Grim Reaper

Chapter 3

(ah yes, beautiful aesthetics, totally not threatening anyone's pure thoughts. I'm sorry for all the ARMY's that read this, I just attacked with a picture)

    His face was stern and eyes dead. Straight faced. Intimidating. Walking straight towards them and the cafeteria quieted. "Impressive. Half of these muck buckets can't keep their mouths shut for five minutes." Jinx grinned. "All in a days work sir."

    Addax watched him carefully. Still waiting for another slip up or smart remark. Jinx looked over and glared, "Stop watching and waiting you know I'm not going to." This caused them both to suddenly smile and laugh which confused many other soldiers. "You can be surprising sometimes Jinx." Addax remarked. "Says the one who should know all of my surprises by now." Jinx replied back before they both focused their attention back onto the General.

    "Well, I will say it was a very interesting assessment. Half of these boys can't throw knives correctly and they definitely can't do a blind folded fight." The General half praised and half critiqued their performance. "They trained you well. You guys will start training with us next week. Use the rest of this one to get settled into your bunker and get used to the schedule. Assess our training and see how you can edit it for yourselves. The other soldiers will be notified ahead of time that your training will be harder, if they want to try and join they can, and then you can laugh your asses off watching them fail. Now please get this kid to eat something and you guys can go meet your bunker mates."

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    Upon returning to their bunker, Jinx was immediately a complaining mess. "Trained us well?! Do they know the hell the kids go through?! You gotta be the top, you're not the top you literally just get whipped for nothing! Aish! If I could kill all of them right now I would! It's like he doesn't acknowledge what I've been through! I know he's the stupid General but god damn!" He throws himself down onto his bed and screams into his pillow while Addax watches, amused.

    "Are you our new bunker mates?" Someone asks from across the room. Addax turns to face the person, which turns out to be two people. "Yeah. Don't mind him, he's having a moment." The persons face lights up. "Cool! You guys are from the SRC, right? Can we here about it? Oh, right, I'm Elizabeth! Elizabeth Schyler, and this is Ryan Whiskey." Elizabeth introduces them. "Addax and Jinx. Addax Quin, Jinx Saros." Addax introduces them.

    "You seriously want to hear about that hell hole? What stories have they told to you?" Jinx was suddenly beside Addax and the two others jumped. "Uh, yeah. As far as we know it's a place where the top snipers are trained." Ryan sits down in a nearby chair to listen." Though the explanation just had Jinx laughing. "Seriously? We're children taken from murdered families, trained from when we're six till we're eighteen to be top notch snipers, and for our last test; if we don't pass it we're killed. Break the rules? You get three strikes till an extreme punishment. First strike is a scolding. Second strike is a knife cut. Third strike is usually elongated training for senses with others appointed to try and kill you. Get a fourth and you're tied a post and whipped until you pass out or the trainer is satisfied. We got in blind folded knife fights, kids end up dying. Get in the way of someone? Dead. Break the rules? Dead, or worse, a punishment that makes you wish you were dead. Don't pass your tests? Dead. That's all there is to it. We're ghosts. We have no shadow, we make no sound, we don't flinch, we don't hesitate, we don't feel, we don't think. The only thing we have to know how to do is keep quiet and make the shot. Shoot two times and move to a new location so you aren't found."

    The two go quiet as they here about the facility. "And... You've been through all of that?" Elizabeth gasps. "After the final test, yeah. Before then and even after that I was still the top sniper there. When the General gets my code name, you'll understand. Addax's code name is that of a snake, which you'll understand. I've only nearly died twice." Jinx growls and then goes to get a change of clothes. Though to them it was creepy since his feet made the softest sounds, almost inaudible.