And now we get to the first meeting...or battle with Rex and Kira as Rex tries to calm this misunderstanding.

Never an Enemy

Rex grunts in pain as he got kicked in the face and guts and when he tries to get himself back up, he finds himself cornered by a furious Kira coming onto him holding his sword and in a stroke of fear, he slowly gets up and told her, "Listen, I don't want to cause any trouble."

"Well, you just walked right into it, buddy." Kira said, growling.

"I wasn't even gonna kill her. It's not in my intent to do so. All I wanted was to get her out of there before Kuzan catches her leaving." Rex explains.

Kira was so full of fury that she didn't take any of Rex's explanation as the truth and she said, "Yeah, right! Like I'm gonna believe every lie you said."

"That's not a lie! It's the truth!" Rex exclaimed.

"Shut up! I'm done talking to you!" Kira shouted, beginning to fight him off by slamming him down to a wall and grabbing his tail and knocking him down to the ground.

Rex tries to get up, but when he does, he gets pummeled and mowed down by Kira with the usage of her claws. Rex grabs ahold of her and tries to get her off of him, thus defending himself instead of punching her out and when he tried to defend himself, Kira kicks him straight to the groin and slams him down hard, flips him down and claws him in the nose, causing Rex to roar in pain.

Rex was beaten, bloodied up and clawed up by a girl, yet he tried to stop her from fighting so he wouldn't take any drastic measures and Kira angrily looked up at the panther with a huge amount of fury in her eyes and she said, "We can do this all day."

"Listen to me! I'm not even here to kill her or fight you!" Rex shouted.

"Then why did you get at my cousin with that sword of yours?" asked Kira, holding the sword close to his neck.

Rex was very fearful of what Kira's gonna do next and all he has to do is tell nothing but the truth, regardless of how she will take it, but will not run the risk of getting another beating from Kira and Rex exhales deeply and said, "Kuzan's crew forced me to do this after finding out that she had escaped in her own terms. I refused to do it, but they told me that they'll report this to Kuzan about my refusal to take orders from them and they'll end up killing my younger siblings. I don't want any harm to come to them at all. I really didn't want to kill her because my heart wasn't really in it because I had shed way too many blood for 3 years of doing Kuzan's work. When I found her, I really wanted the prisoner to escape from his clutches before Kuzan could find out, so I played it off like I was really gonna do what the guards say. I just didn't have to heart to do any harm because I've done too much hurt. Couldn't you tell that my paws were trembling when I held that sword?"

Kira listened to everything he was saying and for a while, her fury started to dwindle a little bit and it became very evident that this was no killer. This was someone that was being controlled or being told what to do by Kuzan just to keep his younger siblings alive and from the looks of the panther's facial expressions, he was a mixture of fear, guilt, worry and regret of all the baggage he had to carry for 3 years of doing Kuzan's work.

"You don't understand what it's like to have your siblings' lives in the balance of a madman like Kuzan and have to live with that thought in the back of your head every day. I'm afraid for them and I want to keep them safe and alive as much as I can. They're the only ones I have left of my family...after Kuzan killed our parents three years ago. Do you even know what it's like to live through this kind of torture of not knowing whether your little brother and sister will live or die? I have to deal with so much in my shoulders for so long." Rex said, voice breaking at the last parts.

Kira could tell that everything he said was just genuine and 100% truthful and she went towards the panther and she asked, "Why couldn't you just leave this place and take them with you?"

"I tried this morning, but the guards are very quick and swift and forced us back. And one of them got my siblings. They told me the only way for me to keep them alive was to kill Yuki, but I knew I didn't want to do it. I've caused too many harm just to keep my siblings alive." Rex replied.

Kira then dropped that sword and just took in everything he had said and she told him, "Where are they now?"

A few of the guards circled around Luke and Rainbow, shackling them in chains while holding an ax and a sword and both of the siblings were pretty scared about what they're gonna do to them and both of the guards were looking at them and said, "Does any of you want to know what it feels like to have your heads off?"

"I don't even want to know!" Rainbow whined.

One of the guards slapped Rainbow in the face just for that whine and Luke growls at them and said, "You can't do that to my sister, you jerk!"

"Shut up, boy! We don't take orders from you!" another guard said.

Just then, the guards heard something from the hall and went out of the cell to check it out and by the time they got out a quarter mile away from the cell, in comes Rex coming in getting Luke and Rainbow and both siblings were so happy to see their older brother and hugging them tightly. He looks at them and asked, "Are you guys okay?"

"One of the guards slapped my sister." Luke answered.

"Don't worry. We're getting out of here now." Rex replied, unlocking them out of the shackles and freeing them.

Just then, they heard punching and kicking along with some demonic roar from a clear distance and they saw the two guards running for their lives while being chased by Dina as she comes towards the two guards and use her swords to slice up the two in a flash, then stabs them in the stomach with her sword and just lift them up in the skies and leaves them in the ground.

Both younger siblings looked very frightened to see Dina for the first time, but as soon as she came close to them, she extended a paw to show that she's here to help them and Kira shows up and said, "Let's get the heck out of here and find Yuki."

"She's here to help us, you guys." Rex said, reassuring them.

Yuki first meets Luke and Rainbow for the first time and by the looks of them, she was taken aback by how adorable they are and she said, "They're so cute. When I find the guy that slapped one of you..."

"Hey!"

They all turned around and saw more guards coming in and they went after them, but Dina immediately fought them off with the use of her sword and she told them, "You're going down like a slice of bloody bananas!"

"None of that even makes sense!" one guard shouted.

"Deal with it!" Dina shouts back.

One of the guards fiercely growls and said, "KILL HER! And kill those kids too!"

But as the guards did so, they were all cornered by Dina as she sliced, stabbed and cuts them down with the use of her sword until every inch of the guards' body parts were scattered all over the place and Rex covered his siblings' eyes to prevent from seeing the maximum damage.

"Believe me, this is only the half of it." Kira replied.

As Kira and the others made their way out, they found Yuki taking charge and beating up someone that tried to take part in Kuzan's disgusting idea and before long, they noticed that the person that wanted to take advantage of Yuki was just not as tough as he was, but rather just a scared victim of Kuzan's beatings.

"All right, Yuki! Who knew?" asked Kira, cheering.

"Please let me go!" the random crew member pleaded.

Yuki lets him go and it leaves the panicked, yet very troubled guy completely shaken and he said, "And I thought Kuzan's beatings were much worse."

"You weren't really gonna take advantage of her, weren't you?" asked Rex.

"No. I wanted to help her escape, but she thought that I was one of her guards. I just can't deal with being suffocated here and I've caused so much harm to everyone because of Kuzan. All I want is to get out of here and try to redeem myself from all the stupid stuff that I've done." the victim responds.

Yuki could see that this was just an honest mistake in beating him up and she said, "I'm so sorry about that."

"I kinda deserved it anyway. I did try to follow you." the victim replied.

Kira comes over to Yuki and hugs her tightly and she looks at Yuki and asked, "You okay?"

"Yeah, I'm fine. What are you doing here?" asked Yuki.

"What does it look like? I'm here to save you." Kira answered.

Yuki blinked her eyes for a quick second and asked, "Does your dad know you're here?"

"No. I snuck out after we split up in searching for Kuzan's prison cave. Ikuto is looking all over for you and I could tell that he's completely worried about you." Kira answered.

Yuki widened her eyes at this ayt the realization that Ikuto's looking for her and she said, "Let's go find him. Kuzan made up this stupid lie that he murdered Ikuto and we have to find him before he really does kill him."

"Let's not waste anytime. We got to get out of here now! I'm glad I got away with sneaking out of my dad's sight." Kira stated.

"I wouldn't say that, Kira."

Just then, Kira sees Akashi emerging from the shadows alongside Jeff, Lulu, Sally and Laz behind him and she face-palms herself and said, "Seriously!"

"We'll discuss your grounding later. Right now, we got to find Yuki!" Akashi exclaimed.

"Hello, uncle." Yuki said, looking at Akashi, waving her paw.

Akashi immediately went over to Yuki and hugged her tightly and just then, Max comes behind and hugs his daughter as well and Yuki said, "I'm so glad you guys came."

"I knew you'd be okay. Did that creep release you already?" asked Max.

"No, I got out on my own." Yuki answered.

Max chuckled softly at this and he said, "That's my daughter. We have to get out of here now and find Kuzan."

"And fast!" Akashi exclaimed.

Stay tuned for more awesome action coming your way!