A Devil Meets An Angel

Chapter 8

Life is a never ending battle so make the best out of life and keep on surviving 'cause you have no other choice but to keep on moving until your last breath.

Sa sitwasyon namin ngayon ay mapapatunayan na totoo nga talaga ang nakasaad sa kasabihan sa itaas. Kahit anong gusto namin na sumuko na ay hindi maaari, hindi dapat, hindi tama. Bakit? Dahil sa isang simpleng dahilan na kailangan namin tapusin ang bagay na ito. Ang bagay na iyong nasimulan ay dapat na siya mo ring tapusin. Kung tutuusin ay habang tumatagal ng tumatagal ang pag-sasanay namin ay nasasanay na kami sa mga mabibigat na ginagawa namin. Kung sa inaraw-araw ba naman na pag-sasanay ay talaga namang ganoon ang mangyayari.

Actually, we are having so much fun and the realization suddenly hit me right on my face one night because of the scenarios that I am seeing around me for the past few weeks. Sineseryoso namin lahat ng mga ginagawa at pinag-aaralan namin but not in the point na kami ang mag-hihirap sa bandang huli. We just take it easily but in a right way.

"You know what? I think that it is not only our skills that are being improved here but also our attitudes because for the past few weeks, I noticed that we are slowly changing into the persons we never thought we would be. Not in a negative way but in a positive way.", Brandon told us while we were having our break. We all agreed to him except for Sam who was just silently sitting at the edge of the bench we were sitting at. He was looking somewhere and he obviously has something in his mind because his attention is not with us. We continued to chat until our break time has ended.

"The next thing that you are going to learn is how to handle a gun and how to be able to fire it since earlier, you learned how to assemble it.", Sir Maximus told us while we were standing in a straight line on the training ground.

Kinuha namin ang mga baril na inassemble namin kanina at nag-simula nang isuot ang mga protective gears namin because we are also going to have an operation whereas, it is like we really are on a real situation and there are enemies on stand-by though, we are not gonna use a real bullet and we substituted them with colored eggs.

"Ang tamang pag-hawak ng baril ay dapat nakatapat sa target sa tamang anggulo para kapag ipuputok mo na ay siguradong matatamaan mo ang kalaban. Hindi lang ang tamang pag-hawak ng baril ang kailangan kapag nasa totoong operation ka na. Kailangan din ng speed, timing, alertness, and flexibility and coordination of your whole body dahil kapag nawala ang isa sa mga ito, there will have a possibility that if you shoot the target, the bullet will miss and will go on the wrong direction or the opponent wil might have the chance to shoot you before you even shoot him.",he said. "Hold the gun firmly and one of the techniques so the gun will fire correctly is to condition your pulse rate and make it used to the impact that your gun will cause when you pull the trigger of it.", he continued.

We did as we were told. We positioned ourselves on a right way and held our guns properly. Nag-simula kami sa pag-baril sa mga pabilog na target na inayos sa harapan namin. Ang sabi ni Sir Max ay kailangan daw na nakafocus ang mga tingin namin sa babarilin at kailangan din na kalkulado namin ang aming mga galaw. The next thing that we did was the firing with the targets positioned at different angles, distances, and directions. We did many rounds of it until Sir Max was satisfied with our moves. The last thing that we will do today is the operation where there were fake stands that looked like rebels placed in different rooms and those will going to be our targets.

"Okay, so, all you need to have is a teamwork and unity because in this operation, you will work as a team and not as an individual. You need to plan the things that you are going to do carefully so the operation will not fail. Did you understand?",he asked.

"Yes, Sir.",we all replied to him.

"I will give you a limited time to plan your work and after that, I will also set time for your operation so, it means that there will be a limited time for your operation to be done. When you exceed the time given to you and that there aren't any accomplishments done it will only mean that you failed the test. ",he furthermore explained.