Hi everybody! I'm back! Yes, after a long wait, I am updating! I know, I'm so bad for making you wait so long. MWAHAHAHA!...HA…HA…Um…Anyway, read chapter 3 of Childhood Memories!

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Childhood Memories

Chapter 3: The Chase

Missy's P.O.V

Zidane stopped dead in his track. He stood there looking up at Baku as if he was crazy.

"I can't fight her!" Zidane said.

"Why not?" Baku asked waiting for an answer.

"Because…she's a girl! I don't fight girls." He finally said.

I stepped out from behind Baku.

"So you don't want to fight me because I'm a girl?" I said with my arms crossed. Even though I found that sweet, I also found it irritating. Why does boy's always think that girls are weaker then them? I guess I just have to earn back all of the girl's title by kicking his butt!

"Well…A…yeah!" Zidane said wondering if he did the right thing.

"Well, just imagine me as a boy then." I said.

"A boy?" Zidane asked again. I nodded my head. "Fine. I'll fight you! But it's going to be hard to imagine a full-grown woman like yourself as a boy." Zidane said, kind of flirting.

"Let's start!" I said trying to prevent my face from blushing.

Baku backed away with Blank following him. I jumped high into the air and landed in the back of Zidane. I then kicked him so hard in the back that he went flying to the ground. Zidane looked up at me stunned and I grinned down at him. Zidane jumped back up and got ready for my next attack. I threw another kick towards Zidane's face but he grabbed my foot and flipped me over. I fell to the ground on my back. He's too strong for me. I can't beat him…unless I catch him off his guard.

I smirked and slowly stood up.

"Wow, Zidane! I'm impressed." I walked over to Zidane and smiled. "You know you've really grown into a fine man."

Zidane started to blush a little and smiled back at me. "You know you've grown into a fine women yourself."

"Maybe you and me could go out sometime." I lied with a sly smile on my face. I knew Zidane was going to step out of his guarding stance, which he did.

Zidane stood there shocked. Zidane started to think to himself, We just met and she wants to go out with me already? I must have made a good impress-. All of a sudden out of no where, I kicked him right in the stomach. Zidane went flying to the wall. Zidane clutched on this stomach and slid his body down the wall until he was in a sitting position.

"Never ever underestimate your opponent." I said. Turning my back on Zidane and walking away thinking I won was a bad mistake, because Zidane taking advantage kicked me in the back and sent me straight to the floor. I turned around on my back to see Zidane looking down at me.

He had his arms crossed and just stood there. He then brought his fist up in the air. I shut my eye's tight waiting for him to throw that fist at me. But nothing happened. I opened up my eye's to see his hand extended out towards me. He was holding his hand out to help me up. I looked up at him and saw him smiling down at me. But…why? If he was to hit me then he would've made it in Tantalus but he didn't. He pulled me up and asked "Are you okay?"

I nodded my head kind of embarrassed because he was still holding my hand. He let go of my hand as soon as Baku approached us.

"Well, that was a good fight but I'm afraid it was a tie. Ties don't equal up to a win." Baku said to Zidane hoping he would understand.

"No prob. Thanks anyway for the chance. I wasn't really sure if I really wanted to join anyway." Zidane started to walk away with his hand behind his head. "Well, see you guys at the show then. Good luck!" With that, he disappeared behind the stage.

Why didn't he just punch me? Why is he being such an idiot? I stared at the spot he left hoping he would come back, but he didn't.

"Poor boy, I knew he wasn't going to hit you." Baku told me. I quickly turned to Baku in shock.

"What do you mean?" I asked.

"He would never dare to hit a person while their down, especially a girl. Before he would keep on hitting the person until the person was unconscious." Blank sated.

"But Zidane changed. He's more…caring! That's why he can't join Tantalus." Baku said. "We steal from people. But he help's people."

Missy started to march over to the back of the stage. "Where do you think your going?" Blank asked.

"I'm going to fine him and settle things out!" I said running to the back stage.

"Hmp. How does Zidane do that?" Blank asked as he leaned against the wall.

"Do what?" Baku asked.

"He always gets the hot girls!" Blank said kind of pouting. Baku started to laugh.

In Alexandria Square, Missy walked around in her white robe. She walked up to a lady in a white dress holding an umbrella.

Missy's P.O.V

"Excuse me but have you seen a guy about my height with a tail? He has golden-brown hair and blue eyes?" I asked the lady. The lady just shook her head and walked off.

"I give up!" I said walking up to a bricked wall. I slid my body down the wall until I was in a sitting position. I sat there with my head down. When all of a sudden a pair of Alexandrian soldiers passed me which had me a lot of time to hear what they were talking about.

"I heard that Master Zidane and Beatrix are watching over Alexandria while Queen Garnet is gone." The first Alexandrian soldier told the other.

"I didn't see Zidane at dinner. Only Beatrix and Steiner were at the dinner table." The 2nd Alexandrian told the other.

"That's because he's at the roof tops. He said he wasn't hungry." The 1st Alexandrian soldier exclaimed.

Without wasting a second, I ran out of Alexandria Square pass Ruby's theater and the bell tower. I took in a deep breath after seeing the ladder I had to climb to the top. I stepped up on the ladder and climbed it until I reached the top. I carefully stepped off the ladder and onto the roof top.

I looked up to see…stars! I'm not talking about a couple, I'm talking about a whole galaxy! I wanted to just sit there and stare at the stars, but I had something important to do.

"Where is he?" I said looking around at my surroundings. I only saw the rooftops. But if he's not here then maybe he's at--. My thought got distracted when I felt somebody grab onto my shoulder.

"AHH!" I screamed. I jumped back and turned around to see a homeless guy. I took in a deep breath relieved…sort of.

"I'm sorry I thought you were-," But my sentence got cut short when the guy grabbed out a knife from his pocket and held it up to my neck. He wrapped his arm around my waist making sure I didn't try anything stupid.

"Hey there, cutie!" he told me.

I lifted my head up as I felt the cold steel of the knife touch my neck.

"Why don't you say we have some fun?" He said as he kissed my cheek.

Just what I was afraid of, I was going to get…raped. He threw me down to the ground. I looked up at him to see him smiling. He was going to jump on me. No! I won't let it happen.

"NO!!" I yelled. I then kicked him right in the crouch. I looked up to see if it hurt him at all. It did! His eyes were enormous! He fell down to his knee's clutching onto his (you know what.) I quickly stood up and started to run when I was quickly pulled back. I turned around to see the knife the guy stabbed through my white robe had pinned into the roof. I started to tug on my robe but nothing happened. I was too afraid to walk up to the knife and pull it out, since it was so close to the guy.

When the guy gained his self conscious he looked up at me and smiled once again. He stood up and slowly started to make his way towards me. I was scared to death! Wait! How could I have been so stupid? With out taking more then a second, I un-hooked my white robe from my neck and started to run. The guy quickly took his knife that was pinned to the roof ant started to chase after me.

I ran across the rooftop and across one of the boards. I kept on running not daring to look back at the guy. Until I came upon a board. I ran across the board but before I was able to reach the other side the board broke, and I quickly grabbed onto the edge of the roof. I was hanging on the edge with all my might. When all of a sudden the guy came with the knife still in his hands. The guy looked down at me and smiled. He lifted the knife high into the air.

"Too bad! What a waste" the guy looked down at me.

I looked down to see if I could jump onto something but the only thing there was a bunch of broken glass. If I was to drop then I might die, but if I stay here, I will die and drop down onto the glass. So I was going to do the only thing possible…I was going to drop.

I let loose of the edge and began to fall.

"AHHH!!!" I yelled as I waited for my death. I had my eyes closed so tight that I didn't dare open my eyes. I was so scared to see if I was dead or not. I felt the warmness of my angel's arms carry me. I just felt like sleeping in them. The angel's arms were so gentle and soft.

"Missy? Missy wake up!" a familiar voice called. "Are you okay?"

I opened my eyes and started to rub them just to be sure I wasn't dreaming. Zidane! H-He's my angel!? No this can't be right!

I looked around at my surroundings to find I was still in the same place. I looked up to see the guy with the knife in his hands looking down at me with a surprised look. The guy then quickly turned around and walked back.

"YOU LITTLE PERVERT!!!" I heard a voice yell from up on the roof top.

"WAIT! I CAN'T EXPLAIN-AAAHHHHH!!!" I saw the guy with knife, fall off of the edge of the roof. Zidane quickly backed away from the glassy area with me still held in his arms. Until CRASH!! I opened up one of my eye's to see the guy laid flat on the ground completely motionless. I looked up on the roof top to see what happened. I saw Baku, Cinna, Marcus, and Blank's head's looking down at me from the roof top with grins on their faces. I grinned back up at them. They then turned around and walked back onto the roof. I turned back around to realize I was still in Zidane's arms.

"I-I'm sorry!" I said jumping down from his arms.

"What were you doing up there? He said.

"How could you!" I yelled at him. I crossed my arms and turned away from him.

"How could I what?" He asked confused.

"I want a rematch! I know you could fight better then that!" I said to him, with my pointer finger against his chest. "You didn't fight your very best because I'm a girl, right?"

He backed away a little and gave out a grin. "Okay, okay! I'll fight you my best next time we fight!" he said.

"Hmp." I turned away from him again. "Um…thanks!" I said still turned away from him.

"No problem!" he said casually.

After a couple of seconds of silence, I decided to speak up to break the silence.

"I should really be heading back to the theater ship right now." I said calmly.

"Of course! Do you want me to walk you there?" He asked looking at me for an answer.

"That's ok! I'm not that helpless…" I said kind of joking around.

Zidane started to scratch his head. "I guess I'll see you tomorrow then." He said with that same grin on his face.

"Don't forget about our rematch." I smiled.

He nodded his head and we turned around and went our different ways.

Again, I'm really sorry for the long wait! The ELA test is finally finished. And I think I did good. I hope the studying paid off though. And plus, I got a cold along the way. --Lizette then sneezes-- Sorry, I still have a cold. Anyway, please R&R!!!