Reign of Dead

Chapter 5 Alliances

This chapter there are good and bad parts and if you like my story share it its going to be a long ride and I will update every week once or twice. Every update is a new chapter....................................

A jackal was out there no doubt and gun fire combined with screams proved it. I rushed out onto the platform as fast as I could while still showing a limp and looked at the scene below. There were two jackals and they had killed half of the soldiers and all but one of the bandits, their leader. He was facing off with one of the jackals while the other feasted on a soldiers body. Only five of the soldiers remained all trying to put as much ground as they could between them and the jackal feasting on one of their comrades. I ran down the platform even though my leg seared with pain. I dropped the M24 on the ground as I exited and pulled out two knives, my spear head shaped one and a steak knife. I lunged on top of the jackal who was enjoying a meal and drove my knives into his skull. He tilted his head up and screeched then before he could counter attack I pulled a my spear head knife out of his skull and forced it into the space between the bones of his spine. At that very moment I twisted the knife and he stopped moving his limbs. Only its eyes and jaw moved now unsure of its options of attack. I ripped the knives out and drove both into his eye sockets. All movement stopped as I pulled the knives out. I wiped the blades of the knives off on the rags that it wore and put the steak knife away. I walked over to the five soldiers still tied up and started cutting the small ropes that bound them. Carter and Nate were among them and nodded as thanks for me rescuing them. We didn't say anything as we made our way back onto the wreckage of the chinook.

"Where are your weapons?"I asked

"They took most of them earlier in a truck, probably back to their camp I'm guessing. That doesn't matter right now anyway there is a jackal still alive out there and we are unarmed. We can't possibly beat it." Carter explained. Then he looked at me. "Can you handle it, Tas? "

"No problem, just give me five minutes or less and I will handle it."I said to them. I made my way down the ramp again seeing we misjudged who the victor would be. The jackal lay lifeless on the ground a pool of blood around it coming from it ripped open skull and the bandit leader sat near by his arm twisted in a strange way snd his other arm holding a spot near his stomache that was apparently bleeding profusely. I took my spear head knife out and walked up to him. He lifed his head and looked at me with hope in his eyes. I wouldn't give him a quick death, he was a banditthe things he had likely done deserved no swift end.

"You don't get a quick death, you made bad decisions and your luck has finally caught up with you. You will die a slow and painful death or." I stoppef

"Or what?"he asked

"Or you can come with me as my personal soldier and mabey, just mabey you can redeem yourself. Its up to you, your choice. If you do decide to join me I will help you get bandaged up and be warned if you try to betray me I will slice your throat open in a heart beat."I said

"But your just a kid I am your elder, how can I go through with that?"he asked

"If you want to live you will." I said as I started walking away

"Wait, ok I will be your soldier, now help me kid."he called out

"Ok I will be right back." I said as I walked away. The soldiers in the wreckage watched as I grabbed my backpack and off my seat and before I started back down the ramp Carter spoke up,

"Why didn't you kill him, he is a bandit? He will just go back to his camp after you fix him up and come back with reinforcements. Does that make any sense."

"He's not going back he has agreed to be my personal soldier."I stated as I left down the ramp again. I made my way over to him and nudged him to move his right arm from where he was holding it. I made him lay down then I lifted up his shirt. Across his stomache was a deep cut and was bleeding down his chest. I wiped it with a disinfectant wipe several times but he didn't even complain once he just looked up like he was thinking what to do now. I fininshed cleaning his wound then I got the spool of thread and a needle out.

"You are going to need stitches this is going to hurt a bit because I've never put stitches in before ok?" I asked

"Let me do it I've done it plenty of times back at my old camp."he said

"So are you planning on running later on?"I asked

"No, I thought about it for a while and after all of this I realized that I would survive longer with you than anyone else. Actually when I heard from those soldier friends of yours what you had did before they found you I sent two of my men up to make sure you were really dead. Then I hear gun fire and saw both of my.men drop."he said as I cut off the thread.

"Why did you order your men to start firing at me on the outside?"I asked as I started putting my supplies away.

"I didn't there was a mutant on top of the wreckage."he replied

"Ok then, are your friends coming back here?"I asked

He sat up and said,"Tomorrow, we were going to camp here for the night."

"Well, when they do come back your going to help us ambush them." I said with a smirk in my face

"Ok then, it will be hard to kill them but we were going to get killed off one way or another eventually."he said

I started walking back towards the wreckage when he piped up,"Hey I didn't catch your name."

"Its Tas, and your is?"I answered

"Mason."he said

"Enough socializing, come meet your new teamates."I said as I left him.