Chapter Thirty Five

Blueth Mendoza's POV

Rachelle let out a little giggle as she pushed away her bangs. "Thank you."

"There she is." I smiled at her as I helped her stand up.

"Well, Ms. Itemfinder, what shall we do to get out of this mess?"

Rachelle let out a giggle as she started looking at the lock on the door. "Well, this lock isn't that different from the other locks I've opened up. Give me a minute to--- Hey, you hear that?" Rachelle said as she walked towards the walls, listening closely as she moved her ears close to the walls.

I followed her and moved my ears closer to the walls as well. "It sounds like, a lion? Is there a circus in town?"

"It's starting to get louder."

Rachelle and I looked at each other as we have both our eyes wide opened.

"Run!" We both said as we move away from the wall and went towards the other side of the room. Then, the wall we were listening to bursts open, chunks of the wall came flying everywhere, the smoke of dust covered the air.

Dust started to clear up and we saw a figure, it was hard to see who it was because of the light, but when my eyes got used to it, my eyes grew wide as I saw the person. "Ms. Val!?"

"I knew my baby was in trouble! Quick! Get on!" Ms. Val said as she pointed at the tiger she was riding. The tiger had huge angel-like wings on its side with dark gray fur. Rachelle and I looked at each other and we started running towards the tiger, not like we have any other choice. That's a rescue mission which is happening in front of us, why would we not ride on a tiger, plus, it's a tiger! Why not ride it!

"Hold on tight!" Ms. Val then pulled a part of the tiger's fur and it started spreading its wings, and with that, the tiger flew.

It didn't take long and we reached the house. "Alright you freeloaders, get off the tiger before I turn you into tiger food."

Rachelle and I got down from it and we looked at each other.

"Hey, listen, I'm sorry about yelling at you earlier." Rachelle said as she scratched the back of her head.

"It's okay, I understand why you yelled at me."

Rachelle smiled at me as she hugged me. I can feel smoke coming out from my ears as I felt Rachelle's hug. Ms. Val was standing beside the door as she smiled at us.

"I have to get going. I need to deliver this to my client and head home. I still need to prepare food for me. Bye Blueth." Rachelle said as she started walking away.

I looked at Ms. Val and she gave me this gesture, telling me to run after Rachelle and invite her to stay over. I smiled at Ms. Val and started running towards Rachelle.

"Rachelle!" I yelled as I ran towards her. She looked back at me as she stopped walking.

"Blueth? What's wrong?"

"Well, I was just wondering if you want to have a sleepover for tonight? That is, if you want to, I'm not forcing you or anything."

"Really? That would be awesome!" Rachelle said as she started jumping around. "I'm sorry, I just got excited all of a sudden, I don't know what came over me."

I smiled at her as I held her hand and started walking towards Ms. Val to tell her that Rachelle will be sleeping over. And if you guys want to know, yes, I was having a gay panic attack as Rachelle let me hold her hand.

"Well, that's an awesome idea. The more the merrier, am I right?" Ms. Val said as she smiled at Rachelle. Ms. Val leaned towards me as she whispered something to me. "I have to break it up to you, kiddo, but I'm going to need to sprinkle some of the amnesia powder on Rachelle again because you know." Ms. Val then started pointing at the tiger with wings.

I looked over and saw the tiger grooming itself. "How come you never told me that you have a pet tiger with wings?"

"Oh, that? Yeah, that's not a tiger kiddo. That's just Cathy."

"Cathy!?"

I looked at the tiger and it gave me a wink as it continued grooming itself. "Woah. How?"

"You'll know it when you'll know it, kid. Anyway, the two of you seem to enjoy holding hands so much." Ms. Val said as she pointed at our hands. I started blushing as I remembered that I was still holding Rachelle's hands.

"Oh, uh, I'm sorry." I said as I let go of Rachelle's hands.

"No, no, it's okay. I don't mind." Rachelle said as she was looking at Cathy. "So, a tiger with wings huh?"

"Well, that's my cue." Ms. Val said as she reached inside her scarf and pulled out the vial filled with the amnesia powder.

"Wait, you'll erase her memories now?"

"Yup, I might forget if I do it later." Ms. Val then walked closer towards Rachelle and poured out some of the amnesia powder on her hands.

"No! Wait, wait, wait!" And with that, Ms. Val blew the amnesia powder unto Rachelle's face, making her fall asleep.

"Geez, I hope no one saw me throwing amnesia powder unto the face of Rachelle and thinking that I'm a bad guy or something. I should really learn to use this stuff on other people in private or else people might get the wrong idea. Anyway, I'll go to the market and do some grocery shopping, you take Rachelle inside." Ms. Val said as she picked up the basket and started walking towards the direction of the market.

I carried Rachelle and placed her on the couch. She was sleeping peacefully.

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"Ahh, yes, this is the final piece I need. Well done."

-End of Chapter-