GASP!

Hugo woke up with a gasp that echoed through the cold and rocky cell he was now placed in. Opposite him was the still unconscious Altara leaning against the old brick wall of the cell. On the floor below a small barred window which was barely touching the stone ceiling at the back of the cell was Kry, who was also unconscious whilst lying on the floor. He quickly scanned around the cell, noticing Konstantine was missing.

Hugo then noticed that his hair was now hanging down instead of being tied in its usual ponytail, he grimaced for a second as he noticed this before flicking his brown eyes over to the outside of the cell. There was an empty cell opposite theirs across a small hallway, which stretched only around three meters in width, having a metal floor and ceiling with spots of rust here and there. Hugo noticed it was empty and slowly stood up, wrapping his hands around the bars which confined them in their cold dimension.

"Konstantine?! You there?!" He yelled out, coughing for a second. He waited for a response of any kind...but nothing came. He pulled on the metal bars in anger before stopping once hearing a set of footsteps echo from down the hallway, the metal itself vibrating a tiny bit before stopping as the source of the footsteps stopped before the cell Hugo was in.

A man in a red and black combat jacket alongside a black pair of combat pants stared at Hugo, his brown boots had steel wrapped around them. his jacket had a zip on it which was undone, showing a red bulletproof vest underneath it.

The thing that stood out most, however, was the man's face. The middle of his face had a horizontal black mark across it which went over his blue eyes and the top of his nose, stopping just before his eyebrows. In his hand was a pump-action shotgun. His hair was average lengthed and blonde.

Hugo slowly backed away from the cell, knowing full well that this man could blow him to bits if he wanted to.

"You are being held here for attempted infiltration of Wrathak and the Wolven Empire. You are due for a meeting with someone in a moment. That is all the information I am allowed to give."

The man soon walked away. Hugo kicked the bars twice before slumping down against the wall he woke up at. He stared at the floor for a few seconds before looking up at Kry upon hearing his voice.

"So they know about our plans. The masked man was tracking us for a reason. They must have...realized the loss of contact with Eternal Chrome." Kry picked up his glasses from the floor and put them on. "Where is Konstantine?"

"I was asking that to myself." Hugo said, staring at the roof. "He said we're due to a meeting with someone important."

"I know, I heard." Kry stood up, walking to the bars of the cell before looking over at another cell opposite the one next to theirs. He noticed a man in the cell hunched over on a stall facing the wall of his cell. Due to the angle and the lighting he couldn't make out precise details. He then looked over his shoulder at Hugo. "There is someone in a cell opposite the right one next to ours. I can't see anyone else though."

"Hm." Hugo looked over at Altara who was slowly getting to his feet.

"Wh-" Altara rubbed his head, looking around, before speaking again. "Where are we?" He looked up at Hugo, noticing his hair was down. He then looked around the cell more, soon noticing Konstantine was gone. "Wait, where is Konstantine??" He said with a slightly shaky voice.

"We got captured by the Wolven. As for Konstantine your guess is as good as ours." Hugo simply responded, looking up at Kry. "We should try our magik."

Kry turned around to Hugo, who extended his arm forward. He tried to summon his axe but it was worthless, all that came was a low hum which drifted away after a couple of seconds. "Mine doesn't work." He said with a sigh.

Kry tried to lift up a small rock off the floor with his gravity magik, but nothing lifted. Only a low hum just like Hugo's magik.

Altara picked up the same rock, trying to enchant it. But of course..nothing happened.

"Hm, they must have a Kanceller." Kry mumbled with a frown, hearing a set of footsteps coming down the hallway. Two Wolven guards stood there with shotguns in their hands, one being the same guard that talked to Hugo earlier. The other had short gray hair.

One of them moved forward to unlock the cell, the other aiming his gun from their hip at the three as they were motioned to walk out by the guard which unlocked the cell. The three did as asked. As they walked down the corridor Kry looked at the man hunched over in his cell, all that Kry could make out was a set of green eyes but before he could see anything else he was forced to keep walking. Altara looked in the various cells as they walked down the corridor, none of which had Konstantine in.