Heyya! twinSlayer back in da house!
For this chapter, I apologize right from the start if any of you are anticipating humor or fun stuff. There's none. But there's still some cheesy stuff, although not that long.
Anyhow, proceed to the story! XD
Disclaimer: I…..*sobs* don't *sobs*…..own…-
Emi: -Just get it over with!
"Alright, next is…." She peers at the address stated on the letter. And then her eyes went big. Her running becomes slower and slower in pace. Eventually, she stops. Emi is left speechless.
"Thomas Blake…"
She reads the name on the letter. Involuntarily, her knees began to shake. She doesn't want to see that notorious man ever again. But yet, her work will be put to a halt if she cannot send this one last letter. It is important, on top of that. She gulps down a clump of saliva before deciding to go back to the headquarters. Maybe there will be other postman willing to send this in her stead.
Unfortunately, there are no other available employee to send the letter, and Emi was the only one who could reach that far to the border of the country. Her mood falls down rapidly. This is not good. Really not good.
With a heavy heart, she embarks back on her journey to the former hell of slavery. Although she knows her dark past awaits at the end of this road, she continues to run. Sweats that formed at her forehead is swept away by the wind.
"I better be careful," she whispers to herself, reminding over and over again how horrible that place was. Or maybe it is still horrible, she doesn't dare to think more.
The majestic gate stands toughly in front of her eyes. Only the people that has been beyond the glorious gate can say that this place looks better than it actually is. With very careful steps, she walks to the front of the gate.
"Excuse me, a letter has arrived," she tries hard to make her voice sounded cheerful as always. But it came out wrong. Her shaken voice was too hard to be layered by anything else. Luckily, a well-built guard comes after a while. She sighs, thinking it was really fortunate that it wasn't Thomas himself came to pick it up.
"A letter?" He takes the missive from Emi's hand. Carefully, he studies the writing on the letter to make sure it is really for his master. "Yup, Blake's residence. Thanks for bringing this."
Emi was realllllly glad that Thomas was nowhere to be found at that time. But as she turned around to get back on her journey, a familiar voice is heard.
"What is it?"
Automatically every hair on her body stands up. His voice always managed to make her fear come pouring out like an overflowed dam. Her legs are getting ready to run away….
"A letter? Thanks, young lady," Thomas smiles at Emi as a sign of gratitude. Still, he doesn't recognize Emi's face as she was facing her back to him.
-You're welcome, asshole- she shouts inside her mind. Unable to contain the painful memories that gushes in her brain, she quickly sprints to the nearby shortcut back to her headquarters. Thomas and the guard watches her as she runs away to the nearby road.
"Why do I think that I have met that lady somewhere?" Thomas starts to ponder.
-Shit, shit, shit!- Her tears are flowing from her cheeks as she accelerates in the darkness of the night. After she had ran miles away from the place, she cannot hold back the tears any longer. It pours out without Emi knowing it.
-I'm sorry, Mom…Dad….-
The tears blurred away her vision. She can't see the road properly anymore. And then….
Emi crashes on a walking guy at the street. The both of them tumble on the ground, clothing themselves in dirty dusts. After a minute, the guy looks at Emi.
"What the heck are you?!" he shouts. It appears to be Lyon, and it seems that he is astonished that he was a victim of an accident caused by a speeding 'car' named Emi. He sits down on the road as the pain of being 'run over' by her still hits him.
Emi that was still crying, tries to get back her vision. She wipes away her tears. "Lyon?"
After that, Lyon realizes that the 'bulldozer' is Emi. His cocks his brow.
"What are you doing here?" he asks. Just Emi is about to reply, her leg muscles began to cramp.
"I-ARRRGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH!" Her retort turns into a scream. This is the result of exercising without warming up and cooling down. Leg cramps are a mundane thing among athletes; but since Emi's running specialty is beyond a normal human's ability, so is her cramps.
Lyon is nervous, seeing Emi like that. He would like to help but he doesn't know what to do. All he can do is wait until her muscles finished the oxygen debt business inside. Thank goodness, their location is nowhere near houses; Or else the people might think there's a rape going on.
After five minutes, her scream tones down. Lyon lets out a sigh of relief. Meanwhile, Emi had already turned pale after fighting with the pain all by herself. She pants.
"Lyon…..What are….you doing here?"
"You know," he looks over to Emi, "That's my line."
She sits properly after her legs can be moved back without a hitch. Thank God, the pain has gone. Only after that she can see that the day has already turned dark. "Where are we?" she asks Lyon with a blank expression.
Lyon, now shirtless, shoves his gaze to Emi. "Seriously you don't know?" Lyon answers back to her question. "Then how come you are here if you don't know where you are?"
She pouts. "It's called being lost."
He burst out laughing. This absent-minded girl really need someone to take care of her. "How's your leg?"
She glances at her long pair of legs. "They're fine now," and then she pauses, "…I guess."
The silver-haired ice mage sighs. Then he stands up from his sitting position and walks closer to Emi. "Excuse me."
"Wha-!"
Using very little effort, he picks up Emi bridal style. Her hand automatically clings on his shoulders as the thought of falling down come rushing in. "Lyon! Put me down!"
"No." And he starts walking away from the place.
"I said, put me down!"
"If I put you down, promise me you would walk normally."
Emi is silent. That's a sure killer. With the leg cramps she just had, there's no way she can walk normally soon enough. Maybe tomorrow she'll be able to, but not tonight. Seeing Emi was silenced, he smiles out of his victory. Slowly, they moved away from the crash location towards their house.
"That's it on Thomas Blake?"
"I'm sorry I can't help much but that's the only info that I can get from legal news and articles," says Hibiki, clearly upset with his own work.
A politician, now working as a general in the Hyouran District, is in charge of the border of Fiore at the west side. That's it! Lyon rubs his face. He can't help Emi with this much information!
"Can't you look it up some more, Hibiki?"
"I'll try, but I think that's it for the unclassified information." Hibiki opens back his Archive and began searching more on a politician named Thomas Blake.
"Wait." Suddenly Lyon got an intelligent yet dangerous idea. "Hibiki, can you hack into the government's database?"
Hibiki's eyes went wide. "Don't play around with the government, Vastia-san. Although I can reach into it without any problem, I don't want to put my family in danger by stealing data from the intelligence department."
Lyon sighs. Hibiki is right.
"I'm sorry. My patience is getting the better of me." Lyon pinches his forehead as he speaks.
"It' okay. Just…..Can I ask something, Vastia-san?" asks Hibiki while his eyes are still on the Archive.
"What is it?"
"Why are you so desperate to help Emi?"
Lyon bites his upper lips, not knowing what to answer. Hibiki has a point; Why would he go so far to help her? She's not that special to him, right?...Right?
He sighs heavily while wiping his face with his big palms, as if letting out all the questions out of his mind with the swipe. Then again, he stares into the empty sky.
"I don't know Hibiki," he says with a low tone. "I really don't know."
That's it for this chapter, hope you guys like it. :3 I know, those fun thingy are what makes this story entertaining, but it won't hurt if we have some serious stuff going on, would they?
Alright then, until next time! XD