Hye Walker found himself waking up and with a deep breath as he lifted his upper body off the bed, feeling at his worst and most dumbfounded. He looked around as he found himself in an unfamiliar room, it had a bed with various windows. He picked himself up off the unfamiliar bed and walked over to a window. The sunrise he was witnessing and an unfamiliar, seemingly flourishing city of strangers walking, rushing and hustling. "This has to be his home." Hye reminded himself as he found that his memories were fuzzy but not all evaporated and gone, "And I've got to ask him what the hell happened." Said Hye in his thoughts prior to turning towards the door that he saw when he first woke up. The sharp tongued young swordsman saw a wondrous bird soaring through the skies high above that left him amazed. He left the room only to walk into a very long hallway down his left that he found to be peculiarly decorated, multiple doors in a circular hallway, steps leading downwards into a shop with a counter, cash register and chair surrounded by rows of multiple products. "He lives in his mini store?" Hye asked in his head when he stepped down and took a peak for a closer look. He rushed back upstairs to find the man he made a deal with and inquired more on the events prior. He peeked into each room without knocking first until the creamy beige hero seemingly in his bedroom shirtless, lifting a dumbbell and possessing one arm facing a large window where he could see the streets and sun. "You lost an arm in that battle, fill me in immediately and how did I do?!" Hye shouted after he took a moment to process what he was seeing in front of him. Derek dropped the dumbbell which evaporated into thin air before standing up and turning around. He notices that Derek's feet do not match his remaining arm, neither looked like flesh. "You have so much explaining to do and fortunately for you, I have all the time in the world when I'm curious enough." Hye smugly grinned. Derek conjured his arm before he wiggled his fingers. "You were smacked around and bullied by the Lou Carcolh serpent after she decided that she wasn't going to be a coward anymore, now it's two days later." Derek replied after he folded his arms. Hye's dissatisfied expression after hearing his explanation prior to him being knocked out told him plenty. "Do you overestimate yourself often?" Derek asked without humor in his tone. "Appreciating confidence and having enough to push you into a greater challenge to improve isn't overestimating oneself. I strive to be my fencing master's greatest, nothing less, so I expect for me to come across challenges that throw my life into danger, I'll go headfirst if I gotta and that's what it takes. He deserves the best as the world's best." Hye responded with a prideful tone as he shook his head. "You're a rather interesting little fella. That speech didn't get to the heart of my point." Derek replied after hearing each word and comparing them to his performance in the cavernous ruin as he was listening. "Size doesn't matter, talent does and I'm only considering myself the best since I'm destined to be it, how could you tell that snakeh was a girl snake?" Hye asked before the duo heard a girl's voice call out for Derek as though she knew him. Hye looked towards the voice with a strange face. "Snakeh. I fought a papa Lou Carlcoulh and their sizes barely compare. The main distinction I found are in their eyes, the males have a swirled violet mixed with blue while the females have an alluring blue mixed with brown. Let's go and meet one of the greatest young women I've come to know, Kalilah Vigor, sounds like she's waiting downstairs in the shop." Derek replied as he gestured for him to follow. "Does she act like she's the main protagonist of a cartoon with a name like that?" Hye asked rhetorically as he followed with a disgusted expression.
The two made their way downwards, Derek sat and leaned against his wall comfortably in his chair after he greeted Kalilah and called out for her attention, returning his greetings when she made her way to him. Kalilah Valor was left feeling slightly nervous by the young man seemingly near her age in front of her. "You're going to fall if you keep leaning like that, don't you know?" Said Hye as he didn't feel like greeting Kalilah. "Who is the squirt with the jokes in the store before opening, Gray?" Kalilah asked as she placed her hands on her hips. Hye looked around Derek's store as if he didn't know that she was referring to him. "Right, the formal meeting. Kalilah, Hye, daughter of the personification of the concepts of Valor and Vigor, Demi-goddess to keep things simple." Said Derek as he was thinking of a plan in his mind. Hye's eyebrows were lifted hearing that title. "Hye Walker, Kalilah, the son of my best friend and self-proclaimed greatest swordsman of his generation aiming to reach the greatest hunter." Derek finished introductions before chuckling. "Ah, you're pretty good with introductions." Hye commented with a lowered voice. "Is there a way for anyone to actually be bad at introducing anyone?" Derek replied as he decided to ponder the answer for a moment with his arms crossed but a hand on his chin. "The greatest swordsman of his generation, can we please test that theory of his, Gray?" Kalilah asked with excitement of her own as a peculiar blade marching her own clothing aesthetic appeared in her hands out of thin air. Hye thought to himself for a moment prior to bursting into laughter. "You don't think that proves my point from earlier and that it's worth declining hearing that her father is a god?" Derek asked the younger swordsman. "First of all, I'm going to need you to catch me up on how you know a god suspending my disbelief, second of all, that does not and I'm not worried. Lead me to the arena!" Hye responded as he tried to contain his laughter during his response. "This will be a great lesson for all of us no matter who wins or draws. I'll be the spectator. "Yesss, so, you won't be able to lie to him that you actually won." Said Kalilah in response with a smug smile. Hye bursted out into more laughter as ashes fell then swirled into forming a blade that resembled a basic medieval sword then stopping his humorous expression. "If, and somehow, that you are able to make this fairytale world where you manage to beat me in a duel into reality, it'll only turn up my drive to become such an epic swordsman that my talent is enough to make your daddy quake!" Hye declared as he eased into his signature stance. The young blacksmith caught Derek's eyes and ears with such a bold statement. "Making a literal deity scared in any sense as a mortal? Doesn't that sound a lot closer to an actual fairy tale, does he know the definitions of the words he uses?" Kalilah asked as she had turned facing Derek and genuinely questioned it for herself. Derek let out a low sigh before putting his head down, eyes closed then slowly before swiftly clapping his hands close to his chest.
Hye and Kalilah swiftly came to and saw that they were falling out of a sky, Kalilah landed on her feet from ages of practice whereas Hye dropped to the smooth marble surface of a flat environment on his butt. "Where are we, if you're here, Gray?" Kalilah called out while Derek was nowhere to be seen, "Yeah, exactly what she said minus the Gray part." Hye shouted afterwards. "Shut up, Hyena." Kalilah replied, Hye responded with shaking his head and an expression. "You know I don't actually have a place suited for a battle like you two are capable of having or one with the money that your daddio has, Hye, invested in his dojo. I've connected our consciousness but don't worry, your physical ability remains and this world works similarly to the regular world only you can wreck it as much as you want." The two heard Derek's disembodied voice from a cloud of creamy beige colored smoke shaped like him who walked away which appeared out of the blue. "You know, I'm willing to wager that Gray would destroy your daddio, Hye." Kalilah taunted with a prideful smile. Hye's hair went creamy beige after he heard her words. Kalilah teleported her father's sword into her hand, easing into her own stance, Hye picked himself off the ground and followed with the same his own way. "You don't have a reason to be this overconfident, it isn't too late to save yourself the embarrassment of losing." Kalilah reminded Hye Walker as she felt like giving him the last word before the friendly duel. "Nah, neither of you are respectively winning." Hye replied with a lowered voice before he leapt in for the attack. The young swordsman and Demi-goddesses blades clashed with neither having an advantage over the other, Kalilah parried before thrusting her blade towards his gut, however, he parried as he dodged away to the left. Blades clashed with moments of dodging, parrying and deflecting for hours, without an end until they suddenly found themselves coming to, however, on the floor of the shop.
"What ya got for me this fine Tuesday, Svev?" Hye and Kalilah heard Derek ask across the shop as they came to and felt like they were waking up from a dream. Hye threw his sword at the wall before he crumbled into ashes. Kalilah wanted but hesitated to initiate any chance to cheer him up. "Who might be this new young fella?" Svevvy asked when he noticed him then read his body language to figure out that he was angry. "Svevvy Letha, Hye Walker here is my new vanquishing and P.I apprentice essentially, hunter by blood and now by trade." Derek answered his assistant's question. "By blood?!" Hye asked Derek with no reply afterwards as an investigator for local law walked into Derek's office. He looked around before whistling for Derek's latest rearranging. "Officer Bankhead has something for you, he'll do a much more impressive job of it." Assistant Svevvy answered his employer afterwards, noticing Hye holding in a chuckle presumably because of hearing the officer's surname. "Mistdeemer, the department is in need of some thorough vanquishing right now, man. My fellow officers are going missing abruptly from my station. I've noticed recently, even our commander and I'm definitely next in line!" Officer Bankhead urgently shouted as he hugged Derek. "Alright, calm down, fill me in, hopefully— you came as soon as the unfortunately timed realization visited." Derek replied with a comforting tone as he removed his arms from around him. Officer Bankhead nodded as he regained his composure. "I've found something that's completely with bloodcurdling certainty does not belong to a human." Officer Bankhead replied as he presented a couple of lethal iron nails and a human tooth made from stone-like material out of a brown pouch he was carrying on him. "The witches' Coven of Black Annis?!" Derek asked aloud, confused by the sudden appearance in a seemingly random Scottish police department, "The most occult and dangerous coven closest to the supernatural." Derek finished reminding himself. "The English folklore tale?" Officer Bankhead with a tone of uncertainty as he vaguely remembered the story in question. "Something like it, she's more than a mere witch hunting for children and the unchaste from England. They don't necessarily exist. She's an astoundingly powerful and elusive Demi-Goddess of gluttony. I'm hoping my vanquishing buddy that's currently going through ups and downs hunting her will call for me to be his partner if he does successfully locate the vile witch for the safety of the innocent, the children and the assurance of her vanquishing. I've had some family experience— a few run-ins with her in the past, one occult organization ended with me, more will." Derek informed the officer. Bankhead had one hand on his hip and one on his chin as he pondered a question. "Why would a random Demi-goddess eat random cops at a random police station like mine?!" Officer Bankhead struggled to answer for himself as he asked aloud. "It's not her behind this directly. I'm doubting that we're even dealing with a witch from her coven as well. Clue wrangling time!" Derek responded before he and Svevvy bump fists. Derek Wiley, Hye Walker and Kalilah Vigor drove to the police station with Bankhead in his cruiser. The police stared at Derek stuck in shock and awe by the hero of Edinburgh as he passed them by following Bankhead. "You were once a vigilante, wanted by the popos in JinJunyë once." Hye recalled aloud from his childhood as back then he kept up on the news. "Those were the days, it doesn't feel that long ago, since I left the states I've earned the respect and admiration of countless departments in Europe. I'm glad I was able to earn the respect of, and made plenty of friends within the only government organization in the states that's genuinely worthy of being feared— eventually." Derek responded as he reminisced during their talk. "Hm." Hye Walker responded. "Would they be afraid of you now?" Kalilah asked with her utmost voice of curiosity. "Your badassery was transcended to the level of a Demi-god, you've spanked Lord Asasasaphalableez's runt in an actual fair one on one, the Demi-lord of war had chosen the wrong hero's home." Kalilah asked before she recalled even more of his past feats of heroism that her father told her stories before she went under the hero of smoke and ashes vanquisher mentorship.
Derek looked up towards the sky, the police station's ceiling before hearing Bankhead speak and deciding to sit on the question. "We have half of the station's officers left, in Tembruk's office is where I originally stumbled upon these clues, figured here is the perfect starting point, figured, we'd investigate and question the entire department, no?" Officer Bankhead informed and asked as he had gestured for the team to enter and allowed them in first. "He was nabbed, grabbed, crabbed, Hye, my boy, is that nose on you still as stupendous as you told me when we first met?" Derek asked with a smug grin. "Abso— I don't know." Hye stopped himself as he recalled something from earlier that haunts his mind. "Up for finding out?" Derek asked once again another question that made Hye halt his answer. Derek and Officer Bankhead convinced him with an offer of money which he seriously could not resist as the thought took his mind off of what was troubling him, the station was beginning to open and every remaining cop had arrived for officer Bankhead's call, many that weren't very aware or as attentive of what was happening within the station had checked in before going on the beat and their day. Derek led Hye on a quest to sniff every officer until he smelled one with a stench that he's never been introduced to which made his nose bleed like a waterfall, eventually passing out. Kalilah rushed over to Hye before he lost consciousness. "Thank your new teacher like I have for this one, Hyena." Said Kalilah Vigor, she knelt down and reinvigorated the young swordsman, healed every part of him that was damaged by the cursed creature he had sniffed. Derek transformed his ashen appendage into a tentacle with a grip the creature couldn't break loose from and smashed him on the ground, holding him there as he stood over him. The creature attempted to swing its claws at his feet, none of its slashing had fazed Derek. "A ghoul, a demon that shifts into the form of whoever it devours." Derek informed the team as he looked towards the creatures with a stare that made it nervous. "Why do you actually look shocked and confused by the existence of ghouls when you were an empowered Artifact acquirer?" Kalilah asked Hye after looking over and seeing his reaction. "Shut up. I had no clue they held powers, I was coming across humans with powers like myself, this is my first time on the supernatural continent." Hye replied with a whispery voice, she heard irritation in his voice. Derek transformed his legs into a sharpened blade and held it over the ghoul's own leg as he individually pinned its limbs to the floor. "Ugly human, I'll never talk and I dare you!" The ghoul shouted with its demonic voice. "Five seconds." Derek replied with a spine tingly and calm demeanor, its skin reverted back to its usual dark blue skin. The ghoul panicked and told everything that Derek needed from him. "Can I vanquish it away?!" Kalilah asked with enthusiasm. Officer Bankhead felt unbelievably baffled and puzzled by the monster's confession. "There's been a plot to actually lead us away using these dead frauds, and for the witch to eat us as well?" Officer Headbank asked Derek for clarification. "Yep." Derek answered, leaving Officer Headbank's brows up. "Spare me and I'll lead you to one of us who directly reports to our master!" Said the Ghoul with an urgent plea for mercy. Derek freed it from his tentacles' grip before holding it by its neck and stared into the ghoul's eyes with his own pupil-less creamy beige filled gaze. "A rare newborn without the taste of flesh yet?" Derek asked himself before releasing his grip from its throat. "They gave me a finger to eat but it was disgusting and vile but they opened my mouth and shoved it down then made this station my post." The ghoul elaborated further as he caught his breath. "Sounds like you found a hero filled with mercy, I'm not as merciful, however, for Bain!" Said Officer Headbank before he pulled out his police issued firearm and fired it five times with precision that made Kalilah whistle. Officer Headbank relieved the stress of his fellow officers outside of the office, rushing to the door to keep them out, the trust he's worked hard for had earned him a pass. They released the ghoul, he then assumed Headbank's co-worker's form, teeth, nails, hair and skin changed back to resembling human as he picked himself off the floor after getting gunned down, he gave the officer a very understanding look on his face and nodded. "Lead the way." Derek gestured to the ghoul as he moved out of the way of the door. The team traveled through the metropolis of the capital of Scotland, Edinburgh. "What did we just watch?" Kalilah asked Hye before he walked away, speedily walking faster than usual she had noticed. Made her slightly upset after she noticed.
The cruiser couldn't fit all five, Derek flew in his cloudy form through the air with Fenella, though slowing himself down to a tremendous extent for the sake of the ghoul to leading the way with directions, the ghouls led the team almost halfway across Edinburgh to a café that almost each of them, found to be very fascinating and eye-catching. The café wasn't a teeny place, it held books acting as a library of sorts and café. "Why'd you change— and how did you change into different clothes?" Hye asked Derek as he walked out of an alleyway in different civilian clothes than he had earlier, his hair was fashioned with a mullet, dressed in a creamy beige t-shirt, his ashen practice enhanced arm gone, jeans and dark shades covering his pupil-less creamy beige gaze away from any civilian sight as the area was filled with life. "As a vanquisher, it's best that any business that we can deal with— without involving any citizen life, it's best that's our game plan. Zero attention or panic, most civilians see me in an area like they tend to—." Derek decided to let the others guess. "Safe to guess that our so brilliant vanquishing mentor has a game plan in mind for dealing with this other ghoul?" Hye asked with a tone. "Doofus. This is the man, of course, he has something in mind, right?" Kalilah asked before she turned away towards Derek for him to confirm. Hye noticed Derek's eyes light up through his shades before twisting around to check if anyone saw but the area across the street was far too busy for anyone to notice as the crowd was hustling and bustling, on the sidewalk, in and out of the café library. "I'm gonna just wing it but turn up the heat, kids, stay with Officer Bankhead, lead the way dobs." Derek responded before he and the Ghoul they've seemingly befriended began their stride into the Café library. "Yep. Good luck to that dirty ghoul and his boss." Officer Bankhead shouted as he caught attention but didn't care in the slightest and closed his eyes for a nap. "Why does everyone keep calling me a kid?" Hye asked Officer Bankhead as he answered with a shrug, "I'm eighteen, almost nineteen soon." He finished before crossing his arms and leaning away from Kalilah. "Get over your introverted nature and own ego, Kali!" Kalilah told herself in her thoughts as a pep talk to prepare her to strike up a conversation with the young swordsman staring in the sky next to her as she looked away. "That bird was back at the house soaring through the sky but now it's here?" Hye internally questioned as he thought the bird was beautiful. "What was your childhood like?" Kalilah asked with the gentlest and calmest tone she could musker but she feared it sounded too aggressive regardless. Hye looked at her blank expression before turning away again to fix his eyes on the majestic bird he feels to be following them. "That's a stylish and cute crop top beige jacket you have on." Kalilah complimented continuing her attempt towards making her voice softer. "That sounds like girl gibberish, you don't seem to have any friends so, I take it that all of you must naturally be able to speak this language?" Hye replied with a tone Kalilah couldn't sense any animosity in which left her puzzled. "I'm over this childish gibberish you're yapping on, I didn't think that me winning this morning would leave you this hurt!" Kalilah shouted with an irked tone, "I need to woman up and apologize— this clown makes it even more tough." Kalilah finished internally. "A win is when you've successfully defended the life of someone with sincerity. Penetrated someone attempting to take your own. When you've penetrated your assailant with your blade and he won't get back up. You've left your opponent broken by his defeat. You essentially just got the better of me in this one, I keep my promises, so look forward to next time." Hye replied riled up but his demeanor remained calm before he sat back and turned away finding comfort in the majestic bird. "A cloud of smoke flew through the open passenger seat's window and left a note in Hye's lap, Kalilah noticed and informed the young swordsman. He opened and read it, shortly realizing it was Officer Headbank himself from Derek. The two awoke him from his nap. He saw Derek on a rooftop located down the street snuggling with his bird, then saw the ghouls walking in the same direction on ground level, before he vanished presumably into smoke and soared swiftly out of sight. "What are they planning?" Hye asked Officer Headbank. "Something real smart, laddie. They've convinced the commanding ghoul to simply take them to see the witch in charge some way they never specified, something about ghouls and witches, Derek decided to scout out for all of our sakes first. We've done this bird thing plenty in the past. It'll return and it'll lead us to them then he'll fill you in on the plan he's been cooking up before confronting the witch and her ghouls." Officer Headbank informed and answered his question. Hye looked up to where the bird was circling like an eagle. "So, he has a ton of unearned trust in that ghoul and that sumptuous birdie has actually been his all along?!" Hye thinks to himself, he doesn't like the idea of one of them, before his eyes are fixed to the people walking around the area.
An hour passed by, for Hye as slow as a turtle, yet for Kalilah, the worst of the hour was how awkward she felt next to the young swordsman as for an hour he watched and analyzed each traveling passerby with one hand on his chin and downtrodden expression. "Good girl, Ella." Said officer Headbank before he started up the cruiser and peeled off on Fenella's tail. The remaining team aside with the ghoul and Derek absent, Headbank, Hye and Kalilah arrive at what could be assumed to be an abandoned home of a wealthy family. Some of it needed fixing and repairs, it reminded Kalilah of her uncle, embodiment of versatility and formation. The team left the car and stood outside the gate awaiting Derek's arrival and plan as they were promised. Hye felt slightly impatient. "It's been twenty minutes!" Said Hye as he pounded his fist before barely taking a few steps 'till Kalilah halted him. "Hang on little Tarzan, we're working together." Kalilah responded as she grabbed his shoulder. Hye turned around and let out a sigh. "Kind of a force of habit with me." Hye replied as he turned around only his head and looked at her with his side eye, "A plan or do you just want to waste my time?" Hye finished with a lowered voice. "Waiting for Gray a bit longer—" Kalilah relayed the plan until Hye interrupted her, "Won't suffice, I'm close enough to him to vanquish this witch. What even is magic?" Hye responded with an impatient tone before he calmed down for the last question. The young Swordsman sprinted into the seemingly abandoned home whilst conjuring his ashen and salt sword into his hand, he leapt over the tall gate then kicked as Kalilah followed him feeling as though it was too late to reason with Hye's recklessness. A dozen ghouls were wandering the home, the pair gained the attention of each one in the secretive hideout. Hye went on a mission to decapitate more than Kalilah utilizing his greater speed and precision, the bodies and heads removed, the ghouls could not function against the pair without being reunited. One final ghoul remained and it summoned its master. "Ya, yoo two moost belang ta zisth guy." The pair heard from a strange yet unexpectedly youthful voice coming from above them. A youthful iron blue skinned girl with gray hair flipped over the home's rail from the top floor with a cage in hand and a strangely familiar creamy Beige rabbit with ominous eyes nibbling food inside. "That delicious looking rabbit cannot be—?!!" Hye shouted with a tone filled with worry. Kalilah eventually noticed it after Hye yet she refused to believe what he was alluding to with his question, feeling as shocked and worried as him regardless. "My tongue hurts. Anyway, guessing you're his weak sidekicks, surrender, this doofus of a hero has already been defeated!" The witch outcast from her coven declared, "actually consider him dead as his mind, memories and life have been wiped away." The outcast of a witch finished with a smug expression. Kalilah's expression switched from worried, to shameful, to confident as she was in the process of piecing together Derek's actual plan and thought of it as corny. Kalilah went on the offensive against the lonely witch, the advantage was on the Demi-goddess' side until the witch on one knee felt fed up with feeling bullied and shot a blast towards Hye which hit as the young swordsman was waiting for a chance to leap into the action with his fellow apprentice but he was lost in his thoughts and on the rare occasion, got lost in his feelings viewing Kalilah thrust, slash then clash with the witch and her defensive shielding. Kalilah heard Hye noise a grunt she's never heard from him before realizing he was picking up his sword against her, his fellow apprentice of the "Miraculous Mistdeemer" putting on a dopey face. "I can't eat a trio of monsters like you, however, I'll take pleasure in putting you bunch of tools in your places, also making this short fella my tool and toy in case any of these other vanquishers care to barge into my business!" The unhinged witch shouted with joy as she snapped her finger and her tool attacked his fellow apprentice with no hesitation. The apprentices had their swords clashed once again, for the 400th time that day, one ruthlessly on the offensive against the other's unyielding defensiveness mixed with slight evasion. "I have to reach him but I have to be honest and genuine, as I am, regardless if he deserves it, there's no need for a rivalry like this. This is how it's done in most of the shows I've seen, here is to hoping there's some truth." Kalilah held inside after she blocked and parried five slashes of the young twisted swordsman. "The time for any apology is through, for the love of my wonderful Queen!" Hye called out with a strangely demonically deep voice that almost had Kalilah slashed by his blade as she lost footing. "Crap!" Kalilah shouted in her head before she parried even more slashes. Kalilah asked many questions of the situation that she was caught in, asked especially what could snap her fellow student out of their culprit's mystical control until she was given a moment to see the creamy beige rabbit once more and thought of something that she felt had potential. "The number one swordsman under the control of a worthless speck under his greatness?" Kalilah shouted as she tried using her underprepared telekinesis to hold him still until he overwhelmed the strength of her grip. "I'm nothing!" Hye shouted back with a wrathful voice and deadly expression as he swung his blade over and over, he was able to remove a few of her offhand fingers as she miscalculated while trying to evade. Groaning and fearful of losing an arm she's not quite able to repair, something she thought would be more helpful came to her mind. "Yep. The Heir of the greatest swordsman alive who disappointed his father by becoming a toy to someone not worthy of his time and failed the greatest hero. Nothing is an understatement." Kalilah tugged and shouted as the fight came to a halt. Hye began to shake rapidly like he had the greatest case of the shivers while holding one hand with the other. "I-I-I refuse that being true!!" Hye screamed at the top of his lungs before he regained control from each aspect that the witch had control over, the moral, physical and Kalilah utilized his advantage over the strongest in the form of the spiritual aspect to reach him. The witch had an upset expression on her face, she shot another blast of her Demi-goddess' power with the unfortunate timing for her as Hye fell to his knees, with slightly weakened muscles due the witch's bewitching over his body. Kalilah disarmed the lonely cannibalistic witch literally before taking the time to heal her wounds. "Humans directly empowered by the Demi-embodiments need their limbs to help channel, as my father says." Kalilah reminded herself as part of the plan that immediately came to her mind when the witch missed. Derek transformed into his gaseous state and flew out of the cage before he encased himself and a small area around him with smoke walking out of it back to his human form. "Impeccable work, Lilah." Said Derek with a tone as proud as each in the past that never ceased giving Kalilah a beaming smile on her face. "It was my idea to have him show me the ropes and this was my dream, was it worth it?" Hye had asked himself as he sat on his butt with his hands on his knees. He looked up and saw Kalilah holding her hand out to help him up