thought carefully for a few minutes.

“When the lights went out, it seemed like somebody did put something in my hand.” with that Lupe nodded a few times and then looked at O’Hare.

“Kit we have a problem.” with that Lupe pulled a gun out wrapped in a plastic bag. “This is the only firearm found at the scene, and it only has one set of finger prints on it, and those belong to you.”

“ME!?”

“And as you said it only took me and O’Hare a few minutes to get into the room which didn’t give anyone enough time to get out of the room, Kit you where the only one in that room with the chief.” the shock hit Kit like a ton of bricks, he didn’t know what transpired next his head was nothing more then a haze, the only thing he knew was that when his head cleared enough he was in a small room at the police station, he could hear voices behind the door. As the door was unlocked and opened the first one to come in was Rebecca who ran up and hugged Kit, followed by Baloo.

“Kit sweetie I’m so happy your alright, when detective Lupe called us and told us what happened we rushed over here as fast as he could.” just then the door shut and the 3 turned and looked at Lupe who sat down and looked at them.

“I’m sorry to say that I have to be present for this, because of legal reasons, I’m also sad to inform you that we’ll be transferring Kit to a juvinal detention center in a few hours until his case can be heard before a judge.”

“Lupe what’s going on, please tell me.” Rebecca asked, as she looked at the detective.

“A lot of evidence is pointing towards Kit as being the shooter of the chief, but I’ll be honest with you, I still don’t think he did it.”

“Darn right my boy didn’t do it.” Baloo said, as he looked at Kit. “He’s a good kid.”

“But what I don’t understand is how did you ever get mixed up with those thugs?” Rebecca asked, as she looked at Kit.

“I was trying to earn some extra money, so I could get you two something.” Kit explained as he looked at Rebecca and tears started to form. “But now, everything is falling apart.” As Kit started to let his emotions get the better of him, Rebecca held him close and Baloo knelt down next to them and held them close.

“As I said, I don’t think Kit’s did this, and right now I’m hopping that I’m proven right, but until we bring Croc in, there is no way to prove his innocents.” with that Baloo looked at Lupe with a very determined look on his face.

“Then give me a picture of this jerk, I’ll bring him in and make him talk.” with that Lupe stood up and put a calm hand on Baloo’s shoulder.

“Listen this is a police matter, and I want you to leave it to the police to solve this case, I’ll do everything I can to help Kit but I need you to stay out of trouble, if this should go before a judge before we can catch Croc it‘ll help Kit‘s case if you two stay out of trouble.” Lupe looked at Kit and then patted him on the head. “Listen kiddo we’ll get to the bottom of this I promise.” with that Kit nodded and spent the rest of the time talking with Rebecca, and Baloo. His hopes remained high as they talked with him and told him of all the things that was going. When time came to leave Lupe looked the other way as they spent a little more time saying goodbye. As they drove off Kit watched as Rebecca held onto Baloo and waved as she started to cry, and Baloo held her close, As he lowered his head felling guilty for putting them through this Lupe looked at him and patted him on the shoulder. “Don’t worry kid we already called ahead.”

“What they’re holding a room for me?” Kit asked, as he looked at Lupe who smirked slightly.

“No, but your also not going to juvie, if I know Croc he’s already planning on trying to take you out there, so I’m putting you in protective custody.” Kit smiled slightly as he looked at Lupe.

“So I’m going to like a safe house?”

“No… you see kiddo only the police knew about this operation, and it wasn’t known long enough for it to leak out to the news and them to print it, so that means we have a mole in are station, the only people that knows about this is me, and the person that’s going to be watching over you.” As Lupe turned the corner she looked at a dead end and smiled as she saw a figure walking out from the shadows.

“Oh you’ve got to be kidding me.” Kit said, as he looked at Shade dressed as the ghost. “He’s going to be keeping me safe.”

“Don’t knock it kid, this person has done a lot for this city, he’s helped us on a few bust, as well as catching that mad bomber.” Kit rubbed his hand on his face in frustration, before stepping out and walking up to Shade. “Ghost this is Kit he’s are only link to the drug lord Croc, as well as the attempt on the chiefs life.”

“You briefed me before Officer Lupe, and as I promised I’ll keep him safe.”

“Alright Ghost, but if anything should happen to him are case are shot and I’ll be coming after you.” Lupe warned and Shade nodded before stepping to one side and opening a man hole.

“Climb down.” Shade said, as he looked at Kit, who one looked down the sewer opening.

“What for?”

“To get you to a safe place, I’m not about to try and carry you there, nor do I trust to revile the secret location of my lair.” with that Kit looked at Shade and then did as he was told, only because Lupe was still standing close by. “I’ll keep him out of trouble Lupe, but I’m still going to be working on this case.” With that Shade jumped into the opening and Lupe closed the lid, once in the sewer Shade held out a blind fold to Kit.

“Not going to happen.”

“It’s ether this or I drug you, and drag you to my lair.” with that Kit looked at Shade and could tell that he was fully loaded with all his gadgets and tricks.

“Fine.” with that Kit put the blind fold on and Shade took his hand and started to lead him. The two walked for hours taking turns and climbing through things, at times Kit could almost swear he was hearing old stone passages opening and closing from movies. Until finally they came to a stop and Shade removed the blind fold.

“Make your self at home while I prepare.” Kit looked around the large area, 2 stories tall with connecting rooms.

“What is this place?”

“My lair.”

“Your lair, I meant what is this place supposed to be?”

“From what I can gather, it was meant to be a fall out shelter during the great war, or to be more persise it was meant to be a civilization rebuild shelter, it has everything needed to rebuild the city should it be destroyed, and it runs into the nearby mountains and into several other shelters, as well as a few other places.” Kit looked around the main room until he noticed what looked like a barber’s area, for some reason something was pulling him towards the area, his curiosity was slightly peaked, but as he got closer he could see what it truly was, inside a small jar with what he assumed was alcohol was small metal instruments, near that was a small metal bowl fill with bloody bandages. As Kit turned back to Shade he could see him sitting at another desk working on something, As Kit started to walk around he couldn’t shake the image of Shade being in this place alone doctoring him self.

“So what do we do now just sit here and wait?” Kit asked, as he looked at Shade, who strapped the device he was working to his wrist.

“At this point and time, it’s all we can do unless you are willing to let me see what you’ve seen.”

“Excuse me?”

“It’s one of the tricks of the Shadow skills.”

“Shadow skills?”

“It’s a very ancient art of mental control, it has been handed down from shadow warrior to shadow warrior for countless ages, only a select few people of my home land where trained in the Shadow skills, once learned has many aplications, it can hipnotize, cloud one‘s mind so to confuse them and get them to do what you want, or in this case allow me to see what you‘ve seen in the forms of memory echos.” with that Kit nodded and then took a few steps forward.

“Alright I guess if this will help clear my name, but you promise all your going to be looking at are those memories.”

“You have my word, the only people I force memories from are the ones that are withholding information on cases.” with that Kit knelt down in front of Shade, and found him self looking into Shade’s eyes.

“Now I want you to think about the first day you went to work for these people.” Kit did as he was told, and after a few minutes he found himself back in the bakery with Shade standing beside him.

“This is amazing, alright let’s go look for some clues.” with that Kit ran for the door heading into the back only to slam into it a fall to the ground. “Hey what gives?”

“Not that door, this is only a memory Kit, we can only see what you saw then we can’t add or take away from it, which means the only thing we can see right now is what you saw then.” with that Kit nodded and stood up, then punched Shade in the arm.

“You couldn’t have told me that before?”

“Not