Everyone except Zumo and Dakota were shocked.

"Your brother is also a Star Knight?" Elora asked.

"Yeah, everyone this is Leon," Touka introduced her older brother.

(Leons face)

(Leons armor)

"Greetings everyone," Leon greeted them.

"I see there are several other Star Knights," Xan said annoyed.

"Indeed, one of the others is named Jett," Touka said pointing to the Star Knight holding a Heavy Bow Gun.

"Nice to know I'm not the only gunner now," Elora said to herself

"Leon, what are you even doing here?" Touka asked facing him.

"Me and my team here have been scouting the area because of strange monster activity, I can see that the monsters are infected with the Gore Virus which is not a good sign. There have been several monsters infected which is more then normal and they keep getting infected. There is one Gore Magala responsible for all this and once we kill it the infected monsters that are still living will no longer be infected," Leon explained

"So your tracking it down?" Dakota asked

"Correct, but we somehow lost its tracks somewhere around here," Leon said as he looked around the area.

"I'll help look for the tracks," Hiroshi announced.

"I'll Help too," Tala announced.

"Perfect, but its getting late we should set up camp for now. We will look for the tracks in the morning," Leon said as noticed the sky darken.

Everyone nodded and started setting up camp. Touka and Leon where setting up theirs while everyone else was setting theirs up. After a hour the tents were set up with a fire in the middle. The hunters relaxed for a moment watching the fire as they sat sitting in the grass, everyone was relaxing except for Touka. Touka was thinking about what she was going to do when she would find Rika. After a few moments the others went to sleep while Touka stayed awake staring at the sky. Leon walked up behind her and placed a hand on her shoulder.

"I really miss her, Leon. I wish she would go back to her old self," Touka said as she moved closer to Leon.

"I miss her too, Touka," Leon said as they both stared at the sky.

"Hopefully we will find her," she said hugging Leon.

After a few moments of staring at the sky they both went to bed and waited for morning. The hunters woke up early in the morning, packed there items, and started their search for Gore tracks. Tala, Hiroshi, and some other Star Knights spread throughout the area to find tracks. 

"Hey! I think I found something," Tala yelled noticing something on the ground.

The others sprinted to Tala to see what she found. It was Gore scales on the ground with a small trail of black dust that seemed to continue for a while.

"Well I believe this leads to where we need to go," Tala announced

"These must be Rikas tracks," Touka said to herself

"Well lets follow the tracks," Xan said.

Everyone started running following the tracks. The tracks continued for several miles. The hunters followed the tracks until they suddenly ended at the edge of the dunes. The hunters stopped in confusion not seeing any tracks to follow.

"Great, now what?" Elora complained

"We will just have to search for other tracks," Zumo told her.

"They have to be around here somewhere," Touka said

"Lets split up, Leon, Touka, Kane, Hiroshi, Zumo and myself will go one way while Xan, Yukio, Tala, Elora, and Nuria go the other," Dakota announced

Everyone nodded and then they split like Dakota said. The first group of hunters started searching for tracks. Touka then walked into the next area not seeing anything, but she stayed ready just in case. The others soon after followed her into the next area. Hiroshi noticed some black dust over by some cactus and he ran to it. As he got closer he found a trail like the one before.

"I found a trail," He announced.

"Perfect lets follow it," Touka said as she started following it herself.

The others followed behind her. Eventually they followed the tracks into the largest part of the dunes. The first group noticed the others on the other said and also noticed another black dust trail the others were following. Touka saw that both trail started to connect and lead out of the dunes.

"Thats strange, both trail connect and continue out of the dunes," Touka said with a conufsed look.

"Well lets follow it anyway," Kane said.

She nodded and both groups started running following the trail. The two groups came together and followed the trail. As they ran they all noticed a large destoryed fortress that Nuria easily resongized.

"I've been there before," Nuria announced.

"You have? what is it?" Xan asked.

"Its a fortress that use to defend against elder dragons, you can see it doesn't do that anymore," Nuria announced

"Oh great, elder dragons," Elora complained.

They soon arrived at the fortress and stood at the entrance. Touka started walking into the fortress. Leon, Dakota, and Zumo followed behind her. Touka entered the large area and looked around seeing a large piller, cannons, and a large pile of bones. Leon, Dakota, and Zumo then entered the open area seeing the samethings.

"Those are Fatalis bones," Zumo said.

"Really? A dead elder dragon?" Leon asked.

"I believe that was the normal Fatalis, which means there is only one left," He said

"How do you know that?" Leon asked

"I killed the white Fatalis," He said.

Touka continued looking around when suddenly a dust cloud fell from the sky and exploded not to far from Touka causing her to cover her eyes. Leon, Dakota, and Zumo noticed the dust explosion and covered there eyes also. When the dust cleard Touka uncovered her eyes and saw Rika with her short black hair, purple and black eyes, horns on her head, and large claws. The boys stood there in shock while Touka just stared at her. Rika smiled at her but Touka did not smile back.