The Entrance Exam

Chapter 4

(Point of View: Isabel Albertine)
The group started to approach to a man who was calling us; he had short brown hair and he looked like he was in his mid-thirties. He was leaning on the great doors that just stood a few yards in front of us.

"Hello, I have many jobs but for today I will be your tour guide. So... let's start the tour!"

He turned around to face the door and typed a few numbers into a tabloid that was on the wall, then with a great boom the doors opened.

He lead us inside the towering building then, once inside, saw all the wonders that were inside.

I looked back to realize that Jack wasn't there, I looked around frantically hoping to find him then I saw him running through the doors that were about to close. Once he went through I exhaled a sigh of relief.

The tour guide showed us many "training" things like were rock climbing walls and armories and boxing arenas once we were all gathered. After he showed us an elevator that he explained was off-limits, even to him.

The elevator lead up to what I could see was the roof which was several stories up, but when I looked closer I saw that the elevator was connected to a box shaped room with a few little windows.

It was covered with small moving cylinders that I couldn't tell were either cameras or guns. He also said that what was going inside the room was none of our business.

After he lead us to a few other places like the kitchen which was just a large room with few pans and ovens and sinks. He also showed us an empty room that was fairly big with just a simple table with plates and a window thing that was connected to the kitchen.

"What is this room for?" I asked

"This is the cafeteria." He replied

"So is someone going to put the tables when it is time to eat?"

"No, you guys must learn to eat, 'like animals'. This will help you a lot in the training, and you should be lucky that we even provide you food and plates. There was once an idea of letting all of you be stuck in a room with a cow *chuckle*."

"Okay."

After he brought us through a few stair cases and some more large doors that looked very well protected we arrived at a door where he told us to stop.
We all looked around wondering what he was going to do. The tour guide .................octagon shaped area with a door on each side and on top of each door was a holographic number, the numbers went from one to eight. When we reached the middle of the octagon he told us to stop.
"So inside those rooms will be your rooms, inside each of them is ten beds and a bathroom. There is room one, two, three, four, five, six, seven and eight. Each of you will all get to pick which environment you want to enter once the training week is finished and you know your strengths and weaknesses, but you will get to choose now which environment will be your mationtemporary choice."
He continued "Rooms one and two will be for those who choose desert, three and four; arctic, five and six; rainforest, and seven and eight; mountains. Rooms one, three, five and seven are for the males and two, four, six and eight are for the females. Any questions?"
"I have a question." said a guy who was standing in the front of the group, "This is slightly irrelevant to the Entrex, but what is your name? I make it my business to know everyone's names. Like you *point* you are Ralph and you *point again* are Sarah and yo..."
"You are right, it is irrelevant, but for everyone's information, I am Bob John Smith but really my name is Bobby Jonathan Smithril."
Laughing was all I could hear for about a minute.
"Now make a straight line, then state your full name..."
He took a pen and clipboard from a table that came out of the ground.
"...then state your chosen environment. One by one of course. When you are done please head to the the room of your chosen environment and your gender."
So we all made a line and we, one by one, started following his directions. After what felt like hours of listening to names like Ralph Nesmith and Kyle Revan it was my turn. So I then stated my name then soon after a few seconds of last minute thinking I realized I didn't spend any time thinking before it was my turn 'how stupid Isabel' I thought to myself, then I came up with my answer so I said with a bead of sweat trailing down my face, thinking I might make the wrong decision... "Mountains".