Ryan and Alex were standing before Simon in his dark grotto. He had his arms crossed upon seeing them and conjures 18 bags of something and places them on the ground.

“Glad you all are back. Ready for your next task?” Simon asks.

“Ready as we will ever be” Alex responds.

“Okay I like that attitude. Before you are 18 bags of ground demonic sheep heart powder. I need you all to take these bags and spread them on various farms in Wyozonia. These farms I want you to spread this powder on will have cursed soil and these plots generally will have low yielding harvests. A flower will grow in the middle of these fields in about a few days and soak up the curse from those fields. I need you to pick those flowers and 10 pounds of weeds from those fields and bring them back to me” Simon says with a calm and relaxed tone to his voice.

Alex rolls her eyes at him. “Umm are you serious? More labor work!? Oh come on!” Alex expressed with frustration. “What do you have us doing after this task?” Alex demanded.

“Oh, just a regular single item retrieval quest. I need a Black Rose from the Guillotine PVP zone” Simon replies.

“I like that task better can we split up and let me do that, while he goes and farms?” Alex begged.

Ryan shoots a look at her. He feels betrayed.

“You can, but the person who guards the black rose’s is partially responsible for condemning my soul to between this realm and the void” Simon replies with a warning tone to his voice.

“Okay then its settled. Ryan you go to Wyozonia and I’ll head to the PvP zone and kick this guys’ ass” she says while taking the map

Simon looks a little worried and crosses his arms again.

“Alex, I don’t think your taking my warning seriously. This man is partially to blame for condemning me to this plane I’m stuck in. You need to take this threat seriously” Simon warns.

“Don’t care. I’m not doing back breaking work again. I’ll be right back with that flower as soon as I can. I’ll see you later Ryan” Alex says while walking away.

Ryan who was standing there reading Simons body language could really feel the importance of the warning he was trying to give her.

“Alex wait!” He yells. “I haven’t been here as long as you have, but I’ve learned when someone warns me about something, I need take it seriously. You need to as well.” He says while pulling out his phone. “It’s dangerous to go alone. Take this” he says while handing her his phone.

“I’m going to be fine. I promise.” She says while taking it from his hand and walking away.

“Do you not want a portal?” Simon asked her.

“No I’m fine. I’m going to walk there. I want to take a detour to my house and spend a couple days at home honestly and sleep in my bed. We slept over at Ryan’s last time. I need to do a few things of my own” Alex says while walking down around a turn and out of sight.

“That does sound fair” Ryan says while making a weighing motion with his hands.

“Well anyway Ryan. Load these bags into your Void Storage vault. Also, I need you to do something else for me before you leave for Wyozonia” Simon says.

Ryan opens up the vault and starts heaving bags into it.

“Sure, what do you need?” Ryan says.

“Close that portal the demonic sheep use to respawn with. It will make this world a better place. You don’t have to do it since it’s totally optional, but if you do I’ll give you something cool in return.” Simon says.

“I’ll do it. But what will you give me?” Ryan asks out of curiosity.

“I’ll give you something you are mildly fantasizing about having.” He says with a laugh.

“Can you be more specific? I know you can read my mind, but I have like several things I’d like to have” Ryan says sarcastically.

“I’ll make it a surprise. Here take this portal” Simon says while waving his arm and opening up a portal for him. Ryan smiles and walks through it. Simon then smiles and fades away.

Ryan now finds himself back in Gnillàf 300 feet from the town of Derekton.

He smiles and takes a deep breath and walks into the town toward one of the bakery shops to get himself a bag full of Danish’s. He walks into the shop he and Alex would visit when they would landboard 20 miles here with her on his back when they would need to resupply food for their campsite.

He buys a few treats for himself and then tips the person serving him 50 gold for no apparent reason. He then deploys his kite and hops on his board and sails back toward the Monster plains. When Ryan gets there an hour later, he sees the portal and stops. He packs up his kite gear and tackles the portal.

“You can close these things with extreme heat” Ryan thinks to himself. The same words Arcadia told him.

“Okay then I can just cast a spell on this thing” He thinks to himself.

He stands in front of the portal and Fires up [Ball Lighting] in fire mode and lets out the spell. It passes right on through the portal and does nothing.

“Damn” he thinks to himself. He then casts the spell again and detonates it at the front of the portal. Still no effect.

Ryan then switches up to [Void Blast] and fires it at the portal. Again nothing.

Ryan then decides to walk behind the portal and rain down [Black Rain]. Nope

Irritated he backs way up and Ryan Sacrifices 18% of his health and charges up [Chaos Blast] and lets it loose. The spell hits the portal and detonates. The blast wave keeps moving forward past the portal and obliterates the demonic sheep in front of it. The loud shock wave knocks him back and kicks up a bunch of dust into the air.

When the dust clears the portal was still remaining. However, on the side of the sheep’s roaming field there are many shiny things glimmering in the sun light. Ryan walks over there and digs through the ashes and finds intact demonic sheep hearts. He looks around him and notices over 900 shiny glimmers around him. He then facepalms in shame.

“Son of a Bitch!!!” He screams after discovering [Chaos Blast] destroys the sheep bodies but doesn’t destroy the sheep hearts.

He looks around him and drops to his knees in shame.

“All that effort… If Only I knew!” He says out loud in defeat. He then gets up to his feet. “Best not tell Alex about this” He thinks to himself.

He then looks at his arm. The scars from his wrists were oozing blood.

“Oh, that’s why I didn’t use that spell. Damn. It really sucks I can’t cauterize these wounds instead having to wait for like forever for them to clot up.” He thinks again to himself. Just then he realizes something.

He looks over at the portal and then looks over at his arm. He then angrily glares at the portal.

He takes out one of his swords and enchants it with [Black Plasma] He then walks over the portal and stabs it. The fabric of the rift can be heard making a crumpling sound. The side where the sword was piecing seemed less opaque and more transparent. Ryan then drags the sword downward slowly and sees the rift seal up and become completely transparent. Ryan then opens up his Void Storage vault to retrieve his kite gear and finds himself a surprise.

In the vault there was a full green Halo Master Chief Plate set with a message attached to it.

“Ryan, I know you randomly think about having one of these things to make you feel at home again. I WAS going to give you a Motorcycle you could use in this world that would run off your Mana reserve but that would be too close to an E-bike and those things and I do not get along. Go have fun and express yourself in this thing… While you can” :) -Simon

Ryan seeing this thing in front of him is stunned. He can hear the Halo theme song in his head. He inches inside his storage vault and touches it. He then lets out a huge smile.

3 hours later Ryan can be seen hauling ass south through the Guillotine PvP zone in his halo suit while landboarding. As he rushes out of this Zone as fast as he could while being pursued by some outlaws who were all on foot. He takes incoming fire from this gang’s Fire Mage and Shadow Priest. The spells hit his suit and go off, but Ryan is unaffected. He shrugs off what felt like a “small pinch” and turns around and casts [Void Blast] right back at them but misses badly. With them all on foot he spares the effort to attack them again. He rides right on past them unscared. The Shadow Priest manages to land another barrage of spells on him but then gives up. Ryan shoots him the bird and he rides away from them and crosses out of the PvP zone and into Faterra and keeps heading west humming the famous Halo Theme song in his head.

Meanwhile Over in Tourterra Liz was being held in a jail cell. She had dried blood on her hands and a cut on top of her hand from where she punched a representative of Deland. Queen Lake was sitting outside counting the gold she had collected from her “Investors”.

“Alright boys you are clear to move in on Staug” She shouts as she turns around the corner to look Liz in the eyes.

“Alright Your forty-eight hours are up. I said it once and I will say it again DO NOT act like an immature child. You know what I am doing is in the best interest of this nation” She says while unlocking her prison cell.

“You are a monster in my eyes right now. We all fought like hell to defend Staug from attack and now you just want sell it off like you don’t care about it anymore.” Liz replied back while angrily tugging at her chains.

“Look to be honest I do love that town. What I don’t like is people only come to it because of the legend of “Vedra” is the only thing that makes them want to come to it. It’s a small town that needs to grow. I don’t care about the fact Deland is at fault for the attack. I need trade partners now we have a new port. I’ve done my part by surrendering over a town to them. We need trade badly right now since everyone is losing their mind over what Mriya is doing in the west. Look this conversation is over. You are just so lucky right now I am merciful and don’t feel like having you killed for what you did. You mess up one more time I am going to remove your crown and your head” Queen Lake says while undoing her chains.

“I just wish you would listen to me” Liz pleads while she falls to the ground.

“My mind is made up. Go home. I don’t want you attending any more meetings for me for the next two weeks” She orders her while walking away. Lake then pauses and turns around slowly “Also I need you to look into the rumor of a “Cult” that has been rumored to have started in your town. A few little birdies told me there are three giddy little girls who jokingly claim to be in one. I need you to address that. We don’t need some ridicules cult to start up in my country and spiral out of control like it did in Sivika. Lady Bunnell was a fool to let that happen on her lands. Don’t let that happen on mine” She says while pointing toward the door.

Liz gets up and walks out the door and slams it behind her. She then teleports home.

At the house she sits on the couch nervously. The Woman were all outside tanning in the sun by the lake. She gets up and walks toward the lake. She then takes off her shoes and places her feet in the water and sits down.

“How’d that long meeting go with Lake?” Misty asks.

“I got locked up forty-eight hours for punching and beating the shit out of a Deland royal and Representative. This town is about to go to shit. I did everything in my power to save it. Girls we are about to have some nasty neighbors” Liz warns.

“You know what? I’m hungry let’s go eat at Breanna’s” Zephyr says while getting up and hugging Liz from behind.

Liz tries to muster up a smile but could not. She takes her Royal staff and Teleports her and Zephyr downtown.

When they get there was chaos going on in City hall. Sheriff Warren was sitting outside the town hall with a signed order. The girls walk inside the building and they see 12 Deland officials tearing things off the walls and replacing them with prewritten ordinances.

“New Board meeting in twelve minutes!” Someone screams outside. Liz and Zephyr walk away and decided to go eat. They sit down and order and watch someone come inside with a written order and shove it in Breanna’s face.

“I told you to get out of here” Breanna shouts at the man.

“I’m sorry but you should have sold this property to us when we asked. The man said while pulling out a handful of papers. “During the new board meeting we all voted on a new ordinance. You can’t have a restaurant and an Inn in the same building. It’s a hazard in the event a kitchen fire is caused while people are sleeping upstairs” The man says while hammering a bright red “Violation” paper on the Wall.

Brenna who was angered at this “Regular Trespasser” who always annoys her about buying this Inn looks at him like he was crazy picks up a Knife. “Are you fucking crazy? You don’t run anything in this town now get the hell out of here before I kill you!” Breanna screams while walking toward him.

“Whoa there. Warren she’s being difficult again!” The man screams in fear for his life while backing away from her.

Sherriff Warren walks into the building and gently grabs her hand with the knife.

“Breanna enough! They own the town. Lake made it official. You can’t hurt them. I sadly have to be on his side” He says while turning her around to face him.

“That’s not fucking fair! I didn’t get a vote in this!” Breanna screams while glaring angrily at Liz.

Liz puts her head down in shame and Zephyr gets up to calm Breanna down.

“Also, this whole block is zoned as residential not commercial. You can’t run a business here anyway” He taunts while getting ready to tack the other “Violation” paper onto the wall.

Breanna then turns around and throws the knife at the man. He jerks away in fear but gets hit in the leg by the knife. The knife that hit him bounces off and lands on the floor leaving a small scratch.

“Warren, she assaulted me! Arrest her immediately! The man cries while freaking out over a small cut on his leg.

“Really Wish you didn’t do that” Warren says while grabbing her hands and leading her outside.

“So you are on their side? That is real freaking great!” Breanna grunts in anger.

“Sadly I am. Don’t hate me. I respect you and what you have done for this town, but I have a job to do” He whispers to her while leading her down the street.

Inside the Inn Zephyr rolls her eyes and watches the man head into the kitchen. Zephyr quickly hops up on the bar counter and cuts him off. She sees the “Recipe” book he was staring at with big eyes and grabs it. She then starts ripping all the notes off the wall of her popular dishes she’s made a killing off of.

“Hey what are you doing? Give me those!” He demands Zephyr. “

Screw off asshole I know your game. It isn’t happening.” She screams while pushing him away from her. She then throws all the articles in her hand inside the lit woodstove. Zephyr then walks back into the kitchen again and pulls out a big sack of gold that hasn’t been deposited into the bank yet. She then walks outside and toward the jail.

Liz gets up from the table feeling like a failure. She then walks shamefully to the jail with Zephyr.

Once inside he hears Zephyr telling Warren to let her go on bail.

“I’ll set the bail at three hundred. But she can’t have any contact with him” Warren says while holding his hand out.

Zephyr pulls out 300 gold out of bag and hands it to him and grabs Breanna by the hand.

“Zephyr I mean it. Don’t let her have any contact with that asshole.” Warren says as they walk out the door.

“I am so disappointed in you sister! You need to learn how to throw a knife like Me” Zephyr says while pulling a throwing knife out of her sleeve and hurling it at the side of city hall.

The knife embeds itself into the wall with a loud “Thud”

They walk back to the Inn and find city commissioners raiding the place and ordering all of her customers out of the rooms and dinning room. She then spots a big fat “Violation” sheet on the front of her the door about this place being not zoned to serve alcohol. She can also hear people downstairs breaking wine bottles and destroying kegs.

“What the fuck are you all doing down here!” She screams while walking down the stairs.

“This building is not approved to store this commercial amount of alcohol in its cellar. There by all of it must be disposed of” A man said while breaking an expensive bottle of rum.

“Why are you all harassing her? What did she do to you all?” Zephyr screams while walking down the stairs angrily.

“If you got an issue, you can take that up with the Andrew Flynn, the new mayor” He taunts back rudely.

“Wait hang on, Andrew Flynn? The Sore loser that I beat by a landslide during the food festival? Is this his idea of revenge? Shutting down my business!?” Breanna yells while huffing toward the exit.

Zephyr rushing toward her, tries to intercept her. “Sis wait. I burned all of your Recipes. Andrew’s “Goons” tried to acquire them. She reveals while grabbing her by the shoulder.

“Zephyr I am… so fucking angry at the moment. Thank you for doing that for doing that for me. I…. Need to get out of here. I am going to end up getting tried for murder. Please help me before I lose it” Breanna begs.

“Come home with me. I’ll help you out. It’s the least I can do” Zephyr says while hugging her tightly.

“Miss Stark. Would you be interested in selling this place to my firm? With all these violations its about to be condemned by the city. With all the violations I’ll give you twelve thousand for it” A man inquiries from the other side of a table they were standing at.

“Twelve thousand? Go fuck yourself. This place is worth at least Ninety Thousand. You can all go fuck yourselves!” She screams while trying to walk out the door.

“Oh, okay? Suit yourself. This property has over ten violations already. We are just going to condemn it” He says while sticking a big fat “Condemned” Sheet on wall.

Breanna balls up her fists and slams them down on a round tall table.

“You fucking asshole. I didn’t do nothing to you all. Why are you bulling me like this! Are you wanting to wake up in a PvP zone where its legal for me to cut all of your dicks off?” She screams while picking up a chair. Zephyr quickly grabs her arms and wrestles the chair from her.

“Calm down! You are better than this Breanna!” Zephyr screams.

“Liz this is your fucking fault! Why didn’t you do more to keep these jerks out of our government! Now I’m losing my Property!” Breanna screams while kicking Zephyr away from her and throwing the chair at Liz. Liz gets hit in the face and falls down to the ground and starts Crying.

“Breanna! I did everything I could do! I tried. I feel bad I couldn’t do anything! I don’t know why Lake is doing this! I’m so sorry! Please don’t take this out on me!” Liz whimpers while shedding tears on the ground.

“Okay that’s it. We are getting out of here” Zephyr says firmly while dragging Breanna out of the building.

Zephyr then starts dragging Breanna to the back of the building where her horse and wagon was located at. On the wagon was a “Violation” sheet that said All commercial wagons must have at least 6 spokes per wheel not 5. Attached to the violation sheet was a citation for 50 gold. Zephyr rips it off the cart and loads Breanna up and they head down the road.

Breanna was fuming the whole ride.

When they get back to the mansion 5 miles west of town Breanna appears to have calmed down. She walks inside the house and Zephyr shows her to her room.

“Stay as long as you need. Don’t get yourself arrested. I’ll see what I can do from my end to get these assholes off your back” Zephyr says while giving her a hug.

“These assholes are like worse than those “City Planning Commission” Succubus sisters. Except they are INSIDE the city not outside of it” She says to Zephyr.

“Head to the lake in the back. Go swimming. Relax and calm down. I’m heading back to town to see what I can do. Chill out and relax. Don’t harass Liz. This is technically HER house not mine. Look she did all she really could. She feels bad that she let everyone down. She LITTERILY fought like hell during those royal meetings to keep them out. She broke a man’s nose and knocked a man’s tooth out. Lake was so pissed she imprisoned Lindsay into her Dungeon for 48 hours. Even with a private meeting between Lake and I she can’t even keep her story straight as to why she’s giving this town to them” Zephyr says while giving her a reassuring hug.

“I know what’s going on. I heard it through loose lips of a drunk patron. Lake wants an Airforce.” Breanna says while putting her folded clothes in her dresser.”

“Wait hang on. What do you mean?” Zephyr replies.

“You know that giant tactical “Bee” you guys seized from Palmlandia? She is wanting it to be cloned. She doesn’t have means to do it. Deland on the other hand does. But they won’t sell their “secrets” to Lake for cheap. Lake did favors for them like delivering military supplies and all that to them, but they wouldn’t cooperate. Until she started offering “Investment” opportunities on her sunny beaches and resources. When she agreed to a price, all the royal money bags in Deland came knocking Including that butt hurt Viscountess Andrew” Liz says mockingly

“Holy shit. No way he is a noble?” Zephyr says feeling confused.

“Yep, I only know about it because He bragged about it during the food festival. As it turns out “Daddy” didn’t show him a lot of love. The only way her could get attention was for him to learn cooking. Hell, He had too much pride in his food he made that he thought he’d win. But when I stole the show from him with my recipes Ryan gave me and blew his ass out of the water in sales and 1st place prizes during the contests. He vowed to get me somehow. I Guess this is how he is doing it” Breanna says while taking off her shirt and putting on something to swim in.

“Sounds like he probably has a dick the size of this” Zephyr says while picking a thimble up off the ground and tossing it to her.

“Ha, not even close. A grain of rice sounds a little more accurate” Breanna says while heading out the door.

Zephyr smiles and follows her out. She sees her walk to the lake and dip her feet in. Zephyr then heads out front and disconnects the cart from the horse and hops on then rides back to town while starring at a big black smoke cloud that loomed in the horizon toward town.

Upon getting back to town she freezes in horror.

Breanna’s Inn was engulfed in flames.