It was a few hours later that they reached the pier. Kahn had stolen an abandoned car (so was it actually stealing?) and drove the rest of the way, cutting the travel time nearly in half.

When they reached the pier, there was nothing there. Well, not nothing… The big ship on fire definitely accounted for something.

"What…the… FUCK…!" Kahn exclaimed.

"Am I to guess that… this is Corvinus's ship?" Mason asked.

Kahn was too shocked to answer.

Something can't be right… maybe this isn't the ship…? But, alas, the ship's "St. Helena" could still be read. This was Corvinus's ship, alright.

FUCK-ola…! Nothing was going Kahn's way.

Kahn and Mason got out of the car. Kahn looked up, and saw a helicopter in the distance. It had Corvinus's insignia painted on it. Kahn squinted, and he could've sworn he saw Selene sitting in it. Now he was sure he was losing it.

"Now what?" Mason asked.

"Is that… Selene in the heli?" Kahn asked.

Mason paused and squinted. "Holy mother of hell! It is her, isn't it!" Kahn asked.

Mason nodded. "Yeah! But… where are they heading towards?"

"Dunno. Don't care. They seem to be heading towards…"

Kahn cut himself off. Oh… my… GOD! The heli was heading towards William's prison!

"William's… prison!"

"William?"

"Marcus's brother, William. He's a Lycan, but he's uncontrollable, and they locked him up. Selene's dad built the prison – that's why her family was killed."

Mason paused. "How do you know all this?"

"Coz Tanis told me right before he was banished."

"And you believe him?"

"Well, it'd explain Selene in the heli – mostly – and why she's headed that way!"

Kahn ran towards the car, and strapped himself in, Mason doing the same.

"Where are we going?" Mason asked.

"We're following her! There's a nearby airstrip, where we have a few helis of our own in storage. I know where the prison is."

"Kahn, I thought you said we'd give her and Michael space."

"There's a good reason she's headed over that way, and it's not for a romantic getaway weekend! Something big is up!"

And I want to know what…

They arrived at the airstrip in half an hour, and they took off the airstrip and were heading towards William's prison in another half hour.

Kahn, who was as good as flying as he was driving – and that was GOOD, flew straight there in under an hour.

They landed and got out of the heli – just in time to see Michael, hybrid and all, leap from the heli and land through a hole in the ground. Moments after, the helicopter's gunman started shooting into the hole as ghastly howls sounded from inside.

Kahn briefly wondered if coming here was such a good idea. While considering for a second on what to do, Mason rushed impulsively for the hole and hesitated before jumping.

This wasn't a good place to hesitate, for that's the moment when the Cleaners' heli came crashing down – right on top of Mason.

Kahn shouted, "Mason!", but it was too late.

A/N:

Why did I kill off Mason?

I had always intended to kill off Erika – she was just there to make things a little less gloomy. I wasn't intending to kill off Mason, but I figured that he really wasn't adding anything to the story, he was just there to ask questions.

Now that the most important questions have been asked and answered, I decided to kill him off.

And as for a sequel? There's a possibility, but first a few more chapters…