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"Rena? Rena wake up!"

Rena felt someone trying to shake her from her sleep.

"Oh come on Rena! Jagura is coming!"

Rena shot up out of her bed completely awake and scrambling around getting much needed supplies into a camouflaged bag. Next she pulled on a black sweat shirt and a pair of baggy camouflage jeans.

"This better not be a drill!" Rena yelled from the kitchen getting a few last minute snacks stuffed into her bag. "If it is I'm gonna kill you!"

"It's not! I swear it isn't, now hurry up she'll be here any minute and you know what will happen if she sees you." Her sister said pushing Rena out the door and into the arid desert.

"Oh crap! Hold on a second" Rena gasped as she ran back into the house. Dust had started to fly up on the horizon line showing them where Jagura and her men were.

They came from the east as usual, that normally let Rena escape out the back. From there she would run in her wolf form all the way to the mountains, and to her "home away from home".

Rena came back out of the house with a necklace in her hand, and smiled. "I'll see you in a few days Fay. How do four sound?"

"Right, that'll work." Fay smiled and hugged her younger sister. "Be safe and don't let them see you. If they come even 100 yards from you get down to the ground as low as possible"

"Yeah, I know. Ok I'll see you later then" and with that Rena changed to her black wolf form and leaped from the back porch and into the desert heading towards her cave.

'Wow, this is strange. This will be the third time this month.' Rena thought, 'Thank the heavens that Fay isn't a wolf though.'

As a child Rena had been the only one in her entire family to change into a wolf. Except her grandma but she was long gone before Rena was even born.

When she was 10 years old, she had been pulled out of school. She had accidentally revealed her wolf form to a boy who had been teasing her about her eyes. Of course, this was all before Jagura had started her take over of the town. None the less she was still pulled out of school.

Jagura had heard about this incident about 5 years ago and killed her mother and father, but left Fay and Rena to die of starvation. Fay fortunately was able to get a job and support herself and her sister.

Rena sighed with relief when she saw the entrance of her cave. 'Home sweet home' she thought with a sigh.

The cave was as she left it 3 weeks ago, save for the dust and a few cobwebs that clung to the ceiling. It was definitely the same; the fire pit still had the ashes from her last fire.

She started to set up camp. It consisted of, her olive drab sleeping bag, the mesh net that covered the mouth of the cave, and a few other odds and ends.

The mesh net was only there as a safety precaution, and it did its job very well. Even with her wolf eyes she couldn't see through it very well.

Later on that evening Rena was stretched out on her sleeping bag poking at her fire. 'Why do I, of all people have to be a wolf? It isn't all it's cracked up to be. I mean I can almost never be in my wolf form because it causes so much trouble.'

Her eyes slowly closed and drifted off into a deep sleep. She never had dreams, all it was anymore was drifting in a pitch black void. It's actually nice in stead of having to ponder each dream all day.

The next morning she slowly opened her dark green eyes, as a thin beam from the sun peaked up over the horizon.

Rena sat perfectly still when she saw a blur scamper across the floor and behind a scrub in the cave. Moving as slowly as she could she sat up and began to crawl on all fours to investigate. She leaned forward towards the scrub slowly pushing it aside. A mouse jumped out and scrambled out of the cave squeaking all the way.

"Damn mouse." She muttered slightly embarrassed. She had fallen backwards in surprise, not really because she was scared but more out of instinct.

She stood up and dusted her self off. Her eyes narrowed at an unfamiliar smell.

At the cave entrance she looked out, only to see a menacing cloud of black smoke rising into the sky.

"Uh oh" Rena muttered and ran outside leaving everything behind except the necklace.

ODST- heh, sorry about the cliffie guys --..

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ODST- Don't worry your little head Hige you and the gang will be in soon, at least mentioned next chapter. If not you'll definitely be in chapter 3!