The Crusaders II Bets are placed 7.5

1.          The Second Gate

The gate was located at the canyon; a deep narrow canyon that was before a large field of grave markings. There were a group of those demons standing near the gate on the right side. On the left side was another group; they are not of man but a tall sinewy red figure that towers over most mean by half with a body frame that half of man and a head of an oblong design with large orb for eyes. One of the tall sinewy one looked over to the tree line and raised up his right upper limb. It then emit a high pitched sound from within itself. The vocal sound reached the forest tree line.

"Banshee!" Miles shouted as he got the men to dispersed. He met Banshee before; their vocals are their weapon, their shrill can deafen or kill the victim. But these ones looked different. 

Pedro crouched down and raised his rifle. He adjusted his scope in seconds and aimed at the target. He pulled the trigger on a three shots lock. The so named Banshee collapsed with the bullets all squared on the oblong head. Sargeant Rico raised up the Javelin on his shoulder and fired of the missile. The missile launched at impact scattered upwards and exploded. The scattered mini bombs gave a deadly net of explosives of over twenty metres. The explosions scattered the demons and killed some of them. The surviving ones started moving fast towards the soldiers. Mike lashed out his M60 with Paddy feeding him the new belt.

Major Chapman stood in between the Sargeant and Mike to fire at anyone who may come too near. He raised the shotgun and fired at the leaping banshee. The shot blew the leaping demon backwards with a dying cry. He fired another at the demon who evaded so many bullets. Rico let off another round at the demons' gate. It hit the right pillar and the mini bombs exploded all around it but nothing happened.

"Damned! Don't they make bombs that worked anymore?"

Kruger was not stopping at that; he rushed out swinging his sword at the charging demons. Each step he took gets him closer to the pillars. He stood in front of the right pillar and noticed the crack in the surface. He did not notice the demon sneaking at his back. The banshee stood in the rear and was to used its weapon when Miles shot the demon in the back. Kruger swing the sword at the pillar, and the sword cracked the surface more. He was about to swing another when Rico joined Kruger.

"Please allow me." The Sargeant placed the string of fragment grenades at the pillar surface. He then placed the remaining javelin missile at the base. "Time to go."

They ran and jumped down onto the ground when the explosion came. It tore a hole in the ground and the right pillar fell down. It destroyed the second gateway.

Half a day later back at Camp Frontier, Major Chapman was proud to lead his men back.