After deactivating their abilities, they all turned to each other looking at one another before proceeding to raise both their arms to show mutual agreement. On seeing their action, the man in charge turned to his men and ordered that they made way for the boys to pass. And without hesitation, a path was cleared almost instantly for the boys. The man turned to look at the boys once more signalling their path had been made and they were now to walk through now.
"Let it be known that one wrong move and my little friend here might just have all your men here kill themselves" Blair threatened. But this wouldn't faze the man as he had had it up to here. Without thinking he blurted out his own threat back at the group of boys.
"This is only a temporary truce. My team and I won't hesitate to chop down any opposition if sited". If there was any hope of things calming down between the two parties, it was certainly thrown out of the window. As now the pressure was now more mounted between both parties. Not to waste any more time entertaining the stare down that was going on between the two parties, Eiko was the first to make the move as he walked right into the path of veteran soldiers on both sides. Shortly after the rest of the legions followed suit and soon enough they were all matching through the thirty or so veteran soldiers standing at both sides.
As they walked through, some of the veterans became more tensed as Eiko walked by them. This was only a natural response as they were scared of what they had seen their fellow squad member suffer. Others had the opposite feeling towards the boys. Some of them did all they could to stop themselves from attacking the boys as they walked by. And one man in particular among the veteran squad was finding this the hardest to do as he felt more embarrassed than the others, this was their leader.
With nothing they could do, they had no option but to allow the boys pass of which they did. Now they followed them serving as escorts from the back. As commanded, they had dropped their weapons and not picked it. The reason for this brave move was that even if these boys thought of escaping them, there was no way out of the faction as currently there was a total lock down going on. And they even prayed the idea of escaping would cross these naive kids minds as they could then use this as an excuse to finish them off for the disgrace they had suffered back at the males lodge in front of hundreds of faction members. But truthfully they couldn't do anything but wish it would happen as they made their way to their supposed destination.
It didn't take too long and they had arrived at the place, the faction main house. This was the place where the three heads met occasionally to the discuss the progress and activities of the faction. And this was also the first place the legions had visited the first time they had come into the hunters base.
Without any time wasted, all five of the boys were ushered into the large building that stood well above every other building in the faction. They were all let in and after several turns and twists they found themselves at a strange yet familiar room. This was the room they had met with all three leaders back then and now it looked like history was going to repeat itself as nothing about this meeting had really changed from the last time except they were nine back then with jack who had died in the hands of the wolf beast being the absent one.
On entering they could see familiar faces. Rodney was present along with the girls Mia and Blaze whom by now had their chains taken off them. Also there was Yang who in turn stared back at them with a surprised look. The boys caught this and felt this person should be awarded an acting award for the show he was putting on now. They had no evidence other than gut feeling to accuse the man they all thought was responsible for all that was happening now, little did they know they were blaming the wrong person the whole time.
But this was everything was about to be revealed as the final person from the last time they met had finally arrived. Mr Tofu the oldest of the leaders and arguably the head of the hunters faction. He walked in gracefully and took a sit at the large table in the room, and just like last time, he had a cup and a drink in it placed at on the table. He sat down and then Damien sat down as well but then something odd had happened, Yang was still left standing. Not only that, there wasn't a sitting provision in sight for him as there were only two chairs around the table.
"What is the meaning of this?. First I get harassed by the veterans and now, now this!!" Yang said pointing his fingers at the empty space his seat would usually be. The two men sitting had done exactly what the the boys had done, looked at themselves. Only difference in their reactions was while the boys found this unfolding of events to be quite the shock, the two men sitting had simply laughed a little.
"Oh yang, always known for his acting capability" Damien said with a smile while staring intensely at yang. The latter found this joke to be quite insulting especially in a situation like this. But before he could say anything, he was caught off as master Tofu had something to say
"You know yang, I really did trust you. But why go through this, why do you seek the downfall of this great faction?...answer me traitor!!".Tofu demanded. Yang and everyone else in the room apart from Damien had a look of confusion plastered on their faces. They had no idea what the old man was talking about. Yang who struggled to process where the accusation was coming from and where it could possibly lead stood there for a minute still in shock.
" You see, he won't even defend himself. You clearly are guilty of conniving with those kids at the back to sabotage the operations of this faction".
"Hahaha, what are you going on about Damien?" Yang asked. Damien didn't respond directly to this as he had simply ignored the question and bent down. Then lifting his hands up was a sack he held. And the others were wondering what that had got to do with what was happening at the moment. But then suddenly, he turned the bag upside down and emptied the contents on the table with some of them rolling to the floor.
"What has this got to do with me?" Yang asked staring at the objects on the table and floor. While he looked neutral, the same could not be said for the legions as they now had a clue why they were involved in all of this.
"The missing rings, how...how did he get it ?" Eiko stood wondering the same thing the rest of them all had on their minds. This wasn't looking like it would go down well considering how they were treating Yang at the moment. Even with the ring aside, what had the other item got to do with them they wondered.
"You must confess the conspiracy you have planned against this faction. How did the stolen Wolf crystal end up in your Dojo Yang?. And why did you give those strangers this communication device?. What do you have planned?" Damien fired multiple questions at Yang who just stood still trying to keep up and process the entire thing.
"How...how did you find that?" Yang asked.
"Oh so you confess to have been the stranger who stole the crystal from us is it?" Damien asked.
"Will you just shut up for once Damien. I'm trying to understand what you are talking about?. What did I do to deserve all this embarrassment?" Yang questioned.
"Well it seems to me that its clear you won't be telling the truth any time soon. You need a little bit of "convincing". No matter, we have provisions readily available for that. Now just to make sure you all don't pull the same stunt you did earlier"..."Damien" master Tofu called out to Damien who responded with a smile. Then suddenly tightening his fists, plants emerged from the roof and busted out some spores that had sharp spikes in them. These spikes travelled very fast and got stuck in yang and everybody present in the room at that moment.
"Haha, the lullaby flower as I like to call it. Capable of knocking out any man. But luckily, we took the antidote" Damien said and looked to his side where Tofu sat. They both got up at the same time to leave but Tofu had his gaze fixed on one person, Yang. One could tell he was really disappointed.
"Why?..." Yang said as he looked to his side and saw bodies dropping one by one.
*Bing*
[Strange harmful substance detected]
[Reversing effect of substance]
[Time 1:00 hr]
The legions all received this notification but some of them were already on the ground when they saw it and were falling asleep very fast. Erwin tried to create a bolt of lightning but as he did all that came out was sparks before it eventually died out and he fell as well. Rodney on the other hand was struggling to remain on his feet but that attempt proved futile as he had fallen to one knee and after sometime fell to the ground sleeping like the rest of the legions. The only person who was left standing was yang as he managed to hold on to the table but this wasn't long as he also couldn't handle it any more and fell to the ground although not yet asleep, he couldn't move from where he was.
But then that's when he saw a blurry figure appear in his line of sight as he faced the ceiling.
"You...shouksgshsh hjdkgd" Yang could only hear that much before finally giving in to the effects of the substance.