The Serpent Queen

Lull | Part Two

At the beginning of the vicious training exercise, most of red team members lagged behind Kreese. Hawk wasn't among his other team members.

"Fan out." The old man waved his hand in the air to beckon them to spread out. "You're over here like sitting ducks."

The red Cobras did in fact fan out there and then.

Kreese had a tiny pair of binoculars and looked through them to see two members of the black team in the distance walking together; Phoebe and Miguel.

Stingray jogged over to the old man with his own red headband on. "Excuse me? Uh...Sensei...Sir...Your Honour." He cleared his throat. "Sensei, I was looking at the terrain and I was sorta thinking that there's this strategy I play in Call of Duty Modern Warfare. I think we could do it today. You know gather all the troops, rally them around and we could find a-"

Kreese put a finger to his lips cutting the other man off, "Shhhh. You know nothing about warfare. There were a few men like you in 'Nam. They did two things well; hiding and getting killed. So, why don't you find a place to hide? Because both of us know how this is going to end, Chubs."

Stingray seemed slightly heartbroken, disappointed, and scared. He cleared his throat again while walking away. "Uh...yes sir."

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The Cobras on both teams had went their separate ways to win for their team, even the ones on the same team. However, Johnny's teenage dynamic duo worked together to try and get all the red team's headbands for the black team.

Phoebe and Miguel walked through the forest of the creek ready to tag team anyone from the red team.

"Is your leg really okay?" He asked.

"Mostly, yeah. Want me to kick you with it and find out?"

"No, thanks." Miguel laughed. His face turned serious. "Phoebe, you can talk to me. I hear you up at night moving around your bedroom."

She sighed, "I'm not exactly sleeping the best. Every time I close my eyes, I see the car coming at me and I wake up in a sweat right before it's about to hit me. I'm scared that she's going to appear and finish me off."

"The police are looking for her, right?"

"Yeah. She lives in a nice house so she can't evade them for long. She's not equipped for life on the run."

"You know if you ever want to stay awake and talk some night, or play video games in my room, just bang the wall."

Phoebe laughed, "Halo at 3am. Sounds fun." She looked around them to see just trees. "I feel like it's almost kill or be killed. It nearly feels like The Hunger Games out here."

"Yeah, it does." Miguel glanced around as well. "So, what happens at the end of this if it's just you and me?"

"Then I guess I'll have to rip that pretty little head band off your head when I win that fight." She teased with a big smile.

"You think you can win against me this time?" He chuckled.

"We'll have to see, won't we?"

"Yeah, this headband is staying right where it is."

"Mine definitely is. It's tied to my head, but I also threaded a tiny piece of it through my plait. Nobody can take it off without yanking out my hair."

Miguel laughed, "That's cheating, Phoebe."

"No, it isn't."

"It is."