“Are they alright?” corporal Amiel look at his comrades, asking for the houl’s rescue team “they are getting slower. We need to move now” his impatient voice was evident but they can't do anything with the situation, they can only wait and see if their operation is successful- they hope that it will
Looking at his watch, the corporal asks again “What’s their situation? The chopper is already on the rooftop! What are they waiting for? The bees are everywhere, they should hurry up” with a furrowed eyebrows, his patience is really getting on the end line
“Apparently, the last batch… Sergeant Richardson will also board but- it seems they are having a sit-” the soldier stop talking when he saw something on the dark
Corporal Amiel’s body shook as he check the time “6:38”
Narrowing his eyes, he look intently at the shadow that they are seeing hazily “when did this outbreak start? Early morning… right?” he asked a question while slowly reaching for his gun from the ground
“The… the intel said that the children’s live video started exactly 8 mornings and ended an hour and half- why is it here already?!” his voice is shaking but still keeping an eye to the now evident shadow from afar
Someone suddenly distractingly laughs out loud, making his comrades look at him- questioning
“Why are you so scared? We can easily take it down like the others!” the jackass put his arms to Amiel’s shoulder and shake it “man up, corporal” he smiled sheepishly and take out his 16-gauge shotgun
Hyping his comrades, he raises one of his hands and signals them to come closer “c’mon boys! This is our first fight this month. Honestly, the training become boring when Sergeant Richardson was out… we need warm out!”
Corporal Amiel tried to stop him but in a blink of an eye, the man is gone
“CORPORAL THOMAS! WE NEED TO THINK-”
And with a second blink of an eye, he comes back- flying
One moment, they took a minute to look at him- checking if he’s dead. But the man only cough blood, relief field their minds and turn their back from the injured soldier
They started fighting the unknown specie
Amiel brush his hair up in frustration “THAT’S WHY WE NEED A PLAN!” he did not think of a plan any, they just started firing their guns aimlessly
“UGH!”
A grunt was heard from afar, one of them started to panic- signaling everyone of them to stop
The smoke from their guns slowly fades until they can see the specie that they just shot “I… it’s dead” one of the soldiers muttered when he saw a person, lying down the road
“WE JUST SHOT A CIVILIAN!” he declared and cry
The others look at each other, catching on to what each other will feel ‘should they mourn?’
As if, they are on the battlefield- no one will mourn not until the battle ended
Thomas got up while limping, he’s holding on to his injured abdomen while walking towards the crying comrades “fix yourself! There’s no survivor here other than the ones on the rooftop, we need to protect them! Remember, we are here despite the old man's order. We are sacrificing our ranks and lives to this mission, we don’t allow any distraction!”
His words are loud and clear, making Amiel remember what kind of stupid mistake he just did earlier. The latter one can only facepalm
“Judging from the attack earlier” the others stop what they’re doing and look at him- listening intently to what he will say
“Yeah, the attack earlier…” he looks at the sky and thinks
The other soldier looks at each other, anticipating what he will say “his attack earlier is strong. I conclude that our opponent is strong”
Amiel gulp, holding back the words that he wants to say
“And he’s not attacking us! we’re right in front of him but he flies away through…” Thomas’ voice gradually become slower, curious about what he’s going to say now- the others wait for him to talk more
The corporal’s eyes widen as he realizes something “HE’S TARGETING THE SURVIVORS!”
He Abruptly faces Amiel and looks at him intently “CONTACT THEM! NOW” the soldier nervously bring out his walkie talkie- their only way to contact Igneel of houl’s company
“They have already departed! They’re safe!” the others declared, looking up to the sky where the chopper is flying noisily
Amiel grab all of his belongings “retreat, we’re done here. Back to formation- we’re regrouping with the others” the others obey his order and carefully go to their places
As they take a step, it seems like their heartbeats are much louder than their footsteps
Gulping down the nervousness, some of the soldiers in the team cramo who doesn’t have any supernatural ability tightly grab unto their weapons- enhancing their senses
“What grade?” Amiel look at Thomas who’s busy tending his injuries, the soldier is hiding not far from their spot
Corporal Thomas tilted his head, thinking what grade their opponents can be “medium-high?” he tried to remember more but he can only think of “he has wings, a large one at that. Fast as a high caliber bullet but have unnoticeable energy”
The other soldier look at him in surprise, they did not think that he can be so eloquent while describing an attack
“But… it feels like a high grade- myth beast?”
Hearing his thoughts make them want to come back to the headquarters and tell Captain Smith that they’ve already relocated the survivors… ‘come to think of that, we don’t need to defeat this beast!’ Amiel look at his comrades
They started to plan for escape- a discreet one. Not meeting with the infected and any other beast, they needed that kind of plan
In the middle of planning, a huge explosion made them stop
“What’s that? Does the bombing start? I thought it would be later at 3?” Amiel ask the others but they are just looking up- with pale faces and shaking hands
Corporal Amiel followed where they are looking and he saw that a flying machine, up in the air was on fire “wa… what’s going on?” they thought that the survivors are already gone but… they almost got out of the city
Almost
Thomas stands up, and everyone knows how reckless he can be. The man hurriedly run towards the border of the city- where they think that the destroyed chopper will land its passenger safely
His team stop him from getting closer to the disastrous place- forcing him to be on the ground, leaning all their weights to his body so that he cant move… they should do anything they can to stop this man
After all, he’s one of the soldiers in Cramo who have the ability- he’s essential for their team
Amiel, the acting commander of the present platoon- smack his head “How many times do I have to tell you to think before you act!” if this situation would drags on, there’s nothing he can do but seize him
The corporal is ready to capture him with his artifact- the HQ distributed artifacts to every normal soldier in team Cramo, to calm them down… more like to control them
‘This artifact was solely made to put Lina in place’ Amiel remembered the former commander again
Lina being the captain of Cramo is a disaster. Every day has difficult circumstances that they don’t even know how to solve. Problems that sometimes they made for fun so they’re having trouble to clean up… their lives are full of events when she’s the captain
His mood sour when he also remembered the hell training
“Corporal Amiel! What are you spacing out for?! We’re on the battlefield!” it’s only a matter of time when he realizes that some parts of the chopper got burned out and flying all around the vicinity
Being fed up with the situation, Corporal Thomas’ weapon- the shotgun was turned into a wide and broad shield
Seeing what he just did, Amiel look at him with happy eyes “THAT’S MORE LIKE IT! USE YOUR ABILITY AT THE RIGHT TIME!” he can’t help but shout
The reason why Thomas’ rank is still low despite having an ability is this, he’s hesitating to use his power and solely fighting with just bare physical strength and weapons
The man glared at his partner “SHUT UP! THIS ISN’T THE RIGHT TIME FOR THIS AMIEL! The explosion is not from the beast! It’s a rocket launcher!” he made his shield wider, leaning close to his comrades so that they can’t be hit of the falling debris
Looking around, they saw a huge building being caught up in fire. The flying machine’s parts hit the establishment and some of it is falling down- smashing anything and everyone on the ground
“You… DO YOU MEAN THEY DID THIS? But, this is inhumane! They just killed the survivors! This… is”
Feeling hopeless, they thought that they already saved Lina Richardson. The very person who tormented their lives, the captain with a hell training- she who also saved them
But they did not… they can’t
“Be rational. That woman is immortal, no one can take her down but me” Thomas grunted, keeping his position is hard enough. Talking feels like will consume him a hundred thousand of energy if he continues
A loud thud was heard outside the shield, Thomas tried to strengthen his grip “BUT THE FACT THAT THEY TRIED TO HARM THE SURVIVORS… Ah!” large debris hit the metal hard, making them all kneeled in the ground
“THINK ABOUT YOURSELVES IDIOTS! We’re going to die!” Amiel annoyingly said the government can do more outrageous orders to bury the news of Islands
He can’t just understand why. Sherry is already there, to spread the news of Island. People already know about the monsters in it, then why would they go to this extent just to delete some survivors?!
“THOMAS!! THE SHHIIEELLDD!” everyone shouted when they saw a large hole after some rocks fall on them
Chuckling, Thomas can’t hold on to the shield anymore “ha! These dumbasses” he can only mutter while looking at them in disgust- he can’t believe he’s in the same platoon with them
“WHAT’S WITH YOU ALL?! I’M ALREADY SHOUTING HERE! Can you use your ears just one time- oh! Thomas! You’re looking great!” Light pierced through the hole of shield- they saw a silhouette of a man, laughing
“The heck, man? What happened to you?!” Dionelle, who peek at them through the holes are having a sweating eye because of his merry laugh
One head popped again and a boy with a pretty face appeared “Uncle soldier… you know these puppies?” Christian innocently asked which made Dionelle tear up more
Astran also fit his body inside and Thomas- who’s carrying the weight of them all, collapsed
“Aww! That hurts!” the demon sneered at the soldier
Nathan moved closer to them- carrying the unconscious Lina in bridal style “DEMON”
The soldier froze when they heard his voice ‘that man’ Amiel look at his face and he remember that he’s the one who’s treated preciously in HQ
‘He’s that man’
“behave yourself, we don’t need any more trouble than this” he looked around, it feels like a large storm just happened to the city… except that it’s not water this time
Nathan’s eyebrows furrowed when he realized something “the bees and infected aren’t here?” he ask while looking around the vicinity but not a single alive bee or human can be seen
Amiel gulped down before answering “We run unto them earlier. Apparently, one of them is a high-grade beast- we thought that they’re on their way to annihilate you all” he stop speaking when the half demon’s face changed expression
“Are you awake?” his tone got softer and a small smile appeared on his lips
Everyone was in wonder
Lina grunted in his arms but didn’t open her eyes “Ab ah…” her muttering was heard but did not understand
Nathan hugged her more, lifting up his jacket in her tummy so that she can’t catch a cold. Christian scoff ‘if I can grow faster… I will not let him carry my sister that way!’
The half-demon turned his back at them, walking away from everyone
Clearing his throat, Thomas asked “Is that girl… our former Captain?” he can’t believe that the small and fragile girl can be Lina. Dionelle nods, tapping his comrade’s back “Our captain is inside Sherry’s body” and smile at him
“The queen bee is gathering her army! What are you all doing here, spacing out?” they all thought that he got farther away but they heard Nathan’s voice loud and clear “we need to get out of here before that bee decides to attack us and before your commanders launch the missile to bomb this town”
Hearing their situation, everyone get up to their feet and started to move
“Ah!” they got shocked when the child, Christian suddenly shouted “He’s carrying my sister!” the boy run as fast as he can, not wanting to lose his sister
“MISTER! JENIEL LET ME BE HERE TO KEEP AN EYE ON MY SISTER! YOU CAN'T JUST TAKE HER AWAY!”
The crowd only watch when the boy got further away “aren’t you going to stop him? It’s dangerous for a child to be here?” Thomas asked
Dionelle scoff, almost dropping him off of his shoulder “That child… is not a child! They’re more monster than monsters in any islands”
Astran laugh harder while the others were just left in wonder “What do you mean?”
Witnessing how Dionelle Martin look at the other side, they know that he’s refusing to speak
“Excuse me” everyone looks at the tall and blonde soldier, who’s looking innocent “What is it, Private Lim?”
“Isn’t he… demon?”
Dionelle looked at him with a confused face “Who? We’re with two demons right now” he nonchalantly asked back which made Astran laugh more
The soldiers stop in their tracks “There are two demons?”
Getting impatient, Dionelle grab Thomas’ battle helmet and throw it to him “IF I HEARD THAT ANNOYING LAUGH, ONE MORE TIME! YOUR GONE!”
His comrades' eyes grow big, silence falls on the whole group. The normal ones waited for the demon’s reaction, Dionelle suddenly fall into a great train of thoughts- realizing what just he did, and Astran. Who only stand there, staring blankly at him… the soldiers felt shivers
The silence is getting longer and Dionelle can’t take it anymore “NATHHHAAANNN!! THIS DEMON’S HURTING ME!”
Silence got in between them again. Dionelle gulped down his nervousness when he realized that Nathan is far enough to not know what was happening in this area of the city
“SHIT!” the man cursed when he realized that the demon is chanting his spell on his mind “AHHHH!! NATHHAAANN! HE’S CURSING ME!!”
He shouts more lies and exaggeration but there’s no Nathan who saved him from his great despair
At last, the demon, Astran smiled at him while saying “Enjoy” and in a blink of an eye- he disappeared
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A/N: Hello Everyone… I’m here to confess
I didn’t read the new feature of fameInk TT.TT
I installed the novelah app and saw that the chapters aren’t increasing even though I’m updating the novel monthly… The heck, I’m sorry to say that the previous chapters should have been released earlier. I only discovered the release button this morning!!! Please forgive me!
Chapter note: Corporal Thomas’ ability is bending/controlling of metals that he’s touching
PS: so, what happened is a mass release hehe. Just think of it that way, Enjoy! Please forgive your stupid author TT.TT