Bang!! Suddenly out of nowhere a man from behind shot Rakesh from behind, went straight piercing his heart.
"Rakesh! Rakesh! Ra....." Akari shouted but her voice was not reaching my ears anymore.
Suddenly my body won't respond to anything I command. Slowly falling down, it felt like I am watching a recording in slow motion. I fell to the ground but I didn't feel anything. From my angle, the only thing I could see was Akari's legs and even my vision was getting blurred second by second. My eyelashes felt as heavy as boulders.
"So this is what it's like to die, worthlessly... Didn't think that I will receive death in such a filthy place...." Some painful thoughts emerged from the deepest parts of my mind while I was dying.
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"Hay listen soldiers Aim for their head!! I repeat AIM AT THIR HEADS...." Ivan shouted at top of his lungs. "Their head is the most venerable part."
Akari turned around towards Ivan's direction and tried to call for help. Suddenly, a nemesis jumped just in front of Alina and due to shock, her voice was coming out of her mouth. The nemesis swang its hand backwards and prepared a lethal attack.
But, before it could unleash its attack Alina's dogs attacked the nemesis and started fighting it. This gave Alina enough time to think and get her composer back. She took full advantage of this fraction of time and stood up and prepared herself. She aimed her shotgun and started rapid firing.
The nemesis was being backed down. With a sudden rage, a fire burned inside Alina. All of her training, her military experience, and everything she knew came out suddenly as an instinct to survive. Alina noticed that the nemesis was being weakened and threw a fire grenade at it.
The nemesis started struggling and trying to extinguish the fire. "So fire is its weakness." Alina thought. Alina kept shooting the nemesis with her shotgun. By chance, she blew up the nemesis's head and its dead body fell on the floor.
"It's not as though as it looks. HQ come in come in. Relay this message to everyone. Their weakness is fire. I repeat their weakness is fire." Alina tried to contact HQ.
"This is HQ. This message is for everyone. According to our analysis, these creatures have 2 weaknesses the first one is their defenceless aim for that and the second is fire. Use your fire grenades at them." HQ commanded.
Alina mode ahead and joined the battle with Ivan. The situation was pretty dire there as well. Even if those soldiers know their weaknesses the problem was their numbers. They kept coming one after another. They were about to go out of ammunition.
"If this continues then we are secured. What we are supposed to do now." Granny soldier asked Ivan. "Ivan. Ivan what you look so stressed."
"They are gone," Ivan replied.
"What what is gone."
"Our back up "
"Wait they were wiped up. But how?"
"Those people were the bait for us. And we took it."
"What do you mean"
"These creatures, as soon as our backup came to opt to help those survivors these creatures came out of nowhere and wiped out every single one of our soldiers."
"What?" she was as much as shocked Ivan after hearing this.
,<< a Few moments ago, Back up the squad.>>
"I can see the helicopter HQ. 3500 meters from X. I repeat HQ helicopter 3500 meters from X" One of the soldiers reported to HQ.
"Good rescue those civilians." HQ responded.
"Copy." The soldier replied.
Half of the soldiers went near the civilians, they tried to show no hostility to them. But, even they didn't know what kind of nightmare they were about to face.
"Hay, hay are you lisning pal." One of the soldiers asked another.
"Hum.., what is it?" The other soldier replied. They both were walking in front of the group of soldiers who were about to rescue the civilians.
"Why are they wearing such thin clothes? Even in my clothes, I feel chilled at my feet and yet there they are standing like statues."
"You noticed that too. To be honest I was just thinking the same thing. Why do I feel something is wrong."
"Soldiers bellow your feet!!!" The sniper in the trees shouted at top of his lungs.
Suddenly, from beneath their feet, a dozen huge nemesis emerged. The two soldiers who were talking went straight flying into the air several feet but before they could land they have been devoured by the nemesis mid-air.
"Wha.... What the hell is this." The sniper was stunned for seconds. He didn't know what to do. One after the other his squadmates were dying. He somehow gathered some courage and prepared to shoot.
"This is HQ come in. Are you hearing me? Respond in the next 60sec otherwise, we will consider you dead." HQ reached out to him.
"HQ. HQ there is a huge problem here. We have dern tricked. I repeat.... WHAT? Even our main force is cornered. No! I am in a pretty dire situation myself. Half of my team is dead. Shoot there what? Head?.... Copy, Copy."
The sniper conveyed the info he got from HQ to his remaining team who were hiding in the snow. "Lisen Team. Their HEAD!, am I clear? Aim for their heads. haan.."
A nemesis glared at the sniper in the tree. Even tho that thing does not have eyes. Its glare proved that this monster is not blind. The nemesis started running and as it was going that speed it started running on all 4 of its limbs (Both arms and both legs). Within a matter of seconds, it closed the distance so much that its claw could reach the sniper. It stretched its claw and prepared for an attack.
"Ok, it's now or never." He pulled the trigger of his sniper and destroyed the head of the Nemesis. The nemesis stumbled back and fell down and no further movement was detected. It confirmed that the nemesis was dead. "Hell yeah!" he shouted. It was like an achievement for him, and why wouldn't it be he killed a real-life bloodthirsty monster?
But this happiness didn't last long. As soon as the first Nemesis went down others sensed something was wrong and started running towards the sniper. Their struggle continued for several minutes. The number of soldiers, in the backup squad, was now cut down to half.
The only thing that was going for them was that they knew the enemy's weakness. They were able to defeat a number of nemeses. They cut down the number of nemesis by more than half. Now there was some hope for them. They finally felt like they could win.
BOOM!!! A missile out of nowhere suddenly came crashing at them.
"Hay, WHAT THE F***!! What the hell did you think you just did? They were our comrades " A soldier in the same helicopter shouted at the pilot. That helicopter was the same just launched the missile.
The pilot threw a dagger straight at that soldier's head. She died on the spot. That dagger was the same long dagger used by Smaug's as their primary weapon. "Remove all obstacles." The pilot murmured.
The co-pilot stood up with an assault rifle in his hand. "Remove all obstacles." He murmured the same thing and killed every single soldier on the helicopter.
"002 What the hell is going on? 002 What are those gun shorts inside your unit? Is your unit hijacked by any chance?" A Tandem rotor helicopter was also flying along with them in order to rescue the civilians and provide backup supplies. I also carried around 12 soldiers in it as a backup.
"Remove all obstacles" The pilot murmured and crashed his helicopter on the other. Because of the speed of both the helicopters after crashing into each other the wreck of both the helicopters came down as a ball of fire.
Apparently, this was enough to ignite a few explosives in the helicopter and it caused a huge explosion. BBOOOMM!!! If someone would have been watching this scene from the sidelines then it would have looked like a voucher explosion.
But this was not the end the explosion was caused due to the explorers on the helicopter igniting those explosions which were laid by Ivan's squad. BBBBOOOOOOMMMM!!! If the previs explosion was not enough then this turned the entire landscape into a living hell.
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I heard some noises from a distance, it felt like someone was fighting. Trembling of Rapid gunfire, the sound of body's being cut down with some kind of blade and falling with a Thud! & blaze of fire. I was able to feel it all.
"the hell... where am I" I (Rakesh) murmured.
"You are alive," Akari shouted in relief.
I gently opened my eyes and found out I was behind Akari sitting with the support of a wall. My bag was open and I could feel layers of bandage wrapped around my chest."What is going on?" I asked just as I woke up.
The view before my eyes was indescribably terrifying sean. We were surrounded by nemesis. We were inside a deep rune three of my comments, Liam, Iqbal & Alina were surrounded by countless numbers of those buddy beasts.
"Wait how did we end up here, I am pretty sure that Akari said that we were dealing with some kind of terrorist organisation, then from where the hell these nemeses came from?" I asked myself sub concisely....