"Welcome to cafe Mew, mew, may I take your order...huh!" "Hm? Yes I'll have...ah...hey!" the customer called to her waitress who had just ran into the back of the cafe. "That was rude..." "I'm sorry, for her actions, may I take your order?" "Hm...I guess, tea and cherry pie." "Coming right up." the girl went to the back and handed in the order, as the current waitress was being riddiculed by their blond boss.
"Hey, Bridget? Why did you run away from the customer like that?" "..." "You ran away from a customer! What for!" "I...I thought I saw..." "You thought you saw who?" Elliot asked impatiently as the nervous girl became more nervous. "I saw..." "Me."
Everyone turned adn went wide eyed when they saw Zoey, who'd they'd all thought to be dead, standing right before them as if she'd never even left.
"Zo...Zoey!" She smiled "Yep, its me alright..." "What...how can you be here? Are you a ghost or something?" "Huh? Oh, right. No, no, I'm no ghost," "Didn't you die in that shuttle crash?" "Yeah we all went to your funeral..." "I know you all thought that I was dead, but I'm not, as you can see." "Wha...what happened to you?" "Well, it all happened so fast on the shuttle. I was talking with the other girl Lila, when the shuttle got caught up in a meteor storm. A bunch of things happened so quickly, then everything went black." "You fell unconsious?" "Yeah, I guess the shuttle crashed on a nearby planet, cause when I woke up, I was in a strange wooden hut." Zoey could tell that everyone was waiting to hear what planet she'd landed on, but she was not about to reveal the location to Dren's planet. "I don't know what planet it was, all I know is that when I woke, there were several young children around me, and an old man, he was the one who'd rescued me from the shuttle that had exploded shortly after the rescue." "Wow!" "What happened next?" "Well, I met this young man there, who allowed me to stay in his home, until I could return to mine." "Ooh, and?" "He was the most rude, arrogant, disrespectful person I had ever met!" "Oh?" "He treats women like objects and trinkets. He would not allow me to go outside, so I would have to secretly escape, then I'd be brought back and lectured for going outside in the first place." "Huh," "then he tried to make me say yes to marrying him. Of course I said no, and locked myself in the room I'd been given. I was lucky when a call came from his commander, fore that allowed me the time to escape back to where the old man lived." "Then what happened? I mean how'd you get back here without that guy's help?" Zoey smiled as she held a ribbon in her hands.
"With the help of the old man, I disguised myself as a boy and entered their military." "They have a military!" "Yes, a good one too, I learnt several things there, though they did figure out that I was a girl." "Well, thats obvious." "Yeah, but they still allowed me to remain in their military." "Huh? Didn't being human mean anything?" "Nope, cause my disguise was so good that they only found out I was a girl, not a human." "Ah." "Then, one of the guy's there, a good friend of the old man's, helped me get off the planet in one of their ships and now, here I am..." "Hm..." Elliot wasn't fooled a bit.
"What did these people look like?" "Ah...well..." "Did they have long elf-like ears? Demon like eyes?" "Why are you asking that?" "Well, maybe, because of what you're wearing." The girls all looked and gasped.
Zoey was still dressed in the clothes that she'd been given. The onea that looked almost exactly like Dren's. She sighed.
"Alright! So I landed on the Cyniclon's planet and was rescued by them! I wont deny it anymore." "Where is this planet?" "No." "Huh?" "No! I will not give their location up!" "Elliot, maybe we should leave them alone, I mean if they were truly a bad people, they wouldn't have saved Zoey." "Thats right and the old man must have known that she was human from rescuing her, but as she told us was still kind to her." "Hm...who was the guy?" "The rude one? Well, a, aristocrat..." "No, the one that helped you get off the planet." "Oh, well, Dren of course." "I thought so." Elliot stood and went outside.
"Ignore him, at leaset you came home safe and sound, right?" "Yeah," "We're all glad that you've returned home Zoey..." "Girls, wait...I came back to let you all know that I wasn't dead...I'm not staying." "What...what do you mean you're not staying?" "I made someone a promise and I am going to see it through..." "Was it a forced promise?" "No. The promise that I made was real and true." "Zoey..." "I only came back here to show everyone that I did not die in that crash, I've told you, when I leave here I'll be going to show and tell my parents too." "They wont like it!" "whether they do or not, it is not up to them." "Zoey..." She sighed, and hugged the girls. "I'm sorry, but I made the promise and I intend on keeping it." She said, then said good-bye and headed out back, where Elliot still stood.
"Hey." "Hm? Hey." "Look, Elliot, I'm sorry, but after everything thats happened, I can't tel you where the planet is located." "Ha, yeah, I know. Thats just like you too, to do the right thing." "Elli..." "I guess I was the one who always did the wrong things, and you came to fix them..." "Hm, not just me, remember?" "...yeah I know what happend that day." "Elli, maybe its time for you to stop all this and just be as normal as a guy as possible, hm?" The blond smiled, "Maybe you're right." Zoey hugged him. "I'm glad you're alright." "Hm, me too." She said bye and left.
"Ha, I guess things will go back to normal now..." "Nope." "Why? Zoey is back and..." "After she tells her parents that shes alive, she's going back with Dren." "WHAT!" "She says that she made a real and truthful promise to someone and that she is determined to see it through." "We...we have to stop her!" "How?" "Follow her to her parent's house!" "Then what?" "Do whatever we have to, to make sure she does not leave this planet again." The girls were hesitant, but they didn't want Zoey to leave, so they agreed and everyone, except for Berry hurried to Zoey's parent's house.