Having tracked the direction Loki was travelling to Valiant told Jack the coordinates. Walking out of the control room he saw Solaris looking over the edge of the deck. He walked over and saw the clouds underneath them, sometimes seeing the ground far, far below them.
"Beautiful isn't it? Even though we can fly without any form of support nothing beats flying like this. At least that's my opinion." Valiant said.
"So what's the plan?" Solaris asked still staring over the edge.
"Go in, find him and capture hopefully avoiding attention and property damage." Valiant told him.
They heard Jack laughing from the control room. "Now I know you're going to end up destroying something big."
"Name one time I destroyed something big?!" Valiant shouted back at him.
"The pyramid, the forest, that mountain and there was that town you blew up."
A depressed aura appeared around Valiant. "….I was kind of hoping you forgot about those, they were from a long time ago."
"You destroyed a mountain, and a town?" Solaris stared at him.
"The town was uninhabited, well more like everyone was already dead, and the mountain is complicated." Valiant quickly told him.
"So how long until we get there?" Solaris asked.
Valiant wanting to get off their current subject nodded. "Yes how long?"
"We're just about to start landing, luckily we have those invisibility and perception filter symbols on this thing so we don't attract any attention. It makes it easy to land anywhere." Jack said and they started to feel the ship descending.
When they got low enough Valiant frowned "I recognise this place, it's Wave Country."
"Not very creative with their names here are they." Jack commented.
Once they landed Skye brought out the device they were using to track Loki. "Well he's in this country, but from now on we're going to have to look the old fashion way."
"Why? Can't you just use that device to find him?" Jack asked.
"No, we didn't have a good enough sample so all we could do is get his general area. We'll know him when we see him though so no need to worry." Valiant threw the device to Jack. "It'll probably be a couple of days if we can't find him here, If we're not back in a couple of hours take off and we'll call you when we need picked up."
Jack nodded before heading back into his ship. Valiant walked with Solaris and found a path that took them to the village. It seemed that the village while looking run down was seemingly improving. While Solaris went to ask what had happened recently Valiant started to look for Loki or at least evidence he had been in the village. An hour later they met up again at a large bridge name the Great Hikari Bridge. Solaris stared at the plaque naming the bridge for a moment before shaking his head.
"Okay so I found that this village used to be oppressed by a man named Gato; however a team from Konoha freed them a while back." He told Valiant.
Valiant smiled, "Loki was here but left a short time ago after stealing some money from Gato, and guess which way he headed."
"Damn it," Solaris muttered resisting the urge to bang his head against a railing. Now they had to go to the one place that he really wanted to avoid going since he left. "Can I use a disguise now?"
"We'll get you a hat, sunglasses, gloves and a face mask. That way we can tell people you have a sensitive condition to sunlight and pollen."
"Are you sure that'll work. What about you?" Solaris asked.
"Simple perception filter, I activate it and people while they'll be able to notice me won't be able to place me with anything they remember. I basically become a different person to them even if my appearance doesn't change. It will only work on those without magic though." Valiant explained tapping a symbol on his collarbone that appeared turning it from black to red and stayed there instead of fading.
"Can I get one of those?"
"When we get back, you know how long carving them on a body can take."
It was easy to get into Konoha, just a few minutes talking to the Chunin guarding the gate and they were in. Apparently there were a lot of visitors coming for the Chunin exam finals happening tomorrow and for the festival that was going to happen that night.
"Okay so Loki's here I know that much. I've put symbols around the place to prevent anyone with magic leaving unless they have the symbol to counter it." Valiant whispered.
"How do you know he's here?" Solaris asked. He was confused as to how Valiant could instantly tell that Loki was here, and when did he set up the symbols?
"I just saw him go into a restaurant." Valiant told him causing Solaris to sweat drop.
"But when did you set up the symbols?!" He whispered as loud as he dared.
"When I was talking to the guards."
Solaris wanted to pull his hair, or better yet strangle the beautiful man out of frustration. Instead he took a deep breath and asked "So aren't we going to get him now then?"
"No we wait and observe, Loki will fight back and we don't want it to happen out in the middle of a crowd. Especially not in this place." Valiant explained. Cupping his hands together he then separated them to reveal a small dragonfly. The dragonfly leapt from his hand and flew to the building which Loki went in. "We'll keep tabs on him but avoid following him ourselves to make sure he doesn't get suspicious."
Solaris nodded, it was a good plan, nothing like the time with the all-girls school. That was just embarrassing.
"Come on, might as well check into a hotel now. Lucky I kept the money this continent uses for currency." Valiant said as they walked through the small crowds setting up for the festival. For some reason he had the feeling that tomorrow was going to be more complicated than he expected it to be, the same feeling Solaris had before they left, and still had now.