Yun charged a path for him to run, and a feint purple glow formed a path straight to the top, he simply jumped and ran through it all the while I grabbed his back so I wouldn’t fall to my death, as it was expected Parker´s creation jabbed the wall allowing it to climb with ease “Everything okay back there Marx?” “Not a real fan of heights or bugs but I will survive!” the spider was very quick on its paper legs but neither it nor Yun could compare to Anre, pin-balling himself from wall to wall he was laughing like a child at a playground, a series of explosions filled the hole as all of us emerged at the top “Ha losers!” Anre mocked his friends for being the first one out “Excuse me? Not only did we make it out without so much noise but also, we had to carry people out!” Yun complained as he let me down.

“tell that to someone that cares Yunni” Yun reared his arm back ready to punch the light out of Anre but instead he inhaled a lot of air and said “We have to work together taking Karolin out comes first, the safety of a young lady comes first” Parker shrunk his puppet so he can use it to carry Marston “see Yun it only took you almost three years to not let him bother you!” “I swear to god I will smother them in their sleep!” “Bothering Yun is so rewarding even now” “Good for you Yun I am proud”  I look at them concerned as I hear all of them talking and yet Yun was biting his lip to keep himself from not throwing his friends down the hole again, Anre was looking at the terminal Marston gave him to make sure of the route we were going to take and Parker was fixing some parts of his spider puppet that had soaked too much blood form Marston´s wound, I held my head as the voices daze me “guys how about fewer murder plans and more getting out of here, please?” everyone was confused by my allegation until Parker realized what had happened “we haven’t teach you how not to keep your Gift form activating” Anre looked back at Yun and Parker “who was thinking about murder?”

“a… am… right so” Yun started to diverge attention “imaging a door opened before you” I did just like he instructed me and visualized the one door I knew like the back of my hand the door to my room back home “okay now imagine that is closing slowly not with your body but with your mind” as bizarre as his instructions were it did help to lower the volume of the voices “better?” I nodded I still felt a buzzing in my head, but I couldn’t make out any words, “you four have some crazy abilities but if we don’t go now we will be swarmed by everyone here” Marston reminded us as Anre managed to open the door, unfortunately, we stood face to face with the lieutenant that shoot Marston and a few guards.

“it appears that the rats are out of their hole, and what is this” he took a step closer to me but Yun immediately put himself in front of me “Easy there inmate, I was just taking a better look at the new arrival, or should I say the future execution order, so rats I have a proposal for you three” he returned to his position, raising his hand silently commanding his man to point their guns and ready their weapons should they need to be used “you three go back into the hole, leave your weapons here, hand over the girl and the officer and we can pretend nothing happened here” I look to the guys but they were fixated on the general “come on, you three know deep down in your rotten hearts that, this hole is your place, how many people have you hurt? And will be hurt by you three, for what? For a kid you don’t even know?” the guys nodded in unison.

But instead of moving out of the general´s way they stood their ground raising their guards ready for the unavoidable clash, “I guess that’s the difference between us and you general” Anre started “We don’t need to know them deeply to know they need help” Yun stomped on the ground “help that is definitely not going to be granted by you or anyone in this place!” Parker grabbed paper in between his fingers, and all three of them walked forward to keep Marston and me safe, even though the general kept saying they were somehow bad or dangerous they had been proving the opposite, “deal with them!” the general ordered them, his face scarlet red by the audacity of the guys “Marx, Karolin behind me!” Yun ordered us as the round of the guns started to fly towards us, Yun used his gift to stop the bullets in the air in front of him, while Parker formed a wall of paper in front of him and Anre.

He was not joking when he said reinforcing paper, when the bullets entered into contact with the paper, they were stopped and crushed as if they had impacted a metal wall, “amazing” The words leave my lips unconsciously it was like witnessing magic in real life “And dangerous! Right Lads here is the plan!” Anre yelled for everyone to hear over the sound of the shots, “Parker keep the princes and Marston safe with your wall and take down anyone that tries to take them!” he nodded “Yun! -” “Kick them in the ass and head, you got it!” Anre laughed “That’s why I like you!” “What about me and Marston?!” “don’t get caught or killed, we can talk about training your gift and fighting when we are not dead, lads roll out!” Yun and Parker nodded and in a sudden motion the wall of paper moved with Parker in front of us Yun kept the magnetism on catching the bullets in the air and together with Anre charged forward to fight the troops 

When Yun and Anre broke through the line of fire, punches, kicks, and hammer hits flew through the air, Yun is quite skilled at hand-to-hand combat in a few hits a few guards were down on the floor, and from my position was difficult to see clearly but I noticed he placed some spots of magnetism on the armor the guards where wearing, it was like his punches and kicks found their way to the points he designed, Anre´s approach was more… I’m going to say barbarian, he just charged at them swinging his hammer at the guards and making a note to charge it with energy to attack their weapons rendering them useless, a bullet flew near my head as Parker pulled me back behind the wall “Karolin remember we are in the middle of a shot-out” “Parker behind you!” Marston yelled as one of the guards sneaked behind Parker 

Bang bang bang  I felt my blood running cold as the shots hit Parker “One gifted is dow… hug?” the sound of the now crushed bullets hitting the ground returned me to reality “My what a naughty guard we have here, shooting a priest don’t you know that’s a bad thing?” Parker formed in his hand a raper made out of paper and in a blink of an eye the gun from the guard was cut to pieces in the ground “yo… you are a monster!” “Don’t be so rancorous it was just a gun, now” With another hand motion the rapier turned into a fan made of paper like the ones you would use to cold yourself on a hot summer day “wa… wait!” “Night, night!” and with one swing to the guard’s head he was sent back to the other side of the wall “I believe the rain of bullets should stop any minute now you two are okay right?” “Did you seriously take out a guard with plain paper?”

he fixed his glasses and smiled “Yeah I hadn’t had any paper in a while, but I can do things like that” “What was that about being a priest?” I asked wanting to know more about the guys and their past, he twisted his mouth into a sorrowful smirk “I… used to work as a priest of the Marlushia church mostly as a scribe not really for religious reasons but because they have a grand library where they store books of all around the globe, but after a… very bad thing happened where people were injured, to say the least, I wound up…” he swung his fan against another incoming Guard “Here!” with a loud thud the guard fell to the ground, the fire ceased I was concerned and wonder if all of them had something that bad happened to them, Parker looked out of the wall, and put it down, most guards were either on the ground unconscious or pressing themselves against one wall, scared Yun or Anre would do something to them.

“Are the princes and Marx okay?” Yun asked, Parker nodded, “We had some close calls in the shape of bullets, and a few guards that managed to reach us, but I took care of them” “We need to run now!” Anre yelled and started to run to the dock area, “what? don’t we need the paper from the office to-” Anre dangled some keys in Parker's face, “I took these from one of the guards, we can just take a boat out of here” The fights continued on our way to the dock as we were near the area suddenly Yun asked “Wait guys, and we do what after we escape the maw? Whether we like it or not… general hardass is right” “Yun we are not monsters, and we came this far, don’t you want to see the sky? Or look at the stars?” Yun shook his head “I don’t even think I can…” I noticed something wrong with Yun, his back it was cracked like if I was looking at a mirror shattered to pieces “I have a really bad feeling about this” “Yun!” Parker interjected, “Are you seriously going to be okay with the guards taking Karolin away for execution?”

Yun snapped out of whatever trance he was in the cracks closed quickly as he realized my safety was at risk “O… Of course not! I… sorry… you guys are right I don’t know what took over me, look!” Yun pointed at a door labeled “Dock and ship area” as the five of us ran to freedom, into the unknown, into a world that hate at least four of us, I wondered where we would end up? Would Anre, Parker, and Yun be able to help me to reach wherever I need to be? Or are we going to crash and burn at the end of the road? The only thing I know for sure is that we need to keep moving, moving forward to a better place, a better future.

“… lieutenant we have them on sight should we take the shot?” Coutfield looked to the monitor in front of him where three figures covered in shadows waited for him “What do you all think?” “let them go” The lieutenant hit his desk in a violent manner showing his disapproval “With all due respect sir. I believe-” “Silence!” a woman´s voice said “We don’t care what you believe, this gives us an interesting possibility, so with all my respect, shut your mouth and keep it that way” his face was scarlet red, he seemed to be three steps away from a cardiac arrest “behave you two, Luttentant Coutfiel should have some sort of saying in this, no?” “I would like to request permission to let our little project handle them, it’s a perfect opportunity for a test run, The three figures thought for a minute, and in unison raised their hands giving their agreement to his petition “We will let you do as you please with that clock-work toy of yours, but even if you do nothing is fine" one of the male voices said “when they realized they can't fly with broken wings they will be begging to return” the other man said “when their rage consumes them from the inside they will be bagging for our pitty” the woman´s voice added “they will wish to be hidden behind a mask the very object they so displace and we can't wait to watch them burn”