Lina found Blake in her usual hideaway in the library, tucked up and reading a book. Lina walked straight up to her and put her Scroll between the pages.

"Lina, I told you that once I know something you'll know something"

"You made a promise not to lose him, you must know something"

Blake put her book down in annoyance and looked up at Lina.

"All I know is that after he beat us he left with AGIS headed east"

"What's east?"

"I don't know, a dead forest and a wasteland, nothing out there that would help him"

"Well it's a start, Blake why didn't you tell your team, maybe they just want to help him"

"No, they don't, they mean well but they're just following orders"

"Thank you Blake, he's always liked you, you know"

"I know, but be careful Lina, Silver is a temptation to him, you may want to keep an eye on her"

"But she's with Hanna isn't she?"

"Since when has being in a relationship ever stopped someone from getting laid"

Lina looked thoughtful and then quickly walked away. Blake opened her hand and looked down at the silver blade. She knew he had meant for her to give it to Lina, but she couldn't let it go, it was too beautiful. She turned back to her book and tucked the necklace away in a pocket on her waistcoat.

Shayne awoke to a friendly and familiar face above him. He was in a bed in the safe house; he had bandages over some wounds that were refusing to heal.

"…Silver?"

"Hey, are you okay? Ralen and Mr Krishtov turned up and you were out cold"

Shayne tried sitting up and cringed, Silver helped him to sit back against the head board.

"Apart from these, I'm fine; I just had to work out some anger is all"

"Ralen said it was a massacre, that there was corpses and limbs strewn everywhere"

"I can lose control sometimes and that can happen"

Silver sat beside him in her bed clothes. Shayne looked at her face as the moonlight streamed in through the curtains. She noticed him looking at her.

"What? Have I got something on my face?"

"No, you're fine" Shayne leant forward despite the pain and planted a kiss on Silver's lips.

Silver was taken aback slightly by the kiss at first but as he started to pull away, she followed him back despite herself. As she felt herself pushing down on him as he had fully laid down, she shot back up and hurried away.

Shayne lay there on the bed, somewhat confused and conflicted. He'd only kissed her slightly and she had continued making out with him. He couldn't get up to stretch his legs so he slept again.

Silver ran from the room where Shayne was bed bound and ran to the room on the third floor where she had put her things. She slammed the door and leant back against it.

'Why did I do that?' Silver thought to herself as she began to pace the room. She could still taste him on her lips.

'Silver get a hold of yourself, you're with Hanna now' there was a knock at the door.

She composed herself and walked to the door smiling to herself. She stopped just in front of the door to compose herself again, just to be safe. She opened it to find Jiang stood there in a dressing gown.

"Hey Jiang, did I wake you?"

"I think you woke everyone, but I've come to see what's got you so flustered"

"I'm not flustered, I'm fine" Silver said trying to brush the conversation off.

"You clearly are, may I come in?"

"I can't stop you, so yeah, come on in"

Jiang stepped inside and sat down on the bed. Silver sat in an armchair in the shadowy part of the room.

"So, tell me what happened…" Jiang asked.

Ralen closed the door quietly so as not to wake Shayne. He sat down next to Shayne on a chair that had been brought up earlier that day.

"You obviously came in here to talk to me, so you can either sit there in the dark or we can talk, your choice" Shayne said without opening his eyes

"Sorry, I thought you were asleep"

"You'd have to be a lot quieter coming in to catch me asleep"

"I guess so" Ralen chuckled.

"So what is it you want?" Shayne said sitting up.

"Oh, right, Silver came running out of here earlier, and I want to know why?"

*sigh*"Fine, I kissed her, I only meant it to be a quick kiss to sate my feelings for her but she held it, not me, she pulled away and ran out the door, that's it I swear" Shayne watched Ralen as he got up and paced the room a few times.

"I won't tell Lina about this, and I'll ask the others to do the same"

"Thank you Ralen, where is Silver I want to talk to her?"

"Do you think that's wise, considering what you just told me?"

"I just want to talk to her, before you go, could you pass me Blaine's crystal, I need to charge it"

"Sure" Ralen released the Dust crystal from its mount on Shayne's jacket and handing it to him.

Shayne rested the crystal on the palm of his left hand, allowing his Grimm to flow into it. As it regained its charge it rolled and flung itself into a stable position an inch above his hand. As it settled and the Grimm stopped flowing from his arm, Shayne shifted his position on the bed and swung his legs off. He began glowing purple as his Aura healed his wounds. He stood up.

"Blaine, come" a single tendril of Grimm leapt out from the newly charged crystal and Blaine appeared from the pool it had created. The large wolf hound shook himself and yawned. Shayne put the crystal back into its mount and slung his jacket over his shoulders. He walked out into the hallway, Blaine at his heels. Ralen was still processing what he had just seen.

Lina decided that she would try the mental link with Shayne to find him. She found the quietest place in the library, where Blake usually liked to sit and read; she settled down in a comfortable position and focused. She pulled on the mental tether to him; it was faint so she knew he was far away.

She pulled on the connection and she felt herself flying across the landscape, she made note of landmarks as she wanted to go see him. She found him in a large house in the middle of nowhere, as she entered his mind she felt he was in pain. She looked through his eyes to see him kiss Silver, she felt the kiss as Silver held it as they lay down; suddenly she shot up and ran out.

Lina returned to her own mind and a tear rolled down her cheek. She got up and went to find Shayne's team. She ran all the way to the dorm and slammed the door closed. Hanna was the only one there; she put down her books and went over to Lina who was packing furiously.

"Lina, what's wrong?"

"I can't believe he did tha…" her voice trailed off into a mumble as Hanna tried to turn her around to look at her.

"Lina, please just talk to me, what happened?"

Lina pushed past her and headed for the door, Hanna had had enough. She threw a Kunai at her and it stuck in the door. Lina turned on her heel and took one step towards Hanna before collapsing to her knees. Hanna slowly walked over to her and helped her to her feet. Lina hugged her tightly.

"He kissed her…"

"Who, who kissed her"

"Shayne…."

"Who did he kiss?"

Lina looked at her friend in the eyes.

"He kissed Silver"

Hanna stared blankly through her and Lina helped her to the couch.

Shayne knocked on the door of Silver's room. Silence followed. After a few moments the door was opened.

"Shayne! What are you doing up, you should be resting"

"Jiang, I need to talk to Silver"

"Let him in Jiang"

"But I don't think tha-"

"I said let him in!" Silver shouted.

Jiang stepped aside to let him in, as he stepped into the dark room she left them alone, Jiang bumped into Ralen.

"Jiang, have you seen Shayne?"

"Yes, he's talking to Silver"

"Ah fuck, you know what happened between them don't you?"

"Yes, they need to talk it out"

"If you're sure then I'll wait out here" Ralen spotted Blaine sat outside the door and crouched down next to the wolf.

Lina and Hanna sat in silence contemplating what to do.

"You know where they are?" Hanna asked Lina nodded.

"We'd need some way to get there"

"I'll find something, but I think we should tell Dundra an Eddi at least" Hanna said as Ashe walked in, looking tired.

"Hey guys, what's got you two so down?"

"Nothing Ashe, we're just tired" Lina said trying to drive the conversation away from the real reason. Ashe folded her arms and looked at them both in turn.

"Why don't I believe you?"

"Because you don't trust us"

"No, it's not that, I think something has happened and it's not good whatever it is"

"You are just like Shayne; you know things without them being said"

"Don't all women have that ability?"

"Shut up, now do you want to help or not?"

"Sure, so what are we doing?"

"We're going to find Shayne and AGIS, and we are going to have some words" Hanna said filling all of the Kunai holders on her person.

"Sounds fun, I'll just get more ammo and we'll go"

"I thought we were waiting for Dundra and Eddi"

"I'll activate my GPS and let Eddi know, they'll catch up"

The three girls grabbed what little they needed and set off to the Bullhead to take them into Vale.

Shayne stood in front of the window, the moonlight casting long soft shadows on the floor. Silver was still sat in the deep armchair. Shayne turned to face her; he was just a silhouette on the moon from where she was sat.

"Silver, what was that earlier?"

"I don't know Shayne, when you kissed me I just couldn't help myself"

"I shouldn't have kissed you in the first place, I've already made arrangements for the others to not tell Lina or Hanna about this"

"You know she already knows don't you"

"Yes but as long as they know it wasn't their fault I'm okay with it"

"I hope this won't be irreparable"

"What do you mean?"

"I mean what if Hanna breaks up with me and Lina breaks up with you"

"Then I won't argue with her, but I'll try and talk Hanna down, as I'm sure that they are on their way here right now"

"Then we'd best get our stories straight"

"No, we don't need to as they already know"

"I don't want to just sit here doing nothing, im going for a walk"

"Then at least let me come with you"

"And give them more reason to think we're cheating, no thank you"

"Well, I'm still going with you"

"Ugh, fine, suit yourself"

Silver stood up and stormed out.

"Silver?!" Ralen said standing up suddenly.

"Not now Ralen, I'm not in the mood" she strode down the corridor and thumped down the stairs.

"Blaine, go" Shayne shouted, the large wolf followed after her with Shayne hot on its heels.

Ralen watched them all go striding off into the night.

Hanna opened the garage door, inside sat two motorbikes and a car under a dust cover.

"I made a bit of cash before coming to Beacon, Ashe take the bike over there, I'll take this bike, Lina can you drive?"

She nodded and pulled the dust cover off the sleek sports car, she didn't recognise it at all, and the badge was some sort of flower. The bags went on the passenger seat of the car. Once they were ready they sped off into the night with Lina leading the way in the car.

Eddi and Dundra arrived back at the dorm some hours later after their date. Eddi saw the note on the table and took out her Scroll, she located the others instantly, and she logged their heading and told Dundra.

"They're going to do what?!"

"I know, now come on, we've got to be the voice of reason"

"We're taking my car then if we stand any chance to catch them before they get to them" Eddi tossed him his keys and they ran to the stairs down the cliffs. They were only to be used in emergencies but they felt this qualified.

Dundra got his car and Eddi admired it, '69 Camaro SS, jet black. She climbed in and as they sped off down the road, they left cars blaring their alarms in their wake.

Shayne and Silver stood on a ledge looking out over the valley.

"Shayne why do you do what you do?"

"I do it because I have to, because I want to"

"That's not what I mean, why do you shut people out all the time"

"I don't though"

"Yes you do, you shut me out not five minutes ago"

"That was different, I don't like thinking about the past"

Silver sighed and looked out over the valley; she squinted as the sun crested the mountains. In the clear morning air engines were clearly audible.

Shayne took a small spyglass from a pocket and looked for the source of the sound.

"Well, it's almost time to face them, they're almost here" he handed the spyglass to Silver.

Hanna's hair was billowing in the wind from under her helmet. Lina was in a car, her face was indistinct. The other rider was unknown to both of them, they had no distinguishing features about her, and she was completely covered in biking leathers.

An even louder engine roar was heard over the motorbikes and the sports car. A loud bass note, it echoed around the valley like Nemea's roar. Silver looked to the source and handed the spyglass back to him.

"Looks like Dundra and Eddi are here too"

"I didn't know he had a car, it's nice"

"Well, we'd better get back and prepare for the coming arguments"

Silver nodded and dropped into the forest again. Shayne looked at the sun and ran back through the tree tops towards the house, Blaine lazily followed after them.