Shortly after they had left, Talim made an offer I just couldn't refuse.

"Want me to take you to see the rest of the plane?"

I almost begged this: "By all means, please do!"

I figured that after lying down on a crate for who-knows-how-long, a trip to see other parts of the plane should be fun. Doing so, helped me to see where we landed exactly. I mean, I know that Italy has two islands, one is Sicily, the other is a name I keep forgetting. What I do know is that I never knew there could even be an airport on that island. And even if there was, I find it hard to imagine that these ninja's would land here, or anywhere else, and still be able to lay low. When we made it some place that actually had a window, I understood how they did it.

By looking through the window, I realized we really landed on water. I'm not sure if an airplane like this has a particular name, but what I do know is that this type of plane can land both on land and on water. That explained how they can lay low.

Eventually, we got to the cockpit. The first thing I remember hearing there were voices. They all came from the radio, which made it easy to assume these guys keep radio contact. It was a pity that everything that was said was in a language I didn't understand. Still don't now, by the way.

"What are they saying?"

"They're saying that they found another body." Talim translated.

"Another one?"

After listening to what the radio says, she explained: "From what I understand, each guardian gives somebody else the same training that the first one had to undergo."

"That would explain why there's still a living guardian there!" I figured.

"So it seems!" Talim agreed.

Something else came to me: "Why is this radio on when there's nobody else here?"

Talim had only just realized the same thing. There was nobody else in the cockpit!

Talim whispered: "Wind. Guide us!"

Not feeling particularly secure now, I said: "That's gonna help us?"

"I didn't sense there's nobody here! What does that tell you?" she said back at me.

Suddenly I realized something else. And Talim seemed to be able to read faces pretty well.

"What?"

"We did leave lots of valuables back at the cargo base." I said.

"Does that money matter right now!" she asked almost disgusted.

"I wasn't talking about the money!"

She realized soon enough that I was referring to the fragments of Soul Edge that were in our bags.

"Sit down," she commanded, "and tell Yoshimitsu we have a problem!"

She left to check the rest of the plane. So she wanted me to make contact with Yoshimitsu, by means of Japanese tools. With each button there was something written, most likely to tell us which button does what. But since it's all in a language I don't understand, it won't be much of help to any of us.

Just then, I noticed something moving away from the plane. Judging from the orange looking glow, the brown flying rocks, and a huge eyeball in the middle, I recognized it as that Charade I have read about.

"Talim!" I called for her, but she couldn't hear me. I would call her again if I were in a better condition to do so.

Just as Charade had entered a cave, which I think is the entrance to the Money Pit, Talim came back.

"They are all stolen!" she said worried.

"I have a pretty good idea where..."

Suddenly, we heard a death cry over the radio, followed by concerned voices.

"The guardian...!" Talim said nearly surprised.

I shook my head as I said this: "I don't think so! It's Charade!"

"What!"

I explained to her: "I saw him... it running out of this plane and into the cave!"

"Are you sure?" she seemed to need confirmation.

"There's no way to look passed that thing!"

"You think he's our thief?"

"Must be!" I answered without hesitation.

"Alright, I'll go get him!" she said before she turned around and left the cockpit.

"Talim wait!" I screamed after her.

But she had gone. What I tried to say is that she can't leave me here while the guardian is still out there. I had no choice but to follow her. Even though I couldn't run that fast, nor could I even really walk, but I had no choice.

After arriving at the scene, it appeared as though I had missed all the action. They had fought Charade, and won. Since I didn't see any remains of Charade, and I knew there was a deep pit nearby, I assumed it was beaten with a ring out. I heard them saying a lot of things, of which I hoped it were words of remorse.

"Thanks for leaving me unprotected!" I said

One of the ninja's thought this was funny: "Ooooh... you need protection from a little girl?"

I snapped back at him: "Try to do anything at all after you fought someone and broke every bone in your body!"

"I'm sorry," Talim apologized, "but I had to act fast! I couldn't let him escape with all our fragments!"

Yoshimitsu attempted to reassure me as well: "I don't think you had anything to worry about! This thing here must have been the Pit's new guardian."

"I doubt that!"

Yoshimitsu didn't understand: "Why?"

"Charade is not interested in a place like this. It's sole interest is to become complete with Soul Edge! That's why it took our fragments."

Yoshimitsu was still puzzled: "Then why would it run in here?"

I told him the what I theorized: "This guy who once owned this place was obsessed with Soul Edge. It is possible that there is something of Soul Edge here that attracted Charade."

Yoshimitsu started to be concerned now: "Like what?"

"Maybe there are some fragments here!" I answered, "Or Soul Edge itself!"

"I doubt to find So..."

He got interrupted when somebody screamed and ran away. As did most of the other ninja's. They ran away from some kind of a fire, that floated in mid-air, as if it were a ghost. Immediately after seeing this thing, Yoshimitsu said something in his own language and attacked it. Or at least tried to, but he might as well be attacking smoke.

Talim was the only one to think I may be of any help at all: "Is there something we can do?"

I told her what I know: "I remember to have read about this thing. But it doesn't exactly say how to defeat it in a situation like our own!"

Talim was starting to sound a little scared: "What do you mean?"

"There are way's for him to be destroyed in a village, but this is a cave! We have nothing usefully here." was my poor explanation.

After watching it nearly killing Yoshimitsu for the next few minutes, I noticed something else was floating with the fire. This gave me an idea on what to do.

"Talim! You'd better distract it!"

"You know how to defeat it?" she asked anxiously.

"I hope so!" I told her, "Just make sure that Yoshimitsu can get here!"

She did as she was told. She began attacking that thing, and told Yoshimitsu to come to me. When he arrived, and before he could ask me what I wanted, I began talking.

"Don't ask anything yet!" I commanded him, "Just look very carefully at it's center."

I was referring to that thing I saw floating with the fire.

"You see it?" I asked. After Yoshimitsu nodded, I said: "Shoot it with your gun!"

He looked at me questionable, but he knew that this may be our only chance.

He shot, we heard something fell, and the fire disappeared.

Talim was surprised to see this: "What did you just do!"

"I remembered to have read that sometimes a soul would be given a piece of charcoal, after which he would return to earth as some kind of a ghost."

Yoshimitsu was surprised to hear this: "You mean to tell us this was a Will-'o-The-Wisp?"

At the time, I had never heard of that name before, so I couldn't answer that question.

Talim picked up the charcoal I mentioned, and turned to me: "Instead of charcoal, would a fragment of Soul Edge do as well?"

"Well," I started to talk laughing, "now we know what Charade was after! And who knows! Maybe this Will-of-something was the guardian here!"

Yoshimitsu still didn't understand everything: "What I can't understand is how that Charade as you call it could even be aboard our vessel, and none of us noticed anything."

Talim seemed to have an answer to this: "...Not exactly. I sensed something familiar earlier, but I thought I was just imagining things!"

That's when it hit me: "Wait! You sensed something familiar?"

Talim was a little puzzled: "Err... yes?"

"What if this Charade was somebody you knew?" I asked.

Talim was still no wiser: "What do you mean?"

I started to tell another story: "The story goes that a man once died, while he had two pieces of Soul Edge in his hands. Later the body as well as the pieces had disappeared, and instead there were footprints. In other words, this man became Charade."

Yoshimitsu began to understand something: "Do you know someone who died and had a piece?"

Despite the fact she whispered this, she said clearly : "Yumi..."

"That would explain where those pieces at the police station went." I began to sound like a detective, "Assuming they ever made it there in the first place."

"Wait!" something had hit Yoshimitsu, "If this Charade is made out of a body and fragments of Soul Edge, then..."

What I said then had a somewhat sarcastic tone, "Then you have another reason to go down that pit now!"

Yoshimitsu talked to his radio. Likely he ordered the other guys to go down the pit now.