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// Chapter One 
// Story: The Russian 
// by TheLzx 
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Stalingrad, Soviet Union
  
"You don't have to do this." Vadim held his hands out to who used to be his good friend, Yuri. Vadim was in a bad situation, a quite bad one indeed. The Germans were ripping them apart, here at Stalingrad.Yuri had gone mad, killing a friend they had near them and now pointing a gun at Vadim. Vadim looked saddened, "I don't want to die on this battlefield, please honor that comrade." Vadim looked around, trying to find a way to escape. He could find none, as they were on a balcony and the door back inside the building was on Bori's side.

"No!" Bori's eyes grew widened, terrifyingly wide, which scared Vadim, as he had never seen his friend like that. "They are going to kill us all!" Yuri smiled, "I am doing you a favor, comrade they will not kill you." Yuri started laughing. "Did you not see what they did to Vladar and Ignat, they feed them to their dogs." 

"Yuri, this is not you, calm down think about what you are doing." Vadim stepped closer to Yuri. "Think of the others, they need a medic, as do you, let me live."

Yuri took his DP-28 and took one good shot at Vadim's leg. "Do not step closer Дерьмо!"

Vadim screamed in pain. "Yuri, this is not you, stop it." Vadim looked him straight in the eye. "Think of my wife and daughter, what would they do without me." He closed his eyes. "умереть, that's what they would do."

"Too bad," Yuri said as he took his sub-machine gun and started shooting at Vadim.

Vadim started to fade away and said one last thing

"Гори в аду"





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Vadim woke up to a horrible headache and tried to grab his head, to try to take away the pain. "БЛЯДЬ," He said through clenched teeth. He opened his eyes to see where he was. He saw the bright sun and brought his hand up to his eyes to cover him from it, as it was too bright. He then looked around to see a forest on one side of him, and a lake and a clearing on his other side. He had forgotten about his headache now, as he realized that his body was not filled with bullet holes.

"Where am I, is this heaven?" Vadim asked himself. He was religious, however, he hid it as the soviets did not approve of it. "I guess that God has given me another chance," he muttered to himself. He stood up, and felt all over his body, to make sure he was in fact in one piece. He was, and Vadim sure did enjoy himself. He danced and danced until he heard a noise, of a twig snapping. Vadim turned to the sound of the noise and saw a bear.

He stood still, trying not to get the bears attention. It worked many times in his village, why not here? This, however, was on the back of his mind as he heard the bear roar loudly at him. Vadim took out his PPS and pointed it at the bear. He did not want it to get any closer to the beast. The bear must have taken this as a sign of aggression, as he started charging at Vadim. Vadim fired three shots at it, one missing and two hitting the bear. The bear yelped and ran over a hill.

"That was a very lousy bear, it could have easily killed me there," Vadim said to no one in particular. Vadim decided to go up the hill, to see where the bear had gone. As he arrived at the top of the hill, he saw something, buildings. There were many, but they were all pretty far away, other that one. He looked at it and saw the bear. And a horse? A yellow horse was helping the bear from what Vadim could see. Vadim was confused, he saw a horse helping a bear, it should be running away from the bear. The horse looked straight at him and took off to the city. It had wings, the horse had wings. "O lord, you have put me somewhere very strange," thought Vadim to himself.

Vadim sat at the top of the hill, careful to not alert the bear to his presence, however, the yellow one saw him so he may already have been discovered. He sat there for ten minutes, and then saw six of those horses, including the yellow one, head straight for him. Vadim hid in a nearby bush and took out his rifle. He was not sure, but he had a feeling that these creatures were intelligent.

That's when he heard it, the one thing he wished would never happen to him. They spoke English, the language he was taught to hate. He bolted out of his hiding space and ran to the opposite side of the hill. This, however, alerted the creatures as they appeared on top of the hill. He kept running the opposite direction until he heard "look the diamond dog!"

He looked back briefly to see those capitalist running to him, faster than he could ever go. He decided to stop there and hold his ground. He still remembered a bit of English from his classes so he yelled out, "Go away! I do not wish to sp-spa-spe" Vadim started to stutter, as he tried his best to speak English, but to no avail.

The purple one said something about him not sounding like a "diamond dog." He did not care about that right now, however, as he saw the blue one going towards him. He fired his SVT-40 close to her, to scare her, and it worked. The purple one told the blue one something about backing up. The purple one then walked closer to Vadim, and Vadim pointed his gun at her.

"Hello, I am Twilight Sparkle"