CHAPTER 7

I’m silently sitting in my little office, enjoying the peaceful morning. The world around me is not that peaceful though. The Berets have gotten stronger over the last 2 years and they’ve even assassinated the president. At our last meeting we lost a lot of soldiers which forced us to go underground.

Literally, we moved to HQ. It’s an underground base. Filled with high-tech and all the facilities a soldier may need. Apparently only the president, Nathan and Nathan’s partner knew about this place. It was built during the last war between Azaporia and it’s rival country, Fraland.

Now with the president gone and most of our leadership gone with him, we elected Nathan as our new leader and everybody now calls him Boss. It started off as a joke but now it’s his everyday name.

I’m the commander of the snipers and I couldn’t be happier. You see, I’m a big guy, big as in muscular. I’m also good at guns, there’s no one better than me, I’m not bragging by the way. Boss wanted me to lead the combat force but I’m not into close combat. I love guns. They just put a smile on my face.

For the last few months we’ve been getting tips about the Berets from a young man called Puo. He was a spy for them but I don’t know what actually happened and he turned against them. Last week he came to live with us so that we can protect him. He didn’t want to involve his family but as I had predicted, the Berets attacked them.

They were actually attacked by the Berets’ best assassin, Hatari. He’s the one who assassinated the president by the way. He beat up Puo’s sister and killed one of their siblings. Yesterday was his funeral and today we’re fetching them. They’re going to be the newest addition to HQ. Boss couldn’t hide his excitement as he made the cleaners make sure that their rooms are very clean and kept in order.

I’m apparently fetching Puo’s sister because she’ll be in the sniper division and I’ll be her mentor.

“You have to learn to intergrate with other people Khombo. I’m very sure that she’ll be the perfect apprentice for you,” Boss said yesterday. I insisted on taking Puo instead but he said that I should take her. There’s no arguing with Boss so I agreed.