The morning was great for Jessica. She woke up feeling so refreshed. She looked to her desk to found a set of new clothes. Jessica smiled and
stretched her body.
After washed up and dressed up for the day, she walked to the stairs and then she stopped, looking down to the lounge. Taeyeon and Tiffany were
sitting facing each other, playing card. Behind them, a girl with long hair, tanned skin was drinking a ma juice. Yuri looked up and her eyes met
Jessica's. She smiled and raised her left hand. Jessica saw the wooden bracelet with on Yuri's wrist.
Jessica chuckled, blushed, and then she waved back, showing her own bracelet.
**
Yoona was training her arm's muscles at the headquarters, making sure she was not rusty after her confrontation with Taeyeon the other day when she
heard the news. The orphanage was on fire.
She stormed out of the headquarters, drawing suspicion toward her from her unnies. But she didn't care, the only thing in her mind was Seohyun.
Now, she was waiting for someone. Junsu.
Junsu walked in to the headquarters. He still had a cast on his left arm and his ribs were still aching. But he was eager to go to work again.
He smiled. He had a plan.
He turned around the corridor to his office when Yoona confronted him. She grabbed Junsu at his collar and pressed him to the wall.
"What the hell did you do?" she hissed.
"Princess? What a nice welcome."
"What the hell did you do!?" Yoona choked him a bit harder.
"Did what?"
"You burned down Jung's orphanage!"
Junsu was lost.
"Jung's orphanage burned down?"
"Lie!" Yoona saw the cast and she grabbed it. Junsu screamed.
"Damn it! What do you want!?" Junsu collapsed on his knees.
"Don't play dumb with me!" Yoona roared.
People started to look to their directions.
"I was in the hospital, struggling to recover if you hadn't notice. How in the world could I burn that orphanage down!?" Junsu stood up and shouted near
Yoona's face.
"I found the orphanage's pictures and its children in your office down at the third basement. Explain that!" Yoona slammed Junsu to the wall again,
harder this time.
"Why should I explain myself--," his sentence got cut off when Yoona grabbed his casted arm and slammed it to the wall.
"Tell me!"
"I was aiming for her sister!" Junsu gritted his teeth, "I was aiming for her sister, alright!?"
"Why!?"
"What do you mean why!? I need to get to the Potential! I read the recent files! It says that there is another Potential, Jung Jessica, but I never!" Junsu
shook away his injured hand, "never even met the girl until she came here to raise hell! So why would I burn her orphanage! I need her sister!"
Yoona narrowed her eyes. She quickly tackled Junsu. The guy rolled on the floor.
"You leave them alone. Everyone related to Jung! Do you understand?" Yoona retorted.
"And who do you think you are to give me commands, Princess?"
Yoona kicked the already downed guy on his shin.
"Enough!" Hyoyeon shouted. She closed in with a red folder in her hand.
Junsu sat up and his eyes were filled with anger, "you teach your subordinate a lesson, Kim Hyoyeon! Or I will!"
Yoona was about to launch a jab when Hyoyeon restrained her. Junsu was already took a step back.
"Go away, Junsu."
Junsu looked to Hyoyeon and with a mocking look, he left.
"What the hell were you thinking?" Hyoyeon turned to the younger girl, "he is your superior."
Yoona walked away.
"Hold on, Princess."
"I'm sorry, Unnie, I need to be alone."
"What happened to you? What's with all those questions about the orphanage?"
"Nothing!" Yoona snapped.
Hyoyeon made a displeased face.
"I'm sorry," Yoona sighed, "I didn't mean that."
Hyoyeon dropped the question and changed the topic.
"Why did you call me last night?" Hyoyeon asked.
"I'm sorry, I called for nothing," Yoona quickly answered.
Yoona was holding Seohyun's phone with Jessica's number in it, she could've reported where Jessica was but she chose to be Yoona, not the Princess so
she kept silent about it.
"You know that Gaea is back in Korea again?" Hyoyeon pushed Yoona to sit down on a couch at the lobby.
"Really?"
"Yes, she killed a hundred people at Incheon." Hyoyeon dropped a folder in Yoona's lap.
"What's this?" Yoona opened the folder, inside of it was satellite photo of Korea. There were two red cloudlike images above Seoul and Incheon,
Incheon's cloud was bigger.
" It's the satellite image of Korea the night Gaea came back."
"What are these clouds?" asked Yoona.
"Lightning crawlers. You know how Gifted caused lightning crawlers when they move, right? Those are two places where it occurred last night. They were
huge."
Lightning crawlers are lightning who cut across the sky inside clouds, flying vertically. It could go for miles without touching the ground, and when it
does, it's devastating.
"There are two of them. The one in Incheon was Gaea, what about in Seoul?"
"We're not sure, but Gaea could do anything she likes, so?," Hyoyeon tilted her head.
"Where exactly was it? I mean, the place where the anomaly appeared."
Hyoyeon watched Yoona's face turned serious.
"It's right above Jung's orphanage."
Yoona was taken aback. "You're saying that?."
"I'm not saying anything," Hyoyeon stood up and left Yoona to ponder, "just something for you to think about."
"Wait, Unnie," Yoona stopped Hyoyeon, "why are you telling me this?"
Hyoyeon just looked to Yoona's eyes not saying anything.
"Do you," Yoona hesitated, "do you know?"
Hyoyeon sighed and she walked again.
"Thank you, Unnie!"
Hyoyeon raised a hand.
Yoona gritted her teeth. Who burned down the orphanage? If it was Gaea, why? She had no motives. Yoona scratched the name off of her mind and
then another name came to her mind.
"But why?"
**
Jessica was taking a walk at Taeyeon's flower garden. Yuri came up to her, smiling.
"How's your sleep?" she asked.
"Great, thanks. You woke up early," Jessica smiled.
"Yeah, I have to get you new clothes, remember?"
Jessica giggled.
"How are you holding up?"
"I'm okay," Jessica nodded, "thanks."
Yuri smiled and she held Jessica closer.
"You're shorter than me," Yuri smiled.
Jessica pouted, "whatever. At least I can do this if I'm shorter."
Jessica stood on the tip of her feet and kissed Yuri lightly, then she bended one leg. Yuri burst into laughter.
"What is that?"
"That's what they do in princess story movies, Yuri. Don't you ever watch TV?"
"Ah, who cares for those movies? I have my own princess to spoil."
"Uhm," Taeyeon coughed, she was crouching under a rose bush.
"Taengoo!" Yuri pulled her arms away from Jessica and Jessica took a step back from Yuri.
"This is my garden, you know? Next time, take a quick scan to your surroundings before you do something like that," Taeyeon sighed.
Jessica covered her face, embarrassed and she ran inside the house.
Yuri cackled, "she's so shy."
"You should be shy too, Kwon Yuri."
Yuri laughed, "not me. I need to say something by the way. A secret."
"What?" Taeyeon stood up and clapped her hands together, dusting them off of soil.
"Princess," Yuri leaned on the wall and peeked inside the kitchen, making sure Jessica wasn't too close to hear the conversation.
"What about her?"
"It turns out that the Princess is Jessica's sister's? friend. Or more than a friend if I dare say."
"Princess?" Taeyeon frowned.
"Yes."
"The Princess that always wears mask and carries guns and rifles and hunts us?"
"Yes."
"Princess, our nemesis, Princess?"
"Yes."
"The organization's Princess?"
"Yes, and to save our time, the next answer would be also yes."
Taeyeon curled her lips and looked inside the kitchen window. Inside, Jessica was talking with Tiffany.
"Wow. The world is not as big as I thought it would be," Taeyeon sighed, "you told her?"
"No. I'm not gonna tell her anything."
Taeyeon nodded. She understood Yuri's decision.
"There are things she'd better off oblivious."
**
"So do you think it's her?" asked Yoona to Sunny and Sooyoung who were having lunch at the cafeteria.
"She's pretty powerful so?," answered Sooyoung with her mouth full.
"And you, Unnie?" Yoona turned to Sunny.
"I don't want to make sudden conclusion."
Hyoyeon abruptly pulled a chair and joined in, "hey!"
Sunny choked on her food, "don't do that!"
"Sorry. So, you guys done eating?"
"What's wrong?" Sooyoung burped before she answered.
"We got a job," Hyoyeon said. "Get ready, we'll move tonight."
Sooyoung grinned and Sunny nodded. While Yoona, she saw the mission as an opportunity, opportunity to meet Kwon Yuri.
**
The sun had left the sky. Eeteuk was gazing on the night sky as he turned the volume of his radio scanner up, listening to the agents of the organization.
"We've cornered her outside the sixth warehouse!" a voice said.
"Go around the back!" another voice screamed.
The voices distorted.
"Call the Princess? get her!"
Eeteuk turned off the scanner, took his jacket and ran down the stairs. In the living room, Siwon, Yuri and Tiffany were talking.
"People! We have our next objective!"
Taeyeon and Jessica came in from the kitchen.
"Where?" asked Taeyeon.
"A Gifted girl stuck in a warehouse complex of an old army district, not far from here," Eeteuk grinned.
"I'll join you," said Siwon.
"Okay, let's go!" Yuri jumped up and then she turned to Jessica. "Want to join us?"
Jessica wasn't expecting the invitation.
"Is it okay?" asked Jessica.
Eeteuk nodded and Taeyeon lifted her thumb up. Siwon just smiled.
"Just stay near me and stay safe," Yuri smiled.
"Okay."