Brooke and Meggie stared at each other, Brooke's blue gaze buring with curiosity, and Meggie's green one filled with confusion. Who are these two, she wonderd. And where did that boy go?. Then she noticed two gleaming sccabards ( something that you hold swords in; it hangs around your waist) Brooke had. The other girl followed her gaze and saw Meggie shaking in fright. " Don't be afraid of my swords, Brooke said, the only person I want to slash is that mange- riden , mousebrained Cheese-face! Promising us so much and then sneaking away like that!" She groweld, and to Meggie's amazment, silver hair grew out of her body, her nose became a snout, and a long elegent tail thrashed with rage.

" Calm down, Brooke, we're doing alright!". The blond haired boy Meggie had seen stepped out of the shadow of an oak tree. He did not appear to be surprised when Brooke kneaded the ground with her claws, only concerned. "I think Brooke's right." grumbled a another boy, clambering down from the oak tree's branches. The lowest branch was far away from the ground, and Meggie thought the boy would break a bone climbing down, but he turned into a marten, and nimbly sprang on to a rotting log. "Don't mind Dylan, said Brooke, sometimes he's a little cranky ; even Justin and myself are sometimes." "Why?" asked Meggie. "And how do you turn into animals like that?"

"It's a long story" replied Justin. "Good, answerd Meggie, I have long enough.

_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Farid blinked, drowsily sitting up. He turned his head to where Meggie lay, and to his surprise she wasn't there! I bet that, that.... so-called famous Doria took her away, again. Farid despised Doria, for taking away the one thing he truly loved, even above Fire and Dustfinger. Meggie...Oh, even her name taste like honey on his tounge. He rememberd the days where Meggie was his, and his only. Farid sighed. Meggie seemed to be drifting farther and farther away with every moment she spent with that, that .... Doria! How Farid hated him. He wished Meggie could reilze how much he loved her... Well sitting around doing nothing isn't going to show her anything! Farid stood, and looked over to the corner where Doria slept. No Meggie. Where is she!? Panic filled Farid's mind with horrible visions. Oh stop it, Farid,He said crossly, and strod out of the cave, taking great care to step on Doria as he went.

He walked along a quiet path, that looked as if it had been walked on recently, and heard a voice. No, it couldn't be...Meggie?

Walking fast, he stumbled over a rotting log that had a brown, furry blob on it. At once, the "blob" lashed out at Farid's neck, leaving a scar with blood dripping out of it. Farid stumbed back, and had time to see a dark haired girl catch the marten. Was she a fire-dancer? She certainly was pretty, not close to Meggie at all, but sort of a differnt-pretty. She had a scar on her left cheek, and her cobolt eyes were foucsed on the marten. She told it something, and it droped out of her arms, turning into a brown-haired boy as he went. He looked at Farid with curiosity, and said"Who are you?" to Farid. It was a simple enough question...
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Like it? Please tell me.
Yes, Mo and Dustfinger will play important roles in the chapters to come.
Thank you

~Silver