Other Fan Fiction ❯ Secrets from a war time comming to life ❯ Finding someone you love ( Chapter 2 )

Finding someone you love.

 

Randel was sitting on his usual spot on the military vehicle, watching the scenery pass by, his mind racing like a tank. Why haven't Helena looked for him? Why she was in such a lost place as the Northern lands? Only a few people could stand living in those cold areas, and the war hit that place harder than any other spot on the Empire. It almost seemed as she wanted to stay away from anyone and disappear from sight. Helena, why are you hiding from me? You were never scared of me before. What happened? What made you change your mind? You thought I was dead? Thousands of thought went through his mind, trying to understand why Helena hid. They had made a vow to look for each other once the war was over. Over the announce of the ceasefire, Randel had begun his search on Helena, but no one could tell him anything about her whereabouts. It was as she had died. But one year ago he received a tip from an old friend of the Invisible 9, claiming that he had seen Helena on a black market on the outsides of a small village. By the time he arrived there, she had already disappeared, if she was really there. She was there… he repeated to himself, she was there, I am sure of that.

“Corporal”

Randel searched where the voice came from and found the eyes of Alice staring at him.

“Are you Ok?” the blonde asked him with concern printed on her eyes.

“Yeah, I'm fine. Why are you asking?”

“You look upset about something. You mind telling me what is upsetting you? I need your full attention on the search ahead of us.”

“I will give it my full attention LT. Don't worry about me”

Alice turned to face forward. She was really upset with the Corporal. She had felt chills on the back of her neck when she saw the picture of the girl they were looking for. Something good or bad ALWAYS happened when she felt chills on the back of her neck. Before she met the Corporal, the chills were a rare thing, but since then, they became a lot more usual.

The rest of the drive to the North was silent. The weather began to get colder, so they all soon were wearing the big warm jackets with the sign of the Unit on the left arm. Finally they arrived to a very gloomy village, with the sight of a huge castle on the hill that stood over the village. They all got outside the car and Oreld began to stretch himself after the long ride. It was dark on the afternoon, so they all decided to search for a place to spend the night in, considering that if they slept on their sleeping bags, they would probably freeze to death. They went to a local pub and Alice talked to the old lady on the bar, while the three men sat on a booth.

“I hope that we find this girl soon. I wouldn't like to spend a lot of time on this frozen hell hole” Oreld said, yawning after he finished.

“She won't be easy to find” Machs said, “Smugglers from the army are the hardest ones to find. We must be careful on the search or we will scare her away”

Randel sighed and then he looked out the window. Would be possible that Helena was here?

“Here” Alice's voice was heard next to them, and he saw her handing them two keys, “You guys get the bigger room, considering there's three of you and I will be on the one on the end of the hallway. Now let's go and get some sleep, we will start the search tomorrow morning.”

Machs took the key handed to them and got up the table, followed by Oreld and Randel.

“That girl on the file looked pretty hot, don't you think?” Oreld say to them

Machs only shook his head, but Randel stopped dead on his tracks.

“Don't say that” Randel said.

“Don't tell me that you don't like a girl like that big guy! She has everything on the right place!”

“You don't know her” Randel said, “stop saying things like that of people you don't know”

Oreld was about to add something else, but he felt Machs hand on his shoulders.

“Let's get some sleep, and stop babbling about girls Oreld.”

Oreld nodded and they all walked inside the room.

“There are only two beds.” Oreld said.

“I'll sleep on the floor.” Randel said, taking out his sleeping bag from its case and unrolling it on the floor.

Mechs and Oreld just nodded and got on the beds. Soon they all were asleep.

 

 

 

The man was running to the location where she was meant to be around this time. The blizzard fell down his face, but he ignored the cold, knowing that he had to get the news to her. He soon reached his destination, a small wooden house on the outsides of the village. He ran and opened the door suddenly.

“Miss, I have news for you!” He said, breathing hard as he tried to get his composure back.

A young woman stood in front of a lit fireplace. Only her back was visible, but you could see that she had a long braid that started on top of her head and ended on her lower back. She was totally in black, with a long trench coat and black pants. She turned around and her face came in view. She was beautiful, with small almond-shaped eyes and white skin. Hanging on her neck, there was a silver necklace with a golden ring hanging from it, the words 901-ATT words engraved inside it.

“What news do you have Michael?” Her voice was calmed and on a business tone.

“There are military forces on town miss. A woman with three men. They have an insignia with a Pumpkin on their sleeves.”

She let out a small sigh.

“So, the cheery unit is here on town. I wonder what they are doing here. Maybe they are gonna take down the feudal lord from once and for all.”

The man sat down in front of the table.

“Miss Gloria from the pub said that the woman asked for two rooms and information on you, miss.”

“Me? So they are looking for me. Tell me Michael, how did they all look?”

“The woman is blonde, with a small sword hanging from her waist. The men with her look like regular militia, but one of them has a lantern hanging from his belt. He is very tall ma'am”

The woman's eyes grew wide with shock, but soon she recovered her cool demeanor.

“Did you get their names?”

“The woman's name is Alice, but I couldn't get the names of the men. Sorry ma'am”

“It's ok, Michael. Go home and rest. We are making another raid inside the castle tomorrow night.”

The man nodded and turned to leave. The woman sat on a big couch in front of the fireplace. Her fingers began to toy with the ring on her necklace. Randel is here? I never thought that he could end in a Unit like the Pumpkin Scissors one. When we were recruited by the Kaplan Institute, we never thought that things would end up like this. Her hands wandered to the back of her neck. Under the braid she always wore, a number was tattooed on the back of her neck. 001-912-SAT. She was the first subject of experimentation on the SAT series, soon becoming the best one on her unit. Soon she heard of a newly created unit, the 901-ATT. That was the time where she met Randel. She chuckled with her memories. At first she thought that it was impossible for a single footed soldier to take down an enemy tank, but after he saved her from being killed by a tank that sneaked on her while she was on a mission, she realized that he was no ordinary man. Not that she was ordinary either, but still, the show of him standing inches away from the tank and not even flinching was something shocking. Of course that he was injured on the process, the soldiers of the 901 always were covered in scars and a lot died everyday, so she helped him to get better, since they were stuck on the iced tundra. She soon realized that he was a kindhearted man, instead of the fables she heard on the battlefield, about the Gespenst Jäger, or Ghost Hunter. They were stuck on the small cabin for a month, with almost no food. At first she felt unsure with a man around her, but soon the feeling of confidence and trust replaced her fears. It wasn't long when they started falling for each other, disobeying the direct command that forbid love relationships between the soldiers of the Invisible 9 Unit. The war ended one year after they started their secret affair, and she tried to keep the promise of searching for him, no matter where they were. She went back to the secrets labs of the Kaplan Institute, and there she was taken to Muse Kaplan, the director of the projects. There, she realized one truth that Miss Kaplan knew long ago, due to the recent medical reports on the SAT unit: she was pregnant. Helena tried to escape and avoid the inevitable consequences of her state: abortion, but to no avail. Muse Kaplan sedated her with a shot gun and when Helena woke up; she knew that her baby was gone.

 

Flashback

 

Helena was lying on the infirmary bed, handcuffed to her bed. She couldn't cry anymore for her dead child, she knew that nothing could bring the baby back.

“Good morning 001.” The cold tone of Miss Kaplan was heard on the room. Helena turned to see the woman standing next to her bed, hatred all over her face.

“My name is Helena, you bitch! Let me go!”

“Let you go? So you can search for Corporal Randel Oland?” Helena's face couldn't hide her shock, while the tall woman nodded, “Are you surprised? You thought that we will never know that you were having an affair with him? The chemicals on the lantern that he carries do a lot more than just turn him into a mindless killing machine 001.”

“What did you do to him? Where is he?” Helena yelled at the woman, “what did you do to him?”

The doctor shrugged with an evil smile across her face.

“We just gave him a little session on Sci-Ops. We will let you go, my dear, but if you go looking for him, when he turns his lantern on, the last thing your eyes will see, will be the front of his gun. He will kill you, even if doesn't want to. Our sci-ops did a very good job, even if he doesn't remember a thing about that.”

The doctor turned around and began walking out the room, as she signaled the guards to un-cuff the girl. Helena laid there on the bed, ignoring the fact that she was already free to leave. At first she wanted to pretend that she was lying, but she knew too much to just be bluffing. Helena stood up and left the building.

 

End of flashback

 

Helena had stopped looking for Randel since that day. She began to hide, knowing that he was looking for him, for reasons that someone else had put on his head. She ended on that far side of the Empire, stealing the goods that the feudal lord kept for himself and giving them to the villagers. Everything seemed to return to normal until that day, when Michael told her that the Pumpkin Scissors were in town.

She rose from the chair and put her black scarf around her neck and exited the house.

 

 

 

Randel was lying on top of the sleeping bag, unable to sleep. Oreld and Machs were already asleep, snoring very soundly. This is ridiculous, I am never gonna be able to sleep in here. Maybe I should go for a walk. He got up and exited the room, going down the stairs. He went outside the pub and began walking around town, without a destination in mind. He just walked to the town square and sat down a bench, the snow falling over him. Suddenly he heard footsteps behind him. Who could be outside on a cold night? He wondered, while he turned around, to see where the noise was coming from. He saw a dark silhouette walking to on the main lane. It almost seemed like a ghost, all in black, with a black scarf moving in the wind. He got up, curious about who could be.

“Hi, there.” He said to the person. The silhouette turned around and stared at him, but the face was hidden in the shadows. Suddenly the person turned its back on Randel and began to run away from him.

“Wait!” Randel said to the figure, “I am not going to hurt you!”, as he ran after the person. The figure passed next to the windows of the pub and he saw that the person was a girl. She ran very fast, and soon she spaced herself from Randel. He saw the girl turn around the corner, but when he turned around the same corner, she was gone.

He sighed and turned to the pub, suddenly tired of the chase.

 

 

 

Helena was standing on the pub's rooftop. That was a close one she thought while she saw Randel turn around, disappointed. Helena wanted desperately to go down and face him, but she was scared. She didn't knew what he would do if she faced him. Would he kill her? She knew that she had no chance against him in combat, even if she was faster than him. She could run away, but still he could hunt her. I am sorry, Randel. But I couldn't stand having you killing me, of all people.