"Dren!" Shouted a woman, as the doors opened, and a young man entered. "Yes mother?" "I...where on Earth did you get that get up?" "Ah..." "Anyway, I want you to be prim and proper tomorrow evening." "Okay, why?" "Japan's emperor is having us over for a special meeting. While we're there I want you young man to be on your best behaviour, understand?" "Ofo course, mother, but I am of course always behaving myself..." "Ha, ha, ha, oh, son, now that is a good one. Now, there will be a young lady there that the emperor has allowed to be there, you are to be her escort, understand." The boy sighed and nodded, "Yeah, sure, why not, the girl I like would never allow me to escort her anywhere." The woman set a hand on her son's shoulder, "Son, there will come a day when the girl you love the most will become yours, do not worry." "You know, I sure hope your telepathy works this time, I'm crazy about this girl..." "Ah, yes, is this the girl you turned on Deep Blue for?" "Ah...now mother, that was only to help ourselves as well, Deep Blue only wanted to use us!" "I understand and I am proud that you and the others learned this and stopped what he was making you do, though, I did not like the fact that you took that sword the way you did, that no mother likes to hear about, now go and get some sleep, you have a very big day tomorrow." "Yes mother." The boy bowed and left the room
"ARGH!" "Whatever is your problem Dren?" "My problem is that I have to be stuck in a room surrouded by humans tomorrow and I have to escort a woman who is not Zoey to that event as well tomorrow! Thats my problem." "Oh, I see, well, good luck with that." "Well, you were no help at all." "I find it best not to even think about involving myself with that royal buisness, sorry." "Yeah, right."
"Zoey, this is William Bane, he needs to speak with you." "Oh? Okay, Elliot, I'm using your office." "My...hold on..." "Please Eli?" "Ah, fine and stop calling me that." "Thanks Eli." Zoey led the man into the Elliot's office.
"Alright now, miss momomiya," "Yes?" "Do you know what kind of things Cyniclons eat?" Zoey went wide eyed at the question. "Wha...what did you..." "I know that you keep in very close contact with them, so you do know what they would eat right?" "Ah...sure...but why?" "You have been requested to attend a grand party, that our dear emperor is holding for some very special guests, who just happen to be, Cyniclons." "What! Why me?" "You are kind and you seem to be very close to them, due to some camera shots of you and one of them, so, you are to come to the palace at exactly 9am tomorrow, so that we can prepare you for the party. Oh and you shall be escorted by the young prince of the Cyniclons, you lucky girl." "Ah...wait a minute..." "Well, if you could write down the things that you know for sure they eat, that would be very helpful." "Ah...of course, one moment."
Zoey took out a pen and piece of paper and started writting down some things that Dren said he loved eating, that she of course had, had to make, or else he'd have made his pressence known to her parents and that would have been difficult to explain. She finished by adding the special order that he ordered from her each day.
"Here you go, these are some of the things that I was told they can eat and it wont make them sick that I promise." "Good, thank you very much miss Momomiya, I shall have a limo come and pick you up at 8am tomorrow morning. Have a lovely day. See you tomorrow bright and early." Zoey nodded as the man left the cafe, a coffee in his hand.
"So, who was that?" "Some guy that wanted to know somethings, that I am not allowed to tell to anyone, sorry, oh and don't try to get me to tell you, okay, time to get back to work, bye, bye." Zoey went back out to the front of the cafe and started serving customers.
"Well, that was strange, she'd at least tell us something." "True, but that was 3 years ago, maybe she's decided that if it is something very inmportant then she can tell us, but this obviously wasn't anything like that." "Yeah, I guess you're right...hey, why havent we seen her and Mark together?" "Oh, didn't you know? Mark is in Antartica studying the penguins." "Ah, I see, whats going on with their relationship though?" "That none of us know, but that boy that has been coming around the cafe each day of about 3 months, now seems to be smitten with her, and her smitten with him." "Ah...anyone know who he is?" "Nope." "I heard him call her kitten one day." Kiki said as she headed out to the front to wait tables.
"Okay, there is only one guy that we know of that calls Zoey kitten." "Yeah, but its weird, why would she be so nice to him? Maybe the guy is someone else." "Ha, you're probably right, again, now back to work."
"Ha! What a day, first I had to make sure no one found out about Dren, then that Will guy says that I have to go to the palace at 8am, ha, man! I thought things were going to be much simpiler now, that all those troubles back then are over...ha, being a normal girl is way harder now." Zoey sighed as she walked up the front steps of her very own house.
She'd decided to move out of her parent's house and had convinced Elliot to give her a raise at the cafe, and now she had her very own house, complete with lovely garden and everything. Course she was renting the place, but within fourteen months the whole place would be her's.
She slipped into the kitchen and and took out tw drinks, like she normally did now, anyway. "Hm...wish I could invite one of the girls to come to the party, but...they'd all make a big scene about the Cyniclons being there and then I'd never heard the end of it."
Zoey sat down on her couch and sighed, then thought of the perfect person to go with her. She put the drinks away and hurried back to the cafe.
