I couldn't believe who I was sitting next to; I was inches away from Mao
Yenrai. Mao was once the greatest Red Dragons assassin; he had worked his
way up to the leader of the attack squad. He looked just like any average
man; there was nothing strange about him. He had done so much for the
syndicate it was like looking at a profit of god. I was in the presence of
the best there was and the best there would probably ever be, it would only
be a matter of years before he took over. I was afraid to talk to him
thinking that I'd look like a moron, but I decided to end the awkward
silence. There were 5 other people in the car besides for Mao and I. There
was Allen, two bodyguards a girl that looked to be about my age and an
older looking dude. The silence was really starting to get to me, I was
about to explode. I decided that it would be a good idea to take the
initiative and signify myself as an aggressor.
"Hi I'm Cid, were you guys just drafted als" Before I could finish
the last word Mao cut me off.
"The best way to establish yourself is to not start the battle but
to take it head on and finish it, and also your name is not important
anymore you will all be called by whatever your chosen codename is" The man
was amazing, he had known exactly what I had been thinking; it was an honor
to be in his presence. Silence was the theme of the car ride back to
Dragons HQ, the place that held my future in the palm of its hand. When we
arrived to the building we were surrounded by a number of people all in
black trench coats. I expected they're to be a welcoming committee but this
was amazing, there must have been 500 people. We were rushed into a
humongous dining room, where I was told to sit down. I was sitting in a row
with about 50 people that seemed to be my age, I didn't know any of them,
and so I doubted that Alex and Maurice had actually been drafted. Through
the crowd a man with a large black cape stood forward and walked up to a
microphone located right behind us.
"Thank you all for coming to the initiation of the new recruits,
please remain silent as I say the name of the recruit and assign him a
trainer. After he is assigned a master, he will speak his codename." The
man spoke with a gravelly voice, I thought that he was the leader of this
syndicate, but he was only one of the generals. His name was Sczai and he
had long black hair and frigid green eyes that were as sharp as daggers. As
he started to name people my eyes slowly drifted away from him and turned
to the audience, there was a number of intimidating looking people in the
crowd, along with many pushovers. I didn't know it then but none of them
were pushovers they had been drafted for a reason, the same reason I was
there. Half way through the list of people he mentioned a name all to
familiar to me.
"Our next recruit is Alex Tosh. Alex specialty is sword combat and
has chosen the katana as his main weapon. Alex's master will be Mao Yenrai
and will be trained as the defensive specialist of the group. What is your
new code name Alex?"
"My new name...................... Is Viscous." Alex looked totally different. He
had white hair, which made him look very mature, and was wearing long baggy
green pants and a black tank top shirt with a Dragon on the front.
Apparently he had been drafted after all.
Sczai continued on with the initiation, "Our next recruit is Maurice
McLarkin, he is trained in the style of jeet keen do and his weapon of
choice is Colt 45. Automatic, his master will be....................... Allen Marcus, he
will be trained to be the offensive specialist; and what will your new name
be"?
"You can call me Spike", said Maurice nonchalantly. He had green hair
that covered his eyes and had on a black leather jacket and dark blue denim
jeans. The clothing I picked out was much different than the others. A few
minutes past and Sczai called my name.
"The next recruit is Cid Marcus". I could hear the mutters of the
crowd, they all knew who my brother was and couldn't wait to see what I
could do. "He is also trained in jeet keen do, and has chosen to use an
ancient saber as his weapon, he will by trained by his brother and I know
we cant wait to see what's in store for him". I had no idea how much of a
focal point I would become. "He will be trained as the defensive
specialist", and what will your new name be?"
"I will be known as Loki", what could be a more deserving name? I
was expected, by everyone to do great and amazing things, but as chances
were I couldn't live up to the expectations. I had become Loki. Minutes
past and more names were read, I only became more worried about what was to
come. I was in a strange place with people that could have been murderers
or thieves. I really didn't understand what Szcai meant by defensive
specialist, but I knew that I would be playing that roll in this game of
life and death. Finally after an hour of sitting on my ass, we all were
taken into groups of five. Allen was leading the five of us to a room that
looked allot like a library. We had no idea what was going on until Allen
explained it to us.
Okay here' how it goes, the five of you have been assigned to be my
pupils, you will all refer to me as Sensei, you five will be sticking
together for sometime so its best that you all get to know each other. Fox
and Moses have already been training for two years, so next to me they will
be your seniors; you will show the respect since they will have your back.
I'm going to drop you five off in the library so you can actually get to
know each other. Ill be back in exactly nine hours and fifty two minutes.
Have fun", what a shit-face he was just going to leave us here without
water for 10 hours, I had been told that my brother was a strict warrior
and that being his first pupils would be hard, but I thought that he
wouldn't be cruel.
authors note: for the rest of the chapter there will be primarily
dialogue, so instead of having to do the stupid quote things I will just
Put the first letter of the name of the person who is talking. I know what
your thinking and yes I am a lazy SOB.
L= Loki
S= Spike
F= Fox
M= Moses
D= Drive
Time: 3:57 AM
I was right we were in a stupid library; it was a huge library though. With
enough books to keep Einstein busy for ages. There were two levels of
books, and a huge statue of a dragon in the middle of the room. We were all
just sitting, not saying anything. Moses decided to break the silence.
M: "So how's it going, first time u rookies have been here right? You'll
definitely get used to it eventually. The long nights, the harsh training
it'll all be fine. Me and Fox'll be here for u midgets." He seemed like a
nice guy, he was about 16 and had black hair and brown eyes; he looked like
an average kid.
S: "Were not pushovers man, Loki here took out a Tiger; and I helped kill
a Tiger drug lord. What have you done?" This wasn't like Spike, he was
always really nice to people.
L: "Dude calm down. Its really no big deal, we're all here to train, and
since were going to be in this room for 10hrs we may as well make the best
of it. Wow that was quite possibly the gayest thing I've ever said if you
guys want to you can beat the crap out of me." I decided to take off my
coat it was really hot in here, I could see that the tension was being
relieved. Everyone started to take off whatever there heavy uniform was. I
noticed that Fox was staring at me, she was an odd one, but amazing
nonetheless.
F: "What are you looking at lover boy, turn your ass around, or do you
want me to pierce the other nostril".
L: "What the hell is your problem, I was sleeping and you ran in and
shoved a needle through my nose". All that tension was coming back.
M: "Seriously guys there is no need to argue It'll all be fine, remember
were a team and"
F and L: "Shut up"
F: "If you had been smarter you wouldn't have let me get you like that, if
its anyone's fault its yours, you rat bastard."
L: "How was it my fault, I thought I could trust you in our own apartment
you stupid bitch. Why don't you do the whole world a big favor and fucking
kill yourself?"
F: "You, how dare y" she couldn't even finish her sentence before she ran
off crying I think I went to far.
S: "Wow, what a lovely day it is. The only thing that could make this day
better is a taste of good old hatred, but sadly we've got plenty of that.
D: "She deserved it"
S: "Well Ms. Silence finally talks, how would you know that"
D: "She was being obnoxious, and she pierced your nose from what I could
hear."
L: "At least there's one person on my side, what's your name? This girl
was dressed in all black, she had an inverted mushroom cut and a dagger
sticking out of her left boot.
D: "Drive".
L: "Well I'm Loki, what exactly did you do to get in here"?
D: "I had sex with Sczai"
All: "What!?!?, how old are you"
D: "17"
M: "Your under aged that's illegal, he could be arrested"
S: "Wow what a bunch we have here, Captain Obvious, Slutty Mc Slut, Mr.
Overreaction, Hopeful suicide girl, and me Mr. Sarcasm.
D: "Actually you can call me the chronic liar". This girl had totally
tricked us; she had made us believe something that couldn't have been true,
besides she probably wasn't even 17. New recruits were usually 16.
L: "What did you really do"
D: "I'm a hacker. I was just playing online a little while. Creating some
false accounts, stealing credit card info, and looking at the new products
companies would be releasing. I hacked my way into a site that was huge,
colossal. I tried to find information but the programs were guarded so
tightly It would take a year to get 1% of one done. I tried to X out of the
server but it wouldn't let me, my computer was to valuable to shut down
manually, I had too much important information stored on it.
M: "So you hacked the dragons programs and got caught"?
D: "A few days later they came to my house, 3 men in black coats. They said
that they should kill me right there and then, but someone stopped them,
your brother Loki. Allen said that I would be a great use for the squad
that he was forming, he said that I would be perfectly suited for it." I
never really knew my brother was so kind to people he worked with. He moved
out of the house when he was drafted at 16.
L: "What about you Moses? You've been here a while what did you do?"
M: "Well, when I was your age I was robbed by a member of the White
Tigers. He took my wallet and ran, I decided not to chase him because I
only had $2.50 in my wallet anyway. A few days passed and I noticed that
the thief was always passing through this street at approximately 4:27 pm.
It was as though he would go to a meeting everyday, well one day I followed
him silently around every street corner. He was meeting a man in a back-
alley; he was getting drugs or something along that line. When he was
returning to HQ, I was jumping across building roofs. He must have decided
that it was a bad idea to walk along the main streets so he cut along some
back streets. I was following him like a hawk the whole time. I might not
have caught him if he hadn't been such a shmuck, the man decided to take a
piss on the wall. It was to good to be true, I climbed down on an emergency
fire escape and snuck up behind the man, and put him in a sleeper hold, and
after he passes out I took his wallet and stole all of the money in it.
When I was leaving the street I was shoved violently by a man I a black
trench coat, and in a matter of seconds he had a katana to my throat. He
said that it was not very nice to steal from people and said that he'd been
watching me for some time now, and that he wanted me in his syndicate, and
now I'm hear as the strategist unit."
L: "That's allot more complicated then my story, I just got into a fight
with a guy that happened to be part of the White Tigers, but of course I
won".
S: "Vicious and I beat up a White Tigers drug lord, it wasn't anything
special."
F: "I pick pocketed Mao Yenrai, he was impressed and thought that he could
use me." Well she was back and she seemed a little better. Even though we
were so different; we were all here and there was nothing we could do. We
were a unit now, and we knew that we had each others back's. We were like
opposites that were similar.
Yenrai. Mao was once the greatest Red Dragons assassin; he had worked his
way up to the leader of the attack squad. He looked just like any average
man; there was nothing strange about him. He had done so much for the
syndicate it was like looking at a profit of god. I was in the presence of
the best there was and the best there would probably ever be, it would only
be a matter of years before he took over. I was afraid to talk to him
thinking that I'd look like a moron, but I decided to end the awkward
silence. There were 5 other people in the car besides for Mao and I. There
was Allen, two bodyguards a girl that looked to be about my age and an
older looking dude. The silence was really starting to get to me, I was
about to explode. I decided that it would be a good idea to take the
initiative and signify myself as an aggressor.
"Hi I'm Cid, were you guys just drafted als" Before I could finish
the last word Mao cut me off.
"The best way to establish yourself is to not start the battle but
to take it head on and finish it, and also your name is not important
anymore you will all be called by whatever your chosen codename is" The man
was amazing, he had known exactly what I had been thinking; it was an honor
to be in his presence. Silence was the theme of the car ride back to
Dragons HQ, the place that held my future in the palm of its hand. When we
arrived to the building we were surrounded by a number of people all in
black trench coats. I expected they're to be a welcoming committee but this
was amazing, there must have been 500 people. We were rushed into a
humongous dining room, where I was told to sit down. I was sitting in a row
with about 50 people that seemed to be my age, I didn't know any of them,
and so I doubted that Alex and Maurice had actually been drafted. Through
the crowd a man with a large black cape stood forward and walked up to a
microphone located right behind us.
"Thank you all for coming to the initiation of the new recruits,
please remain silent as I say the name of the recruit and assign him a
trainer. After he is assigned a master, he will speak his codename." The
man spoke with a gravelly voice, I thought that he was the leader of this
syndicate, but he was only one of the generals. His name was Sczai and he
had long black hair and frigid green eyes that were as sharp as daggers. As
he started to name people my eyes slowly drifted away from him and turned
to the audience, there was a number of intimidating looking people in the
crowd, along with many pushovers. I didn't know it then but none of them
were pushovers they had been drafted for a reason, the same reason I was
there. Half way through the list of people he mentioned a name all to
familiar to me.
"Our next recruit is Alex Tosh. Alex specialty is sword combat and
has chosen the katana as his main weapon. Alex's master will be Mao Yenrai
and will be trained as the defensive specialist of the group. What is your
new code name Alex?"
"My new name...................... Is Viscous." Alex looked totally different. He
had white hair, which made him look very mature, and was wearing long baggy
green pants and a black tank top shirt with a Dragon on the front.
Apparently he had been drafted after all.
Sczai continued on with the initiation, "Our next recruit is Maurice
McLarkin, he is trained in the style of jeet keen do and his weapon of
choice is Colt 45. Automatic, his master will be....................... Allen Marcus, he
will be trained to be the offensive specialist; and what will your new name
be"?
"You can call me Spike", said Maurice nonchalantly. He had green hair
that covered his eyes and had on a black leather jacket and dark blue denim
jeans. The clothing I picked out was much different than the others. A few
minutes past and Sczai called my name.
"The next recruit is Cid Marcus". I could hear the mutters of the
crowd, they all knew who my brother was and couldn't wait to see what I
could do. "He is also trained in jeet keen do, and has chosen to use an
ancient saber as his weapon, he will by trained by his brother and I know
we cant wait to see what's in store for him". I had no idea how much of a
focal point I would become. "He will be trained as the defensive
specialist", and what will your new name be?"
"I will be known as Loki", what could be a more deserving name? I
was expected, by everyone to do great and amazing things, but as chances
were I couldn't live up to the expectations. I had become Loki. Minutes
past and more names were read, I only became more worried about what was to
come. I was in a strange place with people that could have been murderers
or thieves. I really didn't understand what Szcai meant by defensive
specialist, but I knew that I would be playing that roll in this game of
life and death. Finally after an hour of sitting on my ass, we all were
taken into groups of five. Allen was leading the five of us to a room that
looked allot like a library. We had no idea what was going on until Allen
explained it to us.
Okay here' how it goes, the five of you have been assigned to be my
pupils, you will all refer to me as Sensei, you five will be sticking
together for sometime so its best that you all get to know each other. Fox
and Moses have already been training for two years, so next to me they will
be your seniors; you will show the respect since they will have your back.
I'm going to drop you five off in the library so you can actually get to
know each other. Ill be back in exactly nine hours and fifty two minutes.
Have fun", what a shit-face he was just going to leave us here without
water for 10 hours, I had been told that my brother was a strict warrior
and that being his first pupils would be hard, but I thought that he
wouldn't be cruel.
authors note: for the rest of the chapter there will be primarily
dialogue, so instead of having to do the stupid quote things I will just
Put the first letter of the name of the person who is talking. I know what
your thinking and yes I am a lazy SOB.
L= Loki
S= Spike
F= Fox
M= Moses
D= Drive
Time: 3:57 AM
I was right we were in a stupid library; it was a huge library though. With
enough books to keep Einstein busy for ages. There were two levels of
books, and a huge statue of a dragon in the middle of the room. We were all
just sitting, not saying anything. Moses decided to break the silence.
M: "So how's it going, first time u rookies have been here right? You'll
definitely get used to it eventually. The long nights, the harsh training
it'll all be fine. Me and Fox'll be here for u midgets." He seemed like a
nice guy, he was about 16 and had black hair and brown eyes; he looked like
an average kid.
S: "Were not pushovers man, Loki here took out a Tiger; and I helped kill
a Tiger drug lord. What have you done?" This wasn't like Spike, he was
always really nice to people.
L: "Dude calm down. Its really no big deal, we're all here to train, and
since were going to be in this room for 10hrs we may as well make the best
of it. Wow that was quite possibly the gayest thing I've ever said if you
guys want to you can beat the crap out of me." I decided to take off my
coat it was really hot in here, I could see that the tension was being
relieved. Everyone started to take off whatever there heavy uniform was. I
noticed that Fox was staring at me, she was an odd one, but amazing
nonetheless.
F: "What are you looking at lover boy, turn your ass around, or do you
want me to pierce the other nostril".
L: "What the hell is your problem, I was sleeping and you ran in and
shoved a needle through my nose". All that tension was coming back.
M: "Seriously guys there is no need to argue It'll all be fine, remember
were a team and"
F and L: "Shut up"
F: "If you had been smarter you wouldn't have let me get you like that, if
its anyone's fault its yours, you rat bastard."
L: "How was it my fault, I thought I could trust you in our own apartment
you stupid bitch. Why don't you do the whole world a big favor and fucking
kill yourself?"
F: "You, how dare y" she couldn't even finish her sentence before she ran
off crying I think I went to far.
S: "Wow, what a lovely day it is. The only thing that could make this day
better is a taste of good old hatred, but sadly we've got plenty of that.
D: "She deserved it"
S: "Well Ms. Silence finally talks, how would you know that"
D: "She was being obnoxious, and she pierced your nose from what I could
hear."
L: "At least there's one person on my side, what's your name? This girl
was dressed in all black, she had an inverted mushroom cut and a dagger
sticking out of her left boot.
D: "Drive".
L: "Well I'm Loki, what exactly did you do to get in here"?
D: "I had sex with Sczai"
All: "What!?!?, how old are you"
D: "17"
M: "Your under aged that's illegal, he could be arrested"
S: "Wow what a bunch we have here, Captain Obvious, Slutty Mc Slut, Mr.
Overreaction, Hopeful suicide girl, and me Mr. Sarcasm.
D: "Actually you can call me the chronic liar". This girl had totally
tricked us; she had made us believe something that couldn't have been true,
besides she probably wasn't even 17. New recruits were usually 16.
L: "What did you really do"
D: "I'm a hacker. I was just playing online a little while. Creating some
false accounts, stealing credit card info, and looking at the new products
companies would be releasing. I hacked my way into a site that was huge,
colossal. I tried to find information but the programs were guarded so
tightly It would take a year to get 1% of one done. I tried to X out of the
server but it wouldn't let me, my computer was to valuable to shut down
manually, I had too much important information stored on it.
M: "So you hacked the dragons programs and got caught"?
D: "A few days later they came to my house, 3 men in black coats. They said
that they should kill me right there and then, but someone stopped them,
your brother Loki. Allen said that I would be a great use for the squad
that he was forming, he said that I would be perfectly suited for it." I
never really knew my brother was so kind to people he worked with. He moved
out of the house when he was drafted at 16.
L: "What about you Moses? You've been here a while what did you do?"
M: "Well, when I was your age I was robbed by a member of the White
Tigers. He took my wallet and ran, I decided not to chase him because I
only had $2.50 in my wallet anyway. A few days passed and I noticed that
the thief was always passing through this street at approximately 4:27 pm.
It was as though he would go to a meeting everyday, well one day I followed
him silently around every street corner. He was meeting a man in a back-
alley; he was getting drugs or something along that line. When he was
returning to HQ, I was jumping across building roofs. He must have decided
that it was a bad idea to walk along the main streets so he cut along some
back streets. I was following him like a hawk the whole time. I might not
have caught him if he hadn't been such a shmuck, the man decided to take a
piss on the wall. It was to good to be true, I climbed down on an emergency
fire escape and snuck up behind the man, and put him in a sleeper hold, and
after he passes out I took his wallet and stole all of the money in it.
When I was leaving the street I was shoved violently by a man I a black
trench coat, and in a matter of seconds he had a katana to my throat. He
said that it was not very nice to steal from people and said that he'd been
watching me for some time now, and that he wanted me in his syndicate, and
now I'm hear as the strategist unit."
L: "That's allot more complicated then my story, I just got into a fight
with a guy that happened to be part of the White Tigers, but of course I
won".
S: "Vicious and I beat up a White Tigers drug lord, it wasn't anything
special."
F: "I pick pocketed Mao Yenrai, he was impressed and thought that he could
use me." Well she was back and she seemed a little better. Even though we
were so different; we were all here and there was nothing we could do. We
were a unit now, and we knew that we had each others back's. We were like
opposites that were similar.