BEHIND THE NINE BALL-CHAPTER TWO: "THE AWAKENING"
Well there is the other chapter, I have some troubles to finish it… you know: tests, homework, and other strange things , but here is it. Again please bring me your opinion, ideas or whatever you want or think about the fic.
It doesn't matter how weak we are, when we are bigger in number; like the ants.
-Famous raven saying
Seven years have passed since the attack of Navis to the Sunsoft city; I'm now twenty one years old, and my sister fourteen. I promised in the ruins of my home that I will protect my sister as possible to me… until death if it is necessary.
Sister: Hi! Brother… what are you doing? It's too late
Brother: Oh! I didn't hear you when you entered- it was like the 10:00pm- I'm studying very hard for the test I have in two days as I told you before –I said it smiling-
Sister: you will see… you will be the best place between the other students, but you haven't told me what the test is about…
I got exalted when she said it… I couldn't tell her I will join to Raven's Ark, I have my own reasons to don't tell her
Brother: avoiding her question I said – Avril (that's my sister's name) please leave me alone I'm very tired, tomorrow we will talk ok
Avril: oh!... well… I gonna sleep now –she kissed my head- good night…
Brother: ok let's continue…
When I was studying, a big hand takes down the roof of my house… It is the same AC that attacked us seven years ago
Voice: I'm here now…-it sounded like an ectoplasmatic voice (ok… just think in the exorcist's demons voice and you'll got the idea)
Brother: WHAT YOU WANT!
Voice: you know what I want
Brother: really I feel that I know what he wants, but I can't remember what is it –I will go with you, but please, let my sister live- I said it with the face down
Voice: pathetic.-the AC targeted me with his enormous weapon
Brother: DO IT NOW!
Avril: what happened brother!
Brother: the house's roof is in his place, I'm in my table with my books and seated in my chair- wo! It was just a nightmare, I'm ok Avril
The two days passed so fast, I studied very, very hard, I feel stronger enough to achieve my success, I think I could do it…
Avril: I want to go with you to the test place, it doesn't matter if I must wait in the entrance… ok…ok I said…
Brother: ok… I agree, but with one condition: don't ask me anything neither before, during nor after the test OK!
Avril: ok I promise!
I'm going to the application facility, located at 1200 Km from the house (obviously we are going in an airplane), the trip lasts 13 hours… and there's nothing to do… I will get crazy!. When we arrived to the facility Avril saw the emblem of the Raven's Ark…
Avril: Hey! Wait a minute… that's a military base isn't it? What we are doing here!
Brother: you promised… without questions!
Avril: TELL ME! What are we doing here!
Brother: ok… I will tell you –really I tried to avoid this situation, but in some moment she will know the truth- listen to me: do you remember the attack of our home… well I will be one of them…I think that's the only way to avenge our parents, our friends and our city… try to understand me…
Avril: and you will kill people like the ones who attacked us?- at this moment I wanted to cry because I remembered the faces of my parents after the attack
Brother: no… I won't…
I entered to the application room, the test was in my table and I began to do it
Brother: well… let's begin…-it is very difficult, imagine the first question was: The difference between the JACKAL leg model, sourced by a KONGOH EN OUTPUT generator type, and a ORCHID type is the velocity of energy charge, but the calorific value will be affected by depending on the radiator inner system… what the hell is that!...
Officer: OK! The time is out; the results will appear on the electronic board in four hours.
Imagine those four hours were the longest hours in my life, with Avril doing her common stupid questions, people talking about how EASY! were the test… well the four hours passed like a snail with stomach ache (very slow)…
Communication device: The test's results are now in the board, please go and check your score, if you achieved a 7,5 or bigger, please go to the T-1 gate at the east of the base…thank for your attention.
Now I'm nervous enough… I can't feel my legs!... I'm going to the board by inertia and magic powers (really I can't feel my body)… searching for my applicant number I saw the other's score: 4.0; 2.1; 8.5!... well I found mine: I CAN'T BELIEVE IT! I yelled… 7,5 (well it is not the biggest score… but I did it). I went to the T-1 gate and there were a huge arena…
Raven Arch Officer: Well… I'm disappointed, it was supposed 100 members will join to us today, BUT YOU ARE LIKE 40!- he arrange his impeccable suit- it doesn't matter… now you are semi-ravens, you must chose a code name for you and your AC, please fill in the formula on the computers at my left… WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR… DO IT QUICKLY!...- really I think he has no wife, no friends, no social life.
Brother: I have thought that since I decided to join to Ravens… Now my AC will be known as Nine Ball, in memory of my father's antique; and people will know me as Hustler One, because my mission now is to find a true life…
Raven Arch Officer: Well ladies, now is the time for the true test –beautiful!... so the other was just a joke ah!- you must prove your ability fighting with an real AC, so get ready in ten minutes will be the first encounter.-he said it with these face when you know your enemy will suffer and claim for his life.
Hustler One: Well Hustler… it's time…
Thanks for your comments, I'm happy coz people enjoy this story and I'm working on the next chapter.
Lord Velkonn I'm agree to… I'm too bad for the grammar… ask my teachers… so thank you for the comment, and really I need some services, you know eh!. Believe me, I'm practicing hard.
And Mr. Viable Solution I've reviewed your fic, and you are totally right men, Nine Ball were before Navis, but I need all the "AC companies" for the story, you will see it my friend.
So thank you all, I see you in the next chapter…