I walk into the Dorm with my gear and luggage. I see three Women milling about. I drop my bags off and look at them. "Hi, uh, I'm Neapolia. And your names would be," I ask. A girl stands up. She has Dark Brown hair, fair skin, Average height and build, and green eyes "I'm Victoria Krissen, Born in Britannia my father got a governorship over in Vikinglandia and we ended up getting a new last name when he married my mother."
I reply, "Interesting, I guess". Another whom was laying on her bed speaks up " I'm, Angela von Saxonia, Father is Governor of Saxonia." She laughs. She was tall, slender, pretty with Blonde hair and blue eyes. "Okay, Nice to meet ya Victoria.", I say. The third stayed quiet for a bit then looked around as everyone was staring at her. She sighs and says, " I'm Astrid Olsen from Vikinglandia nothing special about me or my family." We all continue to stare. She was a beautiful lady with a faint scar on her right brow. She had dirty blonde hair, grey eyes, slightly smaller than normal and had a fit, toned, and slender body. We all laughed as she yelled in frustration "WHAT!" I tell her, "Nothing just. I guess we were wondering what took ya so long." That's when all four of us giggle together. I look at them, "Well ladies we have pass for this weekend. We should go watch a film at the theatre or hit the Club." Astrid looks at us and says, "If so my brother is coming." We all giggle except Astrid. "I'm serious", she says as me, Victoria and Angela say in unison, "Sure." I ask her, "Whom is your brother?"
"Ragnar Olsen. He joined up with me or more like me with him. It'll be smart of us to bring a strong man."
I Giggle, "Sure, sure. Let's go meet this 'Big Strong Man' ", I say mockingly.
She sighs as we all get ready and Proceed to find him.
Eventually we find a very muscular man with Gray eyes and dirty blonde hair, He's tall handsome and carried and air with him. He was laughing it up with a Dark skinned, Brown eyed, dark wavy hair, and average built man. Next to the two was a Slightly dark man small and slender with dark straight black hair, with light green eyes. Astrid walked up to the tallest shouting, "Ragnar!" He Shout back arms wide open with a glint in his eye, "Astrid! What brings you here." She gives him the run down on what's up and he asks if Xavier ,the dark skinned individual, and Ali ,the Slightly dark skinned one, can come. I sighed and said,"Sure." We all proceeded to the Theatre.
We enjoyed the theatre then hit some clubs. Ragnar was very gregarious though his sister was not. We all laughed and had fun. We figured out we were all in the same squad. We eventually decided to call it a night.
The next day came around and we were all busy getting books and preparing for the first day of class. We had no clue what was ahead of us.
three o clock in the morning we hear.
"Rise and Shine! Up, Up everyone Up and outside NOW!" We all threw on our fatigues and ran outside in the pouring rain. As we stood in formation. The Centurion started smoking the hell out of us. Then made us go on a five mile run which I barely survived. It was seven thirty before we got back inside to shower, change, eat and head to class. I was tired all day. It didn't get over till eighteen thirty and we had a lot of studying and homework to do. We gossiped and joked around a little. I even cooked for us, but we all were focused on the task at hand, Studying.
We spent the next three months getting smoked, learning, and having a little fun here and there. Me and Ragnar grew a very personal relationship. Though it seemed Astrid was a bit jealous. I didn't know why and was too afraid of damaging our friendship to ask. Eventually came sword combat training. Which I sucked at. I spent late nights studying and practicing. I was never good with PT and fighting. Though I excelled in Academic, Tactical, and Strategic studies and doctrine.
Then one day Ragnar came up to me "Neapolia?"
"yes"
"I see you're struggling with the physical ,uh, stuff. If you don't get better you will flunk. And I'm struggling with the Academics, if I don't do better I'll flunk. So what if we tutor each other so we can both pass?"
"Sure"
I was excited deep down for more time with Ragnar.
We spent many late afternoons together teaching each other. He didn't go easy. I'd show up to class with bruises from training and he'd show up tired as hell from studying, but we were both improving. Our Class started with 500 Cadets. We were down to 250 and time for the finals and quals were around the corner.
After six months of training we were finally right around the corner. I went to sleep thinking of the future.