(I need to find her fast and get back up top!)
Realizing how little time he had remaining to find, free and get Xi out of the underground laboratory Chad started moving faster through the prison area searching for his princess with none of his earlier considerations for being detected.
"Xi!"
Catching a situate which looked like her dear princess out of the corner of his eye, Chad ran after it and didn't realize that it was a trap before the door closed behind him.
"Huh? You're not the one I was after…"
Finding himself inside a brightly lit room, Chad took a second before his eyes adjusted. when he could finally see again Chad found himself standing across from an old grey skinned mage with sunken eyes.
"So it seems like there are two rats inside my home. Oh well, kill this one first."
Still appearing relatively lax even though he was unarmed, the mage addressed his newest creation and made it do the dirty work for him.
"Xi?..."