This is a story I have been working on with a fellow writer LadyElva. Kaelah and Shalinta are her charaters from her original comic A Sister Adventure. Skye and Meliker are characters of my own.

It was dark as Meliker walked out of a cafe and sighed. He looked up at the moon and ran a hand through his long red hair. He took a drink out of his hot chocolate and yawned. He had just had a very long day and was ready to go home and relax but he still had stuff to do. He paused and looked around as he felt eyes on him but shrugged it off when he saw no one.

Kaelah knelt on the roof, just barely out of sight as she honed in on her target. She moved silently as he target walked down the street. Kaelah was ordered only to watch, not kill; Kaelah itched for both a fight and to draw blood with her duel blades. Wearing black is easy to hide; the only thing that kept her from being a sore thumb with her bright red hair was the hood she wore. Mel stared to walk down the street toward a large building and paused outside of it. He looked up toward the top and sighed. He finished off his hot chocolate and threw away the cup before entering. Kaelah jumps off the roof, flips and lands at street level as silent as the wind, her back to the building and sneaks inside, making sure to stay out of sight as she continues to follow her target.

He walked up several floors and down a hallway to the last door. He knocked and the door opened quickly. He could not see anyone but heard a voice telling him to come inside. He went inside and then came out a few minutes later with a paper bag in one of his hands. He sighed again and headed toward the stairs. Kaelah saw everything and ran outside and down to the corner of an ally, still just out of sight of her target. Mel paused outside and paused again. He looked around and then turned in the opposite direction that Kaelah had headed in. He started to walk down the street again as his phone rang.

"Hello?" he answered and listened to the person on the other line. "Yes, sir... Yes, sir... No, sir. I will do as you ask, sir."

A few seconds later he hung up the phone. He ran a hand through his hair and sighed again as he continued down the street. Kaelah, seeing him walk her direction, curses softly and jumps back up to the roof. She sighs a little and says softly to herself.

"Why was I given this task? What's so special about this guy? He looks harmless enough."

Ten minutes later Mel stopped at another building and waited for someone. He moved his hand under his sleeveless trench coat to rest on a .22 pistol. He felt nerves and still felt eyes on him. He kept looking around expecting to see someone watching him. He never looked up however. Kaelah giggles quietly to herself, still watching her target and also slightly getting frustrated because she could only watch, not interfere. A few minutes later a man with a hood on walked up to Mel. Mel saw him and nodded curtly his expression somber.

"Do you have it?" the man asked and Mel nodded but said nothing. He knew better. "Good. Hand it over." the man continued.

"Not without the money you owe my boss!" Mel replied as his hand tightened on the hilt of his gun.

"Ha!" the man replied his hands in his pocket. "I will pay him the money in person!"

"You know he does not do that!" Mel replied. "Now give me the money you owe my boss or walk away, but know that if you do walk away there will be no business done with you and my boss again!"

Kaelah, observing the argument, stared long and hard at the hooded man, he looked oddly familiar to her and it bugged her. She couldn't put her finger on it, but she thought she knew him. Kaelah decided to get a little closer, she jumps to an adjacent building where her target's back is in front of her and the hooded man could be seen a little better. Kaelah still could not see his face, so she decided to wait to see what else happens. Before Mel could react a large bang sounded and Mel was hit in the leg by a bullet. He hissed in pain and quickly pulled his weapon firing at the man. He shot the man in the shoulder. The man screamed as he fell to his knees his hood falling off of his head. Mel glared at the man.

"I could have killed you!" he said as he limped up to him and slowly bent down. "For that I will take the money and go!"

Mel dug through the man's pockets and grabbed the money that he had asked for before moving around him and limping off. Kaelah gasped in shock, the man whom her target had shot was her best friend Rindo! What the hell was he doing dealing with these douche bags? Kaelah wondered. Kaelah watched as her target limped off and was left with two choices; leave her friend to die or follow her target. Mel stopped a block away and ripped off some of his shirt to wrap it around his leg. He could not go to the hospital; if he did they would ask too many questions that he could not answer. After wrapping his leg he glanced back at the man he had shot and sighed. He knew he could not bring himself to leave the man there. He turned around and walked back to the man and bent down to him with a hiss of pain.

"You are lucky I am not my boss! But don't think that I am going to give you your money back. I can't do that." Mel said as he put presser on his wound after taking off his sleeveless trench and shirt.

He used his shirt to tie off the man's wound.

"If I do that then I will be the one getting killed!"

After tying off the wound he slowly stood up and started to limp away again heading to his next stop.

Kaelah, was stunned when she saw her target fix her friend up, she froze for a moment, realizing this guy was different from any thug she has stalked before. She was beginning to like him a little. She watched him limp away, a small part of her wanted to help him heal his wound, but another wanted to stick to her orders. This frustrated her even more.

Mel continued to move down the street. As he walked down the street he thought about what he was doing and the reason he was doing. He had the feeling he would have to tell his boss that the man he shot was dead otherwise Mel would get himself shot again for not giving him the items that he was supposed to give him. He shook his head as he entered another building. She still followed him, until she could determine what to do, she knew her friend would live and she'd talk to him later but for now she followed her target. He still felt as if he was being followed but could not detect where the person was. He walked up some more stairs and knocked on a door. A second later, he entered and exchanged something with someone before leaving the building once again. After leaving the building and turned down the street. His phone rang again and he answered it on the second ring.

"I am on my way now!" Mel said before the person on the other end could say anything.

"And I want to see her!" He continued walking as he talked

Kaelah knew this was getting good so she followed him, her heart raced with excitement. He hung up the phone a second later.

Thirty minutes later, his leg throbbed as he entered another building. He walked up to a door and paused. He closed his eyes and ran a hand through his hair once again. He stood up straight and opened his eyes trying to keep his pain off his face and out of his eyes. If he showed a weakness to his boss other than the one that he already knew of, then he would be dead. He knocked on the door and it was opened by a man in a black suit. The man was large and stood over Mel. After the man saw who it was he stepped out of the way and Mel entered the room. Kaelah sneaks in just before the door opens and hides in a dark corner where she cannot be seen. Mel walked up a few more steps before stopping. He did not limp. Three men were in the room; two stood and wore black suites while the other one sat behind a desk wearing a grey suit.

"Where is she?" Mel asked.

"She is safe." the man behind the desk said smiling. "Looks like you had some problems. Anything I should know about?"

"Only that Rindo is dead!" Mel replied. "He refused to pay me the money he owes you. Following your orders I did not hand over the merchandise. He shot me in the leg so I killed him. Here is the money he owed you and the merchandise." Mel put the money and bag on the table before asking, "Now where is she?"

Listening, Kaelah realized this guy wasn't a thug at all, he was being used! She hated people who use others for their dirty work like that. Alas she stayed put till she had more info. The man behind the desk nodded and one of the men in the black suits walked over to another door and walked out of it. A few minutes later he returned with a younger woman.

"Brother!" the girl called out and reached for Mel.

The man that had brought her in grabbed her arm before she could walk over to Mel.

"Skye are you alright?

"I am fine." she replied dropping her arm.

Kaelah recognized that voice. It was the youngest daughter of her boss. What the hell is going on?

"I told you I would make sure she was not harmed." the man said then nodded.

The man who had brought Skye into the room took her back out through the door.

"You told me that if I did what you asked tonight you would let her go!" Mel said taking a step forward.

He struggled to keep his anger under control.

"I have one last task for you to do before I return her to you!" he said with a devious smile.

"What do you want me to do?" Mel asked. He knew that if he refused that Skye would be killed.

"There is a woman I want you to find. Her name is Kaelah." the man said and slid a picture over the desk so that Mel could see it. "I want you to find her and KILL her!"

Mel was quiet, he did not want to kill anyone but he had to get Skye back.

"And if I refuse?" Mel asked knowing the answer already.

"Then I will kill Skye and hunt you down and kill you too." the man said.

"Very well!" Mel replied. "I will do it!"

"Mark, show Meliker to the door."

Kaelah smirked and stood up. She calmly walked up the stairs and killed the bodyguard. As the body guard fell.

Kaelah looked at everyone and said, "Looking for me? Well here I am old man, come get me!"