Chapter 2: Lady Utada
A couple of days after Tyson's arrival, school was starting up and it was the first day of class. And of course, Tyson made Max late.
"I can't believe you ate fifths! That's insane! We are so going to be late for class now! God, I hope I won't have to do any more stupid push-ups!" protested Max as he ran.
"Ah, don't threat, we'll get there in plenty of time!" SMACK! Tyson, who was running ahead of Max, suddenly stopped, resulting in a collision.
"Hey! What's the big-" Max gulped rather loudly as he noticed a high ranking officer of four gold stars grinning at them. Max and Tyson could feel their hearts in their ears.
The figure they had their gaze locked upon was a tall teen. He had red hair that seemed to spike out in every which direction. His eyes were a shocking ice blue. He, was Tala.
The two cadets and the officer were silent. If a band had just then walked passed, none would have moved or even noticed. But the silence was eventullay broken. It took the two cadets awhile to register in their brains that Tala was speaking to them. His voice was calm but coated with an sinister happiness.
"Ah, look what the New Year brought in. A bunch of rats... And what is this. Late for class? It is only the first day of the school year."
"We are not late," replied Tyson never seeming to be at loss of words. But, just as the last of his retort escaped his mouth, the final bell of class sounded.
"Sounds like to me, you are now," said Tala smugly. "Follow me..." Tala turned sharply on his heals and started to walk briskly down the corridor. The three cadets reluctantly followed.
Once Max and Tyson rounded a corner, there stood Tala waiting. He was standing right outside an open door. He motioned them to walked in, and so they did. It was their class room. All the students' eyes were staring at the two cadets whose faces were beinging to turn red. The teacher was a fat, old woman holding some language text book. She had obviously just started class.
"Oh! Two late students," began the professor. Tala walked in. Her voice changed dramatically," Oh! Officer Stalin!"
"I thought these three should be directed to their class. It seems they couldn't get here on time on their own. I think a few nights cleaning up the classroom will teach them to be more punctual," said Tala ginning at Tyson's face, red with anger. Tala smirked in reply to the nasty look.
"Oh. Of course," agreed the teacher submissively.
"If you would excuse me. I have other things to attend to," said Tala as he bowed and let himself out. And thus, started Max and Tyson's first day of hell. Mental note, kill Tala...
Max and Tyson were the last students to leave their third hour class. The teacher had found the fake blood tube sticking out of Tyson's pocket while he tried to pass a note to Max. Just to make their first day more painstaking, they both received another additional week of clean up. The two piled out of the room in a tower of rage.
"My god! What is it with these people and detentions!" raged Tyson hurrying down the hallway. He was, by no means, wanting to receive more nightly clean-up time.
"Well, if you haden't have brought the fake blood with you, things might have been less-harsh!"
"Aw come on! That teacher was a devil! From the moment I walked in that room, I could tell that he didn't like me! He's after me, I tell you!!" said Tyson keeping up the fast pace. He pulled his schedule out of his pocket and began to read.
"Hey, what's drill?" asked Tyson looking at his schedule.
"It's a class that almost every guy has to take. It is suppose to enhance your reaction time and teaches you how to take orders," explained Max. "Real pain if you ask me. I hate that class. But, I'm not taking it. I was lucky enough to get off by joining the beyblade team they have here."
"What! That's not fair! How do you get in?"
"I'll explain later. I don't fancy being late to class. See yah 'round Tyson!" shouted Max as he power-walked ahead of Tyson.
"Wait! You can't leave me!" shouted Tyson all but to late. Max was out of sight. Dear Lord, please let me get through this class without detention!
Tyson, for a change, arrived on time to his next class. However, this was just by the second. He was having some trouble finding his right locker and the assignment of ugly gym clothes took forever. In the locker room, Tyson kept to himself and heard some other cadets rather loudly on who would their coach would be. By the sound of it, no one knew just yet.
Quickly, Tyson took a spot in a crowd of boys waiting were they were told to be. All of the cadets were sporting black shorts and a red shirt that had a strip of black this time, running down their left shoulder. Before class started Tyson decided to make some new friends.
"Hey, how's it going?" asked Tyson to two blonde hair kids that looked nicer than the rest.
"Hey dude. Not bad," answered the closest boy.
"Hey, do you guys know who the officer teaching the class is?"
"Oh, naw. But we have been hearing rumors that this hour is Hiwatari. If it is, life isn't going to be good," began the farthest boy.
"Yeah, I've heard that he has made one of his classes run around the school five times because somebody was out of line!"
"Oh! Don't forget that one kid feel and had to be dragged to the nurses's office!"
"Oh, sorry dude. My name is Kyle and this is Toya," stated the older of the two boys pointing to the younger.
"The name's Tyson." But, before another things could be said, a shrill sound of a whistle sounded in the hair. Everyone's attention snapped to see who their officer to be teacher was. Hearts fell at the sight of the officer. His dark crimson eyes scanned the startled group of pitiful cadets; blue hair blew in the wind. It was, of course, Kai Hiwatari. Great, at least it's Kai and not that Tala jerk...
"Attention! Marching formation now!" ordered Kai in a harsh, cold voice. For the first few seconds there was confusion. However, there were some among the lost cadets that knew what to do. The rest followed. In a matter of minutes, the class was in "marching formation" which was five rows and seven columns of strait lines. The people in front were trying not to show how much they feared Kai.
Kai began to walk around the cadets giving orders to stand up strait and to tie their shoes. Once he was done accomplishing the objective of scaring his class he began.
"As many of you know, I am Sir Kai Hiwatari. I will be your commanding officer for this class the entire school year. The rules are simple, do what I say, and you won't get reprimanded' don't do what I say, and I'll make sure you're life is a living hell. If you don't believe me now, I will make sure to get it clearly pounded into your minds. Oh yes," said Kai in a cold voice that gave all of the cadets a chill," if one acts out or isn't in line, you all pay." Kai now was at the front, staring into the pale faces of the many youths in front of him. Dear Lord. Maybe having Kai as a commanding officer was a bad idea.
"We are going to begin today's class with laps. Ten times around the field followed by twenty push-up and sit-ups," sighs of disbelief ran through the crowd, "and after everyone is done with the warm up," Warm up! That's insane!, "we will being with drills." Many cadets' mouths dropped open. "Now move it!" It took a while, but soon everyone was running around the field. Tyson and his new friends decided to stick together through their torture.
"I can't.... believe his making...us do all this!" painted Tyson in a protest. Grunts of agreements were giving by his companions. Tyson look around. Kai was standing by the edge of the field, watching intently and reprimanding any and all he saw who were slacking. After the cadet drill class was finished with their laps, they collapsed on the ground gasping for air.
"Come on! Stop sitting and get moving!" yelled Kai. Kyle sat up followed by Toya and started to do sit-ups. Once they caught their breath, they began to whisper to each other.
"Looks like the rumors are true," said Toya in a hushed voice, "He really is as bad as everyone says he is."
"No kidding! I'm exhausted and this is just warm up!" added Tyson.
"Yeah, I wonder if- Hey! Whose the chick?" Tyson and Toya looked up. It was as Kyle said, a 'chick'.
"I've never seen her before..." added Toya while he stared at the approaching female. In fact, he wasn't the only one staring, everyone was, even Kai Hiwatari. No one could really blame them for the female was a 'looker' to say the least. She had a beautifully sculptured body with soft skin, a wonderful fair face with rose lips, dark blue hair that swished in the wind, and eyes that reflected the bright blue sky. All the while she walked toward the group, immature whistles and shouts came from the class. When she reached Kai, she curtsied and began to speak in a soft voice that no one could hear but him. All the cadets watched intently. Kai nodded an turned again to the cadets.
"Formation now!" ordered Kai. Everyone scrambled onto their feet and were in their formation in no time flat, all eyes not on Sir Hiwatari, but the female. The immature hollers and shouts were still sounding here and there. However, the girl didn't seem to notice. By the looks of her uniform, she was an officer. Kai again faced the girl, said a last few words, saluted, and began to walk to the main building. Tyson eyes followed Kai, he met up with another group of officers, Tala, Ian, and Spencer. But, the girl officer at the front seemed to be more interesting at the moment. When she began to speak, everyone went quiet.
"It seems that Sir Hiwatari has some business else where to attend to. Thus, I have been ordered to finish the rest of the class," her voice was sweet and seemed to ride on the wind. "My name is Lady Utada Kairi." Murmmers went throughout the class, repeating her name. No one, seemed to think she was mean or could do anything. They were wrong. With the start to the talking, she began to walk in the strait rows of the class, just as Sir Hiwatari did before. The excitement and noise came to a screeching halt when eyes found the number of gold stars attached to her uniform. They counted them over and over again, hoping for their life that the number would decrease. But it didn't. It stayed the high and mighty number of five.
"Oh shit..." whispered Kyle when Lady Utada's rank came into view. Even Tyson knew that this wasn't good at all. From what he had heard, there was only Kai who had five gold stars, and he could do about whatever he damned pleased. Lady Utada began to speak again. This time, her voice wasn't sweet, but cold and angry.
"It seems that this class has not been taught proper respect for a lady of any class..."began Lady Utada. "I am taking on the responsibility of changing that... This class is a disgrace of gentlemen! In fact, I wouldn't even dream of calling you bunch of immature, pitiful, unsophisticated brats anything more of rank than a lowly, cowering boy who can do no better than dress himself!" All the cadets looked down, ashamed, "That is why I have taken the liberty to assign every single one of you kitchen duty every day for the next three weeks. I've been hearing from the kitchen crew that they are tired of cleaning up after pigs. So, you shall take their place," mouths dropped open, "Oh, don't thank me. Thank yourselves! Just think of all that character and respect you are going to learn!" Lady Utada smirking and chuckled to herself. "But I would first like to say that I don't believe in inflicting damage upon poor insolent fools like yourself directly..." Breaths were held in with hope in the air. "That's why I'm letting you inflict pain. Oh and, there will be pain." The smell of fear and confusion permeated the air.
"Every single one of you has a choice. One of these choices is to run around the obstacle course until I see fit." Until she sees fit? That will be all night! I'm choosing the second one! "Your other choice is to sleep out here for the next few days. No blankets, no protection, nothing but yourself and Mother Nature." Lady Utada walked up to an older cadet who had been at the school for some years. "If you don't believe me, just ask Cadet Hall here. I'm sure he will love to tell you his feelings about being freezing while the harsh wind whipped rain that torn his flesh on his back. Isn't that right Cadet Hall?" "Ma'm, yes Ma'm!" Oh, just as added information, weather reports stated that it is going to rain tonight. I hope for those who choice the second that is isn't a bad storm..." Lady Utada was now up at the front again looking around at the fear stricken cadets. She smiled a sweet smile.
"Choose wisely."
Toya and Kyle ran beside and behind Tyson, always looking out for each other in case one fell (which happened a lot). However, once they fell, it didn't seem like they could muster enough will power to go on. It was then, that Lady Utada called halt.
"Well done. I think a lesson of respect was learned here today. I congratulate you all. My only hope is that you will make better choices in the future and use what you have learned here today. You are all dismissed. Any who can't walk to their dorms will be assisted by the medical center's aids. Food will be brought individually to your dorms. Have a nice night." Everyone looked up as she walked away and medical aids came to help fallen cadets to their feet. The last view that Tyson saw was Lady Utada disappearing into the fog of the night. Rain started to lightly hit the ground and rumbles of thunder rang through the sky. Then, everything became a blur.