I've been chasing Sybak for a while now, and I managed to follow him to a small fortress near some snow-covered ruins. He walked towards a large door where two of those religious nutjobs from Flanoir island were standing guard. "You there, look alive," he snapped as he opened the gate and marched through.

"Crikey, boss seems like he's in a bad mood today," the blue guard muttered in a nervous Cockney accent.

"No kidding," the red guard gulped in a similar voice.

"What's gone up his bum, eh?"

"What do you think tomorrow is?"

I started moving, and I had my cloaking abilty ,thanks to my armor, activated but unfortunately my footsteps weren't quiet enough to go completely unnoticed. "Hold on a bit… You hear that?"

"Hear what?" the red asked.

"You hear that?"

"Hear what?" the red asked again.

I slid my knife out of my holster, knowing that they would hear it. "Come on, you gotta hear that."

"Hear wha-OOOOOH, crap!" I quickly stabbed the red guard and moved.

"Gotcha now, mate!" The blue whipped out his pistol and fired, but he only hit the wall. "What's that noise?"

He looked down and saw a glowing blue ball at his feet but before he could react, it went off in an explosion that sent him flying. "Crikeeeeeeeeeeeey!"

I decided to deactivate my cloaking and walked toward the door. "Hope I didn't scare you, fellas." I said in a teasing, yet kind of mean way.

Right on cue, the blue guard slammed to the ground with a sickening thud. "Bollocks," he gasped as he died. Ok I should probably explain a little bit on what's going on. See, I've been tracking my old friend, Richter Abend, better known as Sybak, hoping that he'd lead me to his boss. But I wasn't having any luck until he came here. Now I hate locked doors, but at least that means there's something, or someone, worth locking up. Still, I have a pretty good sixth sense, and I couldn't shake the feeling that I was walking right into a trap. And I was right. Next thing I know, the door swung open and a jeep burst out of the darkness, driven by none other then Sybak himself.

"Crap!" I yelped, diving out of the way.

Quickly, Sybak hit the brakes but not hard enough and the jeep ended up with its front wheels hanging over the edge of the wall.

Sybak then turned in his seat and noticed me pointing an assault rifle at him. "Well, well, look who abandoned her mates to follow me," he chortled. "I'm flattered of course, but you'll pardon me for not acting surprised, Lu."

Oh, by the way, I'm Luin. Like Sybak's it's a nickname. So if you want to refer to me by my real name, it's Marta Lualdi.

"And it seems you've killed my two best guards," Sybak sighed.

"Oops, sorry about that," I sneered.

"Perish the thought, my dear," he replied with a dismissive shrug. "Tomorrow is pay day; you actually saved me quite a bit of money. Kill anyone else and I might have to start paying you commission."

My hands gripped the gun tightly. "Where is he?"

"Oh right," the bounty hunter scowled. "And here I thought you were spending all this time trying to get close to me. Tsk tsk."

Ok now I was getting really annoyed. "Cut the shit. Where is he?"

"Yes, he asks about you too, Lu. It's almost as if you two are of the same mind."

"That's not funny," I growled.

"Sorry, but I can't play matchmaker today," Sybak retorted. "I'm entirely too busy."

With that, he put the jeep into reverse and drove back from the ledge but as he changed gear and drove off, I managed to leap onto the side of the vehicle and started punching Sybak in the face. Before I knew it, he steered the jeep right against the wall, knocking me off.

"Dammit!" I yelled as hitting the ground.

"Ta-ta for now!" Sybak called out as he drove away.

Quickly, I got to my feet, took out my sniper rifle and ran up a wall so I could get a good vantage point. Sybak is my only lead. Losing him would mean losing any chance of finding his boss. There was no way I was gonna let that as the jeep drove out from the temple, I raised the sniper rifle, carefully took aim, and fired, sending the tracking device zooming through the air before it hit the back of the jeep. I activated the scanner on my wrist smiling at the flashing red light that appeared on the screen. Sybak didn't know it, but he was gonna lead me right to him.