Oregon, UTC-18:30

"You better come, or I won't call you a friend anymore." Rey hissed on the phone threateningly. The other side of the phone stammered an excuse. "Awww?! Really? You cant hear the phone again? Liar!" She said after the boi finished. "I bet you are too high to even answer.. But you gotta be here! Tomorrow is my my birthdaaayyyy!!" She said almost screaming. The boi on the other side said something to console and she pouted. "Thirty minutes but thats all!" She slammed her finger to the screen, and end the call, grumbling. But then she remembered her birthday and her face lit again.

"I'm hooomee!" Rey yelled as soon as she opened the door. She hung the pink skateboard and threw her pink hoodie off, showing off her white sports tank top.

"The weather is sooo hot!" She waved her palm to cool off her sweating face. She ran to the kitchen and opened the fridge, and plunged her face inside. "Ooooh it is sooo goooood, I wanna live inside the fridge forever and ever and ever!" She closed her eyes in satisfaction.

But enticing aroma from the oven beside the fridge promptly end her intention to live in the fridge. "What is this yummy smell?" Without closing the fridge, she moved to the oven and curiously peeked the glass. "Ooohhh! Chicken!! Nicee!!"

"Rey, your friend is over here!"

Her brow furrowed "Friend? Who?"

A deep voice answered her "Me?" and a platinum blonde head popped in.

"You?" Rey frowned, totally weirded out. "Why are you here?" Her hand moved, crossing it in front of her breast.

"Not because I can't stop thinking about you, of course." He said calmly, his eyes went to her crossed hand.

She spat "You what?"

"It's the truth. Nothing to hide cos nothing interesting to see there." He pointed her chest. Rey frowned, digesting what she had heard.

"OUCH!" Ryuzan yelped as a small purple lightning struck him.

Ron grinned behind him."Careful with what you said, young man! Don't you ever forget that I am her Father? Come on, show me all you got!" He said before going back to the hidden backyard.

Rey's lips pursed in annoyance. "Dad are you nuts? Why are you showing him your power?!"

Ryuzan shrugged his shoulders and went back to the garden.

A cold wind suddenly blasted inside and some ice shard fell to the floor.

Her face frowned deeper "You got Ice on your blood?"

Reaching her pink hoodie at the chair, and hurriedly wear it. After feeling comfortable with herself, she ran to the garden, with a determined face.

Brewing wind and snow in her hand, she threw that to the young man. "Take this!" The wind pushed him and the snow coated him white. "That is for insulting me" She said, grinning.

And at the same time, small electricity zapped him.

"Goddamn, Rey, two against one is unfair!" Ryuzan complained, but a smile formed on his face and hit her back with the snow blast

"When do I ever insult you" Ryuzan rolled his eyes.

"Oh please, it just a few minutes ago" A blue electricity crackled in her hand, threaten to zap him.

Ryuzan startled. "Is that lightning?"

"Yes, I kind of debating myself. Which is more suitable for you. Roasted or crisped." She pulled her right hand back but pushed the left hand further to the front, and a small string of blue lightning appeared between them.

"No need to be too harsh, Rey, he is family" Ron laughed.

Rey furrowed her brow and looked at her dad. "Family where? And since when do you know each other, and I don't recall having this bloke as a fam?"

"Bloke?" Ryuzan snorted "And I helped you do your math"

"So you see, Ryuzan here is the ice race, and your blood basically ice and storm, so we are family" Ron explained.

"Totally not understand" She shook her head. Her hand still held the lightning that grew stronger.

"What do you mean you don't understand, don't you listen?"

"Totally not listening to that coco loco" She played with the lightning.

"You refuse to understand, or refuse to listen" Ron lifted his brow.

"Both" The lightning branched and zapped a protruded metal.

"Oh great. And you know, my brain totally refusing to explain that all over again, stone head" Ron threw his hand in frustration, but his eyes glinted with amusement.

Ryuzan laughed. "It's okay Sir"

"Call me Ron" Rey father wiggled his finger.

"Yeah, er, Ron. It is okay" Ryuzan scratched his head.

"You know what? I am starving. Let's just eat. Get in" Ron gestured them inside.

"Ohoho, that I totally understand. Goodie goodie." The electricity on Rey's hand vanished and she clapped her hand as she went inside.

Ron nudged her head from the back as he walked past her and furrowed as soon as he noticed opened the fridge. "REEY, close again the fridge when you open it!"

As they sat on the chair, and the chicken divided between them, Ron started.

"So, Rey, long, long ago, you know that I was among the race of Stormblood who hide at his kingdom, lending our strength to guard the Ice Palace."

She nodded, her mouth full with chicken.

"They nicknamed me Sagitarius Knight, cos my Ashoura is Pegassus, and I love blending my body with it, so I would look like Sagittarius sign."

He cut some of the bread and gave it to each kid.

"Long story short, the King I served at that time, is his grandparents. And.." Ron lifted Ryuzan's hand, showing his tattoo which glowed blue under his shoura.

"Now he is the King"

Rey's jaw dropped. "He is a what now?"

Portland, USA OR PT UTC - Sunday 03:30 am

The merriment inside the building has over. They seemed to drink a while ago. But now everything eerily silent.

The skinny bespectacled man looked up. The white ceiling is made from concrete. His eyes looked around now. The wall concrete too. But then he spotted the door. It's wood. He half sure he can break them if only he makes a strong enough wave. The question is how to get out from the labyrinth.

But then...Layla?

Thinking several escape plans, it always ends with the big man in front of his daughter's room. Feeling his glasses sliding to the end of his nose, he tried hard to fix it, but his restrained hands unable to reach there. Bringing his feet on the table, he ended up on the floor, failed the attempt.

While he pondered all the possibilities, hot air blowing right on his face. Raising his face, he feel it again. The chain that close the door dropped to the ground, and someone opened it. It was one of the cooks.

The man looked around before hurrying himself to him. Under the hollow expression of the prisoner, he hit the rope with a slicing movement. A sharp hot air freed him.

The hollow eyes brightened, and the skinny man gaped as he looked up to the burly cook.

"Sir?"

"Shh. Come" He whispered back.

"My daughter..."

He nodded.

"Already taken care of, come, hurry, before any of them wake up"

The man's limpid face brightened up, and he hurried himself to follow the cook, out from the prison.

The cook locked the room once more and slipped the key carefully into one of the guard's pockets.

He nodded to the blond man's face which tensed, albeit filled with hope.

They tiptoed over the drunk guards, out from the room, passed the many tubes and turbines, crawled under one of the pipes that arched and opened a loose board on the floor. They walked down the stairs while the cook carefully closed again the board over them.

Wiping his sweating face the blonde man followed the stairs and arrived at the bottom. "It relatively safe now" Said the cook "We can slow down".

"But, my daughter..." The ex prisoner worried face protested, but word stopped as something run from the dark and pushed him down.

"PAPA!" That something called him and hug him tight.

For several fractions of second his face frozen in shock but then his lips trembled while his hand pulling her into a hug.

"I'm glad you're safe girl," He said, his face melted in one huge relief that washed over his entire being.

After awhile, he released her, and as if awakened from the dead, he looked to his daughter again with wet and glinted eyes. "Thank God, you're safe," He said.

"Thank you sire" The man turned to the cook, which smiled warmly.

"Come, we still have quite a journey to do" He just said.

They trudged on, sometimes bowing as the ceiling hung low, and sometimes they be able to stand and walk.

"Please, let me know your name sir, and why are you releasing me?" The blonde headed man asked as he helped his child through the difficult section of the alleys.

"It is Harry Wheatherstorm"

"Storm? You mean from Storm race?"

"Yes, I was hiding among the Lavablood, the place where Magma won't ever suspect. My name here is Harry Firewheather"

The golden-haired man laughed softly. "Very smart. You have hot air power, yes, very smart sire, you could easily hide between the weakest."

The cook smiled back and nodded. "Exactly"

"And why do you join this team of Lavablood?"

The cook turned serious. "My mission is to warn Ice King. Our scattered race need him to fight the Lavablood and stopped Magma from his madness. I haven't found him anywhere. They are suck at tracing fugitive."

As Layla rest her head on his father's shoulder, the man thought hard, and then took a deep breath. "Actually, I know where he is"

The cook smiled brightly "Really?"

The golden man nodded. "It just I will not tell the Lavablood, ever."

He knelt down and put both of his hand on the floor. As he closed his eyes and breathed, a kind of ripple surrounded him as if the floor became liquid. He smiled "The young Ice King is in the nearby city, Salem. And you know, you have a special friend with him right now"

"Who?"

"The famous or infamous Stormknight, the Sagittarius. We will have to walk several kilometers, and then, I can pinpoint the location for you."

Oregon, USA OR PT UTC - Sunday 09:00 am

A woman popped from the back, taking two big plastic box with her. "Hey birthday girl! Here is your cupcakes!"

"Aww Jenna, thanks!" She ran and help her set the cake and on the table. "Ooh, it smells wonderful!"

"I know right?" She giggled. "And this is the pitta bread to go along with the chicken.

"Ara said that your cakes are the best in town, he loved it!"

"Really? Will he come today?" Jenna take care to arrange the cupcakes on the table.

"Yea sure. Just a bit late" Rey looked at the clock.

"Well we just wait for him before we start" Jenna winked.

"Happy birthday!" Her Father walked up to her and hug her. "I love you to the moon and back."

"Aww papa, thanks!" She hugged him back. "I love you too."

"Oh yeah, Rey, I invited Ryuzan, I know you wouldn't mind" Ron winked.

"Where is Ara?" He looked around.

She rolled her eyes. "He will be late as usual...I gave him thirty minutes though, or I will spill his secret to everyone!"

Ron mockingly shocked. "Cruel girl"

Rey shrugged her shoulders. "Papa, what the point of watching the movie half an hour late?"

"You got a point" He chuckled.

Portland, USA OR PT UTC - Sunday 09:30 am

Medusa walked to and fro. A bowl of green stones was placed in one of the tables. One of her men snored, and another was playing with the fire inside his palm. They were fully allerted

All of the sudden, from nothingness, a flash of fire aflamed in the bowl and a croaky voice heard all over the room "Mission succeed, I will send you the location"

Medusa raked her orange hair, she laughed. "That damned poster child. He knows what to do eh?"

Her phone blipped.

"You two! Time to move!" She licked her lips "And for me, it's time to hunt"

Oregon, USA OR PT UTC - Sunday, 09:35 am

I have less than thirty minutes.

Ara ran and jumped. The roof was empty, the right place for parkour. The place was a very dangerous zone, yet he wanted to make sure. At the corner, he saw a white finger behind a long steel pipe.

He knelt.

A face of a blonde little girl with an overall jeans skirt and white blouse stared at him vacantly, while her little cute face frozen in terror. Her hand still warm. He closed her eyes with his right hand and bite his lips. Near her, the head of her father wrapped in blonde curly hair, laid down in an awkward position, his eyes closed, hand clutching heart. Ara moved the finger and saw what he was after. A burning hole, about the size of a small candy. He turned to the girl and saw the same mark. Both of them had a burning hole exactly in their left chest. Straight at the heart. Both of them had an omega sign at their left ear. Osciblood.

No splattered blood, as always. It just a blackened little thing, smaller than a candy protruding from their back.

He stood up, take a last look at the deceased family and run, climbed a stair nearby.

Mission accomplished...

The teenager put a hand upon the child's head, and as he inhaled, the black candy stone softened and he pulled it out. His eyes blurred.

I can't. I should leave.

Standing up, he rushed his power to his whole body. In a flash, it covered in flame, and with a cry, he leaped and took off as a firebird.

The sadness made him unable to look back, thus, he never saw a woman crept to the corpse and hugged the child.

Oregon, Sunday, Movie theater, 10:00 am.

The movie was just started when someone sat beside Rey and touched her hand. "Yo"

Almost jumped, Rey relaxed when realizing that its Ara. Grinning widely, she pulled him into a strangling hug. "You made it!"

"Shhh!!" The man in front of them hissed.

His face reddened as he released her pinching grip. "Sorry sir" He said to the man in front of them.

The movie went on. It was about a superhero which he saved the world yet fell in love with a girl.

It was super tense when Ara's hand decided to crept on Rey's hand and hold them.

He leaned and whispered. "Might not much" and his hand left hers. She frowned as she lifted her hand and watched a choker with glimmering pendant was there. It was Rainbow dash, the pegasus but from super sparkly metal.

"Your fave" He whispered, feel the whole effort of melting several diamonds with silver worth it as he saw the girl beamed with happiness and wear it instantly.

"I have something for you too" The girl whispered back, and she put something inside his hand. As he opened it, it was a rainbow dash key chain.

"Thanks" Squeezing her hand, his heart filled with warmness and butterfly fluttered in his stomach. That moment, everything forgotten, and time stopped.