The ride to the training camp didn't take too long, they arrived a little too quickly in Willow's opinion. She felt like a caged rat as she and the other teens were forced in to a large sandy courtyard area, the Garrison soldiers who had brought them here were standing around them watching them as if they were waiting to see if they'd run. No one did, but Willow had no doubt they all wanted to try. She did. If she knew she would make it home alive, she probably would have.
"Face forward maggots!" A voice roared making them all jump to attention, a bald man stalked towards them as if they were his prey and towered them all when he was close enough. He had dark circles around his eyes, and a tall intimidating appearance. His eyes were hard and calculating, Willow felt like he was looking in to her soul, as he glanced round at each one of them as if analysing them.

"I'm the instructor here, it's my job to turn you wimps in it to soldiers" His booming voice seemed to echo as he paced in front of them, his eyes not once leaving them. He was terrifying. Everyone cowered back in fear when his eyes were on them, she was pretty sure she sure some Garrison soldiers jump back as well.
His expression never once changed as he spoke, it was like he had a permanent scrawl on his face. She could definitely understand why he was the instructor. No one was going to mess with him.
"From now on you maggots are mine, you do as I say, you do what you are told and you damn well work hard, I don't like slackers"
Willow was accustomed to hard work growing up on a poor farm, but she had a feeling his type of hard work was going to be different. Obviously his was going to involve getting them ready to fight gigantic beasts that wanted to eat them.
"You will learn agility, hand to hand combat, to move as one with your mobility gear, and how to use your weapons and tools, your lessons won't be easy, because the titans won't be easy on you"
Willow gulped at his words, not liking the images he was painting in her head. Though one thing did stick out to her as weird, why would they need to learn hand to hand combat? It wasn't like they'd be fist fighting titans.
'Maybe it's just procedure' She mused deciding to shake the question from her head as she continued to listen to the man talk.
"Unfortunately I don't have a couple of years to make you soldiers, I only have a couple of months" The instructor stated, his eyes drifting to the leader of the garrison guards who had brought them here.
Months!? They only had a few months to train to go over the wall?! To fight titans?! How was that fair! How were they supposed to learn everything in two god damn months!
"We are so dead" One of the boys whispered, the instructor snapped his attention to the boy but said nothing to him, his eyes were enough to make the boy cower backwards. With one last glance around at them, the instructor turned on his heel and ordered them to follow.
"Training begins"

Keith Shadis; as Willow soon found his name to be, had shown them briefly around the camp, where they were to eat, sleep, toilet and exercise, before taking them to a track, to which he had made them run around the track till the sky had darkened, and it had been early afternoon when they had arrived. He just made them run and run and run, yelling at anyone who slowed down, he even kicked one boy up the arse when he fell over.
'I'm not so sure if this is training or torture' Willow groaned as she sank down on her bunk.

The bunk house they were to call home now, was bigger then the farm house. A lot bigger. There was 28 bunks, 56 beds, each bunk having a little empty side table next to it. It was plain in colour, gloomy looking even, the lights didn't provide them much light. It looked rather old, like it had seen many recruits pass through and Willow had no doubt it had, though now there was only sixteen girls to take up space now, the guys had less, twelve or thirteen of them, she hadn't properly counted. It seemed they were the only recruits. She had heard a soldier questioning Keith when she had been running track, something about the training camp being closed and questioning why it was open again, but she hadn't got to hear too much so she didn't get to hear his response.

"You know" Zima breathed collapsing on her bunk. "I don't think we need to worry about going over the wall, I don't think any of us are going to survive the training"
"Tell me about it, I feel like my legs are going to fall off"
"I can't even feel mine" Fiona groaned.
"What are Legs" Melia added in, moaning in to her pillow.
"Better get used to it kiddos, it's going to get a whole lot harder then this" One of the other girls commented. "I heard that scout training was supposed to take three years to complete, and we have to learn it all in two months"
"That's going to be a lot of training to squeeze in"
"But that's going to be impossible right?" Melody questioned her innocent blue eyes turning to her sister who shrugged in response.
"Maybe that's the point, maybe we aren't supposed to succeed"
"What we are supposed to do and what we will do are two different things" Willow added in giving Zima a disapproving look for scaring her sister. "That man who brought us here is determined to punish us and make it hard for us to survive, just means we need to make sure we do survive"
"Are you ready to fight a titan?" One of the girls questioned uttering the word 'Titan' as if it were a swear word.
"…..No….not at all, in fact the thought terrifies me, but I want to live"
"We all want to live girl, doesn't mean we are going to"
"Doesn't mean we can't try either" Kassandra added in, giving the girl an annoyed stare as she continued. "We all know how hard this is going to be, but we promised our families we'd fight and that's what we are going to do"
"Talking big is one thing, but unless you can prove it out there, out on the field when you are face to face with one of those monsters, it's all just words, and words don't mean shit" The same girl responded managing to silence a whole room, she was right. They could talk tough and say they were going to fight, but it didn't mean that they would when they came face to face with a titan.