A loud ringing noise woke Valkoriye from her somewhat pleasant sleep. “Uhh not now, need more sleep…” She mumbled into her pillow. Her long, wavy strands of deep blue hair covered her face entirely as she turned to shove her face back into her pillow. Desperately trying to wake her up was her bunk mate, Tekla. Tekla was one of Valkoriye’s closest friends at the academy, and came from an allied planet, Tetria. During the Great War with Alpha planet, she lost her brother but managed to escape safely, and sought out Asylum on Valhalla along with her mother and several other people from her village, but the rest of her village and her friends were unable to escape. “Come on Val, we’re going to be late for the briefing!” she shouted as she shook Val, trying to wake her up. Waking her up had now become part of their daily routine. She brushed her short brown hair out of her face and looked at Valkoriye for a moment before she resumed her incessant shaking of Valkoriye. “Tekla!” Val exclaimed, urging her to stop as she was trying to get out of bed “hurry Val. You’ve got ten minutes to get ready or I’m leaving you.” Valkoriye rushed out of bed and grabbed her uniform. In a rush, she put on her green combat trousers and fastened the black belt around her slim waist. She snatched a black tank top from the top bunk in their room and quickly switched from her pyjamas to her uniform. Trying to slip on her black boots as she stumbled down the hall she realized she forgot something but couldn’t figure out what it was.
“VAL.” Tekla shouted down the corridor.
“What is it now?” asked Valkoriye in an extremely irritated voice. Tekla ran out after her, holding something small and silver in her hand. “You forgot your dog tags.” She sighed as she handed them over to Val. “oh, right thanks.” Valkoriye continued down the hall stumbling occasionally to tie her laces and make herself look presentable for their briefing. They went of their way to the briefing which they knew was incredibly urgent, although all information as to why it was important was classified.
On their way to the briefing room Tekla and Valkoriye were joined by Torin, Blair and Hikaru. “Well, it looks like we’re not the only people late then.” Hikaru said with a smug grin on his face. Tekla annoyed with both Valkoriye and Hikaru began to speak, “It’s not my fault. You should blame Val. She’s the one who overslept. "AGAIN.”
“Should’ve guessed” Blair said while trying not to laugh. Valkoriye was well known for her lack of discipline especially when it came to matters of punctuality. She looked at Blair with a cold stare and said “Hey! You can’t talk, you oversleep all the time.”
They begin to argue, which was a regular event for the pair, it eventually escalated into a cat-fight, with both Blair and Valkoriye screaming "Do Not!" and "Do too!" as they made their way to the briefing. Torin who was the most sensible of the five had just about had enough of this stupid daily argument his patience was getting thinner, "STOP IT NOW BOTH OF YOU. We are all late for the briefing so why don't you stop this pointless fighting and HURRY UP!" Valkoriye and Blair look astonished at Torin who was know for his patience. Valkoriye tried to defend herself by putting the blame on Blair.They both had a tendency to behave like children at times.Torin, acting like a parent in this situation said calmly to the pair, "I don't care who started it but it's got to stop now. You're both behaving like children when you're meant to be 18 years old at one of the best academies on the four allied planets!" Val had a sheepish look on her face. "I can't help it I-", she paused for a moment as they arrived at the briefing room.
