Rain hit the cobblestone streets making the sound of beads falling onto a floor. A single cart being carried by exhausted horses, was slowly making its way to the only building in a small town with light coming from it. There, a hooded figure stood outside awaiting the cart. The driver stopped the horses in front of him and quickly got down. He knocked thrice on the carts door and it opened revealing one more cloaked figure and a small girl with dark black hair. The cloaked figure gently helped the girl off of the cart and escorted her within the building.

Outside, the figure that was at the building directed the driver to the stables and asked him:

"Were you followed?"

"I made sure that we weren't," he said as he headed to the stables with the horses and cart.

The cloaked figure looked around before slamming the door shut.

Meanwhile, on a rooftop stood a masked mystery, with long hair, dressed in red and white. Kama blades dropped from her sleeves into her hands. The person brought up the curved blade in front of her and examined it through her mask. Satisfied, she descended onto the ground and made her way to the house where the girl had entered.

Inside, the little girl was escorted downstairs into a room with a bed and wardrobe with a mirror. In the middle of the room stood an unhooded young man with light brown hair and green eyes. The hooded figure pushed the girl into the room and closed the door. The little girl clutched her panda doll into her red clothes looking warily at the man in the middle of the room. The man knelt down on one knee in front of the girl.

"Hi there little empress," he said "What's your name?"

"Annie," the little girl whispered looking down.

"Thats a great name," The man said "My name is Yi and I'm here to make sure that you stay safe and well. Is that your panda doll?"

"Mhmm," the little girl nodded with a smile.

"Does he have a name?" Yi asked.

"His name is Tibbers," she said holding up the doll "Mama gave him to me, she said that if I was ever in trouble he would protect me."

"Well tell Tibbers that he is a beautiful panda," Yi told her.

"No, I can't tell him that," Annie said.

"No?" Yi asked with an over the top surprised face "Why not?"

Annie stood up on her toes and whispered in Yi's ear "He's a boy panda."

Yi gave a small chuckle "Well then tell him he's very handsome,"

"Ok," She said with a yawn.

"Do you want to go to bed?"

Annie gave a small nod.

In the house near the fireplace three figures in cloaks had most of their hoods down and were discussing security.

"Look" said a man with long brown hair tied up "I can take this floor, I'll be of much better use if I have some space to move around in if someone comes."

"Alright" said the only girl in the room, she had long black hair and a scar from her left eyebrow going down to her left cheekbone "We'll patrol the upstairs area then, right Talon?"

Talon, the only one with a hood on, nodded and dropped his cloak only to reveal a smaller dark blue cloak with spikes at the bottom, the girl dropped her cloak to reveal a white shirt with red trim and black pants with a gold trim, the man with long hair dropped his cloak to reveal skimpier clothing: pieces of steel armor with loose dark pants and light blue cloth around his neck that covered most of his upper body. They separated to stand watch.

Outside the masked person was crawling along the roof, except this time, a much more bulkier figure also dressed in red with a mask was accompanying the first figure. They made their way to the windows and peered through waiting for any kind of movement with weapons drawn.

Inside, Talon and the girl made their way upstairs and separated into the hallway going around the rooms. The girl drew her twin swords and checked all her daggers around her body. Talon swung his arm down and a blade came out about his arm length. For the first few moments they were slightly paranoid moving at every shadow movement and jumping at the lightning. They relaxed a bit after a moment. Talon was walking by a window and saw something shine on the floor. He naively picked it up, it was a copper coin. Suddenly lightning flashed through the sky and out of the corner of his eye he saw a terrifying mask with the color red. He turned quickly, but nothing was there except a tree branch. He turned to continue patrolling and on the other side of the hall was an open window.

"Kat!" he yelled as he turned around to get down stairs. He bumped right into a man much bigger and even a bit taller than he was. Before he could say or do anything else the man swung his leg at Talon and knocked him off of his feet. Quicker than he should have, the man wrapped an arm around Talon, holding his arms in, and the other around his neck. He began to tighten his grip like an anaconda thats about to eat its prey. Talon was beginning to see dark spots in his vision when he was suddenly let go. The man got up and turned around quickly, pulling out his dual katanas, to see Kat charging at him with her two (slightly curved) swords. The man prepared to strike when she suddenly appeared behind him and threw her legs around his neck and twisted to the side using the force and momentum to drop him to the ground. Once down they heard the man downstairs shout something. Talon grabbed the katanas and they both ran downstairs leaving the bigger man upstairs. Once down they saw a much slimmer figure about Kat's height dueling the man downstairs while he fought with his katana. She was skillfully dodging all of his attacks and leaving cuts all over his body. She eventually disarmed him and had him in a lock on the floor when Kat threw one of her daggers. Sensing it, the slimmer figure let him go and flipped backwards.

She stood directly in front of the fireplace looking at all her opponents. Talon dashed to her with his blade aimed for her neck she was able to hook his blade and throw him down. The other man grabbed his katana, but before he could do anything she jumped on his back and used her force of jumping to kick him to the wall. She landed a few feet away from the door, but Kat stood in her way with a cocky smile on her face. The slim figure, underestimating Kat, charged her normally. She tried to hook her blades and disarm her the same way she did to the man with the katana, but Kat managed to slide her Kama to the ground and kick the figure in the face. The mask flew off revealing a young lady. Angry, she did a much more aggressive move of trying to slice at Kats head. She dropped her blades and grabbed the woman's arm to flip her and slam her to the ground. Even though she hit the ground hard she immediately threw herself up, but not without losing her Kama. She made the decision to run and Kat made the decision to chase.

"Kat! Retreat!" yelled the man with the katana. She ignored him and continued her chase using the side of the home to jump next to her. They engaged in a bit of hand to hand combat before the woman was able to grab Kat and roll backwards placing her feet on Kats stomach and kicking her away. Kat rolled and slid on the ground until she bumped into something. Looking up she saw the mask and two katanas pointed straight at her. She rolled out of the way as he jabbed them downward. As the blades were in the ground she got up and jump kicked his mask. As it came off the man put his hands on his face to cover it up and immediately began to run. Before she could chase him down she felt a strong and sharp sting in her neck. She yelled in agony and crumpled to the ground. She felt unconsciousness begin to wash over her as she saw long and slim legs in high heels walked away from her.