Delta Squad

Chapter 1 - The Beginning

Darkness... that's how it all began, a little bit of darkness.... a baby's cry can be heard in the distance.

A child at birth, born blind with a family that couldn't care for them. Given away immediately like they were contagious.

Afraid and alone.... hearts racing... panic and sweat... the child had grown up alone inside an orphanage where he was constantly attacked by the other kids...

till one day, an older kid had spoken up to the blind child and became friends... like brothers...

darkness again... but a dark, creepy whisper calls out within it...

"An..And...Andy...." fear can be sensed, panic and more sweat.

The boy calls out to it, "What do you want?... tell me! What do you want!" No response, but silence... the boy panics more, sweat becomes more violent.

An image comes to his mind, the same boy but covered in red... blood, being held in arms. The boy points towards him and says with the creepy and dark whisper tone again, "Andy.... you... did... this...". The boy screamed in fear, "NO!!!"

Thud!!!

Andy had fallen out of his bed, awake and drenched in sweat, his heart racing and paces his breathing.

The world was blind to him, but he was finally awake...

the door slammed open.

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"ANDREW!" The cry tore through his head. Hands reached down and grabbed him, pinning him down against the floor-

"NO! -"

"ANDY SNAP OUT OF IT." The other boy screamed.

He gasped, Andy's grey eyes pierced through the boy that has held him down, knowing the voice. "R-rhys?..."

"what happened? You were screaming in your sleep... thrashing around like someone was trying to get you."

Andy shook his head, carefully moving away from Rhys, being sure not to crash into furniture.
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Growing up blind in the orphanage hadn't been easy for Andy... he was characterized as 'vulnerable' amongst the orphanage...

"18 years stuck in this place..." a sigh.

"Hey... we'll be out soon. Now hurry up... last thing we want is to get late at our first job interview..." Rhys implied.
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Some time goes by after Andy finally gathered his things and Rhys helping him along the way. They finally get to the doors of the orphanage and say their final goodbyes and thanks to those who did care for them.

"Well... this is it then, no more orphanage and hello new world" both boys chuckled.

Andy looked down slightly with a sad expression, "I wish I could see it..."

"I'm sorry, Andy... but you can, you've always been able to see, you don't just see with your eyes, but you can feel, sense... imagination is unlimited!"

"what's your point here?"

"... My point is that you can do more than just seeing the world by your eyes, but with your mind. Be creative and you can see things a lot more differently."

"If you say so-..."

Suddenly Andy felt a tight grip around his neck, the sense of fear hits him again. The man's grip had gotten tighter and Andy is slowly losing air and trying to struggle free. A mysterious figure in black is then followed behind Rhys, who is shaking in fear watching his blind brother being taken hostage.

Rhys calls out, "PLEASE! DON'T HARM HIM, HES BLIND-... PLEASE DONT HARM HIM!" Hot tears made their way down his chin, dropping softly onto the ground and soaking into the dirt, he breaks down begging. The mysterious figure reassures him by placing his hand on his shoulder and standing tall, shouting at the man that instantly points his gun to him.

"Let the kid go, we don't need to do this. You can walk away right now and be hunted down again and hurt more innocents which will make more consequences for you. Or, you could come with me right now and no one else needs to be harmed."

The man starts to get violent, shaking Andy who is also shaking in fear and with streams of tears pouring down from his face. Not understanding what is going on around him, pleading, "Please... what do you want from me?...let me go..."  The man tightens his grip on Andy, the criminal looks up at the mysterious person, tossing Andy at him.

"AHHH" Andy grabs onto the mysterious person for the moment, grabbing onto something that clicks, then poof. Just like that in thin air, Andy had vanished.

The criminal ran away laughing, jumping over the fence.

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"Agh... no!" The mystery man's eyes widened with understanding and reached towards his empty pocket. "Oh.. Shit...I'm going to get my ass kicked.. COME BACK!" he Immediately ran after the criminal, yelling at Rhys to stay put.

Unsure what to do, Rhys' ran after the mysterious man. "WAIT! WHAT HAPPENED TO MY BROTHER-" Shaking, he hasted his pace, determined to catch up to the mystery person.

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A new scent hits him.

Andy fell to the cold floor, confused at the sudden change in his surroundings.

"R-Rhys...?" His voice shook.

Several heads turned in his directions around the room.

Fear seeped through every inch of Andy, as the deafening shuffle of footsteps surrounded him, accompanied by hard metal clicks.

That same feeling of fear, Darkness and alone... And that's how it all began...

TBC IN CHAPTER 2!!