6 years have passed since the day of Dren's disappearance, known year : 274.
For the past 6 years, Kael trained vigorously–wanting to show his parents he wasn't a waste of space as they seemed to believe he was, and so that Dren had a brother he could be proud of when he returned, though, that hope seemed distant, Dren had been missing for 6 years, the chance of his return had become more bleak.
A year after Kael began his training he officially joined the Phantom Line Cadets along with his long-time childhood friend–Silas Korr. Kael honestly didn't believe that Silas would join the Phantom Line, but it atleast meant Kael wouldn't be isolated. Silas was a tall boy, he was fairly handsome with brown hair and blue eyes and on top of that he had a warm heart.
Kael finally graduated the cadets at age 17, Silas graduated with him too at the same ag, the two became part of the 73rd Phantom Platoon–under their new Phantom Names, Kaels being Spectre 6 and Silas' being Vortex Zero. The platoon was led solely by Captain Silken Thorn who was now 34 years old and a veteran in the field of battle. The 73rd Phantom Platoon consisted of a total of 11 people including Kael, Silas, and Thorn. These other 8 were : Lyra Venn–Phantom Name : Glass Hound– she was 19 with Long black hair and stood at a height of around 5'5. She was a quiet girl but was widely considered extremely skilled among the platoon. Then there was the extremely cheerful klutz Nira Halden, she was 16 years old–among the younger members of the platoon–and she had a similar palette to Silas with her medium length bright brown hair with blue eyes and she was fairly short at a height of 5'2–her Phantom Name : Echo Blade, given to her due to her preferred use of blades over bullets. Then there was the silent Eryn Kaas, he sported black curtains that matched his night-black eyes, he was fairly skilled too but he didn't stand out–he was painfully aware of this fact–and he towered over Nira, his height being 5'11–his Phantom Name : Void Fang. Slightly taller than Eryn was the 18 year old love-fiend known as Vex Allen, he stood at a height of 6'0 his skills weren't anything special and his looks were pretty average, he was born with blonde hair and blue eyes–albeit an uncommon combo but no one really cares about it–he's perhaps a bit too cheery for his own good and is very openly in love with Lyra–his Phantom Name : Hollow Shade, which people didn't understand why he was given that as it doesn't fit him at all. Then there was the brains of the team, the 16 year old Taryn Velk, his hair and eyes both pitch black and he rocks a fairly upbeat personality, but he doesn't let that blind him in battle, he stood at 5'9–his Phantom Name : Ash dagger, given to him due to his dark hair. Then came the platoon clown, Tallis Wren, his skills were fairly average and he had the fairly common hair colour of deep-black, he was 5'10–his Phantom Name : Phantom Lance. Then there was the motherly Kess Drehl, she was 16 with long-flowing silver hair, she was the mature one among the younger members, she was 5'6–Phantom Name : Dust Choir. And finally, last but not least, there was the unbreakable Seran Mark, he was mediocre at best but what got him this far was his invincible spirit, he was 5'8 and his Phantom Name was Ghost Wire.
It was this group of people that made up the integrity of the 73rd Phantom Platoon, each member had their specialties and specific skill and were all fairly unique in one way or another.
The day of the introductions came, the day in which Kael and Silas would officially join the platoon as its newest members. Inside the barracks you could here the muttering of all of the other platoon members as they discussed what they thought the two newest members would be like before Silken Thorn seized their attention.
"ATTENTION!"
The room fell silent as its residents turned to look at Thorn, all sat around the room of the barracks–it was just a military style lounge, there was a table, chairs, a sofa and was made up of wood.
"I'm sure you've all heard that starting today we'll have two new members joining our platoon and two fairly skilled members at that."
Kael was the top performer in the cadets and Silas sat just outside the top 3 at 4th place.
"Recruits!! You may now come introduce yourselves."
The two opened the door, Silas grabbing their attention with his height and looks whereas Kael was seemingly unnoticed, which wouldn't be the case for too much longer.
Silas introduced himself first.
"Hey there! My name is Silas Korr and I'm very happy to be joining the rest of you in this platoon! And if you really want to know, I placed 4th in my graduating group."
Silas spoke with cheer and a little bit of ego, the room clapped for him as he stood aside to let Kael take the stage.
Kael spoke with a low voice, calm and collected.
"Hello everyone. My name is Kael Ranz. I'm very glad to be joining your platoon, i placed first in my graduating class–the same class as Silas."
The room was silent, they all stared blankly at Kael before they all began to mutter and murmur. Had he said something wrong?
But as Kael listened he found there were two culprits to their reaction.
"Ranz? Like Dren Ranz?"
"Did you hear that? He placed first!"
Everyone turned to look at Kael, who, right now, felt very awkward, then a girl in the back spoke, she had black hair, this was Lyra Venn.
"Are you the brother of Dren Ranz? The vice captain who died 6 years ago?"
Kael froze on the spot, he didn't believe people truly thought Dren was dead.
Slowly and softly, Kael spoke again.
"He's not dead."
"He's been missing for 6 years, he's obviously dead!"
Lyra lost her usual quiet demeanour due to her belief that Dren was in fact dead and Kael was just being stupid.
"I was with him that day. And yes, I'm the brother of Dren Ranz."
Kael slowly walked over to Silas, who was sat on the sofa at the side of the room, and sat next to him, unknown to Silas and Kael, everyone believed Kael was to blame for Dren's disappearance.
Thorn spoke up.
"Please give our new recruits a warm welcome to our platoon."
He left the room swiftly, seemingly he had somewhere to be.
"Hey Silas, do they also believe I'm to blame?"
"I don't know Kael, I don't know."
As they spoke, a black haired boy walked over to them.
"Hey Kael, hey Silas, My name is Taryn Velk."