The Mission
Chapter 2
The Mission
The students all gathered into the cafeteria, SeeDs and regular students eating among each other. Sharing notes, stories, and advice for coming assignments and threats of the outside world and missions. Just as the last of the new SeeD members walked in, the students inside stopped and looked them over for a moment as the room went silent. Travis breaks the silence “ WE PASSED!!!” as the words are yelled the whole cafeteria erupts into cheers and wildness. Just then a tall half elf guy with whitish blonde hair slams his mace on the table causing another moment of silence. “Hey!” as he lifts his mace to his shoulder “quit acting like animals and act like the SeeDs and soon to be SeeDs you are.” As he takes his seat next to Ricard and the other passing SeeD cadets, the cafeteria stays in silence as Audrey, Travis, Fuu, and the Tiefling make their way to get some food. Travis leans over to the tiefling and asks “so bro whats your name?” the Teifling looks up at Travis “ I.. I.. I’m Eroby.” he says nervously. Travis then hangs in arm over Eroby’s shoulder and gives him a huge grin and starts piling food on their tray.
As everyone starts eating and conversing with one another, a man walks into the cafeteria and the older SeeDs stand and salute. He stands at 5’8 dark hair shaved at the sides, human his presence gives off a sense of command. “Attention all SeeDs we have a mission, all SeeDs report to the briefing room now!” the older SeeDs reply “Sir yes Sir!” as he walked out the older SeeDs begin to follow just then the half elf speaks up “He said all SeeDs that include you rookies too!” the new SeeDs shocked begin to jump up and begin to follow their seniors to the briefing room. As they arrive at what looks like a dark metal building with no windows, as they enter the building, it turns out to be the command center for SeeD operations. Inside the operation center there are plenty of screens showing current missions as well as dealings with other countries and higher ups. When they finally arrived at the briefing room. They noticed that the huge room almost looked like a college classroom with plenty of seats and as the room fills with new and current SeeDs the Man from earlier stands in front of a large display screen.
“Welcome to all the new SeeDs to the briefing room as you might not know I am your Unit Leader Commander Nyx.” the man says while activating the screen showing a map of an island. “This is Radiata Island and we have been commissioned to assist in evacuating the civilians and some soldiers. New SeeDs shall be led by veteren SeeD members, these are your unit Leaders.” beside him stands a line of five people one being your exam practicer Dante. Another is the half elf guy from the cafeteria and three others never seen before. “We will be broken into five units with specific goals, some will help with the evac and help fight the invading soldiers, while others will recon the island towns and weed out some soldiers as a distraction unit.” he then starts working on the computer and the screen shows the key points of the island. They show where most of the people are being held and where the island’s soldiers are holding off the invading force. “We shall arrive on shore and the first two teams will secure the beach and defend our boats for evac, while the other three will make their way into the city and secure hostages and refugees.” explained Nyx.
“Your units will be assigned to you as you get geared up.” he then points to the side doors of the room and says “move out Seeds!” all of them in unison respond “SIr yes Sir!” as they all begin to march towards the side doors inside they all find weapons and their uniforms, the uniforms are dark blue, with black accents. Audrey speaks up while examining her’s “ these uniforms are fused with magic?” shocked but amazed she puts her on while grabbing some daggers. Diana puts her on while summoning her weapon to her hand, a Warhammer that’s handle can extend to make it a mall. As everyone makes their way out of the room changed and armed they see the postings and make their way to their boats,these boats are fully armored with a magic rail gun mounted atop of it. As they all enter their boats Audrey, Diana, Eroby, Travis, Dante, Fuu, the pink haired girl, a few others and the Half elf all enter the same boat. Once seated Dante turns on the screen in the boat “ our unit will be incharge of infiltration of Vancoor city we are to weed out the enemy and provide support towards ground troops.”
Dante continues “our unit will be split to support and ground troops I will be incharge of the support group, Jake will be unit leader of the ground troop.” Just then the Half elf stood up “I’m Jake.” as he does so the Tiefling and Pink hair girl blush and swoon over Jake, Jake sees this and smiles smugly. Dante coughs “as I was saying, the ground troops job it to get to the the Town center and secure it for refugees and hostages to escape to and from to head to the boats.” Travis speaks up “And what of the support group sir?” Dante smiles “good question, we are to find our way to the roofs and support the ground troop by having the high ground for scouting and support fire if need be.” Travis and the rest of the unit nods in acceptance, while the pink haired girl finally speaks up with a snobbish attitude “well as long as we get the job done I want to be part of the support group.” Jake speaks up “you will be part of the ground troops rookies don’t get a choice.” she looks up in shock and annoyance “ but that's not fair!” Jake looks back sternly “It’s not about fairness it’s about rank and you will follow my orders if you know what's good for you and this unit!” she mumbles to herself, Jake responds “I can’t hear you!” she looks at him angrily “yes sir.” and sits down.
Dante looks out the window of the boat and says “We will be arriving in one hour prep yourself and be ready for a fight for your lives, you have trained and tested for this, you know what you have to do.” Just then Eroby chimes in “uuh sir, who is going with what unit?” Dante pauses and puts his hand on his head “shit your right I forgot to assign units, your right Eroby.” Dante pats Eroby on the head and says “Travis, Audrey, Fuu, you're with me for the support unit, Eroby, Diana, Celeste and Jake are ground unit.” Just then Eroby turns and offers his hand to the pink haired girl “Hi I’m Eroby pleased to meet cha.” the pink hair girl shakes his hand quickly and lets go “Celeste, can you believe that Jake guy acting like he is superior to us we are almost all the same age.” Eroby pauses to think “but Celeste he is our superior, he has been on more missions and he is our senior at school.” Celeste scuffs at Eroby “ well not for long he will get what's coming to him soon enough.” she says with a twisted smile. An hour passes and gunshots and magic explosions can be heard in the distance. “Well boys and girls it seems we have arrived.” Jake says with a serious look on his face.