Mikael, Igor and Gabriel walk into the Hold at the same time, confusing the available people there, including Chica. Mikael and Gabriel walk up to her, whilst the old man strolls past into the armory.

  "Habiting the same space and not trying to eat at each other's necks..." Chica says. "Is this some sort of dream?"

  Standing next to each other, Mikael is visibly shorter than his brother. Gabriel stands at about 193cm and he is barely over 180.

  Mikael and Gabriel laugh at each other in very sarcastic tones, while bearing obviously fake smiles. Chica looks at them awkwardly. "Did you find out who that girl was?" She turns to Mikael.

  "I didn't get to, thanks to Mr. Crash The Party, here." Mikael uses both his hands to gesture to his older brother.

  Chica gives him a disappointed stare.

  "How is that my fault?" Gabriel protests to her. "I was on patrol, I saw a Veil, chose to breach it, and saved the people inside-"

  "Except the people inside were not in need of saving." Mikael cuts him off.

  "Right. You didn't." Gabriel says sarcastically.

  Mikael returns his attention to his girlfriend. "Where's the old man?"

  "Don't you mean, where's Marvin?" she asks.

  "Ah, right. He's here too." He says. "Is he still in the armory?"

  "Yeah. Practicing with his new weapon, apparently." she says.

  "Oh, fun." he says and dashes past her into the armory. She is left with Gabriel.

  "What are you actually doing here, Kent?" Gabriel queries.

  "Hey, now." She starts. "There's nothing wrong with taking a short walk to the library with my boyfriend."

  "I know that-" He is cut off by Chica.

  "You didn't come here to try to prevent your brother from working again, did you?" She accuses.

  "He's not allowed to fight Fallen, I thought we all knew that." Gabriel says.

  "I wish he would too." Chica says "But he's my boyfriend. And he only ever engages them in self-defense. You wouldn't know."

  Chica turns and walks away. "I'll see you tomorrow."

  Mikael arrives at the training room, just past the armory. He walks into the large hall, and he sees Marvin sparring with multiple people, with the old man watching from a safe distance. Mikael walks over to him and takes a seat next to him.

  "So that's the one he got?" Mikael asks Igor, referring to the Bo staff Marvin is using.

  "He seems to have prior knowledge of the weapon and he seems good with it." He says.

  Surprisingly, Marvin is taking on three individuals and is still single-handedly holding them off. His acrobatic movements match his techniques with the staff and are in sync with the attacks he's facing, allowing him to block, dodge and parry their attacks with relative ease. He quickly transitions from dodging a strike from a wooden katana, to blocking another attack from a wooden longsword, before countering an attack from a wooden bat.

  "That will be all." Igor tells the three people sparring with Marvin. The battle stops and they all drop the wooden weapons and take a bow to him, before leaving.

  Marvin, who is shirtless and wearing only his sweatpants, turns to Mikael, who returns a thumbs up and a coy smile, pointing at his now-exposed toned abs and chest. "Awww..."

  Feeling somewhat violated, Marvin immediately covers his body with his arms.

  Mikael turns to Igor. "What do you think? Can he fight fallen now?"

  "I think he could always do that, he just lacked the means to do so." The old man replies.

  Marvin walks up to them. "So now, I access my Preternatural ability through my soul tool, right?"

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  "Wrong." Mikael and Igor chorus.

  "Huh? Wasn't how this worked? Get a soul tool, you get an ability." Marvin inquires.

  "Actually, its the other way around." Mikael says.

  "The Soul tool is a Physical form of your innate ability." Igor says. "However, you don't have one, so even if you get a Soul Tool, you can only manipulate the Preternatural aura around yourself to harm fallen."

  "What? That's not fair." Marvin says. "I don't get to blast flames at people?"

  "Unfortunately not." Mikael says. "Well, I'm done for today. I'm going back with Chica, y'all stay frosty." He says and gets up from his seat.

  "What about our investigation thing?" Marvin asks.

  "Reschedule. I know you can." Mikael says, and walks away quickly.

  An abandoned building, somewhere in Uptown Bayside Central.

  The girl from earlier crashes in through the window as she transforms into her human form once more. She quickly hacks up blood. A buzzing sound leaves her shorts' pockets. SHe takes out her Card and answers the call. "What?!" She yells into the card.

  "Relax." Tremolo says, through the Card. "I was checking in to see if you got the job done."

  "Didn't get a chance. The big bad of the Chen family showed up." She says.

  "Gabriel Chen? There's no way. How'd you manage to escape then?" Tremolo says in disbelief.

  "His brother bought me a few precious seconds." She answers, cleaning the blood from her face, and getting shards of glass out of her skin.

  "Mike Chen? The guy you're trying to kill...saved your life?" Tremolo says and laughs.

  "Ironic, I know." She says dryly. "I'm still going to kill him."

  "Right. Call me when you get back to the base, The Enclave is meeting up soon." Tremolo says and ends the call.

  She throws her card. "Fuck."

  suddenly she gets a chill up her spine. *Someone's here*. She thinks to herself.

  "Look at the big balls on this lady." A feminine voice goes in the darkness of the building.

  "Who's there?" She asks, materializing her blade.

  "I don't know if I heard you correctly..." The voice continues. "But you said you want to kill Mikael Chen?"

  A dent is made in the wall next to her and the wall begins to crack around that point, before forming a large hole in it. The girl looks at it and moves away as quickly as possible.

  The person talking from the shadows walks into the daylight and reveals themselves to be Ramiel Chen.

  "It's you?!" the girl exclaims. "Ramiel Chen?"

  "In the flesh." She smiles.

  "How'd you know I'd be here?" The girl asks, trying to distance herself as much as possible.

  "I was on patrol with my elder brother when he found the Veil. He went in, I didn't." Ramiel explains. "I wasn't interested. But then, I watched you escape in the form of a bird. I know you didn't escape my brother by your own hands, so I followed you."

  Ramiel thinks to herself. *Those eyes. Mikael has one of them too. Could it be...?*

  "Have you ever heard of the Hand?" Ramiel asks.

  "I-I...I can't tell you that." She wavers.

  "So you have, then." Ramiel says. "Here's the deal..."

  The girl listens.

  "You work for me, now." Ramiel finishes.

  "What?" She says. "I joined the Enclave, not to take the side of the Winnowers later on."

  "I don't care if you still pledge allegiance to them or not, I don't care what your motives are..." Ramiel says and leans in closer to her face. "You work when I tell you too, because if you don't...I'll finish what my elder brother started."

  "You can't make me..." The girl says, as her eyes radiate fear.

  Ramiel makes a ball of red energy and fires it at a neighboring wall. It not only leaves a hole in it, but the wall start crumbling to pieces afterwards.

  "Trust me, I can. I can do that in so many, many ways." Ramiel says.