I wake up early as usual and feel something warm in my hand. "Again Maria? Well I don't mind." I say to my Maid… Wait a second! I'm not at home I'm at Camp Vale. If I'm at the camp then what the hell am I grabbing?! "Not now Amber-Chan let get me some more sleep…" I suddenly here Serene say. It's now that realize the warm thing I'm grabbing is Serene. I try to flex my hand a couple of time only to realize the thing I'm grabbing is not only warm but soft...Oh my god. I'm groping Serene. I quickly pull my hand away and end up falling out of the bed. "Kyaa!" I scream as I fall to the ground. "Hmmmm, geez Amber-Chan you're sure active… We can do foreplay later let me sleep some more…" Serene groans still partly asleep. I swear to God that's all she thinks about and who the hell is Amber, and why the fuck is this bitch the first person she talks about in the morning? I don't even know why it makes so angry when she calls me Amber-Chan that bitch! I quickly stand and dust myself off. I quickly change into some of my new fatigues and equip my Sword, Firecrackers, and shield. I then hear a loud Gunshot. I run outside to see a blonde woman in Fatigues with a little kite shield pinned on her shirt. She's holding a large gun with a Navy Blue barrel. I quickly run back in as everyone is scrambling to get dressed and running outside with the exception of Serene. I run over to her and start shaking her. "SEIRNITY WAKE UP!" I yell at her to be heard over the chaos in the Barrack. "ARAHH!" She screams as she falls off the bed and on to the ground with a thud. "Geez Ari-Chan why don't try waking me in a more traditional way?" She asks me for whatever reason. "I've tried traditional ways before. They didn't work." I tell her since I did try on the first day. "NO! That's not what I mean, I mean more like how a hero awakens her princess after rescuing her from the Evil Demon God." She replies with sparkles in her eyes. "Yeah. That's not going to happen. Ever." I tell her flatly. "Why not? Can't you just kiss me again? The kiss from last time was amazing!" she says bringing that up again. "Can you stop bringing that up? Anyway get dressed and ready we have to get going." I then hear another gunshot. "Move it you lazy brats! I don't have all day!" The woman sounds like Dezna. "Alright time to get ready for another day training! Time to become a powerful Knight YAY!" She says excitedly as she strips to change in her fatigues. Her lingerie has a camouflage pattern. I can't believe I'm watching her. Then again she's something better to watch than the chaos that the barracks are in. After she's done we run out and join the line-up.
"Alright you idiots. Since you're all dumb as sheep I'll introduce myself again. I am Dezna of the Recon Rangers. As of today I am your instructor until Olzo returns from taking a vacation at the local hospital. Even though I would prefer to throw you all into a spike pit and teach the ones that escape alive they want me to cover Monster family Basics. So lets get to the classroom." She then leads us to the Castle and to one the lower basement floors that have the classrooms. After we all take our seats she then fires her gun again getting everyone's attention. "Alright now listen because of our scatterbrained higher-ups they want me to explain this." She then picks up a helmet with a black sheet of glass over the front and open portions of the helmet. "This is a Mining Helmet. Sadly the tech won't be ready and finalized for a while. This is a Version 2.3 helmet. This will protect you from almost anything expect from a Moroi War Machine's bullet ripping through your skull because you got careless. Now then the Scientists said some scientific Blah blah blah. I don't really give a shit about." She then throws it behind her. "Now I'm going to start on about some stuff I need coffee for. Anyway I'll start with Damage Classifications. Now who here payed any attention in school and knows what damage is?" She asks hoping to get someone to raise their hand. "Damage is how much you hurt something isn't it?" Some guy answers. "Great job. Now for that obvious answer that shows that you aren't as big an idiot as I thought. Now who can tell me what damage means for us Knights?" She asks hoping to get another answer. "It means how much we can take before we kick the bucket." Another guy answers. "That's correct. Now does anybody know how many damage types there are and what they're Identified as?" She asks again. Something tells me she's doing this because she is either really worried we're dumb as sheep or she really doesn't know what she's supposed to tell us about. "There are four damage types. These are Normal damage, which is when the attack has no Special Attributes. It's power comes from brute force. Elemental which is when the attack is powered by one or more of Four Elements, Shock, Freeze, Fire and Earth. Shadow Damage which is powered by Negative Thoughts and Emotions. Finally there is Piercing Damage which is caused by Stabby Weapons." I hear Serene out of all people say. "Good. Now sense I'm sure everyone was paying attention to that I'm going to go over what that means for us. Now as I'm sure you all know what monsters are I'm going to tell you about them." Suddenly an image of a wolf appears on the smartboard she's standing in front of. This is what is known as a Wolver. They are a monster of the Beast family. Members of the Beast family are of the Piercing damage type. Because of this Knights originally went after them with Elemental damage type weapons but because of that an unexpected evolution made them so resistant to these weapons that Knights actually considered running away except for one person. A young fencer by the name of Gottfried. During a mission in the forest to secure zoning for the Kruitz Museum. His Majesty did truly appreciate the arts. While they were marking the area for clear cutting a pack of wild Wolvers appeared lead by their Alpha. His entire Squad ran for the hills to ready C.L.E.A.R. which is an ancient Cannon Laser Emitter with Atomic Radiation. If they were going to stop their mission they would have to be Microwaved for it. Gottfried refused the Direct Order and charged at them with his Swift Flourish and his Flamberge." Two rapier-like weapons appear on the board. One of them is a standard looking iron rapier with a D-guard and the other is slightly shorter with a red band near the top and the Symbol for fire on the umbrella shaped guard. "As you can guess it wasn't an easy battle. The little Fencer lost his left eye and had one of his shoulders rendered useless. Though we found a new way to combat the Beast Overpopulation. As a Fencer's weaponry consists of light piercing weapons we sent those furry bastards back to a tolerable number. Gottfried gained great commendation and eventually became a Spiral Captain. Now that he was free to go on missions of his choosing he went on Missions that involved him against the very things he despised. In just 32 years he went from a bumbling Fencer to a General. Then as he had committed mass genocide against the Wolvers which at the time was a hell of an achievement. He had armor made from the last Golden Wolver. These are extinct now but they were called the Messenger's of the Purity Goddess and Goddess of the Harvest Serenity. Though since they are now extinct it is assumed she abandoned us. Gottfried the Gold is now one of the three High Generals. The Others are Sylvia the White and Karen the Black. Now as I'm sure you know Karen the Black got her title from the Annihilation of the Evil Island Society of Ur. Which was populated by Fiends." An image of an odd purple four winged bat appears on the smartboard. "This type of Fiend is known as a Grever. Fiends are members of the Shadow damage type and are resistant to their own toxic aura. The best way to penetrate their darkness is to use Piercing Weapons. Karen having done the slaughter of the entire Fiend population of the island and destroyed it solo she was promoted to High General for her diligence and cold precision. However her likeness to her twin sister Sylvia was lost as her hair had turned black and her eyes turned purple. Now to continue to the other member of the Shadow damage type and that is the Undead family." A large armored figure appears on screen. "This type of Undead is referred to as a Dreadnaught and are the hardest to kill. These evil bastards are also resistant to the same Dark Magic that brought them back from the dead. In order to put the dead back to rest you have to reunite them with the energies of the earth. Elemental weapons are the best for this annoying type of enemy. Now as we all know there used to be a large city called Almiria. As this city was a major trading hub it had it's own type of Diplomatic Immunity. However one day many years ago a Duke by the name of Van had tried to assassinate the king and had run to Almiria. Sylvia and the rest of her squad had been ordered to hunt him down and kill him but the mission was very hard. They couldn't let themselves be seen so under the cover of darkness they flew through the streets of the busy city. As people had spotted them there were many deaths. Because of the casualty count Almiria had been turned into a bloody mortuary. The mission was called a success but had been called the Almirian Massacre by the people and the papers. In order to erase this blemish the king had ordered it destroyed. It was cut from the main continent and drifted to where Ur was at the time. As Ur had returned to the ocean so had Almiria." An odd furry person appears on screen. The fur is blonde. "Alright kids I'm gonna be blunt with you. Hate these furry fuckers. They are called Gremlins and are currently the only race in the whole galaxy with an arsenal to make even the King be fearful. Our King is scared of only three things. Which is total annihilation and Gremlins. Nobody knows what the third one is." Then a pink gooey cube appears on the board. "Well now we get to Slimes… Instead of telling you the Hazards of dealing with these gooey creeps I'm going to show you." An old movie of what looks like a mission in the Slimy Marshlands in the island of Jaka. The video opens with a squad of knights in the marshland walking through the muck. Then suddenly pink spikes pop up from the ground brutally killing most of the Knights. The only survivor is a female Knight who had most of her armor and clothes destroyed leaving her exposed. Then a pink cube shaped blob appears before the poor girl, the girl tries to attack this monster but her arm gets stuck in the pink slime. The Slime then immobilizes the girl as its gelatinous body forms a tentacle. It then forces her to spread her legs as it forces it's tentacle into the poor girl. To our horror the slime burtaly rapes the female knight and kills her by stabbing her with multiple spikes that come from the tentacle that raped her… We are doomed. Thankfully Dezna now continues her lecture. "As you saw this is what happens to recruits who get careless. These were fully trained knights who had been fatigued by carrying their heavy equipment through the humid swamps and weren't paying attention when they were killed. Now know that if this does happen to you I won't spare your families the embarrassment of what happened to you. Now to the point. Because of their gooey bodies they are impervious to Piercing damage and as you've seen they output piercing damage better than anyone has ever seen, They are weak against Shadow damage which bypasses their gelatinous body and attacks their core directly. Now that I've taught you all about these Monsters I'm going to let you stew over this for tonight and really think about if you want to be a Knight or run away, I'm not going to waste my breath belittling a coward so there will be no judgement." With that she then fires her gun one last time before leaving. Everyone walks out of the room with the exception of Serene who is sleeping… How on Isora do you sleep through something as horrifying as what we just watched? At least I took notes. I quickly pull her out her her seat by her arm. Since she is still asleep I decide to ram heads with her to wake her up. "OW!" She screams in pain as she wakes up. Her head is harder than I thought my head now hurts too. "You awake?" I ask as I rub my head a little with my free hand which has my notebook. "Yeah I'm awake you know the best way to wake me is with a kiss." She replies. I sigh. "I know I just don't care." I tell her. "You're mean Ari-Chan!" She pouts. "Whatever. Let's head to the Mess Hall for some dinner and maybe I'll let you leech some notes off of me if you get me some tea." I say to tempt her. "Ok!" she says happily. After that a knight walks over to us. "Cadet Abstra. Captain Olzo would like to meet with you once he is released and would like you to have this." He then hands me a small green Kite shield with a tented line in the middle. "Thank you." I tell the Knight. "I'll deliver your message to him." With that he leaves and Serene follows me as we get some food. As we start eating I hand her my notebook. "All the notes are in there. Just copy them down and you'll be fine." I tell her as I savor the flavor of the food that the Cook screwed up on,,, It has a unique taste. I then stare at the pink cube sitting on the food table making sure it won't move. Try it you pink Bastard! "Hmm, you want some of my strawberry jello Ari-Chan?" She asks noticing me staring at her plate of concentrated evil. "How can you eat that? Weren't you paying any attention in class? Especially the Video." I complain to her. "Hmm? NOPE! I fell asleep shortly after answering Dezna's question about damage." She answers pretty cutely. I see. "Well hurry up and read through the notes." I wrote down everything that happened in the movie so even if she didn't watch it she can still know the horror of the video. Then she might throw her plate of jello at a wall or something interesting. Serene reads through her notes and copies them I assume though the way she is moving her pencil say otherwise. She then stop write, drawing whatever she's doing when she read over the video's notes. "Wait. Tentacle rape is real? I thought that only existed in hentai mangas?" she asks in surprise and takes another bite of jello. HUH?! What the Hell is wrong with her? Is she not fazed at all by this? "You're oddly calm and cool about the bane of women everywhere being real." I say coldly. "Well it is pretty scary but what if these things can be trained to not kill? THINK ABOUT IT! You would be able to train them to do you in any way you want with their tentacles that would amazing!" She says excitedly as her nose starts bleeding as starts drawing something with extreme speed. I can't believe this! With lightning speed I slap her. I then take my leave. I can't believe that bitch! I'll just take the rest of the day off. I don't know why but I feel really sleepy for some reason. I go to the Barrack and go to sleep pretty quickly.