Cowboy Bebop Fan Fiction / Ah My Goddess Fan Fiction ❯ i was only 19 ❯ I was only 19 ( Chapter 1 )

[ T - Teen: Not suitable for readers under 13 ]

(a\n: the dates at the bottom of this songfic are the exact dates that each country has lost a part of its humanity. Don't like it, piss off)

I Was Only 19 (A Walk in the Light Green)

Mum and Dad and Denny saw the passing out parade at Puckapunyal,
(1t was long march from cadets).

[Shot of a young Spike Spiegel in military march, decked out in army gear, marching through town]

The Sixth Battalion was the next to tour and it was me who drew the card…
We did Canungra and Shoalwater before we left.

[Shot of spike vicious, jet, and a few mates getting onto a ship]

And Townsville lined the footpath as we marched down to the quay;
This clipping from the paper shows us young and strong and clean;

And there's me in my slouch hat, with my SLR and greens…
God help me, I was only nineteen.

[Shot of older spike looking at picture of younger self]

From Vung Tau riding Chinooks to the dust at Nui Dat,
I'd been in and out of choppers now for months.

[Shot of spike and vicious deploying from choppers]

But we made our tents a home, VB and pin-ups on the lockers,
and an Asian orange sunset through the scrub.

[Shot of spike, Celestine, jet sitting on seats drinking v.b]

And can you tell me, doctor, why I still can't get to sleep?
And night time's just a jungle dark and a barking M16?

[Shot of spike, jet, Celestin and others in trenches being fired upon and returning fire]

And what's this rash that comes and goes, can you tell me what it means?
God help me, I was only nineteen.

A four week operation, when each step could mean your last one on two legs:
it was a war within yourself.
But you wouldn't let your mates down 'til they had you dusted off,
so you closed your eyes and thought about something else.

[Shot of spike closing his eyes]

Then someone yelled out "Contact"', and the bloke behind me swore.
We hooked in there for hours, then a God almighty roar;
Frankie kicked a mine the day that mankind kicked the moon: -
God help me, he was going home in June.

[Shot of vicious kicking a mine]

1 can still see Frankie, drinking tinnies in the Grand Hotel
on a thirty-six hour rec. leave in Vung Tau.

[Shot of vicious with spike and the others in a hotel pub]

And I can still hear Frankie lying screaming in the jungle.
'Till the morphine came and killed the bloody row

[Shot of vicious lying, screaming with a leg missing and a medic tending to him]

And the Anzac legends didn't mention mud and blood and tears,
and stories that my father told me never seemed quite real
I caught some pieces in my back that I didn't even feel…
God help me, I was only nineteen.

And can you tell me, doctor, why I still can't get to sleep?
And why the Channel Seven chopper chills me to my feet?

[Shot of spike watching a chopper wide-eyed]

And what's this rash that comes and goes; can you tell me what it means?
God help me,
I was only nineteen.

[fade to group photo. Faces crossed out]

[Message displayed saying: Respect Life]

Three messages come across the screen saying simply:

11/9/01

New York

12/10/02

Bali

And finally

7/7/05

London