Walking into headquarters, I sighed with a heavy heart.

" Master's gonna kill us Jag," Nicco said, putting his hand through his shaggy, dirty blonde hair.

    " Are you trying to be funny? Because we should be dead right now. I nearly had a concussion and you're walking around with bullets in your chest," I replied. Looking at his sheer, white, button down shirt you could literally see the blood stains coming out of his shirt.

    A smirk cracked across Nicco's face, "Aye, nothing a few stitches can't fix. Besides," he said with a smile, "it gives Master hardcore evidence of what went down."

    " You mean hardcore evidence that we failed her," I said smiling.

    He shrugged, " Sure I guess. I'm trying not to think about what she's going to do to us for not getting that Breaker for her. I just don't know how she's so sure that this random girl is the one. I mean, do you really think that she is the one Jagger? The Ultimate Breaker? I mean, we're not even sure that she's even a Breaker, let alone the head honcho."

           " I don't think she really knows for sure what she is. From what I saw, she didn't show any sign of having any kind of power. But master believes that her parents knew something. The only thing is that while trying to wipe out Kratos, she wiped them out as well," I said.

           " And Kratos still managed to get away....," Nicco added.

           " Pretty much. So now it's our job to do the dirty work," I said in irritation.

           " She should get Jin to do it," Nicco said in a mocking voice.

           " I'm pretty sure he's already on the case and Master is just sitting at her office, rehearsing what she's going to yell at us."

    Nicco smiled, " I actually wouldn't be surprised if he was already trying to catch her."

           We made a right turn and continued down a hallway that lead us to another hallway.

           " He's full of bologna. He thinks that he's all that because he's Master's favorite," I said.

           " Don't lie to yourself. The only reason why he's Master's favorite is because she's attracted to him. And because he kisses up to Master and does everything that she wants him to. Plus, he usually carries out all of his assignments in perfection as he calls it," Nicco said in a mocking tone, scrunching up his face in a funny way.

           We both chuckled like little kids.

          Making a few more left and right turns and proceeding through a maze of hallways, we finally reached Master's office.

           Nicco knocked on the door. " Oh, your loveliness. We are back," he nearly sang. By the look in his face, you could tell he was trying really hard to hold back a laugh.

           " Come in," she said unenthusiastically.

           Nicco twisted the doorknob and pushed open the door open. In front of us was a wooden desk, clear of everything but a sleek, silver laptop. Behind the desk was the back of a large, dark brown leather chair. Bookshelves lined the scenery. The shelves were filled with folders, files, binders, and the occasional bulky book. As Nicco and I approached her desk she didn't care to turn her chair around, keeping her back toward us.

" Well, should I have even bothered to get my hopes up this time?"

           I sighed, " Well, unfortunately they all managed to get away, Master."

    A light chuckle came out from her lips, "And I'm supposed to be proud of that? I should've just sent Jin to finish them off in the first place. I don't know what I was thinking, thinking you two could possibly handle a task like this." A sigh escaped her lips. " Matter of fact, I already sent Jin to find them. He wasn't too thrilled to hear that he had to clean up the mess you two left, so I need you two to follow up and catch up with him. Most likely he's going to need backup."

    Nicco smiled as he nearly bounced up and down in excitement, " A three on three battle. But how are we supposed to take out a girl?"

    " Three on three?" Asked Master.

    " Yes, Master. The girl has a friend with her as well."

    " A male or female?"

    " Male," I replied.

           As we received no response, Nicco and I just stood there staring at the large brown chair back in front of us. Bracing ourselves-we knew we were going to get scolded- we waited there, almost anticipating getting reamed out. To our surprise, she didn't say a word. Nicco and I exchanged glances as if asking Why isn't she yelling yet?

           The brown chair slowly turned around, revealing the white cloak that covered Master's face. All that you could see from the cloak were long strands of beautiful, light brown hair. Her intricately designed, long fingernails clicked impatiently on the desk in front of her.

" I want him dead," she said, "I want them dead."

           Nicco responded, " We know that you do Master, but now there's more than one person to track down. We have Kratos, we have the girl. Then on top of that, she has another friend. So in order to eliminate Kratos, we also have to eliminate the girl and her friend."

           A smirk formed from under her cloak. " That's what I just said and that's exactly what we'll do," she said matter-of-factly.

           You mean that's what Nicco, Jin, and I will do. Of course she forgets to mention that part.

Nicco smiled, " If you say so Master."

    " But what if we're not strong enough Master?" I blurted out.

    " What do you mean?" She asked. " Do you not think that you three could handle those three?"

" Not if she's what you say she is," I replied matter-of-factly.

           " Why is she so dangerous anyway? She's really cute and doesn't look dangerous at all," Nicco said.

           I rolled my eyes. " Maybe you should stop flirting with her and pay attention to your real task Nicco."

           "You two never fail to disappoint me," she said as she put her hand to her head. Master Shizuka continued," If you must know why she is so dangerous, I'll tell you. I've foreseen things that you wouldn't even begin to imagine. Everything that I saw revolved around her. She is going to cause a humongous war because of the power that she possesses. Everything around her and anyone that gets close to her is dangerous. She is the one thing that could either save our world or destroy it completely. That's why we need to destroy Kratos and her friend. They're already wrapped up in her Breaker powers," she said.

    "But what is so special about her?" I asked.

    " Jagger, I think that she is the one. I know that she is the one. The leader of all of the Breakers. The Ultimate Breaker. This means that she is near invincible and she doesn't even know it yet."

" Okay. So what if she ends up not being this so-called 'Breaker' and is just a mortal? Then everything we're doing is for nothing," I said.

           " Jagger, I am 99.9% positive that this is our person. She is the Breaker."

Nicco stared at her." That sure is some crazy stuff. I just can't see someone so petite having so much power."

"Right," I agreed.

"On another note though, we are going to need more backup," said Nicco. "And not to press any buttons here, but we're going to need lots of it Master."

    " I wonder if Jin feels the same way about this," she replied.

    I shot a face at Nicco, which he shot back. You mean to tell me that we're clearly telling her that we need help to take out this so called 'Ultimate Breaker' and all she's worried about is how Jin feels about it? I mean, it's not that I'm jealous of him but he could be a total jerk at times. Then on top of that, just because he's Master's favorite he usually has the first say on everything that goes down within our organization. It infuriates me to the extreme.

    "Master, if Jagger and I couldn't manage to capture any of them together, what makes you think that we can take them down with one more person? I mean, look at me," said Nicco motioning to his blood stained shirt. Nicco continued, " I don't even know how many times I got shot, but I could've died. Not to mention that Jagger over here nearly got a concussion from fighting with Kratos."

I laughed at the way Nicco used his hands to talk. It was one of the most hilarious traits he possessed.

    " It's true," I agreed.

    Master clasped her hands on her desk, " Alright, I hear you out. But I think I may have found just the thing to help our situation."

    " Already?" Nicco asked.

    " Well, it was a little project I've been working on for a while. I just needed to find all of the things that were necessary to complete it."

    " And you've found everything?" I asked.

    " Yes, I've thoroughly researched and tracked down the items. I'm just in the process of obtaining those things."

    " So what exactly is this little project?" Asked Nicco.

    " Well, it's classified for now. As soon as everything goes through, I'll make sure to tell you," she said.

            I sighed. Nicco pouted like a little kid who had just gotten candy stolen away from him.

            " I can give you a little taste of what's to come though," said Master.

            "Please do," Nicco excitedly replied.

            She smiled. " Fine. While doing some research I came across something interesting. I've found out that Kiyano's parents weren't the only family that she has."

           "What's that supposed to mean?" I asked, confused.

           "Yeah. And how is that interesting? Most people have more family than their parents. Of course I can't remember my family but oh well." Nicco shrugged his shoulders.

           Master smiled, " I really can't reveal anymore boys. Why don't you tend to your wounds, wash up, and go catch up with Jin."

           "Alright," I replied. Not that I actually wanted to follow her orders, but I'd rather just say yes to them than have to hear her yell about me not following them.

           "Will do," said Nicco.

We both left her room desperately wanting her to change her mind about making us go out to help Jin.

    "Well guess I better go clean up these bullet wounds," Nicco said while smiling.

    I bursted out laughing at how he said that so lightly.

    "What?" Asked Nicco with an innocent expression written on his face.

    " How can you say that so happily?" I asked.

    Nicco shrugged and smiled. " I don't know. I guess I'm just a happy person."

           We walked the next few minutes in silence as I drowned in my thoughts. I continued to walk down the hallway with Nicco by my side. I wonder what Master had up her sleeve. She seemed like she was trying to cover something up. What exactly was this so called little project of hers?

           I spoke up. " Nicco, don't you think it's sort of odd that Master Shizuka has been hiding this project from us? She was very hesitant with telling us, plus she chose her words very carefully" I said.

" I kinda noticed that but I'm just going to do what she wants. I don't want to get in trouble. Make Master happy and you're happy," he said with a smile.

           " Yeah......," I said, still pondering in my thoughts.

           " Whoa dude," Nicco said in an amused and almost scared tone.

           " What?"

           " Y-your eyes," He tripped over his words and his expression looked like he was weirded out.

           " My eyes?"

           "Go look in a mirror," he said.

           I walked down the hallway, where there was a men's restroom that resembled one you would go to at a mall. It had multiple urinals, some stalls, and a big mirror.

           " I'll wait out here," Nicco said when I entered the restroom.

           I looked at my eyes and placed my hand to my cheek. One iris was bright red and the other was a deep, emerald green.

"What in the-" I nearly whispered to myself. What was this? What was happening to me? For all that I've known, I've always had red eyes. Everyone does-Nicco does, Jin does- so what I don't understand is how one of my eyes suddenly turned green. As I stared at myself in the mirror, my green eye flickered between red and green for a few seconds. Desperately wanting this strange occurrence to stop, I shut my eyelids. Maybe that would stop them from flickering. As I opened my eyes, bright crimson irises stared straight back at me. At this point, I was almost scared of myself. I couldn't comprehend what was happening. Has this happened to anyone else before? As I stared at myself and continued to think, I couldn't help but question myself. Who was I? Why was I here? What am I doing? Helpless and confused were the only two emotions that I was feeling.

           " Jagger, you okay?" Nicco yelled from outside.

           " Fine," I quickly responded.

           I pulled my eyelid down and examined my irises. They were both glowing a rich, bright crimson color. The fact that one of them would turn green was so abnormal that it actually frightened me. I felt out of place, like I didn't belong here with Master or Nicco or Jin. The only thing that I was absolutely sure of right now was that Shizuka was not telling us everything that was going on. She was hiding something from us. What her real motive was, I couldn't tell. The only thing that I knew was that she wanted Kratos and Kiyano's blood spilled for some reason, and I was going to find out the motive behind it.

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