Kaitou Kid Legendary Thief

Awwww ERZA and otouto... Stop it with the mushies xD BOTH OF YOUR voices are cool~ lol (Wait... I've never heard Al's xD Ah but I'm sure by Ezra's explanation, I'm sure it is.)

I am sleep deprived!!!! So much so that after a 6 hours of nap until 10pm. I can still sleep at 12am...

Vivi was stunned. It couldn't be? She took a few steps back before turning to the door and ran out. 'Right!' Vivi ran towards the direction where she saw the director heading earlier. She came to a huge double door which says "Specimens". Ignoring the "No entry except authorized personnel", she pushed the door and headed in. The corridor which she came I to was a long straight path with paths opening up at the sides. She closed her eyes and concentrated. There were voices. She turned her head left and right, and up and down to try and pick up the direction. The one on the left was.... Female. There was also... Hunt's voice... On the right. The last one is directly forward. That must be the director. Within the small corridor, she spread out her wings. The corridor was just wide enough to accommodate her wingspan. Vivi glided down the corridor and from a distance away, she saw the last door. It was dark but she could hear voices from within it. She stopped infront of the door. Just then the door opened and within it came the director. "Oh 99!" The director sounded a little shocked though he didn't look surprised. "How did you get here? Oh well, twins often do the same things...." Vivi didn't catch the last few words as the director was mumbling. "We'll it doesn't matter. It's good you're here. Come let me introduce you." The director pulled Vivi into the cage and both Vivi and Xero met face to face. "This is 1. Known to you as Xero. And your brother...." Vivi's eyes widened in surprise as the director continued. "My son..." Even though Vivi was not one to care about anything, this information came as a shock to her. She has never thought about the possibility that Xero could be related to the director. Xero looked away irritated but did not refute the statement. The director continued. "Xero. Meet 99. And I'll let you meet 100 some time soon." The director smiled sinisterly. "I wonder who, my real son, or the two daughters whom I've raised, would be stronger? You can come at me with your entire group of 'animals' which you have raised and still not win against me and my technology. Moreover, my two daughters are strong. I'm sure you know that after seeing 99. Try to break out of this prison before you try anything else. My dear son..." The director turned to leave. "Let's go 99." He said and Vivi complied, following the director out of the room, after taking a final glance of the fox.

(I'm bored. I'm bored. I'm very very bored.) ------------------ Vivi followed the director to the facility where they held their meetings. The scientists who saw her started to be wary of her. Vivi wondered if the scientists were acting this way with lily too? They came to a room and Vivi saw Hunt and Webb. "Stay inside for a while 99." The director told her. "Director. Are you sure it's alright for her to be left on her own?" Hunt asked. "You've worked with this girl for so long. Don't you know her by now?" The director replied and Hunt nodded in agreement. With that, they left the room, leaving her alone. With nothing to do, she glanced around. It was the director's office. From the corner of her eye, she spotted a photo. She walked closer to it and saw the person on the photo. 'Isn't... Isn't this...!?'

Vivi needed to see the director. The fennec fox told her something which she wouldn't believe. The director would not have broken his promise. No way. The chains around her feet prevented her from transforming. But she wouldn't care. The first time in public, or in the habitat, she spread her wings. The cape on her lifted and gave way for her wings to expand, and with great difficulty(due to the heavy chains on her feet), Vivi lifted herself off the ground and flew towards the exit. However, because the attacks are fierce and many bullets and beams were shot through the air, Vivi had a hard time reaching the exit. Dodging bullets is one of her specialties but dodging multiple bullets is not. In the process, she got hit by a few stray bullets. When the scientists noticed Vivi, their expression changed, and instead of attacking the experiments, some shifted their attention to her. "99! What are you doing? Attack them!" they shouted. For the first time, Vivi ignored their commands and continued flying straight at the exit fiercely. Seeing this, the scientists got scared and tried to aim at Vivi instead. "No! No! No! Don't just shoot her! She won't collapse from this! Aim for her heart or her head!" a random scientist shouted. The other scientists followed the command and aimed at Vivi instead. Vivi wasn't able to dodge all of the bullets, and got hit by quite a few. But she wouldn't stop. She has to see the director. Out of the corner of her eye, she saw a person at the exit. It seemed to be like the scientist called Jae. 'Him...' Vivi thought. Suddenly her heart stopped for a moment, but she didn't know why. Something jolted in her memories on the sight of the man. It happened every time she saw him, but she didn't think much about it. 'Maybe he can take me to the director...' Vivi thought as she flew towards him. However, before she could, she realized that a huge cloud of white has already surrounded the entire area, causing a lot of experiments and scientists to collapse. When she turned back, the man was already gone. Within a few seconds, a group of people with huge trucks and gas masks arrived and took the unconscious experiments away. Vivi stood there and watched as the gas mask people put the experiments in cages. The gas didn't work much on her as she has built immunity to it. After the gas has cleared, a man walked into the habitat towards her. "99... We meet again." Vivi frowned. "... Director." The man let out a laugh. "I see you are still not used to calling me dad eh?" "Well you aren't really my dad..." "Hmm. How cold. When I have been the one raising you ever since you had any memories..." he shrugged. "So what's with all this? You haven't forgotten have you?" "That's what I was going to ask. You haven't forgotten about our pact have you?" The director gave an innocent look. "Of course I haven't. I am a man of my word. Don't tell me you broke our pact because you don't believe in me?" "I haven't broken any pact. But I'm not sure about you. Where is 100?" "Still at the garden, enjoying her time, planting flowers~ Why do you ask this?" "You're lying." Vivi frowned. "I have gotten information from reliable sources that 100 has been seen travelling around the labs and around scientists. I have also heard that you will be including her in one of your most recent operations. You have started using 100 for experiments recently already, am I right? Tell me." The director broke a smile, "Who told you all of this?" Vivi's expression suddenly changed and she broke into fury. "You broke your promise! You promised that you wouldn't use her in your SICK experiments! You promised you will let her continue living happily even if she could only live in that hut! You-!" Vivi grabbed the director by the collar. Many alarmed and armed soldiers aimed their weapons at Vivi. "You give 100 back to me. Where is she?!" The director motioned for the rest of the soldiers to put down their weapons before replying. "Let me tell you... VIVI... I didn't break my pact with you. You see... I didn't make her go for the experiments~ She went on her own accord. Just like you did. Also, she knew everything about the operation. We told her. And she was the one who volunteered to join. She is also living happily in our facilities nowadays, so it makes no difference whether she is in the hut or not. She has matured faster than you would have imagined my dear." the director had a hint of a smile on his face. "You-you're lying! You could have forbidden her to go for the expe-" "Oh she insists. And I couldn't stop her... Other than letting you out into the real world, I have never rejected any of your requests before have I?" "..." Vivi clenched her teeth and fists tightly. "I have to see 100." "Then that would break our pact you know?" the director shrugged nonchalantly. Vivi struggled to keep herself composed. "Then you will let me in on the operation which 100 joined." The smile on the director's face widened. "Well, if you insist, I couldn't say no. But on a condition that you cooperate with us on it. If my darling knew you were going to join us she would be thrilled. Hahaha~ So what do you say?" "Get on with it." "Great! Welcome to the team. My daughter. Hahaha. Come with me." the director turned to walk away as Vivi followed. ========= ( I changed the direction a little hope you don't mind XD)

Boring-freak, you are japanese?

Vivi had absolutely no idea on what was happening. Truthfully, she had no interest in it. She came for only one reason. To find out about what Xero knew. But once she came, something else happened. Vivi watched as the experiments beside took turns to change their form, just like what Vivi did during the test battle. Xero was managing the strategies and was about to leave to help out when Vivi stopped him. "Yes Vivi, I see you agreed to-" "Don't be mistaken. I'm not here to help you with the operation." The fox showed a surprised expression for a bit, then realizing this is Vivi they are dealing with. "So what are you here for?" He asked. "Tell me frankly. How much do you know about 100?" The fox was a little stunned, but cracked a laugh. "Heh. So Sakila got you here using this way. Smart girl..." The fox murmured to himself before continuing. "I know a lot. Probably more than you do." "You're lying." "If you do not believe that I have or know something which you don't know, you wouldn't come to me in the first place." Vivi rolled her eyes. The fox smirked. But vivi didn't catch it. "I even know about your relationship with 100." Xero continued. "But of course you already know about that..." Vivi waited. "Do you want to know the purpose of the director raising both of you? ... and personally as well?" Vivi frowned. One of the answers she was looking for. "If you want to know, stand on our side." Vivi paused, trying to decide. Vivi could make guesses to why the director raised them. Perhaps it was because they were special. How are they special? Perhaps they are the only twins in the facility. But why are they special when they are twins? Perhaps the director raised them because they are the last two experiments? But if they created any more, then they wouldn't be the last two... Why? Vivi wanted to know. But if she helped them, she would break the pact with the director. What should she do? ------------ (continued with a little more) :V

Vivi was shocked. How did the girl named Sakila know anything related to 100? Her existence should not have been reported to the experiments, and she has never been sent to the habitat. Her 'entire life' has been spent living in the hut surrounded by the gigantic garden. The weirdest part is, how did the girl know that Vivi knew about 100, and about having a close relationship with 100? (If you are confused. 100 is Lily.) "Think about it, will you?" Sakila turned to leave. "Wait." Vivi stopped the girl. Lionel lifted and eyebrow. Sakila had a tiny smile. "Tell me... what do you know about... 100? How do you know anything about 100?" Sakila shrugged. "Xero will tell you more about it if you like." "What else does that fox know?" "It's Xero." "Same difference." Sakila sighed. "I'm sure he knows a lot about 100. If I'm not mistaken, one part of the plan also involves 100... Ops... I'm not supposed to say that much... excuse me." 'What!?' Vivi's face showed no expression. But she was certainly interested. What else. What else does the fox know? Vivi wondered. "Sakila." "Oh. You finally called me by my name." Sakila smiled. "Yes. I'll have to talk to Xero." "Right~ I'll bring all of you guys to Xero after I announc-" "Now." Sakila forced a smile before sighing. "Alright... since you agreed to come. This way." "Thanks."

(5 minutes of my time to type this) Vivi saw the expression on the leopard's face. Sakila. The leopard told her. She had the 'what do I do with you' kind of look. Vivi didn't care whether she could leave the place or not. Truthfully, she had never wanted to leave the facility at all. Her heart is not with her any more. If anything, she's prepared to die in this facility. 'Lily...' She thought. She will probably never see the other girl again due to the pact she had with the director. But it was for the best. She will keep her promise, and the director had better keep his. Vivi knew the director isn't really their real 'dad'. But Lily... Vivi sighed as she walked away from Sakila.

Lost what?

Hair braiding!!! I can braid other people's hair... But I can't seem to braid my own... >__<

"Human... Huh..." Vivi managed a laugh coldly. "How are we... Human?" She continued to speak. "I've experienced human. Ive experienced beast. But what is more hurtful isn't the pain of being prodded, being experimented or being killed. The outside world or here... It's the same. There's no point for us to go outside. Wherever we are, we will feel the same pain, the same treatment, the same feelings."

Wait... Cheery ... Me? Vivi paused. Could it be...? "... Where did you see me?" She asked. The swift then proceeded to tell her about the encounter at the infirmary. It was the 'first' time she had met 100 on that day as well. "Hey 99! You're here!" The cheery girl called out to her as she was brought into the hut by a man. They were the only ones there. "Come 'ere!" The other girl dragged her over to view some of the flowers she planted beside the hut. "Aren't they pretty?" She smiled as she spoke. "99, we will be staying here together! Dad said we will be staying here together for a while~" 'Dad?' Vivi thought. "Right? Dad?" She smiled as she turned around and ran to the man who brought her in. "Yes. You two will be staying here for a while." The man replied. 'That person is... Dad?' Vivi thought. "99! Lets go into the hut. I have lots of things I wanna tell you!" The other girl said while dragging vivi into the hut. Vivi had no idea what just happened, but this girl made her feel safe. She decided to follow her. [another scene] "Hey 99! Lets make a code!" "Huh code?" "Yea! A code is something only we can understand! Isn't it cool?" "... Why do we need that?" "Don't you feel like our bond will be stronger with it? So when we wanna keep something secret we can speak in code!" "Okay... How do we create it?" "Let's do it a little by little.... I know! Lets start with numbers! Right." The other girl took out a piece of paper. "One. Hmmm. How about 'FER'? Okay FER it shall be!" "..." Vivi wondered if her twin would let her decide as well. "... Then how about bee for seven!?" She continued scribbling on the piece of paper as Vivi leaned over to see. "... Then 8 shall be tee! ... And... 9... 9 will be Vee!" She continued scribbling. Vivi sighed. She really did make it up all by herself. The girl turned her head up and looked at Vivi. "Hey 99..." "Hmm?" Vivi replied. "What should zero be?" She asked. "Eh?!" Vivi was a little surprised. "Erm... How about ... 'Lee'?" "Hmm..." The other girl thought for a while. "Lee sounds nice. Ferlily." "Eh?" "That's my name from now on." The girl smiled. "And you shall be Vivi. Alright?" Vivi raised an eyebrow. Thinking for a while, she decided she shouldn't let him know about 100 yet. But before she could reply, another one came over. The leopard. "Hey! Message from Xero. To all the people who can complete their mutation and become fully animal, we're meeting tomorrow outside Xero's den. Apparently, we're going to launch Operation Jailbreak." "Thought you promised not to bother me with your meetings any more? 7."

Vivi staggered out of the environment. Only then did she realize she has lost a lot of blood from the bites and scratches given to her by the cat. She couldn't balance herself on the ground with her talons, so she took a deep breath and pushed her talons inwards with the help of the wall. Reverse mechanics seem to work somehow and her feet turned back into human feet, though it was in very bad shape. It would heal eventually though. The girl then staggered and stumbled towards the scientists who were waiting for her outside. "Great job 99." Hunt smirked. "We didn't expect you to finish off the cat so quickly. How did you figure out you could rearrange the bones in your feet? Was it instinct? Or just desperation?" Hunt bent down and inspected her feet. Then suddenly, he reached out his arm and grabbed her ankle really tightly. Vivi flinched in pain, but continued to stay still at the same spot. After a while he slowly loosened his grip and smiled sinisterly. "I'll need to take a closer look at this more closely the next time..." He then fastened the chains back onto vivi and took off the special collar on vivi. Grace sighed as she motioned Vivi away towards the jeep. She threw Vivi's cloak back onto Vivi before shoving Vivi up the jeep. "Now go back." Not before long, she returned to the habitat. All bloody again, and exhausted. She dragged her feet back in and ignored every single comment and even those who tried to heal her. Slowly, she approached the tree, leaned on it and slumped down onto the ground, falling asleep.

(This will be looooooong fight between Vivi and errm... the cat. Read if you want to. Warning: Might be boring :V) Vivi jumped backwards when the cat leapt towards her with its sharp claws. Vivi started to run. She then realized how fast she could run without the heavy chains on her feet. She didn't know whether it was a good thing or bad, but the shackles seemed to have trained her up. The cat threw in another claw which Vivi dodged pretty easily. She has been through experiments where she had to dodge bullets, so in reflex, her body will move to avoid any fast and predictable, incoming motion. Vivi kept dodging the cat's attempt to injure her, though some attacks got through and left some deep wounds. However, this was nothing compared to the rest of the experiments. This cat is definitely weak. It is just violent, and not smart. It's attack patterns are so obvious, but its bites, scratches and speed is amazing. If it is very intelligent, this cat would be deadly. However, Vivi's still in a pinch. The cat still has the upper hand as it has everything it needs to kill her, but Vivi... how is she going to kill the cat? Vivi tried to recall what she has done in the experiments. She has made to take in much medicine, injected with loads of drugs, tested her speed with tennis balls and bullets, then her tolerance levels to electric shocks, her lung capacity when they tried to drown her, her healing abilities by punching lots of holes in her... But none of them are useful for the fight. The rest of the experiments were just useless, like measuring her height and growth and eyesight, and perhaps plucking out some of the feathers from her wings to test for the-wait... Vivi remembered something really obvious. She has something every bird has. She has wings! Even though she has wings huge enough to cover her entire body, she has never, not even once, taken flight before. When she had her tiny wings, she could jump further than usual, but after that, she has been fitted with the chains which prevented her from trying to fly. She thought that if she could fly, she might be able to get to the top of the trees in the vicinity and perhaps find something to attack the cat with. Thinking so, she jumped a few steps back and started to run while facing away from the cat. When she got to quite enough speed, she spread her wings to catch the flow of wind and once she did, the air lifted her all the way up. Vivi nearly choked from the shock of having herself being lifted up into the air. Not before long however, she felt the air getting thinner below her wings and she started to drop. Immediately, she tried to push herself back up by 'grabbing' more air from above, which she did. She then realized how much air her wings can actually 'grab'. With one push, Vivi pushed herself even higher and when she looked down, she has to be about 4 meters off the ground. She tried again and this time, consciously using all her strength and pushed the air down hard. With that one push, she zoomed up to the height of about 8 to 10 meters off the ground. 'So this is flying!?' Vivi thought in amazement. She has never thought her wings were very strong. Even though it was pretty difficult and tiring to keep herself afloat, she is, in fact, flapping her wings and flying. She struggled to keep herself in balance while scanning the surrounding and finding a tree tall enough to avoid the cat. However, the tallest trees were around 5-8 meters. She found the nearest one and tried to land. Some branches scratched her while landing and her wings were caught on the branches, causing her to be unstable. She quickly grabbed onto the trunk of the tree as she tried to keep her balance on the branch. The cat was scratching on the tree below Vivi, trying to climb up. Vivi took a deep breath to calm down from the fresh experience, but was immediately alarmed because the cat knocked onto the tree causing her to lose balance again, nearly falling down. The cat, in attempt to climb the tree knocked into the tree again and Vivi clung tightly on the trunk with her hands. What should she do? She thought. How do birds solve the situation? '...Talons! Owls have talons.' But Vivi looked down and realized she hasn't grown any. It was pretty weird why Vivi hasn't grown her talons yet because it had already been a few years and talons are one of the assets of a bird of prey. She had only grown her wings, and her sense of hearing and night sight improved dramatically, and then, through the years, only her wings grew larger. This was not normal with reference to all other experiments. But for this situation, she needed it. She looked down at her feet and concentrated hard. She pushed down on it hard and forced it to bend. It hurt alot, but to her surprise, her bones actually shifted. Bearing the pain, she pushed down even harder and two of her toe bones shifted back and pierced out from the back of her feet. Her heel split to accommodate the other two bones and one of her front toes shifted back and up to stabilize her new feet, locking her new feet in place. The front toe bones also pierced out of her toes to reveal sharp claws. Some of the skin tightened to hold the foot and her feet looked like a four fingered hand with sharp claws. Her entire foot had turned into an owl's talons. Seeing that, she tried the same thing on the other foot. It turned into an owl's talon's as well. She could not believe how amazing the transformation was. It seemed as though her muscles and skin had also shifted and wrapped around her new feet perfectly, making her feel stronger than usual. She grabbed the branches tightly with her new found feet, and was amazed not only by how easily she was able to balance on the branches, but also being able to pierce through the branches as well. No matter how much the cat below crashed the tree, Vivi could still keep her balance. 'Her talons are strong.' she realized. She then looked back at the cat. 'She can do this. Owls ARE birds of prey as well.' she thought. She closed her eyes, took a deep breath, then marked the cat's position and.. jumped off the tree flapping her wings and pushing herself higher. The cat turned and followed her. Vivi flew straight towards the light on the ceiling as the cat followed, with its eyes turning to a slit to accommodate the light. She flew higher... and higher... and to everyone's surprise, she crashed and broke the light. The environment suddenly turned pitch black. The cat's eyes tried to adjust to the sudden darkness of the environment by enlarging its pupils. But Vivi, with her superior hearing has already located the cat's position through the rustling sound of grass. She swooped down silently, and before she reached the cat, she stretched out her talons and grabbed it by its rib cage. The cat let out a huge growl of pain as Vivi's talons stabbed into its body, crushing it's ribcage. It struggled for a while before it finally stopped moving. Making sure that the cat really stopped moving, Vivi let go of the cat, letting it fall to the ground with a loud thud. "Is this enough?" Vivi said as she landed back on the ground. The emergency lights turned on.

I seem to post too fast. Maybe I should rest a while and let you guys do the work XDDDDDDDDDDDD Go AL GO! Go LIONEL GO!> XD

Vivi climbed up the jeep as she heard some arguments behind. The wolf again. She sighed as she ignored what they were arguing about. Any argument was useless. The experiments should know this by now. She sat down softly beside the scientists where they motioned to sit and the jeep drove off. Without much effort, it arrived at the location of the experiment. The scientist motioned for her to get off and she did. A few scientists were already waiting for her there. Grace Webb. Hunt. And two more. Newbies. The lady scientist immediately came over and pulled Vivi over. "99! What happened to the dress I made you the other day!? Ugh don't tell me it was destroyed in the experiments again!?" She turned and glared back at Hunt, who shrugged and looked away. "No problem. Luckily I have a few spare ones your size. Put them on before we start." The lady pulled ou her bag and grabbed a small piece of clothing and went back to Vivi, stuffing it to her. "Come." She pulled vivi over to the side with a screen where the other scientists won't see. There the lady scientist pulled off her cloak and inspected her body before anything else. Once the cloak was off, vivi's wings expanded in size. The wounds have more or less healed and her healing was amazing. It left pretty much no scars, even the most severe cuts healed perfectly. A few recent wounds still remain though, but it will heal in a day or two. "Looks like most of your wounds are healed... Put this on." She took the black dress and untied the neck string. It was a halterneck. Due to the wings on her back, a normal dress will not fit. It cannot be seen, but she has a tiny tail as well so she cannot wear anything tight fitting. The lady tied the short dress onto her and inspected a while before nodding. "Good. Lets go." She led Vivi back to where the rest of the scientists were and Hunt smirked. "So? No problems right?" She frowned at the comment but had nothing to say. "Then it's good. Lets begin." Hunt smiled as he put a special cuff on Vivi's neck, then proceeded to remove the chains on her ankles. "Come." Hunt pushed Vivi from behind towards the entrance of the simulator environment where the experiment would be held. And as soon as she was in, Hunt shut the door and locked it. Vivi turned back in surprise. Usually the scientists followed the experiment closely. Hunt motioned for her to keep moving forward through the glass window and Vivi did as she was told. As she moved, she saw something. A cage? As she got closer, she realized what that was. It was... Another experiment. It was masked and sat very still inside the cage. "This is December." A voice was broadcasted through the speaker systems in the environment. "She's one of the very special ones which we have created which we call 'The Months'. They were the very first experiments which we created before we created you 'Numbers' and they are failures. You will see why later." Suddenly the cage was lifted and a long mechanical hand injected something into December. It then removed the mask, revealing a girl with whiskers. "This girl here is a cat. A very normal one indeed." It's ears started to prop and it started to stir. "... But you'll have to becareful. Because 'The Months' are-" Before Hunt could finish his sentence, December's head flipped up and with immediate effect, it pranced swiftly on Vivi taking a strong bite onto her left arm. Vivi was utterly shocked and couldn't react. The mechanical hand injected something into the cat and its bite loosened and fell back into sleep. Blood was now dripping down Vivi's left arm. She grabbed it with her right to stop it from bleeding. "Now I don't really have to tell you how dangerous this animal is do I?" The mechanical hand pulled the cat back to the same place. "The Months are the perfect killing machine that we created. But it's only problem is, we cannot control them. Which is why they are failures. Now. What I want you to do, is to fight it. Kill it. Prove that Numbers are much more superior than the previous generation." Vivi's brow furrowed. A fight now? "Ah. One more thing." Hunt continued. " I will not stop the fight until one of you are dead so make sure you kill the other one. Don't make light of December. Even though she's the tamest amongst the "Months" her bite and speed packs a punch." Vivi sighed. Maybe she should let it crush her now so everything will end. "Oh. And the director expects you to win, 99. If you don't maybe 100 will..." Hunt let his voice trail off. Vivi gritted her teeth and glared at the speaker. The mechanical hand proceeded to inject something to the cat and it stirred again. Vivi stared at it. She will win.

XD I'm cold to everyone. XD

Just as the leopard was about to lead them off, the swift boy remarked. "Oi. Take your hands off 99." The leopard was shocked. Vivi had no interest on what they were arguing about but was quite relieved the leopard didn't pull off her cloak. It would be terrible if ever it happened. In the end the argument ended with the swift tagging along. Vivi didn't turn back to check if the wolf was following. The habitat wasn't very big, but it ain't very small either. The leopard took them for a three to five minute walk before they finally arrived at the den of Xero at the other side of the habitat. It probably took that long because Vivi couldn't walk fast. Firstly, she's a bird and birds dont have as strong muscles on their legs as leopards or wolves. Secondly, her flight is disabled as well thanks to the heavy chains the scientists put on her. But in the end, they still reached. "Oh hey. I'm surprised you agreed to come, Vivi." Xero came out of his den. Vivi frowned. "Don't get angry, I'm used to calling you by name. I'll stutter and bite my tongue if I call you by your number." "So why am I here?" Vivi asked. "That's a very good question." Shrugged Xero. "Why is she here Sakila?" "Huh!?" Sakila's eyes widened in surprise. "But... But..." "Haha it's a joke Sakila. Don't look so shocked." "Oh... Xero..." "Vivi. I know you don't really care, but I heard from Sakila that they (the scientists) are going to implement some dangerous experiments on you. I happen to hear of the rumor myself. I'm not the oldest here for nothing. I get all sorts of information from many sources. However, there hasn't been much confirmations on who they are testin those on. From the plenty of sources that I've gathered, this is something very important, where the scientists have to report all the way up to the director. It is also pretty secretive that even I do not hold the specifics. Even the tests are at random timings and I am unable to predict which experiment they will be conducting it on next. A few experiments have died through the trials and none of them lived to report the details to me... As you can see, the things they are trying to do is very bad indeed." Still looking nonchalant, Vivi replied with a word. "So?" The experiments beside wore expressions of fury and seemed to be angry at Vivi for the insolent remark. The leopard tried to speak up as well due to concern but was stopped by Xero. "Great attitude. Great courage Vivi. I hope it's not because you surrendered yourself to fate or destiny." "Whatever it is, is none of your concern." Vivi grumbled softly. The fennec fox shook his head. "Nope. It's not." "XERO! You're supposed to-" Sakila tried to butt in but the fox continued. "But you're an interesting one. I know its not very possible, but I hope I can get you under my wing... Oh that's a pretty good metaphor don't you think? What I meant was that I want you to help me out. Well then... What do you say?" "Hng. Not intere-" "Have you heard of number 100?" Xero interrupted Vivi before she could reject. 100? Wait... What? vivi paused in shock. "Well, the newest one out of all experiments. Ever since her introduction, there has not been any newer ones. Do you know... why?" Vivi's eyes widened. Wait... It couldn't be...? "Hahaha~ of course you didn't know." Xero's expression changed. "I'll be awaiting your reply then Vivi~" The fox smiled as he went back into its own den, leaving vivi speechless outside, and everyone else wondering what happened. All of a sudden the sounds of a vehicle could be heard and a jeep stopped beside the experiments. "Hey number 99!" A scientist in the vehicle called out. Time passed so quickly that they never realized it was already dawn. Vivi gave a cold laugh before heading towards the jeep. Another day of fun, laughter and joy.

Suddenly out of the blue, a voice called out to them. "Hey! You two! Ah! Vivi! We need to get over to Xero's ASAP!" "Vivi" again. 7 should know better. Vivi glared at her. "Uh... okay. Please accompany me to Xero's den at this moment if you would be so kind?" Vivi pulled down her hood. "Why should I? There should be nothing you will need from me and nothing I can provide for you. I will not involve myself over your meetings nor join in any of your discussions. Even if you found out something interesting, please do not include me." Vivi turned to leave, but was stopped when the other girl grabbed onto her cloak. "Even if it involves you?" Vivi answered without hesitation. "Yes. Even if it involves me, or even if the scientists decide to get me killed. It would be for the better anyway." "Well, how about... if you went this time, I will stop pestering you for our discussion meetings in future?" Vivi paused. "If you didn't, I will be even more persistent next time..." the leopard added in, rolling her eyes. "Keep your promise." Vivi replied after thinking for a while and turned back. "Where is Xero?" -------- Hope you don't mind me making you promise something.

"Hey Vivi!" The swift called out. Vivi straightened stiffly. She was sensitive to that name. How on earth does he know!? She remembered that only a few people know and they know how sensitive she is to people calling her that. Not that they know why. Must be Xero. And that swift guy must have overheard. She stood up and glared at the bird. "Don't call me by that name. 99 is fine." Then it's the wolf's turn. "I helped you because you needed it, Vi. Don't push away aid from those who would give it. There are not many here that would offer it." The wolf continued. "Look. Next time they call you in for a test, tell them ninety there's observing you. They'll understand." It paused for a moment before continuing. "But whatever, if you want me out of your business, I'm gone." The wolf then walked away leaving Vivi and the swift. "Hng." Vivi laughed dryly. Thats so like her to say such stuff. vivi thought. But she knew that even though she claimed that she'll not interfere, she will still continue to monitor and do things her way. Vivi had found out that the wolf has been monitoring her for quite some time. Even thought he wolf rarely approaches her, Vivi has senses sharp enough to realize. The wolf must have realized that Vivi found out, so she deliberately came to tell her all that. But she knew she didn't need help. Or didn't 'want' help to be more exact. There's nothing they can do anyway. The more help she knows she can get, the more the experiments hurt. If she's alone, if she doesn't struggle, if she doesn't care, if she didn't think about it, she'll get through. Any concern would only break her resolve. Her fate has already been sealed the moment she met her twin. It makes her wonder if it was a deliberate attempt by the director. Vivi turned back to the swift. "What do you want from me?"