Chapter 4 From within the moon-walk, the girls watched as the figure of Katie made her way into Justin's party, looking for the girls. "How did she know?!" Martha whined. "She must have sensed it," Kristin said. "And she knew of the star called Tamahome," Hotohori said. "Please," Caitlin said, "Don't say that name. I don't want to here that name." "What, Tamahome?" Nakago coughed, sitting up. "Why does that name bother me so much? Don't say it again. I'm warning you." Hotohori smiled, ready to say it again in order to tease the general, when a kid poked his head through the door of the moon walk. His eyes widened when he saw Nakago awake, and ran away screaming. "Oh, that's going to bring attention," Caitlin said. "What are we going to do?!" Martha complained. They sat in the moon-walk, saying nothing for a few minutes. In the distance, they heard Andrew's strangled howl again. They waited, listening. And then, they heard it. Tubas. Getting closer. "First Katie, and now those two?!" Kristin cried, breaking the silence. Tension filled the moon-walk as the five all braced themselves for what was about to come. They watched out the windows to see that everyone had stopped moving, and were all wondering where the sound of music was coming from. Someone announced that a marching band was coming. The tubas got louder, and louder, and louder. Suddenly, they were just outside the house on the other side. They were coming up the drive way, through the garage. and now, streams of tuba players marched out into the lawn, and people ran away with fright as the tuba players bombarded them with Phil's theme song. The moon-walk kept the five quite hidden from the tuba chaos. The tubas ganged up on the people of the party, and circled around them so they couldn't escape. Kristin could see her friends Justin and Kevin fall to their knees, with their hands over their ears. The tubas played louder and louder, and squeezed the circle closer and closer. Then, they suddenly stopped, as from the garage, three figures appeared. Andrew stepped out first, sending a signal with his lighter to the tubas to stop. Behind him came Phil, and then, a wolf with a scar over his left eye. "Ashitare," Nakago said under his breath. "Ashitare?!" the girls cried silently, watching as the three figures approached the frightened people surrounded by tuba players. "Alright," Andrew bellowed. "Hand over the priestesses and no one will get hurt!" "What are you talking about, Andrew?" Justin said. "You're ruining my party!" "This is no time for a party," Andrew said. "I must find those priestesses. The time has come to complete the Wolfdom. Now tell me, where are they?!" Ashitare put his nose in the air, and started sniffing around. "Ah!" Caitlin breathed. "The cheez-its! Hide them, quick!" Nakago grabbed the cheez its, turned around and swallowed them down. The girls restrained themselves not to laugh as he turned around with full cheeks. He growled at them for stiffening giggles. They watched Ashitare sniffing the ground, trying to pick up on a scent. Phil stood behind Andrew, as his friend cried loudly, "Where are they? I won't let you go until I find those girls!" "Make us," Kevin said bravely. The tubas began to play at once, at a very high volume, Phil's theme song. Everyone fell to the ground, shoving their fingers in their ears to drown out the sound, but it was far too loud. People were dying, and Ashitare was getting closer and closer to the moon-walk, when suddenly, the sound waves of the tubas were broken by some sort of sound. "Chiriko?" Kristin breathed under her breath. But, that wasn't a little flute sound that they heard as the tuba's song diminished, and Andrew looked up in terrified surprise. "What's this?!" he cried out. Then, all could hear it. It was a KA KA KA coming from the nearby woods. Everyone froze. "Tomo," Nakago attempted to say, but couldn't through the cheez its jammed in his mouth. Everyone stared at the woods a few yards away from the house. Andrew watched the woods, then, started backing away. "It's coming closer," he said. He grabbed Phil's arm and dragged him away from the party, towards the garage door. Ashitare was barely a foot from the door of the moon-walk, when Andrew got his attention, and they made their way to the garage door. But, before completely going out, Andrew turned around and yelled, "I'm not through with you! I'll see to it that I get those priestesses if it's the last thing I do!!" Suddenly, vines poked up from the ground and strangled the tuba players. Phil cried out in disgust, "My tubas!" as Andrew dragged him away through the door and to his car, with Ashitare as their feet. From the moon-walk, the five watched as the tubas fell to the ground. The vines faded, and the KA KA KA sound was made again. It faded into the distance, as everyone slowly got to their senses. "We have to get to the woods," Kristin decided. "We just gotta make it to those woods."