Honor among Thieves part 1

"I did not tell half of what I saw for I knew I would not be believed." Marco Polo

After slowly regaining consciousness, a bloodied and battered Haggar and Ezor asked while wincing at a throbbing pain to their heads. "Uh, wha...what the hell happened?"

Ezor then stared in deep shock as she noticed that hers and Haggar's hands were covered in their own blood and she muttered softly. "Shit...that's our blood...a lot of our fucking blood."

After noticing that they had been shot to their lower abdomen, Haggar and Ezor were deeply baffled: as they spotted snowy covered mountains out the window before gasping in shock as their seat finally gave in under their weight and causing them to fall through the rear door and after grabbing onto a broken piece of pipe... they had started in great horror after realizing that they were dangling on the rear car of a train that was dangling off a cliff!

Shortly after making a rather slow climb, due to the injuries they sustained, along with the gunshot wound to their stomachs...Haggar and Ezor had slowly and painfully pulled themselves up onto the ledge of the cliff and panted heavily while losing consciousness and began thinking back to how they ended up in this situation.

Flashback

After two years had passed since the El Dorado incident, Haggar, Ezor and Katie had been sipping down a bottle of whiskey at a beachside bar in Panama. But while Ezor and Katie were drinking, Haggar was having a video call with Allura, as she couldn't come due to her boss sending her on a reporting job. "So, baby, you sure you can't just take a little break to come see me?"

"Hahaha. Believe me, love, I'd absolutely love to just drop everything and come see you, Ezor and Katie right now, but my boss would most certainly fire me if I did, and possibly my cameraman too and he really needs his job." Allura answered with a smile.

"I know. But I still miss you." Haggar said with a lovesick smile.

"I miss you too, Haggar. Don't worry. As soon as I'm done with my investigation report, I'll get on the 1st flight to Panama. Which hopefully won't be too much longer. In the meantime, you, Ezor and Katie try to have some fun and I'll bring you all some local presents when I get there."

"In that case, I'll have a very special present for you when we have some...alone time, Allura." Haggar said seductively.

Allura smiled as she blushed with anticipation, having wanted sex with Haggar for mouths now. "I can't wait, love." Before giving her girlfriend a blow kiss on camera. "I love you."

"I love you too, Allura." Haggar said before giving Allura a blow kiss and they both hung up. After ending the video call, Haggar checked her pocket and felt a small object that she'd bought some time ago, as a surprise for Allura. 'I really hope she likes it and I hope that whatever she says, we can still be together.' She thought before making her way back to Ezor and Katie.

That was when a human with brown hair and wearing a white shirt asked in a posh British accent, "Care to buy me a drink, ladies?"

Haggar asked with her eyes lighting up after recognizing the human. "Harry Flynn?"

The human, British treasure hunter, Harry Flynn stated as he and Haggar had embraced each other. "In the flesh."

Haggar asked after she and the human treasure hunter pulled away from the embrace. "What are you doing here in Panama?"

Harry stated truthfully as they sat behind a table not too far from the bar. "Looking for you blokes, as a matter of fact."

Haggar asked with a hint of sarcasm in her voice, as she and the British treasure hunter had a rather fierce rivalry between them. Which was a reason Ezor and Katie didn't trust him at all. "Should I be worried or flattered?"

Flynn answered with a soft chuckle as he explained. "Maybe a bit o' both. Listen: I've got a client whose willing to part with a huge sum of money if we acquire a certain artifact for him."

Haggar stated while back in her chair, as her interest was piqued. "You have my attention."

Flynn stated softly while placing and unfolding a piece of paper from his pants pocket, which was the tourist pamphlet of the Istanbul Palace Museum in Istanbul, Turkey. "Now...you girls are not gonna like this."

After seeing the pamphlet of the Palace Museum, Haggar stated while shaking her head. 'no', "No. No way, Flynn. You're out of your mind."

"Damn right he is." Katie said with a glare.

The British treasure hunter stated softly. "Yeah, just-just hear me out for a sec.."

Ezor stated with a serious look on her face. "Flynn, we all know that two people were killed trying to lift something from this museum."

Flynn stated, "Yeah and one made it out: you."

Katie stated while scoffing softly, as the British brunette made it sound like her best friend escaping from the Palace Museum was an accomplishment. "Yeah, barely. The only reason Haggar made it was because the two guys she was with volunteered to hold off the security guards."

Flynn stated bluntly. "I can't do this without you or your friends, Drake. You're the only one who's cracked it and you know better than anyone that it's a two person job."

Haggar stated while scoffing softly. "No, no, no...three, actually."

The British brunette replied while looking over the Altean treasure hunter's shoulder and smiled softly...as his secret weapon had just arrived and tossed him a fresh bottle of whiskey from the bar. "Right an' speak of the devil. Here she comes now."

Haggar, Ezor and Katie's eyes widened in surprise after seeing a stunning Altean/Garan woman walking up to them. "Wha..." Ezor asked at seeing the beautiful hybrid woman.

The hybrid woman stated professionally while speaking in an Indian-Australian accent. "Acxa Frazer."

Ezor stated while hesitantly shaking the Indian-Australian woman's hand. "Sullivan... Ezor Sullivan."

"Katie Holt." Katie said with a smile, as she felt she could trust this hybrid woman.

"Haggar Drake, but I think you already knew that." Haggar said with a smirk.

As soon as Acxa had pulled up a chair and sat down behind the table, Flynn stated as he shared his plan to break into the Palace Museum with her and Haggar, and her friends. "Now look, I've got it all figured: we go in through the sewer, directly underneath the museum..."

Haggar stated sarcastically while rolling her eyes. "Great, loving it so far."

The British treasure hunter continued. "After we reach the courtyard, we scale up the wall, run across the rooftops and just drop down into the exhibit hall. Bob's your uncle. And what is worth all this trouble, I hear you ask?"

Haggar stated while scoffing once again, as she, and neither Ezor or Katie never asked what it was they were supposed to steal. "I didn't, but go ahead."

As soon as the words left her lips, Flynn had simply flipped the page of the Turkish Palace Museum over to reveal what it was the three of them were hired to acquire: a mere Mongolian oil lamp, which was circled in red marker ink.

Katie asked with a deadpanned expression on her face. "That's it? A stupid oil lamp?"

Flynn stated plain and simple, while presenting a photo of said oil lamp and placing it on the table for them and Acxa to see. "Yeah."

Haggar stated while chuckling softly. "It's worthless. I don't get it."

Acxa stated while glancing at Flynn. "Well, neither do we. That's why we tracked you guys down."

After Haggar fairly guessed that Flynn's client was probably just a bored private collector wasting their time, the b brunette had shown the Altean treasure hunter a photocopied piece of paper, which caused them to gasp silently as they had identified the author of the message as Marco Polo and translated an referring to his entire fleet, which Acxa immediately identified as the famed 'Lost Fleet'. After realizing that there was a supposed lost ship with hidden treasure, Haggar, Flynn and Acxa had decided to go through with the museum heist and to screw Flynn's mysterious 'client' over by going searching for the Lost Fleet themselves and to divide the treasure between them equally.

But Katie pulled Haggar and Ezor to somewhere private where they could talk. "What is it, Katie?" Haggar asked with a raised eyebrow.

"I know that this is a good chance at getting treasure, but I still don't trust that asshole Flynn." Katie said with distaste for Flynn.

"And what about Acxa?" Ezor asked.

"Well, her I see as more of a mystery, but for some reason, I feel like out of both of them, Acxa is more of a person I could trust than he'll ever be." Katie answered honestly.

"Hate to say it, Haggar, but I think Katie's right. And this job does sound like the kind that would get us thrown in jail if we get caught." Ezor said in agreement with Katie.

Haggar began thinking about it and knew that they were right, so she'd have to have a contingency plan in case things went sideways. "Hmmm...how about this: we play Flynn's little game for now, but you stay away from the job while we go with them, Katie. It'll take suspicion off you and that way if me and Ezor do get caught, you can bail us out."

"Maybe, Haggar, but I still don't like this." Katie said with concern.

Ezor put her hand on Katie's shoulder. "Katie, I don't like this either, but if we don't do it and this leads to danger, that British bastard will just find somebody else and who knows what'll happen. It's better we do it than have someone else be put in danger."

Katie thought about it and knew Ezor was right. If Flynn was planning something shady and they didn't play his little game, he'd surely find someone more willing and even more greedy to do it. So, not wanting anyone else to be involved, she nodded. "Okay, we'll play along with that degenerate asshole for now, but only after we get the treasure. If there is any. After that, we're done with him... for good."

"Good idea, Katie." Haggar said before she rubbed her hair while Ezor hugged them.

"But if you don't hear from us in 24 hours after the heist, that means something went wrong and you get somewhere safe as quickly as possible." Ezor told her fellow sister firmly.

"Got it." Katie said with a worried look on her face.

Back in the present

After they eventually regained consciousness and weakly stumbled through the freezing snow and past the searing hot flames whilst navigating the debris of the destroyed train, killing a few mercenaries along the way, Haggar and Ezor had once again lost consciousness after an explosion knocked them out, causing Ezor to remember the night before Haggar, Flynn and Acxa had carried out their heist on the Palace Museum.

Flashback

After having arrived in Istanbul, Haggar, Ezor and Katie, now joined by Harry Flynn and Acxa, started to make plans for the heist in the Historic museum.

Ezor, feeling a bit tired after going through all the security they could expect, was in her hotel room alone, lying on the bed while taking a little nap. She was thinking in her imagination about the time they spent with Acxa, admitting to herself that she did like the Altean/Galran hybrid, as they had a few things in common, other than being both hybrids.

Suddenly, there was a knock on the door. Wondering who it could be, Ezor walked to the door. She figured it must be Haggar or Katie behind the door. But when she opened it, she was surprised that it wasn't any of her fellow sisters, but it was Acxa, leaning at the doorway with a little smile. "Hello there." Acxa said.

Ezor cleared her throat before forming a goofy smile. "Oh... hi, Acxa. What brings you here?"

Acxa gave a small shrug before asking. "Can I come in?"

"Sure." Ezor said before gesturing, allowing Acxa to enter her room and lock the door. "So... what's up?"

Acxa gave another shrug as she leaned next to the window. "Oh, nothing. It's just... well... how should I put it?" She asked while taking a cigarette out of her pocket.

But just as Acxa wanted to light her cigarette using her lighter, Ezor snatched the cigarette from Acxa's mouth and squeezed it up before throwing it away.

"Hey, what gives?" Acxa surprisingly said after Ezor tossed her smoke away.

Ezor shook her head. "Please don't smoke while I'm around. Haggar would kill me if she smelled cigarette smoke on me and if she did, she'll more than likely suspect that I took a smoke while I promised her never to use those disgusting things. Not only that, but there's no way I'm letting Katie anywhere near me if I did smell like cigarettes. She's a bright young, healthy girl, and I don't wanna get her even the slightest bit tempted to smoke these nasty things. Same with Haggar."

Understanding why she wouldn't allow her to smoke a cigarette, Acxa just shrugged again. "All right then. No smoking around you and your friends. Promise." Before she then sighed while looking out the window. "Now... what troubles me...? Well, it's just... well... we've only known each other for a few days but..."

"But what?" Ezor wondered as she stood closer to Acxa.

Acxa glanced at Ezor. "What troubles me is... is being around you, Ezor."

"Really?"

Acxa rolled her eyes. "Yes, it is you. I can't think straight and I'm constantly distracted when I look at you. It's driving me crazy! You... drive me crazy."

Seeing that Acxa had developed a crush for her, Ezor slowly moved her hands around Acxa's waist. "Well... I might feel the same for you, sexy." Ezor then snaked her hands down, slowly stroking Acxa's ass cheeks and whispered in her ear. "I had my eyes on you ever since I saw you."

Acxa blushed while giving a small moan, enjoying this touch from Ezor. She then put her arms around Ezor's neck and planted a kiss on her lips. Ezor returned the kiss, and after a minute of touching and tenderly kissing, their kiss became more passionate as Ezor's tongue snaked inside Acxa's mouth, which she received gladly and both dueled with their tongues for dominance as they began to moan. Acxa then slowly pushed Ezor on her bed and sat on her lap, continuing their love making as she touched Ezor's breasts and kept tongue kissing Ezor. But then Ezor broke the kiss, wanting to know something from her before they would take the next step.

Acxa looked at her new soon to be lover with a bit of confusion and disappointment. "What is it?"

"It's just..." Ezor was lost for words for a moment, but then asked her with a bit more seriousness. "What's the catch?"

"What do you mean?"

"About the treasure, and why you and Flynn are..."

Seeing that she wasn't easily fooled, Acxa gave a shrug while forming a small smile. "Well, when I figured Flynn was onto something big, and hearing about you and your friends' reputation, especially the El Dorado discovery, I thought you'd want to be in on the action." Acxa then took Ezor's hands and placed them back on her ass. "As for Flynn himself, our relationship is strictly professional."

"Oh..." Ezor said with a bit of relief.

But then Acxa gave a shrug. "Well... mostly."

Ezor raised an eyebrow as Acxa meant with 'mostly professional', meaning there was more than just a partnership between her and Harry Flynn.

Acxa then ensured her while she raised Ezor's shirt. "Not to worry, it was only for stress relief... and... just between you and me... I'm not so much into men. What I really desire..." She then raised Ezor's shirt and bra all the way up, revealing her breasts. "...is a gorgeous woman like you." Acxa then slowly began licking Ezor's breasts and sucked on her nipples.

Ezor moaned. "Hmmmaaaah...! Yes...! Mmmmmm... oh fuck...! Yeah...!" Wanting to return the favor, Ezor grabbed Acxa and rolled her over, making her to be on top of her lap.

Acxa gasped in surprise, but then lustfully smiled as Ezor took control.

After Ezor took off her shirt and bra, she asked. "So what's the plan, after we've found the treasure?"

Acxa giggled as she sat straight, looking into Ezor's eyes. "Just like we said. We pull the heist, we find the ships, and make off with the treasure."

"With Flynn."

"Mm-hm." Acxa said before kissing Ezor down her neck.

"And...hmmmm... then what?" Ezor asked while she moaned.

Acxa glanced back into Ezor's eyes and answered while pulling off her shirt, revealing her D-cup breasts and that she wasn't wearing a bra. "After that, we split the take fair and square, and then perhaps..." Acxa tried to say before passionately kissing Ezor.

"What?" Ezor asked while not stopping her kissing with Acxa.

Acxa lied down, with Ezor still on top of her. Both glanced into their eyes after breaking the kiss and Acxa answered. "Perhaps we could... spend some more... time together?"

Ezor formed a sweet smile. "I like the sound of that. But... what about Flynn?" She asked.

Acxa rolled her eyes. "Ugh! He can kiss his own ass for all I care." That made Ezor giggle. "Until then..." Acxa said as she held Ezor's face, moving her closer to her face. "He can't know about us."

Just as they were about to resume their love making, Ezor said. "And if Flynn does find out, he's gonna be pissed."

"Totally. But... I don't really give a shit. Like I said: after we've split the take, he can go fuck himself on a godforsaken island in the middle of the Atlantic for all I care. Then… while the group splits up for a few weeks, it'll be just you... and me, spending our share on anything we want, including a very expensive...hotel room where we can have lots and lots... of very passionate sex. And...since I'm gonna be around you guys more often after everything is done, it'll give me an opportunity to get to know you and your friends more personally, and vice versa." Acxa said with a smile, making Ezor smile back before they passionately kissed again.

Both kept kissing and touching each other, throwing away all their clothes until they were completely naked. Ezor then kissed Acxa's neck, licking and sucking on it as Acxa moaned while holding Ezor's head. "Ah. Oh yeah, right there. Oh yeah, baby." Before Ezor touched her breasts, rubbing and squeezing them while also playing with her nipples, making them hard before Ezor began to lick and suck on them. "Ah. Oh fuck, baby. Oooh. Yeah, I fucking love this." Acxa moaned as she simply leaned back onto the bed as her new lover continued to tease and pleasure her. Once the Indian-British hybrid's breasts were deeply aroused from her actions, Ezor had lowered herself down to Acxa's vagina, which was soaking wet and she had moaned in deep arousal the moment she inserted her tongue between the soaking wet and tender flesh between her former lover's legs. "Oh fuck yeah! Oh...shit! This feels...so... fucking good! Fuck me, Ezor! Eat out my pussy, baby!" And as Ezor continued to kiss Acxa's folds whilst lapping up the delicious fluids, she eventually inserted her pointer finger between the Australian-British hybrid hunter's legs, along with her middle finger and began pumping them in and out at a steady pace until Acxa couldn't hold the built up fluids any longer and climaxed. "Aaahhhh! Oh yeah! I'm gonna cum! I'm...CUMMING!"

Ezor continued moaning while tasting Acxa's sweet juices, drinking them and swallowing every drop until Acxa was dry. "Mmmm. Mmmm. Mmmmm." Before she smiled while looking into her new lover's beautiful sexy eyes with love and lust. She then climbed up and kissed her lips before Acxa flipped them over so she was on top and began giving her new lover the same pleasure she did her, licking and sucking on her neck, breasts and licking her belly button for a few minutes before getting to Ezor's pussy, licking and sucking it the same way Ezor did. "Aaahhhh! Fuck yeah! Oh shit, Acxa, baby! This feels...so damn great! Oh I... fucking love this! Oh yeah!"

Acxa was so turned on by Ezor's moaning and cussing, as well as the taste of her juices. No man could have ever given her pleasure like this or turned her on as much as Ezor had, making her mentally curse herself for not having her 1st time be with a girl or embrace her lesbian side in the 1st place. 'Acxa, you dumb bitch. Why couldn't you have just fucked girls when your hormones kicked in as a damn teenager?' Before Ezor climaxed in her mouth, making Acxa moan as she drank up her lover's sweet juices. "Mmmmm. Mmmmm. Mmmmm." And once she swallowed her juices, Acxa climbed up and tongue kissed Ezor for a few seconds before getting an idea. "Wanna try something a little different, love?"

Ezor liked that idea and smiled seductively. "Oooohh. And what do you have in mind, babe?"

Acxa kissed her before answering. "Turn over on your stomach and stick your sexy ass in the air."

After Ezor did as she was asked, Acxa had seductively licked her left index finger and inserted the digit in her new lover's asshole, which earned rather erotic moaning from her. "Oh fuck! Acxa! This is... this is...ahh... so... fucking different!"

"Oooohh... it's is, babe, but it's about to get even hotter and much more sexier." Acxa said seductively. And to fulfill that promise, she began landing hard smacks to Ezor's left ass cheek, which increased her lover's moaning further.

"OH FUCK, ACXA! YEAH! FUCK MY ASS AND SPANK IT, BABY! FUCK ME! FUCK ME! FUCK! OH YEAH, MY ASS!"

Acxa smiled and continued to pump her pointer finger before adding her middle finger and began thrusting at a much harder and faster pace whilst smacking her both her ass cheeks. "You love it, babe? You like anal sex?"

"OH YEAH, BABY! I... FUCKING LOVE IT! OH SHIT, MY...ASS IS GOING TO RIP OPEN!" Ezor moaned, not caring about being heard, only her new lover giving her a taste of heaven, until she reached her limit and climaxed. "Acxa, I'm cumming! Aaahhhh!"

After Ezor had recovered from her own climax, she had casually captured Acxa's lips in a heated kiss, which her new lover eagerly returned before they laid down on the bed and Ezor got on top of her in the 69 position. Acxa got the hint and began eating out Ezor's pussy as she did hers, with Ezor wanting to repay her new lover for the pleasure she gave her a few minutes ago before she licked her right middle and index fingers and began thrusting them into Acxa's asshole, making her moan loudly before they ate each other out for the next 15 minutes, enjoying the taste of each other's juices until they reached their next climax together.

Ezor then positioned Acxa to lay down while she was on top, making their pussies touch before she began to rub them together while standing her left leg on the bed. "Ah! Oh fuck, baby! How do you like this? Feeling my pussy rub against yours?"

"Oh yes! Oh shit, babe, I... fucking love this position! Oh yeah! Fuck me! Fuck me! Fuck me!" Acxa moaned out while holding Ezor's hips while her lover began touching and squeezing her D-cup breasts. "Ohhhh...baby, you love my D-sized tits, don't you?"

Ezor then pulled her lover up so their breasts rubbed together. "Damn right I do, babe! I...oh shit. Yeah! I... fucking love your perfect sized tits! Oh fuck yeah!" She moaned as they began rubbing each other's pussies together harder and faster for the next 20 minutes. "Oh baby, I... think I'm gonna...cum! Let's...cum together!"

"Ahh! Ohh! Yeah! Me too, Ezor! I'm gonna... fucking cum with you, baby!" Acxa moaned before they reached their final climax for the night while holding each other tightly.

After riding out their biggest orgasms of the night, they laid down and embraced while looking into each other's eyes. "So, how was your 1st time fucking a woman?"

"It...was the...best sex...my entire fucking life, babe." Acxa answered while in bliss. "I can't believe what a dumb bitch I've been to not realize that I was a lesbian a whole lot sooner. If I had, I'd have never let that asswipe Flynn put his dick in my mouth, between my tits, and especially not in my pussy. Or any other man I've slept with for that matter."

"Well, at least I popped your black cherry, baby." Ezor said seductively while rubbing Acxa's ass.

"Yeah, you did, Ezor. No way was I gonna let any man stick their dicks in my asshole." Acxa said with a smirk. "How'd you like it when I popped your black cherry?"

"I've never experienced that side of sexual intercourse before...and it was a fuckin' blast. I've got to remember to tell Haggar about it. It may just give her an idea of what to try next with Allura when they see each other in person again." Ezor answered with a smile.

"Well, when they do try anal sex, make sure to tell them who inspired you, baby." Acxa told her new lover.

"Deal."

"Good." Acxa said with a smile before looking at her pack. "So, baby, mind if I smoke now? I really need a cigarette after having such passionate, wild sex."

"Do you really need to smoke that badly?"

"Yeah. Sorry, babe, it's just that I haven't had 1 since a few hours ago and after what we just did together, I really, really need it right now."

"Or... you could just lay here with me, look into my eyes while I let you rub my ass and I'll rub your perfect breasts." Ezor suggested while began to rub her lover's breasts. "Maybe it'll help take your mind off having a cigarette for a while longer."

"Mmmmm. Oh fuck yeah." Acxa moaned while holding Ezor's ass. "Okay, baby, I'll postpone my next smoke for just a while longer. But...my mouth does need to be kept busy until then."

"Well, I have just the thing to keep your mouth busy, baby: mine." Ezor said seductively before passionately tongue kissing Ezor, making her kiss her new lover back as they exchanged saliva, finding it sweet tasting as Acxa's mind was taken off having a cigarette and only focused on Ezor kissing her.

Ezor and Acxa remained in embrace for a few hours while passionately tongue kissing and looking into each other's eyes while Ezor played with Acxa's beautiful and sexy hair until Acxa had to leave, not wanting to let Flynn get any suspicions about what she was up to, which Ezor didn't mind, as she knew that she and Acxa would have all the time in the world to embrace naked like this when they found the treasure and split the take equally. Both then shared one last passionate kiss before Acxa put her clothes back on and left.

After Acxa got back to her room, stripped completely naked and layed down on her bed before she held her hand on her heart as she smiled in joy. "Fucking hell, I think I finally found the one for me." She said before she reached for her pack, pulled out a cigarette and lit it up, taking a drag before blowing out the smoke. "Damn. I really needed that. I was this close to going through a withdrawal symptom." She said with humor before thinking about Ezor and what she told her before they had sex while looking at her cigarette. "Hmmm. Maybe I should consider quitting. I know it kills your lungs, but in my line of work, you need something to relieve stress and unfortunately, cigarettes were my closest option. But regardless, even I dislike them at times." Acxa said with disappointment at herself for taking up smoking in the 1st place.

Back in the present

After regaining consciousness from the train car explosion, Haggar and Ezor slowly helped each other up while groaning in pain and shivering from the freezing snow. The gravely wounded Altean treasure hunters continued navigating through the train wreckage before passing out again from blood loss and exhaustion...as Haggar dropped a unique Tibetan artifact from her hand and thought back to the night when she, Ezor, Acxa and Flynn had broken into the Palace Museum.

Flashback

After driving their boat to the museum, the 4 treasure hunters had climbed their up into the sewers before splitting up: with Haggar, Ezor and Flynn heading to the courtyard while Acxa went down a different route in order to deactivate the security lights to the museum.

After navigating the tunnels, while casually trading wise cracks towards each other, Haggar, Ezor and Flynn climbed up a ladder that led them into a storage room. And shortly after tracing the cable and deactivating the power box, Flynn had opened the door, which led into a separate courtyard...where Haggar swiftly and easily knocked out a museum security guard. As soon as the guard was dealt with, the 3 treasure hunters then worked their way through the other courtyards, whilst skillfully avoiding the security guards and jumping across the rooftops before reaching the bell tower: where they spotted four security guards: two on the lower floor and two on the top floor.

Haggar stated while groaning softly. "Perfect, there's no way we can sneak past these guys."

Flynn stated smugly while pulling out 3 handguns from his backpack. "Well, that's why it pays to be prepared."

Ezor asked while chuckling/scoffing at the same time. "Are you serious, Flynn? You brought guns with you?"

The British treasure hunter countered smugly. "Yeah, relax Ghondi, these are tranquiliser guns: completely harmless. So your conscience will be clear. You 2 do remember how to handle one of these things do ya?"

Haggar scoffed in return while accepting the tranquiliser gun. "We both know how to handle a gun, genius."

Flynn stated while whispering softly. "Okay, now there's only one thing you should know: these guns are lousy at long range, so we'll need to get in close for the darts to kick in. You girls alright with that?"

Ezor replied while pulling back on the slide of the tranq gun. "Yeah, let's do this."

Shortly after they had dealt with the guards by knocking them out with their tranq guns and climbing out through the window on the roof of the bell tower, the British and Altean treasure hunters had continued jumping across the rooftops...until they had reached their main destination: the Mongolian exhibit wing. Once they witnessed the power throughout the whole museum go out, which they knew meant that Acxa had succeeded in severing the power, Haggar, Ezor and Flynn had climbed through the window and entered the Mongolian exhibit, where they spotted their main prize: the Mongolian oil lamp that Flynn's 'client' had hired them to acquire for him.

After Haggar had carefully removed the oil lamp from its case, which was also a state of the art alarm system, she had smashed the lamp onto the floor which revealed its contents: five small crystal blue 'pebbles' and a supposedly black parchment.

After Flynn had turned away in disgust after declaring the blank canvas as useless, Haggar had smelt something peculiar about the pebbles that were also contained in the lamp, which she identified as resin and asked Ezor for a match. Shortly after her fellow sister handed her a match, the Altean treasure hunter had lit the resin on fire and held the parchment over the blue flame, which revealed a map drawn and message written by Marco Polo in translucent ink.

However...as soon as Haggar had deciphered the message and revealed to Flynn that Marco Polo had discovered Shangri-La (which she referred to as Shambala) and put out the fire, as the guards would've eventually seen it and turned to climb out the window...they both stared with shock filled eyes as Flynn had pulled the rope back up and pulled out a chrome plated Desert Eagle!

Haggar asked while taking two steps back. "Flynn, what the fuck are you doing?"

Flynn answered smugly. "Did you honestly think I didn't already know about the ships beforehand? Any schoolboy with a 5th grade education could've figured it out!"

Haggar snarled angrily, as she realized that Katie had been right and that the whole museum break-in was actually a set up. "You set this up! You and Acxa set us up!"

Flynn would state. "Of course it was, 'mate'. My client and I knew you bitches would never agree to this job if you knew the truth...so, we, as the American Yanks say, rolled the dice and thought of an alternate means to get on board and it worked."

Ezor stated while snarling softly. "You smug Human son of a bitch!"

Flynn stated as they both heard multiple voices shouting out with Turkish accents and smiled smugly while firing a single bullet from his Desert Eagle, which shattered the oil lamps case and set off the alarms. "Oh, looks like you both ran out of time, ladies." He then added while firing 2 more shots that struck the ground, as Hagfar and Ezor attempted to run. "Not yet, I want to give the guards a decent head start. Better luck next time, mate. No hard feelings, yeah?"

Shortly after Haggar and Ezor witnessed Flynn rappel down from the window, the Altean treasure hunters had glanced towards the corridors, which were locked down by reinforced steel bars/wiring and immediately broke into a fast run once the museum security guards started shooting at them! Once they had made it out of the Mongolian exhibit, Haggar and Ezor had climbed down a ladder that led down into the sewers and after sprinting down the tunnels, they had climbed up another ladder, thinking that they had escaped.

"Hahahahaha! See ya, assholes!" Ezor shouted while climbing up after Haggar.

But they were sadly mistaken...as they were greeted by a large number of guards who were aiming police issued AK-47's right at their faces. "Ah, fuck!" Haggar cursed with anger.

"Damn right, sis." Ezor said in agreement with her fellow sister.

A while later, in Katie and Haggar's hotel room

The young former college student turned treasure hunter was pacing around, worried about Haggar and Ezor. "Damn it, where are they?" She asked herself before seeing a news report of the museum heist and Haggar and Ezor being pushed into local police cars... without Flynn or Acxa, making her eyes widen as she had been right about the heist and Flynn. "Flynn, you backstabbing asshole!" She cursed before quickly packing her things and getting out of the hotel before the cops came for her too.

After getting a few blocks away from the hotel and into the city, she was pulled deep into an alleyway by a set of hands, with 1 on her mouth so she wouldn't scream before the owner of the hands let go and spoke. "Sorry about that, Ms. Holt, but you can never be too careful with the law in this country."

"Wait. Acxa, is that you?" Katie asked with hope.

Acxa then revealed herself and smiled. "Yeah. Sorry if I scared you, Katie. Now, before you accuse me of anything I didn't have anything to do with that cocksucking asshole Flynn double crossing Ezor and Haggar. But I do know a way we can break them out of whatever jail they get sent to."

Katie turned around, looked into Acxa's eyes and saw that she was telling the truth. "I believe you, Acxa." She said before smelling something she didn't like, making her frown. "You smoke, don't you?"

"Hahaha. What gave it away?"

"Well, the fact that I can smell cigarette smoke on you for 1 thing."

"Relax, Katie. I promised Ezor that I wouldn't smoke around her, you and especially not around Haggar." Acxa assured her friend. "But now's not the time to lecture me about my bad habit, we gotta get them out of prison. But we can't do it without some help."

"And who can help us out with this situation?" Katie asked with a raised eyebrow.

Acxa walked with Katie deeper into the alley as she answered. "Someone I haven't seen in a few years."

A mouth later

In an abandoned warehouse, in the middle of the night, somewhere outside Madrid, two human mercenaries with guns at hand, shoved the steel door open, allowing their Galran boss, Mirog, who wore a business suit to enter. The middle-aged old Galran readjusted his tie before walking inside with his hands behind his back, as out of the shadows, a human male walked over to him.

Mirog formed a grin as he professionally said "For once you've kept your word, Shiro. I'm surprised."

"It wasn't easy." The guy named Shiro answered. "But I got what you've asked, Mr. Mirog." Before he then nodded to someone behind him, who was a male human, who showed a small ancient Buddha, made from silver and gold, decorated with all kinds of jewels, including sapphires, ruby's and emeralds.

The Galran business man looked astounded as he took it in his hands, admiring the small statue. "At last. This'll make a fine addition to my 'personal' collection back home."

Shiro rolled his eyes while sarcastically saying. "Yeah, yeah, I'm sure all those bootlickers are going to drool all over the floor for you." But then he asked Mirog with a serious tone. "So... where's the money?"

Mirog glanced for a moment at Shiro before he chuckled and glanced back at the statue. "Not to worry. Your money... is nearby."

"Enough of all the delay. We want our cut, now!" Shiro said impatiently.

Mirog sighed before snapping his fingers, signaling his hired men to bring the suitcase. "Always straight to the point. You never change, Shiro." But when the mercenary handed over the suitcase to Shiro, the Galran business man stated while forming a grin as he gave the statue to another one of his men to carry it carefully. "However... you must understand that things have become a bit... tight for me at the moment..."

When Shiro inspected the money in the suitcase, he began to frown as it was not even half of what Mirog had promised. "This is only half of what you promised. Less even!"

Mirog smirked as he shrugged. "Perhaps you should've kept your promises in the past, Shiro."

"That was not part of the deal, Mirog!" Shiro yelled as he and his partner drew their guns at Mirog, making the mercenaries aim their machine guns at them.

Mirog chuckled. "C'mon now, Shiro. Would you really think I would doublecross you? Just see it as a little lesson for yourself, reminding yourself to keep your promises to me, and my other business partners."

Seeing that he and his partner were outnumbered, Shiro sighed as he pulled his gun away. "Fine." Before he then gestured to his partner. "C'mon, Jack. Let's go." But as Shiro began to walk, he noticed that his partner, Jack, was still standing where he was. Confused, Shiro glanced at him. "Jack? What are you doing? Let's go."

But then, Jack aimed his gun at Shiro as he formed a little smirk. "Sorry, Shiro. Mr. Mirog paid me tenfold more than that statue we stole from, for your life."

Shiro looked in shock, seeing that Jack was about to backstab him for money.

Mirog smirked evilly, before he frowned and grabbed the statue from his mercury's hands and threw it to the ground, breaking it, revealing it was a fake! "Do you take me for a fool, Shiro!? Didn't you expect me to deliver a fake statue, that you'd 'accidentally' lost it to the Chinese authorities!? Jack told me everything, as I paid him to spy on you."

Shiro was even more shocked, before he angrily glanced at Jack. "You... you worked for Mirog the entire time?!"

Jack shrugged as he confessed. "C'mon now, Shiro. You really thought that I 'really' had saved your ass back in Egypt? Mirog ordered me to 'become friends with you' in order to keep a better eye on you."

"So... after everything we've been through...?"

"All lies and deceit, Shiro." Jack stated as he aimed the gun to his head. "Just to let you know. It was nothing personal, only business, partner."

But then, Shiro formed a small grin. "Yeah, to you the same, partner."

Suddenly, a large group of police officers stormed into the warehouse with several screaming. "POLICÍA! SUELTA TUS ARMAS!"

Shocked that the Spanish police had found them, Mirog screamed to his mercenaries. "OPEN FIRE!"

While the police and Mirog's thugs, including Jack, fired many bullets at each other, Shiro made a run for it "Time to go." and ran towards a different exit while more police arrived, trying to get to arrest Shiro as well, despite him being the one who gave the intel about the secret meeting to the police as a backup plan in case Mirog planned to double cross him.

"HOLA! POLICÍA!" An Altean female Spanish officer yelled, trying to grab Shiro, but missed as Shiro quickly avoided her and her fellow officers by pulling down many iron barrels, blocking their way. Shiro ran through a few hallways, before getting outside and ran as fast as he could through a number of warehouses, till he made it where he and Jack had parked their car. But as Shiro was about to run over to the car, he heard a gunshot behind him! He turned himself, seeing a shocked police officer who'd aimed his gun at Shiro, but then fell dead after he was fired a bullet to the brains by Jack.

Shiro's former partner furiously frowned at Shiro and aimed his gun at him. "Say goodnight, asshole-" But was then met by a series of bullets from the left!

As Jack fell dead, Shiro looked to his left, seeing the one who killed Jack, thus saving his life. It was his half-sister, Acxa.

Acxa grinned as she put her gun down and walked over to Shiro. "Why is it that every time you and I meet again, that I always have to save your ass?"

"Acxa?! What the hell are you doing here in Madrid?" Shiro asked both shocked and surprised to see his half-sister after not having seen her for a few years.

"Yeah, it's good to see you too, Shiro." Acxa said while rolling her eyes.

Hearing more police sirens, Acxa asked her half-brother as Katie pulled over in a black car. "Need a ride, baby brother?"

Under the circumstances, Shiro had not much of a choice, so he nodded and entered the black car together with Acxa.

As Katie drove away, but not too fast so as to avoid any attention, Acxa sighed as she shook her head, but then grinned at her brother. "Still selling fake antiques to the wrong people, Shiro?"

"Better than going on wild goose chases all over the world for treasure that wasn't much worth our time, or money." Shiro fired back.

Acxa sighed while rolling her eyes. "Can we just forget about that and give me at least a 'thank you, sis, for saving my life, again'? How about that?"

Shiro sighed as he said, in a bit of an apologizing way. "Fine, fine. Thank you for saving my life, again."

Acxa gave a nod to him. "You're very welcome, baby brother."

Then Shiro asked, glancing at Katie. "Who's she?"

"Katie Holt. I'm a friend of your sister." Katie stated, introducing herself.

Being sure they were out of sight from any Spanish police officers, Acxa told Shiro. "It wasn't easy to find you, you know. How the hell did you get stuck with a slimy Galran like Mirog?"

Shiro shrugged. "Partly because he paid well." But then he scratched the back of his head as he admitted. "Never thought he would see through my deception." Then Shiro asked his half-sister. "So why have you come to look for me, sis? And I guess it's not for a normal family reunion, right?"

Acxa sighed as she stated. "We need your help, Shiro. I... need your help."

A short moment of silence fell between the two siblings, which made Shiro shake his head. "Oh no. No, no, no, I'm done with treasure hunting."

"It's not a treasure hunt, Shiro!" Acxa said, but that earned a glare from Shiro, knowing his half-sister all too well that it was mostly about hunting down new treasures. Acxa sighed. "Ugh! Fine, yes, it is about another treasure. But it's different this time, Shiro."

Shiro then raised his finger to Acxa. "Let me remind you that there was a reason I quit." Before he then pulled his right sleeve, showing a big scar on his left arm. "Remember this?! Nearly lost my arm, no thanks to you."

Acxa gave a shrug. "It could've been worse." Then she smirked at him. "Besides, you owe me."

Shiro was at first against the idea of going on 'wild goose chase treasure hunting' again. "I thought I was very clear to you that I'm done with that."

"It's different this time, Shiro!" Acxa said, with a bit of more seriousness in her voice.

"Different how?" Shiro asked as he looked away, not wanting to get into this conversation again.

Acxa then smirked as she asked him. "What do you know about Shambhala and the Cintamani Stone?"

That made Shiro look back at her with a surprised and interesting look on his face. "What about it?"

Later on, in a motel room

Acxa and Katie told Shiro everything that they and Harry Flynn had found so far, including with Haggar and Ezor having found a clue to the missing ships of Marco Polo's fleet at Borneo.

Shiro at first did not want to believe all of this, despite his guts telling him that his half-sister was REALLY up to something very big this time. "Whoa, whoa, whoa there for a second. You guys actually believe that Marco Polo's missing ships are far inland at Borneo, which could lead to Shambhala, the 'paradise on earth' Shambhala?! Is that what you're saying?!"

"Yep." Acxa said, giving a clear nod.

Shiro was overwhelmed by this. "This is so unreal."

"But we have. Turns out that Harry had been planning to double cross Haggar from the start and... me playing both sides, for now." Acxa stated.

Shiro shook his head as he glanced at his sister. "You're really out of your mind, right?"

Acxa gave a shrug before forming a grin. "Have I ever been?"

Shiro sighed, going against his better judgment, and against his sollen oath of never going on treasure hunting again. "All right. Fine. I'm in." But then he raised his finger "BUT if this turns into another one of your wild goose chases with no reward, then...!"

"Then what?" Acxa asked.

Shiro rolled his eyes. "I... I don't know yet. But you're not gonna like it when I'm coming up with that."

That made Acxa only to chuckle. "Just like old times."

"Yeah, yeah." then Shiro asked. "So, I guess you need me to break your new friends, Haggar and Ezor out of prison?"

Acxa however gave a shrug. "More or less." Before she stood up. "Now if you don't mind, I'm gonna go outside for a smoke. I'll be back in a few minutes."

"Oh come on, Acxa. You're still smoking after I have told you 100 times to quit?!" Shiro asked with annoyance at his half-sister's bad habit.

"Don't you start with that, Shiro! Despite the fact that I hate smoking as well, I needed something to deal with the stress of my line of work! And besides, you know our mother used to smoke as well when she was here." Acxa reminded her half-brother.

"Yeah, and you know she quit when she decided to have kids because she didn't want to be a bad influence on us and wanted to be around long enough to watch us grow up. Apparently that bad habit got passed on to you."

"And she did, for 20 of our lives, even as we began treasure hunting. We should be grateful she was around for at least that long."

Katie had had enough of this arguing between the 2 half-siblings. "Okay, guys, enough with the arguing! We're trying to think about how to break my sisters out of jail, not bicker about who has bad habits and who doesn't." She said before looking at Acxa. "Acxa, you go outside and smoke, but do not even think about smoking anywhere near me!" Then she looked at Shiro. "Shiro, you and I can plan how to break Haggar and Ezor out of prison and get payback on that asshole Flynn for double crossing us and who he's working for."

"Hahaha. I can see why you mean so much to Ezor and Haggar, Katie." Acxa said with amusement before she played with Katie's hair. "I look forward to getting to know you better when this is over." Before heading outside to smoke.

Katie then turned to Shiro. "So, Shiro, how can you help break Haggar and Ezor out of that hellhole prison?"

"Well, it won't be easy. And I'm afraid it's gonna require them spending at least 2 more months in there." Shiro answered honestly.

"Oh hell, they are so gonna be pissed off." Katie said with annoyance, as she knew that her fellow sisters greatly despised being locked up.

There you go, my dear friends, the 1st chapter of Among Thieves is complete. Sorry for the lack of details on the museum heist, but I wanted it to be more about meeting Acxa, her growing relationship with Ezor and meeting Shiro, her little half brother in the end who'll help break Haggar and Ezor out of prison. But don't worry, the next few parts will definitely be more detailed. Hope you all enjoyed the lemon part. Rate and review and I'll see you all next time, my dear friends.