Seraph Squads| ONS x AGGO | Book 1 of the End chronicles

Chapter 8: The greatest team yet

When it was 5:245PM, the Shinoa squad took a break by a tunnel. They figured it was a good hideout spot and the orange lights were bright enough to detect if any opposing teams were coming on the other end of the tunnel. But either way, the team leader assigned Kimizuki, the twin blades user and Mitsuba, the gigantic axe user, on the other side. That way, they can fix any consistencies in their plan as they stayed by the tunnel. The purple haired girl sighed as she took another sip from her water bottle. People don't get hungry nor thirsty in 'Seraph of the end' but it just felt realistic as she came from a gymnastics team in real life. She glanced to her side where she heard bickering between her two comrades.

"Awww Mika, you drank from my bottle again!" Yuu complained as he lifted a grey bottle in the air. Mika fixed his gloves and gave him a questionable look.
He drank from Yuu's bottle? Uh no, he was pretty sure he was mistaken. Well, he had to tell his friend about it or else teams would find this place due to his noisy complaining. But that's what funny with Yuuichiro, he was so obnoxiously loud for no apparent reason. It may not seem apparent to the boy himself but whenever he was being dumb like usual, it made his whole team smile.
Well it couldn't be helped, Mikaela could already feel Shinoa throwing dagger-like looks to him from behind if he didn't get Yuu to shut up. Pointing at the bottle, Mika said: "Uh no? That's my bottle, look again."

Yuu whined and turned the bottle to show a ribbon sticker, Mika's eyes grew wide and his cheeks flushed in deep red. "We all agreed that green would be my colour! See? You drank from my bottle!" He opened the cap and tilted the bottle upside down to reveal that little droplets were the only thing remaining.
By the way the blonde saw it, time seemed to stop and that those droplets were the small pellets of sand slowly dropping down to the empty side of an hourglass. There was an awkward silence between the two boys as Mika began to laugh in embarrassment. "Oh whoops, that's my bad! I didn't mean to, Yuu-chan..." he muttered that last part.

The black haired boy sighed and put away his now empty bottle back in the team's ressource bag. It was usually carried by Kimizuki but as they were on break, he had set the bag down for everyone to refresh themselves. Mika shook his head to himself and approached the book before pulling out the bottle—his bottle, the one with the light blue sticker and handed it to Yuu apologetically.
"I'm really sorry for drinking out of your bottle, here you can take mine." He told the boy. Staring at the given bottle to him for a few moments, Yuu's smile rekindled and he gladly grabbed it. "Thanks Mika!" He chimed and opened the cap of it. Mika just kind of laughed seeing his friend drink out of his bottle.

Shinoa stood you and began walking to the centre of the cave. "5:30PM everyone." She told her team quietly, she took out the satellite scan and earned a few interested looks from her team members. Yoichi put his binoculars down and gave Shinoa a sorry look. "What does that mean again?" He wondered. Well it was to forget honestly, in a place like 'Seraph Squads', the heat of the battle mattered the most and you always had to keep your eyes peeled in case anyone here tried anything funny. Kimizuki though, wasn't having it. "Did you seriously forget? That's when scan starts." He responded impatiently but didn't bother to turn his head to look at Yoichi. One wrong move and someone can end up attacking them, he had to be on the lookout.

Yoichi wiped his forehead as Shinoa too, started looking at him with a disappointed look. "Sorry.." he apologized with a small smile. The purple haired girl shook her head off as a "whatever" gesture and opened the scan up to view the world map. The pixels loaded up and when the results came in, they didn't look any different than what she imagined, no changes were drastic enough to make her panic. "So first of all, Progenitors seems to be going after us." She claimed. The one who immediately reacted was Yuu, he lowered himself down to get closer to the shown map. "Huh? Why do you think that?" He questioned. Shinoa pointed at their dot on the map then slid her finger down to all the way where the Porgenitors team was, she crossed several pieces of pathways. "We've closed off some distance but see look how their dot is the closest to ours." She made a good point.