AUTHOR'S NOTE : HI! THIS IS MY FIRST FICTION, SO I'LL NEED FEEDBACK, MAY IT BE GOOD OR BAD. ALSO PLEASE NOTE THAT ENGLISH IS NOT MY FIRST LANGUAGE SO SOME MISTAKES MAY HAVE SLIPPED TROUGH. IF SO, PLEASE POINT THEM OUT. THANKS!
On a hot sunday night of August, a young and handsome boy about 17 years old was hurrying trough the courts of a governmental buildingThe man was walking quickly towards a small gray and square building. Reaching the doors, he suddenly slowed before stopping completely, apparently unsure of what he was supposed to do.
While he was wondering if he should enter or not, the doors flew wide open and a middle aged woman with nice features and a military uniform bumped in the young man.
"Ouch, sorry Saito, the commander wants you on the floor right now!"
The boy was slowly getting up, rubbing his elbow and looking elsewhere, trying to avoid any eye contact with the lady.
"Thanks Mrs. Fisher"
Saito got in while still trying to avoid contact. The room he got in was about 500 feet long by the same thing large and was filled with technicians and computers, as well as half a dozen of people who looked so weird in the middle of all these persons all dressed in lab coat.
At the far end of the room, a place that seemed like more of a military command centre than a conference table. A severe looking man was issuing orders to a bunch of people while pointing things on 3 different screens.
Saito went straight to the group of strange looking people and asked the nearest person, a guy in his late thirties with a 3 days old beard and pink haired.
"Hey Gin! What's up"?
The guy turned around and gave a happy smile.
"Saito, there you are! I don't know, they called me while I was in the shower so they explained nothing. Probably another one of those things..."
While Saito was talking to Gin, the man who seemed like the general got down of the command zone to the eccentric bunch.
"You're attention ladies and gentlemen, I called you here tonight because we have detected a new anomaly. As you all know, as the 13th division of the UCF (Author's note: united coalition forces), we are tasked with taking care of all those anomalies that are called [Tears of Pandemonium]. You all are here as new members since you received an Imprint."
Gin bent over to Saito and whispered; "Is he really forced to do the intro speech all over again for every newbie coming here"?
"Well, I remember when you got here. You were pretty happy to have that newbie intro speech..."
Gin's face turned a bit red while he shut his mouth and the commander went on with the speech.
"Aya, you're new here. What do you know about the [Tears]"?
The girl who answered was indeed a new member, with long black hairs, black eyes and small stature. She was the best example of a typical japanese schoolgirl.
" Well, Professor Yamataki told me that [Tears of Pandemonium] are sorts of gateways to other worlds called "planes". He also told me that they can be found anywhere on earth since our world is what he called the [Pandemonium Lock]. I didn't understand everything but I thought it was important. He also talked about something called the [Imprint] but I did not quite understand that either.
The commander said in a fatherly fashion (which resulted in the others looking at him weirdly):
"It's okay Aya, you'll have time to learn later. For now, Gin, come here and tell us what's your [Imprint].
Gin smirked and backed of a bit. Saito knew what was coming and went hiding with the commander and the rest of the group who already saw Gin's [Imprint].
"Aya, you should do like that bunch over there..."
"O...Okay"
After Aya retreated, Gin went to an area seemingly made for the sole purpose of demonstrating [Imprints].
[Tear of Pandemonium : Sicarius] [Imprint On]
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At this moment, in a radius of 10 meters around Gin, the armed concrete which composed the floor was pushed down by 10 inches deep. On the ground, thousands of holes the size of a needle appeared.
Seeing the questions floating in the eyes of Aya, Saito said;
"Gin's [Imprint] is a really powerful one. It increases the gravity around him while strengthening him so it won't crush him. Even a nuke couldn't go trough this guy. As for the holes on the ground, try to guess."
"Hum, another effect of his [Imprint]?"
"Actually, it's a side effect of the gravity field that surrounds him. It's dust."
"Wait. You say that he increase the gravity enough to transform dust in a lethal weapon?"
"Aye."
Aya gazed at Gin with amazement while he asked Saito to toss something at him. The young man took a gun out of his jacket and shot Gin multiple times. The sound resounded in the building loud and clear, just covered by Aya's screech. Saito looked at her with amusement in his eyes.
"It's okay Aya, you can stop now."
"WHY DID YOU SHOOT HIM! HE COULD'VE DIED!
"Nah, he'll be alright."
Saito looked so calm that Aya thought that maybe he was right. At this moment, Saito yelled at Gin.
"'Kay Gin, toggle it off, I won't shoot you more!"
"You better or else I'll kill you!"
Hearing the sound of Gin's voice made Aya's mind calm. He was still alive after all! The commander came from behind and started to laugh.
"Don't worry Aya, Gin's an Ares [Imprint]. He won't die this easily and if it would happen by any misfortune, we're covered for it anyway."
Aya raised her hand as if she was at school.
"Please, Aya." "You don't have to raise your hand to talk you know?"
"Yes mister commander."
"And call me Mr. Tanaka, not commander."
"Yes mister comman... Tanaka!"
Saito and Gin were giggling.
"Nobody calls you Mr. Tanaka, pops!"
"Yhea, we call you pops, Eyebrows and I even recall Ember calling you Honeybee!"
Now the two boys were laughing openly and the commander was smiling while throwing daggers by his eyes.
"You like good jokes Saito?" "Well I've got a nice on for you." "You'll be Aya's caretaker until she gets assigned to a platoon!" "She can sleep with Myu in her room." "Dismissed."
As commander Tanaka issued his order, Saito stopped laughing with a look of despair on his face. Gin, him, was still laughing.
"Aw man, sucks to be you!"
"Why did he do that to me!" "He said that you were the last one I'll need to pamper!"
"You didn't pamper me?!" "Even in the Navy, the training is less harsh!"
"That's because you're a sissy, Gin."
"Well, the sissy doesn't have a trainee on his back and bid you farewell!"
On those words, Gin left, leaving Aya and Saito alone with the technicians. Saito turned over to face Aya who's face were as red as a cherry.
"Am I that much of a bother?"
"Well, it's not that I hate you or anything, it's just that I'm not that good with people." "That, and the fact that I wasn't supposed to have another trainee before one whole year." "Pops is going to pay later but for now, how about we get going?" "Myu's going to be happy to see another girl."
Aya blushed even more.
"You're living with a girl?" "In the same room?"
"Well, first off, it's not a room but more like an apartment and secondly, Myu was my little sister."
Aya thought he may have made a mistake in pronouncing "was". It was a bunch of weird people after all and they were probably foreigners by some way...He probably wanted to say "Myu is my little sister".
And together, they went towards Saito's apartment.