For those of you who own LIB2, yes, most of the land is based off of that map, if not all of it.

Disclaimer: Is it really necessary to keep putting this in? sigh I still don't own Lost in Blue; I just make up stories based on it.

Chapter 2: Wolves

John woke up. He had fallen asleep on the beach after running up and down it looking for any survivors. He got to his feet and looked up at the sky. Dark clouds were rolling in. "I've gotta find shelter," he said. His voice sounded too loud in the silence.

John headed inland, and turned up a small slope. At the top he saw a cave opening. It was small, and he had to crawl in on his hands and knees. Once through the opening, the cave opened up into a large room. Looking around, he saw two piles of brush, and pile of wood, and a small pile of burned wood. He froze. The wood was still smoldering. People are here! John thought as he crawled back out.

"HELLO?" he shouted. No reply. But to his left he heard something else. Walking towards it, he looked around a bush and found a stream. He knelt next to it and looked in. The water was so clear that he could see the bottom of it and fish swimming around. John heard thunder in the distance, but he ignored it. It's far away anyway. He dipped his cupped hands in the cold water, and brought them up to his mouth. His sipped from it carefully. It tasted even better than the water that you could get in restaurants.

People, he thought again, reminded of his mission. Walking back to the cave, he saw that the cliff had ledges. Looking closer at them, he saw that there were holes in them. It looked like a person had climbed it recently. "Might as well follow them," John said, trying to break up the silence. Another boom of thunder helped him with that. After making it up to the top, John sat there panting. I'm not as in shape as I thought.

Looking up, he saw an opening. Walking through it, he entered in a small clearing. Ahead, he saw a raspberry bush, and to his left was a wide river with large rocks in it. Seeing as how there wasn't anyone here, John carefully made his way across the river by jumping from rock to rock. He turned to the left and walked down a slope and along another shoreline. "More ledges…Perfect…"

Climbing up again, he saw that they led up to some ledges that formed a type of maze. Squinting, he could see another cave opening. He carefully made his way over to it and entered into tunnel. Going out the other side, John heard an all too familiar sound. One that he was starting to hate. He came around the bend and saw…"The Ocean." Thunder boomed again, this time much closer. "I should get back to the cave-" Another clap of thunder. "Now!"

John started running back to the tunnel. To his left, he saw the bushes move. He stopped and looked. Four bright eyes looked back at him. Then they leapt out, and the lightning illuminated the lithe bodies that followed them. Two large wolves blocked his path. John looked around frantically for something that he could use as a weapon. A wolf leapt for him. John dodged and the animal hit the cliff behind him. The second wolf lunged for John's leg when a form jumped between them, knocking the wolf aside. "Go!" the form growled at him, and another flash of lightning revealed it to be a brown-haired girl holding a spear. She grunted as the first wolf attacked her.

John dug into his backpack and grabbed the penknife. "I'm not going to leave you here to fight them alone!" he shouted back as the other wolf sprang at him. He flipped open the knife and slashed at the wolf. It yelped and a thin line of blood appeared above its eye. The girl thrust the spear at the other wolf, and it howled in pain as the weapon met its mark. The wolves backed up, then turned tail took off.

The girl turned to look at John, who was staring at the knife in his hand. He felt her eyes on him and looked up, blushing. The girl looked down, then back up. "Thanks…I don't think I could've done that by myself." She looked down again, and she seemed very unsure of herself. "Hm, oh, uh, no problem. Actually, I should be thanking you. I mean, I definitely couldn't have done that myself. I'm John, by the way."

The girl looked up and smiled. "I'm Summer." Just then, the skies opened up with a loud crack of thunder, and rain came pouring down. Both of them looked up then back at each other. "Well…" John said. "Oh, yeah, let's get back to the cave," Summer said.

She jogged toward the tunnel. "Can we walk instead?" John called after her. Summer turned and looked down sheepishly. "Sure. I'm not used to being with around other people. I didn't think to ask if you were up to running back," she replied as she came back to join him.

John looked surprised. "What do you mean, 'not used to being around other people'?" he asked and shivered from the rain.

Summer looked up in time to see this. "I'll explain once we get back to the cave and in front of a warm fire," she answered as she put her arm around his shoulder. Together, they started to walk back to the cave.

Ya like so far? I should've put this in before...I'm currently unable to get to my computer now...I'm on vacation and I'm using the hotels computer right now (which is very, very slooow), so I won't be able to update this for a while. As soon as I can I will.