Narrator- It has been 26 days since the Carnival began, and we have finally entered its final stages, with only 3 External and 1 Internal Dragon Parts left.

However, while the Carnival was an event occurring only in the Dragon Country, other countries have also been dealing with their share of problems.

(Day 27, Strand Country, Suzune's House, 8:00 a.m)

(T.V. auto-starts)

News Reporter- Gggggggooooooodd Moooorrrnning Ewweryooone!!! Waaake uppp, it's a newww dayyy!! A new beginningggg!!

Narrator- Suzune wakes up, rubs her eyes, sits on the bed for a few seconds, then stands up, goes towards her window, removes the curtain, and opens the window.

Breathes in the fresh air with a gentle smile on her face. Then again, sat on the bed, picked up the water bottle from the side table, and drank all of it-the full bottle.

Then she adjusted her pillows to her likeness, laid down, picked up the phone, and proceeded to have a look at it for 20 minutes.

She stands up, picks up her yoga dress, goes to the bathroom, hangs her dress on the hangers, goes up to the mirror, takes out the brush, applies the toothpaste, and brushes her teeth. Then after that, she changed her dress to the yoga one, went up to the mirror again, and washed her face.

She went to her room again, spread a yoga mattress beside her bed, sat on it, picked up the TV remote, and turned the volume a little down. With this, she started her yoga and proceeded to do it for the next 30 minutes.

News Reporter- In case any of you have forgotten, today is the day when the finals of the "Football League" take place between "FC Rufus Street" and "FC Emeralds"!! So, be sure to check out our live coverage at 6 p.m. Seeeee Yaaayyyy!! Have a great day!! (suzune switches off the T.V.)

Narrator- Goes to the bathroom, has a bath, comes back to the room, selects her outfit from the cupboards, wears it, then takes her necessary belongings, locks the main door, and heads out.

(Town Square, 9:25 a.m)

Baker(while wearing a Rufus Street jersey)- We will be the ones winning the cup today!! Just accept that fact!! We are invincible at the finals!!

Kiyomi(while wearing an Emeralds jersey)- Your fanbase should really stop living in the past, you know!! Your team might have won the past two editions, but don't forget that our Emeralds team was the one that finished first in this year's points table!! And we also defeated your team not once but twice in the group stages!! Rufus Street doesn't stand a chance against us!!

Baker(with a frustrated face)- Just wait until our No. 17 striker destroys your team today!!

Kiyomi(with a frustrated face)- Hmph, the same striker who has badly failed this entire season?! Rufus Street was always overly dependent on him; no wonder they found it hard to qualify!!

Nova- Shut up!! Shut up, you two!! I am fricking tired of hearing this football nonsense!! Everywhere I go, it's just football, football, and football!! When is suzune even arriving, noriko?!

Noriko- How do I know!! What am I, her secretary?! You can just call her if you are this impatient!!

(Suzune enters the scene)

Suzune- No need for that. I am here!!

Nova- So, what's up?? Why did you gather all of us here??

Suzune- I have a mission for you guys.

Kiyomi- A mission on a day like today?!

Nova(to suzune)- Go on.

Suzune- For the past two days at a convenience store on Springvale Street, burglars have been raiding the place at exactly 2 p.m., taking away half the money and food items and tearing down the entire place.

Nova- Two consecutive days?! That too at the same location!! Hmph, what kind of newbie burglars are they?!

Suzune- Wanna know what's more surprising?? The owner of the store yesterday evening received a letter from the same burglars, informing him that they would again come tomorrow, meaning today at the same time, 2 p.m., to rob the store again. They are challenging the authorities to stop them!!

Noriko- This sounds like a mission for the enforcers rather than for us.

Suzune- It was indeed assigned to the enforcers at first, but after their investigation, they found out that the burglars had some sought of special powers within them, which helped them rob the convenience store not once but twice!! As you can imagine, when they say powers, they mean it by shakti. That's why this is a mission for us.

Baker- Us?? You will be tagging along too.

Suzune- Yes. Due to the multiple people involved, Sir Skyler told me to tag along with all of you.

Baker- Fine by us. I suppose it will be the first time since the Rimsor Forest that you will be with us on the same mission.

Suzune- Let's do our best then!! Don't disappoint me, my students!! Hahaha!!

(1:45 p.m, One of the Rooms at the Convenience Store, Springvale Street)

Kiyomi- You don't need to worry anymore, sir; we will catch the burglars who are guilty!!

Owner- Thank you, thank you so much!! I feel much safer since your arrival.

Suzune(to owner)- Please, act normally and do your usual work. We want the burglars to think that you didn't take the letter seriously; this will help us lure them in without any problem.

Owner- Ah... oh, okay, understood. I work as a cashier, so I will do my work.

Suzune- Great!! Tell me, did you tell your staff anything about us coming to help you today??

Owner- Nah, I was scared that they would leave the job after so many burglaries, so I didn't tell anyone.

Suzune- That's great too!! Because anyone from your staff might be secretly working alongside the burglars too.

Owner(with a confused face)- Yeah, I never thought about this. It's definitely possible!!

Noriko(to suzune)- It's already 1:55 p.m!! Hurry up with your talks!!

Suzune(to owner)- Go now!! Do as we discussed!!

Owner- Okay!! (thenleaves for the cash counter)

Suzune(to baker)- Baker, monitor the area from the front door; you are the only one of us who has an aerial element; catch them if they try to run. Kiyomi, stand near the back door and listen; if the burglars try to enter from there, then let them in. Don't take the risk of fighting them alone!! Once they enter the store, me and nova will already be there for them, acting as customers!! And noriko, you know what you have to do!! (everyone then leaves for their respective positions)

(1:59 p.m, Convenience Store)

Suzune- 10 seconds for 2 p.m. 9 seconds!! 8.... 7...... 6....... 5...... 4..... 3...... 2..... 1!!

Narrator- Four men wearing black face masks jump from the tiles of the roof onto where the owner stands.

Then one of the four men took out a knife and pointed it at the owner's neck.

Black Men 1- No one will move!! Stay right where you are!!

Suzune- Shitt!! I didn't know there was a secret passageway through the roof tiles as well!!

Black Men 2- Hands up everyone!! Hands up!!

Narrator- Suzune nods to Nova, implying that he should do as the Black Men said.

The Black Men held the staff members and the customers beside the Elite Soldier captive. They began tying "Shakti Buzzer" onto the soldiers wrists.

Black Men 3- Hahahahaha!! Bring those two elite soldiers who were guarding outside in as well!!

Narrator- Two black men then bring Baker and Kiyomi to the store with their hands up.

Black Men 3- Hahahahahaha!! Now bring the girl who is hiding in the washroom for a surprise attack!! And tell her to go to corporate, or the owner's death will be on her!!

Nova- They knew about her as well! She was supposed to be our trump card, damn it!! (black Men 5 then brings noriko to the store)

Black Men 1- If any of you soldiers try to act smart and use shakti, the shakti buzzer will instantly go off and all the staff members and the owner will be dead!!

Owner- I won't let you rob my store for the third time!!

Black Men 1- Hmph, you should have taken our letter more seriously then and brought in pros for the job rather than noob soldiers like them!!

Noriko- Who are you calling a noob, huh?! I could annihilate you within a second if I wanted!! The only thing stopping me is the owner's safety!!

Black Men 2- Shut up!! (punches noriko on her face, which leads her to bleed)

Noriko(with an angry face)- .........

Suzune(to noriko)- Calm down, noriko, calm down!!

Owner- All this is happening because of me!! I will make an opening for you guys!!

Narrator- The owner tries biting Black Men 1, who held the knife on his neck, but Black Men 1 withdraws his hand like he knew what was going to happen and punches the owner in the face twice.

Nova(with a worried look)- ........

Black Men 1- Don't move!! Or I will seriously kill this old man now!! I will kill him!!

(to his members)-All the packing done??

Black Men 2- Done!! Let's move out!!

Narrator- All the black men packed the money and a few food items in a bag. Then they destroyed the store with metal rods as they began to leave.

All the staff members were now released, but the owner was still held captive and was apparently being taken with them.

Baker(to black men)- Why are you taking the old man along with you?? Your work here is done; you can leave him now!!

Black Men 1-Hmph, consider me stupid?? I leave him, so all of you can jump on me and my men like wild animals!! We will be releasing him once we have secured our safety!! Until then, don't try to follow us!! (began leaving)

Kiyomi(with a slow pitch voice)- What should we do, ma'am?? They are leaving!!

Suzune(with a confused face)- The owner's safety is the top priority. Every life is precious. We can't attack them for now!!

Narrator- The Black Men, along with the Old Man, were already on the streets when Suzune noticed something weird.

One of the platinum coin fell from the bag, and apparently the one who bent down to pick it up was none other than the owner, who also had a smile on his face.

Suzune(with a stunned face)- The owner tricked us!! He is involved with those men!! Capture them instantly!!

Narrator- Elite soldiers ran out to the street and used their shakti and weapons to successfully capture all six of them.

Kiyomi- I thought you guys had some special powers!! But you are just ordinary citizens!!

Suzune- Well, it looks like that was false information!! Probably handed it over by the owner to take us off our guard!!

Baker(to owner)- I can't believe that you were the mastermind!! Why would an owner want their shop to be robbed by burglars?!

Owner(with a frustrated face)- You wanna know why?? I will tell you!!

Narrator- Suddenly the eyeballs of the owner started changing to a black color.

Owner- My store was getting old and shabby, so no customer was bothering to show up, and I didn't have any money to repair it either, so I hired these burglars to rob and destroy the place so I could get insurance money afterwards, which I would use to renovate my store.

Nova(with a disappointed look)- Sheesh!! You're scum!!

Noriko- Well said, nova. He is the biggest scumbag in the world!!

Narrator- The owner's eyeball had now completely changed to black, and then he fainted out.

Suzune(with a stunned face)- Aahh?! Take him to the hospital immediately!! His eyeball was black.

(After 15 minutes)

Nova(to suzune)- The owner successfully reached the hospital thanks to baker carrying him on his back using his gas shakti.

Kiyomi- I think our work is done here for today.

Nova- You are right. It's already close to 4 p.m.

Kiyomi(with a surprised face)- What??!! 4 p.m!! That's when the preshow for the football match was to start!! I must hurry!! (then runs away)

Suzune(to noriko)- Noriko, are you alright?? The punch you got hit with was really hard.

Nova- Yeah!! It looked like it was hit with full force too!! If you want, then I could take you to the hospital as well!!

Noriko- He-he-he-he-he-he!! Who needs to go to the hospital when you are a doctor yourself!! (she takes out herbal cream from her pocket) Taa-daaa!! A new, much improved herbal cream!! With an efficiency rate double that of its previous version!! (starts crying) I had to fight legal battles due to the complaints I received from my customers, but now... now, the response is finally good, and my cream is finally on the right track!! Hahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahhahahahahhaha!!

Nova(with a confused face)- I better move out before she ends up using that on me! (leaves)

Noriko(to suzune)- I know you are dying to use it, aren't you?? If you want, I could share a little with you.

Suzune- Well, I am not really injured right now, so maybe sometime in the future.

Noriko- Hmph, as you wish! It's not like I wanted you to use it and then praise me or something! See- Yaaa!! (then leaves)

Suzune- Oh boy, she could be a handful at certain times!! I guess I should go back home myself now too.

(in her mind)- His eyeball... why was it black colored?? Was it..... was it really because of him or am I just overthinking it??

Narrator- Two hands emerged from the shadow of a building behind Suzune, revealing a man named Phelix, A Member of Dushyanta.

Phelix(with a smirk smile)- You will be coming with me now.

Suzune(with a stunned face)- It really was you!

Phelix- SHADOW BLIVET!!

Narrator- Phelix takes out his weapon "Blivet", coats it with his shakti "Shadow", holds it in his left hand, and begins swinging at Suzune.

Suzune kept dodging it by taking a step back.

Suzune- Is this your way of greeting people you meet after a long time??

Phelix- Just come with me quietly, and then you will receive a proper greeting!!

Suzune- My mommy told me not to go around with strangers, especially those who are too nice to you!!

Phelix(with a smile)- Well, your mommy was wrong. Sometimes, strangers can be better than the people who are close to you.

Narrator- Suzune attaches a Wire towards her left of the building to move out of the blivet's range.

As she was taking off, Phelix absorbed his blivet, which he still held in his left hand using his shadow power, and took it out of his right hand instantly.

Phelix caught Suzune off-guard, who attached another wire, this time at the building in front of her, then bent her neck backwards and avoided the blivet from cutting her head off.

Suzune- WIRE BULLETS!!

Narrator- Suzune, in mid-air, points her fingers at Phelix's back and shoots wire bullets.

Phelix immediately disappears into the shadows again.

Phelix- SHADOW BLIVET!!

Narrator- The shadow that was reflected back from the building where Suzune attached her wires, h reemerged from that and swung the blivet at Suzune again. All this was happening while Suzune was still traveling in mid-air.

Suzune(with a surprised face)- WIRE SHIELD!!

Narrator- Suzune creates a wire shield to defend himself from the belivet. But the force behind it was too much, so she ended up falling to the ground.

Phelix then also appears from the shadow of the ground.

Suzune- You were the one who controlled the owner's actions, weren't you??

Phelix- I wasn't one. The owner did everything according to his own free will. All I did was let the darkness get the better of him. A trick I learned from my boss.

Suzune- Why do you exactly want me to come with you, huh??

Phelix:- It's not me who wants you; it's the boss. He wishes to talk to you.

Suzune- Aah?! I don't associate myself with terrorists at any cost, so yeah, sorry, but I can't come with you.

Phelix- Hmph, I already knew this much; that's why I didn't bother talking to you first.

Suzune- Remember, you weren't supposed to take the route of a terrorist either!!

Phelix- Do not talk about the past!!

Suzune- You were originally supposed to be the head of the "Phoenix Clan", one of the four prominent clans of the Strand Country!! But you instead ran away and became a member of Dushyanta!!

Phelix(with an angry face)- As I said, do not talk about the past; live in the present!! SHADOW TECHNIQUE- GARUDA!!

Narrator- Phelix places his right hand on top of the left hand, with the right thumb hooking around the knuckle of the other thumb. It looked like a bird's wings, and then it flapped.

Shadows emerged from the ground like winds and blew Suzune away.

Phelix- SHADOW TECHNIQUE- FLYING LOTUS!!

Narrator- Phelix interlocked the ring and pinky fingers of each hand while keeping the other fingers extended.

Whichever mudra Phelix makes, the same is replicated by his shadows.

Suzune- WIRE NEEDLES!!

Narrator- Suzune creates wire needles out of thin air and pierces them at the flying lotus.

Whatever damage was given to the shadow, it got transferred over to Phelix.

Phelix now had various small holes inside both his hands; he bent his neck down to have a look. When he straightened his neck again, Suzune wasn't anywhere.

Phelix(with a surprised face)- Where did she go?! (tries sensing) I can't sense her anywhere either. She is definitely looking for a surprise attack!!

(After 2 minutes)

Phelix(while sensing)- When the hell is she going to attack?! Is she going to attack me without using her shakti?! (stops sensing and begins looking around)

Narrator- Suzune dropped from the sky directly below Phelix.

Suzune- Patience is the key to success!! Didn't your boss teach you that?? WIRES OF LIBERATION!!

Narrator- Suzune swipes her hand to slash Phelix with five wires coming out of her fingers. Each wire is unique, having characteristics such as hotness, coldness, electricity, barbedness, and sharpness.

Phelix was on the verge of losing when he grabbed his blivet again and swung it at Suzune.

Suzune, on the other hand, who was so close to winning, now had to withdraw her wires and defend herself from the blivet.

Phelix(with a frustrated face)- SHADOW TECHNIQUE- MUDRA OF THE INNER SELF!!

Narrator- Phelix brings his index, middle, ring, and little fingers together, aligning the tips and balls of his hands while placing his thumbs next to each other.

He captures Suzune inside his shadow using this technique.

Suzune- WIRE SLIT!!

Narrator- Suzune uses the wires to cut the shadow and get out of it.

Phelix- SHADOW TECHNIQUE- GANESHA MUDRA!!

Narrator- Phelix bends his fingers and forms a "U" with all his fingers. Then he slides his hands into each other so that the fingers lock into each other.

The moment Suzune got outside the shadows, Phelix used the Ganesha Mudra to completely crush her, thus finishing her off.

Afterwards, when he releases his fingers, Suzune drops to the ground, unconscious and with blood pouring from various parts of the body. Phelix picked her up and carried her on his shoulder.

(Orion- A Member of Dushyanta, enters the scene)

Orion(to phelix)- That got tight for a moment; I thought I had to step up.

Phelix- Tsch!! I underestimated her, that's all. Now, what are you waiting for?! Create a portal!! Let's leave this country!!

Orion(with a smirk smile)- PORTAL!!

Narrator- Orion creates a portal from which they depart.

(Base of Dushyanta)

Narrator- At the base of Dushyanta, there was a large chair on which Chrollo, the leader of Dushyanta, sat; standing beside her was Yuki, another member, with Chronos standing somewhere in the corner.

Phelix(to chrollo)- I have brought what you wanted, boss!! (lays down suzune)

Chrollo- Nice work, phelix. I am impressed. (stood up, went to suzune, and woke her up)

Suzune(with an angry face)- Youu!! What do you want to talk to me about??

Chrollo(to suzune)- I want you to join us. We need you.

(Next Day, Day 28, Suzune's House, 8:00 a.m)

(T.V. auto-starts)

News Reporter- Gggggggooooooodd Moooorrrnning Ewweryooone!!! Waaake uppp, it's a newww dayyy!! A new beginningggg!!

Narrator- Almost everything was normal at Suzune's house; the T.V. auto started at its usual time; birds were chirping; people were roaming around the streets; what wasn't normal was that Suzune wasn't there at her house anymore.

News Reporter- Moving on to the biggest news of yesterday, "FC Rufus Street" defeated "FC Emeralds" in a last-minute thriller to win their 3rd consecutive "Football League" title!! The star of the match was No. 17 striker of Rufus Street, who scored a hat trick against all odds to lead his team to victory!!

TO BE CONTINUED