A/N: This chapter contains a paranormal appearence. Also, please read chapter 6 of Always A War On Something by Howl Of A Werewolf before this chapter.

"Carly! Dash! Take cover!" Packie and Michael shout as the gunfight raged on, all taking cover behind the Obey Tailgater.

No sooner had they all gotten to Liberty City than David Erics's henchmen ambushed them. Johnny was on one of the upper levels of the abandoned building and alternated between the M16 and RPG so he didn't run out of ammo.

"Violent sons of bitches! Where's your boss?!" Carly yelled loudly, Johnny hearing her through the headset.

"Carly, get to where Johnny is!" Packie shouts, having gotten a crazy idea into his head.

"Are you insane?! She'll get killed!" Trevor yells, Carly dodging the bullets and running to the abandoned building, shooting and killing David's goons as they followed her.

Carly reached the area Johnny was hiding out at, Johnny grabbing her and pulling her down, forcing her to take cover.

"Where is this asshole?!" Johnny says in an aggravated manner.

"That coward ain't gonna show up here himself." Carly says, handing Johnny another clip for his M16 when it jammed.

Johnny reloaded the M16 and kept shooting, Carly reloading her Carbine Rifle at the same time that more hitmen showed up. Carly shot them… but one of their bullets slammed into her right hip, busting the stitches open.

Johnny caught Carly in his arms before she fell, taking his leather jacket off and tying it around her reopened knife wound tightly to stop the bleeding.

Out of the corner of her eye, Carly thought she saw someone and raised her AP pistol… only to feel a hand on her hip that wasn't Johnny's, Carly feeling the blood and stitches fade away.

"Spirits linger around the Paleto Forest sometimes… that's where you'll find me, Carly Jade." Connor says in Carly's mind before his ghostly form disappeared.

Johnny picked Carly up off the ground once both were sure the gunfight stopped and took her out of the building.

"It's gone… the stab wound's gone." Johnny says, carefully examing Carly's right hip after untying the jacket.

Carly's expression was a mix of shock, amazement and confusion… she looked down where the wound used to be… and realized what happened.

'Spirits interfere with synthetic things… like getting stabbed. Thank you, Connor.' Carly thought as both walked back to the group.

"Sooner or later, David's gonna look everywhere for all of us… we need to lure him out of his comfort zone." Carly says, deciding to keep what happened in the building between her and Johnny for now.

Michael and Trevor looked at Carly in pure amazement. Nearly a day ago, Carly could barely stand and here she was in front of them, like she hadn't been stabbed by the Alturist cult in the first place.

Michael and Trevor weren't the only ones amazed though.

Packie's p.o.v

What the hell happened in the abandoned building?! Just hours ago, Carly was having trouble walking and then I said to her go to where Johnny's at, I have a plan…

Except I never got to tell them what it was.

Something tells me I'll never know but… whatever happened, I'm glad it did.

"We better scram before we end up with half the police force on our ass! There's a sheriff who's overconfident with power and influence and I sure as hell don't want to run into him today!" Carly says.

I know who she's referring to… I don't want to see Benson either.

"Let's get the hell outta here." Gordon says, getting in Michael's car, followed by me, Michael and Dash, Carly sticking with Johnny.

All of us sped off, Dash turning to me.

"She could barely walk when we saw her yesterday… now it's like she wasn't even stabbed. What happened in the abandoned building?" Dash says quietly, just as perplexed as me.

'I'm just as confused as you.' I thought to myself.

Carly's p o.v

I think… yeah, I should call Jack the first chance I get… he's an idiot at times but he's been ghost hunting lately and I could use his help with what the hell happened.

Right now, we have to find David Erics… then, we get rid of the cannibals once and for all… I made a promise to Connor that the cult would be dealt with.

"There's the warehouse not too far from here! We'll hide out there!" Trevor shouts over the multiple engines… of course he had to go and mention a warehouse.

It was just after the warehouse explosion in South LS that I had an out of body experience… I saw a little girl in a damaged red dress… instead of hurting me with the scissors she had, she sent me back among the living world.

Sachiko… that was her name. I looked up information on her a while back, found out that she was strangled to death when she was 7 years old… just after her school principal pushed her mother down a flight of stairs… I found myself feeling deeply disturbed by that.

Sachiko and her mother should've lived long lives… instead, they died horrible deaths.

Warehouse, Michael's p.o.v

"Alright… Lester couldn't find a location on David Erics yet, he said he'll call when he has." I say, everyone else looking a little disappointed… can't really say I blame them. Dash got shot, Carly got stabbed-I'll have to ask her what happened in the abandoned building later- Connor's… poor kid. All he was doing was protecting my daughter from these fucking cannibals… they stabbed her and gunned him down.

Carly's got that distant look in her eyes again, Johnny's staying by her side… things have gotten crazier.

"David lured us all to Liberty City, hoping we'd get killed… he'll definitely be hunting us down! And the cult of cannibals, they crossed the line! Now I'll admit, we have our differences-" I say, looking at Trevor. "-some of us more than others… but they need to be put aside. For now." I say.

Trevor nods reluctantly. I know he's imagining himself keeping Carly and Johnny away from each other no matter who it hurts.

Meanwhile...

Several members of the Alturist cult wandered around in search of the people who killed their fellow members.

Their bloodlust started when they found two of their own dead out at Cape Catfish… and were told that a knife wielding tiny brunette and a young man were behind the killings.

Not caring that the two were acting in self defense, several cult members targeted Carly and Connor, intent on killing both.

They were severely disappointed to find out that Carly escaped… injured but alive… and enraged that Johnny had helped her lie low.

The locals gave the wandering cult members strange looks, the cult's response to shout various things at them, one being repeated.

"We shall be free once more!"