Jack+Gribben

__**Term One, Piece One

Death in the Hole**__

I was positioned in a stinking trench surrounded by mutilated corpses and the smell of decomposing diseased death. Rats one and a half feet long feasted on the organs of the dead. The cricket like chirping of rifles and machine guns could be heard in the subtle distance, my heart was beating at uncomfortably exceeding rates, I was in a hole in the dirt, worried as hell even though we were probably in one of the safest areas in the whole war zone.

The chirping stopped as i took a glance out of the shallow trench, the night was as still as an undisturbed pond in the middle of nowhere, where beasts were sleeping beneath the algae and muck. I felt anxious now that the firing had stopped, i didn’t know where the enemy was or what he was doing. Fear overtook my body as i tried to sleep, the pace changing and solid beating of my heart kept me wide awake, as demonic, horrid, approaching fear drained my capacity to even shut my eyes for 3 seconds.

Then, something gut churning and haunting drifted through the air. The conversation of two opposing soldiers speaking in tongue, hissing like snakes. The prompt loading of guns clicked in my brain and i fell into complete shock and panic. I termbled and shook with adrenaline controlling all my limbs. I briskly walked on legs of jelly avoiding stabbed and gun wounded corpses. I awoke my men and put on a tough cowardly face as i explained the situation. A couple of new men were convinced that i had simply been hearing things and that we were completely safe. One of them put their head up just to have a look.

BANG.

Brains exploded from the back of the head as the blood soaked offal remnants splattered on to a dirt wall behind the man. Making a pattern of sabotage and brutality. Panic rose as every single man screamed like little girls throwing tantrums. We threw around 15 lifeless men over the top of the trench, heavy machine guns instanly started ripping them apart as we used this distraction to make an escape. Away from the brutal, venomous, vile, cunning and disgusting beings.