The storm, earthquakes, and vast hoards of destructive demons have left the city in near ruins, as well as caused some damage at the salvage yard. Many of the large piles of scrap metal had collapsed. Though it was difficult work to clean up, it also gave the guys an excuse as to how they had obtained their injuries.

With the loss of Star, Elena didn't really have anyone else, or anyplace to go, and so Chance and Jake offered to let her stay with them. At first she was reluctant, but rather than spend the next who knew how many decades on her own, she eventually agreed. All three of them were feeling Star's loss, especially Elena and Jake, and were able to at least take some comfort in each other.

Over the next three months, things in Megakat City had remained somewhat quiet after all Hell literally breaking loose. Even the omegas and more common criminals laid low for a while. Elena's wounds of course healed quite quickly due to what she was, but they also noticed that Jake's had healed somewhat faster than they should have as well. Elena explained that due to Jake accidentally ingesting some of Star's blood during his rough sex with her, it made him part demon as well, just as Elena was. It was not enough however to turn him immortal, or into a werewolf. What it did mean though, was that he was no longer a 'normal' kat, and his life would be extended, by a few decades or possibly as long as few centuries. Either way, unless something happened, he would certainly outlive Chance, and everyone else that he knew.

Elena proved to be a big help around the garage and in the hanger, since she was good at building and fixing things, as well as with computers. She and Jake began work on a new supercomputer, the Megacomp, which they hoped could aid the Swat Kats in the future with tracking down criminals and adding increased sensors and guiding systems to the Turbokat and other vehicles.

Chance was also completely falling for Elena, and the female werewolf found that she did greatly care for the tabby as well, despite her trying not to. Eventually she gave up trying to fight her own feelings. She knew that she would eventually outlive him, forced to watch him grow old and die while she remained young, never able to have a family with him, but after Star's death, she didn't really seem to care. Her growing love for Chance kept her going, and for a while she forgot her immortality, taking on a more 'normal' life with the Swat Kats.

Jake however continued to dream of Star nearly every night. Most of the time it was horrid nightmares, reliving what had happened that night in the demon lord's temple. As time passed however, the dreams began becoming more enjoyable ones of the time he had spent with her beforehand. He began to realize that actually had fallen in love with her, and would have given anything to be able to bring her back.

The temple area itself had been quarantined off by the Enforcers for most of that time, though in the past 2 weeks they had opening it up to Dr Sinian and her research team for excavation and research. Jake constantly checked the news updates on the dig, fearful of what may be found buried under the rubble. Now, after just over 3 months since that terrible night, Jake slept restlessly as another dream came to him, this one different than the others he had been having.

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The Swat Kat stood on the roof of a 2-story building, looking down at the sink hole where the temple had collapsed. It was late at night, with the full moon casting a haunting glow over the city, the area around the ruins eerily silent since the dig crews had all left for the night and no-one else dared to approached the accursed area.

Razor knelt at the edge of the roof, scanning over the rubble until he saw what had drawn him there: a soft red glow emanating from beneath the stones. Despite the height, the Swat Kat jumped down, landing easily on the street below. A few yards before he reached the source of the glow, an apparition began to form above it.

Razor gasped at seeing Star in her kat form, her body as insubstantial as a ghost. She wore the same red and gold silks that she had worn in the temple, her phantom-like body covered in innumerable bloody gashes. The Swat Kat just stood there staring, not knowing how to react seeing his lover like that, her form as hazy and transparent as mist. Then she spoke, her voice hallow and echoing.

"The amulet, Jake. You have to find it. I am trapped between worlds, and it is the only thing that can free me. One way, or the other..."

Her form then wavered for a moment, then vanished, fading like fog in the morning sunlight. Razor's ears went back, and he looked down, seeing the glow again from under the stones, right at the spot where Star's ghost had been. Cautiously, he walks forward then kneels down, moving aside some of the rubble and debris to reveal the black metal amulet with the blood red stone. Slowly, he reached down to pick it up. As he did so, it's glow grew even brighter, and he could feel the energy surging through his body like fire. It moved up his arms and into his chest, causing his heart to beat so fast that he felt it might explode inside of him.

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Jake gasped and sat straight up in bed, his fur soaked in a cold sweat. Gripping his chest, he could feel his heart pounding. She sat there for several long minutes, breathing heavily until his heartbeat again slowed. Like the dreams that Star had first given him when she had cast the spell, that dream had been so real that he had to look around, half expecting to see the amulet sitting right there on his nightstand.

When he finally regained control of himself, telling himself over and over that it was just a dream, he got up and grabbed his clothes, heading to the bathroom to shower. It was early morning, the sky just beginning to grow lighter with the coming dawn, but Jake didn't want to go back to sleep now. Not after that dream. Instead he simply showered and got dressed, then headed into the livingroom to check the morning news for any new information on the dig.

The rest of that day he as very quiet and withdrawn, barely saying a word to either Chance or Elena, simply doing his job working in the garage and salvage yard. This was nothing new to his friends though, since they both knew about the nightmares, and that he usually acted that way after a particularly bad one. It still didn't stop them from worrying about him though.

Late that night, after Chance and Elena had both gone to sleep, Jake got back up and made his way silently down to the hanger. Changing into his Swat gear, he took one of the cyclotrons and headed out quickly into the night.