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Chapter Two
Beginning of The End
"Morning"
I smile and groan, stretching my cramped arms, "Morning there" I say while opening my eyes to see the perfect silhouette of my wife. My eyes focus on the background behind her, I'm looking straight into the rising sun skipping across the tops of waves in the harbor below and piercing the smoke of the docks on the tier below the residential tier. My eyes refocus on Evelyn her perfect body from her auburn hair, beautiful large green eyes, cute freckles around her nose and cheeks, soft lips and beautiful smile to her perfect thighs and small feet. My smile stretches from ear to ear and she giggles at me, I love her laugh it seems to go in levels from deeper to higher and when she starts it reminds me of the sound droplets make falling into a sink of water. She leans forward and kisses me gently on the lips.
"Come on get up sleepy, breakfast" she says then winks at me, I love it when she does that
I groan slowly and get up, I move to our walk in wardrobe, still in my briefs, I get my work pants on followed by my work shirt. Now completely dressed I walk into our main room, from this room two rooms branch off one going into our bedroom and another into our sons bedroom. The house is made of drab grey concrete walls that have many paintings with deep reds and purples on them contrasting the stark functionality of the concrete walls. To my left is the hallway leading to the front door and right is the doors to the veranda. I sit down at our breakfast bar and I'm handed a bowl of pea and ham soup, two slices of toast and a cup of coffee from Evelyn, I pick it all up and take it onto the veranda where she sits with me and watches me eat.
"Having fun there?" I ask playfully
"Oh it's riveting" she says sarcastically and does her cute little giggle.
"I love your laugh" I say
"I'm not even gonna fight you over it anymore" she says with a sigh
"Good" I say then lean forward and kiss her. I look over the city Balwa recently built to sustain increasing population on Zanzibar, the city is separated into four tiers. The first tier on the waterfront is warehouses and small factories for boats to unload their goods onto quickly the second tier, our tier, is residential, the tier behind that: military and behind that the larger factories.
I wake back, sweating, in the jungles Just a dream... it is all just a dream I try to deceive myself; it doesn't work. These events all did happen on the morning of the attack that had forced us from our home and into these accursed jungles. The beginning of the end I think solemnly. These dreams seemed to be following the events leading up to the final catastrophic event, one dream per night every night I would wake sweating in my black slim fit shirt and dark green long pants and long shirt, and every night my family would sleep easy through my heavy breathing safe and sound dressed in the same attire as me. Evelyn sleeps easy in my arms and Troy in hers. The uneasy silence continues and rebounds throughout my head I feel as if my head is about to explode or crack or split or just something I can't take it it feels like my head is being played like a drum.
A snap.
My ears instantly alert, the twig was obviously not snapped by any small animal, I see a larger animal behind the three of us although only a silhouette through the mist, I can see it is a brute its deep breaths misting in the cold morning. It looks right at me but mustn't be able to see me properly in the poor light and mist the silhouettes of four grunts appear near it. My heart freezes and my body temperature drops. It looks away from us and moves off with its grunt search party. I breathe out and take a huge deep breath of cold morning air in I sit and listen attentively for the next hour but no sounds emerge from the silence and I close my eyelids which by now after only two hours sleep so far seem like ten ton weights
I wake that morning to the light of the sun beating itself against my eyelids. When my eyes open they find their gaze locked one Evelyn sharing from a dried food rations packet with Troy.
"Morning there, you want some?" she asks, offering up the packet
"Morning. Hey why not?" I ask rhetorically smiling and laughing while I take her spoon and eat a spoonful of the contents that look like a bunch of dried tomatoes.
"Hey Daddy how far are we going to walk today?" Troy asks
"As far as your little legs can carry you and then I might piggy back you the rest of the way" I say smiling besides knowing the fact they were still out there looking and close by, my wife sees through this facade and looks darkly at me knowing what I know now just by looking at me.
We pack up the little we have, food, a hunting knife, pistol plus three clips of ammunition, water, flint and striker, whetstone and gun cleaning kit. I look out over the vast jungles we can see from the cliff we camped near. I start walking and my family follows me as I set off into denser jungles to dodge the search party I saw last night. But the way we take now is going to add another three days onto the two weeks it's going to take to reach the nearest UNSC barracks/ outpost. It is a new day and we will make it through... together.
Haha no you don't find out whats on the chip lol but I have it set in my mind what its going to be *evil laugh*
The fear of death is to die knowing your job isn't done, the greatest joy of life is to die knowing your job is done... the only problem is that to do my job I need to kill every covenant bugger out there...