Operation Ruins

chapter 6

Im still awake but I can't see anything. It's pitch black in the woods. My mind is fuzzy. I remember seeing dark figures with red eyes. Shooting the rifle at them on sight.
Susie. I have to find Susie. Throwing my bag down and use the spare light on my gun to to find a spotlight. I know I shoved one in just incase we ran into one.
Dark ones die to LED lights but are burned a little by little flashlights. Opening the middle compartment it sits there undamaged amazingly.
A wind blows the trees and bushes around and I sit there for a while with the light in my hand. Rifle dangling. Finger rubbing the switch. A scent hits my nose. Its Susie.
I zip up mu bag, throw it over my shoulders, turn off the gun light and, run towards the sweet scent. Running at where the scent came from I see the dark ones eyes watch me. My combat boots crush the branches, twings and, everything in my path. Then there footsteps become audible after a while. I flip the light on and shine it behind me.
They scream and I don't look back. I don't know how far away she is but I have to find her. Turning the light off I pull out my little light holding it directly infront of me. The scent has become so much stronger is why.

There's a scream directly infront of me a few yards away through the trees. I push my limit and shove through everything rampaging to reach her.
I flip the LED back on and flash them both together and I see her lying against a tree holding herself covered in blood.
She wailes out in pain and then I reach her burning all the dark ones to ash.
"TOM HELP ME." She screams holding her stomach. "I broke many things from the fall. Help me please."She says as tears pour down her cheeks and drip off her chin.
"Don't worry Susie you are going to be ok. Let me see your  stomach." She moves her arms and I lift up her blood drenched shirt. "Ok put your arms here and apply preasure as best you can Im going to get the med kit to dry up stitch your wounds shut and bandage it up."I tell her holding her shirt to her and trade off to get in the bag. "Your going to be as good as new love just hold still" I tell her pulling out the huge kit.
In this world you have to be prepared. I open up the alcohol and pour some on a rag. Lifting her shirt back up carefully I place the rag over the huge gash that leads to her far side and she covers her mouth and screams.  I wipe up the blood best I can and tell her to hold it there.
I adjust all the lights in a circle to keep them at bay. Then grab the needle and and string. "Hold still. Bite this stick. I don't own painkillers." I put it in her mouth and put the string through the little loop and carefully put it un her skin. Blood seeps out a lil more but it doesn't do anything. She keeps biting and holds the rag as I pull in and out. Tears still pour down her cheeks like a waterfall.
"It's ok Su you are doing amazing. I'm almost done and I will wrap it up." I put in the last few and do as I say. "Is there anymore deep wounds?" she shakes her head as she still holds the stick.
I check out the rest of her body to see if anything is broken but all I find a scrapes and big bruses all over her.
She spits it out. "Tom your forehead and arm is pouring." She tells me while wiping the tears away.
I take one finger and rub the little tear but when I check my left arm it has a pretty good hit. It need stitches so I sit down and get to work without the stick. Now that I know its there it hurts a lot but it's bearable. After that I go off with one of her flashlights leaving her in the circle.
I told her to stay while with I look for fire wood so we don't use all the battery's. The dark ones don't fear me. They are merely shadows that push or scratch you a little. They come from a place called Dark zone.
It's a place of terrible magic and monster's. Orges come from Terribithia along with whatever else.
The wind blows again and there comes a faint smell of woodland burning. I don't really care if it burns as long as it rains which I sense a good chance. Its supposed to be a drizzle so it won't kill the fire as quickly.
I check my watch. 12:14. The sun went down at 9 and the choppers came between 10 or 11 so who cares. Im making the fire huge because we got a good clearing.

I left my bag with her so I can carry logs on the little holder I made for the little fire at the vault. It wouldn't start. I got what I needed and came back.
She's sleeping in the center of the circle so I put down the stock and pull her towards the tree she was originally at and shined a little light on her. And then started the fire with fire starter and wool followed by a long lighter.
It grew faster than I expected. Then collected the lights and wrapped Susie in a blanket. I sat at the fire keeping an eye on it.
The flames dance wildly cracking and popping about. Its smoke roase high in the sky. The dark ones decided to leave after a while so there I am all alone.
I think about what Susie said and what Bonny said about her. She really is dieing slowly inside. The chemicals keep her alive but at a cost forever and very slowly eats away her skin and very little of her brain every 75 years. Some have it worse than others like her father for example. He went out into the wastes a long time ago and it literally ate him alive. He went farel as Bon calls it.
That's when the chemicals have eaten the brain completely and takes over what's left of the mind and forces them to kill. Drives the hunger and fury inside them. Brings out ever nasty and foul thing they have.
Allen. I look down at the logs burning inside the fire. He may nit make it out alive. Bonny says she has very little equipment to replace peices of the brain tissue and cells but she doesnt know if it'll work. I guess we will find out when we reach Drako.