"I feel like this camo gets bigger every single time I leave the cabins in the morning." Jackson's amazement at the size of the obstacle course and the camp, in general, echoed in his voice.
"Well, my family owns the entire mountain and surrounding land now. It used to be considered too dangerous because of the animals and river and mountain, but my family cleaned all tat up." Dia said all this like it was some small achievement barely worth mentioning.
"Your family owns the entire mountain!" Laura was shocked to hear this. She had believed this to be a small camp that the school had a bond with for years. That reason was what she believed kept the school sending people to the camp.
"Of course we own the mountain, it was the perfect place for my parents to immerse themselves in nature. Then when me and my siblings were born we started to expand. They only had a small survival school then as the years went on we started martial arts competitions and found that we could do more than survival classes. Now they are the owners of the country's top rated training camp."
Dia was absolutely beaming with pride as she spoke. Her words were filled with joy. The three listening to this could only hope that one day they had the same feelings as she did about their own careers.
"So if you all own the entire mountain, why is this main camp so small?" Jackson was having trouble believing the camp was really ranked too high. He also couldn't figure out why the main camp they stayed at was so small in comparison if there was so much room to spread out.
"This is only the camp for your grade. Do you expect us to keep for the same facilities and training areas for every single grade of high school? We have four camps. One for the summer opportunity that freshmen often take. Then the sophomores like you. Next, we have the juniors camp, they have a lot more academic material there. Finally, the senior camp. The ones that come here for the senior camp are usually pushing to join a university with a scholarship so we train them harder."
"So, this is just a small camp, what is this mountain called?" Jackson had caught on that this camp may be named camp Jewell but if it was just one part then what was the name of everything together?
"You don't even know that? The school needs to teach you kids better. This is waterfall mountain. Each of the four camps is owned by a family and together we are the silent falls training organization." Dia was shaking her head at the apparent lack of teaching in her eyes that the school was doing to educate students on where they were going.
Jackson shut his mouth tightly. He had just been hit with a harsh realization of where they really were. Laura was in the same position, she had head many things abiut this training orginization. "Pretty sure I am the only one missing out here…" Asher was lost, he thought that this sounded grand since it was multiple camps working together. But the name silent fall training organization meant nothing to him.
"How do you not know? Have you lived under a rock? Are you from another world that didn't have super powers? Are you even human?" Laura fell in to a dramatic skit while shaking Asher's shoulders.
'She doesn't even know that she hit the nail on the head with one of her guesses.' Asher just looked at her blankly not wanting to give away anything.
Jackson felt a little pity since Laura was shaking Asger so violently. He eventually took a breath and started t explain, "Silent falls training organization is considered the top training a hero can get. They have had a hand in training an untold number of top heroes and law enforcement agents. They even specialize in some of the most used disaster response training." His explanation was short but held everything Asher needed to realize that their high school had sent them somewhere amazing.
"The more you three talk about your schools the more I worry. I feel like they need to be more thorough in their teachings. What kind of school doesn't explain the state of current top businesses?" Dia was the most annoyed hearing all of this. In her opinion, the school should have been educating every student on these things.
The four walked through camp chatting. The three continuously bombarded Dia with questions about the camp and the organization. She was more than happy to share everything with them since she rarely got his amount of attention. The four mud covered figures strolled through the camp like this was a normal every day occurrence.
"They even managed to get Dia in the mud. These early admission campers are trouble." Onyx was watching the mud covered campers and Dia walk toward the cabins.
"You're just sour they knocked one of your trees off the cliff. Don't think I don't know you plant one every single year." Garnet wasn't having it. She had long known that Onyx had explored the entire mountains climbing walls and planted trees in tons of areas for fun.
"Whatever. I still don't get why you care so much about them this year." Onyx was frustrated but Garnet was so hung up on campers that he had decided he didn't like.
"You know why. The last two early admissions dropped out of school and joined up with that organization. This year I need to do things right." Garnet's voice shook slightly as she remembered the previous year's early admissions campers.
"That isn't your fault or ours. They chose to give up their path to law enforcement and heroship."Onyx knew that his words were not going to make a dent in the stress Garnet was feeling, but as her brother, he needed to say something.
The two continued on walking away from the direction the four mud covered people had gone. They were in their own world today planning out the next week of camping activities.