Tempered by her recent failure, Shizuka returned to Dark Shadow's hide-out and told her boss, Gekkou, exactly what happened.
"Since the Jaryuus never did have any real minds of their own, it would stand to reason that they'd join whoever killed their former leader." Gekkou replied.
"Now you're telling me!" Shizuka couldn't understand.
"You're supposed to be prepared for any eventuality." Gekkou replied, "You may not have seen this coming, but it shouldn't have stopped you from doing your job."
Shizuka pouted at this, until she realized something else: "Maybe there is a way that I can get it anyway."
"There base is too heavilly protected." Gekkou reminded her, "More so now, since Gaia had nearly destroyed them."
"I wasn't talking about breaking into their base." Shizuka said, "There's this one scroll of ours which you never wanted me to use."
Gekkou seemed to immediately know what she was talking about: "You mean... we can't use that. It can be used only once,..."
"Yeah, yeah..." Shizuka sounded annoyed, "And we keep it only as a last resort, blah blah blah... But if we use it now, it won't matter, because if this works..."
"I cannot let you do this and that's final!" Gekkou shouted.
Under normal circumstances, Shizuka might have obbeyed, but the Precious they were looking for was too precious for them to just let it slip by. That thought alone got her to run as fast as she could to take the scroll anyway.
"Oh no you're not!" Gekkou flew towards her, trying to stop her from taking what she wanted.
A little fight between the two broke out, but eventually Shizuka did get what she wanted.
"You do not understand." Gekkou said, "As it can be used only once, we should only use it for when it really matters."
"Oh yeah?" Shizuka didn't sound convinced, "We didn't use it when Gaia was taking over."
"Only because we could handle that situation by ourselves." Gekkou said.
"What are you so afraid of?" Shizuka asked him.
"What?" Gekkou was surprised to hear her ask that question.
This surprise was something which Shizuka used to her advantage to run out of their lair.
"Come back here!" Gekkou shouted, while he flew after her, but his anger was so great, he didn't pay close enough attention when he accidentally hit the upper frame of the door, knocking him out.