Hey everyone I got chapter 12 done finally, YAY! I hope you like it, please let me know
Chapter 12: The Cool, The Kind, and The Lost
"Lincoln we will arrive at our destiation in 15 minutes." Ronda informed Lincoln, who was being hounded by his two beautiful dates on where they were going first.
"Okay thanks Ronda." Lincoln replied back.
"Come on Lincoln where are you taking us first?" Lori asked persistantly.
"Please Lincy?" Leni begged puppy dog pouting. Lincoln simply smiled at them.
"All I'll say is that it'll be a treat." Lincoln spoke smiling at them.
As they were heading to their destination, they were oblivious to the fact that they were being followed; well except Ronda. Ronda had noticed they were being followed since they left, but has no idea who it could be. After all if it was any type of professional they wouldn't be so obvious, though Ronda can always tell when they're being followed.
"Lincoln we will arrive in 5 minutes." Ronda again informed Lincoln, as she still monitered their pursuer.
"Thanks Ronda. Okay you two put these on." Lincoln took the two bandanas off his arms and held them up to his sisters. "I don't want you two to take them off until I say."
"Okay Lincy." Leni answered grabbing one of the bandanas and covering her eyes with it. Lori just looked at her brother.
"Please Lori." Lincoln begged his eldest sibling. Sighing Lori smiled at her brother.
"Okay Lincoln but it better be worth it." Lori then took the other bandana and like Leni covered her eyes. Just as she finished tying the bandana cover, Ronda came to a stop.
"We are here Lincoln." Ronda announced. Lincoln then took his sibling by their hands and stood up.
"Okay you two trust me to guide you both from here on." Lincoln spoke soothingly to them, and noticed that they visibly relaxed and smiled at him.
"Of course Lincy we trust you always." Leni replied warmth in her voice.
"That's right Lincoln, as your future wives we trust you with our very being." Lori added her own words with warmth for Lincoln. Lincoln was slightly stunned by their words, but they brought a genuinely happy smile to his face.
"Okay then follow me." Lincoln then lead them out of Ronda, going slowly so as not to make them trip. "Okay Ronda we'll see you later." Lincoln then started to slowly guide Lori and Leni to the first part of their date. Ronda then drove off not to far and parked.
"Okay now to find out who you are and why you're following us." Ronda spoke as if their pursuer could hear her. Ronda then sent a mini owl robot out to spy on the mystery person. "Okay Nocturn show mommy what you see." The robot Owl named Nocturn flew to the veichel that had followed them, and landed secretly in the rear window. It was a red mustang with a black stripe down the back, now the driver had a black hoodie over his head preventing any real identification. "Okay can't see your face; Nocturn show me the license plate." Ronda asked her owl child. Nocturn then flew down to look at the plate showing DR0HUG. "Alright now to run your plate and see who you are stalker." Ronda then started checking the DMV data base. "There you are... Oh no this may become a problem, I better call for back-up!"
"Okay Lincoln are we there yet?" Lori asked having been blind-folded for the last 10 minutes.
"Almost Lori just a few more steps, I promise." Lincoln answered walking them into a their destination. "Okay we're here!" Lincoln then unbind their covers causing them to blink to adjust to the lights and focus their vision. What the two eldest Loud sisters saw when they opened their eyes was a counter top in front of them and several more around them. On the counter tops were mixing bowls, spatulas, a stove top, and a sink.
"Lincoln what is all this?" Lori asked both of them seemingly confused. Lincoln smiled and walked around the counter top facing them.
"Well I signed us up for a little baking competition my dear Lori." Lincoln's smile grew wider, seeing Lori and Leni still trying to figure out why. After looking around more and seeing t.v station cameras, Lori realized what Lincoln had done.
"Lincoln did you sign us up for the National Bake Off?!" Lori asked, remembering the only baking competition around was the one that was shown to the whole world; or at least those that watched cooking channels.
"That's correct Lori. This is for your part of the date." Lincoln answered still grinning.
"Hey Lori didn't you say you wanted to be in that competition now too long ago?" Leni asked looking toward her sister.
"At one point I did but I became so focused on passing the Bar so I can legally practice law, I just decided to put it aside." Lori explained looking all around. "Lincoln how; why did you set this up?" Lori asked now looking to her brother-lover.
"Well simple when you all mentioned that you had less time for your true passions, so I did my research and I've planned something for each of you that will help get you back into them." Lincoln announced his master plan. Both Lori and Leni stared slack jawed at Lincoln wondering when he even had the time to make plans since he's never been alone since being back. Lincoln smirked at his slack jawed sisters and decided to let them in on his little secret.
"Plus it helps knowing the people who runs the competition." Before either sister were ready with a reply, a red haired woman came up behind Lincoln and grabbed him by the back of his shirt and lifted him about three feet off the ground.
"Well look what I have here girls, a little bunny with no ermine to pal around with." Lincoln was thrashing about madly, until he heard the voice of who had him.
"Asuna you need to be, ummm, nicer to our sibling's friends, umm please." Came a shy voice from a dark haired lady.
"Well it's their fault for dropping their guard Nodaka, plus Nagi shouldn't leave his branch family unattended." Came the stoic reply of another dark haired woman but with purple streaks in them.
"Yue's not wrong, but neither's Nodaka. Well What to do now?" The red head named Asuna asked to no one particularly. After taking a moment both Lori and Leni snapped out of their shock and went to Lincoln's aid.
"Hey put my Lincy down!" Leni yelled.
"I don't know who you are but you put my little brother down now before I call the cops!" Lori furiously spewed at the three ladies. Asuna stared blankly, Yue Stared stoically, and Nodika started panicking as silence filled the room. Then Lincoln started laughing uncontrollably.
"What's funny Lincoln?" Lori asked her anger replaced with confusion at her brother. After Lincoln could get his laughter under control Lincoln started to explain.
"It's okay Lori, Leni. These are three of Nagi's older sibling; the ones who made the food that first night I came back." Lincoln explained still being held three feet off the ground.
"Really Lincy, these three made that delicious food?" Leni asked looking at the three women curiously.
"Well if you three are Nagi's siblings, then please put Lincoln down." Lori asked politely, but looked at the three cautiously. Lincoln tried to turn to see Asuna.
"I do still need to thank you three for letting us enter the competition so suddenly Asuna, Yue, and Nodaka." Lincoln flashed them a genuine smile. Asuna smiled smugly, Yue held a thumb up, and Nodaka blushed and hid behind Yue. Asuna put Lincoln down and then focused her attention toward Lori and Leni.
"So which one's the one the can bake?" Asuna asked eyeing both Loud sisters. Nodaka then stepped up to her older sister and and was suddenly wearing glasses and the book she was holding was open.
"We have Lori Loud age 28, height 5'5" and weight is 150lbs. Eldest child of Lynn Loud Sr. and Rita Loud. Got into college through a golf scholarship. Previously was in a relationship with a Bobby Santiago that ended on good terms, hasn't been in a relationship until recently. Currently she is living with her entire family and helps at her father's family restaurant. She is in the process of getting her license to legally practice law. Still a virgin." Nodaka read from her book in a quick and professional tone, her previous shyness disappeared. "And next to her is Leni Loud age 27, height 5'6" and weight is 145bls. Second eldest child of Lynn Loud Sr. and Rita Loud. After graduating High school she started a very lucrative online designer website, making all kind of clothes; beautifully I might add. After a year though she stopped to pursue a career in forensics, and is currently top in her class. She, like her sister, lives at home and helps with the family restaurant. She hasn't been in a relationship until recently; also still a virgin." Nodaka finished closing her book and put her glasses back in her pocket.
"Thanks for the info Sis." Asuna hugged her younger sister smiling. Nodaka blushed nervously.
"Y-y-your welcome Asuna." Nodaka answered returning to her shy, nervous self. Asuna turned back to the three loud siblings and so they were all blushing, the sister's were deep red compared to Lincoln's light blush.
"What's wrong with you three?" Asuna asked looking confused, Yue then sighed.
"They're embarrassed by the fact that Nodaka just read out loud in front of their brother that they're virgins." Yue then took a juice box out of her pocket and started drinking from it, all while being non-shalunt.
"I-I-Im so sorry I didn't mean to embarrass any one!" Nodaka cried out while bowing repeatedly and asking for forgiveness. Lincoln being the first one to recover replied to Nodaka's apology.
"No need to apologize Nodaka, Nagi told me that while your usually very shy and kind, but when you put your glasses on you become the complete opposite." Lincoln still slightly blushing, gave Nodaka a reassuring smile.
"T-t-thank you. "Nodaka again blushed and then ran behind Yue.
Lincoln looked to his sisters and saw that they couldn't look him in the eyes. Asuna still confused at their reactions then blurted out,
"Wasn't Lincoln also a virgin, according to Nagi?" Now Lincoln's blush matched his sisters, even though he told them all it was still embarrassing to hear that Nagi's family knew too.
"Asuna you really need to think before you speak." Yue commented stoically.
"WILL THE JUDGES FOR THE NATIONAL COMPITION PLEASE REPORT TO WARDROBE, AND ALL COMPETITORS PLEASE REPORT TO YOUR BAKING STATIONS." Came a loud voice from the stadium speakers.
"Uhg well guess we got to go." Asuna spoke with with boredom. The three sisters turned and started walking away. "Oh yeah Lincoln you guys better make some delicious goodies for us, so do your best you love birds." Asuna called out to Lincoln and his sisters before turning the corner and disappearing. Lincoln snapped out of his embarrassment when Asuna mentioned the competition.
"Oh shit we have to hurry to check in and get to our stations, come on Lori, Leni." Lincoln quickly grabbed each of his sister's hands and pulled them toward the check-in booth. As they hurried Leni had a thought enter her mind.
"How do they know we're dating?"
While that was going on back at Nagi's house things were peaceful, and quiet. Reggie was reading some 'How To' books about dating, the Twins were snuggled together in a hammock enjoying the quiet together, and Sylphiea was out side meditating.
*RING RING*
The t.v in the living room started ringing. Reggie being the closest, answered the call. The caller was Rhonda.
"Everyone I need your assistance Immediately!" Rhonda urgently called out the moment she was answered. Hearing this everyone came into the living room to see what was going on.
"Okay Rhonda what's happening? Is Lincoln and the others okay?" Reggie asked doing her best to keep the anxiety down; they all were.
"Yes but I don't know if things will remain that way. When we left I noticed that we were being followed, and after Lincoln and the girls went inside I sent one of my children to spy on them. This is what I found." The sound of a printer filled the air and from underneath the t.v a paper came out. Reggie went to grab it and started to read the info. Reggie's face turned to absolute panic, as she turned to the other and gave them the paper.
"We need to call Nagi back NOW!" Reggie spoke barely holding herself together. When Sylphiea glanced at the at the paper skimming through it she didn't seem to understand what the problem was.
"Who is this person that's following Lincoln?" Sylphiea looked up from the paper and saw the three of them trembling. Alexandria had a thousand yard stare with a face of terror and Alexander was crying silently while holding tightly to his sister-wife. Reggie was curled up on the couch her knees to chest, her whole body trembling. Sylphiea was immediately concerned about who this was now, she took a second glance at the paper and reread the paper carefully out loud. "Dr. Zeronue Huggeo, age 35 graduated with doctorates in the fields of bio-engineering and Human Psychology at the age of 20. Was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize at age of 25, then mysteriously disappeared ten years ago. Organization 15 has found evidence that he has gone into the private sector, and three years ago was found to have been the mainly in charge of the experiments on over two thousand young individuals. The experiment was trying to break and manipulate the mind and force the mind to release the physical restraints on the body; to make controllable obedient super combatants. Main compound was found and destroyed three years ago by newly appointed Captain of 15th squad "The Steel Ermine," Nagi Bateman." Sylphiea paused as she began to realize what she was reading. "Currently no clues to the whereabouts of Dr. Zeronue Huggeo." Sylphiea looked up from the paper with a face of worry. "Call Nagi!" Sylphiea exclaimed to the flat screen television. The t.v made ringing sounds until a voice answered and on the screen showed Nagi.
"Hey everyone what's up?" Nagi asked smiling a wide smile. "This newest recruit has a cute dog, but it's obviously a robot, and he's a bit on the green side. He's also funny when he shouts out 'I'M NOT AN INVADER!'. I can't wait for you guys to meet him and his two spouses, though he doesn't technically have a specific gender..." Nagi trailed off for a moment lost in thought.
"Nagi where are you right now?" Nagi notice the slight distress in Sylphiea's voice, and focused his attention on her.
"What's happened?" Nagi asked his whole demeanor becoming deadly serious. "Sylphiea what's wrong?"
"We need you to come home quickly! It's urgent!" Sylphiea begged her love; something she would rarely do.
"I'll be there in a moment!"
Back at the stadium Lori , Leni, and Lincoln were escorted to a cooking station. Lori immediately noticed that the cooking appliances were top of the line, many she had thought about getting for the restaurant. Then there were the ingredients, they were all top quality. Lori suddenly felt out of place being here, Lincoln could sense Lori's feelings. He took Lori by the hands and looked her in the eyes as he spoke.
"Lori I have the utmost confidence that you're going to do great, and remember this is more about you rediscovering the fun part of baking." Lincoln then pulled her closer to him and kissed her forehead. With both his words and actions, Lori quieted the doubt in her and brought back her brilliant confident smile and looked at Lincoln.
"Thanks Linc I needed that." Lori hugged her brother-lover tightly. Leni looked at the scene and smiled at the beautiful moment until she couldn't hold back and joined the hug.
"Your the best person I know at baking goodies Lori, I know we'll win." Leni exclaimed to her sister.
"HA! You hear that Mic, Renea, these locals think they're going to win. Hahahaha!" Came a female voice from behind them. Lori and Leni looked to the table placed in front of their station, and saw three individuals. One was a young white male with broad shoulders, ripped abs; he was wearing a black tank top and blue jeans with a bandana wrapped around his black hair. One of the women was an slim Korean-American with long black hair that reaches her lower butt, she was wearing a formal Korean chef outfit. Finally the one who had spoken was an olive skin toned Italian woman with black hair in a ponytail. She had on a white tank top that showed off her firm and ample chest, while her blue daisy duke shorts showed off her well shaped bubble butt.
"Oh hello there. My name's Lori this is my sister Leni and my-" Lori started to introduce Lincoln when the olive skinned girl held up her hand to stop her.
"Look, Blondie I don't need to know the name of my competition, especially one that didn't earn the right to be here." The olive skinned woman glared an unfriendly look at Lori and Leni. Lori was somewhat taken off guard by the woman's behavior and was about to say something back when she felt a hand in her. She looked down to see that Lincoln gabbed both of her and Leni's hands; and the only thing they noticed was how gentle he held them. Lincoln they spun them around and in to his arms as he turned to face the olive skinned woman while holding his sister-lovers.
"So what makes you think that we shouldn't be here Miss?" Lincoln asked kindly with a friendly smile, that seemed to actually make the olive skinned woman blush for some reason. Realizing she was blushing she shook her head and tried to give Lincoln the same look she gave his sisters; but failing.
"The name's Camellia, and you guys didn't win competition after competition to get here; everyone here did." The young woman named Camellia gestured to the rest of the competitors, who were watching the scene unfold. Lincoln only sighed as he then looked at Camellia and the rest of the room.
"I'm sorry you all feel that way, but we aren't leaving. After all we were invited to come here by my three friends." Lincoln then pointed to the judges who just sat down. Seeing him point at them Asuna, Yue, and Nodaka waved back to him. "They did a huge favor to let us be here, and to not accept would be very rude. Besides we aren't here to win, rather to have loads of fun." Lincoln then kissed Lori and then Leni on their lips.
"WOOOOW! YOU GET THEM LINCOLN!" Shouted Asuna from the second floor judges stands, Yue sketched the kisses, and Nodaka took photos of them. Lori and Leni blushed smiling at the reactions and Lincoln just smiled an winked at them. Camellia stared at Lincoln mouth open trying to think of something to say, but couldn't.
"Participants please report to your stations the competition will soon begin." The announcer called out loudly. Everyone went to their stations to prepare, Lincoln let the girls go and also started to prepare. "Okay everyone you will have an hour and a-half to finish what ever baked goods you want too. Ready? BEIGIN!"
"Okay Lori your in charge what are we making and how are we making it? Lincoln asked while looking through a recipe book that was on the table. Lori walked over to the ingredients and grabbed them and turned to Leni.
"Leni please turn the oven on to 400 degrees please." She then turned to Lincoln who looked up from the recipe book. "Lincoln I need you to get me measuring cups and a large cake pan." Both younger siblings instantly went to do their tasks. Lori grabbed two large mixing bowls and started separating the dry and wet ingredients. "Okay Leni I need you to mix the wet ingredients for 5 minutes straight okay?" Lori handed Leni the bowl.
"Okay Lori I got it." Leni then grabbed a spatula and started stirring. After five minutes Lori took the bowl and combined it with the dry ingredients, and handed it to Leni again.
"Lori why are you having Leni stir the ingredients instead of using the mixer?" Lincoln asked genuinely curious.
"Well Lincoln you remember how strong Leni is right? Well I found that when she stirs the ingredients they combine in a way that will make the batter more smooth like and when baked more fluffy." Another 5 minutes and Leni gave Lori the bowl, and Lori went to pour the batter in the cake pan, and then in the oven. "Okay so that will take an hour to properly bake. So until it's done we our going to make several types of frosting, and another baked goody." Lori looked at her siblings smiling, she had forgotten how much fun she had baking things for people.
After ten minutes Lori had made several frostings of orange, blue, light-blue, white and yellow. Lori hand also made cookie dough, and from what Lincoln could tell they were Bluebell cookies; his favorite. When Lincoln realized this he smiled and watched as Lori put the tray of cookie dough in the oven with the cake. Then after an hour they started to frost the cake and cookies with the frosting. Lincoln looked at his sister's cookie designs and saw something that made his heart skip a beat, both sisters drew with the frosting five faces on five cookies. One was his, two were each sister, but he didn't know the other two.
"Who are these two supposed to be?" Lincoln asked wanting to know who they were. Lori and Leni both smiled and blushed looking to each other then to Lincoln before both answered.
"Our kids." Came the happy unison reply. Lincoln Smiled a rather dumb goofy smile, he swore his heart was thumping so loud everyone could here. Then two tears fell, one from each eye, full of true genuine joy. Lincoln then went to both of his sister-wives and picked each up in both hands and twirled them joyously.
"I look forward to the day we can meet our kids!" Lincoln exclaimed loudly. Everyone stopped what they were doing and even the cameras were now focused on them. Asuna, Yue and Nodaka were giggling at Lincoln's reaction. Lincoln put them down ignoring all the prying eyes and looked at two of his lovers smiling, then kissed them both passionately. "I really mean it when I say I'd love to have children with you all." Lincoln spoke, when Lori and Leni saw how happy they made Lincoln they had tears running down their cheeks.
"Yes Lincoln we can't wait either." Lori spoke happily to Lincoln feeling butterflies in her stomach, but they were the good kind of butterflies.
"Yeah Lincy, after your dates with everyone let's start our own family!" Leni excitedly squealed. Lori then looked at Leni with surprise at her words then Lincoln; who still had a smile on his face.
"Remember Leni we can take our time and when we're all ready we'll have kids." Lori interjected to Leni, who looked at Lori pouting; Lincoln just kept his smile.
"Ummm excuse me but is your team ready to send in your baked goods?" The host of the competition had come up to them but went unnoticed until now. Lori quickly cut three pieces of cake and placed three cookies on each plate and handed the tray to the host.
"Sorry we were having a moment." Lori explained smiling politely. The host just winked and took the tray to the judges.
"Okay now while we wait for the judges to decide the winner, we'll come around and ask each of you to tell us a bit about yourselves." The host announced, and then walked to each contestant one by one with the camera crew. And after twenty minutes they came up to Lori.
"So Miss Loud I couldn't help but notice that you and your team seemed to be very excited, did something wonderful happen?" Lori merely blushed at the question, when Leni burst out answering the question.
"Well our fiancé Lincy here just said he can't wait to start a family with us!" Leni excitedly exclaimed as she hugged into Lincoln's side. Lori would have usually blushed deeper but had instead did as her younger sibling did and hugged Lincoln's other side and smiled.
"What she said." Lori looked to the host smiling brightly, regardless of everyone's judgmental stares. The host just smiled a surprisingly genuine smile to the three.
"Well congratulations! I hope that you have many healthy children, and a happy life." The host spoke, and then a loud bell went off signaling that the judges had made their decisions. "And with that ladies and gentlemen we will now here the verdict of the three judges now." The Host spoke directly to the camera and then walked off towards the judges. Suddenly there was tension in the room as the three judges gave their decision.
"Alright everyone my sisters and I have made a decision." Asuna paused a moment for effect then continued. "We have decided that Lori Loud and here team have won." All of the competitors started to get riled up, but before anything got to out of hand Nodaka spoke one word very menacingly.
"Quiet!" And everyone was dead silent; even Lincoln was affected by Nodaka's single word.
"Wow and we thought Nagi was dangerous." Lincoln thought, and was answered with agreement from his personalities. Asuna thanked her sister and continued.
"However while her cake and cookie combo did win, she will not receive any of the rewards since she is here by our own invite. So the one who will receive the first place reward is Camellia Dante and her team." Asuna announced, which was followed by an extremely loud cheer from Camellia's team followed by a round of applause from everyone; including the Louds.
"And there you have it everyone the winners of this years Baking event, and wasn't it exciting!" The Host announced. "Can't wait for next years theme and the competitors that show up, but till then I'm Thayne Jensen; and this has been Food Fighter!"
"Wow that was so much fun Lincy!" Leni exclaimed, "And Lori you technically won!" Leni hugged her sister excitedly celebrating.
"Hmmm this IS really good cake and cookies." Camellia came up and tried some of Lori's cake and cookies. "I see that I got a lot more to learn. You said your name's Lori right?" Camellia asked.
"That's right Lori Loud." Lori smiled at Camellia and offered her hand, to which Camellia accepted with her own.
"I'll remember the name. Hope to see more of your foods in the future." Camellia spoke in a friendly and almost inviting tone. Lori smiled and nodded.
"Same here." Lori then turn to Lincoln and for some reason her heart raced as she looked into his blue eyes. "Yup I'm for sure in love with my little brother." She thought to herself smiling. "And yes I will happily have his children any time." Lincoln then looked at his phone for the time and he seemed pleased with the time.
"Okay you two now we're going to go get something to eat, and then we'll continue the second half of our date." Lincoln spoke as he took Lori and Leni's hands and they went to leave.
*Huff Huff*
"Must get away!" The thought ran through this person's mind as he ran running for his literal life. "I should have lost him three blocks and two left turns ago." The man took a moment to catch his breath, but he'll soon find out that he should have kept running. As soon as he stopped suddenly a cloaked figure was behind him. Sensing this the man pulled out a gun. "D-don't come any closer or I'll shoot!" The cloaked figure made no reply only took a step forward.
*BANG*
The man pulled the trigger, firing at the cloaked figure right in the heart. But the bullet fell to the ground like it merely just lost all the momentum, and the stranger just kept walking toward the man. Fear prevented the man from moving as he stared into the blood red eyes of the cloaked figure. The eyes brought one thought to the man's mind and that was: "Hell is paradise compared to what fate awaits me!"
"PLEASE NO HAVE MERCY!" the man screamed the last scream the world would ever hear.
Lincoln left the bathroom at the restaurant that he had reservations at and walked to the booth his sisters were at. As he walked up to them he couldn't help but notice that they were each drinking a bit of alcohol. Lori was sipping a bit of Bud Lite, while Leni had a glass of what looked like a white Chardonnay. Leni saw Lincoln approaching and couldn't help but smile widely at him, Lori smiled as well when she saw what her sister was smiling about.
"Well there's our sexy Lincy." Leni commented as she took another sip but her gaze never leaving Lincoln. Lincoln sat on the opposite side of his sister-wives he smiled at them.
"I never pictured any of you as the drinking type; especially Lori with beer." Lincoln teased the eldest two.
"Well I find that it's easier on my stomach, and tastes better then wine." Lori shrugged having never really thought about it before.
"I like chardonnay cause it's got a fruity flavor to it." Leni added as she giggled. "What about you Lincy? What do you like drinking?" Lincoln thought about it for a moment before he answered.
"Well I don't recall my first time drinking alcohol." Lori and Leni looked confused at their brother.
"What do you mean you don't recall your first drink?" Lori asked
"Yeah Lincy, do you mean that you got blackout drunk and don't remember it?" Leni asked.
"No I mean Nagi and I were going to go get drinks but then we both woke up the next day at home like nothing happened." Lincoln explained. "Though since then anytime we talk about going to get a drink everyone screams 'no' at us." Lori and Leni just seemed even more confused. Then the waitress showed up to take everyone's order.
"Oh is this who you two were waiting for?" The waitress asked the eldest Louds. Lincoln looked up at the waitress and somehow felt a familiar presence about her. The waitress had Black hair that went to her shoulders, she wore a shirt with a red star in the middle and a black skirt that reached above her knees, and a pair of green high heels.
"Yeah he's actually the one who got us the reservation here, Stella." Lori replied. As he heard the name the light-bulb in his head turned on, and he realized that this woman was one of his childhood friends; Stella Zhau!
"Wait Stella? Stella Zhau?!" Lincoln exclaimed aloud, surprising the entire restaurant. Lori and Leni giggled at his reaction. Stella looked at Lincoln at first with surprise from the out burst, but then she made a face that suggested that she was trying to remember something important.
"Yes, the one and only." She answered feeling some form of familiarity from Lincoln. "And can I get your name sir, you look so familiar for some reason." Stella asked still trying to grasp what her mind was trying to remind her.
"Stella how could you forget our little brother Lincoln here?" Leni asked smiling at the scenario before her. Now at the mention of Lincoln's name, it was Stella who was surprised. She dropped her note pad and tears started to roll down her face as she reach out with her hands and gently held his face as if he would disappear if she put too much pressure with her hands.
"L-l-linc-c-con?" Stella stammered softly. Lincoln also started to have tears run down his face.
"Yup it's me." Lincoln answered tears flowing down his face, but they were joyful ones. Almost immediately Stella hugged Lincoln and Lincoln not missing a beat returned the hug. Stella pulled back from Lincoln looking him in the eyes.
"H-how long have you been back, where have you been all these years, does Ronnie-Ann or Clyde know; and-" Stella was cut off with her rampage of questions by Leni pulling on her arm causing Stella to look at Leni and Lori smiling.
"It's okay Stella just calm down, and have a seat and we'll answer some of your questions." Leni motioned for Stella to sit with them. Stella took a breath and did just that. Moving to the inside of the booth while Lincoln sat on the outside, sitting in front of Leni now. Stella now calmer realized that she was trapped with Lincoln right next to her and she suddenly felt nervous.
"Okay so Stella to answer your first question Lincoln's been back for two weeks and three days now; on the 10th anniversary of him being kidnapped; so Ronnie-Ann and Clyde both know he's back. As for where he's been that's more difficult to answer." Lori spoke and ended with looking at Lincoln unsure if she should tell Stella what he told them. Lincoln picked up on the look and smiled at his eldest sister for her consideration.
"Well it's something that I'll tell you about in a more private setting." Lincoln looked to Stella smiling. Seeing his smile Stella blushed a light red.
"O-okay Linc. Umm have you let any of the other guys know that your back yet?" Stella asked not breaking eye contact with him.
"No I've been using this time to spend with my family, but was actually going to see all of you this weekend." Lincoln answered Stella also not breaking eye contact. Lori and Leni could see the obvious tension that Stella was feeling and decided to help her out.
"How about you drop by later tonight at our house and Lincoln and you can talk more; after all it's been a while since you visited." Lori offered an idea.
"Yeah you need to totes come over." Leni seconding Lori's idea. Lincoln smiled at the idea, as did Stella.
"If your sure it's okay with you Lincoln." Stella replied.
"That would be fine with me." Lincoln answered.
"STELLA! Where are you, we need these dishes taken to their tables!" Yelled a cook from the back. Stella jumped remembering that she was at work. Lincoln quickly moved to let her out of the booth.
"Coming!" She hollered back at the cook. "Okay I'll be over at your place later tonight then." Stella gave Lincoln another hug then went to quickly take orders out.
"See you then Stella." Lori called after her. Lincoln sat back down and saw his sisters smiling widely at him.
"What?" Lincoln became curious about their smiles.
"Well Lincy, guess that makes it 13 women in your harem; right Lori." Leni teased Lincoln and Lori just nodded in agreement. Lincoln blushed.
"She's just an old friend that I've not seen in ten years, no way she's into me." Lincoln commented still blushing. Lori and Leni just kept smiling.
After a short while their orders were taken and the three louds ate their meals. Lincoln noticed the time and paid the bill and left a generous tip and lead Lori and Leni out side. Now it was time for Leni's surprise of the date. Lincoln held out his arms for them to take and when they did, off they went. Lincoln again didn't say anything about where they were going or what they were doing.
"Hey Lincy why are we walking and not taking Rhonda? Leni asked, though she didn't mind walking with her brother and sister.
"Rhonda said she needed to go do something, but will be back to pick us up after the planned event." Lincoln answered.
"No offense to Rhonda but what can she do? She's an R.V?" Lori asked genuinely curious.
"She probably had to go help the guys at Nagi's or some other errand." Lincoln answered while looking around for something. After a few glances he found his next destination, it was a large party tent that had many chairs all facing what looked like a large stage with a runway sticking 12ft out. "Okay you two we're here." Lincoln lead them toward the tent.
"Lincoln are you sure we're allowed to just walk in like this?" Lori asked as they approached the tent. Just as they were approaching the rear entrance two very big and very mean looking guys were blocking the way in. Lori and Leni instantly stopped in their tracks, but Lincoln walked up to them smiling.
"Hey Bruno, hey Mike." Lincoln spoke and the two scary men grew smiles on their faces.
"Oi Boss Lincoln, ow's you been; been what a year now?" The one named Bruno asked.
"Yeah back when we put a show on in Brazil." The one named Mike added.
"I'm doing good thanks for asking, I can see you two have taken my advice to heart since I left." Lincoln spoke casually with them. Seeing this Lori and Leni slowly approached Lincoln, but stayed behind him in a shy manner. Both men took notice of the girls, and Mike lend down to Lincoln to whisper in his ear.
"Boss Lincoln you got two beauties behind you." Mike looked between the two Loud sisters curiously. Lincoln chuckled at Mike's statement and reached for both his sisters and brought them forward.
"These two are Lori and Leni, and we're on a date." Lincoln explained to them. This surprised the two giant men as they exchanged looks.
"Wait wait wait, you mean that there ARE women that catch your eyes boss?" Mike spoke genuinely surprised.
"What is that supposed to mean?" Leni asked curious by that statement.
"Wells ya see fer some reason no matter what when ever a lady took an interest in Boss he jus wel was completely dense in noticin, ya know?" Bruno explained. 'So's you two gots to be real special if he's on a date wif yous." Hearing this made the eldest loud siblings hearts beat faster and made them blush with a shy smile.
"Well I guess our Lincoln just has a particular taste in women." Lori replied smiling at Lincoln, Leni mirrored her.
"I'll say he does." Leni added. Lincoln smiled at the two lovely ladies then to the two bouncers.
"Well Mike, Bruno it's been nice catching up with you guys, but we should be heading in before thing get started." Lincoln announced taking a step forward.
"Sure Boss do you have any passes or V.I.P tickets?" Mike asked as they both continued to block the entrance. Lincoln stop and looked at the two.
"I wasn't given any, I was told to just show up and go in." Lincoln explained. Mike shook his head apologetically.
"Sorry Boss but we can't let you pass without passes, or permission from the Boss ladies." Mike explained. Lincoln nodded in acknowledgement.
"I understand well can one of you go tell them that I'm here." Lincoln asked.
"I'll go and ask em, wait her'." With that Bruno went inside.
"Lincoln we don't need to force ourselves in, we can just go to the arcade and play some old school games and be just as happy." Lori suggested to he lover-brother.
"Hey trust me Lori, after all I'm still 'The Man with the Plan". Lincoln winked at Lori. Lori loved how confident Lincoln was, it was something that he always had in the past, at least until everything went wrong.
"WHAT!? LINCOLN'S HERE AND YOU HAVEN'T LET HIM AND HIS GUESTS IN? HURRY GET THEM IN HERE THE SHOW'S ABOUT TO START!" A very loud voice rang out and not even a minute later Bruno came back looking a bit disheveled.
"Okay everything checks out, head on in." Bruno then opened gesturing them inside.
"Don't worry guys I'll tell Henrietta to take it easy on you guys." Lincoln whispered to them as they passed by.
"Thanks Boss." They whispered back.
As Lori and Leni walked in ahead of Lincoln they saw many women running around practically nude, or wearing skimpy revealing clothes. Lori was frozen in place from confusion and shock at what she was seeing wondering what Lincoln was thinking. Leni however looked not at the nearly naked women but at the many different outfits that they wore or that was on a rack hanging. Lincoln walked up next to them and gaged their reactions.
"Come on you two I'll take you to meet Henrietta." Lincoln spoke as he walked right passed all the women. Lori and Leni followed behind one wondering what Lincoln was thinking, the other feeling like she's in her element for some weird reason.
As they were walking with Lincoln, Lori and even Leni started to notice that all the women stopped what they were doing and looked over at them and smiled and started following them. Lori and Leni grabbed Lincoln's hands trying to get his attention. Lincoln felt from their grip that they were starting to get anxious, so he stopped and turned to them.
"What's wrong Lori, Leni?" Lincoln asked them not paying any attention to the large group of women standing behind them watching them. Watching both his sisters carefully he noticed that they were looking nervously to the sides of them and then they increased their grip on his hands. Lincoln finally looked up and saw all the women looking at them.
"Hello Lincoln!" Came a very loud greeting in unison from all the women now surrounding Lincoln and his sisters. Lincoln gave a small smile and waved to everyone.
"Hey everyone nice to see you all again." Lincoln then returns his focus back on his sisters. " It's okay Lori, Leni I' won't leave your sides." Lincoln whispered into their ear's. His voice alone was enough to ease them, but his words are what made them snap out of this weird sense of insecurity.
"Move aside let me through." From behind Lincoln came a voice that belonged to a beautiful woman who pushed her way rather rudely through the crowd of women. The woman was wearing a robe, though wearing was being generous as her size C breasts were practically hanging out. She seemed to be of Scottish decent with long flowing dark hair that slightly curled at the end she has a complexion of a beautiful pale olive skin. She was easily 6ft tall almost as tall as Lincoln, with high heels she was the same height. She had a hourglass figure that led into a nicely curved bubble butt. She stepped sensually toward Lincoln, who's back was still toward her.
"Well well well, I told you girls he would come running back. Couldn't stay away from me could you Lincoln Loud." She spoke very mockingly to Lincoln, who only sighed not even turning to the woman.
"Hello to you too Elise. I'm actually here for something unrelated to you." Lincoln spoke in a monotone almost as good as Lucy. Lori and Leni however started feeling very protective of Lincoln, as well as possessive of him. They suddenly moved in between Lincoln and the woman named Elise. The woman seemed surprised by the Loud women getting in between them. Lincoln was just as surprised but more on how fast they moved.
"I don't know who you are but you stay away from our Lincy." Leni usually nice had an aggressive tone.
"He clearly doesn't want anything to do with you, so back off or I'll make you." Lori warned just as aggressive as her sister. The woman simply smirked at them and raised her hand and went to slap them. Just as her hand was about to make contact with Lori's left cheek a hand gripped Elise's hand and pulled her away very firmly.
"I will not tolerate any form of violence here Elise." The one who grabbed her hand was a woman in her late twenties. She looked very much like the professional secretary type with glasses, a nice blouse and skirt with black heels, and her auburn hair in a bun. "Lincoln and these two lovely ladies are here to help with the show since we are short handed."
"Oh my gosh LINCOLN!"
Just then running out of the crowd and into Lincoln's arms came a red haired woman that was also in her late twenties. She wore a beautiful red-orange dress and sandals, her hair was in the style of what looked like twin drills one on each side. Leni also noticed while Lincoln spun this new woman around that on both her wrists had, what she knew all to well, pin-cushions on them. Lincoln put the woman down and looked down at her, she was about 5 inches shorter than him.
"Good to see you too Melody." Lincoln smiled at the red haired woman. She looked over at Lori and Leni and her smile grew even wider.
"OMG! Lincoln are these Lori and Leni?" Lincoln nodded. "You did not do them justice with how beautiful they are; Henrietta look at them." The energetic red head called to the secretary like woman.
"I can see that my love." The secretary woman spoke softly to the red head. "Lincoln we truly appreciate your help." the one called Henrietta let go of Elise's arm and walked up next to the one called Melody, and Leni suddenly gasped realizing who they were.
"OMG! Lori these two are the world famous fashion couple Melody&Henerietta!" Leni excitedly squealed to Lori.
"That's right Ms. Leni I'm Henrietta and this is my wife Melody. We run Melody's Fashionista." Henrietta took Melody's hand in hers very lovingly. "And you two are Lori and Leni, Lincoln has spoken of you both with very high regard. I hope you both perform well on such short notice." Lori and Leni were confused by the last part of her sentence.
"What do you mean by 'perform'?" Lori asked. Henrietta looked sternly at Lincoln.
"You didn't tell them anything Lincoln?" Henrietta asked looking at Lincoln, but he wouldn't make eye contact.
"Well you see it was a surprise for our date. Leni you'll be helping Melody with making dresses, and Lori you and I are going to be models." Lincoln finally revealed to his sister-wives. Leni was smiling wide at him and ran to Lincoln and hugged him.
"OMG Lincoln your the best boyfriend ever!" Leni exclaimed.
"Excuse me, but what makes you think that they have the skills- no the right to work with any of us; especially me?!" Elise blurted out haughtily. Henrietta glared Daggers at Elise, silencing her immediately. Lincoln took both of his sisters in his arms and faced Elise.
"I can tell you that these two without a doubt will out shine you easily." Lincoln proudly announced, making both Lori and Leni blush. "Lori here will easily captivate the crowd in any of the dresses here. Especially if Leni here makes the dress, there isn't any cloth that she can't make into a world wide designer brand." Lincoln bragged. All the models in the room started murmuring amongst each other.
"Okay everyone that's enough we need to get ready for the show so hurry up and get your dresses on and get ready to wow the crowd!" Henrietta yelled out clapping for everyone to disband and get going. Everyone did as commanded even Elise, and went back to their own areas to get stage ready. Melody and Henrietta walked to Lincoln and his sisters.
"That's so sweet Lincoln. Look at you standing up for your ladies." Melody gushed. "It's such a wonderful site to see from you, Mr. Serious."
"Yes I agree with Melody. In the past you seemed so distant from anyone who wasn't part of Nagi's crew." Henrietta commented. Melody then took Leni's hand and started to lead her away.
"Leni you can come with me to the design station and help me with some of these designs maybe you can see something I can't." Melody spoke as she dragged Leni away. Lincoln started to go after them but Henrietta stopped him.
"Don't worry Lincoln I'll watch over them, but you and Ms. Lori need to go get prepared for your first outfits." Henrietta then pointed to a single cubicle in the opposite direction. "I promise to keep her safe, on the honor of my squad of Organization 15." Henrietta added to reassure Lincoln.
"I trust you Hen, it's just I promised to be by their sides." Lincoln explained. Henrietta smiled and had a thought.
"Then I'll have a cubicle set up right next to the design room." Henrietta offered as she used a walkie talkie to call for some help.
After a few minutes Lincoln and Lori were in the newly placed cubicle full of clothes, men's on one side and women's on the other. Lori and Lincoln looked at each other blushing a bit suddenly feeling awkward at the idea of undressing in front of each other. Lori being the oldest decided to take control of the situation quickly and acted. She went to the men's side and looked through the clothes and found one that screamed prefect; at least to her.
"Okay Lincoln this outfit will be the first, I'll go find something to match or at least compliment it." Lori handed him the outfit and rushed over to the women's clothes. After a quick look she found just the right one, and started taking her shirt off.
"L-L-Lori wait, I'll go out and wait for you to change." Lincoln stuttered as his blush deepened while staring at Lori in her bra as she started taking her skirt off.
"No time Lincoln we got to get ready so that we can get make-up on and our hair styled; and not to mention we have to pick what outfits are going out next." Lori listed off as she stepped out of her skirt, she then quickly folded her clothes and turned to Lincoln. Lincoln stared amazed at how Lori just took instant control of the situation. "Besides we've already seen each other in our birthday suits, so why should we be embarrassed; right?" Lori smile as see looked at Lincoln only in her bra and panties. Lincoln smiled back at her, and started to take his shirt off.
"Your right Lori, plus we can't let Leni down when we're modeling her designs." Lincoln added as he stepped out of his pants. Lori took a quick glance and noticed a rather large pole in his tent. Lori's eyes quickly looked back up and met Lincoln's eyes. "It's only fair Lori I was checking you out too." Lincoln smirk at Lori; she returned his smirk.
"Okay Lincoln save the flirting for after, let's get dressed." Lori then started stepping into her outfit, and Lincoln started to put his outfit on. After they were dressed Lori motioned him to the table with a mirror to do his make-up and hair. She fought a whole three minute with his cow-lick but it just wouldn't go down.
"Well I guess it is your trade mark look." Lori sighed in defeat, then sat next to him and started doing her own make-up and hair. Lincoln looked in the mirror and loved the job Lori did.
"You did a great job Lori." Lincoln complimented her. Lori not looking away from the mirror smiled at her man.
"Thank you Lincoln." Lori grinned at Lincoln. "Now go pick out your next outfit." Lincoln went over and collected something he liked and set it on the table. Just then there was a knock on the door.
"You guys got five minutes till you need to be ready for the show." The voice belonged to Henrietta.
"We'll be ready in two Henrietta." Lori called out as she stood up and quickly picked out her next outfit.
"Okay see you two soon." And with that Henrietta walked off to check on her wife and Leni's progress. Lori went to Lincoln giving him a once over to make sure the outfit looked correct.
"You ready Lincoln?" Lori looked up as he looked back into her eyes.
"I'm ready if you are." And before Lori could speak Lincoln drew her closer and gave her a deep and passionate kiss. Lincoln slowly pulled away and looked at Lori as she slowly opened her eyes to gaze lovingly at Lincoln speechless.
Lincoln grabbed her hand and they left their cubical and headed to show Leni. As they pulled back they curtain to the cubicle that Leni and Melody was in, they could hear the two of them exchanging ideas on fashion. Lincoln smiled at Lori who returned it with her own. Lincoln then knocked on the side of the cubicle as they walked in, Leni and Melody turned their attention toward the knock.
"Lincy, Lori, you both look so handsome and gorgeous." Leni spoke with a mixture of emotions such as pride, love, and lust. She walked to her siblings and carefully examined both of their outfits.
Lincoln's hair was slid back with the exception of his cow-lick and kept in place by a bandana around his head. He was wearing a tight shirt that had black long sleeves with a white torso made of silk. The shirt was covered by a light white and black vest. His legs were covered by tight bark blue jeans that had tears in certain spots. With his feet in a pair of black boots with steel-toes.
Lori had her hair combed neatly to the left side of her face covering her left eye. She was wearing a spaghetti strapped dress that went just pasted her knees, her arms were covered by long white silk gloves that reached passed her elbow. She had a light-blue very fluffy out-line around the neck, arm and bottom openings of the dress. Her legs wear encased in silk stockings that went with her light-blue heels.
"There's just one thing that needs changing for each to be complete." Leni then crouched down and tore Lori's dress on the right side up to her hip, quickly mending the sides to make it look nice. Then she went to Lincoln and quickly took the vest off and instead put a orange and black scarf around his neck. "There now your outfits are worthy of you." Leni stepped back admiring her handy work. Lincoln looked himself and Lori over and smiled.
"It's amazing, Leni." Lincoln complimented.
"Lincoln she is such a fashion genius!" Melody exclaimed. "I would love to work with her all year long is I could." Lincoln was about to walk toward Leni when he was being pulled out of the room.
"Later Lincoln you and Lori need to get out there the shows starting." Henrietta stated pulling Lincoln to the stage, with Lori following right behind. "Okay Lincoln on the left Lori on the right. Lincoln I'll give you the signal then you go, Lori the moment he goes you go at the same time. You'll both walk down then at the end you trade sides and come back." Henrietta explained.
As they got positioned Lori noticed that Elise was placed behind Lincoln. Lori felt a rush of jealousy flow through her as she saw Elise checking her man out. Lincoln could see this in Lori so he waved to get her attention, and as soon as she looked at him he made a heart with his hands. Lori felt all the jealousy leave her and was replaced with the warm feeling of love. Lincoln saw the signal and immediately walked out to the stage with Lori easily matching his pace.
As they walked down the runway neither stepping out of sync with the other. The moment they reached the end of the runway they posed showing their outfits off, hearing many 'ooowws' and 'ahhhhs'; then turned heading back. Once they stepped back behind the stage Lori and Lincoln both let out all their built up nerves with a sigh. They looked at each other and both let out a laugh as all their nerves and stress from the moment left. Henrietta walked up to them with Melody beside her.
"You two were JUST THE BEST! Leni and I could hear the excited crowd from the back!" Melody squealed excitedly. Lincoln looked around for Leni but didn't see her, Melody read Lincoln's mind. "She's still in the back working on the center piece of the show, and don't worry I left Bruno and Mike to guard her."
"Yes now you two quickly go get your next outfit." Henrietta started to rush them back to their cubicle. Lincoln noticed Bruno and Mike letting Melody in followed by Henrietta, turning a caterer away.
Lincoln and Lori went out presenting outfits four more times, each time the crowd loved both the attire and the models wearing them. An hour and thirty minutes easily passed and they were out of outfits to wear. Lincoln and Lori wear dressed back in their regular attire and went over to see Leni. Bruno and Mike stopped them from entering with wide smiles on their faces.
"Sorry Boss Ms. Leni said only Ms. Lori can enter. Says she's still working on the dress and wants it to be a surprise for ya." Bruno explained. Lincoln just stared blankly at them then looked at Lori, who smiled at him and went to enter. As Lori went in Henrietta came out.
"Ah Lincoln Good job out there. You weren't exaggerating about these two when you asked me to put them in the show." They went to walk toward the food table continuing their conversation.
"Thanks again Henrietta, I honestly didn't think any of the other vice-captains would do me a solid after..." Lincoln trailed off.
"Lincoln what happened on the Island of Beasts wasn't your fault, anyone with half a brain knows that." Henrietta scoffed at the thought that anyone would blame him. "You have more friends in Organization 15 then you think." Henrietta smile and ruffled Lincoln's hair playfully like she was an older sibling.
"Thanks Hen." Lincoln smiled, he had needed to hear that. After having gotten his palate of food Lincoln turned and dropped his plate from shock, Henrietta without looking used her foot to catch the plate.
There stood Leni in a Light blue wedding dress. The dress was strappless and went down to her ankles where the edge had frills. All over the dress were different designs of a pair of blue jays. She had light blue silk gloves that reached up her arm stopping at her elbow, but two strings wrapped around further up her arm tied into bows. Finally in her hair was an assortment of flowers and sticking out from her hair, that she had flowing out, were two orange rabbit ears.
"Hi Lincy." Leni spoke very shyly. Leni started to get more shy and nervous as Lincoln stared open mothed at her. Henrietta closed Lincoln's mouth and walked off to find her wife. Lincoln snapped out of his momentary shock and stepped toward Leni taking her hands in his.
"Leni Leona Loud. You are the most beautiful bride to be I've ever seen." Lincoln spoke his eyes never leaving Leni's.
"OMG that is so beautiful!" Melody squealed tears forming in her eyes, having been watching the scene from the beginning. She took her wife's hand and just kept watching smiling. Even Lori had tears in her eyes happy that she could see Leni pulled out of her depression and finally genuinely happy.
"I'm sorry to interrupt but Leni needs to be out there in 5 seconds." Henrietta spoke tears in her eyes just like her wife.
"Go wow them we'll be here when you get back." Lincoln spoke softly in Leni's ear as he reluctantly let her go with Henrietta to the runway. Lori walked up next to Lincoln smiling as she wipes her tears away.
"Hope your that speechless when you see me in a wedding dress too." Lori teased as she softly poked Lincoln. Lincoln still watching Leni go until out she went then turned to Lori taking her in his arms looking deep into her eyes.
"Trust me Lori, every day you all take my breath away. And the thought of you all in wedding dresses causes my beating heart to beat faster that it might burst out of my chest." Lincoln then gently kissed Lori again. The moment was ended when the crowd started screaming and shouting.
"OH MY GOD HE'S GOT A GUN!"
"LINCOLN COME QUICK!" Melody screamed franticly. Lincoln had a sudden pit in his stomach as he went running toward the runway, Lori right behind him.
Lincoln arrived to see that Henrietta was knocked unconscious with Melody laying her head in her lap with a look of fear and concern. Before Lincoln could ask or check on Henrietta Melody pointed out to the runway, where Leni was at the end being approached by the caterer from earlier.
"I told you Leni You belong to ME!" The man yelled out at Leni.
"Go away Carter! You're not supposed to be anywhere near me according to the restraining order!" The man named Carter pointed his gun at Leni.
"Okay Lincoln switch out with me I'll deal with him!" Tasenshi spoke eager to go.
"No you'll get Leni involved! I'll go I can find the solution!" Roteki insisted
"Hey Guy's who's this?" Jiysin asked, happily like a child, the other two. Both Tasenshi and Roteki mentally turn and both started panicking.
"UH OOOOOH!" Tasenshi and Roteki screamed in panic.
"YAY!" Jiysin mentally screamed excitedly.
"{:3}"
Lincoln's mind went silent, and he started to see red, literally! Lincoln felt like his body was no long his, yet it was. It was almost as if he was watching a show, and the show was what was happening right now in front of him. Then he felt his body move one step toward Leni and then he was suddenly right in front of Leni. He could hear a faint voice as he stared at Leni.
""Lincoln! Your eyes!" And then another voice was faintly heard.
"Where did you come from!"
Lincoln could faintly hear these voices but he couldn't move, he couldn't even think, all he could do was watch. Lincoln's view was suddenly on the person behind him as he was forcefully turned around. Lincoln could see the man's lips move but as far as Lincoln could tell no words were coming out. Though Lincoln did start to feel a familiar burning sensation through out himself; rage. Lincoln continued watching in silence even as the man pointed the gun at his temple.
What happened next happened so fast to everyone else watching but to Lincoln it was all so very slow. Lincoln saw his left hand grab the gun, and then both hands quickly disassembled the gun; the many pieces dropping on the floor. As the last piece of the gun fell Lincoln's body started moving in a familiar way. He felt his body perform three round house kicks, then his body performed a solid solar plexus punch to the chest sending the man flying. Lincoln then saw he was suddenly behind the man as he went flying back, and Lincoln felt his hands strike the man's back multiple times. When he finished he was standing over the man who was face down with a red substance pooling around the man's mouth.
To everyone who watched this event; Lincoln teleport from one end of the runway to the other had the gun pointed at him only to suddenly shatter and the man being sent flying and Lincoln suddenly behind the man. Ending with the man face down bleeding from his mouth. They then saw Lincoln about to strike down at the man; an all to obvious killing blow. Just as Lincoln was about to finish his movement he was stopped by a hand; it was Nagi!
"That's enough Jizen Namo." Nagi then flipped Lincoln's body straight up into the air and then using Lincoln's mass threw him back stage. "Hello everyone hope you enjoyed this short surprise scene called 'The Bride's Heart' by our wonderful Henrietta and Melody. To show off this lovely dress by Leni Loud. Let's give a round of applause." Nagi then started clapping, and even though it was hesitant the crowd followed and then burst out with cheers as well. Lori went running to Leni's side to check on her when Nagi gestured for them to head on back quickly; as he grabbed the unconscious man and turned to leave as well.
As Leni and Lori quickly moved back stage they saw that Ryu had managed to get Henrietta back stage seated and Melody was treating her with a med-kit. Then they saw Lincoln being pinned down by Sylphiea using only the tip of her umbrella. Nagi walked passed the girls threw the man on the ground and pulled out a small square piece of paper sticking it on Lincoln's forehead. There was a sudden burst of light from Lincoln's forehead or rather the paper on him; as the light faded the girls saw that the paper was gone and a strange mark was on Lincoln's head. Then they heard Nagi saying some words under his breath.
"Yashi wa to xen tsumi amo. SEAL!" When Nagi finished mumbling the mark on Lincoln faded and his red eyes closed. Nagi wiped the blood from his face then stood up and turned to Lori and Leni. "Okay I managed to seal Jizen Namo, but Lincoln won't remember anything that just happened so play along with what I say." Nagi urged them, While Sylphiea walked up to them and whispered to them.
"Don't worry I'll explain later, just for now go with it please." Sylphiea stepped back and looked pleadingly at the girls, who exchanged a look of confusion and concern, as they nodded agreeing. They went over to Lincoln and knelt by him waiting for him to open his eyes. As they waited Henrietta came over ripping her bandages off, followed by a protesting Melody and a very angry Ryu.
"I'm so so sorry! I should have realized that he wasn't part of the catering staff." Henrietta bowed her head in a form of an apology.
"It's not your fault Henrietta these things happen, simply learn from this and move on. After all no one was severely harmed; not counting the perpetrator" Nagi smiled at Henrietta waving it all off as a minor problem, but only Ryu and Sylphiea knew that he was masking his absolute rage and desire to kill the man himself. Lincoln then opened his eyes, his normal beautiful blue eyes.
"Huh? Why was I sleeping?" Lincoln looked at Leni and Lori smiling at them. "How was Leni's presentation?" Lincoln asked starting to sit up, as he sat up he noticed Nagi, Sylphiea and Ryu. Lincoln got up immediately. "Nagi? What happened!? Is it an emergency!? I'll-" Nagi raised his hand cutting Lincoln short.
"Nothings wrong Lincoln. Just came back for the show, since Henrietta is Ryu's vice captain he wanted to come support her and Melody." Nagi explained, Ryu nodded backing up his brother's story.
"Oh okay, sorry I accused you of something. But you do have a history of getting into trouble." Lincoln apologized with a smirk. Nagi made an innocent face and pose.
"I never get into trouble." Everyone rolled their eyes, though Lincoln just chuckled.
"Okay, then back to my original question, when did I fall asleep?" Lincoln asked standing up. Did one of my persona's come out and cause trouble?" Lincoln asked realizing that may be the reason.
"We didn't come out Lincoln you would remember everything we'd have done." Roteki responded.
"No Lincoln you just felt a little exhausted from working so hard for me and Melody." Henrietta lied. Lincoln thinking about it for a moment, when Nagi flicked his forehead.
"Does it matter? You're awake now and you three are still on your date. Now go enjoy the remaining bit of it, before it gets to late." Nagi then pushed Lincoln toward the exit, with Sylphiea dragging the girls off right behind. As they were thrown out, Melody quickly came out and gave Lincoln and Lori a hug then went to Leni and gave her a piece of paper and a much longer hug then walked back in. Leni looked at the paper and saw it was a phone number.
"I think she wants you to call her." Lincoln joked as he looked at the paper smiling. "Well now as our date comes to an end allow me to walk you two beautiful ladies home." Lincoln held our both his hands waiting for them to take them, which the did immediately. Lori and Leni both leaned their heads against Lincoln as they walked off toward their home. Lori and Leni felt at peace despite what had just at the end of the date; because Lincoln was with them and he was fine.
As Lincoln, Lori, Leni walked home; Nagi, Sylphiea, Ryu, Henrietta, and Melody were discussing some very important things.
"Nagi this is twice that this happened. Lincoln needs to go back to the Isle and get treated." Ryu spoke to his brother. Nagi glared at him.
"I dealt with it Ryu. He's not going back until HE'S ready to." Nagi responded still glaring at his brother. Ryu sighed as he looked at Nagi.
"You got luck that we had to come back to chase down Dr. Huggeo; who we didn't find anywhere in the city. Face the facts, Lincoln's not ready to be off the Island of Beasts. You should have had him put-"
"Put where Ryu?! In squad 8 for never ending experiments or maybe you were thinking of making him a guinea pig at squad 4 with their treatments! I know what I'm doing back off!" Nagi was starting to get aggressive with Ryu, something he's use to from his siblings.
"I was going to say you should have put him in Dad's care." Ryu finished saying. Nagi's glare lessened at Ryu's words.
"Yeah maybe I should have, but I know all Lincoln needs is to spend time with his family; uninterrupted." Nagi now sighed looking down sadly, Ryu hated seeing any of his siblings sad.
"Okay look I'm sorry I didn't mean to make it sound like you were failing Lincoln or anything, I just want you to be careful." Ryu put his hand on Nagi's shoulder. Sylphiea took Nagi's hand in hers to reassure him.
"You made the right call My Love." Sylphiea kissed Nagi's cheek causing him to smile. Sylphiea then turned around. "Know the important issue at hand is what do we do with him?" She was referring to the now conscious and healed stalker. Ryu and Nagi turned to him with fierce looking eyes, the eyes of predators about to kill their prey.
"W-w-what are you going to do to me?"
"We could send him to Sparrow Prison." Sylphiea spoke ignoring the scared man.
"No that place is only for people that the organization wants them to suffer worse then death." Ryu dismissed Sylphiea's idea. "Plus then WE don't get to deal with him." Nagi crouched down and very closely examined the man.
"I don't think this guy was in control of himself." Nagi announced.
"What do you mean Beloved?" Sylphiea asked curiously.
"Upon close examination I can sense traces of magic on him. "Ryu and Sylphiea looked surprised and worried by Nagi's discovery.
"Are you sure Nagi?" Ryu asked concern on his face.
"I am, otherwise I can't be called 10,000 Spell-Master." Nagi smiled at the man. "No one will hurt you. Can you please tell me your name and what you last remember before waking up here?" The man looked from Nagi to Ryu to Sylphiea, then back to Nagi nervously.
"M-my name is Carter Carterson. And the last thing I remember was get a text in bed last night." The man named Carter answered.
"Okay what is your connection to the Loud family exactly?" Nagi further inquired.
"I d-dated Leni Loud for three months. But that was almost a year ago!" Carter quickly explained fearfully.
"Okay, do you have any lingering feelings toward her, maybe a bit on the obsessed side?" Nagi pressed on with his questions. Carter looked down a bit ashamed.
"Well I may have not taken her breaking up with me very well, but I'd never actually hurt her; I love her!" Carter explained passionate about the last part.
"Okay well I'll have you escorted home." Nagi's smile turned into a serious one. "But don't ever go near any of the Louds; got it?" The area was suddenly filled with a heavy and hostile aura. Carter started sweating bullets.
"Yes sir." Carter squeaked out. The aura instantly disappeared and Nagi smiled again.
"Good Henrietta would you mind sparing some people and get this guy home." Nagi asked Henrietta, who was merrily watching with Melody by he side.
"Yes I can Captain Nagi." Henrietta nodded and she and Melody went off with Carter following them, as Bruno and Mike joined them keeping an eye on Carter. The moment the three captains were alone the atmosphere became serious.
"Nagi I don't need to tell you what it means if magic was used." Ryu spoke cautiously looking around double checking that they were alone. Sylphiea was tense something she rarely felt, snuggled into Nagi's side. Nagi had a look of focus and concentration, he was thinking deeply.
"Yeah whoever is after Lincoln is either a member of Organization or is from one of the Original Families." Nagi spoke thinking more on this realization. "Okay Ryu here's the plan: I'll go get my last recruit, the robot girl, in California and bring them and the others here immediately; you stay here and watch over things here with Sylphiea. While I'm away Sylphiea will you check to see if there are any empty houses or empty land available next to the house; if any buy them please." Sylphiea nodded understanding what he was planning.
"Your planning on an underground facility, right?" Sylphiea sked already knowing the answer.
"Yes but we need to keep it off the books, no one in Organization 15 or from the Isle for that matter can know about this. Only the three of us and Simon, no one else." Nagi continued explaining his plan. "This way if any info leaks we can at least narrow down possible traitors, and if Simon isn't the traitor (Hell would sooner freeze over before that would ever happen) then she can root out any and all possible traitors in the Organization and the Isle." Nagi looked at Ryu and Sylphiea for objections. They were in agreement.
"Okay then we better quickly get started on things, but who's telling Simon?" Ryu asked.
"NOT IT!" Sylphiea and Nagi both yelled and put their finger on each others noses. Ryu frowned at them.
"Really mature. You owe me one!" Ryu grumbled as he pulled out his cell phone. "Hey Simon we got an issue."
Lincoln, Lori and Leni were walking up the road to their house, though purposefully going slow. Lori and Leni each had one of Lincoln's hands in their own simply enjoying the warm feeling they got from his gentle hands. Lori leaned her head on his shoulder thinking how today was such a grand date; well if you minus the last part of the date. Leni who was still wearing her hand-made dress could only think about how she would improve the dress for when she and Lincoln actually got married; she was also thinking of great designs for the rest of the harem. As they got closer to the Loud house Lincoln couldn't help but feel like he was forgetting something, something very important, but his thoughts were interrupted by the site he saw on the front porch.
Lincoln and the eldest two Loud sisters stopped at the end of the walkway that lead to their house staring at the audience that was staring back at them with wide smiles. Luna, Sam, Luan, Maggie, Lynn, Ronnie-Anne, Lucy, Lana, Lola, Lisa, Lily, Clyde, Reggie, Alexander, Alexandria, Rita, Lynn Sr., Pop-pop, Bobbie, and Stella were obvious waiting for them to get home. Lincoln did a double take as he saw Stella smiling at him, and waving to them. Lincoln smiled at the site and watched as Lori and Leni went to join the rest of them on the porch. Lincoln thought only one thing in his mind at this very moment.
"Perfect." Lori and Leni were being bombarded by questions from their sisters and parents.
"Sooo how was it?"
"What did you guys do?"
"Was it a great outing?"
"Was Lincoln a gentleman the whole time?"
"Stella said you went to a restaurant?"
"Leni why are you wearing a wedding dress!?"
"Why did you dudes walk back?"
"Why do you guys smell like desert?"
"Was the walk in the night thrilling?"
"We are soooo getting the whole story in your guy's room!"
"How was your time with your brother girls?"
Ronnie-Anne, Alexander, Alexandria, Reggie, Clyde, Rita, and Pop-pop walked over to Lincoln as he started walking toward the scene. Rita walked up to Lincoln first and gave her son a huge hug.
"You kids were gone so long we about came looking for you sweetie." Rita smirked teasing Lincoln as she let him go.
"Sorry about that Mom. Rhonda had some errands so we had to walk back." Lincoln explained. Now Ronnie-Anne hugged Lincoln and slugged him in the shoulder when she let go.
"Trying to make me jealous?" Ronnie-Anne joked. Lincoln smirked at her and grabbed her spun her around, dipped her and looked deep into her eyes. He then kissed her deeply, as he broke the kiss he saw Ronnie-Anne smile brightly.
"Never." Lincoln then stood her straight up and brought her to him wrapping his arms around her. Ronnie-Anne felt at peace in his arms. "So You and Reggie a thing now?" Lincoln asked Clyde noticing that they were holding hands. They both blushed but smiled as they looked at each other.
"I'd be happy if she wants to be an item." Clyde answered still looking at Reggie.
"I would most definitely love that Clyde." Reggie answered him. Clyde was about to say something when Reggie grabbed him and pulled him to her giving him a deep and passionate kiss.
"Whoa you go Clyde!" Lori yelled having seen the two kiss, causing Clyde to blush more, which made everyone laugh.
"Okay everyone it's getting late lets get inside and settle down for the night" Lynn Sr. announced followed by a yawn.
"Your right Honey it's late. Clyde, Bobbie, Stella your welcome to stay the night." Rita spoke following her husband inside the house.
"Thanks Mrs. Loud." Stella, Bobbie, and Clyde answered.
"Actually Clyde if you want you can come over and stay the night with me." Reggie offered. Clyde froze his mind running over time processing what he just heard. "I-i don't mean in a sexual way, but I mean i-if you'd rather..." Reggie trailed off mentally scolding herself for moving to fast. Clyde took her hand to get her attention.
"I'd love to, and don't worry I wasn't thinking you meant sex. I was just surprised and nervous; I've never slept over night with a girls before wholesome or otherwise." Clyde nervously explained. Reggie smiled and giggled at his nervousness, and instead of using her words she simply lead him to the house across the street. Alexander and Alexandria waved by to Lincoln, and he waved back.
Lincoln started walking up the porch when he felt a sudden chill run throughout his body. He immediately turned and looked at his surroundings looking very closely for the cause of that chill. Lincoln could feel himself sweat a bit and even started shaking a bit. After Looking for a long minute he saw nothing, he relaxed but stayed on guard as he slowly turned to walk back inside. The moment Lincoln closed the door, across the street on the roof of the house of Organization's 15th squad, two red eyes opened staring where Lincoln was standing and then disappeared into the night.
Well that's chapter 12 hope you all liked it, I'm starting on 13 now and it's going to be a longer one, cause it's Luna, Sam, Luan, and Maggie's turn. And can you guess the last two new recruits? And just what were those red glowing eyes? Stay tuned!