Tenkai Knights Wiki:Fanon/Story/The Birth Of A New Love

The Birth Of A New Love is a fanfiction story written by Joshuajacobson95 on the portal tenkai-knights.wikia.com. It was published on January 19, 2015.

Overview
Vilius grows impatient, but when Sirenius creates three female Quartonians, things get wack. On Earth, Ceylan was bored, but when he and the Knights meets the three new members of the Corrupted, one of the three female robots grows attracted to him. Is this a trap or a birth of a new love?

Story
Chapter 1: The New Female Corrupted and Ceylan's Depression

Normal POV:

at vilius's new fortress he and vatron had been having less progress with the plans to conquer earth and quarton, yet thats proven difficult vilius grew mad “the nerve, seven knights now? I just can't stand it.” vilius said in an angry tone, but sirenius then walks into the throne interrupting their conversation “oh vatron guess who?” sirenius said as she winks her eye, vatron went silent then spoke “what do you want sirenius?” vatron asked with concern. Sirenius spoke “i heard that we been having more problems with the knights defeating us, I guess it sounded frustrating?” sirenius said, vilius chuckled “vatron your right hand girl sounds very amusing, but I can't tolerate absolute FAILURE.” vilius yelled in anger, but sirenius smiled “nether of you will be disappointed when I tell you this, I was in the new reassembly device and created three new corrupted solders, oh and trust me don't let their looks fool you.” sirenius said when three quartonians walked into the new throne of vilius. Vatron and vilius went silent as they stared in awe, but they shook their heads and woke back up to reality, vatron smiled “well done sirenius, this might be a good idea.” vatron said, sirenius then smiled “meet signia, spriya and romalovia.” sirenius said as vilius nodded “alright I have a mission for you three, I want you to go into battle and destroy the tenkai knights” vilius ordered, the three new corrupted solders nodded and they spoke “as vatron and vilius command.” they said, vilius and vatron went silent “wait their girls?” vatron asked, sirenius nodded “of course they are, plus they have a dark secret.” sirenius said with a wink. Vilius made a sinister grin when he heard this 'a dark secret eh? Very interesting.' vilius thought to himself, for this was the beginning of a new plot to destroy the tenkai knights for good.

Meanwhile on Earth

Normal POV:

guren and the others were at the diner having lunch, well ceylan was just telling the group his jokes, but they didn't like them well none except kiro. Then there was a silence for a moment until kiro spoke “ceylan now that i'm older I can always hang out with you guys but for some reason I was curious to why we were chosen to be the tenkai knights.” kiro asked, the group went silent yet they haven't been summoned in two months, yet its been so quiet lately but “well kiro sometimes when your a hero you could get lots of things like fame and saving people from the blah blah blah blah.” ceylan said with a bored look on his face but then he notice there were boys hanging out with girls. this got ceylan in a depressed mood guren and the others notice it “hey ceylan are you okay?” guren asked with concern, ceylan spoke “huh? Oh! yeah i'm okay just a little bored, thats all.” ceylan said with a gloomy look. Guren and the others notice it but then beni spoke “maybe its because that someone couldn't find the girl of his dreams.” beni said, ceylan's face turned red and grew mad, but then their core bricks began to glow “guys we're being summoned.” guren said, then ceylan shouted “finally its about time.” ceylan said as they ran out the door and went to mr. whites shop.

Chapter 2: Back in Battle and First Whiff of Pheromones

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on quarton the corekai were in the middle of the battlefield fighting the corrupted army “keep the corrupted busy corekai until the knights arrived.” beag commanded, until the tenkai knights appeared “sorry we're late beag whats the situation?” bravenwolf asked “the corrupted are back again and now their in greater numbers then before.” beag said, but somewhere around the battle field sirenius and her creations were watching the battle “hmm so these are the tenkai knights bravenwolf, tributon, valorn, lydendor, valorn, dromus, venetta and beealia, this looks interesting right girls?” signia asked as the other two and sirenius nodded but romalovia notice that she caught her eyes on one of the knights know as tributon 'so that blue knight is tributon, he's looks so tough.' romalovia thought to herself as she started to grow curious about tributon. Sirenius then spoke “alright girls lets give the knights a warm greeting shall we?” sirenius said, in the battlefield the knights were ready for battle and tributon shouted “well don't worry beag we'll take them down as we always d...” tributon said until he was interrupted by a light and this light was so familiar to the knights but they just don't remember what it is. However venetta remembers that light and she can guess who it is “everyone look up there?” valorn shouted as pointed at the familiar figure “sirenius!” venetta said, then sirenius laughed “hello tenkai knights and venetta its been a while, did you boys miss me?” sirenius said, dromus remembered the last time he saw her, but beealia didn't know her at all “um venetta who's that? I'm new to this thing.” beealia said with concern, venetta spoke “thats sirenius shes one of the corrupted.” venetta said, but then sirenius spoke “venetta who's your new friend here nevermind that its time we show you our secret weapons.” sirenius said when three new quartonians appeared they were in different colors, one was in magenta color, the second was a triple colored on of pink, orange and red, the third one was all purple and blue with a cat face on her chest plate. The knights were showing an awkward look as they saw them tributon then spoke “seriously how many quartonian colors are there?” tributon exclaimed but valorn showed a silent and awkward look “okay this is getting even more weirder and even more random.” valorn said, but sirenius and the three new corrupted solders felt insulted when valorn said this, then spriya spoke “oh! now you hurt our feelings valorn, I think you should apologize to us?” spriya said as she flirted, the knights became silent as they notice something odd about her voice “wait a minute, all three of them are girls?” tributon said in shock, the three new solders nodded “thats right blue metal man allow us to introduce ourselfs, im signia and these are my sisters spirya and romalovia, so lets get this battle started.” signia said, the three new corrupted female solders jumped into the battlefield and charged at the corekai until they stopped running and stood where they stopped running, but then they walked over to them and then their armor sprayed a some kind of pink glistering gas. The corekai breathed it and they started to gather around the female trio, the knights grew confused “um what am I seeing exactly?” bravenwolf asked, sirenius giggled “ooh! you'll see.” sirenius said with a smirk on her face, then an oddly weird aura appeared around the group of corekai solders surrounding the trio, it looked like dark tenkai energy and after that moment the corekai solders were corrupted with tenkai energy, the knights, beag, and the rest of the corekai gasped in horror “oh no!” bravenwolf said, lydendor then spoke “what just happened to them?” lydendor said with a worried look on his face “they been corrupted with dark tenkai energy.” dromus exclaimed “well what are we waiting for lets take them down?” tributon said as he charged at the corrupted corekai solders while using his tenkai arrow, but the other knights knew that they have to fight so they went back into battle. Tributon started focusing all of his tenkai energy and shouted “TENKAI ICEBLAST GO!” tributon said as he fired his elemental attack and the corrupted corekai became frozen “oh yeah feeling a little chilly today goon bots” tributon said, but then he felt something poking his shoulder armor, he turned around and notices on of the new female corrupted solders, it was romalovia and then she spoke “hello i'm romalovia and you are?” romalovia asked sweetly, but then tributon was ready for battle “call me tributon tenkai iceblast, but don't think that your mind tricks will work on me cause im not that kind of guy to be fooled.” tributon said as he aimed his tenkai arrow at her, but then romalovia started to giggle, tributon notices this and wandered why “hey! Why are you giggling? Whats so funny?” tributon asked suspiciously “its just that you may look tough but from the inside, you kinda make me giggle.” romalovia said as she giggled, this made tributon  angry when he heard this “oh yeah, well its not going to be funny when I freeze your circuit board after I take you down!” tributon exclaimed in anger, but then romalovia started making a pose and spoke “oh! you wouldn't hurt a girl would you?” romalovia asked, until she accidentally sprayed the glittering pink gas. Tributon tried to hold his breath but then he didn't notice that he just accidentally breathed a small amount of it in, so he sniffed some of the gas, it smelled almost like the sweetest lime parfait with hint of strawberry scent he ever smelled. Dromus notice that tributon is in the pink gas so he used his elemental attack “oh no! Tributon, TENKAI WHIRLWIND GO!” dromus exclaimed as he used his elemental attack blowing the gas away. The knights ran over to tributon to see if he's alright, romalovia notices what she had just done “oops, I must have accidentally sprayed the pheromones by mistake, i'm sorry I didn't mean to do that to him.” romalovia said as she begged for forgiveness. the knights grew confused but then she notices that the corrupted are retreating but she knew she had to start running as well. The corekai cheered and celebrated their victory then the knights went back to earth.

Chapter 3: headache, mission to earth and weird dreams

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the knights went out of the portal and were exhausted “whoa that was unexpected of sirenius to show her face again?” chooki said with concern, beni made frustrated look “i can't believe it!, how could she just create more corrupted solders?” beni yelled, ceylan shook his head but then he started feeling funny “hey guys I kinda feel weird all of a sudden.” ceylan said, guren spoke “are you sure ceylan cause you look fine to me?” guren said while rubbing the back of his head, yet ceylan then felt his head started to ache in pain, as guren and the others notice it, they had to take ceylan back home and kiro got worried of what might happen to ceylan.

Meanwhile on quarton at vilius's new fortress

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vilius was watching what happened on the battlefield yet he was a little impressed “hmm female solders that turn corekai into corrupted, how is that possible?” vilius asked, sirenius then smiled “you see the secret lies in the part what we humans call, the lips, a kiss of corruption. It can turn corekai into corrupted just like dromus's core corrupted.” sirenius said with a grin on her face. Vilius smiled but then he looked at the portal and thought 'hmm what if I sent these three to earth that way destroying the knight will be more interesting?” vilius thought to himself and then he spoke “alright you three, I have a new mission for you, how would you like to go to the planet earth?” vilius asked, signia, spriya, and romalovia nodded as they walked over to the portal. Then a flash of light appeared and the three robots vanished, but then sirenius remembered something “um vatron what happened to slyger, granox and rho?” sirenius asked, vatron went silent but then he grinned “oh their having a punishment right now for their failure.” vatron said. Meanwhile slyger granox and rho were hanging upside down “i'll get that vatron for this.” slyger said in anger, granox just growled in frustration while arguing with rho.

Meanwhile back on earth

<p style="margin-bottom: 0in">guren and the others brought ceylan home and put him in bed “gee my head hurts.” ceylan said as he put a hand on his head “don't worry ceylan you'll get better soon, so just lie down and get some rest.” guren said as he and the others left the house, then ceylan closed his eyes and starts having these dreams.

<p style="margin-bottom: 0in">Meanwhile in ceylans dream

<p style="margin-bottom: 0in">Ceylan's POV:

<p style="margin-bottom: 0in">I was in a pink fog, it was so thick I could cut it with a knife, but then suddenly heard crying and then I heard a voice and it was a feminine like voice “help me, somebody please? i'm all lonely.” said the voice until I saw a shadow of a figure in the fog. So i tried to call over to it “hey! i'm over her i'm coming.” I said as I ran over to it when I got a good look at the figure, it was... romalovia “hello blue, loyal, and handsome tributon, be my true lover.” dream romalovia said as she wrapped her metal arms around me and spoke “how about a little kiss?” she asked as her helmet moved closer to my face, but I couldn't move for some reason, my heart started pounding and my hands started to sweat, just when her helmet was about to touch my mouth the dream ended.

<p style="margin-bottom: 0in">Dream ends

<p style="margin-bottom: 0in">Ceylan's POV:

<p style="margin-bottom: 0in">I quickly woke up and notice that I was still in my bed and I still had that headache but it was now slowly fading away “man that was some weird dream.” I said as I got out of bed and then I checked the time on my clock and notice that it was 6:00 am “oh man im late for school!” I shouted as I quickly got dressed had breakfast and went out the door running.

<h3 style="margin-bottom: 0in">Chapter 4: three new visitors and an attractive abduction

<p style="margin-bottom: 0in">Meanwhile at school

<p style="margin-bottom: 0in">Guren's POV:

<p style="margin-bottom: 0in">its now 6:12 am and ceylans not here yet, I grew worried about the headache he's been having yesterday and I've wondered what might have caused it. Ms. Fenwick then spoke “hmm ceylan seems to be absent today.” ms. Fenwick said until ceylan came into the classroom already tired out “sorry i'm late everyone, I just got up late.” ceylan said as he went to his desk, the teacher nodded and spoke “all right class today we have three new students, gee this class is getting more students by the minute.” ms. Fenwick said, the door opens and we see three girls enter the class room. They looked really odd, but then they spoke “hi im mira and these are my friends julie and romia.” the girl mira said with a wink, yet I notice that their voices are so familiar. Then I remembered the time when me and the others found out that our new teacher was slyger and gen sent him back to quarton, now I have this gut feeling that they might be working for the corrupted.

<p style="margin-bottom: 0in">Romalovia as romia's POV:

<p style="margin-bottom: 0in">when I looked at this place of what humans call the classroom I notice a blue haired boy in the back of the room and then I realize that blue haired boy is tributon 'so thats tributon? On quarton I thought he looked tough and serious? but maybe I was wrong?, on this planet he's soft, yet he looks so handsome and cute, but still I accidentally sprayed my pheromones at him. But what if the effects kicked in.' I thought to myself, as I walked over to him to check if my accident took its stroll. I went to the front of his desk and spoke “excuse me are you alright?” I asked him, he turns to my face and I gave him the puppy eyes. The boy just stared at me as he and I glimpse at each other, there was a moment of silence between us, until the boy broke the silence “um do I … know you?” the boy asked me, then I was the next one to speak “of course you do, remember we had bumped into eachother and I introduced myself to you …” I said until the boy interrupted “wait a minute?, your voice seems a little familiar, can you tell my your name?, cause it might refresh my memory.” the boy said to me, but then I notice every human was staring at me so I whispered in his ear “lets talk about this another time, when we're alone?” I said to him, then I notice that his face started to turn red. Everyone in this room began to giggle at us, then I knew that I've got to take a seat so I sat down and looked at the front of the room “alright class lets begin chapter 5 in our history books” the teacher said.

<p style="margin-bottom: 0in">8 hours later

<p style="margin-bottom: 0in">Normal POV:

<p style="margin-bottom: 0in">after school everyone went home and ceylan made an awkward face after what happened at class 'that was kinda weird of how that girl said to me about talking to me at some other time when she and I are alone.” ceylan thought to himself while he was walking home until someone unexpected snatched him. Then Ceylan was pushed into a wall cornered by someone and he gasp when he saw romia pushing him onto the wall, he tried to struggle but romia moved closer to him and whispered in his ear again “shh remember what I said to you, when I was going to talk to you in private sometime?” romia said until ceylans face started turning even redder then before “um ye … yes.” ceylan said until he gulped “well how about I say your name, that might answer you little question … tributon?” romia said, ceylan just had loss of words and was suddenly breathless. His heart raced but his mind was filled with questions, but when he tries to figure out who she is?, romalovia keeps popping up in his head 'what is happening why cant I stop thinking about romalovia when im trying to figure out who this girl is? … unless.' ceylan thought to himself as he stood in shock when he realized that he figured out who this girl is, it was none other then romalovia in her hollow cloak. Ceylan started sweating as he gulped and started to speak “ro … roma … romalovia?” ceylan said, romia giggled as she turns off her hollow cloak and reviles her earth form in front of ceylan while she nodded “uh-huh! Yep its me sweetie. I hope your not mad at me cause my little accident?” romalovia said while started hugging ceylan softly. This made ceylan feel different inside for some reason, but when he first saw her on quarton yesterday he thought she was a bad gal trying to destroy him, but now he start having this feeling he never felt like his heart heart was stolen by her and can't even stop thinking about her and his emotions were telling him to be with her, but however his mind was telling him not to, yet his emotions started taking over him. Ceylan started wrapping his arms around her and hugged back but then he started thinking 'what is wrong with me? why am I doing this? Shes working for the corrupted but why am I feeling this way? I have to contact the others and start the corrupted alarm, but I can't for some reason. Why am I not doing anything?” ceylan thought to himself until they finally stopped hugging and as romalovia looked into ceylans eyes, she placed a hand on his cheek and spoke “what do they call you on this planet tributon?” romalovia asked him, but ceylan's thoughts were trying to resist her but then he realized that he had no chance of escaping from his emotions 'I can't stop it, i'm a goner for good. Well I guess my feelings won?, i'm sorry guys but I'll have to just give in cause i think I have just started having a crush on a corrupted from quarton. Forgive me?' ceylan thought to himself, romalovia grew impatient “well are you going to say anything?” romalovia said, then ceylan nodded “on this planet you can call me ceylan jones.” ceylan replied, romalovia smiled then she started to giggle “thats what they call you on this planet? Ceylan Jones what a cute name for a cute guy.” romalovia said with a smirk on her face, she reactivated her hollow cloak and started holding ceylans hand “okay ceylan would you like to walk with me?” romalovia asked, then ceylan nodded as he and romalovia walked together, but deep in ceylans thoughts 'man this is such a bad idea.' ceylan thought to himself while they were walking, but they were unaware that someone was watching them.

<h3 style="margin-bottom: 0in">Chapter 5: curiosity and suspicions

<p style="margin-bottom: 0in">Normal POV:

<p style="margin-bottom: 0in">next day guren notices that ceylan was staring at romia in a odd sorta way, but gurens not the only one who was curious, beni, kiro and gen notice it too, then gen looked suspicious of romia and her two other friends, but then guren heard ceylan sighs in desire, this got them worried and guren feels that they should talk to ceylan and ask him what was going on. So after class they spyed on ceylan and romia all over the school seeing them do things, at 7:00 am they saw ceylan telling romia jokes and she starts laughing cause of how funny the jokes were, at 8:30 am romia and ceylan had lunch together at the cafeteria and guren and the others were growing more curious, at 9:30 am she and ceylan were at the school library reading some of the books were about world history and romia grew more amazed of these books. After school ceylan and romia went to the diner to have a bite to eat, but guren and the others grew suspicious of them “gee ceylan sure likes hanging out with that girl huh guys?” chooki asked as the others nodded “yeah I wonder why he's always hanging out with her today?” toxsa asked, but then gen spoke “you know guys I been watching ceylan yesterday and I began eavesdropping on ceylan and romia's conversation or should I say … romalovia.” gen said as everyone gasped in horror of this alarming news “wait did you say romalovia?” beni asked in horror as gen nodded “yep and don't even try warning ceylan cause romalovia already told him her true form and identity.” gen said,chooki then spoke “wait if romia is romalovia then that must mean that the other two girls are?” chooki asked as gen nodded “yep the other two might be signia and spriya.” gen said, guren was confused “how could ceylan end up hanging out with romalovia?” guren said until he paused and thought 'wait a minute at our first battle with these new goon bot gals, she was apologizing about something, what was she apologizing about?' guren thought to himself as a flashback started.

<p style="margin-bottom: 0in">flashback

<p style="margin-bottom: 0in">Romalovia: “oops, I must have accidentally sprayed the pheromones by mistake, i'm sorry I didn't mean to do that to him.”

<p style="margin-bottom: 0in">flashback ends

<p style="margin-bottom: 0in">Normal POV:

<p style="margin-bottom: 0in">guren then realizes that the pink and glittering gas was actually pheromones and he spoke “that stuff wasn't gas, that stuff was pheromones!” guren said as the others heard him. As guren whispers to them and explaining to them why ceylan is hanging with romalovia, their faces were shocked by this “oh man so ceylan was just acting this way because of some perfume that makes people go gaga over someone?” beni asked as guren nodded “yeah beni I mean he must have breathed some of it before gen used his elemental move.” guren said while putting a hand on his chin. Gen then notices that ceylan and romalovia were about to come out of the diner so he starts whispering to guren and the others “guys look ceylan and romalovia are coming, quick hide.” gen said, then he and the others started running off as ceylan and romalovia came out the door and walked off. Guren and the others sighed in relief “whew that was a close one, thankfully they didn't see us.” chooki said as guren and the others had a group talk about ceylan being love blinded. Guren spoke “guys we need keep tracking down ceylan to make sure that ms. Juliet over there doesn't try anything on funny romeo, in the mean time kiro can you go get the portal weapon?” guren asked her as kiro nodded “no problem o guren i'll be right back just let me know where you guys are?” kiro said as guren and the others nodded, then they resume their pursuit to protect ceylan. <h3 style="margin-bottom: 0in">Chapter 6: the chase, thoughts, and search <p style="margin-bottom: 0in">Kiiro's POV:

<p style="margin-bottom: 0in">I kept running until I arrived at mr. whites shop, I ran though the door and shouted “mr. wheres the portal weapon?” I yelled, but mr. white was confused “um why do you need the portal weapon kiro?” mr. white asked “no time to talk, three corrupted bots are on earth.” I said, mr. white was shocked “oh dear, I think the portal device is over there?” mr. white said while pointing at the shelf  where the portal weapon is. I quickly grabbed the portal weapon and ran out the door as fast as I can 'I hope I can make it in time.' I thought to myself as I start using my hollowwatch to call my friends “guys I have the portal weapon and im on my way right now.” I said.

<p style="margin-bottom: 0in">Meanwhile Romalovia/romia's POV:

<p style="margin-bottom: 0in">me and ceylan were at a place which humans called a mall, even though ceylan may have breathed some of the pheromones I accidentally released from my armor back on quarton, but I still think he's a sweet boy with a warm heart. I looked at him for a moment and notice that he had the most cutest face I never seen before and I started to have feelings as I felt some kind of thing that humans call emotions, yet this emotion that i'm feeling is so warm and strong when I'm with him. Until I heard him speak “hey maybe we should go get some clothes for you?” ceylan said, I nodded and we went over to the clothing store, I tried on lots of different clothes on and they were fabulous on me. Ceylan bought them and handed the bag of clothes to me. We started walking together for an hour or two as we started talking about some things, but then we heard some shuffling in the bushes, but then we saw blond hair girl running over to us with something in her hand. I saw Ceylan gasped as he quickley grabbed my arm and shouted “quick lets get out of here and make a run for it, fast?” ceylan exclaimed as he and I started running.

<p style="margin-bottom: 0in">Normal POV:

<p style="margin-bottom: 0in">ceylan and romalovia kept running as fast as they could, but guren and the others kept on chasing them, guren tried shouting to ceylan “wait ceylan come back, we have to tell you something?” guren said, but ceylan didn't listen and kept on running with romalovia. Guren and the others were exhausted after all the chasing “man i'm exhausted, I don't think I can run anymore?” toxsa said as he landed on the ground, even chooki was out of breath “man those two are fast, I never thought they could run like that?” chooki said, then they notice that it was getting dark soon so they had to call it a night so they went home.

<p style="margin-bottom: 0in">At Guren's house

<p style="margin-bottom: 0in">Normal POV:

<p style="margin-bottom: 0in">guren was laying on his bed thinking what happened today 'ceylan where are you now?, what happened to you?' guren thought to himself as he was thinking about what might happen to ceylan if they don't find him?, but then he remembered something that romalovia said during that battle on quarton. Romalovia said that she was sorry, and guren wondered why she apologized to them? Guren took a moment to think about it but then it hit him 'was it because she wanted to apologize because she thought that he would be mad at her for what she did? Or maybe she's starting to develop feelings for …   ceylan? Hmm maybe tomorrow after school we'll start looking for her and get some answers?' guren thought to himself as he turns off the lights.

<p style="margin-bottom: 0in">Next morning after school

<p style="margin-bottom: 0in">Normal POV:

<p style="margin-bottom: 0in">guren and the others gathered around talking about the plan to search for romalovia and ceylan “okay team heres the plan, we'll split up into three teams of two people and search the city for ceylan and romalovia, beni your with me, toxsa your with chooki and gen your with kiro, oh and if you do find ceylan be sure to contact me and beni, okay now lets find ceylan and get him back.” guren said as the others nodded and started splitting up. Guren and beni looked around the park to see if ceylan was there but there was no one at the park, they were starting to get worried about ceylan so they searched in the museum, but ceylan was nowhere to be seen. Beni and guren then went over to th jones residents to see if he was there until they saw two female figures standing in front of them, yet beni and guren can guess who those two are “well hello bravenwolf and venetta how are you?, did you two miss us?” signia asked as she winked at them, guren got mad and shouted “where's ceylan? And where is your so called sister?” guren said as he clutched his fists, spriya then spoke “we were asking the same question, we were trying to contact our sis romalovia but she didn't respond so we searched everywhere for her.” spriya said, guren and beni were confused “we were looking for our friend when we saw him hanging out with your sister, but then they started running when we chased after them but then we got tired, so here we are looking for him.” guren said, it was the duo female quartonians turn to be confused “alright we'll look for them and after we found our sister and your friend we're enemies again, got it?” signia asked as guren and beni nodded but then beni remembered the one place they didn't look... the warehouse “guren I think I had figured out where ceylan and romalovia might be?” beni said as guren gasped “okay beni lead the way while I contact the others?” guren said until signia and spriya interrupted “oh no you don't were going to get to those two first then you'll call your allies.” signia said. Beni and guren had a suspicious look on their faces.