A teenage girl checked her Chaotic cards. She looked at her creatures, mugics, attacks and battlegears, "Tomorrow. I'm so going to beat all of you," she gazed at the window as her eyes shined. It was raining heavily right now.

She spun her chain as she finished her boring homework. She wished to show everyone that she would beat them with Crimson and his Underworlders. She planned her strategy.

"Cassandra! Someone wants to see you!" her mother said with a serious tone.

"Coming mom!" she went left her chamber and climbed down the stairs. She saw an officer at the entrance.

"You are Miss Cassandra Kalinkas right?" he asked her.

"Yeah," she replied.

The officer danced a little around the subject before he asked, "When was the last time you've seen Alexandre Desjardins?"

"I've- Wait. Did something happen to him?"

"Yes. We are trying to figure out where he is. So, we need to retrace his steps. When was the last time you've seen him?"

"Afterschool. We split up when we returned home. He told me he was going back home. We were talking together with my other friends about our Chaotic matches tomorrow."

"His mother signaled that he didn't return from school, after texting her that he would soon be back," the officer replied.

Her thought stopped when she realised that her friend disappeared. He might had been kidnapped. She continued to talk with the officer, incapable of helping him more. She sat down and got dizzy with the hundred of questions in her mind. None of them gave her an answer.

Not for more than two decades.

Chapter 15: The Mysteries Of The Messenger Part 1

Sarah sighed as she gazed at Miss Kalinkas. Today was the day they retuned to Kaizeph and they got a surprise new member for the expedition. Kaz mother. She had insisted on coming with them.

"Still. I want to know why you want to come with us so much Miss Kalinkas? You should focus on your next match and-"

"That match can wait. I have to go to Kaizeph. It's the only clue I have," she replied.

"About what?" Tom asked.

Kaz forgot to explain why she wanted to come with them, "It's because she recognises the Chaotic Player on the tablet."

The three were silent for a few seconds. The information was very slow to enter in their brain.

"W-what?" Sarah asked.

Peyton slapped his hands with a large smile, "That's like really helpful for us. We got an answer. Who is he?"

"Alexandre Desjardins. He was my friend in high school. One day, he disappeared out of thin air. When he came back, he had scars on his face and his chest. He told me he was in a place called Kaizeph and nothing more. He said we wouldn't believe anything," she resumed what she knew. They could hear her raw emotions. Emotions she had back then. Worried sick for that Alexandre and a hint of desperation.

"So, he came to Perim," Tom commented.

"But not like us. Not with a code. He disappeared," Sarah replied.

That made the four teenagers thought about it. It wasn't only that. Kaz remembered that his mother said that they didn't play this game with a scanner or online before. Maybe this place wasn't even there.

Sarah thought that the boy didn't have code here or on Perim. That made her curious about how he physically came on Kaizeph. That was a question. The other question was if it really him. With how her friend's mother reacted she had to assume it was true.

They knew it was a friend of Kaz mother and he disappeared to Kaizeph. How, that was their next question.

Tom also had one on his own. With his encounter with Phelphor, he wondered what else did that boy do when he was there and how long. He knew he united the tribes against the M'arrillian's first invasion.

"Anyway. We should go now," Cassandra said with impatience.

Kaz was surprised that his mother had that side, it really ate her all those years, he realised. "You know how to sneak in mom?"

She let a small smile. He took it as a yes.

"Everyone brought a coat?" Tom asked.

He got a positive answer from everyone.

One last check and they were ready to go.

It took a while but the group managed to reach in the Wind Quadrant of Kaizeph. This time, they knew that sneaking in will be harder. They didn't know if there was invisible Mipedians around. Each of them already had their fur coat to protect them from the cold. It wasn't an intense cold as they expected, but they could see the steam coming out of their mouth.

They hid behind a pillar of ice and looked at the entrance. It was a large gate made of ice. It was currently opened. However, they were Mipedians guarding the entrance.

"And we don't know if there is more," Sarah grumbled.

"We don't have a Spectral Viewer," Peyton sighed.

"Maybe we should have tried the water gate once again," Kaz said.

"Too risky. Najarin is expecting us to come back. We have to wait more," Tom replied.

"We are already here," Cassandra added as she pointed her scanner. She zoomed in and observed the guards, "You really think there is one of them invisible at least?"

"It's always possible. It's hard to predict when there is one, more or zero," Peyton replied with a funny mysterious tone.

The teenage girl sighed, "Let's try when the guards are going away. If there is one invisible, he will yell something. We just have to port out when they see us."

"That's our only option," the red-haired boy commented.

"I'll trust you all on this," his mother said.

They waited a few minutes for an opportunity to come. A Mipedian soldier came to the guards and said something. The opportunity It was offered to them when the guards followed the soldier elsewhere. They didn't hear what they talked about.

"This is our chance bros," Peyton said.

The five quickly rushed towards the gate and infiltrated the Wind Quadrant of the city. Miss Kalinkas had no problem following the young and never let them outrun her. She brought the perfect shoes for those kinds of situations. Being aware that she will need to run in Chaotic, she made sure she had shoes. High heels were out of questions.

The five panted as Peyton gave a thumbs up.

"Good. Let's find a place to scan, so we won't have to do that later," Sarah decided.

The group nodded and began to search for a spot.

Meanwhile, two Mipedians watched those who passed the gate.

"Looks like Peyton and the other Chaotic Players managed to get in," a Mipedian said with a small smirk. He was a pale green Mipedian with a short beard and whiskers towards the yellow color and amber eyes. His yellow fin on the side of his head and the top were raised up. He wore a blue cape and a loincloth of the same color. His long tail tapped the ground as he waited for an answer. He then lightly chuckled.

Taffial nodded and asked, "Are you sure this is fine for them to come in here?"

"I've been waiting for them to come," the marquis replied, "Now let's follow them. Maybe we will learn many secrets from the Cothica if they don't know we are listening to them. They won't break the rules… if they don't know we are eavesdropping on them."

That brought the excitement in the Cothica Hunter who nodded. The two turned invisible and began stalking the quintuplets of humans.

Tom nodded with satisfaction, "We found the perfect spot to come back eventually."

"Now it's time to find anything about Alexandre," Kaz mother said as she looked around.

"We have to be careful mom. Mipedians are surely around."

She apologised. She didn't want to ruin that opportunity.

"We should listen and find out where they are focusing their activities as we go forward," Sarah said as she took the lead.

The others followed her.

They quickly stopped when the path divided in three. One to the left and two to the right. Going to the left seemed like a bad idea as they were traces of something heavy transported recently. It was enough to tell them that Mipedians were over there. Most of them.

The right was divided in two parts, one lead upwards while the other one downwards.

"I'm guessing that we will go above if we take that one," Tom said as he pointed at the upward one.

"We should do downward. It will be colder outside," Kaz guessed.

"Maybe," Sarah replied. She was uncertain about it.

Cassandra closed her eyes and thought as much as she could. Echoes of her old memories resurfaced and said, "Downward. If there is a city, it's not outside."

Her son looked at his mother and nodded, "Let's go downward."

No one disagreed. It was clear that the mother had a possible chance of pointing at a good direction.

They took the path and marched in a short road.

"Why is that path so thigh?" Kaz wondered.

Sarah replied, "I think it's like in Mount Pillar. Those thigh paths are used for defensive purpose. The invaders cannot go all in in those kinds of path."

It made sense. Peyton said, "Then your mom is rightyo," the boy gave her a thumbs up.

The woman nodded with a small smile.

The path opened up after a moment and they stopped as they watched a city sculped in the ice. The five looked around and after a closer look, they could see many things made of rocks and extremely rotten piece of woods. It was obvious that some part came from somewhere else. Proof that some trade was made between quadrants.

"This is incredible," Peyton commented.

Cassandra eyes shined for a few seconds. It was a massive discovery as her desire for adventures was filled once again. However, she was the first one to focus on their purpose, "What should we search here?"

That brought the others at reality. Kaz said, "We should find more tablets. Even if we can't understand them, they are images on them. Some might help us tell us why they believed we came from the Cothica."

"Which is not the case," the teenage girl grumbled.

"And more about your friend mom."

The adult nodded and asked, "How do we proceed?"

"We split up in two groups and search in the houses. It won't be long since we need to find some tablets," Tom suggested.

"Big house that stands out. We found most of them in some kind of library in the Water Quadrant," Sarah reminded them.

"I'll go with Tom and mom. We'll tell you if we find anything interesting," the red-haired boy declared quickly.

Sarah sighed and nodded at Peyton, "We will search here while you go explore those houses at the top of the hill. It will be quicker with you three together."

"Let's go," Miss Cassandra said, taking the lead.

The two best friends followed her while the other two remained behind.

"And careful for any Mipedians. If you see or hear one, yell Mipedian," the blond teenage girl ordered.

"Yes," they replied.

The two teams began their investigations. They began by focusing on the buildings that stood out. Those were either the biggest one or those with the strangest structures. Some of them felt like it was an important place but contained nothing inside. Those were used when they were habitants long ago. Now, it was abandoned and everything needed was brought with them.

Peyton noticed a few things and commented, "It really feels like it was the Mipedians who lived here. The way everything is made just looks like anything they made out of rock. None like the usual tents."

"It's obviously not something a Danian would made or an Underworlder," Sarah replied.

"And we know the Overworlder lived in the Water Quadrant," the brown-haired boy concluded.

They continued searching. The two eventually had to focus on the small houses as nothing stood up in the tall buildings.

As for Tom, Kaz and Cassandra, their search was also fruitless. In most of the large buildings, they weren't anything interesting. The only things were either useless or pointless. It was extremely dusty and they were unsure if some of the things that was left behind turned to dust.

They resorted to explore the smaller houses and split up.

A struck of luck came when the woman went into a small house. She was about to pass by when she noticed a secret hole at a corner of the house. She approached it and kneeled down. She looked inside and grabbed two heavy things. From where they were, it was difficult to pull them out of that hole. She pulled with everything she had and failed. The mother sighed, "Kaz. Tom. I need help!"

The two teenage boys came and saw what she was pointing at. The three of them worked together to take out those tablets. Kaz gazed inside if there was more but they got everything.

The three looked at the two tablets and saw that one, had something sculped in English. The other had had the image of a Mipedian and the human. Kaz and Cassandra recognised the creature from the previous tablet, still fresh enough in their memories. That sculpture was of better quality than the one in the Underworld.

"It is Alexander," she recognised his trait. She took out a picture of her teenagerhood time with her friends. They looked very similar, except for the scares. They was less of those.

"I'll get the others before we read it," Tom said as he went outside. They had a tablet to read soon.

Unbehold to them, the two invisibles Mipedian were eager of that discovery. One of the tablets was in the human language. Taffial felt his muscles tense as his excitement reached it highest point. A great discovery was upon them.

AC: This is the end of the first part. I hope you enjoy it.