CHAPTER 1: "Happy Birthday, Cielrion!"

Time: August 9th, 2030, 8:30p.m.
Place: Quad Companies' Second Headquarters Party Hall

"Happy Birthday, Cielrion!"

Wajihud or his popular call sign name Arion Cielrion, celebrated his 33rd birthday on the Quad Companies Second Headquarters with all of his co-workers and his old primary school friend Hafizi and his best friend at Limbanak Secondary School, Folkin, his best friend at Tansau Secondary School, Raffee and the couple that also his best primary school friends – Zulikrami and Nailah.

His cousin (or should the author said, Uncle), Fazli that now dates with Lydia, Ivy and Azwana are also celebrating his 33rd birthday too. Everyone in his party is serving themselves with delicious, exotic foods. Most of his party guests are from his co-workers, VIPs and his friends that remembers his birthday. But least party guests is his secondary school friends. They did not know that today is a very special and unique day—not just for him, but for all his co-workers.

A humble gentleman came to Arion and congratulates him for celebrating his 33rd birthday. Hafizi, his old primary school friend, starts his conversation with him.

"What's going on, Arion Cielrion? Who's the man that just congratulated you?" Hafizi asked.

"Hm… nothing much. That man is more popular than me because of his call sign. If you met him sooner or later, call him Mr. Xen or just call him Xen." Arion answered.

"A professional DJ, a computer technician, anime lover, Major – ranked in a military academy in Russia, supercar lover, and a great man. A true friend that I never met before. A mature person, I might add."

"You sure still remember your friends, eh Arion. It's been several years—more like 6 years I've worked with you. Still have that power in your hand and mind?" Hafizi complied him.

"Maybe."

(Laughs)

Hafizi almost laughs, while Arion smiles. An unknown woman came before him and Hafizi and congratulates him.

"Congrats, Wajihud—oops, I mean Arion Cielrion. I know it's been a long time we never met and we might don't know each other, but I hope you still remember me. You have love feelings towards me since 2012, but you didn't tell me. I know, you still didn't forget about me," the woman said.

"Huh? Wait—sorry to ask, but who did I fell in love since 2012?" Arion asked to the unknown woman.

"Well, you will remember me again someday. It's not forbidden to say this to you, right Future Predictor Arion Cielrion?" the woman answered.

"Em… say what?" he asked.

"Future Predictor Arion Cielrion… I – love – you!" the woman confesses her feelings to Arion.

Everyone is shocked to hear that words from the unknown woman. They clapped their hands to Arion for he just found his true admirer.

"H-huh? L – L – lo – lo – lo – love m-me?"

Arion hide his blushes and shyness and try to be serious.

"See you later in the future," the woman said.

"Wait, wait girl – you didn't answered my question yet –"

As the unknown girl walks away from him, a red portal summoned in front of her – making her can run away as soon as possible.

"Never…mind."

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Time: August 9th, 2030, 11p.m.
Place: Arion's VIP Office, Quad Companies Second Headquarters

Cielrion stormed into his VIP office.

"Is there something wrong, Ari? You seem to be a little frustrated," Zulikrami asked about Arion's conditions.

"…N – no – nothing. Just – uh… a little pressure is on to me," Arion answered.

"Arion, there is no need to hide your problems, alright? After all… we are your best friends…we are like family." Nailah convinced to him so that he will tell his problems to them.

"Yeah Wajihud, no need to hide it," said Folkin, Raffee, Hafizi and Fazli.

"Okay… watch what I will do."

"GlaDoS, replay the video shot from the CCTV #9 at 2130 hours," Arion gives command to his supercomputer.

The computer immediately check the CCTV history on a specific time that Arion ordered it to find. After it founds what he wants, he plays it and pauses on a specific time, pausing the video shot and highlighted the unknown woman's face and ordered his supercomputer to find the almost same matches for the unknown woman's face.

All his companions are asking themselves for Arion's action. Zulikrami asked him about his weird actions.

"Why do you want to find the match of the unknown woman's face? Is there a person you want to hunt, Ari?"

Arion answered, "Neither bounty hunting, nor wanted hunting."

Hafizi answered Zulikrami's question, "Arion does it 'cause there's an unknown woman just confesses her feelings to him."

"Wow. Someone is going to be on a date and to be married soon! Congrats, Arion!" Zul teased him.

"DID SOMEONE SAID… Arion's gone to be on a date and get married soon?"

A girl voice echoed in Arion's office.

A girl came in the middle of nowhere and surprisingly hugged Arion and teased him.

"WH – Wh – whoa Charis, calm the hell down, girl – I know this will not make you happy, because you admired me, but….(sighs)…" Arion said to the girl named Charis, who just give him a surprise hug from the back.

"…..I – am, NOT – READY – TO – MARRY – SOMEONE, and that includes YOU. Satisfied with my answer, Charis?"

Charis said, "Y-you will not marry me? Bu-but…(cries)"

"H-hey girl – I – I mean, Charis…"

"Why d - did y - you b - be – became s – so r – rude t – to m – me?" She asked while she is still crying.

"Look. Look at me," Arion said to her while forcing her head to see his face.

As he started to get his face near her, she started to blush.

"Wh – what are you g – gonna d – do w – with me?" Charis asked.

"I just want you to look at me. Listen to me very clearly." Arion answered.

He added, "Listen, Charis, okay. I'm not rude to you. But just because I have love feelings towards you long time ago, doesn't mean I'll stay with it. Besides, I didn't say about marriage yet. I didn't say that I want to marry the unknown woman, right? I'll make things simple. Sorry to say this, but: I will not marry random people TILL I met a person that is truly perfect for me. It does not matter if that person that I intend to marry is rich or poor, genius or un – genius – the most important thing is, if I married to someone, I will be grateful and always thank to God, all day, all night."

"O – oh. O – ok – kay," Charis accepted his advice with a smile.

With relieved heart, he said, "Good to see you are smiling again, girl."

Hafizi notify him that his supercomputer have found several matches of the unknown woman's face.

"Show me the nearest and almost – match one," Arion ordered his computer again.

When the face matching finished, he is surprised that the face matches the following person:

98.2% MATCH FOUND

Matched person:

Shelvy Kim Carmen Wilfred

Last seen:

1. August 9, 2030

2. October 25, 2012

Arion asked himself, "Who is this girl anyway?"

He added, "…and when did I see her recently?"

As soon as he and his companions are asking themselves, Alistair, a loyal bodyguard and also a secretary to him and his cousin Azim, stormed into his office.

He notified Arion, "Sir….. I think you might want to see this."

Without wasting time, Arion and his companions followed Alistair. After following him to the ground floor out of Quad Companies' Second Headquarters, they saw something unexpected.

2: Mafia Ambush

CHAPTER 2: Mafia Ambush

Time: August 9th 2030, 11.17pm
Place: Outer Surroundings of Quad Companies' Second Headquarters

"What – the – hell…"

Arion is surprised to see what happened.

The Quad Companies Second Headquarters' surroundings is full with mafia members. The members brought some kind of assault rifles that have been fully modified with katana in their waist.

"Oh my. Guys, ready your weapons, we got company," Arion ordered his friends to unsheathe their own weapons.

"But, why would we do that, Ari?" Zulikrami asked.

"This is not our friends, this is the mafia members that owned by our only enemy, Shira."

Arion and his friends quickly unsheathe their weapons.

"I call my sword in the name of justice and freedom!" Arion loudly shouted.

A big broadsword came to him and he catch it with his right hand. After he catch it, he suddenly change his usual outfit into his battle suit and several weapons suddenly appeared, tangled with his battle suit. Two swords at his back, another two swords at his waist with two unlimited ammo, indestructible sawn – off shotguns.

Arion ordered his friends to fight.

"My brethren, attack them all at once!"

The mafia members run forward towards him and his friends, with their katana unsheathed.

Arion quickly disappears and starts to kill the members, one by one, using his broadsword and his power so that they can be neutralised.

As he and his companions attack them, Raffee, who is a best friend of Arion, has injured after a mafia member stabbed at his back. Arion quickly came towards him and help him.

"You alright, brother?" he asked Raffee.

"Yeah man, no need to worry about me, I'm really okay, just a small injury," Raffee answered.

"Here, I'll cure you and defend you."

Arion reads the restoration spell onto Raffee, so that he will be cured. With the restoration spell, he summons the protection spell so that he and his friends will not be injured for a temporary time. He continues to fight, along with his friends.

Suddenly, an unknown man came towards him and attack him. The protective shield around him is dispelled, effected from the unknown man's greatsword, and the unknown man's sword hits his right arm, making him badly injured, yelled and sheathe his broadsword.

"ARRGH! Who the – YOU!" Arion said to the unknown man.

"WHO ARE YOU TO INTERFERE WITH ME? ARE YOU ONE OF SHIRA'S LOYAL SERVANT?"

"(Laughs) You are sure expert in weapon handling, Arion. Most of your friends are loyal to you. But soon, a friend of yours will betray you," the unknown man answered.

"Look, a crybaby have his right arm badly injured! Don't you always cry when you're injured, Cielrion?"

Arion aggressively said, "GET OUT OF MY WAY, BASTARD! I AM NOT Cielrion THAT YOU KNOW LONG TIME AGO!"

He unsheathe his only gold sword, called "Freedombringer". Arion handled it in his left hand, and tend to be aggressive to the unknown man, swinging his sword towards the unknown man.

Every move, every second, every minute, both Arion and the unknown man tries to hurt each other.

"Heaven's Mighty Blow!" Arion called his power so that he can use it to injure the unknown man.

"Hahaha, too soon, man, TOO SOON!" the unknown man boasts, dodging Arion's power and uses his power to compromise Arion.

Without wasting time, Charis defended Arion from getting injured, making herself injured instead.

"Charis!"

Arion and Raffee came towards her.

"Mon Amie...we better do something about her injuries," Raffee said.

"One important thing to do; bring her to my warship, and told the others to go on board," Arion ordered Raffee.

"What about you?"

"I'll fight till they're completely defeat. Don't worry. I'll be back safe and sound, senor."

Raffee tells Arion's friends and his loyal advisor to go on board to his warship, as he instructed.

"Hey, how about Ari?" Zulikrami asked Raffee.

"He said he'll be alright," Raffee answered.

They went to the headquarters' balcony and hop onto Arion's warship. Alistair controlled its main door so that the mafia can't enter it.

Arion, still fighting with the mafia and its leader, calls a backup.

"You will not get away with this, you bastard, I'll make sure that you'll come to your life's end!" Arion shouted at the unknown man.

Shane, Max and Shaza responded his backup, helping him to cleanse them.

The unknown man come to his life's end when Arion successfully slain him.

"You should know that bad blood leads to bad blood. Here, have a heavy platinum on your body," Arion told to the unknown man while giving him a 65kg platinum, putting it on his body.

"That should avoid you from standing up."

He assisted Shaza, a ranged weapon master by slaying the mafias from getting near her.

"You alright, Shaza?" Arion asked her.

"I'm always alright, Future Predictor Cielrion," she answered.

"Good to know."

"LAST ONE SLAIN!" Max yelled.

"Okay guys. Thanks for helping me and ride on my warship," Arion said.

"No problem, Predictor. Always by your side," Shane answered.

Arion with his best members of Quad Companies went to his warship to get away from the headquarters as he afraid that the mafia will find him again.