In the calm waking morning, the farthest north city in Brazil, a small city really, there was a lavish hotel. As the light dipped over the skyline, showing the grass and buildings with the golden glow of a perfect summer morning. Each student was sound asleep.<br/><br/><b><i>Wake up you drooling good for nothing sacks of maggot shit!</i></b>The unmistakable roar was from the drill Sargent they has the displeasure of spending the past three months with.<b><i>I want all of you up and dressed in one minute or I'll force my boot so far up your tight arse you'll be licking it clean! </i></b>As the students rose and dressed they all had the sense of urgency, BloodyMary would make good on her promise in one way or another. As each student walked out of their door, maybe half dressed the found themselves falling head over heels through the sky, before their scenes could pick up they were hitting terminal velocity seeing the ground fly towards them before the world opened up and their speed slowed seemingly in an instant, feeling like they had never fallen at all the students lay sprawled out across the ground in a field.<br/><br/><i>“Hello Class” </i>The familiar voice of their homeroom teacher, gravely and low in pitch yet still like a young man's he stood in his regular fine, fancy clothing and ugly overcoat. BloodyMary and Ante not to far behind him.<br/><br/>Scanning the horizon the group saw two mountain ranges lining the area, blocking out the rising sun, as the tip of the sun sent it's warm glow over the area, heat finally bathing the cold dew covered area, the long valley now in view stretched on for miles, huge hills and rocky cliff sides lined the valley. Rivers of blue water would been seen running through the dense canopy of tall trees. Two huge statues were on either side of the valley, massive praying men carved out of the rock face facing each other, between them a bridge.<br/><br/>In the valley were was a large white pillar like structure, very clearly a dusk hive. The site of one so large sent chills through the spines of most. There must be thousands of dusk housed in the pillar that rose into the sky, it looked taller than the surrounding mountains.<br/><br/><i>“You have been pushed harder than any other humans or Venans ever will be. You are heroes. This is what you trained for, this is what you have been waiting for. Your final test, After this you will be full fledged Heroes and be deployed to either the front lines or homeland safety. “</i>David spoke without moving, his voice boomed with pride and and smile was evident on his face.<i>“This is the proudest I have been of all of you. Remember what I taught all of you and watch each others backs. Your teamwork is more important than any of your powers alone.”<br/>
</i><br/>Stepping back Ante took his place and cleared his throat. The older dark skinned man looked sullen, sadness and pride welled his eyes.<i> “ I know you all hated me at one point, making you sit there and work on a problem for hours if you didn't understand. Or when I took the pot after a poker match”</i>He smiled finally<i> “Today you will be putting everything I taught you to the test. You will be fighting for your life. There isn't a comfy bed at the end of the day. You'll be trying to survive, spending nights awake. The dusk will be relentless. If you are not out of the forest in a week we will go in after you.” </i>He turned away from the group his shoulders raising forcing himself to turn away and look down at the valley.<br/><br/>Finally Bloody Mary stepped up.<i><b> “Bonfire, you're making this sound like a walk in the park, Ante, you're too soft.”</b></i>Grunting and looking over the group<b><i> “Each of you is lucky to be here, you have a gene which gives you a golden ticket to a chance. This chance gives you the best schooling, the best training.  You dirty fuck wads need to man the fuck up and show me that it wasn't a waste of my fucking time. Half of you are going to die or become a egg sack for a dusk.”</i></b>Grunting and turning her indifferent look away, facing Ante.<b><i> “You all survived through my training though, looks like you might have a chance. I expect all of you to give them one hell of a fight before going down.”</i></b><br/><br/>With that the three people who have been your trainers, friends, teachers, sparing partners. Turned away, giving each of you one last look over. David smiled and waved as he stepped into a helicopter.<br/><br/><br/><br/>Rather than a helicopter the students were grouped into a silver disc, a tall man in a black suit wearing sunglasses directed them to stand atop it where they were each given a bag and some cloths. Then they were back in their rooms, realizing this was only  Turning somehow invisible to each other for an ample amount of time they had maybe as much time as they wanted to prepare. A world class bathroom await each of them personally, showers with perfect temperature control, ample space, soap which smelled heavenly, and just about every kind of anything they could want to bath themselves. In their bag they found cloths, and whatever gear they needed however there was still room and they would be able to pack whatever they wanted from the hotel. Soon the one by one reappeared, not even a single second had passed since you left and yet all you had done was still there.<br/><br/>The metal disc rose, everyone metal a small jolt as it lifted into the air. Moving quickly wind whipped through the hair of everyone, having to shield their eyes, they saw the massive statues come into view, praying for their save return and bidding them farewell on their journey.<br/><br/>The Spire passed, huge hulking white stone that stretched into the air tendrils lazily wormed their way out of windows but did nothing yet. The light of dawn hadn't yet priced the valley below them however it dipped over the mountains that ranged across their vision. Lines of red visibly moving across the light dabs of clouds which dotted the sky.<br/><br/>The disc moved to a opening in the dense corpse like canopy of trees, the green of their brush parted by the thick blue liquid of water, a huge waterfall crashing into it's calmness. Below them a campsite able to fit maybe fifteen people, four tents with sleeping bags at the opening. The disc was a good fifteen feet off the ground and let them see over the tree line and admire the wonderful sights of animals and plants.<br/><br/>The disc suddenly was no longer under their feet dropping them into the water below, cold yet clear the mist parted to allow each student to plummet to the water and slowly make their way to the camp, cry cloths and and a large beach side looking shower area, a pole  which had shower head running off of it awaited them, a note taped to it. “Sorry, but it was too good to pass up ~Ante  P.S. Sorry this shower isn't quite five stars.” There is also no blinds or vision obstruction to hide showering from the rest of the group.<br/><br/>A sniff some anyone would make them realize they had just been dumped into salt water and now after crawling out of the water everyone was covered in dirt and sand. On the back of the note there was more writing “Serves you maggots right! ~Mary”<br/><br/>The camp ground already set up, tents, canned food stockades, three fire pits. Sleeping bags. The group saw threes were curved over the area, making a wall like line of wood around the camp, protecting it from the animals and dusk of the surrounding area.<br/><br/>The clear water was cold from not seeing the glow of the sun yet, dawn had not yet cleared the night's dusk away from the area and the chill hung in the air, mist starting to gather atop the surface of the liquid. A waterfall ran down the edge of the mountain, making ripples in the water, waves against the shoreline. 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