"This one seems to be progressing nicely. With any luck we'll have Squad Serpent back in no time-"

"Spare me the happy thoughts and giddy bullshit Director. Is he stable?"

"Yes my Lord but he won't remember anything beyond what he's supposed to, the Red Dye should keep his mind in check. Like a filter, it will clear him of any thoughts that might undermine his protocol… as long as he gets his proper dosage every now and then."

"Good. When will the rest of the squad be operational?"

"A year my Lord-"

"That isn't good enough! News of Squad Serpent's death has already spilled through the ranks. We need the Serpents to keep them fighting! Believe it or not they were a great moral booster to the war effort."

"Yes my Lord but we're cloning them as fast as we can without creating complications. Their memories are what's taking so long, we have to create fake ones to explain the year's loss of time and you specifically requested that this one's memory be altered even further."

"… Are they combat ready now?"

"Yes my Lord."

"Then give them double the Red Dye. I want them up and running in two week's time."

"My Lord that could give them brain damage but if it doesn't the Red Dye is only temporary-"

"I see. Then I'll send someone else to the fronts to replace them. That someone will be you unless you get them up and fighting in two weeks."

"Y-Yes sir."

Raye struggled to lift his eyes but when he did he discovered he was restrained very tightly. His arms, his legs, his neck and his chest were all bound down so he was unable to get up and examine the room that the metal ceiling was connected to. The ceiling was tiled and it wasn't the dark grey color of an Earthen Military destroyer class frigate. That meant that he was either on some sort of smaller, luxury civilian craft or he was finally inside a Cornerian craft. As Raye laid there counting the ceiling tiles over and over he noticed after about the twentieth time counting, that he wasn't in any pain.

'Well… I'm either dead or on drugs.' Raye thought, his mind feeling like word when it is slurred. 'Something, something, something… didn't I dream of something?'

Raye struggled for many long minutes trying to remember what he had thought about but nothing was ringing any bells. Finally Raye gave up and told himself that eventually, when he least expected it, he'd remember.

An hour passed and Raye was still taking the long wait in stride. He kept himself entertained by thinking and recollecting old, fond memories. Still though it was rather boring. How much longer did he have to wait before anything happened? Another hour passed, then another, then another and then another ten. By then Raye was going crazy and had lost his inner mono-monologue.

"Bored. Bored. Bored. Bored. Bored. Bored." He repeated over and over again until finally, after many drawn out hours a quiet hiss broke his insanity. "Well it's about time whoever you are!"

"You're awake?" A weak little voice said.

"I've been awake for hours now! Just who the Hell are you anyway? Are you a fur fag? Because if you are either kill me now or untie me so I can kill you, I'm not telling you anything."

"Oh… well my boy that won't be necessary I'm not a Cornerian." An old, silver haired man said as he came into Raye's limited line of sight. He looked like he was about a sixty but his voice sounded like he was a pubescent. "I'm frightfully sorry for keeping you waiting. I thought I had given you enough medication to keep you sleeping"

"Just who are you then?" Raye snapped as the old man stepped out of Raye's line of sight.

"Well since you won't remember I guess I can tell you. My name is Samuel but most people call me Director."

"Director? Director of what, movies?"

"No the Wolf-Eros project." Director said coming back into Raye's sight.

"Wolf-Eros?" Raye scoffed. "The Hell kind of name is that?"

"Clearly you are as simple minded as you are tactless. Eros is, excuse me, was the scientist who created the first perfect soldier." Director said holding up a syringe full of red gel like liquid. "We first tried it on a Cornerian Wolf which is where the Wolf comes in."

"Wolf-Eros? What does it do then?" Raye asked before Director stabbed the needle into Raye's jugular. "Hey! What are you…"

"My dear serpent, Wolf-Eros is the key to winning the war. In a year's time Wolf-Eros will win the war. For now however we'll have to settle with just you so I'm afraid I have to keep you from remembering anything about what happened here or your cloning." The Director said before Raye blacked out.

~X~X~X~X~ Entering a naughty scene.

"Oh God… Raye." Miyu moaned as she clawed the skins under her. Raye pulsed in and out of her with a hypnotizing rhythm. He filled her so snugly and so deeply, like no other man had before. He was breathing heavily but he was in no way tired, he was just preparing. Miyu's muzzle curled into a smile as she waited for Raye's vigorous surge of speed and force. When he let himself go he was a magnificent beast, strong but gentle, raging but calm.

"I love you Miyu. I want to be with you always. There is nothing about you I can live without. Your smile, your eyes, your voice, your ears, your laugh. Take any of those away and I'll do whatever it takes to get them back. I love you Miyu, my beautiful lynx." Raye said and picked up speed.

"Raye, Raye, Raye, Raye." Miyu moaned and clutched his back, her claws unsheathing at random moments cutting into his flesh not hurting him too much, only provoking him to go faster like spurs in a horse's flank.

"You're so beautiful to me; I'll never let you go." Raye whispered as Miyu dug her claws deeply into his back. She could feel a wondrous force begin to build up in her womanhood. It was small at first but as Raye reached his pinnacle speed and power it caught her within moments. The lynx became a slave to the feeling, every thrust, every connection of body and spirit sent flourishes of pleasure and elation throughout her body. The lynx began to scream and wail with delight as she approached the climax of her ecstasy. Miyu lost all control of her body and the blast of her orgasm deadened her to everything but pure, lustful delight.

"Raye!" Miyu shouted as she jumped out of her dream. The second her head came out of the covers she started shivering. It was the middle of the night, a freeze was hounding them from outside their new home and Raye wasn't there on top of her. The lynx's ears drooped as she snuck back in under the covers. She felt everything Raye did to her in the dream and in that small window of time he was there with her. Silent tears poured down Miyu's face as she slowly cried herself back to sleep.

~X~X~X~X~

Raye opened his eyes, after a long day of searching and surviving, he was finally back on the Spanish Inquisition recuperating. Raye considered himself lucky that he had been rescued from that Hell hole just before sunset. He was pretty banged up from the crash because of his Lancer's engine failure and crash into the planet but by tomorrow he'd be back to full capacity again thanks to Cornerian pirated bio-technology.

The black haired man was about to fall back to sleep but then a quiet knock was made on his door. Raye scowled and sat up.

"Come in."

The door opened and the same freckled kid who probably wasn't even eighteen yet said as he walked in through the door and saluted.

"Sir another message for you sir."

"Toss it here then." Raye growled. The Private tossed the micro-CD case to Raye perfectly. "Right, dismissed." Raye said refraining from calling him some foul cuss. He was in a good mood; he missed Apollyon and was looking forward to watching her next video. The kid left and Raye made sure he was gone before putting the CD into the small media device. He was a bit disappointed however, when Apollyon was wearing clothes.

"Hey Raye, we just got done killing the Cornerian stragglers here on Klandathuu. Let me tell you, those fucking Cornerians don't go down without a fight. I'd have another special show for you in this video but I feel really shitty and I need a shower. Anyways message me back and good luck killing that bitch Krystal if you haven't already. If you do kill her bring back her pelt, I'd love to fuck on it until we wear it out."

Raye sighed when the video ended. As disturbing as it was, Raye kind of liked that thought. Krystal had been killing humans left and right so defiling her corpse and remains was really appealing. Raye put the small device down and laid his head down on his pillow.

~X~X~X~X~

"Morning Miyu."

"Morning Fay." Miyu said with a rough, coarse voice. Crying does that to people and Miyu had just done a lot more of it since she woke up.

"Do you want to go hunting today?" Fay asked stretching.

"N-n… sure." Miyu said as Fay got out of her bed. She was wearing only her grey pants and white tank-top. "Are you and Pierce getting more comfortable?"

"I guess… it gets really warm next to him and he's out the second his head touches the pillow-"

"No, no, NO CHEESE!" Pierce shouted in his sleep causing both Cornerians to stare and then laugh at Pierce. Since they had known Pierce, he had always talked in his sleep. One time Raye tapped Pierce on his knee; Pierce sat right up and shouted "good morning sir." It was so funny that all three of them had tears in their eyes from laughing so hard. They only stopped because Ashley didn't like all the loud noises so she snarled at them to stop.

"Ah, Pierce." Fay sighed. "Always good for a laugh."

"Yeah." Miyu said and started playing with the fire.

"So how's Caenda doing?"

"Really well, she eats a lot, I can almost feel teeth coming in… but she seems to know. She knows Fay, I just know she does." Miyu said and wiped her eyes to put a stop to any oncoming tears.

"That's nonsense Miyu." Fay argued but Miyu shook her head.

"No, she doesn't laugh anymore, she always looks around the room as if she's looking for something and she gets fussy every time I try to get her to sleep. Raye always got her to sleep and she misses him." Miyu said coarsely but when Fay put a comforting hand on her shoulder Miyu shrugged it off. "I'm alright, let's wake him up and go hunt-"

A loud bang interrupted the lynx. Before she could think of what had made the loud explosion there came a symphony of massive dogfight. Outside the cave dozens of lasers were heard, engines roared over them coming and going as they dodged and maneuvered their ships around, an isolated explosion was heard every now and then followed by one a few seconds after.

Without hesitating Miyu ran to the now awake and now crying child. The lynx scooped her up in her arms and held her close.

"What's going on!" Pierce shouted coming out of his strange dream.

"I don't-" Fay said as another explosion, this one much louder than all the others, drowned her voice out.

"It's a dogfight!" Miyu shouted over the loud, deafening battle that ragged above their heads.

"A dogfight!" Pierce screamed through the loud bellowing engine that flew right above the cave. "What do you mean? How could they? What?"

"It's not safe here!" Fay shouted and waited for the volley of laser fire to quiet down before continuing. "We need to get out of here before-"

"And how do you suppose we do that?" Pierce yelled. "The second we poke our heads out the cave we're sitting targets! Here is the only place we'll be safe, at least for the moment."

"The fire!" Miyu said realizing that the fire was a beacon to everyone outside the cave. The lynx quickly handed Pierce the child and she began to put the fire out despite the futility. Even if the fire went out now it most likely wouldn't matter, anybody above could have seen the smoke and perhaps that was why they were here now.

"What do we do Pierce?" Fay asked looking to the brown haired human.

"We… we wait here and hopefully they won't bother us when it's over." Pierce said holding little Caenda closer to him.

~X~X~X~X~

"God damn it! Peterson, cover me!"

"Aye sir!"

Raye growled in his throat as he and Peterson dove into the fight. It all happened so fast. The search had just been called off and his squad was ambushed by Cornerian fighters. Raye then immediately ordered all of his squad to form up and route any hostiles but from what he heard from Jennings before she went down was that there were far too many of them for just him and his squad to take out alone. Reinforcements were on the way from the Spanish Inquisition but their arrival was anywhere from ten to twenty minutes. Buy then they'd be lucky to find their smoldering wreckage if the down pouring snow hadn't already covered up their crater graves.

Raye's lancer shot past several Cornerian Cloud-Runners but he wasn't after them, he was gunning for the squad leader who was always in a Void-Racer. Through all the simple, two winged, dual engine, single laser craft Raye spotted his target and without hesitating, hosed him down with laser fire. The Void-Racer managed to avoid the bulk of his fire but Raye pulled out of the freefall and threw the engines into their maximum speed to chase down the leader.

"I'm going for the leader, I'll get to the rest of you in a second. Peterson help out Rosemary." Raye said as he caught up to the leader and started following him like a kite's tail. Every time the leader made a move Raye matched it and lost no ground to the simple aerial acrobatics.

"Aye sir."

Raye grinned as he followed the leader with ease. It was so easy now; he knew all the Cornerian maneuvers both advanced and basic. It seemed that the Cornerian army wasn't one for uniqueness and taught only certain formations and maneuvers to their pilots. It made sense seeing as how both sides were losing pilots and soldiers by the thousands every day. There simply wasn't time to get the proper training to be something great.

"Target locked."

"Finally." Raye chuckled to himself when his ship found a lock. Raye's thumb moved off the left red button two the right button on his control stick. Two plates on the ventral side of Raye's Lancer opened allowing two missiles to shoot out towards the Void-Racer. "I win." Raye said as the Void-Racer went down in flames and blew up a quarter of a mile from the ground.

"Sir I need help!"

Raye looked up and saw through his cockpit that that was exactly what the little private needed. The man sighed and pulled the Lancer up. As he began to stall he let the throttle forward allowing him to keep ahead of the stall. Several fighters attempted to intercept him but they were having one Hell of a time getting past Peterson and the other pilots that were now showing up to help the remaining half of Bravo.

"Sir, please-"

"I'm on my way, calm down." Raye said flying past the worried private and his deadly tail. Raye's Lancer climbed fast but it began to slow down. Once he was a thousand feet higher than the engaged pilot his Lancer could no longer maintain the ascent and fell back. Raye smiled as sped towards the small little dots flying over the grey overcast. He started flipping a switch on his dashboard.

"Targets locked."

"Take this you furry, scaly, webbed feat bastards." Raye mumbled to himself and pressed the right red button again. This time eight pairs of two rockets shot out of the ventral side of Raye's ship but each missile pair sped towards a different target. It was an awesome sight, eight large fireballs erupted all around the sky and in one fell swoop Raye managed to tilt the battle into their favor.

"Thank you sir."

"Stow it Polis, there's still a lot more of them." Raye snapped as he started after a Cloud-Runner. Raye followed the Cloud-Runner momentarily before it to went up and then down in flames. These ones didn't pose any threat it seemed. Raye noticed on his Squad Status Screen, that only two of Bravo team were downed and two more had taken damage. As for Alpha, they were already on their way.

As the human forces slaughtered the mediocre Cornerian pilots, Raye was on constant alert. Star Fox was in the area and they had won wars without hardly any assistance from any Cornerian military assistance. If they showed up, no matter how good things were looking up now, they'd change in a terror stricken heartbeat. Finally the last of the Cornerians went down. Raye's squad lost another pilot bringing the toll up to three which wasn't bad considering the twenty Cornerians they had taken down. It was a good trade, or so it seemed. Cornerians had better technology, better ships and most likely a lot more in numbers. Still, what they had in advantages was rendered bat shit by what they had against them. The Cornerians were in a sense, unoriginal. They made a plan, they stuck to the plan and if it didn't work they'd try it again. It worked sometimes but most often it didn't. Their soldiers were tough but their pilots were lacking which is why the Earthen Military managed to stay toe to toe with the Cornerians. If it weren't for Star Fox's interference, so many more battles would have been won. Still, their leader was downed and permanently incapacitated which only proved they weren't immortal like the Cornerians had come to believe.

"That's the last of them, and look who just showed up." Raye said as thirty more blips appeared on his radar but they were far out. They were green dots and they were all flying in formations. Raye swung his Lancer around and started for the dots when suddenly they disappeared. Raye looked up from his radar to see a large explosion off in the distance. "It's about damn time." Raye said to himself. "All units scramble, Star Fox is here and they're not playing fair."

"Aye sir. Bravo team stay out of reach of each other but stay close enough so you don't get caught in a smart bomb." Peterson said.

"Right, let's take them all out." Raye growled and fed his engines more fuel sending him rocketing towards the three red blips on his radar.

~X~X~X~X~

"Alright boys, they're a little tougher then they look. Let's clean them up and report back to Peppy." Krystal said dully to herself. She had been in enough battles to become numb to any fear and there wasn't a human pilot alive that could take her.

"I'll take the left, Slip you the right and Krystal-"

"I'll take the leader." Krystal said and broke formation.

"Fucking bitch." Falco scowled to himself with the radio momentarily off. "Let's go Slip."

"Yeah." Slippy said nervously. Despite his years and experience in flight he was still only a mediocre pilot. If it wasn't for Falco or Krystal he would have died the next day after Fox was permanently incapacitated.

As the leader drew closer to Krystal she reached out with her mind to see his next move but like some human pilots he had a wall around his mind. It was common knowledge amongst the humans on how to block her telepathy but not many could do it.

"Okay then, your move skinner." Krystal said slowing her Arwing down to allow the leader to make his move. As her Arwing slowed down an alarm went off and she saw a missile shoot right at her. On instinct that had been drilled into her after hours of intense training, Krystal performed a U-turn and released flares. The missile went for the flares instead but Krystal had no time to relax however as another missile shot out from the black smoke from the first missile and smashed right into her. "Fuck!"

"I thought you said you were going to take care of the leader Krystal." Falco sneered over the radio.

Krystal just growled in her throat and started throwing ever maneuver she had at the human but none of them worked. The second she turned the human saw it and imitated her. It got to the point that she couldn't break free to help Slippy.

"Falco help him, I'm a little tied up." Krystal snapped as she shot towards the ground and then dove left trying to lose the human but it kept on her.

"All right. Hurry up though, these guys are a being difficult but I've still taken out two. Only three to go." Falco said smugly. "Be right there Slippy."

"Damn it!" Krystal shouted when the human managed to hit her with a quick volley of lasers. It took her shields down from eighty two seventy percent and at this rate she'd never lose him and he'd overtake her. "Fine, take this." Krystal said and rammed her mind into the human's mental wall.

The strength of the wall was great but not good enough and Krystal found her way inside. She quickly began to probe and confuse the human allowing her to escape but as she wormed her way through his mind she felt a sense of déjà vu. His mind felt so familiar but yet it was still different from all the other minds she had touched

'What the Hell?" Krystal thought when she stumbled upon one of the memories she had brushed on when she interrogated that human she left for dead a few days ago.

"So he's alive… well I'll fix that." Krystal said as she looped back around and began searching for a lock. She didn't wait long and while she kept Raye disorientated she unleashed a laser Hell. Raye's weak shields plummeted under the beating and within seconds his hull was taking hits. Before Krystal could finish him off, Raye made a last desperate attempt turned towards the vixen's Arwing and gunned it. "Shi-" Krystal said before the two ships collided at the wing.

Both ships began to lose altitude quickly and two smoke trails traced their descent towards the cold, bitter Earth.

"Krystal!" Slippy shouted.

"Slippy! Watch your six!" Falco snapped. "She can take care of herself so just keep flying or you're next. We'll get her after we take care of- oh, shit!" Falco shouted when the fifty plus humans showed up on the radar. "Slippy we have to get out of here and come back with reinforcements."

"But what about Kryst-"

"Forget about her! She'll be fine!" Falco said and drove off the tail on Slippy. "Come on!"

Slippy took one last look back at the flaming wreckage and flew off.

~X~X~X~X~

"Same thing, different day." Raye scowled to himself as he untangled himself from the parachute. He wasn't sure but as he went down, the ship's computer ejected him from the ship since it was more than likely he was going to die. The computer would have done that last time he crashed but the computer was disabled when he was hit. Raye finally managed to get out of the parachute and chair to see dozens of Lancers flying towards him.

"Well alright, at least this time I won't have to-" Raye said before three red beams of light shot past him. One of the beams clipped his arm and the others barely missed the back of his helmet. Without thinking Raye ducked down and reached for the nine millimeter Berretta at his side. Several more laser bolts shot over his head as he looked for cover.

~X~X~X~X~

"I think they're gone." Miyu whispered.

The whole cave was silent, not even Ashley or Caenda made a noise. The battle outside had subsided only ten minutes ago and yet everyone still felt the danger lurking outside the cave. At any time any faction, human or Cornerian, could walk through the cave entrance and end them. Neither faction would accept what was in the cave and they'd all be seen as traitors and enemies.

"Someone should go look." Fay said clutching Pierce's arm tightly.

"No, we should stay here and wait it out. If someone is out there than they could see us and- Miyu what are you-"

"You wait here, I'm not going to hide in here and wait for them to find me." Miyu said in undertone while handing the baby off to Fay.

"Miyu wait! Think of Cae." Fay whispered. "You can't just run outside into a battle!"

"I'll be fine Fay. If there are Cornerians out there they won't shoot me-"

"Yeah but what if there are humans?" Pierce snapped.

"I got this." Miyu said taking out her blaster from her back pocket. The lynx moved past the extinguished fire and slowly, silently towards the maw of the cave. Her heartbeat was wild and fast but not because of fear, but out of excitement. There was something out there and something told her it was Krystal.

When Miyu reached the fur door she heard dozens of human craft above, loud bangs and laser discharges outside. She peeked outside the door and saw several downed ships; all were within a fifty yards of the cave. Then she saw her. The blue bitch had her hands full with a human on the ground. They were exchanging rounds at each other, the human bullets and the vixen lasers. Miyu smiled to herself when she realized Krystal was within shooting distance and wide open. Slowly Miyu aimed her blaster at the vixen and took every single moment to carefully plan out the shot. As Miyu's finger started to pull the trigger Caenda flashed through her mind and she lowered the blaster. If she shot now Krystal would die and then the human would see where the shot came from. After that she didn't want to think about what would happen.

'You get off this time Krystal.' Miyu thought to herself and slid back inside the cave.

~X~X~X~X~

"I've been waiting a long time for this. You've had this coming for far to long you stupid blue bitch!" Raye shouted and fired three rounds at Krystal who was hiding behind her downed Arwing. The human ducked down and reloaded before popping back up. She was standing tall, she was exposed and Raye took the shot. The bullet shot fast and the vixen fell back, blood shooting from her head. Her body seemed to take years to fall and the blood in the air was so mesmerizing. At first Raye couldn't believe it, he had just killed the Cornerian moral. With her gone it was assured victory. She was the heart and soul of the Cornerians and with her gone they'd lose all hope. He was two for two now, both Fox McCloud and Krystal were eliminated permanently by his hand.

"I… I got her! I GOT HER!" Raye shouted and wanted to shoot his gun up in the air but didn't, there were still people flying up above. Still the human had to vent his exuberance somehow. He kicked snow, jumped around, shouted till his voice cracked athen took off and threw his helmet. "EAT THAT SHIT MOTHERFUCKER! I… AM… GOD! THE ULTIMATE ASS KICKING, HEADHUNTING, KILLER IN THE UNIVERSE!"

As Raye kept gallivanting off it started to snow. He didn't notice but it was coming down hard. A Lancer landed next to him and it was instantly blanketed in snow a few inches thick. Peterson struggled to get his cockpit open but the blond haired man managed to force it open and step out.

"Sir what's wrong sir?" He said to the crazed human shouting his godliness.

"I killed her! I shot her right in her smug bitch face!" Raye shouted and ran towards Peterson but as he got within ten feet of the Lancer, Peterson fell down. Raye stopped and saw blood and a laser hole through the human's head. Raye turned around and saw Krystal smiling fiendishly at him with a laser in her hands. Raye lifted his gun but Krystal shot him in the shoulder before he could lift it past her foot.

"So sorry Raye but things aren't always what they appear. Now call them off." The vixen said and pointed her free hand up towards the circling Lancers.

"How do you-" Raye said before a laser screamed right by his left ear. The human growled at the blue fox and did as he was told. Slowly he moved towards the Lancer and climbed into the cockpit with great difficulty on account of his wounded arm. Once he was in he sat on the seat covered by at least an inch of snow. "All units fall back."

"Sir, would you have us take her out? I'm sure we can get her without her getting you first."

"Negative just-" Raye said before a Lancer overhead fell silent and then fell to the ground. Raye watched in horror as the Lancer smashed into the ground making a large crater and explosion. "Shit! All units pull back! The cold and snow is freezing the engines!"

"But sir-"

"I can handle her." Raye snapped and cast the smiling vixen a glare. He was lying though, she would most certainly kill him once they were gone but he didn't want to waste any more lives than the unfortunate pilot who already fell victim to the planet's bitter cold. Squad by squad the Lancers shot towards the atmosphere with breakneck speed so to keep their engines as hot as possible. Each squad was like a countdown to his life. Raye sighed, he hoped there was an afterlife so he could possibly run into Krystal and make her pay.

"So." Krystal said once everyone was gone.

"So." Raye echoed sourly as he clutched his bleeding shoulder, lucky for him his body was keeping the blood warm enough so it didn't freeze on him.

"I knew you weren't alone human, your kind travels in packs." Krystal said and motioned for him to get out of the Lancer.

"What are you talking about?" Raye growled as he slowly moved out of his Lancer. "This is the first time I've had the… pleasure of meeting you face to face."

Krystal let off a laser bolt right next to his face which missed by just an inch. "Don't play dumb."

"I don't play, especially with a fur fag like you." Raye snapped.

"Don't test me skinner." The blue vixen growled. "The only reason you're still alive is because I want answers."

"Go fu-" Raye said before his mind split in two with great force. His head and mind hurt like they were being bashed in by a hammer. It was the same thing he experienced when he was tailing Krystal and she forced herself into his mind to get away. He could do nothing as she extracted memories from his mind, some of them were information of war effort and the rest was memories from a week ago. He saw a few bits and pieces but his head hurt too much to fully concentrate and pay any attention. When Krystal was done she pulled her mind back.

"This… this doesn't make any sense!" Krystal said to herself and shivered. "You aren't him but yet you are."

Raye's eyes darted around the surrounding. He looked for any advantages he could take from the environment but other than snow he couldn't use anything. A fight between a laser and a snowball wouldn't last longer than the few milliseconds it takes to pull a trigger. Whatever was going to happen was completely up to Krystal.

~X~X~X~X~

"I think they're gone." Fay said sniffing the outside. The smell of fire, death and smoke covered many scents and she didn't smell Krystal's, a Cornerians or a human's scent. Hopefully in the midst of the battle the cave's existence was forgotten. Then again they might not have been discovered at all, they were still alive after all.

Miyu strummed her claws against the cold floor of the cave. She was purely agitated right now. Krystal was within her sights and she let her go. She'd probably never get another chance like that again.

"It's only a matter of time before they're back." Pierce said more to himself then Fay or Miyu. "We have to move on again."

"But Pierce we just got here-"

"Then you can stay but they'll be here." Pierce snapped.

"They're probably still here, we just don't see them yet." Miyu hissed. "Fay give me the gun, I'll go have a look around."

"No Miyu, if anyone it should be me! Caenda is counting on you and Pierce is the medic, you two don't need me." Fay argued.

The cave grew silent and for awhile Miyu contemplated Fay's argument. "Alright then, go."

"What?" Fay gasped.

"If you won't let me go then go." Miyu said staring Fay in the eyes with a cold, hard stare.

"No, I'll go." Fay said and moved to the cave entrance but Miyu stopped her. "Miyu?"

"You'll need this Fay. Good luck." Miyu said not too warmly but as nicely as she could at the moment.

"Thanks." Fay said taking the blaster from Miyu's outstretched hand. The white canine took a deep breath and proceeded out of the cave. Once she reached the door she swallowed her fear and took a step outside.

AUTHOR'S NOTES~~~ Hey guys, what's up? Sorry this has taken so long but between homework, work, housekeeping and hanging out with friends I've had no time to write. And even when I do sometimes the infamous writers block makes me its bitch! Anyways I hope this chapter cleared some things up, I'm sorry I haven't been able to reply to many of your reviews or messages but I've been very busy and I have only a few minutes on the library computer. Even though I have a job now and could afford internets it would cost out the ass and I have plans to go to Germany over the summer. Anyways enough of my life story. I hope you enjoyed, for those of you who give a damn, Padawan should be updated soon, I'm nearly done with it and as for Exchange Student, well… that's about halfway done. Have a good one peeps!