Star's POV

Toboe gets keys out of his right pants pocket and opens the front door to his house as quietly as he can.

"Try to be as silent as possible, ok?" He says as he leads me and Kira up the stairs of his house. "My parents like to go to bed early on Sunday nights." He stops at a door seven feet to the left of the stairs on the second level. "Kira, you can stay in this room for now."

"Thanks." She whispers to Toboe, then slips into the room. Toboe turns around and walks the other direction. He stops at a door to the farthest end of the hallway. Across from the door is yet another set of stairs leading to a higher floor level.

"You can stay in this room, Star. My room is right to the top of these stairs. Just come up if you need anything." He starts up the stairs, then stops half-way and says to me, "I'll let my parents know that you and Kira are here in the morning. Then we'll all discuss future plans." He flashes me a smile, then disappears all the way up the stairs. I let out an exhausted sigh and go into the room. It has green walls and tan colored….I think it's carpet. I run and jump onto the large bed with black sheets. I crawl up to the top of the bed and bury my head in the mountain of fluffy white pillows. Before I know it, I'm dreaming.

***Dream Sequence***

I run like the wind through a never-ending field of sweet, cool grass. The clear blue sky has no pollution, and is filled with lots of thick, fluffy clouds. The air is cool and slightly moist to perfection. I walk up to a vast lake and take a drink. The water is icy in my mouth, but when I put a paw in the water, it feels warm enough to play and or bath in. My ears perk up, as I smell mouse. I stalk around a thick bush and spot a large, fat brown mouse. I swipe my tong around my lips and silently sneak up around the back of the prey. I leap, and swiftly bite the mouse's neck, killing it. I lick the blood off my razor sharp teeth and bite into the mouse, devouring it in no more than three bites.

"Enjoying yourself, Young Wolf?" The voice asks me.

"Yes, it's amazing here! It's like…like…"

"The perfect world where any wolf can be happy. When I showed you the past of the old wolfs, do you remember what there mission was?"

"Yeah, it was to find paradise. Wait! Is this-?"

"Not exactly. You are dreaming, but you are dreaming in a world where what you do here effects you in the real world. This could be considered paradise, but the true paradise that the Old Wolfs set out to find is hidden within the real world. This one-I mean I thank and congratulate you on finding Toboe. The next Old Wolf is soon to be met. Just go along with what Toboe says, you will know when to break the path."

"Ok, but-" Before I can finish speaking, the land turns into mist, and swirls around me.

"Star, Star, STAR!" Kira's voice yells at me, as I open my eyes, She pushes me to the floor. She leans over me and asks,

"Are you awake?"

"Well, I am now." I reply, rubbing sleep from my eyes.

"Good." She smiles and helps me up. "Toboe and his parents are downstairs with breakfast ready. They want to have a word with us." She walks out of the room, me walking not too far behind.

A wooden table sits in the middle of a white, sweet smelling room. There is more human food on the table that I've ever seen. That is, food that is still good and not in a dumpster.

"Hello, girls." A woman with similar-colored hair to Toboe's says to me, smiling.

"Take a seat and dig in." Says a man, putting down a newspaper. He has dark brown hair, and both the older humans have the same light brown eyes as Toboe.

"Star, this is my mom and my dad." Toboe says, walking up to stand in between the older human's seats.

"Oh, please dear. You can call me Kim." Says Toboe's mom.

"And you can call me Vic." Says Toboe's dad. "Now, I understand that you don't have any parents?" Vic asks me.

"No, I don't. But Kira is basically my guardian." I say.

"Well then, it would only be customary for the both of you to say with us." Kim says.

"Oh, I don't-"

"That's wonder-" Kira and I speak at the same time.

"We don't want to-"

"We would love to-" We speak at the same time again. We stare at each other, and she nods at me, embarrassed, to speak."

"That's really nice of you, but we wouldn't want to impose." I say to Kim and Vic.

"We insist. It beats sleeping on the streets, right?" Kim says with kind eyes, smiling.

"Ok…thanks." I say.

"Well, it's Monday, so school starts in an hour." Toboe says.

"Right, do you go to a school?" Toboe's mom asks me, his dad reads the newspaper again.

"Um no, never have." I say, looking down.

"Well then, I assume the same with Kira, then?" Kim asks.

"Yeah." She says with a solid face.

"Lets get to the school now then, everyone. We're going to sign Kira and Star up for school."

Kim, Kira, Toboe and I walk into a room with a lot of woman, busily typing at computers, which I only know what they are because I say one in my trash heap and a house cat told me what it was.

"Hello, I'm here to sign these two girls up for school." Kim says to a bigger woman in front of a large, flat surface.

"Oh, hello Kim. Are they relatives of yours?"

"Not exactly. The younger girl is a new friend of Toboe and the older one looks after her. There homeless, so Vic and I are letting them stay at our house." The large woman nods, and replies,

"How nice, just fill out these forms." She hands papers to Kim. Then the woman turns to me and Kira and asks us,

"How old are you girls?"

"I'm seventeen" Kira says with confidence.

"I'm, uh, fourteen." I say, unsure at first.

"Good, good. I'll put you in all of Toboe's freshmen classes." She says to me, then turns to Kira and asks, "And since you've never been in school, I'll put you in the junior class, you'll just be at the older spectrum of the grade." Kim hands the papers to the large lady, whom fixes her glasses and says, "You didn't put a last name for them?"

"We don't know them." Kira quickly replies.

"Then we'll ignore it for now." The woman walks across the part of the room behind the flat surface, them comes back a minute later with two papers, which se hands to me and Kira. "Here are your class schedules."

"Thank you." I say.

"I'll show you guys around the school." Toboe says, and leads us out of the room.

"See you guys at home." Kim calls to us.

"Well, that's the whole school." Toboe says. "It might seem big, but you get the hang of it. The worst part of high school is-"

"Hey, pipsqueak." Three guys walk up to us, cutting Toboe off mid-sentence. The guy in front, who speaks, has short, blonde hair and blue eyes. The guys behind him, probably twins, have red hair and brown eyes. They all have the same jackets on, and are visibly muscular.

"Who the new girls?" The guy to the right asks.

"None ya business." Kira replies, staring the guys down.

"Heh, scary." Says the blonde. "Turner, Garret." The blonde nods to the red-heads.

"Ok, Jay." They reply at the same time. Turner and Garret stalk up to Kira and grab her arms.

"Come with Jay, sweet-heart." Turner says, shoving her towards Jay. Then Garret picks me up and Turner picks up Toboe and they walk up next to Jay.

"The usual?" Asks Turner.

"Yeah." Jay says, with a slight smile. He walks along pushing Kira, with the twins, who forcibly carry me and Toboe, up to a massive dumpster.

"Hope you like left-over's." Calls Jay from five feet backwards.

"Don't you dare!" Growls Kira. Oh no, when are emotions rage, we appear wolf! They'll all see her true identity! Just then, a noise too high-pitched to hear except for me and Kira sounds from the orb on my necklace. Kira ignores it. She pushes Jay to the ground and charges up to Garret and Turner. She knocks Garret down, freeing me. Just before she can get to Toboe, a boy with black hair and icy blue eyes pushes Turner to the ground, and swipes Toboe from his arms. He sets Toboe next to me, and fixes his black long-sleeved jacket, and brushes off his blue jeans.

"You guys ok?" He asks me and Toboe.