60 Ah, shoot, a shapeshifter, great.

"Stop ignoring me! Who the hell are you?!" Hector asks, raising his voices, the woman stays silent and instead of answering him, she jumped at him, aiming her claws at him, Hector quickly rolled to the side and pulls his swords out from it scabbards. As the woman claws were stuck on the mirror, and tries to pull it out. "M-Master, s-she's scary!" Arkus shivered vigorously, vibrating Hector's head. "Oi! Stop shivering! I got this!" He said, trying to make him stop being scared.

The woman then pull her left hand that is stuck on the mirror hardly, causing the mirror to breaks and causes her left hand to bleed, she raises her head to glares at Hector who had his swords in front of him. "Uaghhh…" The woman lets out a weird grumbles, "Is she even a human?" Hector asks, Arkus shakes his head furiously, against the idea of her being a human, while the woman releases throaty grunts and launches herself at him, raising both of her hands, that is both wide opens claws from her nails.

Hector blocks her attack with his swords and pushes her away, as she crashes outside the restroom. Hector rushes at her, since she's openly let her guard down. "Human or not, let me end your life here! Devine Strike!" He shouts jabbing his swords down to her heart area, and instead of screaming in pain the woman disappears to dust.

"Huh? Dust?" Hector asks himself, looking at the dust on the ground.

Theresa wakes up from her sleep after she hears a crash near the restroom. "Hector?" She mutters, she look at Ashley first, who Is still in sleeping state, and stand up from her seat, heading to the back, and the first thing she see is Hector who is kneeling down on the ground.

She quickly approaches him. "Hector? What are you doing? And what's with the crash?" She asks, as Hector looks at her, "There's…an uninvited guest here." He said looking at her, seriousness reflected on his eyes, "Uninvited guest? Who? I'm sure only us the team who gets in the plane?" She asks, completely clueless.

Hector put his hand on his knee and stand up, "Let's get to Ashley first. I think it had some connections with her." He said walking pasts her, "Ah, alright." Theresa said and follows after her. Leaving the dust behind, then suddenly, the dusts slowly forms to a human forms.

"You see, Ashley tells us that, there is a woman outside the plane right? And we said that, it's completely impossible to get up here. Now I'm completely agree with her, there is this woman that attack me in the restroom." Hector said, explaining what happens to him. "Really? Can you give me more proof? I kinda clueless right now." Theresa said, wanting to know more.

"Follow me. She leaves a pretty big damages to the mirror in the restroom, oh, and also the food supply, just in case, you don't want to smell it. I puked before." Hector said, giving her a friendly reminder, "You puked? Oh lord, the smell must be awful…" Theresa said, putting her hands in front of her mouth.

Theresa calmly follows Hector, as Hector suddenly stops on his track, making her accidentally bumps to his back. "Ow, what's with the sudden stop, Hector?" Theresa asks looking up at him, and rubs her nose. "…It disappears…" He mutters, "What?" Theresa asks, she didn't hear him clearly. "It disappears! The dust! It's gone! Not even a bit left!" Hector said, completely shocks, "What? How?" Theresa asks, getting beside him.

Hector thinks for a while, trying to find a clue, he snaps out from his deep thoughts, and says, "Something is not clear." Theresa stands up and went in in the restroom that is near them, as soon as she enter the room, she immediately noticed the cracked mirror, blood trails left from where the woman's hand stuck, onto the floor.

"Oi! You need something?" Chiharu said appearing behind Hector, Hector turns around and looks up at her, confused. "I…Didn't call you…" He said, confused by what she's saying, "What? Don't play dumb! You come in the cockpit and calls me! You said you need help with something!" Chiharu said, halfway of losing all of her patience.

Hector tilted his head in confusion, as Arkus jumps down to his shoulder, "He didn't go there." Arkus said, furrowing slightly. "Yeah, I didn't come there, I was with Theresa! Right Theresa?" He said, looking for her answer, "Yeah! He's with me!" Theresa said appearing from the restroom. "What? Then…who the hell comes to the cockpit?" Chiharu asks, getting confused.

Zeolite rested his hands on the yoke, calmly controlling the plane, until he sees Chiharu come back to her seat from the corner of his eyes, What were you doing? What does he need?" He asked, without even looking at her. After waiting a while for her response, he started to feel something is wrong. "Tch. Whatever." He said brushing his thoughts away, and continue to fully focus on the way.

"Zeolite!" Chiharu said pulling the cockpit's door, but it won't open, she takes a peak on who's inside, and sees herself. "What?! Who is she?!" She shouts and tries to pull the doorknob with both hands. "Ah shit! I left my headphone inside!" She said face palming, she thinks for a while, 'I can't just goes back and call the other, that's gonna waste the time…and I left my Magic controller home…can I control it without the devices?' She asks herself, while rubbing her chin.

Chiharu has decided, she take a couple step behind and take a deep breath, and exhales it, purple colored magic circle forms under her, she hold her right arms out exposing her palm, while her left hand holds her right forearm, another purple colored magic circle forms in front of her exposed palm, as it began to sparks out of control, Chiharu grits her teeth and tightened her left hand grips, as the sparks that comes out from the magic circles calm down.

"I'm sorry dad!" Chiharu apologies and launches the attack, purple beams comes out from the magic circle destroying the door to pieces. She pants heavily and leans onto the door side, she still can't get used to her magic without the devices Dr. Nicholas made for her.

She looks at the fake Chiharu, who is holding up her claws, ready to kill Zeolite, "Zeolite! Get away from there!" She shouts, as Zeolite quickly rolled down, the fake Chiharu then swings her claws to Zeolite's seat, "That was close! And why is there are two Chiharu?" Zeolite asks looking at both Chiharu, "She's fake! I'm the real one!" The real Chiharu said pointing to the fake Chiharu. "Really? Oh damn. What are they?" Zeolite asks getting besides the real Chiharu.

"I don't know…but I think your teammates might know something." Chiharu said, getting into fighting stance, "Then, we should take care of her first." Zeolite said, pulling his sword from the scabbard, "Be careful. Dad won't be happy if he see a single scratch in this plane." Chiharu said reminding him, "Don't worry. I'm always careful…I suppose." Zeolite said, not sure himself. As Chiharu stares at him, furrowing her brows, "What do you mean by 'I suppose'?" She asks, "I'm not sure myself. Can you tell the others that this thing is here?" Zeolite asks, addressing them by thing when he sees it blanks face and skins, just black void.

"Sure. Remember! Don't broke a thing!" Chiharu said and leaves Zeolite with the creature. "Alright, got it." Zeolite said, and fully gives his attention to the creature that is standing in front of him, "Shall we play some games? Those who impales their opponents chest, win." He said, as he smirks in amusement, the creature doesn't say a thing and straight forwardly launches themselves at him.

"That's pretty dull." Zeolite said, roasting their forces, and swings his sword, as the creature land a couple feet away from him, "Grrr…" The creature grumbles, and rushes at him, Zeolite pulls a random card and latches it on their chest, he avoid the creature's attack and snaps his finger, as ice impaled their chest, they stop moving and falls to the ground completely frozen.

"Psh, weak." Zeolite rolls his eyes and put his sword back on the scabbard, he leaves the creature and sit back on his seat, controlling the plane.

"Should we wake her up?" Theresa asks looking at Ashley, who is snoring loudly, "Nah, she's having a good time, we shouldn't interrupt." Hector said, "Jeez, hurry up!" Chiharu said, tapping her foot on the floor, a pissed looks on her face, "Ah, yeah, almost forgot!" Hector said sticking his tongue out and scratch the back of his neck. "Ugh!" Chiharu said annoyed by his cheerful attitudes.

"The position is fine, all machine works…I guess it's all stable now." Zeolite said while observing the current conditions of the plane from the screen on his left. "The fuel is…pretty low. I should ask Chiharu to refill the tank later." He mumbles seeing the fuel tank meter is at orange color.

Then out of nowhere, and without his knowing the creature that he thought was dead, is choking his neck. Zeolite grunts at the strong grips the creature have, and tries to let go of the grips, but when he touch the creature hands, he can't grab it, instead, his hand go past trough the hands, 'What? It pass through?!' He thoughts, surprised.

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