When Minerva and the little girl arrived in the small town Minerva felt her eyes widen in horror when she saw that the small town had been destroyed. As she looked around to see if she could find anyone the girl followed along with her. Minerva was the main one who seemed to be nervous as she looked around the place.

"Where is...everyone?"

She looked at the girl who still had her head down not talking to her then Minerva went to her.

"Kid, do you know anything that is going on right here in this place?"

"..."

Minerva frowned.

"What would it take for you to talk to me?"

"..."

Minerva gave up and turned her back.

"You can't stay quiet for long."

"..."

Minerva felt her brow twitch then she walked on, leaving the girl behind her.

The girl still didn't say anything then she looked away. Minerva frowned at the thought that this girl wasn't going to talk to her then she closed her eyes.

"I feel that you're mocking me with silence."

"..."

As they walked in an awkward silence through the destroyed town Minerva would glance behind her at the girl who still had her head down.

Minerva just ignored the girl but not too long after walking Minerva noticed that something was off then she looked behind her to see that the girl wasn't there. Now Minerva was even more annoyed than she was before.

"Now what? Where did the girl go now?"

Just then Minerva saw the girl running but she seemed to be running from something. Minerva roughly grabbed the girl, stopping her and glared at her.

"Where the hell have you been?!"

The girl flinched then they both heard laughter. They both looked to see someone coming into the cart they were in. It was a young man that had long wild black hair and wore brown loose baggy fighting pants. He had dark blue eyes and smiled showing his sharp teeth. He had a long black wolf tail and on his biceps and the left side of his chest were stitch like scars.

"Well, well look what we have here. It would appear that the little girl was here with you after all."

Minerva pulled large knife out of her spatial magic.

"Who are you and what do you want?"

The young man laughed again then smiled.

"The name is Phaxon, The Demon Hound. I'm here to get the girl you have next to you."

Minerva frowned at him as he went on.

"You should put that knife away, somebody could get hurt very badly."

Minerva smirked.

"Oh please... the only person that will get hurt is you."

Phaxon snickered.

"Is that so? In that case, I should tell ya this now. You're out numbered, look around you."

Minerva looked around and saw a few others like Phaxon then Phaxon smiled at her.

"How about this, if you give us the girl, we'll let you go without any harm done to you."

Minerva still had the dagger out as she looked at Phaxon.

"Hey kid, get out of here. You'll get in the way."

The girl did as she was told. Phaxon smiled, not surprised one bit.

"I didn't think the kid would listen to you. I'm just being a good guy here, if you haven't noticed."

"Then you wouldn't have tried to put a threat on that brat."

Phaxon just raised a brow.

"Why is she even with you? It's clear you two don't like each other."

Minerva smirked.

"This talk is boring to me, let's just fight so that I can take the girl where she has to be."

"If that's the case, let's do this!"

He charged at her and Minerva began to fight him in a hand to hand fight. It was more of a sword fight for her while he was using his claws to attack. As she was fighting him Phaxon jumped into the air.

"Not bad, for a girl but can you handle this? HOUND CLAW!"

His claws extended cutting Minerva at her arm. She didn't drop the knife but then she looked up to see that Phaxon was chuckling at her.

"Aw did I scratch too deep into you? Don't worry, I'll take your arm off next."

Minerva dodged his next attack and kicked him in the head very hard then she ran out of there. She had to run as fast as she could when she got the little girl and ran to hide behind one of the large trees that were in the woods.

In the twon

Phaxon on the other hand got back up on his feet.

"This female is fun! Come on boys, let's get her!"

They all transformed into their hound forms and ran after Minerva.

In the woods

Minerva and the girl were still walking together with Minerva leading. The girl looked up at Minerva and she saw that Minerva's arm was wounded with blood dripping. The girl went to Minerva and gently tapped her which earned her a glare.

"What is it?"

The girl pointed behind them and Minerva looked only to see that she left a trail of blood.

'Damn it...'

She blinked and looked down to see that the girl had reached to grab her arm. Minerva slapped her hand away from her.

"Don't touch me!"

The girl looked away with sad eyes and Minerva went on walking. After taking a few more steps Minerva dropped to one knee while she still held her wounded arm.

She then looked to see the girl standing next to her.

"What do you want?"

The girl kneeled down as well then she used some kind of healing magic.

When the girl was done Minerva just looked at her arm then she looked at the girl who was looking away at the ground.

Minerva frowned as she stood up.

"Let's go. We would have to go somewhere else to get to safety from those dogs."

The girl remained quiet and went with Minerva.

After a couple of hours passed Minerva and the girl both found themselves at the gate of the castle. At first Minerva was angry about it but she just brushed it off and they went inside. She looked at the girl who still had not said one word to her.

Minerva just ignored the girl as they walked on.

'At some point this kid will have to say something to me.'

Minerva and the little girl went to a room that was large that had a large bed and a large wardrobe. When Minerva saw the wardrobe she remembered something.

'That dream I had, is it real?'

She went to the wardrobe and opened it.

She saw that there were only large coats of all sorts in there then she raised a brow.

"...I guess not."

Not too long after that Minerva and the little girl heard doors being slammed from down the hall. Minerva grabbed the girl and pulled her into the wardrobe. She had it just a creak open to see what it was that had been slamming the doors.

She soon got her answer when she saw a the door to the room open and revealed a young man.

The young man had fair skin and spiky dark brown hair that hung to his shoulders. He wore loose black pants and black forearm bands. He wore a black eye patch that had a scar under it horizontally. He also had a large stitch like scar on the left side of his chest. He had dark red eyes and he wore black shoes.

He was looking around the room while talking.

"I know you're in here, my little prey. Make it easy on yourself and just come out."

Minerva and the girl both remained silent. Minerva was mentally praying that this person wouldn't open the wardrobe but then she figured he would since he had looked in the other closet, under the two beds and now he was approaching the wardrobe that they were in.

When the young man got to the wardrobe he was about to open it but then someone else came into the room.

The new person had pale white skin and long messy black hair that hung to his mid back. Some of his hair covered his eyes that were wrapped up in bandages. He wore a white hoodie and black pants. He wore black shoes and he had on black gloves.

"Come on, everyone is gathering for the meeting now."

"Alright then."

Both young men left out of the room closing the door behind them. Minerva didn't move for a little bit then she closed her eyes.

'That was so close, I better find a way to get this kid out of here.'

AN: Alright there is Chapter 7 for you! I hope that you like where this story is going and I will continue to update! Until then!