
Summary: reader is a member of the Golden Path. Under Amita’s command you have to sneak to the Royal Palace to kill Pagan Min. But when you’re about to fulfill your mission, you find youself unable to – under charm of king Min, you decide to switch the path and stand by the side of the Royal Army, becoming one of the leaders.
Word Count: 2211
Warnings: strong language
A/N: Part 2 of the story.
Author: Rouge
The Royal Palace was located on the northern part of Kyrat, near the Himalayas.
The building had a red openable door just like what other outposts and fortresses had.
It was a huge building, placed on the large hill.
Pagan, with a glass of cognac in his hand, went out at the terrace, located on the third floor. From this point a beautiful view at the North Kyrat was streatching.
Pagan sat on a swing with a canopy and he started to sip on an alcohol.
He was delighted on the spectacular view, admiring it in silence. But his consternation soon has been interrupted by a grunt.
“My King, De Pleur has checked everything and it seems that it wasn’t Golden Path who set the bomb at Baghadur” Gary, Pagan’s the most loyal and trusted assitant said calmly.
Min only nodded, finishing his drink.
“Did he check EVERYTHING?” he asked.
“Yes, my King. He cooperated with Noore in that matter” Gary grunted again, still standing on the threshold.
“So he wants to say that it wasn’t that fucking monkeys fault?” King asked coldly, not paying any attention at Gary.
“Uhm… Yes, my King” Gary confirmed with weak voice, swallowing hardly.
At the same moment, Pagan crushed on a glass he was holding in hand, yelling viciously.
“Find whoever is responsible for this attack! It was an attempt on my fucking life!” he yelled.
The blood drops fell on the wooden floor of the terrace from his injured hand, but he didn’t pay an attention to this fact. “I wanna have their heads on a silver plate till midnight. Otherwise I won’t be nice anymore!”
Gary nodded and quickly left the terrace to avoid Pagan’s anger and frustration.
Pagan hissed while he was pulling out a piece of a glass from his hand.
“KHAN!” he yelled.
After a while, a tall, well-build soldier entered on the terrace.
He was a commander of the Royal Guard. That man was responsible for death of about 200 people in last half of a year. His name was Khan Ajmal and he was working for Pagan since many years. Kyrati citizens, however, knew him under other name…
A lot of them used to call him the Headhunter, because he would do everything to find out people, who were suspiced of conspiracy against King Min.
“It’s probably the work of these cowardly whores from the Golden Path. They know they can not beat us, so they began to resort to bombings” Pagan clenched his hand into the fist. He looked at the man. “Find out, who’s behind this. You have to pull out everyone who’s responsible for this attack even from under the fucking ground! When you find them, take them to Paul’s fortress and then let me know. Then I will come to Varshakot and we will decide, how to kill them, just to make sure that they know they are dying.”
It was still the night, when you has been assigned to the little Golden Path branch, which had to secure the little convoy with weapons. The convoy had to transport a lot of stuff to an outpost, which was belonging to the Golden Path since few months.
In the face of last event, it couldn’t wait any longer, so Amita and Sabal got to the conclusion that it has to be done before dawn.
You were traveling in the last car, when you noticed that rest of the convoy has stopped. Two other Golden Path’s cars were standing on the side of the road and people with flashlights were entering the bushes to explore the area.
“What’s going on?” you carefuly asked, looking at one of the rebels as you got out of the car.
“They said they saw something nerby” man shrugged slightly and jump on the semi-trailer to check the cargo.
As carefully as you could, you walked into the direction of the bushes, your hand was on the kukri knife hidden in your pocket, just in case..
You walked through bushes and when you got out of them you noticed you were standing at the top of the little hill, but even from that distance you could see a huge crater carved in the ground and fire, which has destroyed a part of the forest around the lake. Thick black smoke hung high in the air.
You covered your mouth with a hand to secure yourself from breathing with choking smoke.
“You see, Y/N, it’s here. The bomb had to be large” one of the rebels, a young boy approached you, rubbing his eyes. “My father said that Royal Army for sure did it by itself to put the blame over us all.”
You sighed sadly, but in the same moment you’ve heard something.
At one point, suddenly and unexpectedly, from the direction of Baghadur, a military convoy of several cars of Royal Army has arrived. When people from the Golden Path noticed this, it was too late for any proper reaction.
Royal Army soldiers quickly jumped out of the cars and they started to shoot with guns. Two of them boarded on the trailer and got places behind a big machine gun placed on the cars’ roofs.
The regular exchange of fire has started.
You watched the situation with horror in your eyes and heavy heart in your chest. Without thinking for a long time, you jumped on the semi-trailer of one of the Golden Path’s cars and digged to look for a weapon you could use.
The only thing you’ve found was an bow with a quiver. When you lifted your head and realized, how close the fighting was, you put the quiver on your back and pulled out an arrow from it.
Almost at the same moment you noticed Ajay, Longinus and Sabal, who had arrived in the wrong place in the wrong time, they were hidding behind one of the Golden Path’s cars, occasionally shooting to enemies behind the cover. One of the rebels, who stood next to their hideout, was hit by a machine-gun shot straight in the head and fell dead on the ground. Longinus leaned out from behind the car and when he tried to shoot at the enemy, he almost has been hit by them also. By this movement he betrayed their hiding place.
The remaining rebels after using all of an ammunition headed to grapple, unfortunately, most of them almost immediately was killed by De Pleur’s soldiers.
You saw two soldiers of the Royal Army, they were called the Exterminators and your heart almost stopped. Dressed in bulletproof vests with special material, reinforced with heavy CKMs in their hands, they were walking in the direction of the hideout of men to get them from behind. Sabal at the last moment had realized, that they were surrounded and started shooting with little avail, as none of the missiles did not even hit the soldiers, who marched relentlessly towards them.
You had a last chance to prevent the tragedy, you imposed an arrow on the bowstring, aimed it and fired. The arrow with a low whistle flew through the air, sticking straight in the helmet of one of the soldiers. Almost immediately he fell down dead to the ground.
Longinus, Ajay and Sabal turned eyesight to see, who helped them and have almost immediately astonished themselves.
“Y/N!” Ajay yelled.
But you didn’t seem to listen.
You reached for an another arrow and this time you also gave a good shot, beating second enemy.
“Y/N, don’t do it!” Sabal shouted loudly, trying to stop you.
But it was too late.
About 10 meters away, there were standing cars, which became to the Royal Army and next to them there were the rest of the soldiers, who were not killed. One of them picked up the sniper rifle to the eye, aimed and pulled the trigger.
Just at the moment, when you were about to pull out another arrow, you has been shot just above the left knee. The bullet passed through and sticked into the bodywork of the Golden Path’s car.
You screamed in pain.
You rolled over a bit on the side and laid on your back, breathing heavily. You felt the throbbing pain in the left leg.
Suddenly you heard the reloaded gun and realized, that next to you one of the soldiers of the Royal Army was standing. A bit further, few of his companions were standing.
“Get up” ordered the man.
With problems, you slowly got up from the ground.
Immediately you noticed, that Ajay, Sabal and Longinus were brought out of hiding place and now they were kneeling on the sandy road. Behind each of them stood one soldier with a rifle leveled directly at their heads.
At this sight you stopped breathing.
The soldier, who told you to get up, turned to the kneeling men and approached them.
“All of you have the right to remain silent, you shall testify before Paul De Pleur.”
“I won’t make any statements in front of anyone” Sabal snapped sharply.
It was enough to provoke the commander.
He raised his rifle and aimed straight at Sabal’s chest.
“If so, you won’t live to a fucking dawn” man smirked.
“He did not want to say that” Ajay threw his hands up in a gesture of peace.
“I’m not talking to you, mongrel” commander snapped roughly.
He raised his head and nodded to the soldier, who stood just behind Longinus.
There was a loud bang.
You heard your own cry vaguely.
Longinus’ body fell limply to the ground.
“You motherfuckers!” Sabal yelled, jumping to his feet, but he was quickly brought back to the ground by two soldiers.
The commanding officer came up to him and put the barrel of a gun to Sabal’s temple.
“Now it’s your turn” he laughed haughtily.
You found enough courage to shout:
“Noooo!!!”
Surprised, commander turned to you, taking off the finger from the trigger.
“It seems to me, that I did not ask you about an opinion” he hissed.
You looked straight into his eyes.
“Shoot me, but let them free” you said defiantly.
Other soldiers murmured in surprise.
“Y/N, shut up!” Ajay called with anger. “Leave her alone, she is still very young, she does not know, what she says” he began to beg.
The commander laughed lasciviously.
“The young, you are saying? That’s good, I like this kind the most, haha!”
You looked sternly at the man.
He came to you and standing only a few centimeters from you, he looked at you intently.
“You’re beautiful. Tell me the fuck, why such a beautiful woman is packing herself in such trouble?” man circled you slowly, watching you closely on each side.
“I have my own reasons” you barked, carefully tracking his every move.
“Well … You look as the girl, which is lacking a real man in bed” he laughed bluffly. He hugged you from behind, grabbing your breasts firmly. “Nice tits. Bet you’re a little whore, aren’t ya?”
You were watching as Sabal got purple on his face from nerves and started to struggle. He was angry, that a stranger, in addition a soldier of Paul, has fondled you.
The truth was Sabal had a crush on you, but he didn’t want to admit it before others…
“Fuck off, this is not your thing” you snorted loudly.
The man suddenly pulled your ponytail thus rendering, that you fell to your knees, gasping in pain.
“You should be polite, bitch!” – he shouted at you.
You closed your eyes and gritted your teeth, to not say a few words too much.
“I’m begging you, leave her” Ajay carefully got up from his knees and with hands raised, he turned to commander. “Let her go, you got us. The leader of the rebellion and his deputy, I think it’s a quiet good solution.”
The soldier looked at Ajay with pity.
“I will decide, whom I take and whom I let go” he said.
Again, he turned to you.
“You will be the perfect gift for De Pleur” he summed. “Maybe he’ll teach you how to behave properly, scum.”
You froze. But then you said:
“I will not be anyone’s gift!”
But then a quick reflection came to your mind.
It was a good way to sneak into De Pleur’s troops. You knew Varshakot fortress very well, but at the same moment you knew De Pleur wasn’t trusting you. Of course, you were working for him since few weeks and you never was a problem to him nor his people, but still he had a limited trust towards you.
You took a deep breath.
I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path, you thought to yourself.
You briefly looked at Ajay and Sabal, then you turned your head to the commander.
“I surrender. Can’t fight anymore, I’m injured. You got me.”
A wry smile appeared on man’s face.
“Good slut” he gave a look to one of his men. “Inform De Pleur I have a surprise for him.”








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