CHAPTER TWO:

I slid into the padlocked door a few seconds before it locked behind the huge brunette existing and looked around. I was in the Dragneel's official base. Mr. Dragneel himself's office to be specific. For what, you ask? Anything. Any type of clue that could lead to my father's whereabouts. You see, his last big job for the Dragneel's cost them $300,000,000 in cash and they had be hounding Papa about it for the past month now. So it's obvious who was after him. I just wanted to know why. If I figured out the motive, I could find out the most logical place for Papa to run to for help… and get to him. I walked around to the back part of Mr. Dragneel's desk and pulled open the black wooden desk drawer.

Nothing. Papers about the delivery gone wrong. Money debts. A book with names in it. A sc- I doubled back. The book could have Papa's name in it! I went to grab it when I heard voices outside the steel plated door. Sh*t! I snatched the book, tossed it in my bag, and slammed the drawer as quietly as possible. Flipping my bag over my shoulders I ran behind the door as it opened revealing a giant, muscular man with slightly yellow tanned skin and long, thick red hair. His amber eyes were glaring at a younger, thinner man.

"Silence imbecile! I shall not hear of this forsaken nonsense anymore!" The big man stomped further into the room followed by the persistent little pipsqueak.

"But Mr. Dragneel, I thought" he began and I took the opportunity to sneak past them and out the door as they argued.

I was about halfway down the hallway when a gunshot rang out, clearly from the direction of the office. D*mn… not much room for creative thoughts is there? But it was none of my business. I was just trying to escape without being caught.

I ran down hallway after another. I was lost. Impossibly lost. In my rush to escape I almost ran into guards and had to double back and ended up getting lost.

I stopped at the edge of a corner and peeked inwards. 2 guards. I could make a dash for the other side and jump out the window onto the tree branch and scale down it and run or I could- "You know, breaking and entering is punishable by jail time, Blondie," a voice whispered into my ear. I jumped and a hand shot around to muffle my mouth, "But we kill trespassers here."