"Come on we have to get to the ship!" Fay growled as Pierce followed behind her. He wasn't doing to well, he had to stop for breaks every once in a while because he was flat out exhausted with just walking.

"Well excuse me Princess! But it just so happens humans can't run very far or fast if they don't eat anything for a week!" Pierce snapped.

"Honestly you're like a child!" Fay growled and threw Pierce on her shoulder.

"Hey! What are you doing? Put me down I can still move can't I?" Pierce snarled.

"Shut up you move like a dead man!" Fay snapped as she smacked Pierce's face with her tail repeatedly.

"Watch the tail will ya?" Pierce snapped smacking it away.

"Sorry I have to make sure that you don't look at my ass-"

"You're disgusting! As if a human would ever fancy a Cornerian! That would be worse than sin! That human would be an abomination and furthermore- STOP HITTING ME WITH YOUR TAIL!" Pierce shouted when she got him again and right in the mouth.

"Stop talking then!" Fay laughed as she ran with Pierce over her shoulder. As Fay carried Pierce he couldn't help but notice how fit she was, it was certainly impressive that she could still operate after not eating for a week and on top of that carry him on top of her shoulder. Despite his hatred for Cornerians he was impressed.

"So tell me more about that Belial guy."

"What about him?" Pierce asked trying to keep his eyes from drifting too low to gaze at certain Cornerian anatomy.

"When did you meet him?" Fay asked just starting to breathe heavily.

"Well I guess back on the Burning Retaliation was when we first met. Before we got close and became friends he was up tight and always concentrated on the next mission. I was certain that if ordered he'd kill us all, so would the rest of Squad Serpent. Since I was a squad medic I didn't do to much of the fighting, mainly the preservation of life but I did catch glimpses of him in action and let me tell you I did not sleep for a week I was so terrified he'd turn on me." Pierce said shuddering.

"As time went on though he loosened up and actually talked to me rather than ordered me around. Since Squad Serpent went in first every time and my squad was the back up though he decided that since I had a higher chance of survival he'd get to know me to keep him self sane. He'd tell me all these things about his life before the war and if we both made it out alive he'd cook me a gourmet meal any time I wanted for free. Naturally when the war is over I'm going to take him up on the offer every day!"

"I see… anything else you know about him?" Fay asked.

"Not really I mean he really never was the most easy to get to know guy and when his wife died in an evacuation he secluded himself even more and killed twice as brutally. We had to stop him from using an already dead Cornerian's entrails as a makeshift fiber wire to choke it to death even more. That guy was a crazed demon on the battle field but as calm as a sea before a storm. Just why you are so fascinated with him is beside me." Pierce said rolling his eyes.

"I'm not fascinated I just want to know what I'm up against." Fay said blushing a little bit but not from fatigue…

'Please be safe Miyu, please be safe!' Raye thought desperately to himself as he ran near silently through the base. He had no idea where he was going but didn't have to, something would lead him to her, something he didn't know existed until now. 'Almost there, almost there.' Raye thought feeling he was getting closer and closer…

Ashley whined, she was cold, she was hungry and her pack was in trouble. She circled the base until she came to that strange bird, her initial reaction was to run but she stopped when she smelt a familiar scent. It was that one that she first met. Ashley became excited and ran towards the scent, right into the strange bird's belly.

She sniffed around but tensed when she smelt a lot of blood mixed with the faint scent of her pack member. She crept silently through the ship like she would if she were stalking her prey. Something was amiss and the little she wolf would get to the bottom of it. When she came to a small pool of blood she smelt it and knew that it wasn't someone from a part of her pack's blood. Ashley growled when she looked up and saw the raccoon sitting there with a gun in its hand…

Raye threw his whole body into the door and it crashed in without a hitch. It was so dark he was surprised he hit the door and not a wall.

"Miyu! Miyu! Are you there?" Raye asked the darkness. But there wasn't a response. "Miyu it's me Raye! Miyu give me a sign if you are in here."

The human waited and waited for the smallest sign, a gasp of breath, ruffling of clothes, the tiniest peep but no response. Raye became down cast, if she wasn't here then there was no way he'd be able to find her. That raccoon was probably with her now, hurting her or worse.

"DAMN IT!" Raye shouted and punched the metal wall fracturing his knuckles. It hurt but not as much as the failure hurt. How many times had he let her come into danger? How many times did she get hurt because he was too weak to protect her? Any ounce of pain she suffered should have been his but thrice as bad.

The blood of his knuckles dripped onto the floor and he turned to leave when he heard it. A sound like a sob and a meow. Raye spun around trembling. "Miyu? Miyu are you there?"

"Raye?" the same pitiful meow uttered.

"Miyu!" Raye shouted and ran into the room searching for the lynx. He stopped in the middle of the room and listened. After a few seconds he heard a long stuttering gasp. Raye was instantly at her side. "Miyu! Miyu can you hear me? Are you okay?" he asked completely at a loss of what to do. Going by instinct he cradled her in his arms.

"Raye… I… I was so… scared." She whispered. She was as cold as the snow outside and her breathing was stressed but she began to rekindle.

"Miyu oh God I am so sorry I let this happen! Where did he go? Tell me, I won't let him get away." Raye said stroking her cheek. Her cheek was so cold, soft and wet, every stroke made Raye cringe and feel even guiltier. Why did he let her down all the time? Why must every woman in his life suffer because he was too weak?

Miyu could see like she was wearing sunglasses and the anguish Raye was going through matched that of her own. The worst part was she couldn't ask why and she couldn't tell him she loved him because the gap of languages once again separated them now that her wrist com was gone.

"Es tut mir leid, es tut mir leid. Miyu wo ist er? Ich werde ihn töten für sie. Es tut mir leid. Miyu, Miyu." Was all she could hear. Not a single word other than her name was she able to decipher.

"Raye it's all right I killed him he, ow." She said then added more pressure to her side. It was bleeding a little from the high powered energy bolt that thankfully sealed the wound by scalding the flesh unlike some blasters that let wounds bleed a person out. It did less damage over all leaving the wound open was proven to be more fatal than scalding the wound.

"Raye mezeneth alltia methana- ow." Was all Raye could hear and like Miyu only his name was understandable.

"Miyu what happened to you? Did he hurt you? He did this to you didn't he? I can't believe I let him lay a single finger on you! It's all my fault!" Raye said, his voice going coarse and tears falling onto the lynx in his arms.

Miyu blinked wishing he wouldn't cry, it wasn't his fault, there was nothing he could have done to protect her. No matter how she looked at it there was nothing he could have done without putting Miyu in danger. Even if he would have sniped them one could have escaped and killed her from the safety from the base but even if he did drop them all they would never have gotten her out of the cage before Hell froze over some more. Besides the worst thing that happened to her was the blaster wound and nothing more. Yet how she got it was what troubled her. She shuddered remembering herself become a feral animal that went rabid on another Cornerian. Milo's only hope was to shoot her and when she went down he used that time to get away. She wished she could tell Raye that was what really happened but he wouldn't understand.

"Raye I need help." she said bringing his hand to her side. Raye gasped when he felt the warm blood. In a desperate frenzy Raye picked her up in his arms and ran through the base almost blind. The only person that could save her now was Pierce but where was he…?

"You can put me down if you're tired-"

"I'm not tired!" Fay laughed and kept going. Just a few more dozen feet and they'd be back at her ship.

"How can you not be tired? We haven't eaten in a week!" Pierce asked completely bewildered.

"Well to be honest I had some food on me and rationed it to myself over the week-"

"YOU BITCH! You let me starve while you stuffed your fat face?" Pierce shouted.

"Shut up you fucking skinner all I had was three ration bars and you wouldn't touch 'em before so I didn't offer them now!" Fay barked.

"Damn horker eating all the food gone! Nom, nom, nom, nom!" Pierce scowled.

Fay threw Pierce onto the ground "You know what? I think I am a little tired of carrying your stupid ass everywhere! You use your own two damn legs and walk!"

"I would if some fatty didn't eat all the food!" Pierce shouted not happy with his not so graceful landing on his face.

"Oh that's it you son of a bitch!" Fay growled and jumped on top of Pierce. She tried to force his arms down but Pierce managed to squirm out of it and roll her off of him. Pierce wasn't up to much fighting so he tried to get her in a hold as quickly as possible.

Pierce grabbed her arm and twisted but Fay rolled around until she was free. Fay yanked her arm out of his grasp and jumped on top of him. She pinned his arms down but with difficulty, her run had exhausted her but they were both tired so it evened up things. Pierce thrashed around but couldn't get the poodle off; he was too weak from starvation. All he could do was scowl and glare.

"There I win!" Fay said, she completely forgot why they were fighting during the brief scuffle because of how much fun it was. She was as of now holding down one of her greatest enemies and yet one of her greatest friends, it was all so confusing.

"Fine I give." Pierce scowled. "Now get off me!"

Fay panted a little bit but didn't get off. "Normally I would have killed you but after all we've been through it is kind of hard to think about it." Fay said letting go of Pierce's arms.

"I guess." Pierce said rubbing his wrists where her death grip had him.

"I mean we're supposed to be enemies right? Yet we haven't tried to kill each other yet… why?"

Pierce shrugged. "I guess because you need me and I need you?"

"No! We haven't killed each other because or species can coexist with one another!" Fay said lighting up.

"Oh not this again! Listen as soon as you drop the war and apologize maybe we'll consider it. Now please get off me."

"But-" Fay said before she heard the sounds of footsteps approaching fast. She tensed and grabbed her gun but she saw that human Belial carrying something. She lit up when she saw it was a very familiar lynx but despaired when she saw that she was hurt.

"Oh my God Miyu!" She gasped and got off Pierce.

Raye slowed down relieved he finally found the two. What was strange though was he could understand them. 'The poodle must have a wrist com like Miyu's before something happened to it.' Raye thought to himself.

"Pierce you have to help her!" Raye said remembering the wounded love in his hands.

"What? Um okay… are you okay sir?" Pierce said seeing the red in Raye's eyes.

"Yeah I uh just got something in my eye."

"Did you kill them for this?" Fay asked holding Miyu's unconscious hand.

"Not all of them." Raye grunted.

Pierce was a little confused why he was so emotional. So what if a lynx got shot? Raye must have killed his fair share of them over the long months of fighting before hand. It didn't make sense but he kept his mouth shut and his mind on his work as best as possible. The lynx wasn't too bad, the blaster hole wasn't too deep and there wasn't that much bleeding. Her clothes were ripped which was to be expected after what those four planned to do to her but all the signs pointed towards they didn't get too far before Raye got them. The Lynx's shirt was still on, jacket on and a weird set of clothes that looked like real animal fur was all on. Her pants were also on and the zipper was up as well, looks like they didn't get to have any fun before Raye killed them which made Pierce smile. He hated those bastards and didn't want them to take pleasure in anything of life before they died, not even the sweet embrace of death was acceptable.

"She's going to be fine if I can get her some treatment soon." Pierce said taking the lynx Fay seemed to be calling Miyu.

"Pierce I want you to make sure she pulls through. That is your sole objective and failure is not an option." Raye said staring deeply into Pierces hazel eyes.

Pierce shook his head and his medium long brown hair waved a bit "Sure sir but she's just a- I'll do my best sir." Pierce said quickly when Raye glared at him like Satan does towards the Heavens.

Raye grunted and nodded. "I'll be back."

"Where are you going?" Fay asked.

"Can hearts break?" Raye asked before walking off.

Fay saw Pierce shudder and look away quickly. "What did he mean by that?" She asked.

"He's going to slowly kill the last one… very, very slowly." Pierce said as the frozen chill ran down the spine of his soul.

AUTHOR'S NOTE~~~ Hey all hope you enjoyed and I hope you got the message, all Milo did to Miyu was shoot her okay? Otay! Anyways that's about it except what Raye said was "where are you, where is he, I'm sorry" but in German. I am ninety nine point nine nine sixty nine percent sure that it isn't faulty. Oh by the way Milo is fucked and the next chapter will get... messy X3.