They returned to Jungle Karma Pizza to find RJ waiting for them.
"RJ? What are you doing back so soon? You weren't suppose to be back for another week."
"I missed you guys and got bored so I came home. You guys look awful, is everything okay?"
They moved aside so Casey was in view of the Wolf Master.
"Casey?! Oh, man!"
RJ rushed to the Tiger Master.
"It's not mine," Casey choked.
He rushed up to the loft before RJ could say a word.
"If it's not his blood, then whose blood is it?" RJ asked, though he wasn't really sure he wanted to know.
Flit and teens exchanged glances.
"Guys? What aren't you telling me?"
Jarrod stepped forward.
"We're sorry, RJ?"
"For what?"
The lion cub sighed.
"The blood all over Casey is your dad's."
RJ's face paled.
"What?"
Lily stepped forward.
"He's gone, RJ. Someone stabbed him in the stomach."
"Casey was with him when he died," Jarrod added.
RJ's face paled even more.
"He... he's..."
The Wolf Master couldn't bring himself to finish his question as everything inside him denied it.
His friends nodded.
"Where is he?" he managed to ask as tears came to his eyes.
Domonic drove him to where Master Finn's body was being kept.
They were led to where his body was.
"Are you sure you want to see him?" the doctor asked RJ.
The Wolf Master nodded, thought truthfully he didn't really want to.
The doctor pulled the sheet back far enough to reveal the man's face, and everything inside RJ screamed in denial and sorrow as his heart shattered as he looked down at his father's pale, lifeless face.
His own face turned almost as white as Domonic's Pai Zhuq uniform.
The Rhino Ranger put his arm around his friend and led him back to the van. The drive back to JKP was filled with silence.
RJ felt completely numb.
His father was dead, murdered, and he hadn't been there to help him.