Chapter 9: The Wolf with the Collar.

Star's ears shot up when she heard the sound of a twig snap.

She was still curled against Darcia, so it shouldn't have been him.

She lifted her head, just in time to see a wolf walking disappearing within the trees.

Star slowly stood up, careful not to wake up Darcia, and she went into the forest, following the wolf.

When she caught up with the wolf, it had stopped, as if it sensed her presence.

She noticed a collar wrapped tightly around it's neck.

Somehow, it looked familiar, the collar, where had she seen it?

" A human owns you?" Star asked.

The wolf let out a little laughter, and Star slowly backed away from him.

The wolf turned, " You have already gotten to close. I was going to let you go, but."

Star looked in his eyes, it held that of evil, she could see a grin in them.

He stared at her for a few more minutes, preparing to...

...

A scream went through Darcia's ears.

He stood up quickly, " Star!"

He caught her scent in the forest.

When he reached the deep trees, he saw Star lying on her side in her wolf form, unconscious, and standing before her, was a brown wolf.

He looked at Darcia for a minute, then he ben down, working Star on his back.

Darcia bared his teeth.

The wolf let out a laughter, before running off, and disappearing in a bright light.

Darcia shielded his eyes, but tried his best to look into it.

The light disappeared and the two were gone.

Darcia ran foward, and sniffed the ground, for a scent.

He caught one, a familiar one, but not Star's scent, no. It was...

" Jagura." Darcia growled out, and he turned right, and ran, he knew where she was, and that's who the wolf was taking Star to.

She was trying to take paradise away again.

No. He promised her, he wasn't going to fail her, Jagura was not going to stop this.

Darcia picked up his speed as he came to open land, with up ahead, a town, where surely Jagura's castle was held.