6

"I'm toasted!" Joon sighs heavily. Right now, they are surround by papers from the box that belongs to Joon's late adopted father.

"Okay, let's recap again. According to these documents, Guardian existed more than 30 years ago, consisting of eight persons with different backgrounds," Justin points his finger towards each and every person in the picture.

"As we know, one of them is Super Wolf Theodore Blue, a female alien named Reist, your late adopted father; Professor Timber, and another personnel, nicknamed The Destroyer," Joon takes a notice of the information, while jotting down some notes on a piece of paper.

"These four possessed the dog tag. While the other four don't," Justin draws circles while explaining the information to Joon. Red circle for the one with dog tag, while black circle for the no dog tag.

"Still, I'm kinda confused here. What is my dad doing hang up with this team?" asks Joon. He is perplexed.

"Don't you think we have too many questions, more than answers?" Justin gawks at Joon with his tiring eyes.

"This is much more complicated than my university entrance exam!" said Joon, collapses himself, blending with scatter papers on the floor.

"This is numerous. The biggest question now is, what's this dog tag's specialty? How can we relate the dog tag with the Guardian and help Yoon?" asks Joon.

Justin pinches his temple. After almost hours, he is exhausted and futile. Looks like they did lose a way to solve this.

And that's when the laptop beeps twice. Justin quickly checks out the analysis. He frowns as he focuses on it.

"It's a map.." he says. He examines the dog tag one more time. The analysis is from Joon's dog tag. What about his dog tag analysis?

"Another piece of the map?" says Joon. Both glance at each other. Joon nods as Justin cuts the map, and paste it with the other half of the map.

"Oh.My.Map!" they gasp. When two maps get assembled together, it turns out to be a complete map, with some path. Just like a maze.

But a very complicated maze.

"I knew this shit!" Joon shrieks in excitement and awe.

"What is it?"

"It's The Maze City.." the man quickly grabs an old note book from the box.

"How did you recognize it?"

"Because... I searched for this with my dad, a long time ago. But, he died during the expedition, got hit by a booby trap. So, the expedition got put off. Actually, I ended it . Since then, I told myself that it was nothing but a legend," his voice cracks in the middle, holding his tears.

"Sounds like a horror maze..."

"Yep, people said even if you manage to find the entrance, you can't ever pass it. We didn't even get this close to finding it, let one pass it. It's still a mystery. But, maybe we can solve it using this map. But, there's no guarantee. Zero to none..." Joon holds his head down. Just by a glimpse, the maze opens up an old wound.

"I think we should take a break," Justin stretches his body before standing up. Joon nods as he too feels tired. It's already noon and he's hungry as well.

"Justin, could you just unlock the guest bedroom. I don't think the lady is a threat. Besides, how much she can do with that wounded body?" Justin agrees He walks to the room and unlock the door.

Suddenly he heard a wimp.

Worrying that she might be in pain, Justin slowly opens the door and peek inside. He looked at the lady who lay on the bed, sweaty as hell. She frown, looks like she had a nightmare. He felt reluctant to touch her forehead, but his guts tell him to do that. He put his finger on her forehead when suddenly she opens her eyes and looks straight into his eyes.

It's a bad move, Wolf!

***

"Help!!" Justin screams as he fall. The lady points a knife towards him. He tries to run but his leg suddenly just gives in.

"No..." he closes his eyes, praying for his life. He knocks a vase while struggling to run from the room. Joon quickly runs towards the hall from the kitchen, with a bread knife in his hand.

"MY LORD!! AGH!!" he screams as he dropped the knife on the floor.

The lady moves her hand, pointing towards Joon this time. She tilts her head, looking confused as hell. Her purplish eyes sparkle a bit. She wants to charge forward but...

"Put the god damn knife down..!"

***

Jein is searching inside the attic for some old stuff. He can still remember he put the box somewhere. He looked around and found it stuck between a tingle lightbox and some other old boxes. He smiles when he pulls out the box careful

That's when a crashing noise from downstairs attracts his attention.

"Oh my pan, here we are again..."

He swears to his fluffy slipper, he will cut Joon's hand this time!

***

"Put it down or I'll blow your head..." Yoon growl behind her, poking his stunned gun over her head. She just stares at Justin who slides himself towards the sofa. He is the Super Wolf, but her gaze makes him weak. It was deadly and scary at the same time. Joon on the other side froze. He knew with just only one move, things will get so damn ugly.

"Joon!!"

Well, someone just makes a move. Without hesitation, she gives a nice back kick at Yoon. He drops his gun, yelping in pain. But it doesn't stop him to charge himself towards her. She runs outside after breaking the window glass, causing Jein to run down fast from the attic.

"What happen?!!"

"I swear to you, it wasn't me!" says Joon.

***

She runs outside but immediately stops. She shocked when she notices the environment that she had never encountered before. She then realizes that she's already outside, escaping from the dreadful yet meaningful tower. She tries to assemble everything in her head, but it only causes her a prick headache.

"Stop right there!" yells Yoon. She looks at him, her eyes full of anger and confusion. Suddenly, the outside gets dark and the wind gets violent. Come along thunder and it's raining heavily.

Currently, they are standing right in front of Jein and Joon's cottage front yard. She still keeps her composure while Yoon just stares at her, hoping that she will remain calm.

"Come.." Yoon slowly walked towards her. He gave her his hand so she can grab it. But, things got escalated from there. She pushes his hand away, making Yoon mad. He grabbed her hand and forced her to get inside, resulting in her kicking his hand away.

"Oh my my my!" he yelp in pain.

She takes a chance to run away, but Yoon manages to hold her. He hugs her from behind. She doesn't like it much. She nudges his stomach and struggle in his embrace. She find a shovel on the ground, grabs it, and try to hit Yoon but he manages to dodge it.

Now, they are facing each other. It will be unfair if Yoon came with an empty hand. So, he lurks around and find a nice clean iron rod. Now he's holding that iron rod in his hand. He doesn't know why the rod is there. But now, this beautiful rod will be his defense mechanism.

She held a deep breath and put herself in fighting mode. Her right leg was pointed to the front while her left leg was at the back with her right hand holding the heavy shovel like a sword on the top of her head.

'Black Swan Technic!' Yoon glares at her.

Yoon then takes the iron rod with both of his hands, drawing a crescent moon circling himself. Then he put the iron rod at his front and charged forward.

'Blood Crescent Moon!' her eyes is getting bigger.

She sprints faster, gracefully like a swan, swiftly swinging the shovel making a nice beautiful twirl. But Yoon manages to block the shovel, holding it with the iron rod. Clanging sounds can be heard loud as both of them hold each other's attack with full force.

Yoon pushes her to the side and almost close to hit her cheek but that lady flips herself backward and like an elastic band moving forward, hit his back with the shovel. But, Yoon manages to duck it charging his leg down and trying to sweep her leg from below.

Like a majestic swan, she flies in the air and try to give him a good flying kick but Yoon manage to grab her leg, push it away so she will fall on her butt. But, that's not the case. She manages to stand with only one foot and swing her leg like a top spinning and landed safely.

'Yep, definitely the troublesome Black Swan!' he grunts as he holds his iron rod, swings it like the shape of a crescent moon using his right hand and the hit immediately lands on her butt. She glared at him, protesting for where he hit her.

"Oops.. sorry.." he gives her a cute gummy smile. She can't take it anymore. The shovel was thrown aside as she screams and jumps at him making both of them roll on the ground. She then chokes his neck with eyes suddenly turning red like blood. Yoon gasping for air. He stares her with his teary eyes, hoping she will let him go.

BAMM!

With that sound, she suddenly collapses on top of Yoon. Yoon manages to hug her so she won't roll to the side. Her head is on his chest and her hand just tangling to the side. He breathes heavily and closed his eyes tight.

Jein just blows his gun's tip. Justin and Joon's jaws dropped.

"She just collapses. She's not dead!" said Jein. He then dropS the gun on the table and walk into the kitchen.

"I thought you said no guns in this house, Jein!" Joon yell at him. Jein ignores him and both of them walk into the kitchen, bickering like a old married couple. Leaving Justin, stuns in front of the entrance.

Yoon slowly wakes up, holding the lady in his embrace. He swipes her tangling hair from her face and looked at her briefly.

She is something... he lost in his thought.

He then slowly stands up, the lady still in his embrace. Yoon then held her, picked her bridal style, and walks into the cottage back.