Vincent wakes up with what feels like a 1000 pound anvil on top of his head. His head is still spinning. Jenna is sleeping while sitting; too tired from staying up all night guarding the cave. Vincent moves as quiet as possible and slowly sits beside her. Jenna is startled, and sees Vincent, smiles a little. “Hey. Feeling better?”
“Yeah. Although I still feel like a whale is sitting on my head.” Jenna chuckles at the thought.
“So what is it all about?” Jenna snuggles to Vincent and puts her head on his chest. Vincent is surprised, but not refusing the affection.
“The second crystal brings the event where the demons beat the crap out of me. It also tells me the disaster that will happen if we don’t get all of the manna crystals in time.”
“I see”
“We need to hurry now, as time is really not on our side.”
“Okay. We will leave at sunrise. I think we need to be more careful though. Don’t you find it weird that Uvall can easily find us?”
“Yes. I think that’s kind of weird. Let’s thread more carefully. On the positive note though, it also brings back many of my abilities.”
“Like what?” Jenna raises her head and looks at him.
“I think it will come out in battles. But the previous ones that were unclear to me, are now beginning to make sense.”
“I see...that’s great...”
At least for the next couple of hours, these two human beings can enjoy each other’s company, might be the last comfort for the things to come.
~φ~
Meanwhile, in the underworld, Uvall has to once again meet the wrath of the Lord of the Darkness. He’s in all four; blood comes out of his nostrils and mouth.
“You are truly worthless. I have put a tracking device inside Zuriel’s body. Yet you manage to lost him...again and again and again...my patience is wearing thin, Uvall..” The Dark Lord speaks while washing the blood on his knuckles. “I have sent the wraiths, the hellhounds to help you...to no use... Do you think you deserve another chance?” He turns around, and stares sharply at Uvall; the look in his eyes can kill anything that directly looks at him.
Uvall wants to say the reason he can’t find Vincent is that the signal becomes untraceable, but he knows that will get him more beating. “Please forgive me, Dark Lord. I promise I will catch him”
“This is your last chance. He already gets to Shalbriri. Crocell should be next. Go now to where Crocell is.”
Uvall is getting up slowly, walking wobbly. “Oh, and Uvall.” Uvall slowly turns around “Don’t fail me.”
~φ~
The sun rises from the east, the light makes its way through the cave directly into Jenna’s eyes that startles her. “O my gosh !!! Sunrise !! We gotta go !!” Vincent rubs his eyes, still groggy from lack of sleep. “Like, now?”
“Yeah !!!”
Jenna walks out from the cave, and opens up the Devil’s map. “Okay, let’s see. Where are you slimy demon?”
After several minutes, Jenna shouts “Helloo Crocell !!!”
“Don’t forget to look for Uvall.”
“Ah right.” Jenna finds Uvall is moving to Crocell’s direction. “I think we gotta move fast. Uvall is heading there right now.”
“Okay. Don’t forget to suit up. Can we get something to eat first? I’m starving.”
“Wait. I think Alfred gives us something. Like an emergency ration.” Jenna thinks “food” and the satchel spew 2 pieces of small cookies. “Just that?” Vincent raises an eyebrow.
Jenna holds them in her palm “This is the bread of life. 1 piece should last u a day.”
“Cool. Give me it” Jenna tosses the cookie and Vincent catches it with his mouth. “Hm…tastes like chicken. Quite fulfilling too…”
Jenna eats one piece of the “cookie” as well and then prepares the map and the gate. “Ready?”
“Lock and load!”
They reappear on the other side of the world. “Where are we?”
“From the look of things, we are in Rome” Jenna notices the cathedrals and the majestic Trevi Fountain right next to them.
“Ah...the perfect place for a demon who can pose as an angel of light. Check the map.”
Jenna opens the map, and finds Crocell on the other side of town. Suddenly the red dot is gone.
“Hey…what happen???” Jenna frantically turns the map outside down and flip it over.
“What?”
“Crocell’s dot is gone !!! He was just there a minute ago.”
“Ah…that means he goes undercover.”
“Undercover??”
“Yeah. Apparently his transformation can fool even the Demon’s map.”
Jenna looks disheartened. “What can we do?”
“What is his last position?”
“Colosseum.”
“Then let’s go there.”
“How are we going to find him ?”
“The Truth shall set you free.” Vincent grins and points to the “Truth Seeker”
“Ah yes. The Truth Seeker. But it will take days. We really don’t have much time.”
“Yeah. Don’t worry. I have found a solution.”
“You do? When do you start becoming so smart?”
“You do? When do you start becoming so smart?”
“Since the 2nd manna Crystal. And yes, I have always been smart. I just am.” Jenna slaps him on the back.
“What are you gonna do?”
“If we hook up the Truth Seeker to a huge power source, we might be able to do an area sweep.”
“Great idea. Do you remember how he looks though? His real form?”
“I have a pretty clear picture after the 2nd crystal. But let’s have another look in the book. That’s for your information.”
“Nah. I have demon database in my head. I know exactly what he looks like. So where are you going to hook up the Truth Seeker?”
“ ‘What’ actually. I sense a powerful artifact right on the top of the fountain. Right at the place where the two cherubim are, inside the stone Faberge egg”
“Wow. You can see that far now? How are we gonna get it ?”
“Wait here.” Five seconds later, Vincent is back with a glowing yellow egg.
“Whoa !! what are you ? The Flash now?”
“Part of the perks being me” Vincent grins. “This is the Golden Phoenix Egg. Like its name, it is able to regenerate energy over and over again.”
“Cool.”
“Now let’s get to the Coloseum. I sense that Uvall is not that far away either.”
Suddenly they can hear a blast from the other side of town. Jenna opens up the map, and she notices one huge dot lighting like Christmas tree. “Oh no, we’re too late.”
~φ~
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