By EDF ( title by One WInged Angel * thanx*)
Was untilted for now...lol
Chapter 1
Cloud sat waiting on the train in Midger. He so desperately wanted to be in SOLDIER. To be a highly skilled soldier must be fantastic. He eagerly awaited the train's arrival to the training camp. All the motion of the train made Cloud motion sic. Collapsing his head into his hands as he sat down in a seat, he wished to be at the destination point soon. He glanced around to the people who were also on the train. Some were just regular people using the train to go to the better super market or pick up their kids from day care,or whatever. There were other people in the train who were going to the training campus well. They were scattered in small groups that chatted loudly amongst each other. One was bragging about he was going to be the best, while the others doubted him. Cloud just kept staring at his feet.
The train rounded a turn, the wheels slightly screeching. The door opened from the other train car, and some people from SOLDIER came through. There were four of them, and they stood tall as one spoke to the passengers in the car. Basically,to make matters short,all people not associated with joining the training camp were told get out of this train car and move to another. No one questioned their authority, especially since they all were armed and had guns. All the bragging boys stopped,and stared at the officers.
The first officer spoke. " You have come here to be trained in being a member of SOLDIER. You will be split into four groups and be assigned to a leader. This will be done alphabetically,and when we call your name, get into a group that we have assigned to you."
With that,they started shouting out names. Cloud listened till his name was called and was assigned to group four. There were about six people assigned to a group, and Cloud rose to join his group.
They all sat down eager to arrive and start to train. Cloud looked around and noticed the others were similar to him. All just out of school,or at least that age group, rather young and naive, and basically wanted to get out of their life before. The red haired guy was the first out of all of them to speak. " Hello, my name is Zack,"he stated, all he looked around expecting the rest to do so. A brown haired kid with a mohawk said his name was Eli, another was Travis, the macho one's name was Mark, and the bully gave an evil stare and mumbled out Karl, which was followed by a string of obscenities.
A tall man approached the fourth group. He was dressed in black, and had long silver hair. He didn't look too happy to be stuck with the new recruits. He came up, and said " I am sephiroth,your instructor." Zack was about to do the whole name thing again, but the instructor just gave him a look and said "I don;t really care to hear about this right now. Fill out these forms then hand them back to me when you are finished." He then left and sat alone on a seat.
All of them started to fill out the form. Cloud glanced down at it,and stared to read what information that was there. The questions were the obvious ones,like your name, where you are from, and typical no brainer questions that were easily filled out. The only one that made anyone think was why do you want to join SOLDIER. This one was a thinker, and Cloud pondered this one a bit. Why did he want to join? It was hi chance to get out of the town,but he did not wish to leave it that bad to have to join something. He tapped the eraser end of the pencil in hopes that it would make him think better. It didn't,but he did manage to write down that he wanted to be the best SOLDIER ever because some one he admired was like that. He scribbled other reasons to to fill up the space to make it look better. HE finished, looked it over briefly, and got up to hand it in. He nervously walked over to sephiroth. He hoped his nervousness didn't show, for he did not want to look like a wuss in front of his hero. HE was there, and the silver haired man made no recognition of him.
" Um.. excuse me.." Cloud piped out. sephiroth looked up. " I am done." he said as he handed over the papers.
" Finished rather quickly, are you sure you answered them all?" He said as he took the papers without even looking up.
" Y-Yeah..." Cloud answered as he looked down. " ..."
" Be gone then."
Cloud turned around and headed back to where he was sitting. He looked at other people as he passed. They were still at work on their papers. He wished he took more time on them,or at least till people started to hand them in. He took his seat and put his head by his knees again to try to avoid motion sickness.
About 15 to 20 minutes passed, and the last people were handing in their papers. The train was slowing down and soon came to a stop. All were told to exit and stay with your assigned group. A mad stampede happened as all rushed for the exits. Pushing and shoving still happened, but everyone made it out a live. Cloud made it out with only a few minor cuts. He took a few moments to find his group. They were all talking at once in a loud circle. Cloud joined them but was silent. All he could think of is what a fool he must have looked like.
sephiroth then joined them and basically told them all to shut up. " You are assigned the section 5 of the living quarters. Go and get your stuff set away. Training starts at 8:00 am tomorrow morning. Do not be late." He then started up to the quarters, but when into his own private room. The rest of his group and all the others headed up to get settled in.
The room had 3 sets of bunk beds, and six rather small closets. Whey all agreed on drawing straws on who would be stuck on the top bunk. Zack, Eli, and Travis won the bottom bunks, while Mark, Karl and Cloud got stuck on the top bunks. Closets were already assigned to them.
" Man,I am surprised they didn't label which bed was ours,"Eli said as he started to put his clothes in he closet.
" They really zipped us on closet space too, " complained Mark.
" Well, we will be wearing uniforms for the most of the time, so I didn't pack to many clothes. See,All my stuff fits right." Zack said as he showed off his closet.
" Who cares about yer freakin' closet" Karl said back, tying to shove his duffel bag in.
Cloud simply put his stuff
in that would fit, and kept the rest in his bag. He didn't feel like
fighting with the closet to try to get everything in. He then climbed
upon his bed and lied down. " Ouch" Cloud yelped as he rubbed his head.
" These beds are like rocks!"
"Get used to it." sephiroth
said as he barged in the room.
"Don't you know how ta knock? Karl said who was in the process of changing.
Seph just gave him a glare that said 'I don't have to'. "Here are your uniforms. You will be expected to be in them for training and any other meeting. You are only allowed to be out of them in the evenings when you are not in training or on guard. If you are caught not in uniform,you will be expelled immediately" People glanced around nervously at each other. " Here is an agenda, along with the map of the station. Follow it wisely. Supper is in thirty minutes." With all that said, he left the room.
" Geez, we got captin' kill for an instructor,"Eli said as he made a face at the door.
"He doesn't seem that bad,
" Cloud said. All the others just stared at him giving him a mad
look.