Luna, Dion and Paolo stood inside of the Dal Ship, Amik and Conis, one of his guards, stared them down.
"Before I hand you the map, why do you want it?" Luna asked. "I need to at least know it's getting into the right hands."
"By right, that piece of paper belongs to the Russ Clan, but your idiot father betrayed our clan and married a witch," Amik said. "We just want to take what's ours."
A spark of anger lit in Dion's eyes. "I didn't betray anyone I simply married the woman I love."
Amik waved it off. "Anyways, we want the map to bring it back under the Russ Clan's control."
Luna sighed, not wanting to argue with the annoying person in front of her before pulling out a piece of paper from her jean skirt pocket. Amik grinned, pulling open the paper slowly.
"Finally I have th-"
A huge explosion blew the ship apart as soon as the paper opened up, Luna holding Paolo and her father on a floating cloud. They stared at the smoke and debris on the ocean, some of his men struggling in the water.
Unfortunately for them, a bunch of Amik's vines had instinctively protected him and Conis, so now the vines carried them to steady ground.
"Looks like plan A failed," Dion commented.
"I had a feeling," Paolo said.
Amik's face turned a deathly shade of red, his glare lethal. "How dare you do this to us? I'll end your pathetic lives alongside your island."
"M-master Amik."
Amik turned sharply at Conis. "What?"
"It seems a bunch of people in the sky have destroyed all the rooted flowers," Conis stated, dropping the receiver of the hub in her hands. "And our guards have fallen to them."
"What!" Amik snapped.
True to the report, Shinzo scoped out the island for the poisonous flowers while Aline chopped them up. The men posted to protect the flowers had been defeated, Aline stepping on the last hoard of men.
"Did you moron's think you could touch me?"
Shinzo jumped down from the broom, landing beside Aline. "Are you sure you're a woman, why don't you change your gender? You'd be amazing as a boy you even have the chest to-"
The tip of her sword touched his neck, blood dripping to his white kimono jacket. "Continue that statement, let's see if you'll be able to use this throat tomorrow."
Shinzo regarded her threat calmly, his hands enclosing the blade. "I dare you, my throat won't be the only thing being removed today."
They glared at each other, the tensions completely high. Their aura's reminded one of a tiger and bear about to spar, Aline being the former and Shinzo being the latter.
A few of Amik's guards came in from the rear to attack, but Aline cut some down while Shinzo punched others away.
Aline pushed up her glasses, glaring down at one of them, Shinzo doing the same,
"Don't interrupt our conversation."
Amik didn't understand the situation, grabbing Conis by her shoulder. "You, go stop those impudent fools while I deal with these ones."
"Yes sir."
She left to meet Shinzo and Aline while Amik glared at Luna, Dion and Paolo. "I tried to be civil, but you leave me no choice, but to take that map by force."
Luna summoned her wand, eyes glowing green while Paolo's eyes reacted to him punching his palm by glowing brilliant gold.
"We'll just have to see about that, Mr. Dal."
.....
The two reacted immediately, jumping as an axe with a red handle spiraled towards them before going back like a boomerang to the owner in front. Conis twirled the axe, her lips in a thin line. "You two are pretty good for a bunch of amateurs, but I'm going to crush you for hurting the Dal Family name."
She charged forward, but her axe blade got caught on Aline's swords. Shinzo came from behind her, ready to land a punch, but a cloud of smoke evaded their senses, Aline not being fast enough to avoid the axe to her shoulder.
She hissed in pain, the wound stinging harshly. Shinzo ran to meet her, but got sliced on the stomach by the axe. She moved in to hit him again, but Aline stopped her blade in time.
Conis moved back, twirling her blade around. "You have no chance against me."
Aline pulled off her glasses, tucking them into her suit skirt. "Oi Shinzo…"
Shinzo rose to his feet, ignoring the stinging in his stomach as he pulled his hair up. "I hear you."
The two stood still, not bothering to move. They took a deep breath, Aline dropping one sword to the ground and Shinzo putting one foot in front of the other. As Conis' axe made for them, Aline crouched her knees and put her hand on her second swords hilt while a white glow surrounded Shinzo, his eyes glowing yellow.