And Also With You ~The Tooth And Claw Books #3

Chapter Eight: Stolen

------  June 10th, 2010 -----

I currently stood at home praying in my bedroom, I was still a Custodian Wielder so knew the truth,  I knew it wouldn't do me any good, but Michael didn't mind hearing his Grandson's prayers, even if at this point I was only doing them because reminded me of Jasmine, and with her now Demon it was very hard for us to communicate, we sent each other letters every so often, much to Josi's dislike but she tolerated it still. In truth it hadn't taken us long to find Jasmine, the moment she woke up she used her Blessing to send us  the words;

+++Eve has me.+++

When we combined that with the regular reports Judith sent Samuel, who when he wasn't on missions still did his job as the head of The Order OF Balance's intelligence network, that Eve was creating an Odisa, Petru confirming the theory, we'd easily located her in Suredale, the only reason we hadn't acted ourselves was because of the whole 'not openly' helping her bullshit. However, from the letters she has sent me since she is really enjoying her life there, she misses me of course, but she is safe and that's what matters the most. 

The only thing that was still a mystery was who our traitor was, and how they'd known where Josi and Jasmine would be? Changxi's mistrust of Josi had only grown, along with everyone else's but my own, only three people knew of her flight plans as far as we were aware, them both and Petru, and Petru wouldn't dare betray us. I of course didn't buy it, she was comatose after all, but it didn't stop the others not trusting her.

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I was finally broken from my trances by Zoey jumping up on the bed and rubbing her head against me. While not so subtly telling me she wanted feeding. I gave a light hearted laugh before petting her under the chin and walking into the kitchen. Josi was sat on one of the stools reading a book and having breakfast.

"Hey kitten, what you doing?" She asked and gave me a kiss on the cheek, a thrill going down my spine.

"Just feeding Zoey." I say pouring the cat food into the bowl for her. "Then I'm heading out to have a practice match with my sister."

"Okay Kitten be carful please." She said once more kissing me. "I'm on Vault duty today, not in there but I am one of the guards on the door, so don't wait up."

Only a handful of people were allowed to guard the vault she spoke of, in the enter base there were twelve Security-Operatives allowed to do it, but with one of them currently out with the Flu our Squadron had taken to filling the gaps until he was better. As for the vault in question, located near the armory, it contained the Great-Heavenly-Blade which this base protected as the capital of our territory; God's Flight. 

"Okay love, but you know me, by the time me and Yuguchi are done sparing you'll probably be off shift anyway." I gave her one last kiss, shivering with bliss as I did then walked out.

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 Before I even got close to the pit I knew Yuguchi would already be in it. She had been using training as a way to fight the tedium of our life right now. Don't get me wrong, we were grateful that no new missions had popped up, it meant that everyone was respecting the Cease Fire. But deer gods did it make our lives boring, I'd been praying for around two hours but Yuguchi had probably come straight here when she woken up instead. I simply watched her for a little while; , sparing with the air as she often did. Using her Industria cut through the air, with such force there was almost visible pressure wave, while bring her second weapon, a training blade, around shortly after it, she then flipped around effortlessly, had their been an enemy there her feet would have kicked them hard, and bringing both blades up as if to block an attack.