Crystalla

Hazel stepped into the Great Hall, to see thousands of people running about, helping each other out, she looked up at the tall ceiling, the sight was almost too dizzying to take in, and she felt as if she would pass out.

"Ros!" A voice called over, Hazel looked in the direction the voice came from, to see Lotte approaching.

"Oh, hey" Hazel faked a smile.

"You haven't left yet? Keegan says it should take two hours to reach Jorvik, then the Life Crystal Cairn should be in walking distance of that. It stands out too, apparently, towering over the city" Lotte explained.

"I was just getting some supplies for the trip" Hazel lied.

"Right, you best get a move on though, time is of the essence" Lotte winked, as she headed over to the airship maintenance bay. Hazel grinned to herself.

"That was too easy..." She shrugged, as she headed outside to see a fleet of fighters. She approached one of the fighters and climbed inside, flying away before she was spotted by anyone else. As her fighter disappeared into oblivion, Roisin walked out of the Chambers with Keegan.

"Okay, just be careful when you get there. We don't know if Infernus is aware of this Crystal yet" Keegan smiled.

"I will, stop worrying" Roisin chuckled. As she climbed on of the fighters and sat in the cockpit.

"Look, I don't know how stuff is going to go in the next few hours, so if I'm away when you get back..." Keegan began.

"We'll see each other again" Roisin smiled softly.

"I hope so..." Keegan sighed.

"I know so, don't worry" Roisin nodded. "Just take care of yourself" She added, as she began to close the cockpit door.

"I will, I love you, Ros" Keegan smiled.

"I love you too, Keegan" Roisin nodded, before closing the cockpit door, as the engines powered up, Roisin gave a final wave, before flying away into the distance. Keegan sighed as he looked at the floating continent that loomed far away in the distance and sighed, the sun was high in the sky as the clocks struck 11am.

In the comm hub, Dex was working hard on re-establishing contact with Sanctuary after some kind of virus seemed to overrun their systems. Mizu walked over and observed.

"Any further progress, Dex?" She asked.

"I just can't seem to get a signal through, the virus will have to be purged from their end, by the looks" Dex shrugged.

"Hmm, what was the final piece of data we got from Sanctuary, before the comms went down?" Mizu quizzed Dex. Dex typed away on the keyboards looking into archived activity for the whole of the Council Chambers. He narrowed the search to find out the final data transfer from Sanctuary.

"From what I can tell, it was a teleport... half an hour ago?" Dex said as he sat back. Mizu leaned in to inspect the data.

"Do we have CCTV records for the teleportation chamber?" Mizu asked.

"Yeah, I'll bring it up now" Dex nodded as he opened the CCTV archives and played the footage, he gasped as he saw Roisin materialize. "Wait, what?" He said, as he looked closer.

"From what I understand, Roisin has been here all day" Mizu frowned. "Follow her on CCTV" She nodded. Dex switched cameras to follow the girl that he and Mizu presumed to be Roisin, Hazel. They watched as she spoke with Lotte, before heading outside and getting into one of the fighters.

"Strange... I wonder why Roisin went to Sanctuary to begin with?" Mizu pondered. Dex, however noticed something as the footage rolled on.

"Uh, Mizu..." Dex said, as he pointed to Roisin entering the frame from inside the Chambers, alongside Keegan. Dex and Mizu looked at each other with a look of complete confusion. Mizu noted in her mind that despite Aran looking similar to Roisin, she didn't look that similar.

"How can there be two? Which one is real?!" Mizu looked puzzled.

"The one with Keegan has to be the real one" Dex nodded. "We need to speak to Lotte" He added.

"Right, I'll have her brought here asap" Mizu nodded as she typed away on her comms device. Several minutes passed, before Lotte arrived in the comms hub and walked over to Mizu and Dex to chat.

"What's going on?" Lotte asked.

"When did you last speak to Roisin, and where?" Mizu asked. Lotte paused to think, before clicking her fingers.

"Was about twenty minutes ago? I think, near the teleportation chamber and the dining hall" Lotte smiled.

"Did anything seem off?" Dex asked.

"Not really, I just asked her when she planned to set off, I think, helped her memorize the info about where she needed to go" Lotte shrugged. "Why, what's happened?" Lotte asked. Mizu motioned to the desktop screen, with two separate photos of Roisin, both wearing different clothes, 30 seconds apart. Lotte instantly realized what was going on.

"Put us on full lockdown, now" Lotte warned. Dex nodded, and sounded the lockdown alarm.

"What, or who is it, Lotte?" Mizu asked, looking worried.

"Rychard, the clone of Roisin, also known as Hazel, and I gave him complete information of the location of the Life Crystal... FUCK!" Lotte shouted. Dex stood up.

"They both left for the Life Crystal Cairn, if Roisin meets this Hazel there, she is gonna need back-up" Dex nodded, before looking at Mizu.

"Right, take the Wild Rose II, hopefully should get you there in time, take your teammates with you" Mizu nodded, Dex grinned and nodded back as he made his way towards the door. "Good luck Dex" Mizu nodded.