So, when we left off last, Shade was resting against a tree trying to comprehend the fact that he just lost a member of his team. Sirens wailed as emergency crews responded to the smoke billowing into the and Howl had just raced off in an attempt to lose the girls. This was not how tings were suppose to go. Shade is completely lost in his thoughts, something that he should know better then to do. Read and review.
"He's dead." Shade couldn't beleive that he had let the newest member get killed. "I never should have sent him in. We never should have attacked the Eclipse in the first was I thinking? I knew they out numbered us and yet i thought we could..."
Something rustled in the bushes in front of him. Shade had no way to really fend off one of the Eclipse. He hadn't been gifted like Howl to command fire or Mirage to summon undead. He cold only stop time and run. The bush rustled again and Shade readied for combat. he had been skilled in hand to hand but that would not help him here.
Without warning, Shade was lifted off the ground and hung on a branch by his cloak. The clasp began to dig into his neck. Shade tried to give himself room to breath by pulling at the clasp. It releasesed and he fell to ground. He was gasping for breath when he was hit by something that he couldn't see. As he hit the ground, he could ave sworn he heard giggling.
"Should I just beat you down while you can't see me?" came a disembodied voice. Shade was knocked forward by the same force. This was really pathetic. Getting your ass kicked by someone was one thing, but being beat by something you can't even see, let alone fight against.
"Or should i just toy with you until you go insane?" There was more giggleing. Shade scaned the area and saw nothing.
"Where are you?" Shade turned on the spot. Insanity was not an option. Faith materialized behind Shade and whispered in his ear.
"Boo." She started giggling madly then disappeared before Shade could turn and see her. Deciding that he had had enough of this foolishness, Shade started to run toward his base.
"Hold on. Just where do you think you're going?" Faith, still not visible to Shade, grabbed him by the shoulder and spun him around. She became visible only for a moment to force him against a tree and stop her lips only an inch from his.
"Just one more way to mind fuck you." She laughed again then was gone.
Shade stood there, shocked. Had she almost kissed him? Was that there the faint scent of cotton candy on her? He shook the thought from his mind and decided not to tell the guys. They had more pressing matters like how to find his newly dead team mate. Mirage might be able to help with that. He might be able to revive him but it was a long shot.
Howl and Mirage were already to the base by the time Shade returned. Before they could ask him why he was the last one back, Shade threw open the control panel just on the inside of the cave entrance and dropped the six inch, steel backed rock facade to seal the entrance.
"Shade? What the fuck is going on?" Howl followed behind Shade as he mad his way to the stare case. He was exhausted and needed to rest. mirage never slept and Howl looked like he was running on adrenaline.
"Shade?" Howl grabbed him by the shoulder and spun him around to so their eyes met. "What the hell happened to you?"
"Nothing." Shade tryed to pull away but Howl would not let him.
"Bullshit. You came in here whiter then the fat guy at the water park." Mirage shouted from the living room.
"Fuck you." Shade held up his middle finger in Mirage's general direction.
"So what happened? We expected you to be back here first? No one was following you."
Shade knew they wouldn't leave him alone until he gave them he reason why he was the last one to get back. "Fine. I got held up in the forest."
"By what? There nothing in there that big that could stop any of us."
He didn't want to say it and he wasn't going to. "Mountain lion."
Howl raised an eyebrow above the frame of his glasses. "Really?"
"He's lying!" came Mirage's voice again. That fucker was asking for it.
"Okay, I was caught by the with pink tips in her hair. Happy?"
Howl just stared at him. "You were what?" a smile tugged at the corner of his mouth.
"Yeah. I was caught by the weakest one they have next to the small one."
Howl burst out laughing. "IT's not that! It's the fact that you were caught at all!"
"I know I could have got away..."
"Then, why didn't you?" Howl was still laughing. Mirage appeared in the hall leading to the stares.
"It's not like you have any emotional feeling for her." He scoffed as he walked by. Shade landed a solid punch and knocked Mirage back a few feet. He just laughed harder then stopped. As if he had just been slapped in the face. "You don't, do you?"
"No. I don't." Shade stiffened as the faint smell of cotton candy waffted by him. A chill ran down his spine.
"Okay. Well I'm going to bed." Mirage turned continued up the stares.
"I think I'm going to do the same." Howl yawned and followed Mirage up the and when he got to the top, Shade went to leave the base. He had to go for a drive and mull things over. Maybe he would go find someone to talk to. That is, if she didn't kill him first.
Some epic foreshadowing there if i do say so myself. I think this is going to be the second-to-last chapter. The next one will end this story then I can start doing the fun stuff like holidays and such. So as always read and review. VIVA LA FANG
-BFShade
