Day: 010 as a comrade
"Your name's going to be Solara, okay?" Aaron said. "Why?" I asked him. "Cos' you have a face like the sun, and you can light up the darkness in people's hearts like the moon lights up the night. You're the moon and the sun combined, like the solar eclipse. You don't remember your name so your name will be Solara, names after the solar eclipse," Aaron smiled. His smile was a little crooked and awkward so I assumed that he never really smiled that much. It was almost like he didn't know how, it was cute. I wanted to see that crooked smile of his some more. I wanted to get to know this boy. He told me that he was going to be sending me to a place called a school for the day. I didn't know what is was but he told me it was a place where I would learn new things, and I trusted Aaron. I wanted to be with him.
Once again the image faded from my mind and there stood Solara. I wondered what had happened to Solara. The girl from our memories was much livelier than the Solara I knew. When I looked at her it was almost like all meaning in life had been lost. "I like seeing these memories of Aaron and I. It almost makes me feel like he's still with me," Solara finally spoke in a soundless tone. "What happened to Aaron, Solara?" I asked, "I still haven't remembered it ye-" I was interrupted by a horrified glance from Solara. Her eyes looked terrified. She turned away from me, "something like that… I wouldn't want to remember something like that, why do you?" "We could talk about it Solara," I told her. "Sometime later. Not now. And Sephiria you know you can talk to me when you're not asleep too. Just call to me whenever you want to talk. You don't have to fall asleep," She said. The dream world began to crumble and as Solara began to fall apart along with the dream I sensed guilt coming out of the depths of her heart.
There it was as I expected it. A white room, the clinic. "Oh miss exorcist! You're awake let me get the head nurse!" I light brown haired girl said and ran off. I got myself up in to sitting position. I was probably going to have to get used to this clinic since I was most likely going to be sent here quite often. I couple of minutes later an older woman, probably in her late 60's walked in. She wore a long black dress with a white apron over it. "Are you the head Nurse?" I asked. She nodded then spoke. "Who knew our new exorcist would be the biggest workaholic of us all."
I looked at her with a weird look on my face, "I'm a workaholic?"
"Yes and I'm surprised. Considering that you're an American girl." (you know that people around the world think that Americans are lazy right? Yeah)
"Yeah, I guess Americans are a little lazy, huh?" I chuckled in agreement.
The nurse smiled at me, "You're so young. Why did you want to become an exorcist? You had your whole life ahead of you, a future. So why did you decide to trap yourself in the order?"
"Well it wasn't much of a choice… or maybe it was, but all I know is that if I have innocence than exorcism is my future. The Order is my future now."
"You're very confident. I'm sure that you'll be a very successful exorcist," the nurse told me, beginning to wrap up some of my cuts.
"Thanks, and sorry for the trouble," I apologized.
"No problem, the other nurses and I are just doing our jobs." she finished up bandaging.
Soon I was our of the clinic. I yawned and stretched. I wanted nothing more than to take a bath and change my clothes. So I did just that and felt completely refreshed. I wandered aimlessly around the order trying to familiarize myself with the rooms. It seemed quite empty and scared me a bit, it felt like a was all alone in this massive building. Which just FYI is not a good feeling at all. "Ah! Sephiria! There you are, where have you been I've been looking for you for like forever!" Lenalee cried running towards me. "Hey Lenalee why're you looking for me?" I asked. Lenalee quickly grabbed my arm, "no time to explain! Come with me, now!" "Hey where are we going! Why are we in such a hurry! Lenalee!" "No time for questions!"
"Well if you have enough time to tell me that than you obviously have enough time to answer my questions!" I was starting to get irritated. Secrets were one of the things that bugged me the most.
She dragged my all the way down to the dining hall without a word. When we got in to the cafeteria confetti shot in to the air and showered over me. I stood in front of a crowd that beamed at me. A huge banner hung across the whole dining hall and it read, "WELCOME TO YOUR NEW HOME!/ CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR GENERAL GROUP PLACEMENT!"
I giggled because it was so weird to me that two completely different topics were written in the same exact banner. Lenalee ran over to the crowd and they all shouted, "SURPRISE!"
I smiled at all of them not knowing what to do or say next. I was amazed by all the food spread across the table. Lavi, Allen, and Lenalee walked over to me. "So what do you think?" Lavi asked. "I think it's amazing!" Was all that I could urge out. "Well then let's go eat Sephiria! You must be starving!" Lavi said. "Oh, I'm not that hungry," I laughed, but my stomach spoke the truth with a loud growl. I felt a blush grow on my cheeks. "Looks like we've got a liar here," Lavi sneered. "C'mon Sephiria, you don't have to lie to us to act polite. We're all friends here!" Lenalee told me. "Someone here still hasn't realized that." She shot Allen a glance and he quickly avoided it, pretending like he had no idea what she was talking about. "Can we just eat already?" Allen groaned. He stared at all the food on the tabled with a sparkle in his eye. I laughed it seemed like Allen was always hungry. "Okay then let's eat," I smiled.
We all sat down and ate. Jerry had cooked almost any kind of food imaginable, and obviously it tasted good. Jerry was the best cook in the world, it was a shame that he wasn't a world famous chef, but instead he chose to work in the order. Which truthfully I was quite glad that he did. Allen ate like a pig, I was still surprised by how much that skinny body could hold, and I was glad that I wasn't like him. A girl eating like crazy would just be totally weird. Two men in cream colored long coats, who I heard were called finders. "You want something to drink?" They laughed obviously drunk. "Uhm I don't drink and I'm a little too young, thanks for the offer though," I replied awkwardly. When they left Lavi shook his head, "man finders these days have got to stop drinking so much!" Lavi mumbled. "Offering a twelve year old alcohol, what idiots." Lavi took a swig out of a beer can. "Wait Lavi aren't you too young to drink also?" I asked. "Whatever I'm 18, I can do what I want. Anyways, unlike finders I can actually handle alcohol." He took another sip. I looked at Allen wondering if he also drank, he must've noticed my stare and he quickly said, "I can handle alcohol but I don't like it that much." "Or more like Cross beat the crap out of him when he tried it and now he's scarred for life," Lavi whispered to me. I felt relieved that he didn't drink for a second, but then quickly brushed it off wondering why I cared in the first place.
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Everyone including myself had to help haul drunk finders back to their own rooms. They definitely had too much to drink. The kid that I was bringing back to his room had passed out. His name was Jayson Stadfeld and he didn't look much older than myself. Maybe a year or two. I shook my head, was this work really so stressful that I kid would need to drink? But at the same time I thought about how finders could die at any moment, so they wanted to enjoy their lives to the fullest. This kid might not even live to become an adult, he would have to be treated like an adult sometime in his life, why not now? When I got to his room and opened the door I lugged him over to his bed and dropped him letting out a loud sigh. "Mmn, thanks," I heard Jayson whisper. So he wasn't completely passed out. "You're welcome Jayson. Goodnight," I began to leave the room and before I shut the door I heard a small voice say, "night."
I wandered and wandered and somehow ended up right in front of the chapel. I entered the huge room. Moonlight wisped through the stained glass windows and gave the chapel an amazing glow. I walked to the cross and got to my knees feeling the buggest urge to pray.
Dear God,
Thank you for the life I had before as a normal human, and even though I'm sure I'll miss that life now that it's gone.
This is where I belong.
I'm meeting new people here and everyone is so nice to me.
Please give me the strength to do what you sent me here to do.
Once again thank you for those good times that I had before.
Amen.
I opened my eyes and at that moment I left my old life behind and my new life at the Order officially began. As a comrade.
/The Merciless General
Well that's it for part two! Part three takes place 26 days later (basically a month). Keep on reading for Part Three: The 14th Pianist and Solara. ExcorcistGirl11 checking out!
