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Denella was trying to figure out what they were doing. The Gregnory Harbour was where people shipped off things to another place, and Celcus was here with five other men loading her mom and John onto a boat. Suddenly, it clicked in Denella's head; they were shipping of her mom and John. All of a sudden, the number patterns made sense. It was the code where a letter was replaced by a number. For example, A=1 and B=2. She got out her phone and entered the numbers on her notes. In less than a minute, she realized that 8-21-13-1-14 20-18-1-6-6-9-3-11-9-14-7 stood for HUMAN TRAFFICKING.

She had to do something. Celcus wasn't only a part of kidnapping, stealing and all sorts of other crimes, he was a part of human trafficking. She had already called R.O.S.S. and told them the location of where she was. They were on their way, but Denella had to do something before they were too late. It was now or never.

Heardford Boulevard, Belle City, 11:09p.m

Henry dialed T.E.R.S.E. to tell them that Denella was not at the Seakards Factory anymore. Since there was also a tracker on the device, they could track Denella down.

"What do you think she's doing there?" Henry asked.

"I don't know," Raphael said as he came to a complete at the stoplight, "But I don't think she would just wander off like that."

Finally the light turned green, but still the traffic wasn't moving.

"What's going on? Why isn't anyone moving?" Henry questioned.

They could see police cars ahead of them, followed by two fire trucks and three ambulance. There was a big accident about four blocks in front of them. They were going to be stuck there for a while.

Gregnory Harbour, Gregory, 11:27p.m

Denella got out her pocketknife and ran out of her hiding spot. "Hello? I'm looking for my mom and boss. I was just wondering if any of you boys have, by any chance, seen them?" That was the way she came out of her hiding every time. She would say something sarcastically to make sure everyone knew she was there.

"Hey! You shouldn't be here." One of the men said running towards her.

"Neither should you." Denella responded as she dodged his punches and cut open his right thigh with her knife.

She kicked him on the ground and elbowed another man who came at her. He wiped the blood away from his mouth and picked up one of the steel beams. He swung it back and forth trying to hit her, but she grabbed the other end of the beam and pushed it towards him. He injured his stomach as he fell to the ground in pain.