weasel tied to it. “Wow… what happened here?” Baloo asked, as he walked up to the weasel who started to panic when Baloo touched him. “Easy man calm down I’m not going to hurt you.” Baloo said, as he started to untie the ropes. “What happened here?”

“It wasn’t normal, we didn’t even see it coming, first it asked… it asked nicely, it asked us and we all laughed, we didn’t think anything of it, but we where wrong, a demon, a curse, a Ghost, that‘s what it was a real life Ghost.” the weasel started to ramble and Baloo put his hand over it’s mouth.

“Alright man I get ya, a Ghost, but what was it asking about?”

“It wanted to know about a girl, a little girl by the name of Holly.” both Baloo and Kit looked at one another and then Baloo started to tie the weasel back up.

“What did you tell the Ghost?”

“Talk to Moe, trader Moe he knows about everything going in or out of the city if he doesn’t know then no one does.” with that Baloo nodded.

“Where can we find Trader Moe.” Baloo asked, and the weasel looked up at him and started to spill his guts not wanting to see what the big bear could do when he was angry. “Alright pale, thinks for the information.” with that Baloo walked away leaving the street pirate tied up. As the big bear looked down at the cub he noticed that Kit was holding something in his hands. “What you got there Li’l britches?” Kit looked up at Baloo and smiled slightly.

“I noticed that all the Pirate were asleep, but each of them had one of these stuck in them so I took one thinking it might come in handy.” Kit said, as he held up a thin needle like device.

“Well alright, but be careful, if one of those things put those goons under, who knows what it might do to you.” with that Kit looked at the tip of the needle and made sure to wrap it and put it in his pocket.

“Alright so now we go pay Moe a visit.” It was several more hours before Baloo and Kit arrived to almost the same scene from the hide out, his office was wrecked his goons on the floor and bullet holes in the wall near the door, but on the opposite side of the room there was Moe’s gun and what looked like a cog, with it’s teeth sharpened.

“We’re to late again.” Kit said, as he looked at the damage done.

“I can see that li’l britches, but the one person I don’t see is Trader Moe, his goons are here but he isn’t.” just then there came a noise from the filling cabinet. “Huh I guess we know where to look, but what do we look under?”

“How about S for slime.” Kit suggested, as he pulled the two needles from the noses of Moe’s goons. As Baloo opened one of the drawers Trader Moe sat up and looked at Baloo.

“Where is that bozo?” Trader Moe asked, as he looked at Baloo then at Kit.

“Hold on Moe, you’re the second person today that was attacked before we could even ask a question, but let me take a wild guess this person was asking about a little girl.” with that Moe looked at Baloo and nodded.

“Jerk asked me about anyone that was trying to smuggle children out of the city, I told the bozo I don’t trade in that, but I did tell him about a jerk that came in a month ago asking the same question.” in a flash Baloo was gripping Moe around the neck, and started to squeeze.

“TALK!”

“Jerk by the name of Cold hands, wanted me to nab some kid so that he could get paid in Panda-la Yen.” with that Baloo let Moe go.

“Cold hands.” Baloo looked like he was about to rip some ones arms off, as he stormed out of the torn up office. “I’ll rip his heart out if he so much as hurt a hair on Molly’s head.”

Docks.

Cold hands left his hideout, to go get something to eat. As he left Molly watched as something moved in the shadows, she started to tremble in the dark, she could faintly see a figure coming towards her, until finally she was able to see the figure clearly. Shade walked up and looked at the lock on the cage, as he started to use lock picking tools to get it open, Molly watched him very closely, she had never seen Shade masked, and at that time she didn‘t know if she could trust the person picking the lock to her cage. As lock popped open and Shade opened the cage he smiled at Molly. “Hey little one.”

“Shade, you found me.” Molly exclaimed, as she got out of the small cage and into Shade’s arms wanting to be held. After a few seconds Shade broke the hug from Molly and looked at her.

“ Time to go little one.” Shade said, as he helped Molly up to her feet only to watch her fall back down to her knees.

“I can’t walk, my legs hurt.” Molly wined, getting Shade kneel down beside her. Shade looked at her legs and smiled slightly, it wasn’t anything serious, Molly’s legs would be sore for a few days, side effect of being cramped inside a cage for so long.

“We have to go Molly, get on my back.” with that Shade looked at the way he had come in, and knew that he wouldn’t be able to get out the same way as he came in, the only way out was the same way Cool hands left, but as he headed for the door, it opened and he found him self standing in front of the grown polar bear, who for a few seconds didn’t know what was going on until his eyes narrowed and started to glare at Shade. On Shade’s back Molly started to whimper, and Shade took a few steps back and smiled at Molly slightly. “Hold on real tight Molly, and close your eyes.” Shade said, as he kept looking at Cool hands.

“I don’t knows who you are kid but, I knows your going to be very sorry.” Cool hands threatened, as he ripped a pipe off the wall, and started to storm up to Shade, only stagger back when Shade fired a stream of flame at him then throwing a manrikigusari wrapping around Cool hand’s feet. With Cool hands on the ground struggling to get free, Shade ran out of the room and down the block, though it didn’t take Cool hands long to get his feet untangled from the manrikigusari, and give chase but it was enough time to give Shade a head start.

Docks

An hour later Baloo and Kit rushed into Cool hand’s hide out, after finding out where it was, they looked around and only noticed the manrikigusari on the floor. “Oh come on we’re to late again.” Kit said, as he looked at the scene and noticed the small cage. Although Baloo had noticed it first, as he walked up and picked up the cage, noticing that it was a mess, Baloo growled for several moments as an image of Little Molly being crammed in the small cage.

“RRRRAAAAHHHHH!!!!” The Cage flew across the room and smashed against the wall, causing it to explode into peaces. “I’m going to remove his propeller and shove it up his…” Baloo stopped him self seeing the fear that he was getting from Kit, never seeing his Pa-pa bear this angry before. “Alright we’re late again, and we find another strange item, that tells me that the one that’s been one step ahead of us has been here and got Molly, We have to go tell Becky that Molly is in safe hands.”

“But how do you know that Baloo?” Kit asked, as Baloo left the hide out and followed after him.

“Because that chain in there is the same type I saw in the box that Rebecca put all Shade’s things in when she had him spend the night at her apartment.” As the two started to walk toward Rebecca’s apartment, Kit could still tell that Baloo was angry he had never seen the big bear so angry before, as he watched the Baloo he darted his eyes away everytime Baloo looked in his direction causing a since of uneasiness between the two until Baloo stopped and put a hand on Kit’s shoulder. “Listen Kit… what you saw back their I’m sorry… It’s just.” Baloo knelt down slightly and looked Kit in the eyes. “You and Molly, you mean a lot to me both of you, and for some one to hurt you or her it.” kit could see that Baloo was having a hard time trying to explain the angry he felt towards cold hands at that moment and smiled, as he wrapped his arms around the big bear.

“It’s O.K. Pa-pa bear, I understand.” Baloo smiled, as he wrapped his arms around Kit. Somehow the little bear always had away to make the big bear feel better in times that he needed him the most.

Cunningham apartment.

Shade had been avoiding Cold hands for a while, darting in and out of allies hiding in the shadows as the big bear stormed past them, he wasn’t about to let the brute put his hands on this innocent little girl once more. As Molly hugged Shade tightly he could hear her whimper softly into his back several times that day when she thought that Cold hands had them caught, and each time he made sure that he was ready to give the Brute the fight of his life. As the two finally made it to the elevator to Rebecca’s apartment building, Shade smiled as the door shut and he knelt down taking a breather as he looked at Molly over his shoulder. “Almost home little one.” Shade said, as he felt the elevator move.

“Shade?” Molly cooed, as she squeezed Shade’s shoulders. “Why did you leave yesterday?” the question struck a cord with Shade and he stopped looking at Molly, only to look at the floor.

“I… I can’t remain in a place for to long little one, I have to keep moving because there is so much to do and so little time to do it in.”