A/N: Sorry for the long wait. And it seems as though my story isn't as popular but I'm not surprised. Don't know why though. Oh well. I had a major writer's block and had no idea as to put this story. I mean yeah sure this chapter kinda explains somethings that are gonna happen later on in the story.

Disclaimer!: I DON'T OWN ANY OF THE CHARACTERS OF KLONOA!! I ONLY OWN HOLLIS AND ANY OTHER OCs!


Chapter 4: Glares

As Hollis laid in the pill of blankets Klonoa and his friends gave to her, she shivered in them. Not because she was cold, oh lord how could she from the three blankets they gave her, but from fear.

She began to recall the events earlier that day. Of how she ended up with the heroic trio, these strange creatures and her new body changes just freaked her out so much. All of this confused her.

Soon she saw in the corner of her eye that Pango the large, armadillo-like man was standing up and shaking a bundle of the blankets. As they began to stir Hollis became stiff from caution. The head that exposed it belong to the young black and golden wolf that's she was told was Guntz.

He got up sluggishly and sat down in front of the fire while Pango went to his pill of blankets and began to fall asleep. Hollis adverted her gaze from the grassy dirt floor to Guntz. Watching him as he watched the dancing fire, as she was doing this Guntz could feel her eyes staring at him. This of course made him feel very uncomfortable. He tried his hardest not to look at her because of course she was a girl but since he wasn't use to being around girls he became very shy of her.

Just to satisfy himself he took a quick glance at her. When he did this Hollis twitched a little and wrapped one of her dark blue blanket around her snout to try to hide.

'This guy is freaking creepy and kind of scary. What am I thinking he's not scary at all?' She thought, as he looked at her again this time with a snarl on his features.

"What is it?" He growled at her as she continued to stare at him. Her frighten gaze soon turned into a rightful glare. As the burning glares staring contest begun, Guntz couldn't help but smirk inside of this girl's short temper. It reminded him of his own but, probably nothing near as nasty as Guntz'.

Hollis didn't like this Guntz person one bit. She didn't know why but she just got a funny feeling when she first looked at him and he looked at her. So she suspected it to be hatred. But something in the back of her mind told her it wasn't hatred but something else. A feeling so alien to her she had no idea as to what to register it to her brain to come up with an explanation. So far she came up with nothing what so ever. And it annoyed her to no end. So pushing it to the farthest of the back of her mind she tried to come back to reality.

Pretty soon their glaring contest ended when Hollis felt her eyes droop and she was consumed into the darkness once more.

Guntz watched as the young fox girl slowly closed her eyes letting sleep take over.

She, strangely enough, dreamed about her family and what was might have been happening.

Hollis watched as her mother fought with her father. Screaming, cursing and calling him everything under the sun. "I told you not to do that to her. And now look what you have done! You took my only daughter away from me!" Lily said in between breathes and her sobbing tears rolling fiercely down her cheeks.

Seeing this Hollis wasn't quite sure if this was a nightmare or if this was really a dream but, she continued to watch the ones you brought her into the world quarrel.

Her father looked sharply at Lily as she backed away with her face in her hands, trying to suppress the crying. And a soft tiny voice echoed through the room, "Why?" was the question that hung in the air. Mr. Grime's hard glare soon softened to his wife who stood before him balling her eyes out.

Then all of a sudden Lily looked abruptly at him with a glare of her own. Her light brown eyes had fire dancing in them and with a sharp voice of her own, "I'm leaving you!" And in a flash Lily was on the ground holding her cheek that soon began to sting from the sudden slap. She slowly looked up at Mr. Grime and slowly she stood up again.

"You may have beaten my daughter, have your sons torment her and have me bully and order her around like a slave, passed the point where she hates us and wants us to die. But you will never have her soul for she is in a better place where I know she will be loved! And as I say these final words to you just remember one of them, goodbye!" Lily screeched and as fast as her legs could take her she ran out of her and her husband's bedroom and going into the kitchen and taking the money jar, she had secretly been hiding to send to Hollis to college and quickly stuffing it in her purse. Bolting out the front door and taking the keys out of her purse and she unlocked the truck and started it and left her house to go to her sister's.

Hollis was surprised to think that her mother would actually do that. But after all it's just a dream, right?

Soon the dream started to fade away and leaving her in pitch black except for the little spot light around her.

Then all of a sudden she felt someone shaking her wake. She looked up to find a black and white face, golden eyes and a blue hat with Pac Man, plus a goofy smile staring down at her. Hollis blinked twice and then she jumped back and squawked from surprise. She looked around quickly remembering where she was.

She looked back up at Klonoa the boy who gave her the fright. She looked at all of them as they stared at her like she had just grown another head. Feeling uncomfortable with their stares she quickly got annoyed and she tried to suppress her sharp tongue full of insults, "What are you staring at!? You're just as weird looking as I am!" well I said she tried.

Guntz who just rolled his eyes at eh sudden out burst. 'We're gonna have to work with this one. Hopefully she's easier then Guntz' thought Pango as he looked at the two canines who both had another grimacing glare contest.