Far away from where the fight is happening at the chapel, Shokei's party is finishing off the Griffins. Obsidian and Ferron are taking care of the st touches against the st Griffin as they both thrusts their swords into the abdomen. The final Griffin has been killed off and its whole body goes down on the floor, dead.

  "That's about the st of them." Ferron said.

  "Great." Mizuki said and asked. "Where did Shokei went off to?"

  "She was chasing after that Necromutant." Rei said. "That's all I can recall but I have not seen her come back here to help us."

  "Where do you think she went off to?" Mizuki asked.

  Rei looks over to see that there is a cemetery that is located on the far-right side.

  "We should check the cemetery." Rei tells everyone. "Maybe that's where she headed off to."

  The party heads west to the cemetery.

  In the chapel, Shokei and Zgebus are still fighting each other. The masked ninja threw two throwing knives at Shokei in fast speed. Shokei makes a dive for it to avoid the enemy's attack. Shokei keeps herself up in the fight against the Necromutant as she sees that Zgebus is quick in agility.

  "Your time is short, Emissary." Zgebus tells her. "It's time to seal the deal."

  Zgebus makes another charge at Shokei. Seeing the enemy coming towards her again, Shokei leaps back and avoids the enemy's iron cw.

  "Ahhhh!!"

  Once she nded on her feet, a lightning bolt aimed directly towards Shokei. Not being able to defend, she was hit with the jolt of lighting and feels the impact sending her back to the wall. Once she got hit, Shokei looks up to see who struck her with lighting.

  "Ughhh..." Shokei grunts in pain, paralyzed, and looks up to see that Hauntmystic struck her with lighting.

  Zgebus nds to where his fellow Necromutant is.

  "Good work." Zgebus tells his ally.

  "I knew that she was foolish enough to fall right for my attack." Hauntmystic said with ughter. "Now, we can finish off the Emissary while she's stunned."

  "With pleasure." Zgebus said, holding up his Ironcw.

  Shokei tries to get back up on his feet, but the bolt has stunned her. Zgebus has his weapon in hand, and he is ready to finish her off. He moves in for the kill.

  Suddenly, the tainted windows crashed as someone bursts through the scene and nds near Shokei. The figure tries to attack Zgebus by wielding its sword. Zgebus saw someone coming in the scene and he quickly flips back right before the sword even strikes at him.

  Shokei looks up to see that there is someone protecting her. She sees a man in a knight's armor, with yellowish brown hair that looks spike down. The sword he wields is a Long Sword about thirty inches long.

  "What the?!" Hauntmystic said angrily. "Who is that?!"

  "Dammit! I was this close to finishing you." Zgebus said, looking pissed.

  "Fall back for now." Hauntmystic said to him. Then, she looks at Shokei. "Consider yourself lucky Emissary. I'll be sure to get my hands on those gems if you are capable into finding all of them!"

  The Necromutants vanished, leaving the area.

  Shokei gets up from the ground to see that there is a man that saved her life.

  "You...you saved me." Shokei said, recovering from being stunned.

  The man turns around to see Shokei.

  "Who are you?" Shokei asked him.

  "A knight from the Kingdom of Ursaror." The man tells her. "I am Toyama. My duty is to protect the princess at all times."

  "Ehh, I...I'm not a princess..." Shokei points out to him.

  "Even if you're not a princess, I protect warriors like you that are approaching danger in the heat of battle." Toyama said.

  "Umm...thanks." Shokei tells him.

  "If I must ask, have you seen the princess anywhere in this realm?" Toyama asked her.

  "You mean Hyacinth, right?" Shokei asked him.

  "Yes." Toyama replied.

  "I have found the princess." Shokei tells him. "I'm not the only one here. My allies have found her."

  "You did?" Toyama asked. "Where is she?"

  "The princess is trapped in stone by the enemies you just saw before your eyes." Shokei tells him.

  "Seriously?" Toyama asked.

  "Of course." Shokei tells him. "I know where she can be found."

  "Really?" Toyama asked her.

  Before Shokei could reply, she and Toyama hear footsteps coming in the chapel.

  "There you are!" Rei calls out to Shokei.

  "I take that you defeated the Griffins." Shokei said.

  "We took care of them, all right." Rei said and asked. "Are you ok?"

  "I'm fine." Shokei replied. "I had another encounter with one of the Necromutants."

  "Necro...what?" Toyama asked in confusion.

  "It's a long story." Shokei tells him. "It will be too much for you to know."

  "Oh, ok." Toyama said.

  "Geez, Shokei. You should not have abandoned us like that. What if you got killed by our enemies?" Rei asked her.

  "We were concerned about you when we fought those, Griffins." Sadako said to her.

  "Sorry about that." Shokei said to her party. "I felt...the need to go after the enemy. I was in rage."

  "That's ok." Rei said to her. "You could have tagged me along with you."

  "Never do that again without us!" Sadako said to her. "We need you."

  "Aside from that, who's this guy?" Rei asked, pointing out the man in the Knight armor. "Did he help you out?"

  "He did." Shokei replied. "He's an ally from Ursaror and saved my life."

  "I see." Sadako said, seeing Toyama.

  "The name's Toyama, one of the Knights from Ursaror." The Medieval Knight introduces himself to the group.

  "Nice to meet you." Ferron said.

  "Anyways, we need to show Toyama what truly happened to Hyacinth." Shokei said to everyone. "Come on."

  The party leaves the chapel to return back to the site. There, the party returns back to the area where the petrified princess is located near the Obelisk. Toyama examines the statue and looks at it.

  "Hmm, are you sure that this is the actual princess?" Toyama asked.

  "Of course." Shokei replies to him. "This is the princess trapped in the statue."

  "Bsphemy!" Toyama said in disbelief. "There is no way that she has been put in such curse."

  "Don't believe it?" Shokei asked and turns to Mizuki. "She knows the answer."

  "It is true." Mizuki said to Toyama. "I can still feel the dark energy within the statue. It proves that the Necromutants have did their part in sealing her in stone."

  "Hmm..." Toyama looks back at the statue.

  "Do you have anything that will lift off the curse?" Shokei asked Mizuki.

  "No. I don't have any cure for this type of condition." Mizuki replied.

  "I see..." Shokei said and looks at Toyama. "So, you know anything about this? Do you have any idea that this incident that happened to Hyacinth?"

  "Let's see..." Toyama said, trying to remember. "I was with the princess at the time when my men and I traveled to this Necropolis. Princess Hyacinth was looking for something that is an important treasure found somewhere in this area. Once we made it here, we were attacked by a strange woman in a weird outfit. I never seen such being with an odd dress before. She was not alone as she is accompanied by a masked man in a ninja outfit."

  "Then...," he continued. "The guy in a weird ninja outfit caused nuisance on me and I was doing my best to defend the princess at the same time. I didn't get a chance to look back on Princess Hyacinth. My focus has been on that strange ninja warrior...and I have not looked back on my men. All I can remember from that moment is when I was caught off guard and was knocked unconscious from an unknown attack that struck me. I bcked out, thinking that I was dead."

  "Damn..." Shokei said.

  "It's crazy." Toyama said. "But yes, that's what had happened to me."

  "Hearing this, if the true princess is right here in the Necropolis, then how did our enemy become the fake princess that my allies and I have rescued?" Shokei asked.

  "What are you talking about?" Toyama asked.

  "The fake princess was kidnapped by a group of bandits." Mizuki tells him. "We were told that the princess was found in a vilge of Granacur."

  "Really?" Toyama said. "I remember that Princess Hyacinth pnned to come to this Necropolis to find a Sanctuary that is around this area. King Marmaduke, her father, would not allow her to travel here and it was dangerous to come here because of the sandstorm."

  "Then how did she managed to get here?" Obsidian asked.

  "It was the night when the princess pnned to sneak out of the castle." Toyama recalled. "We managed to escape the castle without half of my men knowing. Then it was me, her, and those that volunteered, to come travel with us to reach the Necropolis. The sandstorms died down at night and heading here was easier."

  "At least you guys have it easier." Lei said to him.

  "Aside from all this, what is your purpose of coming here?" Toyama asked.

  "My purpose is to not only find Hyacinth, but I am searching for a particur gem." Shokei tells him.

  "Princess Hyacinth mentioned the same thing, but...I could not recall what she was searching for in the Sacred Sanctuary." Toyama said, looking at the statue. "She has pnned to come here to find an important treasure that is located here."

  "Do you know where we can find this Sanctuary?" Shokei asked.

  "Of course!" Toyama nodded. "If we head up north from here, we just need to pass the gates to where the other gravesite is found and from there, the Sanctuary is found in one of the tombs."

  "In one of the tombs?" Mizuki asked with a puzzled look. "What is a Sanctuary doing underground?"

  "I was curious of the same thing too." Toyama said. "I mean, this is an ancient area. I'll be gd to help you all so that you won't go around searching for the Sanctuary."

  "You will?" Shokei asked.

  "Absolutely!" Toyama replied. "It's a Knights honor."

  "Good! Let's not keep ourselves waiting here." Shokei said.

  The party leaves the petrified princess behind and they all head north to the next gravesite.