Why did they have to come and take over this sector as well, why did they to ruin this perfect moment of tranquillity of peace in mind I wish that I was a couple week older so that I can fight them. just why.
There is nothing more to say we just did the same thing as usual wait for our name and go ahead to next sector this time its H-54 and H-55 is going to join the Sectors in that have gone and fallen to the Aku-no.
after a week passed I joined the force to combat the threat I do still get to meet people when I am not needed but with the time it passed like nothing really happened more people went missing or should I say manlily died or so we like to believe but the one thing that amused me was that we have poor or no information about them but still have pictures or videos of the Aku-no I never thought that I would see one in my life but at this moment it was footage and a pic of it.
let me put this so that it sounds sane, it was not real it was something that would never want to meet the footage shows these brave men fighting what looks like to be, a I don’t know what it looks like a sprit but not one at the same time and its covered in a fleshy outside on the inside it just nothing but something spiritual, the flesh looks Clear like crystals and looks blue and smooth it looks more like a rock then a fleshy living thing but it does have parts of rotten flesh swaying behind it like a collector of dead. the site of this thing is just unnerving and unconfutable to see but when the video played it was something to behold, its attacks are like a gun but it not a gun more like a tube that has something like spikes as ammo it has that on its shoulder but it will latterly remove any part of you from the world thank God they can’t use it all the time. then there are the conventional way of combat of hand and it has the strength to.... completely make you want to die in any other way instead of having your limbs being ripped off and I don’t want to add the tentacles flowing behind it.
it looks are nothing scary but their capabilities are scary, more like a nightmare of what I saw. I never wish to have that happen to me at any moment in life, I think no one wants that at all. but now I know what I am facing and how they work it feels like the people of Last Light have reason to think we are going to die, it is a fair reaction to think that after what I saw but we will die out trying to find hope for survival.
It's hard trying to be Soldier not a lot of people really take notice of how hard it is to be one even me until I became one. right now, in the Military it just people running around trying to find stuff and be prepared for the next takeover of sector or getting ready to scout out sectors to see if it is safe to reinhabit, now if you ask me what my goals are in this place I want to command a whole legion of men or a unit, one or the other will happen at some point.
"Pvt, Thorn you have been selected to go on a scouting mission to H-55 to see if it is dangerous and so we can have more experienced people join the ranks of the army" said a sergeant, and what looks to be a noble as well.
and that is how I found myself in a unit heading on an expo to H-55 and H-56 who knows but I am scared shitless, I have zero experience, and during briefing I found out none of us do except for the two drivers in the truck and the other trucks, so they sent 100 recruits to a mission with no experience or help. Fucking snobby noble men of power not giving a shit about people cliché boxed checked.
No wonder why they can’t join the high ranks of high command they just have to deal with low command instead. The military is split into two command structures high and low or common command, high command is where elite teams and more well trained men go to, common command is where new recruits go to so they get the basics and become the normal throw away units.
With that we will spend around 1-2 hours of driving to have us reach H-55 yes it takes that long from one end of H-54 to the other end which is hell if you are walking. we reach the gate that will lead us to the sector and we are told to out of the trucks and line up in formation of double Colum. why are you doing that, I hear but no one would dare talk so I brush it off. When the captain stopped talking we went in to do scouting, what are we meant to for scouting?
don’t worry about I guess we will figure it out, with walking you don’t want to speak or make small chat, just sit a shut up like we were taught to do, then the radio started to flare up with messages saying "Contact" over a static sound wave some try to contact them back no answer, then Pleas for help are broad casted then finally someone spoke other than the people on radio, "what is your unit number and location of you" said the man as calm as he could be. "Unit?, we are supposed to be in units no one said that but we are in the middle of the group right now we are hiding" the midline that is close to us what the hell why are that close how are they that close how did we not here the screams or pleas for help.
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I look at the person who finally spoke after so long of silence and spoke "we should help them there not that far behind us" he looks at me "yes that would reasonable" he looks down the line towards the front they all stopped "the line has stopped?" he then looks at me after saying that "I guess they all heard it" I said the man looks at me and nods “we should have a UC established so we can some form of leadership in the scouting group as a hole should we not” that is a good a idea to be done but who?
“What about you, you seem like someone who can command effectively why don’t you do it” the man who I still not ask his name for said all the other looked me as well in total I was outnumbered on who was the leader “Fine I will take it up” I said nervously as I have no clue on how to lead “Ok, lets help them out all 15 of us so the others can get out of there”
we turned the corner and saw combat for the first time in our lives I gave the order to spread out and use cover as much as possible then I saw why I was so scared of them in the video as one of the Aku-no picks up a man and rips off an arm and then the man’s head all you could see was a red shower of nonstop blood. to say I was terrified was an understatement, the man next to me disappeared then I saw him above me, yes above me he was being carried by a sprit tentacle that was embedded in his chest.
we then started to open fire on the Aku-no it did nothing, nothing was happening to them they just stood there taking bullets from a well sized amount of people there were roughly 17 of us? How are they not taking damage we are just laying lead but nothing is happening while doing this all I hear is screams of people injured or being killed, how just how are we meant to fight these things.
As combat continued we fell into only 2 units as the rest were dead we just kept laying lead and moving from cover to cover doing nothing in the process to damage them, we just kept getting smaller and smaller the sounds of weapons firing became quieter and quieter.
I then found my self to be the last of 20 people but it is ok as the others mange to escape, right?
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Unit 5 Status: ELIMANATED
Unit 4 Status: ELIMANATED
Unit 3 Status: ELIMANATED
Unit 2 Status: 1 PERASNOL ALIVE
Status of other squads not in combat: Operational (FULL UNIT)
“HAHAHA, well CC (Combat Commander), Groves you are correct it seems I owe you money and a lot of drinks” chuckles LCC (Low Combat Commander), Bridge “yes you surly do and add that on top of what you still owe me yes?” Chuckles CC, Groves. These two men are from ranked noble families which are the highest ranked ones in the city.
“I am sorry to interrupt Commanders but should we recall them” *SMASH* a bottle of wine was broken over the poor man’s head “Yes call them back, but next time do not interrupt our little meeting Pvt, Thor” The Pvt stands and walks out of the room to leave the two men.
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"All units recall back to base I repeat recall back to base" the radio chimed, what lucky timing as soon as I stand alone against these monsters they finally called it, it is to late as the rest of the group came to just die, as I a sit here I am currently laying on a headless man with not a arm in site the cover that is beside me has the intestines of someone and I can faintly see there bottom half from where the come from, so much carnage is around me like the hole in one others chest left standing as he hanged by someone else intestines but got mercy as no one wants to choke to death.
As I lay here I pretend to be dead to blend in I cover myself in dead comrades just to survive so I can become someone important that is all I want to do but why should do that if I can’t protect those in my unit or team or legion if I get that far. The Aku-no slowly move over the dead to inspect them to see if their job is well done, but after a little they leave so they did approve of there work and yes it was a job well done I think they thought.
Why is it that I am the only one to survive, I move the man on top of me off and I navigate my way through to a clearing I look back to see the massacre that happened, I just fall to my knees and start crying, why just why are the people of last light have to go through this why do we the last of human kind have to go through such turmoil and pain. I get up after a while and start my journey to the gate we came in through scared by the scene I will forever remember but I have to move on and function as if was something that never hunted me.
While I am walking I recognized so many places when I used to live here for a while with my adoptive parents, such as that road there, it used to be a very crowded road full of happy people but now it is full of nothing just left behind stuff and destroyed buildings and such, I keep moving going past so many places like the church and the local school and that park where I had so much fun in.
In no time I reached the gate and was promptly let in and was asked many questions but I don’t have the strength or will to talk any more “HCC (High combat commander), Jackson what are you doing here” a soldier said in surprise “Well I hear that there a random soldier who came to this gate over coms so I thought I might as well come to investigate” he walks into the tent I was to stay put in and sat Infront of me “So who are you and what is your story, oh and rank” he said I don’t know why but I just started talking and talking for so long that before I knew it, it was night, I could tell as the normal reinforced shields rolled away to reveal the night sky.
“That is one story you have there, I am going to hand you a piece of paper and may you show up the address labelled one it at 0300 next day” he places the paper down and leaves well “Oh, you are dismissed and no longer a Pvt so I hope our work relationship goes well Unit Team Commander, Thorn” I look back up to see that he is gone I grab the piece of paper to read it ‘Well done on survive an attack tomorrow I want you to submit a request for Team and come up with a training program for them, Good Luck HCC, Jackson’