Lexy woke up to see she slept in her clothes and sighed. She ran a hand through her blond hair and got out of bed. Lexy heard the soft pitter patter of movement when Verikin came up to her. The dog stared at her and tilted it’s head as if to ask what she would be doing. Lexy smiled and went over to her dresser, grabbed her father’s knife and put it in her pocket,

“Ok I'll do a supply run for the rebels today. Onward to something.”

Lexy winced when she felt her teeth almost feel loose she then walked out of her bedroom with Varikin by her side. Lexy headed to the bathroom door and looked to Varikin,

“Wait here.”

Lexy went into the bathroom and closed the door behind her. She looked into the mirror and opened her mouth. Lexy touched her teeth and was horrified when she saw her whole top row of teeth move from the force. Blood began seeping from her gums as the teeth tore through and her whole upper jaw of teeth fell out. Lexy pulled out the row of teeth with wide eyes.

Blood fell from her mouth and with her other hand she touched the bottom row. only to be horrified as all her bottom row teeth were just as loose. It only took a light tug for the whole row to come out together. Lexy wanted to scream. But she didn't. Lexy let out a strangled cough when she felt pain bloom from both her gums. Lexy looked in the mirror and opened her mouth. only to be shocked when she saw new teeth came in with blood still dripping from her mouth.

The new teeth were more pointed versions of her last set. Lexy let out a shaky breath, spit out the blood in her mouth and ran a hand through her hair. She put the two rows of teeth in the trash. Lexy then walked out of the bathroom to see Varikin and gave a nervous smile,

“Ok, now let’s go.”

Lexy headed downstairs with the dog and walked up to one of the butlers,

“Do we have a pantry I could snag some cans from?”

The man nodded and walked away and came back with a large bag of canned goods and an apple. He handed it to her and Lexy smiled,

“Thank you.”

The butler nodded, patted her head and walked away. Lexy looked to Varkin and sighed,

“Ok now lets go.”

With that the duo head out of the mansion and head into the woods. Upon entrance into the forest Lexy noticed how Varikin’s ilusion went away and looked like a white wolf instead. Lexy nervously then leaned down and touched Varikin’s scruff, she closed her eyes and thought of the doorway to the rebellion, she opened her eyes to see the bare dirt and sand dunes of the desert as well as the doorway into the rebellion.

Lexy and Varicin went through the doorway. Lexy hauled the cans with her to the building Jackson and Fendres had brought her to last time. Lexy and Varicin entered and halfway into the cafeteria was when a little girl came up to her who had a white lizard tail with brown colored hair and white eyes. They had a little grey skirt and blue blouse. The little girl was just a bit shorter than Lexy.

They smiled at Lexy and offered a handshake,

“I'm Kiri, who are you?”

Lexy accepted the hand shake and was about to speak when she saw Kiri’s eyes widened with fear while she took a sharp breath. Kiri quickly pulled her hand away and looked at Lexy like she was a monster. Lexy frowned,

“Are you ok?”

Kiri flinched and shook her head and ran away. Lexy glanced at Varikin with a raised brow. Varikin only stared at her with his head tilted.

Lexy sighed and continued making her way through the crowded cafeteria. Lexy saw another female that was crocodile tailed only older. Her head was halfway shaved, and the rest is chocolate colored hair ruffled all to one side by her is a black dog like Varikin, only with crystals coming out of there back.

The older girl's once small smile changed to a teeth bared snarl, the second she looked at Lexy. Lexy tried to talk but was quickly interrupted by the girl,

 “So you finally decide to show your good for nothing face. I’ll admit I wasn’t sure it was you when I first heard the description but now, oh now I know it is you.”

Lexy looked to Varikin with pleading eyes. To Lexy’s surprise Varikin did nothing.

She frowned and turned back to the girl,

 “wow uh hi and I don’t know what I did to you but there is no need to be such a jerk. Why don’t we start over? I'm Lexy and you are?” she said with a friendly smile and an extended hand while she set down the cans of food.

The older girl raised a brow and gave a flabbergasted look “excuse me, You what?”

Lexy’s smile didn’t waver,

 “you heard me let’s start over im Lexy, what’s your name?”

A smirk spreads over Talo’s face as she shouts out,

 “My name is Talo Evercore and I challenge you, Lexy, to a Garrshon!” An eerie silence falls over the whole cafeteria. All eyes turn to Lexy and Talo.

Talo’s smirk only grew when she saw Lexy drop her extended hand and her smile turned to a frown.

Lexy wrinkled her nose,

“What’s a Garrshon.”

The pride in Talo deflated,

“Excuse me what? You don't. Ugh it’s a fight, I'm challenging you to a fight.”

Lexy took a sharp breath and puffed up her chest “No I’m not fighting you, I don’t have time to deal with a stupid moron like you anyway.”

Talo huffed “Well there is no denying a challenge.”

Lexy glared and looked at Varikin who didn't even look at her. “Well I don’t care, I'm not fighting you. Uh what’s your name again?”

Jackson heard the challenge and stood up. Concerned after listening to everything, he walked over to Lexy. Shaking his head, he informed her, 

“You being the challenged to a Garrshon” The captain sighed, “There is a choice to be made, do you want a fight to the death or until one of you give up?”

Lexy’s eyes widened,

 “uhhh, Till one quits please.”

Jackson nodded and looked at the two girls,

 “You both have four days to prepare then report to the fighting ring.” With that Jackson went back to his seat.

Talo gave a sadistic grin when she turned and walked away, “Till then I can’t wait to pluck your little feathers my pretty.” With that she and her wolf left the room.

Lexy sighed and pinched the bridge of her nose,

 “Please, tell me that was all fake.”

Varikin just looked away from Lexy,

Lexy frowned,

“Thanks for the reassurance.” Her voice dripped with sarcasm. Lexy then saw Alcore coming into the room.

Lexy walked over to Alcore with the canned goods and Varikin shortly behind,

 “Hi”

Alcore picked up his mug of water,

“oh hi how are you liking the base?”

Lexy gave a nervous smile,

 “Yes, I love it so far and it’s great.”

Alcore raised a brow “but?”

Lexy scratched her arm,

 “This has nothing to do with the base but what’s Garrshon?”

Alcore shrugged “eh it’s a way to prove your self usually it is used to determine what squad you go in or it can be a gruesome battle to get some of your frustrations out. Why do you ask?” Stating this before he calmly took another sip of his drink.

Lexy looked from Varikin and to Alcore, “oh I was wondering because I got challenged by a member named Talo to a until give up version.”

Alcore spat out what water was in his mouth “a what? Do you? Do you know how to fight in close combat?”

Lexy shrugged,

 “I do but it’s melee and throwing knifes”

Alcore humed worry was on his face “Who challenged you I don't think i catched it if you said it.”

Lexy huffed,

“ a member named Talo.”

Alcore frowned and Jackson came up to the group,

 “That’s true.”

Lexy flinched with a soft yelp and turned to Jackson,

 “Holly, you came out of nowhere!”

Jackson shrugged,

 “Question, has Varikin changed yet?”

Lexy shook her head,

  “Uh no he’s a wolf, how can a wolf change?

Jackson turned to Alcore with a pondering look,

  “Do you think she should start with mine?”

Alcore shrugged,

  “I was trying to figure that out. But if you do that would be one less thing I have to worry about.”

Jackson nodded and turned to Lexy,

 “ I, Jackson of the k-nine unit, welcome you to my squad.”

Lexy just stared at Jackson for a long moment.

Jackson chuckled and continued,

“Anyhow, you’re a part of my squad now it means I am your captain and as your captain you are to follow orders and any missions, I give you, got it?”

Lexy finally had heard enough tilted her head and wrinkled her nose,

 “Excuse me, I’ll be a monkey's uncle if that happens.”

It was now Jackson’s turn to tilt his head and he looked confused. He only saw a smug grin creeping its way on to Alcore’s face as he chuckled,

 “That is now your problem captain.”

Jackson looks back to Lexy who just looked at him with nothing but attitude in her eyes,

“I don’t think I stuttered.”

Lexy only chuckled,

 “yeah and I don’t think someone should have authority over someone else just because of a wolf.”

Jackson huffed,

 “Do you want help with fighting against Talo or not? Keep this up and you’ll never get out to help anyone.”

Lexy stopped “help? Like fighting lessons?” she said keenly with interest.

Jackson nodded “now do you want to listen?”

Lexy nodded softly and Jackson sighed,

 “alright you’ll need throwing knives not just for the fight but also for training and in field use.. You said you can use those, yes?”

Lexy smirked,

 “Yes, yes I can.”

Jackson pointed to a door “that's the door to the lab Leo should be in there he might have some knives you can use. Do you think you can handle that?”

Lexy nodded,

 “of course” and with a smirk on her face, she left. Varikin shortly followed behind her.

Jackson turned to Alcore who only chuckled and sighed. He was about to say something to Alcore when a girl with two red glowing streaks on her cheeks. Her eyes are blue and red.

She quickly rushed up to Alcore coming out of a flash of lightning,

 “Alcore! They're alive!”

Alcore and Jackson jump and glance at each other. Alcore is the one to talk,

“Wait, slow down Jennie, who is alive? Do you mean the others?” others in the cafeteria stop whatever they were doing and begin to listen.

Jennie noded,

 “they all are survivors from the fall, they're being held in the capital”

Alcore’s expression furrowed,

 “how did you find this out?”

Jennie shivered,

 “While we were doing a scout out near the capital, we managed to capture a head guard’s men. We interrogated him and he told us that there is an area of dungeons where a lot of guards are being assigned to but are not allowed to go in or see the prisoners but he was there when the prisoners got there and was told they were rebels.”

Jennie paused and shuddered,

 “But here is the strange part: the only people allowed to see the rebels were the king, the council, a highly skilled doctor and a chef and that’s all we got out of him right now.”

Alcore put his hand up “ok keep interrogating but keep in mind they could be lying you know as well as I the chances of even one of them escaping what happened alive. Also I doubt it’s that lazy good for nothing, king. He hates doing anything anyway.”

Jennie noded and lowered her head,

“your right I'll go see if we can figure out more” with that she left.

Jackson turned to see Alcore who had a concerned expression,

 “Do you think it’s true?”

Alcore shaked his head,

 “I want to but we should wait till I address this at the next council meeting”

Jackson nodded,

“you know speaking of addressing things Alcore I’m rather curious”

Alcore gave a heavy sigh as he set down his mug of water,

 “curious about what?”

Jackson opened his mouth but closed it trying to find the right words to use,

 “curious about Lexy you’ve never recruited someone so fast without a test . . ..” the look in Jackson’s eyes changed to sympathetic,

 “does.” He paused,

 “she remind you of something”

Alcore’s eyes began to fog over and a shadow fell over his face. He turned away softly but responded with ever so softly “yes…. She does. I . . .”

Jackson lowered his head in silence.

Alcore gripped the table harshly behind him and said through gritted teeth,

 “they started getting worse the first time I met her …. When I met her in the woods I swear for a moment I saw Lilly. The only thing that made me realize was the fact that …... she was wearing goggles so. . . “

Alcore fell silent for a bit,

“She's just like her as far as personalities go Lily wouldn’t care who you were, what you were or what you’ve done. if it meant you wanted to change or if you needed help she wouldn’t take no for an answer she would just help you and not have a care in the world.” Alcore took a shaky breath and closed his eyes thinking of the past.