Lance, Jiang and Ralen were getting anxious, Shayne and Silver weren't back yet and SHDE was bearing down on them, it wouldn't be long until they arrived. They let out a sigh of relief as Blain bounded out of the treeline.
"Do you think they know they're coming?" Lance asked adjusting his sights for the fiftieth time that morning.
"I'm going to say yes, judging by the speed which they are walking" Jiang said, watching Silver struggle to keep up with Shayne as he powered across the yard.
The door slammed and Silver strode straight up the stairs, ignoring her team completely. Shayne sat down on the stairs and watched the door.
"Uh, Shayne, are you two okay?" Jiang said, obviously concerned.
"I'm fine, Silvers just panicking about Hanna"
"So you know they're coming?" Ralen said sitting next to him.
"We saw them just before we came back, they aren't far out now"
"Hang on a second, I thought we were off the grid here, how did they find us?" Lance asked to the room.
Shayne just looked him in the eye. Lance remembered his eyes; he had a mental link with Lina.
"So that means…..oh shit, she knows doesn't she" Shayne nodded.
"Shayne, what are you going to do?" Jiang asked looking out the window
"If what I think is going to happen happens then I'm going to have to fight Hanna"
"Why would you need to fight her?"
"You know her, impulsive and emotional, she's going to be angry and I need to absorb as much as possible before she talks to Silver" Shayne slung his jacket over a chair.
He checked over his tomahawk for damage. When he was done his put it back in its loop at his waist. Shayne ensured his gauntlets were tightened properly and oiled. He finished his checks as the girls pulled up on the dirt road.
"Go upstairs, all of you, silver is going to need support soon" Lance and Jiang went without question, Ralen stood at Shayne's side.
"Well, it looks like Azrael will have to wait wont it"
"Ralen, just go" Ralen patted him on the shoulder and bounded up the stairs.
Shayne waited at the foot of the stairs. The house was silent, as if holding its breath. The silence was shattered as a motorcycle came crashing through the door, barely missing Shayne as it crashed into the stairs. Hanna landed in a crouch.
"Hanna, calm down, let me expl-" Hanna silenced him by leaping at him slashing with her sword.
Shayne ducked the blade and caught her wrist. Hanna fired the chain blade at him; he dodged it, only barely. The blade smashed through a window, Hanna whipped her arm back and it wrapped around his throat. Shayne could feel himself losing consciousness. There were some loud, heavy footsteps and the chain snapped.
There was some shouting and Shayne shook the blackness from his vision and stood up shakily. He saw Dundra and Eddi arguing with Hanna. Shayne staggered to the door, Lina was sat on a tree stump stroking Blaine. Shayne rubbed his throat and walked over to her.
"Lina, you know what should happen now"
"Yes I do, but it won't because it doesn't have to"
There was a crack and Shayne turned as a bullet tore through his chest. Lina screamed and AGIS and the others came running. Ashe had been making sure that the area was secure and she came running over as well. As Shayne bled out of a bullet to the chest, Lina cried, her tears dripping onto his face. Dundra and Lance went in search of the shooter as Jiang and Eddi tried to get the bullet out. A second shot pierced the air and Lina fell to the ground.
Lance and Dundra found the shooter, along with at least 40 other cops. They were taken into custody and taken back to the house. When they arrived Shayne was back in bed.
"Guys, what happened, is he okay?"
"He'll live, but he won't like the news he's going to get when he wakes up"
"Why, what happened?"
Eddi looked to a white sheet on the floor. A tear ran down her cheek.
"She's dead; her aura had no time to activate"
Several hours later back at Beacon, Blake received a message. She put her book down and ran to Ozpin's office. She banged on the door until it opened.
"Professor, they found him"
"Good, now maybe we can put this all behind us"
"There is something else"
"And what's that Miss Belladonna?"
"It's Lina, she's dead"
Ozpin stared out the window.
"Good day Miss Belladonna"
Blake shed a tear and left silently. She returned to her dorm and sat down on her bed looking at the small necklace in her hands. She should have given it to Lina when she had seen her. The rest of RWBY came in and saw her. Yang and Ruby sat either side of her and she told them what had happened.
Shayne woke up several hours later; he knew something was wrong as he was back at Beacon. He sat up quickly and regretted it, shooting pains screamed from his chest where he'd been shot. His memory flashed back to what had happened.
All he remembered was getting shot and then lots of shouting and sounds of violence before another shot echoed around the area.
Shayne shook his head to clear his vision and tried standing up. His chest sent more pain across his system but he ignored it and staggered towards the door. He was reaching for the handle when it was opened suddenly.
"Shayne, what are you doing, you need rest" Hanna said putting his arm over her shoulder.
"No, I need to find out what happened, is everyone alright?"
Hanna was silent and looked at the floor.
"Hanna, what's wrong, what happened?"
"Come with me, I think you should talk to Ozpin"
Hanna helped him to where his gear was and signed him out of the medical bay of the school. Shayne let Blaine walk with them. As they arrived at Ozpin's office Shayne could tell something was wrong, there were lots of other students there, all ones he knew were friends with Lina and himself. They looked at him as he strode past them all and walked straight into Ozpin's office.
"Ah, Shayne, I was wondering when id be seeing you here"
"What the fuck happened Ozpin?!"
"You ran and the police found you, what they did afterwards had nothing to do with me"
"Bullshit, you knew where I was right from the very beginning"
"Calm down, I wasn't expecting you to go there, that was Ralen's fault"
"You still haven't told me what happened"
"Once the police moved on you there was nothing I could do, you were designated to be shot on sight"
"I know that, I've only seen Hanna, what happened to the others"
"Almost everybody was taken into custody; Hanna was the first to be cleared"
"What about Lina?"
"I'm sorry Shayne, she didn't make it…"
"WHAT! What did you say? How didn't she make it?!"
"Shayne, she took a bullet in the chest and it stopped her heart, she died instantly"
"You mother fucker Ozpin, I'm going to kill everyone who had a hand in this"
"Turns out your friend Cross was the one who pulled the trigger on you both"
"Then he's going to die" Shayne stormed out.
He pulled up Juniors number and called him, he had the information Shayne required, Shayne said he would be there as soon as possible. He stopped by at the dorm only to run into Ralen outside the door.
"Shayne, where are you going?"
"I'm going to go kill Cross"
"On your own?"
"Yes, it's my fight and mine alone"
"You can't beat him alone, I'm coming with you"
"Fine, just don't get in my way or fall behind"
They arrived at the club a few hours later, Ralen waited by the back door as Shayne went inside.
"Shayne, what happened to getting us out of here" Melanie whispered to him as they climbed the stairs to Junior's office.
"I have bigger problems right now but I promise, I'll get you out"
"What happened?" Miltia said stopping short and grabbing his arm.
"My girlfriend is dead, Cross killed her, now I'm going to tear his fucking head off" Shayne said, in the flattest and most serious tone she had ever heard him use.
She let him go and he stepped inside the office.
"Here you go; he didn't leave the city after all"
"Thanks, next time we meet, I won't be so friendly as I have been"
"If we meet again, I'm gonna buy you a drink, this guy's good kid, I don't think you'll be able to take him down"
"Don't worry, I'll bring him down if it kills me" Shayne said before turning to the door.
Junior swung his bat at Shayne's head; he ducked and turned on his heel to punch Junior in the gut. As junior keeled forward breathless Shayne grabbed his collar and threw him backwards into a chair. Shayne left junior in his office, he didn't close the door as the twins stepped in after him and kept up the charade that they cared for him.
Shayne looked at the address and panicked, he ran down the stairs and out past Ralen.
"Shayne! Wait up!" Ralen shouted as he ran after him.
Shayne wasn't paying attention, he had one thing on his mind, and that was protecting Lina's dad and brother. He was pounding the pavement as fast as he could, leaping over bins and benches and dodging people. He did a quick calculation and determined even at this pace he wouldn't make it in time to save them, if they weren't already dead. He stopped dead and waited for Ralen.
"Shayne…..what's wrong…god damn your fast" Ralen said between breaths.
"We won't make it like this, I'm going over the roof tops, you find a vehicle; meet me here as soon as you can" Shayne said handing Ralen his Scroll.
Shayne proceeded to climb the building next to them while Ralen ran off to Hanna's lock-up where she kept her bikes. He busted the lock open and jumped onto the nearest bike, he swore as he didn't have a key, he knew she must have a spare around somewhere so he started rooting through drawers and cupboards until he found the keys in a solid titanium strongbox. After some examination he determined that the locking mechanism was just steel, so using his fire he softened it until he could just pull the box open. He grabbed the key to the bike and pushed the bike outside; he pulled the door down and sped away to the address Shayne had given him.
Hanna's Scroll beeped as she got a message from the owners of the lock-up that she rented.
'Your lock-ups been broken into and one of your bikes has been stolen, come down whenever you get the chance'
"Ugh, not again" Hanna said under her breath.
"What's up?" Silver asked as they stopped walking through the halls of Beacon.
"One of my Bikes got jacked out of my lock-up again"
"Well we're done with classes today, so do you wanna go deal with it now?"
"No, I got a better idea, my bikes have trackers on them, so why don't we go have a little chat with the guy" Hanna said starting towards the dorms.
"Sounds fun, I'll come with you, I really don't want to do my homework"
They headed off to the dorm. They changed into a more comfortable attire and Hanna picked up some Kunai's from the crate she kept under her bed. Hanna lead Silver out to her lockup anyway, they would need some way to find this guy whoever he was and taking the car was the easiest way to do that. As they arrived at the lock-up Hanna could smell fire on the air. She opened the door to her locker and swore.
"Fuck, why do they always take my favourite one"
"It's okay Hanna, now how do we track this asshole"
"Okay, gimme a sec" Hanna fiddled with her Scroll and opened the program to track her bike.
It showed a red blip headed deep into the bad part of town, it seemed to be circling a particular area.
"Silver, call the others, if this is where I think it is, we are going to need all the help we can get"
"Who should I call?"
"The rest of your team and mine, don't forget the twins"
Silver stepped outside and made the calls. While she was doing that the blip came to a stop outside a building.
"We're coming for you asshole, I want my bike back" Silver walked back in.
"Shayne and Ralen aren't picking up"
"Its fine, we'll have enough with just the others"
They climbed into the car and as Hanna started the engine she noticed Silver looking at the interior.
"Before you ask, no, we are not having sex in the car later" Hanna pulled away in search of the thief.
Dundra, Eddi and the twins were outside on the commons at beacon trying to enjoy the sunshine. None were feeling particularly happy, what with Shayne laid up in the medical unit and Lina dead. So when the call from Silver came through to Eddi they were all thankful for the distraction from their thoughts.
"We'll take my car, it's the only one that'll fit all of us" Dundra said standing up. Vossler grinned at the mention of Dundra's car; he had always loved muscle cars.
Dundra helped Eddi up and went to get his keys. The others headed off to meet him at the car, while they were waiting Eddi got the address to where Hanna wanted them all to meet them. Eddi and Vossler had both tried to get in touch with Shayne, both to no avail. Once Dundra arrived they got in and they set off.