Fight for Palet ( part IV )

They went down and left the house using the same way they had used to enter since they wanted to call back the few people from Jamal's team Volga had left earlier. They got in their cars, Jamal put up his motorbike on Ilya's pickup and went to sit beside Volga on the backseats. They rolled around the house and quickly joined the rest of her team.

As expected, they had already finished their part of the job and were quietly waiting sitting here there in the courtyard. When they saw them coming, they slowly started to getting up to go meet them. Volga and Jamal got off the car and Jeffrey came to tell them briefly what happened.

He said that after she left, they managed to hold the group of outlaws who were trying to escape, " they were completely dispersed and so they were easy prey" he joked. He carried on by saying that this situation didn't last forever, some of them went to report to their chief that there was another group of enemies at the gate who were attacking them. The latter changed his mind at once and instead of telling his men to run inside the house, he ordered them to concentrate their forces on the enemies at the gate of the villa, they didn't take long to reorganize themselves, and quickly their counterattack turned into being stronger. " We had difficulties to contain them, they even achieved to hurt one of us, but don't worry his life is not in danger and he even said he is still capable to fight ".

Jeffrey said that their situation started to become desperate until they saw Volga's group coming back, " I was very surprised when I saw that instead of you, it was Carla who was ahead, leading the group, " he told Volga. " The outlaws didn't know what to do, they were fighting us at the front but at the same time were undergoing the attack of Carla's group from the back. In other words, they were completely trapped, and thus, they didn't last long before being exterminated ".

" Where is she? " Volga asked him after he finished his story.

" She is outside with Nelson and Sania as well as their entire groups, " Jeffrey pointed to the opened gate, " he called her out to hear her report about the battle ".

" They're already here? Seems like their mission went better than ours, " she observed.

" Alright, let's go see them " Jamal proposed to her enthusiastically, when he turned his sight he noticed that people were staring worriedly at his hands covered with blood, " I have already checked the whole house and there are no prisoners so no need to stay here any longer, " he lifted his hands so they could see them clearly " if you have finished being afraid of me, you can go prepare yourselves and join us outside, we will leave together ".

They bowed their heads shamefully and dispersed, walking toward their vehicles.

Volga went to take her convertible, she rolled near Ilya's car to let Jamal jump in, and together with Ilya who followed them, they went outside the villa where many pickups were parked here and there as well as many people who were waiting to receive the order to get back on their cars. They waved their hands when they saw Jamal and Volga passing by and even if they tried to hide behind their smiles Jamal remarked that they were very exhausted.

He stood up trying to see where Nelson was while rounding his sight all over the mass of cars and people for a few minutes until he glanced at a woman wearing a cloak, which seemed longer than her, laying graciously on the top of a pickup, her head leaned on her hand while following the conversation of two people in front of her.

He leaned toward Volga and extended his hand to show her where they should go, she turned slightly on the left in the direction he was indicating her and a few meters later they reached Nelson and Sania's location.

Volga stopped the car and they both jumped out and walked toward the three people who were discussing.

Sania, who was on the roof of Nelson's pickup, was the first one to see them. When she lifted lazily her leg to salute them, the cloak she was wearing, which was not well buttoned, slid and dropped off slightly, discovering her soft slander naked leg, until the midway of her thigh. Jamal quickly turned his sight away while Volga continued staring at her, she shook her head as she didn't know what to do about that shameless and naughty behavior of her subordinate.

Nelson's back was facing them while he was talking with Carla, that was why Sania saw them before he did. Carla threw her sights above Nelson's shoulder and glanced at Volga's head, she slightly leaned aside to see her better and at the same time, she saw Jamal behind who was walking her.

When she waved her hand at them, Nelson turned around, curious to see whom she was saluting. " Oh, you're finally back, " he declared happily while extending his arms, " I was starting to get worried, " he added, even though he had a large smile hanging on his face.

" Not only you, " Jamal said while pushing jokingly Volga with his elbow, " she was, too, very worried about me ".

The woman replied with a hit of her elbow on his ribs before she quickly changed the subject without letting anyone the occasion to ask a question. " You've got a nice specimen in your hand, " she told Nelson while pointing out Carla.

The man glanced at her distractedly and shrugged before replying, " oh you mean her, you're right she is a good soldier but also a very stubborn woman. I knew she would fit in your team ".

" I see, so I'm not the only woman you can't hold under control, even though you didn't stop singing how dutiful and disciplined your army was, " Sania replied, trying openly to provoke him.

" She is, indeed, disciplined and under control but that does not stop her to think differently from me or others, " he replied, he put a hand on the young woman's shoulder and added, " but don't worry you will soon become as disciplined and under control as they are ". They both stayed there, glaring at each other for a moment until Jamal stepped up to cut it out.

" Well, it seems that everyone is very tired so I propose to quickly leave this place, moreover, I'm really starting to stink so the sooner we get back to wash this blood out of me the better ". He stopped and stared at both Nelson and Sania before he told them, " by the way, I would want you two to see those, among your teams, who are not totally exhausted to return back to inspect the houses of the two clans of outlaws you were in charge of. I want them to go verify whether or not they were detaining some prisoners since I'm sure none of you thought of doing so, am I wrong? " he said while throwing at them a reproachful look.

Sania suddenly sat up on the top of the car and pointed to Nelson, " it's his fault when we finished our mission he immediately rushed me to come here to help you, he didn't even let me the time to protest... "

" I don't care whose was the fault, " Jamal said coldly, " you were the captains so the responsibility falls on you... and your Men who didn't recall you ".

Sania glared at Nelson with insistence before she turned her head away and cursed in a low voice which everyone heard though, she continued muttering between her teeth, " me who wanted to spend more time with Glenn, I'm now stuck with General Eisenhower ".

On contrary to her, Nelson didn't make any comment about that, he just humbly apologized to Jamal and promised him to quickly finish his job and come back to the HQ, the latter nodded after taking a look at his back.

" Boss, can I come along with you? " Carla proposed to him, enthusiastically. She had moved to stand between him and Jamal.

He patted her shoulder, " you should go back and have some rest, you must be tired after all that you have done during the battle, " he paused to point his finger at Jamal, " moreover, he said that I can only bring with me the members of my team ".

" I'm not tired at all and I'm sure my actual superior won't see any problem if I go to offer you my help, right? " the woman turned and looked at Volga supplicantly but before the latter could give her agreement Sania jumped down, pulled Carla by her arm and pushed her with force to bump into Jamal. " Listen, little brat, he already told you that you cannot come with us, what is the problem with you all always seek his favors. He is just a guy who improvised himself the leader of your army of citizens, not a real captain and you're not real soldiers it's just for three more days and you will all wear back your costumes of ordinary people, so calm yourself ".

" Don't act so presumptuous as if you know anything about him or us, you're just a slut in heat who can't live one second without the attention of men, " the young woman didn't seem to the kind of people who would let themselves being badmouthed without reacting. She put a step forward as she wanted to hit Sania but Jamal anticipated and quickly grabbed her arm discreetly, holding her to throw her punch and without anyone noticing what was about to happen.

Jamal frowned a little and dropped his at the arm of Carla, surprised to see that he had to use more strength than he expected to restrain her. [ This girl is a lot stronger than she appears to be ] he thought for himself.

On the other hand, at the same moment, Sania, who seemed to have been affected by Carla's words, went mad and made a move to slap her but it was the turn of Nelson to intervene, he caught her hand on the air and pulled her toward him. " Disciplined you said? This girl is just a mere brute without any class, let go of me, I will show her what true discipline is ".

" Stop it, you're just embarrassing yourself, " the man said but it didn't calm her even a little bit, Sania continued agitating, trying to release herself from his arms. " You may excuse us, I think we should go at once if we want to come back before the sunset, " Nelson said to Jamal, then he landed his eyes on the young woman just beside him and told her " Carla, you will do as I said, you will go-ahead to the HQ. I will come later to give you a proper punishment for your wrong attitude ".

" Don't worry about that, I will do it myself once we get back, " Jamal promised him after an idea popped up in his head.

Nelson found it unexpected but he finally accepted, " If you want, I'm counting on you, " then he pulled Sania, pushed her inside the pickup, and tied her with the seatbelts before he started the car and went off to call his Men.

When they lost sight of them Jamal slowly released Carla's arm. He found it strange that it stuck a little bit when he let go of it, he thought that maybe it was due to the blood on his hand and but then he noticed that the palm of his hand was later itching.

The woman turned around, without daring to lift her head to look at his eyes she said, " I'm very sorry and thank you for having restrained me ". When she ran toward the villa it gave the impression of a little girl who was forcing herself to apologize after being properly scolded. That thought didn't miss to amuse Jamal.

He turned to Ilya who was in her side, a little afar from the group, and had her head facing to the ground. She looked lost in her thoughts and when he called her, she didn't respond until he raised his to shout at her. She startled while lifting her head, looking frenetically around her like to identify who called her before she finally landed her sight to the one in front of her, " yes! " she replied.

" I want you to follow that girl, Carla, to help her gathering the troops, we must leave now " he ordered her.

" Got it! " she shouted before running toward the house with surprising and mysterious enthusiasm.

" What the hell just happened? " Volga was the only one remaining there, she had her arms crossed below her breasts and was gazing at Ilya while she was slowly disappearing from their sights. She, then, turned her attention to Jamal and a smile started to slowly appear on her face, suddenly they both burst out laughing, amused by the series of actions that just happened.

They saw the cars around them beginning to leave the place, they quickly formed a small cortege and rolled toward the highway to go in the direction of Finn's territory.

" Well, shouldn't we go too? " Volga proposed, once the parking was finally empty. Jamal nodded at her and they, together, got on the convertible.

At the entrance of the villa, everyone already in their vehicles was waiting for them to take the lead and head back to the HQ.

They were at a dozen of meters from the gates of Glenn's villa when they started hearing screams of joy and the sound of musical instruments. The people of Palet who couldn't participate in the war were trying to compensate for their absence by celebrating their victory as better as they could. On the wall were the two watchmen who saw them coming and gave the signal to the others, inside, to start the festivities. They opened the gates to let the army of champions entering in the edifice. But once they were all inside, the crowd around realized that there were fewer vehicles than on the morning when they left.

Glenn went down the stairs and ran toward Volga's car, worried. " What happened? Where are the others? Don't tell me that something horrible happened? Is she... ? "

Jamal jumped out of the car and landed his hands on both shoulders, " Relax, nothing happened, all things went as we have planned. It's just that I gave Nelson and Sania an extra job. Don't worry, " he emphasized on the last part and by supporting his sight as if to make him understand something secret and Glenn immediately cooled down.

Jamal turned to the crowd and repeated louder what he said to him. " Let's start the party while waiting for them to come ". They crowd their songs while playing their instruments with passion and later, one after another, the members of the army went out from the cars to join them and the joy quickly invaded the court.

" I'm going inside to wash my hands " Jamal shouted at Volga, who was still on the seat of the driver.

" You should probably take a shower " she replied to him teasingly.

" You're right, I will do that, " he said, before he ran toward the stairs, he jumped and took them four by four and penetrated inside the house. He decided to go to the bathroom on the upper floor and at the end of the stairs, he found them both. It looked like he just interrupted something but he didn't care, " you should do it somewhere more private, and not on the way. What would have happened if it was someone else? "

" Excuse us, it's just... I'm really happy she came back safely, I couldn't contain myself " Glenn apologized.

Jamal shrugged " I promised you to bring her back, didn't I? Anyway, if you don't want people to find about the both of you you must be careful ". He went on his way as if nothing happened.

While he was taking his shower, after he washed out the blood which was covering him, he noticed that he was himself bleeding from the palm of his hand, " what is this? " besides that he also found on it some weird tiny holes as if he had held a cactus.

A few minutes later, he went to find everyone downstairs. A buffet was being installed and outside, on the court, people were still dancing and singing. Jamal rounded his sight on the crowd and finally found whom he was looking for.

Carla was sitting on a chair a little apart from the groups of people who were enjoying the party, she was holding an empty glass and was staring at it distractedly while surely thinking about something else.

" Why not going to refilling it up back instead of staring at it sadly, " Jamal told her while standing before her.

" I'm okay, thank you, " she shook the glass, " it was not even full, in the first place. I don't like alcohol, I just took it because I wanted the others to leave me alone ".

" I understand, I don't either like alcohol, " he nodded. " By the way where is Volga? " he asked her while moving his head from right to left.

" She said that she would go take a shower and look for a phone to call her... future husband, apparently, " she responded while putting her glass on the table nearby, " it's weird, until now, I thought it was you her lover ".

He laughed, embarrassed, " you're not the only one ". Suddenly his face changed into a more serious expression, " anyway since we are only the two of us I better use this moment to give you the punishment for your insubordination as I've promised your captain, do you remember? "

She stood up, " Yes, I remember. I'm counting on you to be fair and just to me, and once again I'm sorry for the trouble I have caused ".

" Take it easy, it's not such a big deal and I understand that Sania can sometimes be very irritating and so the punishment won't be so harsh " he paused, his eyes on hers, " it's a simple task. I want you to tell me what you are? "

Carla looked at him falsely confused and turned her sight away " it's a quite awkward question, is it even a punishment? "

" Look at me " Jamal insisted, he waited for her to obey before he carried on, " I'm not joking so stop playing dumb and answer me, what are you? "

The woman sighed " I was sure you will somehow notice it after what happened but I still hoped you would just overlook it, but it seemed like you're more perspicacious than I thought. Well, let's move somewhere more... private, want you? I shall then tell you everything about me ".