Finding The Keys

Chapter 46(*)

*Maki*

I sat next to the fireplace, the two keys in front of me. Watching the glint of the fire in the refection of the metal keys. Grabbing a key ring from my side I attach the keys to it and soon I find myself start drifting off. I reach out to Puppet and Rosefang for conversation.
'I have two of you back...' I say with a smile in my head, mentally reaching out to both Puppet and Rosefang.
"The others will probably come more slowly..."
"She's right Mistress," Rosefang says, "I don't know when the others will come back"
'It's okay,' I say, my eyes beginning to drift close, 'I am just glad to have you two back.'
"We are glad to be back Mistress, let's find the others together"
"Yeah, Together"
'two down, Eleven more to go'
"We will get everyone back, the other keys could not have gone that far"
"Yeah I don't think they could have gone too far" Rosefang says.
The two personalities go to dream duty and quickly send me off into sleep.

*Inside Maki's head*

"Rose is she asleep?" Puppet asked Rosefang as she was laying on her bed.
Rosefang held a small crystal in her hand. The crystal was stored within Rosefang's jacket. The crystal is a Lokiotic Crystal, Lokiotic Crystals can be attach to a person's spirit. Rosefang had somehow managed to bring one from her old life so she attached it to Maki's spirit.
"Yeah she's sleeping peacefully," Rosefang says, "she's glad to have us back"
"Yeah she is," Puppet says leaning back at her desk as she monitored Maki's dream state, "looks like she is in a pretty rough state when it came to dreams while when we are gone."
Before Puppet set a book the pages magically recording Maki's every dream. Puppet glanced at the book every now and then to watch for any sign of nightmares. Puppet turn to talk to Rosefang again but instead Puppet was meet with her maroon-haired friend sleeping holding the crystal to her chest. Puppet smiled, turning back to the dream book. The inky black words danced onto the page letter my letter. Maki was dreaming about Puppet and Rosefang, her dreams were happy. A fantasy world wonderfully twisted to her own imagination. Red-bark trees stand tall in the dark red and brown grass flows freely in the slight summer breeze. Grey lanterns burn a bright red flame. The three of them stood in a field of the grass a fimilar, giant, black wolf by Maki's side.  The dream was mainly uneventful, just a good dream with Puppet, Rosefang, and Raven. Soon Puppet lowered her head down onto the desk and her eyes closed. Before she could stop it she had drifted off into sleep.

*Maxie*

I was still moving forward, it had been a few hours now and it was well into the night the cold winter wind blew and soon I can feel it nipping at my nose. I approached a town nessled up in the mountains, carefully patting my way threw the half a foot of snow that already lay on the ground. I stay towards the outskirts of the town and soon find the scent of three kanine like creatures, of which have a similar scent to myself, but different in their own individual way.
"Hello?" I call out in the language of the wolves, hoping to get a response, but to my surprise no response answers.
I continue moving forward, walking now threw deeper snow that covers the ground below me and it continues to fall heavily from the sky above me. I transform back into my human form to get a higher view of my surroundings, suddenly my human skin is hit will a massive wave of cold and I shiver and begin to shake. I see a light threw the forest, taking a few steps in it's general direction I go back to my wolf form to protect myself from the cold. I come across a small house, the porch light is on, meaning that somebody is definently home, and there's a bin of scraps on the porch covered in a plastic lid with a latch on it. I run up to the scrap bin, turn human and quickly, but quietly, open it. I turn back to my wolf form and begin eating the remaining food from the bin.
Suddenly there is an all to fimilar click to my left. I freeze, a tall male human is standing to my left pointing a gun at me. I lift my paws out of the bin one at a time before placing them back down on the snow covered porch. I imeaditally take a few steps back. My tail going between my legs to show my fear to the man and the gun, but to no use he doesn't lower the gun and the guy comes forward. The gun, is a double-barrel shotgun my mind flashes to the image of the many pellets in the casing of the gun. I sniff the air, only one side of the gun was loaded, he would on have one shot at me.
I take a few steps back closer to the edge and fall off the front porch, landing on my back in the snow. I roll over trying to get back up on my paws, the man fires once over my head sending the pellets into the snow around me. One skims my back I growl in pain as I run away from the house and into the woods. I smell the blood leaking out through my wound and onto the snow behind me, the cut seems to be a little deeper than I once though. I smell the scent of the other Wolf-likes again. This time much closer, I run towards their scents ignoring the throbbing pain from wound on my back. Once I alittle ways away from the house I collapse, flopping down on my side in the snow. I turn my attention now to my wound, my blood matted fur had helped stop the bleeding, but not the pain. I begin licking the wound hoping to clean it of any remaining gunpowder or bits of fur. Little did I know, but a few other someones could smell my blood too, and they were coming.