G.A.T.E. The hidden Island

Prologue

  It's been almost 20 years since I met her; she had a crazy idea that at first everyone thought was just a joke, a simple pipe dream of a young woman. Though I stood by her, Aya is her name. I'm Nero, and this is my story. I grew up in the care of a rough and abusive stepfather, a horrible environment all the way up until I was 15. That's when I met her, the crazy redhead with lovely freckles; she always had a certain shine to her smile and her laugh was that of a dream. And one day we were talking about our future and she told about an idea of hers that she had since she was a child. That one day we were sitting outside of her house and she looked at me and said "hey Nero? I got a question for you." I remember looking at her and saying "go for it" and then it came. The words that would change my life she said "Nero what would you think of a place where things are different, where it is peaceful and protective" she had always wanted to adopt children because of how many orphans there were and she continued " we would provide homes and schooling and training so that if anyone decided we were a threat the children and everyone else could protect themselves" I looked at her then up at the sky as I smoked my cigarette and said "that sounds like a fun idea" she looked at me with a somewhat surprised face and asked "would you like to help me make it a reality" I nearly choked on my cigarette smoke and looked at her and gently said "of course I'll help" that conversation changed my world we started looking for places to start this compound and getting more people to help we continued to work on it and soon enough everything was in place we had bought an island in the middle of nowhere and started taking children from all across the globe and every year we would have a contest where we test to see who had gotten stronger those who proved themselves worthy were graduated to the next level of training everything went perfectly for 5 years problems came and went then one day the day if the graduation ceremony something horrible happened we were attacked we weren't sure who attacked us or why but all I remember from that day was looking out over the water and seeing ships surrounding us, me and Aya in unison yelled "everyone back to their houses all house leaders arm your houses" me and Aya commanded different houses we went to our house I got my house armed and we marched to the shoreline then it happened...they attacked with mortars they rained from the skies the earth would shake as each one hit leaving a creator in the ground I remember looking back at my house and watching it explode as Aya's troop ran to our position her house was also hit and her troop was flown closer to us some of her younger students passed out from the blast but she stood up and looked at me then around at her troops I remember yelling "everyone get those soldiers to our position and everyone except me in my troop ran to grab Aya's fallen soldiers and get them to safety" as they did I grabbed my sniper rifle and took aim on the ships I knew I wouldn't be able to take out the ships but I'd be able to take out there spotters and gun men and as I took aim I had the head of one of their troops in my crosshairs and squeezed the trigger and my shot rang out through all the commotion and the soldier's head exploded I pulled the bolt back loading another round into my barrel and aimed for a gunman again I squeezed the trigger and hit him this time in the chest when I went to load another round I noticed Aya was behind me and grabbed my second rifle and an extra Mag she kneeled down and took aim and we started firing upon the ships almost every shot hitting we looked at each other for a split second as we put in our communication earpieces and I gently said as I took another shot "aren't you glad I got you practicing all those years ago" I saw her smirk out of the corner of my eye as she shot another round and said "shut up and shoot" then she laughed and we kept shooting and before we knew it all visible troops on the ship we were aiming at were dead then we moved to the next ship and our troops joined us with their standard rifles and the bullets kept flying we focused on the mortars first then the others before we knew it the ships were turning around and had stopped firing but not without losses of our own