The plane landed at the Kota Singa airport and the four of them got off the plane and headed towards the exit of the building. It was hot and muggy outside with little shops on either side of a long the dirt road that headed into the jungle; it reminded Manny of an old western town.

"My partner is here somewhere with our ride to the facility. You 3 can look around the shops while I try to find him." Jade Leona stated as she headed off towards what looked like the mailstop.

Frida and Manny went into what looked like a little antique/gift shop, Marcus followed Jade. The little shop was filled with many hand painted statues and pottery, and many wooden animal mask's.

"I promised my sisters I would get them a souvenir, see anything they might like?" Frida asked him as she looked at a strange statue.

"I don't really know them that well..." Manny replied as he fixed his attention on an old looking wooden tiger mask.

"Should I get this?" Manny chuckled holding the mask up.

"Definitely, it would be a sin if you didn't! It's far too perfect!" Frida laughed.

Frida noticed a black wooden box, she didn't know why, but she felt extremely draw to it. She walked closer to the shelf it was seated on; it was covered in strange red markings, it almost seemed like it was calling to her.

"Frida?" Manny lightly shook her shoulder, snapping her out of the trance.

"Uh, what?"

"Are you alright? You kind of zoned out there…" Manny tilted his head in worry.

"Yeah, I just decided what I'm going to get…." She smiled.

Outside Jade and Marcus just left the mail shop.

"So…would you be interested in dating anyone by any chance?" Marcus had been trying to flirt, but she seemed not to notice.

"Not really, no."

"Oh…ok then…" Marcus frowned, but remembered something and smiled again.

"So…how many girls our age are at the reserve?" He asked, pretending to be nonchalant

Jade was about to answer, but the sound of yelling interrupted her. A man was thrown out of an alleyway, a short teen jumped out of the alleyway after him, landing on the ground in a cat like manor. The teen stood up, he/she had short and fluffy blond hair, a padded yellow and black catsuit with a white belly. His or her eyes were brown, and he/she had a tail like cheetah. The man scrambled to get up, but the kid swung kicked him back down.

"Eric?!" Jade shouted at the kid.

The kid turned his attention to Leona, his expression quickly turned into a very happy grin. The man saw this and used the opportunity to kick the blond haired kid in the cheek, sending him stumbling backwards into a group of barrels. Marcus was about to help the kid but Jade beat him to it; she swipe kicked him and he landed face first into the dirt, she held him down with her boot and turned her attention to Eric;

"What did he do, Eric?" Leo asked.

"He has an ivory necklace; it's in his left jacket pocket!" Eric stated.

"Get me some rope; I doubt he will show me the ivory willingly…" She told the kid.

"Already on it!" Marcus threw her a round of rope.

Leona tied up the man's hands and then flipped him on his back; she searched his left pocket and pulled out a pendent that was clearly the tip of a tusk. It had a strange mark burned into the side of it.

"You are a poacher, here to spy on us I take it?" she raised a brow and spoke in a tone that was both calm and intimidating.

By this time Manny and Frida heard the commotion and came outside.

"What the hell is going on out here?" Manny tilted his head.

"This blond kid over here found a spy and now he's being arrested." The black haired boy explained nonchalantly, crossing his arms in a board manor.

"Of course you have all the fun." Frida pouted.

"Well…you and I could have a little fu…." Marcus was interrupted by her flicking him in the forhead.

"OW!"

"That's what you get for being a perv!"

"Oh how could I not make that joke, it was far too easy, and you walked right into it!" he laughed.

A few people had come out of a building and were taking the man away, probably to the local police station. Jade walked over to our 3 hero's with Eric following close behind.

"This is my partner, Eric." She introduced him, and he waved shyly.

"Wait, he's the one driving us to the reserve, he's like 12!" Marcus raised a brow in concern.

"Actually I'm 15, and Jade will be the one driving." Eric corrected lightly.

"Oh…" Marcus didn't mean to be rude, but the kid was really short for 15.

"I take it that you are El Tigre?" the blond kid asked as he pointed at Manny's belt.

"Yup!" Manny smiled proudly.

"Well it's nice to meet you, and what about you two?" Eric changed his attention to Marcus and then Frida.

"Well my names Frida, I don't have any powers but I got a mean left hook!" She smiled proudly.

"And I'm Marcus, I have pyrokinesis and a sword." He smiled.

"Well nice to meet you two!" Eric shook their hands and smiled happily.

"Anyways, we should get going, the jeep is right over there!" He pointed over at a dark green jeep parked next to a market building.

Their luggage was in the back of the mail truck that was going to the facility as well. Eric tossed the keys over to Jade as they headed to the car, Manny jumped in shotgun and the other 3 sat in the back.

"So Eric, where do come from?" Frida asked.

"Maine, but my family comes from Germany, were Jewish." Eric stated and Jade drove out of town and headed down a jungle road.

"Oh, do you have any sibli…" Frida was interrupted by Marcus;

"Frida, where did you get that box?"

"Err, that little gift shop…why?" Frida leaned away from in confusion and worry.

"It's got one funky magic aura around it, that's why…"

"Ah COME ON! Can't I have ONE cool item that doesn't have a demon or some freaky thing attached to it?" Frida yelled in a slightly humorous tone.

"It's not a demon…well, not likely not…It's got a lot of strange intertwining magic. There are so many tightly mixed I can't identify them…" Marcus trailed off as she handed him the box.

"Oh, well that's just lovely, I bought a demonic hell chest!" Frida groaned.

"I'll try and figure it out when we get to the facility and have some free time." Marcus continued.

Manny just seemed to be enjoying looking at the jungle around him, like he felt a connection with it.

"It's a really beautiful jungle, isn't it?" Eric pointed out

Light shown down on the path below, a few brightly colored birds could be seen flying overhead.

"Yeah…" Manny smiled softly, clearly relaxed.

The dirt road opened up to what looked like a classic zoo. The "zoo" had watch towers at each corner, likely for use at night. They could hear the loud calls of many animals. The gate was tall and intimidating. Jade smiled before speaking;

"Welcome to the Kota Singa sanctuary!"