Hatter Quicktype (sitting inside a closet): Hi everyone I thought I would write this as a way to apologize for not updating in about a month. I have been so busy getting ready for school and then school started and than there is the fact that I have been hiding in this closet from Soul.
Soul (His voice faintly heard through the closet door): Hatter Quicktype! Come out, come out were ever you are!
HQ (Sweatdrop): I better hurry up and finish but I wanted to say that I know that it takes me a bit to update and I am sorry about that but these chapters are huge! This chapter alone is over 5000 words. I wish I could update sooner but I am just to darn wordy, it takes FOREVER for me to finish a chapter. So, from here on out I am going to try to have a new chapter per month. That enough from me, lets get to this chapter you all have been waiting for. (Closet handle jiggling)
Soul: Hatter Quicktype, I know you're in there.
HQ (Double Sweatdrop): Crap, he found me!
Soul (Yelling) Well, if your not coming out, I am coming in.
HQ (Scythe thrusts through the door) AHHHHHHHH! READ THE CHAPTER! READ THE CHAPTER!
Chapter 4: Targets 3 and 4, those who burn with the Fires of Secret Love
"Well, that could have gone better" Mosquito sighed. He took a long sip from his teacup and that set it down on his desk. He looked back at the monitors and back at the image of the three Mizune sisters hovering over the unconscious form of their first target, Scythe Meister Maka Albarn. He leaned back in his chair to collect his thoughts on the events that just transpired. He had wished that this adduction could have been a bit more quite and controlled. In fact, if it had not been for the fact that they were in the far reaches of the library and most of the people in the DWMA had gone home for the night, the Mizune's would have been discovered and their plan failed. It was lucky that he was watching them and told them to strike when they did, otherwise this could have ended out very badly. However, all his directions and coaching did not do him any good when that little brat of a meister hit one of the Mizune's on the head with her book therefore causing the other two over to they fallen sister despite what he had just told them to do. Than, that led to that brat being able to use her weapons ability to attack the Mizune's directly and while two of them had to hold her back the only free one could not find her bag of the sleeping agent. Honestly he thought some of these people I am forced to work with are so dumb.
He sighed again as he sat back up in his seat and looked at the monitors to see that the Mizunes had not moved an inch in the few minutes it had taken him to collect his thoughts.
"Damn it" he said, the growing frustration he was feeling heavily hinted in his tone. He hurriedly grabbed the radio off his desk and spoke into the microphone fixed to its side.
"What the hell are you doing just standing there!" he said through gritted teeth "Why are you just standing in the middle of the DWMA with a passed out student at your feet! If you were to be discovered there is no chance in hell you three will get out alive and than the plan will be ruined! For Death sake, use your common sense!"
As he finished his little out burst, he saw the Mizunes all had their heads hung downward in disappointment.
"It serves you right to be disappointed in your overall lack of common sense" he said while lessoning his tone to a calming voice. Though he was angry with them for the moment, he still needed them to listen to him plus pissing off three witches was not the best way for them to stay under the radar.
"Now, that we are all calmed down and on task again, here is what I need you to do" he said, looking to the monitors to see if they were all listening. "I need two of you to transport Miss. Albarn out of the city and back to the complex while remaining Mizune heads to the school's nurse's office to keep an eye on Target 2."
The three witches nodded their heads and cheed in response to Mosquito's orders. There was a puff of smoke and he saw one of them transform into a mouse and headed off into the walls of the DWMA. The other two began to chant and waved their hands around while this happened Miss. Albarn begun to shrink in size until she was the size of a mouse. The remaining two Mizunes finished their spell and than with a puff of smoke, transformed into mice, picked up Miss. Albarn and began carrying her to the walls and out of sight.
Mosquito leaned back in his chair a little and closed his eyes for a moment. As long as they stay in their mouse form and stay hidden from the people in the city, they would be all right. He opened his eyes and flipped a few switches on the radio before talking into the microphone.
"Great news everyone" he said happily "Team one has successfully captured target one but it was not without some problems." He got serious again and said "So, if you would please have your bags ready before you confront your targets that would be great."
"Of course, we will have our bags ready." the gruff voice of Giriko said through the radio. "What idiot would not be ready to attack when the moment was right."
Suddenly, Eruka's voice came over the radio upon hearing what Giriko just said over her earpiece "Are you calling the Mizunes sisters dumb! Ribbit" she said sharply.
Mosquito saw him snicker on the monitor before saying slyly, "I'm sure as hell not calling them smart."
At this Eruka loss it and began yelling at Giriko " WHY YOU NO GOOD SORRY EXCUSE FOR A WEAPON, IT WOULD TAKE TEN OF YOU TO MATCH JUST ONE OF THE MIZUNE SISTERS!"
Than Giriko responded in his own subtle way by shouting "COME OVER HERE BITCH AND SAY THAT TO MY FACE. I WILL CHOP YOU UP INTO LITTLE BITS AND EAT YOUR SOUL FOR DINNER!"
At this point Mosquito had enough of this and shouted in to the microphone "ERUKA! GIRIKO! STOP THIS CHILDISH FIGHTING BEFORE YOU BLOW YOUR COVER!"
They both when silent and Mosquito could see how pissed off they looked on the monitors. He thought to himself that if anyone else were to try to get these people to work together but him, they all would have killed each other with in a week. Luckily for him, a common goal and a few well-placed threats could keep the strings of this unruly group of puppets well within the reach of their puppeteer.
He looked back at the monitors and saw that they had both cooled off a bit.
"Now that we can talk like civil beings, here is what I need you two to do." He said, "Eruka, you are to still wait for your target, I have one of the Mizunes from team one tailing your target so we can know when to strike."
Mosquito saw Eruka roll her eyes and cross her arms before saying "Great, I get to stay in this back alleyway for even longer that I wanted to."
Mosquito ignored this comment and continued speaking "and Giriko I need you to stay focused on the task at hand. You and Free have the toughest abduction of them all with the fact that you have two targets, there are only two of you and you have a room full of potential witnesses. Those facts alone make your job hard enough without you screaming in to the air like a crazy idiot."
Giriko's scowl could be clearly seen on the monitors and Mosquito could hear a low growl coming over the radio.
"I will have you know, you damn old man" Giriko growled through the radio to Mosquito "that me and Free have already come up with a plan that is better that anything you could have come up with! You see it starts by me…"
Giriko was interrupted by Free, who had suddenly spoken up over Giriko. "I hate to stop your gloating Giriko but our targets just walked through the door."
At this, Mosquito sat bolt upright in his chair, stared at the monitor and sure enough there were the targets entering the building.
"Alright you two hang back a little and wait for the best moment to isolate them and that strike." He said
He saw Giriko grin widely as he said "Do not worry old man, I told you I got a plan so just sit back and enjoy the show."
Mosquito crossed his arms and leaned into his chair, he wanted to see what this plan of Giriko's was but he was only letting him do this so he would stay on task and Mosquito would always be able to step in if he needed too. After all he was the master and they were just his puppets.
Liz smiled as she and her sister walked into The Graveyard, a small nightclub in the heart of the city that was famous for music so loud and drinks so good that they could wake the dead. They were both dressed in matching black knee high dresses with red edging around the bottom hem and a silver line that ran from the straps to make a V design across the top of the dresses. They also wore matching white heeled-sandals with red lipstick, purplish-black eye shadow and both had their hair down with a white hair clip in it that was shaped like a lord death's mask. The club, though not very big, had a great decor to it with an overall color scheme black, white and silvery-gray that looked beautiful in the clubs low lighting. To her left, was a large titled dance floor with a stage in front of it where which a DJ stood playing the clubs dance mix and controlling the system of flashing lights that hung over the dance floor. The walls were lined with small four person booths and the back wall of the club housed an illuminated sit down bar. The waiters were running around the club with trays of drinks and food balanced in their hands and they were wearing the strangest of uniforms that made them look like zombies. She had to emit the first time she came here she was scared out of her mind because of this. However, one of the employees got the manager of the club so he could talk to her and to stop her from blocking the entrance to the club. To her surprise, the employee came back with none other than Sid and when he saw that she was the one having the problem, he just smiled. He took her a side and the first thing she asked him was what he was doing here. He than told her that he was the owner and manager of The Graveyard and that the reasons all staff in the club looked like zombies was so he could blend in without scaring those people who didn't know him all to well. So, long story short, he told her that if she was not scared of him that she should not be scared of the club's employees and she and Patty have been The Graveyard's best customers ever since.
Liz was snapped out of her thoughts by Patty, who was laughing very loudly next to her.
"Look Liz" Patty yelled "Pretty Lights" and with that she through up her arms and ran straight into the crowd of people who were dancing out on the dance floor.
Liz sighed, what was she going to do with that crazy sister of hers. She came here to relax and enjoy herself but now that Patty had run off to be well, herself, she felt a bit alone. She wished the others were here but Soul and Maka were celebrating their four-month anniversary, Tsubaki was out of the question, which almost made her wish she had not punched Blackstar's lights out and than there was Kidd.
Liz frowned and blowed her bangs away from her eyes, Kidd she thought. For a year now, she had been trying to deal with the strange feelings she got when she was around her meister and yet they had only gotten stronger. She did not know what it was about him that made her heart stop, ever so slightly, whenever she was alone with him. Maybe it was the way that the sunlight glisten off of those three asymmetrical white bands in his hair or the way he would comfort and protect her when she was scared or when he made her laugh by fighting with her and Patty over something as dumb as the symmetrical balance of the items inside their refrigerator. Liz felt her heart beating at twice the speed it was beating at just moments ago and that she was taking shorter breaths to the point were she was almost panting. What was this feeling she asked herself but she already knew the answer to that. She had known the answer now for four months, ever since she had heard Maka talking about how Soul had confessed his feelings for her and how she loved Soul as much as he loved her. This feeling inside of her, that made her heart skip every time she felt it, it was love, she was in love with Kidd. Liz bowed her head a little and could start to feel tears coming out of her eyes.
"Damn it" she whispered as her body began to shake with anger. It just is not fair, she thought, a month ago I was finally able to build up enough courage to tell Kidd how I felt but than the whole incident with the closet happened. He told her that he must retain his image as the son of the Lord Death and the thought of what people would think if they had started acting like a couple after that incident. Those reasons alone were enough for him to dismiss everything that she had told him and in the process dismiss her love of him. She felt the mixture of rage and sadness fill her body as the tears flowed more heavily from her eyes. And the worst part, she thought, was the fact that Kidd has not acted the same wait towards her since then. For the past month he has been distant and cold towards her. It was like a wall has been put up in between them and nothing she does can break through it. It had taken hours of pushing and pleading to get him to agree to come out with her and Patty tonight but at the last minute he say he could not come with them. He said he had to check the symmetrical balance of every electrical outlet in Gallows Mansion and ran off without another word. Liz felt her anger dissipate, leaving her with nothing but a deep feeling of depression which in turn caused her to start sobbing uncontrollably.
Liz suddenly felt a large hand on her shoulder, she looked up to see a large man with blue skin who was wearing a black polo shirt, blue jeans, black and white Converse sneakers, and a large black Fedora pulled over his forehead standing over her.
"When I was alive" he stated, "I wasn't the type of man to pry in to the emotional affairs of a young woman but than again I am not alive any more. So Liz may I ask what is wrong?"
Liz tried her best to dry her eyes on her forearm but it was to no avail her eyes were already red from her crying and her eye shadow had smeared and started running down her cheeks. She slowly turned around to look up at the man who was behind her.
"Nothing is wrong Sid" She said weakly "Everything is perfectly fine" Sid shook his head at this and looked her straight in the eyes.
"Liz" he said in a concerned tone of voice "if you were truly alright you would not be standing in front of the entrance to my club, bawling your eyes out to the point were one of my greeters has to come and get me to talk to you. So, I ask you again what is a matter?" Liz grabbed her arm and moved away from Sid a little.
"I don't want to talk about it Sid, it's too personal" she said. Sid sighed at this and placed his hand back on her shoulder.
"Fine," he said in a defeated sort of way "if you do not what to talk to me about it that is fine by me. Why don't you sit in one of the booths and I will get you a drink. What would you like?"
Liz looked back at him and without thinking said "Whiskey on the rocks, please"
Liz suddenly regretted saying that because the next thing that she knew was Sid's whole demeanor had become sterner as he looked down on her and said.
"Now Liz, How dare you ask for alcohol when you and I both know you are well underneath the legal drinking age. We serve alcohol here but what we do not do is serve it to minor such as yourself!"
Sid's lecture on the dangers of underage drinking was interrupted when one of the club waiters ran up to Sid and started to whisper something in his ear. Liz saw a look of shock come over Sid's face as he told the waiter that he would be right there. He than turn back to Liz and said
"I have to go, there has been a emergency with one of my employees. Why don't you go sit down in a booth and a waiter will be by shortly to take your drink order and remember no alcohol." And with that he turn and follow to the waiter through a pair of double doors next to the bar which she guess led to the kitchen and back of the club.
Liz decided to take some of Sid's advice and slowly dragged herself to a booth and plopped down into the seat. She felt like curling into a ball and crying some more but all the sudden Patty exploded out of the crowd of dancer in a sort of half dance move, half leap and landed in the seat across from Liz.
"WEEEEEEEEEEE! THAT WAS FUN!" she exclaimed as she started laughing. Liz just nodded weakly as she stared at her feet, not wanting to make eye contact with her sister. The bright smile on Patty's face disappeared, as she looked at Liz with a note of sadness in her eyes.
"Oh sis," she said the sadness evident in her voice "you have been thinking of him again, haven't you." Liz just nodded and started to cry, Patty was the only one other than Kid and herself that knew her feelings for Kid do to the fact that she was also in the closet when Liz told Kid that she loved him. Patty scooted across the booth's seat until she was next to her sister and hugged her. This made Liz cry even more knowing that Patty was there to comfort her.
"It's ok Liz, let it all out" Patty said as she rubbed her sister's back in an attempt to calm her down. When Liz was all cried out, Patty turned Liz to face her so she could look her in the eyes. Liz's eyes were red and puffy from her crying which caused her make-up to run down her face and her nose to run a little. Liz saw Patty reach over the table, grab a few napkins and started dabbing her face with them.
"There you go," she sang "all better. Now give me a smile." Liz just continued to frown at her younger sister.
"Cooooome ooooooooon" she whined as she bounced up and down in the seat "Where is my sassy big sis that may Maka blush and knocked out Blackstar with a single punch."
"She disappeared with my happiness" Liz said in a depressed tone as she bowed her head down. Patty took a big huff of air and grabbed her sister's head with both hands, stared her in the eyes and did the face.
"GET YOUR SORRY ASS UP, FORGET ABOUT KID AND ENJOY YOURSELF!" she said in her scary voice. Liz jolted upright with a look of sheer terror on her face.
"DAMN IT PATTY! I hate when you use the face on me." She pouted.
"But it got you to stop being all miss mopey, didn't it" she chuckled
"I guess your right" Liz said chuckling a little herself as she smiled at her wonderful little sister.
Patty smiled back and said "You know I will always be here for you after all we are the Thompson Sisters the meanest pair of Brooklyn girls to ever walk the streets of Death City. So, what do you say, sisters for life." Patty held out her hand in front of Liz. Liz could not help but grin as she grabbed Patty's out stretched hand and pulled her close.
"Sisters for life" she said as she pulled Patty into a hug.
Liz heard the sound of someone clearing their throat behind her and turned around to see one of the clubs waiters standing at the end of their table. There was something about him that made her think that she had seen him somewhere before. Than again, she thought, she and Patty do come to this club a lot he was probably their waiter during a past visit. So she put it out of her mind and went to give him their order.
"What's up waiter" she said, "can we get two cherry fruit drinks and order of fries." He smiled at them and she could see that his teeth were pointed like shark's teeth. That strange, she thought, I thought Soul was that only person who had teeth like that.
"I am sorry miss" the man said, smiling a bit broader than before "but I can not take your order at this time. I have been sent by the manager to collect you two and take you back to his office". Liz and Patty both gave him a confused look and than Patty spoke up.
"Why does Sid want to see us?" she asked him. The waiter frowned a little and than said
"I am not sure miss, I was just sent to collect you two with out a reason as to why." Liz sighed at this, there were only two reasons she could think of as too why Sid would want to see them. One, he was going to try and get her to tell him why she was upset before by using Patty as a coaxing method or two, he was going to lecture them both on the dangers of underage drinking because of what she said earlier. Either way, this was not going to be fun.
"Come on, Patty" she finally said in an annoyed tone of voice "we better follow the nice gentleman." Liz saw her sister look up at her with a confuse look in her eyes but than she just smiled and said.
"Ok sis" and she hopped up and stood on top of the seat and jumped over Liz and the waiter only to land feet first on the floor, ready to go. Liz, on the other hand, got up and pulled a small mirror from the pocket of her dress to check her make-up. She looked at herself in the mirror and saw that most of her make-up was gone but at least Patty did a good job of cleaning her up. Although just from the look of her, she could tell that she had just been crying but there was nothing she could do about that. Liz put her mirror away and turned to the waiter.
"We're ready to go when you are." she said. The waiter smiled at them again and said
"Very well. Follow me if you would." With that, he started walking towards the double doors that led to the back of the club and Liz and Patty followed him. As soon as they passed through the double doors, Liz took note of how much the back of the club look different from the front of the club. For one, it was just a very long gray hallway with lots of doors on either side of the hall. She could see through one of the doors to her left there was a large white kitchen with people running around in it and to her right a supply closet with a lot of broken cleaning supplies in it. The waiter they were following suddenly stopped in front of a door and turned to them.
"This is it" he said looking at the girls and smiling "just let me go in and check if he is ready for you." The girls nodded and his smile widen as he turned and disappeared through the door. Liz could not help thinking that something about this guy was bothering her, maybe it was because she thought the way he smiled at her and Patty was kind of creepy. Her thoughts were interrupted when the door open and the waiter stepped back out with the same creepy ass smile on his face.
"He is all ready for you," he said, "if you two would please step through the door." He held the door for them. Liz looked back at Patty and saw the look of caution on her face. Good, she thought, I am not the only one who thinks there is something fishy about this. She grabbed Patty's hand and the both of them slowly walked through the door, preparing themselves for anything to come.
However, they were not prepared for receiving a face full of dust the moment they walk through the door. They both stopped in their tracks and started rubbing the dust out of their eyes while also spitting the dust out of their mouths.
"What the hell was that?!" Liz said.
"bla, It tastes icky" Patty said.
"Shut the hell up, you two bimbos" the waiter's voice said "I can't believe I had to be so fucking nice to you two nimrods to lure you here. Liz was the first to open her eyes and gasped at what she saw. First, She and Patty were not in an office but an alley behind the club and standing right in front of them were the waiter and the wolfman Free. Liz heard a gasp from behind her, good she thought, Patty is all right but their still not safe.
"Patty, Transform" Liz said seriously, keeping her eyes on the two in front of her.
"Right" Patty said as she jumped in to the air and in a flash of light, transformed in to a handgun, which Liz than caught and pointed straight at the two people standing in front of her.
"I have no clue what you two are planning" she yelled "but we are not going down without a fight." They just stood there and smiled at her. This makes no sense, she thought, why are they not attacking? Well it does not matter why they are not attacking only thing that matters is that I better take advantage of this opening. She aim Patty at the Wolfman and when to pull the trigger but than suddenly she felt something. She lost all the strength in her arms and dropped Patty. She felt weak, she could barely stand and she was not the only one because out of the corner of her eye she saw Patty transform out of her weapon form. She was on her hands and knees and she did not look good. What the fuck did these guys do to us, she thought and than it clicked the dust. That is why they didn't attack her and Patty because in their minds they have already won but she was not going to go down with out a fight. Liz looked up at her attackers, just standing there, watching her and Patty with these damn cocky ass smiles plastered across their faces. Liz fell to her knees as Patty collapsed on the ground. Liz looked over to her, her eyes were barely open and she looked as if she was falling asleep. Liz felt her body becoming top heavy and she fell forward on to her hands. It was getting hard for her to think, she only had two things on her mind. She slowly moved her hand over to Patty's and grabbed it. As long as she held on to Patty the two of them would be all right, and the second thing was if Kid would truly miss her and care enough to wonder what happened to her when she and Patty didn't come home later tonight. She used the last of her strength to lift her head so she could stare her attackers in the eyes. The last sign of her fighting spirit gave out and she collapsed on the ground. The last thing she heard was the waiter's voice mockingly saying "Nighty, Night Princess" and all when silent.
Hatter Quicktype (arm in a sling): Hi guys, guess what, I'm alive! Soul let me go after I would not tell him what happened to Maka. That and Kid came over to visit and knocked him out before he could kill me. Unfortunately, not before he sprained my arm so I put it in this sling so it could heal. Now, where did Kid go?
Kid (yelling from another room): I am in your kitchen.
HQ (confused look): What are you doing in the kitchen?
Kid (yelling from the kitchen): I am making sure that the contents of your kitchen cabinets are symmetrical.
HQ (Sweatdrop) Of course you are. Well can you stop doing that for a second and say good-bye to the fans.
Kid (Yelling from the Kitchen): All right, all right. Hatter Quicktype thanks you all for reading and hopes you enjoyed the chapter. He also thanks Soulkitten, TaySoul13, Little Did You Know, 1rocker-chic and AdorableCeline for their wonderful reviews and all his followers and favoriters. Finally, He asks you to please Review, Follow and Favorite, so you can tell him what you think of the story so far. (Kid walks into the room) There, your kitchen is now perfectly symmetrical and mite I add … (starts staring at Hatter Quicktype)
HQ (Double Sweatdrop) Kid, Why are you staring at me like that?
Kid (Continues to stare at Hatter Quicktype)
HQ (Looks at Kid, Looks at arm in sling, looks back at Kid, Triple Sweatdrop) Damn it (starts running)
Kid (yelling while chasing Hatter Quicktype) Come back here so I can break your other arm and make you symmetrical!