Chapter

2

The next morning, all eight boys had a rude awakening. Genkai woke her group up at 6:00 a.m. to train, and Splinter woke his boys up equally early for the same trained for six hours straight and only when 12:00 rolled around did they get to stop and have breakfast...Cereal. Lucky Charms, Frosted Flakes, and Cheereos. After that, they were allowed to pretty much do what they wanted. Mikey and Yusuke compared tricks on the skateboard ramp, Kuwabara and Leo played Streetfighter 2 on the Xbox, Donny and Kurama were hacking some government computer for the challange, and Hiei and Raph were sparring while Genkai and Splinter drank tea and exchanged stories of the old days.(The old japanese martial art masters and their tea.*sigh* typical.)

They spent the entire day like that, though Raph and Hiei passed out after 10 straight hours of training (added to the six from earlier) and Genkai kicked Donny and Kurama off the computer when she realised they'd hacked the classified files out of national security. Night had fallen and Hiei and Raph had woken up. "Bout' time you two woke up." Yusuke said. "What happened?" Raph asked."You two passed out. 16 straight hours of training will do that to you." Mikey said laughing. Hiei was getting a bit annoyed so Mikey stopped. "We should get going." Leo said walking up to them. "Another patrol?" Hiei asked. Leo nodded. Him and Raph got up and the boys grouped together, preparing to leave.

Genkai and Splinter saw them off as they walked down the tunnel that lead to the manhole, which would lead the group to the surface. When Leo peeked out of the manhole he looked up at the sky and saw something he'd never seen before in his life. "Hey Leo! What's the hold up?" Donny asked from down in the sewer. "You guys better come up here, you gotta see this." He said mistily. And he climed out of the hole. The others followed. They climbed onto the roof of a nearby building and stared up at the sky. Transfixed at what they saw. The full moon was completely blood red.

They stood there, bathed in red moonlight staring up at the sky."Thaaaaaat's not normal." Mikey said, stating the totally obvious. "Yeah. No kidding." Kuwabara replied. They had no idea what had done it. Most of the time they coudn't even see the full moon when it was out, because clouds and polution usually covered it. Yet, here it was, blood red and not a single cloud in the sky. It was just plain bizzaire.

"Somthing tells me we shouldn't go on patrol tonight." Kurama stated. They were about to argue when, "I agree with Kurama," Hiei said, not averting his gaze from the moon, "something's not right." Everyone exchanged glances. "I think we should leave too," Kuwabara said, "I got goosebumps all over and there's kind of a mist feeling all around us, like it's trying so suffocate us." He finnished. And the most spiritually aware member of the team's input only made what Hiei and Kurama had said scarier. They headed back.

"I wonder what turned the moon that color." Mikey said while everyone was walking back to the lair. "I don't know." Leo replied and the eight boys nodded. Suddenly a long loud sound was heard from about a mile down the tunnels. "What in the world was that?" Kuwabara yelped. "Sounded like a wolf howl." Kurama guessed. "Right. Why would there be a wolf down in the sewer?" Yusuke asked. Leo looked at the spirit detective sharply when Raph said "Who cares about that, let's go see what's up!" and took off with Hiei, Kuwabara, Mikey and, Donny, hot on his heels, around the bend, and out of sight.

They ran, and just up ahead they could hear growling, barking, and something Hiei knew all too well, the smell of freshly spilled human blood. The group rounded the corner and stopped dead. About 100 feet in front of them was a large white wolf, snowy coat, stained with her own blood and that of her opponents'. By the Foot ninja still standing and the bodies of dead or injured men lieing about, the group guessed that about 15 ninja had started off attacking this wolf, and only 6 remained.

One ninja pulled out a cross bow while the wolf was finnishing off one of his team members and aimed it at the white canine. The weapon clicked as he loaded and arrow on it. The action alerted the wolf and she prepared to come at him. He fired and it hit her in the shoulder, dangerously close to her heart. But she did not waver, nor did she cry out in pain, but kept running at full speed, (she was practically a white blur) right for the ninja, who was frozen out of fear. She launched herself at him and clamped her jaws around his throat. She bit, and as his blood sprayed onto her white chest, he was dead in a matter of seconds.

At the grusome death of yet another of their commrads, and the red and white wolf barring blood covered teeth at them, the five remaining ninja ran off. And the wolf collapsed on her side breathing heavily. It was then, the boys, who had been watching everything, decided to step in. They ran up to the wolf and formed somthing of a circle around her. Their first mistake. Her blazing yellow eyes snapped open and with suprising speed given her injuries, launched herself at the nearest person, witch unfortunatly for him, was Raph and closed her jaws around his right shoulder.

They hit the ground and the wolf let go jumping off of Raph and growling a few feet first, no one did anything, not even Raph. It had happened so quickly, nobody had time to react. Once the boys had recovered from the suddeness of the attack, they rushed over to Raph who, by closer examination, wasn't that injured. Sure it was bleeding, but the wound wasn't deep, and even now it wasn't bleeding very much. He said it didn't even hurt. The wolf however, was a different story. She had been the attacker and yet it seemed she had taken the blow. She stummbled and shook. Straining to stay on her paws. To the ones watching, even the one who'd been bitten, it was heart wrenching.

"What are we gonna do?" Mikey asked, the others shrugged. "We can't just leave her here," Leo said, "she'll die." Everyone nodded, then, "But how are we going to get her back to the lair? She attacks anyone who comes near her." Kurama said. "Maybe not." Yuske stated nonchalontly, and everyone turned to him, he continued, "She's already weak, and getting worse, if we go near her she'll try to attack us right? All we need to do is tire her out then we can use a rope or something to muzzle her, then carry her back to the lair." He finnished up and the others began to give eachother semi-hopeful looks, except Hiei, who looked as bored as ever.

Donny looked up, "I think that just might work." He said and cautiously walked over to the wolf, staf at the ready. She was trying to limp, or drag I should say, herself from the group...but was failing miserably . She kept falling, but when she heard footsteps behind her, she whipped around to face Donny. She put on a brave act, he granted her that, but the wolf was fading. Even she had excepted that. Nevertheless, she growled at him, barring white bonecrushing teeth. He moved closer and she growled louder. Closer, she'd had enough. With great effort, she lunged at him snapping and barking.

She missed him and sat down wheezing. Blood seeped from the arrow wound in her chest. This continued for another 10 tries. Some of them went twice because Hiei refused to participate. "Come on Hiei, she's almost down just two more people." Mikey half begged. "Hn, if it only takes two more tries why don't you and someone else do it then?" Hiei asked not looking at the turtle. "Fine," He said, "But if someone needs to do it once more you have to be the one." Mikey waited for Hiei's answer and the demon simply shrugged, it was a deal.

Mikey went over to the wolf who was lieing down now but still on the deffensive. He came up close to her and she growled warnigly. He came closer, and she made a quick lunge at him. Mikey doged and she fell back into a lieing position again, licking the flesh around the arrow's puncture point. Yusuke went next, the same thing happened. "Alright Hiei we did our part, now it's your turn." Mikey rounded on him. The demon got up and walked over to the wolf. She stopped licking her would and looked at him, eyes narrowing, "Watch this, I bet she's gonna bite him." Kuwabara whispered to Mikey. Hiei heard, and apparently, so did the wolf, because when they said it, her ears pricked and angled towards them for a moment.

Hiei stepped closer to her slowly, she lowered her head and made a warning growl deep in her throat. A few steps closer the wolf scooted back just a bit, and barred her teeth in a snarl. Hiei stopped, and crouched down on one knee. The wolf obviously seemed puzzled by this. She stopped growling, and slightly cocked her soft white head. Then, Hiei extended a hand towards the white wolf. She growled a bit but not loudly. The fire demon kept very still, and the others didn't say a word. Then she slowly stretched her neck out to his hand to catch his scent.

She smelled his hand for a moment then licked his fingers affectionatly. She whined . And Hiei slowly moved his hand to the wolf's head. He started to stroke her, slowly and calmly, fisrt only her head, then as the creature relaxed he petted her thouroughly. Running a gentle hand over her back. "Well I'll be damned." Yusuke whispered to no one in particular. They all moved closer, following what Hiei had done, each of them reached out a hand to the wolf and she smelled them. She had approved of every person there.

However, she would growl at anyone who tried to touch her. Nobody except Hiei was petting her. Anyone else and you could practically see the warning message in her eyes. 'I trust him just fine, it's you all i'm not comfortable with' they almost heard the words from her mouth. Of course it was understandable. Everyone except Hiei had come and attcked and harrassed her, but Hiei was the only one who had gone for her take on the situation rather that attacking the poor injured animal.

Hiei picked her up. She squirmed nervously and whined to get out og his grasp. But he held her tight and stroked her ears, calming the frightened creature. Finally she relaxed and she settled into his arms. She rested her head on his arm and he was careful not to touch the arrow. The group walked all the way to the lair in silence. "You're all back early." Genkai snikered as the boys walked in but was silent when she saw what Hiei was carrying. "What is that?" the old woman asked. "A dog." Hiei responded not looking at Genkai as he layed the now sleeping "dog" on the couch. Splinter came out when Mikey had gone to his room and told him what had happened. Leo was explaining to Genkai.

"What would The Shredder want with an animal like this?" Splinter asked more to himself than anyone."Who knows?" Genkai answered Leo spoke up, "Could the wolf somehow have somthing to do the the poaching deal we saw by the bay?" He asked."That makes sence," Yusuke replied, "after all the money the Foot forked over, and the way so many of them had come after her, she must be pretty important."

"If the Foot and the Shredder had gone through so much for one animal, then it is obvious they need her a great deal. I have a feeling this wolf is the key to finding out what the Shredder's true intentions are." Kurama stated and everyone nodded. "Hey, I have an idea!" Mikey piped up and everyone looked at him. "If she's gonna' be staying with us, why don't we give her a name?" He ventured, excited by the idea of having a pet wolf. "She's not a dog Mikey, she's a wild animal, I don't even think it's a good idea to keep her, let alone giving her a name." Donny scolded.

"I agree with Michelangelo," Splinter said, "if this animal is to remain in our care, it would be best to call her by something other than Wolf. To do so would be disrespectful to such a proud, wise creature." He finnished, glancing at the sleeping, brown-red and white lump on the couch. Genkai did the same. "She needs to get thet arrow removed and she needs a bath." The old psychic commented. "Later, first let's name her!" Mikey chided excitedly. They all stood around and thought of names for their new furry friend. Quite a few were tosssed around; Whitey, Snowy, Shiro, Snowball, Moonlight, Cloud, Wynn, Leuco, Aspro. They had narrowed it down to two names: Leuco and Shiranui, meaning phosphorescent light. They were deciding when Hiei said unexpectadly, "Bieliy." They turned to him, "What did you say?" Leo asked Hiei turned to the group once again and repeated himself, "Bieliy." (I think it's pronounced like 'Bay-lee').

They exchanged confused glanes but Hiei didn't say another word. "It means white." Kurama said and they turned to him, "Bieliy is the Russian word for white." They exchanged glances. "I like the name." Mikey stated and everyone else voiced their agreement. The white wolf was to be known as Bieliy.