Chapter 44: The First Encounter @ Main DIP Quarters

"Hmm, now that you mentioned it…I think they will bring more chance of changes in our organization, don't you all agree?" Mina smiled proudly at what they've managed to discover that will change their organization and it will prosper one day at the right time.

"We all feel the same thing, Mina. They're the Ultimate Star of the DIP." Wilma smiled and the other founders agreed while they watched carefully at how bright those two glowed as one.

When the instrumental melody of the same song slowly died down in the background of their fight dance, Slavica immediately halted from her spot. Gwen did the same thing since both of them were in their zone when they both suddenly sensed something.

"Feel it?" Slavica asked while still sensing what made them both halt in their training.

"Crystal." Gwen nodded as she agreed since she was feeling them too.

Then both of them dashed like smoke vanishing in thin air and just appeared at the bench side of the training field. Since there was a protective barrier around them, Slavica and Gwen just touched it together and passed it. Wilma and Alys were not surprised when they does it because they were indeed a promising member of DIP.

"Felt they're coming here?" Mina asked because passing the barrier, a very red alert alarm was already notifying them was coming to their quarters.

"We do." Slavica answered in her serious tone.

"It seem they were here for me again." Gwen sighed in annoyance.

"Can they just leave me alone whenever I'm having fun with my woman here?" she even added before cracking her knuckles in irritation at being interrupted again.

"Claiming her as yours, that's something." Alys teased that making Gwen blush but didn't answer that.

"I don't mind being claimed as long it was her. Anyway, ready guys?" Slavica smiled before asking her team in her cold but serious voice as she usual does.

"Oh, finally we're gonna work with Gwen!" Yui almost jump in excitement when she heard that.

"Hold your horses, Yui. We still need to plan things out, you know how they play danger whenever something interests them." Irina reminded Yui about their previous assignment while popping another candy into her mouth.

"Right, I remember that." Yui recalled that moment that made her expression to be sour already.

"Alright, we will let you handle this and take it as your test as a team, and Slavica and Gwen, better to lead your team." Mina told them.

"Can we add some more to our team just for this case?" Slavica asked since she had a feeling that it will be a serious deal since they were heading to their quarters.

"Sure, gather your men who were free to help you at this moment." Wilma nodded and let them gather enough men for this case.

"Noted. Let's go since it's your first team test." Slavica nodded before she turned to Gwen and offered her hand.

"I'm excited already." Gwen grinned sinisterly as she accept Slavica's hand and they both went on their own. They forget that they have their team with them already but at the same time, they knew where they were going already.

"HEY!" Yui and Tucker reacted when Gwen and Slavica just vanished before their eyes as they went ahead of them.

"What the f! They both didn't wait for us." Tucker went on with a defeated sigh though he already knew where they were heading to.

"They were just excited." Wilma chuckled as they were all walking out of the training field.

"Irina, watch them carefully. Yui, gather intel over those fallen." Mina left her under command since the alarm was a rare occasion to happen directly to their quarters.

"Noted." they both agreed and went on following where their leaders went to.

When they were on their way to meet the couple who went before them, Slavica already gathered enough DIP members who can help them deal with the sudden attack that was heading to their quarters. But nobody was agreeing and just let their team deal with it.

"Those who were free to join us in defending the quarters join us but if not, stay inside and do whatever is assigned to you." Slavica announced as soon as they entered the cafeteria with a few members of DIP having their breaks there.

"Why we would? We could tell that you're the reason why they were coming here." one of the team leaders said while smirking which Gwen didn't like at all.

"Deal with it, Slavica." another one said and went on eating while some of their team wanted to help but couldn't do anything about it because of their leaders.

Slavica hoped that they could voice out their leaders but still nothing. She sighed and was upset that they still couldn't just team up with her because of her being different from them. Gwen sensed it and took over.

"Okay if you say so. Shall we, my love?" Gwen answered before Slavica could and was about to pull her away when the smirking man reacted.

"My love? You're dating that monster? That's gross." He said in a disgusting reaction before laughing. Gwen let go of slightly Slavica and faced them.

But when she faced them, every light around the cafeteria started to flicker and the entire room began to vibrate that made them alarmed. Then they all looked to Gwen who was smirking sinisterly when she also began releasing her burning malice. They were speechless since they could tell how powerful Gwen's energy was.

"Yes, I'm dating my mate, and if she's a monster in your eyes, what about you? How can you tell if the person is a monster without knowing what lies beyond the hideous face? Or even the cause of her scars. Oh well, it's your choice anyway." Gwen was grinning sinisterly which sent shivers down their spines then she turned her heels to face Slavica.

"Let's go and you better remove the mask that I gave you." She told Slavica who chuckled and immediately everything that was radiating around the cafeteria vanished instantly.

"Are you sure about that?" Slavica wondered as she let Gwen take hold of her arm as they head out of the cafeteria.

"Yeah, why not. If you said that your their nightmare, then be their nightmare, and don't you worry, I'll be your salvation." Gwen sightly pinched her nose when she assured her about being her savior.

"Sounded like you're going to have fun out there." She chuckled but she could not hide the fact that she felt warm to the sincere kindness in Gwen's words.

"Am I? Well, among those fallen rogues, we could save some of them." Gwen joked but at the same time, she was telling the truth about saving some of the fallen rogues.

"You already could tell who's who to save?" she was surprised when she asked Gwen about what she could already sense even behind the thick wall or far distance of their prey.

"Yep, let's not waste our time gathering somebody to help us. We shouldn't ask unless we really need to." Gwen smiled at her and Slavica nodded.

"You're right. We're enough." She agreed to what Gwen told her. Her team was enough to deal with it because they were the first rank elite team among the DIP elite teams.

"Seriously, you two suddenly vanished before us without bringing us with you." Tucker whined but they hear the humor in his tone as the three of them approached them.

"Sorry but not sorry?" Gwen teased back.

"Gwen." Tucker warned but he was failing to sound serious around the comment Gwen. they both laughed and the other team members couldn't get what they were laughing at.

"Well, we're confident you knew where to find us and you did." Gwen controlled her laughter as they went out of the cafeteria.

"Enough, every one of you needs to follow Gwen's cue so we could save some of them." Slavica went into her leader zone and commanded her team and Gwen was smiling.

"Oh, they're it again?" Yui reacted but understood what Slavica was trying to tell them.

"Yeah, tell me about it." Gwen sighed as they all went out of the quarters.

When they got out from the front door since it was the only door within the quarters, Slavica began dividing her team. Irina will be their provoking seductress with her tamed monsters. Yui will be assigned to pinning them with the help of Gwen's invincible bloody strings while Tucker will be assigned to killing them alongside Slavica.

"Lastly…" Slavica was about to say what Gwen was assigned to though she already knew that.

"I'll be assigned to bringing back to their senses those fallen rogues who were asking to be saved. I mean really saved." Gwen finished before Slavica could and she was totally grinning excitedly.

"Alright, ready?" Slavica just sighed and asked the entire team of hers who was nodding at her.

"Good, let's position ourselves and notified each other if something is odd or wrong with our assigned task." She added then dismissed the team.

"Noted." they all responded and dashed to where they should position themselves.

As for the two, Slavica cracked her knuckles and recalled what she felt inside the training field before releasing them again. She smiled then when she opened her eyes, Gwen was admiring her.

"What?" Slavica asked when she caught Gwen red-handed.

"Nothing, I'm just thankful to have you in my life." Gwen might be blushing but she honestly responded to her.

"So am I, my love. But let's continue our sweet moments later because they were nearing here." Slavica smiled lovingly at her before living a peck over Gwen's lips.

"Alright, I'll always be waiting for you, my love." Gwen whispered that only for Slavica to hear.

Then Slavica left Gwen on her spot at the front door of the DIP quarters since she was the one who was going to do the saving and assisting. As Slavica went to the trees, she began positioning herself and letting her team get ready. She began navigating everything in such a wide range and from more than 500 meters away from their spots, she could they were not a lot.

"That's odd, they felt like hundreds…but they were just around twenty." Slavica informed everyone but Gwen was the one who speak back to her.

'They were hundreds, Vica. they were shadowing the others.'

"From twenty? Hardly to say that they were keeping the rest." Slavica said what Gwen informed her.

'They can if their shadow can be manipulated. That's why they were having a heavy presence.'

'I agree with Gwen, Slavica. My minions whispered the same thing to me.'

'Irina, can you break those shadows and bring the others out?'

'Sure, but you all need to be prepared once I do, they're going to know where I am and the rest.'

"Don't worry about that. I already activated my protection on my team since you all never taken it off from your body." Slavica remanded them about the mark that she put on them when their team has been formed.

'Thanks.'

'It tattooed on us, boss.'

"Get ready." Slavica told them and the call ended after they all responded.

Slavica began making hand gestures as if she was playing a cube and the more she does them, something began to form in between her hands. There was a very powerful earth energy magic that has been gathered around Slavica's hands and they were looking like a cube. When she was done forming them, she began wrapping them with air barriers before she make them big and wide-range. When Slavica was happy, she began dropping it on the ground then the entire perimeter of the DIP quarters was being filled with mixed void.

"Now, it's time for them to get out from those shadows. Irina." Slavica muttered and commanded Irina to pull them out of their hiding place.

'Yes, boss.'

Irina does was she was assigned and lure those fallen rogues out of their hiding places then let her summon monsters to deal with the others. Then when they were all out, Yui started surfing around the woods with the muddy ground and making some of them immobilized while the others escaped.

'Somebody escaped.'

"Gwen." Slavica turned to Gwen when she heard the message from Yui.

'Don't worry, let them come to me. Tucker hurt slightly those who were immobilized.'

'Noted.'

When those fallen rogues managed to escape from the grip of Yui, Gwen, on the other hand, made her invincible bloody strings to play and wounded those fallen rogues. Some of them were easily being cut into pieces which cause some panic in the others who were heading to Gwen's spot.

"Come and hear my voice

Come and change the life

Chance of change is here

Take it and make it yours." When Gwen chanted those words, something began to ring around throughout the entire perimeter of the DIP quarters.

Fallen rogues who can hear them, roared and rushed to where it was coming from. Slavica was about to do something and protect Gwen but something in her guts told her to have faith in her. Believed in what Gwen can do and just be the witness to her growth. Then those fallen rogues passing her way, finally reached Gwen's whereabouts. They all rushed to get close to Gwen but as soon as they were about to get inside the DIP mansion's perimeter, they all fell down onto their knees.

"Nothing to worry about, just be calm and wait. We're going to save you, just be patient." Gwen smiled assuringly at them and they all listened instantly to her. Then Gwen cloaked them with her bright star veil, she turned herself into her serious mode and was ready to kill those who were asking for their deathbeds.

"Now, let's have fun, Vica." Gwen grinned sinisterly when she said that to Slavica who appeared balancing over her bloody strings.