AN: Please R&R~Takeshi

Disclaimer: I do not own any of the Flint characters or the name Eboshi (taken from
Princess Mononoke) And I also credit Jack London for the title, I just thought the title fit
the story pretty good, and couldn't think of anything else to call it. I also don't own Lupie,
he is Ly the werewolf's timeshifter.

Call of the Wild (part2)by: Takeshi
Tony walked up behind Sara and stood next to her.
"Wow," he said,"I didn't know Merlock changed that much. It's almost like he's a
fugitive. Now I'm not so sure I want to see him again."
"If the people hate him, why does Merlock come into town?" Flint asked the old
woman.
"Actually," the woman said, "this is the first time in a long time he's come in the
village. He usually hangs around the outside of the gate." the woman looked at the sky.
The sun was starting to set, she knew it would be dark soon. "Do you have anywhere to
stay tonight?" she asked Sara.
"Well, no," Sara said. "We hadn't really planned on staying this long."
"Then you can stay with me." the woman said. The five of them started walking
down the street. "Oh, silly me," the woman said, "I didn't even introduce myself. My
name is Toki."
"It's very nice to met you," Sara said, "My name is....
"My name is Flint!" Flint interrupted," and this is my friend Bindi," he pointed to
Bindi," she's a timeshifter you know."
"She's very cute," Toki said. Bindi blushed.
"I'm Tony," Tony said.
"Pleased to me you Tony. Now dear, what was it you said your name was?" Toki
asked Sara.
"Well, as I was saying before I was ever so RUDELY interrupted, that my name is
Sara."
"That's such a pretty name." Toki said. Finally, the group made it to Toki's small
hut.
Sara took a good look at it. The hut wasn't in the greatest condition, the roof was
decaying, and the wall was starting to fall apart. It was near the edge of the gate.
Someone could easily jump from the chimney to the gate.
"I worry every night about that beast coming in down the chimney and killing
me," Toki told Sara, noticing she was very interested in the chimney. "I have a small
porch up there but I never go up 'cause I'm too afraid."
They all walked inside. Toki walked over to the fire, where a pot of stew was
cooking.
"I put this one just before I left, so it should be done in a few minutes," she said,
checking the stew.
"Goody I'm starving!" Flint grinned.
After dinner, Toki showed then where they could sleep. And soon, the hut was
silent and everyone was asleep except Sara. Sara got up of the cot she was laying on, and
walked up the stairs, and went out onto the porch on the roof. Up there she found Bindi,
starring out into the forest.
"You can't sleep either?" Sara asked her.
"I'm to worried about Merlock, being out there in the cold with those wolves."
Bindi told her. Just as she finished, they heard the moaning howl of a wolf.
"I didn't tell anyone this," Sara said to Bindi, but not taking her eyes off the trees,"
but I saw some blood around Merlock's cloak when I went and checked it out."
"Do you think he may have been shot?"
"It's possible I guess."
"Maybe we should go look for him, he could be really hurt."
"Wait, before we do anything rash, we should think about this. When they were
shooting at him, Merlock didn't flinch or anything, in fact he didn't act like he was hurt at
all."
"I still want to go find him."
"Yeah, me too."
"I'll go get some stuff!" Bindi floated down the stairs. A few minutes later she
reappeared carrying a flash light, some water, and a bit of food (how she managed to
carry all that with her sort little arms I don't know).
"Great! Now all we have to do is find him, but there's one problem."
"What's that?"
"The gate is closed for the night, we can't get out." They both sat down,
disappointed.
"I know!" Bindi said, jumping up in excitement," we're so close why don't we just
jump over the gate?"
"That sounds like a plan." So Bindi flew over and went over the gate with no
problem. Sara tossed the stuff down to her. The she climbed up the chimney. It was a
long way down. Allot longer than Sara had thought How did Merlock do it? She
wondered. Sara closed her eyes, and jumped over the gate.
She landed with a thud on the ground. Bindi chuckled, and then handed her the
flashlight. Sara flipped it on and shined it around. Suddenly, she noticed a few drops of
blood on a rock.
"Bindi look," she said, they ran over to the rock and further inspected to blood.
"We can follow the blood. I'm sure it's Merlock.

A few hours later Sara and Bindi had been following the trail of blood all over.
The moon was high in the sky. Sara estimated it was about midnight.
They came to a clearing, that lead to a cave. Near the entrance they saw
Canie-master and Lupie-master sleeping peacefully. Snuggled in between them was
Merlock. The look on his face made them think he was all right. He looked very content
and very comfortable, but also at the same time in allot of pain. Sara noticed he was
sleeping in a pool of blood, and there was a stream of blood flowing down his right arm.
"Oh my god! They did shoot him!" Sara quickly, but cautiously walked over to
Merlock. "Bindi, hand me the water." Bindi handed Sara the canteen full of water. Sara
opened it up and poured it on his arm and carefully washed the shot wound. "Damn,"
Sara muttered to herself," we didn't bring anything to wrap it with." Sara wiped the blood
of her hands on her shirt. She stopped, grabbed her shirt, and Sara realized she could use
the shirt as a bandage. Sara ripped the bottom of her shirt in to a long strip and tired it
tightly around Merlock's wound. She did this a couple more times until she had tied a
nice thick bandage around Merlock's arm.
Sara stood up and stretched out her legs.
"I must admit Sara, you did a rather good job," Bindi said. Suddenly,
Canie-master (from here on in I'm just going to call them Canie and Lupie, but they are
still in master form, unless I state otherwise) started tossing and turning and wiggling
around.
"I think we better get out of here, before they wake up," Sara purposed. So, they
gathered up their stuff, and walked back through the forest, towards Eboshi.

The sun was just starting to peek over the horizon as Sara and Bindi climbed over
the gate, back onto the porch. They were both so exhausted they sat down on some old
chairs that were sitting up there and fell asleep, just as the rest of Eboshi was waking up.
to be continued.......

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Eee, that was kinda long. I just started typing and I couldn't stop. Sorry if it was
too long. Okay, now it's going to take me awhile to write the rest because I don't know
what's going to happen from here until the end. I have the last one or two parts all planed
out but nothing before that, except the parts I've already written. So pluhhleeeeezzzzee
be patient. Please review. ~ Takeshi