Far away in the desert, Shokei's party is following the raven, Osicrus, as they are heading off to a destination that is far from Granacur. Marie keeps up with her party as Mizuki is following her raven.

  "Are you sure that this raven of yours is leading us to the right path?" Saeko asked Mizuki.

  "I hope so." Mizuki replied. "But it seems that Osicrus traveled far to find the enemy's location."

  "Hey, I see something!" Obsidian said.

  "Same here." Kichiro said.

  The party can see that there is a stronghold in the middle of the desert. The party comes to a stop where Mizuki's pet bird has taken them.

  "A fortress." Mizuki said. "That's where Osicrus has taken us."

  "You think those men have brought Shokei and Beatrice in there?" Marie asked.

  "We can't be sure...but I know that Osicrus has taken us far to where we are now." Mizuki said.

  The party can see the rge stronghold, build out of cream-colored stone. There is a narrow-paved road and nearby is an open entrance that is guarded by two men. The party can see that they have reached far to their destination.

  "I wonder if our friends are all inside this fortress." Mizuki said.

  "Speaking of that, same goes for Lei and Rei." Saeko said. "Neither of us know what happened to them."

  "I guess they were kidnapped by the same men in bck outfits." Marie said with a prediction.

  "How can you tell?" Mizuki asked her. "Are you saying that this Moonhawk cn is behind all this?"

  "I think so." Marie replied. "I have been thinking about the others."

  "Hmm, if Shokei and Beatrice were carried in those bags, then my guess is that Lei and Rei were also kidnapped in the same way." Saeko said.

  "Maybe this is their method of kidnapping their victims." Sadako said.

  "I never thought we walked this far from the vilge." Kichiro said, looking back at the sandy desert.

  "We made it this far." Mizuki said to the party. "We need to storm into the stronghold even if it means to save our friends. I know that they are alive inside there, but we cannot tell what the enemy are going to do to them."

  "Then we should fight our way in." Saeko said.

  "Right. Now come." Mizuki said.

  The party heads to the stronghold and they all walk up the path leading to the pce.

  Inside the stronghold, Shokei and her party have already taken care of a few more members of Moonhawk as they were taken care of instantly. Right now, the party continues their way through while trying to escape.

  "Let's keep ourselves close. I don't want to lose any of you." Shokei tells everyone.

  "We should keep our eyes on the lookout if any of those goons try to attack us." Rei said.

  Everyone sneaks quietly as they are heading upstairs from the tomb that they were in. The party made their way to the first floor of the stronghold. Before they went further, the party hides in a corner while they let three members of Moonhawk pass by. After they walked on ahead, the party continues onward. While on foot, Shokei can see light coming from the small window of the fortress as they can see that they are stranded in the desert.

  "So that's where we are." Shokei said, peering out at the window.

  "We're in the middle of the desert." Rei said.

  "How in the hell will any of our party members find us here?" Beatrice asked.

  "Beats me." Rei replied with a shrug. "They don't know what happened to us."

  "Anyways, we have to keep moving or we'll get caught." Shokei said to her party.

  Just then, the party was about to turn to a corner, but then quickly hid back behind the wall to see more Moonhawk members walking down the path. The party turns back to see three members of Moonhawk coming their way. Shokei can see that they are stuck in the middle, feeling cornered.

  "Crap! What do we do?!" Hyacinth asked, now feeling worried.

  Shokei looks to see the three Moonhawk members coming to them. Suddenly, the trio went off to another direction.

  "Come." Shokei said to her party. "This way."

  The party heads off to the opposite direction. However, they did not move quick enough and then the four members of Moonhawk spotted them.

  "Hey! You!" The Moonhawk member called out to the group.

  "Huh?!" Shokei turns around along with her party.

  "How the hell did you bust out of your cell?!" The cn member angrily asked.

  "Great. Just great." Shokei said.

  The three Moonhawk members heard the noise and came back to confront the party. Shokei and Beatrice got their weapons ready whereas Rei and Lei are prepared to fight.

  "If it's a fight you want, then we'll show you dies the true meaning of pain!" The Moonhawk member tells them.

  "I'm ready to go ham on your asses." Rei tells him, cracking her knuckles, ready to fight.

  "No way I'll ever lose to you creeps!" Lei said.

  "You two take care of these guys on your side." Shokei said to her party members. "Me and Beatrice got these guys to take care of."

  "Got it!" Rei said.

  Shokei and Beatrice fought against the four members of Moonhawk as Rei and Lei are taking care of the three members on their side. The Moonhawk cn brandish out their scimitars on them and then the fight was on. Hyacinth stands there in the middle, hoping that she does not get killed.

  Rei and Lei are facing the three Moonhawk members. One of the cn members charged at the pair and the girls were all set to make the attack. Lei used her telekinesis against the member and made the enemy paralyzed in his pce. The cn feels his body unable to move and then Lei pushes him toward the other cn members back at them. The enemies fell to the ground. Rei made her move and charged up her first to make another Punching Bolt. Before the enemies could get up, Rei crashes her fist to the ground to make a shockwave effect. The Moonhawk cn members felt the electricity from the attack and then they all colpsed as they were wiped out instantly.

  "Ha ha! Nice!" Lei said with a proud smile.

  "I guess we showed them." Rei said to her. "I think your telekinetic powers will be of great use to get us out of here."

  "Heh heh, that's no problem." Lei said, nodded firmly.

  Shokei and Beatrice are in the process of taking care of the remaining cn members of Moonhawk. Together, they fought fiercely as their enemies wield their scimitars against them. The Moonhawks were skilled with their swords as they use it to their advantage. Shokei and Beatrice kept their defenses up as the fight against the cn members proven to be challenging.

  "Give it up dies!" The cn member tells them as they went for the offense. "There's no way you can defeat us!"

  "Wanna bet?!" Beatrice said, fiercely striking at one of the cn members.

  "Just hang in there!" Shokei tells Beatrice.

  Lei can see that Shokei and Beatrice are struggling in the fight against Moonhawk. She immediately helps them out with her psychic powers. The cn members stopped suddenly as they all feel the surroundings of the telekinetic force trapping them. Shokei and Beatrice cease fighting, and they turn to see Lei is pulling off the work against their enemies. Lei enforces the Moonhawk members to put them into a thrust position and then have them position the swords directly to each other. The enemies have no control, fearing that they are about to kill each other, and then Lei lets her telekinesis do the work by having her enemies thrust their swords into their chests, killing them on the spot. The enemies were killed after the effect from Lei's magic.

  "Woah! Great job Lei!!" Rei tells her.

  "Amazing, Lei." Beatrice tells her. "I owe you one."

  "It's nothing." Lei said with a smile.

  "We don't have time to waste." Shokei tells her party. "We must escort Hyacinth and ourselves out of this pce."

  Once the enemies of Moonhawk were dealt with, the party continues further into the fortress.

  Outside of the fortress, Shokei's party is approaching the entrance of the fortress. The party came to a stop when they saw the guards walking up to where they are coming from.

  "Halt!!" one of the Moonhawk guards called out to the party. "This is Moonhawk territory! You have no purpose being here!"

  "We are here to find and save our friends!" Mizuki tells them.

  "How did you find our hideout?!" The other cn member asked. "Who sent you?!"

  "A little friend of mines has led us into finding your hideout." Mizuki tells him.

  "WHAT?! You are about to trespass our turf! We won't let any of you go further!" The guard tells the party and unsheathes his scimitars.

  "We'll see about that!" Mizuki said, taking out her dagger. The party also has their weapons out to fight.

  The party can see that one of the guards made a whistle, indicating that they have company. Sadako sees this and quickly makes her move.

  "Chilling Icicle!" Sadako cast out.

  The guards were dealt with the ice spell, and it was super effective to take both guards out. However, it was too te as the party can see that there are Moonhawk members emerging out of the stronghold.

  "Uh-uo! There's more of them!" Marie pointed out.

  "We're going have to fight our way in." Obsidian said. "C'mon!"

  The party moves onward to fight the guards and make their way to the entrance of the fortress. Obsidian and Ferron worked together to take on the approaching cn members of Moonhawk and they used their weapons effectively by sshing through them. Obsidian swings his axe to chop away some of the Moonhawk members as Ferron was quick enough to cut through his enemies with his gss sword. The enemies were decimated within seconds and then the party exceeds to enter the fortress.

  Once inside, someone sees Shokei's party invading into the fortress. He looks out on the top tower and Robun is not amused of what he was seeing.

  "Dammit! Those meddling bastards found our hideout!!" Robun said with a pissed look. "Gather our men and kill them!"

  The Moonhawk member nodded and heads downstairs for the door.

  Meanwhile, Shokei and her party have made it outside of the fortress. However, they are lost in their way of escaping as they see the walls are surrounding them on the inside.

  "Geez!" Shokei said. "We'll never get out of this. Where's the exit?"

  "Who knows?" Rei said to her. "Where should we go next?"

  Looking around, the party can see that this fortress looks ancient with stairs around two corners and four open entrances, one on each side. The entrances are sealed off with rocks, making the escape impossible. There, Shokei and her party walks up to the middle of the ground floor and are figuring out what to do next.

  "Hmm?" Beatrice notices and points out. "Hey, look!"

  Just then, Shokei can see that there was someone running up to them. The party turns to see that the rest of the party are catching up to them.

  "Sh-SHOKEI!!" Marie calls out to her.

  "My friends!" Shokei said with a surprise. "You found me...but how?!"

  "No way! How did they find us?!" Rei asked.

  The party is reunited altogether.

  "Shokei!" Mizuki said with gdness. "You're alive and so is everyone."

  "How did you all managed to get here?" Shokei asked them.

  "I have my pet raven, Osicrus, to help us out." Mizuki tells her. "He was able to track down the men that are part of Moonhawk since st night."

  "I see." Beatrice said.

  "We found the King's daughter with us." Shokei said, having Hyacinth sees her party. "We found her in the same cell where we were pced in after being knocked out."

  "Nice to meet all of you..." Hyacinth waved to everyone. "I am Hyacinth, the King's daughter missing from Ursaror."

  "So, you're the King's daughter." Tamiko said.

  "Yes I am." Hyacinth said to her. "These fine people have saved me from those horrible men."

  "Really?" Marie asked. Then, she looks at Lei and Rei. "Then, whatever happened to you two?"

  "Not enough time to expin." Shokei said to her. "Now that we're all here, we need to escape this pce before any more of those Moonhawk freaks come looking for us."

  "Not so fast!!" a voice calls out to the party.

  Shokei and her party looks around. They all hear the sound of footsteps and then the party can see a groups of men, rushing above the square ptform as they all lined up from both sides to surround the area. The men have their target towards the party and Shokei can see that there are about more than one hundred members of Moonhawk. The men are all dressed in a bck long jacket with a red headband on their foreheads. The cn members look down on the party with their weapons all out. The party can hear ughter and there they see the leader of Moonhawk making his appearance. Shokei sees the red-haired man with the eye patch emerging from the top.

  "It seems that my small prisoners have escaped the clutches of my cell, along with the princess." Robun the Shadow said. "Why rush your way out when I have to settle with all of you coming to our turf?"

  "We already got the King's daughter with us." Shokei shouted at the Moonhawk leader. "We done enough damage to your men, and we don't want you to cause any more trouble towards us."

  "And where are you going with that girl?" Robun asked. "That girl belongs to us! We held her for ransom!"

  "No, we're bringing her back to Ursaror!" Rei tells him. "We don't know what pns you have with her, but we are not going to let you have it your way with her."

  "I believe you won't be taking the princess from us." Robun tells the party. "Should you fail to give her back to me, then my men will take care of you and your little friends."

  "Hey, you kidnapped her...and then you kidnapped me and my allies." Shokei said to him. "That's a sinful act your cronies have done to me! And we'll be the ones to put an end to your reign of terror."

  "Yeah!" Lei said.

  "You have the bitter nerve to kidnap a girl...and we fell victims to your traps." Beatrice said to the Moonhawk leader. "That is something that I cannot accept from a wicked man like you."

  "I'm going to break that head of yours!" Rei tells him. "You have a lot of nerve to ambush me, and my ally and I'll make sure I kill off each of your men around here!"

  "Heheheh..." Robun said with a smirked. "You dies can talk the talk, but I won't let any of you walk the walk. This fortress of mines here will be your graves and I'll let my men here help you with that."

  Robun turns to his cn members.

  "Moonhawks!" Robun shouted. "Go forth and kill those who invade our turf!!"

  The Moonhawk members made a war cry as they are about to attack Shokei and her party. Some of them men jump off from the ptforms and nded while half of them walked downstairs, rushing onward. The party can see that their enemies are about to attack, and the party are ready to take all of them on.

  "Oh no!" Hyacinth said, feeling scared.

  "Stay with me." Shokei said to her. "I'll protect you."

  "Here they come!" Rei said, geared up for action.

  The party dukes it out against the entire Moonhawk cn. Robun stands on top of the ptform as he stares down to see his men fighting Shokei and her party. He is not participating in the fight yet and spectates to see the outcome.

  Shokei and her party cshed against the men of Moonhawk. The party broke up in groups as they fought against the violent men. Shokei has Hyacinth with her along with Obsidian and Ferron as they ssh their way into defeating each foot cn member of Moonhawk. Rei and her group, Sadako, Saeko, and Kichiro, are taking care of the other half of the men and Lei works together with Tamiko and Naoko within the fight. Beatrice and Mizuki team up by working together in killing off the cn members. The fight against Moonhawk sted for a while as the party is killing off each member of Moonhawk as quickly as possible.

  Robun can see that Shokei and her party are making mincemeat out of his cn. The men died in defeat as they are being killed off in a bloody battle. He is not amused as soon as the final set of his men were killed off completely by the hands of Shokei.

  Impossible!! Wh-what are these guys are made out of?! H-how?!

  Robun looks down at the battlefield. He can see that all of his men were defeated in crimson and sees that most of his men lost parts of their body. Seeing limb by limb, the lead Moonhawk felt disgusted and angry. Robun jumps off the ptform and sees Shokei directly.

  "Impressive, you little bitch." Robun said to Shokei. "Very impressive."

  "Robun...this ends now..." Shokei tells him.

  "Not yet, I suppose." Robun said to her. "You have killed off every st man of my cn. And then you asked yourself, what can I do?"

  The party waits as they see the Moonhawk leader approaching the party.

  "Don't even think that I would give up easily." Robun said to them. "I can take all of you on by my own power."

  Just then, the Moonhawk leader takes out his sword. The sword magically appears in front of him. The sword turns out to be a two-handed sword in a form of a Zweihander. The length of the bde is long around sixty inches, and the sword is jagged edge. Shokei can see that Robun's sword looks long and sharper than her Mithrodin.

  "My strength lies within this bde that I carry." Robun said. "This bde shows no mercy, and this will lead you all to your graves."

  Shokei grips her sword as soon as he sees the enemy holding his weapon with both hands.

  "Show me what you got." Robun said.

  Robun charges right up to where the party is and then the fight against the Moonhawk leader begins underway.

  "Woah! Look out!!" Shokei shouted out to her party.

  The party moves out of the way in time as Robun made his first move with his Zweihander, taking a big swing. Missing his target, Robun turns and goes after Shokei.

  "Huh?!" Shokei looks behind and said, "What the?!"

  "Grrrrrr!!!" Robun growls as he grips his sword to charge after her.

  "Tamiko! Lei!!" Shokei said to her. "Protect Hyacinth! Take her somewhere safe and protect her!"

  "Ok!" Tamiko said.

  Tamiko and Lei did as Hyacinth comes to them and take her to a safe pce. Ferron grips his gss bde and rushes after Robun to prevent him from targeting Shokei. The Moonhawk leader sees him coming and he rolls out of the way and makes a thrust against him. Ferron sees the attack and jumps back to avoid getting struck. Robun then made another roll forward and quickly makes a swift punch at Ferron. The impact of the punch made him powerful enough to send Ferron back to the ground. Beatrice makes her move against the enemy and attempts to strike. Robun sees her coming and then quickly used his Zweihander in defense to fend off her attacks. He made a guarding impact as soon as Beatrice tries to attack him. Beatrice loses her bance and then Robun goes in for a overhead strike.

  "Oh no you don't!" Rei calls out to him.

  Rei rushes in time to give the enemy a swift punch in the stomach. The Moonhawk leader felt the punch as he falls down, but quickly jumps on his feet in recovery. Shokei sees the opportunity to attack and then she charged after him with her Mithrodin. Robun then sees Shokei and swings his sword in time. Shokei dodges the attack as she rolls out of the way. Then, the enemy leaps in the air and nds on the ptform. Shokei sees Robun on top and she quickly runs up the stairs to confront him.

  "You just don't give up, do you?" Robun asked her.

  "I'll never give into defeat...not when I'm standing." Shokei tells him.

  "Hmmph!" Robun said and holds back his Zweihander. "Till death do you part!"

  Robun can see Shokei coming after him again and he swings his sword against her. Shokei cshes with the enemy's weapon and both swords cling together. The two exchange swings as both sides csh with their weapons. Ferron and Beatrice ran upstairs to help out Shokei in the fight.

  "No matter what the odds are, I will not fall out without a fight!" Robun said.

  "Maybe, but I'm not through with you yet!!" Shokei tells him.

  Ferron and Beatrice came to Shokei's aid and all three of them are fighting all out against the leader of Moonhawk. Robun advances on Shokei and her party as he used his Zweihander constantly with both offense and defensive methods. The party is having trouble with this intense fight as they are not making progress into nding one strike with their weapons.

  There has to be a better way to defeat him...that sword he wields is too powerful! Shokei thought to herself.

  Watching from the top, Tamiko can see how Robun is capable of using defensive strategy with the use of his Zweihander.

  "I got it!" Tamiko said.

  "What's that?" Lei asked her.

  Standing from her corner, Tamiko takes out her crossbow and she sets up her bolt arrow to target Robun. With her crossbow in pce, Tamiko waits patiently and studies Robun's movement.

  "Let's see if I can even things out." Tamiko said.

  "Hmm..."

  Lei watches as Tamiko aims and fires her bolt arrow at Robun. Once fired, Lei uses her sense of concentration to make her arrow home in on the target. The arrow aims directly on Robun's leg.

  "Guhhhh!!"

  Robun felt the penetration on his leg. He feels a sharp foreign object has injured his kneecap and sees the arrow in pce. With this distraction, this gave Shokei and her two allies the advantage to strike at the Moonhawk leader.

  Robun tries to defend himself as soon as he felt open to become an easy target. However, the injury on his knee got the best of him as Ferron sshes away by giving the enemy cuts and bruises. Robun felt damaged on his body from the ssh attack, and he steps back while gripping his sword. Beatrice stays at her distance in case the enemy makes a move with his sword. Shokei goes up to attack Robun and as she saw the enemy trying to swing his sword, Shokei quickly parries the sword in time and then made a thrusting counter to the chest.

  "Gah!!!"

  Robun gasps as he felt the thrust going through his chest. Then, he lost his grip of his sword. Shokei then thrusts the sword out of the enemy by kicking him. Robun's lifeless body falls from the ptform as he fell to his death on the ground. The party sees that the critical hit has been done as Robun the Shadow, leader of Moonhawk, died in battle.

  Shokei looks down to see that her enemy has been killed. The rest of Shokei's party, including Hyacinth, goes over to see if Robun has died. The cuts and wounds and the stabbing are viewed, and they can see that the leader of Moonhawk has been done for.

  "He...he's dead..." Hyacinth said, blinking.

  "What just happened?" Shokei asked. "The enemy was standing strong until he got injured on his leg..."

  "Shokei..." Beatrice said, pointing out to Tamiko.

  Shokei sees Tamiko there, showing off her crossbow.

  "...I see." Shokei said and nodded to her ally as a sign of thanks.

  "I had to distract him." Tamiko said to Shokei. "It was the only way to lower his defense."

  "Aha." Beatrice said.

  "Seems this parasite is no longer a threat to us." Ferron said, putting his gss bde away. "We can be relieved now."

  "He's done." Shokei said. "Now that he's been defeated, we can escort the King's daughter back to Ursaror."

  After Robun has been defeated, the party leaves the fortress.