1st Day

*whisper*

*whisper*

Crimson woke up as she heard the light noises around her and saw Zephyr and Aris whispering at each other.

"What are you guys whispering about?" she said as she sat down and the two girls looked at her.

"Oh...We were arguing who's gonna wake you up, but since you're up you should get ready..class starts at about an hour." Aris explained making her eyes go wide.

"Oh My Gosh! Why didn't you wake me up earlier!?" She shouted as she ran to the bathroom.

After 30 minutes everyone was already done and they were headed out to the west side of the campus. while walking they were trying to compare their schedules.

"Aww. We don't have the same schedules." Ali stated.

"My first class is Ms. Harper." Aris started

"Oh wow. Training first thing in the morning, good luck girl. I got Ms. Holt." Zephyr answered.

"and I got Mr. Moore. Weapons Baby!" Ali said excitedly

"How about you Crimson?" Aris asked

"Umm. I got Ms. Baxter." Crimson answered and the three girls looked at her shocked.

"What?"

"Oh My Gosh! It's very rare for Ms. Baxter to accept new students into her class." Aris answered.

"Yep. she mostly accepts those who are in the second semester's students.." Zephyr continued.

"And she only accepts like 10 to 20 students out of more than 500 that applied." Ali finished.

Crimson was speechless as she heard what the girls told her. The four of them continued to walk until they've reached the west side..

"Well, see you later ladies," Zephyr said as she waved all of them goodbye, and the others followed as well going to the directions of their classes.

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When Crimson entered the lecture room there were only thirty students in it, so she decided to sit in the middle. She also saw the girl with who she entered the academy, which was Avery.

After another ten minutes of waiting a woman with black hair with blonde highlights entered the room and proceeded in front of them.

"Good morning. I'm Maia Baxter, you can call me Ms. Maia or Ms. Baxter. I will be your instructor for this morning." she stated while looking at all of them seriously.

"I don't have a specific subject to teach you, but what I will be teaching you is this." she continued.

She then put her laptop on the table and pressed something then a large hologram appeared and a video played. It was a video compilation of agents in their missions. The whole video was about 20 minutes and nobody dared to speak as everyone was emerged from watching it. When it ended the hologram immediately vanished.

"I can see you're all in awe." Ms. Baxter stated amid the silence.

"You've watched four teams in that videos. What similarities did you notice among the different teams?" Ms. Baxter asked.

"All their missions were dangerous." A man answered from behind.

"Of course. There is no such thing as an easy mission. Each mission given to you can be the cause of your death." Everyone turned silent.

"But that is why we're training you to be the best agent you can be so death won't even be an option. So any more answers." Ms. Baxter continued.

"U-um" Crimson muttered.

"Yes, Ms. Villarreal?"

"All of them were following a person's commands. I don't know whose command but all of them are talking through their in-ear devices."

Ms. Baxter smiled hearing her answer. That is because for the last years that she had shown those videos that detail was the most impossible to notice for it only shows not more than a second and she would have to play the video several times for her students to actually notice it but to think Ms. Villarreal was able to notice it the first time.

"That's right!" Ms. Baxter exclaimed.

"Those agents are following the command of their team leader." she continued, she then stood up and proceeded in front of her table and leaned on it.

"I will be teaching you to be a leader. I know you might be familiar with the phrase everyone is born to be a leader " and everyone nodded.

"That's bullshit. Leaders are not born they are made and not everyone has the potential to be one. There are those who are only capable of following instructions and be a team player and then there are those who have the capabilities to plan and instruct and be a leader. And you who are here today fit on the latter description. But fitting the descriptions doesn't mean you'll be a leader of a team... ... Let's all see if you are befitting to one of those we call a team captain." Ms. Baxter stated before showing a smirk to the class.

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"Oh my! Crimson you look exhausted." Zephyr commented the moment Crimson arrived at their table.

The four of them already started eating when she arrived and they can easily tell that she had a hard time...

"You okay sweetie?" Aris asked as she sat down

"Yeah, just tired." Crimson answered.

"I mean I got two hours of Ms. Baxter's class and 3 hours of Mr. Jennings and another hour with him after lunch." she continued

"Aww sorry sweetie, you'll get used to it." Ali said patting her head trying to comfort her.

"Oh wait did you say, Mr. Jenning?" Zephyr asked

"yeah"

"Oooh did you try the instant changer machine, where you can immediately change to your training clothes?" Zephyr asked excitedly

Crimson drooped down on the table before answering.

"No. he said that if an agent is on a mission we might not have time to change to our fighting clothes so he made us take the course on our regular clothes" Crimson answered depressingly.

The three girls looked at each other feeling sorry for their friend. They then gave her one of their lunches.

"Here take some of our food to make you feel better," Aris stated.

"Thanks," Crimson answered as she continued to eat her lunch.

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"So what're your schedules for this afternoon?" Ali asked the others then took out their schedules from their bags before answering

"Oh my whole afternoon is on training, just great," Ali answered defeated.

"Oh I have Chemistry. Ugh! I hate chemicals.!" Zephyr followed

"We're so doomed!!" the two girls stated in unison before hugging to comfort each other.

"How 'bout you Crimson?" Aris asked Crimson ignoring the two girls' antics.

"Uhm. I have another hour at the course then after that, the rest is on combat with Mr. Harmon." she answered.

"Aww. your 1st day is just all physical exertion huh."Aris stated feeling sorry for her.

"Well, what can I do. Don't worry when it comes to combat I'm pretty good at it." Crimson answered reassuring her friend that she'll be alright.

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Crimson entered the training room and decided to seat at the back.

"Hey." a man greeted her while smiling widely the moment she sat down.

"uhm, hi."

"I'm Keegan." the boy stated introducing himself and extending his hand.

"I'm Crimson." she answered accepting the handshake.

"Cool, now we're friends! Let's help each other in friend hehe." Keegan stated before grinning and looking in front.

'the hell just happened?!' Crimson thought while looking at the man next to her who looked at her again and smiled before facing the front again. She was about to talk to him when the professor entered and the class began.

The professor was just explaining all the basic positions for the whole time which Crimson has no idea that combat has many basic positions and some are pretty hard at that. After class Crimson immediately went out but was stopped when the man from before appeared in front of him.

"Zup Crimson!"

she was taken aback so she didn't have time to answer when another guy arrives and slap Keegan's head.

"I told you not to bother anyone." the guy stated.

"Ow! Come on Nicholas, Crimson here is a new friend I met in class," Keegan answered and the guy just rolled his eyes before giving his attention to Crimson who was staring at them.

"I'm sorry about him he's just crazy. I'm Nicholas Alastair Whit, you can just call me Nico or Alastair."

"ah yeah. I'm Crimson Anais Villarreal."

"So what are you doing here? No girls tailing you today?" Keegan asked

"I just came here to give you your knife, not as if you use it but thanks for lending it to me. I gotta go." Nico stated then left immediately after he handed Keegan the knife.

"That'll be probably the last time your seeing him." Keegan stated when he noticed that Crimson was looking at the direction Nicholas took.

"Why?"

"Let's just say he's the favorite of almost all the professors and he's very popular with women here."

"Ah." Crimson answered understanding what he meant.

"So wanna grab dinner?"

before Crimson could answer Keegan was already pulling her towards the restaurants. she just sighed thinking 'I just got myself a weird friend.'