hehe...I know it's taken a while but I've had things to do and a serious case of writer's block. And the characters are quite OC this chapter....sorry 'bout that

Disclaimer: YES! I do own it! All the years of plotting have finally paid off! I own all of them! Mwahahaha!

If you believed any of that, you're an idiot

Anyway, this chapter starts out the day after chapter three.

Eilonwy's eyes slowly blinked open as the morning rays filled the clearing. She felt a sharp pain in her arm, but she really didn't care.

"Finally awake, huh? Feeling better?" she heard a voice ask next to her.

Eilonwy turned her head to look at the speaker. It was Kiba. 'And I was soooo hoping meeting them was just a dream....a really bad dream..' she thought.

Much to the protests of the rest of the pack, she sat up and glared at Kiba. "I'm fine." she bit, before attempting to stand and walk off, but it didn't quite work out. Hades finally helped her up and she stomped off.

"I just asked if she was feeling better..."

"She's not much of a morning person." Raine explained, but then a thought suddenly occured to her. "Of course, there is the fact that she hates you. That could have something to do with it.." Tai hit Raine on the back of the head before she could say anymore.

A few hours passed with no word from Eilonwy. Hades sat away from the group, apparently plotting something.

"New wolves....New pranks.." he muttered, so the pack could barely hear him.

"What did you say, devil child?" Blue asked as she walked by.

"Nothing..." Hades said. He watched her walk back to the rest of the pack before muttering, "she's the first one to get pranked..."

Hades picked up a stick and began to draw out elaborate plans for his next prank in the dirt.

"So...how long does Eilonwy normally disappear for?" Toboe asked.

"Varied lengths of time...sometimes a few hours...maybe a few days..." Katana said.

"Either way, we should get things together so we can move out as soon as she gets back," Tai said.

"I'm all for leaving her behind," Tsume replied.

Sometime during this conversation, Hades seems to have crept off. What was once his 'elaborate plan' is now just a few smears in the mud.

"Well, until she gets back, I'm in charge..." Katana began.

"Wait a minute...what puts you in charge?" Kiba asked.

"She's Eilonwy's second in command, so whenever Eilonwy's disappeared again, Kat's in charge..." Raine quickly explained.

"As I was saying, I say we all explore the perimeter of the area. We'll meet back at sunset." Katana instructed.

Everyone went their separate ways. Blue towards the creek, Katana towards the northern end of the forest, and so on.

As Blue neared the creek she heard a faint rustling in the bushes, but thought nothing of it. The scent told her it was just a creature of the forest.

She walked further. The only sounds, the snapping of twigs beneath her feet.

The creek was in sight when it happened.

The rope that had once been camoflouged by the leaves wrapped around her ankles four times. She was then hoisted into the air as the 'branch' swung to the side so that she was hanging, upside down, above the edge of the water so that if someone were to cut the rope, she would fall in.

Hades emerged from the bushes. "Not my most original prank, but, hey, it works."he managed to say before he bursted out laughing.

Raine shook her head sadly. The great 'Prankster Prince' was losing his touch. Honestly, he couldn't even tell she was standing there right behind him. She reached out and pushed him...hard.

Hades moved forward, his lips brushing against Blue's just before he fell face first into the creek.

Suddenly the rope Blue was hanging from snapped and she, too, fell into the creek. But the rope didn't snap on it's own. No. It was cut.

Raine looked up, confused.

Toboe sat on the branch that Blue once hung from. He folded up the pocket knife that was in his hand and put it in his pocket before jumping down.

"What the heck are you doing here?" Raine asked.

Hades and Blue emerged from the creek. Both thoroughly soaked. Blue had managed to get the ropes around her ankles untied and both were shouting at the two.

"Run now. Explain later." Toboe said.

"Agreed."

Raine and Toboe took off running into the woods.

3 hours later

Raine, in wolf form, uses her claw to scratch something into the bark of the tree she sat by.

She reverted back to human form. "Okay, we've got Blue and Hades, Kat and Tsume, and that means Tai and Hige are next."

Toboe nodded and they walked off in search of Tai and Hige.

Moments later they return.

"They obviously need no help...what I don't understand is how either of them half the lung capacity for that....."

Raine nodded as she scratched something out on the bark. "And that only leaves...."

Eilonwy came stomping through.

"Eilonwy!" Raine called.

Eilonwy turned around. "What is it, Raine?"

"I just wanted to tell you that we're all meeting back at the campsite at sundown."

Eilonwy walked away towards the clearing where they had made camp the previous night.

Raine looked towards the horizon. "Judging by the position of the sun we have half an hour to come up with a plan...."

Any ideas for what the schemer's plan could be? Please submit then via review!