Authors Note: Chapter 3! Yay! Anyway I will answer 2 reviews on my board one by Jonesybites and another by Bunnybuscus. Bunnybuscus thank you for understanding the many things I have mentioned in my notes and I can't wait for more chapters in your story too! Get the epic edition or limited edition by the way it includes Adam Fenix's will and a COG flag that once flew over the battlefields as well as other things. I will post a link somewhere that you could get it might by on your Gears fan fiction by the way I don't know if we get emailing on these accounts. Now Jonesybites I know I haven't been putting my all and all into the plot that's what I plan to do in the next few chapters though and make some twists and turns to it. I also plan to put a horrible event from the war that also relates back to their childhood into the story and I will make it show that the characters have had some horrible times in the past. I plan not to try to go into the video games campagin that much but I have to go into it for some things though. I'm deeply sorry that my chapters are short I was writing all this at night before big exams when I actually had time to write and I would think of a suspenseful cliffhanger to leave people until the next chapter is uploaded. I didn't have time to put the details into it but now I do so I will focus more on the details and envision the battlefield as if I were in it. I also don't have the best software in the universe and it makes too many mistakes in its editing (I have Microsoft Word by the way) nor could I be the best author in the universe I'm only 14 soon to be 15 and I can't be a best-selling author like Stephanie Meyer. I will not rewrite the other chapters I will keep them the same but I will improve on the chapters from here on. I'm sorry you really didn't like the story and I will use your advice to the best of my advantage. So now I will write my story!
Chapter 3
Nicole
There was a madness of debris all over the ground when we were walking through the arch leading to the path we were being lead to in order to meet the King Raven at land down. The arches were rotting from the age since we have been in this war for about 90 years. It was deserted with newspapers flying around and flesh all over the place I just couldn't bear to look away. I stopped in my tracks not even knowing and stared at the floating newspaper. It was running away from something. Then I saw the armies and armies of the enemy walking after that newspaper they were chasing it while everyone went to me to see if I was all right. They approached slowly toward me until I put a hand up and whispered to them "Locust…armies and armies of locust." The locust looked like fishes and sea sponges on land minus the gills. They are what changed our town about 90 years ago and I could only hope that I wouldn't have to see their faces ever again since they killed my mother and Dom's brother Carlos who was my husband on E-Day. I always have nightmares about it and Dom's wife went MIA on E-Day as well. I just hope she's not in any danger and that he wouldn't have to do the same to what I did to Carlos on E-Day.
Flashback to E-Day Nicole
"My soldiers, my children! We could have this universe if you kill the armed civilians. They are the only ones presenting a challenge to us not the frightened ones! Kill the armed civilians!" the locust queen commanded. She was a beautiful locust in fact she looked like a human but she wasn't she was a locust bitch who just wanted Sera to herself. She was an evil locust who had a cold heart and just wanted to kill the humans but why would she want to kill us she pitied us! I was with Marcus, Dom, Carlos, Maria and Dom and Maria's two kids Benedicto and Sylvia. We were killing locust and trying to search for Marcus's father Adam Fenix hoping he may know how to end this war.
"We need to go find my father Nicole let's go!" Marcus screamed to me.
"Negative Marcus we gotta kill the locusts! Do you want to die?" I said.
"If it means my father is alive and well and could stop this friggin' war then yes." He said back to me.
I stopped talking to him in the mist of bullets and just focused on getting the fuck out of here to find his dad so he could stop worrying. Every time he worried for the sake of his father he would ask me about it. When we finished killing the locust we saw two paths one which Hoffman told us to take and another that lead to Marcus's dad.
"Ok there are two paths here one that Hoffman is bitching us to take and another that has a lead to Marcus's dad. I say Marcus and Dom you go to rescue Marcus's dad and Carlos, Maria Benedicto and Sylvia come with me." I said
"Nicole are you just taking Carlos so you could separate from the others and 'kiss' all night?" Dom said. I know what he meant by kiss around Benedicto and Sylvia but they were too young to know.
"No Dom two soldiers over there and two soldiers over here." I said "It only makes things fair.
Dom sighed "Ok let me just say a couple of things to my family before I leave them in you and Carlos's hands." He said.
I nodded and talked things out to Marcus with Carlos while Dom said his last words to his family.
"Are you sure you want to go save your father knowing Hoffman hates your ass and he could do anything to you by disobeying his commands that we are carrying out for you?" I said to him all while checking my lancer examining for any incorrect things going on with it before I went into battle.
"Why are you worried for me sergeant?" Marcus said. I absolutely hated when he called me sergeant and not what he used to call me in our years before E-Day which was my real name.
"I'm always worried for my friends which you used to be!" I screamed at him. He made me really mad so I turned to Dom and screamed at him to finish his last words so we could all get this operation done with. Dom willingly handed his family over to me and I gave Marcus one more spiteful look before leaving with Dom's family and Carlos.
"Why did you take us away from Dom Nicole?" Maria asked me
"Safety reasons. After this objective we have they have a safe zone for you and your children. Dom wanted me to take you to the safest place so I'm taking you to the safety zone where you can evac out of the horrid planet we call Sera." I explained
We had very small conversations the rest of the walk to the objective and encountered some locust along the way when all of the sudden Slyvia and Benedicto had to take a bathroom break. There was no way I could say no so I told Maria to go with them which left me and Carlos alone to talk.
"I'm sorry that I had an attitude with Marcus he just really made me mad. He knows I hate it when he treats me as his annoying boss and not his friend." I said
"I understand. He hasn't been himself since his father went MIA. He blames his father being MIA on you which I don't think he should do." Carlos said while we were waiting in a nearby grass field for Maria and her children to come back from their bathroom break.
"I know" I said while we were hugging. "Carlos please try your best to stay alive I don't want to lose you." I said with a tear streaming down my check. I was crying, I don't cry, ever. Carlos wiped the tear away and pushed a strand of my hair back while I was being held in his big strong arms.
"I wont leave you if you don't leave me. I love you Nicole remember that and the only reason why I'm saying this is because this war has changed everyones lives for the worst. People are killing themselves slaughtering themselves because of this war. They want out on it and they are losing their loved ones when they end their life. Please don't do that to yourself because of your family" Carlos said putting his hand on my face "You have me." I looked into his brown eyes as he tilted my head up to see his face and pulled me in to kiss him in which we broke when we heard a scream and ran to where Maria and the kids were only to find Benedicto and Slyvia crying from two locusts pointing pistols at their faces in which we tried to kill them but it didn't work out because the locusts were about to shoot the two kids and I grabbed both of them being shot by the bullet Slyvia was about to receive. It was painful and gruesome that I had a bullet in my right arm. I felt like I was going to faint but I had to protect Dom's kids.
"No! You-you wont take these kids alive until I'm-I'm dead!" I screamed at them while gruspmely taking the bullet to protect Dom's kids. I was slowly closing my eyes thinking I was dying but I was only passing out "Nicole? Nicole!" Carlos kept screaming my name until I was totally passed out and when I woke up I was on the enemy's bridge with Carlos as he was weak and about to die. I screamed and contacted Dom on my comm hesitantly crying
"Dom! Dom please answer! Me and Carlos are on the enemy's bridge for Hoffman's mission and Carlos needs medical attention as well as.." I looked over to see my bullet wound healed "never mind I don't need medical attention but I don't know where Maria and Benedicto and Slyvia are I'm sorry." I said
Carlos seemed upset when I mentioned there names "Dom she knows little of the story she was passed out I'm sorry Dom Benedicto and Slyvia are…dead. Shotgun bullet to the chest made their hearts stop beating. Maria's MIA taken by the locusts who evaded us. I'm sorry." Carlos said
I could hear Dom crying through the comm he became upset by the news and then stopped crying "Thank you guys for doing the best you could. Were going to come and help you now just hang on." Dom said
Carlos crawled over to me looking extremely weak and he put his head on my shoulder. "If I'm too weak for medical attention, Nicole, I want you to kill me." He said handing me his weaponary "No holding back." He said as we said our last words to each other and holding each other in our arms as I saw Marcus and Dom up ahead in a rodie run toward us. Dom looked at Carlos and reported that he wouldn't make it no matter what equiptment we had to try and help him. Carlos told Marcus and Dom his last words as he handed his pistol over to me "Why do you want me to kill you?" I said
"Its feels right, better." he said "To be in the arms of the one you love while you die. I love you Nicole."
I was face to face nose to nose with him as I held both the pistol in my right hand and Carlos in my left. He could see the worry, fear and sadness in my eyes and he saw every emotion through my eyes being brought out.
"Don't worry." He said "I'll see you again. I promise. I'll be in a better place Nicole and I will be with you everyday when I go to that better place. Close your eyes and think of something else. Don't cry my love, don't cry no more." He said
I pulled him into a kiss and put the pistol to his head closing my eyes tightly as I pulled back the trigger and then with shaky hands let go of it as Carlos opened his eyes pulled the grenade he had in his handsand dropped it to the floor as he also dropped to the floor. I put the pistolin his hands and said very shaky and upset "Carlos I-I-I la-la-love ya-ya-you. G-g-goodbye." I said shaky running away from him as the bridge explodedwith Marcus and Dom trailing behind me when I ran. My knees were weak and I fell to the ground crying with Marcus and Dom by me helping me recover from my loss. They shielded me from seeing the exploded bridgebecause of how painful it was to see.
Present
I fell to my knees as Dom and Marcus quickly picked up on what just happened.
"You had it again? The flashback on E-Day?" Dom asked
"Yes." I said "lets go kill some locust" I said sounding hypnotized and weak
I ran over to the locusts and the others stayed behind because when I had this flashback it was easier if I just shot the locust and chainsawed them going on a killing spree of locust rather than others going into the fight Dom learned that the hard way when I accidently hurt him one time when killing the locusts.
When I was done killing them I went over to them "All clear." I said "Everyone go me and Dom have to talk." I said
Dom looked worried as I walked back and forth thinking of how to ask him this question. "Yes what did you want to ask me Nicole?" He said
"Dom, do you blame me for the events on E-Day?" I said
"No I know you protected my children with all your heart Nicole. Why would you think that?" He said
"Carlos if I only defeneded him he could have still been alive today." I said
"It wouldn't make a difference Nicole you cant blame yourself for something you weren't even awake for." Dom said
I looked at him "You remind me of your brother Dom not blaming events based on emotions toward it." I said and caught up with the rest of them only to see two soilders running away from the locust and shooting at them while running. Then as a group our whole squad started shooting at the locusts downing all of the 7 locusts as we excuted them.
"State your names soilders" Minh said
I recognized these guys they werefrom Alpha squad both privates one with blonde hair googles and a very bad attitude named Damon Barid and the other who was a tall muscular man with dark skin and a playful attitude name Augustus Cole.
"I'm Private Augustus Cole and this pretty boy over here is Private Damon Barid! Aw come on Barid ya know I was kidding!" Cole said
"Yeah haha Cole I'm really laughing so hard." Barid said
"Um guys maybe we should get moving to the King Raven landdown" I said being the party pooper but it was actually five steps away from us as we saw the King Raven in view Minh contacted them
"King Raven we see you prepare for landdown" Minh said as I had a smile on my face watching the King Raven almost land until a missile came out of nowhere until we looked back.
"Take cover!" I screamed as we all ran for cover.
Authors Note: Ok I put so much effort into this by staying up until 4 in the morning so you better like it! I worked from 1-4 and put so much effort into it that I gave up actually my sleep for watching a dog tomorrow for my aunt and uncle to give you this story! I will have chapter 4 up soon but sorry for also forgetting to give you the tissue box warning I cant think of these things at night! Anyway…..
With ALL my love to everyone who likes it so far,
Nicole :D