We Six

Day 1

I wake up to the burning sensation of the Amber sun on my eyes coming from the window just across the room. Dawn. My favorite time of day where everyone is still asleep and I can start on my day in peace all by myself. I pull the blankets off of myself and sit up, I notice when I sat up my back ached thinking I must of just slept wrong or something. I look down to see socks and shoes by the dresser that came with the room. I take the socks and pull them over my feet so they wouldn't be so cold. I get up and walk out of my room I realize no one else is up but I kinda expected that since it was so early. Walk to the middle of the room and sat down at the table in the dim morning sun light and thought about everything that has happened. "What am I doing here?", "Who are these people?", "Why are you letting your guard down Connor?". I shiver back into real life realizing how cold it was in the room. I walk to the kitchen and start doing the best thing you can to get warm. Cooking. It's double purpose you get warm and food at the same time. I look through the fridge and decide to make breakfast for everyone. I pull out some eggs, bacon, and some bread to make toast. I take two pans off of the rack above the stove and set them down then I pull the toaster near for when I make the toast. I turn the fire on and put some butter in the pan to make sure the eggs didn't stick, making sure to smell each ingredient that hits the pan to check for anything fishy for the reason that I don't trust where we're at quite yet. After about an hour of making creamy eggs, crispy bacon, and golden brown toast cooked to perfection I lay it all out at the table in the middle of the front room with six glass plates and six very fancy cups that stand on one leg filled to the brim with Rich and sweet orange juice. The sun is now up in the sky fully out of hiding brightening up the room. I walk to each room beside my own to look in and tell them I made breakfast for them. The first room I came to was Autumns, the yellow walls are blinding but beautiful the way the sunlight hits the top of the wall creating an ambre effect cascading from deep brassy orange to mustard yellow could bring a grown man to tears. From the time of day the room was lit up by the outside sun so there was no reason to turn on her light. I look at her realizing how peaceful she looked curled up into a ball of blankets. From the short time of knowing her this is the first time seeing her like this. Peaceful. After seeing her I walk out of her room and decide to let her sleep. I walk away and go to the next room until I hear screaming coming from behind me I turn around as quickly as I can and run to Autumns room. I look to her seeing her screaming and jumping and twisting around in her bed, I rush to her side screaming her name and shaking her to wake her up from what seems like a nightmare. As I'm shaking her I feel a punch going straight into my stomach knocking the wind out of my lungs, I stop to catch my breath as I see her eyes open filled with horror. She jumps up and sees me, she grabs me and I hug her. She's shaking like she was just electrocuted. I hold her tight as I feel tears running down my shoulders to my back. I keep her close till I feel her calm down and then I ask "Are you okay?" She looks at me and lies "Yeah I'm alright." I look behind me and I see everyone else at the door was as worried as I was, all rapped in blankets looking like they were woke up abruptly because they were. "Is everything alright?" Jacob asks. I look to him with relief in my eyes and say "Yeah were good" "Okay great because there's food on the table and I'm hungry so let's go eat" Trent says we all laugh and we walk out if the room and sit down at the table and begin to dig in. Around the table it's silent except for your occasional clink of a metal fork hitting a glass plate or someone clearing their throat. Bursting in comes the always jolly Captain grey screaming as he slams the door behind him. "I'm so happy all of you are awake. Now it's time for training get ready and meet me in the training room. There will be someone to escort you guys down there. See y'all in a minute." He leaves with yet another slam of the door. We all look at each other like we just we bombarded by a crazy person. At the same time we all get up and go to our rooms to get ready. I get to my room and go to the dresser next to the bed, I open the first drawer and find out every shirt was blue, all the pants were black. I roll my eyes and say to myself "they take this colors thing very serious don't they." I pull out a blue t-shirt and some black tight sweat pants keeping in mind training so I decided to pick something comfortable and I could move in. I pick up my shoes that were no surprise black as well I sit on my bed and put them on one after the other and stand up and walk out of my room back into the main room to see everyone else was ready too. We all group together before we walk out of the door. We all avoid eye contact as Jacob says "Look I know we don't know each other but promise that we'll work together on this because we all are going through the same thing right now so let's help each other out. Okay?" We all look at him with confirmation in our gaze he opens the door and a lady is there waiting for us. We make eye contact with her and she says "Right this way.". We walk with her to the elevator and step in. She pressed the 6th floor and we proceed to go down. 15,14,13 with a minute in-between each floor. ten minutes later, ten floors down we reach our destination. The doors open up to a giant rectangular room that is all grey (what a shocker) with no windows, a blue mat covering the floor, lit up by white lights giving the illusion that there's natural light in the room. The six of us walk out of the elevator and walk on to the mat. Once we walk out the elevator shuts and leaves us all alone. Captain grey walks in with a man on the opposite side of the room. He looks at us and says "Hey guys, bout time you got here. So this is your trainer. I got to go, have fun kids." In a flash Grey's gone, wondering what he had to do that was so important. The stranger standing on the opposite side of the room staring at us in silence examining each of us. Five minutes later and he began to speak "I see you don't know what's going on here. But I'm here to teach you guys how to defend yourselves." This man with long brown hair and a red white and blue bandana says to us. "This has to be a joke" Trent says "no disrespect but you literally look like a crack head, how are you going to teach us how to fight?". The man looks at him surprised by his reaction "Yeah I agree with Trent, can you even fight?" Victoria said. The man looked like he physically hurt by what she said. Then he called out to us "do you believe you can beat me?" In unison Trent and Victoria call out "YES" he looks at them and says "okay, well we can fight if you guys want?" Victoria and Trent look at each and shrug their shoulders in confirmation that they could definitely beat him. They step forward but before they could start anything the man calls out and says "To make it fair how about you all attack me. All six of you." We all look at each other and with our eyes say sure why not. We take a few steps and ready ourselves standing in a line a few feet away from each other. The man stood there not moving hands behind his back like he was accepting the victory before the fight even started. He raised his eye brow and it began. Victoria was the first one to go. Screaming and running it took a few seconds for her to actually reach the man. She threw a fist and he dodged to the left so smoothly grabbed her arm and flipped her. Falling the floor with a hard thump time stopped all of us looking at each other thinking what did we just get ourselves into? But we couldn't stop now so Trent rushes in without a thought in his mind. He punches twice left right the man dodges with easy a third hit was thrown the man catches his hand shakes his head and says "Predictable" then sweeps his leg to hit both of Trent's in result of Trent falling and hitting the floor. Jacob runs up to him while Isabella and I stand back to make a plan before we do anything. Jacob reaches the Target and throws a kick to the stomach the man backs so it doesn't connect but he catches the foot in mid air and throws down his elbow only to stop in the middle the expression on Jacobs face shows that he knew if that elbow connected his leg would have been broke. The man kicks the leg that was supporting Jacob resulting in him falling smacking his face on the ground. Isabella and I look back to the man having a fully functional plan to take him down we both run at him together, he began to run at us. Isabella slides into the splits under his legs while I hit him from the front, I throw the first punch it connects to his chest knocking him back a few inches, Isabella kicks out from under his legs making him fall to the ground she gets up and we regroup back together getting ready to execute phase 2 of our plan of victory. We look at each other then look back at him still on the floor he kicks himself off of his back, back into his feet. Ready we run towards him throwing so many punches so quickly it was Impossible for not one of them to him but not one of them did. Isabella and I looked at each other for a split second and both threw a punch right down the middle and the man leaned back holding on to the hands we weren't using and dodged both of the punches coming directly at him. Holding the hands we weren't using he flipped us it was all a blur till I hit the ground. The impact wasn't what hurt it was that my plan was fullproof but it still didn't work "what did I do wrong ?" I think to myself. I look up still hurt and I see Autumn standing there still were we started not moving. The man gets up and looks at her and asks "Do you want a turn?" She looks at him and shakes her head looking scared for her life. The man looks down at all of us breathing heavily and says "now do we have any objections?" The room is silent besides the heavy breathing from each of us. He says "okay, so its evident that we need a lot of work. But first I have something I want to show you guys." We all get up and stand in the same position we were just on the other side of the room from when we stared. The man brings us to this plane wall that seems to just be a wall but then the man pulls a lever on the side of the wall and it opens up becoming a weapons vault full of deadly weapons only trained masters could even look at. "Now these are the weapons you will be using to fight, you get to choose but choose wisely because there are no second chances. I will teach you how to be a deadly weapons with and without the weapons. Now it's time you choose." We stand there still in awe at the magnificent collection of every weapon you could think of swords, blades, knives, guns. Everything. "Jacob" the man says. Jacob takes a step forward "from now on your name is Orange. Chaos you came into the fight swinging not thinking about your next attack or how to block your opponents next attack either. Choose your weapon." Orange walk up the the wall and begins to examine each weapon thinking about which one is calling his name he looks around and finally decides on a steel ball with spikes on a stick "You have chosen the mace" the man says "Good choice." "Trent" Trent steps forward while Jacob holding his mace steps back into line. "From now on your name is Red. Arrogance, you believed you could beat me based on my appearance. Choose your weapon." Red walks up the the wall already having an eye on exactly what he wants pulling down a sword and it's cover. "Sword and sheath, weapon made for heros." "Connor." I step forward heart racing "from now on your name is Blue. You were smart and did the right thing you stopped, analyzes the situation and made a plan that honestly surprised me and you almost beat me but not every plan can go your way just remember that." What does that mean? Did I do good? Or bad? I don't know what the heck. "Choose your weapon." I walk up to the wall and began to sweat this is my one chance to choose the right thing. I look at the wall and see awesome weapons. Then I see them they are beautiful, I look at them and they scream my name I take them off of the wall and the man says "Bladed fans" "Great choice." I walk back realizing how heavy they actually are apposed to how light they look. I get back in line. "Autumn" she takes a step forward. "From now on your name is Yellow. You gave up that will cost you in an actual battle. Choose your weapon." She walks up to the wall and does the same thing everyone else has done examined all the weapons until she picked up a chain, now the chain had two scythes on either end. We all looked at her with disbelief in our eyes that, that weapon was a good choice. "Double chain scythes." She walks back into line everyone still confused on why she picked that. But I seen something else, she had almost a smile while holding these scythes she genuinely had a connection with this weapon so I was happy for her. "Isabella" "from now on your name is Green. You took the lead on the plan Blue advised being a helpful distraction for Blue to land a punch on to me. Choose your weapon." Again she walked up but she had her heart set on a long staff with a steel blade at the top but when she went to grab it something happened. A dagger flew at her from the wall sticking to the ring on her right hand. Everyone gasped, then another dagger flew through the air sticking to the ring on her left hand. Everyone gasped again. Each dagger looked exactly the same but different at the same time but both of them felt right in each hand. Everyone was confused on what happened but everyone could make out that the daggers were magnetically pulled to her rings for some reason. "What just happened?" Green asked "The weapons choose you." The man said "But that's not fair I don't want these." Green said in a whining voice "to bad they chose you, those are your weapons now." The man said. In a fit Green walked back the the line and looks at her rings examining them as if she's never seen them before. "Victoria" "From now on your name is Purple. Choose your weapon." Purple walked up to the wall and chooses a musket and long knife. "Great now that you all have your weapons you will be trained to use them like a master would. Each weapon can do something unique and your weapon symbolizes your personality that's why you were drawn to it." The man walks down the line and begins telling us what cool unique things our weapons can do. "Doubles as a ball and chain." Once the man says that Orange presses a button on the staff of the mace that make the ball fall to the floor with a loud boom. Out came a long chain connected to the ball and staff of the mace. "Both the sword and sheath are weapons use them wisely." "Mind controlled" he points to me and says I look at him in disbelief and say "no way" then he puts this head band thing with two cushions on the temples of my head then he says. "Think about what you want them to do" so I closed my eyes and started to think about them flying in front of me and when I opened my eyes there they were flying in front of me "that's so cool." I say still in disbelief. He come to Yellow and says "extendable chain" meaning the chain could extend as far as it needed to. Still walking down the line he gets to Green and says "your rings are what's special, they are magnetized specifically to these daggers which means you can throw them, drop them, lose them but when you put on those rings they will always come back when you need them." Then he gets to Purple and says "unlimited ammo" when he said that Purple smiled maliciously that gave me the chills. Then the man walked back to In front of us and said "now that you have your weapons training is now over go back to your room and put them in a safe place and tomorrow we will begin on how to use them. See you guys tomorrow" "bye" we all say in unison. We all walk back to the elevator as a group and get on to go back to our room and await for what's to come tomorrow.