Monster || among us

t w e n t y o n e ;

t w e n t y o n e ;

Raven and Roseanne left the fifth floor abandoned dorms, and spent the night on their floor's lounge. Roseanne did research on all the other Europa ships before theirs. There had been six previous to their mission's ship, Europa VII, and all of them had been used for the same unsuccessful expedition. Each and every ship had any sort of problem in which the entire crew ended up perishing. The most recent had happened eight years before Roseanne was even born. But they had started planning since then, to send a new group of elite space cadets to do their research for them or very likely die trying.

The very next Monday morning, the two wanted to tell their crew mates about their findings, but they also felt as though there was nothing they could to. Upon joining the Garden, the parents of the children were to sign documents in which they surrendered their child to the government, giving them authorization to do anything that was needed to them. Even after turning eighteen, which was the age of official adulthood, they were essentially property of the government in their country and could not make decisions for themselves. Everything they did, what they ate, what they wore. It was all decided by the Garden facility. Even if they didn't want to go on that space mission, they could not decline. They could not simply leave, as much as they may want to. But Roseanne thought that if her team mates knew about it, perhaps they could work together to make it a successful mission. Perhaps they could make sure that nothing could go wrong.

As they entered the physical training grounds for their morning session, which was their only session for the day now that they were in their final days at the Garden, Roseanne planned to wait until after practices to approach their instructor. It was Instructor Hemlock from the Province of Lumber. Recently he had been over the moon with joy at seeing a fellow member of his province on the team. He mentioned he regretted that Brown hadn't joined sooner, as he would have liked to teach him more about ax throwing tricks. The few things he had learned from iInstructor Hemlock though, he was definitely using against Raven. Many times during practices, Raven and Roseanne were nowhere near the ax targets and they'd see a runaway ax flying towards them. Raven glared in Cedar's direction, only to get back a half assed apology from his crew mate. 

Neither Instructor Hemlock nor Raven talked to Cedar about it, until there was a bloody accident. Which had specifically happened on the day she decided to talk to their instructor about the news regarding their mission. Cedar  had been flinging axes on one side of the training grounds when out of nowhere, Roseanne saw one flinging towards them. It was as if she had been frozen in place and she felt someone grab her arm, pulling her back and out of the way. In her place was Raven, who instinctively drew his left arm up as if to shield the blow. In a second, the ax sliced through his arm, severing it just under his elbow and there was a stream of tar colored blood that poured out. He dropped to his knees weakly and Roseanne started screaming frantically at the top of her lungs.

She normally had a phobia about seeing blood, but her adrenaline was pumping through her veins and the shock was so much that she didn't care in that moment. She dropped down to his side and touched around the stump of his severed arm as though to assess the damage with shaking hands. As she thought of what to do, Instructor Hemlock rushed over and took off his training jacket, using it to wrap Raven's arm in it. But he was losing so much blood that the jacket was quickly drenched. Ciel and Indy ran over next and the instructor asked them to carry their captain to the infirmary. He would need extensive medical care and would probably be in the hospital wing for the next few days, and that was considering there were only about two and a half more weeks until take off.