Footsteps pounded across hard cement. Pawprints appeared in the dark ally as if the cement was still wet, always a few steps behind the footsteps. Yet the pawprints were gaining. It was clear that whatever animal those pawprints were coming from was huge… and invisible. The footsteps were heard rounding a corner, then pounding along the streets of Odaiba. The footsteps stopped and the young boy spun on his feet to face the beast.
The large wolf appeared, finally allowing himself to be seen and the boy tried to hide the fear he was feeling. He could not let the wolf know he was afraid, no matter what. The wolf was large, and white, with blue stripes, he looked kind enough, except a large black, metal spiral was wrapped around his front left leg above his paw and his large yellow eyes, had turned pure red.
The boy's chin-length blond hair fell into his face, covering his large, sapphire eyes. He felt so helpless… he couldn't free his companion from the black spiral… his friend had become a slave to a power hungry Kaiser and he could do nothing but watch.
Another black spiral came floating in the air behind him. He couldn't see it because he was to busy, wallowing in self-pity. He didn't notice it until it was to late, when in clamped itself around his ankle under his pant leg, yet on top of his sock, so nobody could see it. His blue eyes turned red and then blue again, so nobody would suspect anything…
An evil look spread across his face, and he led his wolf friend away into the darkness…