The Fighter

Chapter 22

Half of the boys guard while the other half sleeps. I'm to haunted by how I killed so many to sleep. Oliver stays awake with me while we guard.

"How did your mother die?" He quietly ask me.

"She was shot right in front of me. We had to go to Muttford for her job and part of her job was to take refugees out of the colony with out the government knowing. But they found out and they killed her right before we left. The refugees she was helping escape help me escape from Muttford keeping me." I tell him this with out much emotion. The only other person that knew this in the army was Henry. He told me about his parents so I told him about mine.

"I'm going to take on her job." I say after a long period of silence between Oliver and I.

"Would you mind if I get in business with you?" He looks me straight in the eyes.

"I need all the help I can get." I smile.

He stays quiet for a little bit and then talks again.

"I want to get married and have kids after this war." He changes the topic.

"Who are you marrying?" I ask shyly, scared that he actually had a girl back home.

"You, of course." He laughs at my shyness.

"Ok." I laugh as I snuggle into his shoulder.

We stay on guard all night. The boys have made beds out of sand on the beach. All night the gentle patter of the waves in the shore keeps me at ease.

In the morning everybody eats fruits and oysters for breakfast. After breakfast everybody heads out in search of the two boys.

"Let's find them quickly so we can get home." I yell as everybody heads out.

The jungle isn't to dense for us to walk through. It's actually quite beautiful. The trees let in just enough to see the beauty of everything.

"This shouldn't be a battle ground." I disapprove of humans ruining the beauty with their blood and guts.

"At least they die some were beautiful." Henry says as we gather things to eat.

"It's better than cement ally ways." Alan adds in.

Jax and Oliver stand guard as we finish up grabbing some food.

"We are going to need a lot more food for tonight." Oliver says looking at our small bundle.

"Henry and I will come back before dinner to get more." I balance the bundles in both hips. Oliver follows behind the group keeping guard while Jax takes the lead guarding the front.

Everybody meets back on the beach and bundles up the food together. Nobody has seen a trace of the two enemies. Alan signals in the generals an tells them the news.

Henry and me gear up to get more food before dinner. I wash off my sweat in the ocean and then walk into the jungle with Henry.

"It's going to take us forever to find these two guys." I converse as we walk.

"They are probably right under our noses and we don't even know about it." Right after he says that We hear footsteps.