In the basement of a building three figures lay on the floor. You Chitose wakes up and moans. Looking he sees that he is on Mikoto along with Misaki. "Yata, Yata wake up." Misaki opens his eyes. "Where are we?" he asks. The two wake up their King. "Hey Mikoto." Mikoto opens his eyes. He grabs the two and pins them to the ground as lasers shoot where their heads were. "What was that?" Yata asks scared. "Look." The two follow Mikoto as he starts to crawl on the ground under the lines of light.
The three make it to the other side of the room. Mikoto sticks his hand through a hole in the wall deactivating the light lines. "Go." He says. He waits as Yata and Chitose crawl on him through the hole. Finally he follows them. They are in another room. Mikoto checks the room looking for anything dangerous. He grabs his clansmen by the wrist and takes off running down the room. Looking behind them Yata sees large spear heads fall.
Zina, Neon and Cheri awoke to find themselves in an empty room. Zina gave the signal and the three raced down the room to an air vent. They jumped over laser beams and dodged the light guns along the wall. Zina placed her hand on the screen opening the door. Neon and Cheri crawled through followed by their King who urged them to go faster.
In the adjacent room Reisi, Fushimi and Seri wake up. The hear running in the room next to them. "Captain where are we?" Seri asks. "Again?" Reisi asks. The three look around the room when Fushimi suddenly jumps out of the way as a giant spear head falls. The three run as more fall. The team makes it to the end of the room falling through the door as it opens. They then walk cautiously down the room. Fushimi looks through a small hole to another room then continues down the hall.
Izumo feels a breath on him and opens his eyes. Anna Kushina his King is sleeping on top of him. "Anna. Anna wake up." Anna wakes up looking at Izumo. Looking to the left is her classmate and newly recruited clansman Zuko. The seventeen year old was scanning the room. His unusual grass green hair stopped at his shoulders. Those blood red eyes read the room. Every crack, hole and rise in the floor it was all looked at by him. "About time you two woke up." He said in an annoyed voice. His tan skin showed the scar on his left eye he got while escaping Russian police. He had been a member of the mafia while in assassin training. That made him much more of a threat to his enemies and a valued member of HOMRA. Zuko is the type of person you do not want to meet at night. He became a demon and never missed his target.
"Run." Anna told them. A second later they were zigzagging down across the room as lasers shot at them. The three crossed an invisible light beam triggering the next room. Adolf K Weismann, Neko and Kuroh slowly awoke. "Where are we?" Neko asked. "A room?" "RUN!" Adolf yelled. The three jumped out of the way as boulders fell running in between the falling boulders. They ran to a hole in the wall and jumped down it falling into the darkness.
Andy Domyoji sat on the sofa in Kage's place as the Black King watched the four teams disappear into the black cloud he made. He dumped them into their rooms. Orange, White, Blue, Silver and Red. The teams saw a change of clothes and backpacks filled to compactly. The teams changed into the clothes. First they have a shirt in their main color, jeans in the darkest shade in their color range and black coats and combat boots. They opened the doors and disappeared into the back cloud once again.
Kage dropped them off at the starting points. Mikoto and Zina's team charged right out of there headed to the nearest patch of trees for cover. The other three teams started out of the gates headed down the paths before them. Orange and White raced through the trees, jumped over a stream and ran into the deep forest. Silver entered the mountain pass and charged ahead when a shadow creature made of Kage's cloud chased them. Red entered a small desert while Blue found themselves in a multi river way. The rivers cut out the landscape.
"Hey Kage?" "Yea?" "Why did you pick Chitose for the Knight?" "Umm. I guess because he has more power than Yata." Andy looked at the board. Three tiny crowns were at the end. The chess pieces went like this. King: Mikoto, Zina, Reisi, Adolf and Anna; Knight: Chitose, Neon, Fushimi, Kuroh and Izumo; Pawn: Yata, Cheri, Seri, Neko and Zuko. Each piece was in its respected clan color. Andy sank back into the couch as his mind wandered. It had been seven years since he had been assigned to invatrate Sector 4. The Black Kings little mole it suited him well. Before he had been living on the streets. He couldn't remember why. A fight with his parents? Was he kicked out? Maybe he was an orphan abandoned and left on his own to survive. Yea, he believed the last one.
Mikoto and his team were stopped in the forest fighting the shadow creatures. Chitose jumped from the trees doing turns in the air landing on the shadows. Yata dodged and attacked his opponents while Mikoto charged at them kicking and throwing his fire at them. The three weaved in and out until the shadows blew away. Zina's team used teamwork to defeat the shadows. They used their karate training and Zina froze the shadows with her power. She and the other girls broke the frozen shadow like glass.
Team Silver fought their own shadows. Neko used her illusions tricking the shadows to destroy one another. Kuroh fought using his sword skills while Adolf used his light to incinerate the shadows. Team Blue got chased through the rivers. They turned and fought back. Seri and Reisi used their sword while Fushimi used his sword and speed to beat the shadows. Team Red used their fire to burn the shadow scorpions that attacked them. The teams beat the shadows and all made it to the mountains. They found shelter in the caves for the night from the sudden wind storm.
As their clansmen fell asleep the Kings watched the storm rage outside wondering how far it was to the finish line. When the blizzard ended the clans were back on the trail racing to the finish line. Red made it out of the desert, Blue got across the river ways, Silver climbed down the mountain and Orange and White found their way out of the forest. The clans made it to the arena in record time. There the fight for one of the three crowns began. Red vs. White and Blue, Silver and Orange. Mikoto fought Reisi and Adolf the three charged at each other trying to knock the other out. Anna and Zina fought jumping and throwing their power at one another.
Kage and Andy watched intensely as the five Kings fought for the three crowns. On the chess board Red, Orange and White were in the lead with Silver and Blue behind them. Soon blood came from the men dirt and sweat from the girls. The fight soon ended and the exhausted clans were soon dumped back into their room. The winning Kings were called and walked down the hall to a room. They pause and the door and wait. Mikoto finally opens the door and the three Kings go inside. "Ah the three winners are here." Kage told them. Mikoto got first place and the tiny gold crown was slipped onto the metal necklace, Zina came in second and the tiny silver crown was worn in her hair as a barrette, last was Anna who wore the tiny bronze crown in her right ear. The sleep cloud was released and the clans fell asleep and were put back were they came from.