The Dark Hearts

Chapter Two

"Okay, so what do we have on agenda today" Don says as he walks in the conference room with a cup of coffee. "Good news or bad news" Tim says with a melancholy voice. "Whatever is on top of that huge pile of papers" He replies and flops into his chair. "North tower is getting double the regular amount nothing too big tier three and under vena however spotted three tier fours with their own herds and they were spread out across the south" Hayle takes a big breath then continues "All of this news is over a month old". "What do you mean 'a month old". we get updates every week". Don yells and slams his fist onto the table that Ant was passed out on. "Wake up lazy ass" he says as he smacks Ant on the head "Oh shut up Don" He says as he tried to go back to sleep. "She means that all the communications are down, there was no way of knowing if it was just the towers or if people just forgot to report in, so Hayle here spent all night checking the system and found out there has been a storm above our communications towers, they need to be fixed manually because we lost all the droids in the storm as well" Kota says trying to get back on target before a fight breaks out. "well what is the fucking good news then" Don says sitting down again. "While Tim, Kota, and Ang were out hunting they found a locked food storage building it was filled with canned goods and a few people, they and the food have been moved to a secure location near here" Hayle continues. "Wait people....how many" Don says with an sudden interest. "Fourteen, six were under the age of ten" says Tim with the same melancholy tone he had before "they haven't known a life other than this".

The room went silent for what seemed like forever. "It won't always be like this, but by the time it's done there will be no one left to care anyway" Ant says from his table. "Full of sunshine aren't you bud, alright, here is the game plan" Don placed a map on the table and unrolled it. After hours of arguing, planning, yelling then more arguing it was settled, Don and Kota would go fix the communications towers, while Ant and Tim went to see if they could recruit the people they found. Hayle and Ang would protect their fort so that Ang could start training. As the last of them leave the conference room Don put his head on the table and took a deep breath "I wish this never happened, it's all because of this damn Sabo if she hadn't started this Bud, you would still-". "Hey...are you okay" Hayle said as she stood at the doorway "I had left my gun in here and....are you talking about...her again" Hayle ended with venom in her voice.

Don sighed again and pauses before he continues "it's okay....we will get vengeance for Bud, just you wait okay" Don said in a serious tone looking at his weapons. "He would want us to..." Hayle said as she brushed away a tear "I gotta catch up with Ang, Don we'll talk about this some other time okay" Hayle said as she ran out of the room. ".....welp I can't just sit around here moping all day long I need to go out and find dinner for tonight or I wont hear the end of it from Anthony" Don says picking his weapons up and heading out of the lobby to the headquarters. "This is the vision that we saw Bud, the Dark Hearts we made I'll show you that we can make it out here and kill the Sabo before they can kill us". As she closed the door she placed her hand on it once more and gets ready throw her knife. "How is he" came a voice from the shadows "I swear you will get killed one of these days if you keep doing that" she said slightly annoyed but still calm. "How is he" Ant repeats and steps out "you know he is your brother, maybe you should have a civilized conversation with him once and awhile", Ant grins and walks down the hall with her "nah I couldn't do that he might think I care". She stopped walking and stared at him with a glare that could kill "sometimes you might want to" and she continue oh her way leaving Ant where he stood passing Tim who was going to get Ant. "What was that about", "never mind that you go get ready to go bury some Sabo and get some recruits Tim" "i hope it doesn't come to that but if it does.... hells yeah" he replied