Last Day, Final Day. Goodbye My Love. Part 1

Last Day, Final Day. Goodbye My Love. Part 1

It’s my last day here on the front. Soon I’ll be heading home to smell of ripe fruit and the sounds of family that take me back to my place of happiness. Bombshells being to explode around me bringing me back to reality. I cuss under my breath and say a quick prayer in hopes to stay alive for the rest of this day; my final day. I see a man running towards my position, three consecutive shots and he’s down and out. I pause and wait for another, but none come. I look up towards the sky to see our zeppelin engaged with the enemy’s. I pray to god that ours will still be there whilst I look back up there. I shut my eyes and go back to my childhood. All the arguments I had with my family, the pain I went through with my brother, long now deceased. Another explosion sounds in the distance, puzzled I look to my spotter.

“Corporal, what’s going on?”

He replies with only a shrug. Worried I tell him to watch downfield. Thankfully he obeys and reports that nothing is coming, but there’s a great deal of debris. He points something out, I look to it and realize that it is some of our guys taking cover behind the debris. One tosses a grenade. The grenade goes off and they jump over the debris to kill the survivors. Suddenly, enemy shells rain down all around me, I see the men at the debris be ripped apart by the sheer cataclysm of explosions. I black out.

“John. John wake up! Sir, wake up!!” the Corporal shakes me and repeats this a few times before I regain control of myself and my extremities.

“Corporal.. What the hell happened?” I asked as I groaned of the pain in my side.

“We took two at the base of building. I dragged you to our new ‘nest’ here.” the Corporal replies in a somewhat calm tone. Keeping me at ease.

“I see, what all do we still have?” I ask, but the Corporal is cut off as more shells rain down here and there.

I look up to see our zeppelin, Genesis, go down in flames as the enemy zeppelin raises altitude to go over its burning wreckage. The enemy’s zeppelin beings to rain down fire upon the city. I realize all hope is lost. In the distance I can see battalions of enemys coming in from their previous locations.

(To be continued…)