Blood, Sweat, and Tears

Chapter 25

The wild winds are making it windy and cold. We are at an elevated height and it makes it cold. Oh, and also Lars is threatening to drop me. It's more than 20 feet and it looks amazingly dangerous.

"This time I'm not giving up." Lars' face looks angry. I think he's one of those people that don't accept failure or quitting as an option.

Below me is a long way down, to my left is land with a lot of big rocks, and to my right is the ocean. I could be dropped to the ocean but if I learned from my Science Class is that, when you are dropped to the ocean and you're going fast the water basically turns into a cement wall. I think if he drops me all of these situations will lead me to serious injury.

Dan out of nowhere pushes Lars and he dropped me. Luckily he dropped me right above the ocean, but like I said earlier, this is basically a cement wall.

I close my eyes as I feel sudden pain hit my face and my whole body. For a few moments I feel cold water until I feel nothing. I don't know if it's the cold water that's making my body numb or maybe I'm just unconscious.

I open my eyes and I see the raging ocean's waves hit my head. I tumble in the water and I am struggling to breathe, it's so cold and it's making my lungs hard to breathe. My eyes are also exposed to the salty water and it burns my eyes. At one point a really big wave came and my leg hit a rock full force and started bleeding. The next wave hit me and my head got submerged under the water. My left leg was bleeding while my right leg is stuck on a rock. I use all of my force and energy to remove my foot out of the rocks. My vision suddenly start to become dark and my body gave up on itself and I'm just under the water floating. I became unconscious as the next wave hit me again at the head.

I woke up from the familiar sound of the monitor. I was kind of angry from waking up, I had a dream where I could eat all the ice cream I want. The monitor had my heart beat, oxygen level, and heart rate. There's another person in the room and I guess she's the nurse monitoring me. She comes close to me.

"Is your name Ray Joley?"

"Yes. Where are my friends? How long was I here?"

"Your friends are outside, you are here for a  day now."

Wow, a whole day. Maybe I had a coma.

"What are my injuries?"

I look at myself when the nurse gave me mirror. I'm quite pale and I'm also some parts of my body are numb.

"You have a damaged bone on your ankle, you have mild hypothermia, you also had a coma."

"Could my friends come in?"

"Sure."

The nurse opens the door to let them in and she leaves the room. But this time there are two familiar looking people who entered the room with Dan.

"Are you fine?" Dan asks me.

"Yeah, did I pass out in the water? I also have mild hypothermia right now."

I look at the two other soldiers and I see my cousins Heber and Stephen. Stephen is older than Heber by 4 years and they look the same as before. They do this thing called CrossFit, it's like a program or something that helps you become strong and basically build muscles.

"Heber? Stephen? How and when did you get here?"

"Well we just arrived to check on our cousin." Stephen sits down, he's wearing a gray tank top. His voice also got a little British-like which is weird. Heber wears his usual plain light blue V-Neck that he always likes to wear.

"Well you don't have to check on me I'm fine."

"Then we'll leave." Heber stands up.

"No I'm just joking. How did you guys become soldiers? Dan is in Seal Team 6 already, you guys?"

"Well I'm in the British Special Forces. You can notice how my voice changed." Stephen says.

"And I'm in F.A.S.T. If you don't know who we are we are the Fleet Anti-Terrorism Security Team." Heber leans on the wall.

"When and how did you all join the army? I missed out so much from you guys since, our parents died." I wipe away my tears. I miss my brother and my cousins, the only thing that stops me from being from my cousins and brother is because of the death of our parents. Dan was not there for the funeral, he didn't say why but he said he had something to do. All of my cousins, uncles, and aunts were there except Dan. It's ironic because Dan is closest to mom and dad but he can't come to their funeral.

"Before the funeral we have practiced for the Special Forces. We were ranked by their tests that they gave us, since Dan is one of the best he joined the Seals until he joined Seal Team 6. I was assigned for the British Special Forces and Heber is assigned for F.A.S.T our parents decided that we were okay to join the army so we did." Stephen fixes his pants, looks like he has something in his pocket.

"What's inside your pocket?" I point at Stephen's pants.

"Gun."

"Then how did you pass the metal detectors? Even though you're Special Forces you can't bring a gun in a hospital."

"Dan talked to them." Stephen smiles. Stephen loves guns specifically handguns. Heber likes knives over guns while Dan likes explosives. I remember before I was still 9 years old that my cousins were in a shooting range and Dan and I joined in even though we were still young. Our parents are risk takers so I guess it's fine by them.

"Anyways back to the topic, how are you? It's a very long time since we haven't seen you."

"Cody helped me and along the way I have met a lot of friends."

"Wait you have friends?" Dan jokes.

"Shut up." I punch him by the shoulder. He just rolls his eyes.

"We have heard that there are 2 gangs that are notorious now, Carvo and Rolando."

"Yeah, we have actually bumped into them a few weeks back. And did you know that Cervi died because his son shot him 3 times?"

"What? We did see Cervi's body but we didn't know what was his cause of death. That's messed up."

"Amanda and Cervi actually has another son by the name of Lars. He's now the one controlling both gangs, Jason betrayed Lars so Lars took matters into his own hands."

"The family is also messed up, and we thought you were the crazy one for involving yourself in trouble." Heber laughs.

"Again, shut up." I smile. I missed having fun with my relatives.

"Oh. We have a gift for you." Heber gets a box that's poorly wrapped.

"Thanks, you jerks."

Hebre and Stephen laugh. I expected them to do this, they give gifts but always poorly wrapped.

"Open it."

I open it and I see two sticks inside, it looks like fighting sticks.

"What am I supposed to do with this?" I pull out the sticks. It looks like they're made of bamboo.

"Self defense sis. Have you ever heard of Philippine Martial Arts?"

"What martial arts do they do?"

"Well we learned it from Speical Forces. We had a NAVSOG instructor from the Philippines, he told us to call him Tor. Tor means Instructor or tormentor. He taught us Martial Arts that is useful if you don't have a weapon with you. You could also use anything as your weapon, like a chair, he taught us to break the leg of the chair and use it as a weapon for self defense."

"We can't practice when I'm injured and I have mild hypothermia."

"Who says we can't?"

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