In the sewer...
John and Gen sit at the edge of the pipe free of the tension from the city if only temporary.
John: so... You originally wanted to reunite the city right?
Gen: actually I wanted to see if you would be willing with how you are. You're a contradictory when it comes to doing what you think is beneficial to you.
John:... Ugh. Yeah... Well... It would have made me regret leaving everything as it was knowing what I learned about the place.
Gen: how humble of you.
John: so now what?
Gen: I want to see how everything ends. But I think it's all okay even if I don't see the end result.
Rexar:(voice) good!
John and Gen look behind them and see Rexar sitting behind them.
Rexar: after all of the crap you put us through, I'd say this is a just ending. You found the last Gemini piece yes?
John: oh! Right.
John pulls the Gemini stone from his pouch and looks at it. The stars were dancing around it softly in two different colors.
John: Huh. Whats up with that?
Gen: that's just your wicked blood. Wickeds power tend to seem "weighted" compared to all other beings. So that's not really that unusual... Lets see of he wants to come out too.
John looks to the stone confused for a bit then remembered the other double in white, the husk. John concentrated on calling him and his body fades to white as the weighted stars start to fall around him. His eyes become bloodshot when he was done. He was still himself rather than seeming emotionless. John looks to his now white skin and black nails as he sees the veins pulsing through his arms he pulls his shirt up out of curiosity to find more pulsing veins throughout his body and a large dark spot where his heart is.
John: wow... I really look like a husk. What's up with this!?
Gen: his father would be proud of him if he saw this.
Rexar: sure enough. If he wasn't so cowardly and spineless, I would be more impressed rather than shocked.
John: what's up with you two?
Gen: Pfft. Nothing. It's just odd seeing that one out on his own with out a forced demand.
Rexar: *sigh* true enough. Whenever your father had trouble, he'd try calling him for a specific job pertaining to his abilities associated with light and sun magic, he would use a lot of force to call him out and eventually he stopped responding to your father all together. Never uttering a word from start to finish. As you can obviously tell, the Gemini respond to two different magic attributes. Gen responds to blue stars even though he is a shadow type while...
John: I'm just gonna call this "Husk" for now.
Rexar: very well... "Husk" responds to "weighted" stars. For the simple reason being they were born on a solar-plex were the night and day cycle collide on a parallel. This parallel allowed them to share minds but not bodies. In conclusion, what your doing now. Husk doesn't necessarily have a body as he is a spirit type which can be similar to demons but are still different.
John: yeah I know that much. So "Husk" is a spirit... With this he can probably...
John's complexion returns to normal but his hair turned black this time and his black nails remained the same.
John: whoa!? ... Haha. I thought so. So he can be a type of camouflage for me in the day time. At least now I know I don't have to worry about getting caught that easily anymore.
John's hair turns red again and his nails return to being normal.
John: that's really gonna come in handy.
Rexar: well if you want to stay under the radar I suppose it can't be helped. Though your father never needed such things.
John: guess that's the reason why he stopped responding.
Gen: Pfft!! Kehehehehahahaha!!
GEN!!
A familiar voice calls from within the tunnel. Maini was heading towards them with a large smile on her face. She seemed to be cleaned up nicely. Gen was slightly confused as to why until he looked to the horizon were he sat to see the sun was getting close to high noon. They were sitting in the tunnel for a few hours.
She hops on Gen and gives him a large hug.
Maini: oh my god! I'm so glad I found you!! That guardian is a super nice person! She found all of us and we all got our places back! And we got new people helping us and some crazy animals running around!
Gen: easy, girly! I get it! Kehehe... Think you can get the guardian and ask her to get her place to help out everyone while I'm gone?
Maini:... What? Wait are you leaving? Where to!? I wanna go too!
Gen: kehe. Sorry, Hun. You need to get everyone back on their feet again. You know the adults can't do anything themselves right now.
Maini:... True. I guess I can't help that. Are you gonna come back to visit?
Gen couldn't find an answer for her so John decide to.
John: of course we are. I'm not that mean to just take him and not come back. We can send you back some souvenirs while we're around to make sure you don't get worried.
Gen looks to him in amaze as Maini gets a giant smile on her face as he spoke.
Maini: are you serious!?!?
John holds out his pinkie to her and smiles at her.
John: Promise.
Maini blushes and takes his offer with a nod of approval.
Gen: ... You better hurry back before someone starts worrying about you.
Maini: okay... Thank you some much for everything!
Maini gives Gen a kiss on his cheek and runs off down the tunnel. After a long moment of silence, Gen sighs sadly.
Gen: ... I'll making sure you hold on to that promise, my liege.
John: yeah yeah, so is Husk, but you don't hear me complaining.
They laugh together for a moment and it falls silent. Suddenly another set of footsteps echo through the tunnel and put the boys on alert until they see it was Casper.
Casper: thank God, I caught up before you up and disappeared on me. Let me come with you. I know a lot about...
John: I know you do. I wasn't gonna say "no". Having someone with some travel experience and battle training will help a lot in the long run.
Rexar: especially since you need the training.
John sighs in agitation from Rexar's comment.
John: ... You wouldn't mind showing me some of those training skills would you?
Casper's face lights up a bit from hearing the offer.
Casper: I'm not sure if I'll be a lot of help but...
John: any is better than none. Come on. Let's get out of here before she changes her mind in finding us.
Gen steps into johns shadow and starts to sink.
Gen: we'll be in your care from now on, my liege.
John: same to you.
Gen vanishes and John and Casper jump out of the pipe and follow a worn out path under it into the cavern.
Meanwhile...
Sicily is treating the people to their homes and decides to put the now rulers city under the rule of Camus La Verse. She let the black market mafia go with a hefty warning and left them in control of the city so she could send a report back. With what she had witnessed it was clear to her that the mafia was taking better care of the people than the noble court. After seeing what had caused the issue she sees no reason not to trust them, despite their round about way of helping the situation.
When she enters Caya's inn at the end of town, she sees her with Zao and Maini signing some paperwork with the former treasurer, Valura. They seemed to have settled an issue she was unaware of. She leaves them as they were slightly satisfied until she felt she forgot something. She simply shrugs it off for now and leaves to send a report to Camus.