Elsa and Jack hardly said a word to each other as they were riding along the grassy trail in search for the Pitch Black Gang, Elsa was still pretty pissed at how Jack left her tied to a pole for over half a hour.

Elsa didn't know why Jack had been so stubborn in trying to keep her out of this mission, especially not knowing when he was going to have another spell with his cancer. Did he want to die? Was he so lonely and empty in life that he didn't care if he died out there in the wild from his cancer? Elsa had heard many stories about Jack Frost over the years and almost all of them said that Jack was a lonely and depressed fellow. That he hardly shown any emotion and when he did it was mainly anger or Grumpiness. Why was Jack such a lonely grumpy person? What bad thing happened in his life that made him such the grumpy douche that he is now.

Elsa was just on the verge of working up the bravery to ask Jack about his past when she saw Jack wince in pain and fall off his horse. He was having another spell.

"Jack!" Elsa screamed as she jumped off her horse to help Jack. She grabbed Jack by the back of his collar as he lay on the ground crying in pain and helped lean him against a rock. She felt his forehead and noticed he was burning up bad from a fever. She wasted no time in taking off her bandana and poring some water from her flask out on it and putting it against Jack's forehead to try to keep him cool as he moaned in pain.

"Shh... Your going to be okay. I'm here."

"You shouldn't be wasting your water." Jack said as he winced in pain. "Your going to need it when we get to the desert."

"You need it more then I do." Elsa said. "We past by a lake not to long ago. We can stop here for the night and I can refill in the morning. Besides you're not in any shape to go anywhere else tonight."

"I'll be fine," Jack said as he tried to stand up. "We got to keep moving." However Jack instantly fell flat on his butt again clinching his forehead and crying in pain.

"Jack you can hardly stand up, let alone walk." Elsa said as she grabbed a hold of Jack's shoulders and rested him against the rock again. "You need to rest." Jack was hesitant to stay put but as much as it pained him to admit it Elsa was right. He was in to much pain right now to go anywhere, his cancer was grounding him for the night.

"I will take of you." Elsa said in a comforting voice. "It will be okay."

"Fine" Jack sighed giving in. "Set up camp for the night. And find us some food and water so we we don't starve of dehydrate. And whatever you do don't get yourself eaten out there. The predators seem to like to come out at this time of night.

"I'll get us some food and water." Elsa said "You get us a fire going."

"I can barely stand up right now," Jack protested "How the hell am I supposed to gather enough sticks for a fire?"

"I don't know crawl on your knees!?" Elsa shot back. "I'm only one person, I cant do everything!"

"Fine just make sure you don't get eaten!" Jack yelled as he gave in "Last thing I want is to find out I busted my ass getting you a fire just to hear you got yourself devoured by a damn bear."

"I'll be okay." Elsa said as she unpacked her shotgun, grabbed both her and Jack's water canisters and headed toward the woods. "See you back in a hour."

"If your still alive" Jack added.

"Go to hell." Elsa shot back as she disappeared in the bushed. Seriously, Jack was acting as if she was completely helpless. Just because the girl grew up on a ranch and never experienced life in the wilderness didn't mean she didn't know how to freaking to care of herself. She knew how to fire a gun. She has put herself in danger protecting her livestock from wolves on more then one occasion, so to have Jack act as if she was going to get killed just searching for food was a huge insult to her. Nevertheless she just sighed and walked deeper into the woods. She may not like the guy so much. And she definitely thought he was a major douche but she needed him for the time, and even though he wouldn't admit it he needed her. He would die out here on his on if it wasn't for her. No matter what she thought of the guy she couldn't help but to feel sorry for him. He didn't deserve what fate has done to him. She wouldn't wish what he's going through on her worst enemy.

Elsa suddenly paused when she saw a rabbit just ten feet ahead of her. She aimed her gun carefully so not to attract attention then fired hitting the rabbit dead on.

"Well that's one meal taken care of" Elsa said to herself as she picked up the rabbit and slung it over her shoulders. "Now for the other."

Elsa walked deeper into the woods until she saw another rabbit by a pond.

"Great, dinner plus the water we need." Elsa said taking out her gun and shooting down the rabbit.

With both her and Jack's dinner taken care of Elsa then took out the two canisters and refilled them with water. She made sure she got them filled to the brim because she had no idea when they would be able to refill again.

With dinner and water taken care of Elsa walked back to their campsite to see Jack getting a fire started for them.

"Well I must say I'm impressed." Jack said "You didn't get yourself killed out there."

"You highly underestimate me." Elsa said tossing him one of the rabbits she killed. "Eat up."

"Okay, so you do know how to fire a gun." Jack said looking at the rabbit at his feet.

"As I said, you underestimate me. Now eat up before any scavengers comes up and tries to steal it."

Elsa and Jack hardly said a word to each other the next twenty minutes as they each skinned and ripped off pieces of rabbit meat to cook over the flame that Jack made. Elsa had to admit the process of skinning and ripping open a dead animal was pretty gross, not just because of the sight of the animals blood and internal organs but the smell was also near unbearable. But Elsa was able to suck it up knowing that if she didn't eat she would starve so she dug in and started ripping the animal apart.

"Bury the rest of the animal." Jack said after they each got what meat they could off the animal. "We don't want any unwelcome guest snooping around here at night." Elsa obeyed and dug a small hole with her hands and buried the remains of the two rabbits, then filled in the hole so no scavengers snooped around their camp sight at night.

"Do you mine if I ask you kind of a personal question?" Elsa asked after she buried the remains.

"Knock yourself out." Jack said

"Out of all the career options you could of chosen in life, why a bounty hunter? Why risk getting yourself killed everyday just for a paycheck."

"I'm afraid that isn't really the happiest tale in the world Elsa." Jack said. "My father, well let's say he wasn't really that much of a family man. He was a hustler, a liar, a cheat, and a raging alcoholic." Jack then let out a small chuckle. "I guess I sort of got that last part from him. Anyway, one day when playing poker with these gangsters at the bar he kind of cheated his way into winning over a thousand dollars from them. You know, there wasn't a place on his body that guy couldn't hide a ace card. Well the gangsters that night caught on that they were cheated and broke into our house and murdered both my father and my mother in revenge. They probably would have murdered me to if I hadn't ran for my life. Well as I was running I sort of ran into this bounty hunter by the name of Woody. I told him what had happened, tears streaming down my face and I offered him the money that my father won off those guys as payment. Woody took pity on me, I was just eleven at the time so why wouldn't he. And he tracked down those bastards brought each and every one of them in alive. Well, most of them anyway, the leader was refusing to surrender so he put a bullet in the guys brain but the rest of them surrendered.

I knew then that I wanted to be like Woody someday, bringing justice to those in need, seeing my scared eleven year old self in each and every poor sole that comes my way."

"That is so sad." Elsa said "You lost both your parents at such a young age."

"Most people in this line of work doesn't have a happy past Elsa, why do you think we are in this dangerous line of work. It's because we remember what it is like."

"Whatever happened to Woody?" Elsa asked curious.

"Well he one day retired from the bounty hunting business and became Sheriff until the day he retired. Last I heard he rode off in the sunset toward the direction of Oklahoma after he retired. Nobody has heard from the old sap since. Probably by now he's passed on though, it has been nearly a decade since anyone has last heard from him."

"Well anyway" Jack then said changing the subject. "It's probably time to hit the sack, we're going to need to get up early if we are going to have a good shot of finding the Pitch Black gang tomorrow."

"So we just lay down on the grass against a rock? No tent or anything?" Elsa asked

"This is the wilderness Elsa." Jack said putting his hat over his head as he rested his head against the rock. "We sleep wherever we can. Oh by the way you may want to keep your rifle close by in case any animals start to get to close. You don't want a bear sniffing around here and not have a way to defend yourself."

"Thank you Jack, for that nightmare." Elsa said as she lay down, her rifle resting right beside her and closed her eyes. She couldn't get to sleep though, thanks to Jack scaring her with the thought of a bear snooping around every time she heard a noise she couldn't help but open her eyes in panic and grab her gun. Even though there was nothing there, the mere thought of the vicious predators out there kept her from getting any sleep. It only worsened when she heard the sounds of a coyote howling off in the distance. As Elsa clinched her rifle like a child cliches it's teddy bear she knew one thing, it was going to be a long night.

In Colby, Reid had been talking in secret to several of the resident's that had been kicked off there ranch thanks to the Pitch Black gang. He was trying to find something that he could use to against them but the majority of the people was far to scared of Pitch to even talk to him. Only one woman was willing to even speak to Reid, but she said she would only talk to him if she met him at night and wore a disguise so no one could recognize him.

That night Reid was staring blankly at his brothers old ranger uniform. He stared blankly at the two bullet holes near the right sleeve of his brothers coat. This could be his only chance to avenge his death, and he swore on his grave that he wasn't going to fail him. Reid took his brothers old coat and cut out the area where the bullet holes was and used it as a mask to hide his face, then he rode out to speak to the woman.

He met the woman just behind Tipsy, Tiana's bar. Meeting a stranger at night behind a dark building was already enough to send a chill of uneasiness down a guys back but then throw in the thick fog and you got a serial killer's paradise right here. The two of them both had reason to feel uncomfortable, Pitch's men was everywhere, they didn't know who they could trust and who they couldn't.

"Before I agree to talk to you." The woman said "I need to know you are not one of them, show me your right arm, if you are one of them you will have a demon head tattooed on it.

Reid rolled up his right sleeve and showed that there was no tattoo on it, convincing the woman that she could trust him.

"Okay your not one of them, which means you are who you say you are."

"What do you know about Pitch and his gang?" Reid asked

"I know that they are taking over this city one piece at a time." The woman said "And they already have most of the big businesses under there control. You know how the previous sheriff, as well as nearly all the rangers was wiped out in a attack by Pitch?"

Reid did remember, his brother was part of that attack.

"A lot of people believes that was so Pitch could have control of the sheriffs station and all of his men. A lot of people believe that the courthouse and prison have also been taken over. Do not trust anybody sir, you may be the only honest ranger in the whole city. Be careful or you will be the next they kill."

"I will be careful I promise," Reid said. Then the woman walked off, unwilling to say anymore.

Reid was in shock by the information he had heard. The Sheriff, and all the rangers he worked with was working for Pitch as well as Judge Frollo and the jail warden? If this was true then Colby was in far more danger then he thought.

One thing for sure though was that he couldn't trust anybody anymore, as far as he was concerned everybody was working for Pitch. If he was going to stop them then he was going to have to do this alone.

As a lone ranger.

That's it for this chapter, like my little Lone Ranger story line going on? I thought with this being a western that it would be a crime not to have him part of it.

Till next time please leave a review and I will see you later.

P.S Minions was funny as fuck.