Author Note: So yea I just wanted to state that the original crew is everyone from Astrea Hill, Rios, Salazar, Baker, and Rodriguez. You'll hear these individuals referred to as "the crew" sometimes.
The people that are going to the same school as the original crew included Mitchell, King, Johnson, and Stenger.
For those who don't know a decorated uniform means they have a lot of ribbons and awards on them.
Well I haven't updated in awhile and I hope that this chapter keeps everyone's interest peaked for the next chapter. Enjoy.
Oh yea go on you tube and search "Riding the floor buffer." Before you read this and watch a couple of them. It's funny.
"Get off that bus!" About three Drill Sergeants yelled as the crew's bus stopped in front of a large school.
The school had a long and very wide concrete walkway that lead up to the entrance of the school that was made up of ten glass doors lined up next to each other. The school looked like a modern day normal school that had a main building in a square shape that was two stories and three smaller one story buildings on each side not including the entrance. The building looked like it had a specifically designed paint job. The main colors were Green, Red, and Yellow and it had a painting of a dark night with a black horse above the entrance of the school. Behind the main buildings were smaller ones and a lot of field space.
The sun had lowered and was maybe thirty minutes from setting when the bus with the original crew arrived at one of Fort Crusader's many schools. On the concrete walkway there stood three Drill Sergeants. Behind these Drill Sergeants stood eight other recruits.
Everyone ran out of the bus but didn't go further than ten feet. They didn't know where to go.
"What are you recruits doing?!" A male Drill Sergeant asked as he stood in front of the gaggle by the bus. "Get in something that looks like a square. How bout that?" This Drill Sergeant was a white male and looked very much in shape as did all the other Drill Sergeants. This Drill Sergeant stood out because he was so tall at a estimated height of six feet five inches.
After a second of processing what the Drill Sergeant said Johnson thought out loud "Ooooooh a formation." Johnson said as if he just figured out a hard riddle.
"Idiot." Rios called Johnson as they all formed up in a small formation
"Welcome to Knight Academy recruits! This is one of the ten schools on our massive property known as Fort Crusader and you happened to be selected to be in the best school. (Meanwhile at the other schools the new recruits were being told that their school was the best.) You are the last bunch of recruits to arrive and fill up our final formation. Fall out of your formation and fall into this formation over here." The tall Drill Sergeant said as he pointed to the eight other recruits who had formed a very small formation.
Quickly picking up on the military phrases but not quite proficient yet Shizuma took a questioning look at the tall Drill Sergeant as they all merged into one formation making up 24 recruits.
"Yes recruit Hanazono that is correct." The Drill Sergeant confirmed.
"How'd he know my name already he couldn't have seen my name tag." Shizuma thought.
Shizuma looked at the front of the formation and took note of the other two Drill sergeants. One female Drill Sergeant was skinny but well toned and had dark black short curly hair that made her look like some kind of rodent with rabies especially with how bug eyed her eyes were. The other Drill Sergeant was also a female and she reminded Shizuma of those beautiful white women on American horror films that turned out to be crazy and end up killing everyone.
"Ok Recruits in about a minute Major Ward is going to be coming to greet you to our school. Just be quiet and listen." The Tall Drill Sergeant said. "While we wait allow me to introduce myself to you new people. My name is Drill Sergeant Swang and this is Drill Sergeant Civil." Swang said pointing at the rodent like Drill Sergeant. "And this is Drill Sergeant Bright." Swang then pointed to the very beautiful white Drill Sergeant who had black hair and dark eyes and slim body. "We will be your platoon Drill Sergeants for six months." Just as Swang was wrapping up his intro Major Ward walked up to their formation.
"I am Major Ward and I want to welcome all of you to our school and hope that you will bring a great reputation to us and exceed the expectations placed upon you. These three Drill Sergeants will be in charge of helping you succeed at this school. Good luck and I'm sure that all of you will do a great job here at Knight Academy." The blond older woman looked around forty years old and had piercing ice blue eyes and a very determined look filled with a sense of duty. Her uniform was very decorated and looked like she was a highly trained professional. "If you need anything of me please notify your Drill Sergeants and they will take up the chain of command and notify me of any serious needs you might have." Nagisa's ears perked up at this. Serious needs like going home? "Good night everyone and I hope your experience here is enjoyable." Ward walked away with that.
"Half of you are new and half of you aren't so that means that the half that has been here for two days is going to show the other half the ropes." Drill Sergeant Swang told the formation. "It's almost time for lights out so I'll lead you to your new barracks and give you time to settle in. Get accustomed to everything tonight and how things run because tomorrow morning is day one for you guys and there will be no second chances. If you are late to anything it's your fault you've already been briefed on everything and don't pull that crap on how it's impossible to make it from point A to point B on time because thousands of recruits have already done it before you. Right Face!" The formation all turned right at the same time surprisingly. "Forward march!"
The Drill Sergeant lead his platoon to a large building with three floors behind the school. It had a dark knight painted above the door. "Ok recruits go inside and get some rest. Tomorrow is going to be the first of your many long days." The newly formed platoon filed into the building.
"It's like moving cattle." Kaname observed.
"Are you seriously comparing us to cows?" Shion asked as she looked around and noticed Kaname was right.
"I think it's more like sheep." Momomi offered. "You know like the Drill Sergeants are Sheep dogs."
Kaname smiled at Momomi's pondering face.
"Man I'm tired. I just want to get to our rooms and sleep." Salazar told Rios.
"Me too." Rio replied.
"Ok everyone who is new your rooms will be on the third floor. Males and females are separated by a main hallway so don't go to the wrong one." A very beautiful girl with blond hair and blue eyes called out. She looked like a younger version of Major Ward with a serious face and a determined look about her.
The crew, Mitchell, King, Johnson, and Stenger walked up the stairs with their bags and picked out a room on the third floor. The rooms were about the same size as Astrea Hill with the same set up of one bed on each side of the room but each room had no window and there was a wall locker by each bed that consisted of a coat rack and three drawers.
"What do you say we room together for six more months? It'll be like old times." Miyuki asked Shizuma. Miyuki knew that Nagisa and Shizuma were having problems.
Shizuma looked over her shoulder to find Nagisa entering a room with Tamao. "Yea sure." Shizuma replied with a frown.
Kaname and Momomi bolted to the end of the halway pushing aside other girls to get to the last room furthest from the beginning of the hallway.
Shion followed behind and took the one across the hall from them. Chikaru didn't really have anyone in particular she wanted to room with but it would be nice to have someone she had at least known for awhile. Chikaru went over to Shion's room and poked her head in.
"Roomies?" Chikaru asked with a huge grin.
Shion rolled her eyes. "Sure."
Chikaru smiled and jumped on the empty bunk causing Shion to smile a little.
"No I want that one." Salazar said looking at the bed Rios was sitting on.
"Why?" Rios asked. "I want this one that's why I chose it."
"I don't want to be close to the door." Salazar stated.
Rios thought for a minute. "Too bad." and laid on the bed.
"I'll remember that jerk." Salazar laid her bag at the foot of her bed.
Across the hall from Salazar and Rios, Mitchell and Stenger were getting situated in their room.
"It's so plain." Mitchell said observing the empty white walls.
"Yea and I don't suppose they will be letting us put anything on the walls." Stenger replied. "I like the black rugs though." Stenger commented before changing the subject. "Soooo Mithcell that Rokujo girl. She's kinda cute yea?"
Mitchell paused for a second. "She's attractive."
"That's it? That's all you have to say? Well if that's the case then you wouldn't mind if I made a pass at her." Stenger smiled as she sat on her bed.
Mitchell stopped going through her bag and walked over to Stenger putting a hand on her shoulder. "I didn't say I wouldn't mind." Mitchell said with a smile causing Stenger to laugh.
"Alright fine." Stenger said "But if you take to long some other lucky girl will get her so hurry up."
"It's only been a day Stenger damn." Mitchell smiled as she continued to organize her wall locker.
While everyone was getting situated Tamao and Nagisa sat on their own beds.
"So you didn't even talk to Shizuma about sharing a room with me?" Tamao asked a little worried. The last thing she needs is Shizuma on her ass.
"No." Nagisa replied. "I don't know if I want to be with Shizuma anymore." Nagisa finally said.
Tamao didn't know how to respond. So she simply asked "Why?"
"I don't know Tamao. We aren't in Astrea Hill anymore we are in a real world, horrible, military school. My stress level is through the roof and every time I look at Shizuma I can't help but think 'this is your fault.' I hate it here Tamao." Nagisa explained.
Tamao sat in silence not really knowing what to say.
"I think I made a huge mistake with Shizuma." Nagisa admitted while looking intently at Tamao hoping she would catch the hidden meaning behind her words.
Tamao understood but acted like she didn't "I understand Nagisa. Don't worry I'll always be your friend no matter what."
Nagisa smiled weakly and turned to start organizing her things leaving Tamao to think about what she really wanted.
"Wait a minute do any of you have door handles on your door?" Salazar called out into the hall which was then fill with several replies of no. "What kind of shit is that?"
Before too long the girl with blond hair from downstairs came to the third floor.
"Everyone who arrived today come to the huddle area!" The girl yelled before returning downstairs.
Rios came out of her room and shouted down the stairs aggravated. "Where the hell is that?"
"First floor at the back of the building!" the blond shouted back.
"like we are supposed to know that." Rios said as she turned back to everyone in the hallway. "I don't like her." She told Salazar as she lead everyone down to the first floor.
"You don't even know her." Salazar replied.
"I know she is a bitch because of the way she acted up here." Rios replied as she descended the stairs with Salazar.
"What are you talking about?" Salazar laughed. "You're being ridiculous and you just have a problem with people telling you what to do if it's not a Drill Sergeant."
"You'll see Nadi you'll see." Rios told her best friend.
The new recruits met up in a large room were the girl that called them down and the other seven people were sitting down on the various couches and chairs surrounding a table. The room looked like a living room with no electronics but it did have a couple of pool tables and a magazine rack.
"It looks like everyone is here." The girl with blond hair said. "I guess I'll start. Everyone in the fourth platoon Knights is in this room right now and I felt it'd be a good idea for everyone to get the same information at the same time. Ok new people there are sixteen of you and you'll be separated into two squads, squad two and squad three. Squad one has already been established by the ones who have been here for the past two days waiting on you."
"Why does this girl seem like a bitch?" Stenger asked Mitchell.
Mitchell smiled in response and said. "Cuz she is."
"Told you." Rios told Salazar as Salazar rolled her eyes.
"Now every night we get that three hour grace period to study. Well we don't always use it to study we usually use it to come down here and relax. After of course we all take showers and get ready for the next day. We usually study in our rooms when the lights go out. Because there are no lights we use our flashlights we were issued. You notice that there is no door handles on your doors. That's because the Drill Sergeants don't want you to try and hide any contraband in your room and are able to freely burst in on you to make sure you aren't doing anything against the rules. Known rules are no alcohol, Drugs, Sex, electronics, and so forth."
"What if we are like changing or something?" Tamao asked.
"There is a designated changing room right next to the shower room on the second floor. There should be no reason why you are changing in your rooms." The blond replied.
"You didn't introduce yourself."
Miyuki was shocked to hear Shizuma say this and was even more shocked at the way she said it. Miyuki slowly looked at Shizuma and saw that all too familiar grin. Oh no. Miyuki thought.
If the blond caught on to Shizuma's flirtatious tone she didn't show it. "I'm Recruit Ward."
"Yea she is Major Wards daughter." Another female with carrot red hair and freckles interjected who had obviously caught onto Shizuma's tone implying that recruit Ward was off limits. "You know the Major in charge of the school. You met her today."
"And your name?" Miyuki asked getting defensive for Shizuma.
"Recruit Mimi." The freckled girl replied.
"I'm Recruit Cruz." A very light skinned Hispanic girl volunteered with plenty of attitude in her voice.
"Recruit May." Another recruit responded very nicely which surprised the crew a little seeing as how she was the only one who seemed like she didn't want to kill them.
"And these guys over here are the William brothers. We have had to modify their names a little so you can distinguish them so we have Recruit William who is the oldest, Will is the second oldest, Bill is the third, and Billy is the youngest. They are all separated by one year and act like quadruplets." Recruit May informed the crew in a very sweet manner.
The crew introduced themselves in an orderly manner and when it was all said in done Mimi was shooting death stares at Shizuma, Miyuki was mentally preparing herself for the trouble Shizuma was going to get her into, Nagisa was really jealous of Recruit Ward and didn't know why and Salazar was starting to see that Mimi, Cruz, and May were all Recruit Ward's little followers. The William brothers were cool according to Chikaru and really liked how relaxed and uninvolved with the drama they were. Shion was just trying to zone out until something important was being said. Momomi and Kaname wanted to just punch everybody in the face and Tamao for the first time was feeling completely alone and wanted her friend Toko back.
"Ok let's move on shall we." Ward announced as she walked over to a white board filled out with names. "There is this thing called 'fire guard' that we have to do every night and it will take 18 people a night to do. We do fire guard in hour shifts with two people awake each hour. Basically fire guard is supposed to make sure nothing happens at night to the building and that no one is sneaking around doing stupid things when they should be sleeping. But since none of that stuff ever really happens we also use it to clean up the building. Every morning the Drill Sergeants will come in here and inspect the building. If it's dirty they are going to wreck the whole building and we'll have a serious mess to clean up the next night. So here are the names for tonight.
8:00-9:00 Hanazono and Rios sweep the floors.
9:00-10:00 Aoi and Tomori mop the floors.
10:00-11:00 Suzumi and Minamoto wax the floors.
11:00-12:00 Kenjo and Johnson buff the floors.
12:00-1:00 Miyuki and Rodriguez clean the bathrooms.
1:00-2:00 Kiyashiki and King clean the changing room.
2:00-3:00 Salazr and Baker wash the windows.
3:00-4:00 Mitchell and Stenger clean the laundry room.
4:00-5:00 Ward and Mimi take out trash and wet mops.
"Why are the new people mostly on this list?" Rios asked slightly annoyed.
"Because we have been doing this by ourselves for the past two days with only eight people." Cruz rolled her eyes at Rios.
"All I know is you better watch your attitude cuz I'm about to seconds from beating it out of you if you keep rolling your eyes at me." Rios responded to Cruz causing Salazar to instantly widen her eyes and prepare herself to hold Rios back from a fight like she has done many times caused by her best friends big mouth.
Rodriguez already started to make his way between the two girls knowing that it wasn't going to end with hugs and I'm sorry.
"Your weak ass couldn't beat anyone down." Cruz replied.
At that moment without word Rios jumped at Cruz but Salazar and Rodriguez caught her in time. Nobody noticed the slight flinch that Cruz made and went back to looking calm as soon as she realized that Salazar and Rodriguez had a good hold on Rios.
"I wonder who is going to be more trouble. Rios or you Shizuma?" Miyuki wondered.
"I'm no trouble at all what are you talking about?" Shizuma replied.
"Are we done here?" Shioin asked as she walked back towards the stairs without waiting for a reply making her way past the almost confrontation that still hadn't quite died down yet.
"You are lucky." Rios told Cruz.
"Whatever." Cruz responded.
"Rios Shut up already." Salazar told her friend who wasn't even listening.
"That's enough!" Ward yelled and everyone was surprised at how loud she was. "Stupid things like this is what is going to get us in trouble. If a Drill Sergeant came in and saw all this then we would be in the pit. For those of you who don't know the pit is the place were we will have to go when the Drill Sergeants feel like making us exercise until we physically can't anymore." Ward took a breath before speak again. "It's almost time for the first shift to start. The shifts run on rotations so it's fair. Since it's almost eight everyone should be going back to their rooms now. The Drill Sergeants like to come in her at night and catch us doing things we aren't supposed to be doing so just go to sleep."
With that all the girls went to their rooms except for Shizuma and Rios. The two went to the supply closet and grabbed brooms.
"That was… Interesting." Shizuma commented.
"I don't like that girl Cruz. Actually I don't like a couple people here already." Rios replied as she swept the floor along with Shizuma. "What's with you flirting with Ward? Don't you have a girlfriend?"
"Yay but I don't think it's going to last." Shizuma had accepted that their relationship couldn't be what it was here like it was in Astrea. She was just waiting for Nagisa to drop the bomb. Shizuma still loved Nagisa and couldn't break up with her first.
"You thinking about breaking up with her." Rios raised an eyebrow.
"Never." Shizuma frowned.
Confused Rios just continued to sweep thinking better to leave it alone.
Next shift Shion and Nagisa mop the floors.
"Do you know how to mop?" Nagisa asked.
"Of course I know how to mop I wasn't always the student council president." Shion said impatiently. Shion was upset at the fact that she only got an hour of sleep and had to wake up to do this stupid crap. Nagisa on the other hand couldn't sleep.
"Sorry." Nagisa said very sadly causing Shion to flinch and feel really bad for the girl.
"I know you are having the hardest time here but you have Tamao and I'm sure she'll help you through anything." Shion tried to comfort the young girl.
"Thank you." Nagisa replied as they moped the floor.
Next shift Tamao and Chikaru waxing the floors.
"Wow this is not enjoyable at all." Tamao commented as both girls were on their hands and knees placing wax by cloth on the floor.
"Nope it sure isn't. But we only have to do this for an hour then we can go back to sleep." Chikaru smiled.
"How are you always so happy?" Tamao asked.
"I'm not always. I try to be on the outside because it makes everyone else happy to someone happy. But I usually am happy about ninety five percent of the time." Chikaru added.
"Oh that's good." Tamao couldn't help but smile with Chikaru.
Next shift Kaname and Johnson buff the floor.
Kaname stood in the freshly waxed hallway with Johnson staring at the buffer machine.
"I'm hoping you know how to use this." Johnson told Kaname.
"Why would I know how to use this thing?" Kaname replied.
"Well I don't know how." Johnson replied.
"Damn you are seriously worthless." Kaname walked over to the buffer and started unraveling the power cord. "How hard could it be?"
Johnson watched as Kaname plugged the buffer into the outlet and got behind the handle. Kaname didn't move for a minute and then looked up at Johnson and stepped away from the buffer. "I'm not doing this crap you do it."
"Why should I be the one to do it?" Johnson asked.
"Because I refuse to do this unless I'm showed properly and I'm not going to try either. If you don't do it, it will not get done." Kaname tried to manipulate the boy and it worked.
"Fine." Johnson got behind the buffer's handles. "How hard could it be." Johnson looked at the power lever on the handle and saw that it wont stick and that it'll on keep on if he held it down. As soon as Johnson pressed the lever the buffer shot to his right where Kaname was standing. Lucky for her she was able to jump out of the way just in time and watch the buffer hit the wall along with Johnson making a huge crashing noise. (True story.)
"Let it go idiot." Kaname called to him over the noise. For some reason Johnson was still holding the power on. Finally he let go. "Yea I'm going to bed." Kaname said as she left Johnson on floor with the buffer.
Next shift Miyuki and Rodriguez clean the bathrooms.
"I'm not doing this. There is no point in arguing with me about it. It's just not happening." Miyuki stated.
"Oh come on Rokujo don't be such a girl." Rodriguez replied. "Eventually you are going to have to scrub a toilet."
"Nope. That's just gross. I've never had to do this in my entire life and I wont start now." Miyuki resolved.
Rodriguez sighed. "Fine can you at least clean the sinks?"
"People spit in there." Miyuki replied.
"Damn is there anything you will do?" Rodriguez asked.
"Yea when I don't have to do the bathrooms I'll do anything else." Miyuki smiled.
"Ugh." Rodriguez turned and started cleaning the bathrooms by himself. This caused Miyuki to feel bad as she looked at all the stalls in the female bathrooms and looked at all the ones in the male bathrooms.
"Ok I'll do all the sinks but you do the rest." Miyuki said as she started to help clean.
"That is more than I thought I'd get." Rodriguez smiled thankful Miyuki came around.
Next shift Momomi and King clean the changing room
"You missed a spot." Momomi told king as she watched him scrub the lockers in the changing room.
"Bitch." King mumbled. Momomi made it very clear she wasn't going to clean anything and threw in a couple of threats while she was at it.
"What was that?" Momomi asked.
"Nothing."
Next shift Salazr and Baker wash the windows.
"This has got to be the easiest job on that list." Salazar told Baker.
"Yea. But all together though this kinda does suck." Baker pointed out.
"Yea I know." Salazar replied. "So when you are aloud to smoke cigarettes again are you going to? I mean you'll have been forced to quit for so long that would you even want to go back?" Salazar teased Baker with the thought of a cigarette.
"Right now I would say hell yea but later I might say no." Baker smiled.
Next shift Mitchell and Stenger clean the laundry room.
"So who do you think will win if Cruz and Rios fought?" Mitchell asked as she scrubbed the laundry machines down.
"What kind of question is that? Rios duh." Stenger replied.
"Wait why would you say her so quickly though? I mean we don't know anything about Cruz." Mitchell made a point.
"Because Rios is pretty badass and I doubt that just anyone can beat her. I think it'll be rare to find someone to win in a fight with her and the chances that Cruz is someone who can is highly unlikely." Stenger retorted. "I mean Rios is obviously fit and not scared of much and it looked like she was ready to jump at Cruz and was sure she would win. I didn't see that from Cruz. All I saw from Cruz was her mouth running."
Mitchell laughed at her friends comments.
Last shift Ward and Mimi take out trash and wet mops.
Ward and Mimi had taken out the Mops and were now taking the trash out to the dumpster down the street.
"This is going to be a long six months if things keep going the way they went last night. There is unfortunately no sense of teamwork." Ward thought aloud.
"Well of course not look at the kind of people they are." Mimi judged.
"I don't know what kind of people they are. I haven't got a chance to know them yet. Neither have you." Ward said firmly obviously upset at the comment Mimi had just made.
"I guess." Mimi said looking down but still strong standing in her position that she didn't like the new people from today. Especially Hanazono with the way she looked at Ward. Mimi had a huge crush on Ward and there was no way that Hanazono is going to take her place at Ward's side.
"You two." Mimi jumped at the sudden voice coming from behind them. Ward turned around calmly and saw Drill Sergeant Civil approach the two of them.
"Yes Drill Sergeant?" Ward asked.
"Formation will be held in twenty minutes." Civil said as she walked past the two toward her office inside the recruits building.
"Finally day one is going to truly start." Mimi said smiling at Ward.
"Yup." The two girls made their way back to the barracks.
Sorry it took so long. I hope you like it. Please review and let me know if the story is still holding interest. :)