Interesting Turkey Day story, this happened on the Saturday after thanksgiving and we had ham as we usually do and there's always the ham bone left after we were done with it. My mom and I made cookies on that Saturday so we took out the ham and put it on the counter, I wrapped it up in it's tin foil so our dog's wont get it. While we were doing the lights outside our house, my fat irish setter dog that normally does nothing but lay down all day, climbed up onto the counter, took the ham bone out of the tin foil some how and took the ham bone and start chewing the meat off of it. My dad was mad, he wanted to make bean stew and use the hambone as flavoring… what a waste. Oh well, I think he's going to get another ham for the stew, I wouldn't mind the extra ham.

14.

"Agh, it's never ending!"

Hige was complaining about the vast dark lands. The others were groaning over Hige's annoying complaining. Shippo was sniffing around and found something rather interesting. He dug up the dirty and took out four silver rings. Toboe, interested in Shippo's actions, trotted over to his friend.

"Hey Shippo what's tha-" his voice cut short as he realized it was his rings that the old woman gave to him when he was pup. Shippo held them out to Toboe and he took them with a careful hand.

"Toboe?"

Shippo looked at him confused. Toboe slipped on the rings.

"Wow, they still fit," he smiled.

"What?" They continued on walking to catch up with the others.

"It's a long story…" Toboe answered, "I'll tell it to you, the short version." He began the tale or now known as the legend of the wolves that found Paradise.

Kiba stopped suddenly, Tsuki walked up next to him and Neko stretched her sight among the foggy land. A ringing sound was heard in the distance. The others stood still, waiting.

They didn't have long to wait when a giant metal machine emerged from the ground about a mile ahead of them. It was old, somewhat rusty looking. A giant red eye was on its front and it stood on ten mechanical legs. It rotated itself and focused on the wolves. Its round body shook off the dirt and it let out a terrible screaming noise.

They yelled and clenched their teeth and covered their ears. The robot made its move and raced at them at an alarming speed.

Tsuki and Kiba blocked out the sound and snarled at the machine, racing towards it, fangs bearing.

The sound stopped and the fog parted revealing the white and black wolf gnawing the legs. The other wolves raced to help. Each of their eyes filled with rage. Their hearts beating quickly, it was show time.

As soon as they reached to the machine a gas sprayed out from a slot in the front into their eyes. They yapped and rubbed their eyes. Hige and Blue were able to dodge the attack and they jumped at a leg biting it in two.

Kiba and Tsuki successfully were able to do the same, the wires swirled around and they jumped away before they were shocked with electricity. Kiba made his way to the top, trying to find the control center to tear it into pieces, while Tsuki went to help the others.

Hige and Blue were working together biting off the legs. With a quick snap of their jaws they bit off leg by leg.

The machine let out another high pitch scream and sent laser beams around to burn the wolves.

Shippo recovered from the attack and charged at the machine. A laser beam swooped past him and he let out a terrifying yelp.

Toboe opened his eyes, trying to ignore the sound to find his friend. Shippo was lying on the ground, whimpering. Toboe jumped up and charged the machine, tearing off its leg. There were 3 legs left. Blue and Hige worked on the two and Toboe tore off the last.

Tsuki went to Hana and nuzzled her side to help her up onto her feet. Neko rushed passed them and to Kiba to help him find the weak point. Hana and Tsuki dodged the lasers and began running to Shippo.

Without its legs it stood still on the ground, oil leaking out from the bitten off parts. Kiba found what he was looking for, a small bar that would open the spider thing up so they could get in. Latching his fangs on the handle he ripped the door off.

The machine stopped moving and the eye dimmed out.

An Agent stood in there and started shooting. The acid spray barely missed Kiba and Neko as they jumped off the machine and back. Hana stood over the wounded Shippo and Tsuki stood in front of her. Hige and Blue waited for them from the back, panting softly. Toboe stood next to them, clenching his fists.

The Agent jumped out and began shooting acid towards Kiba's direction. Kiba darted away. Hige and Blue jumped on the Agent; they flew over the machine and landed on the ground. The Agent stopped moving.

"I think he's unconscious," Blue got off of him, dusting off her outfit. Hige didn't answer and reached over, pulling off his gas mask. He gasped…

Everyone raced over except for Hana who was wrapping up Shippo's wounds and healing them with herbs that she carried with her in a bag at her hip.

The Agent was a man, his hair grey with a buzz cut and a tiny ponytail in the back. His yellow eyes were closed.

"Tsume!" Kiba yelled.

"He's alive?" Toboe smiled and wiped up his bloody nose with his sleeve.

"It can't be him, can it?" Hige asked.

"I don't know, we never knew if he actually died or not, but he wouldn't work for the Agents, for Tsukimono, Tsume has too much pride than that," Kiba wondered as he starred at his friend.

Toboe crouched down and nudged Tsume, "Tsume….Tsume…"

The men stirred and open his eyes; Toboe jumped back, "Tsume!"

Everyone backed up, giving him more room. He snarled and showed his wolf form, something was different; his yellow eyes were now black eyes, as if a demon possessed him. Tsume jumped at Kiba biting a huge gash into his arm.

Hige growled and jumped at Tsume, clawing his side and biting a hole at his shoulder.

Tsume backed off and starred at the group. Without warning, Tsuki grabbed him by the tail and bit hard, while attempting to throw him.

Tsume wouldn't have it and swung her off, making her skid a few yards away. Kiba shook off the blood staining his white fur and made another rush towards Tsume. Kiba's yellow eyes burned with madness as he looked into the imposters' of his friend.

Tsume smirked and waved his arm, a red light flashed over Kiba and he stopped, stood still in mid jump. Kiba's eyes looked around; everyone else was in the same predicament.

"Stupid wolves…"an unnatural voice growled through Tsume, "I'm too powerful for the likes of you," he laughed an evil laugh, it echoed through the fog. Kiba wanted so badly to jump at him, but he was paralyzed.

A motorcycle raced over to Tsume and he jumped on, "I'll kill you, and that's a promise, white wolf, you'll never get to Paradise with Master Tsukimono, all wolves will die…" and road off into the fog, dust swirling off behind him.

After 5 minutes, Kiba fell and landed on the ground. He groaned and stood up.

"What's up with Tsume?" Hige rubbed his head.

"I don't think that was Tsume," Toboe said softly. He walked over to the sleeping Shippo. He looked alright, there was a cut along his chest, it was pretty deep. Hana used some string and a needle to stitch up the wound. She also put some herbs on it for faster healing, even though wolves healed fast, this would help him faster.

"It wasn't Tsume… Tsukimono is planning something terrible," Neko said as she jumped on Kiba's shoulder and he walked to his pack.

"We have to stop him, we have to, who knows what he's planning right now," Hana fretted, she was terrified of him. After what he did to her parents… she didn't want to have him do it again.

"He's using us, like Hige was used as a tracker before. We have to go to the castle and destroy him," Kiba growled.

Tsuki walked up next to Kiba, "I'm with you all the way Kiba, he deserves the kiss of death after what he has done."

Hige and Blue nodded, Toboe's eyes looked up admirely at Kiba, Hana nodded to Tsuki.

"We'll stay here until he's healed, it shouldn't take more than a night. It's a full moon," Kiba remarked.

They gathered around Shippo, making a protective circle around him while bathing in the moonlight. Though the clouds were covering the night sky, a small part in the sky left the moon uncovered, and it remained that way the whole night as they slept.