"I guess so, though I'm not sure how Elena can handle it, it's mostly just been the two of us and that's all she would look up mercenary jobs that I would take, you could say she was the brains and I the brawn, or at least the one who uses Guns," She said patting one of her pistol holsters as she walked around glancing at the shelfs and boxes.

"Oh and my names Nikki, no last name, Outlaw/Mercenary," She said chuckling as she looked over anything worth of value.

There are a few interesting things on the shelves they inspected, mostly some antiques, and some small firearms that look exotic but their use is still unknown. Fenricks grinned as he found a row of jewel encrusted eggs that looked like antiques.

He then said. "Well Nikki, it seems that you are in luck, because you and your partner would have a steady source of income besides the job thanks to these eggs over here. That slug probably thought that these are your normal jewel encrusted eggs that are used for decoration... but I know better. You know what these are?"

Nikki raised an eyebrow and approached to examine the eggs and admitted they looked pretty as she stroked her chin curious before glancing at Fenricks.

"May I ask what they are then since you know so much?" Nikki asked with a raised eyebrow and chuckled as she was looking at other things too from Antiques to weapons.

Fenricks smirked and said. "These eggs, my dear Nikki are the eggs of Gem Phoenixes that origin from Terasiv III. Gem phoenixes are very rare creatures, and they are born female, though when it is their mating season, some change to male. Now what makes it interesting about gem phoenixes is that when they are in a good mood, they will produce tears from their eyes... and when they solidify, they become gems of the best quality. Gem phoenix tears, at least the gems they produce are flawless and can fetch a lot of money on the market."

He then grinned. " Why don't you take them? I am sure you and your partner would need a steady supply of cash to fund whatever independent operations you guys would have in mind, as well as to get some serious ammunition to defend yourselves."

Nikki raised an eyebrow, "Is there something your not telling me about them?" Nikki asked as she got a bag and began to gently put the eggs inside the bag being gentle with them so as not to damage the Gem Phoenix Eggs.

"Well anyway let's keep looking," Nikki said with a smile on her lips as she glanced around for other items around the warehouse.

Fenricks just chuckled and looked surprised at what his temporary partner in crime was inferring. "What, me? Of course not... how could you think that withheld information about those from you, Nikki?"

He then grinned and nodded. "Of course, oh and to get them to hatch, just cover them with fire... phoenixes are like that. And they bond better with females than males, so I suppose that would be a reason I am giving them to you as well."

He looked with her along the shelves and then smiled as he saw another collection of gems and jewels and then grinned. "We got ourselves another jackpot." He then showed her a row of urns and said. "These are rare urns from Sertiv IV. They are from an old civilization that strangely enough evolved from insects... apparently these are delicately made, and from these markings... these belonged to either royalty or nobility. If you do happen to pass by that planet, return these to them, and you will have somewhere you can hide out if things get a bit hairy."

He paused for a moment and said. "One thing you should note about the Sertivians is that they are big on gratitude, and they are an honorable people even some of their looks will creep you out at first. If they owe you an honor debt, they will do anything to repay you... which is a good thing. They are one of the best people you can turn to when you do not want to be found for a while."

"Wow...well I guess they bond with females through something sexual I take it, everything I've run into in this galaxy has something sexual about it," She joked as she looked at the urns and then at him curious with a raised eyebrow.

"You want me to have them or do you want them?" She asked curious as she approached the urns he had told her about, if she returned them to there people she and Elena could have a constant safe place to go to incase of trouble...

He chuckled and said. "No, nothing sexual about it I heard... just the bonding is more mental and emotional than physical. And Gem phoenixes are born female, so I doubt there are anything sexual about that."

He then shrugged and said. "Well that depends I suppose." He looked at her thoughtfully. "I suppose I can take some of them, the question is... do you guys need it more than I do? If that is the case, feel free to take most of them with you. I'll take the rest, and I will tell you which ones used to belong to the royalty so that you can get into good graces with the current ruling family there."

He then pointed to six out of the ten urns they found. "These are from the royalty from their markings... the other four, well... two of them comes from one major noble family and the other a minor noble family."

"We'll split the Royal Family Urns, you can take the Major Noble Family and we'll take the Minor one, sound fair?" Nikki said as she moved her urns to her bag letting Fenricks take the rest of them as she smiled and nodded, being gentle with the priceless treasures.

"For now let's find the Slave girls in here first," She said as she walked ahead looking around calmly for any location or signs of the girls.

"Well sure... if that is the way you want it." Fenricks said with a grin as he loaded the urns carefully into his modified pack, which can hold a lot more than it looks like before he started moving around, trying to find where that disgusting slug would have kept his slave girls.

So far the search has only yielded the duo with antiques, jewels and the occasional weaponry, but no signs of slave girls. He then looked thoughtful and then looked at Nikki and said. "Something's not right here... by right there should be slave girls here.... unless that slug keeps them and his more exotic stuff somewhere that isn't above ground. We should start looking for any signs of a hidden passage or entrance somewhere. Why don't you search that side, and I will search this side."

He motioned to the right of the warehouse, and hers in the left. "Are we agreed on this? Let me know if you spot something unusual, alright Nikki?"

"Yeah it's weird you would think we'd find some slave girls already," She said turning to him and nodded softly at going left.

"Alright then stay in contact if we can, see you soon," She said as she began walking to the left slowly glancing left to right for any sign of anything of value.

Fenricks nodded as he went towards the right side of the warehouse, checking out some of the jewels and antiques there, putting some of the more expensive and worthy ones inside his pack, while leaving the worthless ones, or those that he felt that it will hold little value on the shelves.

He also stored some of the weaponry there, namely firearms and melee weapons that holds a bit of value to true collectors, as these are not usable anymore except for display purposes. As he absent mindedly checked the shelves, he found something unusual. It was a small table with an urn sitting next to a wall, which piqued his curiosity. He then went over to the wall and tapped it, and he grinned as he felt one part of it sounded quite hollow.

He then checked the urn, and poked and prodded it for a moment, and then tried to lift it but to no avail. When he twisted it slightly, there was a soft grating sound and a compartment opened up in one of the wall sections, and he could see a lit staircase leading down to wherever it is leading to.

He then went over to Nikki and said. "Guess what, I found the secret passage. Let's go and rescue us some slave girls."

Nikki calmly walked through her part of the warehouse storing into her pack jewels and antiques at least worth a pretty penny to her eyes, but kept the more useless or worthless ones there she also found some nice weapons deciding to take some back to see if Elena could figure them out before she lifted her nicely sized pack before hearing her 'partner' for this little adventure call her and nodded.

"Well glad to hear it, let's go then," She said as she followed him to the staircase.

Fenricks nodded as they both descended the staircase into what seems to be an underground chamber. He then followed the corridor into some rooms and then looked around. There were small glass enclosures with some rare exotic animals, but it wasn't really that unusual though the slug might get into trouble with conservationists over some rare illegal animal species that he has been keeping here.

As he neared one enclosure, he took a look at the plaque there, and then inside the cage and then growled. "Why that low down no good.... mollusc. I swear to take that bastard down if it is the last thing I do."

Inside the enclosure were a few females, all human and their bellies were extended... and it was clear that they were either pregnant, or something has deposited eggs into their wombs. There was a large plant in the middle of the enclosure, and it's petals were closed.

He turned to Nikki and said. 'You know what thing is, Nikki? That is a Revillian Planter from Revilos II. How that bastard got held of one I don't know... but as you can see its method of reproduction is to implant its eggs into a human female's womb... lots of it and all of them are fertilized. Now, when she gives birth to those plants, it will not kill her... but with the number of those eggs... the women that are implanted by them usually die from exhaustion as these plants can implant the same woman over and over again."

Nikki flinched at the sight as the pair arrived to see the woman all like that and the plant with narrowed eyes.

"That plant...it can't be...that sick...argh! I'm such an idiot!" Nikki snapped punching one of the walls in anger not caring if she hurt her hand.

"T-that's the plant he asked hired Me and Elena's services to get....I hand delivered the plant to him...and he tried to have it attack me to try and stop him from paying me and Elena.." She said.