A bit groggy the wolverine woke quietly and looked around. He was much more stable now and got to his feet to go find celeste.

((You know the man is on the mural right??))

((Lol totally didn't read it like that))

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Edited

Logan walked out onto the wooden floored hallway which was now covered in dirt and leaves. For the most part it seemed like the actually estate had been left alone during the attack perhaps because the family had been away and there was no point. But it was in direr need of repair.

As he came around a corner a small little spirit like creature looked up at him, waved and hurried around the next corner.

For some reason that didn't strike him as odd-yet when he realized that he found it very strange. So Logan followed the little guy curiously.

Around and around he went, each corner a new little guy appeared till there was a small gathering of them. They all seemed to gather outside one sliding door. Celeste's bags in front of it as well as a duffle bag, exploding at the seams.

The one that had spotted Logan first tapped on the door lightly and backed away to give Logan access to the door. The other followed.

The door was open slightly, and even in the dim light inside Logan could see the pink and green decor that lay inside. It was like all the other rooms, in need of some love and care.

But in the dim lightly, Logan could make out a pink haired girl curled up in a ball on the bed, a pink plushie cuddled in her arms.

Logan stepped inside, careful to mind the little creatures as he went over to celeste, "there you are" he breathed a sigh of relief. Her sisters would have his head if anything happened to her but more than that he felt... a bond. A bond of protection that he owed her above all else.

She had fallen asleep, her eyes red from crying. Coco lay beside her and only moved when Logan spoke. Like the room he had awoken in, this room too had a breeze blowing through it. The wind brushed her hair gently.

The room looked to have been picked through, dust disturbed here and there. Perhaps Celeste had filled the duffle bag of things, knowing she may never get another chance to be here again.

Logan brushed the hair from her face, to be honest he wouldn't have minded if they stayed there for a week so the two of them could explore both their pasts but they had been there for too long already and it was giving the wolverine a bad feeling in his gut. One of those feelings he had learned to never ignore. So he grabbed the duffle bag and gently rocked Celeste until she woke, "We gotta get going kid"

Celeste sat up and nodded softly, slipping her morphing bracelet back on and activating it. "Are you alright? Coco and I were barely able to get you up here." She said softly and rather calmly. The crying had left her drained and numb, her voice very soft and compliate. She carried the plushie and strapped on her bags.

Logan took most of the bags to carry himself, "Yeah, I'm fine. I just wasn't expecting it... Sometimes I get flashbacks when I'm in places I've been before. I think I might've been a samurai for your family..." he was going to have to ask Charles to help him work out the details but that much had been clear.

"Hmm..." She thought as they left the main building, Celeste slipping on her shoes. "Maybe... I believe I do recall a family legend of a man who could not be killed. Or something like that.." She yawned, the sun was beginning to set.

Logan paused just a few steps out of the building and gave the air a sniff, "... get back inside" he told her as he started setting down the bags.

"Secret tunnel..." She sang softly in Japanese, "Logan-sama, this way!" She said heading back inside.

He didn't second guess her. Just grabbed the bags and took of after her.

Celeste ran through the front door and subconsciously apologized for walking in the house with her shoes on. She raced along the hall till they reached the middle room where a futon table was sitting in the middle.

She pushed the table out of the way and pulled the handle on a small trap door below it. She formed an glowing orb and revealed a ladder.

"This way." She said hurring down, the glowing orb following her down.

Logan could feel their pursuers closing in, even if he couldn't see them. He let celeste go down first before following, stabbing a ninja just as it came out of hiding to attack.

"Logan-sama!" She called from the bottom.

Logan threw the dead body from his claws and sheathed them to climb down the tunnel. He slammed the door closed above him and jammed it with a stick. "Move!" he ordered.

Celeste turned and led the way down the narrow and windy tunnel. Celeste turned a corner and stopped dead, they were lights in the distance. They knew about the tunnel.

Before Celeste could turn to Logan to see what to do, a hand reached out of the vines on the wall, "This way, hurry." A man's voice whispered pulling Celeste through the vines which turned out to be an illusion.

Celeste stumbled and hurried behind the mysterious man as he pulled her along behind him.

Logan wasn't about to fall behind as he chased right after her.

The figure led them further and further, a faint sound of voices behind them echoing down the hallway.

Finally, he opened a hatch and led them both outside. The sun had set by now but the full moon lit the ground just enough for them to see.

Celeste had her hands on her knees, taking deep breaths.

"You should not have come. Now they know your face." Celeste looked up and felt her heart stop beating for a moment. He had black hair which shimmered purple in the moonlight. It was shorter in the back and longer in the front and two pieces curled outward while the rest remained straight. He was tall, slender and worn a front opened black kimono which was checker boarded in purple on one side and the other side had purple pink roses on it. A red slash was wrapped around his waist, holding a katana snugly to his side. His eyes seemed to glow red.

Somehow Celeste felt like she knew this man, she'd never met him before and yet she felt like she should know him.

"Who are-" He put a finger to her lips.

"No time for questions. Take her down that path, it will lead you further away from here. This is as far as I can go." He said looking at Logan, making it clear they had little time to linger there.

Logan nodded, and while he also had questions he knew this was not the time. "Celeste, move" he ordered her once more, taking her gently, though firmly by the arm to lead her the way the stranger pointed.

"No, wait. I-" Celeste protested, reaching out to the man. Something about him made her not want to leave him. Something made her want to stay.

He smiled at this, touched. "We'll meet again, Ceres." Voices could be heard within the tunnel.

Celeste just looked at him as Logan continued to pull her away, "Thank you." She said before she stopped resisting Logan and hurried along behind him.

The figure disappeared into the shadows.

They escaped down the path, Logan kept her moving through the night, barely stopping at all until they came to a village. Morning was only an hour or two away.