Chapter 7: Pain

The next morning was a painful one for Mallory she had to wake up and head to school again but besides that her shoulders hurted from her blood being drawn.

But since she was told to keep training a secret she couldn't talk about it to anyone.

There was a feeling in her gut to just call home sick as a result of relieving her shoulder pain but she was afraid of her mom knowing why she's doing this.

So despite all the pain going through her she still decides to go to school.

When arriving at school she heads to the nurses office.

"Hi my name is Mallory Kra. I'm a new student, and I'm coming here for an ice pack." she asked the office lady.

"Ok then, can you please fill here?" the lady asked as she showed me the paper Mallory was supposed to sign.

"Sure." Mallory said after receiving the paper.

"Welp! Here you go." The office lady had the ice pack in her hands and was handing it to Mallory.

"Thank you." Mallory replied.

"You're welcome." The office lady replied.

Mallory rushed to Class 3-D. When she finally reached there she was stopped by a Drill Sergeant.

"Trainee, you're dead where's your Battle Buddy?" it was Drill Sergeant Gutiérrez who said that.

"We're coming." Seth and Mark were the two who said this.

"Trainee when you arrive here. You. Should. Always. Come. With. A. Battle. Buddy." Drill Sergeant Gutiérrez told her. "Do you hear me?"

"Yes Drill Sergeant!" Mallory yelled.

"Good! Now get the heck off of my face." Drill Sergeant Gutiérrez yelled.

"I forgot to tell you you're supposed to have a Battle Buddy whenever you're near this place my bad." Anna said to Mallory as she watched her taker her seat.

"Yeah you really forgot to do that." Mallory told her.

"So today you're getting you're shots right?" Anna asked her.

"Yeah, D'oh!" she replied.

"Not only that but you will be receiving your assigned weapon and other equipment." Anna told her.

"As in what?" Mallory asked.

"Because of the numerous cases of school shootings, the school forbid the army to make us use guns as our weapons so we submit an alternate weapon in return." Anna said to Mallory.

"Like what?" Mallory asked.

"Stuff like Swords, blades, axes, knives, and even chainsaws." Anna explained.

"Woah! I had no idea." Mallory said in shock.

"Yeah. I my weapon is a hammer. In which I just a hammer when it comes to attacking." Anna tells Mallory.

"That's cool. I know what I want my weapon to be." Mallory tells Anna.

"What is it?" Anna asks.

"It's a scythe I've always loved the idea of having one since I read Soul Eater, so I've always wanted to have a scythe ever since." Mallory tells Anna.

"That's great to hear." Anna says back to Mallory.

"Cut the chitchat you too!" someone yelled.

"Oh God! Not Gina." Anna stuttered.

"Why are you worried about her?" Mallory asked.

"Because she's literally a Drill Sergeant wannabe when our Drill Sergeants aren't here." Anna explains, "I hate her so much."

Gina was not in a mood to her any of the class talking so when she heard talking all over the classroom and gave a giant yell saying, " SHUT THE HELL UP!"

"I don't care about what you say you're not a Drill Sergeant." one of her classmates yelled.

"Shut up! Jett." Gina hissed.

"Well you're the one that's supposed to be shutting up." Jett yelled.

"Please both of you should shut up!" the class leader Lily said as she gave both of them a chop. "You guys are honestly pathetic. You're acting like you're the people in charge when the Drill Sergeants aren't here when you damn know it's my job."

Lily had to check everyone to see if they were following class instructions, she caught Leah sleeping and Simon being on school inappropriate sites.

"I should as the Drill Sergeants to take your phone away from you." Lily snatching Simon's phone away.

"But I need it." Simon.

"Well why don't you use it to go on site that are more appropriate for school." Lily asked her.

Simon said something that made Lily laugh.

Lily gave Simon's phone back to him.

"Sweet!" Simon said.

"Just tell me you will try to avoid doing something like that again?" Lily asked.

"Got it!" Simon replied.

Then the bell rang and Senior Drill Sergeant Griffin appeared, "Trainees y'all know what time is it?"

"Head outside for PT Senior Drill Sergeant!" Seth yelled.

"That's great to hear Seth." Senior Drill Sergeant Griffin replied.

"Senior Drill Sergeant, can I not do PT my shoulder hurts after getting my blood drawn yesterday?" Mallory asked.

"Yeah you're lucky you have a valid excuse because if you didn't I would've said no." Senior Drill Sergeant Griffin told her.

After PT was all over Mallory had to head back to Fort Tomlin for one last thing: Receiving her shots.

She still had that ice pack on her should and it still hurted her. Anna was her Battle Buddy again so that was something.

When they finally arrived Mallory was ready to take her shots. She has always loath shots ever since she was little but she knew after all of the pain was over it was worth it.

When she had her first shot Mallory yelled.

"It's okay." the shot taker told her, "We only got a few more to go."

"Great!" Mallory said in her head.

Mallory received five more shots after her final one she fainted.

When she woke up she was in a hospital bed.

"Holy nuts! what happened?" Mallory asked.

"You passed out for 15 minutes after taken your final shot." Anna told her, "the shot taker nearly thought you died after your final shot."

"Well good thing I'm not." Mallory replied.

"We have one last thing before you're officially ready to join this class." Anna tells Mallory.

"What is it?" Mallory asked

"Getting your equipment. I didn't know you would forgot about that." Anna replied.

"Mallory it's time to for you to that the Oath of Enlistment." Drill Sergeant Harvey tells her.

"Yes Drill Sergeant!" Mallory told him.

After taking the oath Mallory was officially a trainee for Class 3-D.

"I've never been so proud in my entire life." Mallory says.

"Don't worry it only gets better from here." Drill Sergeant Harvey tells her.

After that it was time to head to Central Issue Facilities to receive Mallory's equipment.

Mallory's back hurted carrying everything in a huge bookbag called a rucksack.

"Yeah, you're gonna get used to this." Drill Sergeant Harvey tells her.

"No kidding" Mallory replied.

And last but not least it was time to head to the armory so that Mallory can receive her weapon.

As she stated in class she wanted to have a scythe.

"You want this? Why?" Drill Sergeant Harvey asked as both of them looked at the scythe section of the armory.

"Because it looks cool." Mallory answered.

After receiving her weapon Drill Sergeant Harvey told Mallory to never use it for anything wrong which Mallory agreed to.