Georgia woke to the smell of something horrid. She wrinkled her nose, and stuck out her tongue. "What is that? And what happened?" she asked, sitting up on her elbows, to see Kenji holding something out towards her. When she had sat up, he brought the thing away from her, smiling. Her eyes were growing again, and her mouth moving up and down. Kenji slightly chuckled, stood up, and walked away, leaving Georgia stilled sitting there, staring towards where he had left. With her mouth wide open.



Soon, her teammates and brothers walked back into the room, and Kaitlyn rushed over to her, kneeling down next to her bed. "Man Georgia, I thought you had died or something, fainting like that!" she exclaimed, embracing the silver haired maiden. Georgia sighed, slightly chuckled, then hugged the blonde back.



"I'm fine now, so you don't have to worry any more. Ok? And you can also let me PLEASE breathe? I can't really right now..." she laughed, and Kaitlyn let go over her, joining her friend in the laughter. Once they had finished laughing, Georgia looked to the twins with a serious look. "So, um, Aleksey, Kenji, last night, I was going to ask you questions after you told me your names. Well, can I ask them now?" she asked, and the twins looked to each other, Kenji smiling and Aleksey scowling.



They looked back to her, and Aleksey sighed. "Suit yourself," he spat, sitting down on the bed, and then noticed the sudden look of confusion on his older sister's face. "What is it?"



"Wasn't I supposed to tell you my name after you told me yours'?" she asked, and Aleksey sighed, again. Georgia's teammates sat down on some chairs near the bed, and Kenji pulled one of the chairs up closer to the bed, continuing to smile.



"Your teammates told us that your name is Georgia Enduro, and that their names are Kaitlyn, Anthony, and Meira." Kenji said, clearing up the confusion in his older sister's mind. she smiled, and nodded her head, ready to start her roll of questions."



"Ok then. Um, do you two know what happened to this town? It seems... deserted." she said, looking out the window at the deserted streets and leafy trees.



"Yeah, I know why. It was because this monster attacked and scared everybody off. It was a turtle-like huge poisonous monster, and it lived in this town until Kenji and I decided to get rid of it. So, we fought it off, but no one came back because, I don't know why, but they for some reason still were afraid of something about this town. I don't know what, though." Aleksey stated, and Georgia nodded her head, then gave him a confused look.



"You two can fight? But aren't you too young to fight? I mean, you look only about 12 years old." she stated, shrugging, and Kenji nodded his head, looking to his brother, indicating for him to explain to their sister.



"Yeah, well, if you were abandoned with no one but your brother to hang around with in this dangerous wasteland you would have to learn how to use at least an ARM to survive." he stated, crossing his arms, and looking directly at Georgia with a scowl. She nodded her head, and looked down.



"I'm sorry, I didn't know that you were completely alone... I mean, I knew you were orphans, like me, but I didn't know that you had absolutely no parent figures. So, um, I was wondering, do you remember where any of the old residents of this town live?"



"Yeah. I know one..." it was now Kenji's turn to speak.



"Ok, good, where are they now?"



"She lives in Baskar Village with her real parents. She used to live here with her adoption parents, then she found that her real ones lived in Baskar Village, and that's the reason she never came back. Maybe we could ask her where her old adoption parents are so we could find out why they never came back?" Kenji asked, looking up to Georgia with a half smile. She shook her head, smiling.



"We might do that later, but anyway, some more questions. Do you know ANYTHING about how to get to the town Ballack Rise?" she asked, leaning forward excitedly. Kenji looked to Aleksey, who shrugged, and looked to his emerald eyed sister.



"Well, we know where it is, but... you'd need a type of flying machine to get there. And I highly doubt you have a flying machine, because, well, only geniuses and people with dragons are people with flying machines." he said, and Georgia's eyes slightly lost their cheer, then lit back up once again.



"Well, do you know how to get a dragon?"



"There is only one living dragon that I know of on Filgaia right now, and the only way you'll get her is to have a sandcraft and be very capable of handling yourself in a battle. Because you have to go to the Dragon's Den on the old volcano which is... quite a ways from here. By the way, why do you want to go to Ballack Rise anyway?"



She smiled sadly, looking slightly downward. "That's where our parents' last mission was, and the reason why they left me. Hey wait a minute... how come you two are orphans? You should be with Mom and Dad wherever they are!" she exclaimed, looking at the two strangely.



It was their turn to look down now. "Well... What I know, is that they were trying to get away from some kind of trap or something, and gave us - at the time we were just, like, 1 or something - to their teammate named... uh... I think it was Clive Winslett or something like that-"



"My Father!?" Kaitlyn suddenly exclaimed, jumping up and knocking her chair backwards, rushing towards them. "I'm his daughter! What happened?? Please continue!" she said, then pulled her chair closer, smiling wide.



Aleksey looked at Kaitlyn weirdly for a moment, then turned to Georgia, shaking his head. "Ok, well, your friend Kaitlyn is kinda nutso, sis. Anyway, like I was saying before I was so rudely interrupted, they gave us to their teammate, Clive Winslett, to get us out of there whether they made it out or not. Well, he got us out, and gave us to one of the crew members on a sandcraft to get us away from that place, because they wouldn't let him on the sandcraft and he had promised. Other than that, I don't know much."



Georgia and Kaitlyn were practically shaking. They looked to each other, and they could tell they were thinking practically the same thing. Were the three they were looking for dead? Georgia looked to Aleksey, and sighed shakily. "Do you know why they gave you to Clive so he could get you out of the place they were in instead of taking you themselves?"



"I think I heard that it was because they had been locked up in some kind of chamber or something of the sort." Kenji said, because he noticed that his brother was completely looking down, and he knew that his twin brother wouldn't talk when he was looking down like that.



Georgia now had tears in her eyes, and she was breathing shakily. "Wh-why would anyone do that to them? I-I mean, what did they ever do to anybody? I-it's not like they had a-any enemies..." she said, but was cut off by the door being blown open. They all looked over, to see a note on the floor, which hadn't been there before.



Georgia stood up, wiping her tear stained eyes, then walked over to the note, and picked it up. She skimmed over it, and her eyes slightly widened. She looked up to the others, and said, "It is a... threat. Here, I'll read it:



"Enduro,



Listen up, and listen good. Your parents were the murders to my brother, Janus Cascade, many years ago. And now, I can get my full revenge by stopping your little mission here and now. If you give up and return to your old life, I might spare you, but if you go ahead with this, I will for sure kill you and your little team. Then I'll find and kill your parents and Winslett's father. Got it? I hope so.



Janice Cascade."