Cease Fire
Swishing my head back and forth I stared in confusion as a wave of concussion grenades diffused sending the pulverised corpses of soldiers flying in the air with the writhing hanging off their shoulder’s leash;
“Where is my golden ball? I thought I was in heaven,” I presumed.
Thud! In an instant, I turned around gazing at a Nazi soldier who had stumbled upon the thought of low ammunition and took cover by staggering into a cavity in the Earth (and of all the chances he was with me – a British). Silently I gaped at the ferocious, festering wounds that distorted his body and slowly consumed his skin; we gave a few glances at each other but turned around pretending to do our own thing. Suddenly a bullet ricocheted of the crater’s earthy wall piercing the ear deafening silence, choking the air in fumes of brown mist. Swiftly I rotated my head to fast for my cognitive ability to keep up and peeped above the crater’s circular periphery. And then I realised what I was doing was crazy but before I could take action my body was engulfed in a searing pain that sent the duvet of dusk descending onto my eyes.
But my will power thrusted through the darkness that covered my eyes and I managed to get a few glimpses at the convoys of aggressors striding confidently at the German barricade with their weapons at the ready. Vigorously I shifted my sight to the German soldier who gave me a reassuring look but I wouldn’t buy it,
“Why would a German help a British,” I debated.
Quickly I forgot about the German soldier as my heartbeat slowly faded away in the screaming and sobbing soldiers – some in agony and some heartbroken as their friends collapse to the ground and twitch like a dead fly. And as my life started to end I bulged my eyes out trying to make out the silhouettes of the heads of many soldiers who had risked their lives for their country, strangled by the vice-like grasp of their split helmets. My heartbeat halted and the clouds unfolded in unison revealing the golden ball I saw in heaven and the last word I heard was CEASE FIRE!