[5] Neo Steam – Guild Wars

Rope Isle – Iron Base

The gear pet teleported Dekas and Dev back to Iron base, once there dekas shouted “Someone bring a healer! It's an emergency!” upon hearing those words the guards moved to helped them go to the Healers Temple, soon after that Dekas fainted for losing too much blood, after a few hours he regained consciousness and found Scarlet and Celtic near him
“Dekas, what happened? Where are the others?” said Scarlet with in a worried voice
“We were ambushed by members of DoE while patrolling the area, Watter was killed and Dev heavily injured so I decided to retreat, as for the other ones I don't know”
“DoE? I knew it, so the elerds did the same thing the republic did” while they were discussing one of the Healers was checking on Dev
“Haw is she Healer? Will she make it?” asked Dekas while trying to get up
“Yes, you don't have to worry, the hit wasn't fatal it misses all the vital organs, she was lucky, but lost a lot of blood, anyway in a few days she will be back on her feet, you on the other hand got a pretty hard hit, all the bones in your right arm are smashed, if you didn't get here as soon as you did, that arm of yours will be useless now, with intensive healing twice per day you'll be healed in a week” saying that the Healer left to tend others
“Dam...a week inside here and i'll go crazy”
“Want me to cut that arm off and put a mechanical one instead, that will be faster” said Celtic with mad scientist type of voice
“Ermh...No thank you...” Dekas forced a smile but didn't last long, in his mind he sow again Watter's body on the ground lifeless “I'm sorry...I could not save Watter...” a solemn silent filled the room and no one dared to break it. The next day Scarlet left for the central mine while Celtic was trying to recover some information on the DoE guild.

Rope Isle - Central Excavating Point

At the mine all where worried, they didn't had news about Dev and the others since they day before, once they all heard the news from Scarlet their faces were a mix of emotions, sadness and rage, some of them wanted to hunt down the members of DoE but Scarlet calmed them down, such an action will have been too harsh, instead they decided to go on as planed and defend the mine, meanwhile Celtic managed to obtain some information, it seemed DoE moved in small groups and changed their position often to avoid being detected, on the following days there have been many guerrilla's attacks on the mine, luckily without any dead, but the tension was rising being the ones attacked and with the enemies fleeing before the chance of a counter attack put a lot of mental stress on the members of Signa infero, some of them didn't sleep in days, Scarlet had to make a decision, keep defending the mine or retreat to Iron Base and give the troops some rest, after a few more attacks the decision fallen on the last one, they retreated to Iron base and finally had some peace and time to reorganize, meanwhile in the Healers Temple Dev regained consciousness, she was confused and had no clue of what happened
“You sure took your time waking up” Dekas approached her bed smiling
“What?...Where?...”
“Calm down your in the Healers Temple in Iron Base, you were injured in the fight against those elerd and lost consciousness, I brought you here”
“...the last thing I remember is a cold and painful feeling in by back...” she was still confused, but slowly was remembering all
“Jeez... Your a pain, because you didn't pay attention to your surrounding and got hit, I too got distracted and almost lost my arm, luckily I managed to save us both”
“If i'm so much of a pain why didn't you left me there?” she smiled while saying it
“Well...Who do I give those ten millions back if you go die...” he looked away while screeching his head
“Where is Watter?” she was looking around in search for her
“...” he was looking down “Dekas?..” he risen his eyes looking Dev and shacked his head, she had a shocked face, then diverted her eyes outside the window “Goodbye...Watter...”

To be continued...