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Tirath stood up and walked over in a little hurry. He had a feeling what was going to be talked about, so he went along with the flow.
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Emory smiled at them. "How would you feel having a combined practice with Flame?" she said in a sly way. "We would be going over defense training, since, as you know Order is having some peer issues."
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Order herd the whispers going around and how they all sounded happy. Order stood up. "There's only one thing left to do then."
He walked over to the group of Pheonixes and looked at Emory. "Were in. Right after breakfast right? We could always wait longer, but the sooner the better."
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"Okay." Order moved back to his table. "Flame move to the gym, were learning hand-to-hand combat with Pheonix. This is mostly for your self defense so don't get air headed about it. Move!" He led his toon and Pheonix toward the gym.
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Troy had been watching Toro very carefully through his peripheral vision. For one, he didn't trust that the others had moved on. And for another, he couldn't decide if making friends with Toro was a good idea or not. Sure, Toro had stepped up to help him, without even knowing him, but... 'He's too forward, he attacks to easily' 'He's brave' 'He's foolish' 'Wish I was that foolish'
He was so entranced with his own thoughts that he carely acknowledged the odd interactment that Toro had with a boy from....bunny... 'Rabbit Army, idiot'
He followed Toro into the mess hall. Now that he was in an army he wouldn't be eatting with the launch anymore. For now, he was clueless to army ettiquette. Did he have to wait for his toon leader to go first? How about the rest of the toon? 'Maybe Lena will be here'
He grabbed a tray and motioned for Toro to go first. "You've been working out longer than I, you go first, you're probably starving"
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Lena grabbed her tray and walked to a table she sat down next to Casey and a few other phoenix as well as Flame.
Luke from Rat threw her a dirty look. She turned away from him and chewed at her roll.
Emory grabbed his lunch tray and walked into the commanders mess. He sat at a table with Tiger and Raven. They seemed to not mind. He started to talk to them.
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Toro grabbed his lunch and waited for Troy to get his before joining James and the rest of the army. He introduced Troy around, while keeping an eye out for the troublemakers.
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Troy sat down with his tray and waited for Toro to finish the introductions, all the while nodding his head at the appropriate times. While the rest of the army was happilly eating and chatting, Troy had begun to look around for any sign of Casey, hoping to spot Lena as well. He whipped his head from side to side, then completely turned around in his chair. Some of the others had stopped talking and begun to stare.
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Troy finally caught sight of Lena and could relax. As she turned to continue talking to her friend, he gave a small smile back, then proceeded to eat, all the while ignoring the odd stares he was given.
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Mere looked around the room. A lot of the boys were tense and kept glaring at the Flame soldiers. She ate her food, and would occasionally glare back at them. Lena was talking about and on coming battle.
Lena looked at her. She stopped for a moment, and sighed. She knew Mere wasn’t listening. She rolled her eyes and got up. She took her tray to the trash, but as she was walking back some boys, she had seen earlier stuck out a foot. She caught it and fell forward. She stumbled and ran into Todd. She turned and glared angrily at him.
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In a heartbeat, Troy was up and moving toward Lena who he had seen stumble. When he reached her side, he noticed the look of contempt upon her face for the boy she had fallen against.
"Is there a problem?" he asked while putting a hand on her shoulder and glancing her over for serious wounds.
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Lena looked at him. "I am fine." she smiled. "If you haven't noticed Flame is not very popular right now." She glared at the boy who tripped her. He and the boys around him laughed and looked at her. Todd was about to get up and go over, but Lena put a hand on her shoulder.
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Troy remained furious. He couldn't believe what was going on around him. And what was worse, he didn't know what was going on around him. How could he plan? How could he strategize if he didn't have all the facts. 'This can't go on' He marched over to Emory. "Permission to speak freely sir?"
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Ignoring the other commander, Troy got right up into Emory's face, "Sir! your sister is suffering attacks while you sit on your butt. What is going on? I need to know so I can protect he....so I can protect myself. Warnings aren't good enough here"
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Some of the commanders looked at each other and smiled as the boy stuttered over his words. Emory looked at his new recrute but his dark eyes on Troy. "I am well aware of what is happening. All of Flame and Phoenix are experincing attacks." he said a little loudly. Some of the commanders looked at each other and avoided Emory's gaze.
Emory led Troy to the door. "If you are so concerned then maybe you should look out for her." he ran a hand threw his whte hair. He looked at the score board for a moment. Then whispered, just loud enough for Troy to hear. " I am working on it now. Just keep an eye out for your fellow soilders."
Just then the Rat commander walked up to them. He looked at Emory then Troy. He galred at him. "Maybe your ears don't work so well! I told you to get out." Emory shoved the commander away. "Let me take care of that!" he said with a little anger in his voice. He looked at Troy. "Is that all?"
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'Great! More Cryptic messages' Troy wanted to argue more but something about what Emory said flashed in his brain' "you should look out for her" Troy shut his mouth immediately and nodded, "Yes Sir. Sorry to disturb you Sir." He bowed, glared at the other commander, and returned to the soldier's mess hall.
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Emory nodded to him and sat backdown. The other commanders looked at him. Then started to talk about scores and other matters.
Lena, still a little angry, got up from the table and walked past both Phoenix and Flame tables. She walked into the corridor a little ways and looked out the window. Only the stars where visable in the black abiss. She sighed and leaned against the wall and stared out into space.
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When troy returned, he noticed Lena leaving. She looked to be in deep thought, for she had walked right by him. He decided he could forgo another meal in order to find out what was going on. He found her in a hallway, looking out the window. He wondered if she was missing home. 'That's stupid. She has her brother here' 'Does she?'
He approached her left side and calmly stood next to her. He remained silent, not wanting to disturb her and come across as some sort of stalker. 'But aren't you?'
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Emory finished his meal and walked out of the commanders mess. He walked up to the rest of his army. Some smiled while others stood quietly. Emory suddenly saw one of the teachers walk up to him. The table grew quiet.
"Emory." Emory walked forward and saluted the man. The man nodded to him and handed him a note. Emory swallowed hard as he read it. Why did they always do this to him. He sighed and walked back to the table as the man left. A toon leader for a launch. He didn't talk to any one. They all decided to leave him alone and went back to their food.
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Not looking up, Naoki rounded the corner into the mess hall. He was so busy studying the piece of paper he had that he nearly knocked a launchy over on his bum. He looked up for a split second to apologize, but continued to walk further into the mess. Finally once he was in the center of the room he looked up and began to study uniforms. He couldn't make sense of it. He was sure he should have been iced by now. He hadn't been doing so well recently, failing and retrying some tests three or four times. But here he was, orders in hand, to find Emory Clausen and his Phoenix army. He looked again, surely his poor IF common was to blame for his misreading of the orders. But who was he to argue? But to add to his paranoia he had turned up at the barracks to find that most of the soldiers had gone. It must have seemed odd to those who were there, a launchy turning up, looking around, and leaving quite quickly. He wasn't going to stand around to become fish food. Finally he realized that he was in the wrong place. He slapped himself on the forehead and turned to go to the commanders mess, but he stopped himself and took in the shape of one last insignia. It was a Phoenix. And, lower down the sleeve was a commanders rank insignia. He was handling a piece of paper looking at it intently, but this had to be done. Why was he so nervous? What was the worst he could do? Nothing could go wrong, there were teachers everywhere. So why did he hesitate? He did this for anything that had anything to do with importance. He didn't like talking to people he didn't know, he would quite happily send them a message across the desks, but just talking to someone? He took a deep breath and walked forward and blurted “excuse me sir!”
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Emory continued to look at the piece of paper till he heard a voice. He turned slowly to see a smaller boy. He looked at him, quietly, making judgements. His dark eyes read the boys. Then in a quiet voice he replied. "Yes soilder?"
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Naoki quickly turned the piece of paper over and held it up to him to see. he was a coward. He couldn't even speak. He just stood holding up his piece of paper. how pathetic is this?
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Emory took the note. He studied it for a moment then looked back at him. "Well Naoki, Welcome to Phoenix." He tried to cover the anger in his voice. Stupid IF! So they think they can pull a fast one on me!
"You will be put in Tirath's toon. He is over there." he said pointing to the boy with silver hair and only one eye. Emory motioned for him to sit and talk at the table. "This is the rest of the army. Phoenix show some manners and tell the newbie your name. Then go back to the barracks." he turned back to the boy. "It was nice meeting you." he said through clenched teeth. Then pushed past him and walked down the hall to the barracks.
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He stood, eyes wide, trying to figure out what he had done wrong. Then he noticed all the Phoenix soldiers around him glaring in his direction. Commander Clausen had told him to sit, but it felt dangerous, as if playing Russian roulette, and only he didn't know where the bullet was. He decided that it wasn't a good start to disobey orders, and consigned himself to the feeling of impending doom. Begrudgingly each soldier introduced themselves.
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Naoki had spent enough time in the battle school to realize this was a greeting. In Japan it would be the equivalent of a bow, so he quickly took it and shook his hand. He realized that this Todd had stuck out his neck to try to bring him into the group. He grinned back. “My name is Kaito, Naoki Kaito. Call me Fish if it makes it easier.” he paused, then asked, "did I say something wrong?"
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Todd nodded. "Ok Fish." Todd shook his head. "No, you did nothing wrong, it's just Emory is a little," he paused. "Tense. don't worry, he is really quiet and tough but you will get used to him."
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It felt odd being a part of army. He still didn't feel like he was part of the group. Maybe it was the uniform. He was sat on a table of Phoenix soldiers, and was still wearing his launchy gear. He knew he would sound childish if he asked straight away, so he decided to ask something else for the time being. “so, what rank are you?”
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Todd thought for a moment. "He is cool. Don't be discouraged by his appearence." Todd took a bite of his apple and looked back up at him.
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Naoki watched Tirath for a moment more. He found it difficult to not take in his appearance. Even though he was quite happily talking away, having that eye missing bugged him. He knew that he shouldn't be prejudiced against that but somewhere deep within, he couldn't let it go. He decided now would be an excellent time for him to get a uniform, a little thinking space. “okay, so how do I go about getting me one of those fancy phoenix uniforms?” he asked Todd.
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Todd smiled. "Well you got to get a locker, and your uniform will be inside." He through his food away then motioned for Fish to follow him. "I will show you."
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Toro had been trying the whole lunch time to find the conspirators, but wasn't having much luck. Finally, a little while after Troy left, he spied Casey and Benny having a conversation near one of the trash bins on the other side of the mess. He couldn't make out what they were saying, but they appeared to be pretty animated. And where was Order? He hadn't seen him either since leaving the gym.
It was getting late, and Michael needed to get to class. At least, if Casey and Benny were here, and Order wasn't, he didn't have to worry about trouble going down just yet - he hoped.
Michael threw his trash away, returned his tray, and headed off to the classrooms. Not too long after that, Casey and Benny left the mess, headed in opposite directions.
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Ceri grabbed a tray of food that looked nothing like what she normally had at home and picked an empty table. She was too shy and nervous to sit next to anyone and she didn't really no people here. If only more girls made it into battle school she thought. Ceri had a hard enough time fitting in with the girls back at home but everyone here seemed to come from a different country with different cultures than her own which made it even harder. She ate her food slowly, not bothering to think about the strange tastes. She turned in a clean tray and wandered out into the corridor.
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Lena ran in the mess and straight up to Order. "Order! Mere she is hurt." she said between breaths.
Mere ran in. But she stopped in her path. She ran straight into Order. Her lip and eyebrow were bleeding and she had her arm over her stomach. She tried to wipe the blood away. But some had dried and would not clean. She stood mortified looking up at him.
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Order looked openly and was a little shocked, He knew his soldiers would get attacked sooner or later, he told them to travel in pairs.
"Mere Im afraid to honestly know what happened." Order grabbed a napkin from the table and dipped it in a glass of water he had delayed from drinking.
"Wipe off the excess blood and hold it tight to the places your bleeding. After that I would say go to the infirmiry just to ask for a few bandages. I'll ask what happened later, right now just make your self feel better."
Order thought for a second, "Actually Lena, what was going on? Why is Mere even hurt?"
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Mere looked to Lena she shook her head, but Lena glared a little. "Benny did this to her. They said that next time they will not hesitate to really hurt the next victum." Mere closed her eyes for a moment.
She looked at Order. "They said that if you to meet them and work things out. But you meeting them only ends with you getting hurt. Please don't go. I don't really matter. We will work it out."
Just then Mere heard some laughing behind her and then Jack was thrown into the room. His nose was bleeding and his arm looked broken. He ran into Mere who instanly checked him and sent him with two others to the infirmary. Suddenly Luke appeared at the door. He glared at Mere with amuzement in his eyes. "You got off easy Mere." he laughed and ran with his boy's to the game room.
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