I wake up as the bus comes to a halt at a stop sign. We have arrived to the town the base is in. I look out the window at the we pass thru the main street. It was late but the shops were open. Neon lights light up the night with 'Midnight Specials' flashing in your eyes.
A material store catches mine and I realize I might get some good ideas on how to craft my sons weapon.
We stop at a light at the end of town with for a train was blocking our way, but from here I can see the edges of the massive crater.
Sixty years ago Moon Cyrstila and Moon Venucava collided with each other. The first seven hours the sky was full of broken moon pieces, chuncks seven to ten meters of ice and moon rock fell to the land.
The moon rock liquefied after a few months then it merged with the molten lava under the surface.
The train passes and the rails raise and the bus finally moves again. The large crater walls come to view and we go into a tunnel.
We come the other side and we arrive to a meadow, we driven for another ten minutes before we arrive to a small shack where a Magic Weilder was waiting.
A massively built man with a large mustache gets on.
"I am Bishop Rowley. Here at Camp I am in charge of making you all viable candidates for the Acadamy so you all may enter the B.O.M.A Forces. We will start off your arrival with a medical check and then you'll find your living arrangements. If you succeed thru camp you'll get toothed Acadamy where you'll train for your unit specialties. There is six, Medical and Trauma Rescue. That unit is a specialized Medical unit that works with all first call units. It's what we call a detached unit, you need high Physical and Magical Markers."
"Auxiliary, Infantry, Booster And Bolster the unit was one but the work load got to much so its two and they work together. Recon, Stealth and Intelligence. Each unit has its requirements to apply. Now follow me to the medical tents." I follow at the back of the group and look around the training camp as we make a bee line to a back building.
I sneeze and miss the step down and and fall on my face. And knees, "ow." I mutter as I sit up.
"Hey are you okay!" A women with red hair and yellow eyes rushes over to me as I'm checking my knees.
"Oh you scratched up your shin. Hold on, I'll help," she knees besides me and checks me out for other wounds.
She finds five more scrapes on my elbows and palms; she heals every one.
"Thank you this is very kind of you," I say as she helps me up.
"Oh I'm Kelly Sunnit by the way. Whats your name?" She says with a twang on the what.
"I'm Amoura Stone, it's nice to meet you, Sunnit," I shake her hand and we begin walking.
"You don't meet many Stones here. Well anywhere," I nod and tell her I'm the first Stone to be Born outside the Estates.
"I'm from the Ridge Edge District, my father met his met, she was a Lycan Alpha and so he stayed out of the Estates," her eyes go wide.
"Oh your family has drama," I chuckle and tell her she has no idea.
"Enlightment me. I too got baggage and I feel better spilling my guts when I'm not alone," she says with a calm expression before smiling again.
"They say Edge Ridge District is amazing but that Ridge Edge is pure bliss. Is it true you all have eighteen hot springs and saunas?" I chuckle and nod.
"Yes the Dubi Shi city is built on volcanic lands. So we have a lot of natural hot water," I say with a smile.
"Oh do you know how to cook any of that cuisine?" I nod and tell her my about my mother's gruesome cooking lessons as we get in line.
It takes an hour before my name is called, I feel the stares on my back as I head in.
"Full name Amoura Abigail Stone? Age twenty six, birth marker is seventeeth day of the third month of the year."
"What is your race. What is both parents race." She doesn't ask she states the questions.
"I am a Magic Caster. My mother is a Lycan and my father was a Magic Caster," I state.
I nod and she asks me about my Magic levels, "the B.O.M.A has its own ranking system and we take the Offical score into consideration." I nod ask about any other differentials.
"No. Currency is some bases must me exchanged for base funds. But the B.O.M.A account you have gives you access to the base currency."
"I'm going to take your weight and then we'll do a quick phsyical. You should have shorts and a short sleeve under those sweats. Take them off and follow me to the runner. We'll check your stamina, breathing, and body under stress," I nod and I do everything she tells me.
After being put on a station runner, that had me jogging, running and walking at random intervals. I was given water before she gets into my feminine health. "What parent did you inherent your Fertility cycle from?
"I take after my mother in that prospect. I go into heat every three months, for about a week."
"When did you start?" I stop to recall.
"Shortly before my tenth year," I respond, I remember waking up to the smell of blood and a pool of my own blood. The first heat is the most painful, the stomach and body cramps from the week prior were not Shifting signs but feminine ones, my mother cried just as hard.
"Do you want a hormone supressent while in the service?" She asks and I decline. The females in my bloodline are infertile for two years before we begin our Fertility Cycle again.
"You will be mandated to go into quarantine with other female shifters every three months for the durations of your active Fertility cycle," I nod and she moves on to my fat and muscle mass.
It's another hour of tests and questions before I'm free, I'm sent to another tent where my Magic will be appraised. I walk out as Sunnit walks out.
"Man they do not like getting questions," she shakes her head as we walk over together.
"What were you questioning?"
"The side effects of the Fertility Stopper. A child hood friend was on them for about four years and now that she's been off them for two and she is still struggling trying to get her Fertility Cycle to start again," she smiles and lays a hand against her chest.
"I may not want kids right now. But I do want them. I don't wanna take the chance of ruining my Fertility," I nod and tell her my mother has a similar horror story.
"It took ten years and many Fertility treatments for my mom to be able to conceive and carry me. Even after you get your Fertility stabilized doesn't mean your body can handle the pregnancies," she looks at me horrified.
"I didn't even consider that," I nod and tell her a body is a wild thing.
"So is your mother the Magic Weilder?" She asks and I shake my head.
"No, my father is the magical weilder. Though my mother uses magic now. She's a Lycan," she looks at me surprised.
"How did a Lycan get together with a Stone? No offense. It's just an odd pairing," I chuckle and nod.
"My father use to say Stones mates are opposite personalities from their Stone counterparts for its a reflection of who the Stone is," I smile softly.
"My father never expressed that side of himself," I sigh and add my mother has been returning to her old ways too.
"Can you blame her though? After so many years of peace, having all these small civil issues popping up feels like more is going on than what is being said," Sunnit says solemnly.
"You've been effected by the Civil issues," I state the question and.she sighs.
"A bit. My district has dealt with a lot of misplaced because of dying lands, forced out due to bad farming yields, towns in the east have suffered a lot of ghoul attacks. It's bad our there Stone," we get to a booth and are given a number then told to wait.
We join another group of Recruits outside the tent at a picnic table, "its gonna be a minute. They're understaffed right now. A fire in Brahji city took two thirds of our camps medics. Apparently we are apart of a massive medical base," a man in black carbi clothes speaks up.
We introduce ourselves and they continue their talk but would give me side glances.