This is a story which was planned more than a year ago! Finally, I'm putting this story up to this site! I was busy preparing for the olympics today PLUS a Biology test, so I couldn't upload it yesterday. But now here it is!

Disclaimer: I don't own Letter Bee/テガミバチ characters!

Letter Bee – VOID

Chapter 1 – Prologue

-Lag's POV-

Ten years had passed since the incident with Reverse which took place in Yuusari Central. The place hadn't changed much since the attack, with the exception that the Bee Hive was rebuilt because it was destroyed during the attack. As for the people, many have changed quite a lot, but some were still the same as before.

Lloyd-san, the Director, was called to the capital two years after the incident. The other Bees first thought that the reason he was called was to take responsibility for the Gaichuu incident in Yuusari Central, but that misunderstanding was soon solved from his letter we received a month later. He was actually promoted, so Aria-san had taken over his place as the Director from his suggestion. But, that letter was the last time he communicated with us.

Since that time, the capital was heard not to be peaceful. The news of the attack in Akatsuki had even reached Akatsuki. A new group, which was called VOID by the people of Akatsuki, had attacked and caused four normal citizens in Akatsuki to become their victim.

Although the attack happened in Akatsuki, the people Yuusari didn't feel at peace as well. There were less shipping items to Yuusari, making many items such as medicine hard to find. This made many diseases incurable. Dr. Thunderland Junior was also helping the people with this problem using his own knowledge in pathology.

Ever since the incident, none of the Bees had seen Noir, Roda, or the others who couldn't become a spirit. We assumed that they had lived in a safer place, away from the government who threw them away as failed experiments.

As for me, Zazie, and Connor, we were still Letter Bees delivering people's hearts contained in letters. Our dingos were still the same, except that both Wasiolka and Gus were getting older and couldn't help too much when fighting tough Gaichuus. Niche and Steak were still the same, as if they never grew at all and were both as fast as usual when dealing with Gaichuus.

Even after ten years of working together as Bees, all of us still went out to eat after working. Sometimes we would go home and found Sylvette and Aria-san who had already prepared dinner for all of us, except if we found her cooking her 'trademark soup', which Zazie and Connor named. Not much had changed between us for the past ten years.

Surprisingly, there was actually a small change in how the Letter Bees did after the incident. Many new members had the same view about how Bees should think about their job. It was like how Gauche and I thought about a Letter Bee's actual job. 'Letters are people's hearts and dreams. A Letter Bee's job is to deliver those hearts and dreams to others.'

Among the three of us, there was only one of us who was married. It was me. I got married to Sylvette around nine years after the Gaichuu incident in Yuusari Central. At first, it was hard for Niche, but we were eventually okay with everything. Neither of us expected this to happen after both of us grew up, but we were happy anyway. Even so, we had to save up more money in order to buy a much bigger bed as Niche wouldn't leave my side even when sleeping.

Although our daily lives as Letter Bees didn't seem to have changed a lot, all Letter Bees could tell that something big was about to change. The way the government in Amberground worked would soon change into an unexpected way, into something that nobody had ever imagined.

I'm not sure if it's noticable if my writing style in this story is different when it's still in the first chapter, but I'm planning to go with a different style for this story. I feel like I have to make this story as 'touching' as the original so I'm putting some 'heart' into the story. Sorry if this chapter is too short, hopefully the next one will come soon! Please review and tell me what you think of this first chapter!

EDIT: I've added some more to this chapter, in case if you didn't notice it to 'fix' the odd ending. I hope this one's ending looks better than before, but I might go back here to fix some more if needed.

Also, I want to thank people who had added this story to alerts and favorites! Of course, I'm happy with the reviewer as well:

Briixzyanaa: Thanks for the review and I noticed the ending after reading it once more. I'm not sure if it's okay or not, but I think I'll check back later and see if there's anything that I can add or fix.