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Chapter 2
Dark Medal
Brian had just picked up the groceries his mom needed to fix dinner that night. His mom had invited Ikki and Arika over and of course, Brass and Metabee would be over as well. A cat brushed against his right leg and when he bent over to pet it, he felt a hand grab his necklace and gave it a yank. The chain broke and the broken medal was gone with it. The police arrived and he told them what had happened. They were sorry to tell him there was nothing they could do. When he arrived home, Ikki and Arika, along with their medabots were all ready there and Brass was the first one to notice something was missing.
"Brian, where is your necklace?" Brass asked.
Brian sat down on the couch looking terrible. Psychictron walked over to him and put a hand on his shoulder.
"I knew I should have come with you to the store." He said.
"Someone mugged me for Psy's medal. I can't believe I lost it so easily. One second, I was petting a cat and the next, it was gone." Brian said hitting his fist on the coffee table.
"Well, you snooze, you lose. It's the same with a robattle." Ikki said.
Brian turned towards Ikki and anyone could have seen that he was angry.
"Shut up, Ikki. You don't know anything about a robattle or being a medafighter." Brian said.
"WHAT?!" Both Ikki and Metabee yelled.
Brian's mother, Patty, a woman in her early forties with red hair, walked over to them.
"Listen, if you must fight. Do a robattle outside and be sure to get that Mr. Referee to help." Patty said.
"Well, that's well and good for thirty seconds or less." Brian said.
"I think twenty-five." Psychictron said.
"WHAT?!" Metabee yelled. "ONLY TWENTY-FIVE SECONDS! THAT'S IT!" They walked out onto the street where Mr. Referee popped out of some unusual place and began the robattle. People began to gather to watch.
"Don't worry about his laser cannons, Psychictron. Your armor can easily absorb the energy. Get close and..." Brian said.
"...use my sword to take out his seeker missiles. Got it." Psychictron finished.
"Metabee, watch out. He may try to pull on us what he did with Peppercat." Ikki said. "Fire your seeker missiles."
"Missile Launch!" Metabee exclaimed sending the missiles out.
Without warning, Psychictron kicked Metabee into the air and engaged his liquid nitrogen cooling system. When Metabee landed, his own missiles hit him.
"How did that happen, Ikki?" Metabee asked. "He was moving more than me."
"Psychictron has a liquid nitrogen cooling system. The freezing temperature of liquid N2 takes away any heat that Psychictron produces which makes Metabee's heat seekers hit him instead. A nice advantage if I do say so myself." Brian said.
On the sidelines, Arika was videotaping when Koji arrived with Sumilidon.
"Who's winning?" Koji asked because he knew that both Ikki and Brian were good.
"Brian is because Metabee can't use either his laser cannons or his seeker missile." Arika said.
"Yah, it's because Psychictron has a liquid N2 cooling system. Isn't that the best defense against Metabee?" Samantha said watching the battle in the hopes that she might find some inherit flaw in Brian and Psychictron.
They watched as Metabee ran dodging Psychictron's own laser cannons. Finally, it seemed that Brian was fed up.
"Psychictron, let's show Metabee how close you can get. Off with his head." Brian said.
As if Psychictron had anticipated the order, Metabee's head was rolled to Ikki's feet.
"Function ceased! The winner is Psychictron!" Mr. Referee said.
"Is cutting off your opponent's head legal?" Rintaro asked.
"It is." Mr. Referee said. "Otherwise, why would there be swords for Metabots?"
"Good point." Brass said. Mr. Referee left as well as Ikki who carted away Metabee.
"Like I said, thirty seconds." Brian said.
It was about midnight when Psychictron sat on the roof above Brian's room. He thought about the battle he had with Metabee.
"So, how was the battle with Metabee?" A medabot asked Psychictron.
"It was too easy." Psychictron said to the medabot.
"My name is Rokusho. What do you fight for?" Rokusho asked.
"I fight for honor and for my medafighter." Psychictron said.
With that, Rokusho left and Psychictron began to think. He heard a noise in an alley and went to investigate. He found a young red-haired college student was being harassed by four men. The girl had a medabot similar to Brass but it was black and white. It looked like it was not going to last long. The men had two new-style KBT type medabots, like Kantaroth, and two gorilla-type medabots. Psychictron leapt from the top of the building he was on and landed in the middle of the battle. The KBT-Types attempted to fire their missiles which made Psychictron activate his liquid N2 system. The missiles took out their owners and with a swift move of his sword, Psychictron cut the head of the last gorilla-type medabot. The men ran off and Psychictron walked over to the girl and her medabot.
"Are you okay?" Psychictron asked.
"I am. Thank you. But I think Mac is damaged." The girl said.
Psychictron scanned Mac.
"The most she needs is some energy." Psychictron said beginning to leech power to her.
When the power was transferred, Mac became to walk more normally.
"Thank you." Mac said. "We will contact you."
Less than two seconds later, black sedans shown up. A man in a black suit walked over to Psychictron.
"I'm Agent Allen Sharpe, Secret Service. I will contact you." The agent said.
The next morning, Arika and Brass walked with Brian and Psychictron to school when a black stretch limo with a motorcycle escort stopped by them. The window on the limo rolled down.
"Agent Sharpe, you said you would contact me." Psychictron said. "Yes, would the four of you like a ride?" Sharpe asked.
They got in and Psychictron saw Mac.
"I don't know if you are aware of it, but the four medafighters you stopped had intended to kidnap Lucy Bridges, the president's daughter. If it hadn't been for your intervention, she would have been captured." Agent Sharpe said.
"So that's where you went." Brian said surprised.
"We've recently received e-mail death threats on her. The United States government requests your he-." Sharpe said as a large explosion happened.
Brian and Psychictron got out of the limo to see a single medabot. It looked exactly like Psy except that he was pure black. Brian knew of only one other medabot that could handle the custom body that he'd designed.
"It can't be." Brian said in shock.
"Oh, but it is. This must be a great day for me. Not only do I get to kill the girl but I also get to kill my traitorous medafighter." The medabot said.
"Brian, you know this bot?" Arika asked.
"I do. It's Psy." Brian said.
"That can't be. Psy's medal was destroyed." Arika said. "How can he be back?"
"My masters used medal cloning technology to bring me back and now I will have my revenge." Psy said.
With his sword out, Psy made a pass for Brian's head only to be blocked by Psychictron's own blade.
"The pretender has decided to help out his medafighter. This can only be decided in a robattle to the death.
Brass had her video camera out as the battle began. She could tell that Psy was strong. Probably stronger than even Psychictron but she noticed something. Psy's strength was derived from his rage. It was pure unadulterated hatred that he felt towards his medafighter and his replacement. That was what gave Psy the edge. Arika noticed Brian was crying.
"What's wrong?" Arika asked.
"I can't order Psychictron to do anything. Psy was my best friend like Metabee and Ikki are. I couldn't order Psychictron to destroy Psy as Ikki couldn't order another medabot to destroy Metabee." Brian said crying.
"Brian, you can't blame yourself for what happened in the past. Maybe it was fate. Maybe Psy's medal had to be destroyed so that you would come to Japan with your family and be given Psychictron's medal by that stranger. Remember, this isn't Psy that you are fighting. Psy is dead and you're fighting a wraith. A medabot without its soul." Arika said.
"She's right." Rokusho said coming from behind him. "A medabot without its soul can't even be considered alive anymore. If Psy was your friend, release him."
Brian turned back to the battle. He had an idea. Informing Psychictron, he saw his medabot nod.
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Somewhere in a command center at the Medabots Corporation, Dr. Aki was monitoring the power levels of the current robattles. This command center was established a little after the Medaforce first appeared. Sensors placed all over Japan monitored energy reading of every Medabot. And thanks to a new rule to become a Medafighter, each energy signature of each Medabot had to be analyzed. It also applied to current Medafighters as well. Suddenly, one battle's energy readings began to blanket out all others. The medabots on duty even were able to sense it.
"Report!" Dr. Aki said.
"Sir, we're bringing up the sector in which the battle is taking place." Louise said.
"What medabot is it?" Dr. Aki asked.
It took a few moments before the results came up.
"Only one medabot is registered. Its designation is...Psychictron. Medafighter is Brian James." Louise said. "Doctor, this energy reading is more powerful than ten Medaforces. How could that be possible?"
'What could be going on?' Dr. Aki thought to himself.
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Psychictron jumped into the air. As he did, his sword seemed to catch on fire.
"SOLAR SLICE!" He yelled as he came down on Psy.
The power that flowed through the blade allowed the sword to cut the medabot in half. Once again, the medal was destroyed. Brian walked over to Psy's body and saw that he was still active.
"Brian, I never wanted to do it....................he.........made................me.........." Psy said.
"Who made you?" Brian asked wondering what could turn Psy against him.
"The....Dominion...viru..." Psy said losing all power
"The Dominion virus." Brian said noticing the color of Psy's medal. It shifted from black to the standard gold color that all medals were.
He picked up Psy's fallen form. When he returned home, he buried Psy's medal and his body. Arika and Brass were with him.
"What did he tell you?" Arika asked.
"He said something about a virus that made him do it. Something called Dominion. The problem is that I don't have a shred of proof. The medal was destroyed and there's no trace of a virus." Brian said. "We'd better wait before trying to prove it."
A moment of awkward silence came soon until Arika broke it.
"I heard the President gave you and Psychictron some kind of award." Arika said.
"For what," Brian said. "I had to kill my best friend."
Brass and Arika left, leaving Brian alone with his medabot. Soon, Brian went to bed but he had trouble sleeping.
"Hey, Boss." Spike said looking at Crosserdog's medal. "Why's Crosserdog's medal turn black all of a sudden?"
"I don't know. Just stick it in so that we can have a three-on-three robattle against these morons who think they can go up against the Screws." Samantha said.
Spike stuck the medal in and the battle started. Without even being given any orders, Crosserdog destroyed the other medabots and won the battle.
"Good job, Spike. I knew you'd be able to act intelligent for once." Samantha said patting him on the back.
Suddenly, Crosserdog pointed his weapon arm at Totalizer and fired. The blast tore off the medabot's head.
"Crosserdog!" Spike yelled. "Why did you do that?"
"I'm tired of human enslavement. I now will gain my freedom." Crosserdog said.
"Over my dead body!" Spike said taking a step.
Almost instantly, Crosserdog turned and shot Spike in the shoulder.
"Take another step and I aim higher. I no longer hold any allegiance to humans and I will gladly kill anyone who gets in my way." Crosserdog said walking away.
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"A rogue Medabot has shot his medafighter. Authorities are now searching for the medabot known as Crosserdog. If you see this medabot, do not engage in a robattle. Run away and contact the authorities." The news anchor said signing off.
Brian was sick today. He knew what was going on.
("Brian, I never wanted to do it....................he.........made................me.........." Psy said.
"Who made you?" Brian asked wondering what could turn Psy against him.
"The....Dominion...viru..." Psy said losing all power
"The Dominion virus." Brian said noticing the color of Psy's medal. It shifted from black to the standard gold color that all medals were.)
"So, the Dominion virus makes a medabot extremely hostile and extremely powerful." Brian said.
Suddenly, Psychictron noticed a strange medabot at the window. Brian turned and let it in.
Medabot: Anaroth
Medafighter: Debbie Cathey
Specialty: Sniper Rifle.
Anaroth was also a custom medabot. It had the invisible capabilities of a Chameleon-Type medabot but it also had a stealth technology that absorbed radar. His half-sister was a bounty hunter, a profession that was frowned on these days.
"Long time, no see." Anaroth said. "Is this Psy's replacement?"
"Anaroth, meet Psychictron. Psychictron, Anaroth." Brian said introducing the medabots.
"As you might have guessed, your sister sent me here to ask for any data you might have on the current situation. We assumed you would." Anaroth said.
"What kind of bounty was placed on Crosserdog?" Brian asked.
"A lot more than normal." Anaroth said crossing her arms.
Brian began to brief Anaroth on the Dominion virus and his belief that Crosserdog had it. He also told her about the forced battle he had with Psy.
"So, this virus hasn't been proven to exist." Anaroth said. "When I take the target down, I'll bring the medal back intact. You have my word and you know that if I give my word, it's the same with Debbie."
"You two always keep your promises. I've known this since the two of you started." Brian said sneezing. "Sorry, I'm a bit under the weather."
"I noticed. You should have your rest." Anaroth said leaving through the open window, closing it behind her.
Chapter 2
Dark Medal
Brian had just picked up the groceries his mom needed to fix dinner that night. His mom had invited Ikki and Arika over and of course, Brass and Metabee would be over as well. A cat brushed against his right leg and when he bent over to pet it, he felt a hand grab his necklace and gave it a yank. The chain broke and the broken medal was gone with it. The police arrived and he told them what had happened. They were sorry to tell him there was nothing they could do. When he arrived home, Ikki and Arika, along with their medabots were all ready there and Brass was the first one to notice something was missing.
"Brian, where is your necklace?" Brass asked.
Brian sat down on the couch looking terrible. Psychictron walked over to him and put a hand on his shoulder.
"I knew I should have come with you to the store." He said.
"Someone mugged me for Psy's medal. I can't believe I lost it so easily. One second, I was petting a cat and the next, it was gone." Brian said hitting his fist on the coffee table.
"Well, you snooze, you lose. It's the same with a robattle." Ikki said.
Brian turned towards Ikki and anyone could have seen that he was angry.
"Shut up, Ikki. You don't know anything about a robattle or being a medafighter." Brian said.
"WHAT?!" Both Ikki and Metabee yelled.
Brian's mother, Patty, a woman in her early forties with red hair, walked over to them.
"Listen, if you must fight. Do a robattle outside and be sure to get that Mr. Referee to help." Patty said.
"Well, that's well and good for thirty seconds or less." Brian said.
"I think twenty-five." Psychictron said.
"WHAT?!" Metabee yelled. "ONLY TWENTY-FIVE SECONDS! THAT'S IT!" They walked out onto the street where Mr. Referee popped out of some unusual place and began the robattle. People began to gather to watch.
"Don't worry about his laser cannons, Psychictron. Your armor can easily absorb the energy. Get close and..." Brian said.
"...use my sword to take out his seeker missiles. Got it." Psychictron finished.
"Metabee, watch out. He may try to pull on us what he did with Peppercat." Ikki said. "Fire your seeker missiles."
"Missile Launch!" Metabee exclaimed sending the missiles out.
Without warning, Psychictron kicked Metabee into the air and engaged his liquid nitrogen cooling system. When Metabee landed, his own missiles hit him.
"How did that happen, Ikki?" Metabee asked. "He was moving more than me."
"Psychictron has a liquid nitrogen cooling system. The freezing temperature of liquid N2 takes away any heat that Psychictron produces which makes Metabee's heat seekers hit him instead. A nice advantage if I do say so myself." Brian said.
On the sidelines, Arika was videotaping when Koji arrived with Sumilidon.
"Who's winning?" Koji asked because he knew that both Ikki and Brian were good.
"Brian is because Metabee can't use either his laser cannons or his seeker missile." Arika said.
"Yah, it's because Psychictron has a liquid N2 cooling system. Isn't that the best defense against Metabee?" Samantha said watching the battle in the hopes that she might find some inherit flaw in Brian and Psychictron.
They watched as Metabee ran dodging Psychictron's own laser cannons. Finally, it seemed that Brian was fed up.
"Psychictron, let's show Metabee how close you can get. Off with his head." Brian said.
As if Psychictron had anticipated the order, Metabee's head was rolled to Ikki's feet.
"Function ceased! The winner is Psychictron!" Mr. Referee said.
"Is cutting off your opponent's head legal?" Rintaro asked.
"It is." Mr. Referee said. "Otherwise, why would there be swords for Metabots?"
"Good point." Brass said. Mr. Referee left as well as Ikki who carted away Metabee.
"Like I said, thirty seconds." Brian said.
It was about midnight when Psychictron sat on the roof above Brian's room. He thought about the battle he had with Metabee.
"So, how was the battle with Metabee?" A medabot asked Psychictron.
"It was too easy." Psychictron said to the medabot.
"My name is Rokusho. What do you fight for?" Rokusho asked.
"I fight for honor and for my medafighter." Psychictron said.
With that, Rokusho left and Psychictron began to think. He heard a noise in an alley and went to investigate. He found a young red-haired college student was being harassed by four men. The girl had a medabot similar to Brass but it was black and white. It looked like it was not going to last long. The men had two new-style KBT type medabots, like Kantaroth, and two gorilla-type medabots. Psychictron leapt from the top of the building he was on and landed in the middle of the battle. The KBT-Types attempted to fire their missiles which made Psychictron activate his liquid N2 system. The missiles took out their owners and with a swift move of his sword, Psychictron cut the head of the last gorilla-type medabot. The men ran off and Psychictron walked over to the girl and her medabot.
"Are you okay?" Psychictron asked.
"I am. Thank you. But I think Mac is damaged." The girl said.
Psychictron scanned Mac.
"The most she needs is some energy." Psychictron said beginning to leech power to her.
When the power was transferred, Mac became to walk more normally.
"Thank you." Mac said. "We will contact you."
Less than two seconds later, black sedans shown up. A man in a black suit walked over to Psychictron.
"I'm Agent Allen Sharpe, Secret Service. I will contact you." The agent said.
The next morning, Arika and Brass walked with Brian and Psychictron to school when a black stretch limo with a motorcycle escort stopped by them. The window on the limo rolled down.
"Agent Sharpe, you said you would contact me." Psychictron said. "Yes, would the four of you like a ride?" Sharpe asked.
They got in and Psychictron saw Mac.
"I don't know if you are aware of it, but the four medafighters you stopped had intended to kidnap Lucy Bridges, the president's daughter. If it hadn't been for your intervention, she would have been captured." Agent Sharpe said.
"So that's where you went." Brian said surprised.
"We've recently received e-mail death threats on her. The United States government requests your he-." Sharpe said as a large explosion happened.
Brian and Psychictron got out of the limo to see a single medabot. It looked exactly like Psy except that he was pure black. Brian knew of only one other medabot that could handle the custom body that he'd designed.
"It can't be." Brian said in shock.
"Oh, but it is. This must be a great day for me. Not only do I get to kill the girl but I also get to kill my traitorous medafighter." The medabot said.
"Brian, you know this bot?" Arika asked.
"I do. It's Psy." Brian said.
"That can't be. Psy's medal was destroyed." Arika said. "How can he be back?"
"My masters used medal cloning technology to bring me back and now I will have my revenge." Psy said.
With his sword out, Psy made a pass for Brian's head only to be blocked by Psychictron's own blade.
"The pretender has decided to help out his medafighter. This can only be decided in a robattle to the death.
Brass had her video camera out as the battle began. She could tell that Psy was strong. Probably stronger than even Psychictron but she noticed something. Psy's strength was derived from his rage. It was pure unadulterated hatred that he felt towards his medafighter and his replacement. That was what gave Psy the edge. Arika noticed Brian was crying.
"What's wrong?" Arika asked.
"I can't order Psychictron to do anything. Psy was my best friend like Metabee and Ikki are. I couldn't order Psychictron to destroy Psy as Ikki couldn't order another medabot to destroy Metabee." Brian said crying.
"Brian, you can't blame yourself for what happened in the past. Maybe it was fate. Maybe Psy's medal had to be destroyed so that you would come to Japan with your family and be given Psychictron's medal by that stranger. Remember, this isn't Psy that you are fighting. Psy is dead and you're fighting a wraith. A medabot without its soul." Arika said.
"She's right." Rokusho said coming from behind him. "A medabot without its soul can't even be considered alive anymore. If Psy was your friend, release him."
Brian turned back to the battle. He had an idea. Informing Psychictron, he saw his medabot nod.
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Somewhere in a command center at the Medabots Corporation, Dr. Aki was monitoring the power levels of the current robattles. This command center was established a little after the Medaforce first appeared. Sensors placed all over Japan monitored energy reading of every Medabot. And thanks to a new rule to become a Medafighter, each energy signature of each Medabot had to be analyzed. It also applied to current Medafighters as well. Suddenly, one battle's energy readings began to blanket out all others. The medabots on duty even were able to sense it.
"Report!" Dr. Aki said.
"Sir, we're bringing up the sector in which the battle is taking place." Louise said.
"What medabot is it?" Dr. Aki asked.
It took a few moments before the results came up.
"Only one medabot is registered. Its designation is...Psychictron. Medafighter is Brian James." Louise said. "Doctor, this energy reading is more powerful than ten Medaforces. How could that be possible?"
'What could be going on?' Dr. Aki thought to himself.
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Psychictron jumped into the air. As he did, his sword seemed to catch on fire.
"SOLAR SLICE!" He yelled as he came down on Psy.
The power that flowed through the blade allowed the sword to cut the medabot in half. Once again, the medal was destroyed. Brian walked over to Psy's body and saw that he was still active.
"Brian, I never wanted to do it....................he.........made................me.........." Psy said.
"Who made you?" Brian asked wondering what could turn Psy against him.
"The....Dominion...viru..." Psy said losing all power
"The Dominion virus." Brian said noticing the color of Psy's medal. It shifted from black to the standard gold color that all medals were.
He picked up Psy's fallen form. When he returned home, he buried Psy's medal and his body. Arika and Brass were with him.
"What did he tell you?" Arika asked.
"He said something about a virus that made him do it. Something called Dominion. The problem is that I don't have a shred of proof. The medal was destroyed and there's no trace of a virus." Brian said. "We'd better wait before trying to prove it."
A moment of awkward silence came soon until Arika broke it.
"I heard the President gave you and Psychictron some kind of award." Arika said.
"For what," Brian said. "I had to kill my best friend."
Brass and Arika left, leaving Brian alone with his medabot. Soon, Brian went to bed but he had trouble sleeping.
"Hey, Boss." Spike said looking at Crosserdog's medal. "Why's Crosserdog's medal turn black all of a sudden?"
"I don't know. Just stick it in so that we can have a three-on-three robattle against these morons who think they can go up against the Screws." Samantha said.
Spike stuck the medal in and the battle started. Without even being given any orders, Crosserdog destroyed the other medabots and won the battle.
"Good job, Spike. I knew you'd be able to act intelligent for once." Samantha said patting him on the back.
Suddenly, Crosserdog pointed his weapon arm at Totalizer and fired. The blast tore off the medabot's head.
"Crosserdog!" Spike yelled. "Why did you do that?"
"I'm tired of human enslavement. I now will gain my freedom." Crosserdog said.
"Over my dead body!" Spike said taking a step.
Almost instantly, Crosserdog turned and shot Spike in the shoulder.
"Take another step and I aim higher. I no longer hold any allegiance to humans and I will gladly kill anyone who gets in my way." Crosserdog said walking away.
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"A rogue Medabot has shot his medafighter. Authorities are now searching for the medabot known as Crosserdog. If you see this medabot, do not engage in a robattle. Run away and contact the authorities." The news anchor said signing off.
Brian was sick today. He knew what was going on.
("Brian, I never wanted to do it....................he.........made................me.........." Psy said.
"Who made you?" Brian asked wondering what could turn Psy against him.
"The....Dominion...viru..." Psy said losing all power
"The Dominion virus." Brian said noticing the color of Psy's medal. It shifted from black to the standard gold color that all medals were.)
"So, the Dominion virus makes a medabot extremely hostile and extremely powerful." Brian said.
Suddenly, Psychictron noticed a strange medabot at the window. Brian turned and let it in.
Medabot: Anaroth
Medafighter: Debbie Cathey
Specialty: Sniper Rifle.
Anaroth was also a custom medabot. It had the invisible capabilities of a Chameleon-Type medabot but it also had a stealth technology that absorbed radar. His half-sister was a bounty hunter, a profession that was frowned on these days.
"Long time, no see." Anaroth said. "Is this Psy's replacement?"
"Anaroth, meet Psychictron. Psychictron, Anaroth." Brian said introducing the medabots.
"As you might have guessed, your sister sent me here to ask for any data you might have on the current situation. We assumed you would." Anaroth said.
"What kind of bounty was placed on Crosserdog?" Brian asked.
"A lot more than normal." Anaroth said crossing her arms.
Brian began to brief Anaroth on the Dominion virus and his belief that Crosserdog had it. He also told her about the forced battle he had with Psy.
"So, this virus hasn't been proven to exist." Anaroth said. "When I take the target down, I'll bring the medal back intact. You have my word and you know that if I give my word, it's the same with Debbie."
"You two always keep your promises. I've known this since the two of you started." Brian said sneezing. "Sorry, I'm a bit under the weather."
"I noticed. You should have your rest." Anaroth said leaving through the open window, closing it behind her.