Chapter I

Old Enemies return, New friends come

Kiba and his friends were trotting towards where they saw the people yesterday. Where a lush green forest once stood, now only ashes, dead, fallen trees, and flat land were found. This was the remains of the forest where the other wolves that followed them to paradise lived. It didn't look like any servived, but then, they noticed a patch of grey fur under fallen tree. The patch wiggled a little and they knew it was alive. They slowly aproched it. It crawled out of the little space the tree made. He stood up in front of them

"Who are you?" asked Kiba.

"I am Okami," replied the gray wolf.

"Kind of a bad idea to name a wolf the name wolf if you ask me." said Tsume.

"Whatever," said Okami.

"Where is everyone else?" asked Kiba.

"They're all dead," he replied.

"You want to come with us to another paradise?" asked Kiba.

"There is no other paradise."

"We won't know unless we try. If we didn't try to find this paradise, then we would still be suffering. If no one believed in the thing called paradise, then we wouldn't be here. We'd be dead, like those other wolves."

"I think you're wrong. We believed in one paradise, but this place is no longer scented with it. This place is no longer paradise. It's just a place now. I have no scent of paradise. This was the only paradise, and now it's gone."

"Okami, we should try. As long as we try, our pride will live. Pride is what separates us from the humans. If we stay here, we will die without pride. If we search for another paradise and die trying, we will at least die with pride."

Just then, they smelled the smell of danger once again. They looked at the sky and saw a flying machine that belonged to one of the nobles. Then, a peace of it came off and landed in front of them. A man came out of it.

"Darcia, what do you want?" said Kiba after turning into a wolf.

"We want the end of the wolves," said the man named Darcia.

He then turned into a wolf and said, "Let's go, now!" Then he turned to look at Okami and said, "Are you coming?"
"Ok, I guess," Okami replied.

Then, everyone ran. As for Darcia, he didn't think the time was right. So he went to with the other nobles and later track them down. What will happen next? Only time and another chapter will tell.