He then hurried to exit the cruiser, to find Dora was about to enter one of her own just a couple of tens of meters away. The battle was still raging in the distance, but here it was kind of calm and secure, so James headed without any concern towards that cruiser which Dora just disappeared inside.

In a few moments, Rigo was behind him moving in wide steps to catch up. James waited for him at the entrance to Dora's small cruiser, which wasn't much different than his.

Once Rigo arrived, they both boarded the cruiser, where he found a group of twenty men and women standing there waiting for them, and Dora was on the front with a wide strange smile over her face.

'Women!' James muttered helplessly, as he found himself a seat and sat on it. all eyes were focused on him, or precisely over Rigo who stood silently motionlessly behind James like a loaded weapon.

"Let your bodyguard cool down a little, there is no enemy here," Dora said with an excited tone, as she seemed to be in a good mood.

"Let's move then, what are we waiting for?" James asked.

"We will, but I'm waiting for my strongest fighter to come, you will like her, she is adorable just like you," she replied with a giggle. James sighed helplessly, as her sharp mood shifting was something.

"Is she going to be late?" James asked with impatience, as he wanted to finish this mission fast to be able to live his life as he planned.

"No, I'm here."

Everyone looked straight to the entry of the cruiser, where a giant female appeared moving in a clumsy way inside. James sighed as he recalled Gotar. This girl was like Gotar, a mixed blood giant. Once this newcomer entered the heart, she pointed out to James as she asked:

"Is he the moron you told me about?"

James' face didn't change, as well Rigo, as they both got used to the aggressive way of Dora in dealing with things. A follower will always be an exact copy of the boss, so neither of them was surprised by the rude way of speech of this giant girl.

"Dizy, there are no morons here, they are our allies," Dora said in a way that didn't feel like she was defending James and Rigo.

"You said there is some pig head here who is getting on your nerves and keeps annoying you, so I came to teach him a lesson," Dizy looked towards James as she directed all her words to him.

James didn't like this attitude, but he didn't like the future path of this much more, so he controlled himself and said with simple tone with no emotions at all:

"Let's move, we have no time to waste here."

Dora looked at him as she raised her both hands in a sign of helplessness, while Dizy moved couple of steps towards James while saying aggressively:

"Hey stupid deserter, you keep your own funny thoughts to yourself, as our princess isn't someone you would like to provoke."

James totally ignored her, as he said in a decisive tone:

"Either we take off now and act seriously about this, or else I will leave now and find another way to solve things."

Dizy was about to continue her pointless harassment to James, but Dora stopped her as she said:

"Enough Dizy, the little boy has learned his lesson already, let's move and make this little ship in the air now. Dizy, did you bring it?"

Dizy took out a long rod with a glassy ball on its middle. It looked strange, old, and powerful. James felt some kind of attraction towards it, it was like something was tempting him to grab it, but he didn't. this peculiar feeling made him more wary towards this rod, as he asked while motioning to it:

"What is this thing?"

"It's our ticket to outside of here, how did you get in here without it?" Dora said with interest.

"Through another way," James said as he watched Dizy move away towards the upper area, where the cannon controlling unit was there. Dora felt his strange looking towards the rod, so she asked:

"Is there something wrong?"

James realized his reaction wasn't quite discreet, so he replied casually:

"It's nothing, from where did you get this thing anyway?"

"One of my agents helped me to purchase it, and it was really painful to do that," she said as she moved to sit opposite James.

"Painful?!" James said with an interested look over his face, as he didn't imagine someone so powerful and wealthy like her would feel any pain for buying something, no matter how spicy it was.

"Don't look at me like that, I don't have an endless supply of wealth to spend without care, don't forget I have a fleet to fund," Dora said in a defensive tone.

"Fleet? That's your mother, the queen, fleet, not yours," James commented in a try to annoy her, but he failed as she just replied calmly:

"She is my mother and everything of hers is mine," she replied arrogantly with pride. Just as James was about to pathetically try another way to annoy her, the cruiser trembled in a sudden move that made him wary.

"Don't worry, country boy, this is just the effect of the rod," Dora said with an amusing tone, "Tell me how did you get here?"

"This is secret," James replied shortly and vaguely as he didn't feel the desire to speak now. He wasn't feeling well, and he didn't know why, but it was as if something was moving inside him, inside his soul.

"C'mon, tell me your story, I love stories you know," Dora kept harassing him while she enjoyed the unwell look over his face. She mistook it as the effect of a distant memory was brought to surface under her words.

"I'm not your dad to tell you're a goodnight story," James replied casually as he was more concerned by the changes he was feeling inside him, so he didn't notice the sudden change over her face when he said that.

Dora's face became suddenly ashen to turn rapidly into strange black from extreme hate and anger. She glared at James as she said stressing over her words:

"Don't ever say this again."