After the huge fiasco that went down in the arcade, the paramedics arrived at the scene. Toby with Jessica and Mark were driven to the hospital via ambulance. Luckily, no one was harmed and the firefighters alongside the Venture Falls evacuation department escorted everyone to safety. Though nobody knows what caused the incident it would still be the scope of the town given the news department arrival to the incident.

Through all the craze both Flamma and Anchor were able to return to Venture falls though not unscattered. Despite the fact that it had been roughly 4 hours since the event at the arcade they were still soaking wet and Flamma hated every second of it. To ease her suffering (honestly, Anchor didn't think it was that bad) they decided hit Shinzuku for a quick snack.

"You know, if you continue to eat like that you'll get sick." Anchor states having not touched his sashimi.

"Come on Anchor! Can a girl eat? Seriously, I've never tasted anything like this in my life!" Flamma says as she crams down a fish piece. After finishing her dish she stares at Anchor's full plate. She gives a sneaky grin as she carefully pokes her chopstick into his sashimi. Oh, that sweet-savoury scrumptious sashimi. Like a drug, the girl couldn't get enough. She catches Anchor's expression fetching for permission to go all out on his dish. He's as deadpan as ever.

"Sigh...just take it already." Anchor remarks, sliding the dish towards Flamma. Taking the opportunity, the girl gobbles down the dish, leaving nothing left on his plate. Not even a stain. Anchor rolls his eyes.

"Come on Anchor!" Flamma states, leaning into the man as she pokes his cheek with her chopstick. "We'll never have a chance like this again! You gotta enjoy life's delicacies!"

Before Anchor could tell Flamma to stop, one of the restaurant's waitresses shows up to their table. "Um, excuse me, I'm afraid I have to ask you to leave. We're closing soon." Talk about being saved by the bell. The twosome proceeds to pack their things and head out, apparently fully dry.

"Sooooo...where to next?" Flamma probes, skipping around the promenade.

"Home." Anchor replies in his usual monotone voice.

Flamma scowls. "You're no fun."

"We're not here to have fun." Flamma gives Anchor the 'I'm so done with you' look. The taller of the two walks her off. "So you got what we need?"

Flamma stops and places her hands on her hips. "Really? Is that how you treat a girl on a date?"

"Flamma."

The girl growls, slapping her bag in reply. Anchor pleased returns a nod while continuing to saunter along. The duo resumes in silence until they finally arrive at their destination. An old, small bookshop around the edge of town. Upon entering the building Anchor deposits his bag. Flamma stretches.

"Time to get to work." Anchor states walking to the storage room. Flamma sluggishly ambles behind him, dragging her purse, definitely rather be in her bed than work during the night. Once the duo enters the storage room, Anchor turns on the light switch and heads to one the desks. He pulls out a scroll and stations it on the roundtable at the middle of the room. Flamma perches onto a nearby stool. Anchor unveils the scroll revealing a map of Venture Falls.

"Are you 100% sure the missing piece of the orb is in this location?" Anchor asks.

"Ummhum! This thing was going crazy in there earlier! Honestly ruined the mood." Flamma unzips her bag exhibiting a dark, crystal pendulum. She closes her eyes in concentration. She chants a few incomprehensible words as the once dark pendulum glows a faint red. She dangles the crystal above the map. Glowing ever brighter the pendulum shift to a specific location on the map. Shinzuku.

"Told you so- ugh!" Flamma drops the pendulum and clutches her wrist in agony. Anchor wastes no time to rush to Flamma's aid.

"Show me your hand," he instructs.

Flamma gives him a strained look, attempting to cover her hand from him. "It's nothing...it'll wear out eventually."

Anchor having enough of Flamma's excuses roughly removes her hand. Her fingertips dyed in pitch black with nails growing sharper, so sharp that they could piece Anchor's flesh with any sudden movement. Dragon scales develop on her skin, her hand increasing in size as every second passes.

Anchor has seen worse but he couldn't help but stare in shock "The glamour! We need the book now!"

Before Anchor could run off Flamma grabs his shoulder. "NO! We can't! Vestalt specifically said we could only use that book in dire situations. We've already seen what it could do to you..."

"But your glamour..."

"It's fine. It's the middle of the night. Not like I'm planning to go out anyways." Flamma shrugs while giving a half-hearted smile.

Anchor scratches his head. He eyes Flamma for a bit, checking to see if she's some-what okay before returning to his seat. "Anyways, now that we know the location we need to deal with the lords of nature."

"Oh yeah, those guys. You do think they know about the orb?" Flamma asks having had the pain recede for a bit.

"I'm not sure, but from what we've seen earlier they sure are powerful."

"Really? Uh..was I the only one that saw that kid squirm in pain?"

"No, but we shouldn't underestimate them." Anchor rests his chin on his hands pondering for a bit. Yes, it's true that it does seem that kid did lose control of his powers and that could be a great benefit in completing their mission but staging an all-out attack would go against Vestal's teachings. They mustn't underestimate their enemies for a second or that'd lead to their downfall. It has already taken them this long to collect all the other pieces of the orb and Magor's been growing impatient with the wait. They must make sure their mission is a success, even if it means taking the longer route.

"Anyways, if we ever encounter them in our gormiti forms we going to need to come up with code names."

Flamma looks at Anchor, totally puzzled at his suggestion. Sometimes Anchor wished Flamma wasn't so slow. Heck, he's even surprised they got this far without her screwing up. "You do know you said my actual name in front of a lord of nature, right?"

Flamma scoffs and places her glamourless hand on her chest for dramatic effect. "Hey! You are so not throwing me under the bus right now! You said my name too!"

"But you said my name first."

Flamma points her glamoured finger at Anchor. She's been playing way too much Ace Attorney lately, not a surprise to Anchor. "AHA! You admit you screwed up too!"

Anchor visibly pouts. Him, screw up? Never. He'd never do that to Vestalt. "No, no. I did not screw up."

"Did too!"

"Did not!"

"DID TOO!"

"NOT"

"TOO"

"NOT"

"NOT"

"TOO! Too?"

"HAHA, you admitted it again!" Flamma in the midst of her laughing fit slams her dragon-like fist onto the desk. The sheer force of her first breaks it in half with a loud thud.

...

"Oops?"

Anchor stares at the scene for a while attempting to process what happened before pacing about the room, rubbing his temples to relax. What the both of them didn't need is for him to transform into his gormiti form and wreak havoc. Vestal would be pissed if that ever happened.

Right at that moment, the door burst open revealing a rather short older woman, roughly around her 60's. Flamma and Anchor jump from shock and briefly eye each other. The duo scatters to each other's side kneeling down in front of the woman.

"Commander Vestalt!"

The old lady named Vestal glances at Anchor then to Fllamma and the collapsed table. She walks forward to Anchor and lifts his chin. "What did I say about formalities?"

The duo raises from the floor simultaneously looking sympathetic in front of their leader, Vestalt. "We're sorry, we let things get too out of hand."

Flamma raises an eyebrow towards him. Anchor apologizing for something is a rare sight to be seen, and only seen in front of the great commander herself. It would be nice if Anchor would apologize to her once in a while. Too busy daydreaming Flamma didn't register Vestal's stare.

"FLAMMA!"

'Shit' Flamma hasn't received a scolding from the commander for a while so of course, this is going to throw her off guard.

"Your arm! How did this happen?" Vestal steps closer to the girl inspecting her gormiti arm.

"Uh, I just used a tracking spell and then this happened."

Vestalt's caring tone swiftly changes to a more serious one. "Do I need to get the book?"

"No, it's fine. I'm sure the glamour will hold up for a while. You said it yourself we can only use it as a last option."

The tension rises as a long silence ensues. The duo didn't dare say a word, worried they might offend their leader.

Vestalt gives an exasperated sigh before bypassing the two taking a chair for herself. Said two exhale in relief.

"Never mind that, how is the mission going?"

Anchor straightens his posture having relaxed before answering. "Splendidly! We've located the final piece of the orb in this location." Anchor picks up the map from the floor thankfully intact given Flamma's fists and points to the restaurant.

Anchor continues - "We've yet to formulate a plan to retrieve it though."

Flamma huffs . Possessing her playful nature once more, she responds. "That's easy! We'll bust in and get the orb! But that means no more tasty sashimi..."

If the commander wasn't there, Anchor would've beaten his head on a nearby wall. Did Flamma not listen to their conversation before Vestalt arrived?

"Uh, Flamma, no. We will not do that. In fact, we are going to do the exact opposite." Flamma sulks as she slumps down onto a nearby seat.

Recovering the serious mood Anchor chimes in on the conversation. "So Commander do you have any ideas on how we will proceed?"

Vestalt rests her hand on her head in thought. "I don't know. But for right now we need more information on this place, Shinzuku. Then we can proceed with how to retrieve the piece."

Anchor's eyes light up and he bows down to Vestalt causing Flamma to stare at him in uncertainty. "Don't worry commander, Flamma and I will start our research right away."

"Wha?" Flamma states surprised.

Fortunately for her Vestalt stops Anchor by placing both her hands on his shoulders. "Right now both of you should rest. You will start your research tomorrow."

"But Magor- "

"Don't worry about him. I'll deal with Magor and you will get some rest."

"Thank you, Commander." Anchor bows to Vestalt once more and heads to the door. Flamma follows suite but not before Vestalt grabs the back of her jacket stopping her dead on her tracks. What now?

"And Flamma you'll clean up this place before going to your room."

The girl slumps a little before responding back. "Y-yes Commander."

Of course Anchor has to be the favourite.

A/N: So that's the ending of the original chapter 2. Yeah, I had to tweak the chapters a little bit (a lot) so they'd work as individual chapters. So I hope you enjoy this chapter even though its short, only has my OCs in it and basically it's an info dump if you can't tell by the chapter title - you know if I've updated it yet.

Speaking of chapter titles - I've started adding legit chapter titles now! As a little game most of them will probably reference something or allude to something in the actual chapter. Some will be pretty obvious while others - not so much. So ya'll can guess the references in the comments down below and i'll confirm it in the next a/n or up on my profile page idk.

And exams are coming up so next chapter will come out either late December or early into the new year. Sorry about that but I need to study , Uni is a bitch.

A bit of shameless advertisement here but I've drawn (yes I can draw) character sheet(? idk what you call them) for the aged up characters for my fic. So far I've only done Jessica and Toby. Links will be up on my profile if you wanna check that. Since cranking out drawings is way easier than writing a chapter those will be posted frequently during the hiatus(?) so yeah check out my profile once in a while for that.

What else - oh yeah if ya'll want to use my OCs for anything then you can go ahead (translation: please use my OCs i'm begging you. Heck you can even use them for torture porn(not actual porn look up scatter film) just please I want ya'll to use them.)

So you all know the drill.

I'll throw in character heights right here if ya'll don't mind

Mark : 183cm - 6 feet(ish)

Toby : 175cm - 5 feet and 9 inches

Lucas: 173cm - 5 feet and 8 inches

Nick: 170 cm - 5 feet and 7 inches

Jessica : 166 cm - 5 feet and 5 inches

Kagami: 159cm - 5 feet and 3 inches (she smol)