It has been a whole day and the Arteils is almost settled. Hoover and I escorted the refugees toward the camp successfully, but because it was already time for night patrollers to be on roll, we were told by our beautiful captain through the ear piece to stay at the operation base created by the previous demolishers with whom we substituted this role and take some rest for tomorrow duty. They would have not said this to us if we have made our own operation base in the under-mission area. I guess our predecessor were not lucky enough to create one in the affected area.
"Did you find anything strange about the people we dropped at the refugee camp?" I again asked Hoover about the people who made me feel weird in my gut, lying on a bed. The inside of the tent was vacant. There was no table no food no water. The only thing there was, was a single bed whose mattress had given up a long time ago. I won the stone paper scissors against Hoover, so I was able to rest by laying my back on the mattress.
"Weird... weird as in what sense?" Hoover put a deep frown on his forehead. He was not in a good mood because of sitting on the floor by losing a good chance to rest.
"I don't know maybe... as didn't they behaved strangely. Their movements didn't look strange to you?"
"Movements!?"
"Forget it, if you don't have this weird feeling, you will not understand what I am talking about."
"You are right! If you let me sleep in that bed with you then I will think about it by using my every bit of intelligence."
"Shut it!"
Hoover pouted after hearing this.
"Hmmm, hey Auri, have you ever thought about why that whole bombarding incident occurred and why the hell we three got transported into the future?" Hoover asked with a serious expression on his face.
"I have, but due to severe lack of information I was not able to come up with something." I sighed.
"Hmmm, but I guess it is good for you in this world, huh!" Hoover again put his characteristic smirk on his face.
"Huh!?? What is good for me?" I inquired about the reason he put his smirk and what does he think is good for me? I was separated from my family, separated from my easy life, and was forced to live life of somebody else. He must be talking about something that is really really good for me, it better not be a joke!
"Here you name is cool! At least it's not an old school magical protagonist like name. Seriously, changing of Aurelius Astrea to Seth Locke is a great advancement, I will say that."
Hoover shrugged mischievously.
"You think my name was uncool!!??" I rose from my laying position and shouted at him. I know I was mocked a lot in my world and the reason for all that ragging was nothing but my name. But Hoover didn't say anything to me about my name back then. He never said that my name was strange or weird.
"I am not the only one, I bet even Ellie thought that too!" Hoover said with mocking smirk patched on his face.
"Why you!"
I jumped from my bed to grab Hoover by his hair. When I was able to do that Hoover resisted by putting his hand on my cheek to grab it, when he failed to do it because of my intense grip on his hair he put his thumb on the corner of mouth and pinched it very hard.
Hoover lost his balance and fell on his back; I was on top of him strengthening my grip on his hair, "What bullshit were you spewing just now just now, huh!!" I sounded menacing.
"Haaaaa!" Hoover started screaming with transferring strength to his pinch.
It was during this bizarre phenomenon, I saw a person standing in the tent with wide eyes filled to the brim with shock. Because of my great unluck, I recognized that person and there was a great chance that person recognized me as well.
It was a girl with golden blonde hairs and rose red eyes. Her eyes were not the only thing that was red on her face, the crimson blood dripping from her nose was also noticeable.
"Huh!?" Hoover inquired in a coarse and menacing voice with both eyes scrunched from beneath me.
"Oh, hey Charlotte! How its going?" I immediately let go of Hoover's hair and stood up brushing the dust off my tight suit.
"What... what... what the fuck you think you guys are doing? If you were in a relationship like this you should have made acquaintance with me as well, did Elizabeth signed temporary treaty because she knew you guys were like this?"
Charlotte wiped the dripping blood with her wind breaker's sleeve and looked at us with excitement.
Shit, I think we gave her the wrong idea just like what happened with Ellie back in our world.
"It's nothing like that; we were just fighting, nothing more than that!" I gestured her to relax and to believe and my words.
"Ooohh, the way you fight is intense. So intense that I like it. Former enemies had to make a temporary acquaintance because the lusty feelings they had for each other made it hard for both to hate each other!!!"
Charlotte said in great excitement. Her breathing was also heavy, implying that she was excited, and the smile on her face, all of it meant that she had the wrong idea.
"What are you talking about?" Hoover stood up as well and wore his belt after brushing the dust off.
"Oh, you don't have to hide it from me, ohoho." Charlotte smiled knowingly and covered her lips through her hand.
"You are really having the wrong idea!" I mumbled.
"What are you here for? Weren't you in the overseer's group who was responsible of medical aid?" Hoover posed interrogation at Charlotte with crossing his arms.
"I was, hehehe. Sorry, sorry! Yeah, I was, hey are you two going to do it or not?"
"We are being serious girl!" Hoover and I synced.
....
I've walked past many buildings and concrete roads that were in the process of reconstruction. There we saw Erick and Niall sitting in a loading truck which had huge amount of rubble in its trunk. Erick waved at us, as Niall was busy driving the truck.
Xaden was nowhere to be found. He must have been summoned by the doctors to provide assistance in healing of wounds. His caliber, physical alteration is a great way to freeze the wounds. If Xaden was somewhere in between our journey, I would have noticed his sharp cat like emerald eyes.
The reason I was roaming in these busy areas was because Charlotte came in our tent to say, "I was on a break when the senior doctor told me that there was extra food left by the medical staff. He said "I should call those boys who dropped these four kids here. This privilege is only for those demolishers who are outside the affected zone."
Well, I know the food is not extra. Doctors must have not been free enough to eat something so all the food made for them would be waste if not eaten by someone and we happened to be available just at the right time. Now I was starting to think what Hoover said was right, I am lucky. Well, Hoover is also as lucky as me.
Charlotte was continuously giving weird chuckles from time to time, I guess she was still thinking about the wrong idea she had.
"You know, I was cursing the doctor because I thought my break would now be ruined because of shits like you."
"Shits!?" Hoover furrowed.
"There when I saw you two on top of each other and were just going to put the key in the lock's hole, ooooh! I thought it was all worth it."
Charlotte said in a sultry and suggestive voice.
Hoover looked at me with inquiring eyes.
"Wait a minute you bastard! She said lock! You know, lock! She didn't said my name. What she meant was I was going to put my d## in your as###. You understand!?"
"You think I am stupid like you? She clearly meant that my key was going in your hole!" Hoover shrugged nonchalantly like it was not a big deal for him.
"You asshole!" I gritted my teeth.
Soon we reached the refugee camp. There we found Albert who had a sullen expression and had a little girl in her arms who was laying her sleeping head on his shoulder. He was surrounded by three other kids. One of them was a young boy, one was a teenage girl, other was also a girl but of young age. She also had swollen eyes and sullen expression.
"Hey, how it's going Albert?" Hoover waved at him.
Seeing Hoover or in Albert's eyes Norde waved at him surprised him greatly. His eyes popped open in shock.
"Hahaha, it is going good."
Both Hoover and I were hit with great shock, this awkwardness? What could be the reason behind it? Is it because of Norde's behaviour or because of something happened with them.
"But your eyes tell a different story." Charlotte exclaimed.
"It's just because uh... I was fighting some crazy strong deathodds and could not get a wink of sleep!" Albert said in a voice filled with fatigue.
"You will get to talk to each other later, first let those kids be checked up. There might be some injury you want examined." Charlotte exclaimed with worry.
.....
We entered the refugee camp. It was a half sphere gigantic building of green colour whose surface resembled the look of ground filled with grass. Inside the giant sphere was a single hall with thousands of beds with patients on them.
Overseers and doctors were roaming around the beds in hurry, checking up on every patient with turns. There I saw Xaden sitting on a chair with his eyes covered by his forearm. I was right about him being in the refugee camp. He must be tired after exhausting himself to the brim.
I would have talked to him if we were close enough, but we have talked to each other only a few times so I could not get much reasoning to initiate a conversation.
"You two go and sit there, Albert come with me and take these kids as well. I want them to be examined if they have any virus or disease."
Charlotte instructed Albert and told me and Hoover to sit on the two empty plastic chairs by pointing at them, they were right beside Xaden. So now we really have to sit with him, hmmm.
Albert walked behind Charlotte who was treading while humming a little. After meeting with Albert, the excited expression on her face was disappearing ever so slightly.
"I honestly don't want to sit with him!" Hoover complained.
"What, why!" I asked him because this type of rejection for sitting with someone was not in his character.
"Have you seen his eyes? I have never seen anyone with those eyes? Why does a human have cat shaped eyes?" Hoover trembled with rubbing his biceps by his hands.
"Ellie didn't tell you about him!" I frowned and continue, "Well, I asked her about him, she said she had read about his tribe in tribal guides. He is from the tribe called Seilgeria. The people of Seilgeria have a special ability called night vision. As all of them has cat eyes, this is the reason they can see in dark without much hesitation."
"So, there are tribes of Human in this world who has animal features? That reminds me have you seen an animal in this world? I have not seen any animal from our previous world."
"AHEM!"
I wanted to reply to Hoover but someone cleared his throat loudly, the cause of this was behind us so we both looked behind us, in front of us was a lady doctor standing with her lips thinned tightly and highly scrunched eyes.
She was telling us to stand aside.
"Ahahaha, we would be going then." I scratched the back of my head, grabbed Hoover's arm and took him with me to sit on the chairs."
Where we sat was space between two beds, the chairs were aligned diagonally to the beds. Xaden was on the chair that was beside the wall, Hoover refused to sit in the middle chair, so I had to sit on the middle one.
"Huuhh! Now we just have to wait for food!"
Hoover exclaimed with relief. It seems like he is really scared of Xaden, isn't he?
We were sitting on the chairs thinking about our own stuff without saying anything because we didn't want to disturb the sleep of Xaden.
After five to ten minutes Charlotte came to us with two lunch boxes in her hand. She had a slightly deranged smile on her face; I didn't have to wonder what she was thinking about. Soon she stopped in front of us and hummed happily.
"Here, I have brought these for you, there is enough food for both of you, so you can relax and eat it without much stress. And... I have also put two chicken roasts from my lunch to you, it is so you don't stop showing those beautiful moments to me. I will commission you more if you will show me something special, he.. he.. he!" She laughed strangely.
"Oh, girl come on!"
Both me and Hoover groaned in unison.