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Anders looked at the sky and it was almost morning "We better pack up camp and move on." he said standing up and disassembling his tent.

Kumo nodded, slowly getting up. He tilted his head to one side, curious of how Jamie was doing. He poked his head inside the tent, "We're packing up.", he nodded, "Be ready by sunrise."

Jamie pushed Kumo out of her tent "Don't peek inside my tent!" she said , angrily.
"Yeah, man" said Anders, helping Kumo to stand up "You should really learn how to impress a girl. Never, but never peek inside her room or tent"

Reccarn helped pack the camp and they all placed inside the wagon that Gordon said it was now Kumo's, as a reward for saving him and his son and letting them stay.

Reccarn pushed the caravan and everyone was ready to go to the north.

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It was a relief that nothing attacked them while going to the Temple of Lightning. When they got a little close, Imrik and Gordon stayed away from the temple with the wagon so that the party would go foward.
Kumo looked at the temple, his old home, and it was intact. Like if nothing bad happened. He quickly ran inside the temple and screamed for the names of his friends, but the temple was completly empty.
"Strange..." Morrigan said "No bodies... No structural damage... No signs of battle"

"Dad? Otto? Mimi---", Kumo stopped in his tracks, remebering the blood mage. He shook his head angrily, and continued to look around the temple.

"Why is everything so... Empty?" asked Anders.
"Perhaps they fled?" said Jamie, shrugging.
"Or perhaps it's a trap." said Reccarn, coldly.

"Thanks, Reccarn!" Anders said sarcastically "Now we all can... Wait... Kumo, look out!!" he jumped on Kumo and pushed him away from the wall.
"D-Did you see that?!" he pointed at the wall. There was nothing, but plain white marble "Th-There was this... This thing! It was grey! Almost captured Kumo!"
"Did you drank more booze, Anders?" asked Morrigan, rolling her eyes.
"I'm not joking! I'm serious! Something came out of the wall"

"I didn't see anything...", Kumo sat back up, staring at Anders uncertainally(sp?). "...sure you weren't imagining it...?"

"Man, I can lie a lot of things, but I don't lie what I see" said Anders, staring at the wall.
Jamie shook her head "We better keep looking"

The party separated and looked through the rooms. Everything was clean, the beds were made, the bathrooms were all in order.
"I found it!" yelled Jamie. Everyone ran towards her and she was holding... Some kind of rock "I found it!"
"Found what? A rock? Ooooh, big deal" Morrigan said.
"A rock? No! It's my mother's amulet! I thought I broke it" Jamie said she hugged the rock.

"Now I'm the one seeing things, uh?" said Anders, sighing.

"Um.. okay...", Kumo mumbled, "Well, lets carry on....."

Kumo looked at the room where the soup feastday would be. The marble and wood table was there, intact. Kumo touched the chair of the Archbishop and remembered the days where he would play as king of the world.

Suddenly, he heard a nervous chuckle.

"....Can't heLp you now....."

Kumo turned, "Who said that?", he barked, pricking his ears.

"Said wha...?" asked Anders, looking at Kumo.

"....Even a dead god can dream..." another nervous chuckle.

"Don't you guys hear that?", Kumo tilted his head to one side.

"Something... Is calling me..." said Reccarn, staring at the statues of Nagoku.

Another chuckle.

".....Do you hear me Sir Wilhem, Sir Wilhem?" the first phrase was spoke by the strange voice that looked like thousands of wolves talking at the same time, and Kumo could hear someone crying at the background.

"I am falling Ser Wilhem, Ser Wilhem, today.
I'm a maiden Ser Wilhem. Ser Wilhem?
But I'm dying Ser Wilhem, Ser Wilhem. In paaain...." Kumo recognized the voice from Mimiko, then a sweet chuckle.

Kumo remembered this song that Mimiko taught him.

"Mimiko!", Kumo exclaimed, frantically looking around, "Where are you?!?"

Terra nodded at Pyll. "Yes, ma'am." She then turned to Petterusco. "I have four pups, but you are welcome to stay with us."
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"... Oh. Okay." Tempo reached out and touched the pot, obviously embarrased and worried.

Kumo didn't notice, but he was standing in a garden, full of yellow flowers. He looked at the distance and saw a brown wolf sitting in the flowers. It was Mimiko.

She looked at Kumo and smiled.
"Have I told you the story of bonny Lynne, Kumo?" she asked then she started walking slowly around the garden.

"No.....", Kumo ran over to where the banished she-wolf was. "Tell me now...please."

Kumo: -

Mimiko screamed very loud and she fell on the ground, bleeding. There was a strange wolf with red eyes behind her, and his mouth was full of blood.

"Come, come, bonny Lynne; tell us, tell us where you’ve been
Were you up, were you down
Chasing rabbits ‘round the town
Come, come, bonny Lynne; tell us, tell us where you’ve been
Come, come, bonny Lynne; we’ve a bed to put you in
It is soft, it is warm
It will shelter from the storm
Come, come, bonny Lynne; we’ve a bed to put you in
Dear, dear bonny Lynne sleeps the peaceful crib within
A mossy stone, a finger bone
No one knows but Lynne alone
Dear, dear bonny Lynne sleeps the peaceful crib within"

Said the strange wolf, with Mimiko's voice.


Terra: -

"Ahh... I bet they are as beautiful as their mother" said Petterusco "It's a shame that your father is not here to see them"

Tempo: -

Tempo touched the glass and suddenly, he saw himself standing in a garden full of yellow flowers. He looked at the sides and saw three wolves. One white with yellow thunder bolts on the fur, one lying on the floor bleeding and another black one.

(( the wolf looks like this http://h.imagehost.org/0493/wolf.jpg ))

"Mimiko!!!! No!!", Kumo wailed, charging himself at the red wolf. "What did you do to her!?!?! Stop it!"

"I thought you wanted to learn about bonny Lynne, Kumo" said the black wolf. Something was keeping Kumo in place, he was running towards the wolf but he wasn't moving from the place.

"You are my first and best friend, right Kumo?" asked the wolf, but in a more gentle and young way. Kumo looked at one side and saw himself with Mimiko, playing.
"You are my first and best friend, right Kumo?" asked Mimiko that was playing with Kumo.

"Yes... of course...", Kumo mumbled, holding back salty tears.

"LIAR!!!!" said the wolf and Mimiko together.

Kumo woke up startled by all that thing. He looked at the sides and found himself back at the temple, but... It was different.
The temple was all destroyed, with corpses of the wolves charred around. All the building was burned down and Kumo saw no one alive.

"G-Guys?", Kumo whimpered, looked around at all the bodies. "...you here? Anders? Jamie?"

Kumo recognized some of the corpses as one of the workers and worshippers of the temple of Nagoku.
He looked around the temple and saw nothing, but corpses and corpses. He saw Anders sitting on the table of the living room. He was looking at the roof and humming a tune.

"Anders!", Kumo quickly ran over to the red wolf, "Where are the others?!?"