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The rehairad was rocking back and forth and the motion was causing Zelos a severe case of seasickness. When he thought he couldn't take it any longer, the rehairad finally landed on the edge of a cliff in front of the renagade base. They walked in, Zelos immediately noticed this wasn't the same base as before. He was contemplating what this meeting was about, seeing asYuan went to such great lengths to retrieve him. Zelos looked around him, studying the area. The warriors who defeated his friends then turned down a dark hallway but Zelos noticed that there was many renegadespassing them.

'Left, right, right ,left, straight, left, right, left, left.' Zelos thought, trying to remember which way to go if...no, when...when he escapes. 'This place is a bloody maze.'

The swordsman looked at Zelos and said with a smirk,"That's not going to work."

Zelos, putting his best innocent face on, "What are you talking about?"

The man chuckled, then answered, "The base changes shape every hour."

Zelos was puzzled how that guy knew what he was thinking. He went to ask a question but the man stopped suddenly and Zelos realized that they were standing in front of a door.

"Here you go," smirked one of his guards before the door opened. He was pushed in, but managed to stop himself from falling down.

"Hello Zelos, welcome," said Yuan, who then held his arm out towards a chair, "please, sit down."

Zelos held his head up high, looking at Yuan. "Thanks, but I'd rather stand."

"You might want to follow the Lord's orders, you little worm," warned a voice from the door behind him. Recognizing the voice, Zelos whipped around, felt his mouth fall open as he stared at the new arrival incredulously.

" Bu-but, you're dead." Zelos whispered to himself, "You drowned!"

"Did you see me die?" Botta sneered. "Didn't think so! When you left I was saved by Master-" Botta stopped as he caught the glare on Yuan's face. "I was saved by The Black Rouges," he continued.

"The who?" asked Zelos.

"The warriors who kicked you and your friend's asses." Yuan replied.

Zelos heard a door open behind him, he turned towards the sound and saw the swordsman and the axe-wielder, from his earlier fight, enter. The swordsman put something on Yuan's desk and said, "Sorry I'm late, Lord, she stopped me again."

"That's perfectly alright. You may go."

"Yes my Lord," said axe-weilder and swordman, then they turned and left. Yuan turned back to Zelos and looked at him.


The two warriors reached the break room and were greeted with a spear flying at them.

"Hey, watch where you're throwing that, Tanya," said the axe-wielder as she pull the spear from the wall.

"Sorry, Frank used his iron gloves to punch the spear out of my hands," said Tanya reaching over and taking her spear back.

Joshua ran into the room laughing, "They're kicking Zelos out of the base." Upon hearing this they all started to run through the hallways. The axe-weider was just standing there so Tanya stopped, "Hey, Presea, you coming?"

She picked up her axe, threw it onto her shoulder, smiled before answering, "Yes, just daydreaming, on my way."


After their conversation, Yuan gave Zelos a rehairad and forced him out. Zelos flew away with the Black Rouges watching him leave. They turned around and walked back in the base. The swordsman, the archer, Joshua,and the spearwoman, Tanya,walked to the barracks while the rest went training. The three undressed from their battle gear to normal clothes.

"Hey, isn't there a weapon testing today?" asked Tanya.

"Yeah, at the target zone. We better get going. Should we wait for Joshua?"asked the swordsman.

"Nah, leave that stupid archer," said Tanya.

They reached the target zone to see the rest of the Rouges and Yuan waiting for them. Yuan looked confused, then asked, "Where's Joshua? "

"Well... " said the swordsman and Tanya at the same time.

"Hey, wait up!" yelled Joshua as he ran up from behind, glaring at the others.

"Alright, let's get started," said Yuan, turning to Joshua,"we're going replace the bow and arrow."

"WHAT! NOOOOOO!" screamed Joshua.

Yuan waited for Joshua's temper tantrum to subside, "As I was saying, we have redesigned the mana cannon into the mana gun." Yuan said as he pulled a handgun off the table, along witha square clipbefore he continued. "This is a mana clip. You put it here at the bottom of the handle, then fire!" he said as he finished loading the manaclip.

He pointed the gun at a soild steel brick the pulled the trigger. There was a flash of light and a bang . After the shot they looked at the steel brick. there was a small hole going right through it.

"Holy shit. That was sweet, huh, Avian," said Joshua as he started drooling over the gun.

The whipmaster answered,almost drooling over the gun,"Yeahh!"

"This is being mass produced for our army. Oh yeah, I have a job for you. For feeding Cruxis wrong info, Zelos made me promise to protect his friends. You start tomorrow. Captain, time to take your injection," said Yuan.

The swordsman and Yuan walked down the hall. Yuan was talking to the swordsman all the way down the hall before reaching the medical room. The swordsman sat chair with a bunch of metel do-dads above the chair. A renagade docter came to swordsman with a needle in his hand and the swordsman put out his arm.


The swordsman got back to the barracks but he heard something that made him open his eyes in apprehension, "Hi Lloyd!" he turned his head and saw cat ears coming from long purple hair.

"Oh..um. hello.. Saria. Not now...I just got...my injection...crap!" Lloyd said nervously before running away from her.

"Get back here!" shouted Saria, as she went on all four feet,letting her sprint twice as fast.

Lloyd felt himself being tackled into a wall,"AHHHH!" he screamed in frustration.


When he walked back to his room he was rubbing his neck tenderly. He looked in the mirror and saw the bruises and bite marks all over his face and chest and snarled at his reflection.

"So...protozoan got you again, huh. " chuckled Joshua.

"Oh SHUT UP," growled Lloyd as he limped to bed and laid down on his cot.


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