After Michael was put into the coma Shadow then hooked his body up to many machines, presumably to monitor heart beat and other medical tasks.

Shadow then turned to me and said "thank you for being here I'm pretty sure he would have resisted the treatment if you were not here to calm him down!" He smirked through his costume.  

"Um thank you. But he was confident in his decision to be put under, it was like he saw it as his only option" I replied sheepishly.

"Well at least you were here for emotional support" Shadow responded confidently.

Wanting to change the conversation from a less awkward subject I replied "you did well to find the drug to bring about a comatose state in such a small amount of time. Out of curiosity how did you get the drug?" 

Shadow looked taken back by this question, he hung his head as he replied "I broke the law..." His face showed clearly his shame.

"Wh- what did you do? What ever you did it won't change my opinion of you!" I responded with an edge of confidence.

"I stole from a hospital" he responded trying not to meet my gaze.

"Why is that so bad...did you hurt someone?" I asked while discretely reaching for my taser cautiously.

"NO!" Shadow snapped back as my hand was in my pocket grasped my taser. Shadow then continued, "but I can't escape the feeling that my actions could hurt someone. What if some patient needed that drug and I just stole it."

"Why think about something that may not even happen?" I questioned back still grasping my taser.

"Because every choice that we make as people affects the world around us, so say if you were lost and came to a cross road which side do you take left or right?" He responded. 

"Left" I simply replied, he seemed stunned at my answer but still he continued.

"I didn't need an answer but...okay so you take the left path but you now missed the right path and what that had to offer! And this choice may effect you later say you experience something bad on this path then in the future you would decide to go right trying to avoid the left due to the bad experience, and your choice of path may effect someone else choice of path due to the footprints you leave behind" Shadow explained. 

"If you think of the world like that you'll be worrying what you've missed when you should live in the moment that's all that matters, because the world is always changing never staying the same only changing, shifting or evolving all you can do is go with the flow or you'll be swept under!" I responded trying to provoke a response from Shadow.

Shadow met my gaze with a serious point as though he was judging me for what I said so I stared back in to his eyes confidently unrelenting challenging his judgement.

Eventually, Shadow said "well in the end it's just a matter of opinion on either side of the argument!" With that the conversation ended in a stalemate either side valuing their opinion and not wanting to back down both strong willed.

After a few minutes I realised it was about four p.m. and Shadow asked me "how well can you fight?"

"I-I don't know I've never really had a reason to fight. But okay I guess," I replied cautiously.

"Prove it!" Shadow retorted as he paced backwards and said "let's spar together."

"Lets what?" I shouted back angrily.

"Practice fight, to see how good you are" Shadow replied correcting my way of thinking.

"Oh okay" I responded as Shadow beckoned me to approach him.

I walked up to meet him we stood about a metre away from each other as Shadow moved first punching directly forward!

I managed to barely move out of the way slightly to the left, and I tried to hit back swinging with my right arm aiming for Shadows stomach, he caught my fist and twisted my arm to my back I couldn't move.

Shadow had my right arm behind my back restricting my movements so I struck backward with my left arm aiming for his jaw, it connected forcing him to release my hand.

In response I spun one hundred and eighty degrees to face him and kicked him in the gut connecting again as I had the upper hand.

Shadow quickly regained his stature and again quickly struck my stomach left arm and leg with deadly precision! I was quickly dispatched by these moves as I fell on my back onto the floor with Shadow standing looming over me a slight smirk upon his uncovered face.

Shadow held out his left hand for me to grab so I gripped his hand as he propelled me up into a standing position, my arm felt as though it had been pulled out of its socket!

Shadow in a proud voice said "well you lost but you seem to very good at using your instincts and reacting but you need to get better at hand to hand combat and fighting skills."

"Sorry I guess?" I responded wearily from the sparring match.

"In any case you'd probably should get training from someone if you want I can train you in basic combat skills. Would that be beneficial to you?" Shadow questioned back.

"That probably would help with my currently poor combat techniques" I replied thankfully.

"Do you need me to take you back home?" Shadow asked.

"No...I don't think I could handle another impromptu sparring session!" I replied back jokingly, Shadow gave a nod and walked to the door unlocking it as I left 'The Bunker' waving goodbye as I did.

The walk home was surprisingly easy and not that tiring, all that ached was my bones from the sparring session. But I followed the sidewalk on the streets toward my home and eventually I got home.

I sat at home pondering what to do until I decided to check the PTD and on the device it displayed one new message, the message read as follows '1976' in my head I thought 'Great another obscure date that had no meaning!'

So like before I searched the date on the internet and incorporated the date with events in the town, there was not much that came up on the search except an old faded picture for sale for ten dollars.

Normally, a faded picture for ten dollars would normally be seen as a waste of money but the picture showed a sign saying 'Pine Wood Valley' I recognised the sign as the town sign! Also in the picture was the town fully constructed but what made the picture amazing was on the back it was dated nineteen seventy six the picture should not exist the town was only founded in nineteen eighty one!

Also on the back was written 'For Horizon news' what was Horizon news? Why did this photo exist? Was this photo what the PTD clue referred too?

But before I could continue to query further there was a loud knock at the front door. Since my dad was late home as usual it couldn't of been him so who would knock on the door at six p.m.?

Cautiously, I walked down the corridor and towards the front door I carefully unlocked an opened the door to reveal...

Nothing no one was stood at the door except for an old Polaroid photograph which was a still developing from black to an actual picture.

I picked up the picture and began to fan the picture so it could develop I did this for about a minutes worth of time until unclear forms started to appear in the photo. The photo revealed a building that I felt I recognised but could not define any features until the photo had developed further and I could make out my house!

As it developed further I realised the photo had been taken across the street from my home and the most disturbing thing was that I could see myself through the window of my house on the photo!

Instinctually, I looked across the street an to my horror I saw a man I recognised he was wearing a skull mask, a black vest coat, a dark grey jumper, a pair of dark jeans, black boots also in his hand he held a Polaroid camera which explained where the picture of my house came from!

The man looked directly at me staring at me through his skull mask I tried my best to match his stare but I couldn't my eyes darted away for a second! In that second the man started to advance toward my home across the street! Fearfully I darted back inside the house and locked the door.

There was then a knock at the front door I cowered scared to do anything until I heard footsteps walking away from the door and a click at the back door and the ugly truth dawned on me, I hadn't locked the back door...