| 5. 04:00 am �The war had started four years ago. Before the war started I was a young man who loved live. I always loved to make fun and put pranks on my best buddies Peter and Kevin. I knew Peter almost my entire live and Kevin� Kevin was my neighbour and we liked each other since the beginning. It just felt� well� good. In the neighbourhood we were kind of �famous�. We were called the Dream Team, simply because we were always together. It could be playing basketball or just hanging around. When the war started thing changed a bit. It wasn�t like it used to be. The world had changed� we had changed too. Kevin was always the smartest of us. And he was also the person who got us all involved in the resistance. He was the person who got all the ideas. We started rather innocent and full of faith that the war would be over very quickly. We would hang up posters everywhere trough the whole city declaring our truth. Just like you, Howie, I wrote sometimes an article for that paper. Says the name Melkor anything to you?� A moment Howie thinks, then his eyes light up. �Yes, he wrote a lot for that same paper I was writing for.� Brian gives him a smile. �Melkor was me. Just a name out of a book I loved. Slowly the Dream Team started to realise that the war wasn�t going to end very quickly. Peter�s father had probably sit in this same cell. He was innocent, always too careful to do anything, but he was just on the wrong place at the wrong time and he was shot. That made us realise how serious it was. So we started to operate more serious. We have robbed one of their main offices here. We captured lots of coupons, worthy for food and stuff, weapons, munitions and even some important papers. The second time we tried to rob an office there were some little complications and we shot our first enemy. We hadn�t count on the fact that one of those officers would be there in the middle of the night reading a report. But after the first death it became easier to kill them. And we all had reasons to hate them. Peter had his father. Kevin�s cousin was killed in a gunfight and I� well my girlfriend was raped and killed by a soldier. � Brian is lost in thoughts and probably memories of his girlfriend for a moment and then he continues again. �Then Kevin came with another brilliant idea. Instead of robbing offices we could do some other things. And slowly we created a plan to destroy the harbour. We knew that the enemy to get weapons used this same harbour. And so the Dream Team created a plan and it succeeds. The whole harbour was destroyed and in the news they said that they were looking for a resistance group of at least 15 persons. God we laughed about that. We were just three normal guys and we did it just together with a good plan and probably a lot of luck. And so we destroyed the second harbour and then the idea was born to kill Doctor Murphing himself. Murphing who was a spy, serving the enemy. We had found enough proof for that and reported that to that newspaper and other resistance groups. We killed him. But then our luck turned. Peter was robbing one of the smaller offices on his own and his gun didn�t worked on a moment it should have. He followed the same way as his father and the Dream Team lost a member. I still can hardly believe that it actually happened. It was first as if we were unbeatable, were we wrong! After Peter�s death things changed between Kevin and me. We both lost our� faith and our fun in live. We joined another resistance group and soon Kevin became one of the brains behind it� and probably the most notorious person around. It was the same group were Alex was in. Nice guy. We talked a lot with each other and he had some kind of gift to make me forget my troubles�� �How were you caught?� Nick looks curious at him. Brian gives him a smile. �I think that deep in my heart I wanted to be caught. Together with a group of other fellows we bombed the headquarters of the special unit of soldiers. After that happened we looked trough the ruins, just to be sure that everybody was death before we ran of. And then I found� I found this little kid, probably three years old not much older. Blond, curly hair and blue eyes. He still breathed when I found it. The others were gone already and I was there, alone with this young kid. He cried and had a huge wound on his head. I simply sat down next to it and hold it in my arms, even when he stopped breathing and slowly became cold. I couldn�t do it. I couldn�t do it anymore, killing people. This whole war didn�t make me anything better than the enemy self. And this poor kid. What had he done? Why was he there in the headquarters? Visiting his daddy? I just started to imagine how happy this kid must have been when he was there. Running around a probably spoiled by every soldier around. And now it was dead. And so they found me.� Brian feels how he almost starts to cry. Almost. It has been a long time ago since he last cried. He feels how Nick pulls one arm around him and gives him a hug. �So when I�ve heard all these stories were quite a team aren�t we?� says Howie sarcastic after a moment. Brian gives him a small smile. �Dream Team; the sequel.� �Does it hurt when you die?� Howie and Brian both turn to Nick. They had almost forgot how young Nick is. �I don�t know blondie,� says Howie honest, �I�m not very experienced.� Then they are all distracted from their conversation by the opening of the door and the appearance of a familiar person: Ian. After a quick glance at Brian he speaks up. �It�s time.� Next Back Back to the Index |