Damien grabbed the pouch and turned it upside down, it was a small pouch but so much fell from it, so much that it was unreasonable how they got there in the first place, we believed that it was another sorcery of the outside world, we where always thought that the outside world held dangerous magic.
From the pouch fell a golden knife, a bag of bread and several bottles of water.
This was great because through all this we hadn't eaten we were starved, we shared some of the food and ate for a short while, We couldn't stay there too long, for many reasons, it wasn't safe, the body of the dead man would soon start to smell soon and asides that it was creepy being in the same room as a dead person anyway, some of us ate our food on the go.
we had to leave, we went down into the abandoned royal chambers for the night because anywhere else especially in the open wouldn't be safe, on a regular day this would be forbidden and we could loose our ranks and be dismissed from the academy for abusing royalty but this was war, rules didn't matter, We cleaned it up a little and blocked the entrance we could only use deem lamps so as to not attract attention, Through the night non of us could sleep, we still heard the sounds of raging battle outside. It seemed our commanders and high ranks where at least putting up a fight.
We all slowly fell asleep Soon it was morning although we couldn't tell, Damien was quick to wake, Just like always he was the most competent of us, maybe it was because he was slightly older than me and Morty or maybe it was because he saw us as little siblings, we never knew why , we never cared? , we where just grateful we had a friend like him.
Damien already packed all we had and prepared us ready to go,
"I've got a plan" he said while reloading and cleaning his laser gun.
Me and Morty weren't surprised at all who else would come up with a plan, through our months together we knew our strengths. Morty was "book smart", good with machines, gadgets and wacky science stuff but asides those Morty was basically a Silly goofball who slacked off most of the time, He was no strategist nor was i So it had to be Damien who pulled us together.
I asked with a cooperative voice "what's the plan?"
"it's pretty simple" he said
"on paper at least but i think we can do it, We know the invaders must have messed up our communication with the Main base, stopping us from informing them of our situation and requesting for back up, right!?"
"yeah so what?"
"so!, all we have to do is find our way to The control room, then we can repair whatever they did, and call for back up, we'd be hero's we'd save everyone!"
He was right...
It was way simpler on paper, things are usually easier said than done but at least we had to try, we fully equipped and readied ourselves to leave but before we could open the door. A huge fist following with laser shots brought the door and our blocks down, immediately we all sprung into action, grabbing our weapons and taking aim at the door.
He entered slowly, i don't think he whas expecting anyone inside, when the he got inside he noticed our presence and tried to reach for his weapon immediately we reaffirmed our aiming posture.
"Don't move!"
It was still a little dusty so we couldn't really identify who it was, we ordered him to step forward and to our surprise it was a friend in our own hostel a fellow cadet, his name was Ricardo. We lowered our defenses.
"how!?, we thought you'd be dead by now "
"it was a miracle i survived, some of us escaped but unfortunately most didn't"
"where are the others? "
He stood silent for a while, then as if he mustered the words out of his mouth.
"i,...don't know"
Morty moved closer to him and put his hand on his shoulder, "you must be hungry, everything is gonna be OK" He said While Trying to fake a smile.
The rest of us couldn't, me and Damien both had this face on, that you could tell we knew Morty was lying. Just yesterday everything was good. Now we're trapped in a battle we have no power to partake in, with a plan so difficult to execute it's basically a joke, we're tired, confused and probably all our friends are dead.
"yeah sure" Ricardo replied in return faking his own smile. We offered something to eat and drink, then we told him about our plan, he seemed indifferent, we might as well give it a shot, it might sound impossible but it's something to hope towards.
We stepped out of the room taking an all-round defence position our plan was to go outside and then to the central base where we'll have access to The control room.
It was sure we'd encounter some kind of threat, even though our tactic was to approach with stealth. Damien stood in front as leader
"You ready guys!?"
Ricardo and Morty replied.
"ready"
I didn't reply for some reason, i don't know why, maybe because i had a feeling we all weren't, No one noticed though, their voices where too loud to, Now we'd probably face...True Combat.
To be continued...