I take in my surroundings and notice a few things off the back. I see Kroc stuck into a tree, Liz has a massive bruise across her face and her arms are cut up, Eyes looks shocked at Wart who has a sword stick in his chest. Eyes rushes him as he falls to his knees. Liz is screaming at him as I frown realizing what I did. I rush over to him to see Eyes crying.

“Wart.. I’m sorry..” Eyes pauses and looks at me. She stands up cleaning herself off.

“Thank goodness you are back. Wart you can come back.” Wart removes the sword from his chest handing it to me.

“Sorry Zack. We had to make him believe he killed me.” Liz runs over looking so confused still crying.

“What.. but.. How..” I look at her and she frowns taking a step back from me. I frown going to her as tries not to look scared.

“Liz. I’m..” She punches me in the nose and I grab it as she hugs me.

“You’re back..” She hugs me tight. I frowning feeling awful about the deal I took. I hug her back. Eyes groans slightly and looks at Kroc.

“We need to wake him up and get him out of that tree.” Wart walks over with her as I look at Liz.

“.. What happened?” She frowns as she lets go.

“You got infected with something. I don’t really know what happened but you were different..”

“.. Well I am okay now. I am going to help Kroc.” She hugs me again quickly and lets go going to the car. I walk over to Kroc and Eyes motions for me to help Wart pull Kroc out of the tree. I go over to help Wart and notice the hole in his chest healed. Eyes sighs.

“So how did he take over your body?” I frown tugging on Kroc’s arm.

“I don’t want to talk about it.”

“I can always look and find out Zack. So tell me so I don’t have to.” I frown yanking harder as Kroc moves slightly.

“I killed Wolf.”

“We know this.”

“I didn’t want to. Flint betrayed me and used my body to do it. I was angry and upset. I wanted to stop Answer and New God. I wanted to save my brother. He said he could do it.” I pull out Kroc and he falls to the ground. I look back to Eyes who has a terrified look on her face as she looks at me. Wart turns back and frowns going to her.

“What is wrong Eyes?” She starts to shake as her nose starts to bleed. She turns away from me and begins to breath heavily. She looks at Wart.

“I was wrong..” I pause confused as Kroc sits up looking pissed.

“I don’t want to hurt your body Zack but..” He grabs me by the arm and I don’t react in time. He pauses lets me. “So your back. You are a major idiot. How could you let him take over your body?” I frown at him and I see Wart take Eyes away.

“It was a mistake. It won’t happen again.” Kroc glares at me for a second and stands up.

“Good. You had us worried Zack. We need to move. I bet you attracted some unwanted attention.” We start to walk to the SUV.

“Oh how did Wart survive the sword?” Kroc smiles slightly.

“Wart is bond to Eyes. As long as she is alive, he won’t die. Why do you think he has so many scars?” I nod in understanding. I get the SUV and we drive for hours until late into the night. We find a small cave off the road to set up camp. We quickly set up camp as Kroc stands watch outside. Liz is currently cooking something as Wart is taking care of Eyes. She has a tissue up her nose that makes her look a little silly. I walk over to Eyes and she frowns looking away from me.

“I need some advice Eyes. What should we do next?” Wart looks at her.

“Either Queen or East.” I pause for a second and look over at Kroc.

“Which is closer?”

“Queen.” I nod walking away. “Wait… You need to just take Kroc with you. No one else can go.” I pause looking back at her.

“Why?” She looks like she has a little bit of emotions in her eyes.

“This is his thing. If you guys leave now.. You should be back in the morning. Head East and you will find her.”

“Thank you.” I walk over to Liz and explain the situation to her. She frowns getting ready.

“You aren’t going alone. I can’t lose you again.” I pause feeling my cheeks blush slightly as she slowly realizes what she said. She heavily blushes and looks away. I hug her smiling slightly.

“I will be back in the morning. Plus I need you to watch Eyes and Wart.” She mutters something hugging me back. I let go as she looks annoyed.

“Fine. Hurry.” I walk over to Kroc who is staying into the distance.

“Hey Kroc.” He looks at me.

“Yes? I am not in the mood for training.” I walk outside the cave.

“I want to go save Queen.” He pauses standing up.

“How close is she?” He sounds determined.

“A few hours. Eyes said..” I stop as he heads to the Wart’s motorcycle. He gets on it and drives off speeding away. I frown quickly grabbing the keys for the SUV. I try to follow him as we head East to Queen.