Break of Dawn

Everyone was wondering, why is the five of them so serious. Too serious that they never saw it before.

"She really loves doing things on her own, doesn't she?" Karen opened as they continued preparing for the next day.

"She cared but she just loves hiding to the ones she cared about," Feena then lamented.

"No, I think she herself is unaware that she started caring, seeing how hard she is to herself as well," Raven added, remembering how she used his fire to cause more harm to her body.

"I just realized it now, the way I spoke to her and looked at her for the past month, I'm too harsh, aren't I?" Hideyoshi spoke, finishing up his packing.

"We all did, we all forgot how she would always say things or do things that is for our best interest," Mamoru added.

They couldn't help but sigh.

"I wish she is with Azusa by now, I really wanna see her too," Karen couldn't help but say.

"Yeah me too, I want to reconcile with her already," Feena added.

*CLAP CLAP*

"Enough with being down, this mission is for the purpose of saving them both. So get yourself together and concentrate your everything on that purpose," Raven commanded as he too are done packing.

*****

"That's new, you're not suspicious," Akihiro commented when only the two of them are left.

"Suspicious about what?" Yukimura asked.

"When Azusa disappeared, she herself disappeared as well. This note might be a trap but you even sent the five of them," Akhiro replied referring to Eureka.

"Maybe because she shouted at me?" Yukimura answered remembering their time in the forest.

He is currently on guard on that side right now, but it seems that Eureka is right they didn't plan on making another move. The ones who must have taken her had been inside all along, and it could be that her being taken is the only change of their plan.

"Oh, other than Mutsumi, Raven and Haruka, someone else have shouted at you?" Akihiro looked at him.

That's right, anyone barely shouts at him, he is after all the head knight at the same time the air around him tells you not to cross that line.

"*Chuckles* That's right, I was even dumbfounded when she did. She got mad at me when I said that I'd fight against the enemies we faced yesterday and that I'm the head knight so running away was not an option. And she was like "you are the head knight, so you are more important than the other knights"."

"Oh, she actually said that?"

"Yes, and yet look at her. She threw her own life when not even a day have passed since she said those words. She haven't realized how important she had become as well, didn't she?" Yukimura couldn't help but sigh.

"She seems to know a lot though, regarding us, the ones close to us, it feels like even things that didn't happen yet, she knows of them."

"I get that feeling as well, she said yesterday that I am needed for the upcoming bigger war, she had a line that goes "so they up their game?", and the ability she taught to Hideyoshi and Feena, she actually made me and Raven do it as well," Yukimura looked at Akihiro.

"Fire and fire? Adding that up wouldn't give you something new," Akihiro asked baffled.

"The vine that wounded her was incorporated with poison, yet she didn't go to the hospital at all," Yukimura looked at Akihiro seriously.

"She was poisoned? Is that why she was taken? She had defeated 40 peak leveled ability users, we might not know how many attacked her yesterday but it is still impossible for her to be taken that easily."

"No, I think," Yukimura looked around as if seeing whether someone is around.

"You think?"

"That she deliberately let herself be taken," Yukimura whispered feeling that no one is listening.

"Wha- *clears throat* Let's go to the inner hall."

The inner hall is incorporated with a seal, this seal stops anyone or anything from the outside enter without the King's permission, at the same time stops any sound to be heard. Once inside,

"So you're saying that she allowed them to take her?" Akihiro asked.

"Yes, that's my speculation."

"But why did the battle went to that extent?"

"If she just have them take her, then they would be suspicious."

"Then she really is suspicious."

"Do you feel that way?"

"Ah, no, I don't" Akihiro answered truthfully.

"So getting back to the other matter, she was poisoned but didn't go to the hospital, she made me and Raven release our power, but when we combined it, there's nothing," Yukimura returned to their other topic.

"Nothing? What do you mean nothing?"

"Our abilities disappeared but we can still feel our energies combining."

"Isn't that..."

"I think, but still needs confirmation, that she nullified the poison inside her body using that invisible energy. We all have the capability to sense aura, but hers is stronger, when she was poisoned she said that she's starting to lose it. At first she couldn't find her way, knowing that she is blind that only shows that the poison have really affected her, but afterwards she had been acting normally again."

"So what she made you do actually removed the poison within her?"

Both of them fell silent.

"If what you're saying is true, then she is far more mysterious than we pegged her to be," Akihiro finally said.

"I suppose."

"Then to sum it all up, she actually get taken on purpose, she had an idea on how to combine abilities to the point of creating new ones and she seemed to know the enemies? Isn't this getting more confusing by the minute?" Akihiro couldn't help but be frustrated.

They have a lot of speculations but they just couldn't confirm it since the person who could confirm it is actually not around.

"She said that once all of these are over then she will answer all the questions we have," Yukimura concluded.

"Then they have to save them both no matter what happens."

*****

Dawn break arrives, Akihiro and Yukimura are currently standing in the entrance to a secret path to move out of the kingdom.

"You have the coordinates memorized?" Akihiro asked.

"Yes, our highness," Raven replied respectfully.

"I know Azusa is more than important for you to save her, and Eureka, well she is currently very important for the future of the kingdom," looking at their looks, "Or, Eureka is just plainly important to you as well. So get out there and save them both. Remember, all of you must return alive. When I say all, not a single one of you should be left behind, no matter how stubborn they are," Akihiro said seriously.

"We understand your highness," all of them said at once before bowing one last time and setting out.

"In the end, without other choice we couldn't tell the other generals and captains about this matter," Akihiro sighed.

"This is the only way, we have no idea who among them is a traitor or not, this is a very important rescue mission after all," Yukimura added but with a sigh as well.

"I just wish they'd arrive just in time, before anything happens with the other two."

*****

"Oh, aren't you fast? I was just gone for a day and here she is, a part of our group already," one man said to the other. Both of them wearing a cloak.

"That's normal. How about on your side?"

"Easy, I wonder why this one is needed when she had no ability at all," he replied dropping a tied Eureka on the floor.

"She is smart they said, she found out about our movement, too bad she fought against the others, we could have gotten more."

"I'll start with her then, wheres the others?"

"They have to return to the hide out, they couldn't stay or return to that place yet. The whole place is on guard."

"I see, so it's just us two."

"Well once we're done with this one, we could go back with them anyway. So finish it now will you?" he then walked out of the abandoned building they're staying.

"You're lucky you were chosen to be one of us," he said as he placed his hand on her head.

Eureka just glared at him,

"I like that look, this one over here you see. She tried to put up a fight but to no avail. Let's see how long you will last," without saying anything more he placed his hand on her head and casts a spell.

<mind controller, how troublesome.> Eureka thought as she shifted her eyes to Azusa, who's just watching on the side.

"Well then, you seemed to want to talk with her. Why don't I live you two for now, as we wait for your mind to be completely mine? Oh to give you more hope just to be crashed, allow me to untie you," knowing that Eureka is completely weakened by his companions and currently being taken over by the mind control, he had all the confidence that she won't be able to do anything, specially since Azusa had already been taken over.

After untying her he stood up and left, Eureka stared back to Azusa who's just watching her.

<Mind control, which means she's currently a doll right now, she has no mind of her own>

*STINGS*

<Damn, it is far stronger than I thought, I have to finish this before I get completely controlled.>

She slowly stood up and walked towards Azusa.