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Natsu's POV
Slowly I came back into consciousness, where was I? I slowly sat up and looked around, the room was long and narrow with bunk beds lining the walls. It looked like the inside of a cabin and the only light came from the windows and a candle sitting on the table next to me.
"Hello, is anyone here?"
...No answer.
I got up and walked to the doors on the other side of the room, as I got closer i could here a bundle of voices mixed together. unable to make them out clearly I opened the door.
"Natsu, its about time you got up, I was worried I hit you to hard."
Erza.
"Then maybe you shouldn't go around knocking people out!" I yelled, then realised my mistake. I paled, my eyes widened and only one thought echoed through my head. Oh shit.
"For gods sake Natsu could you calm down I simply didn't want to deal with your pouting the whole ride here, and I thought I would save you the ride too." She said. Slowly the color returned to my face, and my eyes went back to their usual size.
Well she did save me the agony of a five hour ride, but I'm still pissed at her. My head is throbbing. I decided to keep those thoughts to myself, I didn't want to test the wrath of the she-monster twice in under 10 minutes. And even if she didn't kill me, I might die of heart failure from the stress.
"What ever, so where are we any way?" I asked.
"We're at the military training camp, got here a few hours ago, by the way you slept through dinner-"
"What! But you saved me some right...right?" I started to panic
a guilty look crossed Erza's face.
"Well… I tried to wake you up...and everyone was only allowed one serving...and I was hungry…" She mumbled
"What?! It was you who knocked me out in the first place, thats not fair now I'm starving and-"I was cut off by Erza's glare. "I-I mean, hai hai Erza-sama! Of course you were hungry, the portion went to you!"
Her glare softened to her usual gaze. "Thank you for understanding Natsu. Now, go back to sleep. Its night already, and we meet the drill sergeant tomorrow." I groaned and fell back onto the uncomfortable bed. I could hear Erza's footsteps, probably headed to the girls dorm.
As I fell back to sleep, thoughts of the previous day clouded my mind. Several images played on repeat, all the death. Tears threatened to spill out of my eyes at the thought of everything. These thoughts chased my emotions until I fell into an uneasy sleep.
Wendy's POV
I scurried out of bed as soon as the rising sun's light filtered through the cracks in the boards that made the a small cabin I was staying in for the next 4 years. I grabbed my new uniform from under my bed and swiftly changed into it. No one else was up yet, so I grabbed a small pair of scissors from the table beside me and gripped my long hair into a ponytail behind my head and clipped. The long blue strands fell to the ground and I used my reflection in a small puddle of who-knows-what to even it out into a chin length bob. I pulled some stray hairs off of my jacket, and smiled grimly. Today was the first day of my new life.
I decided to do some stretching until other people woke up, so I sat down on my bed to begin. However, less than five minutes passed before an angry looking bald guy stormed in, screaming 'RISE AND SHINE, LADIES'. I stopped my stretching and saluted in the way I had seen several other soldiers doing the day before. Erza jumped out of bed and unthinkingly requipped into her uniform then saluted as well. Next up was Asuna, who stretched a bit and groaned, mumbling a bit before crouching down and changing behind her bed. By this time, most of the other girls were awake and changing behind their beds like Asuna.
"FOLLOW THIS GIRL HERE OUTSIDE ONCE EVERYONE IS CHANGED." The man yelled, before marching out, probably to wake the guys. Soon enough everyone was ready and we marched outside. It was kind of strange, but nice to lead them, even if it was for such a small thing. I think I could get used to that, leading people. As we lined up, the guys marched out of their cabin, led by a guy with a brown undercut and amber eyes. Once everyone was in neat rows, the bald man began to pace between the rows stopping at every new recruit and headbutting them, yell-asking them their name and place of origin. He got to Armin, who had placed himself directly in front of me, when the instructor grabbed his shoulders and turned him around telling him and the rest of the third row to watch.
He proceeded to the row I was in, starting with the brown haired boy who had led the other guys out of their cabin. "SO, WHERE ARE YOU FROM BOY?" The instructor asked.
"Trost district sir!" The boy replied.
"WHATS YOUR NAME, BOY?"
"Jean Kirstein, sir!"
"SO, JEAN. WHY DID YOU JOIN THE MILITARY?"
"To join the military police, sir!" At those words, the instructor head butted Jean into the ground.
"ONLY THE TOP 10 RECRUITS GET A CHANCE TO JOIN THE MILITARY POLICE. REMEMBER THAT." I walked out of line and up to Jean and reached out my hand to help him up. I saw he almost refused and yanked him up. I turned to the drill sergeant, doing my best imitation of the Erza death glare.
"You should not be harming your recruits." I said quietly. "It is your job to train us, not push us down." I continued.
"OH, WHATS YOUR NAME GIRLY?" He replied. "I SHOULD KNOW THE NAME OF THE ONE WHO TRIES TO QUESTION ME."
"Wendy Marvell sir." I turned to Jean, and started using my healing magic to check him for injuries. Nothing much, just a couple scratches and some bruising. I was trying my hardest not to flinch and revert to my old shy personality when the instructor whipped me around and almost pushed me down. I side stepped and blasted him back a foot or so with a gust of wind. "Do not push me down sir. I have faced far stronger than you." Out of the corner of my eye I saw Erza's approving nod and when I stepped back into my spot I saw some impressed looks. I blushed a little from the attention when I saw Natsu with a grin on his face (a sad imitation of his old one) as well as heard some guys whispering about me with my dragon slayer hearing.
I really could get used to this. I liked the new me, and I hoped one day Fairy Tail could see me like this, stronger. I felt brave, and the sadness was just fueling a fire deep within me, giving me more determination than ever. Even though I hated myself for thinking it, just for a moment I believed that maybe this world switch was good. It gave me a chance to grow up, to grow stronger than I ever would have back home with everyone babying me.
I sat there quietly until the sergeant approached a boy named Marco. Apparently Marco wanted to join the Military police like Jean. Sergeant-guy started to go on about how Marco would be a very good servant for the king. Erza turned very slowly at the mention of 'servant' and punched the sargeant. She requipped some metal gloves onto her hands, to many gasps and more whispers, before punching him again. I decided to do something.
"Erza, don't kill him. He's too weak to match up to us, its now worth it. If your gonna beat him up, at least wait until after we are trained." She sighed.
"I suppose you're right Wendy." She turned back and whispered something with her death glare in place. She returned to her spot, next to that dark haired girl she met yesterday. The two seemed to get along quite well, the two had been hanging out a lot. They didn't really talk they just kinda stood there watching over everyone. I decided to be nice, so when the sergeant limped to Asuna who was right next to me, I reached out and healed any major damage I could find. He skipped a couple people, including me, Erza, Mikasa, Eren, Kirito, Asuna, Annie, Bertolt, and Reiner. However, he made the mistake of not skipping Natsu. I winced, Natsu did NOT like authority.
"WHATS YOUR NAME BOY?" The sergeant yelled.
"DON'T CALL ME BOY!" Natsu roared back.
"THEN TELL ME YOUR NAME!"
"NO!"
"THEN I'LL CALL YOU BOY!"
"FIGHT ME FOR IT IF YOU WANT MY NAME, BUT NEVER CALL ME 'BOY'!" Natsu roared out, spewing a little fire. After that, chaos. Natsu lit his fist on fire and a scream could be heard for miles around. I sighed as the other trainees fled to the sidelines. Natsu, up to his usual antics. Sadly people around here weren't as flame resistant as people back in Fairy Tail had grown to be.
I heard a small yelp as Erza dragged Natsu away from the sergeant by his ear. I could vaguely hear her scolding Natsu. I sighed, he was hopeless. Luckily the sergeant did not seem to badly burned. He then turned around to see a girl jog up. Holding a baked potato.
"Sorry I'm late. I got hungry." Poor girl.
"GO RUN LAPS." I was happy the sergeant went easy on her, probably because he was almost incinerated several moments before. "AND NO DINNER!" The girl groaned and headed out to run laps, not knowing what had happened moments before. I sighed and walked back to the girls cabin. These would be some looooooooong years if things continued this way. I continued to the cabin and flopped onto the bed. Asuna walked over to me.
"Hey." She said quietly.
"Hi." I replied.
"That was pretty cool, you guys standing up to that guy. I think he said his name was Shadis, right?"
"Thanks."
"Hey I have a question."
"Ask away."
"Why are you guys always so sad? I don't know why I get the feeling you used to be much different, and I can deffinetly tell Natsu was."
"Too many people died, too fast. And yeah, we were much different."
"Ah. Okay."
"I'm going to sleep."
"Okay." After Asuna replied, I took of my jacket and the harness, and curled up in my bed.
Kirito's POV
I stayed still as most of the other trainees rushed back to their cabins. I had seen what Natsu could do, but I also seen much worse. I sighed, from what I had heard this world was so much more terrifying than one flaming block-head. I calmly walked back to the cabin before turning and heading behind it. I drew my swords, and tested to see if my skills from SAO followed through. When I saw that they indeed did, it didnt really suprise me all that much.
I sheathed my swords and went into the cabin, collapsing on to the uncomfortable cots they supplied. It had been a long day. I didn't know anyone here, and we might as well have been in the game, we could die just as easily here and it was harder to get out of.
The next morning was just physical training. Same with the day after that. It was nothing but physical training for two weeks. Two weeks of your general muscle-building exercises. Then on the first day of the third week, as we followed Jean out onto the training field the drill sergeant (who we had learned was named Shardis) started yelling about 3D Manuevering devices.
It was fairly simple work, though Eren seemed to have trouble with it. As we walked back to the cabin, I decided to help him out a little bit. I walked over to him, and he jumped a little bit when I tapped his shoulder.
"Hi Eren." I said.
"Are you gonna make fun of me too?" He asked, glaring at me.
"Nope. I'm gonna give you some advice." He looked at me suspiciously.
"Why?"
"Because I want to." He kept his suspicious look but nodded carefully. "All you have to do is keep your center of balance lined up with your head and spine and lean the opposite direction if you feel gravity pulling you." I smiled. He looked less suspicious now and half smiled back.
"Thanks Kirito." I nodded slightly.
"Anytime." I headed back to my cot in the cabin and laid back. I really just wanted to go home, or at least back to the cabin on the 22 floor of SAO. It may have been a death game, but at least it had a definite way of getting out. At least it had some good points. I wanted to help this world though, they probably wanted out as much as I did.
A/N: Sorry for the wait. I've been insanely busy lately, and my co-writer has gotten lazier. I (Aiko) am probably gonna be the main author with Ame just editing so you will probably notice a minor change in the writing style. It won't be much because I already most of the story as is. Also, thank you to our 2 reviewers. I will end up updating faster for the next few months then this story will go back to being updated at about this speed, maybe slower (sorry).