After seeing a large explosion near the Rafferty Rolls Casino, Iss and Nagas start their motorcycles and rush to the scene.
As they arrive, first responders have already cleared the area.
They get off their bikes and show their badges to the first UWO officer they can find.
"What happened here?" Nagas says in question.
The Officer looks over to the large crater left in the ground.
"We have a couple of witness testimonies but it's absurd, no one's story is the same as the last. The most common one is that a man in black and red armor was flying through the sky chasing three kids, and he was yelling something about a symphony."
Rafferty is being carried off in a stretcher, his armor has disappeared.
Iss points to Rafferty, and what happened to him.
The officer looks over to Rafferry
"We think he was caught in the crossfire, the witnesses say that he was trying to stop the commotion that was happening outside his Casino and got attacked by a kid who was using fire magic.
A pinkish-purple portal appears next to the officer and he steps away from it in caution. From the portal steps out a pale 5'10 woman who has a white Chin-length bob with bangs that has a pinkish purple streak, black pants, a black shirt, and a brown trenchcoat.
Her eyes glow the same color as the portal, and they fade to black as she deactivates her magic.
Iss and Nagas salute as they both say "Detective Aurora."
"Rafferty is a big name around here, but that doesn't make him innocent. I want you two on the lookout for the time mage, Loc, and the third one-"
Aurora looks around the crater and sees time magic residue, tide magic residue, and flame Magic residue.
"I didn't see I flame mage on the report?"
Nagas looks over to the crater and sees the flame Magic residue.
"We didn't know, this is a new development."
Aurora looks around some more. She then sees a trail of water magic that leads behind a building.
She points at it discreetly so only Nagas and Iss see.
Iss, Nagas, and Aurora follow the trail to find that it stops at a sewer grate
Aurora looks at it with disgust.
"Go down there, flush them out. I'll be waiting."
Iss and Nagas look at each other in hesitancy. Then they open the grate and jump down.
Down in the maze that is the sewer system of Las Luces are Corin who is being carried by multiple water imps, and Loc who is carrying Ida in his arms.
As they walk Corin starts to wake up.
Corin: [Where am I? Was that a dream?]
He looks around at the groggy concrete dripping with water.
Loc turns to see the now awake Corin and they stop, Ida waves at him from Loc's arms.
"What happened?" Corin says as he gets up from the bed of water imps.
Loc recalls the imps
"What do you remember?"
Corin rubs his head
"Well Rafferty was chasing us and we ran from him as I was charging up an attack, then there was an explosion... how are we not dead?"
Loc smiles proudly.
"Well at the last second, I summoned as many water imps as I could and formed a barrier around us."
Ida gets down from Loc's arms, and he looks at her in confusion.
"That was alright, but did you see it I used creation-type magic, I made like a chain out of time Magic and it slowed him down."
"You can walk?! I was carrying you the whole time!" Loc says upset
Ida smiles
"Oh yea, Thanks by the way!"
Corin is standing with his arms crossed wondering something.
"Ida I thought you had to be touching someone to speed them up or slow them down, but you were able to speed me up while you were sitting down."
Ida thinks for a second
"Oh yeah, ok so this is kind of hard to explain. Normally if someone has magic I just have to touch them once and then I'll be able to affect them from any distance. But since you didn't have magic I had to be physically touching you until you started using magic. The reason I'm so excited about the creation-type magic I used is because now rather than having to physically touch someone all I have to do is use the time chains and that will slow them down."
"But you're so fast no one could dodge you so why would you need the chains?" Corin says still confused
"Because I can only speed myself up that fast for a few seconds then I have no way of defending myself once I get too tired!"
"Ohhhh," Corin says finally understanding.
Loc sharpens up and looks around
Someone's following us, probably saw a trail of tidal magic from the imps. He then summons more imps and sends them in different directions
"No using magic from this point forward until we get out. We're being followed," he says with a lowered voice.
Corin and Ida look around and nod
"Where... are we going?" Corin asks as they continue to walk
Loc pulls out Ida's scroll from his pocket
"Hey, how did you- it's unlocked!!!"
Ida says in surprise as she sees the chains are no longer there.
Loc shushes her but for not.
Ida snatches it from his hands and opens it as she walks
"What the hell is this?!"
Shut up! Loc whispers loudly.
Corin looks over her shoulder to see the contents of the scroll.
Its a sheet music but where there should be notes there's nothing. All it is are the treble clef and the staff.
Ida continues looking at the scroll in doubt
"This is not right, it's supposed to fix everything, but there's nothing here!"
"Maybe we just can't read it." Corin suggests trying to calm Ida down."
Loc knows what Corin's doing and tries to play along
"Look this is our exit, when we get out maybe I'll help you guys look around Luces for more information."
Ida rolls the scroll up and puts it in her back pocket.
"Yeah... let's try that."
Loc has led them to another sewer grate that they climb out of.
Upon climbing out they are met with a busy section of Las Luces where people sell their services.
As they look around for a while they get odd looks from the public.
"I don't like how this looks," Loc says, his voice returning to normal volume.
"Yeah, I think one of my ribs is broken, I am not in a condition to fight," Corin says while holding his side.
"Let's just keep walking," Ida suggests
As they continue to walk Loc realizes something.
"Hey wait. You didn't have magic like two hours ago, where did that come from." He says pointing at Corin.
Corin scratches his head.
"You wouldn't believe me if I told you!"
Ida starts playing with his hair
"Oh yeah, It was crazy, your hair like turned red, I've never seen that before."
"Tell us. I'm curious." Loc says
Corin shoos Ida off.
"The night I got sent her there was a Red dragon and I saw it again but this time it told me I was blessed with magic and to fuel my flames."
Ida looks at him with concern
"I saw a red dragon when we were at the Casino I saw him for like half a second looking back at me! I thought I was crazy!"
Corin looks back at her
"You saw him too?! He did mention something about you but I can't remember, something about an old man?"
Ida's eyes shoot open
Old man... it definitely means Chrongrey.
"What did it say!" She says to Corin as she grabs him by the shoulders
Corin thinks for a few seconds
"Sorry, I was dying so it's kind of hard to remember. The dragon said like: I hope he's ok."
Ida backs off and starts to think, putting her hand to her mouth in pondering.
If the dragon is wondering If Chrongrey is ok, does that mean they know each other? And if that's the case does that mean this was planned?
"Ida," Loc says waving his hand in her face.
She jumps up in reaction
"Corin I think something is going on that we don't know. I think your dragon is connected to the old man who raised me."
"That is a possibility," Corin says
Loc looks at them
"The people around here haven't stopped staring at us, you think that's a problem? Because I do."
Ida and Corin look at the crowd of citizens around the market who stare at them.