They sat in silence as Lucina meditated to accelerate the process of regenerating her mana. She had always liked to compare it to catching your breath after a long run. She concentrated on absorbing ambient mana in the atmosphere, in a similar manner to how you take in oxygen when breathing. A technique her brother taught her for training her mana core.

“Will you fight?” Eri asked breaking the silence.

“Most likely” Lucina stated, “As soon as I can I’ll break us out and we’ll fly to Elysi”. Eri stared at her, the hope in her eyes growing by the second. However, she then turned to Lucina confused.

“What about your brother?”

“Don’t worry about him let’s just get you to safety” Lucina stated. She had no idea what her brother would be doing whether he was madly searching for them or trying to figure out where they were back at the orphanage. All she knew is she had to get this girl out of here, before she was transported again. She relaxed for few more minutes, Eri sitting patiently beside her until she finally positioned herself up right. She let mana flow from her core into her muscles enhancing her physicality. She snapped the chains imprisoning her, causing an earth-shattering sound to echo around the room, Eri’s eyes darted between a stretching Lucina and the door, with a worried and scared impression.

“Don’t worry, I sensed it once I got my mana back” Lucina stated while pointing to the golden sigil above the door “that sigil up their sound-proofs the room. I’m Assuming it’s to stop anyone’s screams down here reaching outside”.

“You can sense it?” Eri asked almost shocked.

“I can” Lucina responded with a grin. Her and her brother both had an unusually high ability to sense mana she’d always assumed it was due to their genetics. She grabbed Eri’s hand and led her up the stairs stopping at the door.

“Alright once I open this door, the room won’t be sound proofed anymore, so we have to be silent” Lucina explained and Eri responded with a nod. She slightly opened the door just enough to break the sigils effect. She placed her ear on the door and listened to any noises coming from outside.

“We’ve lost contact with the patrol unit outside, everyone but you two with me” she heard a males voice exclaim followed by the sound of many people sprinting past the door. She then heard one person stand in front of the door, Lucina then peaked through the small slit in the doorway, outside was a large corridor with no windows. There were two people, a man, and a woman, dressed in a black uniform and wearing black masks around their lower face.

“Go call him” a woman spoke her voice coming from the other side of the door, which was then followed by footsteps travelling further away from them. Once she could no longer hear the footsteps, Lucina wasted no time, she slammed open the door into the guard’s back sending her tumbling to the ground. Once again, she Infused mana into her body, Lucina pinned the guard to the ground and quickly threw 3 precise, enhanced hammer fists into her nose, shattering it, before grabbing her head and slamming it into the ground. Leaving the guards unconscious body behind, Lucina quickly gestured to Eri stay still, before she raced off in the direction of the other guard, as she spun the corner, she could see him in the hallway. She dashed forward covering the distance between them in an instant. Before he could even register what had happened, she leapt into the air, her momentum carrying her forward, and struck his face with her knee, after a gruesome crunch he fell to the ground unconscious. Instantly, she rushed back towards Eri who was still waiting in the doorway, hiding partially behind the door. Lucina offered out her hand to Eri, who took it without hesitation, and then led her through what seemed to be some rustic, countryside cabin. She followed the direction she had heard the others go, in hopes that it would lead her outside. She ended up in what seemed to be a living room. It had three doors, all on opposite walls.

“Three doors and no windows…damn” she mumbled while analysing the room. She glanced down at the carpets placed around the room and noticed the ones towards to the left were all crumpled, unlike the others.

“This way” she called out as she dragged Eri towards the door, they ended up in another corridor with a door at the end. Running into the next room their journey had finally came to an end. They ended up in them a room with windows and two doors, one leading outside and another leading elsewhere, Lucina didn’t care where it went.

She pushed the door outwards revealing an Elysian, star filled night and what seemed to be the beginning of a forest with trees that melded in with the nights darkness as far as her eyes could see. As she turned around, she could see she’d been held in a cabin which leaked no light allowing it to blend in with the darkness.

“Alright let’s get out of –” she was suddenly cut off when something was sent crashing into the cabin on their left. She quickly picked up Eri and began backing away, after the dust cleared, she could see that it was one of her captors that had been sent crashing into the cabin. Suddenly voices arose from the woods, she quickly rushed with Eri to take cover in the shadow of the nearest tree.

“One way to make an entrance” a girl’s voice called out jokingly.

“They’re definitely in that cabin right or have I just broken somebody’s home?” a boy’s voice responded concerned.

“Yes, they’re definitely in there” the girl defended herself “I thought all guards around would be a giveaway”.

“Just asking damn” the boy grumbled. A massive grin formed on Lucina’s face as she realised who the voices belonged to.

“Took you long enough” Lucina burst around from the tree, dragging a surprised Eri with her. The voices belonged to a girl in a long white coat, she had blonde hair in a ponytail and contrasting with her blue eyes. Behind her was a boy with a muscular, athletic frame who had messy brown hair with golden eyes and was dressed in all black, blending in with the night.

“Lucina … you’ve escape” the girl stated slightly surprised.

“Of course,” she responded proudly “I even broke a mana suppression seal”.

“Ahh well isn’t this all a bit anti-climactic” the girl mumbled.

“Why are you annoyed?” the boy at the back stated while scanning the surroundings “Never mind time to go now, we are already going to be so much shit already with Becka”.

“Is this her?” the girl asked, completely ignoring him, while glancing at Eri.

“Really, we’re doing this now” the boy mumbled to himself baffled.

“Yeah, she was locked up with me her names Eri” Lucina explained also ignoring him.

“Hi Eri, I’m Kate and this is Arthur” Kate said gesturing to the boy behind her who gave Eri a wave.

“.. Hi” she said hiding behind Lucina’s legs.

“How did you even find me?” Lucina asked.

“The tracker I put on you” Kate stated bluntly.

“You put a tracker on me!” Lucina stated annoyed.

“Lewis told me too”.

“Of course, he did” Lucina grumbled.

“I’m happy to chat let’s just get moving, we still aren’t safe here” Arthur pointed out.

“Yeah” Lucina responded, “we should definitely get out of here especially before he shows up”.

“Who?” Arthur asked concerned.

“I believe she means me” a deep voice emerged from the darkness.