I wake up quickly, I didn't even remember falling asleep. I sit up and sees Terror has left, Tremor is still here and getting ready. "Time for training" Tremor says throwing some clothes at me.
"What kind of training?" I ask.
"Wow you really are an idiot" Tremor says "just get dressed and I'll show you, better hurry" he smirks.
I nod and head to the tiny bathroom that was attached to the room, getting dressed in the clothes he had thrown at me, all they were was a red baggy t-shirt and some equally baggy jeans. When im dressed I walk back out. "About time" Tremor growls, grabbing my arm and twisting it painfully as he drags me into the hall. I keep myself from yelling in pain, even when he runs me into a wall while he was dragging me around a corner.
"About time you two got here" the now familiar voice of Mr.Barren greets us as soon as we walk through a doorway into a huge room, it was like a gym on the side we were on, a gymnastics floor in the middle and on the very far end was a shooting range.
"Sorry we are late sir" Tremor says doing a familiar salute of holding his hand up to his head and saluting, i only thought they did that in movies. It always made me think, that if his hand was a sword, he would have cut the top of his head off. Mr.Barren looks at me like he was expecting me to do the same thing, but I wouldn't salute to him, I barely even knew him, only that he was a murderer.
Mr.Barren glares at me when I don't salute and then he turns back to Tremor "start teaching this newbie what we do" he says.
"Yes sir" Tremor says and smirks at me "lets see how well you are at fighting, eh newbie" he tells me, dragging me across the gym floor to the middle, gymnastic area, part if it was a boxing ring, but I couldn't see any gloves or boxing gear..
"Isn't there supposed to be armor and stuff?" I ask, I really didn't know much about booking or any fighting.
"Not here theres not, you better learn fast" Tremor smirks, pushing me into the fighting ring.
"Can we not, please?" I beg.
"Stop being such a cry baby" Tremor says. I wasn't even prepared as he punched me full force in the face, sending me flying back onto the ground, blood running from my nose. "Come on, get up and fight!" Tremor growls, kicking me.
"Stop" I cough, trying to get up only to have him kick me down again.
"Your weak" tremor hisses and punches me a couple more times before Mr.Barren calls him off.
"You need practice" Mr.Barren says pulling me out of the ring, holding me up by my shirt collar as I struggle weakly, trying to stop my own shirt from choking me. "You better get better" Mr.Batten snarls and throws me on the ground before walking away. "Tremor, Terror, take him to the library, give him some time to rest" Mr.Barren orders as he walks out.
"Library?" I asks coughing.
"You will see" Tremor growls, looking at me in disgust as he pulls me to my feet. Terror and Tremor half drag half carry me to the rather large library that was down the hall. The first thing I see is a large book, based off the page it was open to, it really wasn't a big book, it was just that the writing was large. Of course the large book was the first thing I was dragged through, it was thick book, large yellow, old looking pages, i could see gold leaf in each corner of every page.
"You can start here, we wont be doing much reading today sense one of your eyes already seems tired" Terror sneers indicating my black and swollen eye that I was having a hard time keeping open.
I look at the book, getting my hand slapped away when I go to pick it up, so I give up on trying to pick it up and just read, as I read I realize the real reason Zane had been killed, it wasn't because he had been hiding his powers, it was because he had powers.
The page I was reading, read 'All super powered creatures are a danger to the human species. Anyone fighting on there side will be killed. Anyone caught in the crossfire will be killed. Anyone caught protecting a super powered creature will be killed. Failure to kill a super powered creature will result in your own death.'
We were not just here to train, we were going to become soldiers in a war! From the way the others acted, they were fine with this, they were ok with killing. I look at them "a nickname right, something strong" I say thinking about when I met them. I point to the word 'crossfire' on the page "I want to be called that" I tell them. I wanted something to remind me of this page, remind me that I was going to be forced to fight and kill.
"Crossfire, thats sounds a lot better then Garret" Tremor says, Terror agreeing with him.
"Lets get back to the room, Mr.Barren likes everyone well rested" Terror says leading us out. I follow, only half paying attention, remembering Zane's death and remembering what the page said, I don't even remember laying down to sleep but I guess I must have.
