By Relm Wanderer
Special Agent Zelgadis Mully blinked and rubbed his eyes as he went to turn off
his alarm clock. He tired, really tired. Now it wasn’t as if he wasn’t used
to getting up early, he was but he didn’t get bed quite so early. He had been
up most of the night reviewing information about the Slayers-Files and reading
more about his new partner Special Agent Lina Sculder.
From what Zelgadis could figure out most of the FBI did consider
her to be somewhat of a nut case. In fact she even had the nickname ‘Spooky’
from her fellow co-workers. But besides that he found out that Lina used to be
profiler investigating serial killers and such. Then she was assigned to work on
the Slayers-Files or rather she demanded to work on them. Her and one of her
older partners had discovered the Slayers-Files and Lina demanded to be assigned
to work on them. They government officials finally gave in and since then she
had been working on them. Though it did seem very odd that Lina would want to
work on those files. She herself even sounded a bit bitter when she had been
talking about the Slayers-Files when Zelgadis had first met her. Then why would
someone want to do something that they don’t like? Well the only reason that
Zelgadis could find was something dealing with an incident that happened to her
family when she was a kid. Zelgadis didn’t know the details but he had been
informed that that was the main reason for most of Lina’s odd behaviors.
So here was Zelgadis at 5:00 a.m. needing to get ready to take a
plane that was leaving at 6:00 a.m. Why was he leaving so early? Well they
needed to be at Luferson, Texas at a certain time and since there was a two-hour
time difference he needed to leave early.
When Zelgadis was boarding the plane he didn’t see Lina at all.
He was starting to wonder if this was just a joke or if Lina wasn’t going to
show up. He shook it off and found his seat. He sat down and looked around the
plane. As he figured there wasn’t that many people on the plane. He turned his
head around to face forward to find a person staring at him right in his face.
“Ahhh!” Zelgadis jumped a bit and Lina just laughed.
“What did I scare you?” Lina grinned mischievously as she sat
back down in her seat in front on him.
“Um no. I was well… when did you get here?”
“About ten minutes ago. Hey can you do me a favor?” Lina sat
back up again to face Zelgadis.
“What?”
“Could you wake me up when we get there?” Lina asked flopping
back down.
“Wake you up? You’re not going to sleep-“ Zelgadis cut
himself off once he noticed that she had in fact fallen asleep. Zelgadis
didn’t know if that was abnormal or not because he rarely flew on planes.
‘Guess this is best time as any to review over the case as ever.’
Though Zelgadis had looked over the case file he hadn’t gone
over it thoroughly. Basically the case was about the mysterious mass
disappearances of the people of Luferson, Texas. People were disappearing
without a trace. All the people that had disappeared were men and women from the
ages of 30 to 40. So far there had been twenty people who had disappeared.
Though the local authorities of Luferson suspect some sort of foul play they had
very little evidence to support it. All these people disappeared without a trace
and without any evidence that they had been taken by force. The only real
evidence they had that could support foul play was the paranoid ramblings of a
37 year old man about someone being out to get him two days before he had
disappeared too. There had to be some sort of explanation to all this but as far
as the Luferson local authorities if there was one it was nearly impossible to
figure out.
Because the regular branches of the FBI had given up on this case
it was Lina and Zelgadis’ turn to take a go at it.
Now the only thoughts that were coming to mind as Zelgadis read
over the case file was that this might be something dealing with kidnapping or
people running away from their homes at their own free will. But either didn’t
make much sense. Yes it’s quite possible for someone to kidnap more then
twenty people, but that’s over a long period of time. It’s quite hard for
someone to kidnap twenty full-grown adults in such a small period of time let
alone do it without leaving any evidence. And as for people leaving their homes
and running away, what reason would they have to do that? And if they all ran
away how could they manage to disappear without being seen leaving?
Zelgadis was curious to what Lina thought the reasons for the
disappearances were but since she was sleeping he couldn’t exactly ask her
till later. He sighed and rubbed his temples. ‘This is going to be a long
flight…’
Later on when they reached Texas they got off the plane and
headed towards the car rental place to rent a car for the time being that they
would be in Texas. Zelgadis was still a bit annoyed with Lina. When they had
finally landed in Texas Zelgadis went to wake up Lina. Only Lina being a heavy
sleeper as she was wouldn’t exactly wake up. So Zelgadis had to more or less
embarrass himself by yelling very loud while shaking her to wake her up.
“Oh come on it was that bad. It wasn’t as if there was a lot
of people there. We were like the only ones on the plane anyway.” Lina said
matter-of-factly.
Zelgadis’ reply, “…”
“You know you ought to lighten up a bit. You take things too
seriously.”
Again Zelgadis’ reply, “…”
Lina shook her head and rolled her eyes at him.
In a dark purple rental Toyota Corolla, Lina and Zelgadis headed
over to the small town of Luferson Texas. Zelgadis still wasn’t speaking to
Lina and this was really starting to bug Lina.
“I bet you are one of those caffeine addicted people that
can’t start without a cup of coffee otherwise they are ill tempered the whole
day.” Lina said sardonically while driving.
“…” Zelgadis on the other hand sat emotionless staring out
at the road still silent.
“And since you can’t live without coffee and I’m betting
that you didn’t get your coffee that’s why you are so pissy right now.”
“…”
“You know we aren’t going to work as partners if there
isn’t any communication.”
“…”
“I told you I was sorry alright.”
“Just promise me something.” Zelgadis finally spoke. He
glared at her.
“Oh what?” Lina said with childish delight.
“Don’t ever fall asleep on a plane like that and expect me to
wake you up.” He returned his gaze back to the road.
“Fine.” Lina said in a bit of annoyance. “But does that
mean that if I fall asleep on a plane again and I’m not awake when it’s time
depart that you are going to leave without me?”
Zelgadis didn’t say anything he only grinned mischievously.