Dirty dust everywhere, made it hard for everyone to see. But not for the silver King. He flew through the opening of his airship and disappeared whereas his guests kept fighting to see something.

Meanwhile Mikoto blasted the elevator's door away and left Kusanagi behind him who gave orders to the rest of the red clan. Munakata of course, had his own plans and commanded Awashima to call the helicopters.

Once again, Homra needed to work together with the blue clan, but what was else to do? Right now, Mikoto just thought about Totsuka and If he was alright, since the bomb hit the airship from above and scratched a wide hole up to the side. Which meant that the third floor must have been blown away but it was hard to tell because of all the smoke around them.

The redhead was now in a quandary. He couldn't see where he exactly was or where the walls are and so he didn't know how to jump to the third floor. If he could, he would just burn his way free but not in a situation like this.

He could hurt someone of his clan or make the damage of the airship even worse. Exhaling through his nose, he let the fire burning around his body so that the flames would eat the smoke and make his own flames bigger.

"Mikoto!" Kusnagai called out to him and touched him by the shoulder. Of course, the flames won't hurt him. "Scepter 4 has their helicopters ready! Everyone of us is safe! We can fly from above to search for Tatara!"

Mikoto looked into his friend's face and had to admit that he was right. He quickly ran behind him to the narrow opening on the side of the airship. On the other side was a helicopter waiting for them.

As they jumped into it, the pilot quickly flew above the airship. From this position they were able to see the real damage. The half of the airship's metal was blown away and it looked like a giant Cabrio without its roof.

They even could see Weismann who was in front of his airship and created a giant shield. Even with his powers, they wondered If he was able to recover the damage or if he was about to destroy it even more. Nonetheless, no enemy has could be sighted. How was this possible? Not the slightest sign and his friend Totsuka, was nowhere to be found.

"I'm jumping in." Mikoto said and was ready to push himself out but Kusanagi held him back. "Wait! Where do you want to land?! Let's make the ash disappear!"

He stretched his hand out and concentrated. He wanted to do it just like his King before. He only needed to gather his attack correctly, because one false step and he was able to blast the airship away. The process needed it's time. Sure that Mikoto hadn't the patience for this so he stretched his hand out and gathered the fire along with Kusanagi.

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"Why did you not blow the whole thing up?"
"It's always nice to surprise your enemy with a loud bang… kinda like a welcome threatening."

Totsuka could hear voices but it was too smoky to see who was near him. He recognized the first voice, shrill and ice cold but the other one, a joyous tone with a light chuckle, he never heard it before and couldn't make his mind upt to think about what kind of person that voice belonged to.

Homra's weakest member has been shaken awake from the attack and because of the blast, he flew across the room and lay now on the ground. He couldn't really move because his chest and his stomach hit the ground hard. He wondered if a rib was broken.

As he heard footsteps, he couldn't think anymore about what was broken or not and tried his best to crawl on the floor. Totsuka narrowed his eyes and looked everywhere to find the elevator as the smoke burned in his eyes.

He needed to cough but didn't dare to give a peep. There was one thing sure, the strain has come for him. When they met earlier, the creature said he would see him again but Totsuka never thought about an assault like this one.

Now, he even dragged the first King into all this. Because of him, more than half of the ship has been destroyed! He lay on his stomach and scanned the floor with his hands to find the wall and orientated himself on it.

He must have flown to the other corner of the room which meant that he surely must have been close to the elevator. As he crawled he could hear the footsteps getting closer and turned his head up. Finally he could see the sky through the massive hole of the ship and gritted his teeth.

Smoke and ash came from everywhere and the airship was tilted to the side slowly but steadily going down. Suddenly he could hear helicopters and thought immediately about the blue clan. Munakata sure has called his reinforcement. He hoped his King and the rest of his clan could escape.

His eyes went wide as he felt the cold air around his body and he instantly knew, they got him! With a swift he has been turned around on his back and locked into the eyes of the fox head. Totsuka swallowed hard and looked quickly to the other figure.

White spiky hair, closed eyes and a bright smile. A three-prong crown upside down, right under his left eye has been tattooed in a dark violet color and made the man even more mysterious. The man wore a white jacket and dark shirt with an emblem on his chest and Totsuka wondered if he was a King?

But which color? Surely, he couldn't represent a King just because of his appearance and yet he must have been the leader of an organization. Tatara sensed no color from this guy and confirmed his thoughts. Nonetheless, there was something else inside of him, something that wasn't from this world.

"My my what do we have here?" He watched him speak and how he leant closer to him. The man opened his eyes just enough for him to see his light blue orbs. "Is this the one you were talking about?"

The strain beside him nodded as his grimace curved into a wicked smile. The white haired man, whose presence somehow made Totsuka shiver, leant even closer to him and gripped him under his arms to help him stand on his feet.

Totsuka's legs however wobbled as if he would fall down right away. "Excuse me, we don't have time for polite introductions, so let's skip this part for later when we will have a nice cup of tea and a box of marshmallows, shall we?"

Totsuka just frowned and opened his mouth but he couldn't find the words to answer. This guy was so polite and calm but underneath that, the Homra member sensed something dark. Maybe even darker than the strain.

White smoke surrounded them until they were fully covered and in a blink Totsuka's eye sight has been switched off. The white haired man and the fox looked at each other as Totsuka fell against him.

With a smile on his face he simply threw the him over his shoulder as he looked at the fox.
"Fascinating that you beamed us right into my Jet. As expected from a creature like you."

The fox let out a short laugh. "That was nothing but I take it as a compliment. Soon you will see what I'm able to do."

The taller male put Totsuka on his dark violet couch and sat himself behind a dark brown desk. On this was a big screen which he turned on with his finger. The display showed the airship Himmelreich and all the helicopters around it.

The fox flew behind him to look over his shoulder and grinned widely. "I see. You've been here before, huh?"

The strain looked around and even if he had been here before he wondered in which way his business partner could be a leader of a mafia organization? But as evil finds himself to the core of darkness, the strain absolutely could sense the immense power within this man.

"Of course I was and I have seen the future. Well…" He titled his head to the side and observed the sleeping Totsuka. "IF everything will go as planned."

The strain just snickered in response. "That is what I call fascinating."

His business partner placed his chin on his hand and observed the scene on the display. His light blue orbs were following every detail and as he recognized the people that were inside of the helicopters, his smile grew.

"After all the meetings we had, there are still some little things that you have to explain me, ." Without looking up, he continued. "I traveled places and times a lot and I sure have collected my data and still I was wondering..."

"And that is?"

"This little guy over there…" The man pointed at Totsuka. "We could have used him much sooner, don't you think?"

"When it comes to time I thought you would know it best, ne Byakuran-sama? But let me explain it to you. Homra's weakest member has no special abilities. At least it's what the streets in Japan tell."

The strain appeared right next to Totsuka's head an with his shadow, he moved his head to face them. "I traveled the land, too. And just long enough to find people's weaknesses and dark holes. You see the Red King on your display?"

Byakuran nodded and tipped on the display to make the face appear bigger. He watched how his flames grew because of all the smoke and just by looking into his eyes he could feel the pressure that was inside this body.

"It's all about bonds and the ability to cut the red string that holds two souls together. My friend, we just made it in time to find the remote control of this King."

The Mafia boss nodded slowly as he understood what his partner was saying. "I see…you want to manipulate him with this lovely human being? Didn't you tell me that he has a secret power that you're longing after?"

Byakuran stood up from his chair and walked over to his captive. "There's nothing dangerous inside this body, so what are you talking about?" He titled his head and pouted which made him look like a child.

"This is strange, isn't it? You can have seen the future but you have no idea what kind of piece this human being is going to be in your puzzle? He has the ability to calm the wildest beast in this world without trying."

"Heh. I can see the future, indeed but sometimes some pieces are vanishing. It's troublesome I know which makes even more fun to create a suitable scenario for the gaps. And now to him. Do you want to tell me that he his able to lower potential power?"

"Exactly. Even if he is doing it unconsciously and without trying. I can give him the ability to absorb every kind of power. My job for now, is to create the button that will suck the color out from those Kings. Before you know it they will be nothing once this harmless guy will only look at them."

Their heads turned to the screen as they heard a loud bang. In an instant the Himmelreich exploded like a firework and came down. The helicopters flew in panic around it and brought themselves out of danger and since Byakuran has zoomed in, he could exactly see the horrific faces of the red clan.

"Perfect." He smiled satisfied. "I'll give them one day of mourning and then I'm going to contact them where and when they can come and pick their jewel up."

His sky blue eyes turned to the fox as he showed his purest smile. "Nevertheless, I'm going to invite them into my magnificent Venetian masked ball."

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Wuhu have you guessed? Gosh I love this Marshmallow-eater of a psycho from KHR :)
There will be some places I want to visit through this fanfiction and mostly, It'll be italia!

I hope you're still interested and I'm sorry for my absenc ...

thanks for reading :)