"Ok, so we'll have to find him and see how many people are with him first. Once we do that then we can make a decision on how we're going to complete the mission." While they still didn't have a real plan Juan still felt better knowing they had an idea of what their plan might be. They'd just have to wait and see before making a real decision. Juan would again start walking in a direction leading to a group of large buildings he had seen while flying over the island. The letter hadn't specified where the man would be located but those buildings seemed like exactly the type of buildings where an important diplomat would do business. The duo would've really been lost if there hadn't been a picture of the man's face on the back of the letter. While the two walked Juan would pull the letter out of his pocket and flip it over to see it again. "He's uglier than he should legally be allowed to be" After the short jab at his target Juan and Rocco would arrive at their destination.

"So Rocco, do you think this guy will have one of those secret service groups surrounding him so that we can't even see him?" Juan would comment without thinking. After a moment of thought he would facepalm and say,"Oh right! He's from Skypeia so he and all the people with him will probably have wings. We just need to look out for a group of guys with wings. JUan looked through the crowd, looking past the large groups of people all going in and out of buildings through what must have been the 'political district' of Water 7. The two men would likely both stay in their same spot, but when they don't see any winged men Juan would turn to Rocco and say,"I don't see anyone around here, so I'm going to get an aerial view. Find a way to signal me if you see the target," After stopping for a second to hear Rocco's reply, Juan would fly up about 20 meters into the air, allowing him to see everyone moving around below him. He stayed there hovering silently trying to scope out what was going on beneath him for about 20 minutes, and when his wings began to tire and he was ready to land and catch his breath he struck gold. A group of about 7 people, all with wings. 6 of the people were female, and appeared to be bodyguards, and in the middle of them all stood the lone male of the group: Juan's target. The 6 females surrounded the male as he walked, so it was unlikely someone on the group would be able to see him specifically; but the group as a whole stood out greatly as they were the only people aside from Juan with wings in the area. Once he saw them Juan would fly down to Rocco and try to whisper to him,"That group of winged girls right there is where the target is. I'm going to let you make the call: are there too many of them to fight right now or should we go for it? I don't think we'll need to worry about civilians since they can't do anything but its up to you."

"Oh!" Juan wouldn't even get to finish his question before Rocco answered him with his actions. The other young man disappeared in the blink of an eye, presumably to attack the guards. Hoping that that was what had happened and that he hadn't just run away, Juan would dash towards the guards as well, using his skill in combat to launched at full speed instantly. Before he got close to them he took a moment to take in the appearances of the guards, all of which were identical except for one who looked the same aside from the fact that they stood almost half a foot taller. Because Juan could fly, he wold use his wings to fly towards his target just high enough to stay above the heads of the civilians. Since Rocco took time to build up speed and took evasive maneuvers around the civilians he and Juan would reach the group of winged people at just about the same time even though Rocco had launched towards them before Juan had. "I guess I'll take care of the ones on the left, hopefully Rocco takes out some of the other ones." With his hope in mind Juan would flatten both of his hands at leap towards the two leftmost guards before striking out aggressively with both palms.

Things wouldn't go exactly as Juan had planned though, because when those two guards he had been targeting fell to Rocco's attack his palms with flying through the gap in the perimeter, striking the Diplomat in the ribs. The man was not overly durable, and so it was no surprise when Juan felt his ribs cracking beneath his hands, down into the man's lungs. Juan unfortunately wouldn't get a chance to think about his mistake before the  remaining guards all struck out at him at once, forcing him to launch himself backwards and out of their range. Rocco had instantly knocked out 2 of the 6 Guards during his sneak attack, so that left four to fight against Juan and Rocco. "You have no idea of what you've done, by attacking Aleos of Skypeia you have condemned yourself to death!" The tallest of the 4 winged women said as she struck out at Rocco with a closed fist. Two of the remaining women turned their sights to Juan as the last remaining winged woman scooped Aleos into her arms and prepared to take to the skies.'No! I can't let her just take him away!' Juan tried to fly up and stop her from taking him, but he was met by the last remaining women. "Sorry, but you won't be going anywhere." Realizing he had no choice but to fight the  two women, Juan would get into a combat stance in the air and shout down to his companion,"Rocco! One of us is going to have to wrap this up quick if we're going to get this done."

The two women currently in front of Juan didn't appear to be that strong, but they would obviously be skilled if they were tasked with guarding such an important man. Deciding that it would be best to not underestimate them Juan would throw off his cloak to avoid having his movement limited. "Don't blink, or you might miss me." With that, Juan dashed towards his two opponents and formed both of his hands into ridge hands. As one of the winged women attempted to swing her fast at Juan she would find his hand sunk into her neck. The action came before she could even process that he was attacking her; and she would find herself still continuing her swinging motion as her body shut down, she literally slid from Juan's hand and she fell to the ground, the impact from the 10 meter fall only speeding up her blood loss and sealing her fate even further. Her stunned companion was forced to watch helplessly as her fellow guard was ruthlessly dealt with. "Your turn." The now thoroughly bloodlusting Juan would say to the remaining woman in a gruff voice before knocking her even higher into the sky with two palm strikes directed into her stomach. Her body temporarily paralyzed from the impact and unable to draw breath, she was left at Juan's mercy. Flying upwards up to 40 meters, her descent  was quick but just slow enough to allow Juan time to smirk as he formed knife hands and jabbed above him as he flew up to meet her in the air. The speed at which the two winged individuals were moving caused their meeting to be extremely bloody, with Juan's hand cutting cleanly through the woman's lower abdomen on the right side, allowing her to fall with her blood and internal organs spilling all around her.

Fight over, Juan would float down to where Rocco was holding the diplomat and say to him,"That was pretty easy." The job wouldn't look so easy though when the diplomat they had been responsible for kidnapping ALIVE began to cough up blood.  "That's not good, we need to get him to the Children of the Sun asap. If he dies, it needs to at least happen under their care. Grabbing the Diplomat from Rocco amd handing him the letter with the location they were supposed to bring him to, Juan would fly away from the scene towards the printed location.

Juan arrived at the marked location, A  large warehouse near the area that used to be the slums of Water 7. Landing just outside of it, Juan would stop just in front of the massive doors and wait for Rocco with the Diplomat over his shoulders. Once Rocco’s arrival occurs Juan would knock loudly on the warehouse doors until they began to open and reveal Kaiyo and his group of men waiting for them. Kaiyo would look over the group and stop his gaze on Rocco. ”What the hell is this? You’ve brought a non believer into our presence and he is allowed to be conscious?” Juan knows that he needs to convince him of Rocco’s loyalty, but he also felt that he couldn’t trust Rocco to say the correct thing. Rocco didn’t know these people, and if he said something wrong they would both be killed so he decided to speak for him,”This man here is no nonbeliever, his faith is stronger than anyone’s and without him I wouldn’t have been able to complete my task. He stopped the Skypiean security from escaping with the target and ensured that he was brought here safely.” Once Juan mentioned the target though, Kaiyo would momentarily forget about Rocco as he noticed the poor state of the man. ”And what is this? The target is nearly dead! You were supposed to bring him here alive." Juan would place his hand on the back of his head as he attempted to explain, knowing that it would be better to just take the blame for his mistake,”That’s on me. When Rocco here took down the security I was a bit hasty in my attack and ended up striking and wounding the target. I’m truly sorry Kaiyo, and I understand if you believe it necessary to punish me”. Juan was willing to deal with whatever punishment they had for him, especially if it meant they wouldn’t blame Rocco; he’d hate to have the martial artist killed for trying to help him with his mission. Kaiyo would then sigh as he looked at the two men and decided that they had proven their worth to the cause,”Fine, you’ve technically brought him here, and you’ve proven that you are willing to use lethal force to further the goals of the Children of the Sun, so I don’t think a second trial will be necessary. You have been successfully initiated into the Children of the Sun though you have also proven that you aren’t as capable as we initially believed. You will be sentenced to a week of janitor duty, and you will need to speak with the Son soon. For now, run to the crematorial chamber and make sure it gets cleaned.”

With that, Juan would be led by one of the Children of the Sun to the area just like the one he had seen on Jaya, where he had seen the body of the non believer being burned.It was a small chamber about the the size of a typical 2 car garage, with a pit that he guessed was normally filled with flames about 3 feet wide and 10 feet deep in the middle of the room. On the far right corner of the room there was a table covered in oily rags that would presumably be used to wrap the body along with… a bowl of fruit? Apparently even sadistic cultist torturers worried about eating healthy. As Juan walked into the room, the man leading him would run away from the area. Juan could instantly understand why as the air was filled with the powerful odor of burning flesh. The smell burned Juan’s nose and nearly caused him to throw up.  When Juan walked over to the pit he gazed down into it and noticed a body on the ground that was not fully burned.The body was completely burnt and covered in rag aside from the hands. Juan peered into the pit to get a closer look and noticed that the hands of the body were not normal hands, as they had paw pads on the palms. ”What kind of freaky person has paws? He doesn’t look like any sort of mink.” The confusion from the freaky corpse and the smell of burnt flesh combined to thoroughly fuck up Juan’s stomach. ”Maybe if i ate something it would calm down, or at least the taste of something good could counter this sickness.” Walking over to the bowl of fruit on the table Juan would look over the options. He saw apples, oranges, and kiwis; all of which looked delicious. On top though, there was a fruit Juan had never seen before. If was a brown fruit that looked sort of like a larger kiwi with much thinner hairs and a swirl pattern all over it. ”That fruit looks crazy,”Juan would say to himself, curious about whether or not he should eat it. ”Well...it is always fun to try new things, and they wouldn’t just have this fruit lying here if it wasn’t ok to eat.” Rationalizing over, Juan picked up the strange fruit and ate half of it in one massive bite. As Juan’s tongue touched the fruit, his skin turned the same shade of green as his dialogue font,”Blech, that fruit tasted horrible” Juan out part of the fruit as he spoke, but the damage had already been done. Juan’s previously perfect hands turned into paws as his body was shifted from the powers of the strange fruit. Juan looked down and his strange new paws and could only force himself to say three words, What. The. Hell.”

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While Juan was busy being altered by fruits, Kaiyo was dealing with Rocco,”Now as for you, you’ll have to speak to the Son of Ra, the leader of our group, personally. We’ll let him decide on your fate.” With that, Kaiyo and his crew would walk away from Rocco without even listening to what he had to say, leading him to a chamber of the warehouse where the leader presumably resided. ”Go on in then initiate, the Son will judge you personally to decide if you are truly a believer.”

EXIT