Kit… so what do you have planed for the day?”

“I was just going to run into town and meet a few friends.”

“That’s nice, just keep out of trouble.”

“I will.” Kit’s heart seem to jump slightly as a smile crossed his face, Rebecca was treating him more and more like a son now a days and it made him feel good, as he knew that soon he would finally have the family he had always wanted. As he made his way into town he kept pulling a piece of paper out of his pocket and looking at it for an address he had written down. Once he located a bakery he walked inside and looked up at the man behind the counter. “Hello my name is Kit Cloudkicker I heard you’re looking for a delivery boy.” the man behind the counter looked at kit for a few seconds and then at a gator standing in the corner dressed in a suit.

“Well that’s true we are looking for a delivery boy, but the thing is you look kind of scrawny.” the Gator said, as he walked up and looked down at Kit. “I mean if some one was to true and steel are goods from you, how are you going to protect them.”

“Hey I can handle my self, I can keep your goods safe.” Kit was rather insulted by what the gator said, getting the gator to take a step back. “Besides it’s bread, who’s going to steal bread.” with those words the Gator and the backer looked at one another then back at Kit.

“Alright kid will give you a trial run.” with that the Gator nodded once and the backer handed him a loaf of bread. “Take this to 125th chestnut drive, don’t worry about payment they gave us the money yesterday just say this is from the baker and come back.” with that Kit nodded and took the loaf of bread. “You got an hour to get it to the house.”

“Yes sir.” with that Kit ran out of the store and down the street. He had made it within a block of the address when he ran into a group of people they seem to be protesting in front of a police station demanding that the police go after the ghost, anyone that past in front of them was handed a button that looked like a crude drawing of a ghost you would see hanging from doors during Halloween with a red slash over it. As Kit walked past, one person handed him a button, he looked at it the rest of the way to the address, he put the button into his pocket and smiled as he knocked on the door. After a few minutes a lizard opened the door and looked down at Kit.

“What do you want?”

“This is from the baker.” Kit responded and the Lizard looked at the loaf of bread in Kit’s hands and quickly grabbed it.

“Thanks kid here.” the lizard placed five dollar bill in Kit’s hand getting Kit’s eyes to open wide and a smile across his face.

“Thanks mister.” As Kit ran down the street the lizard shut the door and went into the back room of the apartment and tore open the bread to find inside of it a vile filled with a fine red powder.

“If everyone tips me like this I’ll be able to get Baloo and Rebecca’s wedding present in no time at all.” Kit said to him self, as he headed back to the bakery hopping there was more deliveries.

(Case Two: The Mad bomber)

It was a lovely evening, the stars were out the moon shined down on the streets of Capsuzette. Baloo and Rebecca was just coming out of a restraint smiling at one another. “I’m rather impressed Baloo, you behaved your self all night and didn’t embarrass me at all.”

“Hey you deserve it, after that rough time in Thembria, besides after spending time with the kids yesterday at the circus I figured it was time for the adults to have some time alone.” As the two walked side by side, as they moved closer together their lips met and seconds later the ground shook and an explosion could be heard in the distance. “Wow Beckers, that’s some kiss.” Baloo smiled slightly but then got pulled by Rebecca in the direction of the explosion.

“That wasn’t me silly, come on sounds like there was an explosion a few blocks down.” Rebecca said, as she kept tugging at Baloo.

“And we’re running towards it why?” Baloo kept looking at the back of Rebecca’s head as she kept trying to get to scene of the explosion and knew the answer to his question. Baloo smiled slightly and ran a little faster picking Rebecca up and making it to the scene of the explosion and finding that one car was destroyed and an apartment building was ablaze, people stood around looking up at the burning building. “See him yet?” Baloo asked Rebecca, as he stood her on the ground. Rebecca Blushed slightly knowing that Baloo had figured her out.

“I just.”

“You just wanted to make sure he’s doing alright.” Baloo finished what Rebecca was going to say getting her to blush a little more. “Me to Beckers.” Baloo gave Rebecca a slight peck on the cheek and looked around seeing if he could see anything around.

“MY BABY!!” a lioness yelled, as she tried to get past the fire crews only to be held back.

“Ma-am we’re doing everything we can, but the fire is just to hot we can’t get past the bottom floor.”

“But my baby, he’s in his crib on the top floor please let me go get him.”

“Ma-am I’m sorry but we can’t get to the top floor right now.” Baloo could feel Rebecca’s grip tightened and he knew what she was thinking, what would they do if they were in this ladies shoes.

“LOOK ON THE ROOF!!” another spectator yelled, as everyone looked up they could see a the ghost running across the roof tops and jumping onto the burning building.

“PLEASE SAVE MY BABY!!” the lady yelled up at the ghost who had vanished from sight, as everyone watched on holding their breaths as they watched the building burn, until the roof collapsed in and the rest of the building started to fall in on itself leaving only the outer walls standing. “NO!!!” As the woman fell to her knees crying a fire fighter knelt down to try and comfort her. “My poor baby (*Sob*) my poor little Tommy.”

“Baloo look.” Rebecca said, as she pointed towards the fire. As he looked Baloo could see something moving in the flames, after a few minutes he could hear a few of the spectators gasping in shock as Shade walked out covered in slightly burnt cloths holding something wrapped up in his trench coat.

“YEAH!!! THAT A BOY!!” Baloo yelled, as he looked at Shade. Shade paid Baloo no attention as he walked up to the sobbing woman who hadn’t seen him emerge from the fire.

“Madam.” as the woman looked up as Shade’s masked face, her mind took a moment to realize what was going on, but by the time she did she found her self holding her infant son in her arms. “You should take him to a hospital, to get him checked out.”

“I’ll take her.” the fire chief said, as he walked up and looked at Shade, then at the woman. “Come with me ma-am I’ll get you to the hospital in no time at all.” As the woman nodded she stood up and left with chief, as Shade put back on his trench coat he started to look at the scene before him, he noticed several scorch marks on the ground indicated that the explosion had come from the now destroyed car, but before he could get a sample of the scorched surface, he was hit in the head with a rock.

“THIS IS YOUR FAULT GHOST!!” a man yelled, as several other people started to throw items at Shade getting Shade to make a run for it. As the group started to give chase they were stopped by the spectators that had just witnessed Shade rescue the infant from the fire. As a commotion started to break out between the two groups Baloo took Rebecca away from the scene making sure that she didn’t get hurt.

“Can you believe those people, blaming him for that fire.” Rebecca said, as Baloo got her about a block away.

“Let it go Beckers, he got away.” Baloo could see that Rebecca was upset, and understood why, sort of. He didn’t know when it happened, or how it had happened all he knew was that he felt the same way Rebecca felt about Shade. He had done so much for them and for the city. He, like some people, liked Shade, but to know the truth, to know that the ghost was nothing more than a child, only made Baloo want to be more apart of Shade’s life, if not to protect him, to give him another shoulder to cry on, another ear to listen.

“He’s just a boy.” Rebecca said, as she looked at Baloo. “I never liked the fact that he did these kinds of things, but to have people blame him and throw rocks at him, that’s to much.”

“Becky this is his life, we have to let him make his own decision on this. He’s shown us that he can handle himself so we have to let him live his life, his way.” Rebecca looked up at Baloo, and was about to say something but stopped when she realized that Baloo was right, nether one of them had a right to tell Shade how to live his life. When they returned to Rebecca’s apartment they smiled when they found Kit and Molly sleeping on the couch. “Come on button nose, let ol’ papa bear put you to bed.” Baloo said, as he picked Molly up and carried her into her room, As Rebecca covered Kit up on the couch and tucked him in slightly.

“Sweet dreams my navigator.” Rebecca gave Kit a kiss on the forehead and then walked to Molly’s room and found Baloo tucking Molly in and kissing her goodnight before turning around and seeing