48 Allies and Friends (1/2)
At the base, the navy was pushing the beasts back, although slowly, it still improved the morale of the soldiers tremendously.
James was joining in every now and then, but he mainly sat back and gave orders, to both the soldiers and his sharks.
”Sir!”
Looking back James noticed a Warrant officer behind him, ”What?”
”The intelligent beasts are beginning to send the main force Fleet Admiral!”
”How many?” James asked, concerned for everyone's safety.
”150 birds and 1500 grounded beasts, sir!”
”How much longer do we have?”
”They've been estimated to arrive in 20 minutes, sir”.
”Bring out the Warships, get them targeting the grounded beasts first!” James ordered.
”Yes, sir!” The officer began running towards the ports, where a large number of navy soldiers could be seen running around with boxes filled with ammunition.
James was getting more and more nervous, 'Damnit, when are they going to get here'.
Although he didn't show it, he was exhausted. The reason he sat back down wasn't to observe the battlefield, he was merely too exhausted to fight. Similar to a sprinter, James used all his strength from the start.
James looked down at his watch and set a timer for 20 minutes, but the most he can wish for is that not all soldiers die.
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Ten minutes had passed and the soldiers continue to push back the beasts, but they also noticed the casualties have increased as well. There were comrades bodies littering the field, almost all of them had mangled corpses.
James looked back as he heard a boat siren from behind him. To be greeted with the first of many boats lining up, all pointing the cannons at grounded beasts. However, they didn't fire, they continued to wait until the main force was there.
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Another ten minutes past and the first sign of a confrontation was seen. The birds in the sky shot all sorts of elements towards the soldiers, either burning them, freezing them or cutting them in half with the wind.
Seeing his soldiers get massacred only further angered James.
”Fire!”
The sound of machines firing went off. Looking up people could see hundreds of bullets reign through the sky, cutting straight through the birds. The bullets found it especially easy to break through the wings, causing the birds to fall.
A few birds readied their talons and began descending rapidly, head straight towards either the vehicles or the Warship guns. But those soldiers in control of the Warship guns haven't trained for nothing. They continued to mow down the birds.
James got up, he felt rested enough to continue fighting, and just like before, he bent his knees. But got slightly closer to the ground. He pounced, breaking the ground again, but even more than before. However, he was also a lot faster.
Just as the bird was about to get a vehicle it felt something grab it, before realising it was getting dragged along by a human.
Holding onto the bird James ran next to another bird, before swinging it towards the other bird with full force, both birds necks broke immediately.
*Roar*Roar*
The sound of other beasts could be heard, looking around James saw them entering. They were a bunch of lions, they completely ripped apart the soldiers.
Seeing that James pounced towards them, with a fist raised and clenched he punched with his full strength. But those lions noticed immediately.
They quickly dodged to the side, before hitting James with their claws, which put a large scar across his entire body.
*Blugh*
James fell to his knees and spew out some blood, looking at himself he saw the massive cut across his body, created by three giant claws.
”Damnit, fire!” James shouted.
*Bang*Bang*Bang*Bang*
The sounds of cannons going off could be heard from the battlefield. Along with the sound came visible streaks in the sky, heading towards the lions.
*Boom*Boom*Boom*Boom*
They all exploded on impact, shredding the lion corpses to bits. But it wasn't over.