Lost in War Chapter Four (standard:drama, 2829 words)
Author: Jordan Stanton	Added: Oct 19 2009	Views/Reads: 2892/1946	Story vote: 0.00 (0 votes)
Jordan continues his journy and runs into some people

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had to rip my shirt apart and wrap tight around my cuts to suppress the 
bleeding. I have determined that the world hates me, everything has 
tried to kill me, I wouldn't be surprised if a tree fell on me right 
now. 

I could see the end of this dungeon up ahead, so I started to run. The
exit grew bigger and bigger as I got closer, and I could see a faint 
glow in the distance. I reached the end to come to an edge of a cliff, 
I looked down to see a small camp nestled down with a fire in the 
middle to fight back the darkness of the night sky. I tried to see who 
the people around the fire were, hoping that maybe they wouldn't try to 
kill me. Hoping has seemed to be the only thing that has kept me going 
in this war. I started to climb down the side of the cliff, and 
stepping onto little ledges, from time to time my legs would give out 
due to the pain from before and I would have to catch myself with my 
sore arms. I slid to the ground, and hide behind another tree, I'm 
getting sick of trees I thought to myself. I crept up behind a bush to 
get a better look at the men near the fire to get a look at their 
faces. They were refugees, thank goodness I found some! I stood up and 
started to approach the circle of people. I stepped on a twig and it 
made a loud snap startling the people around the fire, They all reached 
down and grabbed there guns and aimed towards me. Doing the only thing 
I could I swung my arms up and dropped to my butt and yelled “NO no  
don't shoot I'm not one of them!” They lowered there guns seeing I was 
helpless and approached me. “hello” said the closet one with a deep 
voice as he reached his hand towards me helping me up “forgive us for 
that, you never know when those guys will turn out trying to kill us” 
“I understand” I replied looking into the mans eyes reveling a tall 
black man with scares on his face. “are you guys refugees from the 
village along the lake?” “No, there were no survivors from that 
village, those men butchered them all, never stood a chance” “I was 
there when it happened! I was in a building and flung out into the lake 
from an explosion, I woke up the next day in the meadow across the lake 
seeing the village rubble” “My men and I scoured the village for 
survivors and found nothing, not even food and water, Those men burned 
everything. Imperials are scum.” He lead me to the circle with the 
other men and had me sit, one of his men brought fresh clothes out for 
me to adorn and a thick coat to keep me warm. One brought a hot cup of 
soup. “thank you so much for the hospitality, I wish I could do 
something in return” I sipped the soup and felt the warmed surround my 
body inside and out. I could feel the tight embrace of warmth once 
again. One of the other soldiers brought over a first aid to tend to my 
wounds. 

Hours have passed since  they fixed me up and after I put my clothes on.
We sat and talked about the war and were this war was going. “So many 
people have died from these imperials, when is this all going to stop” 
muttered Darion  the tall black man with the scars on his face looking 
down at the ground. He looked over at me and said “but there is always 
hope, that one day, this war will end.” “I wish the same, I just want 
what I had back” I looked at the ground and fought back tears and 
pushed back images in my head of my family and friends. “I have lost so 
much” “I remember the first attack from the Imperials, The city of New 
Trolipta was destroyed” Mumbled Darion, I looked at him and then back 
down to the ground and had to fight back tears again. “yea...I remember 
too” “Nobody saw it coming, I was at the store when it happened, I felt 
a terrible rumble and looked outside and a building was collapsing. 
Everyone was screaming in terror, I looked up into the sky and saw 
great balls of fire raining down onto the city unleashing chaos upon 
the massive city. Explosions and fire, people dying, screaming and 
crying. Then the Imperials were tearing down the streets with massive 
gun fire. Ripping everyone apart, I managed to hide in an ally way and 
get back to my house. On my front steps I looked over my shoulder and 
saw everything to burning. I went inside and grabbed my guns and ran 
back outside. I turned left and ran up the street, people running all 
over screaming I slipped past everyone. I noticed something in the 
corner of my eye so I had to stop and stare, One guy, was running out 
of a burning building with somebody in his arms, he fell to his knees 
crying. I guessed it was a loved one he screamed up into the sky. He 
drew his rifle he had on his back and swung around and in a terrible 
rage he gunned down an entire squad of Imperials that were running 
around the corner screaming the whole time. I started to run towards 
this man, but he ran a different way. So I turned back around and took 
off. A few hours later, I was sitting under a burnt down house canopy 
while it was pouring. Four Imperials were walking into few, startled I 
dropped to my stomach and hid in the shade, they were getting closer 
and closer, The one in the back jumped and pointed at me laying and the 
ground, fear screamed through my body and I felt like I was on fire. 
Just then his had exploded with blood and they all turned and dropped 
like flies, BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM, They all fell to the ground in a mist 
of blood, I looked in a window of a building and I saw that guy that I 
saw earlier in the window with a sniper rifle. I dared not get up, he 
didn't see me, I didn't know if he would kill me so I just laid there. 
Just then it hit me, That's the  guy they have been talking about on 
the radio! I had a radio of an imperial next to me and I could hear 
them talking about some shadow man killing Imperials, They said 
something about how they captured the guys wife and daughter trying to 
draw him out. Hours later I was walking down the street and the radio 
goes off again “that Shadow man just killed 6 more, I am getting sick 
of this, he is coming for his wife and daughter” “cant we just kill 
them? Spread there guts across the road?” “NO you idiot!, we gotta' 
draw this man out so we can kill him before he kills us all!” “Because 
its worked so far huh?!” “shut up and continue patrolling!” The voices 
stopped . Poor guy I thought to myself. “NOOOO! Put her down!” I heard 
a terrifying scream of agony behind me down the road. I spun around to 
take a look at what it was. It was an Imperial soldier holding a woman 
in his arms and a gun to her head. “put your hands up and drop your 
gun! Or I will blow her head off!” the soldier screamed. I could see 
tears fall from the Shadow mans face. I was hiding behind a dumpster so 
I could get a good clear view. nobody knew I was there. “baby, don't ! 
just shoot! don't worry about me! Shoot him and run!” The woman 
screamed to him. “No, I cant, I cant lose you” He yelled back. Slowly 
lowering his arms. “Do what I say! NOW drop the weapon or she dies!” 
The soldier screams “Alright Alright! Just push her aside and ill kick 
my gun away!” The shadow man Yells back at the soldier “Ok, now slowly 
drop it” He slowly set his gun on the ground and kicked it aside out of 
reach. “there, now let her go, just don't hurt her! Take me instead! 
I'm begging you!” “Ok, sounds good to me” He pushed the woman with a 
violent shove away sending her stumbling. “on second thought” he raises 
his gun and pops a bullet in her leg sending her down to the ground. 
“NOO!!!” The shadow man lets out a yell and chargers at the soldier, 
The soldier Smashed his gun across the shadow mans head and he crashed 
to the ground. “Alright I got the guy, I'm bringing him in. What should 
I do about the girl?” He speaks into his radio “take her too, and we 
can kill her in front of him, then torture him, bring his daughter 
maybe we can get this guy to spill some secrets?” the voice stopped on 
the other end “Alright, On my way”. I got up and was about to run at 
the man from behind, maybe I could stop him I thought but then, a bomb 
exploded from the building next to me. Must have been delayed and it 
sent me through a window. I woke up 6 hours later and then found this 
site with 5 other guys.” He looked at me sitting there on the ground 
wrapped up hugging my legs in front of the fire “they say the Shadow 
man lives, that he escaped and is seeking vengeance on these Imperials, 
they also say they murdered his wife and daughter in front of his eyes 
and tortured to get info out of him but he wouldn't break, man, if only 
I had his courage” Darion looked into the fire and put on a warm smile 
“if its true, then he could help win this war” He looked back at me and 
shrugged his shoulders “until then, we gotta fight, Using his stories 
to bring up courage, to bring us hope, In that maybe one day this reign 
of Chaos maybe be lifted from this Tired world” Darion stood up, and 
looked into the horizon, and from my Point of view I saw in him, hope, 
he truly believed that this Shadow man, me, could win this war. I stood 
up beside him and said with a calm voice “I believe he is out there, 
fighting, not only for survival but, for all those people out there 
fighting as well. He brings security to the people that don't see a 
future in this dark world, with him, we can all sleep silently at 
night, knowing, that there is still hope, and he's  not giving up. 


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