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SiB #1 Kensuki's Journey
09.08.02, 08:48:58
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At long last I found the story I said I would post a while back (prologue is in FanFic if interested)Hey remember when I told some of you guys that I lost this certain story I've been working on, well today of all days I found it  I'm not putting the prologue as its in the Fan Fic section(go there if you want to read it) but just the first chapter enjoy
Chapter 1
It Starts
I remember when it all started. It was a great time I know it was. Never had any regrets, up to this point at least. Then again I haven't been here that long. I'm thankful for at least being allowed to stand before you, or to be standing up anyway. You know that short feeling you have when you think you're going to die and then again you don't. I just had that feeling, not so long ago. It felt like time was consuming everything you knew, seen, or ever wanted to do. Like this shadow over my body telling me it was the end. Fortunately it wasn't and for that I'm grateful.
I never thought I'd turn out to be like this, then again when I was younger I only wondered what the future held in store for me. It was nothing I couldn't handle, or so I thought.
My name is Chris Shooter. I have two older cousins Arison and Arisona Shooter. Arisona was the oldest. He had long brown hair and always wore a long brown coat with a white T-shirt with some jeans. When I was younger I often wondered why he wore that attire. He had a good heart. You could never stop him from doing what he wanted to do. And his younger brother Arison had some blue hair shortly cut. His attire was stranger then Arisona's. Arison was more of the conceded type. He thought he was better then everyone. Sometimes he couldn't help being a snob. But deep down he'd try to hide how he really felt about others. Both of those men changed my life forever.
But before that happened we lived in this city called Casanro. Casanro is on the Norbondi continent, which is the north-most continent of the world. From that the continent's split into three districts, rather governments with each one owned by a certain blood relative of the Norbondi clan. The three districts were Eastwood, Nermos and Casanro. It was a run down place. It always had some kind of crime going on. Even the police force sucked. A crime would've happened an hour ago and here they come rolling. The governor of "Casanro", Dobe Myers wasn't much of an authority figure. People would boo him from time to time when he'd make a promise and never keep it. Myers usually looked for interns to have affairs with just to keep him busy. Casanro wasn't that bad of a place, despite the hearing of sirens and gunshots everyday and night. I liked living there anyway. I stayed there with my Uncle Steve and my Aunt Kim. They were kind folks. A bit harsh at times but they were always there for me. My parents were killed in a plane accident 7 years back when I was 14. It was back in 1998 just before the new millennium. I still missed them to this very day. My father worked for the military and my mother worked for a law firm. I stayed with my Aunt and Uncle right after the funeral we had for them.
The year now was 2005 and Casanro wasn't too much nicer. It was more ran down as if it were in ruins. The streets would be torn and buildings would be left in ruins due to constant arsons and riots against Myers.
It was about 6:24 am. I was lying in my bed with my eyes wide open. But I just didn't want to get up, for anything. I really didn't have anything to get up for; besides that army recruit I had joined after high school. I've been in it for about 3 years. I haven't had any problems but most of my friends went off to college, so many of them saw futures they wanted. I never really knew what I wanted. After awhile I got up and got in the shower and started thinking back to all the times people asked me what have I wanted to do and such and all these memories even with my dad coming to my head telling me to make something out of myself. I just stared down at the drain trying to forget such things. I heard a pounding at the bathroom door. It was Arisona who came to remind me to hurry up. He was in the recruit as well. I still don't know why he joined. One day from now I'm sure I'll know but until then I can only wonder.
"You ready to go?" Arisona asked. He was standing against the wall with his arms crossed with a bored look over his face.
"Yeah, can I get dressed first dude?" I replied. I went into the back room to put on my uniform. I took one last look in the mirror and asked myself what was I getting into. I just stopped and ran outside and hopped into Arisona's Sedan and we drove off.
"Where's Arison?" I asked.
"He's already there."
"He joined too?"
"Yeah didn't he tell you?"
"Not really, he just mentioned that he had big plans, so did you."
"Yeah we have something in store." I looked to him strangely. They always had a way of keeping things from me so I wouldn't know, like a surprise.
"What is it?"
"You'll find out sooner then you think." "Come on Arisona tell me,"
"If I told you now, it wouldn't be a surprise would it?" He snickered to himself. "It'll all happen once you graduate, don't worry." Graduation from the basic training camp was a week away for me, and the persons who enlisted. I enlisted about 6 months ago after boot camp. In a sense I was kind of nervous because then I remembered that I would have enough honors to graduate to become a mercenary. You see mercenaries are how the Norbondi continent brings in the capital. Which is why you would constantly see any kind of military institutes, even more then residential areas. A lot of soldiers like myself usually would join up just as a basic means of supporting ones self unless you were good in any other kind of work. My cousins, Arisona and Arison are mercenaries as well. Usually they would just be away on jobs from time to time across other cities and countries and who knows where. I didn't know very much about the mercenary field, but eventually I would find out exactly what they were all about.
2 hours had pasted. I grew bored of looking at the constant freeway signs and Arisona's whistling. I twiddled my fingers on the dashboard hoping to take my mind off the irritations that went back and forth on the freeway. As we pulled off the freeway exit that just came up, we drove towards a field of soldiers in uniform following their drill sergeant's commands. As we pulled up to the yellow Tollgate a women in uniform greeted Arisona.
"Hello sir." The women said in salute.
Arisona said nothing and nodded to her with a smile. Then we slowly drove past as she raised the gate. We parked next to a shabby bunker. It reeked of rust and common usage and had a smell of pine that we were used to. I shared it with two other cadets. One of them is a woman, by the name of Kimi. She's about 22 years old and somewhat of a violent girl. At times she'd let her emotions do the talking at the shooting range, and when I'd sometimes watch her, I would see fear in her eyes and sometimes anger. Why I do not know but all and all I could always rely on her, most of the time.
The other cadet went by the name of Hybrid. In a sense that was a very weird name, he had no last name either. In fact when he first came to the camp that was all he could remember. He was involved in some freak accident in another camp quite a few miles away. Despite of that I learned a lot from Hybrid. Hybrid is about 27, with spiky blonde hair with eyes like crimson red. At first he looked kind of evil but not really. Hybrid is actually a mercenary and has been on a lot of missions. At night he'd tell me of the details and give me advice for reference. Just the thought of seeing them made me want to go in there even more. I stepped out the car and walked toward the bunk.
"Chris I'm going to the quad to meet my guys, I'll see you later." Said Arisona who seemed to be in a hurry running the opposite direction.
"All right later!" I said going into the bunk. I walked inside to see Kimi sitting alone on the right hand side of the room looking inside the chest. She turned toward me as the door closed.
"Hey Chris, it's about time you got here!" She said closing the chest behind her.
"Yeah sorry I didn't mean to be late." I replied.
"You know that our last drill is tomorrow, right?"
"No, I had no idea, I thought it wasn't supposed to be until next month."
"I thought so too but the commander's moved it up for some reason." I sat down on my bunk as I went through my drawers.
"So Kimi are you gonna be ready?" I asked.
"I probably will Shooter, but remember this is going to be on everything we went over." In spite of hearing that I thought I'd head over to firearms control to make sure I didn't shoot like a mall security guard. The sergeants would get pissed if we weren't as accurate as we always are. (Shall I continue...) |
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"Some things are never left finished...other times you just gotta finish them yourself"
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Oh, snap. I'm back online.
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(Chapter 1 continued)
"Hmm I think I'll head to F.C. you coming?"
"I probably will, let's go." We both got up and walked outside toward F.C. It was located right next to the administration building. F.C. was where a lot of agents and mercenaries got a name for themselves. Arisona most certainly did. His marksmanship skills surpassed everyone in his class. Even Arison couldn't get as high as Arisona did. This year I planned on achieving more then Arisona. Not that we were rivals. Of course family, but I just wanted to know what I could do. To this very day a lot try to shoot like Arisona but to no avail. We walked in F.C. to see a bunch of cadets crowding over one range. Fighting over their place in line. I wondered what the hell was going on. I leave for one week and it's chaotic in the shooting range. I walked over to the chief firearm engineer Thorn. Thorn was at one time an agent a while ago. He was always a good person and would get serious at times. Soon after he graduated he wanted to stay behind and work at the F.C. Why I do not know, but it think it had to involve him with the ball that happened right before he graduated. So Thorn was fixing the range and at a very slow pace.
"Thorn great to see you." I said. He was under a posted target fixing it.
"Shooter that you, give me a hand." He replied. I eased down and handed him tools one by one.
"What the heck happened to the shooting range Thorn?"
"It was kind of scary but in a sense disturbing."
"Well out with it."
"It seems that someone has beaten out your cousin's record Chris."
"No way that could never happen!"
"But it did, that's why everyone outside is in a uproar, plus the shooter really took it to the range and hard!" It all made sense, I didn't want to believe it at first but Arisona would be shocked and downright hurt if he found out someone beat his record.
"Yeash, I don't believe this, who is the guy?"
"That's the thing no one knows, he came in late at night and made a late entry but didn't even put in his name, we also had the whole thing on camera but he was wearing a friggin robe."
"A robe! How can anyone shoot in the range wearing a robe?"
"I don't know Chris, but does Arisona know?"
"I'm not sure, he told me he was going to the quad."
"Well I know he'll feel destroyed but for now let's get this thing back to working order!" After awhile we fixed the range. I ran back to find Kimi sitting down at the food stand.
"Kim you won't believe this." I said.
"What happened, why is everybody acting so weird?"
"Some guy beat Arisona's shooting range record."
"No way, are you serious!"
"Yeah, I didn't believe it myself, but it's true."
"But how..."
"Enough, lets just go practice, I'd rather not think about it now." We walked over to the gun stalls and started our rounds. But I couldn't stop thinking about it. Some guy just came and beat Arisona's record like that. That's what was going around everyone's minds at this moment. It was like someone was killed. Everyone in the camp looked up to Arisona but now after hearing, rather seeing something like this, it was like a hero dying, at least to me. (End of Chapter 1...more on the way.) |
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| Sweet, dude.... You better keep'em coming. |
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BB echoes the thoughs of his King.....This is Great CS... |
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Quoth Albel Nox:
Imho? it's emo, douche.So if you're going to call me emo do it right.not imao, ihmo, or imo, but EMO.
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Heres more...
Chapter 2
The Training and what it came to...
It was around 7:00 when Kimi and I returned from F.C. As we walked through the camp everyone was as silent as a mouse. Hardly anyone said a word. Arisona finally caught a hold and said nothing. But I could tell he felt destroyed by his reputation going down in flames like that. I was in the bunk getting my equipment together for tomorrow morning. I tried to focus more on my task then the somewhat tragedy. Then in walked Hybrid walking toward his bed, as he looked tired.
"Yo Hybrid you heard?" Said Kimi.
"Who hasn't, I'm not even trying to think of it anymore." Hybrid replied.
"Shooter I hope you'll be ready for tomorrow." Said Kimi.
"Ready as I'll ever be Kimi, and just think we'll be mercenaries, if we do pass that is."
"Come on we can do it Shooter, just think positive after everything we've been though this is where it counts most."
"Yeah you sure do know how to put pressure on a guy." We snickered for a moment but then turned back to getting ourselves ready.
"Hybrid, how was it, I mean the last drill you went on before you became a agent for hire." I said.
"Wasn't too hard, it was an actual situation involving stimulants as always." He replied.
Stimulants were computer-generated soldiers that were as real to the touch. We would always train with them before but then we just trained with stimulants that didn't know how to use firearms correctly and often miss. They also lacked survival skills, which made them easier to defeat. Of course there were other ones, but they were of a higher difficulty rating, making them harder and harder to kill.
"So this should be an easy run right?"
"Not exactly Shooter, these Stimulants can do a lot more then shoot correctly, but they can do things humans can't do."
"All right your starting to scare me, explain."
"These stimulants can walk on walls for one."
"The hell! That's impossible!"
"They also have enhanced senses, only the necessary ones for killing like smell, hearing and of course sight."
"Oh my god, and you're saying you killed one?"
"Yeah Shooter it is possible, but you really have to think on your feet for this one, and don't think that a certain weapon will do them in either, it's all a matter of outsmarting them."
"I'll find a way, but how did you do it."
"Sorry but I can't tell you how I did it, if I did it'll take the fun out of it." He laughed. I tried to find the subject funny but I still worried about this part of the test. As I got in bed after turning the lights off I wondered about what tomorrow would bring. About how things would turn out after what happened today. Kimi who wasn't asleep turned to me from her bed.
"Chris, tomorrow we report to the quad all right." She said.
"Yeah, yeah I know." I said. I slowly went to sleep in a soft slumber.
It was about 5:47am when I got up. The sun came in from the window behind me woke me up. I stretched after taking a reassuring breath. I walked over into the bathroom and took a shower getting ready for today, besides today was the last test. In a sense I was scared, but ready. Around 5:55am both Kimi and I were ready. We both raced to get to the quad because all cadets taking today's final exam had to report there by six. We made it just in time as the lines were being assembled. Kimi and I got in formation as the main doors opened. Out came a man in a blue uniform with a cape. His name was Lee Mitchell, the highest-ranking officer in the whole camp. He was a mercenary until he chose not to be anymore. There wasn't a cadet that never became nervous in his presence. Mitchell was known for having a bad temper with new recruits. Luckily we've been around long enough to be on his good side.
"Today is the day you all have been waiting for. Today I will see if you're meant to surpass all this rigorous training." Mitchell said. He walked towards me looking me over then paced forward.
"I'm sure some of you must have heard about this test, well it is to determine whether you have skills to be recruited by the Norbondi clan or other fractions." Mitchell walked back on the porch and looked to everyone in the eye nervously.
"This is your task, you will be paired up with your teammate and each of you will be required to cross the forest and wetlands to turn on the power generator on the other side, and last high tail it back here as fast as you can." He said as he pointed to a display board. The board had our location and where the generator is. Normally we'd do the same thing, but today I knew there was a catch.
"Today, you will be in a combat firearm situation against our best prototype stimulant." Said Mitchell. A hologram appeared next to Mitchell. It was a stimulant of red dressed in a black jumpsuit. They'd come in all kinds of clothing from man to women to child even, just to let us know never to underestimate our target. Believe it or not the stimulant was an exact replica of Mitchell. Cadets smiled seeing it as they felt like shooting it, at least I wanted to.
"This is the Sentry, and yes it looks exactly like me, and cadets here's a catch I programmed it myself, so I expect no less. Now it is time for the teams." I glanced over to Kimi as she was shaking her head nervously. Mitchell called the first team up and the rest of us just went to sit down just to wait. We glanced upward to the camera that showed the two cadets as they made their way towards the power generator. After the first 6 seconds of encounter with the Sentry both cadets were shot within the instant. Every cadet watching including Kimi and I were silent as both fell to the ground with a loud thud, louder then the sound system by which it was interpreted. I watched as team after team being hounded by the sentry. Mitchell had a smile on his face as he was snickering to himself. I just wanted to shut him up. I even saw some cadets running away from the sentry. Of course he didn't shoot them dead, stunned yes but not dead. No one ever did get past the sentry, one couple did get past, but the sentry ended it all just when they got back halfway. From watching it, it seemed that the sentry never started his attack until anyone pasted the wetlands.
After the countless slaughters of the sentry, it was at last our turn. Right before Kimi and I left Arisona came.
"Chris take this, it should help you." He said. He handed me a silver magnum revolver. It had very fine craftsmanship too. I saw him use this gun at the shooting range all the time. I wondered why he was giving this to me. He looked to me in my eyes and nodded. I nodded back as well.
"I will do my best." Kimi waved for me to hurry, so I ran to catch up.
"Nice revolver Shooter, Arisona sure is a nice guy." Said Kimi.
"Yeah, be on your guard or we'll never be mercenaries. We were halfway through the forest treading as fast as possible. We reached the end as we saw the wetlands.
"Kimi this is where he's gonna come." I said.
"So how are we going to do this?"
"I say we go head on and take him."
"No Shooter, too risky he has a good shot."
"Well let's split, he can't get us both." Then all of a sudden gunshots started blazing the dirt between us.
"Crap he's here!"
"Run the opposite way around until one of us hits the generator, go now!" The sentry dropped down from a tree branch. He held two SMG's (small machine guns) in hand. I was running as fast as I could. Although this was a simulation, it was as real as I can't explain. He was gaining on me fast shooting and shooting. So far he didn't land a hit on me, but could've if I didn't stop running. I couldn't keep this up much longer. My legs were trembling as I was jumping after branch after branch of fallen trees. I rolled forward and quickly turned around. In the instant I drew my magnum revolver the sentry was gone. I heard nothing except for birds and nature surrounding me. I heard a snap of a twig a couple of feel away from me. I just stood there afraid to turn around at first. I slowly looked down to see a puddle, in the reflection I saw the sentry getting ready to shoot me. I glanced to the corner of my eye to make sure I wasn't wrong. He moved slower and closer to my backside. I quickly turned and shot him in the chest. The sentry stood there shocked and then went transparent. I turned around to hear my name being called. It was Kimi who was calling my name as she ran towards me.
"Shooter I turned it on, let's go!" Once I heard that I that we both ran back to base I didn't think I had a chance against that thing. It was kind of amazing to defeat that thing. Despite that it wasn't real, the feeling of killing it was just plain up great.
As Kimi and I returned to camp, the cadets looked to us strangely, as did Mitchell.
"Well you two passed, I am proud and yet discouraged that the rest of you didn't pass." Said Mitchell. He looked to us strangely staring us up and down.
"You two report to my office in 3 hours, Dismissed!" I could tell that Mitchell was shocked, since he was at a loss for words. The cadets that fell in battle kept on giving Kimi and I praise for defeating the Sentry. I wanted to believe that I was skilled enough, but it seemed somewhat easy.
"I can't believe we did it Shooter were going to be mercenaries, aren't you happy!" Said Kimi who was as happy as she could be.
"Yeah, I gotta thank Arisona." I said.
"Should we go and tell Hybrid?"
"Of course, he'll freak out, especially when he hears of how I shot the sentry!"
"Speaking of, how did you kill the Sentry?"
"I just used that old solider instinct and bam I got him."
"Whatever you say Shooter." Said Kimi rolling her eyes. We both ran back to our bunk to see Hybrid. We found him packing up his bags. |
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