Today was the day. The day Torn would graduate and become a Krimzon Guard. Errol had left them a month before to get his tattoo's and become a guard. Every now and then he could come by and say hi to them. The next one out of the group would be Vee graduating which would happen in three months. The Marcus and Aaron would graduate, Marcus in four months and Aaron (being one of the youngest) about six.
Torn walked up the steps to the Barron's fortress with several other elves that graduated that day. They were lead by several guards and they walked through the big doors and into the fortress. It was huge, places everywhere that you could easily get lost in. When they were walking down one hall Torn could have sworn he saw a young woman probably at around fifteen with red hair looking at them from behind a corner. Finally after walking through corridor after corridor the reached the Baron's main throne room.
They walked up the long carpet and to the throne where the Baron sat. He looked down at them as if trying to read their thoughts. The elves bowed down to show there respect to him and then they rose. They placed their hands behind their backs back straight and looking a head.
"So these are the recruits for this month eh?" The Baron asked surveying the group, looking them up and down. "Not a bad looking bunch… I read the reports on the seven of you earlier, which one of you is Torn?"
"I am." Torn said as he stepped forward.
"You seem to be very skilled in shooting, agility, combat and just about everything we could want in a Krimzon Guard." The Baron said looking at him with extreme intensity.
"Thank you, Sir." Torn said stiffly but he was grinning inwardly.
"You seem to be a top recruit, and I am happy to say that all your hard work has not gone unnoticed as of this moment you are a Krimzon Guard." He said smirking in a way that could make anyone cringe.
Torn stepped back and allowed the Barron to talk with the rest of them. Finally he finished. "You will all be lead down to the first floor where you will receive your Krimzon Guard tattoos. Hope you like them." He said and then let out a short, cold laugh.
They were all lead down to the room where their tattoos would be done. After they were done they were to go back to the training building to pick up their stuff and then move into a regular apartment in the city or stay in one of the small dorm rooms with a few of KG's. When they walked in the room they saw a big guy sitting at a table twirling a needle in his hands with many KG tattoos on his face and up his arms.
"So ye all 'ere ta get ya tat's eh?" He said raising an eyebrow.
"We get them on our arms too?" One man asked looking at the mass amount of tattoos the guard had.
"Depends, depends on whetha ye become 'igh rankin'. Da 'igher da rank da more ye get, for now ye'll jus' be gettin' dem on ya face." He said. "So oo's first?"
One by one they all went up and sat in the chair as the man slowly did all there tattoos. Last one was Torn; he went up and laid back in the chair, took a deep breath and closed his eyes.
"Alrigh' now relax." Said the man as he pressed the needle into Torn's forehead. Torn winced slightly at the sudden pain but quickly recovered after some time the needle moved down to his eye lids. The pain was horrible, he didn't show it but he was screaming inside. The needle rapidly injecting ink into the think skin of his eyelids. A tear even threatened to escape his eye but he was able to hold it back knowing that if he let it out it would smear the ink and he wouldn't was his tattoos to be screwed up. Finally the eyes were over and the needle moved over to his cheeks and ears. The ears were so bad it was quick and not as painful, after a bit longer the needle left his skin and did not return. "Okay, then yer free ta open ya eyes." The man leaned back to observe his work. "Ye look, kid." He said nodding his head and lifting up a mirror so Torn could see his new face.
Torn took in every detail the circle on his forehead, the lines passing over his eyelids and across his cheeks. "'Ope ye loike it, 'cuz ye ain't ever gonna get rid 'o it." He smiled a fairly sour grin.
"Don't worry." Torn said smirking at the reflection. "I like it."
He and the other newly made guards headed back to the training building to pick up their things. When they entered the first room with all the recruits it was the recreation room where at the recruits hung out in their free time. The others wandered off into the crowd but for Torn the crowd came to him when Vee, Marcus and Aaron ran over.
"Wow, man…" Aaron said observing Torn's face. "You're a real Guard now." He laughed slightly looking at all the different designs.
"What'd'ya think?" Torn asked raising one eyebrow.
"Looks great." Vee said. "Can't wait to see what mine look like, hope I still look sexy with 'um." She said.
"Ya were never sexy to begin with the tat's just might even be an improvement." Marcus said and this earned him a hard punch in the shoulder by Vee.
"Now, now don't fight on my 'graduation' day… wait ya know what go at it I wanna see her beat the shit out of ya." Torn said smiling and rubbing his hands together and grinning like an idiot.
"Shut up." Vee said and hit Torn as well.
"Hey, that's an offence now," Torn said looking at her. "I could get ya thrown in prison for that."
"Ya wouldn't dare." She said placing her hands on her hips.
"You're right; ya wouldn't last one day there." He said and Vee's eyes narrowed as she glared at him for a few seconds.
"Okay, okay enough of that." Aaron said walking between the two. "let's go up to Torn's room and help him pack. How's that?"
"Alrigh', jus' don't go thinkin' I couldn't last in prison, I tell ya'll now I could so last in prison." Vee said sticking her finger in Torns face and glaring at him.
The group walked through the building and over to the elevator. They pushed the button for the floor that the dorms were on and when the metal door opened they stepped in. The elevator went up fast with the lights on the sides of the walls zipping by fast. The elevator stopped and the doors opened to a long corridor with doors on all sides.
They walked down the hall and Torn took out a key and a door slide open to reveal his room. It was quite a mess, clothes laying on the floor a few leftover empty bottles of hairspray left by Errol.
"Ya know… ya really should hire a maid for this place." Marcus commented looking around at the state of the room.
"Shut up." Torn said as he opened a draw and began shoving clothes into a travel bag which he grabbed from under the bed.
"Awww…"They heard Vee say from across the room and next to the bed. She held up a picture of all of them. Marcus with his arm around Aaron's neck, Torn with Vee on his back and Errol facing the camera but looking as though his eyes were drifting toward Vee's ass. "I didn't know ya cared." She said making her eyes look bigger and on the verge of tears.
"Shut up!" He said and snatched the picture back quickly putting it in his bag.
"Now ya have a problem with tellin' people to shut up." Vee said shaking her finger at him. "Tha jus' ain't healthy."
"Why are you two fightin' today?" Marcus asked throwing his arms up in the air. "Is it the tattoo's or is it just that you two are gonna miss each other so much when Torn leaves?"
Torn and Vee each took an arm and punched him hard, he was laughing but winced in pain. "Hehe… ow…" He rubbed both his arms but continued to grin.
"Still grinnin'?" Torn said. "Maybe I didn't hit you hard enough."
"No, no, no I'm fine." Marcus said putting his hands up in defense.
"If anythin', I'll be jumpin' with joy when this dolt leaves, one less of ya'll to baby-sit." Vee said.
"Wait, you baby-sit us?" Aaron said. "Was talkin' to Jen today and apparently you got seven splinters in your finger from doin' the same thing over and over again, never thinking 'hey, I get splinters from doin' this, maybe I should stop'."
"Yeah, okay, so I need a baby-sitter too… Hey I'm just as insane as you guys." Vee said.
The boy's shook their heads and Vee decided to ignore it as they continued to pack Torn's things together which was not a lot so they got done fast. "A'right." Torn said looking around the room. "I guess I'm leaving now."
"Wait!" Vee cried and everyone turned to her alarmed. "I mean, wait, you have to say goodbye to Jen she'll miss ya."
"But I don't know her to well." Torn argued.
"To bad yer sayin' goodbye." Vee said as they walked down the hall and Vee inserted her key int the door. "'Ey Jen! I'm comin in, hope yer decent."
When she opened the door they found Jen laying on the bed reading a magazine and she looked up at them with a blank expression. "What?" She said looking at them all. "Someone die?"
"Piss off." Vee said glaring slightly. "Torn has to say goodbye he's leavin', Krimzon Guard boy now."
"I can see that." Jen said looking at all the tattoo's on his face. "Ya look good."
"Thanks." Torn said a bit uncomfortably.
"Yeah…" Jen said nodding slowly completely out of things to say.
"Okay you people seriously need some conversation 101." Vee said looking at them both.
"Like you're any better?" Jen asked. "Every night you go back to talkin' about the same damn thing. 'Bout how everything in the world is a secret, nothing is what it seems anymore."
"'Cuz it's true!" Vee said. "The Baron's probably got a billion things hidden away not telling anyone about!" She said.
Marcus looked at her as though she were crazy and he really did speak his mind. "You're crazy." He said.
"Whatever, congrats Torn and get out of my room." Jen said reopening her magazine and leaning back on the pillows on the bed.
They left the room with Vee shaking her head and walked down the hall and to the elevator where they went back down to the first floor. The group walked down to the front doors and stopped right in front of it. "Well I'm gone then." Torn said."
"We'll miss ya man." Marcus said.
Vee went ahead and gave him a quick hug which was rare for her, she never hugged people. Showing affection wasn't her thing, it's more yelling at people. "I'll see ya in a month when I leave this dump, okay?" She said as she let go.
"Yeah," Torn said and he shook hands with the two boys. He sighed and flashed a smile at them before walking out the door leaving his friends behind at training and going off to be a real guard.
AN: That. Was. So. Cheesy. Oh my God… I totally f'ed that up sorry but I really dun feel like rewriting it so it's staying as is. Um…. Sorry this took so long but I'm lazy what can I say? Yeah thanks to my reviewers and the people who don't review thanks I'd say who ya are but like I said I'm lazy and dun feel like lookin right now. Hope no one was too OOC but there were only what two non OC characters in this? Eh, who cares? Well R and R people!