I was determined to write a story today and after 5 hours of brain-racking and sweating like a dog I finally produced my first (which I feel) should-be-a-novel story. Just read on and believe me you will be caught up......
Feedback is welcome.
Stun Darts
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Derek and Will got down from the public bus
hesitantly. Their foster parents had kicked them out realizing that there was
no use of these two brothers they had sheltered. But they had no idea of the
place they has unknowingly stepped into. The smell of rotten fish and vegetable
filled their nose and they were forced to travel along the tide of daily
shoppers who came here to buy fresh foodstuff. And they found it too but
without the adjective fresh before
it.
The CCTV which had been put across through
the city tracked their every move. Even their swatting of a fly was carefully
recorded on a hard disk with a capacity to last their entire lives. The people
who were sitting behind the desks watching them however didn’t look as if they
were going to last till Derek and Will’s death. They were pale and their skin
dry and chapped due to the constant air-conditioning. They have been monitoring
the boys for seven years.
Yes,
seven years. For seven years, these hairless and emotionless people had
been employed to keep watch over these boys. Rarely, they asked for any food or
drink. To one single room, more than 400 CCTVs were connected. They were
constantly monitored by 80 people. There were four parts of the city – namely,
North, South, East and West. And basically 4 groups – with 20 in each. The boys
who had abruptly shifted from North to West had again brought a row of sighs
from them. A rare sight was seen from these agents – grief.
The last group of these agents codenamed “Vortex Dragon” was taken to Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam and shot down. The
reason was that they were tired and decided to take a ten minutes’ rest. It
turned out that as these agents were monitoring the boys, so were they being
monitored by a higher group of people. Usual. But the current group of agents
codenamed “Alpine Wolf” were tougher
and had much more endurance. Downtime of 1 minute
in approximate 525960 minutes. That’s it.
The members of “Alpine Wolf” were taken to a training facility for elite agents in
Iraq. For 1 year, they were on starvation rations –5 litres of water in a day,
hard bread thrice a day and chicken stew occasionally. Every day wasn’t the
same however. Monday was endurance test, Tuesday was strength test, Wednesday
was skill test and so on. All in all, there was absolutely no rest.