The next day was hectic. We were woken up by a very huge bell, we wore our sweat pants and went out to the field for morning exercise by 5:00am. With my sleepy eyes, I almost fell on my way to the field, Yuvonne is an early waker so she had no problem with that instead, she made fun of me.
" Hehe, girl I almost forgot you are a log, don't worry, I will catch you if you fall"
" They could have allowed us to atleast wash our fucking mouth or even face" I said after I checked my breath, damn it was bad."Welcome to Marshalls love" She mocked as she held me and we walked to the field to join the others. Bull, Julius Arms was already at the field with his deputy as they guided our exercise routine. During our resting time, a girl walked up to us with a paper. She was putting on a double lensed eyes aid, it made her look like a nerd but she was gorgeous by the way." Hola!, you are the occupants of uhmm room 101?""Right" I answered drinking from my flask not looking away from her."Is there something we can help you with honey?" Yuvonne chipped in
"Yes dear, which of you is Helion Mary?" She asked adjusting her glasses.I looked over at Yuvonne who also had no clue why she was asking. Then I turned to answer her;" I am Helion Mary, Is there a problem?" "Not at all, My name is Null, Sylver Waters and I have been assigned to you as a partner. We are under the black beret, the vantas, nice to meet you mate."She held out her hand for a handshake which I took relentlessly."So, Which is your surname, Waters or Sylver?"I asked lacing my boots and looking over at her"Waters of course" She replied, raising her brow."Well, next time, You should say your last name before yours when you want to add a beret or title to it" Yuvonne corrected her."Sylver Waters. Hmm, sounds like Mercury?" I implied looking at Yuvonne as
We all laughed. " Seems you have been baptized the second time. Mercury" Yuvonne said. Yuvonne can be goofy as fuck sometimes, but this time she was right. I stood up to go with her and Yuvonne left to look for her partner too.Walking towards the Hall with Mercury, we were going to the Vantas department to get recruited properly and also get our badges as future members. As we were looking around, I looked at her and asked;" Since when?"She looked at me confused, so I helped her out.
"Since when have you been on eyes aid?"" Did you say eyes aid? Oh my God! nobody says that these days or ever. It is called spectacles. For as long as I can remember, I have always been on it. Feels like I was born wearing one. Why?"
"Nothing actually, it looks good on you" I answered
"Poor thing ain't got no choice you know"
She said adjusting her glasses as I smiled at her.At the Vantas department, I saw another Latino hand writing on there wall beside there black flag. I felt so disappointed I could not comprehend Latin because I was itching to know what it said.
On the head's table was sitted a guy who looks like he is over twenty three years. The stats said; once you are twenty three, you no longer has a place at the Marshalls, either you go to the KS Army, or you go home. I looked at Mercury who was also thinking what I was thinking.We took our badge after filling a form and left for our dormitories."Well, that guy is old, so many rules are not kept in here, it seems" Mercury told me."Exactly what I was thinking, something is seriously wrong with this place, I sensed it the first day I came here I just couldn't get my hands on it" I said hugging my self as we walked back to the dorm."Have you seen the giant door with no handle, no locks or knob or whatever you can open it with, not even a key card detector?" Mercury asked hoping my answer will be affirmative.
"Where?," I asked her.
"Behind the Alphas camp, the red berets. God, it looks unreal. I am curious to know what lies behind it"
"Well, I also can't help but notice the three anchors on the M legs at the reception wall" I Said"Yes, I saw that too, one of the anchors is missing a chain, did you notice?"I looked at her in disbelief but somehow I was relieved and I felt normal, because atleast someone sees what I see, even better. I only waved my head that I didn't notice it.
"well, why the anchor?, I mean, this is no pirate school?" She continued.
"Now that's what I thought when I saw it" I replied.
"This place is creepy. And it is creeping under my skin" She said feeling very uncomfortable.
"Mercury, don't freak out, I got you. We will do something about it. I am happy I am not alone. I need to brush my teeth and shower. See you later"
"Yeah, bye for now, Helion"
she said as we went into our different rooms.I went inside and I found Yuvonne ready for the next activity. So I went in to brush and get ready too. She hasn't noticed a thing. She is just so overwhelmed of being here and I don't want to be a spoiler, I decided to keep everything to myself for the time being.
"You seem to be bonding already with Mercury?" She asked looking herself over at the mirror.
"Well, yeah, we have somethings in common. So we couldn't help but get along, besides she is my partner. Speaking of partner. Have you seen your ally?"
She rolled her eyes in disgust as she started;
"Yeah I did, he is boring. I wish I can switch to some other person because that guy is going to be the death of me"
She said brushing off her shoulder like he just touched her there. She then adjusted her badge. Then I looked closer and saw six star spaces on her badge. I checked mine and it was a normal five star spaces.
"Yuvonne, which beret are you under?"
"Yellow, the Crones.Why? Don't you like it? It's on the badge though, you should have noticed."
"No it's cool" I answered, trying to hide my observation from her.
"Okay let's go, Soldier" she said as we left the room for the next activity.
I felt someone tugging me at the odd hour of the night. We had a long day because of course, the Nulls orientation has started. I was long gone in my slumber,and you already know, if there's something I hate that much, it is being interrupted while sleeping. I unconsciously got angry but my instinct told me it is unusual, immediately, I pick up my pillow to defend myself, it was the only thing I could get my hands on. Looking clearly as my sleepy eyes wore off, I noticed it was Mercury. I brought down my pillow, calming my already alarmed soul as I slid my hands to my temple to relax my brows.I opened my eyes wide in surprise as I whispered to her to avoid waking Yuvonne who was sleeping above me;"How the fuck did you get in here and what are you doing up at this time?" "The door opened when I turned the knob. Helion you need to come with me, now" She replied in whispers.Still on her eyes aid at that time of the night, I knew Mercury's eye defect was actually a serious one. She ha
It was a Saturday morning. Yes, it's been couple of weeks and I and Yuvonne are getting comfortable with the people around us. But I can tell you, I am not yet comfortable with the environment.Mercury is doing well with the Vikings language learning and I have been patiently waiting for her to get there.On the walls of all the berets camp is the Viking's language, the reception not left out. Like every other day, we woke up, went for morning exercise, I could see myself growing muscles and getting light by the day. Our orientation classes ended few days ago and we have learnt a lot.After the morning exercise, we went in to shower and dress up for the day, I am still getting used to a uniform everyday.We went to the refectory for our breakfast. I also happened to make another girlfriend from my camp, Asher, she had a social spirit, driven and intelligent and was very good with handling guns and weapons. Mercury came out of the dorm very late, which is strange because she rises even
The next morning, I woke up and when I turned to my side, I saw Yuvonne standing with her hands wrapped together as she was looking down at me like I owe her.My brows curled up as I asked;"What?" "Where have you been since yesterday?"She asked."Didn't you hear?" I asked her rubbing my eyes and yawning. My body still aches from the punishment." I heard." She said also not moving.So I looked at her and mouthed *okay*With my up lips pointing down. There was a moment of awkward silence as we both looked at each other.Then she rushed and gave me a huge hug, kissing my forehead as she said;"Oh my gosh, Hel am so proud of you. That bitch has been itching to get some fists you know, mwah mwah" I laughed as I was trying to avoid her from reaching my aching shoulders. "I also hope you heard about the punishment? Your sister right here is very numb from pains. How about you use the balm to give me a little help?" I asked. "With pleasure darling, anything for my latest hero"She got t
I went to the infirmary the next day. Of course, not by myself. Yuvonne passed the news to Mercury and Asher who came running to meet me. "Well, I somehow knew he was going to confront you. But he is a cunt to lay his fornicating fingers on you. Feeling better?"Mercury asked. "Better than last night." I answered.Asher gave me a hug as she and Yuvonne left to get our breakfast from the refectory."I have a good news, Hel." She looked around to make sure no one was listening. Then she bent towards me as she whispered. "I know what the words on the Alphas walls says" "That's a job well done Cury. Tell me what it says" "You gotta be kidding me Hel. You just shortened Mercury, Jesus, you are impossible." She said as she opened her book to find it. "Cury is easy going, I don't want to be stressed regarding my condition." I told her. "Okay. So uhm. Getting my facts right, I found out that it says, which is very ridiculous to me ; THE SCHOOLING SOLDIER, or something like THE SCHOLAR W
Everywhere was so tensed up as we all are seen in the refectory, eyes glued to the television, disregarding our meals. Nobody had the appetite to eat. It was reported by the national television that the Shalomes, due to their population, had an upper hand and the most possibility of winning the war and taking over the shipping boarder.When the General Commander heard this, she took to her wheels and went to meet with the Federal Claudia Military commander.He was sitting very peacefully at his desk as though nothing was going wrong. " What an August visit in April. What could it possibly be? It must be something very tough for you to come all the way up here." He said swinging himself side to side on his sit as he smoked his coke. " I don't know what type of a leader you will be to not know that your country is in a messy time." "Well, I told the president to cut off from the agreement with the Shalomes three years ago, but he didn't listen. Now look at the results. I am not to be
At the field. I took in the war breeze. It was soothing. It calmed my nerves instead of otherwise. Somehow I knew I belonged there, in the battle field.We had to lay ambush, so we all lay down, with our eyes and guns ahead disguising in the grass. Divided into two groups, I was in Julius' side."So what next?" I asked Julius who was beside me. I was obviously losing my patience as I saw many of our soldiers fall before us. "We wait, I will be waiting for their signal to strike."Some of the crones are on the helicopter with their comms on. They are to release the explosives on order. The shooting noise took the atmosphere. We had to be shouting so we could here ourselves. Then someone from my group got hit, straight in the head. He died with his eyes open, instantly. It was my first time seeing someone drop dead right beside me. I clenched my teeth as I moved to where he lay and closed his eyes with my palms. Feeling very emotional. "We have been discovered, run for cover!"Julius
We got back to the Marshalls amidst our songs of joy and victory. I was not really into it, because it turned out to be a nightmare and horror for me. Mercury was badly injured even though it wasn't visible. She had internal bleeding and was also taking with the others for proper medical attention. That night, the soldiers made camp fire by putting woods over each other and burning the Shallomes flag, marking their victory at the field. My sister looked everywhere for Asher. But she couldn't find her. She went to look at the names of the soldiers admitted to the hospital and there was no Asher Jackson on it. She knew without being told, Asher didn't make it. I felt so guilty having her find out about it that way, but there was nothing I could do. I couldn't stand to tell her how I saw Asher die and couldn't do nothing. I came over to where she sat crying and hugged her, she rested her head on my chest as she sobbed uncontrollably. I just sat there as tears dropped from my eyes too, all
I was permitted to visit Mercury at the hospital again during one of the visiting days. The infirmary is not big and well equipped enough to contain the casualties. When I got to the hospital, I found out that so many of our soldiers were doing very fine, recovering so fast. I was happy, but just two out of them couldn't make it, adding to the numbers we lost at the field instantly. The Tv at the hospital reception got me when I read the headline and it was about the war between the Claudia and the Shalomes. The news caster made the world know that the Claudia only lost five hundred and two soldiers and is nursing seventy two casualties. Looking around the hospital, we had over hundred casualties and counting and you can trust me if I told you we lost a thousand soldiers both the once at the KS and the ones here at the Marshalls. Well, the government will always be the government, covering up their shits. I took the remote and switched off the television, it was getting on my nerves.