Author Note: The only hard part about writing this story is throwing different characters in that people will like and be able to distinguish by last name and because there are so many it'll take a little while for updates.
Ok this chapter and ones to follow are going to have profanity in it. Why? Because that is how it is in the army…. Unfortunately everyone who goes into basic training comes out with a sailor's mouth.
I mean come on you're not going to be all like "Oh friend be careful buddy you are about to step on a land mind." No no no. You'll be more like "Holy shit idiot you're about toFu*c#ing kill yourself." See what I mean?
Well I hope people like this next chapter and I'll answer some of your burning questions in this chapter as well. Oh and the language thing. Everyone in this story speaks the same language. If I was planning on selling this story off the shelf I would care enough to put a story behind how everybody speaks English but I'm not.
Inside Drill Sergeants Headquarters (HQ)
Inside the Drill Sergeant's head quarters, which was just a concrete square room with a computer desk and computer and two chairs, stood twelve drill Sergeants and a First Sergeant. The First Sergeant out ranked everyone in the room and was in charge. All twelve Drill Sergeants listened intently at what they were being told.
"Ok Drill Sergeants here comes our second cycle of "Recruits" let's try not to mortify them like we did with the last cycle." The First Sergeant addressed his Drill Sergeants.
At his request you could her hushed laughter from the standing Drill Sergeants. Despite what every recruit thinks about the Drill Sergeants when they first see them they are still human. It may not seem like it but they are.
"Yes First Sergeant." The Drill Sergeants said in unison.
"Look Drill Sergeants normally I don't care what you do as long as you don't kill anybody because I trust your judgment however, this cycle is a little different. Why? Well because these high end rich people from Japan decided to send their daughters to our outstanding school Fort Crusader. This is a problem because these young females don't want to be here and I don't think they will last one week. Do what you feel will help them get through but don't go too easy on them use your discretion." The First Sergeant knew that this was not good news to the Drill Sergeants and that they were probably really mad right now.
"First Sergeant who exactly are going to be the Platoon Drill Sergeants for these females?" One of the Drill Sergeants asked with a hope that it wasn't him.
"Ok well here it is. The Drill Sergeants who will be in charge of their platoon are." Every Drill Sergeant in the room tensed up hoping their names wouldn't be called. "Drill Sergeant Swang, Drill Sergeant Bright, and Drill Sergeant Civil." At that moment you could hear all the Drill Sergeants except for the unlucky three sigh in relief. "That's all I have for you today Drill Sergeants you are dismissed." The First Sergeant said as he left the room. While the lucky Drill Sergeants were saying "Hey good luck babysitting." To the very unlucky ones.
Back at Astrea Hill Amane thought about her friends as she watered the flowers in her green house. She thought about the Etoile election and how Hikari and her had won by default. She felt like Hikari and herself wouldn't have won if Shizuma hadn't burst in like she did. Come to think of it more than half the student council and a few under classmen wouldn't be going to military school if Shizuma hadn't barged in like that. It was probably the last straw for the sisters at the schools. Because Shizuma had caused so much trouble it was easy for them to explode and catch a lot of people in the cross fire.
"Amane." Amane turned to see Hikari looking at her.
"Hi Hikari. Did you talk to the sister?" Amane asked.
"Yes. She said she would have an address for us when she get's one. I've already started writing letters." Hikari told Amane. "You know it's not fair to Chikaru that she had to go."
"I don't think it's fair for Kaname or Momomi to be their either even Shion. I can see though why the sister might lash out on the others. I mean Shizuma came and took Nagisa as Tamao practically gave Nagisa to her and Miyuki got all upset when they were leaving the Cathedral and yea Shion was a little to pleased with everything but that is still no reason to send all those people to military school. But according to the sister 'All who are involved are all who knew about it.'" Amane mocked.
"You know Amane I think we didn't have to go because we were the new Etoiles. I mean think about it if we went then there would be no Etoile." Hikari made a point.
"That's probably true." Amane sighed as she washed her hands in the green house sinks. "Are you ready to go?"
"Yup." Hikari followed Amane out of the green house.
Shizuma couldn't help but squirm from discomfort as she was taking the longest bus ride she had ever taken. She had noticed some time ago that they weren't passing any more towns or people. They had drove for awhile and it had turned dark but it seemed like the rain from Tokyo followed them to who knows where.
"Is it strange that we don't know where we are?" Shizuma asked Nagisa who was sitting next to her staring out the window.
"How would I know? I'm just as lost as you." Nagisa stated blatantly.
Shizuma sighed and wondered if Nagisa and her would still be together after all this.
"I would offer you a cigarette if we were still aloud to smoke them." A pale boy told Shizuma as he saw her sigh.
"Thanks…. I guess." Shizuma responded unsure if she should be thankful to the gesture. "What's your name?"
"Baker." Baker said without looking at her but down to his magazine he had brought. "The answer to your question is no."
Shizuma looked confused.
"It's not strange that you don't know where you are." Baker said.
"Why?" Shizuma wanted to know.
"Because if you know where you are you know how to get back. They don't want people running away at night and trying to go back home. So if you don't know where you are and you try to run out in the woods you'll probably get lost and if you're lucky you might get found or you could die out there." Baker said nonchalantly.
The statement made Shizuma look at Nagisa and saw that the red head heard what baker had just said and was on the verge of tears.
"What's your last name?" Baker asked Shizuma.
"Hanazono." Shizuma answered.
"I'm surprised at how calm you are." Baker observed.
"I'm just stubborn. I refuse to let the sisters know I'm scared or worried." Shizuma replied.
Shizuma stood up to let Nagisa pass and use the restroom at the back of the bus. As Shizuma stood she scanned the bus to see Miyuki talking to the bus driver. There were a lot of people on the bus and it had reached its maximum capacity. All these new faces all arrived at the same airport as Shizuma and the rest. They looked like they were all brought from all over the world.
"So young lady you're going to have to watch everything you say when you're there no wait as a matter of fact it is best if you don't even speak at all." The bus driver was giving tips to Miyuki and how things run at Fort Crusader.
"So you're saying if we just keep our mouths closed and do what we are told everything will be ok?" Miyuki asked surprised. "That's what we do anyway. Well most of us." Miyuki turned to look at Shizuma. "Not that one." Miyuki pointed out her best friend.
"Well you make sure you keep her in check because one person can make everyone's life a living hell while you are there."
Shion, Kaname, and Momomi talked amongst themselves with the occasional butting in from Rodriguez. Chikaru had made friends with the Salazar and Rios. Chikaru was grateful seeing as how the two girls knew a lot about the military and were going to be a great help. Tamao sat staring out the window trying to figure out how to feel about the whole situation. Just as she was deep in thought a girl tapped her shoulder. Tamao turned around to see a girl younger than her.
"What's your name?" The girl asked. She looked maybe a year younger than Tamao and had her baby face still with a spontaneous expression.
Tamao thought for a minute and responded. "Suzumi."
The young girl smiled. "Not your last name. We aren't even at school yet. What's your first name?"
"Oh uh Tamao. I just figured that we all were going to end up having to call each other by our last names so why not start now."
The young girl laughed. "My name is Michelle and Tamao I have to inform you that you and I might not ever see each other again."
"What do you mean?" Tamao wondered. Weren't they going to the same school?
"The Fort is huge and we aren't the only ones going there. There are thousands of recruits there already and we get separated when we get there. It's possible to get lucky though and stay with your friends but not for you and I because we got off on separate air planes." The small girl and Tamao talked for awhile before drifting off to sleep on the bus ride.
The bus driver entered Fort Crusader through the main gate. All the bus occupants were still asleep and he wondered if he should wake them up. He had talked to the young lady up front for some time and had grown fond of her.
"Hey miss wake up."
Miyuki opened her eyes and had to look around to remember were she was. She saw the bus driver looking at her. "What?" Miyuki groggily said.
"A Drill Sergeant is about to come on this bus so be ready. This Drill Sergeant greets all the recruits and she gets really into it." The driver informed.
Miyuki turned around and called Shizuma's name to wake her up so she can wake up the others except it was a little to late.
Shizuma opened her eyes just soon enough to see a black female Drill Sergeant standing at the front of the bus.
"Everybody wake your asses up!" The Drill Sergeant yelled loud enough to make half the people on the bus jump. She didn't look happy at all actually she looked like she wanted to murder someone. She wore an all black uniform with the only sight of another color was her white name tag that Shizuma couldn't read at the moment. To top off the uniform the Drill Sergeant had a black round billed hat on her head with an emblem on the front part of the hat. The Drill Sergeant began to talk so fast that everyone squinted their eyes to try and catch every word.
"I'm only going to say this once and only once so listen up! I am Drill Sergeant Shiggs and I will be assisting you get all your issued items in your possession. You will only see me for one day and I thankfully wont have to look at your ugly faces again. When addressing a Drill Sergeant the first and last thing out of your mouths will be Drill Sergeant do you understand?!?"
"Drill Sergeant yes Drill Sergeant!" half the people on the bus yelled as some didn't hear a word the Drill Sergeant was saying and others were just in total shock. Nagisa looked like a frightened bunny and Kaname had to use everything she had in her not to laugh at the frightened girl. Momomi looked pissed off and Shion had a look of dread on her face. Tamao looked calm as did Shizuma and Miyuki. Chikaru had sank in her seat so the Drill Sergeant wouldn't see her smiling. Chikaru didn't know why but she found the whole situation funny.
"You recruits suck! Let's try that again. Do you understand?" The Drill Sergeant repeated.
"Drill Sergeant yes Drill Sergeant!" More people yelled but not everybody.
"That's better recruits but ya'll still suck! Now as ya'll can see it is raining outside. I don't like getting wet recruits so this is what's going to happen when you exit this bus you are going to immediately grab your personal bags out from under the bus and then you are going to step on the yellow shoe prints that are immediately right outside the bus and stand there till I'm done counting all you recruits. Then we are going to go right into the processing building. Do you understand!?"
"Drill Sergeant yes Drill Sergeant!" Everyone yelled this time except for Nagisa who was still in shock.
"Then what the hell are you still doing here ya'll got five seconds to get off my Fu*kin* bus!!!" The Drill sergeant yelled as she turned to walk out into the rain.
As soon as she finished her sentence though everyone all at the same time stood up to run off of the bus. In a rather quick fashion recruits started flowing out of the bus and grabbing their bags and immediately going to the yellow line as told.
"Hurry the hell up recruits you all move like pond water!" the Drill Sergeant yelled. The Drill Sergeant looked over to the bus to see a red haired girl slip on the steps and tumble to the concrete. "What the hell are you doing recruit!?!" The drill sergeant yelled towards Nagisa as she lay on the floor. "Somebody pick that pile off my road."
Lucky for Nagisa, Salazar was right behind her and lifted her to her feet and guided her to her luggage. Shizuma saw the scene and wanted to leave her yellow foot prints to help her so…..She did. Well at least she attempted to before the Drill Sergeant spotted her.
"Just what the hell are you doing recruit?" The Drill Sergeant asked a question she already knew the answer to. "What are you her girlfriend or something? Get your ass back on those yellow foot prints."
"Shizuma do what you're told." Shion hissed as she stood next to Shizuma on her own mark.
Reluctantly Shizuma went back to where she was supposed to be with an angry look on her face.
"Oh we have a hard ass recruit here do we?" The Drill Sergeant noted Shizuma's expression. At this point the rain had gotten heavier and everybody was soaked and standing in a perfect square formation thanks to the assistance from the yellow foot prints. The Drill Sergeant walked over to Shizuma with speed and stopped right in front of her face. "What's your name recruit?"
"Drill Sergeant my name is Shizuma Hanazono Drill Sergeant." Shizuma said over the noise of the heavy rain fall.
"Well Hanazono as you can see I am soaking wet and you know whos fault it is?" The Drill Sergeant asked.
"Drill Sergeant no Drill Sergeant." Shizuma responded.
"It's yours recruit! Because your buddy over here fell off the bus and caused the line to back up and you pissed me off on top of that. Since we can't get any wetter lets hang out here in the rain for a little bit. Everybody get in the push up position and start doing push ups right now!" The Drill Sergeant yelled and watched all the fresh new recruits do terribly formed pushups.
Kaname looked over to Chikaru and saw that Chikaru could do perfect pushups just like she could. How is that possible? Kaname couldn't recall any time she saw Chikaru working out. The thing that unnerved Kaname was how Chikaru was softly laughing as she did pushups on the hard concrete floor in the rain at night. Kaname wanted to punch somebody right now and couldn't possibly imagine what was so funny.
"Kaname look." Momomi looked in the direction of Nagisa so Kaname can follow her gaze. Nagisa was just laying on her stomach crying. This brought a slight smile to her face.
"Nagisa." Tamao called softly to her friend next to her. "Don't cry and try to hold yourself up. You don't have to go up and down just hold yourself there." Tamao tried to help her friend.
"Nagisa it's not hard to just hold yourself up." Miyuki tried to help as well even though Miyuki's arms were beginning to shake. Miyuki looked over to Salazar, Rios, Baker, and Rodriguez and saw them doing fast repetitions of pushups. Show offs. They all must have been outside in the rain for thirty minutes doing pushups before the Drill Sergeant lead the recruits inside.
"You all are lucky I have a time schedule to meet otherwise I'd have you out there all night." The Drill Sergeant said as the recruits filed into the reception hall of Fort Crusader. "This is what's going to happen you are going to walk down this hall to all the stations that are here for example you will get issued your new uniforms at one station, text books at another, Military gear at another and so on. When you are done you will be able to go to sleep. It is one in the morning right now. Let's see how fast you can get this over with."
Everyone who unloaded off the bus went through the line. They were issued a lot of things but they had their personal things taken away such as phones and electronics. The only thing they really kept was their hygiene products, undergarments, and address book for writing letters. By the time they got done they had a huge duffle bag on top of the bag they already had to carry. It had taken about an hour and a half so it was two thirty in the morning. Drill Sergeant Shiggs lead them to the Barracks and the males and females went to separate ones. Miyuki lead the female line into their barracks. The only thing you could see was two red lights waving around in the dark building and one emergency light above the entrance. When Miyuki first entered the strong scent of bleach filled her nose. Miyuki stopped under the emergency light not knowing where to go and the Drill Sergeant hadn't entered the barracks yet. One of the red lights started getting closer to Miyuki and she realized they were red flashlights. Then one very cute girl stepped next to her.
"Hi. You can follow me." The girl lead Miyuki as the other girls followed her through the dark building were another girl was sitting at a small wooden desk with a red flash light and a list of names and a pen. Miyuki's eyes had adjusted to the dark and saw that the girl at the desk looked really tough. She looked more fit than Amane. Miyuki also saw that the girl she first saw was cuter than she thought, she had brown hair and brown eyes and a beautiful smile. Why she was smiling Miyuki had no idea. Both girls had their hair up in a bun and were wearing the same shorts and shirt along with sneakers.
"This is Stenger and she needs to take all your names down before I can show you were you'll be sleeping." The cute girl informed. After all the new girls' names were taken the cute girl lead the others to a section in the barracks that they would be sleeping in. The barracks was a huge square room and it had cheaply made bunk beds in neat rows through out the length of the giant room. Right now most of those bunk beds were filled with sleeping girls.
"Don't worry you'll only be here for one night and then you'll go to your school." The cute girl told Miyuki seeing her face. "I was supposed to be gone this morning but they messed up my paper work and I had to stay another night. From what I hear we actually get rooms when we go to our schools and this whole thing is just a welcome to military school prank the Drill Sergeants pull on all the new recruits."
"Um what's your name?" Miyuki asked.
"Oh I'm sorry I didn't introduce myself. My name is Mitchell and you?"
"Rokujo." Miyuki replied and smiled as the other girl smiled at her.
"Well here you all are. Make sure to get some rest for tomorrow. It's not a hard day. The hardest thing is that you'll have to do is try to stay awake. Well goodnight." Mitchell said as she turned and left Miyuki and the others to pick what bunk they wanted. Grateful that they had a chance to change Shizuma landed on the nearest bunk bead to her.
"I really hope that this in not what this school is about everyday." Shion mumbled as she went to a random bunk and laid down.
"I thought it was funny." Chikarus smiled as she closed her eyes on her bunk.
"That's because you're a weirdo." Momomi said. "You were a weirdo at Astraea Hill and you're a weirdo now."
"Yea maybe you're right." Chikaru said.
"I thought it was easy." Rios said.
"Oh you know what Rios just shut up ok." Shizuma said pissed off. All she did was cause Rios and Salazar to laugh at her struggle. Shizuma looked over to see Tamao talking to Nagisa quietly and tucking Nagisa into her bunk. It made Shizuma angry but there is nothing she could do. She figured Tamao would use this time to get another chance with Nagisa. But even though Shizuma messed up she didn't think Nagisa would leave her. Would she?
Kaname looked over at Miyuki. "How are you handling all this? Not that I care I'm just curious."
"You see the girl that brought us here?" Miyuki asked.
"Mitchell?" Kaname asked.
"Yea. She is cute." Miyuki smiled.
"Wh-What? You are focused on a girl of all things right now?" Kaname smiled. "You know what if I didn't already dislike you I would say that you and I could have been friends."
"Oh geez thanks Kaname you don't know how much that means to me." Miyuki said sarcastically.
"Yea well I do what I can sometimes. Goodnight." Kaname was the last one to fall asleep without being able to be in the same bunk as Momomi. They were just to small.
I don't know if a lot of people will like this story but it is something I'm writing regardless because it's for my army buddies and I like writing this because it makes me remember things about basic training that I have forgotten.
So yea this story is loosely based on real events and sometimes it'll be dead on true stories. So if you would please write me some reviews I'd appreciate it.