Chapter 6
Stephan gently tapped his fist against the chairwoman's door; they heard a voice from inside. "Come in," Stephan pulled the handle and as well as Zara in her office there was a tall bald man.
"Hey John," said Jess politely, "sorry Zara, we can wait outside if you want."
"Oh no, it's ok, John was just showing me a mission briefing for a couple of agents." Zara smiled, "oh John, I don't think you've met a new agents, have you? This," She gestured towards Stephan, "is Stephan Roberts, and this is Junan Jacobs, but don't get too used to the last names, because that's why they're here, as you know, every CHERUB does it."
Junan and Stephan both looked extremely confused. They looked at each other, to see if the other knew the answer, but neither of them did. "Every CHERUB has to change their last names, because you're name at the moment is on record within the government, and this can be dangerous on missions since a lot of your targets will have access to this information, and find out a lot about you, and this can cause a lot of problems, such as: CHERUB being discovered, you being injured, or even, you being killed." John explained. Junan and Stephan now realised it all. "Anyway, see you guys." John waved. Everyone waved back at him.
"Right you three take a seat," Zara said, and everyone did so, they sat in front of Zara's desk, the chairwoman continued with the protocol, "right, before we do anything, you two have to sign here," Junan and Stephan follow this instruction and both signed identical pieces of paper. "Right, now you two, you have sworn to secrecy about CHERUB, you guys may need these," Zara handed them both orange t-shirts, and they slid them on over the top of the t-shirts they were wearing at the moment. "I hope you two understand, but while wearing this, I'll have to ask you not to talk to any other CHERUBs, you're only aloud to talk to me or Jess." Both of the recruits nodded wilfully. "Before we can welcome as a full time CHERUB agent, there's 5 tests you must complete."
"What are these tests? They're sort of an initiation, aren't they? Like a test of skill?" Questioned Junan.
"Yeah, pretty much, if you pass them, we can formally invite you to CHERUB." Zara answered. "These 5 tests include: A fight with a CHERUB agent, a maths test, this one, isn't particularly my favourite but it must be done, you have to kill a chicken, then you must do a height test, to check you're not afraid of heights." Junan had a rush of nausea as he heard this, that's the one thing he didn't tell anyone, he had a massive fear of heights. "And the last one is just a simple swimming test."
"Shouldn't be too bad," Stephan said thinking back on what Zara just told them.
"Yeah, not a problem," Junan said uneasily. He really wasn't looking forward to the height test.