The rest of the group got names too. There was the young white coat, who we called Green – mostly because of his young age, but also because he supposedly had a tattoo of a green pony. Green denied this, but the only girl in the group held a hand up and gave Green a reprimand. About how lying was bad. Then she told us that Green had the tattoo on his lower back.
Her nickname was Blaze, given to her by her husband because she was hot, he said...and also because she was a flame wizard, a cygnus knight. The husband were there too, we called him Smoke because of his ability to magically create poison clouds. He wanted to know how Blaze had seen Greens tattoo. She answered with a giggle that she was spying on Smoke in a locker room, when Green suddenly came out from the showers and walked within her line of sight.
Smoke shook his head and rolled his eyes but he was smiling. Blaze kissed him on the nose. They both smiled to one another and kissed.
The last person in the group was the leader, Chief. He was a tall guy with a black cap, goggles and a long red cape, instead of the traditional clothes the white coats usually were wearing. The cape made it feel like his character were shrouded in mystery. It inspired a mixture of fear and respect in me, which is good (I think).
I summed up in my head: Chief, Bash, Smoke, Blaze, Green and myself...Leo.
With this I had become part of this group who secretly were operating without being tied by bureaucratic strings. They simply helped out here and there because they wanted to. I was feeling content and felt that joining here was the right choice. Chief put a hand on my shoulder. In his other hand he had a set of white clothes. He handed them to me. I knew that the clothes were symbolic, we had already agreed on not wearing the white coats during our secret operations. Chief patted my shoulder with a friendly look on his disguised face, which I barely could see: "You're one of us now, one of the vigilante white coats." The others nodded and applauded me, the newest member of the group. It was like a new terrific chapter of my life had just started and I liked it. A lot.
- Ken Leo Qvinton