Silvia and Viridian stepped out of the portal, into the first world Silvia and Azure traveled to. While the first time hadn't been on purpose, this trip was a different story. Viridian looks around, so this was the place Silvia and Azure had been to originally. Interesting place.

"Alright. The last time I saw him, he winked at me and jumped away on the roofs."

"So, like normal Azure."

"Yes. Just more flirtatious with me at our first encounter." "

Uh alright. Well, where is he?" Silvia glanced around the city surrounding them.

"You know Azure better than me. If he's an escaped convict, where would he hide?" Silvia asks.

"Hm Vale before the attack? He has that one place in our version of Vale, but here? He'd have about 10. Though they're smaller. At least that's what he had in Mystral."

"Do you know where they might be?"

"Mm. All over the place. Spread throughout so he'd have easy access to them. But none next to each other. It'd be fairly simple for me to map it out, if I had a map of this place."

"Then we'll find a map. An information center probably has one. That or the library."

"Damn library's." He mutters to himself. "Well let's go find one." Viridian leads them to a library. Looking around he round he goes to the map section. "Ah maps." Silvia grabs an atlas and flips to the map of each sector in Remnant. She takes a pen from a nearby jar and hands it to Viridian.

"Start marking." She tells him.

"Hm alright first just the kingdom of Vale." He flips to a map of just Vale which has page numbers for the city's in Vale. He slides his finger down the list until he finds the city they're in and flips to that one. Then he marks the center of the city and draws 5 lines out from the center equal distance apart. He draws a small circle about half way through each circle. Then Viridian tilts his head and frowns slightly. He starts Xing out circles until there's only one left. "Okay somewhere inside that about 10 mile radius is the base he's at."

"Then we better get searching." The two of them head to the area Viridian had marked off and start searching. Checking different buildings until they found a building where no one answers. Viridian looks around.

"This must be it." He says.

Silvia narrows her eyes. "I'll go in first. He'll recognize me."

"Alright. How are we getting in?"

"We could use the window."

"Mm sure. Want to be careful of his protections." Silvia nods, walking over to the window on the ground level. She mutters a spell that breaks the lock on the ledge.

"And away we go." Viridian mutters following her. Silvia lifts up the window and carefully slips inside. Silvia holds the window open for Viridian as she scans the area, hand over the hilt of her sword.

"I wouldn't want to fight him here." Viridian whispers standing quietly.

"Me too," she replies in the same hushed voice. "If something happens, I'll be ready."

"You think he knows were here?"

"Probably. But let's assume he doesn't."

"If you say so. Let's find him." Viridian starts walking silently through the room, moving slowly. Making sure to not make any noise. It's fairly easy as the rooms mostly empty. Silvia's left hand stays frozen over the hilt of her sword as she follows Viridian. The soles of her shoes touchdown lightly with little noise, enough for it to echo faintly. Viridian exits the room and as soon as he does the door slams shut behind him, separating the two. She turns and sees that they were separated.

"Viridian?!"

"Hey," he responds sounding tired "I think he knows!"

"Yeah he knows! Now who are you?" A voice comes in over a com, it's Azure.

"You may not remember me, but I'm one of the people who helped break you out." Silvia calls out.

"Oh yeah, I remember that. Now why are you here. I don't take kindly to strangers. Even if they are as pretty as you." Azure says.

"Jesus." Viridian says rolling his eyes. 'Yeah, this is Azure, alright,' Silvia thinks to herself.

"We need your help. My Azure was captured, and we can't get him out alone." She tells Azure. There's a pause before Azure answers. After a few moments the com comes back on.

"I'll come up. Wait there." The door opens and Viridian turns around to face her.

"Ah sudden Silvia!" He says mock scared.

"He didn't do anything to you?"

"Just separate us. It was so if he had to fight us it wouldn't be two on one." She replies with a simple nod of the head. Viridian may seem charismatic and light-hearted, but he has the mind of a strategist. A few moments later Azure enters the room and glances around.

"So, your friend got caught as well." Silvia turns her attention to Azure. He still looked the same since the last time she saw him, but cleaner in appearance.

"I was able to get close to him, but we were forced to leave. We can't go back to the world where he was captured."

"Another world? You guys trying to build up enough frequent flyer miles to go some place big?" Viridian chuckles at Azure's joke.

"More like we'll give you the miles you'll need. We just need the passengers to fill the flight."

"And you want me? Well I guess I owe you. I'll help."

"Thank you, Azure."

"No problem. Now I assume we aren't going in the three of us, who else is on the list?"

"We're about to get the fourth person now. If you'd like to find out, you could join us."

"Why not. Let me grab something and I'll be back." He walks out of the room but pops into it immediately after. "You said another world right?"

"Yeah, but this one's a bit different."

"Alrighty good. Just needed to make sure." He leaves again for a second. A few minutes pass.

"Maybe he's just peeing." Viridian says. "Or to get a few weapons."

"Eh probably." A few moments pass and Azure walks back in. He doesn't appear to be carrying anything new.

"Let's bounce."

Silvia glances over him. "Got everything?"

"Yup."

"Alright." The three of them head out.

The Silvia of this world sits in her tent, lit by the light of many candles. She overlooks her spell book, paging through the familiar scribbles from her youth. She stumbles upon the page that was torn out from the strangers, sending a memory of anger down her body. The feeling is suddenly washed away when a wave of strong magic fills the space around her village. Silvia pushes away from the desk and tracks down the source in the forest of Atlas. She finally stumbles upon a familiar visitor and a strange man with her.

"With two of you, I might need to a new book for all my fantasies." Azure says smiling, Viridian groans in the back. Silvia sighs.

"Do what you want, Azure. But right now we need to talk to Silvia here" Azure smiles slightly, Viridian moves in front of him.

"Silvia um of this world. We need your help." Silvia takes a step back, this world's version of her was a cruel reminder of her past.

"Who are you to ask of my help?" She asks. Viridian restrains himself from making a joke.

"Someone who could be a powerful ally." Viridian says. Her eyes move from Viridian to the other version of her.

"Why do you return here, after pulling such an act?"

"My friend, the one who aided me the first time, has been captured."

"Isn't that him?" She asks, pointing to Azure.

"Nope. I'm from this world sweety." Azure says winking. She narrows her eyes.

"Why should I help you? You defaced an ancient artifact important to my people."

"Because we returned that artifact to you," Silvia replies, taking a hesitant step forward. "I admit that our actions were wrong, and I'm sorry. But one spell over many is a fair trade." Viridian and Azure exchange looks of some confusion. Neither were there to see this. This world's Silvia stares daggers into Silvia, who surprisingly holds her ground. After a few moments, the magician speaks up.

"I never did find that spell useful... I see you have found use in it."

"So will you help us?" Silvia asks.

"As long as my people will not be harmed, then yes."

"That I can promise." Viridian says. Though inside he knows that they can't really promise anything. Silvia nods. "Thank you, ma'am." The other Silvia shakes her head.

"Don't call me ma'am. That's a term for my mother."

"Agreed." Viridian says.

"Alright, what do you want us to do exactly? Other than save your friend." Azure asks.

"Take down the organization," Silvia replies. "Viridian and I can't go into that world. So we need you to take it down and save Azure in the process."

"Sounds like a lot. Though I'm sure we can handle it."

"My magic can subdue them easily," the other Silvia says, conjuring a black ball of magic in her palm.

"Mm not so much actually. They seem to have something that dampens magic." Viridian says.

"Wait really?" Silvia asks in surprise, having not noticed that herself.

"Well yeah, it was obvious right?"

"Yeah, I guess, but they are incredibly strong. And be careful of the one called Jade. He looks like Azure, but his eyes are green." Silvia tells them.

"Man, this might get confusing." Azure groans.

"Agreed. This will be very difficult." The other Silvia says.

"Which is why we're giving you all the info we have on that other world."

"I suppose we're taking him by force."

"Unless you can sneak him out. He will most likely be heavily guarded" Silvia says.

"No. Azure's right. They'll have to use force. On him." Viridian says. He looks over at Silvia and realizes she still thinks he'll come willingly. Whatever it is that's keeping him there won't have disappeared. Hopefully the two of them together will be enough to stop him. Fighting Azure is suicide at best to most. But an alternate Azure and Silvia? They have the best chance of anyone. Her magic even weakened with his skill, that might do it, at least enough to get him home. Viridian looked back at the whole group. He was never as good a fighter as Azure, sure he was good, but not like Azure. But he had his brain. That's his strength. Azure couldn't understand not having it all. Azure was perfect and Viridian wasn't. No matter how much he pretends to be. "However. A better idea would be to find what's keeping him there. And remove that." The other Silvia rolls back her sleeves.

"I believe I have an idea that will solve both our problems."

"What's that?"

"Your semblance is invisibility, correct?" She asks Silvia.

"Yeah. Where you going with this?"

"There is a spell we recently created. It allows us to copy the semblance of the target without the side effects." Silvia's eyes grew wide.

"So you can use my semblance without growing weary."

"Bingo."

"A little convenient, I like it." Azure said smiling a cat like grin.

"Agreed. We should also check on Azure. Find his location. Make sure you don't run into him unless absolutely necessary." Viridian added.

"I can use the spell on myself and one other person," she nods to Azure. "We can slip in and find his location. Figure out what's making him tick."

"Alright. Let's hurry. Don't want to dawdle." Viridian said. Silvia cracked her knuckles.

"Let's do this before I open the portal."

The Silvia in black clads stood up. She extended her hands to The other version of herself and began the spell. An orange mist surrounded Silvia, causing her to feel a bit lightheaded. The mist then floated back to her, using her one arm to extend the other half of the mist to Azure. "Oh wow. To spoopy five handle." He mutters as the most covers him. The mist seeps into them. Silvia's knees give out and she starts to drop to the floor. "Hey what's wrong?" Azure asks as Viridian kneels next to her.

"I forgot to mention one of the side effects: a loss of energy from the transferred person."

"Why didn't you tell me?" She asked, looking up at her other self.

"I figured you wouldn't have done it."

"I'll do anything if it means getting him back," she replied, determination in her voice.

"Don't worry. I'll take care of her. You two get going." Viridian tells them. Giving Silvia a concerned look. She might kill herself to save Azure. Silvia takes a slip of paper out of her pocket.

"Here are the coordinates," she says, handing it to her other self. "Be careful, they have some kind of recognition technology to track down people." She nods before using the coordinates to make a portal.

"Be careful." Viridian says as the two step through. She nods before heading inside with Azure.

"Will they be okay?" Silvia asks Viridian, looking up at him.

"Perhaps. I don't know. Either way we need to get ready for the next step."

"Which is?"

"Very dangerous." Silvia looks out at the portal as it disappears.

"I can't lose him, Vir..."

"And if everything works. You won't have to." Viridian tells her. Silvia pulls herself closer to him, forcing back tears as the portal's glow fades into nothing.

Authors note: Yet again a bit slow. But for those of you keeping up that's both my stories at one time. Hopefully you enjoy both of them as much I did writing them. Of course this was written with the help of a close friend. Thank you and have fun.