Night falls over the land, Helena becomes familiar with the mansion, seeing each room, soon coming upon one with video cameras. She inspects each camera, finding labels on each of them, one saying "Our New Family". Helena hears someone else come in, she turns to see Deborah. "It's a memory room," she says, "you know, videos, photos, mostly videos. We found the cameras and Dylon managed to fix them."

"What's this one?" Helena asks.

"I'll show you."

Deborah takes the camera and connects it to a t.v. in the room, she turns it on and the screen flashes to a somewhat static video but almost perfect. The image begins shaky, someone's breathing can be heard in the background, nothing but trees and green in the picture. It soon changes to an open area, only short grass is seen. In the center, a sapling of some tree, and Dylon resting right beside it. The breathing soon turn to small chuckles, Deborah's voice is heard saying "Okay, go to your daddy."

The image goes to the ground to reveal maya and Theo, much younger, standing by Deborah's legs. Maya goes running on all fours to her dad, Theo stays by Deborah. She moves closer, the camera inches from Dylon's face, and Maya crawls all over his chest like a dog. Soon, his sleeping face springs to life as he surprises her, knocking her back and causing her to drop the camera. The image lays sideways as Dylon plants kisses on his wife, she is revealed to be wearing an all white gown, having no fancy patterns, her belly shows bulging of growing life, waiting to take its first breaths, and her other children running around them.

Deborah disconnects the camera, as she puts it down, she notices the tears coming from Helena, she goes over and embraces her. Deborah moves away a little and says "Helena, I know you're hurting, seeing what happened to me. But Dylon saved me, he's like the other half of my heart. If he ever left one day and never come back, I would be destroyed."

"I'm fine," replies Helena, "all that matters is that you're happy, that's enough for me."

A few miles out to see, a large speed boat comes closer and closer to the island, the B.S.A.A. symbol on the side. A bizarre antenna protrudes from the top of it. Inside, Hunnigan works over a laptop in a briefcase with a type of scanning sonar on the screen. "2.5 miles and closing, were almost to the coordinates," she says.

"Ms. Hunnigan," asks one of the soldiers with her, "we should be seeing land by now, but there's nothing."

"Just a little further, 2 miles and closing."

Dylon stands on the rocky shore, he can see the boat past the fog, the look of grief appears. Inside the house, objects start to shake, like an earthquake steadily growing. "Oh no," Deborah says.

"W-what's wrong?" Helena asks.

"Go find Dylon, I'll watch the kids."

With that, Helena comes running out Already, she sees Dylon by the shore as he stares out to sea. The quake grows, Helena comes stumbling down saying "DYLON, WHAT'S GOING ON?!"

He gives no reply, Helena realizes he's watching a boat come closer.

Suddenly, the soldiers and Hunnigan begin to hear low but loud moaning from under the boat, everything else appears dead quiet. With no warning, the fog appears and blocks the view, but Helena can see, in shock, a terrifying shadow arise from the deep and destroys the boat, like a mighty tentacle of a kraken. Without warning, Dylon runs to Helena and moves her out of the way as parts of the boat crash to the shore from the force of the unknown entity, which has disappeared by now.

Helena looks to Dylon and yells "WHAT THE HELL DID YOU DO?!"

"I… didn't do anything."

"What was that then?"

"You don't want to know."

"No… I want to…"

She realizes that was "the guardian," the creature. She couldn't have guest its destructive power, what it was capable of. The chilling thought was that wasn't even it ,only a single limb, larger than anything she's , she sees movement from the wreck. She races over to the moans of someone, Hunnigan. Helena bends down and moves the debris away, "HUNNIGAN?! Hunnigan, are you alright?!" she says.

"You know this woman?" Dylon asks.

"YES! And she needs help."

Dylon picks Hunnigan up over his shoulder as he races back to the mansion. Deborah sees what has happened, her three oldest children next to her, Dimitri in her arms.

"Kids, go to your rooms and stay there."

They go without hesitation, Dylon comes through the front door and heads to his medical room. He gently places her on an observation table and grabs some unknown liquids from his shelves. Helena peaks in, looking towards Hunnigan as Dylon hurrys. He places the liquids in a canister, screws on a nozzle with a breather attachment on the end, and shakes it up. he places the breather over Hunnigan's nose and mouth and sprays.

Helena paces back and forth for about ten minutes before hearing Hunnigan awaken. She sees her sitting up, disoriented and tired, but okay. "HUNNIGAN, I'm glad you're alright!" she says as she hugs her. "What happened?" Hunnigan groans in pain.

"You were attacked by… it doesn't matter, you're alright now."

"But… the machine and…" she stops in unsettling silence at the sight of Dylon. She jumps off the table, standing behind Helena saying "Helena… what it that, shoot it?!"

Dylon becomes angered by being called "that", but he soon calms himself. "No, Hunnigan, he's a friend, he's… he's… my brother… in-law."

Hunnigan stares in silence, deciding if Helena saying he's safe is bad or saying he's her brother-in-law. "W-WHAT, what do you mean?!" she asked in confusion.

"You'll have to calm down, we'll explain, just… calm down."

What felt like hours have past, Hunnigan sits in a chair, drinking a cup of tea, across from Dylon, Deborah, and Helena. She takes in a deep breath before starting. "Okay, so… Dylon, saved and somewhat cured your thought dead sister, then he kept her here and..." she stops as Dylon says "You fool, I'll…"

"Dylon, calm down," said Deborah, she turns to Hunnigan, "no, he's not like that. We found this and made it our home. I truly do love him."

"Sorry, I just thought… never mind. Now, for three years, you two have lived on this unknown island, which somehow remained undetected for so long, and began a family to live in solitude, away from civilization?"

"Well… not exactly," said Dylon, now calm, "others live here, they just… 'Go out more often.' My family normally stay here."

"What do you mean by 'others.'"

Suddenly, unknown noises near the shore uproar, Dylon adds "Ask them yourself."

Helena and Hunnigan head towards the shore to see a bizarre looking ship, as if put together from hundreds of other ships. Dylon follows behind saying "You're back, I thought you said this trip would be a few more days."

A figure appears from the ship, it jumps off onto the shore, "We fixed the problem sooner than expected." he says. He notices Helena and Hunnigan, shocked by this encounter, although covered by a scarf, his eyes show all that's needed. "Helena, it's you," he says, going over to Helena. "Do I know you?" she asks.

"Oh, hold on."

He removes his scarf to reveal a damaged face, his left side normal, his right a bright red with a few extra eyes. Helena still doesn't recognize him, he says "Actually, we only met once when I was with Chris."

It soon dawned on her, as says in shock "You're Piers Nivans."

"Yeah, I didn't think you'd know me, actually. Like I said, we only met once."

Everyone heads back to the mansion, the sky darkens so Dylon starts the fireplace. Everyone gathers in the living room, Deborah, Dylon, their children, Helena, Piers and two other associates of his, and Hunnigan. Hunnigan and Helena walk over to Piers. "Piers Nivans, " Hunnigan starts, "thought to have died three years ago on the Neo Umbrella underwater base. How have you been coping with this… mutation."

"Nice to meet you too, I guess," he replies with reluctance, "so, Helena, how are things back home?"

"Fine," she replies, "why do you ask?"

"Just worried about any growing threats, hoping what we're doing is actually helping."

"Help?" sas Hunnigan, "What do you mean?"

Piers gestures for his two associates to come over, one appears to have somewhat blue, clear skin, his skull visible, wearing blue camouflage armor and having short brown hair. The other with most of his hair missing from the right side of his scalp, donning dark green camouflage, a camo net to his side, and bandages covering the right side of his face. "Guys, this is Scott Truen, team scout," he gestures to the one in blue. "And this is Hunter, team sniper," he gestures to the one in green.

They both give a hello, Hunnigan goes close to Scott's face to analyse his visible skull, he backs away in shyness. "When we managed to dig up files on what were left of the computers here, we found sites of other labs. We decided to help out and try to stop them," Piers says, Scott continues it. "Most are just false alarms, but some were very active, worth stopping," Hunter continues, having a snake like voice, "from black market trading, to illegal labs experimenting with parasites or viral strains."

Helena finds this amazing that such a small group could perform so well, then she asks "Just the three of you do this?"

"No," said Piers, "the rest of our team are in a base inside the forest, they stayed behind, but they usually stay close, which is probably why you haven't seen them."

From the left side of the room, one of the doors opens, it is revealed to be Lisa, immediately walking over to Piers with her head facing down. Piers asks "Oh, Lisa, stay for a while then we'll go, okay?"

She stands motionless for a few seconds before giving a small nod of agreement. She walks over to one of the chairs and waits. Helena gives Piers a questioning look, he replied "Oh, right, Dylon told me that when I first arrived, Lisa started acting more social… in a sense. He would say she always stayed in her room, so after each mission, I would go with her and just talk, anyway to help her."

"Talk about what?" Helena asks.

"Whatever's on her mind, she's nicer than she lets on."

"Piers?"

"Yes?"

"How exactly did you arrive here?"

Piers's expression changes from neutral to sad. He tells a story with both his and Dylon's recap of anything he might not remember. Dylon was wondering the shore to fish, when

suddenly, he came upon a body. It showed a mangled right arm, like it was twisted around until it snapped and was pulverized. Dylon walked over to the body, only to have it awaken and shoot out a jolt of electricity from his mangled arm. He saw the pain in his eyes, he quickly took him down and pierced him in the chest with the syringe-like claw from his hand. The man soon passed out, Dylon took him back to this home.

He brought him to his medical room and set him on the table. Instead of using the medicine, he started preparing a concoction of liquids made from the man's blood and certain serums. He injects it into the man's arm. It began to change, the bone-like prongs began to be covered by flesh, the arm changes to a normal shape, all except for pointed fingers and no normal skin. Much time has past since the injection, Dylon walked out of his room to see Lisa up the stairs. He asked her to watch the man while he went to get more healing herbs.

Lisa walked into the room and is surprised to see the man, she stared at his mutated face, one side normal, the other beast. She placed her hand over her bandages on her face, then kneeled down and held his mutated hand. By the time Dylon returned, the man regained consciousness, he looked to his side to see a girl holding his hand, she didn't notice him awake. He heard something in front of him and saw Dylon. He jolted back in fear. With some calming words and time, the man, Piers, soon relaxed and gathered what has happened to him. Dylon left him with Lisa to allow him to try and cope. Lisa saw him acting depressed and angered by this. She grabbed his hand slowly, getting his attention, and said as clearly as she could, in a sweet and gentle voice. "I… know… your… pain."