"Man why do we have to walk so far from Dark Harbor!"

"Maybe if you paid attention Daichi, then you'd understand why we're out in the boonies!" Hisoka remarks.

"But listening is SOOOOO boring, I'd rather just get to punching!" The boi throws his fists in front of him punching air.

"With that form you won't get very far.."

"Hey what's that supposed to mean?!"

"Can you shut it up, I'm trying to figure out this map."

"Come on Akira, it can't be THAT hard." Hisoka snatches the map from his hands.

"Give it your best shot soks.." Akira shrugs and continues walking.

Annya chuckles at them, Osiris walking next to her.

"Where did you send Saido and Minerva."

"Ahead to the village without knowing the direction?"

"Minerva grew up near here, she knows her way around."

"If she remembers any of it.."

Annya chuckles at the remark again. She looked at the road.

"Hey Osiris."

"What is it Annya?"

"You're getting better at fighting."

Osiris looked up smiling at her.

"Still not good enough to contend with my kid brother!"

"Yeah but your brother is special."

"His connection to pull magic is stronger then even most adults in WestWorld."

"Don't feel bad for not beating him."

"He even could end up on a contract in EastWorld if we're being honest."

"I won't let that happen."

"Neither will I Osiris."

"But keeping working hard Osiris."

"Most people we face don't have any magic beyond boosting their physical powers."

"Very few people posse-

"Possesse magic in any states besides physical boosts, you just reapeated yourself Annya."

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"I did?" She laughs.

"Forget this map!" Hisoka slammed the map down, his blue eyes turn brown and he throws his hands in the air making them fists.

The land below him flys into the air. Annya turns shocked and confused.

"Hi-Hisoka wait!"

"I told him.." Akira looks up to him grabbing the map.

"Hisoka, come down!"

"Not until I find this village!" The man sits there floating in air a bit.

"Found it!" The ground fell right back to where it was with Hisoka on it.

"Hisoka.." Hisoka turns to Akira, his face covered by the map. As Akira drops the map from his hisokas face turns white with fear.

"YOU PUT OUT MY CIG!" Akira instantly jumps at the man throwing punches at him throwing him to the ground and summoning a dark kunai stopping it at his throat.

"Oi Akira!"

"Can't kill him yet we need him cause he knows where the town is!"

"Thanks.. I guess." Akira let's go of hisokas jacket standing up throwing his burnt cigarette to the ground, the dark kunai dispersing. The black fading from his eye.

"Where's the town Hisoka."

"Not even gonna help me up?"

"You have hands, you can do that yourself."

"Jeez, that's rude.."

"Where is it soks." Akira flicks his lighter open and lights his cigarette again.

"Follow this road and take a right, it'll be there just follow that road."

"We got here with the map being upside down?"

"I read it upside down."

"Why Akira?!"

"To challenge myself."

"And what if we got lost?!"

"We walk the other way."

Hisoka remains on the ground smirks and gets back up getting the dust and dirt off his clothing.

The group continues on to the village. Taking the directions Hisoka had given them. Where the village is burning and flattened. Almost any sign of a building with integrity was gone.

"What the hell happened here?"

"This can't be the village I saw!"

"Well we followed your directions soks."

"This is NOT what I saw when I was up there."

"Well is there anyway it isn't?"

Hisoka and Akira go back and forth while Annya starts looking around the village along with Daichi. Osiris continues down the main street of the village. She looks to the burning buildings and out of the corner of her eye she sees something move along the woods. Her gaze falls to the Rustling bushes. She starts towards the bushes drawing her blade, grabbing a knife in her other hand.

The bushes stop rustling as she nears, slowly she inches closer and closer. Finally she is on top of the bushes she leaps through them only to find a rock with a smile drawn on it.

"....huh?"

"DIE BANDIT SCUM!

A man comes flying out from behind a large tree swinging an axe down on her head. Osiris manages to put her knife up but a large rock comes flying out of no where hitting the man square in the face knocking him into the tree he jumped out from.

The rock falls to the ground as Akira appears on the rock both his knifes drawing. His black fur coat blowing in the wind. Osiris gets up as Annya, Hisoka, and Daichi come flying towards them.

The man reaches for the axe again but Akira steps on his hand before he can reach it.

"I don't appreciate you hacking at my associate sir."

"Bastard, I'll kill you!"

"Bold words from your position farm hand." Akira couches down still holding his hand down with his foot.

"Especially to the guys who took your contract to come help you."

"You're the mercenaries from the Capital?!"

Akira stepped off his hand. "Mercenaries is such a brute word."

"We're clan Prototype."

Akira grabs his hand pulling him up and handing him his axe.

"Or Clan Izanami depending on where you're from."

"Took you long enough to arrive.."

Annya rushes over.

"Akira!"

"I had to step in Annya it could had ended badly otherwise."

"Still just disarm him next time.."

"It's fine lady, I would had killed your friend otherwise." He looks to Osiris as she wipes the dirt from his clothing.

"So sorry Ms, had I known who you were we wouldn't had been so cautious."

"We?"

"Yes me and the rest of the villagers are hiding in a camp a ways away from here away from the Wikings."

"Wikings?"

"I'll tell you more on the way to our camp, please come!"

Annya looks to Akira who shrugs. "Sure we'll come."

They start walking into the woods.

"And what is your name sir?"

"I am Brutus, a private in the defense sect that got stationed here."

"I hope we get along better after this Brutus!"

"As do I."