The Patrol part 2

Story by The Dark Wolf on SoFurry

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#4 of The Patrol

hehe part two is ready and out :)


Wrote this on my iPod aswell...the whole series might be like this...just because I find it easier not to get desracted.

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Ghost felt like he was being thrown around in a washing machine, and the feeling was made even Worse by the blinding light that was surrounding him making it inpossable to know right from left and up from down. Yet as he was being thrown around he had managed to keep hold off all of his gear and weaponary because of how tightly it was all tied to his body.

Then he was thrown out of the light and face first onto hard solid ground. It was still night. He lifted his head up and spat out a clump of dirt that had been collected in his mouth. Then looked around. He was in the area that he has just left. The one with the arches. Yet no-one was here.

Remembering his training he pressed down pm the magazine release catch and pulled out the 30 round mag. He checked it and saw that some of the rounds had been knocked pit of place, so he corrected them and replaced his mag, not putting a new round in the chamber because since he did not eject it there would still be one there.

He then checked the barrel of the weapon for obstructions, happy that it was clear and his SA80 would fire he dropped to the prone position and tapped the ear communicater that keeps all of the Patrol in contact.

"callsign Wisky Polo do you copy? This is callsign Golf Tango" there was no responce. He then Changed the frequency of his radio to connect to the other 7 men. "NightStorm this is Ghost, does anyone copy!" he then cursed himself for raising his voice in unknown terrtory.

Giving up on connecting the rest of the patrol he pulled out an energy bar from his webbing and started munching on it while thinking of a plan. He went over his options: wait here and hope nightstorm come after him, explore the surrounding area in hopes of finding someone, keep trying to gain radio conmunication.

After finishing the snack he stood up and pulled out his note pad and pen from his trouser pocket. Sighing he wrote a note 'if you read this I am going to try and get back to base ~ghost~'

Little did he know that that simple task was not going to be as simple as antisipated.

Taking one last glance back to the Quiet arch ways he checked to make sure his rifle was off safe mode, then started walking off into night, as silently as a ghost.

*roughly 24 minutes later*

The arch beamed back into life and whitpen, doyel and snake fell into a heap in the sane spot where ghost had landed. Snake rolled off the pile and looked around. Whitpen was under Doyle said angrly "get your beer belly out of my face!" and with the strength of a true soldier pushed Doyel of himself and stood up. "Snake check around this area, Doyel work out where the hell everyone else it!"

The arch had fallen silent again. Whitpen looked around and saw the note that ghost had left. He picked it up and squinted to try and read it, but because of the light it was inpossable, so he pulled out his red light torch and shined it at the note and read it out loud.

Snake after hearing this said "what was he thinking? He knows the drills, wait 30 minutes before going! Damn it that guys as stuipd as a brick wall!"

Whitpen ignored his comment and stored the note in his webbing. "Doyel! Where is everyone!"

Doyel shook his head and said "I don't know sir, I can get a faint Reading from Ghost but only get static from the rest. I don't know what we got ourselves into sir but at the moment we are on our own."

Snake paced around saying "great. Just great! So we went in after Ghost who has run off and in doing so we have also lost 4 more men who should have been right behind us!"

Just then a Sound of Movement in a bush near by caught all the men's attention. With trained reactions all three men pointed their weapons at the disterbance. Whitpen said "Lava!"

For a second nothing happened, until a voice replied "Lamp"

As the call and recieve was correct all men lowered their weapons and Lcpl Segolia walked out of the bush.

Snake spoke first "how did you do that? You went in after us! So what the hell are you doing there!?"

Segolia replied "I don't know, after we went through the arch I was standing waist deep in a river."

Whitpen said "a river? We came out here. Is anyone else with you?"

Segolia said "no sir but there is defently animals in this forest, I found the tracks of what seemed to be a dog but we should be fine because of the depth of the prints it was injered and limping."

Doyel then spoke up "a dog? But how? All the time we have been in the base not a single animal has been seen."

Whitpen said "alright men enough talk. Segolia do you think you could track ghost? He was here before us."

Segolia looked at the ground and saw the prints in from ghost. "sir I should be able to, but are we going to wait for the others?"

Snake said "waiting doesn't work, the arch shut off, now we should get going, grab ghost and the other men then get the hell out of here!" he the said "Sir...orders?"

Whitpen through the situation over through his head then said "ok we will go after ghost, Segolia take point, doyel your after me and snake watch our backs."

Segolia then got ready and started following ghost's tracks. He was worried about the rest of Nightstorm but he has been given orders to go after ghost and he will follow them. But then made a point that no-one had noticed. "hey guys look at the stars" everyone looked up "they are wrong...compleatly wrong, what is going on here?"

The stars which usally show constalations that are easy to name had none of them. It was almost like they were not even on their world anymore. Snake said "now that's messed up" he then looked around "hey..where's the trail we followed here?"

The trail that they followed was also absent. Whitpen then said "I don't know what's happened guys but I don't think these are the sane arches that we first saw and went through."

The 4 men started on the same path that ghost had left on before.

*somewhere further away from the other 4 men*

Graves, Hunter and driver were all freezing cold and soaked to the bone. Driver said "how did we get under a waterfall? I mean come on!"

Hunter shouted "stop crying baby!" he lowered his tone "we have already discussed that we have no idea where we are and because of that reason we are going to climb the cliff that this waterfall is comming from and work out where we are!"

The three men were moving across the cliff face trying to find a good spot to climb when Graves heard something.

He turned fowards the thick treeline that hid the sorce of the noise and said in a loud voice "Lava!" but there was no reply. He aimed his LSW at the treeline and scanned for what ever made the noise.

Hunter and driver had stopped and was scanning with him. They then got tired of doing nothing and turned around. Seconds after that Grave shouted "HALT!!" they both turned back to see Graves aiming up one tree. But what ever he could see was out of their lines of sight.

Graves's eyes widened and he shouted "Hes armed, weapons free!" and opened fire on what even could see. The sound of the LSW was booming off the cliff beside them as the sound of the weaon firing fully auto was going off...the bullets were ripping the trees around them to sreads. It looked like he was firing randomly.

Graves was in shock. He was spamming shots at where he had seen it go. There was no way he could have missed. But it moved so fast. Then he lost sight compleatly and took his finger off the trigger and scanned again. The empty round casings were making a tinging sound as they hit the ground and slowly stopped moving. The LSW's barrel was smoking. He guessed that atleast 40 shots had been fired leaving him with roughly 60 in that mag.

Hunter ran up to him "what did you see soldier?!"

Graves was now confindent that what ever it was, it was gone. "I don't know sir it looked human, but it moved so fast. And it had fur?! And..and!" he was hyper venterlating.

Driver came up to him "calm down man..now explain why you fired without warning shots!"

Graves took a deep breath and lowered his LSW "it had a weapon, it looked like it was a bow of some kind and it pointed it straight at me. Look man if I didn't fire I would be dead!"

Hunter then said "we are way too exposed here...we have to move"

Graves then said "ok sir I'm wi..." he was cut of by a wistleing Sound and a slicing sound. Graves dropped his LSW and clutched his left arm "AHHH!!! I'M HIT!!"

Driver swung around and fired at a dark figure that he saw. With a quick volly of well aimed shots he heard a cry of pain, but the figure jumped away and was lost from sight. "Sir we have to go now! Grab the LSW and follow me."

Hunter picked up the LSW and the three of them sprinted fowards in hope of finding some cover. Luckely for them just a little bit ahead there was a cave and they bolted for it and got in. Without waiting they went deeper in until they thought they would be safe.

Driver turned on his torch and shined it at Graves arm. There was heavy bleeding and what looked like a crossbow bolt sticking out off it. With no hesertation he pulled out his first aid kit and with a fluid movement pulled the bolt out and dabbed some antiseptic on the wound and wrapped it in a bandage. All of this time compleatly ignoring the cries of pain that graves was giving out.

Graves was clenching his teeth trying not to cry out but the pain in his arm was burning his entire essence to the very core.

Hunter then said "nice work driver, I'll take over from here, you go and watch the enterance to make sure that...'Thing' doesn't pay us a visit here"

Driver said "Sir"and moved a little way away from the other two to keep guard. He was thinking to himself "I don't know what that was but it wasn't human. Where the Fudge are we? What have we gotten ourselves into?

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Ooohhhh combat situation and graves got wounded. What's going to happen with NightStorm? What attacked them? Am I really writing this on my iPod? Well...I can say yes to the last one but apart from that you will have to wait and see.