Devils of the desert

Cyprus pass

The wind whistled through the rocks and ruffled my fur making my ears twitch as I stared through the rifles scope adjusting just a bit to focus on an approaching truck I heard rocks bounce down the mountain behind me and I heard the small curse from my companion, a female lion that clutched a C7A2 and was dressed in the same tan vest and chocolate chip clothing I was. I'm sorry I haven't introduced myself yet my name is Jason whitefang a grey wolf and I am one of the few members of the Canadian black devils an old Canadian spec ops force from WW2 that had been reactivated for the war in Afghanistan, the lionesses name is Jessica pride one of the few female lions in the black devils there was another person behind her a female Doberman pinscher named Alex Shepard holding a C7A2. I felt Jessica's tail brush against mine as she moved to lay beside me "hey Jace want me to take over?" she asked putting her hand on my shoulder I turned my head toward her "okay, remember any vehicles with the eagle on it, kill the driver" I said as I removed my arms and hand from the sniper rifle and moved back toward Alex bringing my rifle to bare as I did Jess gave a low growl, I heard the sound of the suppressed C14 Timberwolf MRSWS fire and I heard Jess move the bolt back, the empty shell hit the rocks, I moved next to her and saw what she was seeing as I looked through my C79 scope to see four trucks stopped on the road with the lead truck in the conveys windshield cracked and splattered with blood Jess fired again hitting one of the people that had jumped out of the back of the first truck.

I motioned behind me for Alex to move up and I rolled over to look at her "Alex use your M32 and adjust for 500 yards" I whispered, a grin spread across her face as she unslung her MILKOR M32 MGL and adjusted the sight. The thump of the M32 firing was followed a minute later by the 40MM grenade exploding and a truck was engulfed in a plume of fire I focused on the third truck and started firing, four men went down before the truck exploded, I moved on to the last truck and this was when the Taliban members choose to start firing, I saw a lizard heft a rifle that I instantly recognized as a Dragunov SVD I moved back and pulled Jess with me and she grabbed the Timberwolf just as we moved from that position a round hit the rock where the Timberwolf sat I heard Alex's M32 fire twice and the two grenades exploded sending the Talis into chaos I took the Timberwolf from Jess and put it back into its bag and returned it to its place on my back and hefted my C7A2 before starting the descent down the hill I activated my mike as Alex and Jess moved in front of me "6-6 this is kilo 9-2 convoy destroyed and we are moving to primary extraction point" my radio crackled with static before someone responded " Kilo 9-2 this is 6-6 acknowledged convoy enroute" "Kilo 9-2 acknowledged going dead on comms" after I said this I switched my radio off and motioned for Alex and Jess to do the same I continued down the hill as Jess and Alex switched off their radios as we reached the bottom of the hill I heard the faint rumble of strykers and humvees approaching. I sat down behind a rock and motioned for Alex and Jess to do the same and they did while resting their rifle barrels on the rocks I looked toward the sound of the convoy to see the green vehicles shimmering in the heat haze I sighed and turned around and rested my back against the rock.

20 minutes later the trucks arrived to where we were sitting , Jess and Alex climbed into one of the humvees and I followed them slinging my C7 over my shoulder and sat down next to Jess and she removed her gloves and gripped my left hand I looked at her and smiled then she dug her claws into my hand before letting go I looked out the window and felt her lay her head on my shoulder and I heard Alex coo from the other side of the humvee the driver a male gorilla looked back and chuckled I glared at Alex and the driver as the convoy started to move. As time went on the movement of the truck lulled me into a state of half-sleep. I was jolted out of this state by the M2HB mounted on top of the humvee firing, Jess was already up and gripping her rifle and I scrambled for my rifle as well I looked to the driver to see him slumped against the steering wheel, blood coating the wheel and dashboard the co-drivers door was open and he was crouched behind it clutching a Remington 870 his swearing could barely be heard above the report of the M2HB.