Chapter 1
Boot Camp
When the bus finally stopped, I jumped right out. I hate long car or should I say bus rides. A tall man who looked almost scary like came to stand in front of us.
"Everyone, in a straight line. Step forward ,when I call your name." The man said in a commander tone. Everyone now stood in a straight line and I looked around. I was the youngest here and the second youngest was a boy fourteen or fifteen ,the rest were sixteen to eighteen.
"Georgia Flatts." He said and a tough-looking girl stepped forward. "Fredrick Jameson." This went on seven more times before I heard, "Hadlee Hughes." I stepped forward. "Chase Sanderson." He said, and the fourteen year old stepped forward.
"Now, all the boys come with me and all the girls go with Sam." He said pointing to a woman who reminded me of a giant. He led the boys south and Sam led us north.
When we got to ,I guess you could say the girls prison cell, it was thin medal beds with a tiny mattress. Oh, and every one of them were a bunk bed.
"Ok, the rules are on the board right there and you will follow every one of those rules ,understand?" Sam asked.
"Yes." We all said in union.
"Yes, what?"
"Yes, Ma'am." Once she left, I looked over at the rule board.
Rule's You Must Follow:
Rule #1 - Call us General Benjamin and Sergeant Sam
Rule #2 - Respect Your Elders
Rule #3 - Do What We Say When We Say
Rule #4 - Lights out by 9 and Lights on at 4
Rule #5 - No Complaining
Rule #6 - No Fights
Rule #7 - No Arguing
Rule #8 - Do Not Speak Fowl Language
Rule #9 - Be Ready for Hard Work
Rule #10 - Do Not Question Things
Rule #11 - No Smoking
Rule #12 - No Drinking
Rule #13 - Stay Focused
If any of these rules are broken you will be punished.
- General Benjamin and Sergeant Sam
Oh, joy more rules. I walked over to a bunk that hadn't been touched yet and took the top. I sat my duffel down and let exhaustion take over me.
|The Next Morning|
I woke up to, "Rise and shine, you have five minutes to get to the training ground." General Benjamin said on the microphone.
I grumbled and slowly got out of what they call beds. I quickly changed into a pair of basketball shorts and a tank top.
I followed a girl, since I had no clue where the training ground was. When we got there my eyes grew wide with shock. There was hundreds of different obstacles and so many other things ,that I knew my petite little figure wouldn't be able to do.
"You will see that the obstacles are numbered ,you will obviously start with number one and so on. Sergeant Sam and I will take notes on how well and how bad you do them. Now, go!" General Benjamin said in commander mode.
I looked around and saw that the first obstacle ,well it wasn't really an obstacle, it was ten feet high set of monkey bars. That thankfully, had nets under it.
I was the first one to see it and ran right to it. I looked at it and thought this might be easy. I mean I have climbed monkey bars thousands of times.
I climbed up the ladder and slowly put my hands on the bars. I held firmly on to bars and my heart dropped as I let my feet dangle in the air.
I started to go forward and I was doing good. Until, I only had two bars left, I was reaching for the next bar, and my hand slipped. I'm gonna die, I'm gonna die, I thought over and over. Then thankfully the net caught me.
I hopped off the net and looked around and then ran to the second obstacle. Again, it wasn't really an obstacle ,it was ropes that were swinging and you had to go from one to the other.
The first rope wasn't swinging ,I climbed up high enough on it where I could try to jump from rope to rope. I jumped to the second rope ,struggling to stay on it.
Once I was back on it, I jumped to the third rope, almost slipping ,but managed to stay on.
Thump. I looked behind me and saw a girl maybe about sixteen on the ground. I smiled to myself and turned back around. Ok, next rope I took a deep breath and jumped.
I grabbed onto it ,but it was swinging to violently ,causing me to fall. I landed on the ground ,but quickly got back up.
I ran over to the third obstacle ,it was a giant maze. I looked at the board beside it, it read:
Obstacle #3 - Maze Runner
Instructions:
You will run through the maze as fast as you can trying to find the exit. You will push the GO button and it will start your timer ,when you get to the end you will push the STOP button. Then, you will wait for farther instructions.
It, sounded easy enough ,but I knew it wouldn't be. I pushed go and ran inside. I started running and turning different ways not paying attention to where I was going, until I reached a wall. I started running and running this went on for what felt like forever.
Then I saw the exit ,I sighed in relief and exhaustion and ran through and pushed stop.
"25 minute and 37 seconds. You'll have to be quicker than that." I spun around to see General Benjamin. "Wait over there for the rest of them to finish." I walked over to a giant lined and waited.
It took at least two hours before everyone had finished.
"Ok, now every one of you will be competing against each other. First, all of you will race to see who is fastest. If you are not in the top three, you will be out here running four miles." General Benjamin said as we all groaned. "On, three." I got ready, I have to be in the top three. "One..Two...Three!"
I took off sprinting faster than I thought was possible. I wasn't looking at anybody around me just the finish line. When I crossed, I fell to the ground gasping for breath.
"Second!" Sergeant Sam yelled. "And third!" I didn't know which I was, I was just happy that I was in the top three.
"Are you okay?" I heard a girl ask. I looked up and noticed she was offering me her hand, I grabbed it and she helped me up.
"Yeah, thanks." I said.
"Not a problem. I'm Nichole, whats your name?" She asked.
"Hadlee." I responded.
"In 1st place Nichole Carver, in 2nd Hadlee Hughes, in 3rd Trey Young." Sergeant Sam said. "Next, is rock wall climbing. The same goes as racing, top three is good ,the rest has to come tonight."
I got ready to start climbing.
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