Chapter 5

"Garnet!Are you alright,darling?"Zidane said,relieved.

"Yes...I was scared.Luckily,they were polite crooks,"Garnet replied,already smiling a little.

"Now we must concentrate on catching them,"Cid pointed."I've sent two airships already after them,
but Invisible would be a lot faster."

"What do you say,guys?"Zidane asked."Should we?"

Everybody agreed,so they left.

"You all have forgotten something,"Beatrix said,when they had departed."This year's Master Hunter is
Adelbert Steiner,my man!"

She kissed him on the cheek.

"Gongratulations,Rusty!"Zidane said,smirking.

"Well,well,the fruit of training..."

"Great that you're having fun,but look at that,"Amarant said.Everybody walked to the window.

The airship of the criminals was right in front of them.

"Yesh!Let's make them land!"Eiko suggested.

"Hey...is that ship armed or what is that thing they dragged on the deck?"Freya asked.

"Uh oh...the autopilot can't dodge!It's a cannon!"

The impact threw everybody on the ground,when the cannon was launched.The windows made of unknown
material lasted,but still a red light started flickering.They began to lose height.

"Zidane!Can you stabilize the ship?"

"I think so,but their next hit will destroy us!"

"Maybe not.Look,another ship appeared!"

The strange ship launched it's side cannons and hit the enemy ship.It's right side exploded and a
huge hole appeared in it.The wood around it was in fire.

"Great work,guys!Launch again!"Baku ordered inside the other ship.

"Oh no,another enemy airship approaching!"

A green,rich-looking airship came into the view.It had a huge cannon in the back,something that
neither Invisible or Baku's airship had.They could not evade the shot,and it hit the front of Baku's
ship.The airship became so badly damaged,that Baku ordered the ship to turned around.Seeing what
they were going to do,Zidane did the same thing.They fled.

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In the criminals base:

Neel Dumine was the leader of the criminals.He had been punished twice,for robbery and
counterfeiting.He had been young back then,young and foolish.Now,when he was almost forty years old,
he knew to concentrate on bigger crimes and let someone else to do the dirty work.

"One million gil is ours!"he cheered.The men that served under his command saw something they had
almost never seen;Dumine was laughing.One thing,why people respected Dumine,was his appearance.He
was well over 190 centimetres tall and he had a brown hair,teeth as white as wolf's and dark eyes.
Nobody wanted to make him angry,because he didn't understand humor very well.

"When shall we share the money?"a guy named Nicholson asked.

"It's not the time yet.First,we will double,maybe even triple the sum."

"Can I ask you how?"

"You'll find out sooner or later.I'll be going to Treno tonight and Nicholson,Shulz and Puro will come with me.I have an important meeting with an antique dealer there..."