Zelgadis was heading over to the rec room when he passed by an elevator that lead to lower levels of STF. He gave it a long stare before he kept on walking. He was almost at the end of the hall when he turned around and went back to the elevator. Zangulus' advice from that morning was still playing over in his head. I should go see her... but I can't do it today because... He couldn't think of a reason. No this is stupid. I'm going to going to put all this silliness aside and go see my mother. And with he pushed a button and went in the elevator.
Vernas grumbled as he woke up. He didn't remember falling asleep, but due to his current condition a small nap hadn't been unwelcome. He felt much better know and he got up stretching and looked around for Ozer to talk to him about something. Only Ozer was nowhere to be seen.
The elevator went down floor after floor. The farther down it went the more Zelgadis' apprehension increased. Finally the elevator came to a stop and its doors opened. Zelgadis timidly stepped out. His dad the day before had given him instructions on where to go and fallowed them. He eventually came what was known as the Quata wing and he was stopped by guards at the entrance to it.
"State your business." One of the guards gruffly said.
"I wish to visit a yellow agent in this section."
"Who do you wish to see and what is your name?" The other guard asked.
"I want to see Lillian Greywers. I'm Zelgadis, her son." Zelgadis showed his id over to the second guard whom examined it very closely. A warm smile appeared on the guards face.
"Well I'll be damned! Lillian and Kendan's son! I haven't seen you since you were very little. No wonder I did recognize you, you've grown so much. Just like your mother had said."
"She talks about me?" Zelgadis though relieved that the guard knew who he was, he was confused a bit.
"Oh yeah all the time! You know she's so proud of you. I never see her blue eyes sparkle more then when she talks about you. But she never told anyone that you joined the STF!"
"Well, I only joined a short while ago. I didn't even find out that my parents even worked at the STF till yesterday."
"And you wanted to see your mother at work huh? Well actually I'm sorry Zelgadis. I wish I could let you see her, but unfortunately she isn't here."
Zelgadis' heart sank. He had mustered up all that courage to go see her and for what? Nothing.
"Oh I see."
"It's just that there has been some sort of special case going on and it has her very preoccupied and away from STF headquarters."
"I understand." Probably something to do with the Ozer and Vernas case doubt. "Well could you tell her that I came down if you see her?"
"I will Zelgadis. Have a nice day, and I'm sorry again that you couldn't see your mother."
"Don't worry yourself about it. Bye." Zelgadis though was disappointed as he walked back over to the elevator he still felt a little better about himself. Not only had he been able to get himself to go, but he had learned something about his mother. She was proud of him, meaning that she was still keeping up to date with what he was up too. Maybe Dad, Mom and I could do something as a family one of these days. I bet Dad could get a hold of her. He went back into the elevator and pushed a button to take him back to his floor.
Vernas was a bit peeved. Not only was Ozer nowhere to be seen, he wasn't even in the underground lab at all! Ozer had left and was walking around outside.
"Damn him! Doesn't he know that he needs to keep a low profile! He gets caught then that will ruin all of our plans!" Vernas fumed. Ozer hadn't even left a single note about where he had gone or where he was heading. He knocked over a few things, including a very heavy and large desk which just conveniently landed right on his foot.
Ozer smiled as he turned another corner and went through another hall. He was disguised and he straightened his dark blue hat a bit on his head.
Lina was contented. After eating most of her food (she kept some for a snack later) she was heading over to the rec room. She knew that Zelgadis was going to be there later. Lina admired his dedication. He's going to be a damn good agent and a real asset for STF.
"Lina what are you smiling about?"
Lina looked over to her right. There stood Devon standing outside his classroom. Devon's class had been dismissed and he was just clearing up some paperwork. He had heard footsteps and wasn't surprised to see Lina.
"Class over today?"
"Yup just ended recently. You didn't answer my question."
"Which was?"
"What were you smiling at?"
"Oh just thinking about the new agents. Hey Devon do you have any idea what's up with this whole case? Have you been told anything?" Lina asked stepped into Devon's classroom after him.
"Probably not much more then you have. But forget that now. The STF is always secretive to their agents. You should be used to that by now." He shook a scolding finger at her gave her a matching scolding expression. Lina rolled her eyes and he laughed.
"Yeah but it still bugs me from time to time. Why do they have to be so secretive anyway? It's stupid they should be able to tell everyone in the force."
"Lina even the smallest of law enforcement groups, there has to be secrets. That wont change. I think it's more of the reason on why they can't tell the secret then why don't they. If they aren't telling us it then there must be a good reason why. I wouldn't bother about little details like that. Anyway I've got something bigger to talk to you about." Devon said mysteriously and closed the door.
"About what?"
"Something very secret..."
Lina raised her eyebrow at him. She could tell that he had something big on his mind but he also looked a bit nervous at the same time.
"Spill it."
"Okay do you know what Luna has been up too?"
"Like what?"
"Like what she's been doing in her free time and where she has been going?"
"I don't know, she's hasn't been around the house that often."
Devon snapped his fingers. "Exactly. She hasn't been home because she's been out."
"So what? She goes out places, why would that be weird?" Lina leaned back on her chair. She was finding this line of questioning a little tedious. And what is Devon getting at?
"I think Luna is dating someone."
Lina fell back on her chair. She got up and grabbed Devon by the collar with wide eyes. "WHAT?! Luna dating?! And just where the hell did you get an idea like that from?!"
"Well I'm not the only one who has noticed that Luna has been acting weird lately. Your parents plus Lev and Gavin noticed it too."
Lina let go of him and went to her own thoughts. Yes Luna had been acting weird recently. Sure was still overly temperamental, but so much as normal. She was only knocking out ten guys a day instead of her normal twenty-five. And she was actually ignoring Lina lately instead of her normal treatment. To anyone who didn't know her Luna seemed like she was acting all evil and angry, but to those to who did know her, they knew this was uncommonly nice for Luna's normal behavior.
"Okay I'll admit, she's acting a little odd lately. But that doesn't mean that she's actually dating someone. Who would date her in the first place?!"
"Well one of my trainees in my class asked me if Luna went to movies offten. I told him that she doesn't, but he told me that he saw her at the movies with some guy and they were being a bit more then friendly."
And back Lina went into her wide eyed expression. "Was he sure that it was Luna? Could have been someone else."
"That's what I thought. But that student knew what she looked like and he could see her very clearly. Plus he heard her date say her name a couple of times. And you know what this isn't the first time I've been told about something like this."
"What do you mean?"
"I heard from numerous people that they've spotted Luna out on dates with some guy with blue-green hair. Do you have any ideas who that could be?"
Lina deftly shook her head. She was still in shock. The thought of someone actually dating Luna was defently very scary.
"Lina could you do me a favor and not say this to anyone? There's still a small chance that this may not be true and I'd rather not have Luna tan my hide for spreading rumors."
"Believe me I wont say a word."
"Oh and if you do find out anything yourself could you please tell me?"
"Yeah sure okay... I'd better be going now. I'll see you later Devon?"
"Alright bye Lina."
Lina walked back out into the hall still a bit dazed and confused. One thing was for sure she wasn't going to ask Luna about it.
Luna sneezed. She looked around the room suspiciously. She shook it off and turned her attention back to the agents working with the main STF computer system.
"Are you sure that everything checks out fine?" Luna demanded in her usual icy tone.
"Yes Miss Luna, according to our computer and security system everything is fine. No intruders or unaccounted for personal are in the building." And agent with thick owl rimmed glass told her. The light reflections made the rims of the glasses make weird shadows on his face.
"Alright then. Proceed with your normal work." Luna left saying nothing more to them. She felt this odd feeling that someone was in STF headquarters that shouldn't be. She had the green agents in the computer lab to double check the security system. Though everything checked out fine, Luna still couldn't shake the idea of something being very wrong. I think I'll go see Dad about this.
Zelgadis hummed to himself as the elevator neared his floor. He was in a pretty good mind to go do some training. Maybe Lina will be there again. It would be nice to have the chance to spare with her again. He smiled and was a bit preoccupied with his thoughts when the elevator doors opened up. Zelgadis walked out without really looking on where he was going and he bumped right into someone. Zelgadis got up quickly and went to apologize to the man he had knocked over accidentally.
"I'm very sorry. I wasn't thinking about where I was going." Zelgadis held out his hand to help the man up. The man avoided looking at Zelgadis in the face.
"Oh no it's okay."
"Here your hat I must have knock it off." Zelgadis picked up the strangers blue hat and handed it too him.
"Thank you very much." The man quickly took the hat and put it back on.
"Your welcome. Sorry again." And Zelgadis continued on his way back to the rec room, the place that he was heading for intentionally. The man adjusted his hat slightly. That was close. But that voice, and that hair seemed familiar somehow. I should have gotten a better look at his face. But then I would have things worse if he saw my face and recognized me. I bet that would have really gotten Vernas popping a few veins. The man darkly smiled and continued walking on his way exploring the STF with a dark plan in mind.
Zelgadis was cheerful as he went into the rec room. He checked all the personal training rooms till he found Lina in one of them. She was sitting on a bench deep in thought.
"Hey there Lina." Zelgadis said to her in an easy going tone as he went to sit down next to her.
But Lina didn't respond. She was still deep in thought.
"Lina? Hey Lina are you there?" Zelgadis put his hand on her shoulder. That snapped her back to reality.
"Oh hi there Zel. Didn't see you come in." Lina sheepishly smiled and laughed nervously.
"Nor did you hear me. I called you twice. What's with you?" He looked at her with a puzzled expression.
"Oh nothing, just thinking a little too hard about something. Anyway you wanna spare like we did yesterday?"
"Sure but what type of training do you want to do today?"
"How about some hand to hand combat?" Lina got up and did some stretching.
He got up and joined her. "Sounds good to me."
Ozer laughed inwardly as neared his destination. Well this ought to be fun. Maybe I can't get you Blitz, but Luna will do just nicely.