1 When I started this story I had just finished watching Black Hawk Down and just so you know...it's a kick-ass movie. Anyways...I wanted my story to be so dramatic that there would be no room for humor...as you can see..well those of you that read...humor has been added to let up tension and I must say it fits well...now this next chapter which is chapter nine I'm gonna make a very long chapter. I wish to end this story at chapter ten or twelve so this story might end soon. Well I hope you enjoy this chapter...Enjoy!
Disclaimer: I don't own anything that is obviously not mine.
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Three days have passed since the massacre of our human enemy, we have seen nothing and noone since then. We've had it pretty easy, seeing noone meant no shooting or fighting, but that also meant that we were still carrying all our supplies which weighed us down a bit. Also for some strange reason it started getting colder and I think it's...snowing? I looked up and sure enough snowflakes were falling from the sky, soft white flakes danced their way to the floor where they would soon form a white blanket. The other's noticed the weather change and they too stared up at the sky, I opened my mouth to taste the snow. It touched my dry tongue and brought sweet relief to my new thirst, it tasted so pure and clean.
"How odd," Krew whispered to himself. "I could swear that were suppose to be smack in the middle of July, and if my calculations are correct...snow doesn't fall in July." he lifted his goggles to get a clear look at the snow that piled up in his hands.
"Just enjoy it solider, at least it's better being cold then being hot." Hiei said. He stopped staring and continued walking we soon followed, as I walked I couldn't help but think over what Krew had said. It is true...why was it snowing? I mean it is summer, and it never snows in summer...maybe the weather changes here in the demon realm. I decided to stop thinking about it and kept on walking. A few hours later and we could see smoke over the tall pine trees, snow had already covered the ground and it had gotten a bit colder so seeing the smoke was great.
"By what the map says our base should be right over this next hill." Kurama told us. He was looking at his map and had just folded it up. Not more then five minutes we made it over the hill and saw our base. I was speechless, I couldn't believe it, my jaw dropped and I felt tears form in my eyes.
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"Sir we have taken out Camp Base 370-Battalion squad 23. All have been destroyed and their remains have been brought in for testing and surgery. The tube jars should be ready in a few hours and the drainage should be done by tomorrow." A man in a white lab coat spoke while he scribbled some words down on a pencil broad that he had. The man that he was speaking to nodded his head softly.
"Are you sure?" he asked just to be sure.
"Yes, I was there myself to see that the mission was fulfilled."
"Good, and what of the six solider's from Battalion 43...were they killed as well?"
"No they escaped during the massacre, we have been unsuccessful in their search."
"Leave them then, we already have enough subjects to work with anyways." the man said. "I don't want to over do it and have it all fall apart."
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I rubbed my eyes to make sure that what I was seeing was true, I can't believe we actually made it. In front of us our base was just the way we had left it. Safe and still full of activity, god how I missed it. We made our way down the hill and ran for the base, one of the solider's that was guarding the entrance recognized us.
"Holy Fuck! Their alive...their fucking alive!" he shouted as he dropped his post and came running towards us. The other solider's heard his screams and looked towards us, they all cheered and came running at us as well. I quickly recognized the solider who shouted our return. PFC Jacob Blackbird, I became friends with him during our year in training. He ran right for me and hugged me tightly making me nearly lose my balance. "We thought you guys were fucking dead!" he shouted in my face. I just laughed. The solider's soon caught up and bombarded us calling us 'fucktards' and 'son's a bitch's. After a bit of swearing and after Hiei told them to leave him the hell alone or he'd kill them. We bathed, ate, and rested for a few hours before we had to report to General Wolfe.
"Alright...what on earth happened out there...where are the rest of my men?" General Wolfe asked us. We met him under a large tent, he was seated behind a table with the Major Ryan and Lieuteniut Gerald next to him. Hiei spoke for us.
"When we reported to the secret mission we found out that it wasn't a complete secret. Someone had informed the demons and humans that we were coming, we were ambushed and lost PFC Richards, afterwards we escaped and made it to the rendevous point were you had told me to take my remaining men to go. When we arrived we found the whole squad that was suppose to meet us dismembered and killed, there was only one survivor and that was Staff Sergeant Kuwabara. Corporal Thief informed us that demons were not the one's who killed them, human's from another army had massacred them."
"Dear god..." the General sighed. Hiei continued.
"That's not all of it sir, we also found out...well...I'll let PFC Krew inform you on that." Hiei stepped back so Krew could take his place, Krew gulped. "Go on private, don't be scared." Hiei told him.
"W-well...when we were moving we ran into a woman from our own battalion, she was equipped with some strange device that pumped a red fluid into her body. She attacked us and our Master Sergeant took care of her and killed her, when I studied the body I found out that she had entirely no body fluids whatsoever, no blood, no acids, nothing. She was already dead when she attacked, the only fluid that came from her was the red liquid. I recognized the fluid as a life support mixture that is very difficult to make, it has the ability to revive one that is dead...of course against that deceased person's will. The soul is forced back into the body and as long as the red liquid pumps through the veins of that person, he or she can't die no matter what you try." Krew finished hiding a deep breathe that he took from talking to long.
"What on earth are these people doing, who's side are they on?" General asked himself. "Is that all, nothing else to report?" I took my chance and stepped forward.
"Sir, attention to speak freely?"
"Request granted, what do you have to say?"
"Sir, during our travel we were taken hostage by a rival base and I was sentenced to execution." I said keeping my head up and staring straight ahead.
"Execution, what on earth would make them sentence you to execution?"
"Sir, they said that we were traitor's and that we massacred their people when it was really them who massacred ours." I could feel myself getting angry when the thought entered my mind.
"Traitor's, how dare they say we are traitor's. Anything else that any of you know of?"
"Yes sir," I continued. "When they were sentencing me, a whole squad of dead solider's attacked their base. They were equipped with the same devices that PFC Krew was talking about, those dead solider's killed everyone in that army...all men and the women were killed." I finished speaking. The General closed his eyes, it looked he was thinking hard he breathed out deeply then spoke.
"This clearly has nothing to do with us...not with our mission, but if humans are the cause of this gruesomeness then they should be stopped." he stayed silent for a few seconds. "Okay, in one week we will assemble the troops and head out towards the enemy base and search for any clues or whereabouts about these human's." I stared at him with wide eyes, he wanted us to go back?
"Um, sir...it is highly dangerous to go back...are you sure?" I asked him, everything that I had been through rushed into my mind. The sight of my comrades killed, the girl that Hiei killed, the massacre of Battalion 23...I felt my breaking point.
"Don't question me solider, do as your told."
I lost it.
"Are you out of your fucking mind," I growled. I couldn't help it, from what I saw and heard he was leading us to our death. "those...those...things can shoot blast's out of their fucking hands, what makes you think that we can stop them bullets don't even faze them!"
"Stand down soldier!" he ordered me rising from his seat. "You are part of this battalion and you will do as I say, if you don't like the way things are worked around here then you can leave...dismissed!"
I left the tent in a huff, that bastard thinks everything will be fine. To him it's all about our job about keeping peace and all that other shit...no...war isn't about peace. It's about surviving and making sure that you kill you enemy before he can kill you. I was so angry, he was leading us to our fucking deaths and he doesn't even see it. I was kicking snow everywhere and even threw a table over. Luckily noone was there to see my angry rampage. I was about to walk away when something sharp and icy hit my head. I turned to get angry at the thrower when another icy object hit me in the face. I wiped what turned out to be snow off my face and glared. I saw that Hiei was standing a few yards away from my tossing a snowball up and down in his hands. He looked mad.
"Do you think I'll let you get away with shouting and making an ass out of not just yourself but the rest of us?" he shouted at me. I said nothing, I just turned around and walked away feeling angry and stupid. When I walked I heard fast footsteps come up behind me then something hit me in the head...hard. I fell forward headfirst into the snow, I clutched my head and groaned in pain. I felt like my head was about to split.
"I was not going to let you get away with it." I looked up and saw Hiei standing in front of me holding his fist in his hand. I glared at him and my anger flared up again. I got up quickly from the ground and tackled Hiei, he wasn't expecting it. We both fell to the ground and started fighting, we shared punch after punch and till Hiei grabbed me in a headlock and held me to the ground. "Calm yourself down!" he shouted at me. I tried to fight back and get out of his grip, but he too strong. I struggled till I finally stopped, I just lied there breathing deeply having tired myself from the fighting and the anger. "What is wrong with you solider, have you gone crazy?" he asked me. He let me go and I held on to neck rubbing it, I sat up and looked at the snow it had blood on it from our fight.
"Yes...I have." I answered. "I have gone crazy, I'm fighting In a war that has nothing to do with me or anyone else here and were about to fight a fight that isn't even ours." I said choking back a lump in my throat. "It has nothing to do with us and were about to risk our lives for it. This isn't war anymore...were just fighting for kicks now...I don't even know why I'm part of it." I sat there expecting Hiei to get angry with me and tell me to stop thinking like that...but he didn't say a word. He just sighed sat down next to me, I couldn't look at him...not with the tears that had started running down my face. "I should just leave or go die somewhere...that would be easier."
"You know, you are one sad piece of shit." Hiei told me. I turned to look at him, not believing that he had said that to me. He looked at me. "I get depressed listening to you, all your complaining and bitching and crying. Man your acting like a teenage girl who just got dumped by her horny boyfriend, that's sad seeing you ready to give yourself up just so you don't have to fight anymore. Do you know why you are here?" he asked me.
"I was kidnaped and forced to fight." I answered. He just laughed.
"Yes, well that's how it happened, but you should he proud that you yourself were kidnaped. You see we only went after the best of the best, the cream of the crop, an even though you a snot-nosed kid who still doesn't know the difference from right or wrong, you were still chosen for your talent and hard work." I stared at him.
"So you only chose me cause I can shoot out pretty lights from my fingers and fight?" I asked him sarcastically. I understood what he was saying, but I just wanted to see how far I could get with the sarcasm.
"Please...if that's all that you could do I would have killed a long time ago, we not only chose you for that, but also because Koenma had recommend you into our private little army...only he never got the chance to tell you or your over-sized friend."
"Well that's great and everything...but shouldn't I be given the choice to fight if I want to, don't I have the choice to go home." I asked. He just looked at me.
"Not when your drafted, if you had volunteered then hell you could leave right now...but you...you were forced...and not by me or General Wolfe...hell I don't even know who did it, but wouldn't it be better to be here fighting for what's right...then just sitting in your broken destroyed town fearing more for your life in your own home then out here? Cause I personally...would rather be here then anywhere else."
"Why, you don't have any family...or are you a war junkie?" when I said those words Hiei just stared at me. His eyes had gone soft like as if I brought up some bad memories...and I think I did.
"Heh...I have been asked that before. 'Hey why do you fight, do you get a rush from killing other people?' I've been asked that from friends, family, and even strangers...and you know what I say?" I shook my head. "I say nothing, there's no point in telling them...they wouldn't understand. I would just agree with what they say and continue talking...changing the subject. The truth is...when I'm out there fighting...It's not about me...or the peace that we could be bring if we win...or the person were fighting...all it's about is the guy standing next to you...fighting with you. You never worry about yourself...you always worry about everyone else except yourself. You could give a shit about yourself, cause you know if one of your men dies...you will be filled with so much guilt...you'll wish that it was your brains that flew out of your head with that bullet. I would know." he stayed quiet for a while not saying anything before he stood up and brushed the snow off himself. "That's why I fight...now I'm not sure why you fight, but I'm gonna guess...that were both probably on the same line." with that said he left and I stayed there sitting on the ground.
I could feel my eye start to swell from not just the tears but from when he hit me earlier. I packed snow in my hands and put it over my eye, I sighed. It was true what he said...I've been worrying about the other's more then for myself. Of course I did fear for my own life...but I wasn't as scared as I was when I saw Richard get killed. I never got to know him so I didn't feel that bad...but I carried a bit weight on me that bothered me. Now when Krew 'died' I was overwhelmed with grief and guilt...I have no idea why I felt like that. I looked around and saw my fellow men walking and talking with one another...they were going to hold a celebration for our safe return home...and give a small service for the men and women who had died. I felt sad when I saw everyone smiling and laughing...I felt like I could never do that again.
"Hey Yusuke!" I turned and saw Kuwabara walking towards me. "Come on...we all have to help in preparing for the party.
"What...I thought the party was for us!" I shouted at him getting up.
"Still gotta pull your weight around besides you have to help set the service...don't forget all the people that died."
"Yea, yea, I know...alright I'll be there in a bit."
"You better...man you look like shit, what the hell happened." he asked me when he noticed my black eye.
"Oh Hiei beat the hell out of me...it's cool...I hit him back." I laughed. I laughed for real...I have no idea why though.
"Ok whatever...come on." I followed him to where a huge tent had been set up. Before I walked in I threw the snow that I was holding in my hands on the ground and tenderly touched my eye. I winced in pain and regretted touching it, my black eye was a reminder to me...that I shouldn't give up and start complaining...that and Hiei could throw one hell of a punch.
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Ok that is where the chapter will end and well...that's about it...heh..hoped you guys liked it...I liked it. Even though I went into a little brain fart in between. Lol...well I'm gonna take a little break from typing and then I'll shall type the second to the last chapter...or the third to the last...whatever...well hope you enjoyed and please REVIEW!