Hero
by Shiori-K

Ellias was calmly sipping her tea at the semi deserted GJ's cafeteria. Rina was late, usually Rina would accompany her in her breaks whenever she could and wasn't playing with all her machines and computers. But today wasn't the case and Rina had promised to join her. Ellias checked the time, it was five minutes into her break, considering maybe not for the first time on taking a twenty minutes break instead of fifteen.

Soon after this thought she saw Rina coming through the cafeteria's door, Ellias notice something was off with Rina, her eyes were wide in surprise, and her cheeks were blushing a pretty rose color, she was walking shyly but quickly to were Ellias was sitting and show was holding something to her chest. Ellias frowned, getting a little concerned for Rina.

"Oh sorry Ellias, I'm so late!, please forgive me" Rina say not looking into Ellias eyes.

"It's okay" said Ellias, looking intently at Rina "Are you okay?", Rina blushed harder "N-... nothing is wrong" Rina stuttered pressing the something in her hands to her chest tightly.

"Something most be up with you, are you sick? your face is blushing" Ellias sipped at her tea raising an eyebrow questionably.

Rina seen to consider something for a second before showing the something in her hands to Ellias. It seem like an envelope with Rina's name on it "What is this?" She asked.

"I-... it's a L- love L- letter" Rina blushed madly.

Ellias stared at the letter, then at the blushing Rina and back at the letter. "Who gave it to you?" She asked sounding a little more annoyed than she wanted.

Since kids Ellias has always been there to protect Rina, since the agents always made fun of Rina, she was always there to glare at them and make them back off of little Rina or they had suffered the consequences, it haven't change much since then and anyone that was smart knew to approach Rina with respect if they wanted to live.

"A freshman gave it to me, he said to read it and meet him at the gardens" Rina was looking anywhere but Ellias, blushing a pretty pink color.

Ellias opened the letter, Rina didn't stop her. She read it careful, it said something about this guy liking Rina from the moment he saw her, how he admired her and wanted to get to know her better, that he wanted to see her and have her answered then.

"Are you going?" Ellias whispered calmly.

"I don't know..." Rina said. Ellias looked at the time, her fifteen minute break had passed ten minutes ago but she didn't mind, not at the time because something where more important to her when it came to Rina.

"I'll go with you if you want" she offered.

Rina shook her head "Don't you think it would be bad if you came with me?" Ellias frowned, she wasn't liking where this was going. "So you really are going" Rina nodded "yes, I can't just leave it at that, he took the trouble to write me that letter".

Ellias frown deepened, she wasn't liking this one bit but there was nothing she could say or do to make Rina allow her to go with her.

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The  next day was hell for Ellias. She took her fifteen minute break to help Rina look good for the nobody that obviously didn't knew what he was doing, she could bet he didn't heard all the rumors about approaching Rina so carelessly, and how protective Ellias was of Rina, even though Rina was oblivious to this herself.

"Do you think he will like this?" Rina was obviously excited about this.

'I don't give rats if he like it or no' thought Ellias. "It's very pretty" she said instead calmly.

"This is so exciting! this is the first time someone gives me a love letter!" Ellias secretly growled in frustration. She didn't want to admit it but she was against the idea of Rina going through with this, it was not like Rina liked the guy right?

"Alright, I'll be going now. I'll probably be back after your training" Rina said. Ellias nodded mutely, wishing she didn't have to train the new agents. Maybe he was one of the new guys, maybe she had train him before. She growled softly as Rina walked out of the room.

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Ellias was watching the new kids train the pairs, usually she would have been up to some matches herself but she didn't feel like defeating her students today. Lex was there too being today psychical and tactical lessons.

Around the middle of the training he walked to her "So, what's go you so distracted?" he asked. "Mmm...?" mumbled Ellias, "Rina is on a date" she said absent mindly.

Lex smirked "Oh, of course" he said trying hard not to laugh. Ellias looked at him with her characteristic cold and collected look. "So she knows the guy?" Lex asked.

"No, seem it's some new guy" Ellias looked at the new agents glaring at them.

Lex frowned, he wasn't as protective of Rina as Ellias was but he still worried about both of them. "New you say?" Ellias nodded. "You don't happen to know his name right?" Ellias thought for a bit. "No he didn't say in the letter".

"I'll go investigate, you go beat up some freshman, they miss your flame" Lex smiled an made his way to his students.

Ellias silently make her way to the students, when she walked past some guys talking excitedly, "So he asked her out?" student A was asking his friend, student B nodded. "You know how he is" student A shook his head "doesn't he know Ellias is going to fry his ass if she finds out?".

Student B shrugged "You know he said he wanted to be on the science team Rina was and how he was going to get in no matter-... wha...." the boy stopped talking when red caught his eyes. Ellias was looking directly at them, plasma coming from her hands, both boys gulped and pointed in the direction of one of the closest gardens. Ellias ran in that direction like a flash of light.

"He is so dead" both boys said, trembling in fear.

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When Ellias reached the garden, she saw Rina and the guy sitting on a bench, he was acting a little clingy to Rina, holding her around the shoulder. Rina looked very uncomfortable, but the guy just keep talking not paying much attention to Rina's predicament. Ellias saw red, building enough plasma energy she throw it at him, making him fly out of the bench and crash on a tree, hard enough to left him breathless.

"What the hell!?!?!" he shook his head, rubbing it.

Ellias walked calmly to him, he looked up and gasped in fear. He started to shake, Ellias put herself between the laying boy and Rina who was shocked still.

"Don't you dare put a foot in this agency again" Ellias said ice calm, the boy whimpered, shaking a little. "Did you heard me?" the boy nodded and unsteadily stood up and ran away.

"E-..Ellias what was that about?" Rina asked. Ellias calmed down "He was up to no good Rina, he wanted to use you to get his disgusting wish" Rina looked startled at first, then she chuckled "I thought as much, he just keep talking about computers and all that".

Rina walked to Ellias surprising her with a soft kiss on her cheek, "My hero... now I'll get you your favorite tea" Rina walked off to the cafeteria, Ellias stood there for a second touching her cheek with the ghost of a smile on her face. She walked right behind Rina, for once feeling good because of her protectiveness.

End!