The wide castle filled with gold and decorations, huge as temple with beautiful maidens, the loud footsteps of Stefan and his guards can be heard from some distance.
"Greetings my lord, you summoned me" Stefan starts and the emperor turns his seat to face them, surrounded with beautiful maidens serving him his meal. He signals them to leave and they all walk out leaving everything in order for him, he grabs a piece of meat and takes a bite.
"Mhhh, soo good this must have been a very healthy turkey, want a bite?" he says while enjoying it and offers it to Stefan.
"Am good my lord" he says and rejects it.
"Okay Stefan, take it, that's an order!" he shouts at him and now from the look of his face Stefan could definitely tell that something was not okay, he steps forward and takes the piece of meat.
"You know what that turkey must have gone through before being served as a delicious meal? Okay lets skip the entire part Stefan, I am giving you twenty four hour for you to bring me back the Tranquin and this smart thief or else, you know what I will do to you, and my lovely pets are hungry here" he says to him as he pets the huge lions lying around him.
"I am so sorry my lord, I totally had no idea about this, I will get on it as soon as possible" he says as he bows down his head.
"I thought my castle was inaccessible Stefan, you disgust me, you know what the Tranquin means and whoever lays his hands on it stands great chances against you, find it, I don't care how you will do it" the emperor says and walks away, the three lions laying around him stand and follow him, groaning while their eyes fixed to Stefan, Stefan knew they were not match to him and he would tear them down in just a second but he did not want to do anything stupid. He was filled with anger and did not know where to begin from. He walks out of the castle as the rest follow him, waiting for his command, standing outside the castle, he throws his eyes at the market, trying to dig in his mind and his thoughts could only lead him to one person, one thief who was at his hands just some minutes away, he knew that he was no ordinary thief and now that he was free, he could be very far from the market.
"Sir? I think that young boy could be responsible" Adam, the most quiet of all the guards tells Stefan.
"Shut up you moron, What do you take me for, huh? You think I am stupid for shutting up my mouth back there, what do you think the emperor could have done if he knew we had the thief by our hands and we let him walk away scot free, huh!!" he says and throws his sword down, sits at a bench next to him, everyone else remains silent. All these problems and headache on Stefans shoulder just because of a young determined thief, Stefan did not know that chasing Zeus will be like chasing the wind since the Tranquin was not in his possession anymore.
Alen creeps back home through the back door, jumps in his room through the window and slowly closes the window.
"Boooh!!!" he trips down and falls as his annoying little sister tries to scare him, she goes on laughing out loud while looking at him on the floor.
"That's not funny Ana, you should stop doing that or else.."
"Or else what huh?" she says before Alen could even finish his sentence.
"You know you can't say a word to mum Alen, this is not the first time I am catching you sneaking into your room coming from a place no one knows, do you want mum to know about all these? You don't want that right?" she asks him and Alen nods his head agreeing with her. Ana notices his clothes are dusty and now Alen tries to hide what he was carrying behind him. She quickly realizes he was hiding something and now her curiosity grows.
"Show me" she smiles while moving next to him but Alen moves back. She jumps to the ceiling and like a lizard, her hands and feet are sticky as she moves around the ceiling trying to go around, her eyes keenly focused on Alen's eyes.
"Stop it Ana!" Alen tries to calm her down but she was such a stubborn girl, she crawls around the ceiling and Alen who was still at the same position tries to avoid her, he tried to avoid doing anything because he clearly knew he was stronger than her since she was her younger sister and luckily enough for him, there was a knock at the door.
"Alen come out of there, you can't be sleeping at this time of the day" Alen's mum shouted.
"Will be out in a second mum, don't come in, I am naked" he answers her mum while his eyes still focused on Ana at the ceiling, she suddenly jumps from the ceiling and lands at Alen's bed, walks to the door and opens.
"It's not yet over you looser" she says to him.
"Get out of my room you nosy brat" Alen tells her and pushes her outside locks the door from inside and sighs in relief, he slowly opens the piece of cloth and looks at the Tranquin and this was the time he clearly got to have a glance of it, it produces a blue glowing light, just like a precious stone, the amount of light coming from it was so bright that it almost blinded him. He quickly looked aside and closed his eyes with his left hand and with one eye he closely looked and saw something that looked like an eye, blinking inside the Tranquin, he dropped it to the floor and now heard his mum calling again.
"Coming!!" he shouted back and picked it hid it in his closet and immediately left his room.