Hey again people. Here's the next chapter.

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Crescent watched her friend race away, Sasha's words replaying over in her head. The simple phrase seemed to have more meaning for Sasha than she would ever know. Crescent shook her head to clear it. No time to think about it now. Pushing the thought to the back of her mind, she looked up at the sky. Her eyes widened in surprise. The trip to the forest and back had taken longer then she had thought. It was nearly sunset. Shruging it off, Crescent snatched up a couple voles from the hole and headed for the elevator. She almost slammed into Rocky on the way in. His light brown eyes brightened when he saw her. "There you are!" He said. "Where have you been? Nopup's seen you since earlier this morning."

Crescent chuckled slightly. "You sound like a mother who's just found her lost pup." She jerked her head in the direction of her tree. "Follow me. I need to talk to you." Rocky nodded and the two walked side by side over to the tree. Wen they reached it, Crescent dug her claws into the bark and swiftly hauled herself up to the lowest branch. She looked down at Rocky. "You coming up?" She called down.

Rocky shook his head. "Sorry. I don't climb."

Crescent sighed. "Fine. Here." She draped her tail over the branch. "Grab on."

Rocky just stared at her for a second. "Crescent, are you insane? I already told you. I can't climb."

"To answer your first question, yes." Crescent said. "At least, I'm not sane as the world sees it. And to answer your second statement. Just grab on for the love of the stars." She lashed her tail impatiently.

Rocky sighed. "I wouldn't do this for anyone else but you Crescent. You better apreciate this." He growled, clamping his jaws around her tail.

"I know." Cresent answered and climbed up a couple more branches to lift Rocky up onto the branch that she had been sitting on before. Once he was on, Rocky let go of her tail and grabbed onto the branch, trying not to look down.

Crescent jumped down onto the branch again and sat down, wrapping her tail around it to keep herself steady.

"Alright. You had something to tell me?" Rocky asked, looking the wolfsky up and down.

"Yeah. I wanted to tell you where I went. I spent the day hunting. That's why I wasn't here. Sorry I don't tell you where I was going. Didn't really cross my mind until I'd already left."

"Your saying you dragged me all the way up here to tell me that!?" Rocky exclaimed, gripping the branch tighter.

Crescent paused, trying to decide how much to tell him. She sighed after a few moments. "No. There's more. But I can't tell you about it." Rocky opened his mouth to speak, but Crescent wasn't finished. "I can't tell you about it now." She continued. "Listen. I have to go somewhere tomorrow. I'll probably be back by noon, but it might be later."

Rocky nodded, a curious look in his brown eyes. "I know your keeping something from me. Something important. But I won't press. We all have our secrets. I just want you to know that I'm here if you want to talk."

Crescent nodded. "Thanks Rocky."

"Don't mention it." The silver mix said gruffly before sitting up. "Now, if we're done, how do you get down from here?"

Crescent smirked. "Like this. "She answered simply before giving him a soft head butt that sent him flying out of the tree onto the soft grass below.

"Hey! Ooff!" He huffed as he hit the ground. Then he sat up, shaking his pelt and glaring at a smiling Crescent as she landed beside him. "What was that for!?"

"Fun." The black wolfdog answered, shrugging. "But it wouldn't have been so easy if you weren't as graceful as a one-legged badger." She flattened her ears playfully.

Rocky bared his teeth in a mock snarl. "I'll show you who's a one-legged badger!" He growled and lept at Crescent, bowling her over. Crescent growled and swiped at him, struggling under his weight. Rocky dodged te blow and lept off her, just lobg enough for her to get to her paws before leaping at her again.

Crescent was ready for him this time and jumped up as he launched at her and came crashing down on top of him, pinning him down. Rocky let out a grunt, but continued to fight, pawing at Crescent and rolling around to try and throw her off. He batted her front paws out from under her, causing her to loose her balance and fall on top of him. The two rolled around in the grass, a growling tangle of paws and teeth. They finally broke apart after a few minutes, both of them still fit and battle ready. They crouched, slowly circling each other, tails lashing. By now, the other pups had heard the noise and had come outside to see what was going on. They were now watching the two play-fight, sitting a few feet away.

"I got my money on Cwescent." Zuma muttered to Chase, who was sitting next to him. The German shepherd nodded, but said nothing.

"I can't beleive those two are fighting. Those two. Of all the pups in the world!" Skye exclaimed, not taking her eyes off of the scuffling pair.

Marshall shook his head. "Come on. They're just blowing off steam. Chase and I do it sometimes when we get ticked at the world. Right Chase? Chase?"

The shepherd didn't reply. He had his eyes fixed on Crescent. After Marshall said his name a third time, he finally snapped out of it. "Huh? What?" He mumbled, shaking his head. He realized all the pups' stares were fixed on him. "What?" He snapped.

Marshall smiled. "Oh, nothing."

Chase shrugged and went back to watching.

"Ha!" Rocky yelped triumphantly as he pinned Crescent down. She went limp under his paws, panting. "Yeah, yeah. So you pinned me. Big deal." Crescent puffed.
"Oh it is. It IS a big deal. Ya know why?"
"Why?"
"Cause I beat you!"
"Yeah right!"
"Oh yes I did!" "Did not!"
"You just won't admit it! But I did!"
Crescent just growled at him.
Rocky threw back his head and howled happily. When he swung it back down, his nose accidently collided with Crescent's. The two fell silent, a light blush seeping through their fur. "Uh...I...um..." Rocky sputtered. Crescent looked up at him. Brown eyes met blue, and she spoke. "Rocky..."
"Yeah Crescent?" Rocky asked, his voice softening so only she could hear.
"I wanted to ask you..." She broke off.
"Yes?" Rocky asked again.
"I wanted..to ask you... to ... get off me!" She growled, pushing him off her with her front paws. Rocky fell back and landed with a thud. "Oh." I thought you were going a whole different direction with this. He thought grimly.

Crescent hauled herself to her paws and shook her pelt. "Gotta say. I didn't think you'd be such a good fighter." She said, settling down next to him on the grass.
Rocky chuckled slightly. "Yeah. Ryder had us learn some basic moves for self defence when we were going through training. I've never had to use them before. Glad I could try 'em out on somepup."

Crescent smiled and looked up at the sky. The moon was making it's way slowly across the sky. It was nearly half full, reminding her of the limited time. She sighed inwardly. Oh Ranger. How am I gonna do this? She thought. Then she shook her head. Now wasn't the time to think about that. And, with the comfort of the moonlight over her head, and the reassuring presance of Rocky by her side, she knew she could do it. Whatever 'it' was.

Resting her head aginst Rocky's shoulder, she closed her eyes and fell asleep.

Rubble exchanged a glance with Marshall. "Do you think they even know we're here?" He asked, swinging his head at the sleeping pups.

"Nope." Chase replied. "They would have said something by now if they had."

"It's getting late." Zuma said, stretching and opening his jaws in a yawn. "I'm gonna head to bed."

"Me too." Skye agreed. "Anyone else?"

"I'll come." Rubble said, standing up to follow them.

"Right behind you." Marshall said. "Chase?"

"I. I think I'm gonna be up for awhile. I'll head to bed later."

"Alright. Suit yourself." Marshall shrugged and followed the other pups. Zuma paused and turned around.

"Do ya think we should wake them?" He asked glancing in the direction of Crescent and Rocky.

Skye shook her head. "I think they'll be fine."

A/N: Yeah. This was more of a filler chapter. I figured it needed one to take a break from all the important shat. So yeah. Hope you enjoyed anyway.

Sianii out!

Peace!