Written by Demon king zero (co-author)

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Chapter Thirteen: Puzzle Pieces

As I approached the warehouse that R had messaged me to meet him at I noticed that the place was deserted. There was not even random works wandering around to keep shady people out. R obviously had something serious to say for him to go this far to be sure that our meeting today would be private.

I knock twice then once and twice again. The door open by the same guy R had open the back door at his shop. Without a word he shut and locked the door behind me. He led me through the maze of disregarded crates and malfunctioning machinery left to decay. Stopping at a crate he pushes it out of the way to reveal a staircase leading down to a basement. I continued on my own as he had left me and sealed the entrance.

At the bottom I could see R sitting on a chair with a serious look on his face. I approach him with the same caution someone would use when confronted with a napping lion. I sat down on the chair across from him, even with the table in between us I could still feel the waves of uneasiness radiate off of him.

"Chase, please allow me to apologize beforehand for what I'm going to say," R said as he looked at me and I nodded. "Remember the guys that wrecked my shop?"

"What about them?" Could they have been from I bigger group then I originally thought.

"Have you ever heard of Void Brotherhood," he asked another pointless question.

"They were a organization that studied the grimm's body to find out what they were made of and make better countermeasures against them. But due to a accident that happened at their lap the organization shutdown and little to no information was able to be recovered." I answered, wondering what the men at his shop had to due with an organization that has been gone for a couple of years. "At least, that is what is officially documented."

"There was an accident but the information was not lost in it but stolen. Void Brotherhood, even after its loss continues to exist today. Not only as a research lap like before but a loan sharks as well," he grumbled out the last part.

"You borrowed from them" this much was obvious but I can't see how they could be a problem.

"Yeah, I thought that I could get them to let me pay later but thing didn't work out," he sighed in defeat and I waited for him to continue. "After the attack at the shop me and my guys were on the run but once we thought we out ran them we were attacked again." He paused probably debating whether or not to tell me the rest which was the important information.

"They weren't human," he finally said.

"What?" I asked when what he said sunk in.

"They looked like humans at first but then they morphed into humanoid looking grimms," he whispered softly.

"They are doing more then just studying grimm."

"If what your saying is true then why bother to tell me" I gazed at him with eyes filled with suspicion.

"I was worried about you," he smiled.

"Are you stupid?" I asked him. "You are being chased by an organization that has human grimm things and you came to tell me about it because you were worried, do you want to die!"

R just laughed. Seriously that's wrong with him worrying about someone else when he is being targeted. It makes me really want to stab him when he treats me like a ignorant kid.

~The other members of team CRCK~

"Where do you think Chase is," Razi asked to no one in particular.

"He probably got lost on the here after suffering from so many head injuries," Cyan answered anyways.

"Then we need to go look for him," Razi sprang up from his pile of pizza boxes that he had stuffed down his mouth.

"Stop teasing him Cyan," Kelly scolded him. "Razi, he is just running a bit late it's nothing to worry about."

Razi reassured by Kelly sat back down and resumed eating his pizza while the were baffled at the ridiculous amount he ate but showed no sign of growing horizontally or vertically.

"You know," Cyan said while placing one hand over her and the other on her cheek, tilting her head upward to him. He leaned in to her ear and whisper, "I love...teasing you the most."

Kelly face went flamingo pink, "you jerk!"

She pushed him away as he laughed and Razi stared at the two in confusion.