Canary was manhandled and being dragged against her will. She, a girl who until recently cosplayed as a maid to satisfy customers, dragged through the ground in the outskirts of town and glaring into both her kidnappers eyes. The lard can sauntered behind Canary while literally carrying his large weight around.

" Let me go, you perverts!" Canary shouted while being carried.

" Shut your mouth, you annoying little girl!" The lard man exclaimed. " You will not be a hindrance in front of the boss. And you will certainly watch what you say and will speak nicely to him in his humble presence, capheesh?"

Canary had nowhere to run and nowhere to hide. After driving in a strangers care and smelling nothing but bad body odor, Canary realized she was rendered useless. She was incompetent to leave and couldn't run from the stronghold around her—concrete wall made of iron and fifty guards with swords and other weapons in their hands.

The only thing Canary could see now was the opague darkness over her head. The darkness made her eyes squinty. With every passing blink, Canary felt more lousy and fatigued. She however was in a humdrum where she lost all interest in the situation and yawned.

" Boss, we brought you something special," one of the men carrying Canary said in an optimistic tone. " We brought a girl for you to play with?"

" Is that so?" Said a man who hide himself in the shadows. " Pull out a chair and set her down. I have something's I'd like to discuss with her."

The men were obedient too what the man was telling them as they pulled a chair out like loyal dogs and set Canary down on it. But using their own brains, all the men used rope to wrap it around Canary and squeeze it tightly around her waist. Canary struggled to break free from the ropes, but she only got string burns in the process.

" Let me go!" Canary yelled. " If you guys don't let me go now, my friends are going to come here to rescue me. And let me tell you about my friends. They're—"

" Quiet!"

Canary was silenced. From the darkness a face peered down and looked into her eyes. The man's face was revolting to look at. The left side was of a dark-skinned man, but the right side was bandaged with red rags; no hair on either side. The man didn't wear a suit but had dozens of belts wrapped around him and instead of pants had an obi sash wrapped around his waist and red stickers on his legs. Behind him was a rapier tied together by a piece of string.

" Your not Nana," the man said in a disgusted voice. " Nana is cuter. So much cuter."

" Get me out of here!" Canary shouted as she ignored the man's comment. " Where am I? And what did Nana ever do to you?"

" What did Nana ever do to me?" The man toyed with Canary as he pretended to be thinking while stroking his chin. " Hmmmmm. Well, it doesn't matter. Nana has a big debt with me and now I'm going to take it out on YOU!"

All the men wearing biker outfits then surrounded Canary. They gleefully laughed to themselves, stuck their tongues out, and they all raised their hands up preparing to grope Canary.

Canary was scared. She tried getting out of the chair but the ropes were wrapped too tightly around her arms. The only thing Canary could do was watch as more and more men in biker suits walked towards her with malevolent faces and their tongues sticking out.

" W-wha….what are you going to do to me?"

" Me?" The man said nonchalantly as if sounding surprised. " I'm not going to do anything but sit back and watch my men play with you. Usually their sentimental about what they do, but even they need something to ravish from time to time. Their supposed to only go after Nana, but I cannot deny them fresh meat when it's so close to them. Have a nice time, not-Nana."

Canary was restrained from the muffled rope around her arms. One man tried grabbing her, but Canary bite his arm. Two more than tried grabbing her from the front, but she kicked them in their faces. Canary continued to bite/kick away any person that tried to touch her and smiled as she did.

" It's a good thing my taboo charm doesn't block me from any vulgar or violent acts," Canary thought as she smiled kicking more men away. " All I have to do is keep this up and I'll be safe."

" Girl, it's not very nice to hit people," the leader said with a voice that was both grim and nonchalant. From his left hand a large white circle shot out. A buzzing sound was heard when mist seeped out of the circle and shrouded the area. The only thing heard from the mist was a sound, it said, " Let's see how well you fight back now , not-Nana."

Canary felt squeamish from the smoke. Her mouth was beginning to feel nauseated as she groaned from her mouth. The drowsiness of the smoke was nauseating enough to make normal people wretch in pain, but Canary willed herself not to give in.

" No. This is not a part of violence. It's a global catastrophe. And I can't reach my pen with these darn ropes around me." From her chest, the taboo charm burned away until it was nothing but pieces of ash. The men could now resort to violence. " Oh no, what am I going to do?"

From the ground a noise could be heard. The noise reminded Canary of moles digging in the dirt. As the noise became louder, a smile spread on Canary's nauseated mouth. " Good. I knew you would come to save me, Kazu."

A loud noise came from the depths of the ground. Large chunks of rubble were thrown everywhere as something emerged underneath the ground. The person however could not be seen as the light through the smoke was dim.

" An unwanted guest." The leader raised his left hand up as a giant circle of light appeared. " Let's just see who are mysterious lady is."

Wind was blown in from the white circle and it vacuumed the smoke. When the smoke was cleared, the leader saw the person responsible for the ruckus. The person was a girl, but all her body was encrusted with sandy rocks, long stones protruding from her shoulder pads, two stones emerged behind her legs, and a silver helmet on her head. Below her were the unconscious bodies of all his lackeys, and the girl was untying the ropes around Canary.

" What took you so long, Kazu?" Canary said as the girl finally finished untying her ropes and she rubbed her wrists from string burns. " I thought I was going to get violated."

" Sorry," Kazu quickly replied in a cherish tone. " Traffic was a mess down there. Plus I had to look all over town just to find you. Tee-hee."

" This girl looks like an idiot," the leader thought staring at Canary and Kazu. " And just like most idiots, their weak to attacks from behind. Smoke Pandemonium!"

The leader bashed both his fists together and a giant silver circle of light emitted out. Two misty figures flew out of the circle and dashed towards Kazu from her behind. The figures that were dashing looked like humans, one abnormality was their eyes were red, and both of them carried a sword made entirely out of mist. Both figures laughed as they sneaked up behind Kazu and prepared to stab her, but Canary took out a key made entirely out of gold in response and smiled.

" Harpy, time to help out!"

Canary flipped her small gold key in the air. As the key continued to spin round 'n' round, the white metal embedded at the end glowed white. Then a veil of white light glowed from the key. The glow however soon faded and a hybrid half-breed flew out. The hybrid looked human but had wings on his back, bird claws and bird feet, its chest was ruffled with black-brown feathers, had greasy black human hair, and a red headband on his forehead.

" Ready to flew for you, babe," the male harpy said as he flew down and landed promptly on his feet besides Canary. " Is there anything you'd like me to do for you, babe?"

" Stop calling me 'babe', Aero!" Canary shouted with a look of pure evil on her face. " Just do me a favor and get rid of those…thingies."

" Whatever you say, babe." Aero flew in the air, did loops, then swooped down and sliced the mist creatures in half with his claws. When he was done, he swooped back to Canary and groped her right breast with his left claw. " The only one who gets too touch these is m—"

" NOT IN YOUR LIFE!"

Canary raised her feet up and kicked Aero from under his neck. Aero shuddered when he was kicked by Canary, but soon recovered and turned his face at the leader. The leader sweatdropped at the comical scene of Canary kicking her own Spirit, and he scoffed.

" I can't believe you trained your own creature to be a pervert. Not a very smart thing to do, girl."

" I DIDN'T TRAIN HIM TO BE A PERVERT!" Canary shouted with a look of evil on her face. " He was a pervert when I met him! And I hate it when he touches me!"

" Gosh, that would kind of hurt me in the heart, Canary," Aero murmured as his face was depressed. " And here I am risking my life for you."

" Well, it doesn't matter to me what your creatures like. I've never lost to a Celestial Spirit before and I ain't starting now."

"Oh yeah? You probably haven't lost because you haven't faced any creature like my Aero. He's so strong he'll rip you in half. Aero, get him!"

" Right on it, babe. Top Speed!"

Aero dashed towards the leader at a speed faster than lightning. He however wasn't undetectable as the leader could still see traces of Aero zipping through the room. As Aero came closer to him, the leader pressed a button where he was sitting and hatches behind him shot open.

" I think it's time you felt the wrath of what a real magician can do. Smoke Tornado! "

A giant circle of light green light emitted from the leaders body and a giant tornado of air blew out of him. The air travelled behind him and was sucked in by the hatches he willingly opened, but an even stronger gust of wind ripped open and blew straight into Aero.

" Canary!" Aero cried while he was sucked into the mist tornado and was being sliced apart. " Canary, please help me!"

" Aero!" Canary cried hearing the agony in her Celestial Spirits voice. " Aero, I need you to return to the Spirit Gate right away!"

" Yes, babe. Send me back there please!"

" Aero, come back!"

In the eye of the tornado, metaphorically speaking the inside of the mist tornado, Aero's body began to glow bright orange. His light body then transferred out of the tornado and flew into Canary's golden key. While in, Canary rubbed the key Aero was in and weakly smiled.

" You did your best, Aero; that's all that matters."

" Showing sympathy for your pets?" Leader said in another disgusted voice. " That's stupid. It's the most stupid thing I've ever seen."

" Hey, Aero's like a big brother to me! Don't you have a brother who you'd stand up for?"

" A brother?" The leader rubbed his head as if pretending to think about something. " I don't ever remember having a brother. But I do remember having a sister. Ah, such a sweet girl my sister was. She'd sing to me, she'd keep me company, she'd even comfort me whenever I was sick."

" She sounds like a real saint. So what happened to her?"

" Well, one day we were giving the sum of our parents inheritance. How do you share 100 million jewels? Well, let's just say when there's only one of us left standing…it doesn't really matter."

" Y-yo-you…"

" Yes. She went down hard. But in the end, all the inheritance went to me. And it helped me create my great big empire."

" You monster!" Kazu appeared out of nowhere and punched the leader right in his face. The leader didn't go down, but a red bruise mark appeared on his face. Kazu then sank into the ground, going underneath the floor, and reappeared far away from the leader.

" So, what powers do you have?" The leader said nonchalantly.

" Absorption," Kazu said as she smiled. " I can have my body absorb any type of solid object and pass through it. I touched the ground and absorbed the rocks. Now I can travel through them."

" Tsk. What an annoying type of magic. No matter. It will be no use too you when your against someone like me. Smoke Discharge!"

Mist blew out of the leaders' body as it blew everywhere. The mist shrouded the quaint space, spreading everywhere and blocking Kazu's field of vision. However, even though she couldn't see, Kazu could still feel the air she moved her hand in.

" Right, if I can't see him, I'll just bury myself in the ground and wait until he steps on my hand and grab him."

Kazu did as she told and buried herself under the ground. But before her whole body went through, the leader grabbed her free arm and yanked her up. From her touching the leader's skin, her whole body reverted back into a human.

" Nice try."

The leader punched Kazu in her face. While she was pushed back, a giant gust of wind blew her back to the leader and was punched in her face again. Then again, and again, and again, Kazu continued to be battered by the force of the leaders hands.

" How is he able to keep doing that?" Kazu thought after being beaten for what she believed to be the twentieth time. " It's almost like he can control wind." Kazu then felt a draft in the back of her neck. Kazu recognised the draft as one from an air vent. " That's it. It's not that he can control air, but he can control steam. So he's controlling the steam in his vents…?"

" Twenty-one!" The leader shouted after Kazu was blown back to him and punched in her face. " Twenty-two!" Kazu was blown up and fell back down, and was punched in her face by the leader again. " And Twenty-three!"

The leader attacked Kazu for the twenty-third time and kicked her in her stomach. A bloodcurdling sound was gasped from Kazu as she collapsed on the ground. As she was down, the smoke surrounding the area faded and Kazu was lying incapacitated on the ground. The back of her head was bleeding, her hands and legs hamstringed, and she shuddered. The leader and the lard man both stood over her as the lard man chuckled to himself.

" That was a swell thing for you to do, boss," the lard man chuckled while kicking her by her side. " She didn't even stand a chance."

" Flattery will get you nowhere," the leader crudely said. " And let's not forget we're still not alone."

If on cue, Canary ran to the leader and flailed her arms at him. But she was stopped by the leader holding his hand on her head. Canary however still ran and continued flailing his arms trying to hit the leader.

" You hurt my friend, you monster!" Canary snapped her jaws at the leader as she growled at him. " I'm going to stop you!"

" Shut up!" The leader pushed Canary away and punched his fists against her right cheek. " I've had just about enough of your mewling. It's time you understood who rules over who."

" Yeah!" The lard man laughed. " We're the Steam Head Dark Guild! Nothing can stop us, boss! Nothing!'

" B-boss…" a hoarse sound of a fellow member groveling. " H-help me…"

Both the leader and the lard man turned their heads to the entrance of the room and saw one of their men. He was in worse shape than either Kazu or Canary. He dripped blood from his mouth, having multiple bruises on his arms and legs, and his face misshaped with bruises on his face. The leader stared intently in the members eyes, then watched him as he collapsed.

" Sorry, but he was in the way."

Out of the light and into the darkness came Cooro. Cooro stood strong, held a tall metal pipe in his hands, his face splattered on his right cheeks with blood, and still having his grouchy look on his face. The lard man stuttered with his mouth agape, but the leader shrugged.

" There were nearly twenty-five men guards this entrance," the leader said casually. " How was a misfit like you able to get past all of them?"

" You really want to know?" Cooro said casually. " It's amazing what a person can do when he has a metal pipe, loads of adrenaline, and absolutely nothing to lose. It was a cinch for me to just get behind them and hit them with this pipe." Cooro swayed his pipe that was covered in blood, but still had a grouchy look on his face. " I may've given most of them some concussions."

" Why YOU!" The lard man yelled as he ran; he was so fat his running looked more like he was skipping. He skipped to Cooro and smirked at his face. While smirking at him, the lard man raised one of his rings up and wiggled his fingers to move it around.

" You are getting sleepy," the voice of the lard man echoed inside Cooro's head. "When I count to three…you will fall into a deep sleep. One…Two—"

" THREE!" Cooro banged the tip of his pipe against the lard man's head. The lard man instantly fell from the power of Cooro's pipe and collapsed on the floor. " Yeah, magic charms don't work on people twice, you dummy! Pfffft!" Cooro spat on the lard man then used his back as a carpet as he walked on top of him to the leader.