Storm Crossed (Discontinued)

Entry VI

May 20

22 Days until Torrent Day

Dear Reader,

If you can't already tell by the amount of pages torn before this entry, I had a hard time writing this. How do people find writing so relaxing? I know Asher says it clears his mind, but I don't think my brain works the way his does. Well, actually, I know our brains don't work the same way. If my brain was like his, nothing would get done, and he should have realized that by now. He should have realized I am not him and that I function differently.

But I'm doing this for my own sanity. Too many things have happened today that I'm just trying to make sense of everything. It seemed like one thing just blurred into the next, and before I knew it, I had to sneak out of here to try and get Cami back. Dear Reader, let me just tell you, it was a lot harder than I had originally planned it to be.

Guess I could split this up into three sections: Promotion, Asher, and Team Aqua. Well...probably more than that. I can't get into specifics of my promotion in case you're a member of Team Aqua reading this. Yet, I don't know how I can let my mind think straight if I don't talk about it. That probably sounds really weird, and it probably doesn't make sense, but I don't know how to really describe it.

At least there's some stuff I think is common sense and easily seen everywhere. Even while I was at Team Aqua's base, I could tell there was a bit of formation going on. Sure, it was chaotic formation, but formation nevertheless. So, I guess I could start off by getting into some background information on what Team Magma is like. After all, it's almost like common knowledge. It's not like what I'm about to say is going to be something that can be used against me. At least, I hope not.

Even if you're an outsider, someone who isn't a member of Team Magma or Team Aqua, you've probably noticed this already. As an organization, we're broken up into factions and have different classifications that define us. One way of looking at it is Grunt versus Admin. Obviously the Admins have more power and authority than what we—well, I guess not me anymore—but they have more power and authority than Grunts. There's a logical reason for that. Obviously, if there were no Admins, Grunts would be running around causing a lot of chaos, and that wouldn't be good.

So that's one way of looking at it, but another way of looking at it is in groups. Groups outside of Grunt versus Admin. There are three groups, or at least, now there are three groups. Before I became an Admin today, I thought there were only two, but apparently, Maxie always had three groups under his control. These groups have names, but in case you're a member of Team Aqua, I'm going to use false names for this. The last thing we'd need is someone to know how to sneak their way into our base and figure a way through the system.

The first group is the logistic side. That's where I was always stationed. We did research under Tabitha, but if we were to go off base, we were to be under Courtney's instruction. I hated field research for that reason, but if there's one good thing about being promoted, it's that I no longer have to worry about that. You may be wondering what kind of research we do, dear reader, but I'm not going to let you know about that. That information is in another journal that's not to be seen by anyone.

The second group is the battle side. It is here that my old roommate, Lynne, was stationed under. Self explanatory, I think. For Team Aqua, I know they have more members on this side than we do, but that's also because we believe knowledge is greater than power. It has to be. Even Lynne's battle strategies are strategized, not reliant on brute strength.

You may be wondering where my only friend from Team Magma fits under all of this. That's the thing. Until today, I just thought Asher was a floater. If he was needed on the battle side, then he'd be on the battle side. If he was needed on the logistics side, then he was needed on the logistic side. What I didn't know was that Maxie was looking for someone who could control these floaters.