Rain poured down on the three wolves. Tsume growled, this was not going well. Hige sighed "Well, might as well as find some shelter." Tsume growled louder. "Hey, even if there was a trail, which there is not, the rain would have washed it out. There is no scent to follow, the trail is gone. Even I can't follow a trail that's not there. So don't even think about taking it out on me."

"Hige's right continuing would just be foolish." Kiba stated softly, "also this rain is not doing much for my mood. Those rocks over there should provide some cover." By rocks he meant an assortment of logs and boulders all piled together. Shelter meant all three of the wolves finding crevices to stuff themselves into. For the three wet hungry wolves it was a long night.

Morning came for the pack with a soft drizzle. Hige sniffed around a little. "Yup I was right there is not trail whatsoever."

"Guess we do this the hard way. Go from town to town and look around." Kiba sighed, "Which direction should we head?"

"The way to the nearest town or city," grumbled Tsume, "the Runt probably found some human who needed help and couldn't resist getting himself into trouble."

"Well that would be northeast. Let's go."

The wolves headed in their chosen direction. While many miles south two young wolves slowly crawled out from under their log and headed west.

Trella shook her fur free of dirt enjoying the clink of two of Silver's bracelets. Silver crawled out after her and stretched. The drizzle falling did little to hinder their high spirits. "Want to try casting your illusion?" Silver asked.

Trella paused from scratching her ear. "Sure, what's first?"

"Think of yourself as a human. What would you wear? How would you do your hair? How would humans see you?"

Trella heaved a sigh what would I look like if I were a human huh? She closed her eyes. A few minutes later she cracked one eye open and looked at Silver. "Anything?"

He shook his head. Trella pouted. "You'll get. You probably just don't have a firm enough image in your head. Don't worry about it."

The two pups jogged along not covering many miles. Every mile or so Silver would crouch low to the ground then faster than a heartbeat would suddenly lunge and grab for some small animal. Three times out of five he caught something. Trella watched in utter fascination. Her few attempts failed miserably usually with a mouth full of leaves.

At her twentieth attempt she caught a squirrel by the tail. But in her excitement it got loose. She glared at the squirrel as it shouted insults at her from high in the trees. She shot Silver an evil look as he was trying and failing to hold in a laugh. "Not. A. Word." Which only succeed in making him laugh harder. He then had his first lesson in fighting.

Trella smirked as Silver limped behind her and said in a sing song voice. "The enemy won't give you a warning you must always be on guard." He shot her a dirty look knowing that that was just her excuse for getting back at him.

Later evening

"Hey Trella smell that?" Silver paused sniffing, "smells like a city's near by."

"Yeah think we can make it before nightfall. I'm exhausted." Her head hung low and her tail drooped with no extra energy to hold it high. "Why do you still have energy?"

"You'll get use to covering a lot of ground. My pack and I would have normally run twice the miles we've covered before we'd stop for the night."

"You didn't stay in one place? Was your territory stolen?" Trella asked latching on to the fact that Silver remembered something.

"No we had no territory to begin with. We were to busy looking for Paradise to stay in one place long."

"Paradise? What's that?"

"Paradise is a beautiful place where there is enough food and space for all wolves and then wolves rule. It's well a paradise just for wolves." Silver smiled, "They say no ones ever been there I think that the ones who find it are so happy they don't want to leave so no one can say for sure if it exists or not."

"Tell me more." Trella asked eagerly.

"I…" he heaved a sigh, and his tail and head slumped towards the ground.

"…It's okay."

"Trella…?" Not sure what to ask he shook his head.

"It's Cloud now you know until we're out of the city. Race ya!" and she took off running towards the city's lights

Silver laughed and took off after her.

Once in the city Silver put up his illusion. Trella grumbled when hers failed to materialize. "Hey if anyone asks you're my pet dog." Silver pointed out trying to cheer her up. An old fountain gurgled near by. "Stay there I'll scrounge up some dinner okay."

Trella nodded and Silver took off. She headed towards the fountain looking into the water she growled. No matter how thirst she was there was no way that she would ever drink this water. Sludge clotted the pipes and coated the bottom. She was absolutely disgusted.

"Disgusting isn't?" a voice asked.

"Disgusting and disturbing." Trella answered simply she glanced at the speaker then did a double take. A human girl sat beside with jet black hair pushed back with a red headband with red fox ears. Her red spaghetti strap shirt was a little baggy and her wrists had fake fur bracelets a black trench coat draped over one of them. The blue jeans she wore were rolled to mid-calf and faded with too many washings. On her feet were ordinary sneakers the original color lost under the dirt and grime. The girl's most intriguing feature was her violet eyes that stood out against her dark skin. Trella was about to dismiss her presence when the girls fox ears twitch.

okay I lied Trella dosn't get her human form yet this chapter didn't turn out exactly as I planed. My fingers don't like writing my stories, only their own stories. Anyway, Toboe' getting back some memories and a new character is introduced. Will she cause trouble or will she help Toboe and Trella? I won't be puting out the next chapter until I get my tenth review; Update and other one or two words reviews don't count.