The thieves stand in the parking lot of her Palace.
Akira:" Let's go."
Everyone nods and they go look for an entrance, however, they can't find any entrance nearby that doesn't have security around them.
Minako:" Now what? I couldn't find any."
Ann:" Me neither."
Akira:" Actually, I think I found a way to get in."
Yusuke:" Just what I'd expect from our leader, so what is your possible entrance?"
Akira:" The sewer."
Ann:" The sewer?! You mean the place with rats and it's really dark?!"
Akira:" Yeah, we don't have any other way of getting in, there's no windows, my grappling hook can't reach a ledge, and there are no doors."
Ryuji goes to move the sewer gate as Akira climbs down the ladder. A few minutes pass as all of the thieves go deeper into the sewer. The halls of the sewer walls are lit up with torches.*
Weiss:" I'm so glad that we don't have to do that."
Ozpin:" Oh, trust me you will. I went down my fair share of sewers in my huntsman career."
Ann:" It smells so bad down here."
Haru:" I know Panther, but hopefully it'll be a short walk."
Ann:" Hnngh, I sure hope so."
Akira:" Shhhh."
Everyone quiets up and they see two shadows defending a ladder they seem to be guarding a box.
One of the shadows was in a set of armor of scales and the other was in typical body armor, the left-hand shadow had a pitchfork as a weapon and the one on the right had a Katana.
Minako starts whispering "Should we fight them?"
Makoto:" *Whispering* We don't have a choice in the matter."
Morgana:" That's right, but we should wait for Joker's call first."
Akira:" Panther, Skull, and Minako I want you three to help me, and I want everyone else to prevent any other shadows from taking advantage of us from behind."
The rest of the thieves perk up as the four thieves start battling the shadows.
The shadow with the pitchfork had gone to stab him in the stomach, but Akira was able to dodge it and slash at the pitchfork's tip with his dagger and used his grappling hook to trip the shadow, the shadow had cut the wire connecting the hook and the hook had started blinking rapidly and exploded.
Akira's thoughts:" Oh man, I'm so glad that I got those upgrades when I did."
Ann was fighting the shadow, however, Ann wasn't doing well. Her whip is useless against his Katana and her bullets are as effective as throwing clay at the shadows.
The shadow had managed to catch her off guard and kicked her in the stomach leading to Ann being knocked onto the ground near a torch, in a fit of panic Ann's Aura flowed into a torch and accidentally set the shadow ablaze a description appeared on screen.
Concentrate:" Ann's semblance is called concentrate, she can send her Aura into dust to increase the damage, range, duration, etc of said dust and their explosions, but it doesn't stop at just dust she could also do this with people's semblances and objects like Torches. But that would cause her to be extremely exhausted extremely quickly!"
Ruby had stars in her eyes. She was in awe of Ann's semblance.
Ruby:" That's so cool."
Weiss thinks to herself "I wonder if she could mess with Yang's hair when it gets set on fire."
Akira:" Amazing Job Panther."
Ann laughs nervously " Thanks, Joker."
Joker climbs the ladder and they're in the palace's first safe room.
The thieves exit the safe room and they find the entrance hall is very opulent and spacy, there's marble floors and walls, shining metals, grand chandeliers, and a giant red carpet with gold trimmings meanwhile there are a ton of posters of her previous performances on the walls. It's all very grand.
Minako:" Where could the treasure be this time?"
Akira:" Who knows? Let's try to find the map."
Morgana notices a part of the map and gives it to Joker. The thieves walk through one of the doors and they're greeted with a huge expansive wooden room that looks to be a training room, there are mirrors surrounding one of the walls, the other has more posters of her, microphones coming from the ceiling, and a piano in the corner.
Ryuji:" Look at these posters?"
One of the posters was of her in a cage she had looked desperate to get out of the cage. Ryuji went to touch the poster but he felt that a part of the wall wasn't there. Ryuji had accidentally ripped the poster in half.
Ann:" Skull! What was that for?!"
Ryuji:" I didn't mean to, I swear."
Makoto:" Wait, look at the poster. It looks like the poster is hiding something."
Ryuji rips the poster off the wall showing a dark room and Ann uses her fire to light up the darkness showing a cage, shackel, and a ball and chain.
Haru:" What is all this?"
Akechi:" It looks like a prison."
Akira:"…I think that's what she sees the theatre as."
Makoto:" But if that's the case, then why was one of the keywords "Music Store" and not "Prision"?"
Haru:" Isn't it possible that deep down she knows that it's a prison?"
Morgana:" I don't know, but we should keep going before we get caught."
The thieves go through the door and they find a room that's almost as huge as the last one. There are shelves adorning the walls, blinking Mirrors constantly causing the maze to be engulfed in darkness, there were shadows patrolling around the maze in the middle of the shelves.
Akira:" Oh, it's a maze… I imagine that it's gonna be complex too. We shouldn't stay still."
Minako:" It looks pretty unstable, do you think that it'll fall over on us?"
Akira:" We have no choice if we want to progress."
Weiss looks Annoyed at how the maze is constructed.
Weiss:" It's constructed like our bunk beds… Except somehow more fragile."
They go into the maze and hide among the sides, ambush shadows, and go down a path. They go down a path and they get to the end of the path unfortunately it's a dead end.
Ryuji:" A dead end? That's a pain."
Makoto:" Yeah it is, but let's go back."
Akira:"………"
Akira was staring intensely at a mannequin. The mannequin had a black suit. The theatre-goers saw a man going through the mannequin and he went to kick Akira in the stomach, Akira had gone to guard his stomach, but the man disappeared before he could touch him, and everything else was silent until...
Minako:" Joker! Let's go."
Ruby had flinched at Minako's sudden scream.
Weiss:" The person who tried to kick him in the stomach. Was he one of the officers that Abused Akira in the interrogation room?"
The Curator:"…… Yes, Yes he is."
The theatre had suddenly turned dead quiet after his statement.
Morgana:" Not so loud."
Minako:" What were you looking at? It's just a suit, nothing that special."
Akira:" I just thought that I saw something… that's all."
Akira nods and they go back the way they came from, eventually, they manage to make it to the next room.
Akira nods and they go back the way they came from, eventually, they manage to make it to the next room. The next room had Tubas, Violins, Harps, Trumpets, and other types of instruments. In the front of the room were multiple music sheets one for each instrument, there was a door, however, there was no knob or lever.
Haru:" What are supposed to do here?"
Minako:" Maybe we're supposed to play the song on the sheet."
Akira:" It's worth a shot."
Ryuji:" But, we don't know how to play instruments… For real?! I recognize this song."
Ann:" You do?"
Ryuji:" Yeah, the song on the sheet "Sweet Dreams" is her most popular song ever, it jump-started her career."
Minako:" Don't worry Skull, my brother was obsessed with music and I memorized the music notes, so we'll be fine."
Morgana:" I can feel it. The treasure is right there past this door."
The thieves start performing and the door slowly starts rising until eventually, it opens fully granting them the ability to progress. They go inside and they're on a stage with a glowing orb on a pedestal in the middle of the stage.
Morgana:" Alright, we should head back."
Akira nods as the thieves leave the palace getting ready for when they have to fight the Palace rulers shafow
