Chapter 8

Chapter 8: A different choice.

As I continued with my work uninterrupted for some time a new voice finally spoke up.

" We can fight." He said as I looked at where the voice came from. It was the brother of the victim. Seeing as he had grabbed my brief attention he continued quickly.

" We've practiced with our father and mother. Most of our family were in the Guard." He said to me.

" Grenades." I asked him as I removed and showed him a grenade.

" A frag grenade." He replied. I pulled another and showed him.

" A smoke grenade." He said as he looked at it.

" Fighters" the voice of the guardsman said once more as he seemed to have organized himself.

" Have your sister trained with you" he said toward the brother of the victim. He looked at him for some seconds before quickly answering…..he was happy for some reason.

" Yes…in fact my Sister was better at me when we trained together. A very good fighter." He said to me now as his eyes looked straight at my face. His facial expression twisted and reformed a bit but still he didn't look away merely frowned and gritted his teeth.

" They are trained, help me save her." The guardsman said once more still persistent on his lost cause.

" She has been compromised" I said to him as I turned to look at her. I had just noticed now that the guardsman had stayed a bit faraway from the young girl with only her brother so close to her. Her face looked dim and dark yet alive.

" You can't say that" the brother of the victim said as he looked at me or more specifically my injuries.

" Yeah, you have it worse than her. If you can move and deem yourself still battle ready then she too has a chance to." The guardsman said to me as he looked at my bleeding figure. I won't last long without medically attention and yet I can't waste time looking for one as I had already finished my bandages with nothing left.

' They are correct is you look at your current situation. You need all the bodies you can get.' A voice said inside my head.

' If I am correct you might not even need to attach her to the group you're going to be moving with ' the voice said one more as I began thinking about said matter.

" What do you need " I asked as I turned and looked at the guardsman.

" You there." He said pointing at the brother of said victim as a small soon covered his face. A small yet hopeful smile.

" Hold your sister at one place as we pull it." He replied before gesturing to me to follow him, which I did as we knelt and bent to begin our new objective.

" So do you understand the puzzle" he said to me as I looked at said device stuck inside her.

' Yes, you do' a voice said in my head

' I don't' I replied to it

' Yes you do, you simply forgot it' the voice insisted.

'...' I didn't respond as I had no recollection of such symbols.

' Just focus on it whilst I help you.' The voice said as I moved closer to the device.

' Turned the edge of the device to the right two times' the voice said as I did so, some noise was made by the device yet no scream.

" You…your doing it" the guardsman voice said bewildered at such actions.

' Move the second line just above the edge six turns to the left.' The voice said as I did so and yet at the sixth turn spike came out of the device….no more like small thorns which pierced into my skin. A brief scream was heard by the victim which I shall now tag V104. V104 moved a bit before returning still and small moans were heard from her.

' Turn the second line to the edge a turn to the right.' The voice said to which I did and the thorn retracted back into the device.

' Turn the third line above the edge to the right 3 times.' The voice said once more to which I did. As I turned it, a muffled scream was heard from V104 as her muscles tensed and tightened as she gripped her brother intensely. I could hear something retracting and soon stopped by the third turn, the sound of flesh was all too familiar to me.

" Are you sure you know what your doing." The guardsman spoke out as he watched me, his face had twisted to that of…..can't remember the word but the smile was no more.

' Turn the fourth line above the edge 8 turns to the left' the voice continued once as I continued with it's instructions, again some movement could be heard from the device as V104 seemed to tense and release her muscles.

' Turn the fifth line above the edge to the right twice.' The voice said once more as I followed it's instructions. On the first turn V104 tensed her muscles intensely as a dragged pained yelp escaped her mouth.

' No, to the left… to the left!!!' the voice said quickly before I could turn the device once more. I changed the direction the opposite of what I had turned once to cancel out my failed turn then two more to replace my original orders. It came loose as I removed the device from V104, V104 relax and began breathing heavily as blood continuously dripped from there.

The device was covered with fresh dripping blood as I held unto it. I looked at it for several seconds before a voice….no two voices spoke at once.

" You did it!!"

" That was close" They both said at the same time.

Chapter 9: As much damage as possible