"Hello? Amelia dear are you in there?" Mayor Philionel knocked on his youngest daughter's head.
"Huh?" Amelia blink as she came out of la la land. She had been eating breakfast with her dad and she just zoned out for a moment. "I mean yes Daddy?"
"Well it's good to see you have come back to the land of the living. I asked you four times if you liked your breakfast and didn't answer me."
"I'm sorry, no it's fine. What time are you going to be coming home tonight?"
"Probably sometime late tonight. But you know how it is; being a mayor takes a lot of work and effort. Just like training to be an STF agent. So tell me, how's my precious daughter doing these days?"
"Since I was reassigned to a different agent things haven't been as hectic as they normally were with Miss Lina."
"Oh? And who are you with now?"
"Um..." Amelia blushed and avoided eye contact with her father. Phil laughed heartily.
"Oh I see. Anyways I hope you have a good day Amelia. I'll see you later at home. If you hear from your older sister, tell her I say hi."
"Bye Daddy!"
"Bye Sweatheart." Phil walked out of the door with his briefcase and other papers. Phil was a very large and scary looking man but to those who know him, they know that he is one of the nicest most generous people in the world.
Amelia fiddled with what was left of her breakfast. She couldn't even remember what she was eating and there wasn't much left to identify it. A maidbot cleared off the table and Amelia went to her room to her computer. Her as usual was spotless but when you have cleaning robots all around the place cleaning up everything there was little chance of anything being messy. Amelia sighed. Of course she was pretty well off, her father was the mayor of the city after all, but sometimes she was annoyed by her wealth. When she was younger other kids would alienate her because she was rich and the other rich kids also alienated her too because unlike them Amelia wasn't a spoiled brat. That was one thing she liked about working with the STF, she never gets special treatment there, she was treated like everyone else.
"Hmm I wonder if I have any messages from my sister..." Amelia flipped on her screen and checked her messages. She had no new ones. Not surprising it's like one in the morning over where she is. When Amelia was very young her mother had died leaving her with only her older sister and her father as family. Amelia loved them both very much and was saddened when her sister Gracia had decided to leave to work abroad. Gracia currently lived on the other side of the world and Amelia missed her terribly. "Well I probably should get going to STF headquarters, Gavin's probably already there."
Gavin was already STF HQ but only because Lina and Leviathan had dragged him there early. Today they were announcing the results of the STF red level one exams. Why were they there early? Because Lina wanted to see if she could find out before anyone else does. Where they gonna tell her? Nope.
"I told you Lina you're going to have to wait with everyone else." De Tanga the high level blue agent currently in charge with dealing the sensitive marks of the 'special' orange agents spoke in a firm tone to Lina.
"Oh come on De Tanga! Can't you just tell me if they passed or not? I promise I wont say anything!"
"Lina you know I'm not allowed too! Their marks are only for them to view. And besides your Dad was quite strict about this. He told me not to let anyone else view the LPD officers and especially not you."
"Damn! But I want to know now!"
"Well you can find out once they get here. But until then you are going to have to wait. So stop bugging me."
Lina frowned stomping her feet. Leviathan laughed at her impatience and Gavin yawned. The two level nine twins had dragged him out of his bed and he hadn't really woken up yet.
"So let me guess this straight. You two dragged me out here this early only to have to wait for Zelgadis and the rest of them come?"
"Your point?"
"I could still be sleeping now! And because of you two now I'm tired and I can't go back home to sleep because if I go home I'd have to leave and come back here because I don't have enough time!"
"That's not our fault."
"Yes it is! You were the ones who dragged me here in the first place! Why did I have to come in the first place?!"
"If you didn't want to go you should have just said so."
Gavin facefaulted.
"What's up with Gavin?" Zelgadis loomed over Gavin's facefaulted form. Lina immediately latched onto Zel's arm.
"ZEL! You're here!" Lina grinned with a death grip on his arm. Zelgadis went bugged eyed.
"Um, yeah I'm happy to see you too..." Zelgadis was blushing bright red and was a bit confused by her greeting.
"Hey De Tanga! Zel's here so you can give him his mark now!" Lina dragged Zelgadis over to where De Tanga was standing. She was a bit over active, made you kinda wonder how much coffee she had drank that morning.
"If you are wondering she has been hounding me for two hours now trying to find out all of your exam results. Of course I'm not aloud to tell her. So anyway here this is your mark." De Tanga handed Zelgadis a gray envelope. Zelgadis just stared down at it. Inside that little envelope determined whether or not he would be a red level one agent. Did I pass? I can't look. If I failed that would be terrible! But if I did? Oh I can't stand this I want to open it but at the same time I don't want to.
While Zelgadis was going through this little mental dilemma Lina was going nuts. She was about ready to grab it from him and open it herself. "Just open it damnit!" Zelgadis went bug-eyed again but quickly complied and tore it open.
"I passed. I passed!" Zelgadis yelled and Lina grabbed the exam results from him.
Wow he did really good. What the hell, why was he worried for? From the looks of this he passed with flying colors! Lina glanced curiously at Zelgadis who was currently grinning like an idiot.
"Zelgadis smiling? What's going on here?" Zangulus, Martina and Gourry came over to them.
"I passed! I'm a red agent!"
"Well of course you passed Zel. Man you were like acing everything we did. There was no way you would fail it."
"Oh. How do you think you guys did?"
"We all passed." Zangulus said with a smile.
"And how do you know that?!" Lina grabbed him by the collar.
"Oh because we came here three hours ago and got our marks from De Tanga already."
Lina let go of Zangulus and about to pounce on De Tanga in a fit of rage but conveniently De Tanga had chosen that exact time to phase out and teleport elsewhere.
"Grr... damned monster. He's almost as bad as that fruitcake Xellos."
"Oh come on Lina, it's your own fault. It's not like you asked him if they had already by." Leviathan said matter-of-factly, but then due to Lina's tried patience perhaps that wasn't the best course of action. Lina glared evily at her twin.
Outside that very room that the seven of them were in Amelia could hear the sounds of repeated bashing and stomps. What is going on in there? She pushed the side panel button to open the door and only found all of them standing around. Well except Leviathan, he was laying on the ground beaten to a pulp. Lina oddly enough was standing nearby grinning very contently.
"I'm not even going to ask."
"Good because I doubt you'd want to know anyway. I guess we should go find out what our assignments are for today right?" Gavin got up next to Amelia who looked at him quizzically.
"Why do you look so tired?"
"Well let's just say I had a rude awakening this morning." Gavin glared at both his older brother and sister with evil eyes as he left with Amelia.
"So Lina I have a question for you. We're now level one agents but what do we have to do to become higher in the ranks?"
Lina cleared her throat and dawned a pair of dark rimmed glasses commonly worn by teachers and took out a book and started to read out loud in a snotty stuck up voice. "Since you are red agents now you can advance when you feel like it. All you have to do is tell the higher officials that you want to take the next level exams, they'll arrange the dates, and you take the tests on those days that they tell you. You pass you advance in rank, you fail well you'd just stay at the same level you are now." Lina slammed her book and took off her glasses and smiled at them. (Sweatdrops) "But remember this the higher you are in rank the more harder and dangerous missions you will be assigned. Right now you aren't getting any assignments just due to the fact that you are already on this mission with me. Why Zel? Already wanting to advance?" She looked at him mischievously.
"Well I was just curious that's all. But why don't you two take the next exam for level 10?"
Leviathan magically healed from all wounds like most cartoon characters do after receiving a large beating, and answer this question for Lina. "Hey just being a level nine agent is hard and dangerous enough in itself. Me and Lina have this little thing that we do. We both take our test together and stay at the same level until we both are ready to advance onward and then we sign up for the next set of tests."
"What about if one is ready and the other is not?" Martina, Zangulus and Zelgadis were showing interest in what Leviathan had to say while Gourry on the other hand was off in his own world probably on the verge on taking a trip to dreamland. Leviathan just ignored the blond haired LPD officer.
"Well then let's just say both Lina and I had taken the level 6 test and passed it. So how about five months later I'm still feeling a little swamped and I know that I wont be able to handle being a level seven. Lina on the other hand is finding it too easy and she's ready to go on, but she wouldn't though. She'd wait until I was ready then we go for it together."
"Why would you do this exactly?"
"We don't have to, but we just choose too. A lot of times Lina and I are put together as partners for assignments just because we are twins. And that's pretty good because the two of us work very well together. But I guess the main reason we do this is because we like to be on the same level. Call it a twin thing if you wish."
Gourry at this point started to snore very loudly. Remember that book Lina was reading from? Guess what Lina did next with it?
(THWAP!)
"Ouch! Huh? What's going on?" Gourry looked around the room very dazed rubbing the now very large lump on his head.
Somewhere in Vald city center building (Relm: Oh yeah if you are curious about the name of this little city that STF takes place in it's called 'Vald'.) all of the government officials of the city sat at a large table in a conference room.
"So what is the meaning of this conference?" One of the nameless Senators who wont and will not be named just due to practical use of this one part of STF and just because the author doesn't feel it's necessary to name every one of them asked.
(ChibiRelm: You're lazy you know that?
Relm: How dare you enter my fanfic without permission! Sacrilege! GET OUT! I shall not let you spread your insane influence among this sacred fanfic!
ChibiRelm: Um Relm?
Relm: What?!
ChibiRelm: Shouldn't be writing the fanfic instead of blabbing?
Relm: -_- Will you shut up...)
"You all do know the recent problems arising in a out fare city? Though crime rate is at a all time low there is the disturbing fact that both Ozer and Vernas are scheming up a plan."
There was silence in the room.
"Does anyone have any idea why the crime rate has been so low lately?" Again more silence.
"Perhaps you could call it the 'calm before the storm'" Senator Cassandra finally spoke up ending the silence. "You know it's quite possible that the underground is aware of the whole upcoming 'plan' as you had called it and they are working something's themselves."
"What do you mean by that?"
"Either they are finding away to stay alive once the 'storm' is upon us or to find a way to cut in on the deal. The reports in front of you all are information that has been gathered by some of our STF personal. Vernas and Ozer are in need of supplies. There were going to get some more two days ago but fortunately some of our agents managed to stop them. But we are only in real fact delaying the inevitable. We are only buying time, because eventually Vernas and Ozer will get what they need."
"What are we delaying it for? What's so special about this Zelgadis Greywers kid that we need him specially trained? Why do we need him?"
"Ah yes I might as well get into that and what we know about Ozer and Vernas' plans."
"Ahh-choo!" Zelgadis sneezed quite loudly.
"What's wrong Zel? Getting a cold?"
"Maybe."
(ChibiRelm: You aren't ending this part there are you?
Relm: Yup.
ChibiRelm: But you didn't even explain what Zelgadis has to do with Ozer and Vernas!
Relm: Yup.
ChibiRelm: You are evil you know that?
Relm: Yup.)