Chapter 3
Once the queen's messenger had left the both looked at the envelope not wanting to open it in any sort of speed knowing it was another mission for the men to prepare for Hayden would sigh speaking first" you this can't be good another mission so soon more and likely means we're going after the same fallen" Riker would shake his head slowly" I know but what choice do we truly have ?" as he opened the seal on the envelope reading.
"By the order of Heavens Queen
The hound guard and their army will prepare for an invasion against a foreign enemy attempting to free a fallen angel from hostile forces it will commence in three days ensure your forces are ready and better trained than last time
Sincerely Queen Serena of Heaven
"P.S. Don't end up like you're the previous commander it won't end well for you"
The two men would look at each other as the letter burned in Hayden's hand " I don't understand the nerve of that women as she demands us to fight and die for a traitor of her holy gates…." cutting himself off because he was at that moment speaking treason against the queen, even Riker had given him a cautious look to not venture much further.
Riker" simply saying I know" before turning back towards the balcony.
Riker" sat there thinking "This queen will surely see the death of every man in this army and the sad thing is she will blame us for dying" as he stepped back into the barracks going to bed he figured they would tell the men of their new mission come morning no reason to lose any sleep on it.
Hayden would sit there for hours looking at each barrack counting the soldiers learning the leader's names trying to plan what was to happen.
The following day the soldiers we all in the square being told about the mission that was to go down in three days time grumbling could be heard from the crowd some dissenters even called for us to just leave the heavenly army.
The leaders would work to silence the men working with them training them for the next three days The men would improve day by day taking no rest during their training.
Just before the sun could peak over the clouds of heaven hayden stood in front of the staging area in the training grounds looking as looked upon each of the forty hounds he would bring to a near death sentence if things were to go horribly wrong as he broke the silence by speaking"I want to personally thank each and everyone of you men for volunteering for this mission I can't say this is gonna be easy nor can i say you will come back alive but I will say this day will go down as one for the books when we get the fallen bastard back before the queen "
The men would leave stepping through the shadows to earth as they came out about 5 miles from the fallens manor each hound was armed with their relics and a standard m911 for emergency use only single clip. They spread out into teams of four to avoid detection going comms silent until they each arrived at the manor walls.
Teams one seven and nine would arrive at the walls a half an hour before the rest of the groups waiting at the redvue point. Team two had gotten into a fire fight with some of the perimeter patrols after stepping on a landmine. The entire team was wiped as about 15 soldiers would begin fire supression using explosives and with what little cover the second squad had it was a suicide run to say the least"riker thought back the mission details saying them outloud to him self on the roof of his barracks.
Teams three and four would make it to the meet up place an hour late after they had to merge once one of squad fours men had been sounded by an opening of claymores from what he was told it wasn't a pretty sight that was jackson he was a good man but only a corporal
The rest of teams had met little resistance as they got in between the times of the previous though squad 8 never checked in though one had heard a thing the rest knew they were dead. As Riker did a head count he shook his head looking at hayden" thirty one left sir, should we press on ?" hayden just nodded at his fellow commander as the group merged back to on solid force approaching the wall with their pistols drawn sweeping the towers for enemies
Once they swept the towers clearing out any guards they saw they proceeded to scale the walls jumping one up over every few inches of the wall. A few minutes later the force would be crouching in bushes hiding behind trees as the advance towards the house was a slow crawl at best slowly taking guards out leaving them in bushes as they went.
Once they pressed closer the spotlight going around the area around the manor at roof level they soldiers would stop as hayden pointed to a man then a spot light as he chose one of his own to count the time it took to sweep from one side to another"hayden would count silently to himself 1..2..3..4...5...6...7..8...9.10" looking back to the others as they all nodded confirming each light had a ten second window darkness but even still the hounds would stany back for a moment watching the pattern to make sure not wanting to lose anymore soldiers.
Slowly 4 soldiers at a time would rush to the wall at a pace as if not be detected by the guards but not so fast anyone can spot them."riker:next team go in three two one now " as the next team would follow and the next taking a good five minutes to cross most the teams lining up along the wall avoiding windows but wrapping around the building looking for cameras and weak points to enter as they stand ready for the next set of orders when.