Cooro steadied himself in the presence of the leader. He spinned his pipe around while he stared into the leaders eye; he only had one eye but it was intimidating. He was ready—he stored up all his anger from working and dealing with conflict—he wanted to fight.

The leader looked Cooro straight into his eyes and smiled. " I must say, you are by far the most interesting person who's shown up today. My name is Anasi of the Steam Head Dark Guild, and it will be an honor fighting you. "

Anasi raised an arm for Cooro to shake. However, instead of shaking his arm, Cooro barbarically tried whacking his metal pipe against Anasi's face. Anasi caught the pipe before it hit him, bended it with his own strength, and raised it above his head as Cooro was raised with it.

" Put me down!" Cooro yelled as he dangled on the tip of his pipe.

" Hold it." Anasi took ahold of Cooro's left arm and shaked it in a friendly gesture. Then he took his hand back, pulled Cooro still dangling on his pipe back, and threw him towards the wall. " Well that was easy. Now, I should return to—"

Cooro wasn't done fighting against Anasi. He unwrapped his scarf around his head, lashed it at a lamp shining above him and swinged down back on the ground. Cooro then wrapped his scarf back around his neck as he jeered at Anasi.

" I'm sorry, were you trying to say something, punk? Hiiiiyaaaaaaa!"

Cooro throttled towards Anasi. His feet scraped against the ground as he ran, running full speed towards Anasi, but Anasi just shrugged as he banged his fists together and used his magic for over the twenty time. Steam Tornado!"

Tremendous amounts of air blew from the vents behind Anasi and blew into Cooro. Unlike Kazu who was blown away by the air, Cooro trifled against the air and continued walking towards Anasi. Anasi was both surprised and happy seeing the power Cooro used.

" So you use wind magic?" Cooro retorted. " Big deal. I've ran down hills that gave me more rush."

" Ooh, everything you say makes me so happy," Anasi said with a smile on his face. " Maybe I'll turn up the power just for you. Steam Tornado Max Power!"

A stranger vibration than travelled through all the vents around Cooro. Cooro however was too busy trying to push himself through the wind to notice anything. Much stronger amounts of wind blew out of the vents and blew straight into Cooro. As he was pushing, his hair cascaded down his back.

" I-I…I can't lose," Cooro grumbled. " I have to win! I promised myself I'd never lose in anything. Never!"

" Yes, you are indeed a brave one. But your courage is mostly out of stupidity." As he talked, Anasi's eyes darted too all the fans along the wall, smiled. " I took refuge in one of these very same vents. It's in these vents I survived manslaughter and became the leader of this place. It was once a Dark Guild, but now it's a strong empire where anything is possible. This entire building's made of pipes and vents, and it boasts my steam magic."

" I-ack-don't-ack-understand what-ack-your…saying."

Cooro continued to stay strong against the force of the wind being blown from the vents. Anasi continued to watch as Cooro strived to stand tall, but his amusement just turned to distaste and spat at Cooro.

" What's wrong with you? Why don't you just use your magic? You can use magic, can't you?"

" Shut…" More wind blew into Cooro's face and made his blood run cold, but he continued to stand strong. " UP!"

" It seems to me he doesn't have any magic." Anasi shaked his head and sighed at his realization. " Such a pity. And I thought I'd found an adversary worth fighting. Looks like I've only been fooling myself."

A loud creak was heard from all the vents as they all shut down spontaneously. Cooro was still standing, face covered in sweat and arms covered in blood, and his whole body was stiff from moving. Then Anasi took ahold of Cooro in his weak state and grabbed him by his neck.

" Let-ack-me-ack-go…" Cooro groaned while saying.

" I admit, you do have an amazing feat of courage. Not one person has ever lived through the full assault of my steam. It's too bad you don't have the apptitude in your body. Without that, you are just prone to—"

Cooro ignored Anasi and headbutted him in his head. As he did, Cooro jumped off and ran the other way from him. With his face covered in blood, suffering from a major headache and knuckles cracked, Cooro spat at Anasi in disgust.

" You're a vile man! It's people like you that make me sick! And I'm going to beat you to oblivion so I don't have to see your hideous face ever again!"

" Hahahahaha! You're the polar opposite of my previous opponents. But your still not a match for me, boy. You don't have any magic in you."

" That's right; I don't have any magic. And you know what, that's not even the worst about me! I can't stand being around other people! I can't stand loud noises! I hate loud people! I hate girls! I don't have any agility! And I can't even fight!"

" Hahahahahaha! You're an anti-human-being. How clever of you to admit your own weaknesses. Tell me, what's even special about you?"

Cooro smiled widely at what Anasi said, he said, " That I have the courage to live on. One day I'll be able to live alone and be away from everyone. But my name shall be remembered for everyone, Cooro Dash, a legend of Fiore! Hyyaaaaaaa!"

Cooro ran up to Anasi with his fist held up high. Anasi anticipated that Cooro would try to hit him once gain and held both his hands out in retaliation. But as Cooro ran closer to Anasi, the bracelet around his wrist began to glow and it covered Cooro as well. Soon Cooro became nothing but a body of light.

" What's going on?" Anasi gasped seeing Cooro covered in light.

The sound of thunder was heard inside of the small cloud. The sound grew louder as more flashes were heard, and the shadowy outline of Cooro was seen inside. But after five more strikes, the outline of Cooro changed to a person with stronger physique.

The light had faded and a new person appeared. The person was tall and well muscular with sharp teeth. He wore an over coat with dozens of roses on it and tall black jeans. He had golden blonde hair in a ponytail that slanted to the right. His eyes were a beautiful gold color and on his head were furry black dog ears. He would be deemed an absolute beauty by anyone; his teeth smiled so bright they could replace a lantern.

" Hey, who are you, and what did you do to that other guy?" Anasi asked. He was terrified seeing the handsome man smiling at him. " I liked that other guy more than I like you. "

" My name is Kanellos," the man said in a voice so calm, so soothe it would woe any woman that heard it. " I thank you for freeing me, but now I'm going to have to kill you."

XXX

Without Roxie's small pet dragon to drive them, Roxie and April had to hit a ride on another man's jeep. The person they were riding with was moderately handsome, wasn't too fat and not too skinny, black, was wearing a green shirt with a turtleneck, a blanket around his legs, and combed back black hair.

" It's not every day I get to drive with two lovely ladies. Now why would two lovely ladies like you need a—"

Roxie pulled on of her revolvers up and pointed it at the drivers head. " Enough with the 'beautiful' mumble-jumble, trucker. Try to pull a fast one on me, and I'll let my puppies go."

" Eeeeekkkk." The driver shuddered; he was shivering from the cold metal of Roxie's revolver pressed against his black head. " Whatever you say, ma'am. This girl is very scary." A trickle of sweat dripped from his head; could be seen translucent on his darkened skin. " Wouldn't want to mess with her."

The jeep entwined at the turn. Roxie spinned her revolvers around and clipped it around her waist. Roxie then sagged her head up and crossed her arms. " This sucks. Where's the action in all this? I've been coped up in that stupid storage for three weeks." Roxie shaked her head and grumbled. " I'm going to lose it if I'm trapped in here any longer. "

Roxie's mind was tangled in irritation. The angriest woman who ever lived in Ruby Glass City—Roxie—kept her hands stroking her guns. The jeep then was put to a halt as Roxie smiled deviantly.

" Okay, this is where we part. And I'd just like to say it was nice to meet you—huh? Where'd she go?"

Roxie left April and the driver behind—she was sneaking into the enemies' base. Roxie pulled both her guns up and pointed them at the stronghold. She snickered, smiled deviantly, shouted, " Gun Magic: Fire Grenade!"

Two black circles illuminated from the front of Roxie's guns. Two giant fireballs were unleashed from the black circles illuminating out of Roxie's guns and destroyed the surface of the base's walls. A giant hole was created in the wall. Roxie ran towards the hole, smiling, and raising both her guns up—she never felt more alive.

" This is sweet! I feel so ALIVE!"

" Hey, there's a girl in our perimeter!" One of the people in the base shouted. " She's down there!"

" Let's get that GIRL!" Another one of the people in the base shouted.

Flames erupted behind Roxie. The flames nearly burned into her, but Roxie did a cartwheel to get away from the flames. The flames stopped when Roxie reached the center of the base. She was surrounded by men, each carrying different kinds of weapons—knives, swords, baseball bats, guns, and boomerangs—but where most people would be scared, Roxie just snickered.

" Sweet!" Roxie raised both her revolvers and swayed them around. " Gun Magic: Tornado Bullets!"

Two black circles of light illuminated out the tip of Roxie's guns. Two giant tornadoes blew out of Roxie's blew out of Roxie's guns and pushed all dozens of men back. The tornado continued to blow as men who weren't being blown away were running towards Roxie, but she roundhouse kicked them away with her steel feet.

" This girl knows magic!" One of the men shouted, then he was blown back by Roxie's wind.

" We'll have to fight in a single group. We'll have a better chance of killing her that way."

All the men in the base ran up to each other and stood in a line formation; five men lined up against each other with five more men standing behind them and five more after them. All the men charged at Roxie while they were carrying weapons.

" Ha. You just signed your own deaths, losers." Roxie bended her legs, smiled deviantly, then jumped high in the air. While she was in the air, staring down at the men with weapons, she smiled deviantly. " I love using my guns." Roxie fired bullets of light from her guns at a rapid pace. " Love it ! Love it! Love it! Love it!"

Below, a barrage of bullets fell down and crashed into the crowd of men. The bullets weren't lethal, they crashed into the men's chest, knocking them out and making them fall on the ground. Roxie soon safely landed on the ground, and then walked to the nearest door.

" Solid. That was a solid fight. It makes me want to purr." Roxie stuffed both of her revolvers into her waist and smacked her own hips. " I'll save that for later. Right now, I have a mission to finish."

XXX

The inside of the base was surprisingly empty. Roxie searched for any guards she might be able to fight, twitched her legs as she prepared to roundhouse kick someone, but all she found were unconscious bodies of men.

" It looks like someone beat me to the chase," Roxie grumbled as she walked through the base. " This sucks. This totally sucks. Just when I was hot, now I feel cold. What's up with that?"

Roxie continued walking through the building. Along the way, Roxie saw even more guards who were injured, trembling, and bleeding blood from their arms and faces. Roxie noticed one of them twitching, picked him up, held him by the collar—he was the only source of information Roxie could find.

" Alright, you weasly bitch, who did this to you?" Roxie said with a tongue colder than icy wind and a tongue that looked like a snake.

" We….we…" The man tried to speak but was too injured to say his words correctly.

" Answer ME!" Roxie's eyes turned red. They were bright red and seemed to be burning with fire. " Who did this to you?"

" I-I don't know. One moment we were facing a boy, then he turned into a monster. A monster with pointy ears."

" Yaaaaaahhhhh!" Roxie heard a scream down the corridor as she also heard footsteps charging towards her. " Help ME! Somebody please help ME!"

Roxie dropped the injured man—she had no feelings for the pain she was in—and took out her guns and pointed them to where the voice was coming from. But as she got a closer look, it wasn't Cooro, her co-workers in the maid café, nor was it any more workers of the base. The person who was running was the leader Anasi. He was scared.

" Hey, who are you—"

" AHHHHHHHHH!" Anasi screamed while running. Anasi ran past Roxie and continued running. " Run now; talk later! That guys CRAZY!"

Anasi kept running. All his willpower was gone, he no longer felt the need to fight, and went to do a more medial career. But while he was running, Roxie just blinked her eyes.

" What's his problem? It almost looked like he was scared of something."

" And on the day of love too," a girl with a sweet voice said.

Roxie flinched at the sound of another girl. Roxie turned her head around and looked at the girl who was talking—she gawked noticing it was April wearing a giant red heart. Roxie kept her jaw gawked at April; she was wearing a giant red heart made out of cardboard, her face covered in chocolate, and her eyes sparkling.

" W-why are you wearing that?"

" I'm a pretty little valentine. Pretty, pretty, pretty."

" More like a nutty girl wearing some shazy outfit. Now where's that spooky guy that other guy was talking about?"

Roxie continued walking down the hall of injured men. But joining her was the eccentric April who skipped while wearing her valentine outfit. While walking, April's eyes continued to sparkle and she was singing while she skipped.

" I'm a pretty little valentine. I'm pretty, pretty, pretty, pret-

" Shaddup!"

Roxie pointed her two revolvers out and fired a barrage of white light at April. The light bombarded April, hit her in the chest, and then she fell. April's valentine outfit was teared open and April's eyes were twirling around in circles.

" Quit goofing off, you brat! This is no time to be playing around!"

Roxie shrugged April off and continued walking. Roxie had a temper of a lion; she sought to use her revolvers, but just sighed outward as she continued walking—her legs moved on their own.

Roxie finally reached the other end. The first thing she saw was an unconscious Canary and Kazu. Roxie gasped and ran over to her unconscious co-workers. " Guys!" Roxie kneeled down and helped both Canary and Kazu to their feet. " Canary, Kazu, who did this to you?"

Canary and Kazu felt heavy in Roxie's hands. Roxie's fingers rubbed into a small cut she believed it was a scab. Roxie used her mighty strength to carry both Canary and Kazu, then she dropped them near the wall.

" Canary and Kazu wouldn't lose to anyone so easily. Whoever their last opponent was must have been tough." Instead of being scared, Roxie sneered as she felt the thrill of excitement rushing through her veins. " I want a piece of him."

"Chocolate !" April laughed behind Roxie. Roxie turned around and gawked at how April was dressed—she was wearing a Hershey Kiss chocolate with a heart of chocolate in her hands. " Would you like some chocolate?"

" Chocolate?" Roxie peered into the box of chocolate. Roxie rubbed her finger on all the little chocolates then pushed the box away. " Sorry. There's only one type of chocolate that I like, and that chocolate is white."

" Aw. But this chocolate is so tasty." April took a caramel chocolate out and swallowed it whole; she didn't even bother taking the tinfoil around it off. April chewed on her piece of chocolate and then swallowed it. " Mmmmmmm. So tasty."

" Stupid kid."

Roxie, hotheaded as she was, wanted to pull out her two revolvers and put April's face out of here memory. But as she was just about to have an amorism, popping out her two revolvers and shooting them through April's hand, she stopped as she heard someone approaching them.

" Greetings, pretty lady." April turned her head and received a quick kiss on her lips. As he was kissing her, April's cheeks turned purple. Roxie could only gasp seeing April's cheeks turn purple, then April collapsed. " Ah. There's nothing more refreshing than a kiss."

" You monster!" Roxie shouted pointing her revolver at the shadowy figure. " Who are you?"

" Who am I?" Lights sparkled up in the room above. The pointy-eared, silky haired, glistening teeth of Kanellos. Roxie's cheeks tinted red; she was aroused seeing the sparkly teeth of Kanellos. " My name is Kanellos. And it is a pleasure to meet you, pretty lady."

" Wow, he's totally hot. He's even hotter than my last boyfriend, and he was an underwear model."

" I must say, I'm quite surprised. I never thought you'd be coming here, Roxie. From what I heard, you are a spoiled, hotheaded, ignorant girl."

" Augh! You're even more annoying than my last boyfriend!" Two black circles illuminated from Roxie's guns as flames burned out of them. " And I nearly killed my last boyfriend! Gun Magic: Fire Grenade!"

Two giant fireballs were unleashed from the black circles illuminating out of Roxie's gun and headed straight for Kanellos. Kanellos however wasn't as slow on his feet as the people Roxie previously faced. Kanellos walked out of the way of the first fireball, then walked left to dodge the second fireball—not even the slight bit scared.

" Phew. You had me worried there." Kanellos flicked his hair back. It almost seemed like stars were rubbing off his glistening hair. " You almost ruined my good hair."

" You scoundrel! What did you do to April!"

" Hmf. My lips are filled with lots of aconitine. In case you don't know, aconitine comes from the pollen of a very poisonous plant. But don't worry; your friend won't die. She'll only be asleep for a few hours. It's only you and me who'll be fighting, sweetheart."

" Grrrrrrrr!" Roxie pulled both her guns up. Two giant black circles illuminated from them as a small vortex of wind came out of it. " Don't call me sweetheart! Gun Magic: Tornado Bullets!"

Two giant tornadoes blew out of Roxie's guns thrashed into Kanellos. Kanellos just smirked as the wind of the tornado collided into him. Roxie smiled deviantly while Kanellos was hit by the tornado. Then after he was hit by the wind, the tornadoes soon faded and Kanellos was standing perfectly still—the only difference was he had a red rose in his arms.

" A rose for the lovely lady."

Roxie's cheeks tinted red from the embarrassment of seeing Kanellos beautiful smile on his beautiful face, blushed." Oh god, he's making my heart beat. It's like he's melting my heart" Roxie started to grow as she held her guns up. " I hate this FEELING! Gun Magic: Fire Bull—"

" Hold it." Roxie tripped and fell over. Roxie groaned from the pain of landing on her butt. " I have a present for you, lovely lady." Kanellos clapped his hands together. As he did, a green circle illuminated from his arms. " Roots of the Viridian Orchard! "

Giant trees shot out of Kanellos's circle. The trees nearly crashed into Roxie, but she jumped over the tree and ran towards Kanellos. While she was running, Roxie raised both her guns up and pointed them at Kanellos.

"It would be pity killing a handsome man like you. But I've had enough of your flirting! So say goodnight, pretty boy! Gun Magic: Stun Bullets!"

Two giant black circles illuminated from Roxie's guns. Unlike her previous bullets, two large green circles illuminated on Kanellos and sticked to his arms. Roxie then fired two glowing green bullets. The bullets throttled towards Kanellos, but he leaned his back down and the bullets went past him.

" Hmf. Your sloppy."

Roxie growled. " What did you say, punk?"

" I said you're sloppy. You, Roxie, don't stand a chance against me." Kanellos clapped his hands together. A giant green circle illuminated from between Kanellos's fists as he smirked. " Seed Cannon!"

Kanellos punched both his fists into the ground. A flowerpot then popped out of the ground and a giant red flower sprouted out of it. The white pollen in the flower glowed bright yellow, then a beam of light fired towards Roxie.

" Bring it on! I can take care of anything—holy moly! What's that?"

Roxie noticed inside the beam of light was dozens of small acorns. Roxie was too shocked seeing the multiple acorns, how they were heading towards her, then they rammed into her and pushed her down. Roxie then made a swift recovery—she was a women with an arsenal of special abilities—and all she how to do was raise her gun to her head as she prepared to fire.

" Gun Magic: Heal Bullets!"

A glowing pink bullet was fired out of Roxie's gun and went straight into her head. The bullet disappeared the moment it made contact with Roxie, she was smiling deviantly, her entire body started glowing pink. Roxie then got back on her feet and pointed both her revolvers at Kanellos.

" Interesting. I should really watch my back when I'm facing you." Kanellos suddenly smirked. He bashed both his hands together and a giant glowing green circle came out. Roxie could almost hear the sound of a bird squawking furiously when he bashed them. " But I haven't even used a fraction of my powers. Seed Cannon(s)!"

Kanellos furiously, rapidly punched his hands into the ground. As he did, dozens of flower pots shot out and multiple giant red flowers sprouted out of them. Each of the pollens glowed bright yellow, and then giant beams with seeds in them was fired.

" That's fine by me, punk!" Roxie laughed deviantly while black circles illuminated from her revolvers. White light glowed from the center of the circles. " I've had just about enough of this mushy crap! Gun Magic: Light Barrage!"

Roxie rapidly pushed her fingers on the trigger of her revolvers as multiple white light balls were unleashed. Both Roxie's light balls and Kanellos's seeds collided. Both were even out, neither able to overcome the other, but Roxie and Kanellos continued their dispute; Roxie pulling on her trigger and Kanellos punching his fists into the ground.

Kanellos just smiled coyly while he gently punched the ground. " I've heard many things about you, Roxie. I've heard most of them from Cooro."