It wasn't long before Evangeline and Chachamaru showed Ranko and the others where it was they last seen the creature that attacked them. They were in a courtyard near the school which had four interconnecting walkways with three of which met at before the fourth lead towards the school.

Ranko had calmed down by this point as well thankfully as she was now more concerned with that could be the Mahora Ghostbusters' first case. Seeing as no one else on the school grounds were avoiding the area and were just giving Ranko and the others funny looks she turned to Mana and Zazie and says, "Okay you two search the path heading towards the school. Use the P.K.E. Meters to track any potential leads and collect any samples you may come across."

Mana and Zazie of course nod figuring out instantly that splitting up the team for now could help cover more ground. And so they took off to the one pathway heading towards the school. Ranko then turned to Fuka, Fumika and Kaede and says, "You three take the path heading towards the girls' dorm. Makie and Kazumi will stay with me as we head towards the path leading away from the school. If anyone finds the creature radio in for backup, we'll take it down as a team for safety purposes."

"What if none of you find anything?" Evangeline asks as she starts wondering why there was no damage to the area, sure it could possibly be because of Takamichi but why cover something like that up?

Ranko shrugs her shoulders and says, "If that happens then will need to go about this another way. We'll think of something if we come across that possible result."

And with that said the rest of the team had split up and began their searches. And seeing as how Evangeline and Chachamaru were with Ranko, Makie and Kazumi they helped by explaining in further detail as to what exactly it was that happened to them. The main reason why they helped was because the path that they were taking was leading them to their cottage in the woods. And they could tell that not all of the damage was undone by whatever it was that undid the damage to the courtyard. It didn't take long for Kazumi to notice the damage either as she pulled out her camera and started taking pictures of the broken tree limbs and scratch marks on the trunks and the brick walkway.

Makie even noticed a few pieces of evidence as she pulled out a clear plastic bag and started collecting some samples. Having been disgusted by the smell of the stuff she turned to Ranko and asks, "Hey Ranko what is this stuff? It looks like dog hair but it smells awful."

Ranko walks over to Makie and takes a closer look at the sample she was collecting and takes a small amount of it between her fingers and stands up trying to get a better look at it in the light. She then turns to Chachamaru and Evangeline and asks, "Does this look familiar?"

Evangeline shook her head with her usual angry look and says, "Do you think I was paying attention to something like that? I was busy fighting for my life to worry about whether or not the thing had hair or not."

Chachamaru on the other hand seemed to have blinked and says, "From my scanners it does look to be the same color as the hair on the creature that attacked us. But I don't recall either of us getting a good enough hit in to cause bleeding."

Ranko turns back to the sample in her hands and examines it more now noticing a dark red viscous substance was mixed in with the hair and says, "I'm not sure if that is blood. It could be but why would a Terror Bear, Dog or any other Terror Creature bleed? Makie collect as many samples as you can I'm radioing the others to meet us here. It looks like the closer we get to Evangeline's the more evidence we are going to find."

Kazumi hearing this starts taking pictures of the hair that Makie had found but then registers something that Ranko said and turns to her while she is on the walkie-talkie and asks, "Wait a minute. You mean to say that Terror Creatures don't bleed?"

Evangeline had to nod her head at that question and adds, "I was wondering the same thing myself actually. Why would you think they wouldn't?"

Ranko goes to scratch the back of her head but stops short remembering what is still in her hand and laughs at herself and says, "Well honestly they probably do bleed. We just don't have any evidence that says they do. I mean there is no real reason to doubt that they would bleed but we have so little information on them. The only other thing I can say is that I think I remember that smell from something else though. I just can't quite remember where I remember it from. I just know that it doesn't smell like any blood that I ever smelled before."

Evangeline had to smirk hearing this and asks, "And how would you know what blood smells like? It's not like you're a vampire or anything."

Ranko of course laughs at the obvious joke and says, "No, but as a martial artist I have had my fair share of injuries before."

Makie rolled her eyes at the antics of Evangeline and Ranko and waved as the rest of the group joined up with them. Each group apparently finding at least some evidence that something was there. Once everyone had briefed the rest of the group on their findings they had set off once again to find the culprit behind the attacks on Evangeline and Chachamaru.

Ranko was leading with Makie and Kazumi behind her checking her left and right sides as she kept her eyes forward and on her P.K.E. Meter she was using to track the creature. Evangeline and Chachamaru were in the middle with Fuka, Fumika and Kaede to their sides while Mana and Zazie were at the back end of their grouping keeping an eye behind them in case anything attempted to sneak up behind them.

It wasn't a long wait for the group before the signal on Ranko's meter got stronger showing that there was defiantly something in the area. Quickly picking up their pace they all followed Ranko as she followed where the meter was telling her where to go. Shortly after they had picked up their pace the group was able to hear the sounds of someone either screaming or yelling. The only thing they could tell from the sound was that it sounded like it could be someone in their age group that they probably even seen from time to time at the dorms signifying that the sounds were that of a high school aged girl.

Quickly picking up their pace they had finally came to a clearing and saw who was making the sounds and why. Standing in front of them was an unusually large stone like creature, which Evangeline and Chachamaru quickly identified as the creature that had attacked them, and a girl around their age. The girl had wild dark black hair in a high ponytail wearing a blue jumper, black trousers with blue leg bands and a black belt around her waist.

Now what they hadn't expected to see was that she was apparently fighting the creature head on. She was dodging the swipes the creature was making with its arms very easily and was holding her own quite well. The next thing she did would shock the whole group as she jumped into the air and threw what looked to be a single punch at the creature but Ranko, Evangeline, Chachamaru, Mana and Zazie were able to tell she only had her index finger extended as she did this attack followed by the yell of "Bakusai Tenketsu!" which was not blocked by the creature as her attack drove right into the creature's head. She then backed away with a jump with a triumphant smirk on her face which also revealed a small fang poking out of her upper jaw over her lower lip.

Knowing exactly what was going to happen after seeing the creature start to glow Ranko turned to her team jumping onto them yelling "Duck for cover!"

Shortly afterwards the creature had exploded making its apparent stone body become shrapnel for anyone in the area. Chachamaru had blocked the debris from hitting Evangeline while Kaede protected Fuka and Fumika and Ranko protected Makie and Kazumi. Zazie and Mana were able to protect themselves from the explosion.

Now knowing that she had an audience the unknown girl turned to where she heard the warning and says, "Hey are you guys alright?!"

Ranko answered before anyone else could however and sat up yelling, "Yes we are! No thanks to you Ayame! Now what the hell are you doing here at Mahora?"

The now identified Ayame blinks when she hears this and then her face turns into an angry glare and says, "Looking for you, you dumbass! We hadn't had a chance to settle our fight since you disappeared! Now I'm going to kick your ass for running away from our fight!"

Ranko at this point gets out of the straps of her proton pack and gets closer to Ayame and yell back saying, "I didn't run away from our fight you idiot! You didn't turn up for our fight that you asked for! I even waited an extra week for your eternally lost ass to find the Tendo Dojo so we could settle our fight before I came to Mahora!"

It wasn't long before the yelling turned into a full blown shouting match with insults and curses flying out each other's mouths at a rapid pace. And right when it looked like it was going to become a physical fight their faces of anger turned into happy smirks and they hugged each other and started laughing. This of course caused everyone that witnessed the back and forth argument to become confused beyond belief.

Ranko seeing the looks on their faces turns to them as she kept her right arm around Ayame's shoulder, as Ayame did the same with her left arm, smiles and says, "This is one of my friends from where I used to live before coming to Mahora. Her name is Ayame Hibiki. We have a strange joke between us where we make fun of how my brother and her father interact when they meet up, as least when they were our age anyway."

Makie quirked an eyebrow at this answer and says, "Your brother and her father are friends?"

Ayame laughs as she rubs the back of her head while her face starts to redden and says, "Yeah….. I wasn't exactly a planned child. Let's just say that my mother thought she was with Ranko's brother but was with my father instead one night when she broke out of a mental institute and leave it at that. Okay?"

Kazumi was about to ask for more info than that before realizing what that meant and stopped herself. She had just then remembered the age difference between Ranko and her brother and realized that the question she was going to ask would have been too personal for her to ask when she just met them.

Ranko smiles seeing as her new friends were respecting Ayame's request and says, "Okay with that being said. Let me ask you something Ayame. How did you know that the Bakusai Tenketsu was going to work on that thing?"

Ayame smirks as she looks at the rumble that was the Terror Bear and says, "I was able to see its breaking point. As a result I knew the technique would work. It was that simple. Anyway what was that thing exactly?"

Ranko shrugged her shoulders at that new question and says, "I don't know. You destroyed it before we had a chance to scan it. But from the looks of it it was possessed statue of a bear or something that was warped to look like a Terror Bear. A possible E. Class 7 Guardian Beast associated to Gozer the Gozerian, a Sumerian God of Destruction. But the readings I was getting leading me and the others here were wrong for something like that. This was something weaker, like an E. Class 2 or 3. We are going to need to see if we can get a stronger reading near Evangeline's place. Maybe we can get some answers there."

Ayame nods hearing all of this, seeing as she had known Ranko for most of her own life she does recall some of the Ghostbusting terminology she was using and wasn't as lost as others might expect. So she turned to the group that had came with Ranko and asks, "So which one of you is Evangeline?"

Evangeline scowls at Ayame and says, "I am, is that a problem for you?"

"Why would it be a problem?" Ayame asks with genuine curiosity.

"Because, the master is a vampire. Most people tend to have a problem with that fact." Chachamaru answers for Ayame not realizing that she did not know that yet.

Ayame of course only turns to Ranko and says, "Your new school has a robot and a vampire in it? Is it too late to enroll? This school sounds a lot more fun that my old one."

Ranko smiles hearing this question and says, "After we check out Evangeline's place we can check with the dean okay. I knew you would love this place."

The Mahora Ghostbusters had started laughing at this point seeing as Ayame had a similar reaction to Evangeline that Ranko had. Kazumi gathered the rest of the group around her and simply asks, "Anyone else wondering what kind of place Ranko and Ayame grew up in now? They both had the same reaction to Evangeline and Chachamaru."

Makie shrugged her shoulders and says, "Kinda, but I mean we were all only shocked about Evangeline being a vampire because we didn't think they were real. Those two seem to not care about that."

Mana had a smirk on her face as she added her two cents in saying, "I wouldn't say they don't care about that. More like they see that as a good thing."

"Good, bad, either way they are still our classmates." Zazie adds in attempting a pun by trying to sound like Ash from the Evil Dead series.

"-5 points"

"5 points"

"…"

"No score Kaede?"

"You two just cancelled each other out. Now I just don't know how to score Zazie on that one. I wanted to cancel out whatever you had said." Kaede responds knowing that Zazie was staring at her, Fumika and Fuka after their responses and non-response.

"You could just give her your own score you know." Kazumi adds in.

"Are we really turning this into a discussion on Zazie's pun?" Makie asks now getting confused as to why they chose to huddle up in the first place.

"Hey guys! Whatever you all are talking about can wait till later. We have a house in investigate!" Ranko interrupts as she picks up her proton pack with one arm with each while staring at the group of her friends.

Hearing this the rest of the Mahora Ghostbusters start following Ranko, Evangeline, Chachamaru, and Ayame to into the woods and towards Evangeline and Chachamaru's place, a small cottage in the woods. All the while they were all still trying to figure out how they felt about Ayame and what they saw her do.