"Excuse me, Mister Guard!" Misha yelled.
Ariha smirked at the tone she used. The tone brought only one guard in. Ariha cast a glance at Keiichi who smirked back. He was nervous behind that smirk and it only made sense. He was only use to reading minds offhandedly. Never had he attempted harming one. Or even taking control of it.
"What do you want?" the guard asked gruffly.
Misha's eyes shot to Keiichi whose eyes were now closed. His forehead was wrinkled in concentration.
"Well, uh."
"Spit it out!"
Misha bit her lip, unsure of what to say.
"Dude, she's gotta pee and none of us want to see that," Ana remarked.
"I'm under orders not to free any of you," the guard replied.
"But I really have to go," Misha whined.
"Do you think I care?" the guard asked.
Ariha smirked.
"I think you will," she muttered.
The guard looked at her.
"Shut up y-"
His eyes fogged over and he stopped, mouth dropping open. Ariha looked at Keiichi, smiling.
"Nice work," she praised.
He smiled back at her.
"I'm never doing that again."
"Can we get this show on the road please?" Hachi prompted.
"On it," Kei said, pulling a dagger from his boot.
He threw it at the rope holding Ana's feet. Just as it sliced through, Ana grabbed Ahsim's extended hand and swung up, wrapping her legs around his waist.
"Little close there," Ahsim remarked.
"What's wrong? Don't you like it?" Ana teased.
"Me thinks he likes it a little too much," Misha muttered.
Ana snorted but managed to pull her own knife from the pocket of her black jeans.
"I can understand why you don't want me anywhere near your boy parts but trust me, even I know that the time for revenge is not now."
Ahsim let out a sigh of relief. Ana smiled as she bent enough to cut his rope.
"But soon," she mumbled.
Ahsim ignored her comment and reached over to take hold of Hachi's hand.
"You better not drop us weakling," Ana growled.
And then she cut the rope.
"Why are we doing this again?" Hachi asked, struggling to hold the two of them.
"There are sensors all over the floor," Kei replied.
Hachi looked at the guard. Granted he was pretty far away but surely he'd set the sensors off. Hachi almost had a heart attack when Ana's hands grasped her waist.
"Relax, I'm climbing up you," Ana assured her.
Then she proceeded to scurry up Hachi and then grasped the rope, scurrying even farther upwards towards the ceiling.
"What is she doing?" Haru asked.
His answer came when Ana sent her booted foot through the ceiling, revealing the docks. She crawled in and then began pulling Hachi's rope towards her.
"Is she really that strong?" Haru inquired.
"Trust me, she can get stronger," Hachi said as she and Ahsim were pulled up.
"Just hurry up," Ariha ordered.
"Whatever you say, Queenie," Ana said, doing a horrible impression of Ariha's voice.
"I don't talk like that!" Ariha yelled.
"Blah blah," Ana muttered.
She pulled Hachi and Ahsim up, freeing Hachi from the ropes. Then she tied the rope around her waist.
"Wish me luck," she said, saluting them.
And then, she jumped.


Taykoe hissed lowly as Arisa's blade cut across her cheek.
"Not so fun when we're evenly matched, is it?" Arisa inquired.
Taykoe glared at her.
"Evenly matched?" she said.
She smiled cruelly, the darkness in her eyes coming close to the darkness in Arisa's.
"Saying that suggests that we're alike in somehow. And we are nothing alike," Taykoe declared.
Arisa smirked, burying her spear in the roof. She then leaned against it.
"Oh really?" she asked.
Her blue eye glittered, challengingly.
"We're both leaders. We both have siblings lost to us though under different circumstances."
"I have to give you that but you forgot one thing," Taykoe said.
She swung her whip, the leather material slicing across Arisa's cheek. A sliver of blood escaped the wound but Arisa didn't seem to mind.
"And what is this one thing we don't have in common?" she asked.
Taykoe drew back again.
"I'm not a murderer."
And she let her whip fly.