War Lord

The Prospects

I sat back in the military vehicle with Hooch at my feet and my nurves in my throat. "You know I think this is a mistake I shouldn't be here." I leaned over to the blond guard who just pushed me off. I tapped my hand against the bench and looked around at the other kids. One other boy had a dog sitting between his knees, but he was crying. "You know maybe we can work this out I told my brother I was coming back tonight for dinner and I nee-" A hand smacked over my mouth and Hooch stood quickly and roared at the guard. "You are chosen to serve your country. You will be taken to The Prospects where you will be trained and starved and pushed to your limit. And then you will come out and you will fight with your brothers and sisters." He turned away from me and I huffed sharply. We turned the last curve in the six hour drive and rode up to the gates. People poked their heads into the truck as we went past and laughed reaching out to poke the guard that sat next to me. He grinned and kicked at some boys hand, but I cought the wink the boy sent up to him. The truck stopped abruptly sending the girl next to me sprawling out into my lap. 

      "All right everyone out! I want to do this quickly and efficiently! Line up against the truck!" I was pulled out by my arm and Hooch followed between my legs I was shoved into the steel of the truck and glared at the woman who had drug me out. Her hair was curly, dark brown and flooded all over the place, her skin sun kissed and her eyes were soft brown. She winked at me and left quickly to stand back. "Alright fledgelings! Each of you strip down to underwear and step forward to get sprayed down! Then you will follow this nice nurse forward to receive a full exam and your set of armor and assigned a bunk and a mentor!" I shrugged my clothes off and stepped forward with a stone look set on my face towards the woman holding the hose. "Wipe that look off your face Griffin!" The blond guard yelled at me as the freezing water slammed into my skin. My body tightened up and I spun in the water, facing the other people they picked up and smirking as I turned back around and faced the hose girl again. She shut the water off and a nurse in pink scrubs led me off to a black building. Nurses were running around me, poking me with needles and taking quick measurements, then bringing me back a set of red armors. I shrugged into the thick bullet proof pants and tugged into the shirt they offered, then pulling on the chest plate and leather shoes. One nurse opened my mouth and poked around, then glanced at my eyes and snapped in both my ears, writing down something on her paper pad and then pushed me towards the same girl with the wildly curly hair.

     "Im your mentor, and you will be in my room. Follow closely and you will come out on top, I have big plans for you." We took off towards the bunks, passing everyone who said hello quickly and turning down a hall towards her room. We walked through a wooden door and I was greeted by a single large bed and a few blankets tossed on top of it. Hooch laid out at the end of the bed on the ground and kicked at the dresser. The room was circular, with a hole in the wall to serve as a window but it was bare except for a pile of dirty laundry on the ground.

        "My name is Luna. Let's just start this out with I have a secret and a plan for you. So you will do everything twice as hard, you will train harder and in time you will find out what my secret is." She pushed past me and knocked into my shoulder on her way out the room. I glanced around again, the room was still the same even when I squeezed my eyes shut and opened them, or even when I whispered my discontent into the air. I smirked at the lion, stripped naked, and left to walk around the base. The Prospects was what I had immagined. It was a full training camp, and small operation area but other than that it was quiet. People stared at me when I danced past. "Girl!" A nurse yelled at me with a blanket flapped over her arms and a scared expression on her face. I smiled, waved, and jogged away towards Luna where she was having lunch with her friends in the mess hall. She dropped her smile and her eyes widened when she saw me. "You...are naked." Her eyes clouded over and she took on a primal look when I slid next to her. "My kin find it best to walk nude when getting use to a new climate." I pushed the hot sand around under my toes towards her to punctuate my words. Her head dipped towards my ear. "This is inappropriate. Go back to the room. Now." Her words were harsh and they sent chills down my spine. The nurse had finally cought up to me and draped the blanket over my shoulders and tugged me to stand with her and she guided me back to my room. I dropped the blanket and pulled on the red uniform, and pulled a few blankets down to the floor where I rested.