Hey people sorry for the long wait but I was very busy and hardly been on the net so yah… enjoy the next chapter and please if you read also review thank you now read away!!

Chapter 4

Gray stumbled through the rain, panting and leaning on the giant rocks on either side of him. They seem to want him going only one way refusing to turn into two paths.

"I have to keep going, I can't stop…" He gasped holding onto the next boulder, clutching his shoulder where a dagger was half buried.

"I need to… get to town…"

He limped on through the rain not knowing he was walking away from the nearest village.

He walked on still. His feet dragging and his breathing hard he collapsed again but stayed awake writhing in pain. The dagger in his shoulder had been pushed deeper into his shoulder from the fall.

"Are you hurt?"

"Huh?"

A person way out here in this weather? They must be mouse brained.

"Are you hurt?" the face-less voice asked again.

Should I answer or try and run? But the voice wasn't hostile. It was feminine and her sentences seemed to always cut short.

He decided to answer.

"Y-yes. Please help me."

I'm so pathetic. He thought.

He didn't complain when two hands wrapped themselves around his arm and pulled half his body up and then one letting go and wrapped it around his side. They felt gentle but strong and they seemed small.

"I will take you to my home."

He looked up and could now see that it was a girl around is age. She wasn't human like him though: her skin was covered in tan fur and a bushy long tail swept the ground, she wore a blue dress down to her ankles and he could see her feet were inhuman too, She had purple hair past her shoulders with blue ends, and two pointed ears that twitched this was and that, her face was also covered in fur but two lines on each side of her face was yellow and not brown then he met her eyes. They were like lavender pools as they stared back into his eyes. He could see that they were full of concern and worry as she looked away and started to walk while he leaned on her for support as he had done with the boulders.

They walked for a long time and gray found they were turning a lot not going in the straight line he was following.

"When did all these turns get here?" he asked.

"They have been here always." She answered.

"But I was walking straight and saw no turns."

"Your eyes are too weak in the dark." She said still talking short.

She didn't seem interested in conversation but gray was going mad in the silence.

"What is your name?"

"You will find out later now just walk no talking."

He could tell she was tired. Looking at her face he saw that she was having trouble half carrying him to wherever they were going. The rain dripped into her eyes and she tried to wipe it away but had to squint it out instead so it looked like she was crying.

Her hands are busy trying to keep me from falling on my butt. He thought.

They walked on for a while longer until they reached their destination.

It was a little house with brown bricks and a brown roof, and on door off to the side of the house at the front and three windows: two on the second floor and on beside the door on the ground floor. It was pretty plain.

"Now let's get you warm and dry." She said as they walked into the door.

Gray was about the look around but felt a sharp pain. He crumpled to the floor dragging the girl with him.

Before he blacked out he heard the girl grunt as the wind was knocked out of her as he landed on top of her.

How embarrassing he thought. Will I ever stop blacking out like this?

The rain was letting up by the time Yamato was on the verge of giving up. He panted with exhaustion and pounded the ground with his fists.

This isn't fair! He thought with frustration. We should have found him by now.

But they were at a dead end when Terry pointed out that the blood trail was gone. The rain had washed it away as they followed it but now the rain was gone and the sun was coming out as though laughing at them.

"We have to keep trying!" Terry shouted. "We came this far and you seem to be giving up. You're the one who dragged us out here."

Yamato whipped his head around and glared at Terry.

"I'm trying as hard as I can!" he shouted.

Terry didn't look convinced

"Come on we have to keep going." Terry said and started to walk away.

hey sorry for so long a wait ; but I have to make this one short… my job isn't giving me as much time as I hoped… but anyway the extension will be chapter 5 ty for you patience.