Eating habits

Ben was elegantly eating the food on his plate , whereas Allison was gobbling down everything like a monster.

Ben looked at her and was wondering whether it was the taste of the food which made her like this or whether she was really hungry to gobble down food like this.

While Ben was looking at her strange behaviour and taking a bite, she noticed Ben looking at her with mouth full of food, so she quickly gulped down her food,

'Sorry Ben , It's been long since I had a proper meal from my place and this meal is really tasty ,Want a bite?', Allison asked.

Ben didn't know how to answer her strange question as it had been a while since he had a conversation with a girl and this was a strange question for him.

'Just have a bite come on',Allison urged Ben.

'Okay, I'll take some', Ben replied and started cutting a piece of the duck using a knife🔪, and also took some pemmican ,and started tasting them.

'Wow , it is really good no wonder you stuffed your face like that',said Ben brightening up after tasting the wonderful dish.

Allison blushed a little ,and immediately started eating again.

'Where are you from? Are you from some country in North America?',asked Ben out of curiosity as he knew he had read once ,pemmican was a food which came from that side.

'Nope , I am from Antarctica ',she replied with a small smile.

'Wow , Don't think I am asking a weird question, But how do you guys survive there? Won't it be cold always?',asked Ben and offered a slice of his sandwich to her,which she gladly accepted.

'Well! we have specialized mods to survive there, so it would never be too cold for us there, and we don't get this same kind of environment filled with trees and creatures , it would be filled with ice , polar bears, penguins, and other mutated beasts and it is hard to find other humans other than our tribe. So we got used to that life...', Allison replied, savouring the sandwich Ben had just given her.

'This sandwich thing is good, I am not so used to food around here ,as I arrived here only yesterday night, so this is my first time eating a sandwich...and it's really good',Allison said eating the sandwich slowly unlike when she ate her meal.

Ben smiled at her.

They soon finished up all their eating ,and called on to the server bot to clean up their table.

'Thank you ,cadets ',the server bot said and went out.

The other tables were still busy and students were still eating down, while the server bots for each tables patiently waited.

It was half past eight and only thirty minutes was left before their first class.

So Ben decided to go to his room and check on Oreo.

'Well, I want to go to my room to check on my beast, see you in class',Ben said and moved towards his room.

'I am also going to my room to check on my beast, I wonder if they gave them proper food',said Allison.

They both entered the elevator on zing boards.

'So on what floor is your room?', asked Allison selecting the sixth floor.

'My room is also on the sixth floor ,618 ,What is your room number? ',Ben asked .

'I am on room 617 , what a coincidence?', Allison replied with a small smile.

They both arrived on the sixth floor, and went to their respective rooms.

Ben went in to his room and called Oreo and checked to see whether he was doing fine in his room. He knocked on the door and could hear some strange noises.

'Oreo ,are you in there?',Ben asked anxiously as he hadn't heard Oreo chatter to him for sometime after he had left the auditorium.

He heard no reply ,so he was about to open the door.

'No, don't open the door !,'Oreo shouted.

'Okay ,I won't , What's happening ? ',asked Ben as it was strange seeing Oreo like this.

'For my breakfast they sent , 25 mice through the food vent. I ate 23 but two mice are hiding somewhere, Argh....Caught one',replied Oreo .

'Okay , I am going to my class just wanted to check you , Bye',said Ben and went out.

It was 8:45 and he had to go to the main building for his class.

He quickly got on a zing board and sailed to the elevator,

'Wait a second Ben ,I am coming',Allison said and was following him from her room.

They both got in the elevator and moved fast as they could towards their classroom.

'So what did they give your beast to eat',asked Ben while they were moving.

'They gave 5 ducks for each beast',replied Allison deep in thought.

'They gave 25 mice for my beast',said Ben while realising that something was strange with the whole food system in the academy.

They had reached their classroom on time , so they entered the classroom and could see it was filled leaving only two seats, so they went and sat there.

As they sat the time was 9:00 am and the staff for the first subject entered the classroom.

He was a handsome burly man with brown skin and no hair on his head. He was about 6'7 and was looking at them ,analysing everyone and was looking at a digi pad in his hand.

The black eyes of the teacher stared at every single student in the class.

'Good morning cadets , I am your sergeant , Mr . Drake Dwayne and I would be assessing and leading you through body training for the rest of this year.'

'Good morning sir ', replied all the students.

'Okay, let me start my class.

I see some of you have honed your body to the extreme and some of you have not ,'

the teacher said and continued

'In body training , we would be focusing on maintaining and improving your bodybuilding.

You are from the support class, as you know support class members have to support both the flight class and fighter class , so your body must be made to change into the perfect existence to accommodate your mods as well as activate your elemental power and it applies for your beasts too.

So the first thing you are going to change is your eating habits, In war ,you will face unfavorable conditions and you may or may not be able to secure good food,

So everyday you will be made to eat food on a specific theme, while you eat your food you must be able to eat food to your daily body needs and you must know about every food you are eating.

I have updated the information booklet on your digi books, make sure you read everything from small insects to big beasts',said the teacher and looked at them for their expressions.

Every student was showing a different expression and was looking at the teacher with worried faces, except for Ben and Allison as they had kinda figured out something was going on.