Chapter 4: Chapter 4:Creation

Base A12 Military Camp

"When are you going to name me?"

Axl didn’t bother turning around as he walked forward and said, "Who told you that I was gonna name you?"

"I need an ID card to enlist in the army."

"Not my problem."

The beast sighed as he walked behind Axl making their way to the base army chief's office.

Inside the office was a man who looked around 45, wearing an army combat uniform. He held an Id card in his hand as he spoke,

"Professor Rin has already informed us about your situation. You don’t need to join during power training so during power training you will be working with weapons for extra time." The man looked straight into Axl’s eyes as he spoke, "Get this straight just because you don’t have power doesn’t mean you can slack off. Yes power is important but that doesn’t mean you can’t fight because you are powerless. You’ll be doing extra time for physical training and weapon handling. Any complaints?"

The man gave off a strong and cold aura as he spoke but Axl wasn’t scared. In fact, he liked this man for treating him equally, even strictly and not seeing him as someone who was useless or weak without power. He had no complaints for extra training as he himself used to self train at home. 

"I have no complaints."

"Good. As for you", the man turned his gaze to look at the beast.

"Professor Rin informed you as a special case and you don’t have your Id yet. You’ll need to go through evaluation and make your Id card. I’ll let the others know to let you join without your id card. Use his id card to get around the camp for now." The man pointed at Axl and continued, "Go to the army resource section after your evaluation and register your name for your id card."

Just when the man said 'name' the beast turned to look at Axl but of course Axl didn’t look back treating him as air.

The man continued, "I’ll let someone give you a tour of the camp and let them inform you everything you need. You guys will start training tomorrow. You guys are dismissed."

Axl and the beast left the office. As they walked out a call was heard inside of the office and the man picked the call. The man listened to the call before saying, "The entrance border? Hmmm… bring them here."

Axl and the beast were guided for the rest of their day. After knowing that the beast and him were going to be sharing a room Axl’s whole being was surrounded with dark fog. Before Axl could explode the beast quietly left the room for his evaluation leaving the not so bright Axl alone.

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The next morning their training started early. Axl got to the training ground followed by the beast. Their uniforms were provided early in the morning. As they made it to their training ground there were lots of those in their uniform. Axl followed the rest of the crowd and stood in a line. 

The commander in the front stood straight looking ahead to the crowd as he spoke in a high raise voice, "You guys are among the new batches that are just starting their training so let me tell you about the basics of our training."

The military training included five sections: physical, power, ability, weapon and learning. Since Axl didn’t have power neither did he have any special ability his power and ability training were replaced by physical training and weapon handling. 

The first section of training went smoothly. Although Axl lacked power his physical stamina was good and he often trained at home so he had no problem during physical training except for a certain creature sticking close to him whom he smoothly ignored. The physical training lasted for three hours and Axl finally got rid of the beast who was sticking close to him.

Since he couldn’t join power training he was required to join weapon handling for his second section of training. So he made his way to the place for weapon training and handling. Axl thought that he would be the only one who would be doing weapon training instead of power training but he found someone else present there beside himself. 

He looked at the extra presence and found that it was a girl with white colored hair with black braids on her right side. She felt someone’s stare and looked behind her. She had pale white skin and beautiful features which gave her vibe of sickly beauty. She stared at Axl without any expression on her face and looked away focusing on the coach. The coach introduced many weapons and told them basic care on handling them. After knowing the basics they were ordered to wear protection equipment as it was their first time handling weapons.

Although people had powers they were not enough to handle those wild beasts so they developed machinery and weapons to deal with those wild beasts. Weapons were pretty helpful while fighting making it easier for long distance combat with those beasts.

While they were putting on their safety equipment Axl couldn’t help but wonder why the girl with white colored hair was here instead of joining power training. Axl thought, "Maybe she also doesn’t have power?" Axl was someone who rarely cared about others but he couldn’t help but wonder today. There was this faint feeling in his heart when he saw her, he felt as if she was familiar but he couldn’t recall seeing her in his life. 

"Have we met before?"

The girl paused and she slightly narrowed her eyes. Her presence was quite intimidating but Axl didn’t feel any hostility from her. It took her a few seconds and she replied with indifference in a low voice, "No."

"Oh", maybe he was wrong.

"You….don’t have power?" He asked.

The girl looked at him with her light color eyes and those eyes were like morning mist hindering people's vision to see what's beyond it.

"Shouldn’t I be saying that to you?"

Axl realized that he was wrong and found that he himself was exposed but he was the one who questioned first so he wasn’t angry. 

"Then why aren’t you joining power training?"

"Cause I can’t?"

It was the first time Axl was curious, maybe because he felt the other party was familiar and he was willing to talk more.

"What do you mean?"

The girl didn’t look at him as she picked up a weapon and started adjusting it.

"Hmm…I guess my case is special. My power isn't stable so I prefer not to use my power unless it's necessary."

"Why?"

"Aren’t you asking too many questions? We aren’t even familiar. Don’t you hate it when people question you? Are you a hypocrite?"

Axl, "....."

The girl looked at Axl’s cracked expression and said indifferently, "I was joking."

That’s not the right tone.

"Why don’t you tell me why you don’t have power first and I’ll tell you about my special case? A fair trade no?"

"Never mind. I don’t want to know." Axl turned his cold expression back on as he focused on dealing with weapons. He wondered if he ate something wrong today for him to be like this. 

Weapon training quickly ended and as the two were putting the weapon back Axl heard footsteps and looked up. He saw a girl with green hair approach them.

"Star. Are you-"done?

The girl with green hair suddenly paused as she looked at Axl. Star looked at Rose and walked to her. Seeing her pause she questioned.

"What’s wrong?"

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"Ah… nothing", the girl with green hair took her gaze back from Axl and looked at Star.

"Power training ended so I came to find you. Have you finished? Let’s go, it's break time."

Star nodded and looked back at Axl before leaving with Rose.

Just as they were leaving another footsteps sounded. Axl saw it was the beast and his mood suddenly dimmed down. The beast passed by two girls and both the beast and Star paused their footsteps at the same time. The beast and Star both looked at each other, the former frowning while the latter raised her eyebrow. 

"You…", the beast seemed to want to say something.

Rose quietly tugged at Star so she looked ahead and said, "Let’s go."

After the two girl’s left the beast approached Axl and asked, "Who is she?"

"How would I know?"

"You should stay away from her."

Axl who saw everything that happened raised his eyebrows as he asked, "Why?"

The beast frowned as he said, "Her power energy feels weird. I scanned her but no information was found. She’s suspicious."

Axl wanted to laugh. He wondered what the beast was thinking.

"What makes you think she is suspicious and you're not? Do you think privacy is a joke? You scanned her without her permission and tried to pry her information which you didn’t get so you found her suspicious. You’ve never even met her and just made your own judgment with something like that?" Axl suddenly felt mad.

"And who do you think you are to tell me who I should talk to or not."

Axl's anger was about to explode so he walked away before he couldn’t control himself, leaving the beast whose expression was complicated.

…..

"He is our target right?" Rose said in a low voice as they were surrounded by others since it was break time and most were having lunch.

Star sat next to Rose lazily playing with the food on her plate while holding her chin with her other hand.

"Yeah."

"What is he doing in the army?" Rose looked at Star beside her.

Instead of replying to Rose’s question Star replied to herself.

"No wonder he came to the army. He has someone else protecting him."

Rose recalled the scene that happened before and questioned, "That guy with light blue hair who came after me earlier? You did pause to look at him."

"Yeah that’s him."

"He is protecting our target?"

"Hmm… he…is one of the creations", she said with her low voice. 

Rose was suddenly thrown this information and didn’t know what to say.

"He…is really one of them. What are we going to do? What if he figures out.."

Star was confused earlier as to why her target appeared even before she could look for him. She thought this would make her job easy but she didn’t expect to meet a creation who was protecting him. She didn’t know her target had also joined the base army as the physical training for girls and boys were done separately so she didn’t meet him or the creation earlier.

Star was done playing with her food so she put the spoon down as she said, ”Don’t worry he can’t pry my information but he might feel suspicious about me. I am certain he felt my energy. But he should be able to get your information which you don’t have to really worry about. There is nothing wrong with you. You should use your ability to protect your memory in case he has an ability to pry the mind as well.”

"How are we going to get close to him if he is being protected?"

"It is a little troublesome but let’s just go with the flow for now on."

"Should… we report this to Miss Honey…?"

Star became quiet after she heard this. After a while she said, "That psychopath is probably waiting for our message. Report it to her."

"Okay."

Star suddenly looked at Rose and asked, "How did your power training go?"

Rose was a little shocked that she suddenly asked her this but she was even more nervous cause she didn’t want her to find out what happened during power training. She didn’t feel like she exposed anything.

"It was okay…I had a little trouble since my power rank is low."

"What happened?"

Rose didn’t dare look at Star but she knew she couldn’t hide anything from her. Star was good at knowing anything and especially since she herself wasn’t good at hiding her emotions like Star. She knew she had to give up when it came to her so she decided to tell the truth.

"I was…there were just some that felt my power level low so….they just picked at me. It's nothing. I didn’t bother with them."

"Hmm…be careful during power training. I won’t be there with you."

Rose gave Star a smile as she said, "Don’t worry. I’ll be careful."

 

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Author's thought:

Wire: Sharing an id card is basically sharing identity right?

Wire sleeping outside the door: I regret it.

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