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Her breathing was heavy, her body ached as she was now covered in cuts and bruises, all around her were what remained of the surviving Humans.
She could hear the huffing and panting, coming from each of them. They were tired, no they were beyond exhausted, the few men and women that fought alongside her, were farmers and common townsfolk.
The rain had finally stopped, leaving the now drenched defenders exposed to the chilling winds. She could see her breath, along with those around her. The white mist they all exhaled, almost made her smile.
The area they were in was their last stronghold, the Orks were attacking in every direction, there was no truly safe place.
Yet even in these desperate times, fools rose and let their people to their deaths, the invasion had only been going on for a day. But already they had endured heavy losses, most had been thru battle, but others had been by the people's sheer stupidity.
At the beginning of the invasion, their group was larger, much larger the may villages, towns ran toward the only place that seemed to have a stable defense.
Namely her home village\ town.
She wished those fools would have stayed away. Now because of them, they now had to protect the now widowed woman and bastardized children. But alas she wouldn't think like that, or at the very least not say any of it out loud.
If that man heard her, he would probably chastise her for it, even though she could clearly see that others thought the same.
She could feel herself starting to breath easier as time past, they had stopped at the ruins of a small convenience store, in order to gather food and to rest a little.
The morning winds blew the ashes of the somewhat friendly town everywhere, making whatever moisture it carried along with it, seem like oil as it ran down her delicate skin.
As she saw her comrades..... comrades that thought alone made her laugh.
In the old world, before they were stranded in this magic depraved planet, the Humans around her would have been nothing more than savages. Their kind would barely be fit to run around in her pet's feces, now they were her peoples one and only hope of staying alive.
Still, despite her prejudice, she could understand and even admire their understanding of alchemy or was it science.
Their power didn't come from chants or any spirit, but the understanding of how things work.
Still, she was amassed that they were still alive and were willing to keep going.
So as she bit into the all too obvious, poisoned food known as a twinkly, she looked around and saw how her comrades eat like animals, just shoving the food into their mouths, some didn't even chew.
Their ash covered bodies had the marks of the battles they had been in, as their own red blood was mixed in with the green blood of the Orks.
Three minutes that's all the time they had to rest, they needed to secure an area and to do so they were positioning ruined cars, trucks and whatever else they found into a massive circle. While at the same time they were using the remains of the houses as markers.
It was slow and painful to do, seeing as they had to repetitively circle the entire village, killing any Ork they came across and having to send in small scout units, every time they found a breach.
The scouts always returned, in less numbers each time.
In the beginning, they were more a lot more people.
By the refugee's stories, the areas around them had already fallen. Meaning that the defenders were what was left.
So that man rose to power leading the survivors, if they couldn't run then they would hide and so they did.
But they did it in a spectacular way, her sister and her unborn half breed were left hidden away in a separate place, along with all of the other noncombatants.
With them remained some of the best fighters, she knew that he had no real belief that any of them would return alive.
The wind blew making her shiver, at that moment she felt the weight of a jacket placed on her shoulders, as she looked up she saw him standing over her, like a titan so far above her yet so close that she could touch him.
''Hey listen I know you're tired, but I need you to take a small team and give everyone back home some of the food and clothes we found. Pick whoever you want, and go tell them everything's going to be okay,'' he said before he walked away, as he handed out clothes to the people around her.
That man was her sisters, the one responsible for staining her and her unborn children. She honestly didn't see what her sister saw in him, well not until now at least.
He has weak scrawny arms, a stomach from the lack of exercise, messy hair and a weak sounding voice.
But with all these faults she couldn't help but look at him, he had led the survivors in each encounter, well the ones he gathered after he left the first group.
Yes, they were both deserters and no they were both deserters.
The first group believed themselves to be capable and charged at the Orks head on, it was them that thinned out the Orks numbers, but none of them even tried to set up a defensive wall and it was that one fatal flaw that was their downfall.
Each one group had its own leader that clashed with the others and they would often shut each other up, that alone was a huge flaw. Communication was keen in battle.
So he broke off and told anyone that would listen, to go to one of the few houses that had a basement.
The noncombatants were separated into several houses, fifteen to thirty houses filled to capacity all holding women, children and elderly.
Unfortunately, anyone that was too ill or too old was left behind, many cursed his name, even the men that fought alongside them saw him with hate.
That is until they saw several survivors, being killed as they tried to save their elders, elders that couldn't walk or move freely on their own.
Even now she saw how many of them still held looks of distrust towards him.
So as more survivors were found and were added to the defenders, he gave the order to send a small team with whatever noncombatants to the somewhat secure area.
It was this act that sealed their first betrayal, a muscular man took control of many of their allies, taking control of the defending army and he was forced into exile.
With that man in power, the defenders were left in a state of what could only be called soon to be dead.
The fool uses the walls that had been set up, to attack the Orks she was there when they used a combination of gasoline and explosive weapons, that the Humans called pipe bombs, at first it was all going well until they began to run out of bombs.
The Orks arrived in waves, an ocean of green muscle and teeth. Soon the walls were breached. The only reason she survived was that she hid on top of a roof, but when it was all over there was a road that leads clear across the once safe zone.
Again he arrived and gathered the survivors, they yelled at him and accused him of betrayal, but this time he would have none of it.
He killed all of those that attacked him, his reason was simple she didn't need to hear it.
They had betrayed him, the area wasn't for the defenders no it was for all of their women and children and because of them, they risked losing them all.
So they had to go back and seal all of the breached areas, she could still remember the look in his eyes when he looked at her, that day.
The pain and regret in those eyes, but she could see he was glad that she was still alive.
The sound of barking caught her attention, a lot of the farmers had guard dogs, dogs that now served as a protective beast for their units.
She could see him playing with a few of them all different breeds, Rottweilers, pit bulls [the original kind] and one several that seemed like a mixture of almost every breed.
She remembered when they first found a small group of survivors that had several women in ropes, in all honesty, they seemed like slavers.
So a surprise attack was sent in, but the men in the group refused to fight, saying that the women were insane.
A lot of things can happen in half day and an entire night. The women were something called feminist, to be honest, no one would have said anything had they not tried to take control.
They had learned their lesson and they were so few of their own people left, that when the situation became heated, the whole group as one force the women to leave.
By the time a third circle was made around the safe area, they found the remains of several of the woman.
A group of nearly eighty women and only two were found alive.
Yet in all of this, she couldn't help but look at him.
He wasn't much to look a, but he had proven cunning enough to let his enemies kill themselves, strategically speaking the sheer fact that when the Orks breached, none of them had found the noncombatants, that proved he knew what he was doing.
So as she looked at him, she couldn't help but wonder if she could get him to look in her direction. Still, her three minutes were up and it was time to take the supplies to all of those hungry mouths.