I wake up and feel my chest wondering what the burning was from last night. I then remember the red eyed silver haired monster. "Good morning Cadet Abstra. Your wound is healed and Cadet Sora will be fine. She'll be fine here. Why don't you go out for another day of military fun time?" I sigh and agree to her suggestion. More training will help me feel better about this. But first I should check on Serene. I walk over to her bed. I quickly kiss her. I feel Serene start to makeout with me, then suddenly pushes me away. "Oww arragh why does my stomach hurt so fucking bad!?" Serene screams in pain while holding her stomach. I feel a harsh pang of guilt. "Don't worry you suffered some lacerations to your stomach. I fixed you up so you should lay down." Bachmel orders her. "What the hell happened last night? Why do I have eight stab wounds?" Serene asks. "Well you fell into a pitfall trap in the Recon Ranger Training Course. Don't worry though you're fine for now." Bachmel says to Serene answer her question. "So how long am I stuck here?" Bachmel smiles. "You're going to be my personal guest for the whole day." I giggle slightly at her sarcastic tone. "Don't worry Serene I'll be back soon." "Well I guess there are worse thing than spending the day with a Hello Nurse." she says as I turn to Bachmel. "I need some fatigues." Bachmel then waves to Serene after gesturing to a box with some fatigues in it. I walk over and draw the curtain so I have some privacy. I then change into a set of fatigues without my bra. I would prefer to have one on but I can't be choosy. With my new fatigues I leave and nearly run into a figure in Black Armor. "Ah Cadet Abstra. Mind telling me what happened last night?" I suddenly feel quite uneasy. "Well Serene and I fought." I told Bachmel this. "I see. Did she appear different?" What does she mean by that? "I'm afraid I don't know what exactly you mean." She then sighs. "Were her eyes red?" I then think back to last night. "Yes Ma'am. Mind if I ask who you are?" She nods. "I see. Don't tell anyone about what happened last night. And My name is High General Karen the Black." With that I quickly salute. "Forgive me Ma'am I didn't know it was you!" She sighs. "Relax and get out of my way." I quickly run out of her way and go to the mess hall. As I start piling various meats on my plate I hear a familiar voice. "Damn girl. Does your appetite for meat ever end?" I turn to the familiar green haired girl. "Hey there Reekava." I say to her. "Oh great this chick?" Relax Arika. Unlike Serene I've known Reekava a lot longer and so I have a reason to like her more than Serene but it seems that doesn't matter.
"Serene's better…" Whatever. "So what have been up to since the academy?" I ask her. "Well not much I've been trying to recover from studying too hard," I suppose that's true in order to keep up she was almost always studying. I helped her out but needless to say she still constantly studied. "I see well why are you here at Camp Vale?" She then groans. "I got drafted. What about you?" She asks. I smile as I carry my tray toward the drinks table. "I signed up and got accepted." She seems surprised. It seems their teapot got broken so no tea. I then grab a can of soda. "You agreed to this hell?" I continue to smile as we take our seats. "Yeah so?" She is stunned as I start eating my meats. "So you were telling the truth about wanting to be a Knight if the Order?" I giggle at her answer. "Well yeah I always wanted to be an elegant Knight of the Order even before I was eligible to sign up. I then crack open my soda and we quickly start eating at our strangely delicious and nutritious breakfast. After breakfast an announcement comes over the intercom system. "Attention Soldiers. Those of the 9th Elite Combat Unit and the 3rd Psyops Unit are to report to the center flagpole in five minutes. I then run out of the Mess Hall and haul my ass to my barrack. Once there I put on my sports bra and equip my weapons. Now with only two minutes left I run as fast as I can and manage to join my Line up with barely thirty seconds left. There's a very tall person in heavy armor with a horse head. "Okay since Chief Warrant Officer Vaelin isn't here today I will be incharge of you guys. I'm a Spiral Warden. The name's Virgil. I'm here to oversee the Red Guardian's tournament between the 9th Elite Combat Unit and the 3rd Psyops Unit. Now I'm sure you all know how a tournament works but I will explain because as I've been told by my friend Dezna that all of you are dumb as sheep. So I will explain. This is a type of placement exam to make sure you're all placed in the proper unit. You will be locked in fierce battle with the soldiers from the other unit. The General himself admitted that he got the idea from watching two cadets dueling in the courtyard. Hmm… Tell me where is Cadet Sora?" I choose this point to chime in. "Sir, Cadet Sora is in the infirmary. I will gladly take her place in the tournament." He laughs at my response? "Thats good! Having that attitude will serve you well in the Order. I can sense someone here is going to be a Brigadier General in the future. Now let us begin.

I quickly win all of my fights landing me in the finals against who else but Reekava. She's quite the skilled fighter as well. I wasn't expecting much from her and that is my problem now that I'm fighting her. "We can take her easily!" With Arika's encouragement we enter the ring. "Hey no matter what we're still friends after this right?" I nod slightly as I ready my stance. Being part of the Psyops unit means her words are her most dangerous weapon. So I can't let her psych me out. "This will be easy, she may be skilled but lacks the brutality that Serene has."Arika tells me psyching me up. She's an effective weapon against her Psyop tactics. "Tournament finals Reekava of the 3rd Psyops unit versus Arisana of the 9th Elite Combat Unit. Battle begin!" With that I charge at Reekava and quickly tap her on the chest making her back off. She can tell I'm deadly serious. She then charges at me with a vertical strike. I manage to get hit on the shoulder and use the force of her fall to drive my knee into her chest. As she's recovering I slam my sword into her head. "Ow! What's wrong with you Ari? I thought we were friends. Would you really smash a friends head with a sword?" She says with tears in her eyes holding her head in pain… I can't believe I did that. "Hey don't let your guard down! She's just messing with you, she has firecrackers ready to use! Back up!" With barely a split second to spare I quickly jump back from her fireworks. Damn it! How do I keep falling for that crap? "You're too trusting of her! She taking advantage of the fact that you two are close!" Arika maybe right but it's not like she's being very helpful. I just have to end this quickly. I try charging at her but am met with a paintball to the forehead. It takes me off guard and leaves me open for a shield to the face. She then hits me in my chest injury with a vertical strike. Thats it! I quickly dash up to her and hit it with enough force to remove it from her arm. She then tries blocking with her sword but I hit that out of her hand as well. "Woah Ari! I thought we were just playing around. Why are you being so serious?" I don't fall for it and hit her hard enough to crack my sword. "Good job she didn't stand a chance! Now let's go brag to Serene that we won and that she has the best mate ever!" I ignore her comment and sheath my sword as they drag Reekava's unconscious body away. "This battle's winner is Cadet Arisana Abstra!" In the cheers of my peers I suddenly feel something off. It seems as if I'm being targeted… Suddenly someone in a grey mantle and a black cowboy hat appears. Wielding a pair of large guns. The first in his left hand is a blue gun with an odd rectangular barrel. The other gun in his right hand is purple and resembles a machine gun. He then aims them at me. I quickly unsheathe my sword but he quickly shoots it snapping it in two. That isn't training equipment is it? Oh damn it! Suddenly he starts firing his machine gun at me. I manage to barely block his gunfire with my shield turning it to swiss cheese. A couple of rounds get dangerously close until one of them hits my shoulder which causes unbearable pain."This bastards dead I'm taking over!" No! Instead how about you take the pain and I'll keep control so I can focus on the enemy? That way we can both get what we want at the moment. "NO you're hurt and I've got to protect you...more importantly our body." Alright. Go get them!

Arika's POV

I quickly take control and jump out of the hail of bullets. It seems everyone got away but there's practically no way to get close since both of those weapons deal Shadow damage and he is very quick with the speedy shooting. Suddenly I hear a voice. "Take these!" A gigantic shield and sword appear in front of me. The shield is rectangular and the sword has a chain hanging from the pommel and is quite large and slightly terrifying being completely black. I quickly grab the sword causing a light to activate on the guard and the chain to wrap around my arm. I then try to pick up the shield but it's far too heavy to lift. So I opt to use it as a distraction. I push the shield over causing it to shake the ground when it falls. Now that my opponent's distracted I rush in from his blind spot and slash open his mantle cutting his guns in the process. Sadly it only seems to damage the guns paint as he points the machine gun at me and pulls the trigger. It does a series of clicks but does nothing. He's out of ammo! Just as I'm about to hit him with the sword he points the other gun at me but it isn't working? I take the opportunity to hit him with the pommel but it only succeeds in knocking his hat off revealing it's Signales. Just as he's reloading I take the big blue gun from him. It feels cold to the touch. I then power up the gun and fire! It encases him in thick ice. A pair of Spiral Wardens appear and start pushing the ice statue of Signales to the castle. I should probably switch back. Let Sana deal with the Knights.

Arisana's POV

When I regain my senses my shoulder doesn't hurt like it used to that is until I notice the fucking chain wrapped around my arm! What the hell? Well I guess it's helping the pain subside for now. "It's good to see my equipment did you some good. Though I can't approve of using my shield in that way I can accept that it gave you the edge. A red armored seven foot tall man walks over to the shield and picks it up. I can see that the shield has the symbol for The Order on it. Then that must mean that he's the… "How do you do? I am the Red Guardian. The Red General Akakiro." I knew it. "Well met sir! I deeply appreciate the gear you loaned me." I say as I salute him. "Yes though I have to say I am surprised how easily you got the Permafroster powered up again not many have that ability to know what's wrong with a gun that advanced. Well lets get you back to the infirmary miss… Oh how could I forget. May you grant me a lowly knight with your name lovely maiden?" He asks as he bows. I never thought a General would ever bow to me. "Absta. My name is Arisana Abstra the daughter of Adrian Abstra." I tell him. "I see that must explain how you knew the gun that well. For all I know you probably helped your father design it." He says as he raises to his feet. With that he guides me to the infirmary where I give him the Permafroster and try to give him the sword. All it takes for him to get it is touching the blade and it falls off of me and goes to him. I go inside and see Serene sitting in bed staring up at the ceiling bored as hell. "Oh my God Ari are you alright? Your shoulder is bleeding!" She says noticing the wound in my shoulder. "Oh I just got shot no big deal." I say to her. "YOU GOT SHOT!? HOW IS THAT NO BIG DEAL!?" she screams as she jump up only to reopen her wounds. "Stay down!" Bachmel yells at Serene as she comes over to me and inspects my shoulder. "It'll be an easy fix. Take off your shirt." I comply and lie down after removing my shirt with one arm, With that she drags her chair over to the bed as she starts preparing her instruments. She then pours some disinfectant on my wound causing it to burn! It's painful but I have to grit my teeth and bear it. She then uses her forceps to remove the bullet from my shoulder. She then stitches my wound closed. She then rolls over to Serene's bed and injects her with something that causes her to fall asleep. She then starts stitching her wounds shut as I lay back on my bed. I eventually pass out from sheer boredom.