Chapter 73: Ambush.
The light cut its way through the Forrest dodging all of the trees that stood in its way before striking the tire of one of the transporting trucks. The truck continued forward. The tire exploded causing them to swerve into oncoming lanes. Luckily there were no cars ahead of them. The driver managed to take control back and drove on for a few seconds as small particles of burning rubber coated the roadside.
A voice came through on a radio in the glove box. "Spectre one to Command. We will have to make an emergency stop. One of our tires has blown out." The voice called out. Haru opened the glove box and pulled out the radio. He didn't even know it was there.
"Command to Spectre one. That is fine, We will send the news to our client so they can expect it to be delayed." The voice of the scrawny man from earlier called back. Then the Radio went silent once again. The leading truck drove for a few hundred meters before pulling over. Then he was followed by the truck with the flat tire. One by one each vehicle pulled up behind the first truck.
Haru felt a cold chill down his spine. What was that? He thought as he looked over to the truck in front of him. There seemed to be black mist leaking out from the back of the truck. "We shouldn't be stopped here," Haru said to Cui and then began to frantically look out of the windows. "Hey Jake, Wake up." He shouted.
Jake opened his eyes and looked at Haru. He saw the expression on his face and then sat up right away. "What happened?" He asked. Haru was still looking outside.
"I don't know. But be ready." He said and then looked at Jake. As Jake and Haru's eyes met Jake's heart began to thump. He saw the emotions Haru was keeping bottled up. He was worried. He had never seen Haru worried about anything before. Something serious was about to happen. He began to activate protective spells.
Haru opened the door to the car. Cui grabbed on to his arm as he was about to step out. "Where are you going? What has gotten you two so wound up!?" Haru turned to face her. His eyes were glowing a deep gold colour. Her body froze as she looked at him. She quickly released him out of fear.
Haru then stepped out of the car. He looked back toward the truck feeling a dark and evil aura being released from the coffin shaped box that was inside. He looked around with his spiritual sense. He looked out far into the forest and saw a group of men laying down in a trench of some sort. There were around five of them.
The more he looked around the more people he saw hidden. He counted around sixty of them in total. They were all armed with guns and he felt the power circling around the barrel of one of their guns. A single man in a tree with a long barrelled gun looked down at the convoy through a scope.
"Sir, There is a kid looking directly at me…" He said to the three men sat bellow him in a trench.
"What? Have you been spotted?" A voice shouted back.
"No, That's impossible the concealing magic is still active he couldn't be looking at me. It could just be a coincidence." He then looked back up toward where he had seen the boy standing.
He vanished. The man in the tree began to panic. His heart sunk as he realised the boy was no longer there. Where is he? He was just there! He thought as he moved his scope around trying to locate Haru,
He sighed in relief as he found the boy in his sights again. He had walked over to one of the trucks and had knelt down beside the man who was fitting a spare wheel on to it.
"Hey, Are you the one in charge?" Haru asked the big muscular man from earlier. He turned to see Haru staring at him.
"Yeah, What is it?" The man asked.
Haru didn't skip a beat with his response. "We are both in the scope of someone using a magic rail gun. Don't turn around." He warned him.
"What! Don't fuck around with me like that. I just about had a heart attack." The man said. But then he saw the seriousness on Haru's face.
"Wait… This isn't a joke is it!?" He asked.
"No, It's quite serious. The blew out of the tires to get us to stop. We walked right into their ambush." Haru explained.
"How do you know all this. Did you see them!?" The man asked.
"That doesn't matter. I want you to alert all your men to the situation but also ask them to remain calm. If they suspect that we know about them. They will probably open fire. I counted sixty men so we need to play this safe. When they least expect it I want five of your men to lay down underneath one of the trucks and start shooting into the forest. It doesn't matter if they hit anyone or not we just need a bit of suppressive fire." Haru told the man. He nodded his head in agreement.
"Wait, Who let you make the orders?" He asked confused. He didn't see an issue with Haru's plan but he was surprised. How could this young man come up with a plan this quickly? And how on earth did he find put about them. He couldn't quite explain it but he felt like the boy in front of him had much more experience than he had himself.
The man then pulled out his radio and calmly explained the situation to his men. None of them replied as they all understood the severity of the situation. "Stay here," Jake told Cui as he got out of the car and walked over to Haru. Cui looked at him.
"What is going on with you guys? Seriously…" She said as Jake slammed the door behind him.
"Hey, How is it?" Jake asked and then crouched down next to Haru. "Bad. Really bad." He said. Jake felt all the hairs on the back of his neck rise.
"They have me in their sight don't they?" Jake asked. Haru nodded his head.
"Sir, These kids are in the way we can't get a clear shot at their leader." The man with the rail gun said.to the man below him.
"I will give you two minutes. If you can't get a clear shot by then we will have to go with plan B." A voice called back. The man sighed.
"Just get out of the way you stupid kids." He whispered as he looked down his scope once again.
The muscular man still changing the tire looked at Haru. "They should be getting impatient by now. You should get back to the car. We will open fire as soon as you two are out of the way." Haru nodded his head and then patted Jake on his shoulder.
"Come on. Let's go." Jake stood up and followed back to the car.
They got back to the car. Haru knocked on the window. Cui lowered it so she could hear what he had to stay. "As soon as the shooting starts. You should get out of here. Set a timer for fifteen minutes and then come back." He said and then walked away before she could say anything else.
"Follow me." He said to Jake. Jake didn't question it as they both walked along the road until they were out of sight. Haru used his spiritual sense.
"Good. They didn't notice us leaving. The fun is just about to start.
"What are we doing here?" Jake asked. He seemed to understand that they were going to ambush them but he didn't know how he planned to do it.
"Well, If my guess is right once the shooting starts. They will feel like they were the ones who were lured out. Or someone betrayed them and let us know where they are hiding. It will destroy their leader's plan. The men with less experience will start to panic and go into survival mode. They will most likely retreat as fast as they can. It will thin down their numbers enough that they will have to retreat." He explained. He seemed to think it threw pretty well but Jake was still confused.
"So what is our part in this?" He asked. Haru chuckled.
"Come on. I thought you were smarter than this. We will find a nice place to watch the show. Have you ever heard of guerrilla warfare? We will lay traps to block their retreat." He laughed again.
"Wait we are making traps! Isn't that a war crime?" Jake became worried.
"It's only a war crime if your intent is to only injure them. We will just have to make sure that they don't suffer. Plus, They were the ones who planned to ambush us." Haru seemed pretty annoyed.
Jake decided to shut up and follow him. He didn't want to cause a scene even if he didn't agree with the tactics. They walked for a few hundred metres before the first gunshot blasted out into the forest.
Small birds and animals immediately began to flee further into the forest as cries of pain resonated throughout the trees.