"I am so glad I found you guys." Alicia sighs.

"Alicia, how come you aren't with the others?" Rook and Mikey walk up to Alicia.

"We realized that you guys were missing, and headed back together, but this is what ended up happening. We got jumped by three mimics at once, two of them were pretending to be you guys, they even had Mikey's pirates with them." Alicia answers.

"So they can copy my ability... that's pretty bad." Mikey says.

Alicia: "And the third mimic belonged to Ignis. Ignis got somehow split from us during the commotion. I thought that I found him, until I realized that this one was a fake since it had no clone with itself... and well, Captain Eula and Lucy are nowhere to be seen now."

"Alright, now that the three of us have gathered, we only need to find three more." Rook says.

"Two of my pirates got eliminated. They are the ones who were with Lucy and Eula. Follow me." Mikey quickly runs off to a seemingly random direction. Rook and Alicia follow him.

(This Rook and Mikey, who called out to Alicia, and are now running towards Eula and Lucy are mimics)

(Meanwhile)

The real Rook and Mikey arrive at the place where they heard Alicia and Ignis talking. They see a dead mimic on the ground and that's it. "Are we too late?" Rook asks Mikey. "We might be, this mimic was impersonating either Alicia or Ignis. Whichever one it was... that mimic is now dead." Mikey answers.

"But we shouted for them to wait for us. Then... why isn't anyone here?" Rook asks. "Did they not hear us?"

"I have a really bad feeling about this. What if, our two mimics came here." Mikey suspects.

Rook: "Well, they wouldn't have those spectral pirates with them, would they?"

Mikey: "That's the thing... what if those mimics already learned how to copy my skill?"

Rook's face turns pale: "Surely, that didn't happen, right?"

"What's worst, is that they could lead Alicia to even more mimics." Mikey adds.

"We need to hurry! But where? We need leads!" Rook says impatiently.

"HEY! ANYONE! PLEASE RESPOND!" Lucy can be heard in the distance. Rook and Mikey hesitate for a moment. "I mean, listen, even if it's a mimic, we can just kill it with ease." Mikey says, Rook agrees.

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"LUCY! WHERE ARE YOU?!" Mikey shouts back.

Lucy: "MIKEY?! HOW THE HELL AM I SUPPOSED TO KNOW WHERE I AM?! IT'S ALL MIST!"

Yeah, that's definitely her alright.

"LISTEN! JUST FOLLOW MY VOICE! I WILL STAY WHERE I AM!" Lucy says.

"ALRIGHT! I AM HEADING THERE!"

Mikey and Rook both head towards wherever Lucy's voice is. "Rook, if we get split up, just destroy the pirate who is following you. I will be able to find you if that happens."

Rook: "I don't think we will get split up, but sure." They both keep following Lucy's voice. All of a sudden, each of them hears Lucy's voice coming from a different side. Rook and Mikey split up without realizing it.

They both reach Lucy, however, Rook finds the real one, whereas Mikey finds a mimic. Mikey quickly finds out that the Lucy he found was a mimic, because he couldn't recall the spectral pirate that resided besides her.

Rook found the real Lucy, only making Lucy suspicious of him, because it was Mikey who called out to her, not Rook. This leaves Lucy with only one choice.

"You are a mimic, aren't you?" She asks and ignites her right hand with a flame spell. Water starts whirling around her left hand.

"Huh, of course not, right Mi-" Rook turns around and laughs, until he sees that Mikey is no longer with him. "WHERE DID HE GO!?"

Lucy claps her hands and creates the obsidian bow, she used to kill the Cave Dweller. She aims it at Rook.

"WAIT!" Rook orders Mikey's pirate to dissapear. Mikey instantly receives the pirate's memory, and manages to navigate himself through the mist.

Mikey reaches the two of them in a flash.

"Alright, I know for sure that this Mikey is a real one. That means that you're both real..." Lucy sighs in relief.

"How did you get separated from the others?" Mikey asks her.

"A lot of skinwalkers came at once. They created chaos by copying some of our spells, and now we are here." Lucy explains.

"Well, atleast there are three of us now, but Alicia is still in trouble." Rook says with worries. "Since there are three of us now, we can probably shout and hope that everyone just comes to us." He adds.

Lucy: "What happened to Alicia?"

Mikey and Rook give an explanation.

Lucy: "That's pretty bad isn't it? What if they lead her into even more mimics, at that point, she can actually get into trouble. If that's the case, what are we waiting for, we have to help her!"

Rook: "That's exactly what we were worried about aswell..."

(Meanwhile)

Eula: "Aw man, where the hell are they? I told them to just stick to me. HEY GUYS! ANYONE HERE?!"

Alicia: "EULA! WHERE ARE YOU?!"

Eula: "Is it a mimic? I guess I will find out... JUST FOLLOW MY VOICE!"

Soon enough, Alicia approaches Eula. She has Mikey's pirate besides her. "Thank goodness, you're the real one. Now I only need to find four more." Eula happily announces.

Alicia: "How did you know that someone was nearby?"

Eula: "I didn't, I just hoped to stumble upon someone, but putting that aside, have you seen anyone after we separated?"

Alicia shakes her head: "I haven't, I stood quiet and decided to answer when I heard your voice, I was sure you would be the real one, and you actually are..."

"Yeah, Mikey's idea with those pirates was really good. There's just one problem. Sooner or later, the mimics will learn how to copy it, and maybe they already did. It's best for even the two of us to not trust eachother too much." Eula explains.

"I didn't even think of that. Alright, let's keep a small distance between the two us then." Alicia suggests. "I agree." Eula answers and backs off a little bit.

(Eula's thoughts)

Could she be really a mimic? I feel like a mimic wouldn't suggest something that Alicia just did. Although, it could be simply trying to gain my trust... I wouldn't be too shocked by that since this isn't my first time seeing how mimics act.

Alicia: "Anyways, where should we g-"

Rook: "ARE YOU THE REAL ONE?! OR ARE YOU THE REAL ONE?!"

Mikey: "DUDE, I AM OBVIOUSLY THE REAL ONE!"

Another Mikey: "Wait, why don't we just fight and find out who the real guy is?"

Mikey: "Sure, let's do that."

Alicia and Eula hear something in the distance. They quickly run over there, when they arrive, there is a dead mimic lying on the ground, Mikey who beat him up, and Rook, who now acknowledges that the Mikey beside him is the real one.

Rook: "But are these two real?" He points at Alicia and Eula who just arrived. Mikey looks at them, and nods. "Yeah, those are my pirates."

Out of this group of four people, Eula is the only person who isn't actually a mimic.

Lucy, Mikey and Rook managed to gather up.

Alicia is with fake Mikey and Rook, who are leading her into even more mimics.

Eula is with fake Mikey, Rook and Alicia.

Ignis is nowhere to be seen...