alfabrena so far had a good feeling about inomays brother, but something was wrong. something was in the air that made the dragons scales rustle and scrape against eachother making a slight musical sound. she liked the room she had been given for it looked much like her home in the olf forest but it had tapestries and silks. the dragon thought about turning into a great cat so that she would have more room to pace, but that thought was squashed by the odd feeling in the air that would just make her fur prickle and she hated that feeling. she was tired but sleep would not claim her. the high queen run through the list of herbs her mother had taught her untill sleep at last took her brining with it dreams of being a little alumna playing games with the other alumn in the nursury. alfabrena sighed in her sleep, the ends of her mouth twisted up slightly at the memories of simpler times.

inomay felt the strange feeling in tha air. she know what it was so it stoped bothering her. she awoke in the middle of the night. she exited the room and wonderd down to the gardens. the garded was illed with green and purpel and blue plants. in the center was a bright yellow flower. she sat under a willow tree. there was a gap in the branches so she could see the moon. sh she sat there lord laska sat next to her. his expretion unradabul. "why are you up so late?" asked the dog-wolf. "i should ask ypu the same thing" said the queen wolf. "you know that we should gather the army... i lord laska will not let thought filthy creacheers who look like ous to exist any longer."said laska with his deep lordly voice. the sika ushaly where white. some looked thier lord dog wolves. but they where a type o artic wolf. as inomay rememberd the snow she noticed there was non in the garden. as if reading her thoughts laska said "its fox magic. we asked the foxes and the ox wolves to help." there was a silence befor he spoke again. "i know what yu are planing to do. your going to cross the river gaara. i will escort you. i will dring my wourd to..." then i rememberd the beutiful little astrailien sheperd wolf mix. she was very young and aged faster than ous. she is still very young. "she cant traven as fast as ous. how is she going to keep up. we cant carry her when we fly." said inomay. "sister have you forgoten? i am ruler of the western lands. i know a fire cat named keelala. she can carry her." i know keelala. the two tailed demon cat was an old riend of mine. she could shrink into a kitten form. she was light brown with creem markings. she had a dimond on her for head and stripes on her tail. w sat there untill he tolde me to get some sleep. i vencherd back to my room and settaled down next o daverto again. sleep clamed me quicaly.

alfabrena awoke, stretched her beautiful long neck, and looked out of the large circler window. after greating the sun she thought about a similar felling in the air as last night but slighter, not as promanit, as though it was weakaning. 'no' thought the dragon with a slight shake of her head, 'it is not the same.it is more frantic, less meanicing.' she snorted, golden flame shooting from her nostrials. alfabrena lifted a diamond hard, needle sharp claw and cut the air in front of her. a gaping hole yawned at her, the entrance to her other space pocket. she had thought to bring to pocket with her the last moment before she and inomay had started their journy. it was like a bag that folowed her evrey where and could hold enormus amounts. she made the opening larger, stepped inside, up to the mirror of Arget. 'lets hope it be awake' the dragon queen thought.she arched her neck and said, "i call upon the visions the dragons of old wish for me to see." the mirror rippild as the surface of a small pull in a slight wind. an image ripled to the surface. alfabrenas eyes widened. never before had the mirror ever actualy shown her a vision. a beautiful valey, a hurd of peacfull mustangs. not even the stallion was on watch. but he should have been as the hurd, and alfabrena, found out a second later. "Atack!" cried a harsh voice from the trees around the valey. wolves pourd into the valey, howling their harsh war cries. the stallion bugled, filys and colts cried for their mothers, mares shrieked for their children as the heard scatered. running for the trees on the other side of the valey.the mirror rippled, the scene changed. a group of tree-sages miled around conversing in their creaky language. "Fire!" cried an unmistakeable wolf voice. wolves with flaming sticks ran through the sages seting the wise creatures on fire, their shrieks echoing through the queens head. "Enough!" cried alfabrena. but the dragons of old had one more vision for her. the mirror was filled with the image of a noble elf. his almond shaped eyes were a shocking blue, his hair a pure silver. finely curving features placed pricisly on his face. his clothes were ruset blending perfectly in to the rocks behind, the walls of his city. 'this be the one you must find.' said a sickly sweet voice from the mirror. suddenly the mirror was blank, leaving alfabrena to stare absently into it at her own reflection.

that morning alfebrena was quiet. as the group ate brakefast laska sat at the edge of the table. talking to the others. soon he rose "inomay my i speak to you?" he asked in his ushual voice. "why yes you can" replyed the varg queen. "ok whats up?" demanded inomay as they steped out of ear shot. "nothing my dear sister" replyed laska. "what happened?" "... well i know why you are planing to cross the river garra... you are going to realy sika's kindom arent you?" he asked with a sly smile. "mabbe" sha said. "have you heard from the fox-wolves?"asked inomay "yes achaly they will be sending Andre as a mesenger." stated laska. at the sound of andre's name inomay purked up. her nd the fox wolf where good friends. he also had a where fox side like her where wolf. laska lead them down the hall and into his chambers. in the corner was a puddel of water. around the edages there where sakura pettels. as she gazed into the water ineges began to form. one was a stallion fighting off a silver wolf. the wolf was coverd in scars. then the imege changed. there was an elf. and next to him was daverto. and next to them was a stallion. his cote was white with a silver gold mane. 'this are the two you must find... the horse is golden moon. he is the fastest horse alive... and to lord of horses. next to him is his conpanyon... no go!'. then everything went bact to normal. inomay looked at laska. "we need to leave today!' she said. looking at him. " i know andre shuld be here. lets go." as they enterd the hall inomay saw a blur of orange. the next thing she know was she was nocked flat and andre was on top of her waging his puffy tail. "HI ANDRE!" said the pups.

as andre hopped of alfabrena looked down upon the wolven queen. her face set and expresenless. "we must go," the dragon queen stated bluntly. "we must go and find the elve and stallion."

"first we must cross the river garra... then go to where lord sika lives" stated the she wolf. looking at the fox wolf who smiled.

alfabrena snorted, flame shooting from her nostril, anoyed. "yes, yes, of course.lets just go. something here is making my scales itch and its starting to get to me." she turned to look at bale wolf how had followed her out. "will you be coming then?" she asked. "of course," the old wolf growled, "gotta keep an eye on you dont i?"alfabrena snorted again. she looked out of the doors, the tip of her tail twitching.

they left with andre the fox-wolf and some of lord laska's men, and the lorde himself. the group triveled for 5 days befor they reached the river garra.

the river was on a rampage. it roared threw its banks like a caged rhino. 'this atta be fun.' alfabrena thought, watching the river rushing by.

"i wish we could fly over..." grumbeled kiery. "why cant we fly over?" asked the dragon. this time andre spoke "there s a spell over the river that would nock anyone down into the warer if they tryed." and then he jumped into the water inomay fallowed. they looked like they where going to die. but they made it. drake turned into a dragon and grabed kiery and fell and draged them acrost.

alfabrena snorted. she turned to daverto and bale wolf saying, "do you wish to ride, or draged?" bale wolf growled. "you have to ask?" the dragon chuckled and knelt so that the two could climbe onto her back. "hold on tight." alfabrena slid into the river and was surprised that she could reach some of the rocks that lay on the river bed. using them she draged herself and her pasengers across the river quickly to make it less possibale for the two wolves to lose their grip.she climbed up onto the opposite shore, knelt for daverto and bale wolf to jump off, and shook her scales dry. "that was easier then i expected," said the dragon looking back at the angery river.

"not realy... the river was only a small problem... we have bigger problems now." stated inomay. "there plains wolves here" andre finished looking around nervasly. Drake, now in his wolf form looked at them. *sigh* "grate..." "WHAT! No way in HELL am i going to get my ass killed!" he yelped. "what be thease wolves?" asked the dragon. "they are black with fier markings. and not very frendly might i add." said the fox-wolf.

alfabrena looked across the empty plains. she let out her breath like a gust of air. "there is nothing but to try and avoid these wolves as much as possible. the others nodded in agrement and together they set off across the wide expances of the plain wolves.

but the group was unaware that they have alredy been spoted, not event the dragon know.

far away even beyond the sight of the dragons keen eyes stood a group of plain wolves. their eyes burned as they glared at dots that were trespasing on their land. "captain?"spoke up a voice from near the center of the group. "whats the plan?" the leader of the patrole, an unusualy large plain wolf with a lightning blaze down his face, grined horrably his hacles rising. "we call the others.then we drive...them...out." the captians followers howled in wild excitment, jaws snapping, eyes flashing.

inomay snaped up her head up and growled. andre looked around. "you are my poeple! How Dare you try to drive ME OUT!." Howled the queen. eyes blazing with anger. the fox wolf looking at the queen. daverto looked to the sky and say the white falcon flying right for inomay a letter in her beak.

'this dosent look good,' thought alfabrena. "what does the letter say inomay-queen?mine as well get this over with so that we can keep moving."while the she-wolf opened and read the letter first to herself, the high queen raised her head as fare as she could while keeping all her feet on the ground, keeping a look out for the ambush that was to come.

Andre's eyes darted around as the scents of many unfamiliar wolves met his nose. He looked around slowly, his green eyes examining his surroundings. His tail swished back and forth lightly as he listened for the first sign of movement in his direction. His ears set back against his head and the hair on his back began to raise as well as his tail fur poofing out. He could feel his nose crinkle and a low growl begin to well up in his chest as he began to get worked up. He hadn't been in a fight in so long and he was really itching for one now.

as the wolfen queen opened the lette she read it. 'Dear queen. i sika send you welcome. i hear the lord laska is with you? please send him my greatings.' as inomay finished she rememberd right befor they got to the river. he had told her that he would see her at sika's pallace. she noticed that daverto was hideing behinde bale wolf. fell was standing behide the fox wolf with inomay's dragon-wolf son beside him. inomay saw the plane wolves aproching. she sproted wings and unforled them. her fangs grow and her eyes turned purpel. she jumped over the 4 wolves and landed lightly. a dark yellow cresent moon on her forhead. the sighn of the queen of the wolves. she glared at the aproching wolves. how dare they betray me! just when i need them the most.

"i dout they would like it much if i put them into a mind cage but that looks to be the only way to speak with them."she felt the shock of her companions, then their anger. "cool yourselves!"snaped bale wolf. "this is not the time for us to be fighting umong ourselves. and yes that includes the plains wolves for they shall make a good allie." "and an even worse enamy." alfabrena added, nodding. she turned her head slightly so that she was looking down upon the wolf queen threw one saphire eye. "what say you queen?for even though they turn against you they are still your people and i would rather not imprison them against your will."

"Do as you must dragon. i must speak to general NightGard." the wolf queen looked at andre. the fox looked at her and "growlf ". she understould and looked at the aproching 'military' heading at them.

Andre let out a sort of sneeze and he layed himself down on the ground, his head lying between his paws. His tail swished back and forth over the ground as he stared intently at the approaching force. Without moving his head, he looked up at Inomay then back at the wolves, then back up at her. His ears layed back against his head as he stared at her. His tail continued to wag as he patiently waited for her to give him a command of some sort.

'wait for it'bale wolf said threw the mind conection he and alfabrena had shared since he had taken her on as an apprentance, 'wait for it.wait untill the first leaps' the dragon cocked her head, her eyes narowing in concentration. as the leader of the hord leapt, alfabrena threw out her mind cage and he haulted in mid air as he hit the bars only he and his troop could see. the plain wolves threw themselves against the bars untill the leader growled "hault". they stoped and stood still, panting,growling, their fur bristling.

"NightGard! What is the meaning of this!" the black and red wolf with the yellow markings on his face. "inomay? it can't be. Bella said that she had not seen you and she tought you where dead-" he was cut off by inomay "WHAT?! She is ALIVE!" exclamed a very flusterd and confused inomay. "yes. and she is determaned to fallow in your footsteps my queen. she left about one year to live with the kitsuns. you will have to cross the moutans of mist." said the general. "Andre." barked inomay. the fox wolf jumped up and was at her side in seconds. "yes?"he yiped. "send for kenny, he will lead the fox-wolves to sika's palace. you will come with me. Fell i want you to travel and find the shadow clan wolves and finde kenny and his wolves and join up with them. keiry u and the falcon will gather the life clan wolves. Drake You find every forest wolf you can find send the to sika's palace then find daverto. daverto YOU need to gather all k9s you can find. go to lord laska's. then drake will take you to lord sika's. dragon you and bale wolf are with me and andre." she looked at them and looked at the plains wolves. "and you will gather the rest of your kind and go and train the others at lord sika's." just as she finished lord laska troted up besides her ans growled at andre. he shoved himself between inomay and the fox-wolf. "and what about me sister?" he asked. "you will send ur men to lord sika's and come with me." she stated in a comanding voice. she looked at the hord or blakc wolves befoe her. "my queen. we will fight with you. no matter what we will stand." she smiled. "where be we going wolf?" asked the dragon queen. "we will find the mountain wolves and ask them to help us. then we are going to viset the kitsuns and retrive Bella." she stated and sent every one on thier way. then inomay and her now small group started to head to the mountains of mist. "Why do I get to go with you?" he asked sounding amused and hinting at something. inomay growled and muterd "Baka." Lord laska wonderd why she was talerating someone lower ranking teasing her. she was an alpha. THE alpha. him and the other Kannie lords are only betas. not alphas. he looked at the sky and saw that it was getting dark.

"I am going to go and run around for a while Inomay, if you don't mind. I need to stretch my legs and get a little excersise." He looked at the wolf queen as he said this and gave a small smile when she nodded in approval. He gave a small, but respectful bow before he turned tail and bolted off into the woods to run for a while.

"it has been long since i have feed."alfabrena rumbeled, raising her head and scaning the plains surrounding the group. "i must hunt. i shall not take long." with that the high queen took to the skies in a rush of air and sparkle of her scales. "i heard that if you lined the dragons side by side that they would shimmer and sway in a living rainbow." said inomay, gazing up at the gleaming dot that was the rapidly shrinking dragon, cocking her head to one side.bale wolf looked foundly at the shimmering huntress and whipered gravely, "you heard right."

inomay turned her head to see andre running pack draging a large buck. "you got food." inomay said smileing at the fox-wolf.

Andre grinned at her but didnt respond until he dropped the dead animal near her, licking the blood from his muzzle. "Yeah. This one actualy put up a fight..." He commented as he lifted up his front left paw and licked a small cut on it.

once they were trew with their meal alfabrena returned in a spirl of wind that tuged at the wolves fur and created a roaring dust storm. "sorry about that." alfabrena chuckled as they shook the dust from their pelts. "at least you waited untill we were done."bale wolf grunted.

as the sun set the small group settled down to sleep. the bare of a wolf lied down next to the dragon in the clearing. inomay went to sleep in a near by thicket. as she lied down andre poked him head in. "do u mind is i bed with you?" he asked looking hopeful. as inomay looked at him he put his ears down in an atempt to look cute. the she-wolf smiled and said "how could i say no to that face?" he wagged his tail as he crawled in and curled up around her. makeing her feel safe.

Andre began to pur as he lay curled up around Inomay, enjoying the warmth that their fur was making between them. He closed his eyes and started swishing his tail back and forth as he started to drift off into a peaceful sleep.

alfabrena hummed somewhere deep in her throut as she felt the two wolves happyness sweep threw her mind, and having bale wolf curled up next to her looking like a great wooly rug. 'all thats missing,' thought the dragon sadly as the humming died out, 'is my people.and of course ceina,'she added with a slight chuckle. 'yah....thats all thats missing,'and she slid into the happy memories awaiting for her in sleep.

inomay woke in the middle of the night with a yip. she was panting and shakeing. her dreams had woken her ans caused her to be scared out of her mind. she looked over to see Andre looking at her with a conserned look on his face.

Andre kept staring at her for a moment then he tilted his head to the side a little. "Are you okay Inomay? You looke pretty frightened." He lightly licked her nose and nuzzled his neck with hers then looked at her again with his ears back and his tail around her as much as it could.

"awake alfabrena!"snapped bale wolf in his grvely whisper. alfabrena jerked her head up blinking rapidly. she looked down at her old master shocked to see his fur ruffled. "bale wolf, what-" she stopped as she caught scent of what had made him wake a dragon before dawn. "bats!"she hised. the dragon high queen turned into a sleek black panther and ran to the bush where inomay and andre were sleeping. "quick!uder here!" and she slipped under the haning branches with bale wolf close behind. "what-?!" began inomay hotly. "quiet!" hissed alfabrena, syping her tail across the she-wolf muzzle. alfabrena stuffed her own muzzle into the queens ear and whispered harshly, "bats. spies of your sister. be still and sitent."

inomay wanted to growl but was not only silenced my the dragon panther but by Andre. he had pushed himself agented inomay to draw her attention away. she stuck her muzzle into Andre's neck fur. for reasons unknown to her his sent calmed her. she she sat there with her muzzle in him neck fur, she waited for the bats to leave. as soon as they did the dragon then bale wolf wondered into another bush. as the left inomay curled up with Andre. she licked him muzzle. as she lied down her head he placed him head on top of her neck and fell asleep..

Andre snuggled closer to his the wolf as he started to drift off into a deeper sleep, one of which he normaly would have a nightmare of some sort and often needed the accompanyment of someone else while he sleeped to keep his nerves calmed. He breathed deeply and exhaled slowly as a dream started, uncertain of whether or not it would turn out to be a nightmare or a dream.

as she slept alfabrena was pulled, into anothers dream. she was the dreamspeaker and it was time for her to full fill that post.alfabrena lookd down apon the creator of the dream her ansectors had sent her, "hello andre."

as inomay dreamed she twitched. she was running, from what he did not know. then she came to a clearing lit by moon light. what she saw almost made her wake up. in the clearing was a wolf that looked almost identical to inomay. the only difrence was that she was a tan brown. the wolf event had a matching scar on her muzzel as inomay had. the brown wolf looked at inomay, her yellow eyes gleaming. "hellow mother." inomay looked shocked. her legs splayed slightly to suport her and stop her from falling over. "B-Bella?" inomay studderd. the brown wolf smiled with a cocky grin. when she grined all dought left inomay. that was definitaly her child. she ran to her and licked her mizzle. "Where have you been! how did u live!? wha-" she was cut off by bella "i will answer you once you find me. but mother i came to see if you where alive. i had herd roomers and found nothing. but when herd about my brother ans sister travaling with a black she-wolf i has to know. the kitsuns have tought my alot and i finaly found you through dreams. mother i have to go so i take it i will see you soon." and with that bella vanished. inomay looked franticaly around "BELLA!" she cried. she then sat down and let out the mostm mornfull howle. then she woke up and storted whimpering into andre's neck.

Andre twitched a few times and groaned for a moment as he slowly woke up. He heard Inomay whimpering for some reason and his eyes slowly opened to find her face in his neck and her whimpering. His ears set back against his head and he curled himself around her more and put his long, bushy tail around her as well. "Inomay? Are you okay?" He asked with a concerned voice as he looked at her.

her duty done alfabrena returned to her own dreams. she was a long legged cheetah, running flat out toward a distant wood. 'hurry,' whispered a voice in her tiny, round ear.alfabrena squeaked but didn't slow. she was copleatly determend on getting to the forest as soon as possiable, an inexplicable line conected her to something inside the forest. 'you must hurry,'whispered the voice. "i know!"cried out alfabrena. 'time is of the essence.' "i know!i know!" cried alfabrena again,pleading for the eagles to lend flight to her small,fured feet,pleading the mountains to lend strength to her heart for she was not sure what she would find at the end of the line.all she knew was that she had to reach it.and quickly.

inomay looked at the fox-wolf with yellow eyes filled with sadness. she whimperd and said "my pup is alive... but she left me iin my dream..." she started to whimper again. Andre licked her muzzle to calm her. she was still whimpering but she courled event clouser to him.

Not finding any more words to say to the she-wolf, he just kept silent and let her get whatever it was she needed to out of her system while he lay there keeping her company and comforting her. He closed his eyes and put his head against hers and purred quitly to help calm her.

the sun warmed her as it rose above the mountains. alfabrena woke with a gasp. she had to reach those woods, only, she didnt know which woods they were. 'youll know'whispered the voice.alfabrena sighed, "as you say,so it will be"alfabrena whipered to the rising sun.the high queen sighed again, flew to a small rise to great the sun and wait for the others to wake.

inomay got up and streched. as she did andre fallowed her out and niped playfuly at her neck. she yiped playfuly and then wonderd over to the dragon and bale wolf. "shal we?" asked inomay as she turned into a large were wolf with black bird wings. she grabed andre and took to the skies along with the dragon. they soon arieved at the end of a very old looking forest. inomay stayed in her were wolf form. as they wonderd it got darker and darker. then everything was lit by an eary light. soon they reached what looked like a village. a large kitsun walked up to them, holding a spear. "who are you?" he asked his blue gray fur brisseling. "Yerf " said inomay. the kitsun stoped ans smiled.

Andre stayed behind Inomay and layed on the ground quietly, peering between her legs from down on the ground at the kitsune. Andre had his head between his paws again, and he looked up at the kitsune only with his eyes. This was a sign of respect for the kitsunes that his father had taught him and he followed it very strictly.

'what an odd lokking creature' alfabrena thought, tilting her head to pear at the lone kitsune with one large saphire eye. 'never before have i ever seen the like.have you bale wolf?'alfabrena asked him threw their mind contack. 'yes'bale wolf answered, 'long ago.not sure how there going to take to seeing me again.best become something a bit smaller so as not to offend them young one.' alfabrena snorted but obliged the old ones warning by becoming a golden lioness as large as bale wolf. 'better?' she asked. 'much.not to big but still showing your athority at being high queen of the dragons by becoming a sun cat.very well thought out alfabrena.well done.' alfabrena sat up strater. it wasnt often bale wolf gave compliments and she was going to bask in the feeling of her old mentors praises for as long as time alowed.

" i see you still remember our language." said the kitsun with a smile. "welcome inomay. and i see you have some 'friends' with you." then he turned and led her to a village of sourts. there were kitsuns of all colors. red, white and silver. foxes of all types. they where lead through the 'village' and into a temple. sitting praying was a white kitsun. she had 8 tails. she turned to face them with a smile. "hello" she said with a very beautiful voice.

As they walked through the village, Andre looked around at all the kitsunes and foxes that were there. He saw very many that especialy caught his eye, especialy the white females. He had a thing for white fur, he didn't know why. He smiled back as some smiled at him and he kept padding along at Inomay's side. When they stopped he looked forward to see a lovely white kitsune with eight tails standing before them. His jaw dropped slightly but he quickly closed his mouth, though he continued to stare at her. She was beautiful, and her voice was mezmarising..

'how odd they are'thought alfabrena as she padded threw the home of the kitsuns. 'do you know much about them bale wolf?' 'i know very little about the kitsuns.' he answered. 'what i do know though is that they are not native to this land as are the dragons and griffens and other such fantastic creatures.and that it is none to smart to ofend one, so mind your toung young one.' alfabrena snorted but said nothing. she padded along side bale wolf behind inomay, looking around at the kitsuns and the place they called home.