"That is utterly strange"
; Ms. Oli, looking up at the mountain.
"Should we check it?"
; Asked Isle.
"Only 10 soldiers and 5 researchers can look and the rest will be guarding here. 9 should follow me, the front lines. Only those who are capable to climb up are necessary, for the researchers. Isle, you're not in front line but you will come, I suppose we need now to follow is only 8. Now let's begin"
; Ordered the division A leader, Irueles.
They continued to climb up, General Fourth with his soldiers and Lt. Col. Viess arrived where the researchers and Division A were resting. Seeing them not very far away from General Fourth, he speeds his horse a bit and stopped in front of the researchers who are resting at the foot of the mountain. Then he went down.
"Is everything alright?"
; Asked General Fourth.
Everyone stood up and salutes.
"Yes sir, we are just resting here and suddenly we heard a strange noise behind the mountains, 15 of them went to look--"
; Reported Iyo Saline. One of the soldiers form division A.
"Strange noise??"
; Asked Lt. Col. Viess.
"Yes, very strange indeed, we can't tell what was it so they have to look for it"
; A researcher replied. Mr. Yuno Dann.
"Follow them, Division C soldiers"
; Ordered Gen. Fourth, looking at the soldiers.
As ordered, the soldier from Division C followed the researchers and soldiers from Division A whom climb the mountains.
As they climb by, from the top of it, seeing not far and not near, some of the soldiers from Division A can feel the people from the top, looking down behind the mountain, freezing.
"Is everything alright?"
; Thorn Rosee, aked with a loud voice.
Researchers and the soldiers of Division A looked down to Division C soldiers, seemingly terrified.
"Stop where you all are"
; Speak, Irueles.
"What's the matter?"
; Out of confusion, Thorn Rosee continued to climb up. As he reached the top and looked where all they are looking, he was also surprised and took three steps backwards.
Ms. Oli, grabbed Thorn's shoulders to make him stop.
"Calm down. I know"
; Ms. Oli, looking down to her feet.
"Wha--what is happening"
; Terrified, Thorn, with his shaking voice.
"We are also surprised. Right now, we have to step back and continue this tomorrow, but for that time we all should be ready"
; Said Ms. Oli, speaking to all.
"Did General Kennedy came?"
; Asked Irueles to Thorn Rosee.
"Yes, also Lt. Col. Viess, they are here below"
looks at Ms. Oli
"We should head back now before we are noticed"
; Replied Rosee.
Everyone agreed to Thorn Rosee as they nod their heads and went down slowly from the mountain together with the Division C soldiers. Past the midst, General Fourth is starting to see his soldiers coming back down, waiting for them to put their foot at the ground.
15 minutes passed, the soldiers and researchers who went up, jumped down the mountain as they are already near the ground. Everyone who came from the top looks afraid and can't speak a word, but only Rosee, Thorn spoke in front of the people who were waiting for them.
"I think we should all check behind mountains"
; Suggested Rosee.
"Why do you think of that?"
; Asked Lt. Col. Viess.
"It's unsafe for all to stay here nor for everybody, I think we should talk about this in Euzenki Kingdom"
; Ms. Oli responded in Lt. Col. Viess question.
They started to ride their horses and head back to the Euzenki Kingdom, about a short while, Thorn Rosee from Division C, even they are prohibited to stay out of line, he went to Ms. Oli at the center and started a short and quiet conversation.
Thorn, before talking, inhales a deep breath.
"It's really not safe"
Ms. Oli was startled at Thorn as he spoke. She replied quietly.
"Wha-Why are you here? shouldn't you stay at your line? what if the General caught you, stupid"
looking around the way.
"Just don't talk loudly, I'm not here to hear your sermons, I'm just saying is that, you should quit this, it might cause you trouble"
"What? what are you talking about!"
looking directly at Thorn.
"What am I talking about? you saw it yourself back there"
"I don't know but you are always stupid, you can't tell what I need to do or what I have to do..
this is my job and I'll die by doing everything I can"
"You don't know what you're talking about, if she's still alive do you really think she'd want this"
"Don't bring her to this, it's your ignorance and--"
"Rosee, Thorn, do you want to receive punishment just because of your behavior only by just heading back?"
; Lt. Col. Viess suddenly spoke and halted.
"Sir, I don't mean to--"
"Then go back to your position and don't bother anyone here"
; looked back, facing Thorn going back to his position.
They all continued to head at the Euzenki Kingdom, the moon starts to arise at east, nightlights on the pathway in each cities and bridges began to brighten, moving through the little forest before reaching mountain, seems to be dark as there were no nightlight posts in order to protect each people from prohibiting them entering the forest at night. Peace still flows by the wind current, terrified of why people needs to be inside, some finds conclusions for this, as their curiosity never stops until they find out the truth.
The little forest isn't a "forest" back then, it was flooded with nipa houses, small hospital house, market stalls with cheap prices, and plain ground. The massive attack from Millwalls back then caused trauma to hundreds of people living in each cities, the news weren't pretty late and weren't that fast, but anyone is yet informed. All of them decided to move forward in each city, knowing that the nitros came from the South. Now, became forest because of the people whom decided to place their own safety forward which caused abandonment at south parts.
Almost 1hr have passed before arriving at the Euzenki Kingdom, everyone who went up the mountain looks terrified. The fear crawling up to their veins, shivering through the cold, looking down, maybe realizing what's at the bottom of that other side, those who weren't able to have clue were very curious and can tell that it is something important and needs to be examined very well. Someone, a soldier from Phase 16 were running towards the arriving soldiers and researchers, something urgent that she didn't even waited for them to come down from their horses.
Pant.
Pant.
Pant.
"Gen-General"
"Calm down, mind your breathing first, the general wouldn't want to hear you reporting with your breathing"
; Lt. Col. Viess responded to the soldier of Division B, Jaiya Reje.
Salutes.
Inhales.
"My apologies Sir, I wanted to report that, the subject is now missing, we surely guarded the door form inside and outside and it seems that he is alive, the walls from the basement were broken and leads up outside the place, we only noticed it when we heard rocks at the back. We are sorry si--"
"Investigate the place, now!!"
; General Fourth ordered.
The soldier, Reje, Jaiya ran back again to phase 16 as said, General Fourth ordered everyone to stay at the Euzenki Kingdom palace and will discuss what's behind the mountain that made everyone look terrified after discovering something.
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; Cratter Spring, South East
Lean, Ises, Axis, Sierinn, and Maxx lying down at the floor, have nothing to do but to imagine, as Ises spoke in order for them to avoid boredom.
"You guys, were the best thing that ever happened to my life.. but of course my family comes first"
Everyone chuckles.
"Me too, really"
Sits up.
"Ever since I've been having nightmares from what happened to Millwalls, I never found anyone help me cope up with my depression, you all really means everything to me"
; Maxx.
"Haha, hey, you deserve this, you didn't even blame us forgetting about your family"
; Sierinn, speak up.
"Nooo, I'm glad I all met you, especially to you Ises. If you haven't found me dead I won't be any of your friends"
"Heh, I know man, I thought you really are dead! hahahhaha
Stood.
Have I ever told you how did I found Maxx? I bet I didn't, he was lying at the gate of Millwalls, I guess the Soldiers didn't noticed this bastard, I thought he was really dead, I kept on kicking him and hearing his breath but he wasn't responding! I was about to leave him when this sh*t grabbed my legs, I thought a dead just brought back to his damn life and he started to speak, ' help.. help me, sh*t ' HAHHAHAHA stupid dumb"
;Ises told his story of meeting Maxx at first.
"I never thought I'd help him, man.. I was really getting second thoughts because I just sneaked to look at the situation, and damn it was a massive destruction, seeing the city destroyed I never mind helping Maxx"
; He added.
"I thought I accepted death, seeing someone standing right in front of me kicking my goddamn kidney helped me relieved and realize I still have a sh*tty chance to fight nitros"
; Maxx stood as he replied.
"We're sorry man, but I guess we should all be happy that you survived during the attack"
; Sierinn, as he sat down.
"From now on, I'm going to live my whole life with you guys, even when I die, I wanted all of you to be there by my side so I won't die alone, will you?"
; Asked Maxx, smiled in front of his friends around him.
Lean thinking about things, he replied to Maxx looking at him at his side while lying on the floor.
"Of course you're not going to die"
"Yeah cut the sh*t"
; Axis, stood up and laughed.
"Let us just live as much as we don't want to, I may not be able to find answer just yet but I'm sure I still want to continue until i don't have to"
facing back at his friends, standing, hands inside his pocket, Axis smiled after he carried out his words without thinking twice that the conversation might get awkward.
They all stood, as Lean and Maxx placed their hands in Axis's shoulder and Sierinn patted his back and walked towards, the one that was left behind was Ises smiling, while his arms were crossed, looking at them wanting to continue surviving and sacrificing for the sake of their will and reassuring things will be back normally as what they wanted it to be.