The lower section of the tower...
John and Gen meet back at the the wall where Gen found the old ambassador's corpse. John looks around then drops into a ball hugging his legs with a sigh of relief and exhaustion. Gen kneels down next to him and waits for him to catch his breath. Someone appears next to them from the shadows in the corner of the room. It was Vasallo. He looks to the two and sees they were tired.
Vasallo: what happened to you two?
Gen: oddball here found something weird and now the whole tower is out for our heads.
Vasallo: oh~ that ain't good. Seems like things are crazier up here than down there.
John: *sigh* down where?
Vasallo: Come with me. I found an entrance to an interesting place. Its got an exit too.
Gen, find the others and send them that way too. They must have done their job if no one else came to find us yet.
Vasallo: I'll send a signal. We need to go back to the other hall to open the passage.
John: ugh... More running?
Gen: you wanna stay and die?
John: I'm coming. I'm coming.
They run down the hall and past the split in the path to the other side were the hit a dead end.
Gen: ... So, Vasallo. How do we open this?
Vasallo: I had it opened just a moment ago.
Gen: ughrrrrr....
John walks to the wall before them and holds his hand to it for a moment. He could feel a pulse behind it. His eyes sharpen and his nails grow long with his tail reformed and swaying. The wall suddenly clicks and moves down into the floor then clicks again. Inside was a dark tunnel leading down somewhere.
Gen: ... thank you, my liege.
They get ready to enter when they hear more footsteps heading their way.
Vasallo: that's not our boys.
John: lets hurry.
They race down the tunnel and the door closes back and locks again.
Vasallo: how are we going to get the others down here?
Gen: I'll get them. You show him what you found and he can show me.
Vasallo: Alright. Come this way.
John: right. God this is way more work that I bargained for.
Gen vanishes in the shadows to find the others. John's eye turns black as his feline features vanish again while he and Vasallo make it to an opening that revealed a dungeon. Most of the cells held monsters that had lost their wills to fight. In the far end many demons were cramped inside one cell growing sick and starved.
John:... What the hell is this...!?
Vasallo: what do we do about this? Demons are free to roam nowadays so maybe we could let them out and send them home?
Gen:(voice) keep them. And take the beasts too.
Gen appears from behind John and walks up to one of the cells.
Gen: We could use the extra hands.
John: you aren't doing anything with anybody after this is over, gen.
John reaches into one of the cells and takes one of the younger demons hand. A flow of stars rush from his arm to the the rest of the cell.
Gen: tch. Can't even let me keep a pet. Your father let me keep at least one to raise.
John: I am not my dad obviously.
John stops the stars and takes hold of the bars on the cell. All the other cells in the dungeon start tearing themselves from the walls as he becomes the Leo again. An idea soon came to his mind once all the cells were opened.
John: let have our "guardian" see this. If there's one thing I know guardians hate by nature, is imbalance of natural order. The fact that all of these beings are in here could tip her off in a heartbeat and take her off my trail for a long while too.
Gen: ... I don't mind that selfish way of thinking. But I didn't think something that crazy would come out of your mouth.... Then again, you were the one that made this fucked plan in the first place.
John: Hey. I'm a thinking man. I don't like needless confrontation or anything unless its absolutely necessary.
Gen:... And allowing me to do this was necessary?
John: you wouldn't have let me say otherwise, would you?
Gen: nope. Then again, you don't have to listen to me.
John: ... Lets see if we can have your boys find her and get her to come this way. Wheres the exit in here?
Vasello: over there. It leads to the sewers main drain Gen broke.
John: great. A quick escape. Perfect. Lets get her here asap.
Gen: Vasello, you come with me. John stay here and... Keep doing that.
John went to the beasts and started giving them energy like he did the demons.
In the halls of the tower...
Sicily roames the halls looking for cowaring nobles only to find a multitude of demihumans and demons in chains and collars. Confused, she looks to the sevants that were with them and sees them just as confused as her but also frightened. Completely baffled, she lowers her sword and see most of the demons were blind. As she looks closer at the group she notice the only normal one was the secretary as he stayed behind the servants. She finally found something to direct her confusion and irritation at. She grabs at the secretary and pulls him out of the group to the other side of the hall away from them.
Sicily: you have five seconds to start explaining what this is about.
She holds the documents to his face and he takes it shaking.
In the pile of demihumans, gen appears from the shadows and see her interrogating the secretary. He felt he didn't have the time to listen and looks around to find he was next to one of the servants he helped.
Gen: *whisper* psst... Basell.
Basell: eh?** eeehh!? What are you doing here!!?
Gen:**No time. What's going on over there?
Basell:** Uh... The Guardian is questioning the secretary for something about the documents she got from the supposed rummage that bombarded the office meeting. But he doesn't seem to know much.
Gen:**... Do you?
Basell:**... actually yeah. I'll tell you. The ambassador was pulling strings behind the others backs and somehow got a slave trade set up without the black market knowing somehow. One of your boys told me when he found me and gave me this.
Basell pulls something from his pocket and hands it to Gen. It was a broken seal.
Basell:** this as the original seal of the ambassador before you came.
Gen: **... Huh. Well that sucks. The real one is dead in a closet down the right wing hall. Found him earlier. Ah. And Zao and Arnwall killed the fake. Apparently he was a shadow demon with a nasty greed for authority.
Basell: *gasp!!*
Sicily hears Basells surprise and turns to find Gen next to him. She pulls her sword and Gen jumps out of the shadow and runs down the hall to John.
John sees he got Sicily's attention and gets ready to leave the area when one of the beasts nudges him with a cub in its mouth. He takes the cub and notices it wasn't breathing properly. The stars around it were colliding instead of fusing like the others. He tries again and again to fix the problem with no luck and it begins to agitate him. The stars start turning dark red and heavy and fall around the room as the guards finally make it into the room only to get pressured by his power. The stars around the cub finally begin to fuse and its breathing regulates again. The beast takes the cub and John take the chance to pass the fallen guards without thinking and dives for the exit.
Sicily chases Gen into the secret room then stops at the clutter of guards on the floor having trouble standing. The room wasn't heavy though. She lost sight of Gen and is instantly distracted by the beasts and demons in their distressful states. Again she questioned her priorities and started waking the guards and forcing them to stand to help her with the animals and demons.