Ok. Welcome to the sequel of "Sharo's Wild Secret", the third part in a hopefully long series of stories in which Lycanthropes run wild and free in the snowy lands of Sharo. If you have not read "Sharo's Wild Secret" I suggest you do, for you may be lost. Many of you may have read "An Unlikely Friendship" and I have gotten reviews for it. I am so glad you enjoyed that guys, I worked real hard on that. I think it's time I told you how I am working on this story. I lay in bed when I have nothing to do or go on a run and I picture my plots, living as the characters and seeing what happens in their lives. I then put that into words and poof! The stories are born. I also have a name for this series now. I shall call this the Blazer series, since that is the name of Chaula's "Wolf Pack". I am going to do something different with this story. The recap from "Sharo's Wild Secret" is in the story itself, a few paragraphs down. Let's see what goes on here, shall we?

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It was a beautiful morning. Well, as beautiful as it could get in Sharo, and a young girl of 15 was still asleep. She breathed softly while she slept. A griffin was at the top of her bed, where he always was every night, and her head was resting on him as he draped a possessive wing over her and slept. The sunlight shone through her window as a young man came into her room. He was carrying a tray that held her breakfast and he set it on the nightstand before gently waking her up.

"Chaula, Chaula, it's time to wake up. It's time for the she-wolf to begin her day." He said softly. He carefully lifted the griffins wing off of her as she yawned, coming out of sleep. He leaned down and stroked her face gently with his hand as she woke. Her deep, sapphire-blue eyes opened up and looked into the equally sapphire-blue eyes of Chaula's friend. She smiled at him and yawned.

"Good morning Raika." She said, sitting up. She turned to the still sleeping griffin and hugged him. "Bass, you need to get up too, you lazy bird." She said playfully. The griffin groaned slightly and opened his eyes, looking at her and smiling. He said nothing as he sat up and yawned. Chaula looked on her nightstand and saw the food. "Aww, Raika, thank you." She said as Raika moved the tray to her bed.

"I figured you would appreciate having breakfast when you woke up." Raika said as he watched her eat and feed scraps to Bass. A dog came into the room, followed by a big wolf with a very tired, very big falcon on it's back. "Morozov!" Raika said as his dog came up to him. Raika picked him up as the wolf and falcon settled on the bed.

"Good morning Chaula." The wolf said.

"I hope you slept well." The falcon told her.

It had been one week since Lan and his friends left Sharo and went back home. Chaud and Lan promised they would visit more often so they could work with Lan on controlling his powers. 'What powers?' You may ask. Well you see, Lan, like Chaud, was a lycanthrope, a weresnake. This came as no surprise to Raika and Chaula, for they too, were lycanthropes. Raika was a weredeer and Chaula was a werewolf. They promised Lan they would work with him to help him learn how to transform into a snake and learn to control himself. They would have done it right away, but Lan and Chaud were needed elsewhere, and neither Raika nor Chaula trusted Lan's friends with Sharo's "wild" inhabitants. They had agreed that when Lan was done with whatever it was SciLab needed him for, he and his friends would come back and they would begin Lan's training. Until then, Raika and Chaula would take it easy and just relax. They had planned their time away from business since Lan and his friends got on the plane to go home, and they intended to enjoy it. So as Chaula finished her breakfast, she set the tray aside and got up, going to her dresser.

"So, I was thinking." She started as she got some clothes out from her drawers.

"Oh no, that is never a good thing." The falcon said, making everyone in the room laugh except Chaula.

"Shut up, Searchman!" She snapped as she went behind a changing screen and got dressed. "I was thinking we should go to the Underground and train today. I want to test out a feature on my "Call of the Wild" program."

"And what is that Chaula?" Raika asked. She came out from behind the screen, fully dressed (I know, why would she be underdressed? Well, remember, they have been together for almost 10 years, they are bound to have seen each other underdressed, if not naked, in that amount of time, right?) and she put her nightgown in the closet. She grinned wickedly at her friend.

"We are going to use the program during cross-fusion. It's similar to what you called "Beast Out", except we will have full control over when and where it takes place regardless of battlechips. This might be fun." She said as Raika stood up. Bass and Protias made her bed while Raika, Chaula, Searchman and Morozov made their way downstairs. They sat down in the living room and contemplated her idea.

"That might be interesting. Should we bring the rest of the pack?" He asked her. Chaula smiled when she saw anticipation on Raika's face. He always enjoyed training, whether it was lycanthrope or military. And she enjoyed doing it with him.

She would never admit it, but she liked Raika, she really liked Raika. But he thought of her as nothing but a friend, she knew it deep down. She was ok with that, but her heart ached at the thought that he would never love her. How could he? She had heard that he already liked the Princess of Brightland (I know it's called Creamland in the dub, but that sounds so, um, pathetic, for lack of a better word. I am going with the original Japanese here) and how could she compete with that? No, she wouldn't tell Raika how she felt, she would much rather have him as a friend than not have him at all.

"So, we should get going. Hey Bass! We are going to the Underground for awhile, you wanna come with us?" She called. Bass stood at the top of the stairs.

"No thank you, I am going to go hunt and fly around. I'll see you later." He said as he floated down the stairs. He went to the front door and opened it, going outside. As soon as he closed it, Raika and Chaula could see him take off into the sky from the window.

"He really enjoys this." Raika mused. Chaula nodded and they both stood up.

"Yes, he does. Ready to go?" She asked him. Raika nodded and both of their navis returned to their PET's. They walked out the door and went to a tree, opening the entrance to the Underground and going inside.

TBC

Ok, not much going on in this chapter, but it'll help lead me into the next chapter so that it'll come quickly. What do you think? Read and review and I'll see you with chapter 2 tomorrow.