Tasuku and Jackknife were walking toward the arcades and sighed.

"I really don't feel like I belong here," Tasuku commented.

"You are saying that? Look at me with this stupid tie and those bracelets. Why did you put one on my tail, that one I don't understand it at all," Jackknife grumbled.

Tasuku chuckled and didn't have time to reply when peoples and their buddies ran away from the arcades.

"Something is going on!" Jackknife yelled as he flew in the air with his mini wings.

Tasuku moved to the side and said, "There must be a monster attacking in the arca-" Tasuku saw Gao running outside with his friends while ignoring Gallows with a pink tie flying away and passing near him, "Gao! What's going on?"

Gao turned toward Tasuku and yelled, "Azi drunk head is kissing Hinako!"

Tasuku and Jackknife turned into gray paper and said nothing until they turned the other side of the arcades, not wanting to see what Gao described, passing in front of the bathroom and not seeing a box entering in it.

Chapter 41: Operation Party Part 3

He then saw something blue and dark behind him, with a box covering his face. His two blade hands seemed to threaten Kiri who turned around and yelled.

"Oh," the monster said. He took the box away and looked at Kiri with his red eyes, "Looks like the presentation turned, cold."

Kiri looked at the monster and said nothing. The monster had blue ice skin covering all of his body and some minimal gray armor over his crotch and his legs. His wings looked like some material used and attached on his back. He had two icy spikes on his head. On the back of his head, he had a blue and black vine with the same form as his tail. He looked like an adult human.

Kiri backed away, but couldn't go far when the blade came close to his face.

"Don't run. I know this is a freezing start, but what you can do when you are born with blades as your arm?" the ice monster asked. He added, "Okay. It's good for scratching your back, but it's pretty hard to hold something," he then moved his bladed arm by his side and said, "I'm sorry for scaring you. I'm not here to hurt you, rest assure of that."

"W-What are you doing here?" Kiri asked nervously.

"I came here- Wait. Silly me. I completely slide on the ice and never give my name," the ice monster said. He put his blade against his chest and said, "I am Ice Blade Joker. Call me Joker." Kiri found the name to be a little familiar, especially the Joker part, "I came here because I was searching for a buddy. I then see you and I'm sure you are going to be a perfect buddy."

"M-me?" Kiri asked surprised.

Joker nodded and replied, "I feel as it is fate that brought us together since I've seen you."

Kiri put his hand on his hand and felt the familiarity stronger, it was like when he met Gao. He felt like they were supposed to meet and be together. With the good result and the friendship he obtained with Gao, he decided to trust it again. He smiled and hugged Joker stomach, "Thank you! When I saw Drum with Gao, I wanted a buddy, but I never thought it would be so soon!" he then let Joker go and lightly shivered.

"My body is cold, but my heart is burning. I'm afraid I'm going to melt," Joker said with a false dramatic voice.

Kiri giggled at the joke and that made Joker chuckled.

"You are a good audience. Now, let's process outside, while the ice is freezing once again," Joker said before putting the box, still on his head on the ground and they walked outside.

Azi grumbled as he drank a cup of coffee and stuck his tongue out of his two undrunk by the sour taste, "Hope he'll sober up fast."

The left head suddenly shook his head and grumbled something.

"Took an hour only," they commented.

The two other heads nodded and released their control.

"What happened? I just remember talking to Tenbu and...it was just black," the left head said.

The two other replied in his mind: You just said to everyone in the arcade that we wanted to lose our virginity. You also convince Hinako to have sex with you in front of everyone, but you end up giving a French kiss to Hinako when we controlled you. We saw putting your tongue in her mouth!

The left head checked the event seen from the other heads memory and gasped and shook his head, Really? With a human...I-

Yes. The two heads replied lightly furious.

The left head panicked and mentally yelled, I didn't mean it! I didn't want to say any of this. I swear!

The two heads released a comfort wave to the left head and replied, We know. Kyoya explained, after chuckling at us... that we drank too much wine and made you drunk. You couldn't control yourself. You had no inhibition at all. We cannot grow ill on something you couldn't control. To evade this situation again, we shall limited the consummation of this delicious wine.

The left head felt reassure and replied, How much time did I cost us?

Not a lot. Just an hour and we only have two to speak with, Gao and Tasuku.

Speaking of Tasuku, the left head as he looked at the boy with blue hair.

They walked toward Tasuku, who was talking with his buddy Jackknife.

Jackknife saw Azi and said, "Azi is coming to us."

Tasuku turned toward Azi, but didn't look at the left face, "Hello."

"What do you want?" Jackknife asked.

Azi took out the recorder and played it, "I had to explain it that many times."

Jackknife nervously chuckled and should have guessed that something like that happened. He then said, "My apologies then. It should have been more predictable."

"Why are you avoiding him?" Azi asked as he noticed Tasuku not looking at his left head in any ways.

"I heard from Gao that... you know," Tasuku nervously replied, not saying what happened.

The two heads looked at the left one for a few seconds before the three heads said in sync, "Let's forget this ever happened. It will be best for everyone, including ourselves."

Everyone nodded and Jackknife said, "We have to get going. We need to find the other's."

Azi showed his hand and said, "Let's shake our hands in peace between your world and ours."

"Ours?" Tasuku asked as he shook Azi's hand.

"We are the ruler of our world Tasuku. We got use to say it that way, even if it's not exactly the case. You do not know what I did to reach my position boy. I started at the bottom of the hierarchy and even below it. I shall make my leave. I almost officially met everyone now," Azi said before walking away. When he was sure Tasuku and Jackknife wasn't there, he grinned, this boy as a lot of potential in him. So much that We need him by our side as soon as possible. His potential is just starting to blossom and might awaken soon. This power must be under our grasp.

Tasuku and Jackknife continued, searching for Gao and the others.

Kiri and his new buddy searched around for Gao.

"I guess we won't find them that easily," Kiri sighed before a blade was delicately put on his shoulder. It lightly freaked him out, but somehow knew it meant no harm.

"It won't be easy to find them, as they ran away from that kiss and froze their very soul," Joker commented.

Kiri nervously chuckled and replied, "Don't want to think of that again."

Joker nodded and said nothing else.

Kiri grumbled when he collide someone and said, "Sorry," he bowed. He raised his head and saw Rouga looked at him, frowning at him, "I didn't do it on purpose."

Rouga lightly grunted as he smirked and replied, "Obviously."

By his side was his buddy, Cerberus grunting at Joker.

"Sorry, but I don't have ice bone for you," Joker said as he grinned with his eyes.

Rouga walked away with Cerberus grunting at Joker again before following him.

Kiri looked at Rouga and wondered who he was. He then continued searching for Gao.

Gao, Drum and Tenbu reached the buffet. Drum smelled the food and was already salivating.

"This is Dragon heaven," Drum commented with his eyes shining like stars.

"I see a lot of variety, maybe we should try something exo-" Tenbu saw Drum already walking for the dumpling octopus. Tenbu sighed and said, "I'll go try the esc-esquargo... Can't pronounce that exotic thing," before flying toward the escargot.

Gao saw his friends and walked toward them. He saw Baku eating a hamburger while Kuguru and Cat Sith watched the boy continuing eating. Gao also noticed Axia eating a passion fruit.

"Hi Gao," Kuguru said.

"Axia just told us what happened a while ago," Cat Sith said before adding, "It cut my appetite."

"That k-" Axia was cut.

"I don't want to remember it. I want to eat," Drum grumbled. He put his claw on his head and said, "Replace the horrible image by pudding. Pudding-" he smelled something delicious and opened his eyes.

"Here's your pudding Drum-kin," Axia said with a small smile.

Drum said, "Pudding!... Thank you," before taking it and eating it. Axia took that chance to hug him, "Let me go!" before trying to push him away.

"I found you Gao!" Kiri said dashing toward his friends.

"Kiri. Where were you?" Gao asked as the boy stopped near him.

"I was hiding in the bathroom. There were too many people around me," Kiri replied. He then pointed to Joker and was about to say something, but was interrupted.

"Who are you?" Tenbu asked before eating an escargot and flying closer with a hot dog in his hand.

"I am Joker," he replied bowing to Tenbu before saying, "I'm Kiri's buddy since the moment we met in the bathroom... Don't misinterpret it."

"Too late," Axia replied with a small smirk.

Tenbu looked at Joker and Kiri. He said nothing, but nodded at Joker.

"Did I freeze the atmosphere?" Joker asked.

Drum looked at Joker and asked, annoyed, "Are you going to give those bad puns every time?"

"As long as Kiri likes them, I don't care what other's thing of them," Joker replied.

Cat Sith turned saw Azi coming to them, "He's coming back."

Kuguru looked at Azi and said, "Hello again."

Azi nodded, "Hi again. I came to speak with you Gao. You are the last kid with your buddy I haven't talked to."

Everyone looked at the left head. Azi sighed and crossed his arms, "Can we put this behind us? We also want to forget about it."

They nodded.

Azi walked toward Gao and said, "I haven't the opportunity to speak with you and reassure you about my intention. I'm sure everyone is worried that I might try something in this world. It's also an opportunity to meet everyone with a buddy."

"No matter what you are saying Azi, I know you have something in your mind. Darkness Dragon world cannot be trusted," Drum replied to Azi. He walked closer and glared at the three headed dragon.

Azi right head took a side-glance at Tenbu. The green dragon nodded. Azi sighed and replied, "I do not care what you are thinking of me little dragon," that pissed Drum off, "No matter what you said, fact remained fact."

"What do you want so much to talk with Gao?" Drum asked.

"Drum. You should let it go," Kuguru suggested.

"You shouldn't provoke him Drum," Baku warned.

"The tension is freezing the place," Joker commented and he took a stance in front of Kiri.

Azi and Drum walked closer and electricity came out of their eyes. The middle head of Azi looked at the two others before turning toward Gao, "Gao," Azi raised his hand, "I want to shake your hands like everyone else in the name of peace between your world and my world."

Gao smiled and raised his hand and was about to shake the hand when Drum stood in their way, which greatly displeased Azi.

"You cannot shake a hand full of lies!" Drum yelled.

Azi frowned and replied, "You are only saying based of our origin. We all know that dragons have their hands covered with blood."

Drum grunted when Tenbu slapped Drum cheek with his tail before scolding him, "Calm down Drum. You have to calm down no matter what."

Drum massaged his cheek and was about to reply when the ship suddenly trembled. Everyone except Tenbu, Azi and Joker lost their balance and felt on the ground.

"What is that?" Azi furiously yelled looking around him.

Kyoya entered in the roof and said, lightly angry, "The ship is under attack. Everyone should be ready to receive them," he took out his deck card and put it on his shoulder.

"Who?" Everyone asked.

"Not important. Prepare to receive them," Kyoya replied.

Every buddy, except Tenbu, turned into their real form while the humans prepared their deck, except Kiri who didn't have one.

Azi was the same size as the others, except Cat Sith who was already in his real form.

"You are smaller than I thought Azi. It's freezingly shocking to see that," Joker said.

"Freezingly isn't a word that exist and I can't be in my real size... unless you want the ship to sink," Azi replied with his more intimidating and natural ferocious face.

Joker slide a deck card from his blade right in Kiri's hand, "Take this. You'll need it."

"Thanks," Kiri said as he put it on his waist.

Drum activated his drill and said, "They'll regret facing us."

"I hope everyone else is ready," Gao commented.

"I'll make sure of it by reaching the communication room. We have to send the alert and warned everyone," Baku suggested.

Everyone charged at the exit while Baku searched for a way to send the alert.

AC: This is the end of this chapter. Finally some action is coming up.

Chapter 42: Operation Party Part 4