Raven arrives early at the doorstep of a familiar mansion, Kevin's home, he'd practically blurred the entire way here upon receiving the call, eager to devour the contents of the book, similar to his previous visit, thr door tilted open, Raven finds his way though the building, promptly arriving at Kevin's location,

"Here" Kevin states upon his arrival, the book bulleting toward's his nose, Raven reacts on instinct catching it before it's edge tears into his eye. "No" Kevin follows, "let's go claim my price" Kevin states, rising to his feet he stps pass Raven to the counter behind him picking his supercar's key, "Come" Kevin declares simply, the two making their way to his underground parking storage housing half a dozen cars with capability of holding even double such an amount. Kevin ignites his engine having taken a seat, Raven beside him watches the titanium reinforced doors rise as Kevin blast past the opening crack, despite the sizeable distance within minutes they'd arrived.

"Let's head in" Raven states, his mind sharp, alert, and most important not quite sure what to expect. (No matter, whatever it is i'm certain i can handle it) he ponders with built assurance,

{Seems like your experience with dealing with shit is finally coming in hand} Silver states, amusement dripping from it's tone,

(It seems it is) Raven muses in reply,

{No wonder you reek, you should try getting a bloody shower, i don't even have a nose, hell I'm not even human and even i can smell it} Silver chuckles,

(Haha, funny) Raven replies dryly, his hand places on the door handle, his body tensed to react at the slightest mishaps,

"Open it kid, I'm busy" Kevin states, only then did Raven recall,

(I almost forgot) he grins staring at Kevin who raises a brow in question, Raven pushes the complex apartment door aside.

Raven exhales deeply,

(It's still here, exactly how he'd left it) he mules,

"Get it down, tie it and throw it in the back" Kevin instructs staring at the body indifferently, Raven steps forward to execute just that when...

{"Dodge!"} Silver bellows as the body raises in consciousness it's leg whipping to crash against Raven's side unaffected by the mounted chains, it's eyes blazed obsidian and it's irises scorching white,

"ZONE"

{"ZONE"} the two said in tandem,

"this shouldn't be possible" Raven groans rolling out of the wall, Kevin sucks on a loli pop while watching the two battle, a light inspection of Raven's bigger frame confirms his suspicion, it was a wonder why the boy would leave his body where every tom dick and hairy could...'tamper' with it, nevertheless it's sudden burst of strength,

(Won't last long, but that would be long enough) Kevin sighs bluring before Raven his left fist flying sideways to connect with the opponents kick, the body reacts by transitioning into a horizontal spinning kick, Kevin replies by simply leaning back, his kick to indeed too fast even for either Raven to catch as it crashes it's skull into the ground,

(So this is how you learnt this move, imitating the body imitating me) Kevin muses, "get the body into the car kid, leaving the body here was dumb, it's far from protected enough from MURAKAN'S influence they probably didn't expect our deal, they expected you'd cone alone which would mean even now we're under surveillance" Kevin states,

"Why didn't they just take the body then" Raven replies,

{"Every heard of any farmer harvest his yields unripe?"} Silver follows aloud,

"I'll leave you to your book kid, i have work to get to" Kevin follows turning away as Raven turns his focus back to the body.

With Kevin gone and himself back at the Youngs mansion, specifically in his quarters hi childlike curiosity gets the best of him as he lays in bed flipping past the previously deciphered pages. At the head of the current page read

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'ACT TWO',

Cold shifters

~For every Yin there is a Yang, so is the way of our world, as humanity in the sections of the world having both hot and alternating weather discovered to Heat Shifting, a Shifter of considerable power, long in his nigh immortal years began journeying across the lands of the earth, his goal?, To spread the arts to whomever he deemed worthy, his ration?, Advancement, for in his own words, 'only through the eyes of the fool and ignorant may one see in another light', he'd soon be proven corrects, for in his journeys across the freezing lands of the arctic he was shocked to find even human life thriving there, however dwindled, curious on how the heat of a Shifter may fare in such environments he began his experiments while being of mind to expect weak Shifters who would advance at the tortoise's pace if ever, he'd soon be proven correct, majority couldn't even connect with the heat from within, the few that could found no advancement, the solution a fire deep in the recess of a cave to warm those around, still thing's marched at a snails pace, just when he began to lose hope an ever inquisitive student, one he sought to bring back to landa of heat so as not to have her talents wasted inquires once more of higher advancements, again he indulged her, revealing that Kinetic energy, pressure and gravity where more significant to Shifters than heat or cold, both where keys that would later become forms of interaction with their surroundings upon achieving the ZONE, at the time the height of martial advancement, after his usual explanation he retired to his hut, his mind pondering on what his next act would be, hours to him flowed like seconds a loud bang on his door draws his attention, he rose and exited,

"What is it?" he questioned, sir, it's .... The man replied fearful,

"What is wrong with her?" The Shifter questioned further, the man being question could not explain, the man blurred to the girl, her frame enshrouded in cold, ice seeming to grow from within her, the man enacted around her his Domain, and as he moved to heat her she shook her head, seeing her eyes, sensing her determination, he held his action abd his questions as time flowed by then hours later the ice splintered if her, from within she emerged, her heart beat slowed, skin pale, almost white,

"Cold SHIFTING" the man declares, "Speak child, how have YOU accomplish what the greatest of scholars and Shifters have not?" The man questioned,

"Master" the girl bowed in response, "man's body is predisposed to heat, only through the application of pressure and extreme cold can this be suppressed to accept the cold, from then on a balance must be achieved, the limit if accepting the cold gradually being pushed forward over time and training" the girl replied. The man upon further thought had realised why such a discover was never made in the lands of changing weather,

"I see, it simply wasn't cold enough, for man could still feel the heat of their body, and even then man had developed to create fire at will" he realised, "man's natural disposition to heat would further limit such a realisation, he would not be the first to believe man could be one with cold, he'd be the first to see it achieved, and as such, he'd see what more such a martial way could achieve. The man would spend decades in the cold, guiding his student and her students, an empire rising withing the lands of ice and cold, eventually taking his student to wed as empress, and upon his return to the lands of changing weathers, the Shifters of Cold descended.~

Raven and Silver exhale audibly, momentary silence taking reign,

"Do you think this is true?" He questions,

{"Most likely"} Silver responds,

"How could she have possibly acquired such information?" Rave questions, "this had to have happened at least multiple thousands of years ago" he follows,

{"It's simple really"} Silver replies,

"Then how?" Raven questions once more,

{"Tombs"} Silver replies.