Disclaimer: I don't own Blood, Ariel, Kleude, Rose, Bian, Nate,Aquilla, Pooly, Mari, Baal,Pooly's grandfather, Kleude's mother and Kleude's brother they belong to Tamsoft, I own everyone else though

Warning: A bit of cursing, violence

Pairing: One sided Ariel/Blood

Note: Nate will have a lot of focus for this chapter

Story

Ariel and Kleude encountered the black wisps, striking them with their weapons, embedded with their magic.

They were stopped dead in front of a device with numbers on them. The door was locked.

"What's this?" said Kleude.

Ariel hesitated to touch one of the buttons; it made a high pitched noise.

"Ah!" she yelled, looking around to see if anything happened.

There was nothing so she pressed a few more buttons.

"Access denied" said a voice.

"Ah!" both yelled.

Kleude took over pressing random buttons.

"Access denied."

"Wonder if that thing is what makes this door open" he said, trying a different set of numbers.

Meanwhile Nate was in his bedroom thinking about what Ariel told him.

Lord Lemuria wanted someone brave and determined to find all eight of the magical crystals to prove their power and let them grant one wish while Baal wanted to overthrow him after he has all eight crystals and destroy humanity to form a new world where only creatures and other beings existed.

Nate joined Baal to sabotage anyone who found the crystals for himself and grant a wish to get his only friend, Kyoko back to life after she was killed by the people in their hometown while he was badly injured with one eye and most of his limbs destroyed.

He would have been left to death too if Baal didn't take him in and repaired his damaged body.

He was thankful for the woman, working aside with her to stop these evil human beings and revive Kyoko so they could live their lives in peace in this new world Baal plans to create.

However after Ariel protested about how meaningless it is, he began to question about Baal's goals.

There are good human beings in the world like Ariel was, not all of them were evil. The black wisps are causing a lot of senseless deaths and Baal knew that.

He began to realize that Baal was insane and she was just creating more harm.

He should help the two kidnapped teens get away and stop Baal.

He left his room to find Ariel and Kleude.

After thirty three different combinations, there was a click and the door unbolted.

"That must be the code" Kleude snapped his fingers.

As they were about the leave, Ariel felt fingers grabbing her shoulders.

She screamed attempting to hit the attacker with her mallet.

"Ow!"

She gasped, running away.

Nate was behind her, rubbing the spot where she struck her mallet with.

They were about to run away until Nate yelled at them to stop.

They turned to face the tall man.

"I know how to get away from this area" said Nate.

Kleude frowned "I don't trust this guy…"

"But we can hardly find our way in this place" said Ariel.

The blonde's frown deepened as Ariel followed the tall man.

When they caught sight of Baal, Ariel and Kleude quickly hid behind Nate.

The woman smirked at him.

"Baal we got to talk" said Nate.

"I'm busy, you know that Nate" said Baal.

"It's about the black wisps."

"What about them? They are just here to exterminate those vile humans."

"The humans are not all evil Baal."

Baal stared at the tall man "Excuse me? Have you gone nuts Nate? Don't you remember what they did to your friend and you?"

"But there are human beings like the girl we captured that don't actually want to kill everything they see for glory!"

"I knew we should have gotten rid of those two… She's lying, all humans are evil!"

As the two went on, Ariel and Kleude snuck past Baal, running away as soon as soon as they lost sight of her.

"And I hope that stupid woman didn't brainwash you Nate" said Baal, walking off to the direction Kleude and Ariel escaped from.

Nate silently hoped that they managed to hide themselves in a place Baal wouldn't find them.

After half an hour without any noise he headed off to find the teens.

Ariel and Kleude were inside a room looking around to find the exit.

The room however was completely empty.

Kleude began to smell Nate, turning around to see Nate trying to look for them.

The blonde threw the scalpel at Nate's direction to alert him, shifting his tail near the entrance.

Nate heard the clinking noise, looking at the tail, following it.

"There you are" said Nate "Let's try to leave this area."

They followed him as they attempted to escape the area.

The outside of the place was completely metallic with wired gates around it. They were on a strange area surrounded by sea.

"Just like that robot thing we busted up on Adina…" said Kleude.

"You two met Aquilla?" said Nate.

"Aquilla?" the teens cocked their heads.

"My personal robot I created to prevent any people from getting the crystal at Adina Island without a fight."

"I-I'm sorry about what happened to it then!" said Ariel.

"What happened to it?"

"Our friend and us destroyed it and sent it over to someone's base when left the continent."

"Can you take me back to where you left Aquilla?"

"If we can find our way back" said Kleude.

"I know where each continent are so if we manage to get past the gates and leave this area and find your friend, just give me the name of your continent.

"T-thank you Sir Nate!" Ariel gave him a hug.

The tall man felt her warm arms around his skinny frame, it's been such a long time since he felt the human touch…

They had to get past the black wisps, Ariel using the mallets to strike them to death, Kleude piercing through them and Nate striking them with his arms.

Nate entered some numbers near the door, opening it and took a boat as they left the area.

However as they left Baal saw that the cells were empty, she went into Nate's room to alert him but he was absent.

She went outside to see that a boat was missing.

"Nate…" she said. He went with that silly girl and the fruity looking boy…

To be continued