Akari glanced over at Arashi, and the boy sighed. Giving a nod, he raised an arm and the group was hovering above the ground.
((Hope you guys don't mind this?))
"Well, I guess we can move like this. Should any of you feel like sleeping, go ahead, I should be able to carry you, so long as Akari keeps me awake." This earned an eye-roll from his friend, but she noticed the the small bags forming under his eyes and she nodded. She was used to getting little sleep, but knew her friend was not, and made a mental to note to get him to rest later.
"Count on me." She said, nodding at Arashi's request, and the group was flying slowly through the air, towards the cave that they had located through Tsuki's howl and Abend's reply caw. "Let's go."

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As the light shone on the two sleeping in the glade, Amaya blinked away her sleepiness, and was about to get up when she felt a weight on her arm. Glancing over she noticed that Yukio had fallen asleep on her left arm, and that it was curled around him. Confirming that the boy was still asleep, she gently tapped him on the shoulder.
"Hey, you awake? We fell asleep outside...." The two have failed to return to the cave, and instead slept by the pond. "We have to get back..." Seeing as how he was being unresponsive, the female sighed, and gently laid him on her back, shifting his weight so she could walk back to the cave without him falling off. She only hoped he woke up before they reached.
((He'll wake up before they reach ^^ Also, Yup, they didn't return to the cave~))

Peace quickly noticed his floating allies and yelled "Hay how did it go!", his response was a bunch of groans from the sleeping group. Peace "must have been rough". He grabbed a hold of Shane, and Ladia's arms and dragged them inside and left them in a dark corner of the cave. Peace "They need there sleep".

Shade was sitting in the mouth of the cave, after the new arrivals had settled in the back of the cave. She dangled her feet over the ledge and looked out. She pictured herself flying high in the sky, weaving in and out of clouds with her brother, then swooping down and flying along side her mother as she ran in tiger form. She glanced back in the cave as she noticed eyes resting on her. It was harry. She rolled her eyes and returned to her day-dreaming. It was a pleasant day. Not too warm not too cold. She tried to think of something she could do as she realized they would be staying there for a while, as the others rested. She was getting bored of this group. They never let her use her powers to their full extent to kick some butt, and that really got on her nerves. She contemplated going back to her family and taking the dark gang out from a different angle. But then she remembered Dmitri and Harry, she couldn't leave them. She held her head in her hands. "I can't do this anymore." She breathed into her warm hands. She felt her face moisten and realized she was crying. 'I seem to be doing a lot of this lately.' She thought. She stiffened as arms wrapped around her. Dmitri and Harry had sat down beside her. "Quite frankly. We feel the same way." Harry admitted. Shade chuckled. "Mind-reading freak." She joked - but not all joke. "Just I can't cry because, well...I'm just plain awesome." Dmitri added. Shade playfully hit him and he pushed her off the ledge. She half ran and half stumbled down the rock face, laughing like a kid, all the way! Dmitri and Harry bounded after her as she reached the bottom. "You meanies!" She wailed, rubbing her eyes as if crying like a toddler. Dmitri shifted and pounced on her and they fell to the floor with Dmitri playfully licking her and Shade laughing hysterically whilst trying to push Dmitri's face away with her hand.
He wouldn't stop so she shifted and flew out of reach, she cawed to Harry and he shifted also. The two magnificent birds played and circled above Dmitri. The Pantha on the ground tried to snatch them out of the sky, failing every time! After a while, they all shifted back and layed on the grass exhausted. Harry sighed. "That was fun!" Collective Nods. Shade folded her arms behind her head and stared up at ths sky. "Why can't things go back to the way they used to be? Maybe then, we could do this without having to worry about..." Her words were cut off by an arrow whistling past their heads. They snapped up and saw an arrow protruding from a tree, a piece of paper wrapped around it. Shade heaved it out and showed it to the others. "We've got mail."

"Dear Team,
We have reasons to believe that you are a threat to our organization, and have in your custody, a few of our agents. You will return them to us along with a letter of resignation signed by your entire team, or we'll pick you off one by one starting with the fire girl.
Signed Sophia A.K.A Dmitri's mother." Shade rolled up the letter as she finished reading it out to the team in the cave. "We're totally f*cked."

Shane just looked at the letter curiously "we don't have the grunts anymore we can't even do it if we wanted to". Peace just stared "family issues anyone" Ladia punches him in the arm. Ladia "even if we had the grunts we wouldn't make the deal, we signed to form a team knowing the danger also what makes her so special anyway? besides you know............".

((For a moment, I misunderstood as the team got captured....))
Amaya had to stop halfway to the cave, as the male on her back woke up, grumbling for food. Having placed him down on the ground to allow him some time to regain his bearings, the female was speeding through the trees, barely missing the branches as she jumped from tree to tree, looking for safe berries and water for the male to eat. She found the food back by the pond, and ran back to her companion, passing him the food. They ate in silence as they made their way slowly back to the cave, the food help in a bag made of leaves, crafted by Amaya with Yukio's help.

Arashi had fallen asleep right after safely lowering his teammates, and Akari had a sore throat from talking to him for the period of time they were flying, and went for water after bringing Arashi to the back of the cave, and placing him in a comfortable position. Lying down beside him, she nearly missed the notice that was read out loud as her eyes closed, and the world faded to black.

"My parents started the rebellion. My parents are the reason there are teams signing up to stop these guys. Kill me, parents come out of hiding, people doubt the rebellions strength and give in the to the gang." Shade wouldn't make eye contact with anyone. "Well if you put it like that..." Harry started. He was silenced by a death glare from Dmitri. "What do we do now? 'Cause frankly, I don't wanna die just yet." Shade mumbled that last part.

Shane "They want Grunt's so let's give them some" (grins). Peace "have you lost it man we can't do that we don't have them". Shane "remember how we got into town?". Peace "now I like where your going". Ladia "you 2 idiots!!!!!!!!!!!!!! last time you did that I needed to save you kids!!!". Shane "but we need to do something". Peace "were doing it". Ladia "no, absolutely not". Peace "we respect your opinion but now is not the time". Shane makes eye contact with everyone one by one. Shane "we need disguises we could probably make a couple outfits out of the pieces Shade burnt off". Peace "we will take the pieces and make our own grunt outfits we will hand over ourselves as grunts and fight them as we do the trade off". Shane "objections?".

"ER! YES OBJECTION! THEY KNOW WHO I AM! IF IM NOT THERE, THEY'LL KNOW IT'S A TRICK! DONT YOU GET IT? THEY KNOW WHAT I LOOK LIKE! And Dmitri for that matter, his mum's running it remember?!" Dmitri and Harry looked at the others with a look that said. 'duh! How could you forget?!'

*guys. Are you all ok with this? I mean like where this is going with the grunts and shades death threat? XD *

Shane "well duh.....". Peace "thats why your the delivery people so the rest of us are grunts do you really think that we would be that stupid". Ladia "this plan is stupid, but I can't think of anything else". Shane "so any other objections".

Shade nodded. "Fine. On one condition. We do it at night. Because I have another idea." She looked mischievously at Dmitri and Harry. "Magicians always say, the secret to a good trick is to make the audience look in the other direction. Well that's what we're going to do. They get distracted with me and Dmitri doing funny little tricks, meanwhile you're getting the hell out of there! Kapice?" She didn't wait for a reply. "Good. Let's get moving." They spend the rest of the afternoon preparing for the big plan. Shade and Dmitri were in the mouth discussing distractions. "We're going to die aren't we?" Shade sighed. "My mothers a ******. But really, we're better than that."