After leaving, Nessa wt to the location where the prince had directed her to and sighed as she noticed a caged carriage with young people inside, and her eyes wided as a few m covered it with a  cloth.


    Nessa knew they were ves because she recognized one of them within the cage, and it was the youngdy she initially attempted to help once before.


    "You," Someone said, and wh she turned to see who it was, she saw it was Maz''s boss.


    Wh she saw him, Nessa''s blood began to boil.


    "Try getting close to me, and I won''t hesitate to kill you," She warned, and heughed.


    "Can I assume you''re Ni?" He smirked wh she asked.


    "Of course I am," He responded.


    "Nessa," Someone called out and she turned to see Maz standing by another carriage and she sighed.


    "Oh, he is repaying me by doing this job, he doesn''t have much of a choice or I will make his life miserable as long as he is within this kingdom, also I just noticed, you came from the castle, seems like the prince got his hands on you after all," Ni said whileughing.


    Nessa gnashed her teeth in anger as Maz approached her and she looked at him.


    "Are you all right?" He asked.


    "Yeah, I''m fine, are you?" She asked.


    "Sort of, I couldn''t refuse, how are things going with you?" He asked and she turned away th sneezed and he peeked at her.


    "It got worse, didn''t you take care of that?" He asked and she smirked.


    "I didn''t get a chance because I''ve be quite busy, dealing with that prince," She exined. He patted her on the shoulder as she noticed the cloth over the ve carriage raising up a bit and the youngdy peeked at her before smiling and fixing the cloth before Ni could see.


    "You have got something for me girl," Nisal said and she threw the money to him.


    "Watch out," He said as he sighed and grabbed the bag.


    "You have to be careful with money; I suppose you now belong to the prince, so I can''t ev hit you," He said and she chuckled, th looked at him with a crazy expression in her eyes and he flinched as Maz looked at her.


    "Stop dreaming, I applied for the maid job at the castle, I don''t belong to the prince, say that again and you might not live to see the next minute, don''t get me on my nerves, also can I join you Maz?" Nessa asked and Ni scoffed.


    "That''s not going to happ," Ni responded.


    "Allow her toe," Maz said.


    "If you don''t let me, I''llin to the prince; you must be up to something more shady if you don''t want me toe along," Nessa said, and Ni jumped in fear and sighed.


    "Fine, you cane along," He replied, th they got into the front part of the carriage since, Maz was the Chauffeur th he smiled at her before they took off.


    "Where are we heading?" Nessa asked.


    "To the mines, now you will understand, before this,  of this had ever happed," Maz responded and Nessa lowered her head.


    On their way to the mines, Nessa couldn''t help but notice one of the ves coughing and sighed.


    The girl wanted to ignore it and not do anything until they arrived at the mines, but Nessa was running out of patice and wanted to help. However, on their way to the mines, they heard a loud roar and the carriages came to a halt, and Maz looked at her.


    No one knew where the roar wasing from, so Nessa got down and nted her feet firmly on the g wh she turned a and saw two orange tigers charging towards them, and the cloth on the ve carriage flew off, and they screamed.


    "You''ve got to be kidding me, protect the goods," Nasil said, and both Nessa and Maz red at him, and Nessa sighed, knowing she couldn''t demonstrate her abilities before them just yet.


    "Akio," She shouted, and the wolf leapt from the shadows, roaring, as everyone looked on in horror, except Maz.


    [Those are ming sabertooth tigers, they have fire resistance and live deep in the forest, mostly in caves and don''t usuallye out, they can only be hurt by magical things and can breathe fire.]


    "I see, Akio, please put them down," Nessa said, and the wolf bowed his head, th hit both of the sabers away using the wind from his tail, and before they could breathe fire on him, lightning started forming on his paws, and he ced them against the saber tooths, shocking them, and they both fell unconscious on the g, and Nessa left staring at Akio.


    "I had no idea you could do that, anyways, thank you," She said as he approached her th she patted him on the head.


    Akio took care of the tigers without transforming into his true form; he didn''t want anyone to know his true size, so he continued to use his small cute form, in which everyone believes he is harmless.


    "He is small but powerful and cute, anyone would be d to have something like that a them, I am jealous," Maz said with a smile and Nessa chuckled as Nasil red at her and she looked at him.


    "You are a selfish jerk," She said.


    "I really want to hit you but I can''t because of the prince, I suggest you stop talking as well before I make things worse for your frid here, let''s get to the mines, there''s a lot to be tak care of," He replied as he got into the carriage and Akio disappeared, but Nessa was getting angrier as she got into the carriage and they continued heading to the mines, which was now only a few minutes away from where they had stopped.


    While they were on their way, Nessa noticed the tigers had regained consciousness and stood up. They th turned and looked directly at her and she began blowing whistles as they growled and began following them.