PEREZ, ANA'S

Creative writing:

Ana Pérez: He had been sitting still in front of the window for more than an hour. Observing the rain drops falling from the dark clouds, listening to the loudness of the storm, the harsh sound of the wind. Not a single vital sign came out of him, one could think he wasn’t there. Suddenly he took a deep breath and stood up without letting any word slip out of his mouth. Sadly it wasn’t a surprise at all, he hasn't said anything since the funeral, and I knew today was not going to be an exception.

Miguel de Perosanz: He was undergoing a deep personal crisis since the tragic happenings of the Battle of Guadalcanal, where his father, Josh Thompson III, a senior Navy official with a long history of loyal service to America, died protecting the Americans’ base in the Lunga River’s estuary. Since this day, he’d ever be haunted by the memories of Edson’s Ridge, the place where the Japanese Empire had decided to attack the Allied forces in that tragic night of September.

Gonzalo Quintanilla: However, he was slowly recovering, but he was still having nightmares, imagining how his father died, imagining how a Japanese man killed not just his father, killing his father’s friends John and Robert. They had been like his fathers too, he grew up with them, and lived with them for 4 years.

One day, after a nightmare, he went to the bathroom , and when he was returning to his bedroom, he saw his father, John and Robert’s ghosts.

Andrés Rodríguez: For the first time in the last months, he uttered a word: “How?”. That was all he said before the ghosts disappeared, leaving him without an answer. He went completely crazy and started looking for them, leaving the house in a total mess. After not finding anything, he took a bottle of whisky and the only clean glass remaining at the house and started drinking. He thought he had lost his head and started crying. 

Manuel Ruiz: His moans woke up her mother who was sad asswell for the loss of her husband. When she entered the room she saw an image she hoped never to see, as her dad had died an alcoholic. Linda took the bottle away from her child and started shouting so he understood the fatality of his actions. The boy responded angrily reproaching his mother how irresponsible of her was to let his dad go into the battlefield. The night ended sadly with two people who were supposed to love and support each other fighting for the same reason that was making them so sad, death.

Elisa: The next days silence filled out the house again, until… a few weeks later after the first apparition, three ghosts appeared again, but this time to Linda, the mother. Linda was shocked seeing her husband with his dear friends. A few minutes in silence passed by, the ghosts were still there and the only thing Lisa could said was: How is it possible? and… as soon as she pronounced the words, the ghosts disappeared. Later Lisa went near her child to ask what he had saw the day she caught him drinking, for the surprise of Lisa his child said in tears: I’ve seen the ghost of dad and his friends but as soon as I said something they disappeared.

Jacobo Serret: Both the mother and the son waited for the father and his friends, and, after several days, they appeared again. Instead of talking, they decided only to watch what they were doing. Just by doing that, the ghost started to move and to act as if they were somewhere else, they were representing what had happened before they died. However, both the mother and the son saw couldn’t believe what they were watching.

Laura Tapia: The appearance of the ghosts lasted around three minutes until the mom unconsciously started crying, and immediately her son started walking as if he would be sleepwalking or possessed. He crossed the living room and left the house using the back door, but like he wasn't using at home, he left the house without shoes. One's out, the ghost of his father led him to a small and old house near the limits of their town.

Javier Vallejo: He opened the door quietly, and what he saw was terrifying. Robert Oppenheimer was there reunited with a lot of people. There was a huge placard saying: "Manhattan Project". Franklin D. Roosevelt raised from its chair and told him to sit down. They had been waiting him for a long time, because Robert told them that little boy should go to Hiroshima and win the war. Then a fat man entered into the room and said that he was going to Nagasaki. Oppenheimer started shouting saying that he wasn't referring to that, and that it was very dangerous for them that we knew their plan, and so they decided to let us participate in the project that would revenge his father.

The son and Linda didn't really know if they should participate on a war, from one point of view they wanted to take revenge because of his father's death but they also thought that no one should feel and suffer the pain that is losing a father or a husband as they did. 

After thinking for a few days they left their more human side apart and they decided they wanted to take revenge for all the pain they made on their life's, the kid stepped up and said: "We are in" 

Sergio Vara

The answer they received was nothing further from reality. Linda was not admitted in the army because of her condition of woman. Consequently, the responsibility was placed in the son.

He left home and he was assigned to a military camp in Kansas. After receiving several flight classes for two years, the 2nd August 1945 he was ready for his business. The night before getting into the fighter, he called his mum. The conversation got him shivering. 

Nicolás Bagur

Her mother began to tell him to think of him too and not just a person who was no longer there with them. That if something happened to him too, she would feel guilty about the death of her husband and son. And that if she lost him, there would be no one left. The son began to feel fear and replied to his mother not to worry about anything that he knew what he was doing, even though deep down he was thinking not. Ana Baños

And, so, on a sunny day of August, his desire for revenge for desire had lead to this, he was crossing the Atlantic Ocean in his plane, which he named after his mom, who had suffered ever since his father passed out. The airplane carried the Little Boy, the result of the investigation of the Manhattan project, and, his destination was Hiroshima, a city located in the south of Japan. The time had finally come. Carlo Cabrera

When the aircraft landed, all troops went into formation. They waited silently and patiently for their commands, with the exception of the boy, who's mind was now flooded with uncertainty. What his mother had told him was being replayed over and over again in his head, and he realized that his hands were now shaking, that if he died it would be those who remained alive that would suffer most. 

The prize of revenge seemed so much smaller now that he'd become aware of everything he had to lose. He realized that the hands of the bravest of his fellow soldiers were shaking too. Seeing everyone crack under the fear made war start to look like nothing but scared boys pretending to be men by fighting each other with metal that shot out of a cylinder, telling themselves these are honorable acts of bravery. Alexa C.

Suddenly an alarm sounded. All the soldiers ran to their aircraft. They had to take off to chase the Japanese aircraft. Meanwhile, the boy persecuted an enemy to chase him and saw that behind there were two enemies. He tried to dodge them. A missile touched his aircraft. He noticed that he was losing fuel and headed towards a forest. The aircraft collided with the high trees. The boy noticed his leg was cut off and fell unconscious. Stefan

He later woke up in a humble room with a bandage in his head, right shoulder, and leg, or what remained from his leg. He didn't hear a noise for a long time but abruptly someone knocked on the door and entered the room. He was puzzled to see that the person that entered the room was a Japanese soldier. The soldier spoke very basic English and transmitted to him that he was around when the aircraft crashed and that he saved his life. The boy felt grateful and frustrated at the same time. Ariana

The boy asked the soldier why did he save his life, at which the soldier answered:" You are too young for losing your life in a stupid conflict that only causes the death of millions of people and the suffering of many families that have lost their loved ones. Why did you decide to join your country's army?" The boy replied: "A Japanese soldier killed my father, so I wanted to take revenge on him. " The soldier said:"I have lost my son not long ago, It was a horrible feeling, but I do not want to take revenge on him because no one should ever feel like this. In reality, taking revenge only makes things worse; If I kill an enemy's son, mine would never come back again and I would have destroyed someone else’s life, making them to want to take revenge and repeating this cycle over and over again. Personally I would not feel like a hero doing this. War does not benefit any of us, what is the purpose of killing each other while there's someone making money from it? Do you think It is worth it? You should go home and give your Mother a hug while you still can, you are not a coward if you just want to save your life."José 

After this moment of huge feelings, the boy decided to return home, he agreed with the words of the “enemy” who saved his life. But how could he go home? He was in the middle of a massive war in other country and with his only possible choice to return home broken, the aircraft. 

However, even in the worst situations, there are always good people, and so this japanese was one of them. He proposed the little boy to take his old and outdated plane that was used in the last war, the one of the father’s death. This way he could got unnoticed with the enemy troops, but the problem was the return home, it was impossible to go back to his country with a japanese aircraft, it was a sure death.

After a moment of thinking, they both got the same idea, painting the plane as a merchant one. -Hugo

After a few days spent on painting the plain with his ironic enemy, the plain was ready. They made a plan in order to get to the boy's country, He just needed to go to the nearest American base in Japan, as he had no leg he would be immediately sent to America to recover from it. The problem was that almost all the air routes were controlled by either the japanese and the americans. But there was one left that was not controlled by anyone "the death route". This route has not been used by anyone for years because it is the most dangerous route of the continent. An urban legend said that whoever entered never left, it has always been one of the biggest aviation mysteries. But there was no time to think about it, his leg despite the fact that his "enemy" helped him to stop the bleeding, was not going to last much longer. -Pablo

Despite the danger, the young boy decided to go for it and the japanese soldier joined him. They had to arrive to the other part of the island, where the American base was. Everything was going well, they were not having any trouble, they were even questioning why the route was called “the death route”, when something happened… Suddenly a huge storm appeared out of nowhere and make them really difficult to keep their way to the North. They were forced to land but there was no land below them, as the route they were following surrounded the island by the sea, in order to avoid getting into any war zone. They were almost in the american base when this unexpected occurred, their propellers melted and the plane began to plummet at a great speed, there was no option but to jump into the sea. Isabel

They jumped into the sea. Pieces of plane in flames were falling everywhere around them. They started swimming following the stream as they could not see the coast, it was their best option. 

After a couple hours swimming, they saw the coast, they were getting closer. However, they were extremely tired, specially the boy, who had no leg. But they still tried to swim, it was their only chance to survive. By Sofía

Finally both of them managed to get to the coast. Before moving on they decided to rest for some time. After 30 minutes of resting the Japanese men starting looking for some materials to make for the young boy some crutches so he could walked easily. While he was searching for those materials he saw a huge metal cabin with the American flag which put " American basement Okinawa". He runned back to where the young boy was and took him to there. By Moe

Once they were “save” in the American basement ,they got attended by American soldier. The little boy was in really bad conditions ,his leg had been days wound ,but he wasn’t able to feel it anymore as they had been swimming for hours in the cold water.When the American soldier saw them ,he thought that they could be enemy’s ,but the little boy explained him that he was also an American soldier and that the Japanese “enemy” he was with ,saved his life . So as soon as the little boy said that a doctor came to take the little boy to a gurney and treat his leg.By Roxana 

It was not enough, and he tragically passed away at the tender age of 18. He was not afraid of death, he could only think of all the suffering his affair for revenge had brought him, but most importantly, how devastated his mom would be. He told the soldier who was with him to give a final message to his mom: “I’m sorry, this was not what dad would have wanted”. He was given a state funeral, as he had given his life for his country, in an operation that would put an end to the war, what he wanted ever since that kid saved him. Pedro Peñafiel




He woke up, strapped to a wooden chair and with his mouth covered with tape.

He then received a severe beatdown by a group of husky, Russian men. He had been kept in captivity for a week by that point, but he was not able to remember how on earth had he ended up in a situation like that. The only thing he could remember was that he used to be a policeman.

By Carlo Cabrera

A tall, black-haired man walked into the room. He rubbed his scruffy beard as he looked at the hostage's pitiful figure. 'Your name is Harvey Bradford,' he said as he kneeled in front of him. The debilitated man did not look up at him. Not having received a satisfactory reaction, the tall man got up and kicked him in the stomach. Harvey coughed and flinched in pain, but refused to look up at his agresor. The man, who was wearing a black trench coat, sighed before asking him: 'Do you not want to know why you're here?'

By Alexa C.

Harvey was curious and confused, and while he was thinking, the man spoke ' Two years ago in a shooting that took place at Kabul, you killed a man ', he stated. The policeman instantly remembered who he was talking about and responded:  'I did it to save people's lives as that man was a kamikaze ' while he still refused to look at him. The man was not pleased with what Harvey said, so he furiously answered ' He was my brother and he was following his faith, you prevented him from being a hero'. 

By Ariana Espada

Harvey instantly realised that even at first glance those men looked russian, they were a strange slovakian group that followed islam.The islamists came again with another hostage, Bruno, a white slim and tall policeman, Bruno was Harvey's office team mate, he had only been in the force since two months ago. Harvey didn't understood why they kidnapped him as well, then the guy that talked before and seemed to be ruling all of this said: " I think you know something you could share with us". Harvey was intrigued and didn't mention anything. -Stefan Costea

The strange islamist slovakian group wanted the U.S nuclear missiles launch codes in order to perform a massive scale terrorist attack. At first Bruno refused to talk, until they started torturing him and threatened to kill his family. Bruno knew that a meeting between the US defense secretary and the NSA was going to take place in a few hours and they were going to test their missiles in the desert of Nevada. - - "The secretary has the codes in a bulletproof suitcase and he will be in the desert of Nevada this afternoon" said Bruno to the group. Harvey was astonished and asked Bruno how did he know all of this information. (José Gálvez) 

After a long talk between the two mates, Bruno resulted to be a secret agent working for the C.I.A. He was on that cover to look for information about the terrorist group  and maintain closer contact with them, but it seemed he had been discovered.

Harvey was surprised but he had other things to focus on, the main importance was to get out of that small, dark and cold room. - Hugo

After two hours, a man entered the room to give them food, but what he did not know is that Bruno had managed to untie himself thanks to the fact that his hand had been cut off during torture. Bruno hit the man and suffocate him with his ass, a tactic he learned in the CIA, they managed to escape from that terrifying prison, but they needed to get there before their enemies did. -By pablo

Bruno and Harvey had a long way to go. After leaving the room they found an exit through the back door, where just one of the islamists was watching. Bruno came first and distracted him while Harvey appeared from the back and hit him on the head. Both of them ran away and took a motorcycle that was parked at the front door, in that moment one of the husky, russian men saw them. He immediately warned the rest of the group and in less than five seconds Bruno and Harvey had seven men following them full of guns. By Isabel

Harvey was driving and he accelerated as much as he could, but they were hot on their heels. They were about to reach the door, only 20 metres apart from it. They were going to get out out that place and they had left behind the men who were after them. But suddenly, the doors started closing, Harvey did not know if they were going to be able to cross before they close. He stepped on the gas, but the motorcycle was already going as fast as it could. By Sofía

 Only 10 meters more and they will be out, but the gates were closing very fast. Finally they managed to go through the gates. Harvey started screaming of happiness "look Bruno we did it!!". Bruno was also happy but he was not answering,Harvey realised he was not feeling okey and decided to stop. When they stopped Bruno started getting dizzy, Harvey grabbed him and saw he was bleeding from his abdominals. By Moe

In the motorcycle there was a first aid kit, as fast as he could Harvey  ripped Bruno’s shirt off to stop the blood with a turnstile , so he didn't die until they get to the hospital . Once they get to the hospital and he gets help for Bruno , goes back running to the motorcycle . Even without Bruno , Harvey has to get to the desert before the enemies ,so he gets on the road and speeding  up as fast as he can.

30 minutes later he arrived to the Nevada desert.By Roxana 

Although his loyal friend was facing death, Harvey had a mission to accomplish, he needed to make sure that none of the islamist got to the desert, as they could get hold of the nuclear codes. Harvey travelled down the around at about 150 miles per hour. He had the impression that two blacks vans were following him, and that was indeed the case. By that he knew the islamists were on there way to the desert, so the only thing he could do was to delay there arrival until the tests had finished. By Pedro

Harvey decided to take another road, a longer one, at that point he didn't know that those Russians knew how to get there. So he turned right, but they followed the shorter route. He definitely committed a mistake, but it wasn't a good moment to cry about it. He drove as fast as he could to the nearest gas station to ask for a phone. By Ana Pérez

It was a long ride, but finally, he got to a gas station, and dialed 911. Two policemen immediately came to help him, but the terrorists were getting dangerously closer. Harvey decided to take another detour, and finally he could meet the agents at a small town called Amargura. But he would not be free from persecutions for at least some time. Three days later, Harvey shot two Jihadists in his ranch in Texas. By Miguel

Harvey decided to take a break, and to rest for one week. But the jihadists knew that he was staying at home for one week, so they planned an attack.

They planned to kidnap him while he was sleeping, but what they did not know was that he had some cameras and a bodyguard called Fran which had some weapons, and worked as a military at the Vietnam war.. By Gonzalo

At 00:00, the jihadists entered in Harvey’s property. They thought it was going to be as easy as the first time they kidnapped him, but Fran appeared with a M16 in each hand shooting everywhere while shouting “Fucking Communists”. Harvey woke up in that moment but he wasn’t scared as he knew Fran’s skills. Five minutes later, someone entered to Harvey’s room. he thought it was Fran, so asked him: “Did you have fun?”. A voice with Russian accent answered: “Yes, that guy was a good opponent”. Harvey turned to see who was that voice. He was shocked. It was Khabib Nurmagomedov, the UFC champion. By Andrés

Harvey drew a handgun he had prepared and just shot the man in the head. 

Six months later, Harvey had moved to LA and was a police chief there. everything was perfect, until one day he received a call to his house phone. Some russian character was in the other side. he said something along the lines of ¨we know where you live and we want to just end your life¨.Manuel Ruiz

After those words, the russian hung up leaving Harvey without a chance to say something. Harvey stayed in silence, shocked about what had just happened. After a long time thinking what to do, he decided to call his dear friend Bruno, who was now working again, but this time he was the chief of the FBI group who was in charge of looking for potential terrorist or bands that could cause any damage to the US citizens. Harvey knew that was the best decision to make. Elisa

However, he couldn't contact him. Everytime Harvey called Bruno, he hanged him up. Harvey started to get stressed, he didn't know what to do next. He strongly believed that Bruno would have helped him, but Harvey didn't imagine that this would have happened. After several hours in panic, he realised he had been in worse situations so he decided to use his power as police chief and mobilize all his department in order to look for them. Jacobo

But...there was a big problem about it, they knew where he was but he had no clue about the location of the russian terrorist. 

He went to “his” police office and command his best officers and those specialized in terrorist attacks to be ready for a meeting in 5 minutes. Before explaining what was happening he told them that they could refuse the mission, but if they chose that option they should say it before the details were revealed. 

Just a few were gone, and he started explaining his plan. He didn't knew where the Russian terrorists were, but anyway they were going to his house to kill him at any moment. That meant that they knew the future location of the vodka-drinkers. Using a bait who was going to replace Harvey, they will surprise the Soviets with a lot of police aid and finally destroy them. But no one wanted to be the bait, until the doors opened and someone said "I will". It was Bruno. Javier Vallejo

It was a surprise for everyone to see Bruno there because the only person that knew him was Harvey. After Harvey introduced him to the rest of the police officer's they were all amazed by the crazy adventures Harvey has in the past and from that point they listened more to him because he was an expert in this cases. After all the emotive moment they followed the plan. They called all the units close to that zone and they all went straight to Harvey's house. Sergio Vara

Bruno would pretend to be Harvey and all the cops would be waiting hidden under the bed, inside the cupboards,in the shower. The house was repleted of policemen each of them armed with two GLOCKS. Nothing could go wrong.

Whilst they were preparing the mission, Harvey received a message:

 . ... - .- / -. --- -.-. .... . / .- / .-.. .- ... / ----. .-.-.. 

Bruno, an expert in Language systems recognized Morse, and ge translated it. Tonight 9. 

The night arrived,and the GLOCKS were loaded. Bruno, in Harvey´s bed, and Harvey at the office, following the plan via surveillance cameras. 9’ o’ clock. Someone knocked on the door, it was a postman saying. I have a gift for you. Nicolás Bagur

Bruno got up to open the door. He was obviously a Russian dressed as a postman, Bruno looked him up and down and saw a pistol. He closed the door immediately, signaled for all the police to came out, and after 3 seconds the Russians threw down the front door and started a shootout. The Russians were more than them, but they still won. They managed not to kill any of their side but all the Russians. The next day they celebrated it with a few beers, and Russian vodka in a bar. Ana Baños