That morning Nikolai and SIN woke up alone, grumpily SIN sulked his way back to Nikolai, who was clearing away their camp.

"Hey," SIN muttered angrily.

"Hey," Nikolai said gruffly.

"I was thinking," Nikolai began.

"Oh were you really?" SIN quipped sardonically.

"Yeah. I was," he grumbled, "about getting Halone out of the rebellion. A place like that for her is no place at all," he explained as the sunlight filtering through the canopy of trees was reflected off of his spiked ear piercings.

"If she wants to leave she'll do it on her own terms," SIN said.

"But by then it might be too late for her," he urged. SIN's face contorted with jealously-he wishes Nikolai would've shown him this much concern when he stormed off, instead SIN just felt dirty and used for a cheap thrill.

"In my humble opinion she can go fuck herself," SIN remarked with a cruel sarcasm.

"Don't talk about her like that!" Nikolai erupted, transforming into his animal form and beating his fangs at the albino demon, "she has kids. Don't they deserve a chance or should we just leave them their to rot too because you're stuck in the past!" he snarled.

SIN burst into his werewolf form, growling at Nikolai as his tails flared up, "well excuse me for being hung up on the fact that you tortured me and killed my lover!".

"Fuck you, I should've killed you right then and there!" Nikolai spat before lunging at SIN, his teeth sinking deep into his throat before tearing out flesh, in retaliation SIN tried to claw his eyes out and the pair initiated a bloodthirsty fight.

Meanwhile Halone was in her feral form, sat in a tent with a shaman, the shaman had painted markings on her and was throat singing, as they hit the right pitch suddenly Chi was coaxed out, her ears pinned back in and whining softly in fear.

"W-where am I?" she asked in a mousy, terrified whisper.

"You're safe," the shaman uttered, "you're here to help your big sister Halone."

"Are you going to make her happy? I feel her sadness all the time," Chi said, her words drooping with sorrow as she looked down to the crackling fire, to where the shaman was sat on the opposite side of it.

"Halone needs to be a warrior, she needs to stay strong. Can you be strong for her?" the shaman asked.

Chi nodded cheerfully, "yes! Yes I can!" they said with a gleeful smile that was pure and innocent.

Their bubble of zen was popped by Leiden entering the tent, carrying with him a tense and demanding energy that upset Chi as he looked to the shaman.

"Are you almost done?" Leiden snapped, Chi began to cry-Leiden's blue eye was the same blue as Ash's, his teeth were bared just like how Ash's was before he killed her. Her tears dripped in a steady stream and splattered on the dirt.

"All things will happen in good time," the shaman answered, Leiden snarled before skulking off.

The shaman threw some sage into the fire to purify the atmosphere once again, making it calm and natural and stemming Chi's flood of tears.

"Are you alright?" the shaman asked in a slow and calm voice.

Chi nodded and offered them a watery smile, "I just want my big sis to be happy again."

"She will be. All things in good time my child."

Far away Nikolai and SIN were post coitus after some passionate, angry, hot and heavy sex, as soon as Nikolai came he pulled out and stormed off-SIN chasing after him like the lovesick puppy dog he was.

All Nikolai felt was disgust. Disgust at having sex with a man, disgust with that man for having sex with him. His blood was boiling, and when SIN's hand touched his shoulder with concern he shrugged it off and snarled at SIN.

Nikolai's icy blue eyes burned with hostility, "fuck off!" he snapped, leaving SIN to pick up the pieces of his once hopeful and now broken heart while leaving Nikolai to lash out at trees with his claws and slam his head against rocks.

Back with Halone and Leiden burst into the tent once again, "rebels are dying as we speak! How fucking long will this bullshit take?!" he screeched as he lashed out, striking his claws across Chi's face and leaving nasty, deep gashes.

Everything went into a blur for Chi as Leiden continued to scream vile abuse at her. The same terror she felt when Ash killed her was reawakened like a long dormant Tutankhamen curse. It was a terror that rendered her mute, as she began to shake she urinated all over herself.

"Leave this place," the shaman said in a grave voice.

"I want my warrior back! Give me her!" Leiden screamed, before Alexis rushed over and yelled at him to stop. And when she saw the wounds on Chi's face she begged him to stop.

Leiden shouldered last his sister, storming off to destroy a tree in his fit of rage before finally settling down.

Meanwhile Ash had taken over, the blood and the violence resurrecting him, his lips were peeled back to display his fangs in a vicious snarl as rabid foam drooled from his mouth, salivating to taste blood.

Sensing this shift the shaman told Ash to sit down, when he refused the shaman cast a spell that sealed him within a glowing circle adorned with old runes and sigils. An ancient magic that would subdue him.

"Is she okay?" Alexis asked nervously.

"He. Who you see now is Ash. Ash cannot be allowed to surface till Halone has better control of him."

"I can sense your dark thoughts. I can see the darkness with you," the shaman said as they returned their attention back to Ash.

The shaman began to hum a spiritual song from the old world, speaking in tongues.

And slowly the rage died down, and Ash went back to being dormant as Halone surfaced and the shaman revoked the circle seal.

The first thing she did was collapse into Alexis' arms.

"I've really fucked up," she blurted out as she broke down in tears, "I wish I wasn't me, I'm so tired of being such a crazy freak!'.

Meanwhile a steaming drunk Nikolai returned to SIN, an empty bottle of vodka in hand.

"I'm a red blooded alpha male a soldier," he slurred with pride, "not a gay boy like you," he sneered with disgust as he smashed the bottle on the ground before trying to force himself on SIN, "c'mon, this is what you love you flamer," he breathed heavily before SIN shoved him off, transforming into his werewolf form.

"Touch me again and I'll break your fingers one by one," SIN snarled, Nikolai only laughed in between hiccups.

Then Nikolai threw up, vomit dribbled down his stubbly chin and white tank top.

And without a second thought to his own safety SIN began to clear away the vomit, dabbing at it gently with all the attentiveness and care of a mother. As SIN cleared him up Nikolai could only slur out the word 'sorry' over and over as he started to weep, before throwing up again all in SIN's hair.

SIN only lowered Nikolai onto a bed of soft fern leaves, before unzipping Nikolai's trousers and placing a stinging nettle on his exposed crotch.

No one calls him a flamer and gets away with it.