Chapter 2

He let the arrow loose, but the streak leapt into the brush on the left.

"Dang," Ronin yelled, "Nod follow me." With that he drove his bird into the brush were the creature had leapt through. Then he stopped and listened. There was no sounds of crashing, no sound of paws thudding on the ground, not even the sound of hard breathing. There was not any sound or sign of the creature they had just been chasing. It was almost as if it had disappeared into thin air.

"Great we lost it," Nod said angrily. He looked around as well but there was nothing there.

"Did you get a good look at it when you were flying beside it?" Ronin asked.

"Yeah, I did. It looked a lot like a large black wolf, but wolves can't run that fast for that long and they usually aren't as big as the one we were chasing," Nod replied.

"Well, whatever this thing is, I think we should keep an eye out for it. I don't think it will attack Moonhaven or any of the Jinn but I don't want to be to care less."

"Why were we chasing it anyway?"

"I didn't start off chasing it; I was just trying to figure out what it was doing so close to Moonhaven. It almost seemed like it was looking for it, so I scared it off. But it came back, although it didn't get as close as it did the first time and it seemed more cautious as well. That's when I started following it, and it must have figured out that I was following it because it ran away. I was chasing it then when you showed up so I wanted to see if between the two of us we could slow it down or catch it, but that didn't work." Ronin explained.

"So why did you shoot at it?"

"I was trying to see if I could get it to stop," he said with a chuckle, "Well we better get back the others will be looking for us." With that they mounted their birds and took off.

They flew off without knowing that the wolf-creature that they were chasing was watching them go. She had changed her fur color to match that of a shadow on the forest floor, pattered with light barely showing through the leaves of a tree.

"Why?" She thought to herself, "Why would they attack like that?"