The Days with Torahne
(This chapter will be long simply because I have a lot to take care of with this little bit of detail on the relationship between Torahne and Victor. It does get better though since Victor will eventually meet up with Darkness for the first time too. I will split this into about five to six chapters since there is a lot about them I want to cover.)
As Victor had spent the past few weeks with his adoptive parents before getting sent to the Training Academy he was learning everything he could about the Secret Spy Family and all of the fancy gadgets they had, he also learned to have a great sense of respect for them as well. He always did his chores, acted on his best behaviour, and every neighbour next door and across the streets were adoring at how cute the little boy was. He was a fine young lad at that. Although he was shy, it just added to how much the adults had adored him in his fine youth and timidness. Even on the day he was getting send to the Training Academy, he never questioned his 'parents', but they did tell him that it was for his own good. As they dropped him off, his adoptive mother, who was rather thin and red headed while covered in a black suit hugged the little guy as did his adoptive father, who had an Elvis look to him while wearing a black suit and he even started to break out into tears as they both went back into the spy car (which looks like a BMW I might add, but with more gadgets and spy equipment). A small little boy in a white t-shirt and blue shorts watched from a wide street as his parents teleported from the roads of Fidelio back into the starry sky. He then put his hands in his pockets and walked off beyond the large brick fencing wall that covered a vast expanse of the boot camp and as the door closed shut behind him, so too did any hope of leaving. All around the little boy were various guys in orange tracksuit uniforms. Each and everyone one of them clenched their fists, cracked their knuckles, or crushed rocks and pointed to the kid. The little boy ran as fast he could inside and their awaiting him was a tall man looking about the age of sixty in a black suit resembling that of Frollo's suit from Disney's the Hunchback of Notre Dame. The little boy crashed into his legs and fell to the ground. As he scratched his head, the tall stern man picked the boy up and said, "I hope you didn't hurt yourself now lad. That was quite a fall for someone your age." The little boy nodded and then whispered into the man's ear, 'Who are you?' "Me? My name is Colonel R. Palcelforte. I am the head minister of the Training Academy of Fidelio. I had the privilege of meeting your parents. They told me great things about you and how they wanted you to be taken good care of. Now tell me then, what is your name lad?" , the Mr. Palcelforte inquired as he picked the little guy up and carried him off down a large set of grey coloured corridors and hallways. The little boy then said, "Victor." "Victor. Such a rare name indeed. I haven't heard that name being said in decades. Nevertheless, I am quite pleased to have you here Victor. I'll be putting you in a dorm room with another boy about your age as well. His name is Torahne and from what I've seen is very friendly.", he replied. As he opened the door and then asked Victor which bunk he wanted, Victor pointed to the bottom and thus Mr. Palcelforte put him down there. He then told Victor if he needed anything all he had to was ask. Victor noticed a clump inside a sleeping bag above him and then climbed up top to see what it was since he curiosity always got the better of him. He opened the bed covering up to find a boy like him trying to sleep except he was taller and his hair was more darker brunette than his.
Victor then whispered, "Hi, what's your name?" "The name's shut up and let me sleep.", the exhausted guy replied. "That's a weird name. Usually I've heard names like Todd or Anthony being said, but yours is a first. My name is Victor.", the little boy said. "It's kind of hard to sleep with you hovering over me like that.", the exhausted guy replied again. "Sorry, I didn't mean to make you mad.", Victor replied. Victor then climbed down his bunk and into his sleeping bag. As he did, he couldn't help, but cry a little. He was all alone, with only mere memories of him and his brothers and his parents together to keep him company on that cold night. The boy above him took the pillow he was sleeping on and put it over his head to block out the sounds, but to no avail. Then he tried sleeping on his stomach, then his back and then underneath his sleeping bag and still nothing worked. He then climbed down his bunk and sat down next to the little guy crying his heart out. "I take it you just got here, huh?", the tall guy asked. Victor replied with a brief, "Yeah." "Listen I didn't mean to be rude back there on my bunk. I was just tired that's all." Victor then stuffed his face into his pillow and said, "No, it's not your fault. My parents sent me here. They said that many people thought there was something wrong with me. I daydreamed a lot, didn't talk a lot and somehow people thought there was something wrong with me. I just don't know (sob)." The tall boy then patted Victor's back and said, "Your parents only care though you know. I mean my parents did the same thing with me a couple years back and I was a total wreck at first. But then I realized, it doesn't matter what others think of you. You are who you are and the only thing that can change that is you, not them.", The tall boy replied. Victor then got his head out of his pillow and then placed it on his right side.
"My name's Torahne in case you were interested. If you want we could get together at lunch or whatever. The cafeteria's got some really good meatloaf. Plus the lunch ladies are really nice to me so I may be able to get us a good spot too." Victor smiled and then said, "I'd like that Torahne. You're alright in my books." Torahne then patted Victor's back again and said, "Take care buddy. Till we meet again." Victor nodded and as he dozed off to sleep, he then replied, "Till we meet again." Then from that night on, Victor and Torahne were good buddies. On their first day as good friends, Victor and the other boys were supposed to balance five bricks on their heads, but he could only do it for a few seconds before tripping and scraping his leg. Torahne then knelt down, grabbed his emergency kit and said while he was crying for a little bit, "Lighten up okay man. It's just a tiny cut. I've had worse when I was jogging in the morning and they don't even do that excercise anymore here." Victor then got a hold of himself and then said, "Thanks Torahne. That's real nice of you." Torahne slightly blushed a little noticing Victor's kind face staring right at him saying, "Oh it was nothing. In fact, that guy that just dropped you off in the bunkerroom with me, trained me when I first got here."
Even at lunch in the cafeteria, the lunchladies were so surprised to see Torahne and Victor's nice happy faces, that they even gave them cuts in line to get the best meatloaf from the oven. Victor looked at the scrumptious entrees before him and said smacking his lips, "Wow, do you get this all the time?" Torahne nodded and said, "I even get to have icecream while I'm at it. I'll even let you have first pick. They got Frosty the SnowMunchie, Spiderman, Batman Carmel..." Victor collapsed at the thought of all of that icecream. Torahne chuckled at this little moment and then Victor eventually got up and had lunch with him. A couple of days later, they even practiced training together on each other. Torahne tried as best as he could that day to beat Victor and even when he lost, he just stood up and said, "Oh well maybe next time eh, buddy?" Victor then said, "You're no slop that's for sure Torahne. You'll beat me some day. I know it." And with that, Victor gave the guy a pat on the back so as to cheer him up in case he felt down in the dumps. Another day later, the two boys decided to go fishing together. As Victor sat in the boat and got his first bite, he yelled, "Hey I got one!! I got one!!" Torahne then grabbed Victor by the legs as he was about to fall out of the boat and they tall brunette yelled,"Reel man!! Reel like you never reeled before!!" Victor did just that and caught the biggest fish in the history of fishing at the Training Academy, since they owned their own private lake and fished from it for decades. Other than the kids coming and slicing some pieces of the fish for themselves, Victor and Torahne got to eat the last piece together as they split it in half with a large cutting knife. It came up with a really large and really small piece and Victor said, "You can have Torahne. If it weren't for you grabbing my legs, I wouldn't have caught the fish." Torahne then said, "You have it man. You were the one who caught it." Victor then ate the smaller piece and said smiling, "Now it's official. You gotta have that last piece. It's only fair." Torahne then rubbed his left hand through Victor's hair teasing him, "How'd I end up with a sap like you?" Victor then yelled as Torahne gripped Victor in his left arm and gave him a noogie, "Hey, that smarts you know!!" Torahne laughed and said, "Victor, you're quite a guy you know that?" The boys laughed together as they headed back to their bunks and slept through the night. Things were quite good for them indeed. They did their homework together when there were things they couldn't do by themselves, ate their meals together, played together, etc. What's more Victor and Torahne even had dreams about each other and what they did during the day. Victor then began to notice a side of Torahne he had never seen before though.
One day, Victor then saw Torahne beating up a guy with freckles and he also saw a group of guys in baggy hip-hop clothes watching this go down. The guy with the freckles ran away as did his entire group after him. Victor then asked as he ran to Torahne, "Why'd you go beat that guy up?" Torahne then said panting, "Because...he took some kid's lunch away from him. He had it coming." Victor then said with a bit of a frown on his face, "That's still pretty mean though don't you think?" Torahne chuckled a little as he replied looking Victor in the eye, "People like always got away with things like that when I was smaller Victor. They always beat me up, called me names and were jealous because I could solve a rubics cube and they couldn't even budge it. It was tough for me then. I couldn't tell anyone about my life and had to hide my angered emotions. It wasn't till I was a lot bigger that I could face my bullies and scare them off. I then took it upon myself to do the same for others you know." Victor's frown then turned into a mood of sympathy as he saw for the first time, his own best friend cry. "That's not like you Torahne. I've always seen you so optimistic about stuff, just as much as I am." Torahne then chuckled trying to get past his tears and wipe his face with his left arm and said, "Sometimes you don't really know someone until you spend time with them you know." Victor then gave Torahne a pat on the back and hugged him for a brief, but warm moment. Torahne then lightly punched the kid's right shoulder and said smiling, "Thanks Victor. You always did make me smile. Even when I'm down like I am now you're still here by my side." Victor then said, "Listen, I know it doesn't mean a whole lot, but it doesn't matter what they think. I was picked on by those guys before too, but I knew I was friends with you and that always cheered me up. If fighting off bullies is what you really want to do, then I want to do it too. Two heads are better than one right?" Torahne nodded and then as he hugged Victor again, he cried again while whispering in Victor's ear, "...Right!!" Victor patted the guy on the back and they went inside to get some cookies from the cafeteria.
Two months soon went by as the two boys became better friends with each other. Torahne told Victor about his family and the fact he was sent here because he played a violin at a wedding and got his dad fired from being a musician. Victor then told Torahne about his parents and why he was sent here as well as his brothers. Torahne then said as they ate icecream from the icecream truck that passed by on that day (essentially after their conversation from the first chapter) "That's too bad about your family. I'd probably be a nervous wreck if I had been separated for that long. Especially since both of your parents are well...gone." Victor raised his right hand and said, "It's okay. I know that I'll still be able to see my brothers again when this is all over though. So that's a good sign." Torahne then said, "Yeah it does sound great." Victor then saw a kid like him, but with messy red hair in a short sleeved shirt and shorts like him. He was little shy and was sitting by himself. Victor then told Torahne he would go and check things out with the little guy. All the while, a dark being was watching from the top of the school thinking to himself as he looked at Victor, "Play heartily my boy. For soon you will feel the wrath that is the darkness." The dark being snapped his fingers and disappeared into a dark portal behind him.
(Well there we go. Another chapter done in good time. As you all have read, Torahne and Victor are really quite close, similarly being like brothers. I kind of based this on my life with my cousins since I've spent a lot of time with them, and the fact that three of my cousins are girls I think of them as being the sisters I've never had. Anyways, there's alot yet to happen with Victor, Torahne and the new kid Victor's met, as well as Darkness meeting Victor for the first time, which will occur pretty soon before he goes after Torahne. I also based some of the events here on the kind of friendship Roxas had with Axel for those anxious to get 358/2 days when it comes out here in N. America. In a way, this is kind of how I think some the events will go in that game aside from them beating up heartless and doing missions. Stay tuned for another five chapters of Victor and his saga. I will also cover more about what they did during the last couple of months as well since this was just a brief little look at what they did.)
(Next Time: The Darkness Within.)
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