User:Mephistofeles413

Mephistofeles413 is the user name of Christos for Wiki. Christos was born in a quaint Belgian village called Middleburg in 1896. He was the only child of renowned gypsy hunters Henri and Emile Mirlo. He was raised to hunt the gypsies like his parents, but soon grew bored with that. In 1914 he joined the British army to fight the Germans in the First World War. He quickly became a captain in the British First Army under the command of Lieutenant-General Sir Douglas Haig. He was injured in the battle of the Somme in 1916 and again in the Third Battle of Ypres (also known as Passchendaele) in 1917. He was awarded the British War Medal, Victory Medal and the 1915 Star. After the war he moved to the Belgian Congo to become an adventurer. It is believed that Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness may have been based upon one of Christos' adventures in the Congo, where he took down a ruthless ivory trader. He would go on to hunt the legendary Mokèlé-mbèmbé, which he slew with the help of Tibetan Sherpas, which he hired as his team. He was renowned across the Congo as a great explorer. He would later retire to Colombia as a Gringo until his services would be needed again when the World was plunged into war with Germany once again. At the start of World War II Christos' thought he could avoid the war altogether because of his Columbian residency. The Americans soon found him and requested he fight for them to help beat back the German invader in Europe. He was finally sent in with the American 101st Airborne division in 1944 (because of his now mercenary status he is not listed in any of the military's records). He was assigned to E company and fought from D-Day to the Battle of the Bulge. After his heroic service he went to live in the United States were he thought he could live the rest of his life in peace. That unfortunately would not be so as another war would soon raise the call for brave soldiers such as him. In 1965 problems were growing in Viet Nam. He recognized his duty to his country and quickly signed up to go fight. He was sent over to Viet Nam in 1965, not long after the Gulf of Tonkin incident. He was one of the soldiers to land in Da Nang. He is later stationed in Saigon as a peacekeeper up through the "democratic election" in 1967 where the US declares South Vietnam "legitimate." He is sent into the jungles as a platoon leader, until after months in the jungle, he is sent to Hue with ARVN. Unfortunately he is sent on January 1st, 1968, to celebrate the holiday of Tet. On January 30 of 1968 the Tet offensive begins. After fighting to prevent the VC from capturing the ARVN base he receives the call to travel to his old garrison at Khe Sahn to help his former platoon repel the enemy attack. Because of a very heavy ongoing bombardment by enemy forces the cargo planes cannot land on the airstrip. Instead they are forced to perform a "touch and go" where they only touch down long enough to drop their supplies before taking off again. The plane never stops on the runway. He is dropped off with a small squad and his plane is destroyed by mortar and artillery fire before getting off the airstrip again. His squad must now link up with the remainder of his platoon to help repel the constant assault.