The next few days were miserable for Seth. Roman refused to talk to him and he wouldn't even look at him. Worst of all, Roman asked to move out and they gave Roman a beautiful house of his own.
Roman moved all of his stuff out of the pack house and went back to his shack to get the rest of his things. Seth wanted to go with him but his father sensed that something had happened between them and asked him to give Roman some time so Becky and Naomi went with him instead.
He was walking to Roman's new house, hoping to wait until Roman got back when he was struck with an intense pain in the back of his head and darkness overwhelmed him.
Roman, Becky and Naomi were almost back to the village when the peaceful forest was rocked by a huge explosion. They dropped everything and shifted, running through the forest as fast as they could. They got back to see chaos as the meeting hall was completely leveled and smoldering and a nearby house was on fire. Everyone was frantically running around and trying to put out the fire, Roman went around looking for any injured people but luckily no one seemed injured. They managed to put the fire out but when they checked, Seth, Linda and Dave were missing.
Roman paced back and forth in the pack house. Since the meeting hall had been destroyed, they were using it as a command center as people searched for Seth, Linda, and Dave. The only traces of their scents were hours old and it was official, they weren't anywhere in the village. They had triple checked, but there was no trace of them where the bomb was either.
Stephanie was the last to see her mother who had gone to her room to take a nap. Randy was the last to see Dave after breakfast and Aiden had seen Seth walking around the village. Everything was moving so slowly for Roman that he decided to do a little investigating of his own and he went to check out Seth's room. Everything looked normal but he stopped to pick up one of Seth's shirts and brought it to his nose. He was so worried about Seth and the scent on his shirt calmed him down and made him miss him even more.
He went to Linda's room, remembering that Stephanie said she was going to nap. On first glance, everything looked normal until he saw a tiny red spot on the comforter. Blood. He shouted for Hunter, not wanting to believe whose blood it was but Hunter confirmed it-it was Dave's blood. They looked closer and saw a shred of fabric that also belonged to Dave and under the bed they found a bottle of chloroform.
Stephanie was scared but she was trying to hide it as Hunter searched Dave's room. Hunter came back with a pair of silver shackles. Silver, the only metal that could hold a shifter. Roman grew more scared when he saw the shackles and he went into Dave's room himself. His fear increased when he saw an empty envelope addressed to Dave. He recognized the handwriting.
Seth woke up with a groan and tried to rub his face but he was hit with something metal when he did. He opened his eyes and saw that his hands were shackled together. He tried to break the chain but realized that it was silver and that meant that he couldn't shift either. He looked around him and saw that he was in a dark, dingy, cold room with no windows. There was no hope of escape with the silver blocking his shifting abilities, he needed his shifter strength. The smell in the room was so terrible that he didn't even realize that he wasn't alone in the room until he heard a weak cough. He looked over in the direction of the cough and saw a lump of rags on the floor on the other side of the room. Steeling himself, he went over and moved the threadbare blanket and gasped at the figure huddled on the cold floor-Sami!
Roman rushed out of the room with the envelope and slammed it down on the table in front of Hunter and Stephanie. "It's Vince. Vince has our family."
Hunter rose out of his chair. "Are you sure?"
"Positive." Roman said with a sneer. "I'd know that handwriting anywhere."
Stephanie looked at them with determination in her eyes. "Then I guess this means we're going to war."
"There's no time for that." Hunter said. "There's no telling what Vince has planned, we need to go now and take our best fighters. The rest can get better organized and follow us."
"Should we send word to the Carter pack, they have a lot of strong fighters?" Randy asked.
"No, they have enough going on in their pack right now." Hunter said. "They're kind of loose cannons anyway."
"I'm going with you." Roman growled out. "I know the area and the people. You need me."
"Yes we do." Hunter said. "Your strength will come in handy. Stephanie you stay here and get things ready. Randy, Roman, Kevin, Cesaro, the Wyatts and Big E and I will all go in the first wave."
"Do you really think Kofi will let Big E go with Xavier pregnant?" Stephanie asked.
"Unfortunately, they don't get a choice this time." Hunter said seriously. "I need our best fighters if we're going to pull this off."
"Are we going to overthrow Vince or just get our people back?" Roman asked.
"Why do you ask?" Hunter said.
"Because I may know some people that are willing to help get rid of Vince."