Normal POV

Brick was searching in the room high and low...as he and Xaldin were getting everything ready for their escape...Sam was sleeping as Xaldin picks her up...

"Where the hell is that Griffin?"

Utonium looked at the window, "I think we have a problem." Utonium pointed at the melting hole in the window.

"Please don't tell me." Brick slapped his forehead, "We've gotta find it."

"No wait, just get ready, knowing that demonic Griffin it found Buttercup. We should-" Xaldin had every intention of going over to the Mansion but Utonium stopped him.

"No, the guards would recognize you, plus who knows it might be going well...you said that Griffin is smart. Plus, rushing in there now could be disatrous. What I'm really worried about is the Phoenix Bird City's Crystal, from what I heard the crystal disappeared on its own about a day ago."

"What?" Both of them shouted at the same time.

Buttercup's POV

I went down the stairs, I never felt so cold, I closed my eyes and stomped lightly on the ground. From that stomp it just sent an image to me...It was part of the OverDrive abilities, that extra sense to the ground. There was one figure...I slowly walked through the wine holders, slowly...that coldness just seemed to intensify as I could barely breathe...there's only one person, so why was I so scared...I never felt this kind of terror.

There was a dark figure standing there...I grabbed a hold of my necklace, it was shaking, lifting up in the air towards this figure. In front of it was this man...he had long white spiky hair, kinda like Beast, with his silver hair, he had an light orange shirt, but there was blood on it, not to mention he had blood coming out of his mouth. He was wearing black pants...he had two chains attached to a wall, holding him up, he was on his knees...

"Amazing, you still don't know a thing huh? And to think I was going to spare you." The voice said, in angry...but I knew that voice anywhere...it was him...It was Vulcan. I could barely breathe...this was bad...if he finds out...I covered my mouth...this can't be my sonar said that there was only one person...The man who was chained, his eyes just glance over my direction...this glowed yellow and the pupils...they were in the shape of diamonds. He quickly looked away back at the Dark Figure who just pulled out this silver necklace with a Heart as the charm.

He just seemed to smile, "Vulcan, you can hang that necklace in my face all you want, I know you're just a hologram... where are you really huh? I would love to fight you face to face. Using another one of your Puppet sticks again." He glanced over at me and quickly glances back at Vulcan. That's when I heard glass shattering...the figure turned around in my direction and started walking towards my direction.

If he found out I'm here...I'm done. Wait...a stick...a puppet stick, that's why I couldn't sense him, it's not real, "I crawled further down to the left, just as he was pushing my right. There was more glass shattering and I heard that purr.

Fang! There was no way in hell that Vulcan bastard was going to get him...The Stick...this stick...This was bad...I couldn't sense Vulcan, he could appear anywhere...I ran towards the guy who was chained up.

"What's this Puppet stick?" I whispered at him, hurriedly but he just looked at me, "Jupiter's light, damn it...where's this stick?" There was another shattering.

"Puppet stick has a ring on the top and its like a cross, destroy...it." He said in almost a huff.

"I'll get you out of here," I was about to break these chains but...

"No, you must destroy the stick, first...if he..." He just passed out, his head dropped down and his body just went limp. There was another glass shattering.

"Well, what do we have here?" Vulcan said as he was walking back, I ran back towards the dark wine shelf's shadow, hoping that he didn't see me, he just passed me.

It was over, he had Fang...he would probably know I wasn't far behind. That's when I felt a rough lick on my shoulder that made me jump. A wine bottle shattered and I was sure that he would come but he didn't even turn around.

"Honestly, The General must do something about this pest control."

I sighed in relief, Fang was right next to me, holding a weird stick, he placed it down in front of me, wagging his tail. I held him onton my lap...I looked at the stick...with a ring shaped circle on the top. This had to be it...I tried to break it, but it started to radiate this dark purple energy...I suddenly felt that chill as if those eyes were coming back on me. He was coming this way...I crawled to a dark corner.

"Is someone there?" I heard his voice, "Come out, come out."

I was trying to break it but for some reason...it wouldn't break...I was trying to break it...but nothing...my heart was racing and I tried so hard to keep myself calm. Fang started hissing, he waqs spitting out lava...that was melting the stick. I gasped.

"That's it...c'mon Fang one more lava ball." I whispered, just as I was getting colder.

Fang spits a small lava ball, it was melting the stick slowly.

"I know you're here." He was saying.

It wasn't melting fast enough...I didn't look up and I pulled Fang into my lap and put my knees to my face, hiding them both as I felt him getting closer and closer. Just as I felt him over me but suddenly that feeling, that coldness just vanished.

"Are you going to get up anytime soon." I heard a voice, it was the man again, his mouth was smoking, the wooden stick thing finally melted all the way. The man was grabbing the torch and eating the flames...yeah...he was actually eating the flames, "That's better." His wounds just started healing themselves and he actually was glowing yellow for a minute. The wrist bands from the chains just melted right off of him, but his shirt burned off, "Damn, there goes another shirt...oh well...Don't you think I look better this way?" He started showing his muscules at me. A sweat drop appeared, that's when I noticed that there was a man lying on the ground, dazed. He was wearing a dark red buttoned up shirt.

"We don't have time for this. Where's that damn secret exit?" I asked. I took a deep breath, as he rubbed his shoulders starting right next to me as I noticed that he was that dark red shirt but it was unbutton revealing his chest which had a tattoo of a dragon's wing on his chest, "Did you just take that man's shirt?"

"He owned me a shirt. But first, who sent ya? There's only one other person who knows about that hole." He was wearing black pants and black timberlands, now that I could see him up close.

"You mean Laxus. If you don't believe me-"

He looked at me square in the eyes, they glowed yellow and he smiled, revealing that he was fangs, "I'm a good judge of character...but we'll see." He moved the a shelf and revealed the hole. Fang jumped into my arms.

Later on just as we finally made it back to the wagon, Laxus was ready, he jumps from the front and runs over to Brick and Blossom sighs in relief.

"I'm glad you guys are ok." She said, "Oh man, Bree-"

"Bree...baby-"Blitz had his hands up to hug the raging Fey, who storms up and smacks the living shit out of him, but he just turned his head, "Well...that almost hit."

Brianna or Dusk didn't say the word, she just walked away...

"Bree?" Blitz just pouted.

"You two have plenty of time for that, right now, we have to get going, the Orcs are coming back. It comes they have a bigger army."