Hello again people sorry that this chapter took so long its just like life right now is crazy but i managed to get this out as a few of you actually like this which is good and makes me want to o more so without further ado
Panzer Vor!
I dont own GUP
The room grew quiet as I walked into the room. I could see the girls eyes grow wide in surprise as conversations stopped abruptly. The teacher closed the door behind me as I walked and stood at the front of the class. "Hello," I said as a gave a smile and a wave. "Must be rather surprising to see a guy at a girls high school." I say with a laugh getting a few nervous chuckles.
I look out at the class and notice that a bunch of them are more or less staring at my chest. "Umm is something wrong?" I ask looking down at my chest.
A hand raises in the back. A girl with brown poofy hair stands up. "Um, sorry it's just that we are kind of surprised and I think it's more we are checking to make sure that you're not a girl."
I spread my arm across my chest and grow bright red. "What's that supposed to mean!?" I say embarrassed.
The class begins to laugh and I smile, as the ice in this class has been broken. "Alright now everyone settle down." The teacher says smiling and moving over to the chalkboard and began to write my name.
I give the teacher a look as she's about to start my last name. She notices and nods before turning back to the front to address the rest of the class. "This here is Eric, and he just transferred to us today from another school. So how about you tell us a little bit about yourself?"
"Well, I'm nothing special really, just that I like a lot of food and sleeping quite a lot. And I'm rather laid back really so there really isn't anything that big with me except me coming here and all." I say scratching my cheek a little.
"Do you do any clubs or anything at your old school?" Someone asked.
"Eh not really cause like I said I'm rather laid back." I answer.
"Is there any more questions that you would like to ask him?" The teacher asked moving to my right.
Ten more hands shot up, most of them were about what my old school was like and why'd I move here. I answered that I was transferred for one reason or another. One girl with orange hair asked whether I had a girlfriend, which got a few laughs, but immediately turned to excitement when I said no. The teacher was about to end the Q & A when one more hand shot up. It was the girl with the brown puffy hair. "Yukari, you're the last question so what is it."
I gave Yukari a smile as she asked her question. "Do you think that you'll do Sensha-dou and join tankery?" she asked.
My blood turned cold when she asked the question, as I could feel my face grow darker, as I clenched the podium I was on causing my knuckles to grow white. Painful memories swelled over me as the emotions of rage and sadness fought for control. I thought I was going to completely lose it, when I felt the teachers hand on my shoulder. "Eric are you alright?" The teacher asked with a concern look.
I looked up and could see that the girls in the class were looking at me oddly with concern on some of their faces. Yukari looked the most confused as she still stood there but now her face showed a little bit of worry. I gave her a smile, "Sorry, it's been awhile since I did Tankery but I don't plan on doing it here so thats that." I unclenched the podium and stepped away from it. "Teacher is it alright if I go to the nurse's office really quick?" I asked and before she could answer I was out the door and walking quickly down the hall.
I could feel tears forming in my eyes as I moved quickly to find someplace to be alone. "Keep it together Eric, keep it together." I said to myself as emotions began to well up to a breaking point.
I found my way moving higher in the school until I opened a door leading to the roof. I moved quickly to an area behind the door and collapsed to the ground putting my face in my hands and letting loose a heart wrenching cry as emotions and tears flowed down my face. "I'm sorry! I'm so sorry! All of you I'm so sorry!" I stammered as I rocked back and forth pulling my knees up to my face. My mind became filled with images of fire and explosions. And I could almost feel myself smelling smoke, and worst of all, blood.
I pulled my legs in tighter and buried my face in my knees. "Think of something else, just think of something else." I said aloud as I desperately searched in my mind for something soothing.
I felt myself begin to relax as images from the day before began to soothe me somewhat. The images of the girl Miho for some reason calmed me down, and within a few minutes I had calmed down enough to pull my head up. The sun was much higher in the sky than before, and I could hear people milling around below me. Slowly pulling myself to my feet, I moved over to the railing and looked down. I saw that spread across the field below were the tanks I saw when I first arrived, and quite a few new ones. I sniffled a little bit, "This must be their tankery club." I said looking at the other tanks.
Next to the Panzer, I saw two other tanks that were not there this morning. A few girls were moving around a Type 89B throwing a volleyball around. Next to the Type 89, three girls were lounging on a Char B1. Looking to the right of the Stug, two girls were lounging, watching a third clean off a Hetzer. Behind them I noticed a Tiger(P) and A Type 3 medium tank. Both have girls working on them or lounging around. I usher a small laugh, "So this is the team that won the Nationals, quite unorganized and unorthodox group of tanks." I feel a something buzzing in my pocket which slightly startles me.
Reaching into my pocket, I pull out my cell phone and look at it. "Unknown number, hmm," I sigh and swallow the last bit of my outburst before and answer the call. "Hello?"
A females voice answers in the fake cheerfulness tone, "Hi is this Eric?" She asks.
I roll my eyes, "Yes this is him speaking is there something I can help you with?"
"Yes I was just calling to inform you that due to certain circumstances your Type 3 has been removed." She said.
"Thank god!" I thought to myself. I was just about to thank her when she started speaking again.
"And we have replaced with your Type 5 instead."
Frustration welled up inside of me, "God damnit! Don't they know that I don't want to do tankery or anything of that sort since…" I thought shaking my head. "Fine, just place it in the usual place if you would." I tell her as I end the call.
A light breeze blows across the rooftop, and I shiver slightly. I look down again at Ooarai's tankery club as they began to climb into the tanks and start them up. I noticed someone waving atop the Panzer IV. Squinting, I could pick out the big puffy brown hair. "Yukari," I sigh as I give a small wave and then head back into the school.
To my surprise the school is empty, that is until I reach the doors leading outside. Standing at the doors are most of the students as they are staring and talking amongst themselves. "Whats going on?" I thought as I began to move my way through the crowd.
Quite a few girls stopped talking and stared at me with mouths and eyes wide, "Is that the new transfer student?" I heard one ask. "Yeah he came here this afternoon, but all of a sudden bolted out of the class." Another answered.
"Whats going on?" I ask one of the girls.
As soon as said that, all conversation died out, and a bunch of girls came over to me. "Is that yours?" One asked.
"Is what mine?" I ask.
The girls part an aisle down directly to what they were talking about, and I could feel my heart sinking and my face going red with embarrassment. Sitting in a parking spot underneath an overhang sat a tank. And atop it was another soldier in uniform. This one was a female, who to my surprise looked to be about the same age as the girls here, and around my age as well. Her face lit up as she looked at the newly made aisle that led right to me, as she hopped of the tank. She marched up to me in a semiformal matter, and took off her cap, letting her blonde hair loose. "Are you Eric?" She asks. Her voice is rather kind.
I give a slight embarrassed nod. "And you are?" I ask looking her up and down.
I make a mental note that she seems to be a rather attractive girl, with her height being about mine. Her eyes are a nice hazel brown and she looked rather good in her uniform as it compliments her breasts a lot… I shake my head quickly to get the images out of my head. "Is something wrong?" she asks.
"No, I'm sorry, but you still haven't answered my question of who you are." I say getting right back on track.
"Oh, I am First Lieutenant Claire Rose at your service." She says giving me a salute.
"Can you stop that please!" I hiss at her looking around at the confused looks of the other girls, "And please refer to me as Eric, no formalities and do not use my last name at all please."
"Ok." She gives me a thumbs up.
"Now second order of business, what are you doing here?" I ask looking past her, and only now do I see the type of tank that she brought.
"I'm here to be your personal chauffeur and driver for anywhere you would like to go." Claire gives me a smile as she moves behind me and begins to push me towards the tank.
"But did you have to come here in a tank, and is that really what I think it is as my personal vehicle?" I say in a slightly annoyed tone.
"What I was ordered to come in it, and yes it is." She says as we reach the tank.
Claire hops into the driver's seat and opens the hatch to allow me to get in. "Well aren't you coming?" She asks.
I stay where I am and fold my arms across my chest. "I'm not going into a tank. I've said it multiple times to the brass but they never listen so no I'm not going."
"But I was told to pick you up and bring you-" She started saying but I cut her off.
"Who told you to pick me up?" I demanded raising my voice slightly. A few of the girls backed away slightly.
"I was meant to tell you when you got into the tank, but I need to get you in and going as there isn't much time left." She said with an exasperated sigh.
"Not much time left for who?" I now demanded in an angrier tone.
"Sara's father!" Claire now yelled.
I felt all the anger drain from me at the mention of Sara's name. "This is their tank that they told me to give to you." Claire was saying. "This K2 Black Panther is yours, as a final token from her father."
"What happened!?" I now demanded.
"You've been so away from everyone for years, that you don't even know whats going on." She says with a sarcastic laugh. "He's in the hospital dying of cancer, and his last wish is he wants to see you. Now are you coming?"
Claire starts up the engine as I look again at the group of girls, that were now beginning to disperse as Ooarai's Tankery club arrived in the parking lot. I climbed aboard as the Panzer IV came to a stop, and I could see Yukari and Miho climbing out. Miho had a confused look while Yukari's face beamed with excitement at seeing the K2. I gave a smile and wave as Claire put the tank in gear and headed out.
Well thats the end of that chapter now why did Eric have somewhat of a breakdown and who is Sara? Find out in the next chapter! well thanks again guuys for staying with the story be sure to comment and fav it as well as follow me also look at my Kancolle story too!