Enter the Dragon

by Endless1959

At the battle of the Scrin Tower the GDI Separatists (Colonel James Faction) aligned all of the TCN hubs leaving the last remaining Nod forces with the Scrin Tower and giving Kane and all of his followers the chance to ascend to the through the Scrin Portal into the promised land, Including a young soldier (who isn't really a follower he just hates GDI). full description on profile

2. a child in the dark

A/N Ok chapter 2 here we go.

Unknown place, time or date.

I sat up, it was dark and I was tired, hungry, weak and barely alive.

I knew I needed to get going even though I was dying.

The visor on my helmet had night vision built in so as any soldier wanting to stay alive would do, I scanned all around, and I looked up.

There was something wrong there was no moon out and the sky was so bright you could see every star it was like being in the planetarium, I couldn't believe it through my visor so I took my helmet off.

"Wow" I whispered to myself in amazement, it was pitch black outside with no light but the stars above, I mean these were something that you could only see in pictures right now I had an astronauts view of the stars above.

After I was done Star gazing it was time to start walking so I put my helmet back on and I continued walking, but I stopped in mid step when I heard what I thought was crickets and frogs and I couldn't see the glow of Tiberium in the distance, this was extremely strange, I was seeing the world as it was before any of this happened, with new inspiration I continued down the tiled path.

Geez Kane was right I thought.

I bumped my head against the radio in my helmet.

It came to life with a song by Johnny Cash.

I went out ridin' down that old laid lane

I passed by 1000 signs looking for my own name

I went with nothin'

But the thought you'd be there too

Lookin' for me

I continued walking for an hour or two with hunger pains and I was tired but I hadn't come this far just to die.

The sun was now coming up I now saw something that shocked me more than anything else ever had I saw Bamboo or at least what I thought was Bamboo, I again took off my helmet, and now I took off my glove. I touched the giant bamboo stalk with curiosity, it felt smooth, and it was a 3d triangle shape.

I thought Tiberium had killed off all of the trees and bamboo, guess I was wrong, in the time I came from it was rare to even see pictures of these types of things.

I slid the glove and my helmet back on and continued walking, but I stopped myself that could be my savior I thought, I remembered when I was a child I researched this for a school project, it was edible if the first two layers where shaved and the remains where boiled until it softened.

I walked back up to the bamboo stalk and pulled out my knife, I sawed away at the base until it fell. Then cut it into sections, I put my knife away, and tucked the sections under my arm, I couldn't carry them all however, and holding my laser rifle with the other, now all I had to do was find a stream and some twigs, so I walked off into the forest while constantly watching the digital compass on my visor.

After 30 minutes of walking I found real trees, but I had no time to admire I needed those twigs, but they were so far up in the tree, I aimed my solar charged laser rifle at the tip of the branch were the twigs were, I pulled the trigger and with a hissing noise the tip of the branch came falling down. I then shot off a thicker part of the branch I would hollow this out to use as a pot to boil water and cook in I don't know how this is going to work I thought I carried everything piled up in my arms including my gun. It was heavy but not unbearable, I was in good shape, I had been worked like a slave from the time I was a child, but that's what happens after you are adopted by any army. I walked through the trees until I found a small stream I now had everything I needed.

So I sat down by the stream and took my helmet off I sat up the twigs in a TP shape and I took two strong sticks with a \/ in them and sat them up on both sides of it I then got a piece of bamboo and shaved it down with my knife until it was a half an inch thick I then got the thick piece of branch it was about a foot high and a foot wide and I began hollowing, I then used my knife to put holes in the upper sides, it didn't take long but it was sloppily done, it would do though.

I then got another stick and laid it down away from the setup I shot the tip causing it to light into a fire I took it and slid it up under the sticks and the fire slowly grew while I went and gathered leafs that were laying around feeding them into the fire.

When I was sure the fire could sustain itself I took the wooden bowl I had made and dipped it in the stream getting some water that was surprisingly clear in it, but I couldn't trust my eyes unless I had a microscope, which I didn't.

I then shaved the Bamboo and cut it into smaller pieces and put it in the bowl. I then took the bowl and carefully slid the stick of bamboo I had shaved earlier, through the holes and sat the pieces hanging out one the two forks in the sticks.

After a while the water began boiling but I let it boil for a very long time until I was sure there were no more bacteria or parasites left I then took the bowl by the bamboo handle while keeping it level and sat it in the cool dirt.

I then took my knife and put the blade in the fire to sanitize it. I used the knife as a fork with my rifle setting beside of me using the sunlight to charge it (it was a laser rifle charged with solar power) and my helmet was also charging (solar) and my radio was playing while charging (solar also).

The bamboo was the best meal I had, had in a few days, because it was the only one. It tasted like green beans and lettuce combined but I was enjoying it, after all I had earned it. After I was done with my meal I boiled some more water to drink and after that I turned the radio off and sat at the base of a tree and fell asleep with my hand on my side arm (solar) of course.