Chapter 5: War with a Mongrel:

Five. I doubt myself and my abilities. Four. Surely my teammates can help me… right? Three. What if I die and don't come back? Two. It's too late to turn back. One. This is going to suck…

"Begin!" came the female voice over the intercom. She sounded very stern and serious, evil even. Before I knew it everyone had rushed out of the room and into the battle ground giving their own battle cries. I looked at the animals beside me as I holstered my pistol, changing to the claws that I would use as my melee weapon. I signaled for the animals to follow me as we went to the front lines. The other team would be listening to a countdown of their own only about thirty seconds behind so we could get into position.

I recapped what I observed when I had gotten to the front lines. When I left the respawn room I looked out of the glass windows the overlooked the first "control point" as engie called it. However, it would be the last one we would defend. I looked to my left and right, both walkways lead into the room that held the hole in the ground below and around said control point. I walked around the hallways a bit to familiarize myself with the layout of the place before looking for a way out in the direction that the others headed. When I got outside I was shocked to see.. grass! And rich looking soil with trees all around on the outside of the fence that kept us in, kept us fighting. Immediately after walking about ten steps I saw a beat up looking barn like thing that held yet another "control point". I looked around and saw I could only go to the left and then left again after a type of dump truck. There was a ladder that went up and above the looming tunnel in front of me and I chose to go through. I looked to my right when I was through and saw everyone setting up at the third and final control point. Engie smiled and waved at me from his spot and I waved back as I hurried over to him. "yall should get into position. The match is gonna start here soon." He said as I reached him. I nodded "where should I stand..?" I asked. He looked around a bit as he pondered and pointed to a walkway that lead into a sturdy looking concrete building that had one room. "In there should be fine. Since this is your first match you should sit back a bit, come in when we need help. If we need help that is "he grinned and I smirked. "Like you would need help." I said as I started walking towards the inside of the building. He chuckled softly to himself before hitting his sentry one last time, causing it to upgrade into its level three form.

Inside the room I saw spy sitting in a swivel chair and he observed me walking inside." Good day to you" he said as he turned in the chair to face me." Let's hope it will be" I was slightly twitching. I was terrified of the battle that would happen in about thirty seconds. I felt both of my sides being squished against as my animals nudged me to give their support. I smiled fondly at them and looked back up to see a now empty chair and looked at it dumbfounded and turned to look around and behind me, nothing. Suddenly and faintly I could hear something similar to the countdown I had heard before before a horn went off, just like ours. Suddenly, I could hear feminine battle cries before a skinny black girl raced into view and was quickly cut down by our heavy. Followed by her comrades, A girl with a bazooka and helmet gave her away as their soldier. She has short very curly hair and I couldn't see her eyes but id imagine they would be blue. She herself was short and ran kinda funny. Next I saw the female version of the engineer. I could tell from her overalls and the heavy looking tool box that really held either a sentry, dispenser or teleporter. She had a helmet on as well and her goggles laid loosely at her collar bone. She had long chocolatey brown hair with small streaks of sun bleached stands of hair in random places all tied into a braid which trailed lazily behind her as she walked carefully through the barrage of bullets. Her faces was softly adorned by freckles, which complimented her blue eyes. I thought she was really pretty. I glanced further up and saw the fem sniper rushing into a building for higher ground. She had a pony tail and looked almost exactly like our sniper just feminine, that and her shirt was ridiculously short, for a battle field anyway. It looked like a tank top that was too short for her torso. She quickly was out of my view though so I couldn't make out many other details. I looked back once more to see a very tall women who obviously had some muscles if she was going to carry around that large machine gun. The heavy, she was quite skinny. She seemed to have only slight abs, not a trace of fat that I could see, which is not something I couldnt say about our heavy. She too was blond and she sounded kind of off when she taunted us. Our heavy was Russian but at least I could tell that the reason he sounded "funny" was because of his accent which I thought was cute, I couldn't tell why she sounded odd. Her hair was quite short and pulled back under a bandanna like my hair was. She had brown eyes and was quickly gaining ground on our control point, but we hadn't let them touch it yet. I turned my attention to the lady traveling behind their heavy which was of course, their medic. She looked to be of Asian descent. Her long, shiny and sleek black hair was pulled back into a cute bun that wasn't quite… neat. The ends of her hair were sticking up and out at the top and laid flat when she stopped walking but bounced when she moved. Her eyes were blue and she wore glasses just like our medic but they were not round, but instead, a thin rectangle.

I saw their war mongrel peeking out of the side of the building that they swarmed from, he too seemed of Asian descent but I didn't get a very good look at him because our sniper shot him in the face. I gasped. He is so new, it wasn't fair! Sniper smirked to himself and mumbled something about a mongrel. I frowned at him, how could he?! The dog and cat stared at their fallen leader and pawed at him before running back to what I would assume to be their respawn. I never told my animals to do that. I turned my attention back to the scene unfolding before me, half of both of our teams were gone. Both of our soldiers, their engie, our medic and heavy and then theirs. Their spy was dead, or at least I assumed it was their spy, she was lying face down and had on an elegant dress and a veil to wrap around her head and face and I could see glasses sticking up from her ears. Our demos were fighting with blades. Their demo has short frizzy hair that was so red it looked orange. She was also white and was tall and slender. She had a fire in her eye and I knew eventually she would cut our demo down because he had been recently wounded by their scout. Pyros were going crazy and both eventually got cut down, then the snipers took each other out at the same time, an arrow to the face, I guess he got what he deserved. Demowomen was marching towards the engineer, him unknowing as he hurridly tried to rebuild a sentry and dispencer at the same time. " Engie! Look out!" I yelled to him. I pointed my finger at him and my pets rushed out to help him but in vain. They, along with engie, were blow up by demo who turned her attention to me, or at least where she heard me. She rushed up the stairs and I positioned myself up against the she walked through the door and grinned at me as she once again drew her sword. She lunged at me and caught me in the stomach, pinning me to the wall. I screamed and gagged as I gripped the sword with both of my hands and doubled over slightly. She laughed and with an Irish accent spoke harshly to me." No one to save you or keep you safe now, girl" she said before twisting the sword to get ready to slice my body in half. But she didn't. After a few seconds I looked up at her and saw her eyes big and wide before she toppled over and our spy was revealed. He was staring at her on the ground and said to me "êtes vous blesse..?" he said as he watched the demo, as if to make sure she was really dead. "w-what..?" I asked with a grimace. He looked at me" 'are you hurt'... But just looking at you gives me an answer." He said before he pried the sword from my body and the wall. I crumbled to the floor and cried out in pain. He picked me up wedding style and sneered at me. I can't believe I'm getting my suit dirty for this…" he said as he looked ahead and walked back towards respawn. "Medic!" he called. I looked at him confused "m-medic is… dead..." he looked down at me as he continued walking "he should be heading our way right now." Spy replied. And as if on cue, I could hear voices, battle cries, charging our way. "Medic!" he called once more. "Med-"I coughed as I tried to call for our healer. Blood was everywhere, my clothes were soaked, my skin was red and spy was getting angrier at me for bleeding all over him, he didn't have to carry me, I didn't ask him. "ick" I finished finally. "Don't waist you breath kid" he sneered. My eyes sight was very blurry by now and everything was beginning to get dark, like when a storm came. I lolled my head to the side as I clutched my stomach and coughed up more blood. I was wheezing as my breath came short raspy and wet. Finally my body went limp and my mind was free.

There was a darkness that could not be described to anyone, it felt and looked eerie, like Swirling, dark, black and grey all around. It's a wonder that one would even be able to see in this but there was nothing to see. The darkness was suffocating and weighed on you like water. It felt like hours had gone by but at the same time, only a few seconds. Suddenly there was a piercing light, and I could see again. I was floating the way spy had been holding me, marriage style. I looked around and noticed that I was floating above the battle ground. I could see and hear the others. "ack… sorry frauline… I didn't get here fast enough." He looked at my dead body, still being held in spy's arms "yes.. It's very sad.." he said before he suddenly dropped me." Well. Back to work!" he grinned and walked back down to point laughing. Medic looked sternly on and shook his head. Heavy put his hand on his friends shoulder. "Is ok doktor. She will be back" "I know mein friend, I know" he said as they began walking to the point as well.

I stayed to myself after I respawned. It was unnatural and even the reassuring touch of engie couldn't comfort me. I looked out absently at the deserted halls of the building I was told to stay in after the trauma I had experience from the enemy demo. I shuddered as I heard people's screams of pain, death, and terror. The yells for medic were constant. I hugged my legs as I sat as a last defense with my animals who patrolled around me. I clentched my gut once more as I sat there thinking over and over about the sword that had been driven through my upper abdomen before death spread across the women's face. So far the blus had only captured one point and the battle that was raging outside the walls of the currently safe walls was getting louder and louder. But that battle was about to end. I got up as I decided to take a peek outside, medic couldn't be mad at me for just looking could he?

The door swung open and I stepped out a bit, my dog whining at my side and my cat trying to keep me inside by rubbing the front of my legs. I kept going though and watched the ongoing battle. Spy and just killed their engineer, medic and heavy were battling with the other, engie was going through respawn but his buildings were fine. Pyro was looking for their spy and scout was chasing their sniper with a fish. I couldn't see the others so I guessed they too were still in respawn and finally I heard the administrator come on over head and count down letting us know that the battle was over. I had done nothing this entire match. What were they paying me for then? I was completely useless. I clenched my fists. No, I wouldn't stand by and be protected by others who are going out of their way to make sure I'm ok. I went into a nearby building to find our sniper and theirs duking it out. I quickly got behind her before she could spot me and ripped her throat out with me claws. She was almost dead but so was our sniper. He looked at me with widened eyes "thanks mate" he offered while his mind try to process the fact that I was now in the battle. "No problem." I huffed. " go fix yourself up." I said as I walked past him and bumped into something that wasn't there in the door way, confused I reached out and grabbed air but at the same time, something solid. I had forgotten about spies and before she could kill be the scout killed her. " yo thanks for holdin' her still for me" he winked at me. "Uh yea.. Not a problem." I followed him out and sicked my Lycian on their soldier that I saw charging up to the frey. Before she could rocket jump away, her throat too was ripped out by strong jaws and she was almost instantly killed. He wagged his tail happily as he panted. I rubbed his head before going around their medic and heavy to take them out. I quickly dispatched their medic before having both of my animal's attack the heavy as well as our own heavy attacking and yelling and our medic's maniacal laughter. I dodged to the side as their pyro came running out to burn me and she was quickly cut down by heavy. "Thanks heavy! " I said. "is no problem " he said with a smile. That was said a lot." I smiled back and was going to get up before I was dragged to my feet by my shirt collar to come face to face with an enraged medic. "vhat zhe hell do you think you're doing? I told you to stay inside!" he bared his teeth at me. I frowned at him "helping my team" I replied. Before a bullet whizzed right between our faces, that was a pretty lucky miss. I looked away to see who was shooting at us to see the female scout running up, barely working up a sweat. She positioned her gun to take another shot before medic pushed me back and ducked himself. I ran towards her and was soon able to cut her down before I cornered their demo. She smiled at me and laughed meanly." come to give me your head? What a thoughtful gift." She said as drew he sword. I ran forward unafraid of death. I ducked just in time but my hair was not so lucky, it had been cut quite unevenly in the back and I pressed her hard against the wall and caused her to lose her grip on her sword. I growled in her face and bared my teeth "I will never give you anything without taking for myself" I reared my hand back to drive my hand into her stomach when the battle ended, we had won. My body glowed red and static was coming off of my claws before I drove them into her killing her with the over powered attack. I didn't want to kill her that way but I wasn't able to stop myself in time. I scowled at her dead body before walking out and back up to my family in red and joined them in a celebratory conga.

I'm so sorry guys for the very long wait. I had a bit of writers block and other things like my graduation, looking for a job, gaining a new significant other, getting used to my new car, my sister being pregnant and moving to Texas with her new husband. but I hope you enjoy the new chapter and I hope it was worth the wait! I have an idea of how I will be spending the next chapter so hopefully ill be able to get it out to you guys faster! also, if anyone would like to bête read for me before I post it onto the internets, contact me! and you can always tell me what you liked or disliked about the story so far by reviewing! who do you guys think war mongrel should go after as a love intrest~? I have two- four love intrests in mind~ or maybe she could be in a love triangle... square? anyway! I love you all, I hope you guys have an amazing day!