The Courage of Fear is here!

The Base Battle

I instantly moved to try to dodge the raging ball of fire but, unfortunately, I got hit. My arm was paining badly when Jaskle used the Decentigrator.

The fire spirit moaned in pain now hitting Jaskle with a long and powerful blast that he very quickly dodged, unlike me.

Jaskle bent down while picking up his harpoon as he aimed and hit the entrance we came from.

Usually on our bases when these types of commotions happened more troops would show up, I guess they have bad communications then.

Well, what were my other friends doing? Retrieving information and scouting for more Ancient Fires.

Now back to the action, Jaskle now used a Water Bottle? That’s a water bottle? As he threw his water at the now flaming spirit nothing happened. Silence the spirit stopped, I stopped, and Jaskle stopped as we all looked at each other with small delicate movements.

Jaskle then ran to me, hooked my water bottle off, and threw it right at the Ancient Fire.

“Sss!’ A hiss came right after as if the Ancient Fire was a hot pan. (You know the sizzle when you put water on a hot pan?)

The spirit screamed

“You have mistreated our kind you shall pay to show that we don’t tolerate it!” The words echoed through the halls giving us a spooky feeling as the spirit now lunged at Jaskle, almost injuring him. Jaskle was small and we used to tease him about this. I guess it was useful

Jaskle, now tired, stopped to take a breath as the spirit lunged again. I now kicked it in the face and surprisingly it stumbled back. I guess they can turn from solid to fire nothingness.

I took one good look at it. It was raging with fire, as it was about to hit me, I did the dumbest thing ever, I lit a fire.

These things just keep confusing me, it’s not immune to fire? It’s made up of it, of course, we weren’t either so we dashed out to find an entrance.

We came to see that our friends went to the roof smiling and staring we grappled up. Jaskle jumped up and took his button on the ground.

I now saw human-like instincts as fiery tears dripped down the fire spirit’s face.

“It’s crying,” I said intimately staring at the poor thing as I thought

‘It’s scared of death'

“No! Stop!” I said lunging at the Jaskle’s bomb activator, he was grappling up to the helicopter as I lunged for the button. Whard grabbed me at the last second,

“What are you trying to do? That almost killed you and me.” Jaskle said unapprovingly

“It was a creature!” I said holding back a form of sadness

“That ‘creature’ as I said almost killed you” Jaskle replied

The rest of the flight was silent after this conversation. I saw tears come out as if he was sad. But what was it about? It might have been death, but then again, it wouldn’t be as well.

We arrived at a large huge structure twice the size of our city, around the building there were 60-70 mile long runways for flyers to move.

We even have a bunch of trucks and cars racing back and forth as some even ventured around protecting the base. We slowly glided to the ground where one car stopped to resupply the flyer and to guide us to the station. Usually, we would talk all the way but, Sardot Renep and Montad were silent ever since we got back from the base. They were all assigned the same thing. To hack the data, I wonder what they saw.

Entering the base were posters of Generals that were in the ancient fire and generals in the Forcots’ small army.

Many people whispered about the new ancient fire king. They all looked scared, and so was I.

Walking down a hall we reached a medium-sized room. We all walked into the room, unpacking our very little amount of belongings. It was inevitable to talk to each other,

“So, it’s a nice base right?” I asked

“That thing you did, back at the Ancient Firebase. Why? Why did you try and stop me? You do know they are our enemies” Jaskle said now staring at me.

“It’s, compli-” I was cut off

“Still,” Jaskle said now looking down at the floor

“Ummmmm, the thing, it was crying,” I said as the other roared with laughter

“What? Ancient Fires are merciless, are you joking?” Whard said now joining the heated conversation

“I saw, it had fiery tears dripping down its face. It was crying, and I think it was scared of death.” I bravely stated hoping to appease them

“Let’s stop,” Renep said, just momentarily glancing at me.

We made it back to where the Captain said,

“Good job soldiers, you took out one of the most infamous generals in the army. Each fire has its weakness and his was fire itself”

I just stood there, I didn’t even say anything. I wish I did because we were tasked with an even more important base. It would have twenty Ancient Fires.

Just then a Wetor -----Forcot fighter----- appeared in the midst spewing out much more than we anticipated raining fire on the incoming flyers. Much more came out hitting cars who were trying to help the flyers.

About twenty big bulky aircrafts landed with about 50 soldiers in each of them.

As soon as the Forcot troops ran to us, we found another country to come to attack.

The Ancient Fire had landed right behind the Forcots hovering above the ground. We watched as the invasive force brutally fought our people outside. As soon as we thought that all the troops landed even more came even our ‘allies’. Here’s a list of them

The Ancient Fire

The Forcots

The Derialt (Ally or used to be)

The Werlad (Ally or used to be)

The Yewash

The Tree Gods (Ally or used to be)

We were shocked to see so many countries storm our base this was one of the three bases we had. One person shouted that base one was taken down by all the other countries in the world. I guess that newspaper should have said

‘DAWAN DECLARES WAR ON THE WORLD’

Even though I did not want to kill people I guess I had to. Just then the Evile landed on our base.

‘Them’ I thought, making a face, they were the ones behind this.

I ran outside my friends close behind trying to stop me from dying

“Come back! You’re taking this too seriously!” Whard said trying to tackle me as Jaskle grabbed me,

“You know, there are some advantages to being small.”

“Let’s get ‘em,” I said

“That’s the spirit!”

We both dashed off leaving our friends behind, as they screamed for us to stop

“Jaskle, how did you know that was a water bottle?” I asked

“I saw my dad fight in the Dawanian civil war, it was cleaned up to prevent another from happening. All the other nations want to conquer our country because we are so technologically advanced but, no-one could handle us alone-,” Jaskle said

“So they teamed up,” I said shocked

“Why didn’t you tell me?” I interrogated

“I never found the right time,” He said glumly

By this time our friends caught up, and so did our enemies.

“Yeah, we were about to tell you Treth,” Renep said.

I dashed behind the Ancient Fire coming towards me as I used my Decentigrator

The Ancient Fire shrugs as he lunged towards me. Then two Forcots decided to try and knock me in the head but, even before I had seen them Whard picked one up and bashed him into the other knocking them both out.

Jaskle ran around the Ancient fire using all his might to try everything as he picked up the grappling hook as he muttered.

“Worth a try”

He shot it at him as the spirit quickly vanished into thin air

“So, that’s what happens when you kill them,” Montad says

A few Ancient Firea screeched coming to attack us, as one tree god hit Whard in the face knocking him as easily as he did for the Forcots.

My eyes widened as I saw Sardot getting outnumbered as a tree god stuck him to the ground with roots about to poke his head with a sharp tree knife.

“Nooooo!!!” I yelled jumping toward him

TO BE CONTINUED