Torn walked through the slums of Haven City on patrol. This was all he was doing for a little over a month and he was tired of it. He joined the guard for action not to break up pointless arguments between drunken elves. He sighed and glanced down at his watch which was built in with his red KG armor, five more minutes and his shift would be over. He didn't want to patrol anymore, what could possibly happen in five minutes? Walking over to his KG zoomer he completely ignored a small fight between two men. Mar knows what they were fighting about but someone else would have to handle it Torn was not in the mood.

He started up the zoomer and quickly jumped on and flew away; he noticed a few other guards running to break up the fight and sighed a sigh of relief now knowing for sure he wouldn't have to step in. He flew toward his small apartment on the edge of the city, it wasn't much but it was a building completely inhabited by Krimzon Guards. He parked the zoomer in front of his building and stepped off. Torn walked up to the steps and used his card key to get in, a few KG's were down in the small lobby and looked up when he entered but then ignored his seeing that he wasn't an intruder. Heading over to the elevator he nodded to a few men in the room and the one woman who was currently in an arm wrestling competition with one of the men and she was winning.

He stepped in the elevator as a few people walked out and pushed the button for the top level. When the heavy metal doors finally opened up he stepped out into the hallway and walked over to his door using yet another card key to open that one. He walked in and immediately began taking his armor off, sometimes it just got annoying. He glanced down at his watch, still early in the evening. Still enough time to go out.

"Perfect." He said and quickly took a shower and changed his clothes into something a little more casual but still kept his gun and holster attached to his thigh.

He fixed his shirt a bit and walked out of the apartment. Instead of taking the elevator back down he headed to the small stairwell, he hopped on the banister and slid in circles all the way down. When he got to the bottom he jumped off, fixed his shirt once again and walked on. He put on his, or what he thought, was charming smile and walked out of the building.

He got on his motorcycle style KG zoomer and flew away to the nearest bar. It wasn't very far away, a minute or so later he switched his zoomer into the lower hover zone and parked it. He smirked and jumped off the zoomer; he walked into the bar and looked around. He spotted his old friends from training; Marcus, Vee and Aaron were sitting at a booth. He hadn't seen them in over a month now.

Smirking he walked over to them and placed his hands over Vee's eyes. "Guess who?" he said.

"Only one I know person gargles nails t' sound like that." She said smiling and turning around. "How ya been? 'S been ferever."

"Yeah, it has." He said and jumped over the back of the booth and squeezed between Aaron and Vee. "I've been fine, bein' a rookie in the guard royally sucks though. All I'm doin' is dealin' with the citizens little problems."

"Well ya have to start somewhere, right?" Marcus asked. "At least you're outta training, hasn't been exactly peaches and cream for us ya know."

"Yeah, yeah…" Torn said as a waitress walked over with a small notepad.

"What can I get 'cha?" She asked putting her elbow on her hip and getting her pen ready.

"Strong liquor and four shot glasses please." Aaron said smirking. "Let's have a bit of fun."

Torn smirked and when the glasses and liquor came he raised his glasses and poured everyone's drink. "Let's play a game, go around the table the one who can't name off a name that starts with 'B' takes a drink."

They all raised there glasses. "I'll start." Aaron said. "Bob."

"Barry." Marcus said.

"Bailey." Torn said.

"Brittney." Said Vee.

"Brandon."

"B-oooo-rrt." Marcus said slowly, everyone looked at him funny but accepted it as a valid name.

"Barron." Torn said dully, everyone laughed even though it was more of a title then a name but then ignored it.

"Beeeerrrrclyy…" Vee said slowly trying out different letters to try and form a name.

"That does not work, take a drink." Aaron said Vee smirked and took a shot.

"Ya'll be careful, I can handle my alcohol." She said refilling her glass for the next shot.

"Barney."

"B……" Marcus gave up right there and just took a drink earning a laugh.

"You could have at least tried like Vee. What you're sayin' may not from any kinda word but at least ya try." Aaron said and Vee hit him lightly.

"Bart."

"Barbra."

"Belle."

"Baaar…" Marcus grunted and took another reluctant drink.

"Wow, man, you really suck at this." Aaron said.

They continued with the game and soon almost every one of them was taking a drink when it was their turn maybe they would get lucky and say an actual name and sometimes when they did they had already said it.

"Blade…" Vee slurred.

"Bob…" Torn said slowly.

"Haven't we said that…?" Marcus asked.

"Who the hell knows anymore?" Aaron said taking another shot just for the hell of it.

"Okay, I think I'm done." Vee said emptying her last drink.

"Thought ya could handle your liquor." Aaron said raising an eyebrow at her.

"I can, but I still have to remain somewhat conscious of this night." She said. "Unlike you girls have to worry about getting knocked up."

The boys laughed and nodded. "Damn straight." Marcus said. They hung out in the bar for another hour until it was two in the morning.

"Damn. I have to get up for work tomorrow, er, today rather." Torn said slamming his head down on the table. "I really should get back to my place."

"Actually we all should." Aaron said.

"Oh come on s'not that late." Vee said taking another swig straight from the bottle.

"You are totally wasted, wasn't it you that said you had to remain conscious of what was happening?" Aaron asked as she fell on his lap.

"Maybe." She said laughing.

"Can you guys take her back to her dorm? Jen can put her to bed." Torn said.

"Well… no." Marcus said slowly and Torn looked up at him. "Jen disappeared, the Barron had us all go to the wasteland again, Jen went with us, there was a sandstorm and we lost her. A search party went out later that day but she was never found… She's presumed dead. But Vee seems to think she's still alive, it's best not to mention it around her at all."

Torn's mouth was slightly open as he looked down to the now sleeping Vee on Aaron's shoulder; he knew how close Vee and Jen were. They were best friends… he took in a deep breath and sighed. "Well what do we do? We can't just let her go by herself she'll walk into a wall and doe or somthin'." He said.

"We'd take her up to her room but we can't go up their anymore, we're not trusted ever since that new girl came in. Big slut she is, no boys are allowed up there." Aaron said.

"Fine then, I'm a guard now, I'll take her." Torn said and woke her up, she mumbled a bit and he put her one arm around his shoulder.

"You sure you can drive right now?" Marcus slurred slightly. "Your not exactly what I'd call sober."

"I'm fine, would you rather have her drive?" He asked pointing to Vee who was completely zoning out on something, Mar knows what.

"Alright, let's go we'll fallow." Aaron said and he got in the three person zoomer that took them to the bar and Torn got on his KG zoomer and Vee who was not awake got on the back with as much grace as a fish on land.

Luckily not many people were flying this early in the morningbecasue theirzoomers were all over the road. In about five minutes they reached the KG training building, they parked their zoomers outside and stumbled in the big front doors. Torn said his goodbyes to the boys as they went up to their dorm and Torn took Vee up to her dorm that she shared with the new girl. He knocked on the door a few times but heard nothing. He sighed and walked in prepared to see her new roommate asleep but she wasn't even in yet.

"Whatever." He said and he set her down on the bed.

"Torn what'cha doin' in my room." Vee mumbled. "Yer a boy."

"I'm puttin' ya to bed you got to drunk to do it yerself." Torn said folding his arms across his chest and raising an eyebrow.

"Well ya look kinda drunk to me." She said sitting up with her eyes half closed.

"But not as drunk as you." He said in a matter-of-fact voice.

"Got me there…" She yawned. "I dun even know why I'm 'ere!" She blurted out and Torn prepared himself for drunken rambling. "My best friend died, the only reason I'm doin' this is cuz we need the money! I should just quite and gone into racing an' save everyone a lot of trouble. I'm not even sure I wanna be a guard anymore." She slurred.

"I don't know what to tell ya." Torn said bored, he really didn't want to listen to this. "Just go to bed, you're getting your tat's in a few day's right?"

"Darn tootin'." She said and laid down on the bed and closed her eyes.

"Maybe I'll drop by." He said and began to leave the room but walked into the frame of the door on his way out; he shook his head and continued to leave hearing a slight chuckle coming from the direction of the bed.

Getting back to his apartment proved to be more of a challenge then he would have thought. He almost totaled his zoomer twice driving and couldn't find the hole where he slid his key card in from both doors into the building and into his apartment. He eventually gave up and didn't even take his shoes off before falling on the bed asleep.

AN: Hiya, I'm not to sure if this was any good or not… I hope ya like it I'm not to happy with it but this was the best I could do. No flames please, be kind. I have incredibly fragile ego… And I know there is one person out there who will see that as an opportunity and give me the worst flame ever… But I'll just laugh at that. And now for the lovely review that I did get from Shadow Systems, uh thanks! Now please review!