Chapter 10 - Special Chapter - Reaper's Birthday

It was oddly quiet in the TeamEXE offices. Reaper couldn't tell why everyone was trying walking on eggshells around him. Over all the groups of members seemed to rather normal except for a few who worked in the Mod Department. Final Saber was chuckling every time he walked around. Crismon Trooper was sneaking pictures of Reaper every time he turned around and Bloody Opal was almost nowhere to be seen. He saw her maybe once which was when she stopped by to say hi, but then she just disappeared.

Fel had told Reaper to just work like normal while he rounds up the rest of the Mods. Shaun had taken to giving Reaper small tasks one after another to the point of Reaper never staying in one area for very long. Riah was working oddly enough, on what Reaper didn't want to know. And Zac was nowhere to be found just like Opal. For the moment Reaper was running errands for Fel before he would take his lunch break.

Walking down the hall towards the food service, Reaper noticed something else odd for the day. The rest of the community wasn't even in the main building. Oni, a new member of the Team was waiting for Reaper outside the food service building.

"Hey where is everyone?" Reaper asked as he got closer.

"Everyone's working on some big project. You heading to lunch?" Oni asked as he started to walk with Reaper towards the Food Service area.

"Yeah I've been working on small project that I have no idea how they came to be." Reaper sighed while shaking his head.

"Like?"

"Clean the Dancing Flamingo pin? Walk the dog and feed the cats? Where in the world did we get a flamingo pin? And when did we get a dog and cat for the offices?" Reaper sighed at all the odd jobs he had to do. It was crazy in his opinion. Strange odd jobs, it sounded like Opal had gotten control of Admin Control. Lord help them if that ever came to be…

Oni reached for the door to the Food Service area before he turned to Reaper. "Just so you know, this wasn't my idea."

"What?"

"Just head inside." And Oni gave a small push for Reaper to open the door as he pulled back.

Reaper, glancing back at Oni, looked at him with suspension as he opened the door. The Food Service area was dark, completely black. All the lights were off, which confused Reaper since the light were normally on this time of day. Feeling for the lightswitch, he turned on the light only to have a heart attack.

"SURPRISE! HAPPY BIRTHDAY REAPER!"

There standing in the middle of the room was everyone from the community. With Opal, standing in the middle with a large smile on her face. Normally Reaper wasn't one for parties but Opal didn't care about that, she just wanted him to have a reason to be happy on this special day.

Calming his heart down he looked at the hyper active girl in the middle of the room. "Opal, I said no party." He stated, trying to scowl at her but a small smile still appeared on his face.

"Yes, but~" She started with a grin even larger than before. "This is also a party for our viewer limit being hit~ We just decided to say happy birthday as well." She walked over and placed a small kiss on his cheek. "So enjoy the celebration party while you get to eat some Oreo Ice Cream Cake. I ordered it from the Queen~"

"Dairy Queen?"

"What other Queen is there?" she laughed as she spun around and walked to the buffet table. Reaper smiled and laughed a little at the hyper girl who was getting a plate full of anything sweet from the table. He walked over to the table and true to her word, Next to Opal was a ice cream cake from Dairy Queen that had wording that said: For Reaper Only.

It was true he didn't care for parties on his birthday but leave it to Opal to find a way around it.