The night

A lush and green island covered by the shadow of night had howls and roars all around it. It was finally the time for the hunt. A roar sounded at some part of the island and some birds flew out. On another part of the island a small rat was running. It was scared of snake slithering behind it.

Rat and the snake on the hot pursuit ran up upon a big tree but the bad luck of the snake, somebody stepped on it before it could swallow the rat. Another foot landed beside the rat making it drop from the tree.

There were shadows all among the woods who were jumping from one tree to another at a breakneck speed. All of them had their features hidden. Everyone of them with a different weapons including guns, small swords, knife's, ropes and lot more. They came in hundreds, all circling a small hut at the complete center of the island.

There sitting was a shadow with it's eye's closed and without any light. He was just rocking on the rocking chair making a distinct sound of wood squeaking.

*creak, creak*

He slowly opened his eyes looking at the tree's around him.

"Showoff"

Saying that word he stood up slowly before squatting down abruptly right where he was standing. When he looked at the wall behind where he was standing he saw a bullet logged in the wooden planks of the hut. As if that first bullet was a signal for everyone else, a whole barrage of bullets were launched. The guy quickly rolled on the wooden floor before jumping in the open door while still dodging as many bullet's he could with one still lodging in his left thigh.

Just as he stepped in the hut bullet's from all around the house started making the house into a bee hive. This continued for a while before a loud bang rang out. Bomb went off all around the island making a kill zone the angle of 270 degree all around the hut with only around 90 degree in front of hut being left.

While the shadows in front of hut were still a bit shocked two rocket's were launched out of the house while a dirt bike was launched from the back of the hut towards the smoke and fire of the jungle.

***

In the dark sky above the island were some helicopters flying covering the whole area around the island with the cameramen they were carrying. Duma is a struggling videographer who was on one of the few helicopters which were responsible for sending the feed of north area of the island but even with so many cameras they couldn't catch a glimpse of Ghost who had disappeared somewhere in the jungle.

Duma at the moment was scared shitless. Before coming here he thought this was just a high paying job where he would be capturing some kinky porn, only now did he figured what he had actually signed up for.

Sitting beside Duma was Katar, a hitman who snorted after looking at Duma's behavior. He had been working for the information desk for nearly 5 years now. After proving his ability to the desk he got chosen out of many guys who wanted the same position. He has already seen much of death before but this was also a first for him. It isn't everyday that you see someone challenging 'The Information Desk'. He really was looking forward to this.

He had only heard about this kind of events. The last one happened about 3 years ago in Brazil. He couldn't take part in that event as he was the part of 3rd reinforcement which never got sent as the Challenger died in first 2 hours.

He was looking at Duma who at this moment was a bit perplexed as he couldn't find Ghost. After he went into the jungle and have seemed to have disappeared in the smoke. He was continuously moving the night camera trying to find Ghost but ghost really had disappeared. The thermal reading of the camera wasn't able to pick anything up either as everything was red and orange because of fire.

Katar was getting really impatient. He wanted to jump of the helicopter to look for Ghost himself. He wanted to have this achievement under his belt.

The whole feed was being sent all around the world to all the powerful figures which Duma didn't know about. People in power hungry for adrenaline rush, top members of 'Information desk', other assets and the analyzing team at the headquarters.

This team was responsible for finding this challenger and letting the war team know where he could be. A table of the supervisors were judging from the information gathered the exact point he could be.

"He is Definitely in the water by now. He was also seen rocking a scuba gear just a few days before his challenge..." said the youngest one on the table but was cut inbetween by a beautiful girl.

"Shut-up Oddy. With the brain he has he would never do that. I think he would for sure try to infiltrate the war team before getting on a chopper and leave the island"

"Miss Esha, I think you are wrong here. We have to find his agenda. Why would he use that specific island to rest in. If he is as smart as you say than he wouldn't just leave so many clues leading us to him only to leave the island in such risky ways. There is something more to it than eliminating the initial force". The oldest man of the table was really thinking about the whole situation.

"I for one am still wondering why he left such huge passage alone. He could have blown that away as well. What do you think Sunita" another one on the table said

"Sir the team is running through all the collected information and even trying to find if there is any bomb left in the untouched area. It may have been left to be used latter but I wouldn't be audacious enough to present my Ideas in front of the supervisors"

While the rest of the table was chatting in between themselves to find the possible solution one man on the head seat was silently listening to all of this without giving a single input.

Few assistants all around the table were constantly collecting information from a big team who were responsible for actually analyzing all data related to the challenger. This included the habits of the challenger, all his connections, friends and family, recent activity, food he ate and anything else related to him other things also included the island they war team were on at the moment, the government reaction to the whole deal, internet and media exposure control.

At some point few interesting pieces of information started appearing. First was about this island being the launch sight for the different missiles.

When this information came out the whole table instantly got interested with all kind of ideas flying around.

"Everyone quiet..." said an old man on the desk. He continued "Sunita, why hasn't this been uncovered before"

"I am sorry sir, the information couldn't be uncovered as the information related to this had been destroyed long ago. The Analyzing team didn't had the clearance to get such information from the headquarters. On the other hand there was another challenge. This wasn't a government owned project but privately owned one. A billionaire was somehow able to produce this without letting the government find out. We were only able to find out after..."

"AAaah, i don't need to know all this. We are here to find the pest and eliminate him the end. This is useless info. We need to find out what his plan is with this" - Miss Esha

Just when Esha was starting her rant. Sunita's tab again rang telling her another piece of interesting information.

'They have found a metal box the size of a transformer with a lot of different electronic machines in it'

She shared the information with the table. Hearing the information the table became noisy again. This time the light inside head seater's eyes also sparkled. As he started speaking everyone quieted down.

"Get few photographs to IT department. I want to know what that machine does. Also ask the war team to destroy it. Also see they can find a hard-disk"

"Yes sir, Manger" said Sunita.

Just as Sunita was transmiting the order to the team she got another interesting news.

"Manager, the connection to the Initial war team is cut. We have no feed no communication coming in or out."

The manger got a bad feeling about this.

"Send the first or second reinforcement team in. Get a satellite above the island. Also check the last bit of feed from the war team. They may have captured the scene of the machine. I want the information sent to the IT team to analyze now. Also get a few jets in the air with some anti-signal jammers"

"Yes sir" said a few members on the table.

The Manager continued, "Old man Jue, Please ask the airforce to keep an eye on the sky. I have a bad feeling."

20 min later

Jets got to the island only to see a sight which would scare anyone in this world. The whole island was burning. None of the helicopter from before were in the sky. The initial war force along with first reinforcement team were annihilated with only a few surviving.