Knights of King *HIATUS*

Chapter 2

The dimly lit rooms was enough to tell Cancer how early it was. She hadn't been up this early since their early days of training when they would have random drills that would go off at the 2am or 4am cycle of the night. Cancer pulled her hair up into the two classic buns that she typically wore her hair in. Twisting her wrist she brought the holographic time code up to see just what time it was. She groaned and flopped forward, face first back onto the bed she still had yet to stand from as the horrible, 0500 stared back at her.

"Get up!" Someone shouted and either slammed a fist or a foot against her door as they walked past.

She turned her face to the door. "I'll stab you."

Standing from the bed as slowly as she can, Cancer attempts to stay in contact with her only love in the known galaxy for as long as she can. Finally leaving her bed behind she pulls off the shorts and goes for the loose grey cargo pants that are closest to her. Her tank top would be fine for their morning training, she'd either pull a different top on or leave it as it when they went to being their first public training session as instructors.

As she leaves her room and goes into the lounge she nods to all the others. Yawning, she lifts a hand to wave to them before going down a few steps to the couches. Grabbing a thigh holster she attached that onto her body easily and slides the assortment of knives she left out on the coffee table into their places.

Libra is leaning back against the counter. "Palace updated the mission files; all of us will be assisting for the first few weeks until the other missions show more progress."

Taurus stares into her coffee with a frown. "I hate kids."

Capricorn grins while stirring milk into his tea. "The cadets aren't kids Taurus, lots of them are older than us."

"I hate cadets." Taurus clarifies with a hand gesture towards Cap.

Leo, ever the leader, set a cup down beside Cancer. "Wake up, pom-poms. We've got our own training before we go teach."

Cancer had a knife in her hand and pressed to the back of his hand before she finished another yawn. "Don't call me that, Lee."

He frowned at the shortened use of his name and Cancer smirked to herself. They both looked to the knife she still had against his hand. If he wanted, really wanted to, Leo could easily disarm her without getting a single nick from the blade himself. They only reason her blade was against his skin right now was because he was only playing, he had let her touch him with the knife.

Cancer pulled her knife away and tucked it back into the holster and sipped the coffee Leo had brought her. "So, any clue who we're going to be teaching?"

"Unknown currently, Palace simply gave us a public training room to arrive at and an arrival time." Libra is the one to answer. "He said that the On-Deck instructors will give us our jobs there."

She nods and continues to drink her coffee before Leo waves them all to follow him into one of the three private training rooms for the Zodiac. Inside is Aquarius, already working to keep her perfect skills at their best. Cancer yawns once again, drawing the attention of Aries to laugh at her.

"C'mon Cancer, wake up or you won't be able to hit a single target!" He laughs.

Twisting her body around she flings three of her blades towards the targets he starts beside. All three hit their marks perfectly, as she lands, Cancer pushes off of the balls of her feet and flies at Aries. She holds daggers in both of her hands, One poised to strike the inside of his thigh and the other positioned against his neck. Where her dagger rests against his neck, thick, dark gray skin that resembles armor covers the area.