Ok so here is chapter 8. Thanks for the reviews, Dessimated Dreamer. I hope you like this chapter. Basic Training will go on for a couple of chapters, not sure how many yet though. Hope you enjoy!

Trixie's alarm clock went off at 4am, not by accident, but because she needed to be at the Training compound at 5am. By her door a large kit-bag packed full of things was there. Trixie figured it had been put there whilst she was sleeping. Trixie lifted out a light blue CHERUB t-shirt with the number 6 on it. She lifted out some combat trousers, clearly not new ones but at least they were clean, similar to the ones she usually wore. The combat boots Trixie found in the bag, although they were the right size were covered in mud and in a bad condition.

Trixie got in the shower and then put the t-shirt and combat trousers on, she then dried and French plaited her hair, so she looked neat with two French plaits dangling on her shoulders. Then Trixie heard a knock at her door.

"come in, its open" Trixie called.

"Hello Trixie" Murmured Mac's soft accent.

"Oh Hi Mac!" Trixie said.

"I just wanted to make sure you feel ok to go ahead with Basic Training, what with all the trauma you have gone through recently, I don't mind if you decide to wait and go on the next course." Mac said.

"I feel fine; I'm really looking forward to proving myself. I'll be fine, honest." Trixie replied.

"Well if your sure. Anyway, good luck, I know you can do it." Mac said as he left Trixie's room. At 4:20am there was another knock.

"Come in its open" Trixie called, once again.

"Hey Trix!" Sophie beamed. "You ready for this. Its gonnna be a tough 100 days!"

"Yeah I can't wait just to get it over and done with. Aren't the boots disgraceful!" Trixie said.

"Yeah, lets fix them up." Sophie said.

"Why can't we just wear our normal ones?" Trixie said.

"Because the ones they gave us have our numbers on the sole, and are specially designed to take quit a beating!" Sophie replied.

So the two girls cleaned and polished their boots, they then replaced the old worn laces with new ones. They put their boots on.

"Have you had breakfast yet Sophie?" Trixie asked.

"No the dining room isn't open yet." Sophie replied.

"Oh I thought it wouldn't be so I went down to the shop last night and got some porridge, I know its not ideal, but it is warm and filling." Trixie told Sophie.

So the two girls ate their porridge whilst chatting and having a laugh. When they were finished it was 4:45 and so they headed for the Training Compound.

Trixie and Sophie found themselves running the assault course, it was tiring but there was no way of getting out of it. Sophie, sporting her newly soaking number 5 t-shirt was just a few steps ahead of Trixie.

"God, this is so tiring" Trixie said, gasping for air.

"I know, Large really seems to be enjoying torturing us!" Sophie replied.

"HURRY UP YOU LAZY IDIOTS!" Large shouted, from the comfort of his own hut.

The trainees then went on to start martial arts. The other trainees were a girl called Miranda who was 10, she was paired with Tommy who was also 10. Katie, another trainee was also 10 and she was paired with Harry also 10. It was a small group, all young trainees.

The trainees were shown some Karate moves and then had to perfect them on their partner. After martial arts, the trainees had their first language lesson. Each trainee had to start a new language, from scratch that didn't use to Latin alphabet. Being such a small group with the same ethnicity, so all of the trainees were going to study Russian, but in two groups, group 1 consisted of Sophie, Trixie and Harry and group 2 consisted of Katie, Miranda and Tommy. Not only were these groups just their language groups but they were also 'teams.' Often Large would make both teams compete for lunch.

"God I'm really getting sick of Large!" cried Miranda.

"Well at least you didn't have to stand outside dripping wet on one foot for 3 hours last night like me and Harry" said Tommy.

"Did he tell you why you had to do that?" Katie asked.

"No, he just blabbered on about trying harder to help the economy, he wasn't even making sense." Harry replied, "He was rat-arsed."

The trainees were sitting at a table waiting for dinner, they didn't expect much

Large entered the room with a large grin on his face.

"Hello my little chummies and chummettes. Here is your err lovely dinner!" Large grinned. He put a dish in front of each of the trainees. They all lifted the lid off of there plates and saw a large raw chicken breast and a handful of frozen chips.

"Huh?" Harry exclaimed.

"Tonight you have to cook your own food. You may go outside. You have 1 hour to complete this task, you may do it together or on your own. If you don't complete the task then breakfast is 11hours away. You may begin now." Large exclaimed.

"sheesh! Shall we do it together then?" Katie asked the group.

"Yeah!" The group exclaimed. (cheesy I know! Just think of it as team spirit!)

The group headed outside.

"Let's check the bins to see if there is anything we can use." Sophie said. Trixie rummaged through one of the bins and found a small metal rack, like a cooling rack.

"I know we can use this for….." Trixie stopped as she began to violently throw up.

"Oh my god, someone go find Large!" Miranda screamed.

Trixie collapsed to the floor and started fitting. Moments later Large ran out to see Trixie throwing up whilst fitting at the same time……

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