War; Book One: The Beginning

Chapter 3: The First Lick of War

August 27, 2016
Hunter's P.O.V.
After we headed out to search for the village, Luke dashed ahead and started sniffing around. I held up my hand to tell the squad to stop. As they should, they stopped.
Luke started to walk forward, but was still sniffing. He sat down and looked at me. "Luke," I yelled to tell him "go search!" He did as told and barked twice. I pulled my hand down and signaled the squad to follow me, following Luke.
Conner's P.O.V.
We've been following Hunter and Luke for about an hour and a half before we found a village. Hunter took us into the village and followed Luke around for another thirty minutes while the rest of us rounded up the villagers. When we finished we heard Hunter shout, "Conner, come here!"
I ran into a hut and found Luke pawing at a rug in the back corner. "Help me open it." He asked. We moved the rug and pulled open a cellar door revealing a huge stock of weapons. "Whoo, Hooo!!!!" I yelled. "Let's get this back to base."
Hunter's P.O.V.
On our way home, Luke stopped and started sniffing around. I held my hand up in motion to stop. We all stopped immediately. Luke started to run towards me and he was whimpering. He ran into my arms, but when I looked up I saw the reason why. The enemy was charging us in all directions. "Everyone try to get the weapons back to the base." I yelled. "Luke, Conner, you're with me."
"What are you doing?" Conner asked rudely.
"Making a gap!" I replied. Luke attacked the first person from the enemy lines.
"We're gonna get killed!"
"Not on my watch! Duck!" Conner ducked out of the way and then I shot the guy coming up behind him. "That oughta buy us some time!"
"Hunter, we need to get back to the unit!"
"We will," I answered then I mumbled, "I hope"
"What was that?" Conner asked in reply to my comment.
"Nothing."
We ran around a large sand dune and found our way back to the base. When we found it, we retraced our steps to find our unit. When Luke found where we were when we were attack, all we found was a bunch of empty crates. "We can't go back!" Conner said under his breath.