pAs soon as I heard the wall begin to crumble I started running. I ran as fast as I couls go and within minutes I found myself back in the stands agaiin. I turned to slowly look back at the north wall, and to my amazement the entire thing hadn't come falling down. I sighed a sigh of relief and was about to go back to work when I heard voices on my walkie-talike.p"What the hell just happened?"p"We've had a partial collapse of the northern wall. We need a crew on the street now to clear the debries and attend to the injured."P"Roger that. Teams alpha and beta you heard him, lets get moving. All prsonal clear the northern section of the structure;it's no longer safe to search there. The rest of that wall could come down at any minute. If there are any suvivors left there they have little to no chance now. May God have mercy on all of them."pThe dravity of what I had just done, accidental as it had been, hit me at that moment. Beacuse of me there were people injured on the street and if there were any survivors left near the wall they would likely never be found now. And it was my fault. If anyone ever found out that it was mu fault... No, that would never happen. There was no way they could know. All I had to was act normal and they would never suspect a thing. But first thing was first, I had to get out. Once I was safe I could worry about what to do from there./p

pI left the Battledome ruins, turned my equipment in and began to head for home. I had done enough damage for one night and besids, if Taraku called from the hospital and I wasn't there I was going to be in even more trouble. I started walking when I heard a voice behind me.pHey pup, where the hell do you think your'e going?"pI turned arround to see an angry Lupe firefighter, his green fur stained black from the dust and debris, standing behind me. "Are you Jirokichi?"p"Yes, sir.pThe Jirokichi who causewd part of the north wall to collapse?"pI froze. iHow could he know?/iThen it dawned on me. The walkie-talkie, they must have heard the entire thing on their walike-talkies! They knew exactly what had happened and who was responsible for it. I had really done it now. Why hadn't I done as Taraku had orderd and just gone right home?p"You ceartainly did some damage, didn't you?"/p All I could do was nod at the firefighter and stare blankly at the ground. There was no use trying to explain that it had it had all just been a terrible accident, he would never believe me. Then another thought struck me, iWhat if Satoshi, Yakkul and Vegiito had been trapped under that wall?!/i I felt like throwing up.p"Do you know what is going to happen to you now?" The tone of the firefighters voice was clod and completly uncaring. He stared at me with his glowing yellow eyes and the expression on his face told me, as if I already didn't know, that I was doomed.p"No sir, I don't know."p"Well then, let's go see the chief of the Chia Police. He will be more then happy to lay it all out on the line for you."p"Your'e arresting me?"pFirefighters don't have the power to arrest people, you know that. But you would be wise to turn your'e self in and save the police the trouble of capturing you. Besids, I think they only want you for questioning at the monent. We all realise that your'e still just a pup and that you should never have been allowed to help in the search but..."p"It was all an accident, I swear!"/p

p"Let me finish. We realise that but accident or not people were still hurt. Someone has to pay. Now where is your'e owner?pI started ctying. The entire situation was just too much for me to handle and I knew it was only going to get worse before it got better. Qhy did this kind of thing always end up happening to me? I always try to do the right thing-or at least what I think is the right thing-and it always ends up blowing up in my face like this. My lega gave out from under me and I collasped right there in the street and began to sob. The firefighter just stood there and stared; it was painfully obvious that he was very uncomfortable to say the least and didn;t really know how to act in thses situations. Finally he did the only thing he could think of. He picked me up on the ground by the back of my neck and roughly set me on the ground.p"I'm only going to ask you this one more time. Where is your'e owner?"pBefore I had the chance to respond there was a tremendour roar from the robble that had once been the Battledome. Searchers and firefighters were running from the once grand building as fast as they cound as a massive dust cloud rose up from behind them. The remaining walls had now completly collasped, and any survivors were now almost ceartainly dead.pWithout so much as a word the firefighter grabbed hold of my ear and started running. The croud of fleeing rescue workers soon caught up with us and he lost his grip. I fell onto the hard pavement and started to run on my own. I managed to make it a few feet before I was knocked to the ground and almost trampled to death. I could see the huge debris cloud comming, ready to cholk the life out of me when I realised that this was my chance. I could escape amidst all the chaos and excape my punishment (and after all this was all my fault). I started running again, although this time I ran right through the crowd and ducked into the nearest ally way. It was then that I realised how tired, dirty and hungry I was. It was then that I realised that I could never go back, If I did I would surely be put in prison for life for this. And on top of that Satoshi would probably have to pay a huge fine-Satoshi! I still had no idea what had happened to her or my brothers! Once again I collasped on the ground and sobbed myself to sleep right there. "Satoshi...I'm sorry...please forgive me..."p"I think he's starting to come arround, guys. Come see."p"Poor pup. Looke like he's been to Hell and back. I wonder what his name is."pYeah, he looks pretty bad, al right. Well, at least the injuries to his feet are starting to heal."p"Back of you guys, give him some room! He's starting to wake up!"pI coughed and struggled to open my eyes so I could find the source of the strange voices I had just heard. I was laying on something soft, it felt like a pile of blankets, and my feet and ear hurt like you wouldn't believe. And then there were the voices, who did they belong to? And where was I? Finally I was able to open my eyes. Standing over me was a red Kacheek, a blue Wocky and a green Aisha. The Kacheek smiled down at me when she saw my eyes open.pGreat, your'e awake! We've been wondering when ypu were going to come arround."p"You've been out cold ever since we found you in that cold ally five days ago." the Wocky added.iFive days?/i I had been uncouncious for Five days? Judging by the splitting headache I now had it felt like a lot longer then that. And my feet still hurt, especially my right forepaw. My right ear hurt for some reason as well. But at least now I seemed to be somewhere relativly safe, even though I was surrounded by complete strangers in a place I had never seen berofr in my entire life.pRelax pup, your'e safe with us." the Kacheek said in the chrrey voice that only Kacheeks use. "Hey I know, how about a cup of nice hot borovan to warm you up? We have a few more extra blankets if your'e cold and a couple of pillows as well."p"A pillow would be nice. I have a terrible headache...p"No problem! You guys watch over our guest whail I go get the pillow, O.K.?" The Kacheek left the room to get the pillow. The other two, the Wocky and the Aisha supplied me with a couple more blankets to cover up with and a cup of hot borovan to fill me up. As I lay there I couldn't help but wonder where I was, where my family was, who these strange pets were and why they were being so nice to me. All thses thoughts were running wild in my head as the Kacheek gently lifted my head and put a pillow behind it. I sighed, tried to put my mind to rest and drifted back to sleep...bTOO BE CONTINUED.../b