That morning, Yajee and Neve left the small inn that they had stayed at, the inn owner finally releasing a sigh of relief knowing that that cold, emotionless teen girl would finally never return to his inn and scare away all of his costumers. Suddenly, the innkeeper spotted Yajee up close and in his clear line of sight.

"Sorry, sir! We forgot ta--"

But before Yajee could finish his sentence, the innkeeper ran away from him, shutting the door to the next room behind him and locking it.

"Okay...thanks fer the free night here?" he asked hesitantly, leaving the inn and catching up to his partner.

"Did you pay the correct amount?" Neve asked emotionlessly, noticing that the pouch of jewel she gave him was still very filled.

Yajee gave the inn a weird look. "The guy seemed scared of me fer some reason."

"He wasn't scared of you," she replied in a colder tone than usual.

The blunette knew immediately what his partner and crush was thinking about. "Hey, ya aren't scary...at least not to me."

"You're a first, but anyways...do you have any ideas as to what could be causing these disappearances?" she asked in her usual robotic voice.

Yajee thought as they began walking towards the south mountains. "Maybe an evil wizard?"

Neve sighed in annoyance, one of the emotions she didn't mind displaying. "Well, obviously it's a wizard that isn't around to help people out. I mean who exactly. Do you even do jobs that take you out of Magnolia?"

"Not really," he chuckled out nervously.

"Obviously why you aren't an S-class wizard by now, considering you're a dragon slayer. I mean, what do you do?" she asked.

Yajee shrugged. "Nothin' other than the small jobs, like findin' lost items, pets, or children. Just stuff like that."

"Idiot. You are suppose to let the little ones such as Ur, Nashi, Layla, or Levyna have those sorts of jobs. You and your sister should be ashamed of being so spoiled and pampered. No wonder your parents are such nervous wrecks," she said with a coldness in her voice.

Yajee tensed slightly at her words, never realizing how spoiled he really did act within the guild. He honestly was just always worried about taking more challenging jobs and dying in the process to leave his family mourning over an unnecessary death.

"Yeah...yer right," he mumbled out as the entered the southern mountain region.

The duo silently agreed to split up and glance around the area, but they easily realized that there was nothing out of the ordinary. The grass was on the ground and green. The sky was light blue with beautiful white clouds. Nothing hinted at any form of powerful magic in the area. For this disappearance being of numerous people--fit, strong guards no less--then one would assume that a great deal of magic was used to accomplish this goal.

"I just don't get it. How did six or seven people disappear all at once without magic?" Neve asked herself.

Yajee searched around the dense bushes to see if there were any clues that could aid them in this job. Wedged in between two thin branches, there was a golden, glittery heeled shoe. The blunette freed it from its trap, inspecting the shoe. He could easily tell that this shoe was very expensive, no signs of cheap handwork present. Very easily, this could have belonged to the queen.

"Hey, Neve! I think I--" The bush beside him began to shake violently.

Yajee backed up, enabling his dragon slayer magic. "Who are you?"

Emerging from the bush, a tall, cloaked figure appeared. His face was masked, but Yajee could see a strand of white hair that fell over his left eye. "You look familiar..."

"Who are you?" the blunette asked as he ground his sharp dragon slayer teeth together.

The figure laughed. "You look as harmless as a mere fly...just like your mother."

His red eyes widened. "How do ya know my mother?"

Not bothering to answer his question, the masked man used his magic to slam the teen against a tree roughly, causing him to groan in pain.

"Weak like her, feeble like her...your father must be so ashamed of you.."

"My father is proud of all of us!" he bellowed out, getting slammed back into the tree--even harder this time.

"Please. Your father was once an evil man. He killed people, ruined the lives of many families. You should be happy that you are nothing like him," the man said.

Yajee attempted to use his dragon slayer powers against the man. He tried turning his arm into a metal pillar to extend towards the figure and slam him into the ground, but he couldn't move. This man had him completely restrained against the tree.

"Did you honestly think that I'd allow you the ability to use your powers against me? I'm not a fool, boy," the figure growled out.

Suddenly, the cloaked figure was frozen solid, giving Yajee a chance to escape from his hold.

"Take this, ya mysterious bastard!" Yajee bellowed out as he transformed his right arm into a pillar, slamming it against the ice and setting the cloaked figure free.

Neve glared at her partner.

"Um...oops?" he chuckled nervously.

The figure though was luckily affected by the blow. "We will be back for all of you. Make no mistake."

With that said, he disappeared into thin air, bewildering the duo that stood there helplessly.

"What do ya think he meant by 'we'?" the blunette asked.

"Don't know. Don't care. We need to go back home and warn the guild. I have a feeling that this is a lot more serious that I originally tho--AHH!" Neve tripped over a large tree root that she had not seen, falling flat on the ground.

Yajee wasn't really paying attention. "What were you--AH!"

He tripped over the root himself, landing perfectly on top of Neve. A blush formed on his face as he realized the position that they were in.

'My manhood is right on her perfect squishy butt!' he thought in excitement.

"Um...why is there something really hard on my ass?"

"...I uh...packed a banana...in my pants...yeah."

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