DENIAL-(Escape part 3)

A moment of hunger and tiredness struck Lukito as they wandered into the forest.

"Can we just slow down for a bit?" Lukito asked Josh as he huffed his breath.

"Huh? You were the one telling me should walk as fast as possible." Josh replied.

Lukito tried his best to ignore his fatigue and sprinted with Josh. Tiredness was inevitable as he tripped unaimlessly countless.

"You know maybe we should sit for awhile." Josh suggested out of the pity he felt.

With an inadequate amount of energy, Lukito sat on a rock and rested.

"Hey how are we going to get supplies?" Josh asked.

"I mean I dont know how to hunt and im guessing you also are incapable of catching animals, so how do we survive?"

"Well we got to steal." Lukito said.

"I mean it maybe dangerous and might even cost us our lives, but in this situation if we dont were dead anyways."

"So where are we gonna steal anyways?" Josh asked.

"The warehouse. I saw a ton of building right there and most of them arent even guarded. If we can sneak in then we'll have an abundant amount of supplies." Lukito suggested.

"Okay then. Well you just rest here for a while im gonne find a way to get in." Josh farewelled.

"Wait dont!" Lukito shouted.

"Huh why? You said there are only a couple of guards and there's a ton of buildings so why are you worried?" Josh asked in confusion.

"Bruh I think you forgot about the tracking dogs. Plus im the only one with a weapon so you are very much helpless if you get caught." Lukito explained.

"Good point." Josh replied as he assesed the explanation.

"Plus i have a feeling that they have control over us." Lukito added.

As they waited for Lukito to regain strenght, he got curious and talked.

"Hey what changed your mind?" Lukito asked.

"Change my mind about what?" Josh asked back.

"Killing yourself. Its pretty obvious isnt it? The rope, the tree, getting lost." Lukito answered.

Josh hesitated to answer the question and kept silent for awhile.

"Well its kinda personal." Josh whispered.

He took a deep breath and signed to muster up the courage and explained it.

"Well you see three years ago my mom and my dad were driving to get me some medicine cause I was sick at the moment, then they died. A truck suddenly crashed into them ont their way home. I heard about it in the news hoping it was fake, but it wasnt. I blamed myself every single day for what happened. I took an oath to toughen up myself and save anyone I know that has life threatining problems, the guys that beated me up were supposed to do it to middle schooler. Well I guess you could say because somebody is trying to kill you it becomes another day for me to survive."

Lukito suddenly looked back and reflect upon himself.

"This guy... I just felt sorry for myself for a long time but he actualy did something instead of mopping over his tears every night. Im that weak huh." Lukito thought to himself.

"Well im ready!" Lukito shouted as he got up looking like he refulled all his energy.

"Yeah lets go." Josh replied with a small smile on his face.

The two rushed into the warehouse and grabbed some supplies.

"Tuna cans?"

"Check."

"Water?"

"Check."

"A sack?"

"Check."

"Anything more that we missed?" Lukito asked.

"No. The rest of the boxes are just full of cannabis." Josh replied.

There were a couple of men outside but Lukito and Josh escaped at ease.

"Lets go to that archery range next. Maybe theres some weapons in there." Lukito suggested.

They went to the abandoned archery range, Lukito was very underwhelemed.

"The hell is this? An arch range with not a single viable tool." Lukito complained.

"Well they at least have these almost realistic targets." Josh bargained.

Lukito signed as they moved on to the next place.

"Well were here." Lukito said flat voice.

"What do you mean were here? Were going to the cementery." Josh replied.

"Awww I wanted to got to the temple." Lukito said in a playful tone.

"What useful things do you expect to get here anyways?" Josh asked.

"Come on lets go in! We might see a samurai swor-"

"No! You childish fuck!" Josh shouted.

"Im sorry....." Lukito said in a childish tone.

"Well I guess going inside wouldnt hurt."

They came inside the temple, sat down, and prayed. As they were praying Josh noticed something interesting from afar.

"Hey isnt that a smoke grenade?" Josh asked as he move towards it.

"Well monks dont like violence so i guess this is their natural way of defence." Lukito replied.

"At least there's no people here today." Josh said to bargain.

They carried the smoke grenade and proceeded to walk to their next destination. A cementery with a sense of death, they walked through the quiet place with shivers in their spine.

"Hey you afraid?" Lukito teased Josh.

"No you're afraid." Josh teased back.

As they were messing around, Lukito stumbled upon a shovel stuck to the dirt.

"Now we have a weapon." Lukito exclaimed.

"You realize that were fighting men with fucking guns right?" Josh replied toning like he was looking at a retarded person.

"Well at least we have something." Lukito said hesitantly.

"Good point." Josh replied.

As they explored the stoned place, they saw a small wooden house. Rodents ran off as they went in, and there were a bunch of wooden coffins inside.

"Search the corpses." Lukito ordered.

"How about you do it?" Josh denied.

"Im already doing it just help me out." Lukito replied while he was already searching through the dead bodies.

They searched the bodies until there were no more to look through. While they were searching, a creeking sound can be heard below them.

"This wood's pretty weak already. Lets hurry." Lukito said looking more serious than ever before.

"Yeah then lets explore the armory ne-"

The ground collapsed below Josh as he fell 7 feet down. Lukito jumped after him and reassured himself he wouldnt step on Josh.

"Hey get up we still we can't go down this easily." Lukito said as he helped Josh to get back on his feet.

"You should thank me." Josh said with a grin on his face.

Lukito's spirit lit up as he saw a room filled with weapons.

"Damn. How did these stuff even here?" Lukito asked in awe.

"I dont know as well but my best bet is that this is a base back in world war 2." Josh replied.

Lukito searched the place and found a ton of antique guns. He grabbed an Arisaka type 44 and two grenades to ready himself. Josh on the other hand just grabbed a Colt 1911 since he had broken arms.

"You ready?" Lukito asked as he finished preparing.

"I think you havent opened that bow there yet." Josh said as he was finalizing his items as well.

Lukito opened the box and saw blueprints. His eyes surged with fury as he saw what was written.

"So that's their plan huh."