Hey everyone. I told you I would try to be better about posting and I meant it. Here is chapter four. Last time, we learned that the Fang and the Eclipse are secretly linked by Shade and Faith. But will Shade's past come back to and cause problems? R&R

Chapter 4
Saving Faith

Shade dismounted his cycle as he rentered the cave. Walking through the door at the back, he could tell something was off. Like someone new had entered but wasn't spose to be there.

"Hello?" Shade called. "Howl?" The lights were off in the kitchen. "Sab?" As were the ones in the living room. "Rookie? Mirage?" Not a word from the darkness. Shade turned on the light to the dinning room. A figur sitting at the head of the table dressed in black made Shade jump. "Mirage, you son of a bitch. Don't do that."

"Miarge?" said a low, growly voice. "Is he here too?"

Shade's blood ran cold. It was him.

"I thought I put you away..."

"Three years ago?" the figure raied its head, most of its face obscured by a hood. Its skin was pale and dead looking. "You did, but all that time in prison just gave me more time to develope my skill." A fanged smile parted its thin lips.

"Well, Jason, its time to go back!" Shade lounged over the table but as he wrapped his hands around Jason's neck, he was gone and Shade crashed to the floor.

"You havent learned have you?" Jason was calm, "I'm faster and stronger then you and..." Jason stopped in mid monolog. "Oh? What's this? A girl?"

"Leave her out of this, Fear!" Shade grabbed his duel curved daggers from his side. He was going to tear this guy apart if he even thought of hurting Faith.

"Oh so you remeber my name?" Fear chuckled. "I had thought that would have died out." Lowering his hood, Fear looked Shade in the eye. His bright red ones pircing Shade's dull red. "You haven't been feeding?"

"I'm only a fourth of the monster you are." Shade recalled the pin prick scares in his neck from the first time they had met. It was shortly after that Shade and Mirage helped put fear behind bars.

"You could be so much more." Fear shook his head. "Maybe I just need to remove the distraction." With that, a whisp of black smoke and Jason was gone. Shade know where he was going and would be damned if he got there first.

Back to the clearing not bothering to stop until he was tearing up the grass next to the house, Shade lept from the bike to the second story window. It was let open on the warm summer night.

"Faith?" Shade called in the dark. He didn't care if the Eclipse found him now, fear would not hurt her.

"Over here." came Faith's weak voice from the corner of the room. As the light came on Shade saw he was too late. Jason had slit her throught.

"Faith no." Shade fell to his knees next her.

"How does it feel Shade?" Came a gravly voice. Shade turned, tears in his eyes, to see the blury figure of Fear sitting on Faith's bed. "How does it feel to lose the thing you hold most dear?"

"You monster!" Shade lounged and caught Fear by the front of his shirt. "I wont let you live this time." As the curved blade of Shade's dagger pressed to Fear's skin, the door opened.

"Faith what the hell is going on up..." Kitsueki stopped when she saw Faith bleeding out in the corner and Shade holding the bloody dagger. Fear had disapered. Before Shade could see how she reacted, he was out the window and back o the forest on the cycle. Pulling out his cell phone, he diled Mirage's number.

"Shade?" He sounded grogy, ""Where the fuck are you?"

"Just left the Eclipse base. Get everyone ready, we're going hunting." Tears still streaming down his face.

"Wait, what were you doing there this late?" Mirage asked then it seemed to dawn on him, "Shade? You aren't...?"

"I'm sorry." Shade pulled into the cave and dismounted his cycle. He wouldn't exspect forgivness for this or for them to help destroy Fear, but he would stop at nothing to avenge Faith's death. Even if he died in the process.

Alright there it is, chapter four. The Fang knows about Faith but will they help avenge her death? Jason Hallow must not be aloud to walk the streets after this. Chapter five up soon.

-BFShade