In this chapter Starlight will meet only three of the Squirrel Scouts. I think my chapters are going to get longer, but I'm not sure. Although I know this chapter is. Please R&R.

Disclaimer:

I do not own Camp Lazlo. But I do own the wolves in this story.

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Chapter 6. The Story

Starlight sat there, crying. Her mind flooded with old memories. She wanted to stay in that spot forever. She felt as if she was home again. Then she remembered the poachers. Suddenly her tears of sadness turned to tears of anger and hatred. Her muscles tightened and her eyes were burning with anger. She wanted to find those men and make them pay for every thing they did to her pack.

Starlight was taken away from her thoughts and tears by faint voices in the distance. They sounded like girl voices. These were probably some of the Squirrel Scouts Scoutmaster Lumpus mentioned earlier. Starlight could just barley make out what they were saying. The first voice Starlight heard was slightly high-pitched and perky sounding. The second voice was gruff and lower pitched. And the third voice was right in the middle of high-pitched and low pitched, and sounded like it came from a scholarly camper. The campers must have been drawing closer because the voices were getting louder.

High-Pitched Voice: "C'mon guys. I think I heard singing somewhere around here."

Lower Gruff Voice: "Who cares, Patsy?"

High-Pitched Voice: "Because it was a girl voice coming from the Bean Scout area."

Scholarly Voice: "I believe I heard it too, and I do wish to know who has such a melodious singing voice.

Lower Gruff Voice: "Whatever."

Starlight turned her head to where the voices seemed to be coming from. No sooner had she turned her head than three female campers appeared. One was a mongoose with pink hair, another was an alligator with yellow hair, and the third was a giraffe with orange hair. They were all wearing blue uniforms, blue shirts with skirts, with red sashes across their shirts. The four of them stared at one another one another, and then the three campers screamed. Apparently none of them had ever come face to face with a wolf before. Starlight winced from the pain her ears were giving her from their screams. Amazingly her ears picked up three more voices outside of the terrified screams.

"Starlight!" Starlight sighed with relief. She knew that voice. It was Lazlo.

"Come out come out wherever you are." Starlight knew that that was Raj.

"Here wolfie." Starlight knew that that was Clam's voice.

Starlight called back, "Lazlo, I'm over hear! Follow the sounds of the screams!"

A few brief moments later Lazlo, Raj, and Clam all appeared next to Starlight. All three covered their ears from the awful screaming. Starlight yelled at Lazlo, "Why didn't you come when you heard the screaming?" Lazlo yelled back, "The Squirrel Scouts are always screaming, so we didn't think anything of it."

The Squirrel Scouts must have seen the trio because the screaming stopped, but they had fear in their voices when they spoke.

The mongoose was the first to talk. "Lazlo, look out. That wolf might eat you." Lazlo quickly responded, "Patsy calm down. This wolf is not going to hurt you."

The giraffe spoke next. "How do you know?" Lazlo was about to respond again, but Starlight beat him to it.

"Look, if I was going to hurt you, I would have done it by now. If I didn't have this broken leg, that is. And don't worry…I'm a friend to these three knuckleheads standing next to me. And yes, if you didn't know, we wild animals can talk."

Lazlo put a big smile on his face and nodded. "Yep. This is our new friend, Starlight. Camp Kidney is taking care of her while she has a broken leg."

The three Squirrel Scouts calmed down. The mongoose spoke to Starlight. "So, since Lazlo calls you a friend and you're not going to hurt us, then I think we should introduce ourselves." The mongoose pointed to herself. "I'm Patsy." Then she pointed to the alligator with her thumb. "That's Gretchen." Then she pointed to the giraffe. "And that's Nina." Nina now spoke to Starlight, "Please to make your acquaintance."

Patsy interrupted Nina and spoke as if she were on a mission. "Okay, girls. We have to find out who was singing." Starlight overheard Patsy. "Oh, that was me singing." All three girls turned and stared at Starlight. "What?" Nina spoke again, "We just thought that you're voice was beautiful and melodious. Nobody in Acorn Flats sings that well."

Starlight was flattered. "Well, thank you. I didn't even know I could sing well." Patsy chimed in. "Oh, believe me. You can sing very well."

The trio had been silent during the past few moments, but now Lazlo piped up. "So Starlight, what were you doing out here, before you started singing?"

Starlight's ears lay flat against her head again. Lazlo knew what this meant. "Oh, I'm sorry Starlight. I didn't mean to-." But Starlight stopped him short. "No, no, it's okay Lazlo. I probably would have had to tell you sooner or later. Lazlo, I am ready to tell you what happened to my family."

"Five years ago, before Camp Kidney was made, this area used to be covered in forest. My old pack lived here. I was to grow up here, with my family. I had five brothers and sisters. I had many friends as well. I had a happy life there. Then one night, a terrible tragedy occurred. Three men arrived that night. They had long sticks with them that made loud noises and shot bullets. I believe they are called guns. I was asleep, but I got all of the information from an owl that was in a tree not far from our pack that saw it happen. The men circled our pack, and then began shooting. The first bullet hit our alpha male and killed him instantly. We all awoke and started fleeing for our lives. My father spotted me and tried to get me to safety. He carried me to a small den inside a tree stump. He left me there, told me to stay put, and ran back to see if he could get any of my siblings, and my mother, to the stump, too. That was the last I saw of him, or any of my family members and my friends. Well, another pack who had heard the news came to see if there were any survivors. I was scared to death and didn't dare come out of the stump. Well, a little black wolf pup wandered to the stump. He looked inside and saw me, sitting there, looking terrified. He coxed me out and took me to his pack. I learned his name was Nova and he was the son of the alpha male. His father accepted me and I have lived in that pack for the past five years. But, before we left the area where my pack used to be, I found out from the owl everything that happened. He told me that the men who were there had counted all of the wolves in my pack, and were planning to kill them for their furs. He overheard the lead poacher say that there was a man that wanted a whole wolf pack of furs, and was going to pay a lot of money to get them. He was going to kill every one of us, and skin us, to give as pelts to this man. Well, he ended up killing everyone, but me. And that's what happened."

When Starlight finished her story the campers were looking at her with sympathy in their eyes. Raj was actually tearing a bit. Even Gretchen's scowling look had turned into a look of sadness. After a few moments of silence Lazlo spoke up. "Now I understand why you didn't want to talk about it." Clam also spoke up. "Sad story." Starlight nodded solemnly. There were a few more moments of silence until Starlight spoke. "Well, we had better get back to camp." She turned to the Squirrel Scouts, "It was nice meeting you." Patsy replied, "You too." With that the Squirrel Scouts left and Starlight turned back to the Trio. "C'mon guys."

They walked along side her the whole way back. It didn't take as long to get back because Starlight was getting better at walking on three legs. They said nothing the whole way back. They even kept quiet after they returned to camp, even after Slinkman asked where they had been.

Slinkman later asked where she wanted to stay. She merely told him, "I guess I'll sleep under the Jelly Cabin. I'd rather sleep outside than inside." Slinkman agreed to this and it became official.

That night Starlight cried herself to sleep, thinking of her family. And not to far away, a figure was searching for her.

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I should update really soon after this chapter. I think the chapters are going top get longer. Anyways, please review for me.