Part 12 - Blood is Always Thicker

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"If rain and tears wash life away...dose the blood of enemy's and friends keep you afloat?"

As the pair tossed in their sleep Trish was startled awake by a drip of water landing on her hat, her right hand bolts to her pistol as she nearly flings Kirina off her as she gets up.

Kirina "WHAAA!!" she bangs into the other wall with a rattling thud. "ouch... what was that about?!"

Trish "sorry..." she slides her pistol back in its holster. "water fell on me and I got spooked"

'she must still be shook up for yesterday...' Kirina thought, she looks up and she's water dripping down from the holes in the roof as the light patter of rain starts.

Trish "well I guess we better go"

Kirina "yup guess so" she gets up from her slump and they re-pack their gear.

A few hours later in the patter of on and off light rain, the Mercs find an old highway and decide to follow it east, completely unaware of the group on that same road going the other way...

Kirina " hey Trish?"

Trish "sup?"

Kirina "you know I've been think, ah damn it!" a piece of asphalt slides out from under her in the now soaked mud, but she keeps her footing. "I've been thinking, are those stories max told us about Talon Company true?"

One major piece of advise he had told them was to avoid them at all costs, Talon Company is a "rival" Mercenary group but they are far larger and have no limits to the havoc they can cause.

Trish stops and looks over her shoulder at her "oh yes...they are true... its been hard to stay out of their 'zone' as they call it, I don't know where the line is drawn but I know we are far past it by now..." she sighs and looks up the sky as rain falls on her face, she looks back down and rolls her shoulders "we should stop following this road just incase, let stop a sec by those rocks, this gun is kind of heavy"

After about 10 minutes of resting and a quick fill up on food and water they get up and are about to get going when some one shouts behind them. "There they are!" in what seemed like an eternity they spun on their heels to face what spotted them and in the split second right as Trish pulled the trigger on the MG she knew it was them...

Jet black armor... White eagle markings... they were right in the path of a Talon patrol...

bullets flew and muzzles flashed as if they were thunder and lighting in the soup of rain. a few were cut down in the opening rounds, luckily large rocks block bullets pretty well for the pair as the had cover and the Talons were in the road.

As the fire fight went on Trish had swapped to the second mag Gustavo had given them but... as she lifted it up and pulled trigger the gun miss fired on a jam. the receiver exploded in Trish's face spraying gun metal in her face and arms "AAAAAAHHHH!!"

Kirina "Trish!" still firing at the troops, she ducks to reload and looks over at Trish with shock on her face "oh god..."

Trish had fallen on her back, her head was towards Kirina and she was slumped on the rock, her arms and face had small Shrapnel stuck in them and she was bleeding fairly bad, Trish seemed to be unconscious...

Kirina nearly snapped into a rage of sadness and anger as she set her rifle on the rocks and grabbed her Pistol, firing wildly at the 3 Mercs still fighting...

She was consumed by fire in her eyes to fight to save her only friend left... even as that friends blood began to soak her boots in the muddy rain fall...