Seygo had tried everything. Any random thought that came into her head. But it was useless for over two years now she had been trapped. Held in a space bubble with Nothing but a small sand box and white walls. What did they expect her to do play in the sand like a little girl? There was almost no Spirit energy in here only enough to keep her alive. The door was a wooden thing with Powerful ancestor realm Runes that she couldn't break in a million years with her small power. The ceiling was about ten feet high and the walls were about the same distance apart, she was in a box. A box with nothing but sand and time. Whoever put her here must not have needed her sane. Right now she sat in the corner, with dry eyes and sand in her messy hair. They must not have needed her clean ether. Two years, she'd waited two years. And now she was hopeless. Her family hadn't come, her Suitors hadn't come, the only human contact she had was the powerful elder Realm woman who came in to check on her every week. Her sword skills couldn't get her out of this, and her Channeling ability might as well be nonexistent. She'd tried going for the door when the Woman appeared but the lady always expected it, besides there were others out there. She'd felt them, guards of Totem level. All she had to do here all day was practice her sword moves, and think about why anyone would want her so badly just to put her in a box. She made a sand castle with her hands in the sand, singing a sad song she had heard from many bards at family parties. "Oh weep for my child, weep for my mother. My Heart’s love is dead, and so is my lover. Don't pull me from sleep, don't pull me from slumber. My heart has stopped beating, my poor days are numbered." She refused to go insane, she refused to quit training. Maybe her strength would save her yet. But she could only train her Channeling so long in this depleted box, and regenerating her energy was slow. So she would have to pace herself, no'one was coming to get her, but they couldn't keep her in here forever without a chance to escape coming eventually. As long as that door still opened there was hope. Seygo smiled thinking of good memories. The sad song she was singing oddly cheering her up. A young man she didn’t know very well flashed across her minds eye. Was he dead or had he escaped? Did he know she was missing? Did it bother him? She wouldn’t say she loved Gabe or anything, but whenever she thought of him she had dozens of questions. It was to bad they weren’t destined to be together. Both doomed to live horrible lives. Her in here wasting away, and him out there somewhere hiding away. Her bored imagination pictured the two of them in the future if the both survived. Her a Deity Realm Channeler finally ready to ascend, and him a Deity Realm channeler who can finally fight off the Day-vine family and live in the open. The two of them meet again for the first time in a hundred thousand years. And don’t even remember each other. But fall in love anyway and decide to ascend together. Where they meet up with his ascended family and her ascended family. And take on the heavens together. Seygo laughed. It was amazing how childish her mind was getting with these day dreams. Next she decided to imagine a world where she came back home three realms stronger and finally beat Matthew in a fight. She used the sand castle as a stand in for her family home. And kept track of her slowly restoring energy levels so she would know when she could finally train again.

Things for the Wooden-Thunder family were looking good, they had all the Phoenixes they needed including the girl. And most of the Alter was completed, all way ahead of the time line they had set. It wouldn't be long now, they would have a Heavenly treasure that would rock the world. The head of the family could only grin at the reports coming in. One after the other the Heavenly Treasures they needed were being acquired. Some took lengthy Alchemy Synthesize times, and others took fortunes to buy from black markets or pressured other families. But it was all within their means, they did have control of the Geo continent's Best Treasure land after all. The Phoenix Lands. And were one of the strongest family houses in the worlds.

On the Celestial Continent, a Family known as the Prince-Star Family house Looked up into the Sky, Next to the Bright white Sun was an even brighter Green burning mass. This green Burning mass lit the entire area for Hundreds of thousands of miles and cast everything under its deep green light. Then it faded, and only a tiny speck was left. Millions panicked, what had just happened. Had a great treasure just come down from the heavens? Or a Deity beast self destructed? Some even thought it might be the end of the world. They weren't far off. The head of the Prince-Star family also looked into the sky, and was terrified to hear a deep voice in his head. "I am Thorus, anchaint respected Head of The Prince-star family. I have come home." Just a second later a large muscled Six foot man descended from the sky in the Prince-Star's last standing Family city. Everyone looked at him with shock and horror. His level.… it was open for all to see and it was impossible to be true. He was a level one Second Deity realm Channeler. How had he come back from ascension?! The head of the family house flew up to meat him, along side Two of the Family's strongest Acolytes. He could tell just flying close to the man how powerful he was, without moving his little finger He could probably destroy the entire city, possibly half the continent. "Welcome back Grandfather!" Arnis the family head bowed respectfully, shaking just a bit on the inside. "May we ask why you have come?" at that question Thorus grinned. "I have returned to Reestablish my Family as the most powerful on the Celestial Continent! Fear not for I will not harm my own. Only our enemies need fear me." Thorus had watched his descendants on this planet fall from power, one war after the other had diminished their numbers from the once great And powerful Family, to this sad and poor house that licked the boots of those above them simply to hold on. He hadn't been able to change it, to fix what was happening. His family in the heavens was doing fine. The house was one of the most powerful in the sky. At least until the Calamity. But he didn't want to think about that, no'one here had much time left. But the same force that was about to end them all, had also weakened the laws protected this planet so that he could return and rebuild his family's power. At least they would have a glorious end. Thorus grinned, not a single being on this planet had any ability to resist him he could snap his fingers and kill an army of Deity realms. and if given enough time he would lead his family to rule the entire world. But taking over the population would be a lot harder then just killing them all and a lot more complicated. Which was good, he needed a challenge, something to distract him.... anything to distract him.

Plans. Plans needed to be made. Gabe sat at a table in the Alchemy room. The door was locked and every piece of information he had on the Wooden-Thunder family was scattered across the table in paper and parchment. He had read through it all. From the names of the higher ups of the family to the estimated power they had. All of this had been acquired with bribes and money, even a few spare treasures Gabe didn't care about. it had taken him about half a week, and even though Seygo had been missing for over two years now, he felt like every second he spent waiting was dangerous for her. He didn't know if she was alive but if she was then how long would that last? Why had the family even taken her, sure she was a powerful Channeler, and a rare talent but the Wooden-Thunder family was one of the biggest on the Geo continent. Their strength with Acolytes and all was Roughly comparable to about three quarters of Gabe's newly acquired hoard.way Too much for him to fight head on even if he was likely to win. Especially with the Families allies and the fact that the moment the hoard moved or attacked half the Family houses on the Chaos continent would know and likely rain down on them scared of what such a powerful demon hoard would do. People were jumpy when it came to Demons, if news spread that a Hoard suddenly attacked an established and strong family it wouldn't take long before action was taken. Besides, Gabe had no idea where Seygo was being held, and from what he could tell no amount of money could buy that information. None of his "contacts" would even admit the family took her. It was almost enough to convince him the Family was innocent, almost.

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Gabe took a deep breath and sat up straight. Every clue here was virtually useless to find a location but with a few Assumptions and a little luck he could do this. Once he located where she was there would be nothing in his way from taking her, even at the cost of his entire hoard. "Okey, step one...." He said out loud a plan of action forming in his head. It was coming slowly and involved risk, but it could work. In fact, it was perfect. "Colin's not going to like this." Gabe said. He immediately began to pull a piece of parchment out of the pile to his left that he would need. He scanned it over for a single name. Quiff. Quiff was the richest lone member of his family, and had business all over the Geo continent. If anything was going on in the Wooden-Thunder family, he would be a part of it. Gabe grinned, he was already feeling good about this.

"What? Why are you leaving us here?" Colin said. "Last time you did that you came back in a bloody mess!" Rather then tell his servants his plan, Gabe had decided to just leave them behind. It wouldn't be good for them anyway. "I feel the same." Malner said as they all stood in the front chamber near the door. Gabe had everything he needed already packed and held a long distance Portal scroll that would take him across Continents this one scroll was worth forty or maybe even fifty times what other teleport scrolls were worth. "If you go out there without us, you will be putting both yours and Colin's life in danger again." Gabe had still not figured out yet why Malner cared about his life, if he died The man would be free. Free to do as he pleased and rich with all the treasure still in the Treasure store. Sure he had been ordered to Not let Gabe come to harm, but he didn't have to worry about him like he did. Malner was always going above and beyond his contract when it came to Gabe. "Trust me Colin I'm doing you a favor, and that's the truth. You won't want to be with me for this next part. So stay here, both of you. and keep training. I'll be back before a year, if I'm not then both of you are free to do as you please. This is not up for debate, goodbye." Gabe spoke with authority over them and opened a portal with the scroll. "You Rat!....." was all Gabe heard from Colin before he stepped through and shut the portal behind him. He'd already spoken to Malner before this about taking good care of his friend and gave him a very expensive and fine quality Communications ring so that if anything went wrong on ether side they could contact each other. Gabe now stood about seventy miles away from the Wooden-Thunder Family's largest city, WaterDell. he looked around and found himself in a mid grade Treasure land. The entire area hear for a good thousand miles was a treasure land. But he had a feeling that with the city dead in the middle of it there probably wasn't anything worth finding around here. He summoned Sisfar and the ship appeared before him in all its glory. Three giant sails and all. He climbed up a thin rope latter and told Sisfar to keep it slow as they headed towards the city.

There were a few reasons Gabe wasn't heading to the city at a breakneck pace, the biggest of which was that he wanted to catch a few soul-beasts on the way. Here on the Geo continent everything felt very different, the air was filled with Geo energy and the big Yellow sun in the sky radiated it down in waves. Gabe had never been off his Home land before even though he had planned to leave, the opportunity just never came up and he got caught up in his training. He was already enjoying it though. Seeing a yellow sun was quite a change, the sky looked a lot more blue here because of it. Feeling around, Geo energy felt calm compared to Chaos. Very slow and thick. Celestial energy he knew from experience with Star-stone often felt light and airy, almost out of reach and aloof. Both of these were a heavy contrast to the rapid changing and struggling Choas energy he had grown up surrounded by. As Gabe and Sisfar Flew low to the ground as they could in this sparse and open like Forrest Gabe stopped three times to catch three Champion realm beasts, one was a Flat mantis. A quick six foot praying mantis that was a Earth element beast and was able to camouflage itself well. The second was a small River Canary, a water beast that could one day grow into a Phoenix. And the last was an impressive Twenty foot Oak Giant. A dual element beast of both earth and air that looked like a humanoid tree without roots and foliage, and had Strong bodily toughness. All of these were master realm beasts. And were easy to subdue for Gabe’s unnatural strength. Gabe had just finished bonding with the giant, it's form replacing the spot his last dragon took, and was climbing back onto Sisfar when suddenly a bolt of shear pain shot through his eyes. "Arahagahg!!" The surprise of it and the intensity made him lose his grip and fall onto the green grass. He rolled from one side to the other grabbing his eyes, not able to block out the pain, or even see. His soul sense was gone and he felt fear that he'd just been attacked. Without being able to see who was doing this to him he wouldn't be able to fight them. But he couldn't just lay here! So he pushed through the agony in his eyes, and stood. It really wasn't anything in comparison to what he'd been through by now. He took a ready stance. "Sisfar, what do you see?! Are we being attacked!? just tell me where they are." His breathing was heavy and labored as the pain only increased but he didn't budge from his ready position. "Are you alright kid? No we're not being attacked." Gabe sighed, if whatever it was could hide from Sisfar and hit him so hard then he probably wouldn't be able to fight it anyway. but he didn't come unprepared, before another second passed by Gabe held out his hand and called up a demon from seamingly nowhere. The seven foot beast looked around with curiosity. "What is it master?" Gabe smiled not being able to see the demon or feel him but glad he was there. "Do you see anything attacking us?!" Gabe had put a dozen Demons inside his Inner space. All were Deity level and could survive in there forever if he left them. So he didn't think the increased time speed would really be a bother. He'd learned however from a bit of testing that if they wanted out they could beat the walls and cause him quite a bit of pain, anything more powerful then him could probably break the walls of the inner space. And Star-stone had warned that if that happened he would likely die so he could not trap any powerful enemies in there. "No, no'one is attacking." The demon said placid. Gabe cursed. Then what was happening to his eyes? "Agah!" He let out another grunt as a second wave of pain came through from nowhere. Then it passed and took all the pain with it. "What is it master?" The demon asked. Gabe could suddenly see the red skinned thing and his soul sense was back. "I'm not sure... I..." Gabe didn't have an answer, he spent the next few minutes looking around and trying out his vision glad to have it back and not be blinded for the rest of his life. After finding nothing even with a Deity realm powerhouse searching he gave up Then put the demon back in his inner room and continued on. Whatever it had been, he couldn't say it had caused him harm, Just pain. It must have been something internal, maybe some kind of delayed poison from that wicked doctor he was healed by. He considered on it as they flew on, but didn't have time to worry about it. He would get a better healer to check on him later, his own inner sensing power wasn't up to par and he couldn't feel anything wrong with himself so there was nothing he could do but ignore it.