Sanctuary
Hot Pursuit

"She's near the motorway, in a shop that's been converted into a cell" Lumina explained to Ariel, Ashe, Wes and Anya.

"So why are we waiting around? Let's get moving!" Ariel grunted as she tried to head for the door.

"Wait!" Lumina barred Ariel's path.

"Move!" Ariel said as she tried to push Lumina aside.

"This is quite clearly a distraction, if not a trap" Lumina said.

"Hmm, you're not wrong, this sounds a little too easy" Anya nodded. "We seem to have a 100% chance of a successful rescue" She added.

"Hmm, but then, what are they distracting us from?" Ashe asked. Ariel slapped her palm on her head.

"Of course!" She shouted, making the others jump. "They plan to bring down the artificial sky, today" She explained.

"That makes sense" Wes nodded in agreement.

"We can't tackle both fires at once" Lumina sighed.

"Then we bring Dex and the others in on this" Ariel grinned.

"Right, strength in numbers" Wes agreed.

"I'll head to where Roisin is, Ariel, you come with me" Lumina said.

"Me and Anya will go and inform Dex" Wes nodded.

"Good luck" Ariel nodded as she and Lumina headed outside into the corridor, Lumina walked slightly ahead of Ariel.

"You try to pull anything, and I will kill you" Ariel grunted.

"I'd like to see you try" Lumina chuckled. "But fear not, I'm not planning anything, and I do not have an ulterior motive" She shrugged.

"Then you are doing this for Roisin?" Ariel asked.

"Yes, and for Crystalla" Lumina shrugged.

"Why the change of heart?" Ariel quizzed Lumina.

"I... discovered something about who destroyed my city..." Lumina reluctantly replied.

"Go on" Ariel prompted Lumina.

"All this time, I had thought it was the doing of Abyssia, that she had made humans lay waste to my city..." Lumina explained.

"Yet you and her never fought" Ariel shrugged as the two stepped into an elevator.

"Yes, because I am her, and she is me, fighting her would have been fighting myself. The humans however, I believed did it of their own free will" Lumina continued.

"You discovered they didn't?" Ariel asked.

"It was Treleva, and from what I can tell, he used his Mystic skill to brainwash innocent people into destroying Utopia" Lumina explained, as they both stepped out of the elevator into the foyer.

"So that means you killed all those people... for petty revenge?" Ariel growled.

"Yes, but look, now isn't the time. We have to save Roisin, you can hate me all you want later" Lumina sighed, as they both headed outside. Ariel nodded and headed over to her car, as she got in, she noticed a black car parked across the street.

"We have company" She said as she started the engine and sped off, the black car followed in pursuit. A gunman leant out of the window but began firing on them.

"Deal with them, would you?" Ariel grunted, as she swerved to avoid other cars to get onto the motorway.

"As you wish" Lumina nodded, she climbed out of the window and onto the roof, summoning a spear of ice, she threw it and hit the driver of the black car, the car tumbled and crashed through the window of a shop.

"Good shot" Ariel yelled through the sunroof, as she looked up she spotted an unknown airship. "Above us!" She shouted, Lumina nodded and looked up at the airship.

The airship fired its rapid cannon at the road just behind the car.

"Hurry!" Ariel panicked. Lumina jumped into the air and grabbed onto the airship and climbed inside, she made her way through the ship, making short work of the armed crew, before reaching the cabin.

The pilot turned around, with a gun, but before he could shoot he was tossed out of the window, Lumina turned on the loudspeaker.

"I'm in control now, I'll keep watch from up here" She announced.

Across the city in the lab, Dex and the others were at the window watching the chase unfold.

"What on Crystalla is going on over there?" Dex yelled.

"It's uh... Lumina and Ariel" Syl gasped, while watching the news coverage.

"Fighting each other?" Dex asked, as he frowned.

"They're working together to fend off a third party it seems" Syl nodded.

"Hmm, send out the city guard, lend them all the assistance they need" Dex ordered, as he spoke the doors to the lab burst open, and Anya and Wes ran in.

"The city is in danger" Wes said as he caught his breath.

"Roisin has been kidnapped and a cult is planning to bring down the artificial sky" Anya explained, not needing to catch her breath.

"Bring down... the sky?" Dex gasped.