Guardians 1: Ashes

Chapter 39: Fitting

Rex's POV

Adam took me to what I expected was his room. There was a bed and a fighting dummy. There was a desk covered in papers and books with maps open and marked.
I looked around confused.

"Take a seat." Adam commanded. I listened, I was so use to getting orders get hearing someone tell me what to do, I automatically did it.

Adam grabbed some papers off his desk and handed them to me. Then put the already marked papers into a separate pile away from the clutter. I saw him put mine,Uni's, and Cory's papers in a box.

I looked at the paper, and there was a picture of a boy with glasses holding a book. I remembered him. He would try to use his wits for everything, it didn't work out, "Dead." I said coldly then handed the page to Adam. He marked it then put it in the "Dead man's" pile. We did this for a while, dead,dead, dead, dead was all I seemed to say. What started out as one small pile was now one large pile. Then there was a knock on the door. Adam got up to open it.

I looked at the files in my hand and quickly skimmed them. One picture caught me attention. It was a little girl, short hair, and a striped sweater. My heart felt heavy as I read her file. She was 6, she had ran away from home for an unknown reason. Her name was... This was the kid that had changed everything for me... I held the paper tightly in my hand and a tear drop hit it and I watched as it soaked into the page. I pushed my own mask up and wiped my face. Then, I heard a familiar voice.

"You don't have to do this alone." Uni said gently grabbing the page out of my hand and glanced at it then handed it to Cory.
Cory then grabbed a pen off the the desk and sat on the floor he wrote on it, then looked at the piles and gently put it on top with a warm smile. The smile however also gave off a sinocol feel, as if he knew somewhere in me, I was happy I had killed the kid.

Cory then sat down next to me.
"Deed is done, you can only move forward from here." he then tapped the papers in my hand.

The next kid was one that at the time had reminded me of Cory. He talked big and was blonde as well, when I finally got the drop on him he called out for help, but nobody came and he ended up just as everyone else. I saw that kid's last expression of guilt, regret, fear, and most importantly loss. "Dead." I whispered, Cory nodded and took the page,marked it down, and added it to the pile.

Uni then took the stack I was holding and split it so I got half and he got half.
We worked like this in silence and soon, the first still alive came up. It was some kid named Jason, he hadn't been against me, but he had killed the other "judge" making him ready to be appointed for proper training.
"Alive." I said this however with a heavy heart.  I looked at Uni, "I don't know what to feel! If they are alive, that means they are out their killing more people, if they were dead, that would mean I killed them!"

Uni gave out a deep sigh," It's over Rex." 

"It's never over." I whispered. "I'm still doing the same thing, just for different people."

Cory raised an eyebrow. "We are, aren't we?" He mumbled quietly.

"Thats enough for today, Uni said grabbing the files from my hands. We walked out, and Adam was there waiting. We all smiled at him and turned around back to our rooms, but, Shelby, Ross, Nick, Jin and Aphmua were waiting for us.

"It is time for your fitting." Aphmua said with a kind smile.

"A fitting, what are you gonna do, stuff us in a robot." Cory said sarcastically.

Aphmua just gave a faint giggle and urged us all into a different room. We walked for a bit and ended up in the tailors room," This is Bernard, he is one of the best tailors from town, we asked him to come for this special event.