Even though Maria was under Ivan spell and could not move at all it was still was difficult to drag her out of the warehouse to the black van (that G.U.V.E. gave them) that was a few miles away in a small park and Ivan had to use all his focus to keep her still and not freeze her completely.

When they finally got to the van Alfred went through a box that was in the back and pull out a bottle, syringe, and duct tape.

"This stuff will cause anyone to lose control of their muscle and make them limp for about 2 to 3 hours" Alfred hold up the bottle "but she needs to have normal blood flow for it to work. So, you have to hold her down a good while I'll inject her with it."

"Why do you have something like that"

"well sometimes it's a little difficult to have full control over a person for more than a couple of minutes, but mostly it's to get them out of it so I can move them one place to another without trying to use all of my focus." Alfred ripped a strip of duct tape with his teeth and then move to Maria and put it over her mouth. "when I said now left that ice spell thing you do, but make sure you have a good grip on her."

Ivan went to the back part of the van and open the doors to sit down. He wraps his arm around Maria tight even though I was awkward with her giant wings. Then he pins his leg down above Maria so they won't move and finally making sure he's facing is far away from her head just in case she tries to head butt him. He gave Alfred a node and Alfred moved to the right side and had the syringe ready.

It was very oblivious Maria did not like what was going on, by the way, her eye following them glaring. Alfred took a deep breath "Okay here we go 1, 2, 3, now!" Ivan let go of the spell over Maria and in that instead, she started to thrash around trying to get out of Ivan grip. She was never this strong when they first meet but then again she was weak and starving to death.

It was a little hard for Alfred to stick the syringe into her without it breaking by the way she was moving, but then he saw an opening and stick it in following by a gasp from Maria. It only took a couple of minutes for the stuff to work and by then it was hard for Maria to hold up her head while her whole body went limp. Finally, she had no control of her body and went limp like a puppet with no string.

"Okay, we got that under control. Now the more important question is WHAT THE HELL IS SHE AND WHY IS SHE HERE!?" Alfred said in a load hush tone

Ivan moves Maria body on the floor of the van and making sure her wings were not crushed. She still looks at them with fear and anger in her eyes. "How does she know what we are? You lock your room and hide evidence, right?"

"YES! maybe…kind of"

Ivan can feel his anger building up knowing this would happen eventually base on how Alfred is not careful with his stuff and how he doesn't properly hide it. He'll be damn if this idiot American will get him kill.

"Well, I lock my room before we le- "

"She survives on street for two years, did it ever cross fat пиндос head that she could pick lock's!" Ivan shot the last part to Alfred in a fit of anger

"Like every homeless person pick loc-"

"It doesn't matter if one or none known how to pick, you don't leave evidence!"

"Well, why the hell was she in my room in the first place? you know how much blood is! I'm not throwing ou-" Alfred shut up when Ivan had this look like he was going to knock Alfred teeth out.

"Ok ok, I get it. It's my fault but you think we could keep her in the dark. She keeps on asking me questions about us and Jake and it seems natural that she started to snooping around to find answer that I did not give her so."

"If you knew that she would snoop why didn't you hide evidence дебилов Yobani!"

Ivan had a point and he hated to admit it. "ok I'll take the blame, but I think now we should deal with the problem that we have here right now."

Ivan was rubbing his forehead that was forming a headache. "we need spell now also destroy warehouse and you're going to do it. NOW!" A cold dark area from around Ivan that cause his eye to glow dangerously and his fangs started to show. In short, he was pissed off so Alfred left not wanted to push Ivan buttons. Ivan took Maria out of the Van and found a picnic table to lay her atop.

Maria watches Ivan careful not knowing what's going on or what's going to happen to her. He paces back a forth next to the table rubbing his head and talking in Russian; sometimes he looks at her and started to talk to her. This lasted for about an hour before Alfred came back.

"I just called G.U.V.E. and told them we took care of the mob boss and gave notice to that mage about the payment will be delivered. He told me to put this on her head and make sure the large crystal is in the center of her forehead" Alfred hold what looks like a weird crown that had these clear crystals with weird writing in them tied together "then he said to get the black crystal close to the center crown and wait for a minute for it to work."

Ivan got the crown and put it on Maria's forehead. When the crown was placed Alfred hold a jet-black crystal to the crown. Maria was scared not knowing what's happening in till she felt a sharp white flash of pain then everything went black.

Ivan check on Maria when the crown flash to notice that she was knock out. "He said that will happen and she should wake up understanding English," Alfred said while putting the black crystal which is now clear in his pocket. "let's get her in the van and go home"

Ivan about took the crown off but it disintegrated to dust when he moves Maria's head. He got in the passage seat and put Maria on his lap making sure was leaning on him to make room for her wings. Then Alfred got into the driver and started the car and peeled out of the park and down the road fast.

"What about warehouse?"

"I took care of it. Just don't look back and we have to get out of here in less than a minute"

"What are you- "Ivan was cut off with a loud explosion that was caused by the warehouse being blown up and on fire. Ivan just sighs and rub his head feeling the headache coming back.