Down in the city, there is a constant mix of screaming from frightened individuals, soldiers yelling commands and the continual sound of endless fighting.
"INCOMING!" A soldier yells as a mortar round explodes onto a building next to her.
The side of the building crumbles away and crushes fleeing civilians beneath.
An Arma Piscina attempts to cross a bridge, but the sheer weight of the war machine buckles the bridge and it collapses into the river.
"New command from HQ, blow up the bridges, don't allow any more of those bloody tanks to get across" a commanding officer informs the soldiers around her.
It is beginning to get dark again as the reinforcements from the hill make their way down to the city.
At the top of the hill battlements are under construction, along with dug outs in an attempt to get some sort of advantage from the high ground.
But again, you can't really call it dark.
"About bloody time!" A soldier yells at the new arrivals, just as a rocket explodes into the hillside behind them all.
Thomas begins to look pale again looking at all the bodies around the place.
"Hey! Where the fuck are you running off to?" Daniel asks, watching Angel speed off in front of them.
"You two are going with me" he instructs them.
They both take a glance over at Merissa, she nods and they scramble after him.
"Where are we going?" Daniel asks as they make their way through the rubble.
"To the front" Angel replies.
"Fuck that" Thomas states, and stands still on the spot.
Angel turns around and realizes how frightened the pair of them actually are.
An Arce Caelo crashes down nearby, sending tremors through the ground, a building to the left of them completely collapses.
"At the very front is where I got that picture" he informs Daniel softly.
"Fuck it" Daniel snarls, and wonders off ahead of them.
"I'll bring him back, you retreat to the hill" Angel instructs Thomas seeing the expression on his face.
"I swear this bastard is gonna get us all fucking killed" Thomas remarks, and storms on after Daniel.
The three of them continue to make their way through the city and notice that soldiers are evacuating civilians.
"We need to find somewhere to take shelter for the night" Daniel points out.
"This way" Angel beckons them.
He leads them to a church that is amazingly still intact, with an upside-down tank outside it, and a helicopter crashed into the roof.
Making their way inside, they see that the building is empty, wood, tile and glass splinters underfoot as they step through the bits of roof that have caved in.
"Well it's not much, but at least its dry" Angel remarks.
Lightning and thunder immediately crack, shooting across the sky as rain begins to pelt down outside.
Thomas sits down on the floor leaning against a church pew, whilst looking up at the sky through the hole in the roof, as another flaming zeppelin drifts overhead.
"Mind if I sit with you?" Daniel asks.
Thomas nods gently and clenches his hands together resting them on his lap.
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HAVEN: THE SKY SCRAPER
Fiksi UmumThe war has been going on for ten years now, and quite frankly Daniel is sick of it. To make him even more miserable he has been separated from the love of his life, Mikey. The big players in the war are slowly moving in, with one exception remainin...
