Author's Note: Sorry for the longest update in history my dear readers. LOTS of stuff have been happening. One being my birthday on October 1st, another being College, and the last is me getting a job at Sears. I am so so SO sorry for not posting in this story for who knows how long but I promise I will continue.

Chapter 8: Raiders

The sounds of the desolate cave were peaceful. In the abandoned Mineshaft that was lit with torches, the group of four was traveling silently through it. Tamashi was in front of the group as his ears flickered as he listened to the empty sounds of the cave in case there was trouble, all the while having his eyes fixed on the road ahead of them. Next to him was Czysty who was silent, looking around their path- at the environment, with a small and faint smile on her face; taking note of the pretty glow of some minerals that were in there. She also picked up on the soft, peaceful noises echoing almost silently throughout the shafts. Skreel had his hands stuffed in his pockets, his eyes closed. Meanwhile, Andr had her hands behind her back as she looked around the environment herself.

The four walked side by side with each other, though the wolfs kept to one side of the pathways and the Enders kept to the other side, as they walked in silence without a word being said nor any eye contact with one another; they were all having thoughts on their previous encounter. While both Enders were curious as to who the Wolves were, the Wolves had their minds trained on figuring out whether or not the Enders were truly friend, or foe. Czysty peeked over at Skreel and Andr and felt uneasy about them. She then growled softly making Tamashi's ears flicker and turn to her.

"Yeah, what is it Czysty?" He asked.

She then raised her hands and then seemed to motion them in a flurry of signs.

[Do you think we can trust them? You know how Enders are nowadays.]

"Look, they seem to be alright but…I'm not sure. If they were truly one of those garbage of the end then that guy would have killed you at first glance. Just trust me on this." Tamashi said to Czysty but softly so she could hear.

Czysty looked at Tamashi calmly and then made more signs with her hands.

[Fine….but if the village becomes endangered because of them, then expect me to rip you apart]

"Yeah sure you will Czysty but you know you can't do that." Tamashi said with a kind smile.

Czysty looked at Tamashi with narrowed eyes but then sighed as she turned away from the Wolf boy. Tamashi sighed seeing that Czysty would never change and looked ahead of the pathway with a smile on his face.

"Hey, can I ask you something?" Skreel said which caught Tamashi's attention.

The Wolf boy turned his head to face the silver haired boy and replied with, "Sure, ask away."

"Well, were does this cave lead too?" Skreel asked.

"Oh allow me to explain. You see, this cave system tunnels under and along of our Village that we're taking you too right now. It would be filled with miners but we've been having some…trouble with some hostilities that happens down here. We're just checking this cave for any sort of trouble before we head back." Tamashi stated.

"I see. So that's why…..I'm sorry. What's her name again?" Skreel said.

"Czysty." Tamashi said.

"Thank you. Czysty attacked me like a crazed wild maniac." Skreel said.

As he said that the wolf girl turned around and glared at Skreel and Tamashi simply sighed and looked at her.

"He didn't mean it like that Czysty." Tamashi said.

All he got back was a minor growl which made her turn away from the two. Doing so caused Tamashi to sigh tiredly and rub his head.

"Is she mad at you?" Andr asked.

"Nah…this always happens. She's kinda…like this all the time towards me so this isn't new. Though I'm sure that she'll open up towards you guys." Tamashi said.

"Really?" Skreel said rather confusingly.

"Yep. Czysty is a nice person. You should see it when she's around the children." Tamashi replied.

"Children!" Andr said excitingly and surprise.

"Well yeah. Our village has a lot of kids in it. The adults don't mind them gathering with Czysty and playing with her. She has a soft spot towards those little ones. Always acting like she's their big sister or Mother even. It's really adorable if you would see it." Tamashi chuckled.

He then felt someone thinking evil thoughts about him and looked at Czysty to see her narrow her eyes at him since he was saying stuff to people who shouldn't know about what she does and slowly motioned her hands while looking at him.

[I…Will…End…You…Tamashi!]

Tamashi slowly turned away and kept a somewhat calm face and said, "I think that's enough talking for one day."

"Huh, really?" Andr said.

"Yep." Tamashi said with no other word being said.

Andr and Kiiro looked at one another when Tamashi said that and shrugged their shoulders. The four continued walking in silence but seemed to grow a little friendlier after their conversation. After a while Tamashi started sniffing the air and smiled a little and said, "I smell fresh air up ahead. We're almost there."

Czysty, Skreel, and Andr nodded in reply and continued walking. After a while of walking their was a fork on the path between right or left but Tamashi already knew where he was going and continued walking by going right along with the others but Czysty's ears flickered and then she stopped with her eyes narrowed a little. She then started sniffing the air and Tamashi turned around to see this and so did Andr and Skreel.

"Czysty, what's wrong?" Tamashi asked curiously.

Czysty didn't answer and looked to the felt path and immediately ran off towards that direction.

"CZYSTY!" Tamashi yelled with a shocked voice.

He then changed direction and ran after her which shocked the two Enders/

"Wh-what's going on?" Andr said with a worried voice.

"I don't know but we have to go see. C'mon." Skreel said.

Andr nodded and the two quickly chased after the two Wolves before anything happened.

-Elsewhere-

Deeper in the Mineshaft there were sounds. To be precise, sounds of tools digging into stone and dirt as if someone was mining.

"You sure we're getting close?" A young man's voice said.

"Yes, I'm sure. The map says were close and we'll be under it in no time." Another man said.

Deep into the caves where the voices were heard were a group of figures. To be precise, 50 of them who were all men. They wore an assortments from black colored pants, dark red leather boots, black gloves and dark red or black shirts. On some of their heads they wore helmets that had demented looking white skulls which connected to the helmets. The eye holes of these skulls were yellow and it didn't cover their face as their lower half of it was visible. Others on the other hand had a black hood on their head and a dark red cloth of some sort obscuring their mouths. Some had an assortment of accessories on their clothing from either sashes, spikes, shoulder armor, or horns on their helmets but what was noticeable about each and every single one of them was that each of them had weapons. From Swords, Daggers, Axes, Hatchets, Bombs or Kama's. There was also one of these mysterious figures who watched the men dig while others prepared themselves.

This figure appeared to be a man in his mid-thirties who had tan colored skin, a fiery colored Mohawk on his head, and dark green eyes. He wore a pitched black t-shirt which was followed by a black leather jacket which appeared to be ripped by its sleeves revealing his moderately muscular form and had spikes on the shoulders and back, black gauntlets, black pants and armored boots that went to his knees. Lastly on his face he wore a crimson red scarf around his neck and covered the lower half of his face.

"Everyone prepare your weapons, once we are under the village and attack it we make sure we do what we always do. Rape the women and children, Kill the men, take whatever is valuable and so on and so forth until the village is burnt to the ground. Or how the pirates always say it, Rape, Pillage and Plunder! Is that understood?" The leader of the group said.

His only reply was the men cheering out or laughing in reply to what the group leader had said to them. He simply smiled seeing this from his men and watched as a few of them continued digging while others were sharpening their weapons of preparing themselves.

"The villagers won't know what hit them." The Leader said softly as he was in deep thought.

Though his thoughts were interrupted by the cries of his men and turned along with a few others to see that about sevem of his men were sprawled on the ground of the cave. He then saw another one of his men get punched in the chest and crashed into the caves wall and fell flat onto the ground.

"What the hell?" One of the goons said.

"What happened to them?" Another said in shock.

"Who's dares attack us!" Another said angrily.

They were answered when they saw a wolf girl appear before them. She was glaring at them while also crouched on her hands and legs while baring her canine teeth and growling menacingly at the men who looked at her in surprise and confusion.

"It's…a Wolf…" One of them said in confusion.

"No, it's a girl." Another said rather confused himself.

"I don't care who or what she is you Idiots. Just take care of her!" The leader said with a hint of rage.

Some of the men who were digging stopped and charged at the girl followed by a few others making it about 15 of the goons that charged at the wolf girl or Czysty. She simply growled and lunged at them who were startled seeing how far she lunged and she got the drop of one of them. She then did a frontal flip while still holding onto the Raider she pounced on and threw him at two others who didn't have time to react and collided with their thrown comrade. Two Raiders went charging at her with their swords raised but they didn't get a chance to hit her as Czysty used her tail to trip them. She then grabbed hold of them with the same tails and swung them both at two more Raiders making it a total of 15 men that she had taken care of. She turned to face the remaining 8 of the Raiders but was grabbed by the neck by the leader who was getting irritated of his men getting beaten by a girl. He held a tight grip on Czysty who struggled in his grip and tried to break free but he was much stronger than her and glared at her.

"You stupid little bitch. Did you think you can just come in here and take out a few of my guys and expect nothing to happen? Well you're severely wrong." He said angrily.

He then started to strangle Czysty as he wanted to hear the satisfying sound of her neck snap in his hand but he didn't get the chance as he was punched dead in the face and sent skidding on the ground. Czysty then fell on her hands and knees and started coughing and rubbed her neck as she took in some air again and turned to see Tamashi shaking his hand with an angry face.

"Thick headed skull guy. I'm going to enjoy beating the crap out of him." He growled.

"Another one!" One of the men said.

"And he hit the boss!" Another said.

"Get em!" One yelled.

Soon eight guys charged at Tamashi and Czysty with their weapons raised and ready to bring down the two wolf teens. Czysty's ears flickered and she turned to see the men quickly surround them and tried getting up but before she could the men were brought down easily which shocked the two wolves and they saw Skreel appear who was wiping his hands off on his vest. He then turned to Czysty and Tamshi to see that they were surprised and relieved.

"You should put a leash on her. She was this close to getting hurt." Skreel said.

After saying them the wolf girl simply punched him in the stomach which caused the poor boy to crash into the cave wall and started growling as she sent her hands in a furious rapid motion which was both understandable and confusing. The men that watched this simply stared with dull and confused looks at what they saw.

"Czysty calm down. He didn't mean it like that. I mean sure you did run off but he was proving a point." Tamashi said as he gently grabbed her arms.

As he did this Czysty shivered from his warm, gentle touch and smacked his hands away while letting out a soft yip. Tamashi found this to be not surprising but sighed seeing Czysty like this but good to see she wasn't mad. Though as the two had their episode Skreel recovered from the hit and punched a goon who was charging at him and said, "You two do realize that there are still bozo's in here with us right!"

After saying that Czysty and Tamashi turned their attention to see the remaining group of men surround them with their weapons drawn and glares on their faces. Skreel took this opportunity and teleported beside them and placed his hand on the hilt of his Ender Blade. Silence was in the air and neither side made a move but then the silence ceased the leader stepped forward with his shoes making a clicking noise.

"A couple of brats. A couple of brats dealt with 23 of my men with ease and think they're on top of the world. But they just made their own grave." The Leader said as he grabbed the hilt of something from his back and pulled it forward revealing it to be a Scythe. "Now I'll make sure that you die along with those pathetic villagers that we'll slaughter."

Tamashi seemed to lose his temper and lunged out at the Raider Leader who anticipated this and blocked his lunge and the two went head to head with each other. Czysty on the other hand went to attack the rest of the Raiders. She punched one in the face and elbowed another in the ribs, causing major injuries to them. Her ears flickered and she turned to see a Raider with a Kama. He started slicing at her but to his dismay, Czysty evaded the attacks with precision and elegance without gaining as much as a cut and kneed the Raider in the face. He stumbled back and placed his hand on his face while groaning in pain and looked up just in time to see the wolf girl kick him on the side of the face. Three Raiders then charged at Czysty from either side but she didn't seem worried and spun around with her tails extended outwards and slapped the three in their faces and stomachs with them. With one final twirl she hit the three and sent them crashing down to the ground. After dealing with those few Raiders she turned to the others near her and narrowed her eyes at them, showing that she wasn't going to back down from people like them.

Skreel blocked each attack with his Ender Blade from five Raiders who attacked with their own bladed weapons. The men were shocked seeing Skreel block their attacks with ease and tried striking him down with such force. Getting tired of their attacks Skreel didn't hesitate and sliced each of them down though the blows were deep to the point of cutting off a limb or in half. Their bodies soon fell to the ground and lay lifelessly and Skreel swiped the air with his sword as he got rid of the blood on it.

"You're fucking dead kid!" He hear a goon shout from behind and quickly turned to see five more charging at him. All holding sharped swords and were ready to cut the Ender Boy down.

Skreel narrowed his eyes and turned around and as ready to face them but then felt movement behind him and immediately flipped out of the way as a massive hammer came down near him. After recovering from his flip he saw a bigger and bulkier Skull head similar to the rest but was clad in red armor and had a Wither Head Skull on his head and glared at Skreel as he picked up his hammer.

"Oh good, A Hulking behemoth and five scrawny idiots. This is going to be fun." Skreel said with some sarcasm in his voice.

The Bulkier Skull head looked a Skreel and raised his Hammer, ready to slam it down on Skreel while the Skull heads behind him flipped their swords and were ready to strike. Skreel was silent for the time being and flipped his sword, ready for the fight and said, "Bring it on chumps!"

Away from the fight was Andr who was hiding behind a corner and saw everyone fighting one another. She was scared and more importantly useless as everyone fought against the Raiders without any fear that fact that they could die at any given moment, but that didn't happen as she saw how determined they were as they fought.

"Well well well...what do we have here." A voice said from behind Andr.

The Endergirl immediately froze up and turned around to see five Raiders with grins looking at the crouched down Ender and seemed to grin.

"There was another one with them." One of the Raiders said.

"Cute girl actually. Heheh…maybe the Boss will let us keep her." Another added.

"Oh yeah he may. Heh. Oh but let's have fun with her first." One of them insisted.

This made all five of the Raiders chuckle darkly as they stared at Andr who couldn't do anything at all and was scared. She saw them gazing into her eyes and thn she felt something. Something was ringing in her ears as she gazed at the men and then something snapped in her as her eyes, Pupil, Sclera and all, turned bright purple and she screeched out in a horrible, demonic voice.

The Raider Leader held Tamashi in a choke hold and used his Scythe's hilt to choke him and it seemed to be a battle of strength which Tamashi seemed to be loosing.

"You pathetic, Ingrate! Did you honestly think you could best me boy. I'll make a fur suit out of you when I get the chance. Then, I'll raid that village and kill everyone in it, Men, Women, Children, it doesn't matter they'll all meet the same fat and then, I'll keep the girl as my little Pet. Who knows, I might have some fun with my pet as well since I claimed her fair and scare" The Leader said with a grin.

Tamashi started gagging and gritted his teeth as he tried to figure out a way to get out of this situation. The Raider Leader then started laughing but then got hit by a medium sized rock which hit is helmet off and turned his attention to see that Czysty threw it at him before turning her attention to one of the Goons who almost got the drop on her. The Leader held his head and turned back to Tamashi but only to get his neck clamped on my the Wolf Boys jaws. The Leader was shocked and punched Tamashi in the face which caused him to release his grip and hit the ground which caused him to cut his head though, this didn't stop his as he got back on all fours while growling loudly. Without hesitation he lunged at the Leader and force him on the ground then Tamashi gave him a barrage of punches he he punched him in the face, chest, gut…wherever.

"DON'T YOU DARE LAY A FINGER ON THOSE VILLAGERS OR THE VILLAGE AND DON'T YOU EVEN THINK OF TOUCHING HER!" Tamashi yelled loudly.

The Raider Leader didn't stand a chance against Tamashi's fury at all and once it ceased, he felt himself get raised in the air and was thrown until he crashed into the remaining 10 goons who were about to fight Czysty since she took out approximately 30 or 40 of them. This surprised the Wolf girl and she seemed to grin seeing them scrambled onto their feet and the Leader glared at the Wolf Girl and Wolf Boy. He was going to yell something but then turned to see that the giant Raider collapse onto the ground with the Ender Blade shoved in his head with Skreel standing on his head and then take the sword out of his head. He swiped it in the air as the blood came off of the blade and splattered on the floor and looked at the remaining goons.

"Next." Skreel said.

The Leader was shocked and so were his men as they backed away. Knowing that all his men were defeated he was desperate and hope he didn't want to say the words he ever wanted to say and shouted, "RETREAT!"

With that he and the remaining ten men ran for their lives in the opposite direction in fear from the three teens. The three sighed as they watched the Raiders disappear and turned their attention to each other.

"You two ok?" Skreel asked.

Czysty shook her head in a positive way and Tamashi simply gave him a thumbs up. Skreel saw this and smiled but then it soon turned into a frown when he remembered something.

"Oh Nether, Andr? ANDR!" Skreel shouted as he started looking around for her. Then as he did this the Ender girl came out of her corner and hugged Skreel.

"Y-Your safe. Thank Notch Your all safe." Andr said happily though she seemed a little worried.

"Hey it's alright. Nothing broken and nothing gone, we're all fine." Skreel said with a smile.

Andr then pulled away from her hug and then turned to Czysty and Tamashi to see Czysty bugging him and pointing at his cut on the head but he seemed to wave her off and tell her that he was fine though Skreel saw her eyes and knew that Tamashi wasn't.

"Hey, so do you think that's why the Miners haven't come down here?" Skreel asked.

"Yeah, I figured it was because of the mines of environment issues but knowing that it's Raiders, that's a big problem." Tamashi said seriously but smiled and looked at Czysty. "Of course, if it wasn't for her, we wouldn't have notice this in the first place."

He then started petting her head and scratching behind her ears which made her shiver and smack his hand away while giving him a glare.

"What, I thought you like getting scratched in the e-" Tamashi stopped what he was saying as Czysty stomped on his foot which made him howl out in pain and grab it, "Alright I won't do it again."

Andr and Skreel laughed at this and soon stopped once they gotten their laughs out of them and watched as Tamashi regained his footing.

"W-we should get going. C'mon,: Tamashi said as he took the lead and was soon followed by the others as they began to walk back to where they came from.

The Raiders were breathing heavily, some leaned up on the wall, others resting on the ground. The leader of them bashed his fist on the wall in the cavern and gritted his teeth in anger and hatred.

"Dammit, How? How did my men get defeated by three brats! Two of them were wolf hybrids and the other, Tch, JUST HOW DID WE LOSE!?" He roared in his head.

The Leader couldn't accept this. The moment he goes back to the camp he'll get all of his men and they'll all rain havoc on the village and he'll make sure those three pay. Though everyone heard walking and seemed to snap out of their thoughts and looked up to see someone approaching. Once in the light of the torches they saw the figures appearance.

The figure appeared as a teenaged girl who looked to be 17-years-old with rather pale skin that appeared to be either milky white, or an alabaster color. Her eyes were shining red just like rubies with dark red reptilian slits as her pupils and her hair was a nice teal color with brown tinges and it was rather long and it was wrapped into two large pigtails. One on her chest and one on her back. Her clothing was similar to a babydolls with dark orange leggings for bottoms, a dark violet T-shirt with a windbreaker with sleeves longer then her actual arm length, and a hint of teal eyeliner. She also wore a dark orange scarf that was wrapped around her neck and mouth and seemed to reach up her nose. What was noticeable about her was that she had wings on her back. One could easily mistaken these wings for an angels but that wasn't the case in this matter. These wings were a light grey colored but they were transparent as the entire bone-structure of the wings could be seen through the delicate looking feathers.

The Raiders stood where they were and looked at the girl before them and thus the eader held his scythe out and pointed it at her.

"Who the hell are you!?" The Leader shouted

As he said that to her he received no response, he only got a calm glance from the female. This irritated him and he looked at his men and each one stood up and grabbed their weapons. They then charged at the woman and yelled out as they were prepared to cut her to pieces though they watched as she raised her hand and snapped her fingers. Without warning the men started to get ripped apart as if someone was grabbing their body parts and forcefully tearing them apart. They all screamed and yelled in horror, fear, and agony but then it ceased as their blood was splattered everywhere and their limbs were sprawled all over the floor. The Leader was shocked, and already shaking in his boots as he saw what the girl did. She then looked at the blood and the bodies that was everywhere and he started backing away but as he did so the girl turned her attention to him which shocked him.

The Leader stared at her eyes and then saw her slightly narrow them and by her eye expression he could guess that she was smiling. He started sweating and was already shaking in fear and then felt his hands moving. He looked at his arms and tried controlling them but couldn't at all and turned his attention back at the girl to see her still staring at him.

"Wh-what the hell, what the hell, what hell, WHAT THE HELL!" The Leader shouted as he seemed to cry uncontrollably and sweat even more and felt the blade of the scythe touch his neck and said in a begging way, "Pl-please…I-I'll give you whatever you want. J-just let me live…I-I'll do anything."

The girl simply chuckled seeing how pathetic he was and snapped her fingers again and watched as the man was decapitated by his own weapon. His head fell to the ground with a thud and then was followed by his body. The girl continued walking forward with a calm gaze and stepped on the corpse without care what's so ever. She continued forward but then came up to a fork in the road and went right, the similar path where four familiar teens went and finally said, "This is going to be fun."

End of Chapter 8