Sorry it took me so long to update, I was pretty busy with the Holidays and I had a bit of writers block trying to figure out exactly how I wanted to have this chapter turn out. I hope you guys like it! Please leave me some reviews! I love some good constructive criticism or just to hear that I'm doing okay! :) Unfortunately I don't own Wolf's Rain, just my OC's. Enjoy!

~Chapter 4~

"Well, you guys aren't half bad for rookies!" Ilyana said as she cleaned her muzzle of the sewer rats the three she-wolves had managed to hunt down on their trek through the city.

Missy was gagging as she tried to eat her first rat while Claire was struggling through her third and Ilyana had finished her sixth. "This is easily the most disgusting thing I've ever had to do.." Missy shuddered as she swallowed another bite.

"At least it's food Missy… We need our strength if we're going to find Livy and Tori." Claire cleaned the rat off her face and paced at the entrance of the sewers. "We should get going. I want to find them soon. I can't help but feel like something bad is going to happen." Her hackles had been raised since shortly after Ilyana had finished teaching them the wolfy basics.

"Something got your tail in a twist?" Ilyana perked her ears and listened for anything out of the ordinary that could have startled Claire. Hearing nothing, she picked herself up off the ground and walked toward the entrance. "Well I don't hear or smell anything. But we should get going. Our friends aren't going to find themselves after all!" She cheered as she jumped through the manhole they left open after their entrance a couple hours earlier.

Missy cleaned her paws off in a semi-clean puddle and padded off after Ilyana with Claire right on her heels. After jumping out of the sewers, they trotted down the dark alley and paused at the intersection of the street, watching for any passing humans. The alley they came out of was located near a bar, and being close to midnight the majority of the people that were out and about were located in that general area. Luckily the number of people out was small so they managed to sneak down the street without being seen.

The sudden crash that was heard next startled all three of the wolves as they growled at the offending garbage can that had fallen over. "Hehe, we really need some sleep!" Ilyana giggled as she walked up to the can. When she got closer, the smell of the garbage got stronger, but so did another scent.

Wolf.

"Well well, what do we have here?" Ilyana walked up to the small brown wolf huddled behind the garbage can, looking up at her with frightened eyes, tail tucked tightly under his body with his ears lowered to his head submissively. The bangles on his two front legs jingled together as he shivered with fear.

"Awww, hey don't be scared! I promise we're mostly harmless!" Ilyana sat on her haunches and wagged her tail happily. The little brown wolf cocked his head to the side and slowly walked toward us, easing out of his submissive posture into a more relaxed one. "W-who are you?" He asked timidly.

"Well, my name is Ilyana, and the black grumpy gus over there is Claire, and the blonde scaredy-cat is Missy! What's your name little guy?"

"My name's Toboe. It's nice to meet you! I haven't met another wolf before today! First Tsume, now you girls!" His face sobered as he thought about this other wolf Tsume, but quickly resumed its happy expression as he continued talking. "Have you guys always lived in the city? I've never seen any of you here before." He chattered as he began to feel more at ease with the three females.

"Well, these two are newbies, I actually just met them earlier today! I'm just in town looking for my sister. We're trying to find a place to stay tonite. Do you have anywhere we could crash for the night?" Ilyana stretched and rose, scoping the area for possible threats nonchalantly.

While those two were chatting, Claire and Missy looked at each other and rolled their eyes. Clearly nobody was being found tonite. The two girls noticed Toboe leading Ilyana into a nearby building that appeared to be abandoned and trotted after them.

They entered into a small kitchen, with a small wooden table in the center with four small wooden stools set up around it. To the left was a small stone fireplace that obviously hadn't been used in years. Straight ahead from the door was a set of stairs leading up to the next floor. The four wolves all made their way up the stairs, walking into the only room on the floor, which happened to be a master bedroom with a large soft bed covered in dust. Toboe rushed into the room and pounced on the bed, jumping around and kicking up the dust that had gathered on the thick plush comforter.

"There! Now the bed isn't dusty anymore!" The young pup wagged his tail as he curled up in a ball on one corner of the bed and let out a deep sigh. "Well, aren't you guys gonna sleep on the bed too? There's plenty of room!"

Ilyana and Claire walked over to the window to make sure there was no danger nearby while Missy hopped on the bed and curled up close to Toboe, deciding she trusted the young wolf. After deciding the house was safe enough, Claire climbed onto the bed and huddled up to Missy's side and huffed before closing her eyes to attempt to sleep. Ilyana curled up on the opposite end of the bed where she could keep an eye out on their surroundings.

"Goodnight everyone!" Toboe said as he shifted and began to doze.

"Goodnight." The three females responded. None of the wolves sleeping on the plush bed noticed the steel-gray wolf looking in the window from the rooftop across the street, huffing and running back the way he'd came when he saw that the young pup he'd met earlier that day and had an argument with was safe.

~The following morning with Olivia and Victoria~

"Ugh, can we rest now? I'm tired! I can't keep this up any more we've been running all night! We hardly got any sleep!" Livy groaned as the we ran down yet another alley searching for our friends.

"I'm sorry Livy, I'm just afraid of that man and his dog finding us. We've never fought like this before, I don't think we'd make it if we ran into them again…and I think it would be best if we kept moving so Hannah and her family don't find us. I'd hate to have to run from them and make little Hannah upset that we left." I said apologetically. "Let's try to find somewhere we can rest for a little while. There! We'll climb up on that roof and look from up there and see what we can find!" I encouraged her along as we crossed the street and jumped onto a crate leading up to a low roof, where we jumped up to the following house's roof higher up. We walked quietly along the edge of the roof, glancing off every now and then to see if we could find somewhere we could take a nap in peace. The streets were bustling with people and it was practically impossible to find a street free of people.

We were walking on opposite sides of the building when I looked over the edge of my side and noticed a large white wolf limping down the street, headed in the direction we were coming from. I froze and cocked my head to the side. How strange…why would a wolf be walking through the middle of the city? Well, I guess I can't really talk, but our situation is a lot different! I thought to myself. Livy made her way over to me, noticing that I had stopped.

"Whats the matter?" She questioned. I motioned to the strange wolf down below and she gasped when she saw the wound in his leg. "He's hurt!" She exclaimed. I looked down at the large male and saw the long gash in his leg. Well that would explain the limping.

All of a sudden an angry growl accompanied by the cocking of a gun came from the opposite end of the street. "It's the hunter and the dog from before! Livy, stay up here! No matter what, don't let him find you! I've got to help him!"

"Wait! What are you going to do! You don't know how to fight as a human much less like this! You'll be killed!" She whimpered as she paced near me. "I don't have time to figure it out Livy, I have to help him!" And with that I launched myself off the roof, and onto the black dog that was midair heading towards the injured white wolf. I snarled as I bit down hard on her shoulder and we crashed into some nearby crates. The black dog yelped when we landed and immediately launched herself at me. We wrestled, snarling and biting at each other as the hunter stared at us helplessly. I could tell he wanted to shoot at me, but we were tumbling so much in our fighting that he didn't have a clear shot.

A new snarl rang out as the white injured male ran at the hunter. The dog noticed this and jumped away from me to protect her owner. The hunter raised his gun and fired, shooting the wolf right through head. I snarled and threw my wounded body in front of him as he collapsed. Just as I was preparing to charge the two, my vision went fuzzy and the last thing I noticed was sirens coming close and Livy running away from the ledge of the roof. Good, at least she listened and is safe. I thought to myself as my vision went black.