YEARS AGO: OLD MERCENARY CAMP, TVARYN

A teen Tarozaemon is training his sword slashes when a girl approaches. "Hey..."

"Hmm? You're Hetza, right?"

She nodded, looking at the ground and fidgeting. "I wanted to tell you something, Tarozaemon..."

"Hmm? What is it?" He said, sheating his sword back into its scabbard.

"I..." She closed her eyes with all the strength she had. She was very embarrassed. Opening her eyes again, she looks right at him. "I...!"

PRESENT DAY: MERCENARY CAMP, TVARYN

Kenichi and Machi are stealthily walking around, looking for clues on where is Tarozaemon.

"Hey, did the boss leave the big tent already?" One mercenary said.

"Nah. She's having her fun with one of the prisoners." The other one said.

"Big tent?" Machi said, as she looked to the tent in the center of the camp. "Wait... The fog!"

Kenichi notices it too. They were out of Silent Hills. "This could mean we're closer to the city than we thought... Now, we only need Tarー"

Kenichi is interrupted by giant rock spikes getting out of the center tent, destroying it from the inside. Enveloping the spikes, lightning erupted to the skies.

"Taro!" Machi shouted.

As the previous two mercenaries notice both Kenichi and Machi, Kenichi unsheathes his sword and gets ready to fight.

"The prisoners have escaped!" One of the mercenaries said.

"Machi! Looks like we'll need to fight!" Kenichi said, getting his sword in front of him.

Machi looked at the mercenaries and as her eyes shined red, she gritted her teeth.

PRESENT DAY: DESTROYED TENT, MERCENARY CAMP

Tarozaemon takes his sword and point it to a cloud of dust. Emerging from that cloud is Hetza. "What a bold move, Taro..."

"So you unlocked your SOUL while I was out, uh?"

"You're talking like you left for some hours or days... You left me for years!" She takes her knife and leaps forward.

As her knife clashed with his sword, Tarozaemon gritted his teeth. "What the mercenaries are doing is not correct! Deep down, you know that!"

"Shut up, shut up, shut up, SHUT UP!" Hetza's blue eyes shined yellow for a second, releasing a short, but powerful burst of lightning around her.

Tarozaemon backflipped out of the attack's range, dodging it, but as soon as he landed, a leaping Hetza punched him in the face, throwing him against some crates behind him.

She jumped, trying to stab him, but he rolled away. "So you really wanna fight, uh?" Tarozaemon said, as his eyes slowly started to shine orange. "Let's go then..."

PRESENT DAY: MERCENARY CAMP, TVARYN

Kenichi uses his sword to block a strike from one of the mercenaries. As for the second mercenary, he smirked as he looked to Machi. "A cat tvaryan, uh? Maybe I'll have some fun with you~"

Sweat dripping from her forehead, she nervously smirked back. "I'm sorry, but this cat ain't gonna play with you."

"We'll see about that!" He leapt forward, pointing his right sai at her.

She quickly takes her left kunai from her hip pocket and blocks the sai. As she tried to attack with her right kunai, she'd be blocked by the mercenary's left sai.

"No luck, kitー?" Before he could continue, Machi headbutts him, making him bit his own tongue and going back a couple inches, before looking at her again, enraged. "WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT FOR?!"

With a red forehead and a small tear in the tip of her eye, Machi looked at him. "I need to defeat you quickly! Ahhhhhhh! That hurt like hell!"

PRESENT DAY: DESTROYED TENT, MERCENARY CAMP, TVARYN

Tarozaemon and Hetza looked at each other, trying to figure out who would move first.

"To think we'd be fighting after all we had..." Hetza said. "Only because of your selfish thinking!"

"My selfish thinking? I left, because I felt that this was not right and you became mad because of that. Who sounds selfish now?"

"You abandoned me!"

"And you wanted to chain me into something that I didn't like! I won't kill anyone without any reason just so I can get some coins!"

"What is so wrong about that?!"

"You don't even know those people... They can have a family! Children waiting for them!"

"If Tvaryanity didn't care about my parents getting killed... Why would I care for others...?" She said with a terrifyingly serious face.

YEARS AGO: OLD MERCENARY CAMP, TVARYN

With rain pouring down, a teenager Hetza cries in the shoulders of Tarozaemon. "Why?! Why did they have to die?!"

Tarozaemon looked down. "Hetza... Look at me, please..."

She looked at his eyes, continuing to cry. This was the guy that made her feel at ease most of the times. 'What was he up to' was the question that she was making to herself.

"I'll never abandon you... I'll protect you always... Always..." He approached her, kissing her lips and holding her tight.

With tears flowing even quicker than before, Hetza squeezed him and returned the kiss, just as when meteoric tears welled up from the heavens and washed the earth in a cool downpour, as if touched by her lamentations.

PRESENT DAY: DESTROYED TENT, MERCENARY CAMP, TVARYN

Hetza screams, lighting enveloping her body. "「GOD MODE」!" She suddenly disappears.

Tarozaemon didn't even have time to react as a kick connected right in his right side of his jaw, sending him flying into another punch in the guts that sent him flying to the air.

PRESENT DAY: MERCENARY CAMP, TVARYN

Kenichi's eyes shined silver as wind started to push his adversary slowly away from him.

"Wh-What?!" The mercenary mouthed, noticing this.

As Kenichi gritted his teeth, he slashed downwards with so much strength, that both his and the enemy's swords fell from their hands. Not stopping there, Kenichi jumped forward, fist shining with the same silver from his eyes, trying to punch the mercenary right in the face.

The mercenary made his body bend backwards, dodging the fist by a split second. As he smirked, mentally congratulating himself for the dodge, he suddenly smashed against the ground, as if someone had pushed him with amazing force!

Kenichi flew back because of the impact and ended up bumping backs with the mercenary that was fighting Machi.

As both of them turned back, the mercenary prepared his sai to attack Kenichi, but before he could do that, Machi jumped into the air.

Eyes shining with the most beautiful of scarlet shades, her left hand was enveloped by fire. "「INFERNAL... CLAW」!" She dropped right above the mercenary, grabbing his head and smashing it on the ground, creating a small pillar of fire for a couple seconds.

Both mercenaries were now knocked out and Kenichi looked at a tired looking Machi. "You okay?"

"Yeah... I'm still new to SOUL, so I'm getting used to it..."

"Here. Lean in my shoulder. I'll help you."

She chuckled, shaking her right hand. "No need! Let's go. Taro needs us." She looked at the destroyed tent, noticing the now airborne Tarozaemon. "Taro!"

They both ran towards the central tent.

YEARS AGO: OLD MERCENARY CAMP, TVARYN

A now young man Tarozaemon is fishing when suddenly someone puts their hands in his eyes. "You know we're literally the only ones here, right?"

Hetza laughs, taking her hands off. "I know, I know. I was just teasing you."

"You teasing me? That's new. I'm the one that usually teases you."

"That's not true!"

"Oh yeah?" He said, leaving his rod on the ground and approaching her. Grabbing her by the waist with one hand and caressing her face with the other.

"Y-Yeah..." She stuttered, blushing.

Tarozaemon closed his eyes, approaching for a kiss, until they heard an explosion.

"What was that?" Hetza said, worried about the sound.

Tarozaemon gritted his teeth and looked down. "No..."

"Taro? Do you know something of this?" Hetza asked, gently shaking his shoulder.

As he turned back, he ran towards the center tent in their camp. As he entered, a man and young man with Tarozaemon's age would be there waiting for him.

"You arrived, Tarozaemon." The man said. Light blue hair, with a huge scar on his left eye. His gaze pierced Tarozaemon's soul, freezing him in place.

"You told me you would not kill the prisoners!" He said, nonetheless.

"The chief had his reasons." The young man said. Long black hair and red eyes. His face looked a lot like Tarozaemon's.

"But... Chief!" Tarozaemon was pissed. "They were just children!"

"They were targets that were paid to be disposed of." The chief said, calm and with a cold tone on his voice.

"The chief is right, Taroー" The young man was interrupted by someone.

"And what about you, Daemon?! Are you just gonna follow orders and let innocent kids be slaughtered?!"

"If it's my orders, then yes."

Tarozaemon bolted out of the tent, bumping into Hetza. "Wait... Where are you going?" She asked, as Tarozaemon got on his horse.

"I'm going."

"But... What about me?"

"Tell me... How far will you go? Will you follow every order from the chief?"

"Yeah..."

"Even if it means killing innocent kids."

"If there's a price in them..."

"What about their parents?"

"I'll kill any target."

"I thought so..." Tarozaemon galloped away from the camp, as the sun set and rain clouds formed in the sky.

PRESENT DAY: MERCENARY CAMP, TVARYN

As Tarozaemon remembers his last day on the mercenaries, he opens his eyes. Looking at the ground, he sees Hetza preparing to jump. "Come..."

Both of their eyes shined with their respective SOUL's colors. Hetza's feet enveloped themselves in lighting, preparing for a huge jump and final attack.

The ground shattered and as it shattered, the debris flew and started to orbit around Tarozaemon.

Clouds formed in the air. The sky screamed. Thunder and rain started to fall into the mortal realm, as Kenichi and Machi hurried towards the scene.

George and Dynamo suddenly made noise, as their owners passed by, making them stop. "Our horses..." Kenichi muttered.

"Taro's is here too... We should get them out and run from here before we're outnumbered by the mercenaries." Machi suggested and Kenichi nodded.

As Hetza jumped towards Tarozaemon, he enveloped himself in all the debris, making an armor of sorts, that got totally destroyed as soon as Hetza planted a dropkick on his chest. Yes, the armor was destroyed in one hit, but at least absorbed the damage from that attack, letting Tarozaemon to counterattack now.

Tarozaemon smirked as he started to dive head first towards Hetza, but she dodged easily laughing. "That's all you got?! Uh?"

Tarozaemon didn't want to hit her, he was aiming at the ground, where Kenichi, Machi and his horse Rider waited for him. As he got closer to land, he made rock steps to descend to the ground without harming himself. He got on the horse and started galloping away.

Hetza gritted her teeth, using her lightning powers to almost instantly land on the ground. "After them!" She screamed, as tons of mercenaries got on their horses and started to follow them.

"How did you escape?!" Tarozaemon happily asked the other two, as they ran away.

"Machi's the real star here! She figured her SOUL element and got us out!" Kenichi said, laughing at the end, as adrenaline still rushed in his body.

"Kenichi, you also fought well!" She said.

"I just got lucky! Though, I don't know why that mercenary got smashed on the ground..."

Tarozaemon laughed. "Glad to see we're all okay! Let's make a run for it! To the north here is the Royal City of Feliticia! If we arrive there, the guards will protect us!"

"Because we'll be out of the lawless Outlands, got it!" Kenichi said.

"Yes! Glad you're a quick learner kid!"

As they shouted to each other these words of joy, they didn't have the slightest clue that they were being followed by a huge group of mercenaries riding on their horses, including a fearsome opponent: Hetza. "I'll catch you Tarozaemon... I swear on my life..."

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