Gina looks at the report given to her by Dawson and Matteo. She couldn’t believe the information they uncovered about the White Supremacist group they managed to infiltrate. According to their reports, the group was financed by some church out in Detroit, Michigan. The church and the group it supported were old but was growing in popularity, due to the current political climate in Washington D.C.

Her people were still digging into the organization of the Church. They knew it had ties to the Vatican, but what those ties were, they couldn’t figure out. Her employee Sabrina Brice wasn’t the only transgender or homosexual that had been attacked.

Two lesbian couples were found dead in their apartment. Three gay couples had been found dead as well. One couple was found dead in their home and the other two couples had been found hanging from a tree branch with their penis stuffed in their mouths.

Julia was giving her what she could from work. She said that Internal Affairs were looking into what happened to sergeant Bronx at her house and why he came after her and her family. Gina knew her dad and sister were pressing charges against ex-sergeant Bronx.

Sergeant Bronx hired some big shot lawyer from New York to try and get the charges dropped against him, but the evidence proving what he did, was too overwhelming. Her and Julia’s property were monitored by a security firm her father owned and by her father as well. There were hidden cameras and motion/infrared detectors all over the property. There also were sensors along the driveway and fire road that connected all three of their properties.

Her laptop beeps, letting her know an email came in. Gina looks at it and notices it was from her assistant. She opens it and starts reading it.
According to what their investigator found about Gloria Blackburn and her husband Henry Blackburn went to the same church as Sabrina’s first boss. The one that found out she was a transgender person.

“So, Sabrina’s first boss was responsible for Gloria and her husband going after Sabrina. That still doesn’t answer why they went after her.” She sends a reply message to Sammy instructing her to find out how the church the two went to is connected to St. Richard of Salemo in Detroit, Michigan. Also, to find out why Sabrina’s first boss, John Rives wanted her dead.

Gina covers up a yawn as she glances at her watch. She still had a few more hours before the Lear Jet she was on would be landing in New York. She had a meeting tomorrow with Anika at Eruption Communications. She closes her eyes and leans her chair back to get comfortable and get some sleep.

Anika Jagger’s House:
Anika looks in on Aylin before she leaves. She looks at her as she laid in bed with her boyfriend Shade/ Tim Russell sitting nearby. Aylin had to go in and have surgery done to her vagina, because of all the scar tissue. Elizabeth had called her and told her that Shade had called her to his place. Aylin and Shade had planned on having sex, but because of the experiments that had been done to Aylin’s body. There had been too much scarring inside her vaginal lining.

So, Anika made an appointment for Aylin to have vaginal rejuvenation. That was three days ago. The doctors had a hard time knocking Aylin out, because of her high tolerance for drugs. The doctor that experimented on Aylin, really messed her up chemical wise.

“Shade, are you and Aylin going to be okay, while I’m gone?” Anika was worried about Aylin.

“We’ll be fine, Anika. If Aylin gives me any problems, I know how to get her to cooperate with me. If it gets to the point, I need your help, I’m probably dead.” Shade knows how stubborn Aylin can get.

“Alright, call me if you need anything.” Anika grabs the car keys to her jaguar they brought back from England and head to work.

Eruption Communications:
“Morning Ms. Jagger.” Mia had Anika’s coffee already prepared and ready for her when Anika walked into her office.

“Mia, how many times, do I have to tell you, not to call me Ms. Jagger? Also, thank you for the coffee.” Anika accepts the coffee.

“Sorry Anika, but it just seems rude to call you by your first name.” Mia stood before Anika’s desk.

“I know Mia, but you are considered family here. So, for now on, unless its someone higher up than me. Just call me Anika, please.”

“Yes, ma’am. Now, you have four appointments today and one meeting. The new manager of the telecommunications company your brother bought is whipping it in shape and he’ll have his progress report to you by this evening.”

“What’s the meeting about?” Anika needed to be updated about.

“Don’t know, Anika. The director wouldn’t give any details about it.” Mia tried to find out what the meeting was about, but she couldn’t.

“Well, let me see what I can find out.” Anika knew the Director may run the company for Jack, but he did have to answer her.

She watches as Mia leaves her office. Once Mia was out of the office, she contacts the Director. She waits for the video chat to connect.

Director’s Office:
Director Sanders was talking to the DHS agent that had come to him to request their help in tracking illegal immigrants. Lately, Director Sanders was agreeing with the current political policies in Washington D.C. He was going to let DHS uses Eruption Communications cellular monitoring equipment and satellites to find illegal immigrants.

Sanders looks at his monitor when it starts beeping, letting him know a video request was calling. He looks at the ID of the caller and notices it was Anika Jagger. He presses the accept button.

“Hello Anika, what can I do for you?”

“Good morning Director. I was wondering if you could give me a heads up on what the meeting is, so I can be prepared for it?”

“You’ll find out during the meeting Anika. If that is all, I need to take care of some other business.” Director Sanders ends the video chat.

Anika’s Office:
Anika’s sits there and stare at the screen. Something wasn’t feeling right about the conversation. She wonders what was going on. She goes back taking care of some paperwork until the meeting.

An hour later, there is a knocking sound coming from Anika’s door.

“Come in.”

Mia walks in escorting an oriental woman. She stops in front of Anika’s desk.

“Well, it looks like you are staying busy, auntie.” Gina had a smile on her face.

A smile appears on Anika’s face. She gets up and walks around to give Gina a hug.

“How are you doing Gina?” As Anika hugs her.

Gina returns the hug “I’m doing alright. How are you and your team doing?” Gina sits down in the high back leather chair in front of Anika’s desk.

Gina noticed that Anika’s assistant had already left the office. She watches her aunt as she sits down behind her desk.

“They are doing okay. Terry has had some surgery to look more like a man. Elizabeth and her wife are trying to have children. Aylin had to
have vagina reconstruction surgery done to her, so she is at home with her boyfriend recovering. Bart is enjoying the joys of being a father.” All her teammates were developing a life.

“How about Dakota? How is she doing?” Gina had read somewhere that Dakota was living with Terry.

“She’s the proud mother of a set of twins. She’s living with Terry and one morning when she went to open the shop up. She found a basket with
twin girls in it outside the shop’s office door. The baby girls belonged to a customer of theirs. The woman had left the twins there with a note explaining that she was slowly dying and couldn’t take care of the babies anymore. The woman said she would be honored and proud of Terry and Dakota would raise her girls.” Anika had been named as their godmother.

“What happened to the birth mother?” Gina was curious.

“By the time Terry and Dakota tracked her down, she had passed. According to the medical report, she had died of a rare blood disease. Also, it turned out her work visa had expired. The babies were fathered by an old boyfriend the woman had been seeing and he didn’t want the kids. So, Terry and Dakota have become parents. Terry’s sister-in-law is helping them.”

“What are the babies name?” Gina pulls a little notebook and pens out to write the names down.

“Gloria and Sunny. The birth mother wanted to keep their names simple.”

“Is Dakota breastfeeding them or using formula?” Gina would have gone with breastfeeding them.

“Believe it or not, Dakota is breastfeeding them. I thought she might do formula, but she wanted to experience what it is like to breastfeed a child.” Anika would have used formula.

“Well, I know if Arabella had been a baby when I got her, I would have breastfed her. If I ever get pregnant by Arnold, I am planning on going that route.” Gina wanted to experience everything about what it meant to be a woman.

“Speaking of Arnold, how are you and he doing, now that he is working in Montana?” Anika was curious about her niece.

“We’re doing fine. I’m happy he is back and is working with my uncle.” Gina loved having Arnold around the house.

“How is your sister doing? I heard she got attacked.” Anika hadn’t gotten the whole report yet.

“Julia is doing okay. One of the people who she worked with shot her in the stomach several times. Mom wanted to kill him. I don’t think I have ever seen mom so pissed off before. She was scary that day. Oh, you have another niece and nephew. Julia and Christmas adopted a Native American boy and girl. Chayton is thirteen years old and his sister Catori is eight years old. Haylee is trilled to have an older brother and a younger sister.” Gina had a smile on her face.

“You guys are adopting children left and right. What is it with you guys?” Anika couldn’t believe how big Jack’s family was getting.

“It’s not something we set out to do. It just happens to us. If you had seen how Arabella was treated by her father, you would have killed him. Haylee’s step-father kidnapped her, and her younger sister from their foster home that Julia had helped find for them. He killed Haylee’s younger sister and Haylee was forced to protect herself and shot him. As for the newest members of our family. Their father was mistreating them and killed their mother.” Gina couldn’t believe how any parent could treat their kids that way.

Then again, her own birth parents felt that she deserved what was done to her. She looked them up a few years later and discovered that she had a brother and sister. They had more kids to replace her.

“So, what brings you up to my office, besides updating me about the family?” Anika was curious about why her niece was visiting her.

“Well, there’s two reasons I’m here. The first is, I just acquired several security companies here in New York and I was wondering if any member of your team might be available? The second reason is, I’m investigating a group called the Hunter organization. I know they operate out of Detroit, Michigan, but do they have other churches here in New York that they might operate out of?”

“I’ve never heard of them, who are they?” Anika’s curiosity peeked.

“Some church group that has connections to white supremacist groups. They tried to kill one of my employees.”

“I could ask Aylin and her boyfriend Shade if they have ever heard of them. They hang out on the streets and know almost everything about
what is going on out there.” Anika knew Aylin and her boyfriend had connections out on the streets of New York.

“Aylin, has a boyfriend?” Gina was surprised by that statement.

“Yeah, Aylin has a boyfriend and I think the two of them are very serious.” Anika has seen how Shade looked at Aylin and how Aylin was very protected of Shade.

“Well, I hope she found the right person. She deserves it after the life she has had.” Gina read her file and felt sorry for the girl.

“I agree. As for your request for the security company. I would suggest Dakota and Elizabeth. Dakota is a former LA police officer and Elizabeth is former military and does security here. They could investigate the companies and see what problems there are and what you need to fix. As for the Hunter Organization, I’ll speak with Hatter and let you know.”

“That’s fine. I’m going to be in town for a couple of days. I’m staying at our apartment over near Central Park.” Gina’s father just recently had their New York place renovated.

“I’ll talk to you later, then.” Anika walks Gina to her office door.

Gina heads off to tend to a few things. She had a lot on her mind, especially about the Hunter Organization. Why were they operating with a bunch of White Supremacist?

Eruption Communications Main Conference Room:
Anika shows up for the meeting that was scheduled to take place. She watches as director Sanders and another person walks into the conference room. She wonders who the person is, as she sits at the table waiting for the meeting to start.

Once everyone is in the conference room. Director Sanders looks at everyone “I would like to introduce DHS agent Atkin Madoff. The DHS would like our help in locating illegal immigrants by using our telecommunication equipment and our satellites. I have agreed to their request.”

“I’m sorry Director Sanders, but that request needs to be approved by the owner of the company.” Anika looks at the director.

Director Sanders looks at Anika “I don’t think Mr. Bounty would mind us helping the DHS with this issue.”

“I would still run this by him. He is particular about who’s privacy we invade.” Anika looks at Sanders and DHS agent Madoff.

“This is National Security, Ms. Jagger. I don’t think the owner would mind you helping us.” Agent Madoff had orders to use these companies’ resources to track down several immigrants.

“I think this is a mistake.” Anika had sent a message to Jack, while she was talking to the Director and the agent.

Ten minutes later director Sanders assistant comes running into the conference room. She looks like the devil just walked in.

“Sir, Mr. Bounty is on the phone and he said you better take it right now. He also said, his daughter will be here in ten minutes and you will do
what she said or there will be hell to pay. These are his exact words.” Betty has never heard Mr. Bounty so pissed.

Anika looks at the director and the DHS agent “I told you. Mr. Bounty is very particular about how his company is used.”

“What did you do, inform him?” Agent Madoff gives Anika a dirty look.

A very sweet smile appears on her face “actually, yes. He’s my big brother after all and this is the reason, he hired me.”

Agent Madoff just looks at Anika as she sat in her chair and smiled at him. The way she was looking at him, made him feel uneasy. It was like she was just waiting to pounce on him. Director Sanders storms out of the conference room and goes to talk with Jack.

Gina was getting ready to stop at her favorite restaurant when her cellphone starts ringing.

“Hello?”

“Gina, how close are to Eruption Communications?”

Gina recognized her father’s angry voice. It took a lot to get her father worked up.

“I’m about ten minutes away, daddy. Do you want me to go back and handle whatever the problem is?”

“Yes, I’m firing director Sanders and I want you to handle things, till I get George Leon from my Chicago branch to come out and run the business.”

Gina knew George and knew he loved New York “I think that might be wise, Daddy. I’m heading back now.”

“Thanks, sweetie.” Jack knew he could count on his daughter. He would have asked Anika to be the director, but he needed her in the spot she was in.

“Any time, daddy.” Gina turns around and heads back to the building.

She parks her car in an empty spot and heads upstairs towards the floor the Director’s office was. She heard yelling coming from the main conference room. She walks in and saw Director Sanders and Agent Madoff right in front of Anika’s face.

Agent Madoff reaches for Anika’s left arm, ready to grab and shake her. He feels a sharp pain in his hand. He looks at his hand and saw a throwing knife sticking out of his hand.

“I would back off gentlemen and I use that term loosely.” Gina had put her purse down on the floor and was ready to strike the two men.

“Who the hell are you?” Agent Madoff turns to face a short oriental woman.

“I’m Gina Bounty and the next time you try to grab my aunt. I won’t use a throwing knife on you.” Gina was ready to strike the guy if he made any sort of move.

“I would listen to my niece. She’s highly trained and can kill you with her bare hands.” Anika had slipped her ink pen in her hands.
Director Sanders looks at Gina and at Anika. He knew Jack must have sent Gina.

“Now, I suggest you remove yourself from my father’s building, whoever you are. As for you Mr. Sanders you have your orders and you have ten minutes to leave on your own before I have security escort you out.”

“You can’t do that.” Director Sanders just glares at Gina.

“You have nine minutes now. And yes, I can Mr. Sanders.” Gina glances towards her wristwatch.

Mr. Madoff and Mr. Sanders both leave. Gina stood and watch as Mr. Sanders cleared his office out. She also had the IT department, lock all his accounts and access.

“So, who is your father bring in this time?” Anika wonders who Jack was bring in.

“George Leon, Aunt Anika. Dad knows he likes New York and he’s been straining at the bit for more responsibility.” George has been managing Lone Star Communications in Chicago.

“So, you’re the interim director?”

“Yep, Dad asked me to fill in, until he gets here.”

“Good, that will give me a chance to help you.” Anika was going to like working for her niece.

The rest of the day, Gina goes over what Director Sanders had planned for working with DHS. There was a list of immigrants that DHS was looking for along with a few other people as well. She shakes her head and wonders what the world was coming too.

She continues getting things cleaned up and contact Morgana to dig through his personal files and the desktop in the office. By the time seven o’clock rolls around. She was ready to leave the office. She was surprised that Anika was still in the office.

“Hey, do you want to join me for dinner, my treat?” Gina stood in Anika’s office door.

“Sure, let me finish this last email.” Anika finishes composing the email she had been working on.

Gina just stands in Anika’s doorway waiting on her to finish whatever it was. She saw that Anika had pictures that were done by some of the famous master’s hanging in her office. She wonders where she got them?

“Alright, I’m done.” Anika sends the email she was working on.

“Good. Do you want to drive, or do you want me to drive?”

“Where are we going?” Anika grabs her purse.

“Delmonico's, dad and I always go there when we are in town.” Gina knew it was her father’s favorite.

“Sounds good to me. I don’t think I have been there before.” Anika locks her office up and heads down to the parking level, after letting the security captain know her and Gina were leaving.

Once they reach the parking level Anika’s jaguar was parked on. She spots it sitting all by itself.

“So, that’s the one you brought back from England?” As Gina climbs in.

“Yep, my other favorite one got blown up on our first mission out.” Anika starts the car up once she got in.

Anika knew where the restaurant was, so she drove towards there. She wonders how Aylin and shade were doing. She knew the operation went okay, but Aylin didn’t like being housebound.

Anika and Gina spend an hour and a half at the restaurant. Afterward, Anika drops Gina back off at the place she is staying. She’ll catch a cab in the morning to get to the office.

“See you in the morning, auntie.” Gina just smiles as she heads inside the building where she was staying.

Anika shakes her head and heads home. When she arrives at home, she checks on Aylin and Shade. They were watching a movie in Aylin’s bedroom and it looked like they had ordered Aylin’s favorite pizza. Shade was laying on top of the covers on Aylin bed and the pizza box was resting on Aylin’s stomach.

Shade waves to her, as he was biting into a slice of pizza. Aylin looked like she was comfortable and absorbed in whatever the movie they
were watching was. She was leaning against shade’s body.

A smile appears on Anika’s face as she leaves them ad head towards her bedroom. She was happy that Aylin was acting like a semi-normal teenager, instead of a killer. Aylin still had moments where some bad memories would surface from all the experiments that had been
performed on her. That is something Anika feared Aylin will have for the rest of her life.

The next few days are busy for Gina as she assumes control of Eruption Communications. She stays in contact with George Leon keeping him informed about what is going on at Eruption. She ahs Morgana remote in and transfer his access from Lone Star to Eruption.

One evening while she and Anika are walking down to the underground parking garage. Four figures in black suits step out of the shadows.
One of the muscular of the four steps forward in front of Anika and Gina.

“Stop investigating the Hunter organization, Mrs. Bounty or something bad will happen to you and your family.” Balian looks at the oriental woman and her companion standing near her.

He had been given orders by Bishop Henri to put a stop to Mrs. Bounty from looking into the organization. He had said he could use any level of force to make her stop.

An evil smile appears on her face. This guy just made the wrong threat against her and her family.

“Boy! Did you just fuck up?” Anika had the same smile on her face, that Gina had.

A guy Anika didn’t see, throws a knife at her and hits her in her upper thigh. He moves in quickly and strikes her hard and fast. He strikes her again in the face.

Anika was thrown off and surprised by the knife hitting her in her thigh and the two punches she received. The guy attacking her was moving fast and hard. She has never encountered anyone who was as fast as this guy.

The guy in front of Gina strikes fast and misses her face with one punch. She had countered the blow but didn’t manage to stop the strike to her stomach. He strikes her again and this time uses an atemi strike on her right shoulder and makes it go useless.

The next twenty minutes Gina and Anika get in a serious fistfight with the four people. Anika and Gina have never been so hard press to defend themselves before. The strikes they were taking to their bodies were painful. Gina manages to pull her gun with her left hand and put several bullets into one guy’s chest, but he didn’t go down.

Anika saw what happened as she stopped a leg strike to her head. The leg that she had been hit in with the throwing knife was heavily bleeding. The guy who had thrown it kicked it further into her leg.

“They are wearing some sort of body armor under their clothes.” Anika manages to grab Gina’s other gun and shot the person who she was fighting in the foot.

“Not a bad idea.” Gina does the same thing to her guy.

Her gun goes flying out of her hand from a heavy object smashing into her hand. She didn’t even notice the object coming towards her. She couldn’t move her hand at all.

The next thing Anika and Gina know, several explosions go off around them. The explosions had left behind a bunch of smoke and when it cleared there was a female figure standing before them and she had some sort of silvery Bo staff in one hand facing off against three of the dark figures still standing.

The figure was covered from head to toe in a metallic bodysuit. Gina and Anika could see that the person was female, from the way the suit outlined the body. She moves quickly when the person that Gina had been struck by at first causes a bo staff to expand.

“Where are they getting those toys?” Anika places her hand on her side and felt blood.

“I don’t know.” Gina could tell she had several cracked ribs. She was having a hard time breathing.

Her right arm was useless, and she couldn’t feel anything in her left hand. She watches as the female battles all three males. She had to be at least a foot or two smaller then the guys she was fighting.

Anika looks at Gina “who the hell is she?”

“I don’t know, but she is kicking their asses. I can’t move and I think I broke a few ribs.” Gina was hurting where she had been punched and kicked.

It takes her ten minutes to run the four guys off. Just before they left, they threw some sort of object that knocked Gina and Anika onto their backs when it exploded. The female figure is knocked off her feet as well. The metal staff she had been using and holding in her left hand, rolled near Gina’s rental car.

“Owe!” Gina moves slowly as she tries to get up.

Anika was right beside her and was wondering where security was. They should have seen this fight on the cameras. She looks in the direction of the cameras and noticed they were still on.

Carla moans beneath her body armor as she tries to get up. She hates when the Hunter organization use those concussion grenades. She slowly rises off the concrete floor and looks over towards the oriental woman and Anika. She knew who Anika was, but the oriental woman she didn’t know.

Anika and Gina noticed the small female woman looking at them. They couldn’t see her face, because of the helmet. It fully encased the person head and had a dark tint, that hid her face.

“You two look like you could use a hospital.” Carla could see how bad they looked.

“Yes, if you can drive us. There is a private hospital not too far from here.” Gina knew the doctor that ran it. She hopes that the doctor was on duty.

“Let me bring my SUV around.” Carla runs as fast as she can towards her SUV.

She touches her remote on her wrist and the SUV starts up. She removes her helmet and jumps into the SUV. She manages to get it down to the parking level where Gina and Anika were waiting.

Gina watches as a black SUV comes down to the level her Anika was at. Both ladies were seriously injured and needed medical attention. Gina still couldn’t feel or move her right arm.

“Who do you think she works for?” Anika looks at Gina and could tell she was in pain.

“I don’t know, but I’m glad she was here.” Gina has never gotten her ass beaten like she did today.

She got in some good strikes in, but if that unknown female hadn’t shown up when she did. Her and Anika might be in worst shape then they were already. She wonders why security didn’t come down to help them.

Carla pulls up next to Gina and Anika. She gets out and over to them.

“Let’s get you two loaded up and to the hospital.”

Gina noticed that the female person was Hispanic. She looked to be in her late twenties, maybe early thirties.

“Who are you?’ As Gina climbs into the SUV with her help.

“A friend for now.” Carla helps Anika into the SUV.

“Where too?” Carla gets in on the driver side.

“W14th st and 5th ave. Enter in from 5th ave.” Gina heard Anika moan from her injuries.

It takes Carla twenty minutes to find the place. She pulls into the underground parking and park. She helps Gina and Anika up to the tenth floor. When they exit from the elevator, they are met by some nurses.

They rush Gina and Anika to the emergency rooms and start working on them. Carla was amazed that there was a private hospital in downtown New York. She saw Gina enter a private code when they were in the elevator.

After thirty minutes, a female doctor comes out to her “Mrs. Bounty wants to talk with you. Try to keep it short.”

“I will Doctor.”

Carla follows a nurse to a private room. When she walks into it, she sees Gina hooked up to a monitor that was monitoring her vitals.

“You wanted to talk to me?” Carla felt sorry for Mrs. Bounty.

“Yes. Who are you and who were those men?”

“My name is Carla Santos and those men are members of the Hunter Organization. They are specially trained fighters that the organization sends out to make people back off or kill them. They have no problem going after your loved ones and killing them. That particular team was sent by Bishop Henri.” Carla had hoped she would never have to go against her old team.

“How do you know so much about them?” Gina was watching the woman’s body expression.

“Because I use to be a member of their group. I finally learned the truth about what we were doing, and I left them.” Carla knew they would have never accepted her decision to become a woman either.

Cardwell, Montana:
“So, what do you think we should have for lunch when we get back to the ranch, Chayton?” Jack glance at his newest grandchild.

Chayton has been enjoying his new life and spending time with his new family. He especially likes spending time with Mr. Bounty. They have been going to baseball games, horseback riding, fishing and all sorts of thing. He was happy to have two men in the family to talk man stuff with. There were too many women in the Bounty family and sometimes he found it difficult to talk to Julia and Christmas about things he was experiencing. He glances towards his new watch, that Mr. Bounty gave him. He had never seen anything like before. Jack had said that it operated just like the necklaces everyone wore and it also had a satellite emergency function if he ever needed help.

“Doesn’t Selina normally choose what lunch is?” Chayton was curious.

“Sometimes, but if there is something special you want, she’ll make it for you.”

“Cool.” He likes eating over at his grandfather’s house.

Jack just smiles as he continues down the highway. He starts slowing down, when he notices the highway up ahead of them was blocked off by two black SUV’s. He also notices the figures in black standing in front of the SUV’s blocking the highway. Jack was glad that the highway he was on, wasn’t a busy one.

Chayton saw that the highway was blocked by five people in black metallic suits and two SUV’s. He noticed that Jack was slowing down as well. The hummer comes to a stop “Chayton, stay inside the hummer and don’t open the doors after I get out.”

“Should I summon Uncle Alex and Uncle Robert?” Chayton knew his uncle Arnold was in court today and his mother Julia was at work.

“Not unless it gets messy, Chayton.” Jack wonders what this was about as he exits from the hummer.

He closes the door behind him and hears the locks engage as he walks away from the hummer. He keeps his eyes on the men in front of him, watching and waiting for them to do something stupid.

“Who are you and what do you want with me?”

“We’re here to deliver a message and how you respond to our message will determine what we do next.” Lee Guiteau had been informed by the brotherhood in Europe about Mr. Bounty.

He was warned that he is one of the deadliest government agents ever trained. If Mr. Bounty didn’t take the warning, he was to eliminate him. If it took his whole crew to take him out, so be it. Mr. Bounty couldn’t be allowed to live.

“We’re with the Hunter Organization, Mr. Bounty and we’re here to warn you to call your daughter’s investigation off us. If you don’t, we will come after your whole entire family, no matter where they live or hide.” Lee watches Mr. Bounty. He didn’t see how the man standing before him was so dangerous.

“Which of my daughter’s is investigating your organization?” Jack knew it couldn’t be Julia. She was under investigation herself by Internal Affairs about the incident with Sergeant Bronx.

His other daughters were enjoying the summer with their boyfriend, so it couldn’t be them. That left Gina, but she was in New York handling things for him at Eruption Communications.

“Your daughter Gina Bounty. She is digging into us and it needs to stop before we are forced to”

Lee never got a chance to finish his words. Jack had pulled his gun and shot the man in the head. He figured that it wasn’t protected like the rest of his body. He had drawn both his handguns from their concealed spots on his body.

The other four agents reacted quickly. One guy throws an object towards Jack and it explodes mid-air, knocking Jack on his back. Another guy throws a silver object at Jack while he is on the road but misses him as he rolls out of the way. Another guy charges up to Jack and goes to strike him but is blocked by Jack’s forearm and is shot in the leg. He drops like a rag doll.

A fourth guy manages to kick Jack in his rib cage. He tries to stomp Jack’s face, but his leg is caught and thrown. Jack manages to kick up off the ground and grab his guns.

Chayton watches his grandfather fend off the reminding three people. One person had his foot shot off and was laying on the road. He watches as one person pull some sort of sword crackling with electricity from behind his back and try to hit his grandfather with it.

The guy misses Jack, but another guy hits Jack with an atemi strike to his left shoulder. A smile appears on the guy’s face.

“That might have been a good hit for you if I didn’t know how to fix it.” Jack undoes what the guy did to him.

Robert was surprised that Mr. Bounty countered the strike to his shoulder. The next thing he felt was Mr. Bounty’s fist hitting his jaw and the pain afterward. It felt like he had been hit by a sledgehammer. One of the other guys manages to strike Mr. Bounty across the back with a polearm that expanded. He sent Jack stumbling forward.

Chayton had pressed the emergency button Jack built into his watch. He hopes someone at the ranch will get the message. He continues to watch as his grandfather fights the remaining three people. He watches as his grandfather, drops a third person.

Jack looks at the last two standing Hunter’s “do you want to give up now or end up being food for my wolves?”

The Bounty Ranch and Julia’s Police Precinct:
Selina was watching her favorite television show as she folded the laundry. The twins were with Debbie. Alyona and Silvia were out with their boyfriend’s horseback riding. Christmas took Haylee and Catori shopping to buy Catori somethings for her and to have her hair styled as well.

As Selina was watching her show, the screen changes to a map with Chayton’s emergency signal flashing on it. Selina knew he was with Jack, so something bad must be going on. She spots Debbie coming into the kitchen.

“What’s going on Selina?” Debbie was concerned because Jack was supposed to be with him.

“It looks like Chayton’s signal is coming from just up the highway from us.” Selina locates who was close to Jack.

“We’re the closest to Jack.” Selina looks towards Debbie.

“Watch the twins for me, please.” Debbie starts heading towards the front of the house.

She grabs Jack’s spare triple barrel shotgun and the keys to her pickup truck. As she walks out the front door “Chaos, Miscreant, Night come on boys.”

Three huge gray and black wolves come from behind the house and jump into the bed of the truck. Debbie makes sure they are okay before she speeds down the driveway to the state highway that runs in front of their property. She takes it to where it joins the highway that Jack was on.

She had the accelerator floored. She was glad that Jack overhauled the engine in her old pick-up and gave it more horsepower. The highway Jack was on, was a divided highway, so she was going to need to take the police access road to get where Jack was. As she gets closer, she spots Jack facing off against two people.

Julia moves slowly as she grabs her purse from her desk drawer. She was done with all the paperwork she had to do. She hated the fact that she was desk-bound until she was fully healed and when the investigation was done by internal affairs.

Just as she was walking out to her SUV, her cellphone starts beeping letting her know there was an emergency. Terror and Sphinx were following behind her. She pulls her cellphone out and looks at it. She notices it was Chayton’s emergency signal, which was weird because he was supposed to be with her father.

It was going to take her a while to get to his location, but she didn’t care. She runs towards her SUV. She opens the doors and the Wolves jump in.

Julia turns her lights on and speeds out of the parking lot. It was going to take her a while to get to her father and son, even with using her lights. The question that was bothering her, was why they were in trouble.

Jack and the Two Hunter’s:
Jack spots his wife’s pick-up truck coming up from behind the two guys. He hopes she brought some of the wolves with her.

“You guys are in BIG trouble now.”

Debbie saw Jack facing off against two figures in metallic body armor and three layings on the road. There was two black SUV’s blocking the road and she spots Jack’s hummer behind him with their new grandson in it. Liam and Tom heard another vehicle come up from behind them.

Liam turns around to see if it was their reinforcements. He spots an older dirty blonde shoulder-length hair woman, pointing a triple barrel shotgun at them.

“That would be my wife, and if I know her.”

He gives a whistle and three wolves jump out of the bed of the truck. They start growling as they gather behind her.

“And those would be my wolves, coming to have their fun.”

Chayton saw his grandmother pointing a huge shotgun at the two men and three of his grandparents’ wolves. He noticed that Chaos was among them. He was the biggest of his grandfather’s wolves. Terror and Miscreant were the next biggest with Sphinx and Cadmus being the next biggest after them.

“You bastards better get on the ground before I shoot you dumb asses.” Debbie was pissed that someone was threatening her family again.

“I would do what the lady says, gentlemen. That shotgun can go through your armor like it was butter.” Jack knew his spare shotgun held titanium-tungsten solid slugs in it.

“She and your wolves won’t protect you from us. We have ordered.” Liam wasn’t afraid to die for the organization.

“Think about it, boys. You’re outnumbered, and I have already disabled three of your people. If my wolves don’t kill you, I and my wife will.”

“We have our back-up coming as well. So, even if you killed us. We still have people coming after your home.” Liam knew the Organization will burn Jack’s Bounty’s place down.

Bounty Ranch:
Selina was monitoring what was going on with Debbie and Jack from the cameras in the pick-up truck when the perimeter alarms start going off. She turns the security cameras on and spot three SUV’s coming up the long driveway. The radar the house has was picking up two helicopters coming towards the location of the house. They weren’t sending a security code or responding back to the automatic message Jack’s sends out.

She sends a message to Alyona and Silvia to head for the emergency bunker or if they are close to the house to come in through the barn tunnel. After sending the message to them, she locks down the house and alerts Jack. The property defenses were brought online.

Alyona and Silvia were out near the border of the property with their friends, when their cellphone beeps, letting them know a text arrived. Alyona looked at her cellphone and spot the message from Selina telling her to head to the bunker or if she was close to the house, to come in through the tunnels from the barn. Then she hears two helicopters heading towards the house.

“Guys, we better head towards the bunker. Someone is attacking the house.”

“Who would attack you guys?” Alyona’s boyfriend looks at her.

“Whoever wants revenge against our family or grandfather.” Silvia couldn’t believe someone would be stupid enough to attack them with gunships.

On the Highway:
Jack receives a message from Selina that the house was being attacked. He sends the okay to activate all the property defenses. He also hears police sirens approaching his position as well.

Julia slams on the brakes when she sees her mother and father facing off against two metallic armor people. Three similar dress people were laying on the ground. Her father’s hummer looked intact and okay. She saw her mother had three of their most dangerous wolves with her.
Julia hops out and lets Terror and Sphinx out. She runs up to her father’s hummer and notices Chayton was okay inside.

She was relieved that nothing has happened to Chayton. Julia could see the relief on her son's face that she was there.

“Who are those dumb asses, daddy?” Julia had her guns pulled and each wolf was on either side of her.

“Someone who is going to die, if they don’t stop attacking our home.”

“We can’t do that, Mr. Bounty. We told you what will happen.”

There are two loud booms as Liam and the other guy falls to the ground from Debbie shooting them in the back with the shotgun. She turns around and heads back to the pick-up. She calls the wolves as they jump into the bed of the truck.

Jack glances towards Julia “can you handle this mess?”

“I got it, daddy.” Julia calls in Highway Patrol.

The people that were still living she kneels next to “you clowns are very stupid to attack this family. Now, we will be going after your leaders.”

Julia stands up and directs a few cars that had arrived around the mess. She hopes her father and mother can handle things at the ranch.

Cardwell, Montana, Gina’s House:
Arabella was playing a game in her game room when her computer alerted her to what was going on. The armor shutters that protected the house came down and the armor plates that protected the doors slide into place. Trigger was laying at her feet and looked up when she heard all the noise going on in the house.

Arabella pauses her game and switches to the secondary feed her grandfather gave her access to. She saw two black SUV’s coming up her grandfather’s driveway. Her grandmother and grandfather were coming up the emergency road that leads from her Aunt’s Julia’s property. The feed she was getting showed three incoming helicopters armed to the teeth coming from behind the property.

She dials her mother’s cellphone number and sends a text message to her father. She knew her mother was in New York and her father was in court and hopes he gets her text. She also alerts her Uncles as well.

New York, NewYork:
Gina was laying in her hospital room talking with Carla when her cellphone starts ringing. She picks it up and notices it was her daughter calling her. She presses accept “what’s wrong, sweetie?”

“We’re under attack, mom. Grandpa’s house is being attacked by three helicopters and two SUV’s coming up his driveway.” Arabella was watching the feed from her grandfather’s house.

“Where are you, baby?” Gina was concern about Arabella.

“I’m in my game room, mom. Dad is in court this morning. I alerted Uncle Alex and Uncle Robert.” Arabella knew it was going to take time for them to get to the ranch. They have to drop their adopted daughter off at the baby sitter.

Gina was worried about Arabella. She was in the house without either her or her husband being there. She didn’t know who was attacking her family.

“Arabella, if the battle comes close to the house. I want you to head to the safe room and lock yourself in.”

“Yes, ma’am.” Arabella wonders if she was going to have to head there.

Bounty Ranch, Emergency Bunker:
Alyona, Silvia, and their boyfriends managed to make it to the emergency bunker just in time. Just as they entered the bunker, they heard the Phalanx CIWS firing.

“What the hell was that?” Nicky was surprised by the sound.

“That’s daddy’s air defense system.” Alyona recognized the sound from hearing it on television.

“Your father has an air defense system? Who is he?” Silvia boyfriend Kevin was wondering who Mr. Bounty was.

“He’s a retired government agent. Dad did jobs no one else was capable of doing.” Alyona had once asked their father what they should tell people when they ask about him. He told her that she should just tell people that he was a retired government agent.

Kevin looks at Silvia and couldn’t believe how calm she was. He was nervous and was wondering what was going on outside and near the house.

“Aren’t you worried about what is going on outside?”

“Yes, but my father and family are used to doing things like this.” Alyona starts exploring the bunker.

The place was huge and had everything they needed to be protected, including an armory. She peeks inside the room and heard Nicky behind her whistle when he saw what was in the room.

“Damn, Alyona. Your father is packing a lot of weapons. Is he expecting World War III or something?”

“Nope, dad just likes to be prepared.” Alyona closes the armory door.

She and Nicky go and find Silvia and Kevin. They were in what appeared to be the entertainment room, playing ping pong.

Outside on the Ranch:
The two feed silo’s tops start lowering, revealing Phalanx CIWS on top of them. Halfway down the towers, the middle opens to reveal missile launchers armed with four missiles each. The Phalanx starts firing at the helicopters.

The helicopters try to avoid the phalanx but are hit by it. One explodes, while one crash lands near the airstrip. The third one crash lands out towards the pasture.

Main Driveway:
The first SUV has a set of spikes popping up through the engine department. The second SUV tries to go around the first one and slams into four round barriers that had popped up. The men inside jump out as a missile is launched from the silo towards them. They were wearing the same type of body armor as the men from the road, but this time their heads were covered.

The men coming out of the SUV’s are surprised as the wolves that were still on the property started attacking them. The wolves couldn’t penetrate their armor, but they were keeping them occupied. Debbie had taken the same path to Julia’s property as Jack. She pulls her truck into the hangar where their Lear Jet’s, Julia’s fighter jet and Jack’s Cessna was stored. Just as she was about to close the hangar door, Jack pulls in next to her pick-up truck.

“Stay with us Chayton.” Jack exists from his hummer and closes the hangar door.

Chayton gets out and walks over to his grandmother. The three wolves that were with her ran out of the hangar to join in on the fun with the others.

Debbie looks over at her husband “who did you piss off this time?”

“Not me, this time sweetie. Gina was investigating who went after one of her employee’s.” Jack called Gina and asked her why she was investigating the Hunter Group.

He also learned that his granddaughter Arabella was at home all by herself. He walks over towards Debbie and gives her a kiss.

“Our granddaughter Arabella is home by herself.”

“I hope she is okay.” Debbie grabs the shotgun out of the truck and heads down the secret passage that leads from the hangar to the barn and
from the barn to the house.

Out On the Back Perimeter of the Bounty Ranch:
Sofia and the scout group that had been sent with her to track down why the Hunter group was in Caldwell, Montana. Normally, they didn’t come out here unless they were tracking down a supernatural creature. She watches as the three helicopters that had been heading towards the ranch are taken down by the two sea-wiz.

“Where the hell did this guy get two sea-wiz units and missiles?” Holman couldn’t believe the firepower this man had.

“Rumor has it, he uses to be a government assassin.” George heard rumors about the man at the local bar he hung around at.

“What else do we know about him and his family?” Sofia was watching the people who survived the crash landing existing from the down helicopter.

“According to Jacob, he has four daughters. One of his daughters is a K-9 police officer and his second oldest daughter runs a private security contracting business of his. The two of them are deadly as hell and have wolves for pets. His other two daughters are high school students.
One is from Russia and the second one is from Mexico. The one from Russia is an excellent chess player and his Mexican daughter, works part-time down at Betsy’s bakery.” Andrew has been doing some research on the Bounty family for his pack leader.

“Damn! Those are some huge ass wolves.” Holman spotted several huge wolves coming out of the forest towards the Hunter’s.

“I’ve never seen wolves that big.” Sofia has never seen natural wolves as big as the ones attacking the Hunter’s.

“So, are we going to get involve or stay here and watch?” Holman wanted to get a piece of the action.

“That’s up to dad.” Sofia concentrates on her father.

Hidden Moon Ranch:
Lup Milostivire was out in the training circle breaking in a new horse he just acquired. He had sent out his daughter and several of his wolves to protect her. He had heard rumors that the Hunter organization were planning on attacking a person named Jack Bounty.

He knew who the man was and how deadly he could be. He had ordered his pack members to avoid the Bounty ranch, because of a run in one of his people had with a big ass black wolf. According to the description he got of this wolf, it was bigger than any naturally born wolf around. It also had two more wolves that ran with it, that were just as huge.

Any time one of his people went close to their territory. They were there and willing to attack them. So, to keep their existence quiet. Like the council had ordered. He gave the order that no one was to approach the Bounty family.

Lup feels his daughter’s presence in his head.

“Dad, the Hunter’s are attacking the Bounty Ranch and it’s like World War Three out here. Do you want us to help or stay out of it?”

Lup looks at the horse he was breaking “go ahead and help them out, but don’t change into your wolf. We don’t know how this family will handle learning that are kind is real. Also, avoid their wolves. They are territorial and will attack you and your people.”

“I’ll pass the word, daddy.” Sofia has a feeling that it is going to be an interesting fight.

New York, New York:
Gina gets up out of bed as she tries to stand.

“Mrs. Bounty, you shouldn’t be out of bed.” Carla rushes to Gina’s side to help her.

“I can’t lay around in bed, while my family is being attacked.” Gina is pissed that her family was being attacked, while she was in New York.

“But you’re not in any shape to fight anyone, Mrs. Bounty. You have three cracked ribs and your left hand is fractured.” Carla has never seen someone so stubborn before.

Gina just looks at Carla “I don’t care. The Hunter organization is attacking my family. I’m going to show them what happens when you attack the Bounty family. Take me to Anika’s hospital room.”

“Yes, ma’am.” Carla helps Gina to Anika’s hospital room.

Anika didn’t look any better than Gina. Her leg was wrapped up and so was her chest. Her right arm was bandaged up and had twenty stitches from a cut she took to her side.

Anika looks up when Gina and Carla come walking into her hospital room. She watches as Gina walks over with Carla’s help “what are you doing out of bed?”

“My father and mother are under attack right now. I just received word from Arabella and talked to my father. I want to go after this Bishop that gave the order to attack my family.” Gina was pissed and worried that she wasn’t home protecting Arabella.

“You’re in no shape to do any fighting.” Anika felt as bad as she looked.

“Doesn’t matter, I’m taking this fight to the Bishop who started all this mess. Who on your team can we get to come with us?” Gina wanted this Bishop’s head on a silver platter.

“Terry and Dakota. However, Dakota might not be the best to take on this assignment. She’s lactating right now, remember?” Anika knew Dakota was producing milk for her twins.

“So, Terry, Elizabeth, and Hatter?”

“Hatter had surgery recently, but I would prefer if she didn’t get involve.” Anika didn’t want Hatter to go back into the field right away.

“I don’t think she’ll refuse, Anika. According to her records, she would be the perfect person to have in this fight.” Gina would love to turn Hatter loose on the Bishop.

“We’ll talk about it.” Anika didn’t feel comfortable letting Hatter fight so soon after her surgery.

“I’ll help you.” Carla figures she owes these women for what happened to them.

“Thanks, I was hoping you would, since you know what this Bishop looked like.”

“Are you sure you want to do this, Gina?” Anika looks at her niece.

“It is and if I have too, I’ll bring a couple of mercs that work for my father in on this mission.” Gina knew a few mercs that did odds and end jobs for her father.

Anika could see the determination on Gina’s face. She hasn’t spent a lot of time with her nieces to really know them, but if Jack adopted them and trained them. Than they must be as bullheaded as Jack himself is.

237 W 12th St, New York, NY:
Hatter snuggles close to Shade as he laid next to her. He had asked his boss for the next few days off to stay with Hatter and look after her. He loved being with her. He didn’t care that she was a little crazy or the fact that she could be very vindictive when she went after someone.

He knew that she didn’t like rapist or men or even women who hurt their loved ones. She loved showing off to children and giving them gifts. He knew she could drink like a fish and took drugs every once in a while. When he asked her why she took drugs, she told him it was to help her forget what was done to her.

He has seen the spots on her body where parts of her skin had been permanently removed. Leaving just a thin layer of skin, that you could see the muscles and veins through. He is surprised when she rolls on top of him and start kissing him forcefully. She was forcing her tongue down into his mouth as she kissed him. When he looked into her eyes, there was a wicked enjoyment in her eyes. She breaks the kiss before Shade blacked out.

“What’s got you so hot and excited?” Shaded didn’t mind her being rough with him.

“You!” As she grinds herself against his manhood.

Aylin leans down to kiss Shade again but stops. She turns her head to look towards her bedroom door. A high pitch sound had caught her attention. She jumps off the bed and grabs her throwing knives and metal playing cards. She rushes towards her bedroom door and dashes out into the hallway.

Shade gets up and grabs his brass knuckles as he follows behind Hatter. As he runs downstairs behind Hatter. He spots four guys in metallic body armor. The patio door was wide opened. The secondary alarm that Anika had, had gone off. The pitch was high enough that Hatter could hear it.

“Oh goodie, we have playmates.” Aylin threw two of her throwing knives directly at one guy.

The knives hit dead center and bounced off the guy's body armor. Aylin charges forward and struck the guy center mass with a flying spin
kick. She follows up with a knife thrust to his neck.

One guy moves in to strike Shade but falls face first towards the floor. Shade just smiles as he watches Aylin trip the guy. Another guy moves in fast towards Shade, but Shade punches the helmet of the guy. He follows up with another punch to the guys head. The blows were distracting the guy but weren’t doing anything to him.

One tries to grab Aylin, but she uses his momentum and tosses him back towards the patio doors. The fourth guy tries to grab Shade but misses. Shade jumped up and wrapped his legs around the person he was fighting neck and spins around to punch the second person trying to attack him. His brass knuckles hit the helmet and left a dent.

Hatter pulls her knife out of the guy she was sitting on top of and goes after the second guy that tried to attack her. She was hurting from her operation and from being smacked around by the guy in the armor. She defends herself from the other guy. He had attacked her with some sort of polearm that popped out lengthwise.

Gaston looks at the short naked red hair girl with a white face as he stared her down. The job was supposed to be an easy snatch and grab. He and his crew were supposed to grab the girl and hold her as a hostage to force Anika Jaager to surrender or they would hurt her daughter.
His friend Centule were facing off against a well-toned naked teenaged boy. The girl had a bloody knife in her hand and a smile on her face.
The boy, on the other hand, was facing off against the other two members of his team. He notices that the boy had a pair of brass knuckles on.

Shade looks over towards Hatter and notices she had blood on the front fo her body. She also had a knife in her hands and an evil smile on her face. He knew what that meant. He turns his attention back to the two guys in front of him. He was running out of ideas on how to put them down. Their damn body armor was deflecting his blows. All he could do is keep them off guard, but sooner or later they were going to wear him down.

Hatter charges her guy and leaps up. She flips in mid-air and lands feet first against the guy's chest. He falls backward with her on top of him. Hatterr tries to remove his helmet but gets kicked from the side by one of the guys fighting against Shade.

Shade and the guy he is fighting go at it. Shade spots one of Hatter’s throwing knives laying on the floor. He grabs it and shoves it into the guy's neck. He looks at the second guy “you be better off surrendering to us. Because if we continue fighting, I am going to make it hurt more.” He pulls the throwing knife out of the guy he just killed.

Hatter smiles at the guy she was sitting on top of. His visor was cracked on his helmet. She takes her throwing knife and slams it down through the guy's visor.

After Hatter kills her second one, she looks at the one Shade was fighting. She jumps him and takes him down. Shade was about to stab the guy in the neck.

“NO! I want to play with him.” She licks her throwing knife. It was covered with blood from the person she stabbed.

“Okay.”

Hatter looks for how the helmet comes off and just as she is removing the helmet. The front door opens and Anika, Gina, and Carla come walking into the house. They stopped to look at the damaged the fight did and Hatter sitting naked on top of the armor guy with his helmet in her hands. Shade was naked as well and he was kneeling next to her.

Hatter notices her mother and friends” hi mom. These guys dropped in to play.”

Anika was speechless. Gina had a smile on her face and thought it was funny. Carla didn’t know what to make of it. She has never seen a short, petite naked girl take down one of the Hunter’s before. In this case, she and the naked teenage boy kneeling near her took three of a four-man group down.

“Who are you two?” Carla was curious.

“The red hair girl is my daughter and Gina’s niece Mad Hatter Aylin. The young man next to her is her boyfriend Shade.”

Shade looks over towards Anika when he hears his name “sorry about the mess, Mrs. Jaager. We told them what would happen if we threw a wild party.”

Anika just shakes her head back and forth as she walks down towards her daughter and Tim. She looks down at the one Hatter was sitting on
“so, you saved one to extract information from.”

“Quick, stop him from biting down on his back tooth.” Carla moves forward to stop the agent.

Hatter sticks her hand into the guy's mouth, just as he was biting down.

“OWE!” Hatter kept her hand inside his mouth.

Shade hands Hatter the throwing knife in his hand.

“Thanks. Now, let’s play doctor.”

Anika and Shade come over and force the guy’s mouth opened, so Hatter can pry the poison tooth out. Hatter pries the tooth out and holds it in her hand. She looks down into the guy's eyes “we’re going to have so much fun.”

“Not in the house you won’t, young lady.” Anika looks at the mess the fight caused.

“Okay, mom.” Hatter slugs the guy, knocking him out.

Carla shakes her head and looks at Anika “is she always this violent?”

“Yes. That’s why her name is the Mad Hatter.”

“You two go and clean up. Also, put some clothes on. Gina and I will handle this.” Anika looks at Hatter and Shade.

“Yes, ma’am.” Hatter stands up and follows Shade upstairs to her bedroom.

“Here, let me help you.” Carla walks over and replaces Anika.

Bounty Ranch, Caldwell, Montana:
Jack grabs his main triple barrel shotgun and loads it up with the titanium-tungsten solid slugs. He also grabs his body armor and slips it on. Debbie had taken their grandson to the house, through the underground emergency tunnel.

The wolves were keeping the Hunter’s at bay, but some tried to make their way towards the main house. As they approached the house, they came under attack from the auto defense system Jack installed to defend the house and the hangar. Julia shows up, followed by her uncle’s.
They head towards her house to grab some of the heavy weapons she kept and for her to put her body armor on.

Julia looks up when she hears the air defense firing. She spots several more helicopters coming in towards the property.

“Haven’t these people learned, you don’t attack my father or this place?”

“Some people are slow learners.” Robert slips on his suit of body armor.

Alex looks over towards his husband as he slips his suit on. He grabs his favorite weapon from the collection Julia had in her armory.

“They’re wearing body armor almost as tough as ours, so used the experimental ammo. It will tear right through their armor like paper.” Julia loads her favorite weapon up with the ammo.

“What about Arabella? Shouldn’t someone go and be with her?” Alex looks at his niece.

“Gina’s house is set up like mine. So, she is safe.” Julia knew how Gina’s house was remodeled.

The same company that did her house, did her sister’s as well. Gina had an armory and a safe room just like she did. She also had emergency exits if Arabella needed to get out of the house.

Julia and her uncles take a path from her house to her father’s that even the kids didn’t know about. When they arrive, they notice a bunch of people that weren’t wearing body armor, fighting the Hunter’s. Sphinx and Terror’s ears go back as they start growling.

Julia looks down at her wolves “what’s wrong boys?”

“It seems they don’t like the newcomers for some reason.” Alex has never seen any of Jack’s wolves act this way before.

“Well, they need to get over it. Because, whoever they are, they are helping us.” Julia starts firing at some Hunter’s that were trying to flank her
father.

St. Richard of Salemo, Detroit, Michigan:
Bishop Henri looks at the report he received from his field commanders. The attack going on at the Bounty ranch wasn’t going their way.
According to the report, the ranch was heavily defended. It had a defense system that wasn’t on any of the blueprints or aerial photos they had managed to take of the place. On top of that, the Bounty family and their wolves were holding their own against their soldiers.

The team they sent to apprehend Mr. Bounty’s niece, that was in Hawaii had fallen as well. They don’t know what happened, but the woman and her girlfriend managed to subdue and capture the yacht they were on. They were doing everything they could to keep the Hawaiian police from connecting the group to the Hunter organization. The men that had been sent to the Patel residence fell as well. Their status was unknown.

Bishop Henri was losing his patience and calm. How could everything they had planned to the small detail be failing? These were ordinary men and women, not supernatural creatures. His genetically engineer soldiers should have been able to handle a bunch of ex-assassins and ordinary people.

He looks up when he hears a knock on his door.

“Enter!”

A tall black-haired man comes walking into his office. The man stops in front of his desk.

“What is it, brother Luther?” Bishop Henri looks up at brother Luther as he stood before him.

“The snitch and grab in New York failed.”

“How do you know that?”

“Because of this, your eminence.” Brother Luther sets a small box down on the Bishops desk and opens it.

Bishop Henri looks inside the box. The middle finger of one of the agents he sent was in it, along with the poison tooth. Also, inside the box was one of Hatter’s calling cards. A dingy white playing card with In This Size 10/6 printed on the front of it and on the back, written in blood “you have been a naughty, naughty Bishop. The Queen and her pawns are coming for you.”

Brother Luther was curious when he received the box. It had been hand delivered by a young male messenger. He had been told that the package was for Bishop Henri.

“Who is that from, your eminence?” Brother Luther was curious.

“The playing card is from the Mad Hatter.” Bishop Henri looks at the card.

“Why would she send you a message?” Brother Luther didn’t understand that. It would be letting your prey know you were coming for them.

“Because the Mad Hatter is crazy and likes playing games.” Bishop Henri had a detailed file on the Hatter and everything that had been done by her.

He had managed to get detail files on most of the associates that Hatter associated with. There was nothing in Anika Jagger’s file that suggest she had military training. The organization had checked out every member of her team. All their files had basic information in them. When they tried to get more information, they couldn’t.

Anika, Carla, and Gina sat in the van outside the church watching the place. The plan was, Hatter was going to pay the Bishop a visit. Shade had done his job by delivering the package they had put together for the Bishop.

They were listening to the conversation going on between a Brother Luther and Bishop Henri. Anika, looks towards Carla “how connected is the Hunter organization?”

“Extremely connected. We have members at every level of society. Also, in every government agency. The Vatican has been positioning
members in certain positions, for years.” Carla knew that certain government officials use to visit their training facilities.

“So, the church is behind all this mess?”

“Not the whole church, just a secretive branch inside the church. They answer to the Pope.”

“Why would the church have a secretive group of people?” Gina looks towards Carla, while Anika kept listening to the Bishop.

“It will take a while to explain, Mrs. Bounty.”

“I want to hear everything and why they came after my family.” Gina got a message from her daughter, saying the fighting has stopped and the prisoners were being locked up for now.

She did warn her daughter to tell her grandfather about the poisonous tooth they might have. Arabella sent her a picture of her grandfather’s property and all the damage that was done. Gina was relieved that the fighting hadn’t spilled over to their property. She was also happy that none of their family had been hurt. She also knew the clean-up crew was going to have a job on their hands.

“We’re in position, Gina.” Shades voice comes over the radio.

“Go for it and have fun!” Anika knew Hatter and Shade were going to have fun.

“You got it,”

Shade looks over towards Hatter. “It’s party time, sweetie.”

Hatter just smiles as she jumps off the roof of the church and swing towards a stain glass window. Shade swings in behind her. He was enjoying himself.

Bishop Henri and Brother Luther wonder what caused the loud crashing sound they heard. Brother Luther rushes out of the Bishops office and sees a person dressed like Blade fighting several of his other brother’s. There was another person dressed like the Mad Hatter coming towards his location. He moves to intercept her.

An evil smile appears on Hatter’s face as she spots a tall black-haired man step in front of her. She was going to have some fun with him. She was going to let him throw the first punch.

Brother Luther didn’t know what to make of the strangely dressed girl as she came closer. He had been informed that she was dangerous. When she was within range, he goes to use an atemi attack on her.

Hatter grabs his arm and swings him into the wall next to her. She follows up with an elbow to back of his head.

“You should have run when you had the chance.” Hatter tazed the guy, instead of seriously hurting him.

Brother Luther drops to the floor, as Hatter let’s goes. She skips down to the Bishop’s office. She knocks on the door, before opening.

Hatter spots Bishop Henri pointing a weapon at her. Before he could pull the trigger on his gun. Hatter pulls the trigger on her needler, she kept hidden. One of her knockout laced needles hit Bishop Henri in the face.

“Night, night.”

In the Chapel Area:
Shade was having fun with the men that were attacking him. He loaded his guns with rubber bullets so, not to kill them. He especially was
enjoying the hand-to-hand combat with them. He was putting the mix martial arts training he and Hatter have been receiving to good use.

His outfit wasn’t bulletproof like Hatter’s, but the overcoat Shade was wearing was bulletproof. None of the people he was fighting was using any sorts of weapons. Carla told him what type of attacks he could expect from the small bunch of monks inside the church.

Shade looks at the monks laying on the floor “sorry, I can’t stick around and party any more fellows, but I hear my girlfriend calling me.”

Shade goes to find Hatter and spots her dragging the Bishop they came to get. A big ole smile appears on his face “Anika, we need a pick-up."

“Terry, your up.”

“Landing now, Anika.”

Carla, Anika, and Gina spots Terry’s new air car design as it lands outside the chapel. He’s been working on the design since they came back from England. The right-hand side door opens.

“Oh, this is so cool.” As Shade secures the Bishop and takes a seat himself.

Hatter climbs in as well and watches as the door closes. She was amazed and a little scared as well.

“Hold on back there, guys.” Terry takes back off and heads back towards a warehouse that belongs to one of the companies the Bounty family owns.

Reese’s Tire World, Brooklyn, New York:
“Wakey! Wakey!” Hatter smacks the belly of Bishop Henri as he hung in front of her.

Anika, Gina, Shade, Carla, and Terry watched as Hatter tried to wake Bishop Henri. She gave him the counter agent to the knockout drug her needles were coated with. Carla felt a little self-conscious about what they were about to do to Bishop Henri. She knew it had to be done, but it went against the training she received at the hands of the Hunter organization.

Bishop Henri wakes-up from having his belly smacked by a wooden paddle. He still felt a little disoriented from whatever the drug they used on him. His belly smarted from Hatter popping it with a wooden paddle. He notices he was strung up with his hands above his head and standing on a metal chair, that had cables connected to it.

“Welcome back to the living, Bishop Henri.”

Bishop Henri looks down at Gina Bounty with a disgust on his face. He looks at the other women and the one man standing near her. One of the women he recognizes as being a traitor to the Hunter organization.

He looks directly at Carla “it’s ashamed child, that you have let these heathens corrupt you and turn you against the lord.”

“No one corrupted me, except you and the organization. Everything I was doing in the name of God, was a lie. You had me killing innocent men, women, and children all because they were born differently.” The words came out of Carla’s mouth dripping with venom.

Gina looks at Carla when she spoke. She could see that Carla was extremely disgusted and angry with what the organization made her do. She wonders how long she worked for the organization.

“You were doing gods work, my child. Those heathens needed to be removed from society.”

“Children, needed to be killed in Gods, freaking name? Innocent children, who have never done anything, except be born?” Carla extends her
bo-staff in her hand and smacks the Bishop right across his body.

There was a loud cracking sound as two ribs in Bishop Henri’s chest breaks. Carla was ready to strike him again, but Terry stops her.

“Hey, you’re taking away my fun.” Hatter looks at Carla as she says that.

“Before I let you beat the crap out of Bishop Henri. I want to know why he sent the Hunter’s after us.” Gina looks up at Bishop Henri.

“I’m not telling you, anything whore.” He spits down at Gina.

Gina wipes away the spit that hit her face “Hatter, do your stuff.”

“Oh, goodie.” As she rubs her hands together in enjoyment.

Shade looks at Hatter as she rubs her hands together and look over her toys. He has never seen her so happy before as he does now. He notices there was a big ole’ smile on her face.

“Eeny, meeny, miny, moe
Catch a tiger by the toe
If he hollers let him go,
Eeny, meeny, miny, moe
My mother told me
To pick the very best one
And you are not it.”

Hatter throws a switch and Bishop Henri starts shaking as electricity courses throughout his body. She increases the voltage and watches as he shakes even more.

“That’s enough, Hatter.”

“Yes, ma’am.” Hatter turns the power off.

“Now, do you want to answer my question or should we do something different?” Gina just smiles at the Bishop.

“I’m not going to tell you anything, whore.”

“Hatter, if you would.”

“Yes, ma’am.” Hatter looks over her torturing tools and picks up the mini butane blow torch.

She ignites it and steps close to Bishop Henri crotch area. She was about to put the flame to his testes when her hand is grabbed by Shade.

“Wait, Hatter.”

“Okay.”

Shade reaches inside Hatter’s jacket and pulls two of her throwing knives out. He knows that they were extremely sharp. He walks over and swipes one against Bishop Henri’s leg, leaving behind a bleeding cut.

Bishop Henri winces when he feels the knife in Shade's hand cut his leg. He looks down at the young man holding a knife.

“Have you become one of these animals, child? Have you sold your soul to become a monster?”

“I’ve done no such thing, but if what this young lady has said is true. Then you need to answer for the crime, Bishop. Now, why are you trying
to kill Mrs. Bounty’s family?”

Bishop Henri doesn’t say anything. He just looks at Shade with anger on his face.

“I tried, to save you, Bishop.” Shade stabs Bishop Henri in the leg.

Anika spotted how the torturing was starting to bother Terry. She knew Terry had been tortured by the Taliban. Terry still suffered from PTSD
because of the torture. The thing was, she remembered everything as if it was happening over and over again to him.

“Come on Terry, let’s leave them to this business.”

For the next hour, Hatter has her fun with Bishop Henri. The first thing she does is burn his testes and penis off. After that she starts pulling teeth and using a hot curling iron on his body. By the time she is done torturing him and after he answered all of Gina’s question. He begs for them to kill him.

Carla honor’s his request, and cut his head off. She stood by the whole entire time and watched as Hatter had fun. The torturers in the Hunter organization never took pleasure in what they were doing. Hatter on the other hand did, she enjoyed every minute she tortured the Bishop.

Afterward, they clean the place up and deposed of the body. Carla knew where they could get rid of the body. It was a place that used to belong to Hunter organization before she took it over for herself. She felt that the organization didn’t need it any longer.

Bounty Ranch, Caldwell, Montana:
Sofia, George, Holman, and Henry stand near the Bounty family members as they watch over the surviving members of the Hunter organization. All surviving members had been rounded up and put in one of the training corrals. Some of the wolves had been seriously injured or killed during the attack. None of the Bounty family members or extended family had been hurt.

Alyona, Silvia, Arabella, and Chayton were watching from the back porch with Trigger, Cadmus senior, Sphinx senior and Roxy protecting them. Christmas was on her way home with Haylee and Catori. They were being escorted by two police officers from Julia’s precint.

Julia had called them and informed them about what had happened at the ranch and on the highway near her home. The wolves that had survived the attack were patrolling the grounds.

Chayton looks at his aunts and cousin “do you know why they attacked us?”

“No, and daddy won’t let us down or near the barn. We’re forbidden until he gives the all-clear.” Alyona and Silvia received word from their mother not to go near the barn.

Arabella knew that the order applied to her as well. Her father was on his way home from court. She knew better not to disobey her grandfather.

Julia looks over towards Sofia and her group “thanks for helping us.”

“Hey what are neighbors for? I’m sorry it took us this long to interact with you guys.” Sofia knew they had to keep their distance, because of the wolves on the grounds.

“Well, I’m glad you guys showed up when you did. I would hate to think what would have happened if you weren’t here. We’re in your debt.”

“Maybe one day, you could repay that debt.” Sofia wouldn't mind having to have the bounty fighting on their side.

“You can count on it. We keep our promises.” Julia walks over towards the training corral. Her uncles and Selina were guarding it along with Chaos II, Terror, Knight, and Miscreant.

Sphinx Jr., Cadmus Jr., Midnight, Texas, Chaos III, and Star were patrolling the grounds. Every once in a while, screams could be heard as the wolves killed any Hunters that were injured or hiding.

Jack’s Interrogation Room:
One dead body was hanging in the room. His skin had been removed from his body while his companions watched. Jack was covered in blood and pissed off.

He looks at the other two hanging before him “who else, wants to die, because I’m in the mood to honor your request.”

He walks over towards one of the guys flashing his big ass knife. It was the same knife he used to skin the fist Hunter with. He had Lion in the room with him. Lion was one of his older wolves, that was from a different breed he brought back from Ireland.

“Lion, Lunch!”

Lion lunges at one of the Hunter’s and begins to eat him alive. While Lion was enjoying one Hunter, Jack gets close to the other one and starts removing parts of his skin. When he removes a fourth piece from the Hunter, he starts talking.

Outside in the Training Corral:
Sofia looks around her before she does what she is about to do. She looks at one of the Hunter’s near her that had been strip down to his underwear.

“You clowns fucked up attacking this family. Did you think they were supernaturals or something?”

“Why does it matter to you?”

“Because you should have been more worried about what my pack is going to do with you.” Sofie lets her eyes flash.

“We’re not scared of your pack. We can handle you.”

“How about if we turn the Bounty’s into were-wolves? Do you think you could handle them, once they are turned?” Sofie would love to see how the Bounty family would be if they were Were-wolves.

She already sees how they handle wolves, but how would they be if they were Were-Wolves themselves. She feels Mr. Bounty himself would be a powerful Alpha then her father and his children would be a force to be recoken with.

Bishop Henri Residence, Brooklyn, New York:
“What are we looking for, Hatter?” Shade looks over towards Aylin as they sneaked around inside Bishop’s Henri’s place.

Carla, himself and Aylin were sent by Anika to Bishop’s Henri’s place. He couldn’t believe they were searching a holy man’s place.

“Concealed vaults, ledgers, anything that ties Bishop Henri to the Hunter organization.” Carla was helping.

“We already know he is the one that ordered the hit against Mrs. Bounty’s family and associates.” Hatter tossed a bible she had flipped through.

Touching it brought back bad memories of when she was in the mental hospital. One of the patients that were in her wing, was a religious nutcase. He kept on saying God was going to save him and strike the sinners in the place with lightning.

He got struck by lightning alright. The doctor fired his mind so bad with electricity, that he needed a nurse to tend to his daily needs. She keeps searching the Bishop's place and finally found what they were looking for. The ledgers were in Italian and Latin.

There was also a private laptop and a few other things, including money and some sort of gold coins. Shade was curious when he finds the coins. They had a cross on one side and the image of a man on the other side.

“Hey Carla, what do these coins represent?” Shade holds up one.

Carla looks up from some ledgers she was looking through. She spots Shade holding up a gold coin “those are given out for special payments
for jobs and services. There are some places and services that don’t accept paper money and such.”

“So, how much are they worth?” Shade was curious because no one he knew used them.

“Whatever the current gold price is right now. Those coins weight one ounce and are pure gold.” Carla had a few she couldn’t use any more.
She was given them by her former employers.

Shade pockets one while taking the rest. Between the three of them. They have plenty to sort through and examine. They did find the approval
of taking the Bounty family out given to the Bishop from Cardinal Zenoan Sodano.

“Hey, Carla, who is Cardinal Sodano?” Shade wonders who he was.

“He’s one of the Cardinal’s that oversees the Hunter organizations here on the East coast.”

“How many are there?” Hatter was getting bored.

“Ten on the East Coast. At least four of them here in the northern region.” Carla still wants to destroy them.

Carla, Hatter, and Shade head back to a safe house Jack kept in New York City with everything. Dakota brought the twins over for Gina to meet the little girls. They also help Terry with how he was feeling as well.

Gina and Ankia look at all the stuff Carla, Hatter and Shade brought back with them. A lot of it was in Latin.

“This is going to take a while to translate.” Gina knew Italian and Latin.

“You can say that again.” Anika knew the language as well.

“Luckily, you ladies have me.” Carla could read the ledgers, the notes and everything else they found.

Shade and Hatter go and grab food for everyone. Shade knew a place that wasn’t far from the safe house. He and Hatter ride their motorcycles over to it.

The Bounty Ranch:
Dinner was being served in the main house for everyone who had helped out defending the ranch. Even Sofia and her crew were invited and were sitting at the table. To them, this will be a snack, but it was a nice gesture from Mr. Bounty.

Jack had been in his office talking with Debbie, Julia, Robert, and Alex. He even had Cheshire on the line with them. She had some unwanted visitors, that almost became kitty food for Shur-Khan. She was informed about his niece Casey and her new wife Leslie over on the big island and them being kidnapped.

The information he got from the prisoners, hadn’t been what he wanted to hear. The military weapons and vehicles they used against him, were supplied by members of Hunter’s organization that were serving in the United States Military. They were given orders by the regional director of the Hunter Organization. A fellow by the name of Ed Crocker.

Jack knew the man personally. The Crocker family was old money and have tried to buy some of his companies, but every time the man tried,
he would fail. The other information he learned from them was that they thought his family was Were-Wolves. Jack got a laugh out of that. The man had to be drunk or suffering from insanity. However, the second and third person he interrogated said the same thing. They thought his family was supernatural creatures.

The ones he didn’t kill were picked up by his special team and taken to one of the black ops jail facilities. Jack was curious and wonder if what the people told him was true? Was this a new danger he needs to be prepared for?

“Something wrong. Daddy?” Julia noticed her father was thinking about something.

“Everything fine, sweetie. Let’s go ahead and enjoy dinner.” Jack puts a smile on his face.

Julia takes one more look at her father, before enjoying the meal Selina and her sisters made. Her adopted son was sitting in between her and
Christmas. Haylee was sitting next to her and Catori was sitting on the other side of Christmas.

Arabella was sitting next to her father and their guest was sitting opposite each other at the end of the table near Debbie. The twins had been feed and were up in their playroom.

“So, what is our next move, father?” Julia looks at her father.

“I don’t know right now, but its payback time.” Jack already knew what he was going to do.

A message was going to be sent, telling Croacker that he was next on Jack’s revenge list. Jack was getting tired of his home coming under attack all the time. People should know by now, not to attack his home.

Julia and Christmas’s House:
Julia and Christmas take their children home after dinner and tuck them in. When Julia is tucking Chayton into bed.

“Mom, are we going to be alright?” Chayton was a little worried.

“We’ll be fine, sweetie. We have the wolves patrolling the grounds and the house is set up, just like your grandfathers. Plus, people would have
to be stupid to attack here with me home.” Julia places a kiss on Chayton’s forehead.

Texas comes walking into Chayton’s bedroom and jumps up onto his bed. Texas was one of the younger wolves and was watching after
Chayton. Chayton snuggles down under the blankets.

Julia heads towards Haylee and Catori's bedroom. They were sharing a bedroom together. Roxy was up on Haylee’s bed. Catori was holding Amber next to her.

Amber was a little coywolf that Haylee found out on the property. She had found Amber and three others that had been abandon by their mother. Haylee figured that they might be the offspring of one of the wolves, but it turned out they weren’t. All the male wolves on the property are neutered.

Jack was strict on which of his wolves could be allowed to reproduce. Trigger was neutered and she wasn't one of Jack’s wolves.

“How are you, girls?” Julia looks at Haylee and Catori.

“We’re fine mom.” Haylee was holding Roxy.

“How about you Catori?” Julia glances at her youngest.

Catori shakes her head yes. Amber was curled up next to her chest. She has come to trust Mrs. Bounty and her wife.

“Well, if you get scared in the middle of the night. Just come and jump in my bed or sleep with Haylee.” Julia places a kiss on Catori’s forehead as well and leaves the bedroom. She leaves the door partially crack for the girls.

Gina and Arnold’s House:
“Hi, mom!” Arabella smiles at her mother’s picture on the monitor in her computer room.

“Hi, sweetie. Is everything okay at home?”Gina was worried about her family.

“Everything is fine mom. Grandpa, Uncle Alex, Uncle Robert, Aunt Julia, and Grandma took the attackers down. Grandpa had some help from
some people that live a couple of miles from us. We lost a few of the wolves and some of them were hurt. The Cadmus clan is alright.” Arabella reaches down next to her and scratch Cadmus senior. Trigger was laying down at her feet.

“How many did we lose?”

“I don’t know, mom. You’ll have to ask Grandpa.”

“How is your father?” Gina was concerned about her husband as well.

“He’s fine. Let me get daddy in here.” Arabella switches to the intercom and presses it.

“Dad, mom’s on Skype.”

“Alright, I’m on my way.” Arnold puts his pen down and heads towards Arabella’s computer room.

He walks into Arabella’s computer room and saw Gina’s smiling face on the computer screen. He looks towards Arabella. “thanks, sweetie.”

“Love you, mom.” Arabella snaps her fingers and the wolves get up and follow Arabella to her bedroom. She shuts the door that connects her bedroom, to her computer room.

Arabella wanted to give her mother and father some privacy. She knows how much her father missed her mother. She gets undress and slips her nightgown on.

Arnold talks with Gina for a while, before they bring Jack and Cheshire in on the conversation. Gina shares the records she found and what she has translated so far. She had help from Anika and a former Hunter agent. Gina gives her father a complete profile of Carla and informs him she has inside information about the organization.

Carla arrives home around midnight and finds Angela already home and sound asleep in their bed. She quietly removes her clothes and slips her nightshirt on. She was happy when she had the operation to become a woman. If she had stayed with the Hunter organization, she would have never met Angela or had the operation to change her gender.

She crawls into bed, trying not to wake Angela up. Angela worked as a receptionist at Arthur Andersen. It was a high-class escort service. Carla didn’t mind Angela working there, after what happened to her. That was how she originally met her. It was also the reason she left the Hunter organization as well.

The Cardinal she had been sent to protect had ordered her to kill a bunch of teenagers that weren’t supernatural. He was having sex with Angela when she heard Angela scream several times. She went into the Cardinals hotel room, and saw Angela’s face all beaten up and the Cardinal enjoying what he was doing.

She sliced the Cardinals head off and when the other Hunter agent stepped in. He tried to stop her, but she ended up killing him and carrying Angela out. She couldn’t take Angela to a normal hospital, so she ended up taking Angela to an underground hospital.

Carla stayed at the hospital with Angela until she came too. Once Angela could come home. She went with her. She used some of her gold coins to get them a nice studio apartment.

Angela turns to face her girlfriend “you’re finally home. How much trouble did you get into this time?”

“You know me, trouble seems to find me.” She gives Angela a kiss.

Angela returns the kiss “I’m just glad your back. I feel safer with you home.”

Carla wraps her arms around Angela’s body and holds her. She knows Angela still has nightmares from that night.

Hatter and Shade:
Aylin was naked and snuggled up next to Shade as they slept in his bed. Anika gave her permission to spend the night with Shade. When they walked into his place, Aylin nearly tore all of Shade’s clothes off. She wanted to feel Shade’s skin and him inside her. They had a list of people and places they were charged with checking out in the morning.

Shade was sore, by the time they fell asleep. Aylin rode him hard and milked him like he was a cow. She saw Dakota and Terry do it and wanted too to try it out herself. Shade holds Aylin against his body. He still couldn’t get over how excited she had been when she tortured that priest. He hadn’t seen that side of her before.

He places a kiss on her cheek and held her, as he drifts off to sleep. He loved Hatter and wouldn’t ask her to change.

Anika’s Place:
Anika arrives home around midnight. She gave Hatter permission to spend the night at Shade’s place. At least she knew Hatter would be safe there. The clean-up crew did a nice job, cleaning her place. She was amazed at how much information they managed to translate into standard English. She heads towards her shower and takes a nice relaxing hot shower. She noticed her boyfriend called earlier, but she was to busy working. He left a message asking if her and Aylin were coming for the holidays. Thanksgiving was a few months away and last year she spent it with Jack.

She still wasn’t sure what she was going to do this year. She knows, Hatter wants to spend the holidays with her friends this year. After her shower, Anika heads towards her bed and slips her nightgown. She makes sure the gun she keeps near her bed is where she left it.

She lays down and tries to fall asleep. Her mind was still busy translating the pieces of information she came across. The discussion with her brother and Cheshire didn’t go too well. She feels that those two are going to take matters into their own hands.

Gina’s Place:
Gina went back to the apartment her father kept and where she was staying. She misses her husband and daughter. She also misses having Cadmus with her, but she didn’t think this visit was going to be like it was. She strips out of her clothes and carefully steps into the shower. She would normally take a nice relaxing bath, but all she wanted to do now was take a shower and lay down in bed.

Several names had popped up in their research. She assigned some of those names to Shade and Hatter. She told them to use whatever force was necessary to get her father’s message across. He wanted to make sure they understood who they were fucking with. If an example needed to be made, then make sure it left a lasting impression. She had to agree with her father on that part.

Once she had finished her shower and slipping on her nightgown. She lays down in bed, after checking if her weapon was secure and available should she needed it. She covers up a yawn as she slowly falls asleep.

0100 hrs. Julia’s house:
Julia was having a hard time sleeping. Sphinx and Sphinx II were laying in her bedroom. She glances over towards Christmas and notices she was totally out of it. She slides out of bed and slips her slippers on and her robe on. She walks out of the bedroom with Sphinx following her. She checks on the children and notices they were sound asleep. She never thought she would be a mother, not as young as she was.

She heads downstairs with Sphinx following her. Her old wolf did good with the intruders. They only lost a few wolves during the attack. It was a good thing her father had Cadmus, Sphinx, and Chaos cloned. The original wolves were getting too old for all the fighting and work she did.
She knew her father wanted Chaos back. He had been one of her father’s favorites and most loyal wolf he has ever had. Plus, people feared Chaos more then they did her father.

She walks into the kitchen and fixes herself a cup of hot chocolate. It was the one thing that helps her relax enough to sleep. She walks over to one of the huge windows in the living room and looks out into the darkness. There were no stars out and the only glow outside her house was from the lights lining her driveway.

She sits down on the sofa with Sphinx next to her and pets him, while she enjoys her hot chocolate. Her father said he was going to send a personal message to the Hunter organization and to their regional director Ed Crocker. A message the man won’t forget and will be a constant reminder what will happen to him if he ignores the message.

Julia knew her father had several methods and reminders he could leave with Mr. Crocker. She just wonders which one he is going to leave. As for her, she was still under investigation for the killing of sergeant Bronx. Someone down at city hall was behind the investigation. She knows there are a few people toes she has stepped on that wanted her booted from the police force. However, it would raise suspicions if they just fired her. She had the highest arrest record and the most felonies caught for drugs, thanks to Sphinx. Most drug dealers were starting to learn you can't run or hide anything from Sphinx and Terror. Still, she would like to know who was causing her to be benched for a while and why they were taking so long. Anika or even her father would have the investigation over by now.

She continues to drink her hot chocolate and petting Sphinx. Once she is done with her drink, she rinses her favorite mug out and heads back to bed. She tries not to disturb Christmas as she gets back into bed. She slowly falls back to sleep, snuggled close to Christmas.

0100 hrs. Jack’s house:
Jack checks on his daughters and the twins. Debbie was in bed with one of the wolves watching over her. Selina was in her bedroom. Jack heads in to his office and over to a huge cabinet. He pulls open the third drawer and starts looking through the different house plans he had from jobs he has done. He finally finds the one for Crocker’s place.

Even if Crocker has made additions or changed things around, he still had a basic layout of the house. He pulls them out and lay them out on his work table. He looks over the electrical blueprints and the main building blueprints.

Chaos comes walking into the office and over to Jack. He had gotten hurt during the battle. So, Jack had to be careful when he petted his best friend. He reaches into a container and pull out a piece of beef jerky and gives it to Chaos.

Jack walks over to his desk and looks over all the notes he took from his conversation with Gina and Anika. The Hunter organization made a mistake coming after him and his family. He has already sent orders to a few agents of his to begin a campaign of terror against some of the
Hunter organization.

The guys in charge were going to get a personal visit from him. If he must detach their heads from their bodies to get his point across, he will. As for the foolish notion that his family was supernatural creatures, he would love to know how they came to that conclusion. He draws up an attack plan and makes a list of people he was going to go after himself.

Around 0400 hrs. He finally goes to bed. He tries to slip into bed without waking his wife. He knew that was an impossible task. Debbie was a light sleeper, because of the twins. However, he does manage to slip into bed. No sooner he is settled and comfortable, Debbie rests her head on his shoulder. He places a kiss on her forehead and holds her close to his body.

Temple of the Divine, Greenville, New Jersey:
Hatter ducks as one of the Hunter’s she was fighting, and Shade were fighting tries to hit her with his bo-staff. She punches the guy in the chest area and knock the wind out of him.

“Heads up Hatter.” Shade tosses the Hunter agent he was fighting into the one attacking Hatter.

Hatter does a roundhouse kick, knocking both men out. She picks up the bo-staff her attacker dropped and uses it on the other two men coming towards her. She smacks them hard on their heads. She hears a crash from behind her and notices Shade taking down a Hunter with a move their instructor taught them.

“You know, Rex is going to be mad he missed you using that move.” Hatter whacks the hunter she was fighting hard across the face with the bo-staff.

“Hey, all is fair in life and war.” Shade drop kicks another hunter trying to hit him.

After thirty minutes of fighting, Shade and Hatter stand back to back looking at all the Hunter’s that had attacked them. Both had been hit a few times and was tired from fighting.

“You know, these guys should have surrendered to us, instead of fighting us.” Shade looked at one guy that was laying near them. Hatter had shot the guy in the face with her needler.

“These guys came from the shallow end of the gene pool.” Hatter wipes the blood away dripping from her mouth. One of the Hunter’s had managed to punch her directly in the mouth.

Shade takes a handkerchief out of his pocket “here, use this sweetie.”

Hatter accepts it “thanks.”

She uses it to remove the blood from her chin. Hatter feels that one of her teeth had come loose, because of the punched. She tucks the
handkerchief into her coat pocket afterward. She pulls her cellphone out and sends her mother a text message, saying they were going to need a clean-up and transport crew.

A few seconds later, Hatter receives a confirmation text from another number. Hatter looks over at Shade as he searches the unconscious bodies. She spots him removing some gold coins from several of the bodies.

“What did you find?” She walks over to Shade.

“More gold coins and this.” He pulls a hi-tech looking cellphone from one of the Hunter’s.

He hands it to Hatter to look at.

Hatter accepts it and tries to bring the screen up, but nothing happens. She tries again to unlock it.

“It’s broken.” She looks towards Shade.

“Let me try something.”

“Okay.” Hatter hands the device back to Shade.

Shade looks at it but doesn’t see a finger scanner on it. He puts the device near the guy he took it off of. The screen comes to life “looks like he has a chip or something.”

“You mean as an animal has inside their bodies, so the owner can find them?”

“Exactly.” Shade tries to find where the chip is hidden.

Hatter watches as Shade searches the body. She had no idea what he was looking for.

“Watch you doing?” She kneels next to Shade.

“Looking for the chip.” He stops when he feels it.

He reaches inside Hatter’s coat and pulls one of her throwing knives out. The edge on them were extremely sharp.

“Hey, that’s my knife.” Hatter looks at Shade as he removed the knife from her jacket.

“I only need it for a little while.”

“Okay.” Hatter gives him a kiss on his cheek.

Shade just smile, as he cuts the skin where the chip was. He manages to pry the chip out of the body. When the person starts to moan, Hatter
knocks the person out.

“Thanks, sweetie.”

Hatter just smiles as she watches Shade. She notices he was going through the contents of the high-tech cellphone. Some of the texts were in a language neither he or Hatter could read or knew about.

“Do you think your mom or aunt can read this?” Shade looks at Hatter.

“I don’t know. Mom and aunt Gina might be able too.”

“Let’s search the rest of the people.”

Thirty minutes later:
A black van shows up and four people dressed in black uniforms and wearing helmets get out. They walk into where Shade and Hatter still were.

“We’re here to remove the prisoners.”

Hatter looks at the person, but couldn’t see through the shield protecting their faces. She glances past the person in front of her and saw the
others that came in were zip cuffing the Hunter’s they took down.

“Did my mom send you?”

“Yes.”

Shade watches Hatter’s reaction. She was a wild card.

“Okay, they are all yours.”

The guy turns around and starts helping his friends take the unconscious Hunter’s out to the van. Shade and Hatter stay until the Hunter’s are gone, before heading back towards Anika’s house. Shade could tell Hatter was hurting some from the fight.

“When we get to your place, I’ll check your wounds.”

“I’m fine.”

“No your not.”

Hatter just glares at Shade. She didn’t like admitting that she was hurt.

“Baby, if that’s the best glare you can give me. Then I know you are hurt.” Shade places a kiss on her cheek.

0600 Hrs. Crocker’s place, Cardwell, Montana:
Ed wakes up because he had heard something outside. He grabs his rifle and heads downstairs to see what was causing the ruckus. Just as he was about to enter the dining room he hears Jack’s voice.

“Good Morning, Ed.”

Ed turns around with the rifle in his hand and was looking at Jack as he stood near a wall. Ed noticed that Jack was wearing a set of full-body forming fitting black body armor with the head of a wolf painted on the chest plate. He also had on a gun belt and there was a rifle stock
sticking up from behind Jack.

“How did you get in here?” Ed figures that the rifle he was carrying wasn’t going to penetrate the armor Jack was wearing. The only place he could shoot Jack was the head.

“Really easy. You didn’t think that the security system you have, would stop me from getting in, did you? Plus, you didn’t think those Afghan
Hounds patrolling your property are any match for my wolves. Maybe, normal wolves might not stand a chance against your Afghan hounds, but my wolves aren’t normal.” Jack breed his wolves to be bigger, stronger and faster than normal wolves.

“I know you are making a mistake, being here. You’re trespassing and I can kill you where you stand.” Ed lifts the rifle in his hands to shoot Jack’s head.

“Go ahead and do it, Ed.” Jack had one of his handguns already out and pointed at him.

Ed saw the big ass handgun pointed at him. He didn’t know what caliber it was, but he saw the opening at the end of the gun.

“Tell me one thing, Ed. Why did you send a bunch of genetically engineered soldiers to try and kill me and my family?”

“Because there is no way you or your family are normal people. Also, your family has interfered with too many of the Hunter’s operations.” Ed
really didn’t like Jack. He either undercut or took companies he and the organization have wanted or needed.

“Well, I have no idea what you are complaining about, but you crossed the line recently with trying to kill me and my family.” Jack was ready to fire his gun at Ed.

“We’ll see about that.” Ed tosses his gun at Jack and heads towards his home office. He slams the door behind him.

Jack had moved when Ed tossed the rifle he had in his hands. He saw Ed's head towards his private office. Jack holsters his handgun and walks over towards the door. He taps on it and the surrounding wall. The wall and the door were reinforced, like his own.

The explosives he brought with him weren’t powerful enough to blow through the wall or door. He would need a thermal lance to cut through
them.

“Are you hiding from me now, Ed?”

Ed saw Jack on the other side of his office door. He walks over towards the hidden safe in his office and enters a code. When the safe door opens, there was money, jewelry, and several other things. Also, inside were two syringes filled with some blood-red liquid inside them. Ed takes them out and stabs them into his neck, as he presses down on the plunger.

When he is done injecting the reddish liquid into his body. He walks over towards the door and opens it. Just as the door opens enough for a fist to go through, he punches Jack directly in his chest. He doesn’t let up, as he punches Jack again.

Jack was searching around the door that Ed went through when it opens and he is punched hard in his chest. He had tried to move quickly, but Ed’s fist came from out of nowhere. As he was falling backward, from the first punch. He is hit again in the chest as he feels pain in his chest. The chest plate of the armor was pressing hard against his chest as he stumbles backward.

Ed kept up the attack, keeping Jack off balanced. His fist kept landing in the center of Jacks' body armor, deforming its shape. He kept compressing the chest piece against Jacks chest.

Jack looks at Ed as he comes out of his office. Jack couldn’t believe how Ed looked. The veins on Ed’s neck were bulging and his eyes were blood red. He also had a monstrous look on his face, like he was jacked up on some sort of drug.

Ed jumps towards Jack as he swings his fist, hitting Jack again in the chest. He tries hitting Jacks' head but is blocked. He feels his arm grabbed by Jack but manages to break his hold. He manages to backhand jack, sending him flying backward.

Jack tries blocking Ed’s hits to his chest and head. He managed to grab Ed’s arm and was going to put it in an armbar, but Ed managed to break his hold. The next thing Jack knew, he was flying back towards the wall behind him. Ed’s other hand came out of nowhere and connected with his mouth.

Jack could taste his blood in his mouth. He moves just in time, as Ed’s fist hit right where he had been standing. He couldn’t believe how strong and fast Ed was. He has known the man for years and he has never been as fast or strong as he was now.

Ed attacks Jack again and the two of them go at it. Both men trade blows with each other. Jack uses his quickness and experience from fighting all sorts of people, to block and take down Ed. Jack manages to put Ed into a headlock and breaks his neck.

Jack looks down at Ed’s lifeless body and wonders what the hell he took, to make him so strong and aggressive. He could feel the pain from some of the blows he took from Ed. He was getting too old for all this mess.

Jack heads into Ed’s home office and starts going through his things.

Debbie looks at her husband as she helps remove his body armor. She couldn’t believe how dented it was or the bruises she was seeing on his chest. His face was a little swollen from the punches he took.

“What the heck hit you, Jack?” Debbie knew her husband was a well-trained fighter.

There weren’t many people her husband couldn’t defend himself against or takedown. She examines him carefully, to make sure he doesn’t have any broken bones or fractures.

“Ed was jacked up on something. He ran into his office and shot himself up with whatever, was in these syringes.” Jack holds the two syringes he found in Ed’s office.

Debbie takes the syringes out of Jack’s hand. There was still a little bit of whatever Ed took still in them.

“I’ll call Harry and have him analyze what’s left to see what it was.” She sets them down on the medical cart next to her.

They were down in their medical clinic he uses for taking care of the animals on the ranch. It was equipped for taking care of people as well. Debbie was a certified paramedic and had years of tending to broken bones and injuries from her rodeo days.

“Let me take a few x-rays of your chest before I bandage it up.” Debbie moves the portable x-ray machine over to Jack and takes several x-rays of his chest.

She examines them carefully but doesn’t see any broken ribs or fractures. She files them away just in case she missed something and needed them later.

“Well, you don’t have any broken ribs or anything. Which means all the damage is done to the tissue covering your chest. Do you want anything for the pain?” Debbie looks at her husband.

“Yeah, give me the bottle of Scotch.” Jack prefers to drink alcohol, instead of taking pills.

“I thought you might feel that way.” Debbie walks over to the medicine cabinet and unlocks it.

She looks at the collection her husband keeps in the cabinet and takes out the 14-year-old Scotch whiskey for him. She closes the cabinet back up and walks back over to him.

“Here you go, Jack. One bottle of Cardhu single malt.” Debbie hands the bottle to her husband.

“Thanks.” Jack opens it and drinks from the bottle.

Debbie starts wrapping Jack’s chest and arms. She would do his head, but she knows it would raise too many questions with their daughters and grandchildren.

“You’re getting too old for this type of work sweetie.” Debbie was fifteen years younger than Jack.

“I know, I’m supposed to be retired.” Jack stands up off the examination table.

“You retired? This year along, you have managed to get yourself into several fights and send messages to your enemies.”

Jack walks over to the closet and pulls out one of the black t-shirts he keeps in there. He looks towards his wife “this fight I didn’t pick. They came after our family. You know I can’t let that go.”

“I know and I agree with you. It’s your getting to old to keep doing this. How much more damage can your body take?” Debbie knew it took Jack at least thirty minutes each morning to be able to move.

“I know sweetie. Once these pricks learn their lesson, I’ll give this mess up.” Jack takes another swig from the bottle.

“I don’t believe you. You enjoy this too much.” Debbie places a kiss on Jack’s cheek.

“Maybe. Have you heard from the rest of the family?” Jack was concerned about Gina, his sister in England and his niece in Hawaii.

“I spoke to your Uncle Sheamus and your mother. They had a few visitors, but your Uncle Sheamus gave them a Scottish welcome. Gina and
Anika are doing okay. Hatter and her boyfriend have been getting your message across to the Hunter’s in New York and New Jersey that
started this mess. Gina is working with a former Hunter. She saved Gina and Anika when a Hunter group ambushed them.

As for Casey and her new wife. Cheshire had to send an archive group in to catalog and store everything in Hunter’s house that tried to take them out.” Debbie knew what an archive group was.

She met some of the people from the group Cheshire and Jack used. She never knew they existed until Jack introduced her to them at a function they had gone to.

“Let me guess, Cheshire wants me to cover half the cost?” Jack looks at his wife and watches her expression.

“Well, it never came up, but from talking with her, I think she is expecting you to cover half the cost for their services.” Debbie knew how
Cheshire hinted at things, without saying or asking for much.

“Go ahead and transfer the money from the Swiss account to Cheshire’s Cayman account.” Jack takes one more swig from the Scotch bottle, before closing it up.

Debbie notices her husband closing the bottle. It was three-quarters of the way empty.

“Feeling better?” A smile appears on her face.

“Yes.” Jack was feeling a lot better.

Jack helps Debbie clean up the medical clinic, before turning the lights off and heading back to the main house. Selina was already fixing some lunch for the house. Jack spots his daughter’s Alyona and Silvia eating their lunch.

Alyona looks at her mother and father. She knew her father went out early to handle a problem.

“Is everything okay, father?” Alyona spotted some bruises on her father’s face.

“Everything is fine, Alyona.” Jack walks over to see what Selina had made for lunch.

He goes to stick his finger into the pot but gets smack by the wooden spoon in Selina’s hand. He looks at her after she did that to him.

“You know better Jack, about sticking your fingers into what I am cooking.” Selina had a serious look on her face.

She knows Jack was dangerous, but this was her kitchen and she made the rules. She just watches him.

Debbie just smirks as she heads towards the refrigerator to get the ingredients to make a cobb salad. She was in the mood for a salad, instead of the stew Selina made. She knew Jack could eat three bowls of the stew Selina made.

Selina serves up a bowl for Jack to eat and hands it to him.

Jack accepts it and sits down next to Silvia. He notices there was a basket of sliced bread on the table. He looks towards Silvia “did you bake the bread, Silvia?”

“Yes, sir.” Silvia had gotten up early and baked several loaves of bread.

Jack was proud of Silvia and Alyona they had come a long way since they came to live with him. After Jack finishes eating lunch, he heads to his office to check a few things.

Gina, Anika, and Carla watched from the van they were in as another building belonging to the Hunter organization collapses in on itself. That was the fourth building Gina had rigged to implode on itself.

“How many more buildings are we going to have to destroy. Before the Hunter organization gets the message that they are fucking with the wrong family?” Gina just looks at the rubble left behind.

All of their attacks were starting to make the morning and evening news. The police commissioner of New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania were trying to control the damage Anika and her crew was doing. Even Wraith was getting in on some of the destruction.

Anika gave several targets for Terry and Wraith to blow-up. She told Terry to cause as much damage as possible. Which, Terry and Wraith did. The people that Terry and Wraith took out were confused who Wraith was. The Hunter’s thought they could take or disable Wraith, but was surprised by the offensive and defensive capabilities of Wraith.

“That depends on how some of their leaders feel is worth it, Gina.” Carla knew some of the leaders of the group were willing to let their areas burn down just to make a point.

Anika hears her cellphone beep, letting her know a text message has come through. She looks at it and notices it was from Terry. He was informing her that the four targets he and Wraith have been assigned, were in ruins.

Another text follows Terry’s and it was from Hatter. She had sent a video for Anika to look at. The video was showing Hatter having fun with several district leaders Carla had given them information on. She was using her favorite torture on them of water and a car battery.

The video showed one guy screaming so loudly, that he sounded like a woman. Hatter was frying his testicles and penis with jumper cables coming off a running car.

“Owe! Is electricity Hatter’s favorite torturing method?” Carla looks at Anika for an answer.

“That and a blow torch. Hatter has a unique understanding of what electricity can do to a body.” Anika and Gina knew Aylin had been experimented on and tortured with electricity.

There wasn’t one part of her body that the doctor hadn’t used some form of shock therapy on. It was why she was so crazy and why her brain chemistry and some of her organs are so messed up. Seven years of shock treatments and experimental drugs have messed her up.

It is just recently that Aylin has started trusting people and that she is acting a little more normal. Anika was still amazed that Aylin has a boyfriend and that she has actually allowed him to see and touch her when she was naked. Also, she was willing to start wearing normal clothes instead of her Hatter suit all the time.

Anika’s cellphone beeps again. She takes another look at it and notices that it was a message from Mia down at the office. A gentleman by the name of Lewis Hunger was at her office and needed to talk with her and Mrs. Bounty if she was with her.

Anika texts Mia back, informing her that they will be at the office in twenty minutes.

Eruption Communications, Anika’s Office:
Mia had come in to start her shift like usual. Anika had said she would be late coming and if anyone asked where she was, to tell them she was handling some personal business. Mia started work on some letters and emails that needed to be sent out.

A well-groomed, tall black hair man approached her desk. The man looked like he was from the cover of a GQ magazine.

“Can I help you, sir?” Mia looks at the man standing before her and wonders how he got passed security down in the lobby.

“Yes, I would like to talk with Ms. Anika Jagger and Mrs. Gina Bounty.” Lewis looks down at the young woman sitting before him at a well organizes desk.

She was petite and young. She had shoulder-length dark brown hair and lightly tanned beige skin. He figures she must be of mixed heritage with her lightly tanned beige skin and facial bone structure.

“Ms. Jagger and Mrs. Bounty are currently out fo the office and won’t be back until later this afternoon. If you like, I can take your name and a number they can reach you and have them call you.” Mia would run the number.

“Why don’t you get in touch with them and inform them that I am here at your bosses office waiting for them.”

“Sir, it might be a long wait.” Mia was about to call security.

“Just text your boss and tell them that Lewis Hunger with the Hunter organization is waiting on them.” Lewis figures that might get their
attention.

Mia didn’t know what this was about, but she knew Mrs. Jagger and Mrs. Bounty would handle it. She sends Ms. Jagger a text message, just like Mr. Hunger wanted her too. A few seconds later, she gets a reply from Anika telling her that they were heading back to the office.

“Mr. Hunger, Ms. Jagger, and Mrs. Bounty are on their way here. They should be here within twenty minutes.”

“Good, I’ll wait for them.” Lewis walks over and takes a seat in a nearby chair.

“Would you like anything to drink or read, Mr. Hunger while you wait?”

A smile appears on Mr. Hunger’s face “I’m fine, thank you.”

Twenty Minutes Later:
A tall blonde hair woman and an oriental woman with shoulder-length black hair come walking into Mia’s office, which was just outside of Anika’s office. Mr. Hunger stands up as they got closer. He recognized Mrs. Bounty from the debriefing and the other woman he knew that she was one of the chief directors here and have been seen doing jobs.

“Good morning Mr. Hunger. I’m Mrs. Bounty and this is my aunt Ms. Jagger. We were told that you wish to talk to us?”

“Yes, I do Mrs. Bounty. Would you mind if we take this to your aunt’s office?” Mr. Hunger and the Hunter Organization didn’t know Anika Jagger was related to the Bounty’s. He wonders what her relationship was exactly.

“Mia, hold my calls please.” Anika looks at Mia before she walks into her office.

“Yes, ma’am.” Mia watches as Mr. Hunger, Ms. Jagger and Mrs. Bounty head into the office.

“Please, have a seat, Mr. Hunger.” Anika motions to one of the big leather chairs in front of her desk.

Mr. Hunger sits down in the nearest chair. He watches as Gina Bounty sits behind Anika’s huge wooden desk. He notices Anika stands near Gina like a bodyguard.

“Alright, Mr. Hunger. What is it that you would like to talk about?” Gina was watching Mr. Hunger like a hawk.

“To put this bluntly, Mrs. Bounty. My organization wants to call a halt to this battle going on between us and your family. I’ve been asked to
come to you and make this request.” Mr. Hunger and the rest of the surviving leaders didn’t think the Bounty’s would be this hard to beat.

The council had figured that they would be able to kill large numbers of the family. They hadn’t known or counted on how organized the Bounty family was or how well trained the family members were. They also made the mistake of thinking that the Bounty family wouldn’t have agents of their own, that were highly trained.

In the past few days, the Bounty family both here in the states and across the ocean has managed to kill the majority of their leaders. That’s not counting the damages they have done to their research labs and cloning facilities.

“I take it, that you have experienced defeat at the hands of some of my other family members and agents of my father’s?” There was a big smile on Gina’s face when she says those words.

Mr. Hunger didn’t want to give away the problems they had faced. Also, how a large group of their people has either been arrested or killed.

“Well, Mr. Hunger. I’m not the one you should be talking too. You see when your organization declared war on my family. You started something that my father is really good at and he has taken over this crusade. Now, what you and your leaders are going to have to do is make your request to my father and his partner. Because I figured you went after Patel’s as well?” A Cheshire smile appears on Gina’s face.

Lewis wonders how Mrs. Bounty knew about that. What leaders were left, were concerned that if the war between them and the Bounty’s continued. They would lose sight of their original mission.

“Could you arrange a meeting with your father, in neutral territory?”

“I think something can be arranged. Is there a way to get in touch with you?” Gina wonders what her father will say.

“Yes, here is my business card. You can reach me at any time of the day or night at the number printed on it.” Mr. Hunger pulls a black
business card out and hands it to Gina.

Gina and Anika look at it. The writing on it was raised gold lettering. Gina flips it to check the back of it, but there wasn’t anything on the back.

“I’ll get in touch with my father Mr. Hunger and get back with you by tomorrow evening.” Gina planned on calling her father after this meeting.

“Thank you.” Mr. Hunger stands up.

Gina stands up as well and walks Mr. Hunger out of Anika’s office. Security was already waiting for him out in Mia’s office.

“They’re here to make sure you leave okay, Mr.Hunger.” Anika wanted to make sure Mr. Hunger leaves the building.

“Of course.” There was some amusement in his voice.

Anika and Gina watch as Mr. Hunger leaves. Once he was out of the office. Gina and Anika head back to Anika’s office to talk. Anika does recommend that they call Carla and have her come to the office. That way they could pick her brains about Mr. Hunger.

Anika couldn’t believe the information Carla gave her and Gina about Mr. Hunger. He was a former special op’s agent and was high up in the Hunter organization structure. Normally, Mr. Hunger was the one the Hunter’s sent to take out specially targeted individuals.

Carla figured that the higher-ups were not liking what was happening to certain members and to their assets. Since she left, she had been destroying locations that belonged to them and attacking some of their hit teams as well. She informed Gina and Anika that she blew up three of their training centers.

As for Mr. Hunger, she did say that if he was sent to parley with them. Then the Hunter organization was serious about wanting to talk with them. Could they be trusted, that was a different matter. However, if Gina’s father made clear what he will do if the agreement is broken. They won’t try to break it or bend the words of the agreement.

As for the meeting place, it hasn’t been set yet. Anika knew Jack was going to be very selective where he was going to hold this meeting. She knew wherever the location was, it was going to be to her brother’s advantage.

She had a bunch of things to do since she has been gone getting revenge for her brother. She knew Gina was happy that she was going back home. She knew how much Gina missed her husband and daughter. As for herself, she was going to spend the Thanksgiving holiday with her boyfriend this year. She needed to commit to her relationship more, instead of what she was doing.

As for Aylin, she has been seeing a big change in her, since she met Shade. Since she has started associating with people around her own age and spending time with them. They have been a big influence on making her saner. She wasn’t wearing her Hatter outfit all the time now.

All of Aylin’s friends were good people. She knew Clair was just like herself, Mia, Shigeko, Gina, Julia, Tizzy, Alyona, Silvia, and Dakota. She would be willing to help pay for Clair’s surgery if she decided that she wanted it.

Her choice to become a woman was out of necessity. She needed to change her appearance and life, because of the people that were still after her. If she had stayed a guy, she might not be alive today. However, because she changed her life and was taken under Jack’s tutelage, she managed to get her revenge on the people responsible for almost killing her. She got her sweet revenge on the people sent to kill her and her friends.

After the revenge, she managed to build a new life for herself. First on the slopes and then being in the winter Olympics, to posing for Sports Illustrated and several other magazines. She still kept in touch with certain members of her birth family, like her uncle at the pentagon and her older brother’s working for the US Secret Service.

She concentrates on her work. She’ll call her boyfriend later and inform him, she’ll be spending the holiday with him.

Cardwell, Montana:
Arabella snuggles closer to Gina. She was so happy her mother came home last night, that she slept with her and Arnold. She missed her mother and didn’t want to let her go. She buries her face against Gina’s neck.

Gina felt sandwiched between Arnold, who was spooned against her from behind with his arm draped over her and Arabella. Arabella was facing her and had her head buried against her neck and shoulder. She felt Arabella’s arm trapped between her body and Arabella. She had her arms wrapped around Arabella, holding her in her arms.

Trigger and Cadmus were sleeping at the foot of the bed. Trigger was sleeping near Gina’s feet and Cadmus was sleeping near Arnold’s feet. She feels Arnold place a kiss on her neck.

“She’s been missing you since you were gone, especially when we came under attack and she was here all by herself.” Arnold knew Arabella had been scared and wanted her mother.

Gina looks down at her baby and places a kiss on her forehead. She missed Arabella as well. Next time she goes out of town, she’ll think about taking Arabella with her.

“She’s such a mommy’s girl.” She rubs Arabella’s back as she holds her.

Arabella stirs under her mother’s touch. She snuggles closer to Gina’s body and turns her head so she could see her face.

“Morning sleepy head.” Gina smiles down at Arabella.

Arabella buries her face against Gina’s chest. She could smell the lavender scent her mother’s nightgown was washed in. She keeps her face buried against Gina’s chest.

Gina sits up in bed holding Arabella against her body “what am I going to do with you?”

She places a kiss on Arabella’s forehead and just holds her. Arnold gets out of bed and heads towards the bathroom.

“Come on pumpkin, let's get you dressed and feed.” Gina stands up still holding Arabella.

Arabella didn’t want to let go of her mother. She had her legs wrapped around Gina’s waist and was holding onto her.

“Arabella, come on. You need to get dressed and eat some breakfast. I got to go and talk to your grandfather about what went on in New York.” Gina pats Arabella on her behind.

Arabella reluctantly lets go of her mother and stand on her own two feet. She looks at her mother “can I come with you to grandpa’s house?”

“Of course. Grandpa would want to see you as well.” Gina ruffles Arabella’s hair.

Arnold comes walking back in and spots Arabella standing in front of Gina. He could see, Arabella didn’t want to leave Gina’s side. He’ll have to talk with Gina later about Arabella missing her.

“Now, go and get dress. I’ll be downstairs to fix you breakfast, in a few minutes.” Gina places one more kiss on Arabella’s cheek.

Arabella hugs Gina, before leaving her bedroom. She heads towards her own bedroom to get ready for the day.

“You notice she’s being a little clingy, haven’t you?”

“Yes, and I can’t blame her. Her birth family never showed her any love, as we have. Plus, it doesn’t help that neither I or you were here to
comfort her when the ranch got attacked.” Gina turns around to face Arnold.

“Trust me, sweetie. If you were here, you would have been out on the ranch fighting as well.”

“I know, but I just don’t like the fact no one was here with our daughter. I don’t want this to be a reoccurring situation.” Gina promised to always love and protect Arabella since she adopted her.

“We'll figure something out for now on. Go and get ready so we can head over to your father’s house.” Arnold gives Gina a kiss.

Gina returns the kiss. She so missed her husband and baby. After returning Arnold’s kiss. Gina changes out of her nightclothes and into a nice pair of tight jeans that show her legs off and a matching western shirt, that goes with the blue jeans.

She and Arnold head downstairs to the kitchen to fix breakfast for all of them.

Haylee pours the feed she has for the horses. The temperature had dropped and she was outside in her winter gear feeding the animals. She spots John and Berry feeding the cows over near the other corral.

Haylee finishes feeding the horses and heads over towards John and Perry. She enjoys being out among her grandfather’s animals. She rides her four-wheeler over towards the animal feed and loads the trailer attached to her four-wheeler up with food. Afterward, she heads over towards the gate and head into the corral.

“Haylee, what are you doing?” Berry spotted Haylee with her trailer behind her carrying food further out in the field.

“Feeding the cows and bison.” Haylee stops her four-wheeler near Berry.

“Okay, where’s Roxy at?” Berry looks around for Roxy.

“She’s watching over Catori. Sphinx III is somewhere around here.” Haylee knew one of the wolves was on the property watching over her.

“Well, be careful out there.”

“I’ll be careful.” Haylee heads further out into the field to drop some food off.

She knew where all the food drops were, from helping her grandfather. Haylee makes her rounds, dropping off the food. Near the last feed dropped, she spots a body with some sort of collar around its neck. It was an older person, near her mother’s age.

She cautiously walks over to the person. There was something strange about them. They were dressed in some sort of skin-tight bodysuit. There was a numeric number tattoo on their neck. Where the bodysuit was torn, she could see a shiny reflection.

The person looked like they could either be male or female. The bodysuit they were wearing made them look genderless. Haylee pulls out her cellphone and calls the main house.

Jack’s House:
Jack was just getting dress when his cellphone starts ringing. He carefully picks it up. His chest was still hurting where Ed had punched his body armor and dented it. His chest was still bruised from the punch. He looks at the caller Id and notices it was his grandchild, Haylee. A smile appears on his face as he answers it.

“Good morning Haylee, what’s wrong.”

“Good morning grandpa. I found a strangely dressed person out here at the last food drop. I think they are still alive.” Haylee hadn’t touched
the body yet.

“Are you out there by yourself, Haylee?” Jack puts on a t-shirt he pulled from the dresser.

“No sir, I have Sphinx III with me and I think Waffles is nearby.” Haylee looks around for the coyote she has spotted on the property.

Every time she has gone out to feed the cows, horses, and bison her grandfather owns. She spotted a little coyote pup following her. The wolves that normally protect her, just ignored the little thing.

“Waffles?” That causes Jack to raise his eyebrows. He didn’t know they had a wolf on the property named Waffles.

“Sorry grandpa, I forgot to tell you we have a coyote pup on the property. I think it’s a female and it's been following me. I’ve left some food for it to gain its trust.” Haylee wouldn’t mind seeing what Waffle's gender really was.

“You can always send one of the wolves to fetch it, Haylee.” Jack knew his wolves would be careful with it.

“I know grandpa, but I want to gain its trust. What do you want to do with this person out here?” Haylee kept her eyes on the person.

“Stay with them, grandma and I will come out to investigate.” Jack grabs his gun holster and tucks it behind his back.

“Okay, grandpa.” Haylee ends the call.

After Haylee ends the call. Jack goes to find Debbie so she could come out to examine the person.

Last Feed Spot:
Haylee goes about spreading the feed out while waiting for her grandparents to arrive. She keeps an eye out for them. She spots Sphinx III sitting nearby watching over her. She spots Waffles sniffing the food she left for her.

Waffles look up at the strange human and the little human nearby. She spots the young wolf watching the little human girl. She has run into the wolf a few times. She starts eating the food left for her.

Haylee just watches the little coyote. She moves carefully towards the pup. Waffles let her get close enough to pet it.

“That’s a good girl.” Haylee pets the little coyote.

Waffles lets Haylee pet her while she is eating. After a while, the little coyote pup finishes its food. She rubs against Haylee.

“Alright, you can come home with me.” Haylee picks the little coyote up and holds it.

After fifteen minutes, Jack and Debbie show up. They see Sphinx sitting nearby, watching Haylee as she held a little coyote pup.

“Looks like you have a new pet, Haylee.” Debbie walks over to her granddaughter.

Out of all her grandchildren, Haylee was the animal lover in their family. She knew Haylee will make a good veterinarian.

“She found me, grandma.” Haylee held the little coyote pup.

“Where’s this person you found, Haylee?” Jack was looking for the person.

“Over here, grandpa.” Haylee leads her grandparents over to the person.

Debbie walks over to the person and checks to see if they still had a pulse. She notices that the collar the person had going around its neck, was similar to the wireless shock collars they sold in pet stores.

“Jack, someone put a shock collar on this person.” Debbie looks towards her husband.

Jack and Haylee walk over towards Debbie. Haylee kneels next to her grandmother “why would someone do this to a person?”

“For control, Haylee. Are they dead or just unconscious?” Jack looks down at his wife.

“Unconscious, but I’ve never seen this before.” Debbie removes the torn sleeve, exposing a metallic forearm and hand.

“Is that a bionic limb, grandma?” Haylee leans closer to look at it.

“I believe so, Haylee. Jack, do you know of any companies or organizations using this type of technology?” Debbie looks up at her husband.

“Most of the companies I know about are still experimenting with robotic limbs. This one looks a little more advanced then what they are dealing with.” Jack knew a few companies he contributes money to that was developing robotic limbs.

“Is the person alright, grandma?” Haylee stayed close to her grandmother.

“We need to get this person back to the clinic, so I can see how injured this person is.” Debbie figures she could tell more after examining the person.

Jack kneels down and scoops the person up off the ground. He carries the figure over towards the four-wheeler he uses to feed the animals.
Jack carefully lays them down in the trailer attached to it.

Debbie stands up and looks at Haylee “does your mother know you are here feeding the animals?”

“Yes, ma’am. I left a note telling my mothers I was feeding the animals.” Haylee always leaves a note informing her mothers where she is.

“Alright, go ahead and head home, Haylee.” Debbie reaches out and pets the coyote pup in Haylee’s arms.

“Yes, ma’am.” Haylee heads towards her four-wheeler and heads back towards her house.

Debbie stands up and walks over towards Jack’s four-wheeler and looks down at the person in the trailer. Whoever they were, someone went to a lot of work to make the person appear androgynous.

Jack and Debbie head back to the clinic. Once there, Jack carefully carries the person inside. He lays the person down on the examination table. He looks down at the person and wonders who they were and what they were.

Debbie puts a set of surgical gloves on after washing her hands and come over to exam the person. She looks at the person's teeth and noticed they weren’t human teeth, but canine teeth. It looked like every tooth this person had, had been replaced to give them an animal appearance. When she removes the skin-tight uniform, the body of the person looked like they had been made to look like a plastic doll body.

“Who would do something like this?” Debbie looks at the nude body.

“That’s a good question.” Jack moves closer to stand by his wife, as he looks down at the body.

The body looked genderless. There was a flesh covering down in the groin area that concealed whatever they had been given to let their
waste out of. The persons hands had no fingerprints and their fingernails had small claws on their hands and toes.

“Who would do this to a human being?” Debbie looks at her husband.

“I don’t know, but I’m going to find out. Can you remove that collar around their neck?”

“I don’t see why not.” Debbie looks at the collar and finds out where it joins.

When she goes to remove it, it starts beeping “Jack, I think this thing is going to explode.”

“Toss it in here.” Jack opens a door off the medic clinic.

Debbie tosses the collar and just as Jack shuts the door, it explodes. Jack felt the door rattle from the explosion.

“Someone didn’t want this person to live.” Debbie goes back examining the person.

“I don’t know Jack. This is some unique and barbaric modification that has been done to this person. All traces of what they were originally has been removed.” Dr. Carl Salk looks at the person on the examination table.

“What modifications have been done to the body?” Jack had watched as Dr. Salk examined the body.

“Well, the bionic replace arm, is recent. You can tell by the surgical scars. The modifications to the mouth and face are old. It looked like they had been done while the person was younger. As for the extra skin covering. It’s made of some sort of protective skin covering. I’ve taken a sample to examine. As for the claws and such, they are attached to the finger and toe bones of the person. Someone was trying to create an animal out of a human being.”

Jack looks at the person still unconscious on the table “can you tell if they use to be male or female?”

“I’ll have to do an x-ray of the body, to tell. Whoever did this barbaric surgery to this person made sure you can’t tell if they were male or female.” Dr. Salk would love to get his hands on the person responsible for this.

“Let me call Gina, she knows someone who might be able to shine some light on this matter.” Jack walks over to the house phone and dials his
Daughter’s number.

Master bedroom, Gina’s House:
Gina was brushing Arabella’s hair. She was spending more time with her daughter. She knew how much Arabella wanted to be closer to her and Arnold. After the attack on her father’s place and Arabella being left alone in the house during the attack. She wanted to reassure Arabella that she was sorry and baby her some.

Plus, she uses to enjoy it when Selina brushed her long black hair. She wraps her arms around Arabella and places a kiss on her cheek.

“Are you feeling better, sweetie?” Gina held Arabella in her arms.

Arabella leans against her mother’s chest and was enjoying feeling her arms wrapped around her. She was starting to feel safer with her
mother back from New York. She places her hands on her mother’s hand’s “yes ma’am.”

Arabella closes her eyes and enjoys feeling her mother just holding her. Today, Gina promise to spend the day with her. After a few minutes, Gina’s cellphone starts ringing.

Gina hears the familiar growling sound that was her father’s ring tone. She picks the phone up and accepts the call “good morning daddy.
What can I do for you?”

“Morning sweetie. I need to talk to the person that you said to use to be with the Hunter organization.”

“You mean Carla, daddy? I’ll see if I can get her and ask her to call you. Do you want her to call you on the home phone or your other cell?”
Gina looks up Carla’s number.

“On my other cellphone.”

“Alright, let me switch over and call her quickly.” Gina puts her father on hold and dials Carla’s number.

Storage Warehouse, The Bronx, New York:
Carla was reloading her utility belt for her armor suit. She had to do some minor repairs to her suit after an encounter she, Hatter and Shade had just been in. She still can’t get over the fact that Hatter was as good as she was. She heard stories of the Mad Hatter lose in New York, but she had never encountered her before.

Now she was working with Hatter and her boyfriend Shade. The three of them have been teaming up to take down some of the local gangs and some of Hunter’s locations. So, far this week they had busted up three drug deals and blew-up four Hunter sites’, after saving as much information as they could.

Just as she finished reloading her utility belt, her cellphone starts ringing. She picks it up and notices it was Gina’s cellphone number. She presses accept “Hey Gina, what can I do for you?”

“Hey Carla, my father needs to talk to you about something he discovered at his place. Do you have a few minutes, to talk with him?” Gina puts Arabella’s hair in a ponytail while speaking to Carla.

“Sure, put him on.” Carla sits on the work stool at her workbench.

“He wants you to call him. Is that a problem?”

“No, go ahead and send me his number.” Carla waits for the number.

Gina sends her father’s cellphone number. She receives the confirmation that it was received.

“Alright, I got the number, Gina. I’ll call your father as soon as we finished our call.” Carla wonders what Mr. Bounty wanted.

“Alright. I’ll call you later.” Gina wanted to go and make breakfast for everyone.

“No problem. Bye!” Carla ends the phone call.

She dials Mr. Bounty’s number next. After a few seconds, he answers.

Medical Clinic, Jack Bounty’s Place, Caldwell, Montana
Jack’s business cellphone starts ringing. He notices it was from an unlisted number. He presses the accept button “hello?”

“Mr. Bounty this is Carla, I’m one of Gina’s associates. She said that you needed to speak to me.”

“Yes, can we switch this call of to video, please? I have something to show you.” Jack walks over to the examination table.

“Sure.” Carla switches her phone over to the video call.

Jack does the same thing with his. Once he sees Carla’s face on his screen “Carla, I’m Jack Bounty. I was told you use to be a former Hunter agent.”

“Yes sir, I use to be one. Now I hunt them down and send them on their way. Gina said that you found something?”

“Yes, I was wondering if you can tell me what or who it is.” Jack turns his cellphone around and shows the person they found.

Carla looks at the image and knew immediately what it was. She couldn’t believe that Mr. Bounty caught a hound “that’s a hound, Mr. Bounty.”

“What’s a hound?” Jack had turned his cellphone back around to look at Carla’s image.

“They are surgery altered people with special talents that are used to hunt down others like them or to hunt down people Hunter’s want to capture. The ones who volunteer for the process can keep their reproductive organs. Those that are forced, are made as plainly as possible.”

“Do they normally receive bionic limbs, like this one?” Jack was curious about that.

“It all depends on who their owner is. If their owner wants to keep their pets around for a while or experiment on them, they might do that. I’m surprised you managed to capture that one. Normally, if a hound is captured, they will either explode or try to kill you.” Carla was curious how Mr. Bounty captured that one.

“Carla, how do they make hounds like this?” Dr. Salk was curious.

“They train them from birth or when they are kids. They treat them like animals, trying to strip their humanity from them. They make them fight constantly either against each other or against animals in a pit. The ones who survive the training, are surgically altered. The captured ones are strip, of their identity and treated like animals. The ones who volunteer for the process, are treated like cherished pets and allowed to reproduce.” Carla has seen the process and it disgusts her.

Dr. Salk and Jack couldn’t believe how vial the Hunter organization could be. Dr. Salk has never heard of anyone doing such things to people. Jack knew Warlords who gave their child soldiers, Brown-Brown and such. However, he has never come across people who would experiment on others and turn them into animals.

“Carla, do you have any data you can send me on this?”

“Yes, sir. I’ll give you access to a special cloud account I have that has the information you want.” Carla logs onto the special cloud account and adds Jack Bounty to it.

Dr. Salk packs up his samples “Jack, I’m going to look these samples over and get back with you.”

“Alright, let me know what you find out.” Jack was still looking at the person or hound they found.

“Will do.” Dr. Salk walks out of the medical clinic.

Hunter’s Supply Warehouse:
Carla had managed to locate another Hunter supply depot. She goes about gathering items to resupply her depot. While she is gathering her supplies and placing special design explosives to destroy everything. She hears a familiar voice coming from the darkness.

“Hello, Carla. It’s good to see you again.” Robert Caron steps out of the shadows towards Carla.

Carla turns around when she hears Robert’s voice. A smile appears on her face behind her helmet.

“I wish I could say it’s good to see you as well, Robert. But I would be lying. So, are we going to fight this out? Because, if I remember right, I beat you last time.” Carla prepares herself for a sneak attack from Robert.

She sidesteps a punch from Robert and traps his arm. She throws him off balance as she sweeps his legs out from under him. She feels herself grab and thrown backward.

Robert was amazed at how fast Carla moved. He went to punch her, but felt his arm capture and then his legs swept out from under him. He grabs her and throws Carla backward. He tosses some pellets towards her. When they hit her body armor, they explode.

Carla felt the explosive force from whatever Robert through at her. The kinetic force from the explosion sends her to her ass. She has little time to react, as Robert attacks her with his sword. She brings her right forearm up to block his attack. The sword hits her forearm and glances off.

She plucks a small metallic hockey size puck from her utility belt “let’s see how you like this.”

The puck glows and a powerful electrical discharge erupts from the device. The energy cascades around and throughout Robert’s armor, causing his muscles to seize. The next thing Robert knows, he is falling backward away from Carla. He looks up and tries to look through the optics of his helmet. However, all he could see was static.

Carla stands up off the concrete floor and looks down at Robert “I told you what would happen.”

Robert tries reaching towards the damn puck. He manages to get his armored hand on it and using what strength he had, yanks it off. He lifts his other arm and fires two bolts at Carla from a concealed launcher.

Carla tries to dodge out of the way, but one of the bolts hit her right shoulder. A small explosion occurs and penetrates her body armor.

“Son of a bitch.” Pain shoots through her body as the bolt buries itself in her shoulder.

“How do you like your chances now, sinner?” Robert slowly gets up off the concrete floor and looks at Carla.

“I’m still better than you, Robert.” Carla still had a few tricks up her sleeves.

“Prove it.” Robert watches Carla carefully.

He knew how tricky she can be. He knew his last attack took her by surprise and penetrated her armor. He was ordered to kill her and bring her head back as proof.

Carla watches Robert, looking for the best way to take him down. She knew he had orders to kill her. The higher-ups in the Hunter organization was getting tired of her destroying their property and people.

An idea pops into her head, as she charges towards Robert. She knows his armor battery life was cut in half from that electrical attack she did. She pulls two more discs from her utility belt and jumps over Robert while slapping the disc onto his back.

She remotely activities the disc “goodbye Robert.”

Robert tries to reach for the discs but they explode instead.

“Told you I was better.” Carla reaches for the bolt sticking out of her shoulder.

She yanks it out and pours some clotting powder on the wound. She stuffs the opening in her armor with a gaze. Her wife is going to give her hell when she sees the wound. She finishes gathering her supplies and grab the spare cash Hunter’s keep stored at all their depots.

Once she is done and all the explosives are set. She heads outside and spots the vehicle Robert came in.

“He won’t be needing this anymore.” Carla disables the tracking device all Hunter vehicles come equipped with.

Bounty Ranch, Caldwell, Montana:
Julia and Christmas were helping to clean up the mess from the assault. They were transporting ammo and somes missiles her father lost during the fight, from the ammo bunker. Christmas looks at her wife “where did your father get all this ammo?”

“Dad knows certain government officials and weapon suppliers. Some of it is from jobs he has done as well.” Julia knows everything her father has, came from his time as a government agent.

Christmas looks at all the ammo and weapons in the bunker and couldn’t believe how much he had. Also, she couldn’t believe all the different missiles and missile launchers he had as well.

“You’re father could start World War three with what he has.” As she secures several ammo cases full of ammo to the trailer.

“I wouldn’t go that far. Dad believes in the Boy Scouts motto of always being prepared. Some of this ammo was bought by my great
grandfather.” Julia saw pictures of her great grandfather and grandfather. Her father looked just like his grandfather.

Once the two trailers were loaded. Julia and Christmas head towards the silo to replenish and clean the weapons there. Her father wanted her and her wife to prepare all the weapons in the silo if trouble started up again.

Gina and Arnold were resupplying and cleaning the other weapons that protected the property. They had been assigned that task by Jack. Since Gina knew how her father wanted the weapons cleaned. She worked on doing that, while Arnold reloads the ammo caches for the weapons.

Gina knew Arabella wanted to stay and help them, but Debbie had other chores for the grandchildren to do. Gina knew Alyona and Silvia were assigned to cleaning all the rifles, handguns, shotguns that had been used during the fight. Any weapons the Hunters had on them when they were captured were taken and placed in the armory.

The runway had been lifted back in place and was operational again. Any damages done to any of the buildings were being worked on by several construction contractors Jack either owned or contracted with.

The farmhands had filled in all the carters and placed fresh grass on top of the filled-in holes. Selina and Debbie had the grandchildren and were fixing lunch and dinner for everyone. The person that had been found, were transferred to a private hospital and was to be cared for by Doctor Carl Salk.

Chayton was looking for his grandfather. The last place his grandmother said he was outside and down the driving way. He grabs his bicycle and rides down the long driveway. He spots his grandmother’s pickup truck three-quarters of the way down the driveway. He gets off his bicycle and parks it next to the pickup truck.

He looks for his grandfather and spots him almost to the highway. He climbs the fence and walks over towards his grandfather.

“Is everything okay, grandpa?” He wonders what Jack was doing.

Jack hears Chayton’s voice coming from behind him. He had gone up the driveway to see what damage was done to it and what improvements he could make.

“Everything is okay, Chayton. I was just looking around.” Jack turns around and spots his grandson.

“Do you think we will be attacked again?” Chayton was a little concerned about that.

“If they value their lives, they would think twice about attacking us again.” Jack would go hunting again and he wouldn’t stop with the minions. He would go directly to whoever controlled the Hunters.

Chayton saw a look on his grandfather’s face, that he hasn’t seen before. He could hear that there was anger in his grandfather’s voice.

“Grandpa, how long have you been a government agent?” Chayon was curious.

“Too long, Chayton.” Jack looks at his grandson.

“Have you always been a government agent, grandpa?” Chayton didn’t know much about his new grandfather.

“No, I use to be in the British military,” Jack remembered how excited he was when he was allowed to join.

“Why the British military, instead of the US military, grandpa?”

“Well, at the time I was being raised in Ireland by my mother. My parents lived in Europe. My grandfather owned this ranch. It is a tradition for any Bounty family member to join the military. A year after I joined the military, I joined the SAS.” Jack loved his time in the military.

Chayton didn’t know what SAS was “grandpa, what does SAS stand for?”

“Special Air Service. It's one of the best special forces units around.” Jack was proud that he served.

“Is that where you learned all your skills?” Chayton wanted to know more about his grandfather.

“Not all of them. I was an MI 6 agent as well.”

“You were like James Bond?” Chayton couldn’t believe his grandfather was like James Bond.

“Yes and no. Most of what James Bond is and does is fictional. However, I was one of the last MI 6 agents that are still authorized to carry a license to kill.” Jack knew he was the last agent to hold a license to kill, license. Now, a day you have to get authorization to kill someone.

“Wow!”

“So, what brings you down here, Chayton?” Jack never asked his grandson why he was looking for him.

“Oh, sorry. Grandma said dinner is ready.” Chayton almost forgot why he came to find his grandfather.

‘Okay, come on and I’ll give you a lift back to the house.” Jack leads Chayton back to the truck.

Private Hospital, Brooklyn, New York:
“Ouch!” Carla tries not to move as Doctor Zade removes the bolt from her shoulder.

A smirk appears on Dr. Zade’s face as she removes the bolt. She had to be careful, because of the spring-loaded barbs that secure it, in the body. She manages to get the bolt out and stop the bleeding.

Carla watches as Dr. Zade removes the bolt and closes the hole up. The local Dr. Zade gave her wasn’t working as well as it should.

“Didn’t your trainers teach you how to avoid getting hit.” Dr. Zade knew who Carla was and who she uses to work for.

“Yes, they did.” Carla had numerous scars on her body from all the fights she has been in.

“You know your wife is going to kill you.” Dr. Zade bandages up the wound.

“She’ll understand once I explain what happened.” Carla looks at her damaged bodysuit, that she wore under her body armor.

Dr. Zade spots Carla looking at her bodysuit “there’s a spare that should fit you in the closet.”

“Thanks.” Carla heads over to the closet to grab it.

“So, who was it this time that tried to kill you?” Dr. Zade was cleaning up all the mess she made tending to Carla’s shoulder.

“Robert Caron. He’s one of the killers the Hunter organization sends out to hunt people like me.” Carla slips out of her old bodysuit, which is going to need to be repaired.

She slips the new one on and stretches to make it fit better on her body. She folds up her old one and plans on taking it to be repaired. She hopes Trudy will be able to fix both her suit and body armor.

“So, what do I owe you Doc?” Carla grabs her utility belt.

“One gold coin or two hundred dollars.” Dr. Zade dealt in both currencies.

“Here’s two coins.” Carl hands Dr. Zade two gold coins she took off Robert.

“Thanks.” Dr. Zade places them in a safe deposit box. She enters Carla's medical information on her computer.

“See you later, Doc.” Carla heads down to the vehicle she took from Robert.

She’ll go by Trudy’s tomorrow morning. She parks the vehicle next to the others she has taken from the Hunter organization. She places the
keys in the cabinet with the other keys for her collection.

Carla quietly walks upstairs to her bedroom. She carefully opens the door and peeks in. Her wife was already asleep. She strips out of her bodysuit and slips her black nightgown on. She carefully gets into bed without waking her wife. She puts her good arm around her wife’s shoulder and holds her.

Bounty Ranch, Caldwell, Montana:
Debbie and Jack were down in his home office fooling around. She had come walking into his office, wearing nothing but a garter belt, panties, French-style stocking and matching bra under her house robe. She locked the door behind her, as she let the robe fall from her body.

She knew what her husband liked and after all the excitement they have been having around the ranch lately. She figures, her husband could use something to take his mind off of things. As the two of them are going at it hot heavy. Jack’s cellphone starts ringing.

“Don’t answer it, Jack.” Debbie looks down into his eyes. She was straddling his lap and he was buried deep in her vagina.

The ring tone was the Spanish anthem, which meant it was Don Juan calling him. Jack was torn between finishing what he started with his wife or answering the call. He reaches behind her and grabs his cellphone.

He looks up at Debbie “I can do two things at once.” As he pushes up inside of her.

While Debbie rode him, Jack presses the accept button “what’s up Juan?”

“Jack, I hope I’m not interrupting anything?”

“No, so what’s on your mind?” Jack kisses Debbie as she continued to ride him. Her firm big breasts press against his scarred muscular chest.

“I need a favor, my friend. A very close friends’ daughter has been kidnapped down in South America by The La Muerte cartel. I need for you to rescue her if you can and send your normal MESSAGE to them. The Devil’s Bounty Hunter is feared and wanted by the cartels down there.”

“I would love to do this for you Juan, but I’m in the process of handling a situation here. However, I know just the people to send to rescue the woman. If you don’t mind me asking, how did your friend's daughter fall into the hands of the cartel?” Jack was curious about that.

“My friend took his daughter with him, on a business trip with the Venezuela government. While he was in the meeting, his daughter was kidnapped when she went shopping. Her bodyguards didn’t stand a chance against the soldiers that took her.”

“Alright, send me what information you have. So, I can brief the people I’m sending.” Jack already had several people in mind. Hatter was going to be one of the ones he sends.

He figures she can establish herself among them as the boogeyman like he was to them. He also figures Shade will want to go with her. Terry
was another he should send with one of his specialized vehicles.

“They will be meeting with a contact I have down there. The person goes by the name of Coyote and will meet them at your secret hangar. Oh, one more thing. Coyote is a little weird but is a good operative, but crazy as a loony bird.” Juan like Coyote a lot but didn’t know if they were male or female.

“How much do you trust this person, Juan? I’m not sending my people into a trap.” Jack trusted Juan with his life, but he won’t send his people into a trap.

“I trust this person with my life and my daughter’s life.” Juan knew how Jack was.

“Alright, send me what you have and a description of this Coyote person as well.”

“Don’t worry about Coyote. They will meet your team. I give you my word.” Juan knew he was asking a lot from Jack.

Debbie causes Jack to erupt, while he was still on the phone. She comes at the same time he does. She feels his hand tighten on her waist as he holds her down.

“Alright. I’ll talk to you later.” Jack ends the call and lets his cellphone slip to the floor.

He puts his other hand on Debbie’s waist and empties inside of her. He looks up into Debbie’s eyes “you don’t play fair.”

“I learned from the best.” As she leans forward and passionately kisses Jack.

561 W 179th St #2, New York, NY:
Carla was still feeling sore from the bolt that was removed from her shoulder. Her wife gave her an earful about getting hurt again. She knows as she gets older that she’ll be hurting from all the injuries she has sustained. She makes a few turns and finally ends up at the cleaners she was heading for.

Carla parks her car and head inside the cleaners. She waves at the person at the counter, as she uses a door marked Employee’s Only. She walks towards the back of the cleaners towards another door. She presses a panel next to the door and reveals an electronic keypad.

Carla enters a code that Trudy gave her a long time ago. After a few seconds, the steel door opens and Carla walks into another room. The place looked like some gadget development room from a James Bond movie. There were a bunch of people conducting and building all sorts of items.

Carla looks around until she spots Trudy emo hair coloring. She was in the back of the room, working on some sort of weird-looking rifle. She starts walking back towards Trudy.

Trudy was putting the finishing touches on the gauss rifle she just got finish building. She has been working on this project for the past year and finally has a working model. The prototype was still sitting on the stand nearby.

“Okay, what type of weapon is that?” Carla stops to look at it.

A girl with bright red pixie style hair looks up. She had on a pair of weird-looking glasses.

“It’s an electromagnetic pulse rifle. I got the idea from the movie Eraser.”

Carla looks at Trudy and couldn’t believe how young she looked. She knew for a fact that Trudy was thirty-something years old. The Hunter organization had custom-built Trudy’s DNA. They had combined some of the best scientific minds DNA to breed a super genius like Trudy. The problem was, they were hoping for a male.

Trudy had been born a male, but like herself never felt right in her skin. She helped Trudy escape and took her to the same doctor that had done the surgery to make her a woman. The thing was, the doctor was surprised to find that Trudy had all the reproductive organs of a woman.

“I thought they were big and required a lot of power?” Carla examines the rifle.

“Those are the ship-mounted ones. That’s not the man portables I’ve created.” Trudy looked proud of her handy work.

“So, are you going to start mass-producing these things and selling them?”

“Nope, these will be custom made for special clients. These things are game-changers. Now, what can I do for you?” Trudy looks at Carla.

“I need my bodysuit and armor fixed. Also, while you’re at it, can you give me some new weapons as well?” Carla hands the gym bag she was
brought in with her, over to Trudy.

Trudy opens it and looks at Carla’s old armor and bodysuit. She picks up the bodysuit and saw where the explosive bolt went through the suit.

“You can pick out a new body armor. I have several in stock. As for your bodysuit, it's going to take me a week to repair this one. As for new weapons, come with me to the armory.” Trudy puts the old suit down and leads Carla to the armory.

They come to an old fashion bank vault. Trudy walks up to an electronic keypad and places her hand on it. The bank vault starts opening, revealing a collection of ancient and modern style weapons.

“Pick your poison.” A smile appears on her face.

Carla lets out a whistle “you’ve been busy.” She walks into the vault.

Carla starts looking and selecting weapons. She loved the selection of weapons that Trudy had. Some of them were just ordinary weapons and some of them were next-generation weapons or scifi looking weapons from comic books and such.

She grabs a few custom pieces and a few normal style weapons. By the time she leaves the vault, she has a nice selection of new weapons.

“You made a lot of good choices there.” Trudy noticed the style of weapons Carla grabbed.

“Thanks. Are these wrist weapons easy to use?”

“Yes, and you’ll like them. They are needler style weapons. The needles are coated with a selection of different chemicals. Each cartridge
contains different needles for different jobs. Everything from knocking people out to easy dropping on them. Watch out for the black ones. They are meant to kill people.” Trudy wanted Carla to know what she was dealing with.

“Thanks for the warning. So, have you heard anything about our old friends?” Carla watches as the vault door closes.

“Not since they tried to find my workshop. They still don’t like that I left them.” Trudy brushes aside some of her hair.

“They don’t like anyone that doesn’t believe in their cause or who stands against them.”

“True.”

Trudy leads Carla to where the bodysuits were stored. Her people have been busy making new bodysuits and body armor.

“Here you go. They come in different colors now, instead of just black.” Trudy shows the collection of bodysuits.

“Nice.” Carla starts selecting a few.

“How’s your wife doing?” Trudy still hasn’t found the right person yet.

“She’s doing fine. She still gets upset with me when I get hurt.” Carla had a stack of bodysuits in her hands.

“Can you blame her? You’re all she has. She was taken from the orphanage in France and trained to be a Pleasure girl.” Trudy knew all about the pleasure girls that the Hunter organization train.

“I know and I wish sometimes, I didn’t have to do what I do. However, someone needs to stop the evil the organization is doing.” Carla hated the organization with a passion.

Once Carla has everything she wanted and several back-up armors. She takes them out to her car and headed back inside. She heads towards Trudy to pay her for everything.

“So, what do I owe you?”

“Four coins, if you have some.” Trudy had added up everything in her head.

“Here’s five.” Carla hands over five brand new coins she got her hands on.

Trudy accepts them. She pockets the fifth coin. Trudy knew it was a tip for her.

“Thanks, be careful Carla.”

“I will.”

Carla heads back outside towards her car and gets in. She drives towards her and her wife’s favorite grocery store to pick up what she needed to make dinner later in the evening. By the time she gets home, she figures she had a few hours before her wife comes home.

She puts away her new weapons and head down to her workshop to put the rest of her things away. She needed to do a little rearranging of a few things. She heads into her trophy room to look at some of the trophies she has taken from her various victories.

One of the trophies she took, belonged to the bastard that hurt her wife. The next one was the first bounty hunter the organization sent after her. She stands there and looks at both their heads, preserved in ice. The bounty hunter sent after her, almost succeed in capturing her.

“If you came after me now, you would still end up as my trophy.” Carla turns around and heads back upstairs to fix dinner.

Carla’s and Angela’s townhouse:
“I can’t believe you got hurt again.” Angela looks at Carla with anger in her eyes.

“I didn’t mean too, sweetie. The organization sent one of their nastiest bounty hunters after me.”

Angela looks at Carla and knew that the organization wasn’t ever going to give up on trying to kill Carla for what she has been doing to them. If Carla had never saved her or quit their ranks. They would leave her alone. It also didn’t help that Carla kept blowing their places up and killing their people.

“Who was it, that they sent after you this time?” Angela was still mad at her wife.

“Robert Caron. They sent the worst of the worst after me.” Carl knew how dangerous he was.

“I don’t know him. Why is he the worst of the worst?” Angela was curious.

“Because he is a zealot and takes pleasure in slowly torturing people.” Carla has seen his handy work and knew she needed to take him down. She has also encountered him before.

“Where is he now?” Angela figured Carla must have beaten him.

“His body is still dissolving, but his head is down in my trophy room.”

“I wish you would stop bring your trophies head home. It's creepy when I go in there to clean.”

“I’ll think of something different to do. It's just…..”

“I know, its something the Hunter’s taught you to do.” Angela knew Carla still had a lot of things the Hunter organization taught her to overcome.

Angela sits down at the dining room table, while Carla brings dinner in. She notices it was one of her favorites.

“Trying to apology to me?” a mischievous look appeared on her face.

“Nay, I thought I would cook something you liked, is all.” Carla places a kiss on Angela’s cheek.

Once Carla finishes setting the table and pouring some wine in their glasses, she sits down to enjoy dinner with her wife. She looks over towards her wife and could tell she was tired.

“Rough day at work?”

“No, just boring. We had a lot of new clients that called and I had to do background checks on them. It took a while to get their police records
and such.” Angela was in charge of checking each client so that the girls didn’t get hurt.

“I can see how that can be boring.” Carla takes a bite of her food.

The rest of the dinner, Carla, and Angela eat in peace. After dinner, Angela helps Carla put the dirty dishes away along with any leftovers they have.

“Come on, let's go take a bath together.” Angela takes Carla's hand and leads her to the bathroom.

A smile appears on Carla’s face as she follows her wife.

Julia’s House, Caldwell, Montana:
Haylee was snuggled under Julia’s nightgown. Somehow, Haylee had managed to crawl under her mother's nightgown and was sleeping on top of her chest. Catori was snuggled against Christmas. She had her face nested between Christmas breasts.

Roxy was at Julia’s feet, along with the little coyote pup Haylee found. Sphinx and Terror were both sleeping on their large pillows on the floor at the foot of the bed. Haylee was resting her head on Julia’s breasts.

Haylee and Catori couldn’t sleep in their beds, so they crawled into bed with Julia and Christmas. Haylee had crawled in next to Julia, while Catori crawled in next to Christmas. Since the attack on Jack’s property and the attack on Julia herself. The girls would crawl into their beds at first, but end up sleeping with Julia and Christmas.

Chayton had Cowboy and Night sleeping in his room with him. Both large wolves have taken a liking to him. So, Julia has been letting them stay at the house.

Chayton felt uncomfortable sleeping in the same bed as his mothers. He liked Julia and Christmas but got strange feelings when he laid next
to them. He spoke to his grandfather about it and Jack understood. Jack had said that he was at that age that all young men have the same urges.

Ring, Ring, Ring….Julia could feel Haylee sleeping on her chest as she reaches over to the nightstand. She picks her cellphone up, trying not to wake Haylee or Catori.

“Hello?”

“Julia, its Sergeant Lewis. I’m sorry for calling you this late, but we need yours and Terror’s help. How soon can you get to the address I’m sending you?”

Julia hears her cellphone chirp, letting her know a text message arrived. She looks at it and saw it was just up the street from Gina’s house.

“I can be there in fifteen minutes.”

“Alright, I’ll see you in fifteen.”

Julia puts her cellphone back on the nightstand. She lifts her nightgown, so she could move Haylee off her chest. She feels Haylee stir when she moves her.

Once Haylee was laying on the bed, Julia gets up and changes out of her nightgown. She pulls a pair of jeans out and slips on a t-shirt that has the police department on it. She grabs her badge holder.

Terror and Sphinx get up off their pillows and follows Julia. She wonders why Sergeant Lewis needed her. She leaves a note for Christmas as she grabs her car keys and heads towards her SUV. Terror and Sphinx follow behind her.

Ten minutes later, Julia arrives at the address she was given. There were at least five police cruisers on the property in front of an old farmhouse. She hops out of her SUV and looks for Sergeant Lewis. She spots him talking to another officer.

She walks up to him with Terror and Sphinx walking on either side of her. She stops a few feet away from him.

“What’s the problem, Serg?”

“Kidnapping. The perp is hold up inside the house, but he hid the child somewhere on the property. You are the closest K-9 cop nearby and I know how good your wolf is.”

“You said the child is here on the property somewhere?”

“Yes.”

“Do you have something with the child’s scent on it?”

“Yes.” Sergeant Lewis looks over towards another officer “patrol officer Cooper, bring the teddy bear over.”

A youthful-looking patrol officer walks towards his cruiser and grabs the teddy bear the child’s mother gave him. After grabbing it, he walks over towards Julia and Sergeant Lewis. He notices that two big wolves were standing near them.

“Here you go Sergeant.” He hands the teddy bear over to him.

Lewis hands the teddy bear to Julia “here.”

“Thanks.” Julia takes it and kneels before her wolves.

Terror and Sphinx sniff the teddy bear.

“Sireadh!” Julia stands back up with the teddy bear still in her hands.

Sphinx and Terror run off pass the officers and start sniffing the grounds. Julia follows her wolves to see where they were heading. After they get a good distance from the police officers. Terror starts growling and the next thing Julia hears is gunfire. Someone just tried to shoot Terror.
She pulls her gun and tries to locate the person. She hears more growling and this time it was Sphinx. She spots a flash as the unknown person tries to shoot Sphinx. She fires her gun in the direction the flash came from. The unknown person fires back at her.

The bullet misses Julia by inches. She fires back and hears a muffled scream as well. She runs towards the location of the scream and spots Sphinx with the person's arm in his mouth.

“Good boy, Sphinx.” Julia watches as the big man tries to fight Sphinx off. A smile appears on her face.

She doesn’t see Terror anywhere as she walks over to the big man. She points her gun at his head.

“Sála!”

Sphinx lets go of the big man’s arm. He stays ready to attack if the man moves.

“Where’s the child?” Julia had her handgun pointed dead center of the man's head.

“Go fuck yourself, bitch.”

“You don’t understand this, do you. I can walk away and let my wolf finish the job or I can use your forehead as a target. Now, decide which way you want to die. Dog chow or exploded head?”

“Kill me and you’ll never find the child.”

“Think so?”

Julia hears the sound of Terror howling.

“Times up.”

Julia turns and starts running towards the sound of Terror’s howling. Sphinx stayed to guard the perp. When Julia gets to where Terror was, she notices he was digging into the ground.

“I found the child. Get the paramedics to my location.” Julia kneels and starts helping Terror dig.

Several police officers show up and start helping her. Julia had already cleared away several feet of dirt. Some of the police officers helping her, clear more dirt and finds a wooden coffin. They clear away more of the dirt. It was a medium-size coffin.

“Hurry, we don’t know how much air they have left.” Julia hurries to clear away more of the dirt.

Between her and several officers, they manage to clear enough dirt to lift the coffin out of the ground. She remembers the lessons her father taught her about breaking boards and such. She balls her fist up and concentrates as she punches the wood.

The area where she punched, cracks. She punches three more times and makes a big enough hole in the lid. Julia pulls the broken lid pieces off the coffin. Inside the coffin was a young preteen age girl. She looked to be unconscious, as Julia scoops her up out of the coffin.

Julia spots the paramedics coming towards her. When they arrive, Julia hands the unconscious girl to them. She looks at one of the other police officers “did you get the other guy?”

“Yes, once your wolf allowed us.” He looks down at Sphinx.

“Did you guys get the other person?” Julia looks at the officer.

“Yes, we got him. We didn’t know there were two of them.”

“Let me know how she is.” Julia hopes the preteen girl recovers.

“Terror, Sphinx, Tar!” Julia starts walking back towards her SUV.

Jack’s Ranch, Caldwell, Montana
Chayton was driving the feed truck Jack taught him to drive, while Haylee tossed feed out of the back of the truck. They were feeding the buffaloes and cows out on the back pastures. Some of the wolves were out roaming around on the property. Roxy and Waffles were in the back of the truck with her.

“Chayton, did you notice grandpa’s Cessna was missing from the hangar this morning?” Haylee looks at her brother through the back window of the pick-up truck they were in.

“Yes, is grandpa the only one who flies it?” Chayton didn’t know if his aunts and uncle flew their grandfather’s Cessna.

“Yes, grandpa is the only one who flies the Cessna. Everyone else uses the lear jets or mom’s fighter jet.” Haylee learned that her mother had a fighter jet. It was an older model, but her mother was part of the Air National Guard.

“I wonder where grandpa went?” Haylee dishes out the feed as Chayton drove slowly.

“We could ask grandma or mom.” Chayton slowed down as they got near the end.

Haylee shovels out the last of the feed. She sits down on the bed of the truck. Waffles and Roxy come over to her and start licking her. She giggles “your food is back at the house.”

Chayton turns the trucks around and head back to the feed silo. He was still amazed that the bottom part of the silo was feed and the top of it was armed with missile launchers and sea whiz units.

He parks the truck in the small garage and gets out of the truck. Haylee jumps out of the back of the pick-up with Waffles in her hands.

“Let’s go and see grandma.” Haylee looks towards her older brother.

“Okay, we better let mom know.” Chayton sends Julia and Christmas a text message informing them they were going to see grandma.

Haylee and chayton drive their four-wheelers up to the main house. They park them next to their grandfather’s and grandmother’s Hummer and a pick-up truck. Haylee notices Chaos was laying on the front porch and so was Storm. Storm was as big as Chaos. He also had fur so dark, that he could pass as Chaos twin.

“Hey Chaos, Hey Storm.” Haylee walks over to the two meanest wolves in her grandfather’s pack and pets them.

Chayton watches his little sister. She wasn’t afraid of anything and all the wolves on the ranch, listen to her.

“How do you do that?” As Chayton catches up to Haylee.

“Do what?” Haylee looks at Chayton with a puzzled look on her face.

“Get along with all the wolves and other animals on the ranch.” Chayton has seen Haylee calm down one of the meanest stallions they just got in recently.

“I don’t know. Animals just like me. Even Simba and Shur Khan like me.” Haylee loved meeting her aunt Cheshire’s puddy cats.

Haylee and Chayton walk into the house and smelled fresh bread baking. Haylee hurries to the kitchen and spots her aunt Silvia and her aunt Selina making breakfast.

Silvia spotted Chayton, Haylee Roxy, and Waffles walking into the kitchen. A smile appears on Silvia’s face.

“Selina, we got visitors.” Silvia looks at her niece, nephew, and pets as they walk into the kitchen.

Selina looks up from what she was working on “what brings you two, too the house?”

“We’re wondering where grandpa went. His Cessna is missing from the hangar.” Haylee grabs a couple of fresh-baked biscuits from the counter.

She breaks one open and give Roxy one piece and Waffles the other piece. She watches as Silvia looks at Selina.

“Did you know daddy was gone?” Silvia was curious.

“No, why don’t you go and ask your grandmother, Haylee.” Selina didn’t know Jack had left.

“Chayton, have you and Haylee had breakfast yet?”

“No ma’am. We just got done feeding the animals.” Chayton walks over and sits on one of the barstools at the counter.

“I was getting ready to cook some bacon and make scrambled eggs for breakfast. Why don’t you and Haylee join us.” Selina loved having the grandchildren at the house.

“Okay, Aunt Selina.” Chayton loved Selina’s cooking.

“I’ll be back.” Haylee had gotten some fo the food her grandfather feed the wolves and put two bowls down for Waffles and Roxy.

Haylee heads towards her grandmother’s bedroom. She knocks on the door.

“Come in.” Debbie was getting dressed.

Haylee walks into the bedroom when she hears her grandmother give her permission. She sees her grandmother in her bra and panties putting on a pair of blue jeans. Her grandmother was fastening them.

Debbie saw Haylee walk into the bedroom. A smile appears on her face “Haylee, it's so good to see you. What bring you to see me this morning?”

“Grandpa’s Cessna was missing from the hangar this morning, grandma. Did grandpa go somewhere?” Haylee walks over and sits on her
grandparent's huge bed.

“Grandpa had to leave for an emergency, Haylee. He’ll be back by the end of the week.” Debbie knew Haylee would notice Jack gone. He normally helped her feed the animals in the morning.

Debbie puts on a nice blouse that went with her jeans. She tucks the blouse into the waistband of her pants. She sits down next to Haylee and hugs her.

Haylee returns the hug. She’ll miss having her grandpa helping her. Since she came to live with the Bounty’s, she has never had grandparents before. She has come to love them.

“Come on, let’s go and put some food into you.” Debbie stands up off the bed with Haylee.

Debbie couldn't tell any of the family that Cheshire had called him, late last night.

“Mom, can you drop me off at the mall on your way to work, please?” Arabella watches as Gina gets dressed.

Gina didn’t mind Arabella sitting on the bed and watching her as she got ready for work. She was running a little late because she gave Arnold a quickie before he left earlier. She looks over at her daughter as she lifts her panties.

“Sure, what are you girls going to be doing today?” Gina makes sure her thong panties are sitting right on her.

Gina grabs her matching bra and put it on. She liked the bra that went with her thong. She recently just got the pair after seeing it in a Victoria catalog. She didn’t use to like wearing sexy undergarments, after what was done with her. However, her attitude has changed, thanks to Arnold.

“Just look around and maybe catch a movie.” Arabella knew she and her friends won’t be doing much.

“I don’t see why not, sweetie.” Gina pulls out a blouse to wear and puts it on.

Arabella wonders if her mother will let her wear a nice bra and panties when her breast develops. She recently has started wearing a training bra. She noticed in the last few weeks that her chest has been hurting her and the area where her nipple was had gotten bigger.

Trigger was lying near Arabella on the bed. Her head was resting on Arabella’s thigh. Her tail would wag when Arabella scratches between her ears.

Gina finishes getting dress and grabs her purse. She looks over towards Arabella “are you ready to go, sweetie?”

“Yes ma’am.” Arabella gets up and runs towards her bedroom to grab her purse.

Once she has her purse, she heads downstairs. She knew Trigger was behind her “you stay and guard the house, Trigger.”

Arabella closes the front door behind her. She gets in on the passenger side of her mother’s hummer. She watches as the landscape past by as her mother drove towards the mall.

When they pull into the mall parking lot, she notices Amy’s mother dropping her off. Gina pulls in right behind Amy’s mothers’ car. Gina turns to look at her daughter “be careful and stay out of trouble. When you’re ready to come home, either call a cab or call Alyona to pick you up.”

“Alright, mom.” Arabella hugs her mother before exiting from the hummer.

Arabella catches up to Amy, just as she was walking into the mall.

“Amy, wait up.” Arabella runs to catch up to her.

Amy heard her name and stop. She turns around and notices Arabella running towards her. A smile appears on her face. Ever since her,
Jessica, Karen, and Jenny spent the night at Arabella’s house. She and Jenny have grown close to one another as friends.

Arabella finally catches up to Amy and smiles at her “have you heard from everyone else?”

“Yeah, they are meeting us at Kelly’s Soda Shake.” Amy talked with Jenny before she left the house.

“Cool, so how does it feel to finally have your breast?” Arabella knew Amy was getting her breasts now.

Amy’s doctor put her on some new pills that have been doing wonders for her. It had caused her hips and ass to become fuller and gave her a nice waist as well. Her facial features have softened up and changed. Arabella figures she should find out what the drug name was called and tell her aunt’s.

“I love it. I can now feel like a true girl.” Amy liked her budding breasts.

“Cool. I wish you could experience what it is like to have a period.” Arabella’s period finally started. Her mother showed her how to use
tampons and wear a maxi pad.

“I would give anything to experience that.” Amy wanted to be a full-functional woman.

As they walked into Kelly’s Soda Shake, they spot Jenny at their favorite corner booth. Amy and Arabella walk over towards Jenny. Amy sits
down next to Jenny on her left and Arabella sits down on Jenny’s right-hand side.

“It’s about time you two showed up.” Jenny had a teasing smile on her face.

“How long have you been waiting for us?” Arabella was curious.

“Only a few minutes. Jessica and Karen are on their way.” Jenny knew Jessica and Karen never went anywhere without each other.

“I wonder what antics those two are up to now?” Amy knew Jessica and Karen liked doing weird things.

“Oh, my god!” Jenny covers her mouth as she spots Karen and Jessica come walking into Kelly’s.

“What?” Arabella looks in the direction Jenny was looking for and couldn’t believe what she was seeing.

What Arabella and Jenny were seeing, was Karen dressed in a tight, latex catsuit? She had a small spike collar going around her neck with a leash attached to it. Jessica was holding it in her hand.

Jessica on the other hand was dressed, in an anime café maid outfit. She had everything right about the outfit. She and Karen walk over towards the table.

“Okay, why are you two dress like you are?” Arabella was curious as she watches them sit down at the table.

“I lost a bet to Jessica and she lost a bet to me. So, we decided to honor each other’s bet.” Karen couldn’t believe she was dressed in a
skintight latex catsuit.

“Well, this should make our mall experience exciting.” Arabella had a grin on her face.

Outside Kelly’s Soda Shack:
Two male figures dressed as mall custodians were watching Arabella and her friends. One of the men looks at the other “we could grab her and hold her as a hostage.”

“Negative. We have orders to only watch her and observe what she does.

“Why? If we grab her now, we can force the Bounty family to surrender to us and end this mess.”

“Look, if we grab her now, we’ll have the Bounty family on us. You forget, one of the Bounty’s is a fucking Montana K9 officer and she’s very good at what she does. Plus, we know that Mr. Bounty has this area, and most of the surrounding area littered with his agents. On top of that,
her mother would hunt us down. Gina Bounty isn’t your typical CEO. She has no problem killing us and mailing our body back, piece by piece.”

“I still think it might be better to strike back at them and ignore the orders we have been given.”

“Until we get a change of orders. We follow the ones we were given.

Kelly’s Soda Shack:
“So, which movie, do we want to see?” Jenny had the list up on her cellphone.

“Well, since we can only see PG-13 movies without our parents with us. How about Grease? Mom said it was a good movie when she saw it.” Amy looks at her friends to see what they thought.

“We could see Miss Congeniality. I like Sandra Bullock.” Jenny was a big Sandra Bullock fan.

“Hey, they are playing Ocean’s 8 at the cinema.” Jessica was another Sandra Bullock fan.

“That does seem interesting.” Arabella looks at her cellphone to see how much time they had to get to the movie theater.

“Then its settle?” Jenny looks at all her friends.

“Yep.” Amy liked Sandra Bullock and the fact the reviews were good in the movie.

“Well, we have thirty minutes before the movie starts.”

“Okay, lets head over there and get out tickets.”

Alexandria, Va.
“You know, you boys aren’t very bright or very good at what you do.” Brandi looks at the six guys hanging upside down from the rafter.

She had stripped them naked after bringing them to a warehouse owned by her real estate company. These morons had been following Jack and Cheshire. Jack gave her a call and a quick trap had been set-up with the help of her crew.

Jack told her to interrogate them and find out who they are working for. She was permitted to use any technique she wanted to.

“Now, let’s start from the beginning, who are you working for?” Brandi looks at them to see who was going to talk.

None of them was going to tell her anything. All six guys remained silent as they hung upside down from the rafter.

“Well, since you don’t want to talk to me. Let’s see who you are.” Brandi scans their facial features and runs it through the DMV database and the law enforcement database.

After about an hour, she gets their identity. The first guy was wanted on numerous Breaking and entry charges. The second guy had three arrest warrants out on him by the Marshal service. The third guy was a freelance thug, along with the fourth person. The fifth person got her attention. His file came back being very colorful. He was wanted for raping three underage girls. He was also wanted on charges for abducting a person by the name of Wendy L. Hall.

The last person had a very colorful record. He was a known sex offender, has been charged for exposing himself to minors. He was also wanted for questioning, about the disappearance of Gloria Huff.

Brandi stands there as that name sounded familiar. She couldn’t put her finger on it, but she knew who Gloria Huff was.

“Well, since you guys have some nasty police records and enjoy exposing yourself to underage girls. I think a certain type of punishment is
suited for you.” Brandi pulls her cellphone out and dials a number.

After a few seconds, the call is answered.

“I like to make a medical reservation for six, please.”

“What would you like done?” an old man’s voice answers.

“A gender change but leave some of their maleness. Also, once they are healed, let them experience their new gender.”

“Who’s picking up the tab?”

“The big bad wolf.” Brandi knew Jack would have no problem with her pulling the funds out of the slush funds.

“Address of pick-up?”

“525 Montana Ave.”

“Pick-up will be in thirty minutes.”

“Okay, see you then.” Brandi hangs up.

“Well, you guys won’t be my problem for much longer. You better look at each other one last time. Because gentlemen, you’ll be losing these things you love so much.” Brandi smacks each guy in their manhood.

“You can’t do that to us,” Wayne speaks up. He was getting a headache with the blood rushing to his head.

“I can do whatever I want to you. You guys are very bad men and bad men need to be punished. Also, since you like raping underage girls,
you deserve to see what it feels like. So, enjoy what time you have left as men.”

Thirty Minutes Later:
An unidentified old UPS van pulls into the warehouse. Four guys in black fatigues get out of the van and load the six naked guys. One of the guys in black comes over to Brandi with a pad “I need your thumbprint, ma’am.”

“No problem. Make sure they see what happened to them afterward.” Brandi wanted to see what their new life is going to be like.

“We will, ma’am. You have a nice day.” The man turns around and gets into the van.

Once the men are taken away. Brandi cleans the place up and gathers all the stuff they had on them and put it in a bag. She digs through their cellphones and such to see what or who called them. Just before she leaves, she sends a message to Jack, informing him that they wouldn’t talk and that their police record was so bad, that she sent them to the doctor for changes.

She walks outside to her Jeep wrangler and gets in. Brandi selects some music to listen to while she drives home. It only takes her twenty minutes to arrive home. She parks her Jeep in the garage and heads towards the door leading from the garage, to the kitchen.

As she opens the garage door, she hears music blaring inside the house. She walks in and spots her adopted daughter wearing a black Lace & Mesh open butt teddy with detachable garters. She was wearing black lace stocking that covered her shapely legs. She was wearing five-inch strappy heels that covered her feet.

She was dancing to the music blaring throughout the house. She had a duster in her hands, dusting as she danced. Brandi just watches her adopted daughter, as she shuts the garage door behind her.

She couldn’t believe that the young girl she rescued would turn out as she has. Whatever drugs the men she rescued her from, has caused her body to mature, prematurely. Kimberly’s body looked like she should be in her late teens. The thing was age-wise she was only twelve
years old.

The other problem Kimberly had, she was repeatedly beaten and forced to have sex with anyone her pimps found. She was lucky, she didn’t
catch any STD’s. Mentally, she was still recovering from her ordeal. The other problem she needed to overcome. Was the fact, she didn’t like wearing clothes, expect lingerie. That had been beaten into her. So, Brandi allows her daughter to wear whatever lingerie she wants when she is home. But when they go out, she must wear clothes.

The drugs that had been given to Kimberly, caused her body to mature beyond what it should be currently. Kimberly’s breasts were extremely big. Her hips and waist gave her a very nice figure. She stood at least five feet, two inches.

Brandi continues to watch her daughter as she danced. It was the one thing that her daughter loved to do. She also had a nice singing voice as well.

Brandi walks over to the stereo system and turns the volume down. She looks at her daughter to see if she’ll notice the music being turned down. She watches as Kimberly stops dancing and turns around to see why the music lowered.

“Hi, mom.” Kimberly walks over to her mother and hugs her.

“Hey, sweetie.” Brandi returns her daughter's hug.

Brandi looks at the way her daughter is dressed and wonders when she will get over ,dressing in lingerie all the time. She doesn’t blame her daughter, but she wishes the men that did this to her. She hadn’t killed off so quickly.

“Do you feel like going out for dinner tonight?” Brandi figures Kimberly might like that.

Kimberly’s youthful face lights up. She loved going out for dinner.

"Yes ma'am."

“Alright, go and put a dress on and we’ll go out for dinner.”

“Alright, mommy.” Kimberly heads towards her bedroom to put a dress on.

Sanctuary Ranch, Hayden, Colorado:
“What do you think, Bart?” Anika was walking around the custom log mansion.

“I think there’s no way the Hunter organization will be able to sneak up or set a trap.” Bart was at least a hundred acres out from the old fashion log mansion.

“Not with the wolves patrolling the property.” Anika knew her brother was going to bring some of his wolves to patrol the property.

“Even if Jack didn’t bring the wolves, there’s enough wildlife here to warn us.” Bart had watched as a black bear and her cubs walked near his location.

He knew there were a lot of elks, mule deer, and moose on the property. That wasn’t counting the birds that called the place home. The log mansion sat up on a hilly area and looked down towards the only road leading into the place.

“Who else do you think my brother is going to call in to act as security?” Anika steps out onto the porch and looks down towards the road leading to the place.

“Besides me and you? Maybe, Mad Jack, Bear, Julia, Gina, Casey, and Rachel. That’s not counting who Cheshire might have come in.” Bart knew Cheshire had several agents she trained that were like him and Anika.

“Of all those people you mention, I can deal with, except Mad Jack. He’s crazier and deadlier than Hatter.” Anika trained under Mad Jack and he was the toughest and meanest person she has ever met.

He taught wilderness survival and he threw all sorts of obstacles in your way. When he trains you, he makes you leave everything behind. The only thing he permits you to have with you is a survival knife he gives you, that he forged himself.

Mad Jack lived off the grid in a log house he built himself. He also had very few modern devices. He believed in living off the land.

“You’re lucky you survived his training. Most people who take his course, don’t last the first two weeks. I would hate to see what would happen between him and Aylin.” Bart knew how crazy Aylin was.

“Mad Jack might be good in the wilderness, but Aylin is unpredictable. He would have a hard time predicting what she would do.”

“Speaking of Hatter, where is she? The girls wanted to come and spend some time with her.”

“She’s on a mission in South America with Terry. After all this mess is over, she could fly to Texas and stay with you and the girls.” Anika knew
how Bart’s adopted daughters looked to Hatter like a big sister.

“I’ll mention it to my wife.” Bart makes his way back up to the mansion.

As Bart gets closer to the mansion, he spots Anika out on the porch. She had on a pair of black ankle boots. She also was wearing a pair of black leggings, and a gray short sleeve tunic shirt.

“So, has your boyfriend asked you to marry him, yet?” Bart walks up the steps to the porch.

“Not yet, but I know he is about too. I saw the engagement ring he bought me.” Anika looks at Bart.

He was dressed in his favorite cowboy wear. Slightly faded blue jeans, light blue short sleeve dress shirt with his custom-made black Stetson western cowboy hat. Anika knew how much he loved his custom cowboy hat.

“Are you going to tie the knot with him?” Bart knew Anika has been dating the guy she was seeing for a few years now.

“I want too, but I don’t know if I want to give up my job in New York.” Anika has been thinking about it lately. She knew Shade asked Hatter to marry him.

“I can understand that.” Bart heads into the mansion.

Anika follows behind him. The two of them head into the bar in the place. Bart walks behind the counter and grabs two glasses. He pours himself and Anika a glass of bourbon.

“Thanks.” Anika accepts the glass.

Bart takes a sip of his first. He watches as Anika takes a sip of hers as well.

“So, how does it feel to be an uncle now?”

“You mean with Dakota’s and Terry’s adopted daughters?” Bart saw the pictures Dakota sent him of her newly adopted daughters.

“Yes. The girls are adorable.” Anika was smitten with them when she first saw them.

“I can’t wait to meet them. Caroline already wants to fly out to see them. Also, the girls are happy to have cousins as well.” Bart knew Julie and her sister Laila wanted to see the babies as well.

“Well, I know Terry would appreciate it. Also, how is your cousin Katie doing?” Anika remembered she took a new job.

“She’s doing good. She and her girlfriend came out to the ranch for Christmas.” Bart liked Jessica.

Anika refills her drink. She looks towards Bart “want a refill?”

“Yes.” Bart holds his glass out.

Anika refills it.

“Thanks.” Bart takes a sip.

They stand at the bar and drink their drinks. Bart, wonders what else Jack has up his sleeve for the Hunter’s?

Anika looks out the huge window and watches as the sun goes down. The outside lights turn on and light up the area around the mansion.

“That might be a problem.”

“What might?” Bart was puzzled.

“The area past the mansion. The lights only light up around the house and part of the driveway. The rest of the road and area away from the mansion can allow a sneak attack.”

“I wouldn’t worry about it. The wolves can handle that area. I think six of Jack’s wolves will even the odds.”

Bounty Ranch, Caldwell, Montana:
“Mom, Chaos won’t get onto the plane.” Haylee looks at Chaos with a disappointed look on her face. All the other wolves got onto the plane without any problems.

Chaos stood in front of Haylee. He wasn’t sure if he was going to obey her. He walks up to her and almost knocks her down, as he rubs against her body. Once he was done doing that, he jumps up into the Lear Jet where all the other wolves were.

Julia was about to walk over and order Chaos onto the plane. She stops as she watches him rub against Haylee and then jump into the plane. A smile appears on Julia’s face because Chaos has marked Haylee as his.

Waffles had backed away from Haylee because Chaos scared her. Roxy had stayed next to Haylee. She wasn’t afraid of the big bad wolf.
Haylee was her human to protect.

Haylee picks Waffle up and carries her on board the plane. Roxy follows behind her and sits down by her feet. Haylee looks at the seven wolves they were taking to Sanctuary Ranch.

Trigger was sitting by Arabella and looking at all the other wolves. She was the smallest wolf among all the wolves. She was a North Carolina wolf and not one of Jack’s specialized bred wolves.

“I still don’t like this, Julia. Haylee is too young to be brought into this mess.” Christmas looks at Julia.

“She’ll be safe, I promise. She’ll be in the house with Arabella and Trigger. Sphinx will be with her as well.” Julia had been concerned when her father said to bring Haylee and Arabella. Haylee, because of her empathy with all the animals, and Arabella because of her computer skills. Arabella will be monitoring all the surveillance devices Bart and Anika put up on the property.

“Still, I don’t like putting our daughter or niece in trouble.” Christmas knew almost anything could go wrong.

“Don’t worry, Christmas. My aunt Anika will be there, and I’ll be there as well.” Gina came over to speak to Christmas.

“Aren’t you worried about Arabella’s safety?” Christmas looks at Gina.

“With Sphinx, Cadmus and Trigger protecting them, no. Sphinx and Cadmus along are deadly. If an attacker survives them, then they have to survive Trigger.” Gina knew Trigger would do her best to protect Haylee and Arabella.

Christmas looked conflicted about letting the kids go. She knew Sphinx and Cadmus could handle almost anything and Trigger was still young and learning. She wasn’t as big as the other wolves.

Julia walks over and wraps her arm around Christmas “she’ll be okay, sweetie. I won’t allow anything to happen to our daughter or niece.”

“Fine, but if anything happens to our daughter or niece. I’ll never forgive you.” Christmas didn’t feel children should be brought into this matter.

“I understand.” Julia saw how serious her wife was.

Sanctuary Ranch, Hayden, Colorado:
A few hours later the two Lear Jets that Jack owns land at the airport. The wolves are loaded into a box truck. Haylee travels with them to keep them company and calm.

Arabella rode with her mother and her Aunt Julia in one of the black SUV’s they transported from Chaos Armory. Arabella had her laptop out and was checking all the security systems that were installed.

“How are things looking, sweetie?” Gina looks back towards her daughter from the front seat.

“Everything is online mom and the drones are ready to launch as well.” Arabella had suggested to her grandfather, that he might want to start using drones. They should be equipped with HD cameras to cover more areas on the ranch.

The ranch they were heading to had over three thousand acres of land to it. It was smaller than Jack’s ranch but plentiful with game. The drones would be able to cover every inch of the ranch.

It takes them thirty minutes to arrive at the ranch. Haylee knew the wolves were happy to be out of the box truck. She watches as they jump out of the back of the box truck. Roxy and Waffles stayed by her.

“Sireadh!”

The wolves immediately start checking the property out. Trigger didn’t go but went over to Arabella. Arabella looks down and scratches Trigger between her ears. She knew it was Trigger's favorite spot.

Haylee watches as the wolves spread out and explore the land near the house. It was her job, to take care of them.

“Come on Arabella, let me show you where you will be set up during this meeting.”

“Okay, mom.” Arabella follows her mother. Trigger follows them into the log mansion.

Carla’s and Angela’s townhouse, New York:
Angela looks down into Carla’s beautiful eyes. She was straddling Carla’s mouth with her sex directly over her mouth. She held a remote in her hand.

“Now, its time I punish you sweetie for all the wounds you have been receiving lately.” Angela had attached pads and such to Carla’s sex, breasts, and under each arm and thighs.

She presses the button on the remote and felt Carla arch off the bed. Her mouth closes on Angela’s sex. She couldn’t believe how the shocks excited her. She falls back down to the bed when her wife stopped the electric shocks.

Angela loved that her wife was spread eagle and secured to the four corners of the bed. She had total control of her wife. She also liked the fact, that her wife was getting excited from the electric shocks and u-shaped sex toy inserted in Carla’s vagina and ass.

Angela looks down into her wife’s eyes “ I wish you could get pregnant because I would love to see what you would be like with a baby inside you.”

“You can still carry a baby, Angela.” Carla knew how much Angela wanted to be a mother.

“I know, but it would be nice if you could as well.” Angela leans down and kisses her wife.

Central Park, New York, New York:
Jack looks around for the person he was looking for. She normally hung out in the park. He finally spots Tessa pickpocketing a businessman. A smirk appears on his face as he watches her. She was very good, and the person didn’t know she just lifted his wallet.

He walks over to where she disappeared too. He spots her looking through the wallet and removing a large amount of cash.

“You know if I was a cop. You would be in jail right now.”

Tessa spins around very quickly when she heard the voice and spots Mr. Bounty looking at her. It was extremely hard for someone to sneak up on her, but he always managed to do it. An older oriental woman was standing back from Mr. Bounty. She didn’t know who the woman was.

“Mr. Bounty, what are you doing in New York?” Tessa was surprised that Mr. Bounty was back in New York.

“I’m looking for someone. I’m hoping you might know who the person is.”

“I might, what is in it for me?” Tessa looks at Mr. Bounty.

“How about a thousand dollars?” Jack knew Tessa could use the money.

“Make it two thousand and you have yourself a deal.” Tessa was seeing if she could get more money from Mr. Bounty.

“Thousand dollars and I won't turn you in.” Jack gives her a stern look.

“Okay, who is it, that you want me to find?”

“This woman.” Jack brings up an image of Carla on his cellphone.

“Oh, I know her. She does a lot of fighting with a strange group. They carry around these funny looking coins.” Tessa pulls out one of the coins
and hands it to Mr. Bounty.

Jack looks at it. He has never seen anything like it. He turns to face Cheshire “have you ever seen anything like this before?”

Cheshire accepts the coin and looks at it. She hasn’t seen one of these coins in the past ten years.

“It’s been a while since I have seen this.”

“Do you think the Hunter organization uses these or someone else?” Jack was curious.

“You might want to ask this woman, you’re looking for. I took it off, of one of the people she put in the hospital.” Tessa figures Carla might know.

“We’ll do that. So, what’s the address?” Jack looks at Tessa.

Tessa looks at Jack and the other older woman. There was something about her, that sent shivers down her spine. She pulls out a note pad and writes the address down.

Tessa hands the piece of paper to Jack “here you go.”

“Thanks, and here is the thousand I promise you.” Jack pulls out ten one-hundred-dollar bills and hands it to her.

“Thanks. Well if you don’t need me anymore.” Tessa was turning to leave.

“Give me my watch back, Tessa.” Jack felt her take his watch.

Tessa turns back around and hands it to him. She couldn’t believe he felt her take it.

“I had to try.” She looks at Jack sheepishly.

Jack just shakes his head.

“I would leave right now.” Cheshire looks at Tessa.

“Yes ma’am.” Tessa walks away as fast as she could.

Carla’s and Angela’s townhouse, New York:
Angela smiles as she watches Carla hangs from the ceiling. The ponytail hung down between Carla’s legs and the fishing weights she attached to Carla’s nipples were stretching Carla’s breasts. The ball gag in Carla’s mouth was secured behind her head.

“You shouldn’t have agreed to let me do to you, anything I wanted sweetie.” Angela places a kiss on the side of Carla’s cheek.

Every once in a while, Carla either ties her up and do something kinky to her or Carla lets her do whatever she wants to her. Today, she decided to explore some kinky stuff one of the girls she worked with, told her about. Since Carla was willing to allow her to try it out on her. She was going to have fun.

Carla looks down at her wife and was so going to pay her back for suspending her by her arms and by the ball hook in her ass. She could deal with the weights hanging from her nipples but hanging by her arms and the hook in her ass, was too much.

Angela was about to tease her wife. The doorbell to their place starts ringing.

“I’ll be back, sweetie.” Angela pats Carla on her ass, before leaving their bedroom.

Angela walks over to the front door and presses the talk button to see who was at her door. She spots a gentleman with black hair wearing a nice suit. Standing near him was an older Asian woman.

“How can I help you?” Angela didn’t know who these people were.

“I would like to speak to Carla if she is available.” Jack saw that there was a small camera looking at them.

“What is this about?” Angela wonders why this person wanted to talk to her wife.

“About the Hunter organization. She helped my sister and daughter.”

Jack hears the door buzz. He pulls on the handle and head inside and up a flight of stairs.

Early Morning, Private Airfield, Queens, New York:
Rachel had left at two in the morning to arrive in Queens. After the situation at her motorcycle shop yesterday. Patton informed her that Mr. Bounty had requested her and that she was to bring her gear with her. She was worried about Maia’s safety, while she was gone and asked
Patton to call one of the guys in to watch over her.

She watches as a few planes came in and land. She notices as an older black Lear Jet with silver stripes head to where she was waiting. As she stands there watching the Lear Jet. A Hispanic looking woman was walking towards the hangar she was in. She had two suitcases with her.

Another woman had shown up ten minutes after she arrived. She had several suitcases with her. She had introduced herself as being Carla.

Dakota had been called by Anika to come to Colorado. It was short noticed, but she managed to get one of Terry’s sister-in-law to care for the girls while she was gone. The office assistant they hired a few weeks ago was handling the office for her.

Ralph was handling the garage for Terry, while he was down in South America with Hatter. Tery has been grooming Ralph to run the garage when he wasn’t there. A smirk appears on her face, as she thinks about Ralph. He has been dressing more and more like a young lady, lately.

He had spoken to her about wanting to get breast implants. He told her that his boyfriend didn’t mind him getting them. As long as he didn’t consider changing his plumbing.

As she approached the incoming plane that was taxing towards her. She noticed two other people waiting as well. One person was short and had long black hair. She noticed that she had a long rectangle case and a duffle bag.

The other person was taller and had several bags with her as well. She wonders who the two women were and did they work for Jack. She continues to walk towards the two women.

Inside the Lear Jet:
Jack, Cheshire, and Casey had felt the Lear Jet as it landed in Queens. They were picking up two more people for the meeting in Colorado. Jack was having his favorite car shipped back to Montana. The transport company that was carrying his car back, was one he had stock in. The owner of the company was a personal friend of his.

Cheshire had contacted her daughter and Liz before they left New Hampshire. They were on their way to Colorado. She also thought about bring Shur-Khan, but she figures her big kitty cat might go after the game on the ranch.

Outside Waiting:
Dakota, Carla, and Rachel watch as the Lear Jet comes to a complete stop. The door opens and Jack comes walking down.

“I got your bags, ladies.”

“I don’t believe this.” Dakota had never seen Jack act like this.

This was the first time Rachel has met Mr. Bounty. She has heard about him from her boss Patton and some other military people she knew. She just looks at him with a dumbfounded look on her face.

Dakota noticed the stunning look on the new person's face “I know, it's unusual for the big bad wolf to do menial work.”

Jack just looks at Dakota when she says that “you haven’t been to my ranch. Now, get on board, ladies.”

“Yes sir.”

Dakota gets onboard first, followed by Rachel with Carla to bring up the rear. When Dakota gets onboard, she notices that Cheshire was on board, along with another woman. She didn’t know who the other woman was. She sits down in one of the nearby seats.

Rachel saw that there were two other women on board already. One was an older Asian woman sitting on a sofa on the right-hand side of the plane. The other woman was sitting in one of the other available seats. She looked like she worked outside a lot.

Carla wonders who all the women were. She didn’t know any of them. The only ones she did know, was Gina, Anika, Hatter, and Shade. She takes a seat behind the red hair woman.

“Oh, my god. This must be serious if the master assassin herself is here.” Dakota sits next to Cheshire.

Rachel, Carla, and Carol look at Dakota. Carol knew Cheshire was a master assassin, but she wonders how the Hispanic woman knew. She also wonders who the woman was as well.

“It’s been a while, Dakota. How have things been since the last time I saw you?”

“I’ve gotten married and adopted two beautiful girls. Bart and Caroline haven’t met them yet, but I hope Terry and I can spend Christmas with them, this year.”

Carol had been listening to the Hispanic woman and Cheshire and was surprised when she mentions Bart’s name. She wonders how the woman knew Bart and his wife.

“Excuse me, but are you related to Bart Hardy’s wife?”

“No, I’m his adopted sister.” Dakota looks at the red hair woman.

“You’re related to Bart?” Carol was surprised her old partner had a younger sister.

“Only by name. He adopted me as his little sister a few years ago.” Dakota looks at Carol.

Rachel was sitting quietly and wonder who they were talking about. She was still wondering why the Hispanic woman called the older Asian woman a master assassin. She keeps listening to their conversation.

After a few minutes, Jack boards the plane and takes his previous seat. He looks at all the women on board and a smile forms on his face.

“What are you smiling about, Jack?” Cheshire looks at her oldest friend and partner.

“How I am surrounded by a bunch of dangerous women.”

“Which means, you need to behave yourself, Jack.” One of Cheshire’s famous smiles appears on her face.

Rachel wonders how close the Asian woman and Mr. Bounty was. She also wonders who the other people were on the plane with her. Did they all work for Mr. Bounty or did they work for the older Asian woman?

Sanctuary Ranch, Hayden, Colorado:
Haylee giggles as her mother tickle her in the shower. The two of them were showering together, to save time. Haylee liked showering with her mothers. She saw all the current scars her mother received from being shot.

“Mom, do these still hurt you?” Haylee fingers the scars on Julia’s belly.

“Only the memories of what happens that day does.” Julia couldn’t believe, Sgt. Bronx had attacked her and her family.

Haylee was tracing the scars her mother had on her stomach. She sometimes has nightmares of that day. If her grandparents hadn’t protected her that day. She might not be with her mother now.

Haylee closes her eyes as her mother washes her hair. She leans against her mother’s body and enjoys her washing her hair. When her mother finishes washing her hair and rinsing it out. She feels the water stop.

“Alright, sweetie. Stand still so I can dry you off.” Julia dries her daughter off.

Afterward, Julia dries her own body off. She wraps a dry towel around Haylee before they leave the bathroom. When she steps out into the hallway, she spots Gina and Arabella waiting for her.

“Sorry for taking so long, sis.”

“It’s okay.” Gina ruffles Haylee’s wet hair.

Haylee just giggles, because she liked her aunt Gina. She heads towards the bedroom she slept in with her mother and start getting dressed. Roxy and Waffles were still in the bedroom behaving themselves. Sphinx was outside with the other wolves patrolling the grounds.

Julia gets Haylee dressed first, so she can go and check on the animals. After Haylee is dressed, she gets dressed. She received a message from her father, that he was bring the rest of the people. According to what he sent, he should arrive by noontime.

Outside coming up the driveway:
Bear had driven all night to arrive at the ranch from his place in Wyoming. Jack had contacted him and ask him to help out with a problem. He looks at the scenery around him, as he heads up towards the main house that looked down towards the road.

When he arrives at the big log mansion, he spots a young girl with dark hair being followed by a broader collie and a coyote pup out front. He stops when several big wolves walk towards her. He was reaching for his gun when he notices that the wolves allowed her to hug them.

“I’ll be a monkey’s uncle.”

Haylee saw an older man in a jeep wrangler driving up to where she was standing. The man behind the steering wheel looked to be younger than her grandpa. Sphinx and Cadmus had come out of the woods and over towards her.

She knew Chaos was around, but she didn’t see him. She watches as the guy in the jeep stops near her.

“Aunt Anika, there’s a person here.”

Anika heard her niece and steps outside. She spots an older man in a light tanned Jeep Wrangler parked near Haylee’s location. She also spots Cadmus and Sphinx looking after Haylee. She glances around the area and wonders where Jack’s hell hound was. Out of all of her brother’s wolves, he was the one she feared the most.

Bear heard the young girl yell for her Aunt Anika. He waits by his jeep until she appears. As for the wolves he saw, he notices they don’t leave the young girl’s side. He spots a blonde hair woman come out of the log mansion and walks down towards him.

“Hi, you must be Bear. My big brother said you would be arriving today.” Anika holds her hand out to shake.

Bear shakes Anika’s hand “where is the old wolf at?”

“He’s on his way. Why don’t we head inside and talk.”

“Sounds like a plan.”

Anika turns around and heads towards the log mansion. She smiles at Haylee when she walks by her niece. She was proud of her niece.

Bear follows behind Anika, as they head towards the log mansion.

Jack and Cheshire look at all the people they invited to the meeting. The Hunter organization would be stupid to attack this group. All the best killers that were either related to Jack or Cheshire were in this room.

“Rachel and Anika, I want you two out at the longest range possible with your rifles. You’ll be getting support from Arabella and the drones she will be controlling.” Jack looks over towards his granddaughter.

Arabella noticed her grandfather looking at her “don’t worry grandpa. I’ll have them and everyone covered.”

Gina was originally against bringing Arabella to this meeting, but she trusted her father. She knew her daughter was very good with a computer and could control the drones her father brought to the ranch.

“There might be a problem, Mr. Bounty. The Hunter organization has devices that can jam the remote signal of drones and such.” Carla knew from experience because she used it before.

“Not these drones. My husband designed them. If they lose contact with the operator, they automatically go after the target they have been programmed with. They have basic IA programming. They also go after the source of the jamming as well.” Dakota knew how good Terry was.

The drones they were using, were advanced models of the ones in Wraith and Nobel. He also designs some newer ones based on the one from their mission in England. It used the cameo skin technology that was on the Black Knight and Nobel.

“You made suicide drones?” Carla looks at the Hispanic woman that spoke.

“Nope, they are robotic drones. My husband is a weapon designer.” Dakota was proud of Terry.

“What else can we expect from the Hunter organization, Carla?” Bart looks at the dark-haired woman.

“The person who made the truce with you will live up to his word. However, that doesn’t mean some of the more foolish area advisers or higher-ups won’t try to take Mr. Bounty, Mrs. Patel, and the rest of their family out before the meeting.” Carla knew that the Hunter’s had specialized teams that operated under the area advisers and district leaders’ control.

“Do you think this is one of the cases and how do you know my family last name?” Tizzy looks at Carla. She had been informed about who the woman was.

“You have to be kidding me. The Hunters know everything about your mother and Mr. Bounty. They know every mission and assignments they have been on and the people they have killed. At one time, the Hunter organization even considered hiring them to join the organization.”

Tizzy looks at her mother to see how she reacted to this information. She could read her mother’s expression when she let her.

“You say they know everything about us?” That had piqued Cheshire's interest.

“Yes ma’am, everything about you and Mr. Bounty. Some of the missions or assignments you two went on. They were missions for the Hunter
organization, disguised as missions for your government agency.” Carla noticed a scowl appear on Jack’s face.

“Well, doesn’t that make sense? Cover a killing up, by calling it a national security threat and send the best two assassins to handle it.” Bear looks at his old friend and could tell he was a little pissed.

Haylee holds her mothers’ hand. Roxy and Waffles were sitting by her.

“How soon could we expect a team to arrive?” Cheshire was concerned.

“Either tonight or by tomorrow morning, before anyone shows up. If I was leading a team to attack this place. I would come tonight since there will be a new moon. There wouldn’t be any light out and I would use the darkness as cover. Also, my team would be wearing specialized
thermal suits to allow us to blend into the background.”

“Thermal suits?” Rachel looks towards Carla.

“They are specialized suits that allow you to blend in with the background. Also, they mask your scent as well. However, I don’t think the scent blocking will work against the wolves you have here. They seem to be able to detect scents that normal wolves can’t.” Carla noticed how big the wolves were when she arrived.

She knew from the records she read on Mr. Bounty. That his specialized bred wolves could pick up drugs, explosives, and other scents that were covered up, that normal dogs and wolves couldn’t.

“I have a question; how do you know so much about the Hunter organization?” Casey looks at Carla.

“I use to be one before I learned how much horse crap they were.” Carla still hated the bastards.

“We could use that to our advantage, Jack. Send me and her to the airport to pick up the Hunter representatives.” Bear figures that would cause them to slip up.

“Oh, that’s not playing fair.” Carla liked the idea.

“Thought you would like it.” Bear had an evil smile on his face.

“As for the rest of you, I want Tizzy, Bart, Liz, and Gina spread around the mansion. If they come in from behind us, I want to take them down.
That goes for the sides as well.”

“How about me, Dakota and Casey, father?” Julia looks at her father.

“You’re to stay near me and your aunt.” Jack wanted his best fighters and pistol shooters near him and Cheshire.

“How about the kids, uncle?” Tizzy was worried about Arabella and Haylee.

“Arabella will be in the computer room with Trigger, Cadmus, and Midnight protecting her. As for Haylee, she will be in the safe room with
Sphinx, Terror, Roxy, and Waffles protecting her.” Jack knew the wolves would protect the girls.

He reaches down beside his chair and scratches Chaos between the ears. The original Chaos was dead and buried at his ranch. His clone was just like his sire.

“Alright, people. You have your orders for tomorrow. Bear, I want you, Bart, and Rachel to pick spots out around the perimeter of the mansion.”

“No problem, Jack.”

“I’ll come with you, big brother.” Dakota wanted to talk with Bart about something.

“Okay.”

Bear, Rachel, Bart, and Dakota leave the meeting room. The rest still inside the room talk among themselves and catch up on what has been going on in their lives. Carla is introduced to others by Gina. And of course, the others wanted to know more about her.

Cheshire and Jack slip out of the room. Both were a little concerned that some of the people they killed might have been innocent.

“Do you think the Hunter’s will try something tonight?”

“I wouldn’t put it past them.”

It would be something he would do if he was dishonest. Once he gave his word about something, he stuck to it.

Six dark figures jump out of an ordinary propeller prop plane at night. Their target was just below them. They glide down out of the sky, using the darkness and lack of a moon as cover.

A lone figure laying down on top of the roof of the log mansion spots the figures. She watches as they glide down through the night sky.

“Little Sister to Grease Man. Our visitors have arrived. They are approaching from behind the mansion.” Rachel watches the figures through her specialize scope on her sniper rifle.

“Roger, Little Sister.” Bart looks in the direction Rachel gave him.

Anika points her sniper rifle in the direction. She was set up in one of the tallest trees near the log mansion. Her scope locks onto the six figures as they descended from the night sky.

“Did you have them, Snow Angel?” Bart figures Anika should have them in her sights since she had the same specialized scope as Rachel.

“I have them, Grease Man.” A smirk appears on Anika’s face at Bart’s call sign.

She and Jack had figured since Bart was dealing in oil now. That grease man would fit him. She knew Dakota got a kick out of it.

“Just let us know, where they land and no killing them, either.” Gina’s voice echoes on everyone’s ear piece.

“You’re taking the fun, out of this Gina.” Anika could take them all out right now.

Gina just shakes her head at her aunt’s comment. She pets Cadmus between his ears as she waits. The original Cadmus was protecting Arabella. His clone was with her.

Dakota, Julia, Bear, and Tizzy were nearby ready to jump out and surprised the six figures. Clair was nearby as well, but she was told to stay near the mansion with Casey and Liz.

Rachel loses them as they drop behind a bunch of trees. Her thermal and infrared settings weren’t picking them up.

“Snow Angel, do you still have the targets?”

“Roger, I still have them in my sights.” Anika watches as the six figures land and removes their glider wings from their armor.

Anika continues to watch the figures. She notices they were splitting up and heading towards the mansion from different directions.

“Here they come.”

“Roger.” Bear was up in a nearby tree as well.

After a few seconds, one of the figures run directly under his location. He drops down out of the tree very quietly behind the figure and slaps a small puck on the back of the person's armor. The figure starts jerking and shaking as high energy discharged erupts from the puck.

“You’re going to be hurting when you wake-up.” Bear secures his prisoner.

Another person passes where Tizzy was hiding and gets tackled to the ground by her. She slaps a small puck on the person and clears away before the energy discharged erupted. She didn’t want to get hit by the energy or she would be knocked out.

The person Tizzy tackled, gets up and brings his rifle around to shoot her when he starts jerking and shaking from the energy erupting from the puck. He drops to the ground, like a puppet whose strings had been cut.

Dakota swings down out of the tree she had hidden in and knock the armored person down, from hitting his chest. She rushes over to the down person and slaps the disk she had onto his armor. She moves quickly away, as the person starts breaking dancing from the energy discharged.

An evil smile appears on her face, beneath her helmet. She was going to need to get a few of those pucks and keep them around the shop. She walks back over to the person and secures them.

Julia waits for her person to come running by her. She takes a good size tree limb that had fallen and smacks it right across the armor chest of the person, sending him flying backward. Terror jumps out of the darkness and lands right on top of the armored figure. There was nothing Terror could do to the person, because of the body armor.

Julia runs over and slaps a puck on the person. She looks at Terror “Gluais!”

Terror jumps away, just before the person starts shaking and jerking. He walks over and stands next to Julia, still growling at the person.

“You’ll get your chance, Terror.” Julia scratches between his ears.

Carla hits her person right in the middle of the neck with her bo-staff and stuns the person, making them drop like a puppet. A smile appears on her face as she walks over and removes the helmet to see who they sent. She recognizes the person right away “you were always too cocky for your good, Victor. You should have known this might turn into a one-way ticket.” As she secures him.

Cadmus jumps out of the darkness at the last person. He slams the person to the ground but gets flipped by the person. Gina fires a net launcher at the person and watches as it wraps itself around the person's body.

She watches as the person tries to escape as she walks over to him. She slaps one of the pucks she had onto his armor “night, night.”

The person does the same type of dance as the other five had done. The pucks were non-lethal and could penetrate personal body armor. If the armor had been powered, it might not have affected them as it did.

“Dad, the strike team Carla warned us about have been neutralized. What do you want us to do about them?” Gina looks at all the people they
took down.

“Strip them and lock them up. Make sure you remove their poisonous tooth.”

“Will do, dad.” Gina looks at the others as they come walking towards her.

They all had their various prisoners with them. Carla shows them where the poisonous tooth was in their mouth. Bear pulls his multi-tool out and starts removing them from the individuals.

“Take them down to the barn and toss them into the cells in there.” Julia looks at the naked individuals.

She noticed none of them were women. She looks towards Carla as Bear and Bart picked the prisoners up.

“How come there aren’t any women among them?” That piqued Julia’s interest.

“That’s because women are supposed to be used either for pleasure or to be used to breed the next generation. It’s extremely rare for the
Hunter organization to train women to be soldiers.” Clara knew the Hunter organization didn’t believe in sending women into a combat situation.

However, they have had specialized teams where they did put a few women. Agent 345 changed things when she defected to a group of Werecats. She doesn’t know what happened to her. The higher-ups in the sister organization kept it secret.

“Well, I think we all should head inside and get some sleep. Tomorrow should be entertaining.” Tizzy looks at everyone.

“Go ahead. It’s my turn to watch the property.” Anika had the next security shift.

Everyone starts heading inside the mansion.

Valley Regional Airport, Hayden, CO:
Two black SUV’s were parked near a private hangar. In one SUV’s sat Carla and Bear. They were watching the landing strip and waiting for the representatives of the Hunter Organization to land. Both were wearing matching three-piece black suits.

Carla glances over towards Bear “so, how do you know, Mr. Bounty?”

A sly smile appears on his weathered face “I was hired to kill him, and I almost succeed, too.”

“You were hired to kill him, and he let you live?” Carla was stunned to hear that.

“Yeah, sounds strange doesn’t it.” Bear had a smirk on his face as he looks at Carla.

“You’re pulling my leg, aren’t you?” Carla couldn’t see Mr. Bounty doing something like that.

“Nope! I had him in my sights and was about to pull the trigger. When the people who hired me, double-crossed me. They tried dropping a building on the top of us. I was pinned under some rubble and he could have left me to die, but he didn’t.”

“So, you two became friends afterward?”

“Not exactly. We kept running into each other and over time we became friends. There were times I needed his help on certain cases and vice versa.”

“Ah! Do you regret going after him, now?” Carla was watching Bear.

“I think it was my destiny for me to go after him. Because, if I never took the contract and met him. I wouldn’t be sitting here now. He made a difference in how I handle contracts.”

“I know that feeling.” That was how she finally woke-up and changed her mind about the Hunter Organization.

Second Suv:
“So, tell me about your daughter, Tizzy.” Julia looks at her favorite cousin.

A smile appears on Tizzy’s face “she’s a unique girl, Julia. I never thought I would become a young mother like you and Gina.”

“Trust me, I never thought I would be a mother to three kids. Haylee had my heart after her sister was murdered and then Chayton and Catori wormed their way into my heart. Are you and Ikaika planning on adopting more children?” Julia looks at her cousin.

“I know Ikaika’s mother wants us to have a lot of children. She’s already spoiling Lien.” Tizzy was happy that her mother-in-law accepted Lien into the family.

“You avoided my question, cousin.” Julia knew Tizzy could change the subject instantly.

“Maybe in a few more years. I know what it is like to be raised as an only child.” Tizzy always wanted a sister or brother when she was
younger.

“There’s the plane we have been waiting on.” Julia spotted a plane heading towards them.

Carla and Bear’s SUV:
“Heads up, Tizzy and Julia. Our guests have arrived.” Bear radio’s the second SUV.

He gets out of the SUV on the driver's side and walks towards the front of it. The suit he was wearing covered his concealed handguns. His dark sunglasses concealed his predator's eyes.

Carla gets out on the passenger side and walks up to the front of the SUV and stands next to Bear. She dyed her dark hair last night, so there were purple highlights in her hair. Her custom suit covered her body and hid her Bo staff. She had a .50 caliber desert eagle hidden.

She didn’t like using guns; however, it didn’t mean she didn’t know how to use one. Her eyes were covered by the same style of sunglasses that Bear was wearing. She couldn’t wait to see who they sent along with Mr. Hunger.

A black plane with a red crescent moon and old-style cross painted on it comes to a stop. A ladder truck backs up to the plane and the door opens.

“The circus is in town people.” Carla watches as four men dressed in black body armor descend the steps. Each of them had the same style of
insignia on their armor as was on the plane.

“Who are they, Carla?” Julia was curious.

“They are the elite guards, Julia. They are normally sent to protect high ranking members of the Hunter organization. Did your father permit them to come along?” Carla wonders if Mr. Bounty knew.

“No, but he knows now that they are here. He said to go ahead and let them come to the ranch.” Julia was keeping in touch with her father and Cheshire through an encrypted channel.

“I hope he knows what he is doing.” Carla knew how good the elite guard was and how they used a special juice to enhance their fighting ability.

“Oh, I wouldn’t worry about dad or Aunt Cheshire.” Tizzy knew her mother could kill with five strikes to a person’s body.

Another man appears behind Mr. Hunger, as he moves down the stairs. He looked to be about the same age and build as Mr. Hunger. He glances towards them and walks down behind Mr. Hunger.

Another figure appears at the entrance to the plane. He was much older and shorter than the second man. He looked to have scars on his face.

“Carla, do you recognize those two?” Julia was curious.

“I don’t know the first one, but the shorter guy is Carlos Klinsky. He is the Hunter’s field director. He isn’t a nice person and enjoys having sex with children.” Carla saw what he did to a twelve-year-old Mexican girl. He beat her so badly, that she almost died.

Another man with silver hair appears and was taller than Mr. Hunger and was very muscular. He looked like he could pick their SUV’s up and toss them around.

“Who’s that Carla?” Bear noticed the man. He could see that the man moved with the stride of a predator.

“I don’t know him.” She was watching him, and he looked like he could take all of them on.

Mr. Hunger walks up to Julia and Tizzy. He recognized them from the files he had on them. He knew both were police officers and the oldest
daughters of Mr. Bounty and Mrs. Patel.

“I take it, that you four are our rides to the ranch?” Hunger was directing his gaze directly at their eyes.

He had been surprised that Julia Bounty looked like the actress Charisma Carpenter. Her background wasn’t as detailed as her cousins.

“We were only expecting you and the other three that came with you. We had no idea that you would bring bodyguards.” Julia looks towards them.

“As important as this meeting is, it is standard practice for these men to have protections.” Hunger wanted to see what they were going to do.

A smile appears on Julia’s face “don’t trust us?”

“It’s not that Mrs. Bounty, we do have other enemies that might try something. Also, to be honest, you guys might not be up to the task of protecting us.”

“You might be surprised, what we are capable of, Mr. Hunger. Carla search them.”

“With pleasure, Julia.” Carla starts walking over to the men in armor.

Bear watches them. He notices the second guy that had been Mr. Hunger had glanced at Carla. He just smirks as he continues to observe them.

Carla approaches the elite guard members “you know the routine boys.”

One of them looks at her. He knew that voice and his hand went to his sword. He was ready to kill her and collect the reward.

Carla noticed the man moving his hand towards his sword “I wouldn’t do that. Because I would hate to see you lose your head.”
Carla glances towards Bear who had his gun pulled and pointed at the guy.

“That pea shooter can’t damage this armor and you know it.” Ross wanted to kill Carla.

“I wouldn’t bet on it. Now, be a good dog and do what you are told to do.” Carla liked egging these guys on.

Ross moves his hand away from his gun. He so hated Carla and couldn’t wait until he has a chance to kill her. He hopes the plan they came up with, will work against these people.

Carla finishes searching them and walks back towards Julia.

“They are clean, but some of them need to learn self-control.” Carla wanted them to try something.

“Alright. Here’s how things are going to work. Two of your people with ride with Carla and Bear and the others will ride with me and my cousin. Your guards can split themselves up between the groups.” Julia would rather leave them here at the airport.

Hunger looks at Carlos “you’re with me. Ted, Larson you two ride in the second SUV.”

The tall guy just nods his head. He walks with the second guy that had been behind Hunger over to Carla and Bear’s SUV. He motions for two of the guards to follow him.

Once everyone is loaded into the SUVs. They start heading towards the ranch.

A lone figure at the airport watches as the two SUV’s drive off. The figure pulls out a cellphone and makes a call.

“He’s on the way, Amy.” Jose watches as the two SUV’s drive away from the airport.

“Thanks, Jose. We’ll wait until you arrive, before doing anything.” Amy wanted to have all her members with her.

The past few nights, she has scouted the ranch. It was difficult to move around the area without being detected by the huge ass wolves that had been brought in. They were better than any Werewolf or Werecat she has ever encountered.

She had to admit that Mr. Bounty and his team were better than any clan of supernatural creatures she encounters. She figures if they were ever turned into supernatural creatures, they would be very dangerous.

She finally found the person responsible for the murder of the Glass Grove clan. He was here and heading towards the ranch, that the Bounty family-owned. She has two options available to her and she’s hoping that Mr. Bounty will be reasonable and let her take the person.

If not, she’ll have to go with her backup plan and that was something she didn’t want to do. There were some nice people down on the ranch and she didn’t want to see the two children down there hurt.

Rachel was watching the main road that leads into the ranch from her perch. She knew everyone has been placed in their position. She looks through her scope and spot three people walking up the driveway.

“Where the hell did you guys come from?” Rachel knew they weren’t there a few seconds ago.

“Bart, I have two men and one woman walking up the driveway.” She continues to watch them.

“Arabella, send a drone towards that area.” Bart was up on the hill and was looking down towards the main driveway.

“I’m sending probe 14 and two of the wolves are in that area.” Arabella was keeping track of the wolves as well, from the tracker in their collars.

Down on the main road leading towards the property. Amy, Troy, and Samuel were walking on either side of Amy. At one time Samuel had been willing to kill Amy when she worked for the HSL. Now, he was willing to defend her. They watch as a circular drone hovers in front of them.

“We’re here to speak to Jack Bounty.” Troy was looking up at the drone.

“Bart, they are here to talk with grandpa.” Arabella was happy the drones were equipped with speakers and mics.

“Alright, I’m on my way down to them. Rachel, keep an eye on them.” Bart walks towards the jeep parked nearby and gets in.

“Ma’am, sirs, please wait here and someone will be down in a few minutes to escort you to Mr. Bounty.”

A smile appears on Amy’s face. She figures the voice she was listening to, was one of the two children she spotted. She spots movement from the woods “guys, don’t move.”

Troy and Samuel had seen the movement as well. They catch the husky scent of a wolf in the air.

“We could take them, easily,”

“Maybe, but I wouldn’t try it.” Amy was talking to Troy and Samuel mentally since the drone flying near them could pick-up their voices.

After a few minutes, a tan jeep approaches them. Bart spotted the three people Arabella and Rachel informed them about. The jeep stops a few feet from them “how can I help you, folks?”

“We’re here to speak with Mr. Bounty about an important matter.” Amy had stepped forward to talk with Bart.

Bart looks at the young woman that just spoke to him. His instincts were warning him. It was telling him she was dangerous. He looks towards the two fellows with her and was getting the same feeling.

“Hop into the jeep and I’ll take you to him.”

Amy lets Troy and Samuel climb in the back, while she sits up front with Bart. She could tell he was observing her and watching her companions. She also noticed that he didn’t like the fact Troy and Samuel were sitting behind him.

She figures that they were being watched by some of the people with a sniping rifle. It didn’t take Bart long to drive back to the main house.
Standing outside was Gina with Cadmus sitting next to her “Bart, dad said to escort them to the main library.”

There was a slight growl coming from Cadmus. He didn’t like what he was smelling. He watches the three people as they climb out of the jeep.

Troy and Samuel look at the wolf sitting next to the oriental woman. It wasn’t as big as some werewolves, but Troy figures it could give a werewolf and a few of the werecats a run for their money. He wonders where Mr. Bounty got wolves that big.

Amy follows Bart inside the house and to a huge library. Inside was Mr. Bounty and Cheshire. Amy looks at Cheshire and there was something unique about her. She could feel that the woman had a strong feline presence about her. When she looks towards Jack, she is startled. The spirit of the wolf was very strong in him.

There was nothing supernatural about either person, but their spirits were very strong and leaned to the wolf and cat. She also figures, should either of these two ever get turned into supernatural creatures, they would be Alphas of Alphas.

Jack looks at the three people brought to him and Cheshire. The young girl, he could tell was as trained as Cheshire. He didn’t know if she was doing it on purpose or not, but she had a grace about her. He could also see she had training but kept it disguised.

“What is it, that you wanted to talk to us about, Mrs.?” Jack gives her a questionable look.

“Amy, sir. It’s about one of your guests that is on their way here. The guest I am talking about is responsible for the murder of over a hundred
innocent women, children, and men. I would like to take him back for judgment to my uncle.” Amy could kill him herself, but her uncle had the right to pass judgment, not her.

“Do you have evidence to back-up your accusations?” Cheshire was curious about this young girl.

“Yes ma’am.”

Samuel hands Amy a tablet. He has already brought the information upon it.

“Thank you, Samuel.” Amy accepts it.

She hands the tablet to Cheshire.

Cheshire accepts it and starts looking at everything on it. A disgusted look appears on her face. An angry look appears on Cheshire’s face next. She squeezes the tablet in anger.

Jack had been watching Cheshire and notices her expression. He has known her long enough to know when she is upset about something.

“And you say the person who did this, is coming here?” Cheshire looks into Amy’s eyes.

“Yes ma’am.”

“Why, did he do this to these people?” Jack was looking at the information.

“Because the Hunter organization and its sister organization fear what it doesn’t understand or believe in.”

“Which is?” Cheshire was curious now.

“That there are supernatural creatures that exist in their world. Also, not all of them are monsters, like they would have you believe.” Troy had spoken up.

Jack looks at Troy “what do you mean by supernatural creatures?”

“I think you know what I mean, Mr. Bounty.” Troy's eyes change color from brown to blue.

Jack doesn’t show any emotion when he watches Troy’s eyes change. He could hear the slight growl in his voice.

“So, the rumors are true.” Cheshire was surprised to find out that the rumors were true.

“It would appear so.” Jack had heard rumors while he worked in Europe.

“We try to keep our existence secret because people would either want to join us or try to kill us.”

“And you?” As Jack looks at Amy.

“I was created in a lab to fight them until I learned the truth. Once I knew the truth, I defected to their side.” Amy knew there was more to it than she was telling them.

“Dad, our guests are coming up the driveway.” Gina’s voice echoes in the earpiece Jack were wearing.

“It seems, you might get your wish. Come with us and don’t say anything.” Jack was going to see what would happen.

Troy, Amy, and Samuel follow behind Mr. Bounty and Cheshire as they step outside. Just as they stepped outside a huge black wolf comes running up to Jack.

“That’s a huge wolf.” Troy couldn’t believe how big the wolf was. He figures it had to be about the same size as a werewolf or dire wolf.

“That is the legendary demon wolf, Chaos. A wolf you don’t want to mess with.” Gina had been standing nearby when her father and their guest came out.

“What makes him so legendary?” Samuel looks at Chaos and wonders what makes him so dangerous.

“Because he’s not afraid of anything. Nothing scares that wolf and once he locks those jaws on you will wish you were dead.” Gina knew Chaos enjoys the hunt and the kill. He took enjoyment in it.

The two SUVs stop not too far from where everyone was standing. Carla and Bear get out of the first SUV and open the passenger doors. The men inside their SUV get out first and stand nearby. Mr. Hunger and Mr. Carlos look towards Mr. Bounty and Mrs. Patel. He has seen pictures of Mr. Bounty always wearing custom made business suits. He wasn’t expecting Mr. Bounty to be dressed so relaxed in blue jeans and a black button-down long sleeve shirt and black cowboy boots.

He also notices agent 345 standing behind Mr. Bounty and Mrs. Patel as well. He recognized the two bodyguards standing with her, being from the Montana Clan of Snow Leopards. He spots the biggest wolf he has ever seen standing near Mr. Bounty and Mrs. Patel as well. He recognized Gina Bounty and her wolf Cadmus.

According to their records, the wolf standing next to Mr. Bounty is the sire to every wolf the Bounty’s own. He also wasn’t happy that Agent 345 was here. He wanted to know why she was here.

Mr. Carlos gets out of the SUV and spotted three familiar people standing behind Mr. Bounty and Mrs. Patel. He has had run-ins with them and wanted to eliminate Agent 345. He wonders how Mr. Bounty managed to get a hold of two former agents of theirs.

The two elite guards get out next and notice Agent 345 and her two bodyguards. They would try to drop them right now, but the man they learned that was named Bear was watching them like a hawk and they knew Carla was watching them as well. Now wasn’t the time to do anything stupid.

Ted and Larson got out of the second SUV and spot agent 345 and her two bodyguards. They were standing behind whom they presume was Mr. Bounty and Mrs. Patel. They couldn’t believe that Mr. Bounty looked so different than his picture in his file. If they didn’t know who he was, he could easily blend into a crowd and you would lose him.

The same could be said about Mrs. Patel as well. The picture they had of her didn’t do her justice. She could blend in with a bunch of Asians and you would lose her as well. Mr. Ted and Larson figured that was how they had managed to survive as long as they have. They also spotted the biggest fucking wolf they have ever see. The thing was as big as a werewolf.

Julia spotted the two men looking at Chaos, standing by her father’s side. A smile appears on her face “if you guys, don’t behave yourself. We’ll feed you to my father’s demon dog.”

Tizzy just smirks at her cousin’s comment. She knew Chaos would have fun with these men. Even Shur Khan and Simba leave him alone.

“I would like to see that wolf get through this armor.” Ross looks at the wolf and smiles behind his helmet.

Julia looks at him “oh, trust me. If that wolf wants you, he’ll get you. Nothing can stop him, once he is in a killing mood.”

“What is she doing here?” Larson looks towards Julia for an answer.

“I don’t know who you’re talking about, but if you want an answer to your question. I would ask the scary man looking at you.” Julia knew her father was taking in everything going on.

“I would be more afraid of the oriental woman standing next to him, instead of the young girl and two guys behind them.” Tizzy was wondering who the teenage girl and two men were.

“Do you two always talk too much?” Ted looks at Julia and Tizzy.

“We’re always too busy beating the crap out of people like you.” Tizzy answered for her and Julia.

All twelve of them walk up to Mr. Bounty and Mrs. Patel. Julia and Tizzy stand by their parents, while Bear and Carla take up a position on either side of the other men.

“Gentlemen, allow me to introduce myself and my companion here.”

“We already know who you and your companion are, Mr. Bounty. What we would like to know, is what are they doing here?” Carlos Klinsky glares at Amy and her two companions.

Jack didn’t like being cut off, but he doesn’t let it show on his face. He looks at Mr. Klinsky with cold dead eyes “they have informed me, that one of you have committed a grave crime and must answer for it.”

“And who is going to make us answer for it? They deserved what happened to their kind.” Mr. Klinsky had a smirk on his face.

Troy and Samuel were getting angry, but they hear Amy’s voice in their head. “Let him keep digging himself into a hole. Mr. Bounty has a plan.” A smile appears on her face.

“So, you admit to killing children and unarm women?” Cheshire looks at Mr. Klinsky with narrow eyes.

“They weren’t innocent, and they aren’t considered human.” Mr. Klinsky didn’t like the supernatural at all.

“Ah, shit.” Tizzy knew what her mother was about to do.

“Ches, let me handle this matter.” Jack knew the warning signs of his partner.

Two of the elite guards were slowly moving their hands to their swords. The other two were getting ready to take up a protective position on Mr. Klinsky.

“Mr. Bounty, I don’t see how this matter has anything to do with what we are here for.” Mr. Hunger looks at Jack and noticed his eyes. He heard Chaos growling and noticed his ears were laid back.

“It has a lot to do with why we are here. I can’t allow a major crime of this nature to go unpunished. That would make me no better than you.
So, either turn over Mr. Klinsky to be judged and punished by the people he harmed, or I’ll kill him where he stands.”

“Just give the word, big brother.” Anika had Mr. Klinsky in her sights and programmed.

“I can’t do that, Mr. Bounty. He is a valuable member of my organization.” Mr. Hunger wonders where the shot was going to come in from.

The next thing everyone knows, Mr. Klinsky drops to the ground. There was a flash of light, but after the flash, Mr. Klinsky's body drops to the ground with the front of his chest exploded outwards.

Mr. Hunger, Mr. Ted, and Mr. Larson all wonder how that could have happened. He had been protected by the magic spell that had been triggered. They do notice that there was a copper color bullet from a fifty-caliber laying on the ground.

The guards that were moving their hands to their swords had guns pointed at their heads. Bear had his fifty-caliber handgun pointed at one guy and Carla had her gun pointed at the other guy. The other two guards were protecting the other three men.

Troy and Samuel had felt the magic as soon as it went off. They were trying to figure out how Mr. Bounty did what he just did. They didn’t hear any sound, except the explosions of Mr. Klinsky’s chest.

Mr. Hunger grimace and wonder how Mr. Bounty pulled off what he just did. They had everything covered to protect everyone that came with them. He looks towards Mr. Bounty “you do know, you just made things more difficult, don’t you.”

“God, how stupid can you be,” Gina whispers to Julia.

She knew if her father wanted all of them dead, they would be dead right now. You don’t threaten her father when you have a losing hand.

“Mr. Hunger, the way I see it. I gave you a choice in this matter. Instead of handling the matter like reasonable people. You force me to take a different approach. I would suggest from now on, that you leave your I’m better than you attitude at home. Because I just proved you’re not as powerful as you think. Oh, by the way. Thank you for the six prisoners you sent the other night. My people had fun with them.” Jack didn’t kill them, but stripped them naked of everything and left them locked up.

“Now, let's go inside and continue our conversation.”

“You’re going to let this slide, Hunger?” Larson looks at Hunger.

He was mad that no one was going to do anything about this. How can this slight go unanswered?

“We can always finish this.” Amy steps from behind Jack and Cheshire and looks at Larson.

“Fine, let's do it.” Larson steps forward to confront Amy.

Larson and Amy face off against each other. Larson had taken off his dress shirt and was wearing a white muscle shirt underneath. He watches Amy trying to judge what she was going to do. He has watched all her training sessions and knew every move she knew.

Amy watches Larson as they circled each other. She knew he was analyzing her, trying to guess how she was going to react. A smile appears on her face, as she stops and attacks. She moves quickly to strike him with her left hand.

Larson sidesteps quickly out of the way, as Amy moves. He goes to strike her but misses as she leans back and slides on her feet past him. He tries to strike again, but feel his hand brushed aside by hers.

Amy turns to face Larson, as she spins on her left heel. She moves again to strike his chest area. She feels her hand connect with his chest area. Her strike doesn’t do much to his tough skin. She does manage to knock the wind out of him.

Larson manages to hit Amy’s left shoulder, at the same time her fist connected with his chest. The blow to his chest knocks the wind out of him. His blow to her shoulder doesn’t slow her down.

Amy spins around and jumps up and kicks Larson behind his head. Her small foot connects with his head, sending him stumbling forward. She spins in the air and kicks him with her other foot. Her foot connects with his shoulder.

Larson stumbles forward from the blow he felt to the back of his head. Just as he was turning around to attack Amy, he feels her other foot connect with his right shoulder. He feels the area she hit, go a little numb.

Jack and Cheshire were observing the combat between Larson and Amy. Neither one of them could believe how fast they were moving. Even in their prime, they didn’t have the type of reaction they were seeing.

Julia, Gina, and Tizzy couldn’t believe the reaction they were seeing between the two combatants. Tizzy was amazed at how fast they were moving.

“Those two are moving faster than anyone I have ever seen.” Tizzy has never seen anyone move so fast.

Troy and Samuel were paying attention to the fight going on between Amy and Larson. Troy noticed that Larson was using some of Amy’s fighting style. He has been training with her to recognize her unique style. He listens to the comments from Jack and his people.

The fighting between Amy and Larson has taken on a life of its own. They were moving fast and furious against each other. Each of them had injuries, but it wasn’t slowing either one of them down.

Amy looks at Larson as she tried to block out the pain she was feeling. Larson had gotten lucky and struck her hard on her right shoulder. Her right arm was useless, and her left ankle was hurting her. She looks at Larson and notices he wasn’t doing any better. She notices he was having a hard time breathing and his left leg and arm was useless as well.

“This is your last chance to surrender.” Amy summons her energy to give her the strength she needs to finish this fight.

“What’s wrong? Are you not capable of finishing this fight?” Larson centers himself and taps the last of his energy reserve.

“Finish this fight, Larson.” Mr. Hunger was getting impatient.

Amy charges towards Larson and just as his fist connects with her body. Her fist goes straight through his chest, with his beating heart in her
hand. She crushes his heart in her hand.

She looks up at Larson “you lose.”

Just as Amy says those words, there is an extremely blinding bright flash of light. One of the Knights pull his sword and tries to run it through Jack’s chest. Instead of running it through Jack’s chest, it goes through Cheshire’s chest instead. She had stepped in front of it to protect Jack.

“MOM!” Tizzy pulls her guns and starts shooting the knight that just put his sword through her mother’s body.

Jack catches Cheshire in his arms. He looks down at her face, as the anger in him surfaces. He looks up and notices Tizzy standing over the Knight she just killed. Tears were sliding down her cheeks as her guns hung by her side.

Jack looks at Mr. Hunger “you just fucked up, royally. Kill them all!” As he lifts Cheshire’s body and heads towards the mansion.

“You heard dad, people.” Julia pulls her guns and starts shooting at Mr. Hunger.

Amy runs towards Jack before his snipers start shooting. She sends a mental message to her mother and aunt telling them they were needed immediately.

“Mr. Bounty, I might be able to save her.” Amy stops near Jack. She had to be careful because she saw the anger in his eyes.

“How?” Jack stops to look at Amy.

“My mother and aunt can heal people. If they can’t bring her back, there is one other who can, but it will require a price.” Amy knew Leto could bring Cheshire back, but there is always a price to play.

“I’ll pay the price.” Jack still loved Cheshire very much. He knew she felt the same, but they never acted on it. He loved his wife as well.
When Jack gave the order to kill the Hunter organization members. Rachel opened up with her sniper rifle at the knights. The first one she shot, was still standing. She keeps firing and after the fifth round, the knight goes.

She spots Bear and Carla was busy fighting the knights, they had covered. The bullets from their guns were bouncing off the body armor. Carla looks over at Bear while dodging a sword swipe “Their armor is enchanted. Our bullets are just going to bounce off them.” Carla dodges another swipe from her attacker.

“Anika, switch to the new rounds and take these punks out.” Bear looks in Anika’s direction.

Rachel heard what Bear said and does it. She knew the rest of the snipers were doing the same. She looks through her scope and notices Julia and Gina were on the ground holding their sides. There was a pool of blood under them.

Mr. Hunger had managed to seriously injury Julia and Gina before they could do any serious harm to him. However, their wolves were faster than he counted on. He managed to fight them off, but not before they managed to crush his shoulder and right leg with their powerful bite. He was slowly bleeding to death.

He looks over and notices that Ted was dead. One of the wolves had killed him. He watches as Troy and Samuel come walking over to him.

“Well, it looks like you are slowly dying, Mr. Hunger. Maybe we should have the wolves come back and finish the job?”

“Go to hell. At least I managed to kill one of those bastards.”

“But you started a war, you can’t win.” Gina fires a bullet right between the eyes of Mr. Hunger.

Troy goes over to help Gina, while Samuel helps Julia. Tizzy had followed her uncle into the mansion. Just as she entered the room where he took her mother, there is a charge in the air as a magical portal opens and two women come walking out of it.

“What the fuck and who are you?” She had her guns trained on them.

“They’re here to heal your mother, Tizzy.” Amy moves to stand between Tizzy and her relatives.

Tizzy puts her guns down. She steps aside to let them pass her.

“Quick mom, we don’t have much time.” Amy escort her mom and aunt to where Cheshire was laying.

Tizzy follows behind them. The sword was still sticking out of her. April and Joyce walk over to Cheshire’s prone body. There was still a pulse, but it was really weak. They noticed the man standing near her and they could feel his concern and anger.

Tizzy walks over and stands next to her uncle. She takes his hand and holds it. She feels Jack give her hand a little squeeze.

April and Joyce examine Cheshire and could feel that the spirit of the cat was strong in her. It wasn’t that she was a Were, but the Cat goddess has claimed this one as one of her own.

“Can you save her?” Jack looks at the two women.

“Yes, but not here. We need to take her back to our place.” Joyce looks at the young woman standing next to Jack and could tell she was related to the woman.

Jack looks at Tizzy “she’s your mother, sweetie. It’s your decision.”

“Can I go with her?” Tizzy looks at the two women.

“Yes, you can come with your mother.”

“Then, let's save my mother.” Tizzy didn’t want to lose her mother.

Lady Joyce opens a portal, while Lady April picks Cheshire up off the table, being careful of the sword. Lady April looks at Amy “just let me know when you want to come home.”

“I will mom.” Amy kisses her mother on the cheek. She also kisses her aunt as well.

After they leave, Haylee and Arabella come running into the room. They look over towards their grandfather “granddad, mom has been hurt.”

“Alright, Haylee and Arabella. I’ll go check on your mothers. You two get back into the safe room.” Jack knew the girls were concerned about their mothers.

“Yes sir.”

Arabella leads Haylee and their pets back to the safe room. They were worried about their mothers.

“Thank you, Amy.” Jack hopes everything will be okay.

“Don’t thank me yet, sir. Your friend is knocking on heaven’s door.” Amy turns and heads back outside.

Jack takes out a bottle of Irish whiskey he brought with him from home and pours it into a custom-made crystal glass. He takes a sip from the glass as he looks out the big bay window in his office. He was worried about Cheshire and his girls. The men that came with Amy had managed to stop the bleeding and they were resting in their bedrooms.

The last thing he wanted was to go to war with organizations that have been around for centuries, but what choice did he have? He pours a little more whiskey into his glass. He was now allying himself with creatures, who had only recently been myths and legends to the world.

How was he going to explain this to his wife and how was supposed to protect her now? He reaches down next to his chair and scratches the top of Chaos' head. The original Chaos was buried on his ranch in Montana.

He takes another sip from his glass as he watches as the sun descends. He turns around when he hears someone knocking on his office door.

“Enter!”

Anika comes walking into her big brother’s office. She notices he had an old bottle of Irish whiskey out and was drinking from it.

“I hope you have a second glass to share that whiskey.” Anika walks over and sits down in the chair in front of the hand made desk.

Jack opens the drawer he kept the whiskey and his glass in. He pulls out a second one for his little sister. He pours some of the whiskey into the glass and hands it to her.

“Thanks.” Anika takes a sniff and could tell it was one of her brother’s favorites.

She takes a sip of it and moans as it slides down her throat. It was smooth as it went down her throat.

“This is a good whiskey.” As she looks at her brother.

“I know.” Jack takes another sip from his glass.

“Any word yet about Cheshire?” Anika knew her brother was concerned about his best friend.

“None yet.” He takes another sip of his whiskey.

“I checked on the girls before I came to your office. Dr. Garner said they should be alright. Whoever tended to their wounds did a good job.
Also, whatever cut the girls was razor-sharp.” Anika holds her glass out to her brother for a refill.

Jack pours some more whiskey into her glass. He figures between the two of them, they were going to kill the bottle.

“Thanks. Bart and Bear are driving Rachel and Casey to the airport.” Anika takes another sip from her glass.

“Any word from any of your crew?” Jack had sent Terry, Aylin, and Shade to Brazil as a favor to Don Juan.

“Yes. Terry, Aylin, and Shade are on their way back. They should be in the states by tomorrow. Elizabeth and her wife are new mothers. All four
babies were born without any problems. I’ve already sent them flowers and informed the hospital that the company is picking up the hospital bill. I also notified The Trickster and her partner to inform your niece and her wife that they are in danger.”

“You better contact the Romano’s and give them all the information we have on the Hunter’s and HSL.”

“Do you think they would go after a bunch of bounty hunters?” Anika knew about the Romano family and that they were professional bounty hunters.

“Have you seen Mrs. Romano? She looks like a Neko from an anime cartoon.”

“Well, she’s no stranger than Aylin with her white face and such.” Anika was hoping Aylin would get rid of her white face and such, but it was
permanently tattooed white.

“Aylin can hide her pale skin behind some make-up. Mrs. Romano can’t hide what she is. She has cat ears, tail, eyes and some facial features as well.” Jack brings a picture up on his cellphone and shows his little sister.

Anika looks at the picture and was curious how someone could be born that way. She couldn’t believe how the woman looked.

“How is that possible?” Anika hands the cellphone back to Jack.

“I’m guessing her, and her sister were part of illegal genetic experiments. It’s not the first time the government has tried to splice animal DNA with human DNA.”

“She has a sister?”

“Yes, but she’s a humanoid mouse that looks like Gadget from the Disney cartoon.” Jack had done some digging into everyone his family has had contact with.

“Okay, I have to meet these people for myself.” Anika would love to meet these people.

“So, we need to alert the Romano’s as well. I’ll get in touch with them and let them know.” Anika makes a note on her cellphone.

“I think Gina has a direct number for them. One of her teams is currently working with them. Also, Newell’s daughter is working with them.”

“Your older brother, Newell?” Anika has only met him a few times.

He was nothing like Jack. He was a cop in England and his wife was the daughter of a gypsy clan leader and circus performer.

“Yep, his daughter Sophia is part of their group,” Jack remembers when she was born.

“Man, I haven’t seen her in years. I thought she was following in her mother’s footsteps of being a circus performer?”

“She did, up until the circus she performed with, ran into financial troubles. They had to close and she didn’t want to work for MI 6. So, she
joined the security company Gina manages.”

“Now that is strange. A Bounty who didn’t want to work for MI 6. I thought it was a required requirement to work for them.” Anika loved teasing her big brother.

Jack just scowls at her. He knew Anika was just being herself.

“You know, I should have never adopted you as my sister. You’re too much like our older sister.” Jack finishes his drink off.

“You know you love me, big brother. Besides, if I didn’t pick on you occasionally, Dakota would. Oh, Mouse will be here in two weeks for her
vacation.” Anika takes another sip of her whiskey.

“I haven’t forgotten. She’ll be okay because unless the Hunters and HSL want to deal with MI 6, they will leave her alone. Have Morgana start her cyber attack against the Hunters and HSL. I want them to learn what the cost is for declaring war with me.”

“You are being vindictive. You know she’s going to enjoy doing what you ask.” Anika knew how much Morgana and her crew enjoy tearing into other hackers and such apart.

An evil smile appears on Jack’s face. He knew when he partners with Morgana what she was capable of. If he had to, he had other hackers in his employment that could help her.

“So, how much longer are you going to remain here?” Anika knew she needed to get back to New York.

“Until, the end of the week. Those prisoners we captured; I want to squeeze for information. Plus, Chaos hasn’t had all his fun yet.” Jack reaches down and pets his best friend.

Anika looks at the huge walking furball laying by Jack. The one he currently had was the first clone of the original.

“Sometimes I think you love that wolf more than anyone else.”

“There are times, but I love Debbie and my children.”

“What? I don’t earn a mention?” Anika looked hurt.

“Yes, I love you too. Now, go and pack your bags.”

Anika stands up and salutes Jack “yes, sir!” She turns and walks out of Jack’s office.

Jack watches as Anika leave. A few minutes later, he hears someone knocking on his door again.

“Enter.”

Amy comes walking in “Mr. Bounty. This letter has come for you from the council.”

Amy was holding a parchment letter, sealed with wax in the middle. She walks over and hands it to Jack.

Jack accepts the letter “what council?”

“The supernatural council. I’m surprised you never heard about it.” Amy gave Jack a weird look.

“He opens the letter and it was an invitation for him and one other to appear before the council to talk about an alliance.”

“Well, that was fast.” Jack looks at Amy.

“Word travels fast among the supernatural. If it is what I think it is, then that is a good thing. Having a partnership with you and your people will be the greatest asset we will have in this fight.”

Jack just looks at Amy and wonders why they needed him and his family. Maybe this council could answer his question.

“Thank you, Amy.”

“You’re welcome.” Amy turns and leaves Jack’s office.