Assault on Radiata Island
Ch 3:
The assault on Radiata Island
The closer they get to the shore the louder the blast gets and the more they can hear death wails. Are they our people, the civilian’s or the enemy’s? As the boat is about to land on shore, they will soon find out. As the boat gets beached it opens up and the unit breaks out into a full sprint, the fighting has left some casualties on all sides and blood stains the sand of the beach. Audrey still running notices there is also what looks to be oil in the sand. As they keep running past the beach they finally enter the city and notice fighting still happening, Dante yells “get to those roofs we need to cover our units from above!” as he jumps up climbing the wall, Travis, and Fuu following his lead. Audrey uses levitate to rise to their position, noticing some enemy soldiers also attempting to do the same she lets out a spell.”Magic Missile !” from her finger she shoots out a spiraling beam of light that snipes the enemy in the head causing it to erupt and explode, but instead of blood Black oozing oil shoots out. Diana, noticing this realizes what they are and looks at Jake, he nods acknowledging he knows too. “These enemy soldiers have been cybernetically enhanced !” says Jake with annoyance, “ stay together and fight in formation this enemy units are cybers!” as he slams his mace into one of their chest, hearing it’s cybernetic bones crack as the enemy falls down dead.
Eroby using some of his martial art skills kicks an enemy through a window and axe kicks another in the head, a small squirt of oil oozing from it’s head. Celeste cutting throats with her daggers does a back flip onto the shoulders of an enemy and stabs him in the skull, a gleeful smile on her face as she goes. Diana who has her hammer out isn't using it, she is grabbing the enemy with her free hand and throwing them into each other and slamming them to the ground as if to show physical dominance over the enemy. These new SeeDs are not taking this situation as a game they know full well this is life or death and treating it as such. Travis started shooting arrows alongside Audrey’s spells to give the ground team an opening to get to the town square. Dante and Fuu were currently fighting off any enemy units but these units didn't have helmets on, before them stood drow, but they were cybernetically enhanced to withstand sunlight or so it seems. They seem to be slightly stronger as well as faster than the usual drow but not much sturdier. As Fuu slashs a few drow giving the ranged fighters cover when an arrow pierces her shoulder, she screams in agony and drops to her knees gripping her wound. Travis hearing this turns and sees the cyber drow archer and fires his arrow to the wind curving it midair and headshot it. In that instant Travis and Dante appear behind the enemy archer’s body and start slashing and stabbing at the remaining archers. Audrey stays with Fuu and pulls the arrow out, Fuu winces in pain but starts to heal herself with a song using Healing Word. Audrey casts Shield over them to guard against any more arrows that would be shot their way.
Back with the ground unit Jake has led them towards the town square. “Ok secure the town square.” as he says that a few towns folk rush passed them with drow on their heels Eroby jumps into the fray and spin kicks two of them knocking them away. Diana rams into one drow while grabbing another by the neck and throwing them into two more. “ we’re gonna need some cover to handle all these enemies Jake!” yelled Diana, Jake then begins to raise his mace and casts Flame Strike . From the sky rains down fire and light on the squad of drow their body’s bursting to flames and turning to ash where they stand their inhuman screams being heard from the bright light being rained from the sky. His unit stops in sheer awe at the power that Jake wields, but not Celeste, she is eyeing Jake and sees that when casting such a spell he is wide open and stays close to him. As the town square is being cleared some of the drow ignore the ground unit and make their way towards the mountain trail, Jake notices this. “Hey Jake, what do we do if they retreat?” asked Eroby as his palm strikes a drow in the face sending it spiraling off into a window. “ We hold the town square, that is the mission that is what we do.” slamming another drow with his mace into the ground, with annoyance in his voice.
The drow units start to retreat to the mountain trail, Jake seeing this calls his unit back not wanting them to chase. Just then while his guard is down he feels a sharp pain in his back and his back feels warm and wet. As everyone turns around to head towards Jake they realize his problem, he has been stabbed in the back, but not by the enemy but by their own, Celeste!?. “Jake!” screams Eroby and they all run to him, before Jake hits the ground Eroby catches him. “What he had it coming acting all high and mighty.” exclaims Celeste “ don’t act like you were sick of his shit.” Diana slaps Celeste causing her to spin “Are you out of your mind!” she yelled “we are on a mission a battlefield we don't need these kinds of acts!” Eroby puts Jake down on the ground “ he’s still alive he is just really hurt.” Diana rushes to his side to Lays on hands him, his wound heals just fine but when she turns towards Celeste she is gone. “Well while you guys are tending to him i’m going to scout out where they retreated to.” she said condescendingly. “Bye.” as she runs off towards the trail.
Diana glares and begins to chase” wait!” yells Eroby “ we can’t just leave him like this.” Diana stops and trunks back to healing Jake, as he awakens his eyes are filled with anger and none else. “Where?” Diana and Eroby looked at him confused “where did she go?!” he bellowed, they pointed to the trail. He stood up pushing Eroby to the ground “I want that traitor!” Diana helps Eroby up, they both look at Jake in surprise. Eroby dusts himself off “no big deal, just dirt.” as Jake rushes off after her they follow for their leader to assist if need be. As they follow the trail it slowly starts turning into a stone path when they turn around the bend of the mountain they see one of the drow soldiers being dragged into a large hedges. Crunches and screams can be heard and the silence when from the hedge stretches out a large scaled creature. From the shadows stems a large serpent ready to strike the unit, its body covered in scars and blast marks along its long serpent like body. Jake steps forward as if he didn’t the snake “what ever get out of my way or i’ll crush you!” he says to the serpent still walking towards it unwavering . The serpent goes in for a strike and the group rushes in to help Jake, but the moment it’s face gets close to Jake he slams his mace clean into it’s skull causing its head to slam into the mountain side. They all stop in shock at Jake’s strength, he is strong physically as his spells. As a finishing blow he casts Flame Strike searing the creature to death leaving nothing much a charred skeleton of it’s remains. “Now this unit will be heading towards the mountaintop to get that traitor and nothing will stand in our way!” Proclaimed Jake.