The Chaos Chronicles/ Chapter Twelve

Thorn, Kyle, and the rest of their team begin basic training. Thorn faces an encounter with a strange creature. Aurum gets help from Midnight. Midnight joins a squad.
==Included Characters==
Thorn the Fox
Kyle the Squirrel
Honey the Cat
Rose the Hedgehog
Midnight the Echidna
Nails the Bat
Noon the Echidna
Daisy the Dog
Cocoa the Dog
Aurum the Dog
Quartz the Dog
Topaz the Chameleon
Commander Tower
==Chapter Twelve: Basic Straining==
Nails brought Rose and Honey to her office at the G.U.N. Fortress. She was acting as a counselor to some trainees who could not make it through G.U.N.'s program.
"I think we should talk about what happened yesterday before we go talk to the others." Nails said to Honey and Rose.
"What's there to talk about?" Honey asked. "We found a kid's body."
"Who would do something like that?" Rose asked.
"That's what we need to find out." Nails said.
"My dad said they'd be issuing a news statement later today." Honey said.
"Rose...where did you go after you disappeared from the hospital?" Nails asked.
"I told you, I don't know!" Rose exclaimed.
"Okay, okay! Calm down." Nails said.
Rose started to cry.
"I'm sorry." Nails said. "Come on, I'll take you guys to your room."
The three went up the elevator to the third floor.
They went down the hall on the left to the last room.
"Rose! Honey!" Thorn exclaimed, opening the door. She gave the girls hugs.
"Hi Nails." Thorn said.
"Hello Thorn." Nails said. "Ready for training?"
"Yep." Thorn replied.
"Rose, Honey, this is Aurum and Daisy. The boys' room is through that door. Kyle's with Quartz, Cocoa, and Topaz." Thorn introduced them.
Cocoa and Kyle walked through the bathroom doors.
"Hey Honey, hey Rose." Kyle greeted them.
"Hi." Cocoa said to Honey.
Rose turned around from looking at the girl's room.
"H-hi..." he said.
"Hello." Rose told him.
Quartz walked into the room.
"Hi. I'm Quartz." he told them.
"I'm Rose, and this is Honey." Rose said.
"I guess we'd better get going." Thorn said.
As the group went downstairs, Kyle struck up a conversation with Quartz.
"Where did you go last night?" he asked.
"Oh you know, just out for a walk." Quartz replied.
"Hm..." Kyle thought.
"Where's Topaz?" Thorn asked.
"He's excused from training today." Cocoa said.
"Wonder why..." Aurum thought.
"He's probably gone to see Noon." Daisy said.
Noon had gotten a job as a doctor in order to help the trainees at the G.U.N. Fortress.
The group of eight walked into the training center.
"Hello, new recruits." Commander Tower said. "This is where you shall do your battle training. There are archery and gun shooting ranges, sword and knife stations, rope tieing and knotting stations, and camoflauge stations. There is also a rock-climbing wall. Now, your group of eight to ten people will be a squad, from Delta to Omega."
The other trainees got their squad names and assigned stations. Thorn, Kyle, Rose, Honey, Cocoa, Daisy, Quartz, Aurum and Topaz were the Omega Squad and their first station was the climbing wall.
Thorn and Kyle scaled the wall in a few minutes. Rose and Honey took a little longer, but eventually got over it. Cocoa and Quartz scaled it a little faster than Rose and Honey.
Aurum and Daisy were up last. Aurum was breathing heavily.
"You okay?" Daisy asked, concerned.
"Yeah...yeah." Aurum said.
"You don't have to do this, you know." Daisy said.
Aurum looked at the ground, unsure of what to do.
"Let's...get it over with." she said.
Daisy climbed the wall with ease, but Aurum was stuck in the middle.
"Come on Aurum!" Thorn called.
"You can do it!" Daisy encouraged.
The rest of the team said words of encouragement as well.
"I...I can't..." Aurum muttered. But she tried to grab a rock and put her foot up simultaneously. That was a mistake. Aurum slipped and fell, breaking her leg.
"Ah!" She cried in agony.
"Aurum!" Daisy exclaimed.
"I'll bring her to Noon." Cocoa said.
The climbing wall supervisor brought a stretcher and he and Cocoa brought Aurum to the infirmary.
"Place her in the bed over there." Noon said. He was patching up some other trainees.
"Cocoa...can you please close the curtains?" Aurum asked.
"Yeah...why?" he replied.
"I just....don't want the others to see me like this." Aurum said.
"Okay." Cocoa said. He could understand being embarrassed of a failure. He closed the curtains and returned to the training center.
A few minutes later, a young woman drew the curtains.
"Um..you're not Noon." Aurum said.
"No, but I'm his sister, Midnight." she said. "I heard about your accident."
"Oh..." Aurum said. "That's already spread around, is it?"
"I can take all the pain away. All you have to do is grab my hand." Midnight said.
Aurum looked unsure, but then after a minute took Midnight's hand. Midnight's eyes glowed lavender. Aurum's broken leg began to heal.
"T...thank you!" Aurum said.
Later, Rose went to go talk to Nails to see if she could try to jog her memory. Nails was already talking to another one of the trainees, so Rose sat on a bench next to a chameleon. He was holding a bunch of tissues to his nose.
"Bad nosebleed?" Rose asked.
"You could say that." He told her.
"I'm Rose." she said.
"I'm Topaz." he said.
"Oh, wow, we're in the same squad." Rose said.
"Cool!" Topaz exclaimed.
"Noon helped a little with my nosebleeds, but I'm gonna have to see him three times a week." Topaz said.
"I hope you get better." Rose said.
"Thanks," Topaz told her.
That night, Thorn was reading the piece of the Chaos Chronicles in her room. The other members of Omega Squad were finishing their dinner. Thorn's ear pricked, hearing a scratching sound.
"Hello?" she asked.
In reply, a scaly, lizard-like black creature with claws came out of the shadows.
Thorn, remembering some spells from the Chaos Chronicles, thought of an incantation.
Before she could say it, Kyle, Honey, Quartz, Cocoa, and Daisy came through the door.
"Thorn!" they yelled.
The lizard creature ran back into the shadows and escaped through a window.
"What was that thing?" Honey asked.
"I have no idea." Thorn said.
The next morning, Delta Squad was once again assigned to the climbing wall.
"I'm ready for this." Aurum said, brimming with confidence. Her leg had miraculously healed overnight.
"You sure?" Daisy asked.
"Your leg could still-" Cocoa began.
"I'm fine!" Aurum snapped.
"Ready?" Quartz asked.
"Yeah."
Aurum got on all fours and leaped to the wall. She started climbing up the wall insanely fast. The trainer clocked her at one minute by the time she got to the top. After she reached the top, Aurum jumped down, landing safely on all fours. She grinned.
"Great job!" everyone congratulated her.
"You know..." Aurum said.
"What?" Kyle asked.
"Quartz and I were thinking...we want to include someone else in our squad." Aurum said.
"Who?" Thorn asked.
"Well, for all the help she's given us..." Aurum said.
"We can't leave Midnight without a squad." Quartz told them.
"Midnight?" Rose asked.
"Hi guys." Midnight said, walking up to them. She was wearing a blue tank top and black cargo pants.
"Looks like I'm on Omega squad now."
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