Things seem to calm down for a moment between the group, as they saw Gordon walking out of the castle in a rush Leon immediately ran over to his father Quickly speaking with much haste
"Father are you all right"
"Yes I defeated whatever creature he brought but unfortunately that's man in the white got away"
Gordon replied.
"What about the artifact"
A voice said as an individual jumped off the roof fully covered in black blood from possibly killing a few of those creatures.
"My lord… Aaron, he captured the briefcase, however the artifact, is completely safe"
Gordon told the man who was covered in black blood.
The man gave a soft smile knowing that at the least what they were after was safe.
"About time you showed up"
Tyson told Aaron.
"I was a bit busy making sure everybody was safe I scanned area and there was a few others I took care of them quickly they were just shadows after all"
Aaron said.
Vespa walked over and gave Aaron a hug
"I'm glad you're okay"
She told him
"Doing just fine now, where's the artifact?"
Aaron asked as he gave Vespa a kiss on the cheek
"I hid it safely in Leon's bag"
Gordon said as he slightly trembled still feeling that evil energy somewhere, but he did walk over to his son putting an arm on his shoulder.
"You put it in my bag?"
Leon asked.
"Yes it was the only place that could be safe"
Gordon replied.
"Good then can give it to Aaron here and put it somewhere safe"
Tyson added.
"Oh no…"
Iris said softly she understood what might have happened. It was hoping that it didn't but there's a high chance it did.
"Just be silent we don't know if that was the artifact or not"
Jaxon told Iris as Leon looked completely terrified
"No that- there's no way"
Levin said as he tried his best to deny that that could have been the artifact earlier but there's no way it wasn't everything was telling him that it was but he had denied it he had to believe otherwise.
"Is there an issue?"
Aaron asked, turning his head to the three younger knights and his son.
"let me see your bag son, It should be in there"
Gordon stated.
There was a pause from Leon as he looked nervous however he did slowly hand over the bag.
"Now with him doing that.. what's going on with, and who's the girl?"
Aaron asked as he was confused.
But as he did so Gordon dropped the bag as he was completely shocked.
"Where's the artifact?," Gordon asked as he started to sweat.
"What do you mean it's not in there?"
Aaron asked
"Just check again You said you put in there right Maybe you just missed it"
Tyson added.
"Well… we might have seen it," Leon finally spit it out.
"What do you mean?," Gordon questioned
"Well… earlier something fell out of my bag and went into that girl," Leon said as he pointed to Moxie, Iris and Jaxon nodded along agreeing.
"Wait, it went into her,?" Aaron questioned.
"Yeah what do you mean by that?," Gordon added on as Tyson gave an inquiring look.
"Wait what happened?," Moxie asked as she was a bit taken aback by what she just heard.
"Okay, okay let me explain, there was this item That fell out of my bag," Leon told the group
"It was some kind of I don't know, It made an odd noise kind of similar to what oh! Yeah, very similar to the noise Moxie made" Levin added on
"Oh you're on a first thing basis now You shouldn't dignify that hood rat, that mutt with her name"
Vespa said.
"Oh I see you don't like that kid," Aaron said As he gave a small chuckle laughing at this situation.
"So the artifact is gone?," Tyson asked.
"Well it seems that way however I'm curious what do you mean by what you said Levin, she made a similar noise?," Gordon asked.
"Oh It was something along the lines of HELLO CHilD oF wkei-," Iris attempted to mimic as her voice cracked, not properly able to repeat what she heard.
"By the heavens If I never hear whatever you just said I'll die peacefully," Tyson told Iris as he held his ears tightly with a shocked look on his face.
"No that wasn't it, it was'CHid, of STA- WOnd- o una BEAJUWI-,"
Jaxon attempted to mimic as well however he also failed completely butchering Moxie's singing. Tyson held his ears even harder as tight as he could as he looked very annoyed.
"Okay how about this The next person that says whatever the hell that is or I don't even know what that is I'm killing All right,"Tyson announced with a very annoyed expression on his face as Aaron also held his years Gordon however was not.
"I tend to agree that it was rather painful," Aaron said.
"Big babies," Gordon told them.
"You two, Just made my ears sad," Leon told his comrades as he was shaking his head in disbelief of how bad they were at mimicking Moxie.
Moxie was perplexed by the situation as she sighed and turned to the group silently staring with her large eyes.
"Well if the artifacts inside her we just have to get it out," Vespa mentioned it with a dark grid on her face as she reached and grabbed Lilith holding her tight petting her head gently. Moxie's eyes shifted to this as she turned a little red. She was jealous she wished she had a mother that cared for her and did abandon her but she blocked out those thoughts for now.
"How do you suggest we do that?," Gordon asked.
"We can rip it out of her," Vespa said with a very happy smile on her face.
"Can we not," Tyson said with an annoyed expression as he looked as Vespa, Aaron was a bit confused but curious so he decided to lean close to Tyson and whisper
"What's up with Vespa, why does she have some kind of grudge against this child?"
"From my knowledge that kid over there started kidnapping your daughter, but something happened and I guess she ended up helping I'm not quite sure in all honesty I only got pieces from my crow"
Tyson whispered back.
"Oh I see That makes sense, she tends to hold things close to her heart"
Aaron whispered.
"You don't seem upset by it"
Tyson whispered
"Don't know don't get me wrong I am just as mad but.. I understand sometimes you do things you don't want to do, You make mistakes"
Aaron whispered.
"Nevertheless what was it you did exactly beforehand that these morons were babbling about," Gordon said Moxie looked away.
"I… don't know It just came to me," Moxie Said as she frowned.
"Just came to you eh, how interesting," Gordon replied.
"Just do it again!"
Iris mentioned.
"Just do it again?... Hmmm?," Moxie said as she thought about it for a moment.
"It might be related to the artifact itself; perhaps Yes do try it again," Gordon said.
"That's actually not a bad idea," Tyson added
"I don't know she might blow out my eardrums," Vespa commented.
"Oh come on give her a break at least for now," Aaron said with a cheeky smile.
"Fine, for you," Vespa replied.