Why Change? (Straight furry story)

45. While Laying Dead

"alright you guys, you all in position?" the sergeant asks, we all reply with yes sergeant, beacause that is all we can really say. "Take of yer slouch hats, esept you Jensen, you're like an effin beacon" he says again, we all chuckle. I take off my slouch hat and wait, for movement, for sound, for sillouette, and really anything to identify as an enemy. After about three and a half hours I hear a gunshot, followed promptly by rapid fire, three more long gunshots were fired before the fire ceased. There was a moment were no sounds were heard, then Jensen appeared over the comms "I got them, three, looked like an assault team, they got me on the left shoulder, not to serious, I'll report back if I feel strange". The communication line was back to being quiet, slight static, but barely noticable, the line ran down my vest and into my left pocket.

After sixteen more boring hours, I decide to open a ration pack, after eating that, I get back down on my stomach and put my eye to the scope, I see something moving in the bushland in the middle of the U-bend road, as they emerge, I notice one with a colt, and one with a steyr rifle, which instantly made me angry, because they aren't on our side, so I pull the trigger once and hit him in the chest, and the other one goes over to check on the bodyhe puts his head in almost the same place as the other persons chest, so I pull the trigger again and he collapses. "I got them, two, it looked like some straggelers, I don't think they hit me, but I'll report back if I feel anything" 

After a two hour 'sleep' and twenty-two hours of laying around, I almost dozed off again when I felt an extremly heavy blow to my left leg. I looked up and saw a white snow leopard, "who are you?" I asked, then an almost familliar voice said "don't you remember me? Well, howzabout I jog your memory. Year ten, Darwin Special school, We had a 'bond'" I recognised the face, the voice, even the snarky comments he made, "about that," I said, "the last things I heard you say was 'Iron bound chains', but I'm guessing your english didn't get any better since then, right?" he frowned and said "you have gotten worse, I'll give you one last wish before I shoot you" revealing a handgun. "I would like to... get my slouch hat" I say reaching for my hat, then, in the distance, I hear a gunshot the leopard looks up and I throw my hat at his face, pick up my gun, and slide down the cliff and run into the bushland. This is where all the soldiers have been shot from, they may have set traps, so I have to tread lightly. I need to warn the others. I say into the headset "position compromised, I'm in the U-bend bushland" then I listen, but I hear nothing, not even the light buzz of static, I check the box in my pocket and see that it is broken, the leopard planned it, that's why he kicked me before everything, well played.