"Alright maggots! Run!"

"YES SIR!"

Jack runs with his fellow soldiers as the scorching sun burns their skin. Sweats drip down his forehead to the dirt as he tried not to fall behind, Jack wasn't used to the heat and they had been running for hours.

The sergeant, who had been running alongside them while yelling at them to run faster, didn't seem to be tired at all.

"...My grandma can run faster than you maggots and she's dead!"

Jack noticed that he was starting to fall behind the other and the sergeant notices it as well. He braces himself for the sergeant to start yelling at him.

""Where the fuck were you!?""

Those were the first words that Brick and Lester spoke to each other after they finish staring at each other in shock.

"What do you mean where the fuck I was? I keep my eyes off you and Basil for one second, you two disappear and I got drag here by a bunch of creepy looker fuckers whose grip is stronger than Basil's when you try to take his food!" Lester yells.

"I should be the one to say that, you lanky motherfucker!" Brick retort. "And keep your voice down would ya? The last thing we need are guards to slam me back into my cell, chain me up, and throw away the key!" He closes the door and locks it.

"Hey, what about me?"

"Oh, shut up," Brick said as he freed Lester from the chains. Lester stood up, rubbing his sore wrists.

"You took the keys off a guard right?" Lester nod.

Brick nod.

"So, did you get any weapons off the guard, because I didn't take my daggers, bombs, or anything with me, but now that I think about it, they would have taken anything that was on us when we got here, " Lester asks. "And we need to find Basil, and considering that we're both here, then it's most likely that the fatass is here as well," he added.

"No weapons on the guard, which was weird, since you would expect that the guards would have weapons to protect themselves," Brick said. "And I agree with ya that Basil's here as well."

The two began to move toward the door, but stop as they heard voices coming toward them. "...So, where is Buck? He was with us for a moment, then he wasn't, and he didn't take his weapon with him." They heard one guard said.

"Don't know, Duck. Though he did say that he was ordered to bring one of the prisoners to be executed," They heard another guard say.

"Just like us, Truck?"

"Yeah...Oh, we're about to be there."

Brick and Lester's heart began beating rapidly as they look at each other. "We will tackle the guards and knock them out when they open the door," Brick mouthed while making several hand gestures.

Lester looked at Brick, confused. "What?" He whispers.

This caused Brick to sigh. "We'll tackle the guards and them out the moment that they open the door," He whispers.

"Ahhhhh..." Lester nods in understanding as he turns to the door.

Brick sigh again.

"Urgh..."

Jack drops onto his bunk, his body sore and tired, he had also just finished taking a shower. "I want to die..." He groans.

"Hahaha!"

"Hmm?" Jack lifted his head up, someone's head hanging down from the bunk that was above him, smiling and laughing.

The person had brown eyes, grey hairs, a smile that stretched from ear to ear, and as Jack noted, there was something about the man that made him want to be friendly with him. "What are you laughing about?" Jack asks.

"Nothing, just how funny you are," The man said. "After all, everyone else here is boring as hell." He gestures to everyone else that was in the same room with them. Nobody was talking with each other and just kept to themselves and the room was quiet and gloomy. "Though I can't blame them since most of them don't want to be here," He added.

"Yeah..." Jack nods agreeing with the man. Almost everyone was dragged here to join the army to have more men to fight against bandits and rebels. Also, most of them had lost someone they love due to the war.

"Say...What's your name?" Jack asks.

"Oh, my name is Brick."

"Alright, here we are."

"Ready?" Brick whispers, crouching, ready to tackle whoever tries to enter the room, Lester was doing the same though nervous.

Lester nods slowly.

The doors open as the guards start to enter the room and stop when they saw the two, they began to open their mouths to say something but wasn't able to when Lester and Brick tackle the guards to the ground.

Brick began to choke the life of one of the guards, while Lester fought the other. The guard that Brick was choking to death's face began to go blue as he began to stop resisting and went limp.

Brick let go of the guard and turns to see Lester trying to stab the other guard with a sword with the guard trying to grab out of Lester's grasp.

The innkeeper grabs a sword out of a sheath from the guard's belt and was about to rush over to help Lester, to see him stabbing the guard over and over again as the guard scream in pain.

Lester finally stops stabbing the guard, taking a deep breath, blood all over him as Brick walk over toward him. "You alright?" Brick asks, his voice quiet.

"Yes...And if you're asking how I feel about killing someone...Well don't worry, it's not exactly the first time I killed," Lester said. "You can't exactly...Survive in the slum of Bronach without...Getting your hands dirty." He stood, wiping the blood off his face with his sleeves.

"I see..." Brick said nodding. "That's good."

"Come one, let's go, we need to find to the fatass. We don't what if he's safe or not," Lester said.

"Yeah, but before I grab the potions off these bastards," Brick agreed.

"Wait they have potions?"

Jack vomits out his breakfast.

"You alright?" Asks his friend, Brick. After he finishes vomiting all of his breakfast out, Jack stood up, wiping his face with his arm.

"Yeah, I'm good...Just not used to seeing a dead body," Jack responds. They had just arrived onto a village that had been ravaged to the ground, dead bodies littering the site, fire were still burning. Some of the new recruits began vomiting at the sight of the dead bodies, while others just look queasy.

"Yeah...It's not exactly a pleasant sight to see," Brick said. He put his hands onto Jack's shoulders and began leading him toward the outskirts of the village. "Come on, the captain wants us to patrol the outskirts of the village in search of any rebels or bandit.

Jack nod. "Alright, but if we see any rebels or bandits, I'm going to beat them to death," He said, his tone serious as he grips the sheath of his blade tightly.

"Last door."

Brick unlocks the door and opens it to see Basil chained up, with a broken nose, blood on his face, and a black eye.

"Fucking hell! Basil, what did they do to you?" Lester rushes over to Basil's side, grabbing a healing potion from the inside of his jacket, and was about to pour it over Basil's face before Brick stops him.

"Don't pour it on his nose since it will just make it worse, just pour it on his bruises, and we'll fix up his nose when we get out," Brick said.

"It hurt..."

Lester nods, he uses his sleeves to clean the blood off Basil's face, and pour the potion on his black eye as Brick free Basil from his chains.

Basil's black eye heals as Lester lift him up. Basil stumbles around for a bit before he hugs Lester.

Lester let Basil hugs him for a few moments. "Alright, you can stop hugging me now," He said.

Basil let go of Lester as he hands him a dagger.

"Alright, now we can get out of here."