Fourth: New Mission

'Tok! Tok! Tok!'

The door creaked open.

"Eurie?" Uncle Sid asked as he buzzed off his maximum secret-mode room.

"Hi!"

"What- stay out of here!" Uncle Sid almost shouted. He pulled Eurie out of his room's door and to the stairs.

Eurie was really surprised to his Uncle's reaction. Like what she always said, expect the weirdest for Uncle Sid. If only her Uncle Sid knew that she knew what he was hiding. Probably it was pornographic videos and posters of naked women. On her psychology class, single men who were having a hard time to get a girlfriend were at high risk of doing sexual activities by themselves. Uncle Sid was a candidate. But, Eurie thought, keeping it a secret like this didn't make sense. Uncle Sid was indeed a weirdo.

When the handsome-faced man was calm he asked Eurie, and in an unexpectedly super calm voice. How fast could this man switch himself from beast-mode to cool-mode? Eurie asked in his mind.

"My room...my room has been frozen again," Eurie answered almost hesitantly.

"So? You want to stay here in my place for good? No!"

"Uncle, it's not what I mean-"

"Of course, I know what you mean. I'm just mocking you but it's half real 'cause I'll never allow you in my place. I never dreamed of living in a refrigerator. Here," Uncle Sid explained while swaying a small bottle of something like a charm. It was as small as the thumb and it had blue slimy liquid inside. It was actually Eurie's reason of disturbing.

Eurie grabbed it and drank it. She never like the way it tasted but she had no choice. Actually, she never expected herself to come to his Uncle Sid begging for that medicine. She never believed in magic afterall. It was a little bit contradicting because her late father was a magician, actually that very fact pushed her to not to believe magic. It was because she had watched her father's performance: the practice and the actual one. So, she knows her father's tricks and cheats on creating entertaining magic shows.

Talking about her Uncle Sid, he was not a magician. He was a clown. Those who wore rainbow-colored afro wigs and thick lipstick – that was Uncle Sid. It was still a confusion to Eurie why did this clown made medicines and charms like what she drank a moment ago. Eurie didn't believe on miracle healing but it was just Uncle Sid's medicine that could control the abnormal feeling she oftenly felt last few days. The feeling that she knew made her room frozen.

 "How is it? Does it still feel effective?" Asked Uncle Sid as he strode down the stairs.

 "I don't know. I don't feel anything strange," said Eurie and she follow her Uncle. Uncle Sid held a deep breath and sat down on his chair in the counter.

"I'll make another and I'll just give it to you before supper."

 "Okay. Uhm, Uncle Sid," Eurie wanted to ask something but she was hesitant for she knew that even if she asked this now to his Uncle she would never get the answer she wanted to hear. The antique shop owner got a lollipop and sunk it into his mouth. Then he looked to Eurie with his lazy vermillion eyes.

"Yes?"

"What's happening to me? I mean, you know it's not normal! That freezing ability, it always freaks me out. I am always scared of it. You know, what if I froze a man or our...or our classroom or I froze myself! What should I do? Is this some kind of a- of a disease or genetic mutation?"

 After that speech from Eurie, Uncle Sid bursted into laughter. It took minutes before Eurie found the weirdo, she knew held the answer, calm. He pulled out the milkshake lollipop and answered almost laughing.

"Genetic mutation? So, you're a fan of that comic series X-Men huh! You know what Eurie, I advise you to not watch that again. You're blurting out insane things!"

"Well, my condition is worth asking insane things, Uncle," answered Eurie evidently annoyed.     

 "Okay. So I answer, it's not genetic mutation. It will take hundreds of years before this planet could have mutants as seen on the television. And even if it comes early, genetic mutation would only result to reptile-like humans like Ninja Turtles and not normal looking girl who can freeze a room and disturb me in such a busy morning."

"Tsk. Whatever, but turtles are not reptiles. They are amphibians, genius!"

"At least I didn't say their mammals!" Uncle Sid talked back as Eurie aimed at the door.

"Sorry for disturbing you and thanks! See you before supper Uncle," Eurie bid goodbye.

***

Meanwhile, on Zaenosh, Kaizer and Jace saw themselves talking again to Bum Pan, only now that this Bum Pan was a total useless. He couldn't even tell his own name or his homeland.

"Are you my older brother?" asked Bum Pan to Kaizer, "Do you know my name old brother? Huh? Where is our mo--" Bum Pan received again a kick from Kaizer.

"Older brother?! Are you crazy huh! I would never wish to share a name with you, you bald-head!" Kaizer would kick the poor Bum Pan again but Jace had mercy afterall to stop his partner.

"At least save his face Kaizer. He doesn’t even know that he's bald."

 "Pssh! That Saturnio, I'm gonna barbecue his old face if I see him again," Kaizer said as he walked to the window. They were still inside the man's hotel room and it surprised them that the authorities there were not yet approaching.

Kaizer opened the sliding door of the window and the early night breeze greeted him coldly. It was late afternoon when they had got here in Aioro and it was not this cold. The carriage driver was right, Aioro would never welcome you warmly. Winter was over and there was no snow outside, but the temperature was freezing.

"Wooh! You don't want to go outside Jace," Kaizer said and he continued walking out to the balcony. His red hair, not too long but not too short swayed through the wind with grace. It swept off his bangs and it cleared his well-cared face. His back was perfect with his famous sword on guard hanging there like it was nothing but a light backpack. He dug a deep breath and shouted:

"WINK!"

Then he bailed out of the window.

"He's insane! My brother committed suicide! How high is this place?!" Bum Pan asked nervously. Jace just smirked and shook his head.

"We're just on the fifteenth floor."

Bum Pan's eyes almost went out of its sockets as he looked to the swinging curtains of the window. It took some seconds before a black shadow enveloped the room. A deafening sound of dashing wind was heard and just then a black dragon appeared. It was not as big as an adult dragon. Its eye was as fierce as Kaizer's, shining lime under the moonlit. Why eye and not eyes? For Wink only had his right eye open. His left eye was wounded and it was always closed. That was why he was named Wink.

On his back by the way was Kaizer.

"Wink, you should have let that idiot fell," Jace joked. The black dragon eyed him and was telling him like, 'Yeah, I thought of that too'. Jace laughed as he saw Kaizer insulted. It should be like that because if it wasn't, then it wasn't Kaizer.

"How about this Bum Pan?" Jace asked.

"How are we going to surrender that if he can't even remember his crimes?"

"So we leave him free, how kind of you," Jace mocked and he too jump to Wink's back. Wink draw away from the inn and the two saw Bum Pan jumping there in the balcony to get their attention. It seemed like he wanted to go with the two young men. He sure couldn't remember a thing.

"Kind? Me? Oh you're overestimating me man!" Kaizer said. He then stood up and motioned his hand to the air.

Out of nowhere, a reddish orb of light was formed. It was as big as a golf ball and it sucked energy from the air. It grew a little bigger and at exact heat, Kaizer threw it to the hotel. Almost bull's eye to Bum Pan. It bounced like a real ball when it hit the ground. Innocently, Bum Pan just watched it rolled into his room. It drew black burn marks on its way. Kaizer above grinned then a click from his hand was heard, together with that, the ball exploded leaving the hotel half burning. Bum Pan on the other hand managed to stood still on a piece of floor luckily attached to the piece of walling that sure not an hour would collapse too.

"What was that for?" Jace asked.

"This cold night needs fire, my friend," Kaizer said then he drove Wink away from the hotel.

"What now?" Jace asked again, hugging himself because of freezing night.

"Jace? We're bounty hunters right? And we badly need money. Read this," he handed Jace the paper Saturnio gave him.

Jace read it and Kaizer saw him smiling. He was not surprised. One of the rarest things to find in this universe is a reason for Jace to say no to money. And what Jace is reading now is a promised money. Saturnio offered them a job. That paper he gave Kaizer was a bounty poster.

"We have a new mission."