"Shi Long, did you know why Qilin died?" Franziska asked.

"This doesn't make any sense at all," Shi Long said as he shook, he was going mad.

"... although there might be a chance I survived in the fire," Qilin said.

All three's heads snap to the CD player when those words were uttered. She could still be alive after all these years? But they saw her, alive and well, and she recognized them.

An image of two dragons, one white and one black that formed into a ball appeared in the screen and it minimized so that Qilin's face could be seen. "As you can see, these two dragons form the yin and yang, the perfect symbol for balance, it does not represent good and evil but that without evil, there is no good and without good there is no evil."

"Dammit, Qilin what the hell does the family emblem of yours have to do with your "death"?" Franziska asked frustrated.

"Tell me Shi Long, how long has it been since you could pin the Longs for any wrong doing?" Qilin said as she turned her back on them. It gave Miles a shiver as he remembered how Lana had been in the SL-9 case, cold and withdrawn.

Shi Long's eyes narrowed. "The bomb in that library..."

"The bomb in the library was specifically placed there to kill me, don't you think?" Qilin turned around to face them again. "Don't you think I was erased because I was a cop's wife?"

Shi Long's eyes widened. So it had always been him, he was the reason for her death. The two prosecutors looked at Shi Long shocked.

"Shi Long," Qilin said as her voice softened gently," I know it sounds like I blame you, I don't. In fact, because of you, I never felt happier. I know at first it was a getaway from my parents. So thank you Shi Long, I'm glad that I met you. Ziz, Miley, please respect my decision and don't get angry at Lang."

Although Shi Long choked, he knew this wasn't the time to get emotional. "So with the emblem, you're saying ..."

"As the emblem I told you about, for generations the Long family have become corrupted through greed, this has to be, no, this will change. The counterfeit money that had been made has been just a cover for something much worse..."

A rustle behind the bushes. Shi Long automatically turned off the player and all three looked at the direction the noise came from. He gave it to Miles and gestured that he, as the Interpol , would investigate it, and leave Miles to take care of the player.

Shi Long stealthily crept up to the bushes. Leaves were thrown at him and the figure escaped, Shi Long took chase.

"What did you do to them, Fiona?" Liuxang asked, he was not happy, in fact not happy was an understatement, he was furious.

"I sent them to look for Qilin," Fiona replied curtly.

"Dammit, Fiona, why? Why did you send her to look for her, everyone knows Qilin's dead."

"She's not, she's very much alive."

"What makes you say that?"

Fiona's face softened. "Because it's hard to kill someone like Qilin, she's a tough fighter, she wouldn't die that easily."

Liuxang's face in turn hardened and his face was pasted with a cynical and cruel smile. "What the hell do you mean? Qilin was weak and fragile like a maggot that needed to be crushed." With that Liuxang turned and left. He will not tell Fiona the news about his brother, her actual boyfriend. She will never know, and live in that blissful naiveté that he will wake up soon, that she only had to wait. Even if his conscience was screaming at him to tell her, he will make sure that she would never know.

He left Fiona behind again, to take care of the patients. True he was a skilled doctor, that he could also help, but there was something that needed to be done, something that he would do before he died. Liuxang looked at his watch, knowing when he would die, that he was dying. Yet he smirked to himself, weren't all men dying already as soon as they were born, the hourglass of their life was already made, the hourglass called fate. He sighed as he opened the exit to door to leave the hospital, he must stop philosophising.

His two loyal students were waiting.

"Status report, Ralos, Luna," Liuxang said. Yet he knew where they were and he shivered on how he hated knowing he would be right.

"They're out of this territory," Ralos replied.

"Fiona threw them to the Pailong territory," Luna continued.

"Pailong, you do know what it means?" Liuxang asked with a smug smile.

"Pailong, white dragon, they defend the poor in Zhengfa, always holding charity events, programs, anything that would help the Zhengfans." Ralos smiled as he replied.

"And Luna, what division are we?"

"We are part of the Heilong, the black dragon, we are known for espionage, assassination, killing, robbing, organized crime, and yet we always get away with it," Luna replied with a smile that mirrored Ralos. "And we are never charged with it."

"So Walter, what do you suppose we do to prevent another turf war?"

Walter came out of the shadows formed by the setting sun. "I suggest sending a small group of like-minded individuals to sneak in the Pailong territory to recapture our three guests."

Liuxang smiled as he folded his arms. They wouldn't get away that easily. "Exactly."

Shi Long gave chase to the mysterious blur that was running away from him, and his eyes made out parts of her.

Black hair, a head smaller than him, it couldn't be, could it? Shi Long had to now, that woman will not escape him anymore, not even with Liuxang trying to hamper his progress at justice. He forced all his power into his legs and jumped, executing a body dive that finally caught the mysterious figure.

"Hah! Gotcha." Shi Long smiled smugly yet even as how he imagined it, it still caught him shocked. Miles and Franziska finally caught up with him, they stopped dead in their tracks when they saw the familiar face looking at them. Those green eyes glinted at them.

"The CD said it all Miles, Franziska, Shi Long," the girl said as she slowly faced them. She was never dead it seemed, she had been alive all this time, to hide. She must have faked her death to threw those people off gaurd.

"I missed you three," Qilin said with a sad smile.