The thieves, Yoko especially, couldn't move from the shock. Satira had just left with the men she had been running from…willingly!
"I…I don't get it!" Yoko finally admitted, the cool fox for once at a loss in what to do.
Hiei looked over at him lazily. "What isn't to get?" He asked. "The mist we kept seeing, the temperature in this cave, it was because of the dragon." He told him.
Yoko shook his head. "No, I mean she just left with them! After all I did to come back for her, after I asked her to…" he dropped off staring at the way Prakash had left.
"Because that wasn't really her!" Hiei said irritated.
Yoko looked at the fire demon with a raised eyebrow.
"Didn't you hear what it said?" Amira asked him. "I am not Satira." She reminded.
"Then what is it!" Yoko asked. His normally calculating brain was frustrated that she had gone. Clouded by his affections for her, he wasn't thinking straight.
"The dragon." A theif said catching on. Hiei nodded in agreement.
"One thing I don't get…" Amira questioned softly. "Is…how she became the dragon."
"That thing that hit her must have been the transfer." Yoko concluded remembering the shot of blue that had hit her in the chest.
"You're all focusing on the wrong questions." Hiei said suddenly. "We don't need to know the who or the what or the how. That's not important right now." He told them. "We need to know the why."
There was silence when Yoko spoke up. "The locket." He said, realization in his voice as everything clicked into place. "It was the key to open the door."
"Duh." Amira muttered to herself, crossing her arms.
"But it wasn't just the key, it was the container as well." Yoko continued ignoring her.
"Container?" Another thief asked, voicing his confusion.
"The heart locket was meant to contain the dragon after it's release." Hiei explained. "However, in Satira and Prakash's little tussel, the locket broke."
"But it repaired itself!" Amira said, cutting into Hiei's explanation. "So..shouldn't it still have gone to the locket?" After all, it seemed to be the logical option. She figured that if the locket was it's intended home, that it would repair it, and then go into it.
"Let me finish!" He hissed at her, annoyed at being interrupted. She scowled back at him, crossing her arms.
"It repaired itself enough to become the key, but after that it was useless. The cracks in the locket's surface wouldn't have contained the dragon. So it went to the necklace's owner."
"How did it know she was the owner?" A theif inquired.
"It didn't. She was just the last one who touched it." Yoko joined in. "Therefore it went into her instead."
Amira rubbed her temples. "This is too weird." She told them. "So Satira is being possessed by some glaceiragon, and she went with them because…" She dropped off expecting an answer to be said.
"Because Prakash beat us in declaring the dragons' master." Hiei finished.
"And that leaves us with a very big problem." Yoko added. Everyone nodded in agreement.
"So, what's next?" Amira asked Yoko. "We follow them?"
"No." He replied shaking his head. "We don't have enough information. We have to regroup, get in some surveillance, find out what Prakash's next move is before we make our own."
Hiei and Amira nodded in agreement.
"Back to the hideout." Yoko ordered to everyone. "NOW!"