Simon's Story (Chapter 1: War Machine)
"We can't fear, we can't surrender, we can't fall without a fight."
-President Ojka Akabani, Eastern State
Simon open his eyes, the fuzzyness slowly escaping his eyes as the lapine male would glance up at the ceiling. Arms behind his head as Simon would let out a long loud yawn. Smacking his lips gently and turning his body around to the side. Simon is healthy young lapine, brown fur, cute little pink nose, and of course those long ears of his. Simon push back the covers and glance at the window, seeing that it is sunrise, the male can only guess it around 6:00-7:00AM. Sliding from his bed, he would glance over to the side and see the picture of his beloved wife Marta. Picking it up and glancing over the black and white picture of them arm-to-arm at their wedding. Simon turn to the right to glance behind him and he found himself alone, she probably had to go to the store or something. Getting up and leaning back, the rabbit heard his back cracking gently and with a grumble would shuffles his way toward the bathroom to flick on the light and to glance himself at the mirror. A tired looking rabbit with tuff of brown and white fur on his face with tired looking hazel eyes stared back at him. Simon couldn't help but to smile, easily amused of how stupid he look. Leaning down to turn the right and then left knobs on the sink, the lapine wash his face and left the bathroom after turning off the light.
He sips on his coffee as he and four other officers would glance over the map of the Eastern State in a dimly lit room in a basement of a local army base. Simon pointed at the map and he would murmurs softly in Humanic*. "What about troop build up from the Western State?" A young black hare across to him would pointed at some models showing the Western forces along the Eastern borders and even some heavy troops to the right of the smaller troops. Speaking in Lapap*, "Ew tond wohkn erehw yhet rea." Simon frowns and he would set his cup of coffee down on the map. "We agreed not to speak the tongue of our parents here, Alex" Speakly soft and his eyes glance at the hare with a little distrust. "Humanic my friends, Humanic.. we don't know what ears are listening to us.." Pointing at his own large brown ears and Simon sat down on his chair and watches the officers make faces of protests. A grey rabbit who his parents called him Gruff lean forward and sips on his own cup of coffee. Speaking in a heavy broken accent, the rabbit glance at Simon sadly. "We have to speak the language of the humans, even they are our mortal enemies.. we are enemies of ourselves.. but they are.. look at them!" Holding his hand up to silent the grey one, Simon softly explained to them. "The humans were our enemies.. but they gave us something we lapines never had in our lifetime: war." Gruff set his cup down on the map and he would flick the cup over so the warm coffee spilled over the Western side and into the Eastern side, the coffee pushes the blue pieces of the Eastern forces back and many area were covered in brown spots.
Glancing over the rifle, it wasn't bolt-action or even a breech loader! Simon brows would bend down a little and his eyes glance over the inventor of the weapon. The rifle is long like most bolt action rifles and it is rather light and smooth to hold in his hands. "What do you call this?" Speaking in Lapap, the young white lapine who called himself Aki smiles warmly. "We call it..the Dragon Rifle!" Simon's eyes glance over the young 17 years old and he would snort. "What does it do? Spit fire?" Half-joking and half being serious. the boy shook his head. "No.. it doesn't need bolt to shoot.. you can keep pushing the trigger and it'll shoot as long as you got ammo in it.. and also you can flip the switch and it'll fire automaticlly.. just have to hold the trigger." Looking down, the male couldn't help but to get excited. "If it really does work.. I will give you as many cute girls to make you a happy man." Aki blushes a little and Simon is guided on how the weapon works.. he felt a little silly to be taught how the weapon works and how to use it by a younger male. Soon, Simon slip in a 8-round magazine and aimed down at the sights, the gun is very well crafted. Moving closer to the target ranges, the male would flip the switch up once and he would pull the trigger at a target. The Dragon Rifle made a sharp crack and it lifted up a little.. but the recoil is smooth.. the male would flip it up another notch and held the trigger down. Simon didn't expect the the gun to keep on firing! Startles and almost flinging the weapon away, the male would glance down at the weapon and grins it does work! Such a huge rush! Simon slap on another clip of the weapon and aimed down at the sights at the targets.
Author notes: Short because I wanted to see how it goes before I acutally go ahead and do it. From Israel, so my English might not be that great.
*Lapap: Language spoken by the lapine people in the states.
*Humanic: Language mostly spoken by humans: French, German, English, etc.