Sorry it took so long to update bit of writer's block which is annoying...*wants to send writers block at the gaichuus* I'm trying not to make this seem cliche with the amnesia so yeah wish me luck on that...
on a happier note...I got more fanart for Messengers of Valentine! *throws confetti* h t t p :/ / avani920. deviantart. com/ art/ Messengers- of- Valentines- 211834295 just get rid of the spaces but thanks for everyone's support so far!
"Hehehe man these Letter Bee wimps are easy prey…" snickered a figure as he pulled the bag away from the prone uniformed body, "at this rate we'll have enough in no time…aha found you!"
He gleefully pulled out a stack of letters out before he tossed the bag back next to the guy.
"What a nice donation~ I thank you for your patronage, I'd say it was a good fight but it wasn't really." He laughed before he walked away.
He didn't get far before his sharp hearing picked up something and he had to jump back before several sharp swords had impaled him. The guy frowned when he looked at what had nearly hit him and from the light from the artificial sun he saw that they were large golden blades. His eyes widened and he felt himself back away when the swords suddenly went limped and retracted.
"What the hell!" he shouted surprised and saw someone walk in front of him as the swords retracted. "Hey whoever you are you better know who you're messing with! "
"You shouldn't take something that isn't yours…" the voice growled as he could hear footsteps walking towards him. He quickly reached down to his waist and brought out his sword, holding it in front of him.
"HA! It was only a matter of time before that poor sap of a Letter Bee got 'relieved' of his letters." The man sneered, "he was weak anyway! The so called Letter Bees are dwindling down to a bunch of weaklings!"
Anything else he was going to say evaporated when he saw who exactly had stopped him and he stared.
The person that had attacked him had been a woman, and not just any woman but a hot looking one at that! She also had only had a few pieces of clothing on; she wore a dark pink colored strapless swimsuit that covered half of her voluptuous double D chest, magenta colored thigh high boots, a long pink ribbon around her neck and in her long golden colored hair that held up her pigtails and finally a dark red cloak with the hood down. She also had a strange creature on top of her head but he was paying more attention to the girl.
"Return them…" the girl growled again and the guy got an even bigger shock when he saw her large claw like hands.
"H-hold on a minute! Those arms are you like me? Are you part of Reverse?" he asked motioning to his own disfigured arms.
"You're part of Reverse?" the girl asked her bright blue eyes darkening quickly, "you're part of that evil gang?"
"Evil? How can you call it that!" the guy shouted back but felt himself grow nervous when he heard the animalistic like growl from the girl as she stalked forward.
"Reverse is EVIL! Reverse hurt him badly!" she scowled back as the ends of her long golden hair sharpened back to blades, "I Hate reverse!"
"N-now calm down…" the guy tried.
"Return the letters now…before you get hurt..." the girl growled angrily as the guy shook his head.
"No I don't care who or what you are but if you're not part of Reverse and trying to get these letters back then you must be working for the government! Well come at me government dog!" the guy shouted and with that ran towards the girl with his sword raised.
The girl easily dodged the pathetic attack and swung her hair at the guy and easily broke his sword in two much to his shock as he watched the broken metal blade fall to the floor.
"Wha-what the hell are you!" he shouted, but the girl did 't bother giving him an answer and quickly tried to escape but the girl shifted her hair to change into that of a hammer that easily reached the guy knocking him unconscious. The hair wrapped around him and pulled him back towards her as she saw the Letter Bee that had been knocked out being brought over.
"Did you hurt him at all?" the guy asked that was carrying the Letter Bee.
"No I promised I wouldn't hurt anyone too badly." The girl replied as she plucked the letter stack from the guy's hand and put it back into his bag, "what do we do now?"
Her partner didn't say anything just brought out a shindanju and pointed it to the unconscious Letter Bee. There was a flash of red from the guy's right eye and a burst of energy left the weapon and hit the letter bee as screens appeared in midair showing the two his memories. They only lasted about a minute before disappearing as the guy's hand tightened on the weapon.
"Nothing…again." He grimaced as he put the weapon back under his cloak.
"Maybe we'll have better luck next time…" the girl said softly worried but the guy shouldered the letter bee on his shoulder as he tighten the hood over his head and shook his head.
"Lets bring him to the nearest town and leave this guy with him as well maybe he can be useful to them." The guy replied as he walked ahead of the girl.
The blonde tied the guy up in her hair as she ran after her partner, They walked in silence for a bit before one of them spoke.
"…Do you think…I'll ever find him?" the taller of the two asked softly.
"Definitely! You two were close! Not as close as us but almost!" The girl replied proudly, as she moved next to her partner.
"Would you know what he looks like?" the guy asked almost desperately.
"Yup." she stated nodding her head, "I never forget a face trust me."
"Thanks…I think…you're the only one I can fully trust…you, Neesan and Maka…" the guy replied under his hood but by the sound of his voice he was smiling, " any idea what this guy was doing?"
"He was stealing important letters, other people's hearts." The girl huffed, as she folded her arms, "he also apart of Reverse."
"Reverse? Why does that sound familiar?"
"You no need to think of Reverse, Reverse is evil…Reverse is the one that hurt you bad." Niche scowled.
"I see…" was all the other figure said as they continued silently towards the town in the distance…
oOo In Another Area oOo
"Tch! Damn weaklings…" Zazie scowled kicking an empty shell that had belonged to a bunch of Gaichu he and Conner had run into. The area was completely littered with the dead shells as the plump letter bee behind Zazie could only stare at the amount.
"W-wow you really got them Zazie…" Conner sweated as he moved closer to his friend.
"Whatever, how much further until we get to a town?" Zazie scowled back, snapping a bit at Conner.
"Just a bit longer, we should see it once we reach over the hills." The other letter bee replied as his dog barked besides him.
"Then let's get going already." Zazie stated walking off quickly.
Conner sighed as he followed the cat boy behind.
Ever since Lag had been 'missing' Zazie's attitude seemed to have worsen, he hardly ever smiled, always either having a frown or scowl on his face…he was bitter. Bitter at the fact that their new so called headmaster of the BeeHive refused to believe that Lag was alive and even if he was he would be kicked out for being inactive in duty for the months that he had been gone.
Zazie's fist clenched as he shoved his hands into his pockets roughly muttering obscenities under his breath. Zazie's attitude was so bad since he had a tendency to snap at almost everyone, save for Conner, Sylvette, Dr. Thunderland Jr and Aria, he forced himself to take his anger more out on the Gaichu rather then the other Letter Bees. Because of that Conner was permanently his partner until he had somehow managed to calm down and wouldn't be a risk at the Beehive.
'Stupid bastard for a headmaster at least Largo would've let me attempt to find Lag he won't even give me the time of day!' Zazie thought furiously.
Garard took command of the BeeHive and was running it with an iron fist literally. Several changes had been made to the BeeHive, which not everyone appreciated. Aria got demoted down to the cold case files, organizing and trying to delivery the letters, while the Letter Bees were working nearly 24/7, forced to not only make deliveries but to also find information about Reverse with hardly any breaks. They had made barely any progress their only luck was due to the fact someone managed to save some Letter Bees and they'd have someone to interview on Reverse's plans. Not that that got anywhere fast…
Conner sweated as he could feel the anger coming off of Zazie in waves and he tried to calm him down.
"Za-Zazie come on we're close to the town we can take a break and get something to eat after our deliveries and take a carriage back to Yuusari." Conner stated, "I'm sure you're going to need the food to get your energy back."
"Fine." Zazie muttered back as he slowed down enough for the other letter bee to catch up with him."
The two walked in an almost awkward silence until Conner was trying to think of something that he could use to talk with Zazie.
"S-so do you have any idea about those guys that we found tied next to some letter bees?" Conner asked.
"No…at least with those guys being found for us at least it has the dear old master of the bee hive content…" the cat boy grumbled, "but even then he's not getting any information from them."
"I wonder how Lloyd is doing." Conner added quietly, "the last we heard from his was that he was traveling, do you think that he's the one to capture these guys from Reverse?"
"I'm sure he's doing whatever he can to get his position back from those two sorry excuse of leaders." Zazie replied.
"I hope so Aria-san seemed to really miss him." Conner said.
"Everyone misses him, they'd take the weird antic of Lloyd over the inspectors from Akatsuki." Zazie stated bluntly, "those two have done nothing but harmed practically everyone and affected their work, does he really believe that if pushes us 24/7 that we'd figure out what Reverse is up to!"
"I guess that's what they figure." Conner replied, "we might have to spend the night in town to fully rest up now that I think about it this is about our third or fifth straight delivery."
"At this rate he's going to make us work until we pass out." Zazie said as they continued their trek towards town.
It wasn't long before they reached and saw that it was a fair sized place a bit remote since it took a while to cross the desert to get here.
"Okay I'll handle the delivery why don't you make the reservations at the Inn and relax a bit." Conner said smiling at his friend, "we can meet at the fountain in the middle of town in like two hours."
Zazie just made a noise but walked off towards one of the buildings as Conner walked away looking at the address of the first letter. The cat boy letter bee opened the door just about to head inside but two figures walked out and Zazie eyed them suspiciously but didn't do anything as he just walked inside.
"I need two rooms please for the night." Zazie said walking up to the front desk.
"Well you're in luck we have two open rooms for you and…" the woman stated as she handed a note to Zazie. He took it and quickly scanned it.
To any Letter Bee's that comes here,
My partner and I had a run in with a certain member of the rumored 'Reverse' Group and stopped him from taking something that didn't belong to him. So do whatever it is you need to do with him,
"Seriously?" Zazie asked as he looked up at the woman.
"They had just brought him in here a moment before you entered." The woman explained as she handed two keys to Zazie. "One of them has the man tied up and unconscious."
"Did you get a good look at whoever brought the guy in?" Zazie asked as he looked at the note and back to the woman.
"Not really they were both wearing cloaks, sorry." She replied.
Without saying another word, Zazie quickly ran up the stairs and headed to the rooms where the keys indicated and slammed one of the doors opened. He soon saw the figure his large bear like hands and feet tied together so he couldn't move.
"Wasiolka stay here and make sure he stays unconscious okay? I'm going to try and find whoever brought them in." Zazie said as his panther nodded and leapt onto the bed and stared down at the figure.
Skipping steps downwards he landed on the ground floor before he sprinted out of the Inn in search of the two-cloaked figures somewhere in the town. He kept a diligent eye out hoping to catch any signs of cloaks. It wouldn't be too hard since everyone, was wearing winter clothes but no one was wearing cloaks. He pushed his way past a few people that was milling around or chatting with each other good natured, children running around throwing snowballs as mothers sat on benches chatting animatedly with each other.
"Damn this is useless!" he hissed under his breath, as he had to sidestep so he didn't get hit with a snowball that had missed a kid and nearly hit him.
He had gone and asked some of the townsfolk if they had seen anyone wearing cloaks but unfortunately for Zazie they shook their heads. Either these figures blended in with the crowds well or they were very good at sneaking around….Zazie was betting it was the later.
He decided to stop by the marketplace and grab a snack to replenish him as he was starting to feel the fatigue of constantly shooting the Gaichuu on their deliveries since he had been running on adrenaline for a while. It didn't take long to find an open market and he made his way over to a fruit stand and bought a few apples, he paid for the fruit as they were bagged and grabbed on as he bit into one.
Just as he turned to walk away someone walked up to the fruit stand and started to talk to the vendor that had Zazie frozen where he was. He didn't turn around but his entire body was shaking, as he would always remember the soft sweet voice of him…
"A few apples, some of those and I guess three of those fruits please." The voice asked.
"Here you go dearie! Thank you for your patronage you'll always get the freshest fruits here!" the vendor cheerfully said.
"Thank you miss." The voice replied before the footsteps started to walk away from the stand.
At this moment Zazie turned to look over his shoulder and saw that whoever the voice belonged to was wearing a dark blue cloak on him as he started to disappear into the crowd. Not wanting to lose sight of his target, he quickly trailed after him, making sure that he was always in sight.
'That voice…I'd know that voice anywhere even in a crowd such as this…' Zazie thought to himself as he ran after the cloaked figure that was maneuvering through the streets pretty well. Zazie noticed that they were heading towards the part of town that was farther away from the main street and much quieter, which worked for him.
"That stupid Garrad said I'd never find him that he was already gone…" Zazie hissed as he sped up, "but I know his voice I'd know it anywhere…"
He was getting closer to the figure and was a few feet behind him before he reached out his hand. The figure stopped and swiftly turned around and even though the hood covered the guy's head he could feel the cloaked figure surprised when he saw him as his hand grasped the guy's shoulder as he dropped his apples to the ground so he could use his free hand to grasp the hood and pull it down.
At that moment Zazie could've swore he felt his heart stop when he was gazing into the figure's face.
A cherubic face stared back at him, soft snowy white locks fell across his face covering up the figure's right eye that was under a dark blue eye-patch as the locks of hair trailed down a bit farther down past his shoulders but was tied in a ponytail. The figure's other eye was a beautiful magenta color but was filled with confusion, suspicion and fear.
Zazie couldn't help it but he felt his eyes starting to burn as tears threaten to appear but he forced them back, he refused to cry even though he wanted to at the moment. He slowly reached out his hands and cupped the figure's face in front of him.
"Lag…" he said softly as he pulled other towards him and wrapped his arms around him, holding him tightly, "I missed you so much…"
He pulled Lag back and he could still see the confusion in the other's eye as he moved his face closer to the white haired teen's own until his lips were hovering over Lag's own. "Kitten…"
With that last word Zazie's lips caught the white haired teen's own in a deep, breathtaking kiss that would've lasted probably a while if it wasn't for the fact that something seemed to snap in Lag's head and Zazie found himself gasping when something hit him hard in the stomach, forcing him away. He coughed and looked up and saw Lag actually glaring at him much to his shock,
"Who the hell are you to go and kiss me like that!" Lag shouted as he held out his shindanju. That was probably what he used to hit Zazie so hard in the abdomen,
"What do you mean who I am!" Zazie shouted back, "Its me Zazie lag! And you should know why I kissed you!"
"No I don't! I don't know you I never met you before!" Lag argued back looking frustrated himself, "what are you to me!"
"That's bullshit! Did those Reverse people get to your head? I'm your freaking boyfriend Lag Seeing!" Zazie growled as he stomped closer to Lag who was trying to keep some distance between the two, "we've been together for almost three years!"
"Stay away from me! How do I know you're not lying to me!" Lag growled back.
"Oh for crying out loud! I wouldn't lie to you!"
"I don't know that hey! D-don't touch me!"
"You never complained about it before!"
"Just what is that suppose to me!"
Before their arguing could escalate since it looked like Lag was about to shoot Zazie with his shindanju to get away someone got between them, Zazie looked suspicious while Lag looked relieved and immediately grabbed onto the new figure.
"Where'd you go?" the new figure asked, "you said you'd just buy some snacks."
"I was on my way back when he stopped me." Lag replied narrowing his eyes at Zazie who looked like he was going to start yelling again.
The new figure gasped when they saw Zazie making the two boys look at her.
"Niche do you know him?" Lag asked warily as Zazie's mouth dropped.
"Niche! But Niche is tiny!" Zazie exclaimed and watched as the new figure pulled down her own hodd and the cat boy saw it was indeed Niche only more grown up.
The maka girl's height use to reach his abdomen but now she was almost as tall as he was give or take a few feet. She had the same her hair in the same pigtails with the ribbons and Steak on his head.
"No way…you actually grew…" Zazie said as his mouth dropped, "but how?"
"Niche thinks we need to talk privately…." She said quietly looking between the two, "there lots of things to explain about Lag…"
"You're telling me…" Zazie retorted.