My Years at Cherub
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Ashten was woken at 5:00am by a cold wind blowing through the broken door. Good. That meant he still had half an hour before Large yelled at them all to wake up. He sat up and looked around the small building. It was hardly a building. More like a brick shed. The five trainees were on their 67th day of basic training, the other three having dropped out due to injuries.

He rolled over to see if his training partner Jenny was awake yet. Jenny was 12, and a few months younger than Ashten. They were both at a disadvantage, as neither of them had been a red shirt, and had only just joined Cherub.

Jenny was still asleep, but the boy sleeping next to him had just woken up.

"Hey Ashten...sleep well?" Rat sat up rubbing his eyes. Ashten grinned at the state of the Australian lad's hair.

"Seriously rat, Large is gonna shave you in the middle of the night if you don't sort out your hair." Ashten said. Rat grinned, dragging a bruised hand through his tangled, gritty hair. The boys didn't know each other that well, so not much else was said for the next twenty minutes.

Large pushed the tattered door open and yelled into the room, "Wakey, Waaakkkeeeyy!" the other three trainees leapt up. Andy, Rat's training partner groaned. The last one to stand was Lucy, a small eleven year old, who had sent three years as a red shirt, and had failed basic training five months previously.

"Showers, breakfast, assault course. If any one of you fails to complete the three laps by 0700 hours, you can all miss lunch." Large bawled at them. Mr Large delighted in making basic training as hard as he physically could. For the first time ever, Ashten and Jenny where the first out onto the assault course. By this time it was coming up to six am, and each lap took about fifteen minutes if you took it slowly. But there where cameras all over the training compound, and you could expect being dragged out of bed at three am to do the course again if you showed any slacking.

The pair was coming to the end of the third lap, with twenty minutes to spare before 0700. Just before the final stretch of the course was a rope hanging above a pungent stream, underneath the water were some hidden, randomly placed bars to discourage wading across. Ashten swung across and threw the rope back to his partner.

"Shit!" Jenny yelled. Ashten skidded to a stop Jenny had misjudged the jump and landed awkwardly on her ankle. Ashten rushed over. If it was broken or sprained she would have to restart basic training four months later…

THANKS FOR READING. MORE CHAPTERS WILL BE ON THE WAY SOON. THIS IS MY FIRST CHERUB STORY. I DO NOT OWN CHERUB AND YADA YADA YADA.

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