Two Years Later:
Crashing through a window the twelve year old Solaris hit the ground hard. He was thankful the clothing he wore was enchanted to be virtually impenetrable by most means. He heard the door open and looked up to see Valiant pushing the restrained suspect.
"I would give you eight for the flight but only a four for the landing." Valiant told him.
"Can we just go now?" Solaris stood up shaking glass off his jacket.
Valiant walked the blonde haired woman to the car and forced her into the backseat. Solaris got into the passenger side, when he first saw the car he was once again amazed. The level of technology this land had was far superior to anything the Elemental Continents had. The drive to the Sanctuary was mostly in silence and they handed off the woman to a couple of Sanctuary agents.
Making their way back to the shop they saw Jessica Heartway closing up. She was a woman in her early nineties, but barely looked in her twenties with long dark green hair and dark red wine like eyes. Valiant hired the woman to look after the shop almost as soon as they got back.
"Hello how did the case go?" Jessica asked them.
"Good, Solaris only got thrown out of a window this time." Valiant told her with a smile.
"Oh my, how is the window?"
"How is the window?!"
"It's not good I'm afraid," Valiant told her with a shake of his head. "Unfortunately the poor thing was closed when he so carelessly went through it; the whole thing was smashed to pieces."
"Oh that poor window," Jessica put a hand to her chest in mock sadness.
"You two can bite me," Solaris told them before walking inside.
"Emerald dropped by earlier, she told me to give you something, it's under the counter. A black box with a silver ribbon. She said it was an early birthday present since she would be gone for two weeks." Jessica told Solaris just before he entered.
"Thanks."
Jessica turned back to Valiant "So is that case over?"
"Not at all, we still need to find Key's partner but the sanctuary agents can do the interrogation." Valiant told her. "I'll see you tomorrow, have a good night."
Early the next morning Valiant was woken by someone calling him. He checked the time to see it was only six; they had better have some important news. Sleepily reaching out he grabbed his phone and answered it.
"This better be good," He muttered out sleepily.
Getting out of bed he started to get dressed while listening to the person on the other end of the call. It was an old friend of Valiant's, and also the Grand Mage of the Sanctuary, a seven hundred and twenty six year old woman called Yoko Smithson. This was one of the few people Valiant didn't mind having bother him while he was sleeping.
"….Can you please say that again Yoko? I think I may have misunderstood that last bit." Valiant listened again and sighed. "Well damn…no it isn't going to be a problem…..no that wouldn't be a good idea, me and Solaris will handle it don't worry." Hanging up the call he went to wake up Solaris.
Twenty minutes later both Solaris and Valiant were in the kitchen eating breakfast.
"So we got information on where Key's partner is headed." Valiant started slightly hesitant. "Bad news is the place he's heading towards is the Elemental Continents. That isn't good for anybody; there is a reason that the continents have mostly been isolated. The only reason I was there is because I know how to not draw attention to myself. We need to find Loki and capture him before he can draw to much attention to himself."
"The Elemental Continents." Solaris said.
"You don't have to come; you can stay here with Jessica and run deliveries with Emerald." Valiant told him.
Solaris quickly stood up "Hell no this is my case to, I'm seeing it through to the end. It doesn't matter if I end up in a place I'm uncomfortable with then that's just part of the job."
"I thought you might say that," Valiant smiled. "We'll need to leave soon; Loki's got a big head start on us right now so who knows what he could get up to."
Valiant sent Jessica a text telling her where they were going while they were packing what they needed for the trip. Two years and they were going back to the Elemental Continents, both of them wondering just what happened in those last two years. They knew they had to be careful for any Konoha ninja thanks to Solaris's family and that would only complicate the search. It would probably be better to use a disguise, but both of them decided not to. Since it wasn't important or an undercover assignment they decided that disguises would just be an annoyance.
"Everything ready?" Valiant asked and Solaris nodded. "Okay well I have a friend who can help us with some quick transportation, for the right price at least. Let's go and give him a visit."
Solaris just stared as Valiant talked with his friend. It didn't take them long to reach Valiant's friend, he was a tall man with spiky brown hair, grey eyes and sharp features called Jack Stream.
"Really, a dirigible?" He eventually asked taking his eye off the large airship turning back to the two of them.
"Don't worry kid, she's fast and a smooth ride, you'll love it." Jack told him smiling slightly.
"We also need the speed; this is no ordinary airship you see it's been modified with a ton of magic-science." Valiant told him. "I helped with a few of those modifications myself."
"Which is the only reason you're not paying for the ride," Jack reminded him.
"Yes well shall we get ready, the quicker we get there the quicker we get back." Valiant said clapping his hands.
Solaris stared for a moment before following them onto the ship. "I have a bad feeling about this little trip."
"Never ignore those bad feelings, they never turn out well." Valiant told him.