THE COMPLETE DEAD PLANET SERIES by Drew Avera

Author:Drew Avera [AVERA, DREW]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-04-18T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter 9

Within the torrent of flames and explosions, I could feel clods of dirt pelting me. The ground shook beneath me as the percussive blasts resounded in the air around us. I looked to my left and right; everywhere was devastation. I could not tell if the crumbling remains of buildings were due to today's attack, or if they were simply a reminder of what Treston was capable of. I had only just met Harris, but I could tell that he held some resentment towards his uncle. Seeing this devastation made me realize how justified he was in his way of thinking.

Everything on this planet was a mystery to me, and I struggled to put the pieces together in my head so that I could understand what was going on. Never before in my life had I seen this kind of chaos. The closest thing that I could recall to even draw a comparison was what I had been through on Mars to keep Kara alive. Everything else paled by comparison. Another explosion rippled beneath my feet. I fell face down on the ground and realized that the breath had been knocked out of me. I struggled to suck in the precious oxygen that kept me alive. My head throbbed from a dull pain and my eyes blurred from the tears that formed.

After a long moment of disorientation, I could breathe again. I felt a hand grip my arm and I lifted my eyes to see Harris standing there. His hair was disheveled and dirt masked his face. I could see remnants of blood on his arm and hands. He held the large weapon that I had seen him grab earlier. A sound caught his attention and he lifted his weapon and fired a projectile into an oncoming assailant. The sound was almost a deafening as the other explosions that filled the air.

"Let's go," he said as he grabbed my arm and began pulling me with him. I followed him through a maze of buildings that were still standing. He released his grip on me once he realized that I was keeping up on my own. Harris turned a corner and we entered one of the damaged buildings. "Are you alright?" he asked.

"I think so," I said. I could feel nervousness course through my body. I thought I had known war before this day, but I was mistaken.

"Serus," Kara and Laurel came around a corner and wrapped their arms around me. "I thought we had lost you," Kara said.

I could hear the tremble in her voice.

"This is madness," I said, mostly to myself.

"This is nothing," Harris said. "This is just a mortar attack. My uncle does this every few months just to remind me that he's still alive." Harris was so nonchalant in the way that he said it that I was concerned about the environment we had entered.

"How can you call this nothing? There is so much devastation out there. How many casualties come with an attack like this?" I was shaken to the core.

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