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"I'm toasted!" Joon sighs heavily. Right now, they were surrounded by papers from the box that belonged to his late adopted father, fruitless and clueless.

"Okay, let's recap again. According to these documents, Guardian existed more than 30 years ago, consisting of eight persons with different backgrounds," Justin points his finger towards each and every person in the picture.

"As we know, one of them is Super Wolf Theodore Blue, a female alien named Reist, your late adopted father; Professor Timber, and another personnel, nicknamed The Destroyer," Joon takes a notice of the information, while jotting down some notes on a piece of paper.

"These four possessed the dog tag. While the other four, they had nothing," Justin draws circles while explaining the information to Joon. Red circle for the one with dog tag, while black circle for the no dog tag.

"Still, I'm kinda confused here. What is my dad doing, hangout with this team? It seems like out of place. He's not a soldier. He was an archeologist!" Joon sighs. He is perplexed and confused.

"Don't you think we have too many questions, more than answers by now?" Justin gawks at Joon with his tiring eyes.

"This is complicated compared to my university entrance exam!" Joon replies, collapses himself while blending with scatter papers on the floor. "The biggest question now is, what's this dog tag's specialty? How can we relate the dog tag with the Guardian?" asks Joon.

Justin pinches his temple. After almost hours, he is exhausted and futile. Looks like they did lose a way to solve this. 

And that's when the laptop beeps twice. Justin quickly checks out the analysis. He frowns as he focuses on it.

"It's a map.." he says. He examines the dog tag one more time. The analysis is from Joon's dog tag.

What about his dog tag analysis?

"Another piece of the map?" says Joon. Both glance at each other. Joon nods as Justin cuts the map, and joins it with the other half of the map.

"Oh.My.Map!" they gasp. When two maps get assembled together, it turns out to be a complete map, with some path. Just like a maze.

But a very complicated maze.

"I knew this shit place!" Joon shrieks in excitement and awe.

"What is it?"

"It's The Maze City.." the man quickly grabs an old note book from the box.

"How did you recognize it?"

"Because... I searched for this with my dad, a long time ago. But, he died during the expedition, got hit by a booby trap. So, the expedition got put off. Actually, I'm the one who ended it, because of that accident. Since then, I told myself that it was nothing but a legend," his voice cracks in the middle, holding his tears.

"Sounds like a horror maze..."

"Yep, people said even if you manage to find the entrance, you can't ever pass it. We didn't even get this close to finding it, let one pass it. It's still a mystery. But, maybe we can solve it using this map. But, there's no guarantee. Zero to none..." Joon holds his head down. Just by a glimpse, the maze opens up an old wound.

"I think we should take a break," Justin stretches his body before standing up, trying to drift the sadness from Joon. The man nods as he too, feels tired. Besides, it's already noon and he's hungry as well.

"Justin, could you just unlock the guest bedroom? I don't think the lady is a threat. Besides, how much she can do with that wounded body?" Justin agrees He walks to the room and unlocks the door. 

Suddenly he heard a wimp.

Worrying that she might be in pain, Justin slowly opens the door and peeks inside. He looks at the lady who lays on the bed, sweaty as hell. She frowns and tosses her body side by side, looking like she has a nightmare. He feels reluctant to touch her forehead, but his guts told him to do that.

So, he softly puts his finger on her forehead when suddenly, she opens her eyes and looks straight into his eyes.

It's a bad move, Wolf!

***

"Help!!" Justin screams in horror as he  runs outside the room. The lady is pointing a knife at him with her sharp gaze locks upon him. He tries to run but his leg suddenly just gives in, and he crashes down his body all the way towards the hall room.

"No..." he shuts his eyes, praying for his life. That's when he knocks a vase while struggling to escape from her.

Joon, who hears the commotion from afar, quickly runs towards the hall from the kitchen, with a bread knife in his hand.

"MY LORD!! AGH!!" he screams as he drops the knife on the floor whilst looking at the sight of that vicious look from the lady.

She moves her hand, pointing towards Joon this time as she tilts her head, looking confused as hell. Her purplish eyes sparkle a bit.

She wants to charge forward but...

"Put the god damn knife down..!"

***

Jein is searching inside the attic for some old stuff. He can still remember he put the box somewhere. He looks around and finally finds it stuck between a tingle lightbox and some other old boxes. He smiles when he pulls out the box carefully when he hears a crashing noise from the downstairs.

"Oh my pan, here we are again..."

He swears to his fluffy slipper, he will cut Joon's hand this time!

***

"Put it down or I'll blow your head..." Yoon growls behind her, poking his stunned gun over her head. She just stares at Justin who slides himself towards the sofa. He is the Super Wolf, but her gaze somehow makes him weak. It's deadly and scary at the same time for him.

Joon, on the other side, froze like a statue. He knew, by only one move, things will get so damn ugly.

"Joon!!"

Yep, someone just makes a move! Nice timing anyway!

Without hesitation, she gives a nice back kick at Yoon. He drops his gun, yelping in pain. But it doesn't stop him from charging himself towards her. She runs outside, after breaking the window glass, causing Jein to run down fast from the attic.

"What happened now? Are you breaking the window again, Joon?!!"

"I swear to you, it wasn't me!" says Joon, with sweaty hands.

***

She runs outside but halts in the middle of nowhere. She is in deep shock, when she sees some place that she had never encountered before.

Then, gradually, her brain grasps the reality check. She's no longer in that tall tower at the high security prison. She is in the real world.

Still in daze, she tries to put everything in place with her vague memory, but it only causes her a prick headache and slowly she becomes sensitive.

"Stop right there!" Yoon's scream makes her feel threatened. She turns her head towards him, her eyes full of anger and annoyance.

Along with that alienated gesture, the outside suddenly gets dark. The wind gets violent, along with a series of thunder and all of the sudden, it's raining heavily.

Currently, both of them are standing right in front of Jein and Joon's cottage front yard with so many things in their mind. The lady is still keeping her composure on guard, while Yoon just stares at her, hoping that she will remain calm.

"Come.." Yoon slowly walks towards her. He gives his hand to her so she can grab it.

But, things escalated from there. She pushes his hand away, making Yoon feel mad. Finally, he grabs her hand by force and drags her to get inside the cottage.

Guess this action is just like poking a bee's nest. That resulting in her kicking his hand away.

"Oh my my my!" he yelps in pain.

She snatches this moment to run away, but Yoon manages to hold her tight. He hugs her from behind while she tries her best to escape from it, as she feels weird and hates it. She finally nudges his stomach, escapes herself from Yoon.

After successfully fighting away for her life, she sees a shovel on the ground, so the lady grabs it, and tries to hit Yoon, but he manages to dodge it. 

Now, they are facing each other.

It would be unfair if Yoon fights with an empty hand. So, he too, skims around before he sees a nice clean iron rod.
He doesn't know why the rod is there, but he grabs it anyway!

Now, this beautiful rod will be the best defense mechanism for Yoon.

The lady sips a deep breath before putting herself in fighting mode. Her right leg is pointed to the front, while her left leg is at the back with her right hand, holding the heavy shovel like a sword on the top of her head.

'Black Swan Technic!' Yoon glares at the lady with his shocking face. Finally, he sighs as he feels helpless if he doesn't fight this with a correct way.

Yoon tosses the iron rod left and right, with both of his hands, before drawing a crescent moon on the ground, almost circling himself. After the ritual is done, he puts the iron rod at his front and stands on guard.

'Blood Crescent Moon!' her eyes are getting bigger. It's been a long time since she sees anyone using the technique. Not after her trainer, Lucas.

But, for now, there's no room to walk in a memory lane and getting emo. She has a fight to win.

The lady suddenly charges forward, gracefully twirls like a swan, swiftly swinging the shovel. But Yoon manages to block the shovel, holding it with the iron rod. Clanging sounds can be heard loud as both of them hold each other's attack with full force.

Yoon pushes her to the side and almost closes to hit her cheek but that lady flips herself backward and like an elastic band moving forward, hit his back with the shovel. But, Yoon manages to duck it charging his leg down and trying to sweep her leg from below.

Like a majestic swan, she flies in the air and tries to give him a good flying kick but Yoon manages to grab her leg, push it away so she will fall on her butt.

But, that's not the case.

She manages to stand with only one foot and swings her leg like a top spinning and lands safely on the ground

'Yep, definitely the troublesome Black Swan!' Yoon grunts as he holds his iron rod, swings it like the shape of a crescent moon using his right hand and the hit immediately lands on her butt. She glares at him, protesting for where he hit her.

"Oops.. sorry.." he just flashes her a cute gummy smile.

She can't take it anymore. The shovel is shoved aside as she screams and jumps at him, making both of them roll on the ground. She then chokes his neck, eyes suddenly turning red like blood.

Yoon gasping for air. He just stares at her with his almost blurry eyes, hoping she will let him go.

BAMM!

With that sound, she suddenly collapses on top of Yoon.

He manages to hug her so she won't roll to the side. Her head is on his chest and her hands just tangling side to side. He breathes heavily and shuts his eyes tight.

Jein just blows his gun's tip. Justin and Joon's jaws drop at once.

"She just collapses. She's not dead!" says Jein. He then puts the gun on the table and walk into the kitchen casually.

Like nothing happened.

"I thought you said no guns in this house, Jein!" Joon yells. He runs into the kitchen and from his spot, Justin can hear them bickering like an old married couple.

Yoon slowly wakes up, holding the lady in his embrace. He swipes her tangling hair from her face and checks on her briefly. 

She is something... he is lost in his thought.

He then slowly stands up, the lady still in his embrace. Yoon then holds her, picks her bridal style, and walks back into the cottage.







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