If you came back to the Bleeding Fang saga, thank you. I'm not sure if any of you have had any pairing ideas yet but I have. There is one in this story and a few more to come. If you have any ideas for who you would like to see end up together let me know. As I and thousands of other writers have said before, read & review.

The head line of yesterday morning's paper read: "Eight year-old missing: Day two"

"Local boy, Jack Swells, was reported missing two days ago. 'I got worried when he didn't call and say he was on his way home.' Jack mother had said. 'I thought maybe he had just decided to stay there for the night, but when he didn't come home in the morning, I called in a missing child."

This was today's paper: "Eight year-old found, town in fear"

"Jack Swells went missing two nights ago. This morning, Jack was found face down near the river. His mother was mortified and could not comment on her feelings. Coroner Jason Hallow, age twenty three, said that, "The way the boy died is most unusual." There was a set of puncher marks on the right side of Jack's neck. The blood had been completely drained from his body."

Shade folded the paper and set it next to him on the cool rock of the mountain. The sun was just starting to rise over the forest causing everything to turn to silhouettes and shadows. The headlights of Howl's car cut through the darkness that hadn't been broken by the sunlight.

"What's up, oh fearless leader?" Mirage couched next to Shade. "The vibes I'm picking up from you are pretty dark."

Shade blinked and realized he had been just staring off in the distance. "Sorry. I just can't help but fear that this is..."

"Don't start on him." Mirage stood up. "He was locked up years ago, man. Come on. Sab is going to nuke the base if there is no bacon today."

"he can make it can't he?" Sahde questioned whether it was nessisary for him to alway prepare meals.

"You want to trust him with a stove and hot grease?" Mirage shot back.

"Good point." Shade grabbed the discarded newspaper from the ground ad returned inside.

After breakfast , Shade cleared the table and returned to his seat at the head of the table.

"Okay," He addressed his team as a whole, "Howl has come in with some fighting techniues. I want you all to train with him on them and master them."

"What abot you?" Mirage folded his arms and scowled. "You never train wit us."

"I'm up before the ass crack to dawn and do my training then." Shade flashed his second-in-command a 'I-can't-help-it-if I'm-better-at-this-then-you' grin. Mirage flipped him off and headed for the arena.

Okay, not really a chapter but i cant find my hand written copy so Im a bit screwed at the moment. This was to just give you a basic over view of what might be to come and the rest should be up by Halloween (I hope that is). Happy reading everyone and remember to review.

-BFShade