Personal Narrative Essay On Paintball

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Personal Narrative One day, my Dad,a few friends I decided to enter into a multi-sport paintball competition. We took an hour drive past dozens of fields of gold tinted wheat and bales of hay. Once we arrived at the site I noticed many of the players were high schoolers. The event consisted of 2 main sports Football, and Paintball. When we arrived at the event site it was crowded with at least 10 different teams of 10 people . The teams all wore different color jerseys ranging from a yelling yellow to burnt black to blasting blue.
As we continued walking i noticed the air was filled with the smell of paint and gas, I assumed the paint from the paintballs and the gas from the compressed air machines. My Dad and I approached the sign
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I was getting closer i could hear paintballs getting shot, gas getting compressed. I had to think to myself quickly a plan of attack did i want to go with the knife again or quickly shoot all 6 members. I thought of the risks i could find four and shot them but get caught from behind with a enemy that lagged behind the rest and the game would end. So I went for the quieter approach I found most of the enemies before sending back to base I whispered requiscat in pace italian for rest in peace my favorite video game character an assassin said it whenever he would kill a target. I found and killed 5 and couldn't seem to find the carrier i pulled out my pistol and searched back into my team they said that he made a run for it the way i came in. I sprinted back to my base to catch the guy once i got there i heard him running back from my base i sprinted as fast as i could to catch up. I was going so fast i almost fell of the drop off i caught back up to the guy he was 30 seconds from his base at best. My team was gone i wondered why i guess they escorted the ball that i dropped back to the base. All that was left was catching and shooting the runner. I was within 50 yards of him 15 seconds from his base i pulled out my pistol, time went into slow motion. I could feel the wind in my face, i could see the vibrant color of the trees i could see the guy slowly step by step running