CHAPTER 15
Sets of footsteps rush down the hall and fall silent. "What's that???" Scar whispers as we both sit up in our bunk. I quietly slide out of bed, and tiptoe up to the middle of the room, timidly reaching for a knife in the drawer. Scar gets up and takes up her position to my left clutching something in her hands. "Who's there!" I yell though the door only to receive silence. My hands tighten around the kitchen knife and I take a small step forward. "Scar stay th-" The door gives way to a huge force and four men wearing the D.P.F uniform storm in all carrying heavy weaponry. "Drop your weapons! Drop them now!" The captain orders. Knowing that we are at the disadvantage, I slowly set my knife to floor, and motion for Scar to the do the same, but she doesn't move. Her shoulders tense and she tightens her grip on the thing in her hands. "Do it!" One of the soldiers step forward pressing the gun to her head. "Hey back-" A heavy boot connects to my jaw and sends me back on my butt. "Stay down and don't move!" He commands as the pain stings through my brain. "Scar. Just put it down!" Still, Scar stood there frozen. The soldier swings his rifle back to blunt her head, and I push the man watching me back, stunning him, as I bash his temple stripping the pistol holstered on his side, and pointing it at the soldier pinning Scar along with the other two standing with their rifles ready. "Let her go and you all won't die!" I shouted as I pressed the cold steel to the head of the man in my arms. I look to scar and I finally make out what she is carrying another pistol. In her other hand she held four fingers outstretched at her side towards the floor. Then there were three. I rearranged my self behind the man I had taken hostage. Two. Every thing fell silent and time seemed to slow as I could see a fly buzz past and land on the captains chin. He swats to hit it and Scar's hand closes at the same time as her pistol's bullet piercing through the soldier's neck spreading a red mist, and at the same moment I send an burst of metal into the one beside the captain knocking him back and as shift my sights on the captain but he is faster. The muzzle flashes and my captive's body armor absorbs the short burst and I kick my hostage at the spray of bullets and shoot the captains shoulder, causing him to drop his rifle and I shoot his other shoulder as he reaches for his pistol. "Agh!" He grunts as he falls back hitting the wall unconscious. "We got'em Scar! Nice th- ." Scarlet was laying on her side clutching her chest panting. "No no no this isn't happening!" I choke up kneeling next to Scar as she coughs up the dark red. I lean her up and rip off a piece of my shirt to press on her wound. "Scar look at me! Just keep looking! You're gonna make it." Her eyes dull as the red ooze from her lips. Her lips open and she struggles to whisper "I- I l- love you." Her eyes slowly close and her arms drop down as I hold her in my arms crying. "No no baby no don't leave me! Don't leave me!" But she couldn't here my cries. She was dead.
The captain shuffles on the floor towards his rifle, and I lay my love's lifeless body down. The man reaches as far as his wounded arms would reach as I walk towards him. My fist balled, eyes red, and teeth gritted. He leaps for the gun and my foot smashes down on his wrist making him cry in agony. I kick his shoulder sending him to the floor and stand over the trash. I press my shoe into his wounded shoulder and twist as the man screams in pain. "Kill me you worthless trash!" I push my foot down harder and demand "Who sent you!" The man spat his blood at me and turns to Scar. "I don't have to tell you anything. I'm done here. Your girl is too."
"Shut up!" I fire off into his skull and drop to my knees screaming. "Scarlet!!! Oh Scarlet I'm sorry!"
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AdventureIt's been too long since we've seen the outside... It's time that we clean this shit up and take back our freedom that so many died for. Enough is enough. Stand up my brothers and sisters! We fight for America!
