"Mom, where are we going?" Viola asks happily.

"To somewhere warmer." Viola laughs wholehearted.

"Here's, as you know Forte, Arietta, Florian, and Liger." She greets us to Viola. She nods and greets each one of us instead, of Forte. "You're an idiot, you know that? "She says leaning into Forte's face.

"Oh I know that but I'm not as bad as Jade." Forte says as he walks up towards the entrance of Keterberg.

Liger growls and pushes everyone to the side to a not noticeable spot.

"Dammit." Forte hisses.

"They're here! How did they find out-

"Shhh…" Hymn softly shushes us and looks at them through a small space.

"We need to find them before they hurt innocent civilians."

Jade

"I can't believe they took Florian! Stupid Gloomietta is going to pay for that!"

Anise

"The guards said they were here, do you think they could have left so quickly?"

Guy

The others are probably with tear at Baticul.

They start speaking about Luke and the others while Jade just paces back and forth before freezing. Florian looks absolutely terrified when Jade glances at where we're hiding before looking at the others.

Jade gets quiet almost as if he knows what's watching him.

"Hymn, why would you choice them over emperor Peony?"

We all look back at Jade.

He's staring right where we're hiding.

Shit…

"You don't understand Jade." Hymn jumps up out of hiding place with us, Liger puts me on his back. We're face to face with them. Hymn pushes Viola back to stand with Florian and I, she understands and puts on her feathered jacket and take out her spear. Forte takes out his Bow and arrow as Florian holds my doll to his chest. Florian is then pushed behind Forte by Hymn.

"Of course I don't understand." He mimics emotionless, almost mockingly. "It's not like you to choose a bunch of criminals over someone you hold dearly."

"Don't call them criminals! What I do with my life, Peony understands! He's letting me look-

"Face the facts, you're with criminals. Plus, isn't your daughter in danger if you bring her along?"

Everyone looks at Viola as she walks up to Jade. "My mom cares about me. Just because my mother has made bad decisions in the past doesn't mean she's forcing me into this. I'm an idiot too, if something bad happens I'd rather die with my mother then die alone." She stares at jade and jumps back when he reveals his spear.

"Gloommietta, that isn't Ion!" Anise blurts out angrily while pointing at Florian. "That's a replica! The Ion I was guardian to was a replica too! Just let Florian go! I didn't want to tell you the truth but-" Anise mumbles off.

I-Ion?! Who's Ion.

No matter how long I think I can't remember him. "W-Who's Ion?" I ask, everyone's jaw drop except Jade's who was focused on Hymn and Viola. Florian is hidden behind Forte, eyeing down Guy.

"You can't remember Ion?" Guy asks unsurely taking out his blade.

"You can't remember Ion?! You're joking right?" Anise says unchanged.

"IS EVERYTHING A JOKE TO YOU?!" I yell, Liger gets ready to strike. Anise winces and everyone freezes when Hymn sings Nightmare. Everyone slowly falls down except jade who's struggling to stay put. Forte takes out his sword and walks up in front of Jade, unfazed as usual. Staring him down. Forte kicks him to the ground and keeps his foot on Jade's stomach. Jade is struggling to breathe and keep consciousness. "Wow, you showed mercy for once, poor old fool…We won't next time and so should you…" Forte frowns and runs with us. "We don't have time!"

This is amazing! I've never felt so alive!" Viola yells while sprinting ahead. Florian's riding on Liger with me.

"I couldn't agree more!" He yells. "Florian you adrenalinaholic. " Hymn says, Forte laughs.

We slow down ever so little just to let Forte keep up, he's obviously still not healed from being in the hospital. Florian seems to be having the time of his life. Hymn and Viola seem to be as happy as ever.

We almost make it to Keterberg port when we hear something behind us.

"Ground dasher!" Before any of us could comprehend anything that was happening, Hymn pushed us all out of the way and took it defenselessly. "Mom!" Viola Yells.

Forte is furious and starts fighting. He runs up to jade. Bow in hand, he jumps up in the air and shoots arrows at them. "Arrow Fury!" Forte yells, shooting 7 arrows, one hitting Guy's sword. Guy jumps up too, "Beast!" he launches Forte higher up in the air. Forte transforms his bow into a sword, no one knew he could do that. He falls right down on Guy creating a large explosion. Florian runs away far so he isn't hit by anything. I run up to Anise as Viola heals Hymn. "Splash!" Jade hits me, I lay on the ground as Viola runs up towards Jade, their spears collide. "Flaming desire!" Hymn yells as she slides right past Jade and hits him on the back with a large flame ball.

I get up as Liger is furious, I pick up what he wants me to do.

"A different world, a different time, a new life, BIG BANG!" I yell out as stars appear around us, Anise running towards me and Jade defenseless I shoot put a large laser of white, throwing them both back.

Guy got Forte on his knees, coughing up blood as he runs up to him and slashes him. Forte grunts, he gets angry, very angry. He transforms his sword into a bow again while backing up, then shooting many arrows at Guy.

Guy avoids it all and slashes Forte's injured side. Forte falls to the ground and starts to use his mystic arte.

"With the bloodshed of my enemies, the death of my companions! A burning passion hell no one shall stand! Blitzkreig!"

Forte watches as his bloody body glows. Everything turns black. Everyone falls to their knees, Anise with her hands on her head. "I-I can't, my head hurts!" A light appears under them, Shocking and burning them. Hymn and Viola take the time to heal everyone. Jade gets up with a gash on his head, his glasses glint as he gets up with a strange smile.

He runs up to Viola as she rests after casting so many fonic artes. She notices him to late and has nowhere to run. "Viola-

Hymn runs up in front of Viola before both of them react. The spear went completely through Hymns body as she fell down in pain. Jade pulls out the spear as he watches, thinking.

"Go!" Hymn yells while coughing up blood, "I'm okay… GET YOUR FATHER FOR me…" She quiets down as we run away, I let out a bloody howling at them, Hitting Guy and flinging Anise on her stuffed freak to a surprise of a face full of snow.

Jade bends over worriedly to Hymn who was losing more blood by the minute. "Jade you idiot… You don't know me at all if you think I wouldn't do that…" She passes out in Jade's arms as they all ran back to the Albiore.

We made it to the port and get on the ship as quickly as we could.

"M-mommy… if Jade killed you…" Viola was crying in Florian's arms, Liger wrapped up around her, trying to comfort her. Forte still bleeding, came back with some hot soup for us all, we all got Viola up and got her to sit at the table with us.

"Viola, no need to worry." I say sternly, everyone looks at me shocked. "She's one of the strongest people I've ever met, she did that on purpose. She probably didn't want Jade and Peony to worry over her like that. We all saw how Jade was when he saw her with us, he probably didn't want to see his best friend's heart break if he had to tell him about Hymn. She's smart, and strategic. She probably realized she didn't have much to do with finding Travis." I hold Viola's Shoulder a bit harsh. "The last thing he'd want to see would be her, she probably saw that since she's spent over 16 years trying to find him. She wants you to find him and your brothers. Why else would she bring you over with us?" I lied while she smiles and hugs me, everyone else seemed proud in me, especially Florian. He gave me a playful jab in the arm. We both smiled, knowing why he did it. We all ate like mad, it was hot and we were not. Viola started telling stories about Keterberg.

Everyone had mixed emotions of awe, surprise, and laughter at her unbelievable stories. But we all kept it in when we saw she was trying to be serious.

We all laughed and went to sleep, we were all tired. More than we have ever been.