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Chapter 1: Ben Moody’s return.
As the sun beamed in my blue eyes, I woke up exactly where I had sat last night, where I had decided who I was going to be; Me. Lifting myself from the floor of Hitomy’s room I saw someone come to the front door of my house. “Hello? Amy, You there?”said a voice entering the house calmly. It was Renée, she was our assisstan manager she had the key to all our houses for some reason, not that I minded I actually liked it. Renée was more of an manager than anything else. Sue, our manager made our lives miserable but made Renée’s worse, she made her do everything but still, Renée seemed to smile each time she saw us. So I fully got up and whent to see her. “Oh hello Renée, how are you?” I said kindly brining her to the living room. Renée smiled and said: “Oh I’m doing fine thanks, I came here to see if you where alright”. I looked at her, smiling as usual with an innocent sweet look on her face. “Yea I’m okay, its nothing” I replied sitting on my silver couch. “Let me guess... Someone did something and now you have to be the assassin that you are.” said Renée walking towards the Window. I was confused... how did she know I was an assassin, I never told anyone I never made it convincing ether. How could she have possibly have known. Renée turned to me and saw my confusion and said: “are you cunfuzled Amy?”. That word, the only person knew it... Ben . Ben Moody knew also that I was an assassin... But how could Renée have known about it, I had told him that I was “confuzled” instead of confused by accident when I was drunk a few days before he left without a trace. Besides she only arrived afterwards.
“You see Amy... I know this because I... am Renée Moody, Ben’s sister, Where both assassins now too and Ben is back here. He is staying at the academy and I think you’d want to know that.. Please don’t be mad that I had never told you who I was.” said Renée with a sad expression. I now understood, she is an assassins and I know that assassins can understand each other well.
I nodded and then she suddenly got an Idea then took me by the arm and pulled me up from my soft silver couch and told me that we where going to go and see him. I got up and thought maybe that it wasn’t such a good idea to see him again. Well he had been gone for 3 years now and I wasn’t sure if he’d want to see me or if I really had moved on, I didn’t what to loose it when I’d see him. But then I thought: “I need to know why he has come back, why he left, and why now?” we kept walking then Renée turned to me and said: “please don’t be worried he wanted me to bring you with me today.” Finally I was relieved to know he did want to see me. After 30 min of walking and 15 on a boat ,we had arrived at the academy. It was a big building with 4 floors and an other beside it, where a lot of the students and assassins lived waiting for there training and missions. Because of my fame and my mother we didn’t live there. This place was hidden in the forest on an island 45 min from my house. — We entered the building of where the dorms where and went to the 4th floor, room number 408. Renée knocked on the door gently and waited and for a response. Not that long after, the door opened. It was him... It was Ben, he was really there in person. He looked pretty much the same but he was 3years older, I didn’t know what to say it had been 3years sense we had spoken last. I leaned over to Renée and whispered at her ear: “start conversation...please”. Renée giggled and started a conversation:
“Hey Ben look it Amy like you wanted... Hasn’t she gotten older and taller?”. Ben smiled and turned to me and said with a slight ashamed voice: “hey Amy... Its me Ben, I just had to see you again. I understand if you never want to talk to me again but I just wanted to say you still had “all of me” and that as much as you hate me or attempt to kill me out of anger, I’ll always remember you and think of you as my friend.” My eyes turned softer, all the anger against him turned into sadness, then even my emotionless self, became in tears of happiness and sadness as I leaned my head downwards so he could not see them. “Ben... I... I never stopped thinking about you... each time I listen to our cds , I remember us... even if we where miserable as a group, you... you brought me happiness. I know this sounds childish, but its how I feel... All my Gothic and emotionless self can’t stop these feelings of mattering.” I said still with my head down with my hair covering my eyes. Renée looked at both of us and started heading towards the stares, she said she had forgotten a mission she had got recently and had forgot to attend and an other to report successful. I doubted that was the truth, I new it was because she wanted to leave us alone. “Come in” said Ben taking my arm and pulling me inside. He then embraced me all of a sun and spoke words that where truer than what he even intended to say: “Amy its alright to cry, to be mad at me because just because your “The Amy Lee, lead of the evanescence band” and your with all guys doesn’t mean that you have to be emotionless, guys understand. The only time that you have to be like that is when you are told off by so called fans or when your being an assassin because they might take advantage” I then noticed that he had also matured in within these 3 years. I cried embracing him, repeating with anger:“Why... Why... Why did you this to me... Why did you do this to me... Why did you do this to us...”I pushed my self from him and with tears and mortal anger I ended with: “You.. B...b*****d.” I screwed my sadness and though of him leaving us, it made me angry, all I needed was a reason then I’d be fine again. “Amy I... I left for a personal reason... I left because I was afraid.”said Ben once again in a ashamed voice. I asked without thinking what could he had been afraid of. He didn’t anser. One last question I asked him.“Will you stay here forever in Japan with me? Will you help me?”. He looked into my blues eyes and replied with a smile: “yes I will stay here for a long time. But... I can’t promise forever, just incase something would happen. And yea I’ll help you... With what? A mission! Explain to me.” I became happy and forgot all my pain and explained him the whole thing. I explained how my sister had been taken and the note I had found. Then Renée came in and sat on the couch we where sitting on next to Ben. “Hehe sorry I butted in but I heard you saying something about your sister, can I help with your mission?” said Renée with that sweet innocent look. We both nodded and started to plan how we could figure out who had taken my sister. Then we heard a nock on the door so Ben went to se who it was. It was a tall women of my age, 24 with long blond hair, brown eyes wearing a kimono like red top and a long black skirt. “Hello Moody, Lee and Moody I am Yuna Shintoshi I think there is something that Tashta wants to tell you” said the lady being loyal to everybody. We where pretty much all surprised that she first of all knew our names and second called us by our last names. We all got up and followed Yuna to the academy building. As we where walking I told Renée that men’s cleaning abilities seemed like something that never changed sense his apartment looked like every hotel room we had been to when he was still in the band. Renée laughed and Ben kept walking closer and closer to Yuna, doing what looked liked attempting to tell her something stupid. I was right he went up to Yuna and said:“Your so beautiful would you mind showing me how beautiful you are by kissing me” I was very surprised of what he had said. I guessed he had changed after all. Yuna turned and slapped him across the face and yelled “You Pervert Moody!!!!! Thank god you are needed or else I would of shot you by now!.” Ben stopped and walked in back of me and Renée for the rest of the walk. When we got there, Yuna brought us to Tashta’s office where we spoke.“Welcome Miss Lee, Miss Renée, Mr. Moody and miss Shintoshi, I have gotten recent news on your dilemma Miss Lee, that is why I assembled you all here. We have tracked down this man or should I say “men” that have done this. There names are Bakary, Yasute then Carentira, Andrew and finally Dashite, Dasuke.” said Tashta looking at me with a look I had never seen him give me before. It annoyed me, how did Tashta know this? It had been only about half an hour I had been here, but I had only finished telling Ben and Renée the story. But then I figured that his expertises told him all he needed to know.
“Yes.. But excuse me but I have a question. Why did you call us all here if all you wanted to say id that you found the ones responsible?” asked Renée confused. Tashta smiled with a very creepy smile and explained: “well of course we know who it is, but if we don’t get them, what is the point of all of it, that will not solve anything, and if we don’t assassinate him and let the police handle it we risk exposing our information that would turn the government into kayos.”
I could not believe it we actually had to work as a team. Without thinking I rose yelling that I refused to work with Ben, while pointing towards him. I think Yuna seemed ether annoyed or overly pissed off of what I had said, because as I finished my sentenced she grabbed me and pinned me to the wall, which kinda really hurt. I struggled but she still held me against the wall tightly. “You little brat, you work with whom you assigned, without a word, got it!” she yelled at me while still holding me. Ben then yelled: “what is so bad about working with me!”, Renée then got up and tried to calm Ben down, I started then to argue with Yuna. It was in total kayos until Tashta got up from his leather chair and told everyone to be quiet. His voice seemed to overpass everyone’s. “Miss Lee , Miss Moody, Miss Yuna and Mr Moody, this is a very serious
event, you are assassins not normal people, you must not let temptation and feelings deceive and distract you from your goal. Assassins fears nothing, that feels nothing and that regrets nothing how dare you forget that.” said Tashta a little angry of what had been going on lately. “Tashta I’m really sorry for all of this” said Renée in a sweet little voice. “Yea me too I’m sorry, I should not let my emotions get the best of me, please forgive me Sensei” I said. Then Yuna added: “Master, It will never happen again, I’ll make sure of it.”. Tashta then replied sitting back down into his leather chair behind his desk:“ Renée, Amy and Yuna I take your word and I forgive you, but for you, Moody let me have a word with you after” after a few minutes of silence an other assassin of Tashta’s rank came in. It was a woman of about 35 with long black thick hair , with brown eyes , wearing a sleeve-less corset shirt and long black flowing pants.
“Now for the mission, you will each receive this folder giving you your instructions on how to proceed and you will follow them.” she said handing us each a folder, that was pretty thick.
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That night I couldn’t sleep, every time I’d fall asleep I’d think of her, my sister and how I had failed to protect her. I got up at about 5:00am and headed to the couch and looked at a picture from years ago, in it there was Ben, John, Will, Rocky, Ryder are old manager and me. We had fired him because of lets say the way he treated me, even if maybe sometimes he hade me feel like I was worth something. I then put the picture and walked downstairs and sat on the couch looking at the rain falling. I looked on the coffee table and saw the file. I started to read it,
it said all the details and who we’d be working with sense an assassin group consisted of eight people and we where only four. As names there was three girls and one guy. The three girls where named Julie Ryder, Michelle Rice and Jessica Reeves. As for the guys there was Josh Aaron and Chris Safford.. I didn’t know how old they where but I was sure that they where my age and good assassins that would also make good friends.
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