Alecie led the ronins and her father through the torn down palace.

"Where are we going?" Rowen asked.

"To the archives. I only hope that what we are looking for wasn't destroyed." She answered as they rounded a corner. After a few more turns they stopped in front of a set of doors.

"Well, the doors are still here, that is a good sign." She said as she pushed open the door. Sunlight from behind them filtered into the dusty room as they walked in. Unlike the other rooms of the palace, when Broadway attacked this room remained untouched. Alecie walked inside and looked around the massive room. Books of all shapes, sizes and colors lined the walls that reached to the ceiling. There was a fireplace a few chairs and a couch for reading as well as a few desks.

Alecie went to the first wall and quickly began scanning the titles of the books for the one she was searching for.

"Do you need some help?" Sage asked.

"Nope." Alecie said straightening up. "Found it." She said triumphantly. Everyone crowded around her as she flipped to the appropriate page.

"Here it is." She said as she ran her finger down the page.

"The Chaos Ruby." She said reading aloud from the text. "The chaos ruby is a very powerful gem that has many abilities, depending on the strength of the owner. It has the ability to increase the power of the owner ten fold. It also allows the owner to control a person. A person who is controlled will have a small diamond shaped mark on the side of their neck, and will not disappear until the owner chooses to release them…" Alecie scanned the page until she came to the part concerning Sakura.

"The chaos ruby also has the ability to take out a person's heart crystal. Once the heart crystal is out of the body, the owner of the chaos ruby can turn even the purest of hearts into evil as long as there is some evil in them."

"That must be why he went after Sakura." Anubis said. "He figured that since she was Talpa's daughter that some of his evil must have passed down to her."

"But," Alecie said still reading. "They will not be fully consumed until after four days have passed. The only way to rid the person of this evil is by the chaos ruby itself or the use of another magical gem. But until then, the person will slowly become more hard hearted and care nothing about anyone except themselves, but will every now and then show glimpses of who they really are."

"So let me get this straight." Ryo broke in as Alecie stopped reading. "Sakura was turned evil because her father was and it passed down to her." Alecie nodded.

"And the only way to get her back to the way she was is too find another magical gem and fix her or get back the chaos ruby." Alecie nodded.

"Well, then lets get that ruby." He said.

"Do you really think that it going to be that easy?" Dais asked him.

"I don't care. I'm going to get back." Ryo said defiantly.

"Wait, what did it say about another magical gem?" King Tallas asked. Alecie looked at the book.

"It says that the effects can also be reversed by another magical gem." Alecie read.

"Another gem…" King Tallas said thinking.

"Do you know of another gem King Tallas?" Ryo asked.

"There is the legend of the star brought back by the first cloudrunner king." King Tallas said.

"But we have no idea of where it is, and only the person in the legend can open it." Alecie protested. King Tallas looked at Rowen out of the side of his eye taking in the goldenly outline on his wings.

"But maybe someone here is that person." King Tallas said. "I do know that it is said that he hid it somewhere in the lower levels of the city."

At that moment a loud voice interrupted their conversation.

"Ronins!"

Ryo turned around with a glare. "Broadway!" he said with an angry face.

"He's probably looking for a fight." Cye said.

King Tallas turned to them. "Alecie go and look for the star, Rowen…go with her." He said. The two nodded as they left. Ryo looked at the others.

"Come on." He said as they went to face Broadway.