this one. She sighed and slowly aprroched the hushed village, Not that I had anyone help me through anything...

As she came closer to the town, she noticed its spooky features. She could just see the super sized spiderwebs hanging from broken windows. Chills raced down her spine as the ghost town grew in size. What is this place? Miya shivered just looking at it.

A burst of wind passed her and with that she headed into the abandoned townt to find shealter and even food. Slowly Miya approched the town, one paw after another. Her thoughts told her to go in, her heart said stay out... she knew the dameg her cursed heart had caused and ignored its quickened pace.

"Hey!"

Miya jumped at the surprising call. She whireled around to find a wolf... or a dog standing behind her. She felt her heart tightenat the sight of another live wolf/dog, after so long. She squeezed her eyes shut and turned away wincing at the pain that began to grow.

"Hey... whats wrong?" The stranger seemed to change his tone after seeing her in pain. Miya shook her head, "Its nothing..." she couldnt find the right words to end her sentence. The stranger cocked his head studing her carefully. "Maybe you should get some rest... there is a storm coming in." Miya took a deep breath and slowly turned her gaze to the kind stranger. When nothing happened she relaxed and nodded, then the two of them headed into the abandoned city.

"Im Bandit by the way," the stranger introduced himself as to break the silence. Miya didn't responed. "Whats your name?" Bandit asked, he wanted to hear her speak. Miya stopped to think for a momment, her mind shivered as she noticed Bandit staring at her.

"I'm... Miya," she said reluctenly. Bandit grinned his gold eyes sparkiling against his silver coat. "Thats a pretty name, Miya." Miya couldn't resist but smiled at the much needed compliment. She sighed then followed Bandit once more as he took off.

After about half an hour they finally reached a small abandoned shack. Miya stared at the shack in fear, as if she went in she would never come out. It was all she had though and she needed to rest if she were going to countinue her journey. Step after step she approched the frighting shack and stepped inside. With one glance back to Bandit and a small grin she entered the shack in silence.

It was dark inside the abandoned shack and deffinently spooky. Miya bit her lip and shrugged away the fear, I have to deal with this... as she ventured deeper inside Miya found a old box with something written on it. Miya squinted her eyes to read it and slowly pronounced the faded  paint.

"Free pup...puppies f...for...sale," Miya lifted her head and grunted. She noticed a large, neatly folded blanket next to it. She dug the blanket out of place and did 1...2...3 turns then layed down in the soft fabric. With sorrow seeming to overcome her Miya slowly closed her eyes and shortly fell asleep.

Miya; HA! I got you brother)

brother; Miya, that tickles hahahaha!)

mother; Miya? theirs someone her to meet you!)

Miya; Hello! I'm Miya! Whats your name?)

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Rex; Your worthless! You dont deserve a home! You dont even deserve a life!)

Miya; Shut... up!) 

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Miya; hello? anybody there? Mother? Brother? Al...)

Miya shot from her dream. She shivered as the memory of her childhood returned to haunt her once more. She clenched her teeth as forgotten memories revealed themselve one dream at a time. Their all gone... My family... Mother, Brother... wait- who was the third? Miya shook her head when her memory betrayed her. She sighed and slowly walked to the entrance of the old shack.

As she squeezed through the door the thick scent of fallen rain swarmed in her nostrails, she coughed as it filled up in her throught but didn't go back inside the shack. With a small sigh Miya found stairs leading to the top of her temporary home. At first hesitant, she climbed the stairs, watching every step carefully. When at last she reached the top she got comfortable and satr down to admire the full moon that was barely visble behind the clouds.

"Miya?'

Miya whirled around startled by the sudden break of silence. She relaxed as Bandit approched her cautiosly.

"What are you doing up here?" Bandit asked softly.

"Admireing the moon," she lied.

Bandit frowned as he noticed the moon could barely be seen. Miya glanced over her shoulder and raised a brow, " Qustion is, why did you come here in the first place?" Bandit looked at her, shoked. He opened his mouth but nothing came out. Miya rolled her eyes then returned her gaze to the sky. Bandit stood behind her in silence for a while then slowly placed himself next to her. Miya's ears perked as she saw him through the side of her eyes.

"Bandit? Tell me... what happend here?" Miya asked curiousely. Bandit hesitated. He sighed and faced her,"Well... about a year ago we were under attack by the shadow pack just west of us. Nome used to be a very peaceful town," Nome... why dose that seem familuar?, "but once under attack many of the people were killed, many dogs were killed. Together there are only 25 dogs left and 10 orphen humens, children..." Bandit paused and turned his head away from Miya, "Now we protect them like gurdians. We try and find food for them but it isn't easy, and plus we try and keep ourselves in top shape for if we were to come under attack once again we would be all thats left for the children..."

"You must really care about the kids," Miya couldn't help but let a tear roll down her cheek, "I... know whats it's like not to have a family." Banit gazed at her and grinned, "Maybe we should head home." Miya lifted her head, fear struck into her eyes. She slowly stepped backward, "No... I cant. I'll just h... lets just say I've done bad things in my past that I'm not proud of. If you bring me to all those children I wouldn't be able to forgive myself." Bandit looked away, hideing his disapointment.

"I'm really sorry its just..." Miya burst out crying. She couldn't fight back the tears any longer, couldn't fight back the pain. Bandit rushed to her side, without thinking snuggled up next to her. Miya opened her eyes, seeing nothing but blur. All of the sudden somthing inside of her tightened, but it wasn't that feeling she got when her evil side trys to break out, this was a diffrent feeling. She felt her heart beat slowly and warmth flushed her. She closed her eyes and snuggled deeper into Bandits fur. I dont understand... by now I would have hurt someone at least...

"Miya? I can understand if you dont want to come with me back to the children, but maybe you could tell me why?" Bandit inturrupted her thoughts. Miya propped herself upright and thought, I dont know... if he will accept me if I told him...

"I... I can't. At least not yet..." Bandit studied Miya closely then sighed.

"Well I need to head back home... I'll see you tomarrow." He turned and headed for the steps. Miya sat there, watching him descened from her sight then turned to look at the pitch black sky. She thought for a momment then retreated to her temporary sleeping place.

The next morning, Miya awoke to darkness. She yawned then stood up to strech. Turning her head to the entrance she saw the bright lights shine through the doors. With a small grin she approched the doors and stepped outside. A fresh and beautiful morning greeted her.

Miya scanned her surroundings. Nome looked so peaceful... seemed as if it were never deserted. Feeling refreashed Miya began to explore. The expidition was no thriller. Bunch of empty shacks and so on, but what really intrested Miya was when she reached the orphanage. Miya remembered bandit telling her about the kids here that he and his family cared for, along with the help of the two adults who lived in the abandoned church.

"Miya?" A voice arose behind her, it was Bandit, "What are you doing here? I thought you didn't want to see the kids..."

"I just went for a walk..." She turned to look at him. He looked even more impressive in the light. Bandit tillted his head and then sighed, "Well as long as your here, maybe you would like to meet my family?"

Miya thought... Maybe everything will be ok... I hope. Miya nodded her head, then let Bandit lead the way closer and closer to the seemingly abandon shack. Bandit glanced back at her once they were near the entrance of the old dump. He pushed his way through the door and into darkness.

"Kids...dad...mom...?" Bandit spoke loudly as no one could hear him. At first eveyrthing was silent then Miya could hear claws scratching against the ground in a trotting motion. She looked around trying to figure out were the sound was coming from. Suddenly, out of no where, four pups jummped onto Bandit, tackling him to the ground. Laughing and growling they played with him till he couldent take it anymore.

"Alright, alright! You guys win.... for the hundreth time," Bandit said breathlessly. He sat up straight and looked down to the pups, "All right! Masel, Pumpkin, Tumtum, and Autume I would like you to meet my new friend...." The pups turned to Miya, "Miya!" The pups all smiled, their little tounges flopping out of their mouths.

"Bandit is she your girlfriend?" The small Hazel and iron colored pup said. Miya looked away, as Bandit tried to answer the question, "Well... s...k..." then no answer came. The black pup with gray speckles leaned over and whispered something into the other ones ear. Miya watched them trying to figure out who was who, Lets see... I thing the smallest one is Masel and the one talking to her, the speckled fur is Pumpkin. As for the Brown one... that has to be Tumtum since he's the only