Shadows Of Love

**"Shadows Of Love"** is an Episode of MMC X HTF Love Bites.

## Plot

The Episode Starts With The Opening Showing A Heart Falling On A Black-Red Gradient Like Background Before Being Impaled By An Arrow As The Heart Breaks, The MMC Logo Is Shown At The Back Of The Arrow And The HTF Logo Is Shown At The Tip. Both The X And The "Love Bites" Zoom In At Different Types (The X Zooms While The Text "Love Bites" Zooms Out) As They Connect With The Logo As The Logo Fades To Black. The Episode Starts Out With As Every Other Episode Does, In The Park With A MMC Character Sitting On A Bench Sadden By Something. This Time, It's Ryan Zerbinos, Still Depressed Over His Girlfriend Maria's Death. Skaggles And Winter Walk By Him And Winter Notices That Zerbinos Is Sad About Something And Asks Skaggles What To Do. Skaggles Told Her That She Should Cheer Him Up, Because He Started To Talk To Chestnut Again And It Was Best For Them To See Other People. Winter Accepts As She Walks Up To Ryan Zerbinos And Asks What Wrong, And He Says That He Is Depressed By His Old Girlfriend's Death And Wonders If He Could Ever Find Another Love Like Her Again. Before Winter Could Tell Him Anything, Winter Hears Gunshots From The City And Zerbinos Tells Her To Come With Him To Help Take Care Of The Crime. We Then See A Gangster Group Known As The Black Dragon Clan, Led By Xeba, Killing People And Injuring Others. Ryan And Winter Arrive To Encounter The Group And Xeba Tells Ryan That He Is Pissed Off About People Reporting His Clan For Crimes, And He Is Killing Everyone Out Of Anger. Ryan Z Then Tells Him That Killing Everyone Out Of Anger Solves Nothing, It Only Paints A Target On Your Back. Winter Follows Up By Saying "Don't Force Us To Take Action!" Xeba Then Ordered His Troops To Kill The White Squirrel As His Clan Fires At Winter, Only For Ryan Zerbinos To Save Winter And Stand In Front Of Her And Get Shot Instead. The Smoke Clears As We See A Bloody And Bullet Filled Zerbinos Breathing Heavily, Before He Collapses. Winter Begins To Tear Up As The Gang Are Shocked About What Happens. Winter Holds Zerbinos In Her Arms, Only For Him To Be Long Gone. Winter Feelings Quickly Turn To Rage As She Freezes Everyone But Xeba, As Winter Grabs Him And Rips His Head Off With Spine Intact. Winter Then Throws Zerbinos In The Icy Waters Of The Arctic As He Sinks To The Bottom. The Episode Ends With Zerbinos Awakening In An Ice Block And At The Bottom Of The Arctic As We Cut To Black

### Ending Tag

Darkness Can Fall But One's Love Never Dies

## Deaths

1. Several GTFs, Including Jared, Molly, Cuddles, Lily, Cub, Anais, Andrew Jr, Pop, And Both Cheyennes Were Shot And Killed
2. Ryan Z Gets Shot By The Black Dragon Clan Via Firing Squad
3. Everyone Of The BDC Are Frozen Except Xeba
4. Xeba Gets His Head Ripped Off (Sub-Zero Spine Rip)

## Survival Rate

* Amount of surviving main characters: **7**
* Amount of dead main characters: **16**
* Total rate: **44%**

## Trivia

1. Zerbinos Death And The Rest Of The Episode Has Project Vela's Don't Feed The Dark Playing (Which Is The Theme Of Ryan Zerbinos In MMC [Especially Amnesia])
2. Winter's Sub-Zero Like Powers Debut In This Episode But This Wasn't The First Time She Used Her Ice Powers Because She Used It In Happy Tree Friends: Survivor, Mainly Episode 5