As Long As I Have You // A. Ghale

Welcome To Kyrat

"Keep your heads down!" Sabal yells at us, as he walks outside of the doors. Ajay and I look at each other and then run to the truck which was waiting for us. Meanwhile, avoiding gunshots, molotov's, grenades, and of course throwing knives.

"Holy shit, we made it!" I say, hopping in the truck. The driver immediately drove off, getting us the hell out of that place. The driver handed Ajay a handgun and he started to shoot the royal army people who were blocking the roads. His shot was dead on.

"There's a car coming right towards us, guys!" I scream and the car rams right into us, causing us to get thrown off the road entirely and fall off of the cliff. The screams soon ended with the silence.

"Delilah? You okay? We need to get out before the car explodes!" I hear Ajay say to me, over my pounding headache and hurt ankle.

"I can't get out! I think my ankle is stuck!" I yell, and I start to panic. If I don't get out soon, I would die. A very agonizing, slow death.

"Just breathe, okay? I'm coming to get you. Just stay still." Ajay says, climbing inside the burning car very carefully. He grabs my ankle and gets in unstuck from under the front seat. I winch in pain and he then pulls me out of the truck.

"Thanks, Ajay. I really owe you one." I say laughing, but I stop at soon as I spot the dead driver just behind a fallen tree.

"No problem, really. You looked like you needed a hand." He says, looking around for any sort of weapon to use. These people were fucking crazy, we definitely had to watch our backs.

We hear the sound of the radio buffering, Ajay walks over and answers the unknown caller. It was Sabal. The radio was still cutting in and out, but we were able to roughly make out what he was saying.

Sabal had said there was a bell tower somewhere around here, so Ajay and I scoped it out. It was about a thousand meters or so away from us. But, we had to be stealthy. There were soldiers out looking for us everywhere.

"Just walk around the outskirts of the camp, they won't detect us that way." I say, crouching and holding an AK-47 in my hands, along with Ajay. I couldn't imagine what would've happened if Ajay hadn't of been there to help me get out of the car in time. I would've died if it weren't for him.

By the time we had made it to the tower, people had been helping us. People from the Golden Path. They had given us guns, ammunition and support. We were just waiting on the Royal Army to show us and attempt to ambush us.

"You ready for this?" Ajay asks me, and I just laugh. I wanted to say, 'no dumbass, I'm not.' But instead I refrain myself from doing so.

"Yeah. Are you, tough boy?" I say, as I load up my AK-47 with ammunition. Ajay just does the same and doesn't ask anymore questions. It was probably better that way.

Soldiers kept coming at us, some on foot and some in snowmobiles. They were fast and definitely spent some time at target practice.

"Duck!" Ajay yells at me, and I immediately do as he says, avoiding getting hit by fire arrow. I look back over at him, stunned. Thank God he told me to do that or I might be dead.

Once there were less soldiers to fight, the loud sound of snow moving and the powerful tremble from beneath my feet had us all freaking out. What else could possible go wrong today?

"Avalanche! Take cover!" Sabal yells, and everyone gathers behind the tower to soften the fall. But, I was caught under a tremendous amount of snow.

I tried to squirm around and dig my way out of the snow, but my vision darkened and I found myself gasping for oxygen I couldn't find. I began to panic which only made my efforts weaker.

I feel someone digging the snow from above me, and I feel a warm, gloved hand pull me out of the snow. Weak and dizzy, I attempt to stand up and walk. But, I fail. Miserably.

"How many times am I going to have to save you?" Ajay laughs, carrying me over his shoulder. I had began to get my vision back and I felt a bit better.

"Oh, I don't know." I play around, still shaking from the bitter cold of the snow. I could feel Ajay's warm coat against my cold cheek. Slowly, I warmed up.

"Let's get you two somewhere safe and warm." I hear Sabal say, just ahead of Ajay and I. Where would we go? I had very little knowledge of the locations of my father's place here in Kyrat. I needed a local or some one I could trust to take me there. But, right now I needed to get warmer.

"Is it always like this?" I ask, and Sabal turned back to look at me. I was dangling off of Ajay's shoulder, which I'm sure was hard to take too seriously.

"No, but it happens sometimes," Sabal says, rubbing his own hands together, "Welcome to Kyrat."

I wasn't sure where he was taking me, but somehow I knew that I would be okay.