The encounter

Part 3: The past within

"Ahhh..."
I woke up to the unpleasant reality, my head wanted to explode and it took me a while for my eyesight to return to it normal state. Then I started to look around.

And to my eye...

T was lying on the floor, blood dripping from his belly. I ran toward him and check his pulse. Alive! Slowly and carefully, I unbuttoned his navy uniform t-shirt and check his wound. He had been hit by a tiny piece of metals. Standing on my feet again, I rushed to the medical emergency box and punched the glass out. Hastily, I grabbed the first aid kit and return to T. I have no medical degree nor training, but I managed to learn how to perform a first aid by myself when I was on the field duty. Efficiently, I unpacked the package and grab the medical gloves. After cleaning the outside of his wound with cotton, I grabbed the anti-bacteria spray and sprayed into his wound before removing the metal pieces with a scissors to make sure he wouldn't get infected. Then I bandaged and secured his wound.

And then there was a small cough. T opened his eye and breath hard. I leveled his head a bit to give his air vent some space. His breath calmed immediately and he looked at me.

"Wh...what happened?"

That when I remembered what happened before and I went back to the front of the deck and look around.

Nothing. The sea was empty. No enemy ship in any direction.

"Gosh what really happened?"

"Zing ... can I have some... water?"

I grabbed a water-bottle and gently pour the liquid into his dry-mouth. He swallowed the liquid and whispered : "My head... is really hurt.."

"You should get some rest, let me help you."

Carry T behind my back, I walked through the connector into the living quarter. T was placed comfortably in the middle of the bed and was already begin to snore. I let out a sigh before headed back to the deck. Pulled the switch of the ship power on since the shock wave shut the ship down. To what I heard was an automated voice answered : "Ship power insufficient, please reboot the system manually."

After what was like an hours of trying to restart the power from the engine room, the system finally rebooted and the power cores slowly charged the ship. Great, 2 hours and the ship is ready to continue. Hopelessly, I check the com channel. Searching over every available frequency took a lot of time, and the results was disappointed. Silent, every channel, frequency were shut down. Not even a nearby civilian channel. Great, we are officially on our own. I searched the little cabin by the wall behind the seats and found a specialized tablet. I turned on the thing. Then it showed me the map of my position, but in offline mode. No gps.

Doing a little research on my own, I checked every island nearby and read every little pieces of information about it all since I don't have anything else to do. Nearest island: Isle of berk, a once abandoned island that saw a tribe of viking living for generations here but disappeared after being attacked by an unknowns force. Now this island is being use as a nature preservation outpost. Population: 12. Faction:

"Well at least they can provide us with help for now..."

2 hours later.
I can see the island from a far distance away. Zoomed in with a digital scope mounted on the turret hull, I saw two black shaped dashed into the air and away from the island. What on earth could fly like that? Staring at the two dots, I realized it had changed it direction and were dashing toward me. It could be a big threat since Buldvist troop were the only one to have a reason to patrol around this area, there is no UNOE ally in a radius of 217 km in this area.

"AA gun malfunction."

"Damn Buldvist, all of my AA turret were shotted down by the two jet!"

The two object was now closer to my ship and had took the shape of two flying animal, and no, it's not a seagull or any other flying animals. It was Dragon! The two dragon circle around my ship, then landed at the front next to the turret. 2 human shape landed to the deck from the back of a jet black dragon and an ocean blue dragon. I walked through the door and out of the main decks into the external stair, with a Tar-21 in my hand - I took it from the weapon stations positioned next to the connector - and slowly walked down, my eye directly aim through the holo sight. Two shape, one dressed in black with helmet on and the other was a blonde woman, dressed in a coat with a big fur hood and medium skirt.

A shot was fired into the air. Immediately I aimed my gun toward the 2 shape after the caution shot. Their dragon growl but the black masked rider signal them to stand down.

"Hand in the air, surrenders yourself!"

The black masked men looked at me, he slowly reach for his sword handle. I fired another caution shot. Everyone, include the dragons but not me, startled.

"Take your god dam hand away from the sword!"

"Okay, okay. I'm not going to hurt you!" The black mask man said with his hand throwing the sword down to the ground. This sword has no blade?

"I don't take word too quickly"

The black masked rider looked at blonde, his emerald eye filled with worries and then he looked back at me.

"I just wanted to know why are you here and what is your intention."

"That none of your business, go away before situation get worse."

I noticed a red dragon symbol, sit perfectly at his right cheek pad. Something flashed across my head, I had seen this symbol before, but where exactly?

"Fine, we will go. Just don't harm us or our island."

Something is telling me this is not right.

They mounted on their's dragon and ready to take off

"Wait! Before you go, can I park the boat here? I will propose no harm toward any of you."

"If you do anything stupid, we will hunt you down!" the blonde answered threatening. I nodded. Then they took of and fly back to their island.

I dig into all of the file and documents on the tablet. Trying to find a red dragon symbol inside military files might not be that hopeful, but I have nothing lead to do. Wait, those people ride dragon. I have never see someone ride a dragon before and also all the dragon should've been lock up inside a preservation park right now? How do they have the dragon? And how do they tame... wait, they know how to tame the dragon? So they know about them? I closed the current tab am looking at and open the dragon research work. Search and skim through page over page of the work, I finally met with what I think it is. History research of dragon kind. I scrolled through the document of research and new discoveries in everything about dragon while walking back and forth. It was my favorite way to concentrate. As I scroll and skim through page of word and word, my stomach growl in hunger. 1205 already? But while does the sun here stayed in 0900 coordinate? What is going on? Dark gray cloud covered the sky, leaving sunlight unable to reach the ground by the time I read the last line of the first page. And from the sky, water harshly pushed through the air, stronger every second.