When the dust settled and the firing ceased, they could see the Dark Figure was no longer in the center of the Crimson Guard circle. He was perched like a gargoyle on the corner of a nearby building staring at them with a devilish stare from under the brim of a hat he was wearing. His nails were digging into the stone of the building, his wings folded in towards him.

Everyone stared at him with awe, wonder and fear. Some how he was unscathed from the bullets that were supposed to turn him to Swiss cheese. Some thought he was using dark magic to shield himself, others though the had the powers of a lycan and had pushed the bullets out of him but the majority knew all the rumors about this hell's creature were true and the bullets didn't have any effect at all.

"It is him!" Samos said with awe.

Jak had put the white rat on his shoulder and she went to sleep behind his kneck.

X stood without changing his facial expression and asked the Crimson Guards a simple question, a question of which he knew no one would probably answer for him but he asked anyway, "Where is Cherry?" It was more of a statement than a question actually. "Where is Cherry?" he asked again, this time more authoritive and louder.

One of the Crimson Guards, not trying to be a smart-ass, said to him, "There are cherries in the market over there." He pointed in the direction of the market place.

"That's not what I'm talking about human!" Being frustrated for hours, he released some of his anger on the solider and threw a circular flat rock he had sharpened in his spare time out in the dessert at him like a ninja star. It went through the Guard's armor and got stuck in his neck. The Guard fell to the ground, struggling to breath. The other Guards around him just stared and watched him die.

You killed him!" -D

Yes, I know." -X

But you killed him!" -D

Be strong D. In the human's world it is kill or be killed. You must learn this and understand it. The humans have no concern for other species. If they find her, they will probably kill her because of the fact that she is a rat and not a human." -X

But, if you kill one of them, aren't you becoming something we don't want to become?" -D

I like to call it, getting revenge." -X

But that's not nice." -D

Too bad, let's just focus on the matter at hand right now witch is to find her." -X

Where could she be?" -D

"What are you talking about than?" Another Crimson Guard asked, choosing his words with care as to not seal his fate as well.

X lifted his head and smelt the air. Fire. He stood up and turned to the direction of the smell. At the harbor, the wooden maze of bridge had somehow caught on fire. "Damn it!"

He crouched down and leaped into the air and took flight.

"Where's he going?" Daxter said.

"I don't know, let's follow him." Jak said.

The five of them ran after X through the crowd of confused Crimson Guards. When they could go no further, they were at the dock. By the time they had reached the docks, X was already a good ways away from them. The houses built over the water had flames around their base. Some had fallen into the water because the wooden platform that held it up had gone to ashes. Most of the dock that was connected to the city had already burnt to ashes or was collapsing due to weakened support boards.

X was looking around, all senses alert for some form of life, if any, that was crying out for help.

He heard the screaming of a mother, her infant crying. He looked around and spotted them. The mother had the infant in her arms; they were in front of a house that had fire all around it. She was trying to escape the flames that were all around her.

X tilted his wings and flew down as close to the flames as he could get without burning himself. He grabbed the woman and her child. With the added weight he had to flap his wings harder than normal to rise above the flames.

He flew back to the city and dropped the woman and her infant of with Jak and the others then went back to the burning buildings to search for more people that were trapped.

Around half an hour later X had saved a total of three men, two children, and the woman with her infant.

"Thank you for saving us mister!" one of the children, a little boy, said.

"Yes, thank you sir!" The woman said, hugging her infant.

The Crimson Guards had come out of confusion a while ago and had started to put the fire out. A few of the guards were getting blankets for the people X had saved and were checking them for injury.

"I thought you didn't like humans X." Samos said.

He just looked at Samos with a confused yet scared expression and remained silent.

"I don't think that's X." Jak said, examining him. His eyes weren't the genital eyes of D nor were they the evil eyes of X. They were like the eyes of a cobra; you could be lost in a trance if you stared at them for too long yet they were beautiful like the sunrise.

"Aren't you gunna say something?" Daxter said, walking towards him.

"I think that this is Drakenok." Samos said.

Daxter had Drakenok's full attention. And just as Daxter was walking toward him, he was backing away.

"If you keep backing up, you're gunna fall into the…" Daxter started to say. Drakenok fell backwards in to the water drenching Daxter, "…water."

"You okay Dax?" Jak asked, walking over.

"Yeah."

Drakenok got out of the water and looked at his jacket, he was soaking wet. Samos started to walk toward him.

"Are you alright?" Samos asked him.

Drakenok quickly looked at Samos and became scared again. Samos took a step towards him.He quickly crouched down, jumped upand took flight towards the dessert.

A/N:Yeah I know that was short. I just had a few minutes to type the chapter up at school and my brain aint workin today. I am on sleeping mode not typing mode. Anyway...I can't think of anything else to type so...till next update I guess. Oh andif you were wondering what he was talking about, Cherry is the rat Jak hason his shoulder. Jak hasn't given him the rat because he has no clue what the rat's name is.

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