Quick A/N: You may be confuzed by some things that happen in here, if you haven't read the first story. This is sort of a sequel to my other story Putting Feelings to Music. The only important chapter you have to read in order to understand what happens here is number three.

Irvine was walking through the hot sand with the intent on getting to work on time. He came upon the building and the tower in the sky in little time at all.

Walking inside, he passed by a desk in the front hallway. A large man sat in the small chair, his hands clasped, fingers twiddling. He looked up at the sound of the closing door.

" Black, there you are!" the man rose and approached Irvine. " Where have you been? I've waited for you all morning! You're here so late…. You're here…" He started looking for his watch. " You're here…"

"On time."

The man pulled out a long gold-chained watch from his pocket. " On time…well, yes. But you're always early. If you want that promotion you should be working hard every single day."

A promotion that had been promised for a month. Still Irvine nodded his head. Baker was a good man, he just didn't know how to do things very well…that was all.

Baker smiled, " Good. Now let's get these men drilling!" He shouted, holding a finger in the air with a tone of leadership he didn't really have.

Who I am or more who I might be, because I really don't know yet, though I'm trying to learn. Every time I get close I lose me again…it's comes and goes, comes and goes…

" Hey Black!" A call from Josh a seven-year worker at the oil drills interrupted Irvine's daydreaming.

Josh was closing his lunch box as he glanced at Irvine, " You got a first name with that?"

He didn't answer. In fact suddenly the mild conversation that the men had been having over lunch came to an abrupt stop the moment after Josh spoke to him. Irvine began to wonder if everyone else hadn't known this confrontation would take place. The silence was unnerving. Josh frowned, but instead of pressing Irvine more, he turned to the small man next to him.

" Lenny, what's his papers say?"

Lenny acted as the secretary for the company froze the moment he heard his name. Shaking his head slowly, he sat his sandwich on the oily jeans of his knee.

" Ah Josh, you know I can't do that…I'm not supposed to…"

Josh grabbed Lennys shoulder in a hard grip with his right hand. He glared right into the smaller mans eyes. He had the sort of glare that would melt down a bull after it'd seen red.

" Right well, if I… remember correctly…his papers said…uh, they said D…D. Black."

Josh smiled, releasing the shoulder and turning to Irvine, " D. Black, eh? That D stand for anything special?"

Irvine nodded, " D."

Josh moved next in such a way that no one had realized what happened till after it was already done. He stood, grabbed Irvine by the shoulders, and shoved him against the wall. Irvine struggled to breathe under the pressure, the wind already being knocked out of him from the force of the shove. His head spun a little.

" Don't you play your damn games with me." Josh grunted between clenched teeth.

Josh was probably twice the size of Irvine. His arm muscles were bigger than Irvine's legs. Otherwise, Irvine might have punched him…if his arms hadn't been trapped under the huge hands…yes, he might've punched him.

" Y'know, I don't think you're who you say you are." Oh no, here it comes…you knew it'd happen sooner or later. I was just hoping it would be later… " You look strangely familiar to me, yet I never met anyone who's name is D…"

Someone from the group decided that this was time to pick sides, " Yeah. Who the hells name is D anyway?"

There were shouts of agreement from most of the group. After all, who wanted to make an enemy with Josh probably the strongest man there? Irvine knew that he wasn't liked. The new guy comes in and gets second spot. The rest of them didn't think it was fair, despite the extra profits rolling in. He had a feeling this was going to signal the end of his stay here, and the end of their profits.

" Shit! I know who you are!" Josh exclaimed, increasing the pressure he put on Irvine's shoulder as his body was overcome with rage. " I can't believe I didn't recognize you so soon. I knew something was wrong with you I just didn't know how wrong…not till now…"

The group was silent as Josh's voice hit a tone of seriousness they'd never heard from him before. It was if time had stopped, for several moments. Josh's arms shook with anger, but they were steady as ever and his eyes were filled with rage.

" I saw you…in that gang. I saw you and a couple of your buddies kill a woman…" Gasps came from the men and anger too, Josh's hands were almost crushing Irvine's shoulders now. " You're a freakin murderer…"

The pain in his shoulders worsened by the second, but Irvine refused to say anything, after all he deserved it. This was the entire end then wasn't it? They would surely kill him with their anger. An eye for an eye…all those lives for his own… Suddenly the door opened, with Baker behind it. Josh dropped Irvine in surprise. Everyone turned to look at their boss, to shocked at the revelation to do much more.

" What's going on out here? Where's Black?"

However, Irvine wasn't there anymore. Instead he was running as quickly as he could across the hot sand, his shoulders throbbing.

He had been going for at least an hour. The sun was burning his skin, and he was positive that he was completely lost. Well, it was a good end to him. Alone, in a place hot as hell…let him burn for his troubles. Irvine tripped upon the sand, and he fell on his face. When he pulled himself up again, to see a little girl with brown hair standing in front of him. He jumped backwards startled.

She looked so much like…was she a ghost? His heart began to pump quickly, and he could feel it hit hard against his chest.

" Hello."

Irvine shook his head to himself. No, she was too real to be a ghost…but where had she come from?

The girl smiled, and sat on the hot sand, picking it up and sifting it with her fingers. " Mister, have you heard the story?"

" What story?"

She traced her finger in the golden sand, " The story of the black bird and the wolf?"

Black bird? Wolf? Who the heck was this kid? " No…I haven't. Did you want to tell me?"

" Yes." The girl nodded. " Well, the birdys name was Broken and the wolfs name was Lost. A huge creature came to destroy the entire whole world. And the two animals were the only one who could save us all. But no one would ever think for this birdy to work together with this wolf. Everyone thinks they are soooo different, but the birdy and wolf discover that they're not really very different at all."

The brown hair girl paused, building up a hill of sand nearly as high as she was. She giggled in delight before making it all fall down. Irvine was strangely taken by the childish story. He had an earie feeling that it applied to him…that he was Lost. But that was stupid. It was just a childrens story…probably one the little girl had made up, still…

" Please continue." He urged, nodding at the girl.

" Oh…right. Well, you see the birdy and wolf both did some bad things before and they both find out that they have a great power within them. This power will stop the creature, but they have to…to…die a very, very painful death in order to stop the end from coming…but they do have a choice." The girl stopped speaking for several minutes, Irvine stared at her waiting with impatience.

" What happened?"

The girl shrugged, " This story hasn't happened yet, but it will very soon. The bird and the wolf could be humans…that's what my granny says at least." She wrinkled her nose. " But I like the animal one better." She looked over Irvine, as though noticing something for the first time. "Y'know, you could be a wolf…"

Irvine froze, not understanding why he believed the story, nor how he knew he was apart of it. The girl started to hum, standing and brushing off her skirt.

" Granny says that it will all take place in the ancient ruins…in the south." She said pointing. "I'm not really sure how to get there though…"

And he was considering going actually. He was going to go. It was strange how it all took over him like something he absolutely had to do. There was no question about it, he would go to the ruins. What happened from then…

" Don't go back for your zoid…they're waiting for you." The girl said, so suddenly that she startled him again.

How could she know about them? How could she even know he had a zoid? It didn't matter…or did it? Irvine turned in the direction the girl had pointed…south. He turned to ask if she needed to walked home, but she had disappeared. Even though it was strange, Irvine hadn't expected anything less. And so he started out on his way. Unprepared and only partially aware of what awaited him.

Who am I? I am…the wolf. I am the lost. I will make up for what I've done wrong…and it will be the last thing I do.

A/N: I am so completely sorry about taking forever to get this thing out. It seems like no matter how fast I project the next chapter to come out, the longer it takes. And I feel so completely horrible about taking forever…augh! Go ahead and hit me if you'd like… Anyway, thanks for all of your support and for your reviews, they mean the world to me.

If you were confuzed at all about what happened in Irvine's past and why he left Van and co…you should probably read the first story…this is like a sequal to my other story Putting Feelings to Music. The only important chapter you have to read in order to understand this one is number three.