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DISCLAIMER: This chapter is actually clean, and I think a lot of people will like the plot development that goes down in this chapter. Again, special thanks to Ryan Masterpaladin Lewis here on Sofurry for letting me use his characters (PLEASE check out his stories if you haven't) as well as Makoim, Aquingator, and Karmakat on FA for letting me use their characters too.

Enjoy! :)

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"Hey.....who is that??" Ord asked as the four were all now on the top of the hill, looking across to see a gator on top of another hill a pretty good distance away from the group.

"Is....he the one....calling me??" Tony asked himself, feeling his head again.

"You ok there Tony?" Sull asked, putting his hand on the Tiger and checking on him.

"Yeah...but....who...is that???" Tony replied. The four looked at the Gator that was not looking anywhere else but right back at the group, almost intimidating the four somewhat.

"Should...we...talk to him? I mean...I still don't know where we are..." Junir asked.

"Might as well....be ready for anything though..." Sull replied.

"My...head..." Tony moaned as the four began to walk towards the gator.

Closer and closer, the four approached the Gator that kept looking at them, smiling somewhat and smoking a cigarette. It didn't take long for the group to also notice the GIANT sword that the gator was carrying on his back, as well as the pistol on him. The four sort of backed down when they noticed the gun on the gator, though he just kept smiling at the four and smoked his cigarette some more.

Eventually, Sull, Ord, Tony, and Junir came face to face with the Gator, who stared at Tony right in the eyes.

"Ah yes....Tony....you felt me calling...." The gator slowly spoke in a deep voice to the Tiger.

Tony was very hesitant, feeling his head again and not having a clue whatsoever what was going on.

"What...the hell is happening....to me....who are you?!" Tony asked forcefully.

"The bond between you and your loved one....is special. You must never forget that." Aquin replied, closing his eyes ad feeling the wind blow against his body, with the sun shining bright and the clouds being far off in the distance now.

"Mike....." Tony replied, still feeling his head and almost breaking down at that moment.

"Follow me, I have to show.....wait.....NO....." Aquin replied, reaching for his sword but looking away from Tony and the others.

"What?? What's going on???" Sull asked, as he and the others backed away from Tony.

Aquin drew his sword, and quickly got into a pose as if he were going to fight something, though the four couldn't see anything coming. However, Tony then noticed something out of the corner of his eye coming right towards him.

"HOLY SHIT!!!" Tony exclaimed, feeling his head and seeing what looked to be a black floating object, though Tony had no idea what it was. It was coming very fast towards him, and he put his hands in front of him as the object headed right for his body from the air.

*WHISH*

"................"

Tony looked in front of him to see Aquin standing in front of him in a stance after apparently slicing his sword. The apparent object that was heading towards Tony was now nowhere in sight, and Tony looked all around him to see nothing in the area, except for Sull, Ord and Junir looking on with A LOT of confusion.

"What....just....happened??" Junir asked.

"I'm scared....what's going on?!" Ord then asked, standing behind James.

"Demons. They lurk around, feeding on weak souls. Not many here though luckily...." Aquin replied, putting his sword back around him.

"Demons?! What the fuck you talking about? I didn't see anything!" Sull asked the gator.

"Wait....you didn't see an object flying towards me??" Tony asked, feeling his head once again.

"Uhhhhh...no..." "Nope." "Object?" The three replied all at once.

"Why could I see that object and they couldn't?! Who are you?!?!?" Tony asked, getting right into the tall Gator's face.

"Aquin. The connection of blood between two people means they are bonded as one. Your blood is connected with the human. Your spirit is weak when separated from your other half.....demons feed on the weakness."

"Wait....human? Don't you mean...." Junir spoke, before being interrupted

"Mike.....you know where Mike is?!?!" Tony asked, grabbing the gator's vest with a very worried look.

"Follow." Aquin said softly after softly pushing himself away from Tony, motioning for the group to walk along with the gator back towards the woods area.

"Holy shit, he knows where mike is?!?!" Sull spoke out loud.

"Let's go then!" Junir replied.

"I just hope that Gator doesn't need to draw his sword again!" Ord mentioned, still cowering a bit though he seemed to come out of it as the group started following the Gator.

Aquin started to walk back towards the trees near the hill that he was on, yet Tony seemed to almost be walking ahead of him, wanting to find out where exactly the Gator was walking to, since he could think of nothing else except for one thing.......seeing Mike again.

****

"That water definitely felt nice....but you REALLY need to get used to it!" I exclaimed to Morrell, Ryan, and Mako as the three of us got back to Aquin's cabin.

"Yeah, it was pretty cold, but at least the sun is out now, and I HOPE it stays that way." Ryan replied back to me, with all of us walking inside.

"Uhhhh...so what do you wanna do now?" I asked the three, who were going through their backpacks again.

"I guess we'll wait for Karma and Aquin to get back, but in the meantime, wanna just talk about stuff?" Morrell replied.

"Yeah sure, I haven't really gotten to know you as well as these two" I said back.

Morrell smiled and nodded back, and the four of us eventually started to talk about small things again, though Morrell and myself started opening to each other at that moment. About 10 minutes later, Karmakat walked through the door, still having his body and his clothing somewhat wet.

"You sure seemed to like it in there heh" Mako said to the grey lion, who smiled and walked toward us.

"Wait....what is that?" I asked, looking outside of the door and seeing some sort of white object that almost looked like a faint cloud that was lurking behind a lot of trees a good several hundred yards away.

"What is what? Huh?" Ryan asked, looking outside. "I don't see anything...." He then added.

"Look! That white thing.....what the hell is that?!" I replied, pointing out the floating object, which was now heading somewhat towards our area.

"What...white thing?" Ryan asked right back.

"What are you looking at Mike? Morrell asked, looking outside himself, as well as Mako and Karmakat.

"LOOK! That white thing....you can't see that??" I asked one final time, before wondering if I was hallucinating or something.

"I....don't see anything...." Morrell responded, with Karma and Mako shaking their heads after. "You ok there bud?" The orca then asked me.

"I....don't know....am I hallucinating....?"

"You might be, maybe you should get some rest again." Morrell said back, putting his hand on my shoulder and leading me back to the bedroom.

"Yeah....my body's been through so much....I can't get over that....stuff....that Aquin gave me.....that was just....so....weird..."

"Yeah it was....hell, that Gator is weird himself, I have no idea what goes through that guy's mind. Anyway, if you need anything, we're here for you bud." The Orca said to me as I laid down on the bed, now feeling my head again with my thoughts building up inside.

"T-t-thanks morrell.......unghhh...." I moaned back with my hand on my forehead, as I tried to get some rest.

*****

Morrell walked out of the room, looking back towards mike with a worried expression on his face.

"Think he'll be alright?" Ryan quietly asked, trying not to bother Mike in the bedroom.

"I don't know....we'll wait and see. Personally, I think we should head out soon regardless if that Gator comes back or not..." Morrell replied.

"Yeah...all this shit has made me kinda want to get away from this area and head back home...." Mako added.

"I agree, we can find other things to do around here, maybe we could take the Jeep to Boston for the day or something...." Morrell suggested.

Mako nodded his head in approval. "Yeah, I can show you guys around there, I've been to the city more times than you could imagine. We could also check out Salem, I went to that college before transferring to Albany." All four agreed with the Tiger, and they continued to just sit around the house and talk in general, as well as go outside from time to time to get some air/water.

*****

"Think everything is holding ok in the truck back there?" The human asked, sitting in the passenger's seat of the 18 wheeler as the Orca drove the truck next to him.

"Yeah, that shit ain't going nowhere, though I think it's a good thing we have two trucks instead of hauling everything in one." Tristen replied, as the group pulled off the highway, entering Saratoga Springs.

"How come those guys haven't called us back yet? You know, that Boar and Cougar as well as those two others...?"

"They're all stupid, they don't think before they act, and sometimes they don't think about jack shit in general."

"Got that right, I lose brain cells anytime I try to talk to that goddamn boar...." The human replied.

"Is the bull still behind us?" Tristen asked.

"Yeah, I can see the other truck, but there's a couple of cars in-between it seems..." Gordon said back, looking at the side mirror of his seat.

"Boss should already be there in the helicopter along with Marc and Andre....we're not too far from there..."

"Why couldn't we just stay in that one warehouse back in Vermont that we've been at the last couple of days though? I liked that area better than that other warehouse we've been at near that mountainside since there's absolutely nothing around ANYWHERE....yet we're going to a populated area right now..." The human mentioned.

"Yeah, I don't know why we moved again after moving from that original warehouse....I think that boss didn't want that scrawny human bringing any trouble with him.

"Speaking of that human....he IS dead, right?" Gordon asked.

"Should be, but right now I really don't give a shit. Not my problem, I'm more worried about these shipments since those guys haven't responded from where we're headed."

"Think...they may have been caught?"

"I hope not....they were supposedly in an abandoned warehouse in the middle of nowhere in the town, though you never know..."

"Well we'll find out when we get there."

****

"....................what....the....fuck?!?!" Marcus exclaimed, as he got out of the helicopter along with his brother and the boss who was flying it.

"holy shit! What the fuck happened here?!" Andre then exclaimed right after, as the three had made it to the warehouse in the Saratoga Springs area after landing the helicopter not too far from there.

"................."

Boss didn't say a word, as his covered face just walked around the area to see the Boar on the outside, lying dead on the ground with a broken neck, as well as blood everywhere both on the inside and on the outside of the building.

"where the fuck is the guy that did this?! I'ma fucking rip his ass and pop a fuckin cap in his motherfucking head!!" Andre shouted, punching the wall with his hand. The three walked inside to notice what had went down inside the area.

"GOD DAMN!" Marcus shouted, walking over and noticing the dead cougar as well as the lizard and other human lying in the back corner of the warehouse, near a bunch of drug crates.

"What are we gonna do boss? We can't do jack shit with these dead fools here!" Andre asked.

The boss was just looking down at the blood stained area, and then looked at one of the crates near the front door, which apparently caught his attention. He quickly walked over, and noticed something on top of the crates.

".................................ah, so you made your move Tony.....looks like the game is on....." Boss softly spoke as he noticed several small black and orange hairs on the crate as well as the floor.

"Boss! What do we do here?!" "Yeah, what we doin?" Both black bears asked the big guy, who stood up, smiling.

"We continue operations....I know a lot of ways to rile the big Tiger up." Boss replied, letting out a grin and then closing his eyes a bit.

"What you talking bout?" Marcus asked back curiously, still overlooking the dead bodies.

"..................................................."

"Boss?" Andre then asked.

"..........................................."

"Holy.....shit....what da fuck?!" Andre asked, seeing the boss turn around and taking off his pilot mask, exposing his solid black eyes along with his white and black striped face.

"Whoa....why are your fucking eyes like that nigga?" Marcus exclaimed to the white tiger.

".............................." The boss's eyes had a dark glow to them, almost like a very dark blue color, and it didn't take long for the rest of his body to emit the same color.

"Shit nigga! You trippin or something???" Marcus forcefully said to the boss.

"..........................time............to come out........friends......"

*WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH*

A huge gust of wind immediately came out of nowhere, engulfing the inside of the building with the heavy flow of air, coming from all directions towards the boss, who was now holding his hands out to his sides.

"what the fucking fuck?!!??!?!?" Andre asked, as he looked as Marcus, who looked right back at his brother with almost a sense of fear in their eyes. They quickly moved away from the boss, not wanting to get in the way of anything. As they continued to watch the boss hold his arms out with his entire face exposed, they noticed that dark black objects were now forming on certain parts of the boss's body, almost as if they were trying to free themselves from the tiger.

".....................................go."

*WHOOSH!*

"HOLY FUCK!!!" Marcus screamed, ducking out of the way as a bunch of small black cloud-like objects shot out of the boss and blasted right by the two bears, out of the door and windows of the warehouse with unbelievable speed, which ultimately shattered several windows inside the building as well.

"............................................ummnnnfffff" the white tiger let out with a groan as his eyes returned to normal color, though he still had a very intimidating look in his eyes.

"What da fuck did you just do nigga? You seriously trippin foo!" Marcus exclaimed, walking back towards the boss with his brother.

"....................don't worry, just get the shit ready to be unloaded when the trucks get here." Boss replied.

"......don't worry? What the fuck is up with you loco? You know what, I'm not even going to ask anymore, this shit is too fuckin insane." Andre said back, walking away from the boss and back to the outside area to clear his thoughts.

"......get rid of these bodies, they're in my way." The tiger then pointed out to Marcus.

".....whateva.....you freakin me out nigga...." Marcus said right to the boss's face, grabbing the dead bodies inside the warehouse and dragging them to the outside area to get rid of them.

After about 25 minutes, both trucks arrived at the warehouse, with all of the gang members meeting up again. The human, bull, and Orca all got out of the vehicles, only to notice the traces of blood all over the place both inside and outside of the warehouse.

The three looked all around, wondering what the hell went down beforehand, as they flooded both bears and the boss with questions about everything.

"We ain't sure what happened....but boss is trippin some mad shit here..." Marcus replied to the three, as all of them looked over to the boss who was starting to move crates around the warehouse area.

"Wait....where are the other guys?" Gordon asked, still observing the entire area that had the reminiscence of blood.

"Dead. I threw them out back in the woods to rot, they were stinkin up the damn place."

"They were all dumbasses anyway, I'm kinda glad they're out of the way" The orca replied forcefully, walking towards the boss to help move some crates around that had stashes of drugs in each one.

"That's out of the way, now, you guys bring da stashes?" Andre asked both the Bull and the human.

"Yep, both trucks have all the crates in there from before, I didn't check to see if they got damaged though."

"They better be good, otherwise boss will have yo head here, though I still don't know what he be trippin on...." The bear replied.

"Let's start unloading here then" The human mentioned, with the others agreeing and heading to the trucks to unload everything.

****

"You hear anything from the state if they found any traces???" Nancy asked from her cell phone.

"Nothing. Tony and the others are still looking, but they haven't gotten any leads either...." Ralph replied, talking on the house phone.

"It's just....too much.....Mike......" Nancy said back into the phone, almost breaking down at that moment even though she was behind the wheel driving.

"Where are you anyway??"

"I'm......*sniff* I think....past Springfield.....not sure where I am.....but I think I passed by Otis..."

"You're not far from what I'm seeing here on the computer....just keep driving and stay focused....the state police said they would meet you at the park with the helicopter ready."

"Thanks hun......I just hope mike's ok....."

"Mike's a fighter. He won't go down easily, but then again, I just hope he uses common sense...." Ralph replied with a groan.

"Ok.....I gotta go hun.....how's will handling everything...?"

"He's.....kinda in his own world....he seems worried but....I'm not sure.....oh yeah, seems like Tony.....got into some trouble himself with the cops....not sure why though."

"What?? Well....tell me later....there's some traffic here so I gotta focus on driving again.....keep me posted....*sniff*" Nancy said one final time, as Ralph nodded back and hung up.

****

"Where the fuck did that Gator go anyway??" Morrell asked out loud.

"I dunno, but we should prolly stay here anyway since there's not much more daylight....it's already 5:35." Ryan said back as he looked at his cell phone. He then took one of his cards, and placed it down on the pile of other cards. "Two ace's"

"BULLSHIT." Mako nearly shouted out.

"TURN EM OVER! HAH!" Ryan laughed back, as the white tiger turned the two cards over to see the two ace's on top of the card pile.

"You....asshole...heh" Mako replied with a bit of a laugh, picking up the small pile into his hand as the four continued to play bullshit with the deck of cards.

"How's mike doing anyway? He still sleeping?" Ryan then asked the group, since no one had really been monitoring how the human was doing in the bedroom.

"He seems alright, lemme go check.....actually...looks like I don't have to heh" Morrell pointed out, as Mike started to move around and sit up on the bed.

****

"My head.....owwww....." I said to myself, pulling myself up on the bed and feeling my forehead after feeling like I had gotten a couple of hours of sleep. I looked to my left and noticed that the sun was slowly setting, so it had to have been near 6 P.M.

"Hey mike, you feeling better?" Morrell asked, walking into the room. I felt strangely comfortable having the big guy right there, knowing that the Orca and the others were there still, even though they didn't have to be. It made me feel like I really had bonded well and had developed a great friendship with all four of them.

*MMNNNNGGGGHHH* I exclaimed, stretching and yawning as I got out of the bed. I still had no idea if the thing I saw earlier outside was real or not, but I figured that the rest I had just gotten did help clear my mind of a lot of things.

"I feel better...that extra sleep really helped heh." I replied, getting up and off the bed, still stretching.

"So....what are you guys doing?" I asked, walking out to the main room with Morrell.

"Well, I forgot to bring my chess board, so we're playing bullshit....and Mako can't seem to call it right for the life of him haha" Ryan replied laughing.

"Shut up dude, I haven't played this game in forever" the White tiger replied back sort of sarcastically.

"What about Karma here though? I don't think he's ever played....yet he has the best poker face out of all of us it seems heh" Ryan then pointed out as he nudged the grey lion with his elbow.

"Thanks.....I don't play cards often though" Karma said back.

"Heh, I remember playing bullshit in high school, those were good times." I added. I looked around though and noticed that Aquin was still nowhere in the cabin.

"Wait....so Aquin's not back yet???" I asked the four, as I poked my head outside to get some fresh air, as well as leaving the door open a bit to let some air in. I didn't see any sort of odd looking objects anywhere when I started stretching a bit more outside of the cabin, which made me feel a little better than before.

"Nope....he ain't back yet but we're gonna stay here anyway, since it's almost night time" Mako said to me, still holding a bunch of cards in his hand.

"I kinda want to go see the waterfall again, I'll just be right over there guys" I said to all four, pointing in the direction of the stream leading to the falls.

"Hey mike, wait up, I'll join ya" Morrell said out loud to me, which kinda took me by surprise.

"Yeah, how bout we all take pictures of each other around the waterfall?" Ryan insisted, grabbing his backpack and looking through it.

"Good point dude, I haven't taken ANY pictures so far because of everything that happened today! No offense to you mike or anything" Mako then pointed out.

"None taken heh, I'm just thankful to be alive...." I replied.

"Let's all go then" Morrell said to the rest of us. Before we knew it, we all walked down the stream and eventually came to the waterfall, as well as the pond we swam in earlier.

The sun was setting a bit more, and little by little the light source that was shining on the water was slowly dimming, yet that didn't stop any of us from taking our pictures together at the waterfall. I felt like I owed all four guys around me so much for what they did to keep me standing on my feet, even though I was still dumbfounded as to how I recovered so quickly from my injuries.

We took an unbelievable amount of photos at the waterfall. Everything from a group photo of the five of us, to funny/sarcastic poses next to the falls, to Ryan and Morrell as a couple together kissing with the waterfall right in front of them. It was a perfect scene, and I was very happy to be together with my new friends in front of the falls.

"Hey Mako, can you take one final picture of me here?" I asked the white tiger, who easily nodded and got his camera ready to take my picture right next to the water.

"Alright Mike, for the last photo, say something funny to the camera!"

"Ummm...............hmmmmm............"

Just then......I heard something coming from the woods ahead of me.

"Wait....what is that?" I thought to myself, looking forward past the pond.

After still looking a good ways ahead of me, the noise of tree branches moving around and the leaves on the ground being stomped on finally became quiet....

....And when I saw a tall figure emerge from the corner of the trees about a couple hundred feet away from my body.....my heart nearly stopped.

*O_O*

*****

*O_O*

*****

"........................................."

"Mike? What's.......*O_O*" Morrell asked, before he also saw what emerged from the woods a couple hundred feet away once he turned around to see what I was staring at.

"What? What's....going....on.....holy.....*O_O*" Mako then slurred himself as he also looked in the direction that I was looking towards.

Everyone's eyes were widening up like never before at that one moment. Time felt like it had stopped, since no one was moving at that moment either.

"...............................M-.......m--...................miikkkee?"

".......................................T-.........T-......TONY?!"

I started running away from the falls, towards what I was seeing. I had only hoped that this was not some sort of hallucination like before, or anything strange going on in my mind. Was that really him? WAS I REALLY SEEING TONY AGAIN?!?

"TONY???? OH MY GOD!!!!!" I shouted, nearly bursting out in tears as I ran towards the tiger as fast as I could.

"MIKE!!!!! OH MY GOD YOU'RE ALIVE!!!!" Tony yelled right back, running towards me unbelievably fast and opening his arms.

"TONY!!!" I screamed out, jumping into the Tiger that I had loved and missed so damn much. I had jumped into him so hard that we actually fell to the leafy ground with the force I had. "Tony......oh my god......*sniff*" I said once again, now having tears falling down my face as the two of us hugged each other for what seemed to be a never ending moment.

"Mike.....I missed you so damn much.....I thought....you may have been dead.....*sniff*" Tony replied into my ear, nearly breaking down himself as tears started coming down his eyes, rubbing up against my own face.

"Is...this real? Is this a dream?" I asked myself, still holding Tony as tight as I could while we were still on the ground together. "I hope this....convinces you....mike" Tony replied to me, gently grabbing my face and giving me the most passionate kiss I had ever felt in my whole life. It was at that moment that I realized that this moment was truly real, and I kept shedding tears from my eyes because of how happy I was to be with my Tiger again.

"MIKE!!!!!!!!" "OH MY GOD MIKE!!!!" "HOLY SHIT!!!!"

I must have heard three or four different voices ahead of me at that one moment. I barely looked up, and then noticed that Sull, Ord, Junir, and Aquin all came from around a tree filled corner to see me and Tony together again.

"....................."

It was at that one moment that I pretty much bawled my eyes out, since I had never been so happy in my life to see the other guys that I had really cared for.

".......guys....I'm.....so happy.....to see you all" I replied to the four, still hugging Tony as the tears kept coming down my face.

****

Ryan's eyes opened wide up when he saw the others. "Holy shit dude! That's....."

"Yeah.....damn I'm jealous of mike haha" Morrell laughed back. The two along with Mako and Karma though could only watch on and smile at that one moment, since they knew what Mike had been through. The four started walking over to Mike and the others, still looking on very happily.

****

I heard footsteps behind me as I kept hugging Tony, and I figured that this would be the best time to introduce my new friends to the others. I slowly broke my hug with Tony and got up, and was immediately greeted with a hug from Sull, Ord, as well as Junir, which really surprised me to see the muscular and handsome lion there. The four were also wearing what looked to be hiking backpacks, one of which looked big enough to fit a tent in. Aquin was just standing besides us, smiling at the moment yet also looking like he was ready to draw his sword at any time as well.

It didn't take long for Tony, Sull, Ord, and Junir to start asking me questions about everything after I finished hugging everyone.

"So what the hell happened?!" "Yeah, what did those...guys...do?" "You ok now Mike?" "How did you survive out here??"

My mind started thinking about what had happened beforehand with the bears and especially the Orca afterward, and I started to cringe a bit.

"It's....well...too painful...to describe..." I replied.

Just then, Tony came right up to me and the others did the same, all surrounding me and ensuring me that they were there for me.

"Nothing will happen Mike. We're here now, and you're safe." Tony said right into my eyes. I could only nod back slowly and tear up again, as I threw myself into the Tiger giving him a hug once more.

"Ok....I guess I'll explain what happened since I already explained everything to these guys over here...*sniff* but first....Tony.....guys....I want.... to introduce you to the people that.....saved me...." I slowly told all of the guys as I finished hugging everyone. With that, the other four came up to us, though all of them seemed a bit shy since they still couldn't get over who was standing in front of them.

"These guys...saved you?" Tony asked me, putting his warm hand on my shoulder. I just looked up at him and smiled with a few tears still coming down my face, and eventually started introducing the others.

"Yeah...*sniff* these guys are all my new friends now....I'm so thankful for what they did....I probably can't repay them either for saving me...."

"Thank you guys....consider yourselves our new friends as well" Tony said to the other four. Their eyes widened again and they all eventually nodded. I then began to introduce each one to the group.

"So....this is Morrell Monteque....who apparently carried me all the way here to Aquin's place" I said to the others, pointing to the big Orca.

"H..h-hi...there...." Morrell replied, putting his hand out towards Tony's.

"Don't be shy Morrell, we're now friends heh" Tony replied with a wide smile, shaking Morrell's hand back and then putting his left arm on Morrell's right shoulder.

"Heh....thanks....I've just...been a fan of yours for so long....so it's kinda weird meeting you like this haha" The orca laughed back, along with the rest of us.

"And this is Ryan Lewis....he's Morrell's boyfriend." I then pointed out to the human as I was starting to calm down a bit and feel more relaxed as I kept introducing the others.

"Nice you meet you Ryan, thank you so much for what you did." Tony replied, as the two shook hands. "T-thanks heh. Yeah, I've been a fan for a long time too....I'm just glad we found mike when we did....otherwise he wouldn't have lasted much longer out there...."

"Yeah...I still can't believe I'm here now as we speak..." I then mentioned to everyone as Ryan and Tony finished talking to each other, feeling my head again though it wasn't that painful compared to before.

"Anyway....this is Mako....and the funny thing is that we apparently don't live far from each other in our old homes here in Massachusetts."

"Really? Heh that's pretty cool. Nice to meet you as well Mako" Tony said to the white tiger, who was also a bit shy like Morrell and Ryan but eventually opened up to Tony.

"Nice to meet you too Tony, it's really an honor." Mako replied with a grin. "but yeah I used to live only a couple towns over from Mike before I went to college. I should visit home again soon" The white tiger then added.

"Oh shit! Speaking of that, I need to call my home!" I then mentioned, now thinking about my parents and what they were still probably going through.

"Yeah we definitely need to get in touch with them.....I don't think we have any cell phone reception out here though...." Sull replied, pulling his phone out. "Yeah...no bars."

"Yeah we haven't had any cell reception out here at all whatsoever..." Mako then explained to the rest of us.

"It's ok....at least we're all together now, that's all that matters." Tony then said to everyone around him. With that, we all nodded and then I finally introduced the last guy of the group to the others.

"And finally....this is Karmakat....he used to live in France but now he goes to school with these three."

The grey lion scratched his head and smiled, shaking Tony's hand and blushing somewhat.

"Heh, nice tattoo's you've got there" Junir said to Karma, coming up next to the lion and looking at his arms.

"T-thanks, I've got a bunch more on my legs and on my chest...." Karma replied, showing off his other tattoos on his somewhat muscular body by pulling up his shirt and his pants.

"Wow, those are pretty sweet" Sull then mentioned. Ord and Tony both nodded as well in approval.

"Wait....how did you guys find me....out here anyway....?" I then asked very curiously, since I had no idea how they were able to know that I was here in the middle of nowhere, literally.

"Well....Tony really was determined, and he did a few things...that I could NEVER try to do" Ord said to me.

"Yeah...you should've seen Tony's face the whole time we were looking for you....I've never seen him like that before.....you big guy you heh" Sull then smirked, hitting Tony on the arm.

"Yeah but.....how...did you get out here though...of all places??" I then asked, still a bit confused.

"Well.....it took a lot of effort....including....getting up close and personal with that gang...." Sull mentioned sort of hesitantly.

"Gang? Wait....are you talking about the...."

"Yeah, those two that kidnapped you were part of the same gang that the two bears were in.....but I ended up....silencing them both....." Tony then mentioned, though he also seemed to hesitate after thinking about what he did.

"Wait, are you talking about that...boar and the...cougar??" I asked.

"Bingo." Sull said to me.

"No wonder I had an eerie feeling after I started looking in that asshole's car....ugh...." I then groaned, feeling my head once again.

"Wait....you looked into his car? How the hell did that happen??" Tony then asked.

"....well....here's the whole story......" I said back, and eventually explained the whole story to the group, just like I did before to Ryan, Mako and Karmakat, though I still hadn't explained what happened to Morrell.

Explaining the story again to the others was hard, since it felt painful just to think about everything my body had went through over the course of a few days. After spending a few minutes explaining though with my head down mostly, I eventually concluded what happened.

"And then....these guys somehow found me....and apparently took me to Aquin's cabin that's up the waterfall over here."

"Those.....mother.....fuckers.....FUCK!!!!" Tony yelled, punching the nearest tree to him. He actually caused the tree to flail back and forth a good several times with the force of his punch. His eyes were really fired up after I explained the story, and the Tiger looked like he really wanted to get revenge on them one way or another.

"Easy Tony....Mike's here now....we'll get them." Sull replied, putting his hand on the Tiger.

"By the way guys....it's getting pretty late here, shouldn't we head back to the cabin?" Ryan then asked all of us.

"Yeah....good idea.....is it ok....wait....Aquin?" I stopped speaking, cause I noticed that the gator had a weird look in his eyes.

"Not again....NO...."

"....go.....to the cabin....HURRY...." Aquin then said to all of us very forcefully, as he immediately drew his sword from his back. We all sort of looked at each other confused though.

"GO!!!!!!"

"Y-yes sir...." I said back, wondering if this may have had to do with what I saw earlier that day. I quickly ran towards the waterfall and started climbing the rocky surface, making it to the top of the hill. I looked behind me and noticed that the others were following me but not as quickly. I then looked towards where Aquin was standing and then looked a good ways to his left, only to stop dead still.

"............what the fuck?!"

I saw some sort of dark black object not far from where Aquin was standing, now heading towards Aquin pretty fast. Aquin had his sword drawn, but I started moving towards the cabin again once everyone caught up with me.

"Did you guys see that??" I asked the group, as we all headed towards the door of the cabin, though we weren't really running that fast or anything.

"See what?" Morrell asked back.

"Never mind, I don't know what the hell is going on......we're here anyway......wait....WHAT THE....??"

I turned around and noticed the same sort of black object that was heading towards aquin was now at the top of the hill where the waterfall was, and was heading pretty fast towards us.

"What the hell?!" Tony then said as he looked towards the same area as I was. Everyone started getting inside, and Tony and myself were the last two to get in, quickly closing the door afterward.

"Mike.....did you....see that?!" Tony asked me.

"Yeah! What the hell was that thing?"

Just then, I heard a weird noise right outside of the door. It almost sounded like a low humming noise, but I really couldn't tell what it was. It also seemed to feel a bit cold in the air at that one moment. The wind seemed to pick up around the cabin outside, and no one knew what was going on.

"Mike, look........." Tony then motioned, asking me to come over to the window looking outside towards the front door.

*O_O*

"What the...."

A floating black cloud was floating right in front of the door, and just looking at it gave me a very creepy feeling.

*BANG* *BANG* *BANG*

"The fuck??" Mako, Sull, and Junir all said at the same time, as everyone was standing in the living room of the cabin, hearing a loud bang on the door.

"That thing....is it trying to get in?!?!" I asked, now holding Tony as I was starting to get scared a bit. "I don't know....where's Aquin?!"

Just then, right as Tony said that, we saw a glowing figure jump right in front of our eyes from the window over towards the front door, which almost scared both of us shitless since we couldn't really see what it clearly was.

"WHAT THE FUCK?!" I shouted.

*WHIRRRRRRRRRR* "AGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH"

I then heard a loud crying noise coming from the front door as well as the wind around the cabin still being very strong, and I was now clinching onto my Tiger more than ever, and he kept holding me securely.

"What the fuck just happened?!" "Yeah, what the fuck was that?" "Is it over?!" Sull, Ryan, and Junir all asked.

*CREEEEEEEEEKKKKKKK*

Before I could even answer the question, the door slowly opened with a very high pitched creaking noise. I was still holding onto Tony as much as I could, but when the door fully opened, I was sort of feeling better, though I was still kinda shocked as to what I was seeing.

Everyone's eyes lit up as they were staring at Aquin, who was glowing a somewhat yellowish color, with his eyes shrouded completely in yellow as well.

"A-a-aquin?" Morrell asked the Gator, keeping his distance from him as well as the rest of us doing the same, as the gator walked into the cabin with his sword in hand. His glow disintegrated slowly though, as his body was returning to his normal color. It was also pretty dark in the cabin now since the fireplace was out, though everyone had their flashlights with them in their backpacks, and there were also a couple of small lanterns in both the kitchen and the bedroom.

"You guys aren't safe here. Something is happening out here and we need to go." Aquin said to all of us very firmly.

"What are you talking about??" The Orca asked the Gator.

"So....we weren't seeing things then??" I asked Aquin. "Yeah, was that the same thing as earlier on the hill when we first saw you?!" Tony then forcefully asked.

"Yes. They are demons lurking in the woods here, but I have no idea where they are coming from. I haven't dealt with this many in quite a long time.....ungh"

Aquin started to feel his own head, which was the first time he had shown any sign of weakness towards any one of us.

"You ok Aquin??" I asked, coming up to the Gator.

"Y-yeah.....but we need to go. Get your stuff and stay with me. We need to get as far away from here as possible...."

"Wait just a second....what are you talking about?!" Morrell asked the Gator, thinking that all of this was sounding a bit crazy.

"Yeah, just what is going on here?" Junir also added. "I'm....scared...." Ord then mentioned, holding onto Sull again, since there was barely any light outside now.

"I'll explain once we get moving.....you guys just follow me and we'll get out of here. I know the way back to the main lands."

"That's good, at least you can lead us back towards a regular area where we can actually get some transportation..." Mako pointed out, grabbing his backpack and getting his stuff ready.

"Yeah, and I need to still call my parents!" I then added.

"We also need to call the police and let them know that we found Mike, so they can stop searching for him...." Sull then told everyone.

"Keep up guys, I ain't waiting, you need to stay close." Aquin then motioned for all of us to follow him, as he quickly grabbed a lantern and proceeded to walk out the door. It was then that was all stared at him since his body started glowing yellow again, as he was ready for anything to happen at that one moment.

With that said, Tony, Sull, Ord, Junir, Morrell, Ryan, Mako, Karmakat, and myself all headed out and followed Aquin's lead, staying close to the gator and watching all of our surroundings as the sky eventually turned to black.