KC still remembered how blue the sky had been that day. At that precise moment. It's funny what the brain decides to remember in greatest detail. You would think, perhaps, that KC's brain would have taken a mental snapshot of the million metallic shards flying all around in a deadly hail. Or maybe the mysterious army in the glowing blue armour that had appeared from nowhere, destroying everything in range of their combat rifles. That would have been worth remembering surely. But no. KC was surprised to find that those images had faded somehow. What remained was the blueness of the sky. Perhaps KC's subconcious had realised a war was coming, and the sky would not be quite so blue for a long time. If that was the case, then her subconcious had been right. The sky that was once blue a week ago, was now a grey shimmering portal to the afterlife. A portal for the many souls that had spent their last moments alive in the trenches where KC now stood.
The strange army, that cast a deathly blue glow onto the battlefield, had sent an unrelenting storm of bullets towards KC's comrades. KC had spent the last week watching her friends collapse around her. She had stood among their corpses as their spirits drifted away into the darkness of memories, whilst she went on in the land of the living. Countless amounts of people had fallen into the vast unknown to meet their ancestors during the past few days.
KC shivered in the stinging wind that ripped through the trenches. She pulled her thin jacket close around herself in a futile attempt to warm her body. Stumbling blindly through the mud, she past piles of dead bodies wating to be buried. Tears flowed from her eyes as she saw dead faces of the people she had once loved.
Eric, the boy with the twinkling eyes, who had lifted everyones spirits when everything seemed hopeless. Morgan, the girl who had comforted KC when she had arrived. Eric's eyes were now an empty void, and Morgan could no longer be the shoulder for KC to cry on.
It had only taken seven days to create the world, she thought to herself miserably. How long would it take for the alien army to destroy it?
KC replaced her empty rifle with a fresh one from the pile and slowly made her way back to the unit on the front line.
The commanders had issued the G8 unit to make an attack on the alien army. One that would surely be fatal to everyone who made the advance. Yet all would obey the orders set by the Lieutenant, for it was the only thing they could do. Everyone was ready to fight, including KC.
KC took her place in formation among the other soldiers as they waited. Each person alone in the crowd. For everyone in war dies alone on the battlefield. Alone with their thoughts they all stood. Things spinning through their mind. The things they regretted doing in their life. The prayers they sent to their loved ones and the hopes that they would live to see another blue sky above them. Every mind echoed the same thought. 'Please don't let me die here...'
The Lieutenant chouted the fatal orders from his office and the unit advanced as one. Together they climbed out of the muddy trench and fought for their right to live. Each soldier fighting for his destiny; alone.
The strange army, that cast a deathly blue glow onto the battlefield, had sent an unrelenting storm of bullets towards KC's comrades. KC had spent the last week watching her friends collapse around her. She had stood among their corpses as their spirits drifted away into the darkness of memories, whilst she went on in the land of the living. Countless amounts of people had fallen into the vast unknown to meet their ancestors during the past few days.
KC shivered in the stinging wind that ripped through the trenches. She pulled her thin jacket close around herself in a futile attempt to warm her body. Stumbling blindly through the mud, she past piles of dead bodies wating to be buried. Tears flowed from her eyes as she saw dead faces of the people she had once loved.
Eric, the boy with the twinkling eyes, who had lifted everyones spirits when everything seemed hopeless. Morgan, the girl who had comforted KC when she had arrived. Eric's eyes were now an empty void, and Morgan could no longer be the shoulder for KC to cry on.
It had only taken seven days to create the world, she thought to herself miserably. How long would it take for the alien army to destroy it?
KC replaced her empty rifle with a fresh one from the pile and slowly made her way back to the unit on the front line.
The commanders had issued the G8 unit to make an attack on the alien army. One that would surely be fatal to everyone who made the advance. Yet all would obey the orders set by the Lieutenant, for it was the only thing they could do. Everyone was ready to fight, including KC.
KC took her place in formation among the other soldiers as they waited. Each person alone in the crowd. For everyone in war dies alone on the battlefield. Alone with their thoughts they all stood. Things spinning through their mind. The things they regretted doing in their life. The prayers they sent to their loved ones and the hopes that they would live to see another blue sky above them. Every mind echoed the same thought. 'Please don't let me die here...'
The Lieutenant chouted the fatal orders from his office and the unit advanced as one. Together they climbed out of the muddy trench and fought for their right to live. Each soldier fighting for his destiny; alone.