Crouching down, she looked at her still laughing brothers, and a small flame of anger lighted inside of her gut. Her ears layed across the top of her head, her rump stuck up toward the sky, and with a deep breath, she pushed off of the rock with her back feet. Her body was out straight like a line, her eyes looking at the spot next to Rimkia. That was her target. Her front paws touched the ground first with much force, then her back paws touched the stone ground as well and she trotted forward after the landing. The laughing brothers stopped, and looked at their sister wide-eyed. The little she-wolf panted heavily in shock as her heart pounded loudly in her chest from the exciting jump.

Rimkia smirked and stood up, hiding his astonishment of his sister's accomplishment. "Let's keep going," he ordered his siblings. He walked down the rock bridge and continued talking, not looking back at them, "I want to get to the bottom of the rock pile before we have to eat again." Lunitone hesitated as she neared the bridge, as fear of falling off envoloped her mind.

"You go first Lun," Tumak said to her from behind, sensing her fear, "I'll be right behind you incase you fall," he smiled at her and she smiled back, looking at the bridge in front of her. Taking a deep breath, she walked slowly across the rough bridge, holding her breath as she walked. She could hear her Tumak walking slowly behind her just as he said he would.

Lunitone looked for Rimkia on the bridge but saw no trace of him. Probably went on ahead of us, she thought to herself and continued her worried treck across the bridge. When she got to the end of the bridge she stretched a paw out to find a rock to step on and got off the bridge happily. Tumak just jumped off and hopped slowly from one rock to another, going down the hill and searching for their brother. The two of them reached the bottom of the hill where Rimkia waited for them. Lunitone jumped back when she felt the prickly green grass. It was the first time either of them have seen or laid a paw on grass. Tumak and Rimkia got used to the soft, prickly, green palnts the grew from the ground and Lunitone finally got used to it and joined her brothers in some rough-housing in open area.

The three stopped and laid down in the grass, relaxing in the sun's heat as the rays heated the ground and their soft fur. Lunitone never felt so much peace in her whole life, even if it was only eight weeks long, but she never thought new things like this could be so comforting. The silence was broken by an ear-piercing KABLAM! The noise echoed throughout the land and a flock of birds who were resting in a tree flew out of it frantically. The pups stood up immediately from the new sound, their hearts pounding and ears perked towards the forest where the noise came from. KABLAM, KABLAM! Two more shots pierced the air and the pups stepped backwards away from the noise, but just looked behind them as the noise echoed off the stones and toward them, creating the illusion that it came from behind.

KABLAM! The fourth shot rang out and the pups stood still with tails up in a surprised way. All three of them stood still, waiting for another loud noise like the previous ones to ring out, but none followed. The three of them exhaled haevily after holding their breath for so long, and Rimkia hopped on one of the rocks that lead back to their den. Tumak looked at his brother curiously ignoring the paralyzed Lunitone.

"Where are you going?" Tumak asked his scrambling brother. Rimkia looked back at his brother with fear in his eyes and his chest heaving in desperation.

"You mean you don't remember the story mom told us when we first went outside?" the fearful pup asked his brother, as he climbed back down to the grassy ground, ears twitching and eyes wide. Rimkia's little legs were shaking and his paws were always shuffling at the ground getting ready to run. Tumak shook his head back and forth, not knowing what his brother was talking about; besides, they were only six weeks old when they first went outside.

"The story of the demons that walked on two legs?" Rimkia tried to freshen up his brother's memory, but it was of no use. Rimkia turned his head to Lunitone, who was still staring at the forest with stiff legs, and asked, "Lunitone you remember the story of the demon's right?"

The sister shook her head slowly back and forth keeping her eyes on the forest. As Rimkia was about to speak, Lunitone muttered to them, "Daddy was in the forest...."

Rimkia's face went from scared to sad as his ears lowered and his shaking ceased slowly, while Tumak still had a confused look. "So? He'll be back Lun, don't worry. He always comes back."

Lunitone kept staring at the forest and ignored her brother's reassurence, "He should've been back by now..." the sister snapped out of her stillness and lowered herself down to the ground and laid down, her body started to shake as she thought of her father's possible fate and whimpered pathetically. Rimkia did the same thing as his sister and whimpered as loud as she while Tumak was still confused about why they would think of their father as dead now.

A horrible scent filled Tumak's nostrils which caused his nose to wrinkle up in disgust, "Ugh, what's that smell?"

Lunitone and Rinkia stopped their whimepring and stood up, sticking their noses in the air as crouched down in anguish as the same scent filled their noses, "It smells worse than a dead fox!" Rimkia exclaimed, rubbing his nose into the grass, trying to get the stench out. Lunitone looked at the forest again and saw a dark two-legged figure walk out of the shadows of the trees as it came toward them. The unfamiliar stench seemed to get closer as the figure continued its sow, lumbering pace toward them.

She could only stare and wonder what the figure was, and found herself walking slowly towards it. As she advanced, teeth dug into her tailed and yanked her back into a bush near the base of the rock pile.

"Are you crazy?" Rimkia whispered angrily at her. Lunitone shook her head, and stared at her brother blankly, "That thing could've killed you!"

"But," Luntione stammered, "it didn't seem like it was going to hurt me."

"That's the idea!" Rimkia whispered even more angrily at her, "That's what they want you to think, but they will hurt you! Actually, it won't hurt you, it'll kill you! With one hit! Ugh I can't beleive you guys can't remember the story mom told us!" Rimkia was getting dfrustrated with his ignorant siblings and looked like he was about to attack them byt he tone of his voice, but Tumak made the pup think twice.

"Shh!" he snapped at Rimkia and Lunitone, "It's coming!" All three of them crouched down low, their bellies touching the ground. Lunitone squinted her eyes, trying to see through the little opening at the bottom of the bush where the light from the sun leaked through. She stared at the spot for a long time until she heard heavy footsteps coming toward them. In fear, she held her breath and kept completly still, afraid it would smell or hear the tiniest thing. The light from the opening disappeared as a leather figure blocked the rays from the bush. The leather object stayed there for a long time, until it turned around and lumbered back from where it came from. Unsure if it were a trick or not, the pups stayed in the bush until the sun started to set. Rimkia and Tumak were the ones to creep out of the bush cautiously and go towards the rock pile while Lunitone stayed in the bush, breathing slowly and still staring at the spot the leather thing appeared.

"Lun?" Tumak poked his head back into the bush for his sister. She didn't answer. "Me and Rimkia are going back to the den, you coming?" no reply came from his sister, "Okay, come back to the den in the morning 'kay?" the pup still didn't answer her brother's words. He shrugged and pulled his head out of the bush and ran back up the rock pile to the den. Lunitone's heart was pounding faster than ever with fear. When she smelled the leather she remembered the story her mother told her of the two-legged demons Rimkia was talking about. She remembered dreams of them finding and killing her and her family with their boom sticks and hunting pets, searching for her, always searching to kill her.

She whimpered herself to sleep and a dream of her mother telling the story of the demons enveloped her mind and thoughts.

Chapter Five: The Dream and the Guardian.

"Who're the demons that walk on two legs mommy?" Lunitone saw herself as a six week-old pup outside on the plateu with her mother and brothers. It was a sunny day and her father was asleep in the den after a long day with rough-housing with her and her siblings.

"This story," her mother began as she laid down on the rocky floor with Rimkia, Tumak and Lunitone sitting down in front of her listened with perked up ears, "Is not made up. These demons ae real, and it is because of them that we don't live with a larger pack with other wolves. Anyway," her mother looked at them with her kind blue and redish eyes, "The demons walk on two legs-"

"We know that!" Rimkia blurted out, interrupting his mother.

"Shhh!" Tumak and Lunitone snapped at him, and he stuck his tongue out at hsi two siblings, and looked at his mother, signaling her to continue.

"In the past, before I and the other wolves like us were even born, Sulanei and Lunairia had a fight and a war occurred on the planet. Each side fought bravely,