Buried alive

Riezekiel coughed lightly, his throat itched as he tried to pull himself however his whole body felt numb

It felt almost impossible to move

With each slight movement all he felt was excruciating pain all over his body

"Chief....?!" Cedric's called out anxiously, unsure who exactly had gotten conscious

Riezekiel tried to tilt his head but his strength was failing

"How's the situation?" Riezekiel's asked through his gritted teeth as he tried to force himself up

But the pressure from above him was suffocating

Alas he moved tearing himself from the cocoon he was tightly wrapped in "immobile" Cedric replied and Riezekiel's fists clenched tightly

Damn his body ached

But where was he?

He tried to feel around him but what seemed above him was solid earth

Where they buried alive?

" Azreal? Rico? Tyler!!!!!" Riezekiel callled out, his muffled voice held a hint of desperation and urgency "chief..., I didn't hear any other person " Cedric called again, his anxiety building as he tried to free himself from the cocoon which was so hard

And his body was too weak

He wondered how Riezekiel was able to break himself free cause he could hear the faint movements

Riezekiel's gritted his teeth as he pulled his weak body through the darkness, crawling on his fours as he tried to find Cedric's voice from the cocoons

Alas he found Cedric's cocoon

Fishing out a sharp blade from his pocket space he tore the cocoon apart before pulling Cedric's weak body out

"Chief!!!!" Cedric hugged Riezekiel feeling relieved having seen his friend again

"We'll have to open up the other cocoon's" Riezekiel spoke quickly, his whole body drenched in swear from forcing his body so much

"okay" Cedric fished out his own weapon and they begun to open up all the cocoons, tearing each cocoon apart revealing unconscious soldiers

Several hours passed by and Riezekiel leaned on the earthy wall gasping heavily

He was weak and tired

"What do we do now that everyone's unconscious?" Cedric asked as he stared into the darkness at where Riezekiel's breathing came faintly

"We wait" Riezekiel replied as she fished out his optical brain, with shaky hands he tried to connect to the base yet there was no signal

He couldn't even reply his wife or see any new message

He gritted his teeth

He had to live!!!

But why was he getting weaker and weaker

His consciousness felt like it was slipping away

"We seem to have been buried Cedric" Riezekiel's words made Cedric's face turn several shades paler

His mind raced with different thoughts

What were this zergs up to

"We'll have to dig our way out , something seems to be sucking on our life force" he added as he felt the earth wall and begun to dig

"Simon could have used his super strength to shatter the wall" Cedric sighed as he joined the digging

"The others haven't woken up yet..." he paused lightly glancing into the darkness where each soldier laid

They didn't seem dead or in pain

If felt more like they were sleepy soundly

"If this continues, we'll all die sooner or later, we need to get out of here" Riezekiel's words snapped Cedric out of his thoughts as they continued to dig

Even with their consciousness slipping slowly

They continued to dig, bits by bits with any they could find in their inventory

A full day passed by and both men were nearly out of breathe, barely clinging to life

"Here…."Riezekiel's fished out the meal Zosia packed from his space pocket and they both indulged in it

"We can't die here Chief" Cedric muttered as he chewed on the food

"Then you must not faint" Riezekiel sighed heavily

The weight of the moment was too much for him

What if...

Her milky white skin, her delicate curves and her beautiful face came to his mind

Those beautiful red eyes

"Husband...." He heard her voice and blinked as he turned around but she wasn't anywhere around him

"Wife….."his voice was choked and for the first time since he opened his eyes

His tears fell!

"Chief what's wrong?" Cedric asked anxiously, though he couldn't see Riezekiel's form, he could deduce the subtle change in his movements and voice

"Husband you're alive..."Zosia's cold voice sounded edged with a hint of warmth and something else

Maybe relief

"I'm alive though trapped" Riezekiel muttered under his breathe, he wondered if he was imagining things

But if he was he didn't want to wake up from this dream and he didn't want Cedric to know either

Her voice was soothing

Calming his anxious heart significantly

"You must live Husband, you must come back to me! For now take the vials I gave you, there are others I arranged in your spacial pockets!" With that said Zosia's voice drifted away

Riezekiel's breathe hitched as he rummaged through his spacial pocket

There were several vials

When had she had time to put things in his pocket?

He quickly accessed the liquid vials

Fishing out two vials dog the same properties he gave one to Cedric and one to himself

"What's this?" Cedric asked as he drank the vial which suprisingly tasted sweet. It was obvious he trusted Riezekiel with his life

"Restoration vial's" Riezekiel replied finding Zosia's choice of words rather funny

After a few minutes their fatigue and dizziness washed away replaced by a sense of calm and agility

"It's that effective..."Cedric chuckled as he flexed his muscles to ease tension from the cramped space, they could barely move freely and could only crawl on their fours

"Let's take this wall down" Riezekiel's cold voice sounded and they both went back to digging after finishing their meal

They couldn't tell how many days had passed since they started digging but the days darkness stretched longer and was suffocating

Luckily their mental fortitude was good else they could risk chances of going insane

The others still laid in their sleep like state

But Riezekiel knew better, if they continued to stay this way they would likely die

As their life essence would be depleted

Luckily with the restoration vials

He could feed each person a single drop per day

Mentally calculating the time as it ran by

"Chief..." Cedric called out as he munched on his dry rations which his Calista had prepared for his trip

Damn he missed her so much

He missed his children too

"We'll get out alive! We won't leave anyone behind" Riezekiel's words were resolute

He had made up his mind

And he surely wasn't changing his mind

The safety of his soldiers was his responsibility and he had to see through it all