Gregory, Kelsey, Mai and Saige are in the forest at evening time. They stand in a group together discussing about the Beast Tamer, then Gregory speaks, “Last time he showed up in the forest, so this time we’ll gain more advantage by surprising him in the forest with all four of us here.” Saige then responds a, “Hmm.”. “What is it?”, asks Mai. “Still just wondering if he’ll show up this time.”, says Saige. Gregory then speaks, “Well we got no bait, but we have determination.”. “Yeah!”, says Kelsey.

  Gregory then whispers, “Just let’s not make too much noise or else he’ll catch us off guard.”. Kelsey whispers back, “Yeah.”. They go on to wait as more hours pass by.

  Suddenly, they hear a high note flute. “The Beast Tamer.”, says Kelsey. The team then gradually head toward the direction of the flute sound, while continuously hiding among the trees. Finally, they reach him and each team member gradually go to surround him, still hiding behind trees to cloak their position. Suddenly, they go in to attack the Beast Tamer, but Pincer comes down from a tree, in their transformed form, and lands behind the Beast Tamer and growls. Gregory, Kelsey, Mai and Saige jump back, in surprise. “Damn it!”, says Saige.

  “So you thought you would get the jump on me. Get them now!”, says the Beast Tamer, as two demonic dogs and a demon bear come out. Pincer then growls louder, as Saige runs up to Pincer, grabs Pincer by the front quills and wrestles a bit. Saige then speaks back to his group, “I’ll try to hold off Pincer. You three go after the Beast Master!”. “Okay!”, says Mai.

  Mai immediately takes off her gun and goes to shoot at the Beast Master, and a demon dog ends up jumping in front of the shot and gets shot in the leg. The demon dog yelps. “Oh no! Poor doggy.”, says Mai with concern. “I would feel more bad for yourself than it right now.”, says the Beast Tamer. The demon dog growls, then barks at Mai and chases after her. Then the other demon dog chases after Kelsey. Kelsey and Mai run away.

  Gregory gets confronted by the, now standing, demon bear again. Then before the demon bear has a chance, Gregory runs up, grabs the demon bear by the paws, then tosses it to the side. Gregory then shoots multiple quick arm cannon blasts at the Beast Tamer and the Beast Tamer swings through the trees and around the shots like a monkey. Gregory responds, “What in the...?”, then gets kicked in the face by the Beast Tamer. Gregory falls over over as the Beast Tamer lands, twirls his flute and poses with one hand out infront while holding his flute behind him.

  The Beast Tamer then speaks, “Oh I know how to defend myself too. Allow me to introduce myself... I’m ex-demon general Sealus.”. “A Demon General?”, says Gregory. “Ex-Demon General. After the war, there was not much for me to do so I took on the task of obtaining animal friends to keep me company. At first, I controlled hundreds of demons with my flute, but then I thought into using the power of my flute to ta- ahh AHH!!, says, Sealus, right before getting picked up from behind by Saige, into a hug from behind.

  “Enough talking out of you!”, says Saige. “Wh-What!? But what happened to that Pincer pet!?”, asks Sealus. “Knocked them out.”, says Saige, as Saige turns Sealus around to show a de-transformed Pincer on the ground*. “Ah AHH! OH NO NO NO!”, yells Sealus. “And now to take care of you!”, says Saige. Saige then bends over backward and suplexes Sealus into the ground, knocking him out cold. After doing so, Saige looks around and sees how the animals chasing his team around then stop and their bodies transform back to normal. Except the demon-bear, which just looks around, then runs off into the darkness of the forest. Saige then speaks, “Huh, that was easy. So what do we do with him now?”. “Probably kill him.”, says Kelsey, coming from the distance with Mai. “No, we can’t.”, says Mai. “Exactly, he may have clues on Azrael’s whereabouts. I have an idea, anyone have any rope?”, asks Gregory. “We’d have to go back to town to find some.”, says Mai. “Alright. Mai, you go back to town and find some while the three of us keep this demon general company.”, says Gregory. “Got it.”, says Mai.

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  Later on, Sealus is tied up against a tree as he wakes up. “Huh?”, says Sealus. “Rise and shine demon. Remember us?”, says Gregory, as him, Kelsey, Mai and Saige stand around Sealus. “Gaaahaahh!”, yells Sealus. “Now you’re gonna answer some questions for us.”, says Gregory.

  “Also, we got your flute.”, says Saige as he’s holding onto the flute and Pincer. “Damn it all.”, says Sealus. “So you gonna cooperate with us?”, asks Gregory. “Depends, will you kill me?”, asks Sealus. “Depends on how much you tell us.”, says Gregory. “Eek! Okay, what do you wanna know?”, asks Sealus. “First off, where is Azrael?”, asks Gregory. “You want to know where Azrael is!?”, asks Sealus. “Yeah, we do.”, says Gregory. “I can’t tell you that!”, says Sealus. “Why not?”, asks Gregory. “For obvious reasons why! He’ll have me killed if I do!, says Sealus. “What if we said we’d put you under protection?”, asks Gregory. “Well- wait WAIT WAIT NO I WASN’T GOING TO SAY ANYTHING!”, says Sealus, as he gets stabbed in the throat by a feather flown in at great speed.

  The team then act shocked from Sealus’ sudden death and turn around to see where the feather came from. To their surprise stands a grey humanoid bird demon. “What the...? We can’t let him escape!”, says Gregory. As everyone goes in to rush him, a sudden small tornado covers up the sight of the humanoid bird and as the tornado vanishes, so does he. “What the hell?”, says Gregory. “Well. That sucks.”, says Saige. “And just when Sealus was gonna crack.”, says Mai. “Was that a spy?”, asks Kelsey. “I don’t know.”, says Gregory. “So what do we do now that the guy’s dead?”, asks Saige. Gregory then sighs before speaking, “I guess just take the pets back to town”. Gregory looks at Pincer in Saige’s hand, and then the dogs tied up to a tree.

  In an eventual time, the group is in town, in the morning, as a crowd forms. A couple then comes up to get their dog. As a man comes up to get his dog. Gregory then speaks to them while handing over their pets on rope leashes, “Yeah, there was not that much pets to save, but here you go.”. Father Terrance then approaches the group too to speak to them. “Thank you for your work. Now that you have finished your mission, I’d imagine you’d be on your way.”. “That’s it? Just a, “Well, go on your way now”?”, says Mai. Saige then tries cutting her off. “It’s fine. We don’t need anything from him. We’ll be on our way. Come on gang.” Saige just begins walking outside of the crowd, Gregory, Kelsey and Mai just look over to Saige and then follow behind him.

  Eventually, in the next moment, the team are inside their car, and just in front of the entrance to the town. Mary then runs up to the car, from out of the entrance. “Wait Saige!”, she says. Before Gregory drives off, Mary comes up to the car’s back side window hole, on Saige’s side. “Hey Mary, sorry I forgot to say goodbye before running off.”, says Saige. “Could this be the last time I see you?”, asks Mary. “Well I’m guessing.. maybe. I won’t be returning to town.. unless that jackass Richter gives us another mission here.”, says Saige. “In that case I want to give you a present goodbye before you leave.”, says Mary. “What’s that?”, says Saige. “Close your eyes and face this way.”, says Mary.

  As Saige closes his eyes, he then feels a warm sensation on his lips. He then opens his eyes to see Mary kissing him and then stop and pull back, blushing.

  “I...”, says Saige, speechless, as he turns back to Gregory, Mai and Kelsey. Gregory has on a small smile, Mai is covering her mouth in shock and Kelsey’s jaw is just dropped. Saige then turns back to Mary. “Well?”, asks Mary. “I never knew you had feelings like that?”, says Saige. “Do you have the same feelings for me?”, asks Mary. “I.. uh... gotta go. Greg!”, says Saige. “Are you serious, boy?”, says Gregory. “Greg!!”, demands Saige. “Alright!”, says Gregory. Gregory then begins to drive off.

  “I’ll be sure to visit you again Mary! I promise!”, says Saige, as he waves from his window. Mary is speechless at that moment, but then she smiles and waves back saying, “Okay!”.

  “What the hell was that, Saige?”, asks Mai “I didn’t know what to say, okay! Never been kissed before!”, says Saige. “Ah, young love.”, says Gregory. “Oh, shut the hell up Greg!”, says Saige. Gregory just laughs as they drive off.