Memorandum of an Angel
Author's note: *Sweatdrop* Well, this wasn't up the day after Christmas like I had planned. Or the day after New Year's either. Whoops. -_-U It's those darn relatives, ne?
Longer chapter than normal. Bear with me!
Thank you for the reviews from the following:
Fadeaway Windwaker: My…uhh…'sister from another mother' I guess you would call it! Keep on rockin' girl!
Karyuu Minami: Hey Magma, when's the next time you're posting a fic, huh??? I miss your stories!
Chaos: Thank you for reviewing!
ChiBi FeLiX: Glad you are enjoying, I like the story too. I should, it is mine after all…
Holy-knight1: Thanks for the review!
Lord Cynic: You're not a party pooper! Believe me, I know what it's like to be busy around the holiday season!
Simpson-Girl: CHRISTMAS TREE LOT! BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!! -.-U I should have known that. Really! Thank you very much!
Kitai Matsuru: Gosh girl you just make my day!
Midnight Blue Star: Glad you think the story is awesome! Beautiful pen name by the way…
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Disclaimer: Sadly, tragically, unhappily, despairingly…Zoids is not mine. Crap. Double crap. Alas, at least there's FF.Net! Zoids is © 1987-2000 Tomy.
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*Okay, I know that the Blitz' Team Base is in the middle of a desert. I know that it cannot snow in a desert. Not possible. Just pretend okay???
"AAAAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" A somewhat similar scream answered the previous.
"AAAUUUGGGHHH!!!" Bit Cloud, momentarily having the crap scared out of him, fell to the floor in a mess of bed sheets. His heart beat rapidly in his chest, after being woken from a peaceful sleep by an ear-piercing scream. His wits quickly returning to him, Bit stumbled out the door to his bedroom and into his fellow teammates'.
"Leena, what's wrong? Are you okay?!?" She was standing in front of the window, hands clasped in front of her. A moment later Jamie, Doc, and Brad fell into the room, all men wearing various assortments of pajamas and undergarments.
"Leena, you okay?
"What's the matter?"
"What's going on here?" The young girl turned to face them, tears ready to burst from her eyes in euphoria.
"IT'S SNOWING!" Bit's eye twitched.
"What?"
"It's snowing!" Leena repeated, sounding like she was on top of the world.
"…snowing?" Bit asked, venom creeping into his voice. Again Leena nodded her head, un-phased by his tone.
"You screamed and scared me half to death BECAUSE IT'S SNOWING OUT??? I DON'T BELIEVE THIS!" Bit lunged for Leena, but was conveniently kept from releasing his rage by Brad; who kept a firm hold on the back of his undershirt.
"LEMME AT HER! I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS! YOU SCREAMED BECAUSE IT WAS SNOWING??? AND HERE I THOUGHT SOMEONE WAS TRYING TO HURT YOU!…umm… I don't know why I would be so concerned…I mean of course I would be but…y'know… I…uhh…well…uhhh…YOU SCREAMED BECAUSE IT SNOWED???"
Leena danced around the room, her nightgown flowing behind her. She hummed a little tune and performed something similar to ballet, lost in her own world. Brad pushed Bit out of the room while the other sleepy men trudged into the kitchen. Coffee went all around, a particularly large cup for Bit. 'He's starting to take after Brad,' Jamie mused.
"That girl will be the death of us all," Brad stated, sipping his drink.
"Yes, I would have to agree," Doc answered, rubbing his eyes.
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A few hours later (and many more cups of coffee for Bit) the men were in the strategic room, going over battle sequences for after the holiday.
"…Now if Bit can distract the Lightning Saix for a few minutes over in this left quadrant, then Brad should be able to take out the Saber Tiger with Strike Laser Claw. The rest of the battle should be a cinch."
"Hey! How come I'm just a decoy?" Bit asked, pouting. "Don't I get any glory?" Jamie scratched his head.
"Umm, nope. Not in this battle. Sorry Bit." A swish of hissing air resounded in the room, and suddenly Leena was right next to them.
"There's like two feet of snow out there! So! Who's going to come outside and play in the snow with me?" … … … … "Look at those hands fly. C'mon you guys! It'll be fu-un!" Leena chorused, putting on her best puppy-dog face. Bit sighed, shoulders slumping in defeat.
"Okay, I will."
"Yay!" Any other takers?"
"Might as well."
"Sounds like a waste of time. Unfortunately, I have nothing better to do. I'm in." 'Heh, now is my chance to get back at Leena for this morning,' Bit snickered as the said red-head left the room.
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Once outside, Leena was clad in a light purple coat and snow pants, a white hat pulled snugly over her ears. Brad wore a black jacket, jeans, and gloves. Jamie was wearing pretty much the same thing, but with snow pants. Same with Bit, only he wore one of those cool hats with all the stringy-thingies that look like dread locks. (Gosh I love those hats!)
"Okay, Brad is on my team!" Leena cried, pulling the mercenary over toward her.
"How come you get him?" Bit cried, hands to his hips.
"Because he has longer arms and a lot better aim than you!"
"What am I, chopped liver?" Jamie muttered darkly, standing off to one side.
"Fine, well at least Jamie is smarter than the both of you put together! We'll come up with something!" Grabbing Jamie by the arm Bit dragged him behind a large pile of snow and knelt down.
"Okay Jamie, what's our strategy?"
"We're going in blind."
"Okay great! Now I'll… What do you mean we're going in blind?" He screamed, loud enough for Leena and Brad to hear it. Bit grabbed the front of the younger teen's jacket and shook him like a doll.
"You're wicked smart! What about all those battle strategies you make up?"
"Yes, Zoid battle strategies. Not snowball fights. We're just going to have to do our best." Bit plopped down in the snow and folded his arms over his chest.
"Humph. Some help you are."
"Ready?" Leena called, poised and tense for the fight. Bit scrambled for some snow, swiftly packing it into a ball.
"Yes?" he replied meekly.
"Go!!" All four teammates stood up, and then the snowballs were a-flying.
"Umph!"
"Ow!"
"Hey! Watch it!"
"Na-na na na-na! You can't get me-ow!"
"Nice one Brad!"
"Thanks Leena."
"Jamie! I need help!"
"I'm doing my best!"
"Liar!"
"Ha ha ha! I'm invincible!"
"AAA! My eye!"
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"Do you guys give up?" Leena called over the top of her and Brad's fort, packing another snowball.
"Never!" Bit replied, packing his own snowball.
"Uh, Bit? I think we should give up."
"Why?"
"Because we got out butts' kicked!" Bit frowned, running his gloved fingers over the perfect sphere that was his last snowball.
"I, Bit Cloud, challenge Leena Tauros to a battle! One-on-one, one snowball a piece, throw on the count of three. Do you accept?"
"You bet! And I'm gonna kick your butt Mr. Cloud!"
"I wouldn't count on it," Bit murmured, giving the snowball a kiss.
"One!"
"Two!!"
"Three!!!" Bit stood up and whipped the snowball forward, as did Leena with her own. And the last thing each of them saw was white…
"Yo Leena, you okay?" Brad asked, waving a hand in front of her face. She was on her back spread-eagle, showing signs of being unconscious. Over on the other side of the battlefield, Jamie was asking the same thing to Bit. Bit groaned and sat up, wiping the stinging snow off of his face.
"What happened?" he asked, trying to stand up.
"It was a draw. You both hit each other in the face."
"Crap." Brad poked his head over the top of their fortress.
"Any casualties?" he asked with a smirk, hands deep in his pockets.
"I think he lost a few brain cells, but there weren't too many to begin with…"
"Ha ha, very funny Jamie," Bit growled, standing up. "Where's Leena?" Brad pointed behind him.
"Right over there."
"Over where?" Bit asked. Brad looked behind him and true enough Leena was nowhere in sight.
"Hmm. Maybe she went inside. I think I'll do the same," Brad said, and headed into the base. Jamie followed suit, leaving Bit to stand there and stew over the uncanny possibility that it was a draw.
"Figures. For once she actually aims, and it's a draw." Bit shuffled his feet and headed in as well, walking by Brad and Leena's fort. There were two sets of footprints there, a larger one heading towards the base, and a smaller one heading away from it.
"So she didn't go inside. Probably brooding over the fight." He sighed. "Might as well go see what she's doing." Bit followed the footprints beyond view of the base, out onto a plateau that overlooked a large section of the desert. And there she was, facing away from him, alone in the snow. Bit came up and stopped about ten feet behind her, wondering if she even knew he was there.
"Leena?" She did not reply.
"Hey c'mon Leena. If it's about the snowball fight I'm sorry. You're not hurt are you?"
"There's something missing." The wind picked up a little, and Bit zipped up his jacket.
"What do you mean?"
"I don't know. There's just something missing about it all."
"Like what? We went to the Christmas Tree Lot (thanks Simpson-Girl!) and got your 'perfect tree', we decorated it and the base, it's snowing out, what more could you ask for?"
"…my mom."
"What?" Bit was completely caught off guard by her quiet response.
"My mom. She died a few years ago. Is it really too much to ask?" She turned around to face him, tears starting to trickle down her cheeks from her lilac eyes. "Is it too much to ask that I can share this with her? The snow, and the tree, and this special feeling I have inside? I must be such a selfish little girl." Words were far beyond Bit at this point. This was why she had been acting so strange lately? She turned around again, facing the vast desert.
"No," Bit replied softly. "I guess it isn't." He stepped forward until he was shoulder to shoulder with her.
"I imagine that would be sort of lonely, if she wasn't here. But she isn't really gone if you keep her inside," he added, pointing to his chest. Leena stood silent, the tears starting to ebb their flow.
"Do you want to come back to the base now? Maybe have some hot chocolate or something?" Bit asked.
"Just another minute. You can go if you want."
"No I'll stay. That is, if you don't mind." Leena shrugged and took one last look at the scenery, then started walking away. Bit caught up to her, walking silently except for their footsteps in the crunchy snow.
"Y'know, what you said back there? It was quite profound," Leena stated, giving him a small smile. "Though it is pretty hard to take you seriously with that ridiculous hat on." Bit laughed and kicked at some snow.
"Leena, when do you ever take me seriously?"
"Good point."
Author note: Hey, did ya see my New England vocab sneak in there? "Wicked smart"? I bet some of you think I'm crazy. Which isn't too far from the truth. ^_^ Hope your holidays were as good as mine, next chapter should be up in a day or two!
Author's note: *Sweatdrop* Well, this wasn't up the day after Christmas like I had planned. Or the day after New Year's either. Whoops. -_-U It's those darn relatives, ne?
Longer chapter than normal. Bear with me!
Thank you for the reviews from the following:
Fadeaway Windwaker: My…uhh…'sister from another mother' I guess you would call it! Keep on rockin' girl!
Karyuu Minami: Hey Magma, when's the next time you're posting a fic, huh??? I miss your stories!
Chaos: Thank you for reviewing!
ChiBi FeLiX: Glad you are enjoying, I like the story too. I should, it is mine after all…
Holy-knight1: Thanks for the review!
Lord Cynic: You're not a party pooper! Believe me, I know what it's like to be busy around the holiday season!
Simpson-Girl: CHRISTMAS TREE LOT! BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!! -.-U I should have known that. Really! Thank you very much!
Kitai Matsuru: Gosh girl you just make my day!
Midnight Blue Star: Glad you think the story is awesome! Beautiful pen name by the way…
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Disclaimer: Sadly, tragically, unhappily, despairingly…Zoids is not mine. Crap. Double crap. Alas, at least there's FF.Net! Zoids is © 1987-2000 Tomy.
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*Okay, I know that the Blitz' Team Base is in the middle of a desert. I know that it cannot snow in a desert. Not possible. Just pretend okay???
"AAAAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" A somewhat similar scream answered the previous.
"AAAUUUGGGHHH!!!" Bit Cloud, momentarily having the crap scared out of him, fell to the floor in a mess of bed sheets. His heart beat rapidly in his chest, after being woken from a peaceful sleep by an ear-piercing scream. His wits quickly returning to him, Bit stumbled out the door to his bedroom and into his fellow teammates'.
"Leena, what's wrong? Are you okay?!?" She was standing in front of the window, hands clasped in front of her. A moment later Jamie, Doc, and Brad fell into the room, all men wearing various assortments of pajamas and undergarments.
"Leena, you okay?
"What's the matter?"
"What's going on here?" The young girl turned to face them, tears ready to burst from her eyes in euphoria.
"IT'S SNOWING!" Bit's eye twitched.
"What?"
"It's snowing!" Leena repeated, sounding like she was on top of the world.
"…snowing?" Bit asked, venom creeping into his voice. Again Leena nodded her head, un-phased by his tone.
"You screamed and scared me half to death BECAUSE IT'S SNOWING OUT??? I DON'T BELIEVE THIS!" Bit lunged for Leena, but was conveniently kept from releasing his rage by Brad; who kept a firm hold on the back of his undershirt.
"LEMME AT HER! I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS! YOU SCREAMED BECAUSE IT WAS SNOWING??? AND HERE I THOUGHT SOMEONE WAS TRYING TO HURT YOU!…umm… I don't know why I would be so concerned…I mean of course I would be but…y'know… I…uhh…well…uhhh…YOU SCREAMED BECAUSE IT SNOWED???"
Leena danced around the room, her nightgown flowing behind her. She hummed a little tune and performed something similar to ballet, lost in her own world. Brad pushed Bit out of the room while the other sleepy men trudged into the kitchen. Coffee went all around, a particularly large cup for Bit. 'He's starting to take after Brad,' Jamie mused.
"That girl will be the death of us all," Brad stated, sipping his drink.
"Yes, I would have to agree," Doc answered, rubbing his eyes.
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A few hours later (and many more cups of coffee for Bit) the men were in the strategic room, going over battle sequences for after the holiday.
"…Now if Bit can distract the Lightning Saix for a few minutes over in this left quadrant, then Brad should be able to take out the Saber Tiger with Strike Laser Claw. The rest of the battle should be a cinch."
"Hey! How come I'm just a decoy?" Bit asked, pouting. "Don't I get any glory?" Jamie scratched his head.
"Umm, nope. Not in this battle. Sorry Bit." A swish of hissing air resounded in the room, and suddenly Leena was right next to them.
"There's like two feet of snow out there! So! Who's going to come outside and play in the snow with me?" … … … … "Look at those hands fly. C'mon you guys! It'll be fu-un!" Leena chorused, putting on her best puppy-dog face. Bit sighed, shoulders slumping in defeat.
"Okay, I will."
"Yay!" Any other takers?"
"Might as well."
"Sounds like a waste of time. Unfortunately, I have nothing better to do. I'm in." 'Heh, now is my chance to get back at Leena for this morning,' Bit snickered as the said red-head left the room.
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Once outside, Leena was clad in a light purple coat and snow pants, a white hat pulled snugly over her ears. Brad wore a black jacket, jeans, and gloves. Jamie was wearing pretty much the same thing, but with snow pants. Same with Bit, only he wore one of those cool hats with all the stringy-thingies that look like dread locks. (Gosh I love those hats!)
"Okay, Brad is on my team!" Leena cried, pulling the mercenary over toward her.
"How come you get him?" Bit cried, hands to his hips.
"Because he has longer arms and a lot better aim than you!"
"What am I, chopped liver?" Jamie muttered darkly, standing off to one side.
"Fine, well at least Jamie is smarter than the both of you put together! We'll come up with something!" Grabbing Jamie by the arm Bit dragged him behind a large pile of snow and knelt down.
"Okay Jamie, what's our strategy?"
"We're going in blind."
"Okay great! Now I'll… What do you mean we're going in blind?" He screamed, loud enough for Leena and Brad to hear it. Bit grabbed the front of the younger teen's jacket and shook him like a doll.
"You're wicked smart! What about all those battle strategies you make up?"
"Yes, Zoid battle strategies. Not snowball fights. We're just going to have to do our best." Bit plopped down in the snow and folded his arms over his chest.
"Humph. Some help you are."
"Ready?" Leena called, poised and tense for the fight. Bit scrambled for some snow, swiftly packing it into a ball.
"Yes?" he replied meekly.
"Go!!" All four teammates stood up, and then the snowballs were a-flying.
"Umph!"
"Ow!"
"Hey! Watch it!"
"Na-na na na-na! You can't get me-ow!"
"Nice one Brad!"
"Thanks Leena."
"Jamie! I need help!"
"I'm doing my best!"
"Liar!"
"Ha ha ha! I'm invincible!"
"AAA! My eye!"
*~A few hours later~* ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
"Do you guys give up?" Leena called over the top of her and Brad's fort, packing another snowball.
"Never!" Bit replied, packing his own snowball.
"Uh, Bit? I think we should give up."
"Why?"
"Because we got out butts' kicked!" Bit frowned, running his gloved fingers over the perfect sphere that was his last snowball.
"I, Bit Cloud, challenge Leena Tauros to a battle! One-on-one, one snowball a piece, throw on the count of three. Do you accept?"
"You bet! And I'm gonna kick your butt Mr. Cloud!"
"I wouldn't count on it," Bit murmured, giving the snowball a kiss.
"One!"
"Two!!"
"Three!!!" Bit stood up and whipped the snowball forward, as did Leena with her own. And the last thing each of them saw was white…
"Yo Leena, you okay?" Brad asked, waving a hand in front of her face. She was on her back spread-eagle, showing signs of being unconscious. Over on the other side of the battlefield, Jamie was asking the same thing to Bit. Bit groaned and sat up, wiping the stinging snow off of his face.
"What happened?" he asked, trying to stand up.
"It was a draw. You both hit each other in the face."
"Crap." Brad poked his head over the top of their fortress.
"Any casualties?" he asked with a smirk, hands deep in his pockets.
"I think he lost a few brain cells, but there weren't too many to begin with…"
"Ha ha, very funny Jamie," Bit growled, standing up. "Where's Leena?" Brad pointed behind him.
"Right over there."
"Over where?" Bit asked. Brad looked behind him and true enough Leena was nowhere in sight.
"Hmm. Maybe she went inside. I think I'll do the same," Brad said, and headed into the base. Jamie followed suit, leaving Bit to stand there and stew over the uncanny possibility that it was a draw.
"Figures. For once she actually aims, and it's a draw." Bit shuffled his feet and headed in as well, walking by Brad and Leena's fort. There were two sets of footprints there, a larger one heading towards the base, and a smaller one heading away from it.
"So she didn't go inside. Probably brooding over the fight." He sighed. "Might as well go see what she's doing." Bit followed the footprints beyond view of the base, out onto a plateau that overlooked a large section of the desert. And there she was, facing away from him, alone in the snow. Bit came up and stopped about ten feet behind her, wondering if she even knew he was there.
"Leena?" She did not reply.
"Hey c'mon Leena. If it's about the snowball fight I'm sorry. You're not hurt are you?"
"There's something missing." The wind picked up a little, and Bit zipped up his jacket.
"What do you mean?"
"I don't know. There's just something missing about it all."
"Like what? We went to the Christmas Tree Lot (thanks Simpson-Girl!) and got your 'perfect tree', we decorated it and the base, it's snowing out, what more could you ask for?"
"…my mom."
"What?" Bit was completely caught off guard by her quiet response.
"My mom. She died a few years ago. Is it really too much to ask?" She turned around to face him, tears starting to trickle down her cheeks from her lilac eyes. "Is it too much to ask that I can share this with her? The snow, and the tree, and this special feeling I have inside? I must be such a selfish little girl." Words were far beyond Bit at this point. This was why she had been acting so strange lately? She turned around again, facing the vast desert.
"No," Bit replied softly. "I guess it isn't." He stepped forward until he was shoulder to shoulder with her.
"I imagine that would be sort of lonely, if she wasn't here. But she isn't really gone if you keep her inside," he added, pointing to his chest. Leena stood silent, the tears starting to ebb their flow.
"Do you want to come back to the base now? Maybe have some hot chocolate or something?" Bit asked.
"Just another minute. You can go if you want."
"No I'll stay. That is, if you don't mind." Leena shrugged and took one last look at the scenery, then started walking away. Bit caught up to her, walking silently except for their footsteps in the crunchy snow.
"Y'know, what you said back there? It was quite profound," Leena stated, giving him a small smile. "Though it is pretty hard to take you seriously with that ridiculous hat on." Bit laughed and kicked at some snow.
"Leena, when do you ever take me seriously?"
"Good point."
Author note: Hey, did ya see my New England vocab sneak in there? "Wicked smart"? I bet some of you think I'm crazy. Which isn't too far from the truth. ^_^ Hope your holidays were as good as mine, next chapter should be up in a day or two!