-10-

Milla wakes up, she looks around as she sits up and gets off the contemporary full sized bed, all she can see is the beige concrete walls and the minimal amount of furniture in the room, the chamber was lit up by a strange green light. In her usual sleeping attire, she get's up from the bed and walks across the main hall towards the kitchen, there she began to make herself breakfast. Kai's food supply was fairly minimal, which didn't surprise the hound at all, her husky companion never had the healthiest lifestyle and Kai would usually deny this, which would always annoy her. Grabbing eggs, turkey bacon and bread, she quickly cook the eggs and bacon, serving herself a simple sandwich for breakfast.

"Quite the cook you are."

Milla hears Chan's voice from the kitchen entrance, wearing only his close-fit t-shirt and a pair of shorts, reaching up to his knees, "Thank you. I already knew how to mix material and ingredients together before meeting Lilac and Carol, but Lilac helped me improve, a lot actually." she explains.

"Heh, you and your friends never cease to amaze me. By that I mean all of your friends, like, they're just so interesting… despite the fact that some of them tried to kill me."

The hound simply makes a soft laugh in response, still worried for her captive friend.

"I see we're waking up early today." Kai infers, already dressed, "Well, when you two are done, meet me at the cave entrance. Also don't forget to bring some supplies, I've already done my part." The husky abruptly leaves the laboratory.

"He's not wasting time, ain't he? He has a point though." Chan observes

"You're right, let's go." Milla agrees.

Both hound and fox gets dressed and prepare themselves for the mission ahead. After preparations were made, they both went up the elevator and meets Kai at the surface, who impatiently waited for them, leaning against an iron support beam with a couple of tools and supplies with him.

"What are those for?"

"Well, we've gotten pretty far from the Red Scarves' Base, so we need some form of transportation." Kai explains.

"You know where we can get vehicles?" Chan asks.

"Of course, just when we get there please stay quite."

Kai begins to depart the cavern with the others following behind, wondering what the husky meant. After about a half hour of walking through the bamboo forest, the party noticed a lack of Red Scarves. The youths can only cautiously look around to see if there's any danger around, however the creek remains silent, the sun had began rising and the orange glow gave a calm ambience. Milla wondered what time it really was, it was about 6:13 when she woke up, yet sunrise was still upon them.

"This is the longest sunrise I've seen, how long ago did we woke up?" Milla asks out of dry curiosity.

"I think about forty-five minutes ago or so." Kai answers in a soft voice, likely the softest the basset hound was likely going to hear from the stoic husky.

"I believe at this time of year, daytime start at around six-thirty in the morning?" Chan informs, "The autumn equinox wasn't very long ago."

"True, I suppose we chose a perfect time to do this."

The youths approaches what appears to have been a house at the side of a massive lake, Milla looks around and recognizes the area, Oh…

It's this lake… Why are we here? Who's house is this?

"Hey Chan, remember that neighbor I was talking about when we first entered the Red Scarves' HQ?" Kai mocks in a soft voice.

"Yes, is this her house?"

"Pretty much, we need some quick transport to the HQ, so we're going to borrow their motortrikes."

"What?! What kind of neighbor are you?! You don't just steal their stuff like that!" Milla protests.

"Are you seriously being moral now?!" Kai counters maintaining his previously soft tone, as he tries to calm the opposing hound, "How would you even know how neighbors should treat each other?"

"I mean… like…"

"I figured, unless you're protesting because you don't know how to ride a motortrike."

"Of course not, well… I never rode one…"

"Thankfully, there's three wheels so you won't fall."

"Very funny. You said Their?"

"Yeah, Maria Shanmao, Danny Brock and Xander Lykos lives here."

"Hmmm, though I still didn't appreciate that joke you made." Chan announces in a calm tone.

"It wouldn't matter, Maria kinda swings for the other gender, of course those are the rumors I've heard and I'm pretty sure only her friends would truly know if it's true or not. Also given Hanna's behavior about the topic, I can easily tell that she actually does. This isn't the time to be discussing political correctness or morals, though."

The youths find three motortrikes in a separate garage, the door was locked, to be expected. Kai grabs some tools and began picking the lock.

"I thought we were trying to be inconspicuous… Aren't they going to notice that someone broke into their garage?" Chan questions.

"I'll put everything the way it was, also just for fun, I'm going to give them a nice surprise." Kai explains.

"This plan is just bad… we could be already at the Red Scarves Hideout!" Milla argues.

"Look, can both of you just shut up!"

Kai successfully opens the way into the garage, then disabling any security throughout the structure. After the garage was safe to enter, each youth mounts on a motortrike.

As Milla views the foreign vehicle she gives off a quizzed look, she obviously didn't know how to drive, unlike Kai and Chan who sat comfortably on the trikes. The hound didn't say anything, she felt a mixed feeling of reluctance and anxiety, Come on, this is for Norah. Like, you've seen Carol drive her motorcycle all the time, you've even been on it and seen how she drove.

How different can this be, it should be easier right? More wheels equals easier? Right, right? Right.

Milla starts the engine, she begins to breathe in an attempt to remain calm with her heart racing, This isn't too bad, so it's my first time driving, what's the worse that could happen…

I could crash and blow up in a ball of fire, or fall into the river and either get crushed or drown…

… oh god…

"Hey! Hey! Hey! Milla not here! Let's carefully move these trikes away from where they can hear us, thankfully i also hacked into the garage door, I'm surprise they actually got this old building functional again." Kai quickly explains, however it was too late. Milla had her hands gripped tight to the handles, starts the vehicle and accidentally drives off. Both boys was sure to check if the neighboring scarves remained asleep after Milla's mistake, thankfully they did. The husky sighs in response, "Forget moving these things, let's just drive out of here, I'll close the garage door on the way out."

Kai and Chan quickly drives after Milla who was last seen driving through the bamboo forest with little control over her vehicle, "You think she's alright?" Chan asks in a worried tone.

"Perhaps having Milla ride one of these things was a very bad idea, I should've known this was her first time driving."

The two males continue to drive down the path Milla left behind, thankfully it was leading towards the Red Scarves' Hideout, eventually they could hear the sound of a running engine. Kai and Chan is caught by surprise when they see Milla boosting past them, having a time of her life.

"wooooohoooo!"

"What the hell?!" The husky and fox simultaneously spat, quickly halting along with the basset hound, whose hair was messier than usual.

"I can understand why Carol enjoys this now!" Milla acknowledges, "Though we should get going, we have to save Norah!" her tone became serious suddenly however remained enthusiastic.

Kai and Chan remains speechless, Milla tilts her her in confusion as a response to her allies' expressions. "You know a moment ago you were melancholy and angry, now you're suddenly expressive?!" Kai argues.

"You think I'm not angry?! Of course I'm still angry, I wouldn't be doing this if it wasn't to save Norah!"

Kai remains silent, Chan intervenes and changes the subject, "I see you've gotten the hang of that trike." he observes.

"mhm, It's actually not that hard, I should get one… not sure what I'll do with it, maybe just leave it with Carol's motorcycle, wherever she leaves it…"

"Perhaps, I could help you with that when all of this is over." Chan suggests.

"That'll be great!"

"Excellent!" Chan assures, Kai gags in response. The fox then began to ponder to himself, Something is wrong, Milla is acting strange. There's something she's not telling us, no can just stop being angry about something like this, and that quickly too. Kai might not have the empathy to understand…

...but I can tell she's suppressing her negative emotions.

The party arrives at the parameter of the large complex which housed hundreds of Red Scarves and their imprisoned ally. After surveying the surrounding area they park the stolen motortrikes in a hidden area that was outside the Red Scarves' line of sight and to which they can safely retreat.

"In case things go out of control, we know where to go." Kai states, with his other allies nodding in agreement, "To be quick, we should split into two groups, one person can rescue Norah, while the other two retrieves her equipment."

"I'll rescue Norah." Milla suggests, "I'll be able to find her faster!"

"I agree, you've known her longer, I'm sure you've recognized her scent and energy signature by now."

"I suppose we'll retrieve her stuff then, also… I must ask…" Chan starts in response.

"Yes."

"Don't you find it strange that they would keep Norah, obviously they must be expecting us…"

"...however something is wrong…" Kai finishes, but stops for a moment. I've considered all the possibilities, I know that girl have to be some kind of importance… She was born from an aristocratic family… She was born and raised in Shuigang… She's capable of energy…

… energy manipulation…

… She's not Móshù shī…

… She's from the origin kingdoms…

...Impossible?! I refuse to believe that crap!

Both Milla and Chan notices Kai's suddenly annoyed expression, they remain silent, waiting for Kai to return to reality.

"What's with the faces?" Kai demands, the hound and fox didn't make a response and therefore he disregards their expressions, "Let's go, you two are good with grappling hooks, right?"

"So we're going to climb up?" Milla asks.

"No choice, they've locked down the facility and I'm sure all of the hidden entrances are also guarded."

"I understand."

"It's likely we'll be discovered anyways." Chan muses, "Even if we enter unnoticed… It's only a matter of time before someone notices us, the Red scarves are crafty fellows."

"We'll have to take that risk."

"Alright then."

The three youths throw their respective grappling hooks, that Kai had provided previously, and began climbing up the towering walls into the Red Scarves' HQ. When they reach the top they notice a patrolling scarf heading their way, the husky prepared his rifle; when the man notices the group of youths, Kai shoots him with an electric charged bullet, knocking him unconscious. Milla notices the other patrolling scarves' sudden curiosity through the sound of their movements, she immediately comes to the conclusion that they might have been caught. Chan takes notice of Milla's apprehension and makes a gesture, signalling her to look again as the sentries loses interest.

"Alright the catacombs holds all of the Red Scarves' prisoners." Kai explains as he carefully points towards the northwestern tower, which stood north of their current position, "That tower is you closest and easiest way into those cells, good luck… you'll need it."

Milla nods in response, she dashes towards the designated tower.

Kai and Chan carefully scale down the wall into the courtyards, trying to avoid being noticed, after reaching the bottom of the walls they hurry to the armory. As the group run towards the armory along the walls, hidden in their towering shadows, they both take notice of the central tower which loomed over the courtyard. The large tower was no different than the other buildings in material, but they notice the large mosaic window from a distance, Kai scowls at the building in question.

"That's Jai's tower, isn't it?" Chan analyses.

"Indeed, that bastard have a knack for watching over the other scarves like he's the only one in charge." Kai responds.

"I wonder why is that. Though what else are you thinking about?"

"Let's just move on." Kai digresses.

The two boys swiftly runs across the desolate courtyards. Most of the scarves were sleeping and only the highest ranked veterans were awake, patrolling the area; the seniors were either at their own homes or searching for new recruits; the leaders were likely awake, however more focused on their own business; any lower ranked scarves were usually still sleeping at this time. Kai and Chan dashes past the beige and red halls, neutralizing any unfortunate veterans who got in their way. However they were halted after reaching the entrance to the armory, which was located at a chamber, about twenty-four feet in diameter and was supported by several pillars. Leaning against one of those pillars was Spade who appears to have been expecting the youth's arrival.

"I'm glad you both finally got here, I knew Milla would go save that brat." Spade informs his opponents, "I'll make a deal, Kai stays and I'll let the magic fox boy go."

Kai and Chan simply remain in fighting stance.

"You want you heads in a platter then?"

The husky loosens his stance, which catches the fox next to him by surprise. "In second thought I'll take you on that offer." The husky explains.

"Why should I believe you?" Spade questions.

"I don't expect you to."

Spade simply loosens his stance in return, allowing the fox to pass by, leaving both Spade and Kai to themselves. Chan slowly walks into the armory, I hope you know what you're doing, Kai.

"I wouldn't have pegged you as someone who would give up so easily." Spade states, however it takes the cavy a few moments to realize the husky's true motives. Out of pure instinct, Spade dashes away from Kai's sudden explosive round quickly taking cover behind one of the pillars, destroying one of the pillars, the events prior occured in an instant. The husky then breaks the doorknob to the door behind him with his sniper rifle.

"Now we won't have any interruptions, don't think I haven't forgotten about last time." Kai proclaims.

"Rrrgh, you're quick with that rifle, but if you want to do this the hard way, fine then!" Spade scowls, "I'll gladly drag your dead corpse out of here myself."

Spade throws a barrage of card directly at the husky, who takes cover behind the pillar across from Spade's, however the cavy was faster and predicted Kai's movement, aiming toward the husky's new position.

Kai in a new position, aims his rifle at Spade and shoots, stoically taking each individual hit as he shoots his own barrage of projectiles. The cavy takes cover behind another pillar, as Kai does the same.

The two scarves exchange projectiles at each other as they take cover, the fight was already at a stalemate and continues the same cycle. Both scarves need to find a way to give themselves an advantage.

Kai draws one of his pistols and aims very carefully at one of the metallic plates which supported the large concrete pillars that acted as both the cavy and husky's cover.

Spade takes notice of Kai's supposed distraction and throws several card at the husky, as the cards injures his target's arm, the bullet that Kai shot ricochets from one of the metallic plates down into Spade's leg. The cavy grunts in response and attempts to dash to safety, however his escape falls short. With his left leg now bleeding out from Kai's bullet, Spade remains stationary only able to limp back to his former cover as he tries to stop the bleeding.

"Not doing so well there, huh?" Kai infers.

"I should say the same for you." Spade counters.

Kai glares at his semi-immobile arm, "It's only one arm, I can still shoot with the other. I can't say the same for your leg."

Spade snaps his tongue in response, he can't evade properly, he had only one choice now, that was to attack Kai head on. The husky had anticipated this move and switches to one of his pistols with his good arm, shooting at the desperate cavy. What Kai hadn't anticipated was with a quick movement of his good leg, Spade manages the dodge the first round bullets from the husky's pistol which put him in close enough range so that he can attack before Kai is able to reload his pistols. The husky in response grabbed his hunter's knife as a quick form of self-defense, however his efforts proves fruitless as he is easily overpowered by Spade's stronger melee attack.

"Heh, you're not so tough when you're not in a safe distance." Spade mocks as he looms over the subdued canine, all Kai could do is exchange a scolding expression at his victorious adversary, awaiting the inevitable, however…

Suddenly a figure appears in front of Spade blocking his attack with his sai.

"Get out of the way, Rob!" Spade scowls.

"I'm sorry but I can't do that" Rob responds, he then switches his focus on Kai, "You go aid Chan in the armory, I'm sure he'll need your help."

"I didn't need your help…" the husky responds with disappointment.

"This isn't the time to be prideful. Now go!"

Kai rushes to Chan's aid holding on to his immobilized arm.

"So, you're betraying the Red Scarves, huh?" Spade accuses.

"In the contrary, I think I'm helping the Red Scarves. We maybe assassins and thieves but we're not monsters and we don't execute people whenever we please!" Rob counters.

"Who do you think you are, to make that kind of decision, though I didn't expect a joker like you to be so philosophical."

"You don't know me at all, either way, I'm not here to fight you… at least initially."

"If you think you can convince me otherwise then you're dreaming." Spade snurls of blind anger.

The opposing hare simply sighs in disappointment, "I guess I have no choice then."

In the armory Chan searches for Norah's clothes and energy crystals, however all he can see are rows of swords and spears, armor and baldrics, as well as bows, throwing weapons and firearms. The large variety of weapons impressed the fox but he had to be quick, for all he knew there could easily be a couple scarves coming to gather supplies. The moment the vulpine heard footsteps he grabbed the handle of his sword in self-defense with one hand as the other is put inside a pouch where he kept his smoke bombs.

"hehehe, So we meet again," Chan hears a familiar voice which results in him softening his stance.

"It's you, are you going to tell me what Jai plans to do with Norah… she's not in the catacombs isn't she?"

"You know, you're a lot more clever than you look, sadly I can not tell you Jai's intentions. I will say that you are right about the panda girl not being in her prison cell anymore, but I won't reveal her location either."

"Why don't you meet me in person? You do realize that your attempt at eluding me and using my hearing against me isn't bearing any fruit"

Icarus simply walks in front of the opposing fox, with his naginata equipped, "Alright, but you do realize you won't escape without a fight, especially if you thought you can just infiltrate our HQ like this."

"To be fair, I'm sure the lack of scarves benefits us just the same."

"Indeed, it's imperative that most of the scarves aren't aware of Jai's intentions, that include the leaders too."

Chan draws his sword in response as Icarus is the first to attack by thrusting his spear directly at him, thankfully Chan avoids the assault with a quick step backwards. However his assailant attacks again, aiming towards his feet in an attempt to break his balance.

In contrary to his opponent's intentions, Chan performs a single backflip and then counter attacks as the hawk tries to pull out his wedged spear, in response Icarus uses the handle of his spear to block Chan's attack, then using it as leverage to kick the fox a few feet away from his person, buying him time to pull out his weapon. The vulpine summons a powerful gust of wind towards the seemingly immobile hawk, causing the collection of weapons and armor to collapse and scatter throughout the entire armory.

Perhaps that wasn't the wisest of decisions on my part, Chan admits to himself, suddenly Icarus appears among the wreckage and began thrusting his spear at the unsuspecting fox; Chan is unable to avoid the first attack, injuring the side of his stomach, however proved more successful at avoiding the other attacks despite his injury.

The constant attacking from Icarus, causes Chan to slowly step backwards as his opponent tries to pressure him into making a critical error. The vulpine returns with a thrust of his sword which the hawk ducks under; the failed attack left an opening for the hawk to strike however the counter attack was easily snuffed out when the fox followed with a powerful spin attack creating a small whirlwind which breaks Icarus' combo.

Chan takes advantage of the situation and attacks again however his opponent had expected this and responds by thrusting his spear in defense, digging into the fox's right shoulder; the hawk quickly makes use of this opportunity by using his COMBUSTION affinity in an attempt to finish off the stunned vulpine however Chan quickly pulls out the naginata and attempts to cushion most of the impact with his sword. The force of the explosion knocks both fighters from each other, Chan takes most of the damage from the combustion causing him to drop his sword.

Icarus did not hesitate to attack the vulnerable vulpine, as he jumps forward and strikes the vulpine, Chan quickly uses one of his smoke bombs to escape his vicious assault.

"What happened! Not as confident! I should've informed you that I went easy on you back at the sewers!" Icarus arrogantly mocks.

Chan falls down from the ceiling and drop kicks Icarus, forcing the hawk to let go of his own weapon as he's knocked backwards, he grabs the spear in response as Icarus breaks his fall in a crouching position.

"What do you expect to do with my naginata, please tell me." Icarus taunts.

"I don't plan to use it, I don't consider it honorable to fight with my opponent's weapon, I prefer to use my own." Chan states as he returns the spear by throwing it at the hawk, however as Icarus retrieves his weapon he feels sudden surge of electricity running through his body, knocking him out.

"I figured you'll need help." Kai explains, as he points his rifle down after electrocuting the unconscious avian. After un-equipping his rifle, Kai grabs his arm indicating severe injury.

"You got badly injured, it seems." Chan observes trying to sustain his own injuries as he retrieves his sword. Before continuing he notices a set of lockers, he breaks into one with his sword, revealing Norah's clothes and energy crystals, however the energy crystals lacked an instrument in order for the panda to use them. "Seems they were smart enough to remove them from their bracelets."

"Let's take them anyways, she might be able to still use them and we can find a way to get new bracelets for her."

Chan nods in response, "Also we should get to Milla, right now."

"So Icarus did tell you something interesting."

"It seems Norah isn't in the catacombs at all, Milla might be walking into a trap!"

Milla was walking towards the catacombs via the northwest tower, when she finally reaches the basement level, where she notices two Red Scarves who were guarding the entrance, How am I going to get past those guards?

Fortunately for her a red scarf was coming her way, this was her chance to get past the guards. As the scarf made his rounds, Milla ambushes him, pressing her sword against his neck. "I'm not going to hurt you." she assures.

"I know you won't, but that doesn't mean I will let you into the catacombs!" the scarf argues, remaining calm under the current circumstances.

"That's fine." Milla sighs, "I'm so sorry."

"Wait, wh-" The scarf responds but the second Milla puts her hand on his heads he momentarily goes blank,

You're going to pretend that you've caught me trying to sneak into the base and you went sent to take me to a cell in the catacombs, come up with any excuse you can think of. When we get past the guards you'll let me go and take a well deserved nap.

The scarf puts Milla's arms behind her back, who was making sure that the scarf was still in physical contact with her so she can maintain control, and began taking her to the catacombs. The two veterans notice the scarf and Milla, "Hey what's the big idea?" one guard demands.

"I found Milla Basset sneaking into the complex via the wall." The scarf explains as Milla keeps her head down and face hidden.

"Well then, I suppose that makes sense, if she's here though, does that mean that Kai Xin and Chan Fokkusu is close by?" the other guard asks.

Don't give them any hints.

"Probably, but I can't say for sure."

"You can pass then." The first guard assures, "We'll just have to inform the leaders about their arrival."

When both the scarf and Milla enters the catacombs, the scarf who escorted the basset hound safely, went into a deep sleep. Milla found herself exhausted from controlling the scarf, I hate using that ability, not only does it uses up most of my energy but I just hate being able to control people like that even on those machines because they're still living things inside of them.

Milla began to follow Norah's scent throughout the catacombs until she finally locates the cell she was kept in, however to the basset hound's dismay there was no one, she felt a mixture of anger and terror in response, "Where are you Norah! Norah! NORAH!" she calls as she frantically dashes across the long hallways until she found a large chamber with more cells, or at least re-purposed rooms.

Milla notices a familiar female fox in front of her, "Hanna!" she calls, however the face she received from the vulpine was opposition, the hound immediately stops and goes into a defensive position.

"Looking for your panda friend?" Hanna asks in a mocking tone.

Milla took offense, "If you know where she is, TELL ME NOW!" she demands.

"Oh, it seems you're catching a bit of an attitude dear, well sorry to say, but I don't know where that aristocratic brat is."

Milla already knew what this meant, so she already drew her sword and prepares a shield on the opposite arm, "If you don't know where she is, then get out of my way! I don't want to fight you!"

"Quite the hypocrisy! Besides it doesn't matter! I'm not letting you escape!" Hanna scowls as she springs into action retracting her claw, pouncing directly at the defending hound.

Milla responds by lifting her energy shield in front herself, however the opposing fox changes her attack strategy as she jumps over the defending hound and follows by quickly kicking the hound at the face, Milla is unable to react to Hanna's swifter attacks. Already down on the floor, injured with her head aching from severe pain, Milla slowly gets up as her opponent quickly attempts to subdue her by pouncing straight at her as though she was her prey, however as Hanna got close enough to Milla, with a kick of both of her feet she fired a powerful psychic blast which pushes the fox several feet away from the hound. Hanna breaks her fall and lands on all fours with her front claws grinding across the beige concrete. Milla, now running on all fours, went on the offensive as she began the lunge directly at Hanna and strike her with her katana, however Hanna simply move to the side and avoids the attacks, as the fox uses one of her nunchakus to grab on the blade of the sword, disarming the hound.

Milla wasn't defeated yet as she began to fire a barrage of powerful psychic blasts which Hanna avoids as she runs across the room and then charging directly at the hound, who, even continues to blindly fire at the fox, who simply sidesteps out of the way of each attack.

When Hanna gets close enough to her opponent she grabs on to one of Milla's arms so she can't attack and then use one of her nunchakus as makeshift handcuffs to subdue the young hound.

"Just give up already." Hanna advises, "You can't beat me!"

"I don't care! I just want to save my friend!" Milla proclaims, as she exerts strong psychic energy which creates strong heat and causes Hanna to drop her weapon, out of pure reflex Milla punches the opposing fox as hard as she can which was significantly strong due to the psychic energy emanating from her hands.

Milla now had the upper hand, however the hound refused to attack the vulpine, instead she simply gave a disappointed expression.

"You're going… to regret… that!" Hanna coughs behind her snarling, "I will never forgive YOU OR YOUR FRIENDS FOR WHAT YOU DID TO LEXI!" she then screeches.

"We… we're not responsible-" Milla tries to explain, however her explanation was caught on deaf ears when Hanna interrupts her.

"SHUT UP! LIKE I'LL BELIEVE ANYTHING YOU SAY!" The fox yells, it was now obvious to Milla that there was nothing she could do to convince Hanna otherwise, the vulpine then retracts her claws once more and lunges at Milla however a gust of wind appears which crashes the fox against the hard concrete floor, knocking her unconscious.

"Chan?! Kai?!" Milla notices.

"Well that's a new extreme for even Hanna." Kai observes, "What the hell is her damage?"

"Leave her alone! It's not her fault, it's not Spade's either! They just wanted to avenge someone they cared about, and someone took advantage of that!"

"She's right, and I actually know who's behind it all." Chan reveals, "When I first fought Icarus in the sewer tunnels, he revealed that he was the one who murdered Lexi, and Jai was the mastermind behind it all, though it seems there's more to her murder than we know."

"Wait, so Jai is behind this whole mess, he actually plotted Lexi's murder and had Icarus do the dirty work." Kai infers, "That doesn't explain why all the evidence points to me. We can infer that Icarus deliberately allowed himself to be followed so the rest of you can take the fall with me, which by the way how could you have fell for something like that anyways."

"Well, he was trying to help, also have you considered that someone could've stolen your pistols?" Milla sasses.

Kai remains silent, he had no response to what Milla had just said, Did I just got out smarted by Milla of all people, the husky facepalms in embarrassment.

"It seems I just thought of something that Kai didn't." Milla taunts.

"You guys do realize where Norah might actually be?" Chan asks.

"Yes, if Jai is the one behind all of this crap then we can safely assume that she's inside Jai's tower." Kai infers "How cliche."

"Then we should confront Jai then, let's go NOW!" Milla urges

"Agreed."

All three youths exits the chamber leaving Hanna unconscious, however they're unaware of the presence who was listening over to their conversation.

Now that they knew their destination, where they could find their lost friend, they rushed over to the large tower which overlooked the entire complex. The structure held their friend but also housed the man responsible for all of the grief the Red Scarves had went through. They ignored the scarves they saw in the courtyard they simply remained focus on that tower, passing by everyone and neutralizing anyone who stood in their way.

At the entrance of the tower they were met with four veterans who were led by Icarus, who held his naginata in opposition.

The youths remain silent as Chan summons another blast of wind but this gust was stronger than before, he was determined to save Norah as much as Milla, the wind subdues all five assailants blasting them against the tower wall. After that the youth ran up the several flights of stair where they fought scarf after scarf, no matter how much the scarves tried, they couldn't break the youth's determination and motivation, when they finally reach the entrance to Jai's chamber they thought for a moment on what they're about to face, they didn't know if Norah was alive or not, nor did they know if they can even compete with Jai, they could already assume that Jai was a leader for a reason, and as a dragon they were already aware of his capabilities.

Milla, Kai and Chan opens those large doors and prepare themselves for the fight ahead.