Zelgadis flopped onto his bed. He was tired, very tired. After they had ate their lunch at the STF cafeteria, Zelgadis, Martina, Gourry and Zangulus had gone their separate ways and headed to their own separate homes.
Given how tired he was, one might think that he'd fall asleep right on contact with his bed. But the thing was he was too tired to sleep if that's even possible. And he was worrying, worrying about whether or not he passed or what he'd end up doing as level three red agent if he got the position. He had no idea what was in store for him as a level three red agent. Being level three would be beyond anything that he had ever done as a police officer. He was both afraid and looking forward to it. Great and I have to wait until tomorrow before I find out if I passed or not. How am I supposed to sleep tonight?! Zelgadis groaned and decided to get up and make himself some tea.
Beads of sweat dripped down Rezo's forehead. They were at the critical moments of the procedure. Luna's system should have reacted to the formula that had been injected into her body, only they found no signs of any change. Luna remained the same as she had before.
"Any change in her status?" Rezo tiredly called to one of the yellow agents assisting him.
"I'm sorry Dr. Rezo, there still isn't any change yet."
Rezo stared back to the motionless form of Luna Inverse. It seems so odd that such a strong person such as Blitz's daughter could reduced to such a docile form. It's a good thing that I didn't tell Blitz about this procedure. If I had then I might have gotten his hopes up for nothing.
Though the initial anticipation of it working had been high, now things didn't seem so bright. More time ticked away and still they were no better then from the start.
Amelia signed Gavin and her back in from their lunch break at the report center. She had been unsuccessful as trying to get Gavin to go see someone about what was wrong with him. Amelia was worried Gavin seemed preoccupied and spacey. And that incident at the cafeteria with him not being hungry had her extra worried. But Gavin had assured her that everything was alright and despite her better judgment she caved in and stopped bothering Gavin about how he was feeling.
"Here, I've signed Gavin and I back in." Amelia called to the receptionist at the report center to notify her that she was done at the sign in console.
"Thank you Miss Sailune, you may leave now and go back to your duties." Amelia smiled and nodded and went back to were she left Gavin sitting. He was sitting on one of the chairs in the reception area. Amelia frowned in worry. Gavin was staring off into space seeming as though he wasn't aware of what was going on around him. What worried Amelia the most was that in this dazed out state Gavin had a pained expression on his face.
"Gavin? Gavin is something wrong?" Amelia asked with concern kneeling to look Gavin in the face.
Though she was right in Gavin's view he seemed to not see her. Or rather it seemed like he was looking straight through her as if she was invisible. Amelia couldn't help but shudder at that thought.
"Gavin?" Amelia asked once again but this time putting her hand on his shoulder.
On contact with Amelia's hand Gavin jolted back into reality. "Huh? What?" Gavin stared into Amelia's eyes. He hadn't known what had just happened or where his mind had been when he had zoned out like that. The only thoughts that were running through his mind were Amelia was kneeling very close to his face.
"Finally you've snapped out of it." Amelia flashed him a little smile.
Gavin returned that smile with a slight blush. Amelia looked at him a little confused. He's blushing? Why would he be doing that? Then Amelia realized just how close she was to Gavin and that she still had her hand on his shoulder. Amelia turned bright red in embarrassment and snatched her hand back and backed away. "S-sorry about that."
Gavin smiled. "No don't be. You were concerned about me right?"
"Yes you seemed to be in a different world." Amelia regain her composure and the same concern look she had on her face before returned. "Gavin what happened? I called you and didn't answer me. You didn't even seem to see me."
Gavin's gaze fell to the ground. He couldn't explain it himself. It was like one moment he was in STF headquarters, and then the next minute he was elsewhere. And he could even remember where elsewhere had been. "I guess I was just daydreaming. Anyway we've wasted enough time here, how about we get back to work?" Gavin flashed her a fake cheery smile while getting out of his chair.
"Yeah I guess so." Even though Gavin tried to best to cover up his uneasiness with a fake smile Amelia could easily see through it. What's going on with you Gavin? And why wont you tell me?
Lina had many things running through her head as she did push ups in on of the rec room's various weight rooms. Ever since Gourry, Martina, Zelgadis and Zangulus had left for home Lina had been doing weight training and other physical training.
She did her last push up and let herself sprawl out on the floor.
"Doing some extra training Lina?"
Lina craned her neck to see that her twin brother Leviathan was in the doorway staring at her.
"Hi Lev." Lina tried to get up but still ended up being on the ground. Opps, I guess I over did it a little.
"Here let me help you up." Leviathan knelt down and lent Lina a hand. "So why are you putting yourself through such physical torture, sister dear?" Leviathan grinned at her but stopped once he noticed that Lina wasn't smiling back.
"I've got a bad feeling about the case we have assigned to us." Lina said in a serious tone.
"What do you mean, watching over the LPDs training?"
"No that's okay. I'm talking about what we have to do once they reach red level three status. We don't know exactly what little surprises are going to await us."
Leviathan looked at in disbelief. "What are you so worried about? We're not the ones assigned to deal with Ozer. Our job is to find Vernas, nothing more."
"Are you so sure about that? Because I'm not. I've got this feeling that the higher officials have something else in mind for us to do." Why else would they want us to get Zelgadis and the others to a level three rank? If were only going to do what all the other agents at our rank are doing then what would be the point of doing all this stuff concerning Zel and the others? Doesn't make sense. "But that's not the only thing Lev. Look at everything that has been happening lately. Gavin getting kidnapped, Luna being stuck in a coma, and we were almost killed. Even if they don't have special things planned for us to do whose to say that we might be in danger anyway?"
"So is that why you are training? To make sure that you're prepared?" Leviathan handed her a bottle of water.
"Yeah I guess so. That and I'm bored." Lina smirked while taking a swig of the water.
Leviathan lightly chuckled while shaking his head.
Vernas studied the information displayed on one of the computer screens that were in front of him. What was being displayed was all the recent reports on what the STF had been doing from his and Ozer's little spies.
"Ozer, come see this." Vernas hailed the wanted man over to the computer screens.
Ozer looked at the information displayed on the screen. "STF is having only red level three and up agents doing city patrolling?" Ozer raised an eyebrow in amusement.
"Yes since that incident with the youngest Inverse child being kidnapped STF is being more cautious."
"So they have their red level two agents staying in STF headquarters?"
"It would assume so."
Ozer glared at Vernas with a bored look. "You wanted to come over here just tell me that? It's hardly that interesting."
"No, no, I also wanted to show you this." Vernas pointed out another section of information. It was showing what the STF red level five and higher agents were doing. They were the ones assigned to look for Ozer and Vernas' hideout. What Vernas was pointing out was how close they were getting to their hideaway.
It's like a game of Battleships picking spots to attack but just barely missing the targets without even knowing it. Ozer crudely smiled. "So they are starting to get closer to our base huh? Well if they sink my battleship it's still going to be too late. Are the supplies we want here yet?"
"Some of them. The last ones are coming later." Though Vernas wanted to comment what Ozer meant by 'sinking his battleship' but he refrained. Sometimes I wonder if his mind was a little overcooked or cracked.
Ozer smiled and walked off humming an off key song that sounded sour and twisted.
Vernas shook his head at his estranged partner in crime. Damned Ozer doesn't seem to give a damn whether or not we get caught! Doesn't he see how damned close they are?!?! They could get us even before we have a chance to put our experiment through! And what then?! What would he do? Probably just laugh like the insane psycho that he is. Vernas turned his attentions from the display screen to the supply inventory. Well we do have most of what we need. But will Ozer do once the experiment is over? What will I do?' He shook off those thoughts and continued with his work. ‘I'll worry about that later when the time comes.
Rezo was sitting in a black, white and gray room that he didn't recognize. In this room he was surrounded by floating equations, numbers and letters that kept multiplying in number. They kept increasing in number until they filled the room and started to squish Rezo due to lack of space. Rezo wanted to stop it but he wasn't able to. He wasn't able to do much, he didn't have much strength. Looking down at his hands he realized why he was so weak, he was in the body of a child. And with that realization everything went dark and black like it was when he was blind.
Rezo opened his eyes and the cybernetic implants booted up. He had fallen asleep at the desk he was sitting at while waiting for reports on changes in Luna's condition. Oh that's a scary thought, I guess you know when you've been looking at numbers and equations for too long once you start to dream about them. Rezo would have chuckled on that thought only given the situation he wasn't in much of a laughing mood. "How come no one woke me up when I fell asleep? And how long was asleep for?" Rezo addressed the room of yellow agents.
"Well you've been working so hard Dr. Rezo so we all know that you're not getting proper sleep. So when you fell asleep we just figured that we'd let you sleep until we had any new news."
Rezo sunk low in his chair. "So I take since I wasn't woken up that there is nothing new to report?"
"I'm sorry Dr. Rezo there isn't. And you were asleep for a little over a half an hour."
Rezo looked at the time displayed on his watch. It had been quite some time now since they had injected the formula into Luna Inverse's system, and still no effect. I guess her body isn't recognizing the formula or the toxin. Rezo sighed and went back to doing more studies of the Ozer's DNA samples.
Twenty minutes later there still was no change in Luna Inverse's condition. Under orders of the other yellow agents Rezo had been forced to go get something to eat since he had skipped lunch. He munched on his turkey sandwich he brought back with him to the lab rather then eating it in the cafeteria. Though it was a good sandwich Rezo probably would have been fine eating styrofoam because that's what the sandwich was tasting like to him. Been drinking too much coffee lately, probably killed my taste buds.
"Any change?" Rezo asked after swallowing another mouthful of his food. By the looks of the other yellow the agents he figured that the answer was no. Rezo sighed, it was really getting frustrating.
Then all of a sudden the monitors displaying Luna's condition made warning noises. Luna's body was convulsing and her face was turning blue.
"What's going on?!" Rezo yelled over the noise as he rushed over to where Luna was laying.
"I have no idea Dr. Rezo!"
Everyone rushed over to Luna trying to do whatever they could help, but luck didn't seem to be on their side. No matter what they tried Luna seemed to getting worse. It seemed the her body was having a violent reaction to the inject formula, that or it was some of the effects of the toxin in her system countering her body's defense.
Then suddenly Luna's body stopped convulsing and it relaxed and the pained expression that had been on Luna's face was gone. Now all she had absolutely no expression on her face.
"Is she stabilized?" Rezo let out a sigh of relief. He was glad that was all over.
"In a manner of speaking."
"What do you mean by that?" Rezo was a bit appalled at the tone of voice that the yellow agent had.
"According to the machines she's dead."