"Hey Jones." said Joni's other brother Mark. Mark out of the other three had a deepest connection to Joni considering the 3 months she spent with him alone while they searched for Luke. He was doing what he was usually doing. Working on his car.
"Hey Mark." she sighed.
"What happened to your eye" he hissed wiping the grease of his hands.
"Well it's a long story but"
"Hang on a second Jone's." he said picking up the house phone which he had outside in the garage. "Hello?...hey...nay I'm good you?...working on my car...WHAT?...SHE DID WHAT" he screamed in disbelief. Joni merely left her arms crossed and left him.
"Hey guys." said Joni climbing up the ladder to the tree house. The Rugrats all sitting there looking at baseball cards.
"What do you think your doing" asked Luke with venom in his voice. Joni quickly got down remembering the thing with the glue, and the siccoers, and his hair.
Next she would normally go see Wren yet now...with DD gone...Matt made her promise not to go over there without him or Liz...he said something about him drinking poison, or ALLY-K-HALL. (Alcohol). She merely sighed as she entered the house and ran up to her room.
"Go away." she merely mumbled as her door creaked open. She turned and saw Shadow staring at her with big blue eyes. "Oh it's you Shadow," she said wiping away the tears. She started throwing stuff in her duffle bag. "I'm running away, and there's nothing you can do to stop Me." she mumbled. "Now where is tha" she stopped and saw shadow had dropped the t-shirt she was looking for in the bag. She merely grinned. This wolf was helping her. She nodded as he fleeted to her closest and jumped down one of his bones in his mouth and dropped it in her bag as well.
"Ok, so where do you wanna go Shad? It's just you and me, on the open road." she said as they hiked down the street and came to a cross walk. He merely looked up at her and cocked his head to the side.
"Yeh, lets just keep going and see where the road takes us." and Shadow merely smiled.
Joni was getting extremely tired, and why was the air so cold for May? Her fingers where going numb, and all she could see was woods, woods, and more woods.
"Shadow...I think we're lost." she whispered.
"I know," said a voice.
"W-who said that" she gasped looking around.
"Me" said the voice again.
"W-who's me."
"I'm me." and then Shadow jumped up on top of her.
"S-shadow" she asked in disbelief. The wolf merely nodded. "B-b-but how"
"Joni, you do have something your brothers don't."
"What's t-that" she muttered.
"An innocent heart...there hearts had been touched by darkness, yet your hasn't."
"Meaning"
"You have a connection to things beyond your imagination." he said never moving his lips.
"Like you"
"No, to everything." he said inside her head. "Follow me." and he jumped off of her, and ran in to the woods. Joni quickly stumbled up and followed. Shadow was dashing through the woods and Joni was only 7. She followed him blindly, listening to the voice inside of her head instructing her where to go. "Stop" he thought suddenly. And Joni fell over to the ground because a moment ago she was spiriting. "Look" he merely said. She noticed she was in a clearing, the full moon shinning directly at the clearing. Upon Shadow more like, whom was standing on a giant boulder in the center. At his side on lower rocks rested three other animals. A hawk, a tiny panther cup, and
"The fox" she said breathlessly. The tiny fox merely slithered up to her. No more then a baby, Jet-black fir, with a white tipped tail. Her eyes seemed to glow like jewels.
"Vixy is her name Joni," said Shadow.
"She's so...CUTE" she screamed.
"Joni, the pure hearted one of Shadow...it is time you learn something important...your part of what is to come."
"My part" she asked as she picked up the little cub.
"Your part." repeated Shadow. He howled at the moon and all hell broke loose.