After their tender moment of friend ship, a girl with Orange tentacles was standing a foot from them eating a Popsicle.
"Am I interrupting something" she asked, licking the Popsicle.
"No" they say together; she approaches them closer.
"I need your help." Whispering to them as a couple passes by them; the girl fits the description that Cobalt told Azule and Reice.
"Why do you need our help and why are you even asking us in the first place?" asked Sally, on guard with some suspicion towards her.
"First my name is Tangelina Citra, but you can call me Tangie." continuing onward.
"My reason for asking for your help is because I'm being chased by the Black Urchins gang, they're out to get me." –frantically speaking- "I've asked you two because you two are in my class, I sit right next to you two and I feel like I can trust you both…" she sighed as they digest the explanation, "I apologize for getting you both into this, but I really need to get away from here…" inspecting her surroundings. They both seemed skeptical at the idea of her being chased by a gang, "it's cool if you don't believe me, but I need to find a way to reach Cobalt." with determination, still keeping a look out.
"Cobalt?" echoed Violet.
"He's my best friend, my phone dropped in the ocean when I was running from the urchins and I don't have a way of reaching him." she said, Violet and Sally look at each other. Violet hands Tangie her phone to call him.
"After you call him, tell us everything that happened, we'll look out for you until he arrives." said Sally, becoming aware that someone was watching them.
"We should go, I feel like someone's watching us." Violet decided, helping the two move forward.
Azule, Reice, and Cobalt continued searching, but they just weren't having any luck. They tried looking everywhere but couldn't find the girl anywhere; Cobalt filled them in about Tangelina and why she was being chased.
"So her name is Tangelina, huh? opened Reice, walking up next to him.
"Yeah, I'm sorry that I have to involve you in this. I just can't afford to lose her, not after the hell we've had to endure, it'd put our parents deaths in vain!" Reice got wide eyed.
"I think I might have said too much"-looking down-"I'll tell you later at the dorm about our history and what's really going on, so please keep quiet about it for now and trust me" hoping to have Reice on his side; Cobalt's phone suddenly rang, when he answered it, Tangie was on the other side.
Overjoyed to hear her voice again, "Tangie..! Are you safe!? Where are you right now?" buzzing with questions. "You're with two girls? Their names are Sally and Violet? You're using Violet's phone? Where are you? Takoroka store…? Okay, just stick with them, I'll soon find you." hanging up the phone and clutching his carrying bag that he'd been carrying around in his bag; Azule and Reice were shocked hearing that the girls got involved in the mess and their interest in this mess grew even more. The three of them sprinted off in search for them, Reice texted Sally and asked them to wait there for them.
The trio hid at the Takoroka store sitting on a couch, Sally kept watch for anyone suspicious; the store was filled with many people shopping and the couch they were sitting on was towards the back of the store.
"Tangie, do you think you could tell us what's happening right now? Why are a gang of Urchins chasing you?" asked Violet; Sally kept her ears open to listen as she stayed on the lookout.
"Ok, so first, I was a loyal subordinate of Spyke, he was like a father to me, he watched over me and Cobalt when we were out on the streets, he took us in and gave us clothes and food, we were grateful to him."-pausing to look around-"But one day I saw him assaulting a little girl and boy in the back alley and that's when I had enough and called the cops on him. Cobalt and I decided to steal his massive collection of Super Sea Snails [special currency and food for urchins] and sell them; Cobalt and I afterwards fled with the money and now he's out to get us." she said keeping on the lookout. "Actually, it goes deeper than that, we'd lost both of our parents in the 2nd great turf war and we ran away from our orphanage because of how poorly they treated us and went to live on our own; We were 9 years old when we ran away from there and went to live on the streets and they weren't kind to us." Violet and Sally both stared at her in amazement.
"It's fine if you don't want to continue…" said Violet, understanding why Tangie might want to relive the pain.
"By all means I insist."-continuing on- "I came down with an illness and Cobalt made a deal with Spyke, although I could see the pain in his eyes, he'd never tell me what it was that Spyke made him do." Sally notices two suspicious guys enter the store with one guy keeping guard of the entrance. All three of the girls hid and then crawled with the help of the cashier distracting the two urchins, allowing the girls to escape; but it didn't last long as they were spotted by five more urchins that chased them into a nearby parking lot that was behind the mall. Five surrounded them, Sally charged at two of them and did a flying kick on tboth of them and a leg sweep on another; Before she could take the other two down, they already had knives to the girl's head and back up arrived, forcing Sally to surrender. A Black van pulled up and the urchins took the three girls and put them in the back of the van.
Cobalt and the other arrived at the scene after someone gave them directions of three girls running from a group of recognized the urchins and the Black van and immediately sprinted at them; he pulled out a shiny Black katana from his bag, unsheathing the beautifully crafted blade and rushed at an incredible speed towards the urchins that hadn't boarded on the van. They fired shots at him from their guns, but he dodged them at great pace and slashed them both; Tangie saw the Ferocity in his eyes, he was a completely different person when he had that sword in his hand; the van drove off recklessly, hitting a wall in the process of their escape.
Azule and Reice were amazed by how quick he was able to slash up the two urchin grunts; Cobalt's phone rang, it was Spyke, he put him on speaker.
"Oi now, you gone and done it now squiddie, I came to retrieve you and your girl here, but instead I get two extra girls…!" Cobalt looks like he is about to pop a vein after hearing Spyke on the phone.
"If you dare harm them!" in an angry tone with veins popping out of his hands now and across his head; Azule put his hand on his shoulder and gave him a look indicating him to relax. Azule took the phone to talk to Spyke.
"Uh Spyke, this is Azule. It appears that you've kidnapped my friends and, I'll politely ask that you hand them over before you regret it…" Spyke guffawed at Azule's innocent attempt.
"You're a funny bloke, tell Cobalt that I'll be expecting my Super Sea Snails, and bring them back or 300,000 cash in exchange for the girls. I will be at urchin underpass, be no later than 7 o'clock"; Spyke hung up and Azule hands Cobalt back his phone, Azule then began rubbing his eyes.
"Azule, I'm sorry you guys had to get involved. If only I had been there a moment earlier" apologized Cobalt.
"We live in the same dorm, and we now share a common enemy. We'll rescue them for sure, although as impressive as your swordsmanship is, I don't think we'll stand a chance against an entire gang of urchins; we'll definitely need some help." Looking over at Reice.
