifle before standing up and waits for a flash and presses the trigger and watches the bullet hits a wall beside the sniper. Before he goes back to where Smitty is.
"That sniper thinks like you."
"Time for a deadly game of cat and mouse." Adam replied.
"We've been playing cat and mouse for four years."
"But this is different." Adam replied as he put another tracer round into the rifle "this sniper thinks and acts like me, time to think differently." Adam said as he pointed just below the sniper rifle and pressed the trigger again.
"That should scare the sniper."
"Dude, you missed." Smitty said.
"Did I?"
Smitty pulled out the scope and looked to where the sniper was and saw another bullet underneath the rifle.
"Good shot or what?" Adam said as Smitty put away the scope and sits down as Adam leans against the wall.
"We're not real soldiers."
"No, we're mercenaries." Adam replied.
"And the best." Smitty replied.
"Damn straight."
Adam opens a case and pulls out a few bottles of beer before handing them out before they proceed to drink.
"They're drinking already?" Reiko said as she walked past them with Mara.
"They've been though a lot in the last four years."
"Yeah but…"
"Look, he's almost been killed on several occasions. So let him have a few drinks." Mara replied.
Later
Adam sits in the corner of the west palisade with a blanket wrapped around him as it starts to rain and people find somewhere dry to shelter, meanwhile the senshi sit in what's left of the entrance to the school.
"This futures so bleak." Mina said.
"Yeah."
"What do you expect, after fighting in the Serenity war." Trista replied.
"It doesn't look so bleak."
Everyone looks at Ami "if you look there are people living everyday life whilst fighting."
Later that night
Adam sits on top of the gatehouse with his sword strapped to his back waiting for the traitor to make a move. "C'mon, where are you?" he asked himself before he sees someone move in the shadows heading towards him making Adam lay down and watches as the person pulls out some C4 as Adam jumps down and lands on the person.
"Gotcha, lets see who you are?"
Adam gets off the person and rolls the person over to reveal a teenager who pulls out a knife and swings it at Adam who catches it and takes it off the teenager.
"YOU KILLED MY FAMILY!"
"Look, I've killed a lot of people and I regret it." Adam replied as he helps the teenager up and throws the knife into the ground before he does the same with his knife. "If you can kill me, you can do what you were doing." He said before they both dive for their knives, Adam gets to his first and stabs the teenager in the neck before he stands up.
"I'll make it quick." He said before reaching behind his back and pulls his sword out of its scabbard and cut the other persons head off before he dropped his sword and drags the body to the gate and opens it, placing the body outside before closing it and goes back to the west wall to get some sleep.
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