AN: Here's chapter 2, i hope you guys like the 2nd chapter and are enjoying the story.
Chapter 2: And I Thought We Died
Keith opened his eyes to see sunlight passing through leaves. Birds tweeted their tunes into the wind. "So this is heaven?" Keith muttered as he began to sit up. A groan went out and he turned his head to his left to see the other members of his squad, the mortar crew and Blackhawk crew lying on their backs as they began to stir. "Rise and shine!" he shouted, jolting them all awake. They all turned to their commander.
"Where are we?" Nick asked.
"i thought it was heaven but I'm starting to lose faith in that theory." Keith responded "Ok, I want a full kit check." The order went through the squad and they went to work checking their own kits, as well as their fellow teammate's ones. When the squad reported back he found they had all their normal kit and supplies along with a large surplus of ammo. And the mortar crew still had their mortar. "Ok, let's get looking around."
15 minutes of wandering and they had found nothing but forest. The squad kept their respective weapons ready encase of an ambush, they gave the pilot and Blackhawk gunner two spar L9A1 pistol's and some extra ammo. Keith led the soldiers quickly. He put his fist up and crouched. The squad crouching as well. "Nick." Keith whispered, Nick stayed low and jogged up to the front of the squad. Keith pointed to his 11 o'clock "You hear that?" they were silent for a few seconds until they heard it
Gunshots
Nick nodded to his CO "i want the mortar team to hold up here with the Blackhawk members and a spar radio. I want Nelson and Uri to stay here and guard them. the rest of us are going to move towards it."
"Copy, want the mortar teams to set up?" Nick questioned
"Yep, I'll have Ted radio them coordinates for bombardment." Keith explained. Nick nodded and jogged back to the rest of the squad to explain the CO's orders. Seconds later the Mortar crew was setting up with Uri and Nelson taking up defensive positions with the Blackhawk's crew. The others began to walk slowly towards the gunshots.
The squad walked towards what looked like a clearing. When they got to the edge of the forest they found a large wall to their left. A man stood at the front with a giant hammer as large black beasts that looked similar to boars, wolfs and bears charged forward towards him. the beasts had glowing red eyes and black fur with a skull type faceplate. The man himself wore a blue bomber jacket and had black clean-cut hair. "Sir, what the hell's happening?" Maddie asked
"I honestly don't know rookie… I honestly don't know…" Keith responded. Then he noticed something in the clearing as well. A girl, maybe aged 12 or 13 was on the floor, trying to crawl towards the wall. as the man charged the beasts one made of the wolf ones made it past and slowly stalked towards the girl. "Squad, we need to get in there."
"What? Why?" Derik asked.
"Because there's a young girl about to get killed by one of those creatures." Nick said as he looked through his sniper's scope.
"Daniel, set up and wait for my signal. Ted, radio the mortar team with distance from the team themselves since we don't have a map." Keith ordered "Derik, me and you are going to get that girl out of there when Nick here takes the wolf out. Maddie, take the MBT LAW from Daniel and wait encase something big comes through or we need fire support."
"Got it sir!" the squad said in unison as Daniel began to set up his bipod, Maddie behind him taking the MBT LAW from his back, Ted had his microphone to his face and was walking to the mortar team. Nick set up his L118A1 AWC's bipod and steadied his breathing.
"Ted, on my mark starts mortar fire." Keith stated. Ted gave a thumbs up. "Nick, you ready to take that shot, that wolf's getting closer to that girl fast." It was true; the wolf was now about a meter away from the girl, who was now staring at the wolf in horror as it got closer
"Ready." Nick responded as he slid a round into the snipers blot action cylinder
"Take the shot." Keith ordered. Nick pulled the trigger.
CRACK
The wolfs head was popped clean off and its body fell to the floor. The girl screamed as she heard the crack. The man himself, after slamming the hammer on one of the boar creatures heads turned to see the girl and the now dead wolf's body in front of her. "GO!" Keith shouted as he and Derik ran forward out of the forest and towards the girl. The armour clanging as they ran forward. Derik cocked his L74A1 shotgun as he ran; Keith held up his L85A2 into a firing position and shot in bursts at the beasts. Each burst killing one. One of the boar creatures charged forward at the two British soldiers but was stopped instantly by Derik's shotgun. "SUPPRESSING FIRE!" Keith shouted as Nick and Daniel began to open fire on the horde of monster beasts. They crouched down next to the girl and opened fired on the beasts. The man ran over.
"Who are you?"
"Sergeant Keith Runner of the 118th United Kingdom armed forces. You might want to get down, its danger close." Keith warned. As soon as he said that a wining sound went out.
BOOM
Piles of dirt's flew into the air as the mortar shell imparted. More shell hit their mark as many of the beasts disappeared in the explosions only to reappear dead on the floor in bits. After about a minute of the barrage the beasts began to run away back into the forest. As the last one ran into the forest Keith and Derik stood up from their crouched positions as Nick, Maddie, Ted and Daniel jogged towards them. They all turned to see the gate at the front of the wall open opened and a woman ran out towards the girl and hugged her. After that she looked up at the soldiers "Thank you for saving my daughter." She said
"No problem ma'am. We saw she was in trouble and decided to intervene." Derik explained, Ted turned to his CO
"Sir, the others are now coming towards out location." Ted stated, as he said that the 6 soldiers ran into the clearing and towards them.
The man who wielded the hammer looked at Keith "You said earlier you were a sergeant, what military are you from? You don't look like Atlesian soldiers."
"We're a part of the 118th British armed forces. The two with the mortar are a part of the US army, and the pilot and gunner there." He gestured to the two people with pistols "Are a part of the US air force."
"What's the US army and air force? And I've never heard of the 118th British armed forces." The man stated. Keith was about to say something when Maddie spoke first
"Where are we?" she asked
"You're at the town of Ville, a part of the kingdom of Vytal." The man stated.
"guys… I think we may be on another world or another timeline or something…" Ted stated
"And here I was think we were dead." Daniel said sarcastically."
"Please come inside the walls, the grim may come back." The man gestured to the gate as he turned on his heels and walked towards it, the soldiers had no other option but to follow.
"Sir, we never found out your name?" Derik asked
"Oh, sorry. I'm John Razor. I'm a huntsmen and the protector of this town."
"What's a huntsman?" Derik questioned
"You don't know what a huntsman is?" John said in shock. "A huntsman or huntresses protect towns and cities against the creatures of grim."
"Grim?"
"They are the creatures you just fought. They have no soul and there only goal is to wipe s out." John explained
"Well that's not good." Uri joked. The soldiers walked along a cobblestone road through the town. People stared at them in awe, fear and confusion. Awe at what they wore and how they carried what looked like heavy equipment with ease, Fear at how they could be here to kill them all if they were mercenary's and confusion on what they were. John stopped outside a large building
"This is the hotel; they should allow you to stay since you did just help save the town." John stated
"Thank you John, we're very grateful for this." Keith stated
"It's alright. I need to report to the huntsmen HQ about the attack." John bowed and turned and walked away.
"Well then… let's find us some rooms."
2 Hours later the squad of soldiers had found their room and were now out and looking around the town, their safety's on their weapons. They wandered around the small town, it was nothing like the ones in the UK or US. Or any like most the world, if they even was on earth anymore. While they looked around Darren, the, now destroyed, Blackhawks gunner crashed into someone and landed on the floor. He looked up to see he had crashed into a young woman, maybe in her early 20's… with white rabbit ears. "Oh sorry." She said quickly. Darren just stared at the ears.
"Um… thank you… hey if you don't mind me asking, how did you get bunny ears?" Darren asked as he helped the woman to her feet
"Oh? I'm a Faunus."
"A Faunus?" Darren asked curiously, the woman giggled
"You really don't know, do you." She said, Darren shook his head "A Faunus is part human part animal. We are just like humans but we have animal traits." She smiled
"Ok, thank you for telling me miss…"
"Abigail. Abigail Reap." She nodded
"Thank you Miss Reap." Darren nodded and smiled before quickly running back to his fellow soldiers.
"Copter gunner's getting in with Bunny." Derik remarked, causing the entire team to laugh and Darren to go bright red.
"I'm not I was getting information." Darren rebutted
"We know, we were joking." Uri stated
"Quite now." Keith ordered as John ran up to them as sirens began to play. "What's happening?"
"Massive horde of grim coming in from the north. We're evacuating the town at the airship port." John stated "I'm heading to the gate to hold off as many grim as I can while everyone evacuates."
"We're coming." Keith stated, the other soldiers nodding in agreement.
"Why?"
"Because our job is to save people who can't defend themselves. So we're in."
"Fine, but do you need any equipment?" John asked, Keith looked around the team and to the mortar crew.
"Only a map and a firing line at the enemy."
AN: This are about to get interesting...