Nadia was her name, she was crouching and hugging her own knees behind a steel box in an old military warehouse. She was crying, her head was

spinning and her visions were blurry. A Pandora canister fell beside her and then blew up. Nadia screamed and ran at random direction. Blinded, she hit

a wall and fell rolling on the ground. She heard footsteps and then quickly sent some lightning from her body all around her, panicked. And then she ran

again.

"You can't keep running! Just stay where you are and I swear it will end quickly!" a voice shouted.

Nadia pressed her back at the cold wall behind her, crying, "why me? Why after me?"

A figure came up to her, holding a rifle and a mask, all black. The figure was a girl.

"Please, I don't want to hurt you."

Nadia fell on her knees, "what did I do to deserve this?"

The figure pointed her rifle at Nadia, but she was trembling.

Then the warehouse roof collapsed by lightning and made a hole on the ground. On the hole, Yuri stood and looked at the figure, angry.

"Princess," she said.

Yoona turned her gun to Yuri.

"Kwon Yuri," Yoona said.

Yoona knew that she will run into Yuri today. Actually, she was expecting Yuri, she wanted to ask something of her. But then Yoona knew it won't be easy. She and Yuri had a long rough fighting history.

Yuri cracked her neck and then she smiled, ready to attack. So Yoona changed to plan B, attack first, ask later.

"Draw!" Yoona shot some tranquilizer bullets at Yuri. Yuri ran around the warehouse, closing in on the crouching and crying Nadia.

"Run, Girl! Go!" she said.

Nadia acted on her instinct and ran away. Yoona saw her but she focused on Yuri. She reloaded her rifle but a lightning hit her, threw her few meters

above the ground before falling on it. She lost her rifle.

Yuri jumped on top of her and started to punch Yoona's face wildly. Desperate to keep her mask on, Yoona felt her fingers trembled and a lightning came

out of them, sending Yuri flying across the warehouse.

"So you finally use your skills, huh!?" Yuri shouted.

Yoona shook her head, "I'm not one of you."

"Explain that attack then?" Yuri ran at Yoona, with lightning in her hand this time.

Yoona decided not to run anymore, she braced herself and took the hit on her stomach. She grunted.

"I am not like you!" Yoona shouted.

Yuri attacked again, the lightning hit Yoona' head and she fell on the ground.

"How does it feel to after that girl, Princess? You are one of us!" Yuri pummelled her fist to Yoona's face.

"People like you?" Yoona mumbled, "I refused to be like you!" Yoona kicked Yuri and freed herself.

Yoona swung her arm and hit Yuri on her neck. Yuri took a few steps back, cautious.

"You're just lying to yourself, Princess," Yuri was out of breath.

"I refuse to be a person like you, Yuri. We're going to cure her!" Yoona said.

"She's just a kid! You're hunting a kid! You're heartless!"

"You wanna talk about heart?" Yoona lowered her voice, "why did you burn the orphanage?"

Yuri's expression turned sour.

"It was you, right?"

Yuri clenched his fists.

"Why did you burn the orphanage, Kwon Yuri!?"

**

Instead of landing, Jessica fell to the ground a few blocks away from the warehouse she was supposed to go to. She stood up and cleaned her clothes.

Slowly, Jessica walked toward the warehouse. She could hear thunders rumbling and gunshots from the warehouse. The rest had already been there.

"Annyeong haseyo," a voice called out.

Jessica turned around abruptly, ready to attack. Behind her was a girl, tall, long hair and amazingly beautiful.

"It's a beautiful night, isn't it?" she said.

Jessica didn't answer.

"Oh, don't mind me, I'm just passing by to see how you are doing," she smiled.

Jessica looked closer to the girl.

"Do I know you?" Jessica asked.

The girl chuckled, "you won't remember me but I know you more than you know yourself."

Jessica took a step back.

"What are you doing here?"

The girl took a strand of her hair and tucked it behind her ear.

"I told you I'm just here to see how you are doing."

Jessica narrowed her eyes. She was scared of the girl.

"I'm just making sure you're alright," the girl smiled and walked away.

Jessica watched the girl walked farther and farther.

"Oh," the girl turned back facing Jessica, "say hello to your friend, Taeyeon. Tell her that she can't be dead either."

"Why?"

"Why, why, why. You ask too much. It's better if you don't know, Jung Sooyeon," the girl smiled, an eerie one.

"How do you know my birth name?"

"I told you, I know more about you than you know yourself," the girl walked again.

Jessica let out a relieved breath, but her heart was still beating out of control. Who was she? How did she know Jessica and Taeyeon's name? And what

does she mean by she knows more about Jessica?

She shook her head, her questions could wait, first thing first the warehouse.

**

"We got the girl! Pull out, Princess! The Potential is here! Taeyeon is here!" a voice from Yoona's radio shouted.

Yoona clicked the radio off. She was still looking at Yuri intensely.

"Answer me."

Yuri glared at Yoona. "It's doesn't concern you."

"It is my concern, Kwon Yuri! You're hurting innocent people!" Yoona's shoulder rose up and down by her heavy breath, "damn, Kwon Yuri. I

always thought of you as a dignified enemy."

The lightning crawler above the Jung's orphanage was smaller than the one Gaea caused in Incheon. If it was Taeyeon, the lightning crawler should be

as big so Yoona turned to Yuri.

She never believed it. Not until then when she saw Yuri didn't bother denying.

"You don't have the right to judge me! Look at yourself! Capturing innocent lives! The Gifted are human, no less than you are! You are a Gifted,

Princess!" Yuri snapped.

"We cure them," Yoona hissed.

"Cure them? Do you know what you guys do to the Gifted at the Blood Facility!? They tortured them!"

"Lies!" a lightning shot out from Yoona's body. Thunder flew right by Yuri's ear and destroyed the thick warehouse wall.

"I do what I have to do," I protect who I have to protect, "I'm not proud of what I did, but that needs to be done."

"There were children at the orphanage!" Yoona roared. There was Seohyun.

"I had to do that! It's the only way I can protect her!" Yuri rammed Yoona with her body.

Yoona hit the wall with Yuri choking her. They exchanged blows at the same time, both with lightnings in their hands.

Yuri lost her balance and Yoona quickly seized the moment by throwing her across the warehouse with her lightning.

"What were you trying to prove by burning the orphanage? You are a monster," Yoona clenched her teeth.

"Yuri?"

Yuri and Yoona turned to the warehouse door. Jessica was standing there, looking at Yuri with her eyes wide open.

"Sica?" Yuri choked.

"Is it true?" Jessica asked.

**

Hyoyeon, Sooyoung and Sunny awaited in the tactical van. Sunny kept trying to reach Yoona but her radio was turned off.

"Damn it, Princess!" Sunny slammed her radio.

Sooyoung spotted Yoona was running toward the van.

"Princess!" she shouted.

Yoona jumped in to the van.

"Go!" Hyoyeon yelled to the driver.

The van screeched and pulled itself quickly from the old military complex.

"Why did you turn off your radio?" asked Sunny.

Yoona didn't answer. She was thinking. Was it true? Was what Yuri said true?

Yoona threw away her mask and cursed herself. She had to leave Yuri and Jessica. She was sure they were going to battle it out and she didn't want to

be a part of it.

"Why did you turn off your radio!?" Sunny slapped Yoona.

Yoona watched her worried unnie broke into tears.

"Answer me!"

"I'm sorry, Unnie."

"Don't you ever!" Sunny gritted her teeth, "ever turn your radio off again!"

Yoona nodded in silent.

"You shouldn't make your unnie worry, Princess," Hyoyeon said.

Yoona turned to her, "Unnie. Tell me about the blood facility."

Hyoyeon's turned stern. "I can't."

"Unnie!"

"I don't know."

"Yuri said that they tortured the Gifted at the facility, is that true?" Yoona raised her voice.

"I don't know!"

"Aren't you curious, Unnie!? Don't you want to know what is happening in that place!?" Yoona screamed.

Hyoyeon moved from her seat and grabbed Yoona's neck. She lifted the younger girl and slammed her to the floor of the van.

"I don't know and I don't want to know," Hyoyeon hissed, "I do everything I ordered to and I believed every words of it. A word from the Gifted would

not alter what I believed in."

Sunny pulled Hyoyeon, "stop."

Yoona sat up when Hyoyeon released her.

The option of asking directly to the organization's people about the Blood Facility was no longer open, so Yoona could only think one other way. Ask

Kwon Yuri.

Yoona opened the van's door and jumped out. She rolled on the asphalt floor to cushion her fall.

"Princess!" Sunny called her, "Yoona!"

Sooyoung restrained Sunny from jumping after Yoona, "don't go."

"But I promised I'd protect her!" Sunny screamed.

"Just stay here! Please," Sooyoung pleaded, "she'll be fine."