A/N:

There is a part in this chapter and the previous one where I have used a headcannon I've made. Once the person meets their soul mate a tattoo starts to slowly appear on their back. The more they interact, more visible the tattoo gets. The less they interact it starts to fade. It does not fade completely though, if there is no interaction for a very long time, then the outline of the tattoo still remains. I am going to implement it for Yohamaru and the other ships that will come later. don't worr you'll find out what the tattoos would look like soon. Unless you've read my tumblr post. I'm just going to make this fic in chronological order. I had had chapters before which weren't in any way related and so I thought I'd write chapters to make it better. Any way here we go-

Hanamaru woke up. She was cold and hungry. She had no clue where she was. The only thing she knew at The time was that she was tied to a chair, with a gag in her mouth and in a room with no windows whatsoever. Just a door. A metal door. The last thing she remembered was being dragged by someone who pulled her side. Hanamaru was scared. She tried to break free of the ropes. It didn't work. In the process she tipped over the chair onto its side making it and her fall. A muffled zura came from her mouth as pain seized her side. She sat there scared her heart beating quickly. She wondered how did those protagonists in the books she read escape out of this like it was nothing.

Then a sound came from the door. The door hissed as it opened and Hanamaru was blinded by the bright light. She blinked her eyes a few times and saw two silhouettes standing in that bright light. "Pick her up and take that gag out." said the one with a shorter pony tail standing on the right. The one with the longer pony tail approached her and set her chair upright and pulled the gag out. From Hanamaru's mouth a whole bunch of stuff came out like, "Where am I and what do you want with me zura!?"
"Put it back on." the other instructed. The gag was placed back on her mouth, her voice now muffled. Hanamaru tried to find out who was she, the one with the long ponytail, but she had a mask on. All that she could make out was that she had blue hair and smelled like the ocean.

The blue head went back beside the other girl. "If you plan to escape you can't. Even if you plan to, we'll kill you. Even if you use magic we will kill you. We won't hesitate. After all you're just a mini part of the grand scheme."

Hanamaru had a whole bunch of thoughts and feelings coming up. 'What scheme zura? Why am I here zura? Will I even see daylight zura? I'm scared zura...' her train of thoughts were broken by the blue head when she began to speak. "You are here to attract your friends here so that they can tell us information related to their previous mission."

Hanamaru's mind went into overdrive. She remembered giving the Three Mermaids a huge stack of books. Old books that were at the back of the most recent books. None of them had seen those books before. Hanamaru didn't even know they existed till she was reorganizing the library again with Ruby. All those books were about an ancient swords. Only the best could obtain that sword. It was said that a great squadron called μ's had created these swords and were known for their power. The problem is that these swords had the power to destroy as well create. The squadron had reached a point where they were invincible, or at least till they felt that they were too powerful and that they must destroy the swords. The problem they couldn't. So they hid the swords locked up deep in a place. No one knows where the swords are now except for them. The next problem. No one knows where they are. The Three Mermaids had found out where one of them are and that was the forest which they went to along with her and Ruby.

It was because of this that now she is stuck in a place she least expected to be. All she hoped was that someone would save her but she didn't want her friends to be in danger because of her. "If you want you can join us. You seem to be a quite knowledgeable person. If you do we will free you... after we get what we want." the other one said.

Hanamaru shook her head in denial, vigorously. There was no way she would betray her friends. "So then rot here till your friends come." the two laughed manically and the door closed shut. Hanamaru could only hope she would come out of here alive.

Yoshiko zoomed through the branches of the trees as she made her way to their hideout. She had used a location spell to find it and her predictions were right. It was in the same place where she found it last time. She had went on an errand for Nozomi when she accidentally stumbled upon it and some how escaped from the area without getting caught.

"I hope Zuramaru's alright." she muttered. She knew she was almost there. Her mind was only focused on Hanamaru. Yoshiko felt as if it was her fault that Hanamaru got kidnapped. After all all that happened to her was most of the time bad. The only things which she considered as great was meeting Hanamaru and Nozomi(sometimes she'd regret it) and learning magic. It was something which fascinated her. The power flowing through her veins felt nice and she felt more like an fallen angel.

She reached the spot. A boring building stood in the clearing. She was surprised to find it barely guarded. 'Where are the guards? They usually heavily arm the place.' she thought as she used a spell to make herself invisible. She jumped off the tree and made her way slowly to the building while analyzing the situation. It was unlike her but she really didn't have a choice, she didn't want to accidentally hurt her friend. Thanks to her bad luck she stepped on a twig that wasn't there before. A huge axe from the tree in front of her swung. She jumped to the tree on her right, barely dodging it. That's when she noticed that if that was hidden then what else would be lurking. She knew those bandits weren't your average bandits. They were specialized in warfare and magic making them even deadlier. She wasn't a skilled magician like Nozomi. Yoshiko wished she payed more attention to Nozomi's magic classes instead of trying to escape.

She didn't learn a spell that would remove the illusion. Nozomi being one of the best magician's in the country would know but Yoshiko did remember a small conversation she had with Nozomi who said, "Some spells only come with continuous use of magic or experiences. Not all are easy like the ones I'm teaching you now. You end up crafting your own spells sometimes in the process. Magic is based off of your emotions even though it might not seem like that."

Yoshiko understood that now. She knew that her skill was not even close to the mark to remove this one. She couldn't teleport inside because she had no clue how it looked like. When you teleport you or someone you need to imagine the place. Yoshiko looked at the ground, dejected. She really wanted to save Hanamaru. That's when the idea struck her. She smirked at the ground. This was going to be fun.

Hanamaru sat there cold. She didn't know how much time passed. She was scared beyond her wits. The blue haired girl, her kidnapper, had been coming often, asking her to join, threatening her. There was something she noticed though. The girl looked uncomfortable, like she didn't like what she was doing but Hanamaru felt as if it was just a trick of her eyes after all she was hungry for hours and they hadn't brought her food. Her stomach growled.

She felt the ground rumble beneath her. She let out a muffled 'zura' in fear. She wanted to go home. She wanted to bask in the warmth of books. All she hoped that all of this was a dream a nightmare. Then suddenly, the ground in front of her collapsed. Now she was terrified beyond anything. Out from that hole came another girl. "Zuramaru is that you?" a familiar voice said. She nodded her head. "Thank god your safe. This place has the weirdest things I've ever seen. I should ask Nozomi about some stuff but that aside." Yoshiko said as she removed the gag and the rope which tied Hanamaru to the chair. "T-thanks zura." Hanamaru hugged Yoshiko tight and started to sob. "How did you know where to find me?" she said between sobs. "I am a fallen angel of course I'd know where my little demons are. Anyway, Zuramaru we need to get out of here before-"

"I enter this room and trap you both." said the blue head who appeared out of nowhere. Yoshiko's eyes widened. Hanamaru bit back a scream. "The door's locked and you can't go back the way you came from. There is no escape." she grinned as she neared the two with a ball of magic in her hand. "Zuramaru take my hand." Yoshiko whispered. Hanamaru did as she was told. With each step Hanamaru was frightened. Her heart beated faster and faster. She could feel Yoshiko's hand trembling. A warm sensation was felt on her back. She did not know the meaning behind the sensation on her back. "Yo-Yoshiko chan..." she said quietly.

At the last moment Yoshiko moved her other hand and the next thing Hanamaru knew was that she was in the forest in front of a quaint cottage in a clearing. Yoshiko left Hanamaru's hand and fell face first into a muddy puddle. Hanamaru felt weak to pick up Yoshiko. In fact she felt weak to even walk. Everything seemed to spin around her. She could see her friends come out of the cottage and running towards them. The next thing she knew she fell on the ground beside Yoshiko and closed her eyes out of fatigue.

Yoshiko woke up to the sound of laughing. She opened her eyes to find Nozomi sitting along with the other people she met before stuff happened and Hanamaru across the table on the otherside if the room. Nozomi looked back and approached Yoshiko while the others waved at her. "Ah your awake." Nozomi continued while the others were again busy with their conversation, "That act you pulled of was surprisingly courageous for you. Usually your such a scaredy cat."
"Fallen angels are not scared of mortals or anything. Mortals are just puny and worthless. I only did that so that her comrades won't feel sad." she said trying to protect her pride. "You mean you're in love." Nozomi teased with a smug look. "Fallen angels don't fall in love with mortals like her."
"Your totally head over heels for her."
"Am not."
"Firstly you were checking her out while watching them." Yoshiko turned beet red at the statement. "Secondly look at your back."
"My back... are you lying Nozomi?"
"Would my cards lie?"
"Maybe."
"Do you want me to washi washi you?"
"No it's fine..." Yoshiko said covering her chest with her arms. She got up, stumbled a bit and headed to the restroom. She didn't really believe what Nozomi said except for the first one. There was no way Hanamaru would be her... no there was no way. It was only her crush. An infatuation. She was sure she would get over it. Just like that other girl she had a crush on. She got in the bathroom, shut the door and took off her shirt.

From out side they heard a scream. Everyone except for Nozomi turned in the direction. "What happened to Yoshiko chan zura?" Hanamaru asked, concerned. "Nothing. She just realized something." Nozomi replied and gave Hanamaru a wink.