Indonesia

Balikpapan, 12 December 2021

Mawar Indah Hostpital

11.07 PM

The car parked and a man in a jacket got out. Hes John Marques, a special division military force in US

He came because he wanted to become a sniper and had always heard the legend of the Ghost of Field

He went inside and knocked on the door, "Come in" The sound came from inside and John went in to find the old grandpa sitting on his bed looking out and then looking at John.

"What bring you here..." Grandpa ask in a rather hoarse voice.

John take some chair and sit beside that Grandpa bed and asking,"are you...Commander Yanto? I wanna know who is this they called the Ghost of Field...the sniper that always haunt the war" he ask in curiousity

The grandpa laugh a bit and sigh..."Ghost of Field...A name I haven't heard for a long time huh" he said his mind was full of nostalgia before look back at John." And who are you?" He ask

"John Marques sir...US special forces" he said with firm but gentle tone

"Hmm...US huh...you must be curious" Yanto said in chuckles, "take the book in that drawer" He said while pointing to the drawer next to him.

John open the drawer and take a a thick book that looks like an album and give it to him, "what this album for?" He ask while keep staring at the album

"Just an old album..." Yanto said while open the album and show the photo of "him" that called the Ghost,"this is him" he said pointing his finger to a man with robe and mask holding sniper AWP.

John keep looking at that photo closer ,"its him? He never show his face?" He ask

Yanto thinking for a moment to remember," no...he never show it...he just like being cool guy hah...nothing much" he said with a chuckle.

John paused for a moment then asked again,"Can you tell me more about him? I wonder how he is called a ghost"

Yanto thinking again where to start,"hmmm...I see you want to be like him...Okay, I'll tell you," he said while looking back at the photos in the album.

"....his name was Raden...hes 17 years old-" He said before being cut off by John in surprise, "17 years old???" John ask in confusen and suprised

Yanto just laughing cause thats was a normal reaction when someone heard about Fadhil's age,"yah he was 17..."

John keep confused and ask again,"h-how did he...become the Ghost in 17?"

Yanto start to get serious in this one,"...He was a victim of an orphanage bombing when he was 9 years old...Right on the date....

Flashback

Indonesia

Balikpapan, 03 August 2003

Orphanage

12.37 AM

Raden Saputra, He is a young man who was abandoned by his parents since birth, he was thrown away due to the negligence of parents in taking care of their children.

Raden at his lunch hour with his orphanage family."Hey Raden, wanna play hide and seek after this?" A girl said that sit next to Raden, Her name was Nisa.

Raden swallowed the food in his mouth,"ah sure! Count me in" he said in a cheerful tone.

a peaceful life in an orphanage...Until tragedy struck

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When Raden hides in the game, He hid on the 2nd floor in the children's room under the bed. He wait and waiting until hear sound of gunshots from below and the crowd.

Raden start Confusion about what happened until two terrorists broke in and checked, he try to not panic and keep quiet.

The terorist keep searching but fortunely they find nothing,"2nd floor its clear", one of them said and then leave.

Raden wondering who they are and why they are here. When the 2 terrorists left, Raden started to get out of bed and sneakily peeked behind the door.

The sound of gunfire happened again and there was even screaming, Raden saw one of the worker being dragged and then shot for resisting. Raden who see that start to get goosebumps staring pale to the corpse.

As the terrorist walk away, Raden start to approach the corpse and check in pale face. Hes scared,Panicked and confused but trying to stay calm until he hear a voice from next door.

He checked behind the door theres 1 terrorist guard 1 worker, its Miss.Inah. Miss. Inah saw Raden there peeking behind the door, she trying to shake her head slightly so that he wouldn't come any closer but the terrorist shot her head cause she move.

Raden see that in shock and more terrified, What should he do?, he see a apple knife on the table in front of him and start take it and hide crawl under the bed.

The Terrorist start checking is there someone still hiding and start searching on the wardrobe and bed. Raden try strengthen himself to do it and start sneaking, with confidence and belief he started to stab the Terrorist's calf and pull it out, Then stabbing the hip made the terrorist's rifle fall and he get a heavy blow knocked him out.

Raden try to stand up before the terrorist pick up his rifle, he pick up back the apple knife and throw and stuck in the Terrorist's eyes even though it was shallow.

The terrorist screamed,"agh! Fucking...Brat!", he said in pain trying to pull out the knife but Raden quickly took the rifle on the floor and started shooting at the terrorist's head.

The terrorist died and Raden sat there blankly staring at the terrorist's corpse, He was out of breath...his first kill really...intense.

Raden felt this rifle was too heavy and found a handgun to carry as protection, He started to walk shakily out the door and down the stairs carefully.

"Keep walking!", one of the Terrorists shout , The brand was taking childrens and workers somewhere and one of the workers was shot for trying to protect the childrens.

As they leave the room, Raden start walk faster to the kitchen and look outside. They are collected and held, then put in something like a box.

Raden keep watching until, "hey! Why are you here!" One of the terrorists held Raden but Raden continued to fight and his handgun was thrown away.

"How the fuck you get that gun!?", the Terrorist ask but before it, Raden start to kick that Terrorist bottom make him scream in pain. Raden start run get the handgun and shot.

As the terrorist died, Other terrorists heard and started to approach, "what the fuck is going on there!?", Raden hearing that immediately ran through the hallway.

Raden continued running but was blocked by 3 terrorists in front,"Oy! Get back here!", they said as they start chasing and Raden kept running to the warehouse.

When he arrived, he was immediately pulled and told to be quiet, "shhhh...quiet", he said, after Raden look at him It turns out he is a worker here, Mr.Panji.

"Keep quiet..." Mr.Panji said feel alert outside, When a Terrorist came in, he quickly held back the Terrorist but the Terrorist was too strong and Raden quickly shot the terrorist down.

Mr.Panji feel suprised by Raden shoot, but feel grateful. Not long after, another terrorist was heard coming and Mr. Panji started to open the window and told Raden to get out.

"But Mr.Panji! How about you?!" Raden ask in confused

"Just get out , i will deal with them," Mr. Panji said as he took the terrorist's rifle and started shooting," Hurry up!" Mr. Panji shouted before he started to leave and closed the door.

Raden banging on the door but the sound of gunshots had already been heard, Raden could only cry and start running out of the window on the box.

The terrorist managed to break down the door and saw Raden was already outside and ran away,"shit! Hes running away!", Shouted one of the terrorists before running to chase Raden

Raden continued to force himself to run because he was tired and slipped fell down then got up again and kept running. He could hear the sound of police sirens ahead and kept running.

But unfortunately one of the Terrorists managed to catch him and threw him to the ground, Raden kept screaming "HELLP!!" but the Terrorist punch his face to keep quiet until...

The dog ran and jumped at the Terrorist and bite. Raden forced himself to stand up again and the police came to check on Raden, he was extremely exhausted.

Raden was carried and taken to the police car that was on standby in front of the orphanage, but Raden keep resist and say to save everyone inside. Raden ran to go in, but before he could get in, an explosion had already occurred, the orphanage was on fire and destroyed.

Raden could only stare at it in pale and continued to want to go in but one of the police stopped him,"calm down kid! Too dangerous there!"

"B-but! Nisa! Mr.Panji and everyone is still there!!" Shout Raden in crying

"We cant do anything kid!...we cant..." Said the police with a feeling of pity still holding back from hugging Raden

Raden kept struggling and kept crying, unable to accept the fact that his family was gone.

To be continued...