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A/N: This is the continuation of the first chapter… of course it's the second chapter… anyways… I would like to tell you all… that I don't know what happened to me when I was typing this… I apologize to you in advance. Oh! I like to announce that I am very happy with the reviews! I pray for more reviews to come! And… a little tiny shout… oi! Bria! Do the story now or I'll pinch your cheek!

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Project: Food Chain

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The morning rays of the sun were soothing against his skin, but the metal chain's heat was bothering him.

"Uhm… Hotaru… can I take off this chain?" he hopefully asked for a positive answer, but he knew her to well to agree.

"No." she answered immediately as she tried to look for their task. They were in the woods for 10 whole minutes and no chick. Hotaru is beginning to be a little impatient with this wild goose chase. "Can you use your Alice to call that animal?" she bitterly asked.

"Hey, don't you speak about it like that!" Ruka retorted to her. He was angry for her rudeness to his friends. "You should respect it!"

"Just do it." she gritted her teeth; he can be as hard headed like a person she knew quite well.

"No, never!" he shouted at her as she stopped her walking. "I would not use my Alice when you're there! I won't!"

"If you would not do it I will hurt this bird…" Hotaru raised a gun like thing to the head of an innocent bird she snatched from the bird nest sticking out the tree they were standing under.

"Stop, don't hurt it… please let it go… I'll do it…" he reluctantly said. She was an expert at this kind of things, blackmailing…

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Soon, they saw the chick run, rather bouncily, to them. The ground was shaking hysterically as the chick dashed. At the moment the animal arrived, Ruka explained and asked for its approval. To their surprise the baby chicken did agreed and squealed.

The big yellow chick was doing a lot of poses. It danced, it sang, it spun, it laughed, it cried and it even drew a picture of a tree. That chick was very talented.

Ruka was awed by the chick's talent. He was very proud of it, and he wanted to dance with it to celebrate its good job. But, Hotaru was there. She would take more photos of them even he tried to stop her. His reputation was on steak. So he avoided to show any emotions. "Hey, are you done?"

"Yes…" Hotaru murmured as she started to walk briskly away from him. He thanked the gods that the chain was 3 meters long or he would stumble. Hotaru wasn't satisfied with the pictures she caught while Ruka used his Alice. There was something blurring the picture as she scanned it in her digital camera, like a fog or something.

No CLEAR photos for blackmailing, yet…

"Hey, what's next?" he caught up with her. He noticed that her eyes weren't blank, it held disappointment. He guessed that it was concerning about her blackmail pictures.

"2. The lion…" Hotaru answered.

"Are we heading to the zoo?" Ruka questioned only to be answered by a nod. What can happen in the zoo?

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A/N: I don't know if there is a zoo in their academy… just imagine one up! Hehehe… thanks for reading… REVIEW!