Dan had a pretty extensive list. Danny knew his stuff. We spent the rest of the day gathering the gear and trying to psych Dan up.

"You ready for this?" I asked Dan who was wearing all black. It was dark enough outside for him to go.

"Well, as ready as I'll ever be." He said.

"Good luck" Emily said to him.

"Thanks." He said scaling the building and disappearing from our view. We didn't want to get close incase we got him in trouble but we all wanted to see to badly. Suddenly, the place's alarm sounded. We all jumped to the building weapons drawn. Dan and Hella were standing there.

"Dood, what happened?"I asked.

"Someone stole the seal before me." Dan said.

"What? When?" We all shouted.

"Daniel here was only a minute late." Hella said.

"Did you see who it was?" Gunny asked. Dan looked crestfallen.

"I saw the back of the person. She was pretty short." Dan said.

"Well, that's not...wait, she? How do you she's a girl?" Yuki asked.

Dan got the perverted cat grin on his face.

"It's easy to tell the difference if you look in the right place." Dan said.

"YOU CHECKED OUT HER BOOBS BUT NOT HER FACE? HOW FREAKING STUPID ARE YOU?" Emily, Amy, Isa and Yuki all yelled.

"Come on, we have a thief to catch. That's not Dan for once." I said.

We all split up to try and figure out where the thief went and who she was. We all turned up jack.

"I have to admit, this girl is really good at covering her tracks." Dan said grinning.

"Do you want to find her or ask her out?" I asked.

Dan stopped to think. "You don't get to answer that question." Emily snapped.

"This girl has to have left some evidence. Gunny, do you have a clue?" Yuki asked.

"We could try to home in on the energy waves emitted by the seal." Gunny suggested.

"How would we do that?" Dan asked. Then he noticed we were all looking at the necklace.

"Well, let's give it a shot." I said slowly pumping my mana into the necklace. It began to glow and we all could feel the ancient powers this thing has.

"Well, I think we all know where to go now." Yuki said looking towards the direction the seal's energy waves were coming from.

We followed the energy waves to a cave.

"This is it." Emily said.

"Guys, I'm not so sure about the scary cave." Heart said nervously.

"It's daytime, Heart. Besides, I'm pretty sure this thief won't make a pitch black cave their hideout. Unless, they're stupid… or Dan." Emily said simply.

We entered the cave which, as Emily guessed, was well lit and was pretty nice. For a cave at least. It full to the brim of different things. Some looked valuable and others just looked like junk.

"Is thisreally it? It looks like some hermit lives here." Yuki asked.

Dan reached out to touch something and a rope net wrapped around him and lifted him up.

"Yeah, this is it." I said.

"What the hell are you all doing in my hideout?" We heard someone say.

It was an irritated looking short and short haired blonde thief girl with green almost cat like eyes. Then she noticed Dan hanging upside down.

"You were trying to steal my stuff weren't you? I put a magic charm on the whole stash so anybody with the intention to take it can't." The girl said proudly.

"That's awesome. Uh, can somebody let me down?" Dan asked.

Yuki drew her sword and with an almost invisible swing sliced him down. Dan landed with a thud next to us. He dusted himself off.

"Listen girlie, you took something that we need. We want it back." Dan said.

"Join the club." She said with a smirk.

"You took the seal from the Thief Academy." I said.

"You want the seal? No can do." She said.

"What? Why?" Emily asked.

"I've been waiting to steal this for years. It's been my ultimate prize. When you steal it, you're recognized as a Master Thief." She said.

"Well, you've a Master Thief. You see we need it for a very important quest of ours." I said.

"You're the people who've been beating the Demon Lords huh? You're not very impressive looking." She said pointing at my necklace.

"Yes, so hand it over." Isa hissed.

"Or we'll show you the strength that beat the Demon Lords." Yuki said going into a fighting stance.

The girl looked amused. "I don't want to fight. I'm sure you could beat me but you won't." The girl said grinning.

"What makes you so sure?" I asked.

"You all didn't kill any of the Demon Lords, not even that prick Arcus. If you won't even kill him, then you're probably not going to attack an unarmed girl." She said.

Well, crap. She really does deserve becoming a Master Thief.

"Well, what did you have in mind then?" Gunny asked.

"There are a few assholes who are trying to muscle in on my territory. I want you to take care of them." She said.

"Well, that's easy. Come on, mindless goon killing, away!" Dan said walking back.

"No," I said simply.

"Nick, all we have to do is beat these guys, then we get the seal." Yuki said.

"I'm not fighting anyone till I know for sure they fit my definition asshole and not her definition of asshole." I said.

"Stupid heroic leader." Dan mumbled.

"We never get to do nothing!" Isa complained. The girl grinned.

"All right, then follow me." She said.

"Would you mind telling us your name? It's getting kinda annoying referring to you as "The girl" all day." I said.

"It's Amelia but you can call me Millie." She said.

"All right then Millie, show us the way." I said.

We followed Millie down the road that leads to Alwen. She mentioned for all of us to hide in the bushes.

"You want proof that they are assholes. Look." She said pointing to a group of intimidating looking people.

There was a big guy, a tall woman, a short pervert looking fellow and a dude with an eye patch.

"The dood with the eye patch is the leader." I said.

"How did you know?" Millie asked.

"Duh, he's wearing an eye patch. Kinda obvious." Amy said. Pirate dude and his gang of not so merry looking men stopped a couple that was walking by.

"Your gold or your lives." He hissed.

The pair instantly handed over all their money and tried to run off. The big guy kicked the man down.

"We'll also be taking the little lass here." The creepy short guy said holding the girl back.

The boy tried to fight back but was kicked in the chest by the eye patch dood. I couldn't stand this shit anymore. I was pissed off.

"HEY! Leave them alone, you pirate of the Caribbean wannabe!" I shouted. Millie looked at my team.

"Aren't you guys gonna help him?" She asked.

"Naw, Nicky's got this." Yuki said yawning.

"It's more fun to watch anyways." Emily said shrugging.

"Plus, we can take bets on how fast he kicks their asses." Dan said.

"I say a minute." Isa said.

"I say thirty seconds." Amy said.

"He will beat them in 6 sentences and 107 words." Gunny said. Everyone looked at him blankly.

"Gunny you are so on." Dan said shaking his hand.

The large guy came at me but I sidestepped his punch and hit him with the hilt of my axe. He slumped over. The girl casted a star spell at me but I knocked it away with my axe. The short guy came at me with his knife but I leaped into the air.

"Bolder Crush!" I said smashing my axe into the ground the shockwave knocking the pair into the trees. The eye patch guy came at me with his sword but I blocked it with my axe and then with a twist of my wrist sent his blade flying and knocked him to the ground.

"If I ever hear you're robbing the people in this town again, next time, I'll make sure you lose your balls." I said coldly.

The man looked confused but his sword came down right between his legs missing his man jewels by an inch. The man looked terrified and then went off running.

"Nice dood, but that threatening to cut off his balls part. That was freaking scary man." Dan said.

"He's right. You don't go below the belt. It's just not right." Gunny said.

"Which is why he won't be bothering anyone again." I said. The demon couple thanked me and went on their way.

"Well, that was certainly impressive. Well, a deal's a deal." Millie said handing the seal to me.

"Okay, now give me the real seal." I said looking at her.

Millie sighed and handed it to me. The blue seal glowed and once again I saw the fiery person and this time I saw that there was a large group behind it. I put the seal into the necklace.

"Three down and three to go." Isa said.

"We're halfway there." Gunny said.

Dan, Ian and Heart were about to sing "Halfway Way There." but we all glared at them. They stopped with sheepish smiles on their faces.

"By the way Dan, I believe we had a bet." Gunny said with a smirk.

"Oh yeah, you were totally off dood." Dan said. Gunny simply pointed to the start of the paragraph.

"Start there and stop when Nick knocks him to the ground." Gunny said.

Dan pulled out his reading glasses and started to read.

"Well, I'll be damned. You're right. Though I have to say, the author needs to polish up his writing skills." Dan said tucking his glasses away.

I hit him with the flat side of my axe.