May 15, 2083

May 15, 2083

I’m something of a marine on a distant planet. I was fresh out of the academy bottom of my class because i wasn’t spontaneous enough to survive on an actual battle field, but in the end i proved them wrong and graduated out of the academy (barely). All of the graduates would go on a mission with one of the best soldiers deployed to the planet i now call “uncertainty”, weird name right. You’d be surprised how well that name fits. Everyone just calls the soldier “opportunity”, so why not go along with it. In combat training we would fight human’s only human’s, so you could probably gauge how surprised i was when i saw a fucking giant wolf with no eyes and rainbow colored hair running around ripping soldiers apart in this dry dead planet. This world is literally nothing but dry grey deserts and man eating tumble weeds. I’m going off topic, umm oh yeah we arrived at the land Zone and before we jumped out of the sparrow we got our first glimpse at our enemy. A Vibrantly colored wolf like creature its fur moved as if wind was blowing through it, it was beautiful but viscous.  It ripped through the soldiers that were trying to get into the cave in seconds, 2  plasma cannon shots was what it took to wound it but it kept going towards one of the tanks. I felt kind of bad for the creature, before it reached the tank it fell and you could hear it struggling to breath but eventually they loaded the tanks cannon and fired the finishing blow, its fur was stained with grey, the brilliant movement of its coat disappeared. The remaining soldiers proceeded into the cave including us newbies, what seemed to be the wolf-beasts pups began to run out of the cave. We got the order to dispatch them all, and burn the bodies. I followed the order without hesitation, but oddly enough “opportunity” didn’t. He just sat down on a rock and watched 2 pups ran past him I was able to gun one down but one got away with a wound to his left forearm. We exchanged glances; he got up and walked to the sparrow. What makes him the best soldier? I found out when we got back to the base. The mission was a success we were on our way from the sparrow docking bay. It was an unshielded bridge about 70 feet long. When we got about half way down the bridge from the docking bay another one of the wolf-creatures hopped onto the bridge. It began to growl at us no me its eyes were fixated on me, the moment I drew my gun he began to run towards us and we all ran. I tripped and when I looked back I noticed that it wasn’t running on one paw, I got up and shook the thought off as a coincidence. “Opportunity” grabbed a steel cable from out of a storage crate and began to run towards the wolf, I swear the guy has a death wish. He then jumped on top of the wolf and put the cable in its mouth as if were reins for a horse and guided it towards the edge and jumped off of it before it fell off of the platform. While we trekked the rest of the way to the base I could feel “opportunities” stare burning a hole into the back of my head and I knew that I made the wrong choice in that cave.