Emmerald Forest. 0917 hours.

Mike's POV.

I sat down underneath a tree, unstrapping my IFAK out of my vest and opening it to heal the wounds in my left arm.
I pulled out some bandages, a gauze and some brun dressing, then I used the gauze to clean all the blood and that beast's saliva out of my wound, making sure I didn't miss a sigle spot.

Mike: "This sucks..."
-I said to myself as I finished cleaning it. I didn't even know if I was doing this propperly, but it's better than having an open an infected wound...
After that, I started to apply the burn dressing. It was itching the hell out of my wound, to which I released some strange grunts, bitting my lower lip to avoid doing any more noises.

When I was done, I wrapped the bandages all over my forearm. After that, I got up and put everything back into my IFAK and placed it back into my vest. Then I grabbed my M4 and reloaded it, keeping the mag since it still had some rounds that may come in handy.

Mike: "Alright... Let's move on."
-I said before I walked towards my next objective. As I did that, I noticed that my right leg also hurt a little bit, so instead of walking I was kind of limping. Probably because of the parachute incident, I didn't notice during the fight because of adrenaline or something. Anyways, I shook it off and decided to keep going

Auditorium...

3rd Person POV.

Yang: "Oof... That's gotta hurt."
-The blonde said as she watched the Marine trying to heal his wounds by himself.

Weiss: "How did he get in here? He doesn't even have aura!"

Ruby: "Well... I heard that Ozpin himself allowed him to stay."
-The leader pointed out while placing her hand on her chin, making a sort of comicly thinker pose.
They all hummed at the same time, but went back to watch the Marine's initiation.

Back with Michael...

It's been a couple of minutes since he healed his wounds. All the students were looking at him limping around the forest, luckily not finding anymore threats.
But during that walk, he spotted a strange square beige figure in the distance. He instantly recognized it, since it was a Hummve, the same one he was in before he ended up here, execpt that this one wasn't destroyed. It also had a big white star graffiti on the hood, so he knew it was the same vehicle.

Mike: "Oh yeah! Guys! It's me!"
-He screamed out of joy as he ran towards it, ignoring the pain he was feeling minutes ago. All the students seemed confused. Why was there a vehicle in the middle of the forest? How did he know it was familiar? They didn't know.

After a couple of seconds, he finally arrived at the Humvee, noticing the windows were tainted completely... Odd. But he didn't care, all he wanted was to find something.
Unfortunately, all the joy he had on his face was gone as soon as he opened the driver's door. His smile was replaced by a shocked expression as he fell on his back, turned around, got on his knees and puked...

The students couldn't see it, but as soon as the camera had a better angle, they all found out that he was looking at a slightly burned corpse... It still had blood all over their uniform, and one of their eyeballs was hanging by a thread on their chin. They were also shocked to see that the rest of the crew were in a similar state.

Mike's POV.

'No... No, no. NO NO NO NO!'

I thought as I couldn't believe what my eyes were seeing... The crew... My friends... Were all dead. I turned around after I heard a loud thud behind me, only to see that the corpse, my friend Frank, fell from the driver's seat.

It was real... I couldn't believe it.
I rushed at his corpse and hugged it, crying uncontrollably over his chest.

Mike: "FRAAAANK!!"
-I cried and cried for a good ammount of time... The only friends I had left were all dead now... I was alone.
I felt devastated. I just wanted to pull out my gun and shoot myself to put an end to it all, which I did...

"No..."

Just before I was going to pull the trigger, I heard that voice again... Jamie's voice.

"Don't do it, Mike..."

'Jamie?'

"Don't pull the trigger..."

He said before his voice echoed away. I don't know what was happening, but all I did was obey my friend and put the weapon down.
After that, I took off my goggles and helmet, wiping away my tears as I began to place the corpses out of the vehicle. Trying my best to not throw up again.

Back in the Auditorium

3rd Person POV.

All the students were shocked, some of them were also crying as they felt sympathy for him, they all felt a chill going down their spines as they saw all the corpses, then the Marine pulling out his gun to kill himself, but then refusing to do so. Then they all watched him unload all the corpses from the truck.

Yang: "Holy crap..."

Weiss: "Good lord..."
-Both girls said at the same time, both shocked to witness such a scene. Blake and Ruby were speechless, Ruby was on the verge of crying too.

Ruby: "Poor guy... *sniff*"

Yang: "Shh, it's okay, Ruby..."
-She replied as she hugged her sister, trying to calm her down.

With Ozpin and Glynda...

Both teachers watched the scene on their scrolls, Ozpin had mixture of a stoic yet sad expression on his face. Glynda was also on the verge of crying, now knowing that those were the Marine's friends that he mentioned last night.

Ozpin: "I think we owe him an apology..."
-He said as he looked back at the teacher, knowing that they may have unintentionally triggered something on him.

Glynda: "..."-she remained silent, she didn't know what to say since she was the most harsh one on him.- "Wait, what is he doing?"
-She said as she looked at him pulling out a small shovel from one of the many bags the vehicle had hanging from the sides.

Ozpin: "I think he's ready to bury them..."
-He said as he saw the Marine digging holes on the ground to bury his friends... But he had a question, since he realized something.

How is he not attracting any Grimms?

Mike's POV.

After I took off my friend's helmets and boots, I grabbed the E-Tool that the Humvee had and I began to dig holes on the ground, big enough to fit a corpse...
It took me a lot of time, since I dug four holes instead of one... And I already had to do that with Jamie's corpse when he died.
Then I placed each one of them on their respective graves, put the dirt back in and buried them...
Finally, I placed their boots and helmets on top of them, trying my best to make a tribute for them.

'I'm sorry guys...'

I thought before I got up and faced their graves before saluting at them. I tried my best not to cry before I said some words.

Mike: "See you in Hell, Devil Dogs... Oorah."
-I said as I finally put my hand down. After a couple of seconds standing still, I went back to the Humvee, but before I could get in, I heard Jamie's voice again.

"Mike... Turn around..."

I heard before a bright light appeared behind me. I could see my shadow on the ground and the Humvee, and it blinded my because of the windows, which I still had to clean.
When it was finally over, I turned around and I saw something I never expected to see...

Or rather... Someone.

TO BE CONTINUED

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Ohohoho! What did our Devil Dog see!? We'll find out on the next chapter! Which, don't worry, will come soon. Now put your knifes and guns away.
I hope you guys enjoyed this chapter! And as always, have a nice day!

Doom_Vietnam_Slayer.