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Chapter 20: Rescue Team I carved an extra cave in the wall around the swimming pool with a few Arrow Bombs and set to work smoothening the rugged edges. It was tiring work, but we would have a place to put all the gym equipment left in the storeroom. "Sometimes, we might wanna work out a bit." Roy grinned, chipping at a jutting piece of rock with an Ilbi. We would also need to find jobs to keep our income up. The mesos Roy had saved up over the years from hunting was almost gone now. Alexis and me refused to go out, since it would mean more people staring at us, so Mei Ling went and got herself a job as a teacher at an Ellinia wizarding school. Roy decided to become a mercenary. Lopez and Lacus were still finding jobs. One day, Roy came back frowning. "Someone just hired me to break a friend of his out of the Fidelo Corporation." he explained over dinner. Alexis spat some water she was drinking out and my jaw dropped. "I know from you guys that the place is a fortress, so I'm going to have to ask for your help on this. We have to save a guy called Sevin. My client says he has......" Roy consulted a piece of paper. "Angel-like wings. The reward for the job is 10 million mesos." he added. I nearly fell out of my chair. "10 million for one person!? I wonder if the Fidelos sealed the access tunnel." I quickly hopped into the trapdoor under the kitchen table. Sure enough, the tunnel was blocked with a steel wall. "I don't wanna go back in there again, but this is for everyone..." Alexis groaned. She was cutting a hole through the steel wall with the Jikyeon Sword. The metal folded easily to her touch and we stepped through the hole to find...... "Another steel wall." I breathed. We cut through that one too. After we cut through a dozen steel walls or so, we finally found the trapdoor leading into the Fidelo Needle and tried to open it. There seemed to be something heavy sitting on the door though. Alexis stuck her sword up through it and heard a sickening noise, followed by something breaking. She withdrew the sword, covered with blood. "I think we accidentally killed someone." she remarked, wrinkling her nose and tapping the sword on the walls. I kicked the trapdoor and it flung open. We climbed into it. There was a dead body lying on the ground and a chair lying askew close by. The chair had a sword-shaped hole in the seat. A sandwich and a mug that was in pieces lay on the ground. "Probably sneaking a coffee break. Sorry." I mumbled as I stepped over the corpse. We headed up a nearby staircase and fell back as a pair of guards walked past. "Dark Sight." Roy whispered and when we turned to look at him, he was half-invisible. Alexis and me followed suit. Our horns did not disappear though. "Just hope no ones sees disembodied horns floating through the air." Jakito remarked. We stepped into the corridor and sneaked around the place in a group. Eventually, we found an elevator. Lucky for us, it was empty. We checked the lift buttons. "That guy should have been taken to the R&D Department." I murmured and pushed the corresponding button. "They wanted my DNA when they first got me." I explained. However, the lift stopped before the right floor and a few guards walked in. We quickly went silent and flattened ourselves against the elevator walls.. "Hey Chix, how was that show last night?" one asked the other. "It was pretty good! Lotsa hot girls!" the other one giggled. I spotted Alexis clenching her fist. The lift started up again and stopped at the next floor. Four people got in. They hit it off with the first two and started chatting up a storm. I stared at the elevator info. Maximum 10 passengers. 9 were in here right now. If more people got in, our cover would be blown. Luck did not favour us. Two people got on the elevator at the next floor and a beeping sound came from the control panel. One smart guy looked up at the info. "10 max...... but there's only 8 people in here now!" he exclaimed. Someone else said, "Is someone invisible here?" and started staring around. Suddenly, he spotted our horns. "Shyt." I swore under my breath. "Hey guys, are you seeing two horns floating in the air?" the first guy rubbed his eyes and pointed. Someone grabbed my horn. "It's real all right. Is someone invisible here?" that guy said and groped around under my horn. His fingers latched onto my chest. "Hey, yeah!" he picked me up and flung me into Alexis and Roy, probably unintentionally. Nevertheless, Dark Sight was extinguished. "Hello." Alexis said timidly. The people in the lift stared at us. "INTRUDERS! SOUND THE ALARM!" one guy yelled. His index finger moved towards a red button on the control panel...... I jumped into the air and slammed my foot down on his head. He fell to the ground. Roy instantly hopped around to their backs and silently jabbed a weak point at the base of their skulls. Everyone collapsed. "Nice boobs." someone groaned before he collapsed. Alexis kicked him in the face. We quickly shoved a few people out of the elevator and activated Dark Sight again. |
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