Me and Jonah as always were driving a jeep in the jungle, trying to find a hidden village where it believed that there’s some superhuman soldiers who protect the village, a myth that they draw their powers from a cave that has a mysterious gem. The ride was somewhat peaceful so far, Jonah occasionally making comments about how beautiful the jungle with its animals and me correcting his false information. However, the peaceful time was cut short by bullets flying over our heads, making us duck to avoid getting hit.

“It’s Trinity.”

I heard Jonah yelling over the gunshot, looking behind us I see two jeeps following us with few men shooting at us. Luckily, I swerved the car right and left to lose them, but my tactic wasn’t usually against Trinity’s men shooting at the tiers, making me lose control and the car had flipped over. Fluttering my eyes open and smelled the gasoline, making me panic a little and quickly undone my seatbelt to make it out of the jeep, thankfully Jonah had helped me yet Trinity’s men had surrendered us.

“Look what we have here.”

a rough voice could be heard from the side, a guy with a beard comes in view with a wicked smirk on his face with few men following him behind, all of them holding guns and rifles and two went behind Jonah and Lara to points their guns into their heads, all had smug smirks and chuckles, after all they caught Lara Croft, the pain in their ass. But most importantly that Lara knows where the gem is.

I growled softly as I saw Trinity’s men approached us, I clenched my fists in annoyance as my eyes looked at their weapons with a glare. I glanced over to Jonah, seeing that he was as equally angry as me, making both of us stayed still until the guy who said the greeting approached us. Even though I felt annoyed by meeting him, I kept my composure, giving the man a deadpanned look.

“What do you want…”

the bearded man grins in triumph, looking at his men like he already won the battle and got the sacred gem. Kneeling in front of Lara, his breath stink of cigarettes and sins.

“The location of th-”

The guy didn’t get to continue his talk when an arrow pierced his throat, gargling with his own blood before falling down face first, his blood spattered over my face, I didn’t know if I should be glad or worry that the second arrow will be in me. Of course this made the others feel terrified and they immediately went into panic mood. The jungle was so dark and quiet, the only thing they could hear is their own fast breathing and heartbeat, that silence was cut when a shadow bolted from the trees and cut several men right in the neck before disappearing into the jungle.

“It’s the Red Devil run.”

one of the men tried to run away, but failed and fall on the ground with his throat slit open, the other quickly tried the same yet the mysterious and fast shadow didn’t even let them get close from their cars and had taken them down with a blink of an eye. There’s no other explanation other than this shadow is one of the ancient warriors. I thought they were just another myth, but if it’s truth then this is the night terror that hunts down whoever tried to harm their land, I might get lucky or be like the rest of the men, dead with an arrow in my throat.