Ok, so this was up before. I thought it was a little too long for a first chapter so I broke it up into how we wrote it. This chapter was written by Monica.

-sounds-

thoughts

"speaking"

telepathic speaking

actions

(Author notes)

-stab- -squeal- -thud-

"Wow, Moons, you're good!"

Laughing and shouldering her bow, Moons walked over to the now-dead rabbit, took the arrow out of it, and slung the rabbit over her shoulder.

"Thanks Draco, but that was just a lucky shot," Moons said grinning.

"She's just being modest again," added Hebi. "We both know no one's able to beat Moons when it comes to archery."

"That's 'cause no one's challenged me, except you two," replied Moons.

"Ah well, let's just find a place to camp, I'm getting hungry just watchin' the three rabbits we caught!" Draco said, and so the three teens walked along the forest path, looking for a nice place to set up camp.

(Half an hour later, camp having been set up, Moons, Draco, and Hebi sat around the fire pit, having already eaten their rabbits. Moonlight, also known as Moons, is a wolf-demon. Being half human and half wolf, she had the body of a 16-year-old girl, but had wolf ears and tail instead, and her eyes were amber. She also had quick reflexes and sharper senses. Dracona, or Draco, however, is a Dragon-demon; she has dragonish ears and eyes, and is an awesome user of magic. As for Hebi, she's a snake demon, although all you can see that is snake-like is her eyes, and the fact that she can use heat-vision to sense things. Moons is the tallest one of the three, although she is the youngest, being 16 where Draco and Hebi are 17.)

"So Draco, how much farther 'till we get to the Dragon Village?" Hebi asked.

Draco thought for a moment, then said "I dunno, I guess three days?"

"Aw jeez, three days?! I was hoping we'd get there sooner!"

"Me too, but there's nothing we can do to speed it up…."

Hebi sighs and says "I just want to see my home again… I have to admit I miss it."

"Well, at least you HAVE a home…"

Draco and Hebi look over at Moons, who is staring into the fire; her wolf ears are a bit droopy and slightly pointed towards the back of her head, a sign to Draco and Hebi that she was clearly sad at the moment.

"Moons…" Draco says softly.

Moons, not responding, gets up and says "I'm gonna go take a walk, be back in a few minutes," and walks away into the surrounding forest, leaving Draco and Hebi to look at her retreating figure.

"Poor Moons… being thrown out of her own home… and all because she's only half-demon…." Draco said sadly.

"Yea," replied Hebi. "And to make things worse, one of the opposing wolf tribes raided and burned down the village a few days later. It wasn't known how many survived the attack, if anyone did."

"Good thing the Chief sent us to see if there was anything wrong, or we might have not found her, wandering the forest," Draco pointed out.

"And don't forget the fact that we already knew each other from a while back, some odd years ago, or she might have not come with us at all!"

"True, true," Hebi said. "It was probably meant to be, us meeting Moons and becoming best friends with her, back when we were, what, 10 years old?"

Draco shrugged in response. "Dunno, can't remember. It just seems to be as though we've known her forever."

"You're right about that, Draco…."

Silence descended on the campsite as Draco and Hebi were lost in their own thoughts. All of a sudden a loud yelp pierced through the night, echoing through the forest.

Draco jumped to her feet, saying "That sounded like Moons! But where did it come from?!"

Hebi, who has also gotten to her feet, said "Hang on, I'll tell you in a minute…" And with that she looked towards the forest, a look of concentration on her face. Two seconds later, her yellowish eyes seemed to cloud over a bit, and Draco knew that meant that she was using heat vision. After a few moments of looking around, Hebi faced east and, her eyes turning back to normal, pointed into the trees and said "She's over there. Let's go!"

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(Going back to when Moons got up and left the group to take a walk)

Moons got up saying "I'm gonna go take a walk, be back in a few minutes," and walked into the forest, leaving her two friends to themselves.

As Moons walked, her surroundings grew darker, until only occasional strips of moonlight were the sole source of light. But that didn't bother Moons, since she had good night vision; besides, the forest made her feel peaceful and calm. It always had that effect on her. But tonight, as she walked on, not really taking notice of where she was going, a great feeling of sadness was added.

A tear escaped as thoughts of what used to be her home flashed through her mind. Thoughts of her fellow wolves; thoughts of her family….

I wonder what happened to them… Moons thought, as she stopped and leaned against a tree and stared up at the moon, which was three-quarters full.

"Why does all of this have to happen to me?" Moons thought out loud.

Suddenly her ear twitched; she had picked up the sound of a footstep really close to her. She turned to the right to try and see whatever made that noise, and out of nowhere a huge clawed hand came down and slammed into her, sending her flying against a tree.

"Moons! Are you all right?!"

Moons got to her knees and looked up, and saw Draco and Hebi running towards her, Draco holding her magic staff and Hebi holding her two swords. Draco reached Moons first, and Hebi turned to the monster.

"Moons, you ok? We heard your yelp and came running over to see what was wrong," said Draco.

Moons smiled and said "Wow, my yelp was that loud? Heh, but yea, don't worry, I'm fine."

Hebi glances back at Moons, who is getting up, and says "Hey, I'm glad you're allright, but we have a bit of a problem here…."

Draco, Moons and Hebi all focus on the monster, who has been merely staring at them now. It was a good six foot five, and looked intimidating with its fangs and claws, the latter having left a cut on Moons' stomach. Draco and Hebi may not have known what it was, but Moons did. She had seen them before, only a few times, but that was plenty for her. It was a full-blown wolf-demon; the person was consumed by their demon side, and turned evil, and potentially dangerous, even to fellow wolf-demons. It now looked at the trio with a desire to kill, and to kill only.

Without warning, it let out a mixture of a howl and roar, and charged!

Moons immediately jumped into the air trying to get over it so as to get her bow and arrow, while Draco stepped back and began chanting spells, and Hebi charged directly at it.

As Moons flew near its head, she launched a kick at it, knocking it off course, and allowing Hebi to get a hit in with the sword. Almost immediately after, a fireball came seemingly out of nowhere and hit the demon full in the face.