THE INVISIBLE WARRIOR

Adventure Fiction Mystery

Written in response to: "Write a story from the POV of a witch, corpse, or supernatural creature." as part of What Goes Bump in the Night?.

Crisanto is sent to a mission to rescue five hundred children abducted by a terrorist group following the order of their leader Misuto setting up camp in the highlands of South Africa. Crisanto is a member of the National Guard. He heard many terrorist attacks to civilians. they could burn a whole community to drive the settlers away and occupy the place and become a part of their territory. These activities are carefully planned to show to the national government about their stronger force to grab the power of governance in the land and the people. In this part of South Africa . a region called Conquistador , this terrorist group has occupied more than half of the area aiming to completely settle the whole area in the next five years. Their leader Misuto who has established his campgrounds surrounding it with strong fortress for his army to guard it for safety wherein he has established camps housing his own family, his army and people to serve in cooking their food and help maintain the camps in order. To give more pressure to the government of South Africa he ordered one of his generals to abduct five hundred children in one of their missionary schools operating under foreign aids to help the national government provide education to the young citizens. Misuto doesn't like the national government to receive foreign aid to support the school children but wanted these children to follow the tradition training children to become young warriors, the very reason why he ordered to abduct five hundred children to increase the number of his army. They will be trained under his ferocious general who successfully brainwashed new recruits to support their leader Misuto to change the government of South Africa who has grown his army about fifty seven thousand men. This is only a fraction of the government national guards of forty million soldiers. Since his purpose is to occupy the region he thinks he can build up his armed forces by abducting children he could train as early as their teenage years. There will be no schooling for them to increase their knowledge but purely military training. What is more important is to increase the territory of the terrorist group in the region. Crisanto comes from a family of warriors defending their country. He successfully passed his military training to become a national guard. From the jungles in the wild to military camps , he has been trained for physical fitness , endurance and health management to become a well prepared warrior in any kind of crisis and facing all kinds of risky situations when it comes to peace and order in the communities he is assigned to. His current assignment is to rescue and be the first responder to this kind of situation when citizens are in jeopardy. Their division has been informed about the five hundred children abducted by the terrorists group not far from the region of Conquistador. Their commander immediately dispatched a military plane to go to the school right away to assess the situation. Their were eight of them on board the military plane. One is a military medical physician. Crisanto is trained as a medical assistant to look after the injured victims after they are check by the doctor. The other people on board are the pilot and co-pilot, and two military correspondents to supply data about the incident to their higher authorities. There is an incoming bad weather when the plane took off from their camp. Crisanto and the physician were alarmed when they felt the air turbulence hit the side of the plane. By and by the pilot called for help and hit the May Day button. He has decided to shut down one of the engines to go for an emergency landing. Strong winds and lightning caused the engines to catch fire and the plane crashed to a wooded area. Crisanto lost his total consciousness . Everything went dark as the plane crashed in the late evening. Angels dressed in white approached the victims. Crisanto is the only casualty. Four angels touched his lifeless body took him in their arms and carried him away, they talked together to bring him to the Holy Land to take care of him until he is ready to go to his final destination. They brought him into a cave. They have decided to let Crisanto's mind and body stay inside the cave while his soul and spirit has to complete his mission to rescue the five hundred children inside the camp of the terrorist group. Since Crisanto who became invisible, cannot be seen by the naked eye with two invisible angels with him flew down to the camp at night to release the children in forty days before he can go with them to heaven his final resting place. They were able to open the camp gate where the children are sleeping. they brought out the sleeping guards on duty outside the camp, then woke up about twelve children to go with them bringing them to the nearest hospital for check up and sending them back to their place after recovery. The hospital staff are very happy to look after the children upon hearing they are the victims of abduction. How happy are the parents to see their children to be safe and healthy. Invisible Crisanto and the two invisible angels fly down to the camp at night until all the children are released at the fortieth night. Misuto is very furious firing all his guards. Nobody could tell him how these five hundred children were able to escape at night. At the school of the abducted children the schoolmaster is very proud to announce the children are safe and back to their homes and ready to go back to school. He received reports from the military authorities and guarantee the return of the last remaining children who are recovering in the hospital and soon be reunited with their families. When the last child is rescued and met his parents they asked him how he is able to leave the camp. he said, "It was night time, I felt soft arms like cottons carrying me until I reached the hospital. I have no idea how they looked like." The last night Crisanto knows it is his last night on Earth he decided to visit his beloved sweetheart to bid goodbye. In the dark he whispered to her to wait the day they will meet again in a new world where they will live forever, no more pain, no sickness, no sorrow and no more death. Crisanto's body is left inside the cave. Someday when someone will discover his skeleton inside the cave he will be identified by his DNA test while his soul and spirit is carried to heaven by the angels dressed in white to be in heaven , his final resting place.GP

Posted Oct 15, 2026
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