The cold embrace of the blizzard creeps into my body and I start to shiver, even though I have been out here for roughly 2-3 hours it is only starting to affect me these clothes and such are a real-life saver. Even if the blizzard is starting to get thick and making it hard to see I still notice the movement of the others down below.

After a while the light shimmers out leaving only the dark embrace of the blizzard leaving me and my rifle the only visible things in sight of me that clear everything outside the range of that I struggle to make out simple silhouettes of dunes and small animals wondering around, but one of them catches my attention.

What looks to be a human silhouette moving slowly and methodically through the dunes making their way closer to the camp we had set up, I position myself in that direction moving slowly trying not to disturb the snow that has built up around that much.

I look into the optic of the gun and place my finger on the trigger waiting for them to give me the perfect opportunity to fire, but I feel like something is off about the movement and with watching a little more I spot a malfunction in the silhouette of person that being a glitch.

It was a hologram to bait me out.

After watching for a while, the movements are always the same, the same action just repeating over and over again and that being running in an angle stop and crouch turn and poke out most of the head, it could be easily passed off as normal but usually a person after a little even meticulous people would at some point change it up.

I remove my finger from the trigger and watch more trying to find the original person of the hologram but see nothing after a while so I got free look around the place, I then hear a pair footsteps form behind me crunching the snow beneath them.

I slowly turn my head and find a light looking back which make my heart drop and feel frightened, I could feel my heart beating in my chest, they walk closer and closer until they are next to me and looking down into the camp and then also notice a silhouette in the corner of my vision and see another person making their way to the camp.

I start to panic a little as there are multiple people moving on the camp and I can't deal with all of them at once it is just beyond impossible even if I were to use the sniper, it'd be loud for the blizzard to cover the noise as firing this before with Jackson at that city training it felt like every time I fire the thing I would go deaf.

It baffles me on how this gun is so loud but This situation is not to panic I breath slowly feeling my heart race like hell, I never really had this happen before even though in many situation it would require me but why now?

I put that question to the back of my head and bring myself back to reality and the current predicament I am facing, with the time I was kept up in my own thoughts the person next to me was now on one knee still looking down onto the camp.

I slowly get up disturb the snow around me but not to the point where the person in front could hear me moving but with the amount of noise snow makes from being disturbed from it signature crunching sound anyone would pick up that someone was near, but the person did not move a bit were they expecting a person.

With this information I start to walk normally to them with them not moving an inch until I was right behind them that is when they flinched and turned around to see me holding a pistol to their head.

I pulled the trigger, my heart raced faster than it was earlier, with the person I just shot looking behind them the others must know where I am roughly now considering the talk that they must have had. I move quickly and grab and sniper and look back over at the dunes where I saw the Hologram.

Nothing was there that i could see with this heavy blizzard going on even with the assistance of the helmet it is hard to see through it, I wish I had the SV at this moment but i guess Thermal View will just have to do for the mean time until I get one from the unit.

I turn and start heading right from where my position was and saw a thermal reading although faint, I slowdown and change my course still focusing on that area where I saw the thermal reading.

After a few steps i see the thermal reading a lot better like their cover is no longer covering them, I lay down and aim via my sniper and aim at the big red dot that is very easy to see in this blue background.

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I fire, the gun roared silencing the blizzard and most likely alerting the others, wait the camp I completely forgot about them. i stand and grab the sniper by its sling and run in the direction of the camp.

As I got closer I heard gunfire being muffled by the storm, when I crested the dune I was positioned on earlier I looked down and saw multiple heat signatures confusing me on who is who, so I turn it off and see the fait flashes of what I think would be guns firing and the same could be said about in the distance.

I turn back on thermal mode and take up my old position aiming at the dune where I saw the hologram crossing from side to side, I wait for a second and see the thermal signature I was Waiting for.

I aim Lower from the dot and fire, again silencing both the blizzard and muffled gunfire bellow and before long the blizzard roared again but the gunfire did not, "Arthor!" I hear in my left ear, "You good you have said a thing the whole time we have been in combat!" they were trying to talk to me? How did I not hear them.

I shake my head and think nothing of it, "Yeah I am good I was dealing with a couple" I then hear a sigh, "I bring the two I dealt with back bring the other from where you were taking fire from" Ryan, sorry Captain agreed and sent up Frawran to help me.

I waited for him but while waiting I thought about who were these people and why come after us now, Well the 2nd question is really easy to answer it is not even a need to think about it but who sent them after us.

"Got to say you have some weird habits Arthor" I turn and see Frawran looking at me, "I just wondered who would send these people after us" He looked at the body and chuckled, "Pretty easy if you ask me who sent them" I look at him tilting my head, he walked closer and pointed to a marking and a insignia used for the special forces of the traitors.

"Persistent Bastards just won't leave us alone already killed one from the squad" I could hear anger in Frawran voice, I pat him on the back and walk in the direction I had found the other guy, "Don't worry we will get revenge for Heathmore" he stands and we both start to walk in the direction of where I killed the other guy around here.

It did not take long to find them, I also took notice of the marking which was the same as the other but the marking bore no familiarity to me so it would be a new unit they have formed. How fun this is this is only going to harder as time goes on.

I grab the guy or woman, I am not sure and don't bother to check their dead that is that. I Hoist them over my shoulder to carry back to where I killed the first one so that Frawran would then pick them up and carry them back down the dune.

"We have live one get back quick" the captain ordered and so we moved fast, we got back to our original position where Frawran picked up the other body, we slide down the dune to see that Alexandrea was standing in front of one tents.

"We leave these two to you Alex" Frawran said ready to beat the shit out of someone, "No, Ryan said you were to help with me" Alexandrea responded back which made Frawran obviously annoyed, he sighs and motions her over to get the dead person off my shoulders so I can head in.

She complies and they leave but why is she out here to help out Frawran and not me? I walk in and see Jorgenson, Kathrine and the captain standing in front of the captured soldier we have.

I sit on the floor against a bag the one of us owns, I look over at the captured person and see that they have a lot of medical equipment on them, "Did they have gun or weapon on them?" I ask out of curiosity, "No, not a main firearm but a pistol and a knife" Kathrine answers, "She is currently pretending to be out cold" Kathrine adds on.

A female huh, well we do have two in our ranks but I got to say be glad you got caught by us and not by the other groups, who knows what they have done by now. "I can change it from her trying to be out cold to her being out cold" Jorgensen says, it is pretty interesting how everyone can be normal yet turn into cold and ruthless.

Or I am just that cold and ruthless that I don’t bother to care about how they act.

What a stupid lie i can tell myself at such a time, "Who do you belong to?" Ryan asked expecting and answer but was never meet with one, "Jorgenson" Ryan says, Jorgenson nods as he know what he is meant to do, he walks forward and kicks them in the stomach.

"Who do belong to, we know you’re from those fucking traitors but who are being commanded by?" Again, silence filled Ryans ears and another swift kick was bestowed upon the girl, I close my eyes and start to listen, hours pass with nothing being gained not a single word spoke or sound. It was clear that Ryan was losing his patience as his words became more filled with anger over time.

"Take off her helmet" I was waiting for the order to be given, Jorgenson ripped the helmet off hiding a rather familiar face and that being Merrys, the flow of black hair with a small bread and her face still as beautiful as I remembered.

Questions start racing through my mind, while thinking about the possibilities I stand and face towards Kathrine obviously notices my actions and what I am doing, "Arthor you good" Ryan looks back having heard Kathrine speak and same goes with Jorgenson looking up to see me.

"Let stop for now and continue this later" we all walked out and headed to where rose was being kept, both Frawran and Alexandrea meet us there as I presume Ryan ordered them too when we stopped.

"Find out anything to who attacked us?" Alexandrea asked, "A new unit made by my deductions under the command and authority of Jasmine Vilight" Everyone flinched slightly to that, "And who is our mystery Girl that we captured?" Frawran asked next, Jorgenson and Ryan looked to me, "Her name is Merry Alice Nail and yes before you ask she is related to our founder Frost Guard Nail Jackson” they all at me with shock.