The slaves

''' BEEP BEEP. GRAMMAR POLICE HAVE SHUT THIS STORY DOWN DUE TO BAD WRITING AND CRINGE WORTHY PLOT. READ AT YOUR OWN RISK. BEEP BEEP. BUT I DO WANT YOU READ THE REMAKE. OLD STORY STARTS AT THE CHAPTER NAMED P OLD STORY. BEEP BEEP ''' I'm going to re-do this story. I will keep the original story posted until the new one is finished. You don't have to be super nice in the comments. I will accept constructive criticism on the new draft. For a year I was too frightened to go on this page myself...

BTW: My ultimate pet peeve is when people compare this to Slave of the Phantoms (remake and original). This story was in the making WHEN my sister Akurle WAS making Slave of the Phantoms. This story was released 5 days after akurle created slave of the phantoms (Not the finished version).

Chapter 1: The Fire that Changed Everything
Fire rose. Smoke filled the sky, blocking out any light, any hope. The world seemed to cry as trees crashed. It was barely a moment before all of the forest had become black dust in the sky. The fire rose higher as if it was a beast. This beast was flickering red. A mane of orange and yellow. Feet that seemed to grow of of the ground as a light blue, then to a white. A mouth so big it could swallow any life. It could easily swallow me, a trembling wolf, hardly any flesh on my small body. Some said I was just a bag of dusty fur and a few bones. When I was younger I thought mother had found me in a bag and I was adopted. This caused much drama for that few weeks.

I heard a yell. It came from behind me, not from the roaring beast. I turned and saw movement beyond the smoke. The movement took shape as a dark speck pounding to me. A bunny? Wait, it was Mother. Tears swelled in my eyes. Mother had come back for me, not a bunny. What would have happened if I was crying for a bunny?

I started to run to her, my heart about to leap out of my chest. Mothers features started to take shape as a wolf with light dusty fur. Even in the smoke you could see her fierce eyes. Maybe more powerful then the beast that roared behind me as it slowly claimed more ground.

"Come, Zaara. Father has found a safe place to hide." Mother licked my ears. I put my nose into her fur. Beyond the smell of ash and dust I could smell the scent of fresh flowers.

"Come now, we have no time to waste." Mother started to run across the cracked ground with me following. As Mother ran I saw her paws flick up dust. The pads on her feet oozed red. Mine were no different, nor a bunny's.

As we ran the smoke grew less thick and you could see burned trees. The ground slowly sloped downward. I started to have trouble keeping my balance. The ground kept going downward. My feet gave up and I tumbled and I rolled downward. My stubs of claws could not hook onto the ground and slow my fall.

Dust flew into my eyes. I coughed. I rolled faster and for a second I saw mother running faster to catch me. I thought, for all the things around me I could die of, would it be tripping and rolling off a cliff or whatever laied beyond me? Then I felt paws on my back. I though mother taken a large leap and had caught me, but I looked up to see that she was still running to me. I got to my paws and In front of me was a strange animal, not mother.

The animal looked like a wolf but a bit too skinny. A long, slim, furry tail swayed behind it. The beast had a short snout, one that looked like a leopards. Unlike a leopard, its mouth stretched up to its eye, which was the most haunting. It's eye was a milky white with a pure white pupil. The beast had long midnight black fur that was thick around its neck with long fur and ears. The strangest part of the beast was the fuzzy antenna that come out of its forehead. The antenna had a round glowing green ball at the end. On the beasts back were long ovals that glowed the same green.

"Is, is that... a phantom?" I turned to mother. She nodded. "We need their help."

I turned to the phantom. I heard stories that my great grandfather was a phantom, and when he died he told mother that if we ever needed the phantoms help, we just needed to ask them. Maybe this was the time. Mother and Father always had a larger respect for the beasts. Other animals tended to shut them out, frightened by their mouths and eyes, not like it was uncommon. Mother and Father always would start arguments with others about how misunderstood the phantoms were. Kids at school would tease me for being part phantom sometimes. I never cared, I never wanted to get into all the drama of phantoms plotting plans, phantoms are mistaken, phantoms are creepy, arguments. I just wanted to live a life without that drama.

"Come." The phantom spoke with a smooth and soft tone. For a second its mouth opened to show rows of small, pointy teeth. My guts wanted to shrivel into dead bugs, which I had seem plenty of. I enjoyed science so much that I was willing to dissect bugs and other creatures. Yet if my science teacher set a dead phantom on the dissecting table and said "It is just a bug, look at its antenna," I would run away forever.

My legs wouldn't move. The phantom turned to look at me, waiting. Mother pushed me forward. I started to move, Step by step, breath by breath. I wonder what even is in his body... NO, how dare I ever think of something like that. It is like making a friend because your interested in what is inside there body!

I heard a crash. All eyes turned to the large tree thats canopy was in flames. The tree started to fall, slowly, then gained speed. If we didn't move, we would join the flaming canopy.

Mother screamed and picked me up by the scruff and started to run. The phantom ran with us. The glowing green spots on its back was the only thing that told us were to run because the smoke filled our sight. Everything outline with red as the tree fell closer. Mother screamed again and dropped me. I turned to look at her. A flaming branch had landed on her back. Her fur was consumed in red. For once I saw fear in her eyes. The phantom stopped running and ran to Mother.

"GO!" Mother screamed. The phantom nodded and picked me up by the scruff and started to run. I screamed and looked back at mother. Her eyes held fear, but not for her life, for mine. She smiled even as the flames took her life. For a second it looked like Mother was one of them. A wolf of fierce love. Love that burned brighter then any flame. Then the world slowed. The flaming tree slowly crashed on top of mother. Mother did not seem to notice, her eyes were fixed on me. The flames then consumed her. The last thing I saw was her fierce eyes, they never really faded, just become one with the fire as if they where made out it.

I screamed again and tried to wiggle free but the phantom held its grip on my scruff. I gave up on trying to wiggle free. Mother was gone, was it even worth living? Yet Mother would want me to fight for justice. Tears swelled in my eyes. I wailed and forgot about the phantom, forgot about the fire, forgot about Father waiting for us, forgot about everything that ever happened. I was stuck in the moment of tears, nothing else mattered, like when I would escape, when I would ever get over this sorrow.

Chapter 2: A Mad Tiger and a Phantom
As time passed the smoke lessened, and the sky cleared. My tears dried and the sot bounced out of my fur from the bumpy ride. The phantom ran at a fast pace and never stopped. Soon all the smoke was gone and a small town appeared. The phantom ran into the town. The roads were made of flat rocks and the houses were made out of wood with roofs made of leaves. The paths all connected to the center of the village and made a spiral.

The phantom dropped me in the middle of the spiral and stood over me protectively. A older black wolf came out of the crowd. He had brown "boots" on the end of his feet. Father. I got up and ran to him. He licked my ears for a second then turned to the phantom. The phantom just put its head down and closed its eyes.

"She's gone?" Father whispered. The phantom nodded. Some animals nearby put their paws on their hearts and looked to the sky, a sign of respect for the lost one. "She shall be remembered," Father whispered. Her eyes in every blaze, I told myself.

The town all sat down and looked at the ground, whispering to themselves. Towns would do this at a funeral, and would whisper their best memories of Mother. I took this time to look around. There were animals of all species. Every now and then I would see a phantom with dark brown, dark green or black coats. The light on their antenna and backs had turned off.

The town was interrupted by a loud bang. Everyone turned to look at a large tiger. The tiger was black with rich golden stripes. His eyes where red. A sword was strapped to his shoulder.

"This is what HAPPENS when you trust PHANTOMS," the tiger yelled. The animals around him backed off. "Please, Sir Ashen, we need a moment of silence," Father said, the only one willing to stand up to the rude general.

"We don't we silence, we need VENGEANCE," Sir Ashen screamed. "We know that they are involved with the disappearance of Mira and Zios."

"We have no evidence of that!" Father yelled back.

"The phantoms came here from another world, just POOF, were here. Then our great Mira and Zios went away, unsettling the balance of nature and creating forest fires, earthquakes and other HORRIBLE THINGS!"

Sir Ashen was right about one thing. Once Mira and Zios left, disasters occurred all over the world. The fire that Mother died in was one of them.

"So you blame Mira and Zios's cowardliness on the PHANTOMS?!" Father stepped forward and stared up at Sir Ashen.

"The phantoms knew this would happen and TRAPPED Mira and Zios away, so the disasters would come, kill all the animals, and the phantoms would take over."

Now all the animals moved to one side of the central, and the phantoms to the other, both growling at each other.

"But the phantoms-" Father was pushed away by Sir Ashen's huge claws. I yelped and ran over to him. A small cut ran across his face. "That idiot!" Father growled as he rose to his paws. Sir Ashen turned to him. "You want to fight your General?"

"If it means justice!" Father yelled back. My ears went back on my head. Father and Sir Ashen started to circle each other. A few phantoms joined Father, then a few animals joined Sir Ashen. Soon the whole town would get split, all because Mother died. This is not what she would have wanted, this is not what I wanted.

"STOP!" I screamed.

Everyone turned to me. "THIS IS NOT WHAT MOTHER WANTED! THIS IS NOT WHAT MIRA AND ZIOS WANT, THIS IS NOT FAIR!" I screamed. The phantoms and animals took one glance at each other, then forgot about the argument and went their separate ways. Father turned and grabbed me by the scruff. I wiggled free. "I can walk!" I yelled. Father walked away without a word. I followed him but stayed far behind.

Soon father walked up to a small house. The house was square with a few larger leaves for a roof. One dusty window was placed on the back wall. Father walked inside and coughed from the dust. I peeked inside. The only furniture was 2 blankets and 3 pillows. "This will be our home," Father said flatly as he used his tail to sweep the dust.

"What about our old house?" I asked.

"It belongs to the fire. We will live here and make upgrades to this... small, um, hut once we start a shop."

I stared at the dusty, creaky house. "What even is this town?!"

"Animals from all over the land decided to make peace and live here. They call it Jamaa."

I took one more look at the house then shivered. "I'm staying outside." I did stay outside, but father forced me to sleep inside. Before we went to bed, Father and I joined the village in a gathering where we honored mother. Afterwards, I lay on my blanket, to grossed out to lay on the floor. My head sat on the flat pillow. I heard Father growl as he tried to get comfortable, which never happened. Yet somehow we fell asleep.

In my dreams the only thing I could hear was the crackle of fire. The only thing I could see was darkness, and the only thing I could feel was my struggle to run from a unseen threat. I soon awoke with a jump. I turned to look at Father. He slept soundlessly next to me. I yawned. Before I went back to bed, I looked out the window. I screamed. In the window was a leopards face, a goofy and large smile reached up to its white eyes. Glowing balls on the end of the antenna lit the rim of the window.

I stared at the creature, a phantom. The phantom pointed to the door then to itself. Did it want me to come with it?

I looked at Father, then at the phantom. Father trusted phantoms, but what about ones that peeked into your window at night? I turned to the phantom. It looked younger then the others. Its dark green fur poked out in different ways. I looked at the door then made up my mind. With a creak I opened it. I silently padded through the wet grass, which felt cool on my sore pads. Once I turned the corner I saw the phantom.

"HI!" The phantom smiled, which made me feel no better. "My name is Neeka. Say it like NEE-Ka. Whats your name?"

I stared at the Phantom for a moment. "Uh, um, Zaara, thats my name."

"Cool!" The phantom started to walk around me, picking at my fur. "Why are you here?" I asked.

"Oh yeah! Sorry I didn't mention it. My mom was the phantom who saved you from the fire. Her name is Hakko, You say it like HAA KOO. In our tongue it means night, OH and mine means light. So if you put our names together it makes night light! Phantoms tend to do that with family names. One family put all their names together and it translated to "Fire falling on our love." Which is kinda weird because, you know, like what happened to your mother?"

I was pulled back by the comment. "Oh sorry I didn't mean to!" The phantom stammered. I looked up at her "You're fine." I started to walk back into the house when the phantom grabbed my arm. "Well, Mother sent me to get you so we could show you a cool thing we do. We do it to young phantoms when a parent has passed away. It is supposed to show how you can grow through the pain and thrive even when times are tough."

I turned back to the phantom and she started to pull me along into the forest. "What about Father?" I asked. "Only the kids are allowed."

Chapter 3: A Ceremony Goes Wrong
Neeka pulled me into the forest. The trees blocked out the moonlight and cold fog hovered by my feet. My fur got sweaty and Neeka had to use more force to pull me along. Soon we stopped. Large vines blocked our path. "This is where things get cool." Neeka pulled the vines apart to reveal the most beautiful thing I had ever seen. Short, yet thick trees twisted out of the ground. Long willow leaf strands gracefully swayed in the light breeze. The trees parted and made a narrow and curvy path. Sitting on the trees were small beetles that glowed neon green. Fireflies blinked on and off around the forest canopy. Small bunnies hopped from the undergrowth that grew between the trees.

Neeka let go of my paw when I stepped into the wonderland. The fog still lingered on the ground yet it was illuminated by the green bugs glow. I walked to the shortest tree. With a careful claw I picked up one of the beetles.

"Bioluminescence beetles?" I asked Neeka.

"Um, yeah. We just call them Bio bugs or glow worm. I would call them glow worm because, well, people know them by that name," Neeka explained.

"I had no idea they lived here." I poked the beetle with my claw. "I thought they only lived in rainforests."

"They tend to follow Phantoms around because our spots glow with the same light as them." Neeka took the beetle from my claw and set it back on the trunk. "But I didn't bring you here to stare at bugs all day. Follow me!" Neeka grabbed my paw and started running down the path. I had trouble keeping up because she was running so fast.

"Chill down!" I yelled. It was no use. Neeka jumped over logs and dogged trees, all without losing her grip on my paw. As Neeka ran, branch's flung in my face and damp leaves stuck to my fur. The farther we went into the forest the higher the trees grew and the more bugs appeared. I even saw a moth as larger then my paw flying to a group of glow worms.

Neeka suddenly stopped. I banged into her. I brushed off my fur then looked at why Neeka stopped. The ground dipped down then leveled off to make a perfectly large circle a few feet into the ground. No trees grew in the circle but the ones on the higher ground had glow worms covering the bark. A perfect beam of moonlight broke though the leaves and shone on the circle.

"What is this place?" I asked from behind Neeka's shoulder. "This is were the ceremony will begin," Neeka answered.

"Aren't there supposed to be phantoms?" My question was then answered as about 15 phantom emerged from the trees around the circle. Every phantom held a lamp that held fireflies. The golden light from the fireflies and the neon green from the glow worms mixed, creating a wonderful sight that made the moon beams sparkle with color.

"Wow," I breathed. "Are all phantom ceremonies like this?"

"Most of them. The all share the fact that using bugs as light is awesome," Neeka whispered back to me.

I turned to look at the ceremony circle. A pitch black phantom jumped into the center, Hakko. She beckoned me to come in the circle with her. I carefully slid down the dirt on the side and slowly walked to her. She pushed me closer. My face was shoved into her large neck fur. I smelled lilacs. Her large paw wrapped itself around me protectively. She reminded me of mother, but with a very different look.

"We are here today to honor this young pups life," Hakko spoke loudly with a strong, bold voice. "Her mother left in a fire, and we must honor her bravery, her boldness, her courage, to take upon a dark and heavy burden. We are hurt to see something like this happen at a young age, at any age. We shall bless her actions, the outcomes, and we know that this shall make her stronger then any her age. Let the ceremony begin."

Cheers broke through the crowd. Hakko let go of her strong grip. I stumbled but caught myself. Hakka grabbed my chin and lifted it up. She let go and started spinning her arms around. I was wondering what she was doing until I saw the dark green silk coming out of her wrists. She was weaving something. I turned to look at Neeka. She gave me a thumbs up. I turned to Hakko. She had weaved a crown. With careful paws she placed it on my head.

I heard Neeka squeal from behind me. I turned and saw her hopping up and down. Hakko gave her the death glare and with that, Neeka stopped. Hakko left me and joined the other phantoms around the circle

Hakko nodded to the phantoms. The phantoms started to sing. The voices mixed together and created a soothing sound that echoed off the trees. They began to sway and started weaving strands of silk. I saw Neeka doing the same thing but her strand was a bit messy. After everyone had finished weaving they connected their strings and made a large ring that was set on the edge of the dirt that dipped down.

I was very confused why the phantoms were doing this. I started to regret ever coming. Why had I run off without father, or without second guessing? Maybe the phantoms were planning on sucking all my life energy out. Maybe they did the same thing with Mira and Zios.

I turned to Neeka. She must have saw the stress in my eyes. She mouthed the words "Breathe." I started to slow my breathing. Father trusted the phantoms with me and my mother's life. He never blamed them for Mother's death. I looked at Hakko. She was a bit creepy with her smile, yet every phantom had the same smile. It was like judging mother by her fierce eyes before meting her. It was like judging my phantom ancestry before meeting me.

The phantoms singing stopped. I saw a phantom holding a firefly lamp. It twisted the cap and popped it open, letting the firefly's lose. All the other phantoms did the same. Others blew on the glow worms, making them fly off the bark. Soon the sky was filled with firefly's and glow worms. The bugs sparkled in the moonlight. They flew around for a bit before settling around me. The glow worms and firefly's flew into the center of the circle and landed around my paws. Some even crawled onto me.

The phantoms started to sing again. I felt my paws lift off the ground. The bugs slowly started to fly the same hight as me. I looked over my shoulder to see Neeka staring at me with her eyes sparkling with delight. I slowly lifted higher. My fur lifted up. All the gravity around me fell away. The leaves and twigs on the around in the circle started to lift to. I turned to Hakko. She had her eyes closed as she sang. I lifted higher. I was now about a four feet off the ground.

I started to feel small sparks jolt through me. My vision got brighter and everything got fuzzy. I lost track of where I was. I couldn't feel anything. I could only hear muffled singing. The light from the bugs mixed with everything else. Nothing made sense. Everything was mixed except the jolts of pain that wouldn't stop. I tried to move but it was hopeless. I just floated in what felt like jelly, painful jelly.

Is this what the phantoms wanted? Me to suffer in jelly? What really where they doing? Was I there new dinner? My vision faded. I thought I heard screaming, but it was muffled. My world started to sink into darkness. Nothing existed except the pain that wouldn't stop, the pain that hurt more and more. I tried to scream but I couldn't even hear myself. I tried to struggle but nothing worked. Why did I run off, why did I trust the phantoms? Why did mother have to put my life into the ones that were trying to kill me!

Then, the pain stopped. I was still in darkness, but the pain faded. I could feel my breathing even. I felt a spark. It seemed to gather. Was the pain coming back? The spark seemed to get bigger and bigger, Llike rubbing your hands together and they slowly built friction. The spark then released itself. Pain jolting through all my limbs.

Then I fainted.

Chapter 4: Oh-no
.Before I awoke, I heard voices. The voices said things I couldn't make sense of. I thought I heard "She is the best, just like a who." I was a who? Are those the strange homosapien's in "How the Grinch Stole Jamaaladays?"

I heard animals arguing and things crashing to the floor. A door slammed shut, and that was when I started to open my eyes. The world took a while to shape, but once it did I found myself in a white room. The roof was made out of wood, not leaves. The walls where badly painted white. Blobs of paint dried on the walls and splatters lined the floor. A red cross was painted on the door. A desk was placed in the corner with a chair. Herbs and other strange things sat in a bucket on the floor. Light streamed in from the only window which I was next to on a cot.

My muscles where sore and I had a bad headace. It seemed a ram was banging on my skull. I groaned and turned over to my side, and was met by a smiling monster. I screamed and fell off the back of the cot, only causing me more pain.

"I'm so sorry! I was so worried and you just woke up and, and..." I groaned loudly and covered my ears. "Oh sorry! Am I talking to much? I will try to stop and, WAIT, I'm talking right now. I will be silent, right now!"

I rubbed my head and sat up. Neeka was sitting down to, staring at me intently. I self concisely touched my face, to make sure I didn't have a giant bug on it or something like that. After a moment of awkward staring, last nights drama came back to me.

"Why are you even here. After you tried to kill me!?" I stood up and tried to look taller and more imposing. Neeka pointed to her mouth. I turned my head to the side. She imitated talking with her paws.

"Oh! You can talk now." Neeka took a deep breath, like I had also banned her from breathing. "Yeah sorry about last night. We didn't try to kill you, it was all a mistake!"

"Sure" I growled. Neeka looked desperate to explain, so I let her. "Okay, well, we phantoms have this like cool energy that we can only use in groups. The energy can make things float and all that cool stuff. So during the ceremony, the only times we use the energy, we used it on you. Mother thinks because you have phantom in you, like phantom blood, not a mini one. That super confused me at first. So yeah back to the ceremony, we used the energy on you and your phantom blood did something to you that, like, brought out your phantom genes and turned you into, well, made you a bit more phantom."

Neeka looked super guilty once she told the story. I looked at my paw and gasped. It was a beautiful shade of black, like Hakko. Neeka took out a mirror from the bucket with the strange supplies in it. She gave the mirror to me. Through some of the grime I saw my face. My eyes had turned a glassy shade of light red. The white from the phantoms eyes must have mixed with my orange and red eyes. My mouth seemed a bit larger and small stubs of antenna came out of my forhead. The antenna where not as long as Neeka's, but you could tell they where there. The antenna glowed a faint green. I turned to look at my back. Eight ovals lined my back, four on each side. They too, glowed a faint green.

I turned to Neeka. She now looked like she was being crushed my guilt. "The worst part is that everyone is blaming the phantoms. Saying that the phantoms knew it would happen, and they want to take over Jamaa."

"I-I think- think it is-" I took a deep breath. "You are not to blame. I just need time to get used to it." I realy wanted to blame Neeka and curse all the phantoms that ever lived, but it was a accident. I never cared about my phantom blood, so why should I care now. The part that wouldn't go away from my mind was the face that the phantoms where being blamed. What horrid things would this lead to.

Turns out, it turned into the worst outcome.

Chapter 5: RUN
Father burst into the room. Neeka and I jumped to our paws.

"We NEED to run!" Father was bleeding in many places and one of his eyes was scratched shut. Despite my headache and weak legs, I ran to him.

"What is going on?!"

"No time to explain!" Father picked me up by my scruff and ran out of the room. It was a hot summer day, but dark clouds slowly rolled in. Dust lingered in the air. I could hear shouting coming from the center of Jamaa. Father started to run across the rocky path, away from the town and into the forest.

Before father could could run into the forest something charged into him. I was flung across the ground and landed in a heap on the dusty grass. My vision went black for a few seconds. I took in a deep breath and a shadow loomed over me. I opened my eyes to see a slim dark brown phantom. Blood dripped from his teeth and one of his antenna was missing.

I slowly got to my feet. The phantom stepped forward and glowed at the tiger looming over father. Sir Ashen. He had cuts on his back that oozed blood. His face was covered in blood, his eyes a wild storm.

"The child had NOTHING to do with this!" The phantom yelled. I saw animals watching from a distance. Glow worms sat on trunks of trees in the near forest. Phantoms must be hiding in the undergrowth.

Sir Ashen laughed. "She fell for your tricks and became like one of you. She would have died anyway, because of her phantom grandfather!"

The gears clicked. Sir Ashen was was attacking the phantoms, trying to rid them of this earth, and to do it, he had to kill me and my father. The only thing that did not click was how? He couldn't rid of a species with just himself. The other animals just sat in the background watching.

Sir Ashen grabbed something from a sack that was attached to his sword. Out he pulled a crystal blue feather. Mira's feather. The last thing we had of Mira and Zios. When they left, Mira left this feather, or it just fell out when she left and she had no intention on leaving anything.

Sir Ashen held the feather to the light. It gleamed it glory. Sparks come out of it and it glowed blue. Sir Ashen smiled, a smile of pure sinister actions. He pointed the feather at the phantom. A beam of blue shot out, hitting the phantom. It fell on the grass next to me. With shreiks of terror the phantom melted, into goop? Animals gasped. I heard growling from the trees. I sat in shock next to the blob of goop.

Sir Ashen laughed. He pointed the feather at the trees. The beam of blue shot out again. It cut the trees in half and made goop fly everywhere, more phantoms had died. Phantom ran out of the trees, terror on there faces. The blue beam killed more and more. Goop flew on houses and stained the grass.

I screamed and a family of phantoms melted. Sir Ashen was a monster. He wasn't just spreading fear to the phantoms, but the animals that watched started to back away.

The beam started to get closer to me. I stood up and started to run, but where? Phantoms tried to hide but where found and killed. Some tried to attack but where shot down instantly. I ran as the beam got closer and closer. I felt the heat. I felt my fur turn sticky. My breath slowed. My body felt like rubber. Then the heat stopped. I regained my strength. I turned to see my father, his claws in Sir Ashen's belly. The feather fluttered to the ground. Sir Ashen ripped my father's claws out and attacked. They rolled on the grass, ripping at eatch others fur.

I heard someone yell my name. I turned and saw Neeka and Hakko with a few other phantoms standing on the edge of the forest. Neeka was gesturing me to come. I started to run to them then stopped. Could I trust them? The ceremony went wrong and caused me pain. Yet Hakko saved me from the fire and the brown phantom had defended me! Sir Ashen would kill me anyway. Even if the phantoms made a big mistake, I would take my chances with them anyway. They already made up for it many times.

I ran to Neeka. Her large smile showed how grateful she was that I was alive, mine the same. Hakko turned and started to run into the forest, me and Neeka ahead. I turned to look at Hakko. Her eyes showed determination and power. She saved me from the fire, she held mothers trust, and during the ceremony held me close, like a child. She may not look like my mother, but she acted like her. Maybe I hadn't lost mother after all! Maybe she was right behind me.

I heard father scream. I stopped and turned to see father fall into the undergrowth. Hakko and Neeka stopped to. Hakko pointed at father and nodded to another phantom who had stopped. The phantom ran to father, picked up his bleeding body, and started to run deeper in the forest with him, caring him to safety.

Sir ashen broke through the trees, holding Mira's feather. He turned to Hakko and growled. he held up Mira's feather and it started to glow. Hakko stood in front of me and Neeka.

Before Sir Ashen could bring the feather to full strength, a scream from a nearby animal echoed off the trees. We turned and saw through the trees that a wolf in Jamaa was staring at a large pile of goop. The goop was wiggling and gathering together. Tentacles started to grow out of the top of the large circle forming from the goop. Soon, a eight tentacled creature with a round body rose. A white eye slowly opened in the center of the body. The creature hovered above the ground, electricity sparking around it.

Sir Ashen and Hakko looked horrified. All the blobs of goop started turning to the creatures. Some even had mouths.

"WHAT HAVE YOU DONE!" Hakko screamed at Sir Ashen. Sir Ashen was still looking at the creatures as they rose from the earth. I looked at Mira's feather. It sat harmlessly in Sir Ashen's paw. I looked at Hakko. She started to run, Neeka following. I didn't follow, I was crouched in the grass, crawling closer and closer to Sir Ashen. Hakko saw me and whispered no. I didn't care, I was so close. Very carefully I reached up and grabbed the feather out of Sir Ashen's paw. Warmth filled my body, then it turned into heat. I noticed that the feather was slowly harming me. I couldn't hold onto it forever.

Sir Ashen came to his senses. He saw me holding the feather as I stalked away.

"GIVE IT BACK!" I jumped up. Sir Ashen jumped at me. I screamed. Fear rippled through me, it went down my arms and into the feather. The feather glowed. Heat ripped at my paws. The feather turned white, then a beam of white and blue fire shot out and hit Sir Ashen in the chest. His face turned rippled into pure fear as he was shot through the trees, past a few houses, the dug into the ground by the force.

I dropped the feather. My paws where a deep red. Pain flared like fire up my arms. Bits of fur melted into goop and dropped onto the dirt below me. I turned to see Hakko grab my scruff. She started to run deeper into the forest, Neeka following. Her face showed pure excitement. I looked down at my paws. The fur stopped turning into goop and the pain slowly faded.

I had used Mira's feather against a ruthless tiger, burned my paws and almost turned myself into a blob of goop. I had witnessed many deaths and the creating of a creature we have yet to know about. For a small wolf, I had faced many dangers, and I have a feeling this wont be the last.

Chapter 6: Explaining the Unexplainable, and Running
We ran, and ran. Hakko dropped me when she got to tired to carry me. My paws had healed and where just a bit sore, and got more sore as we ran. The sun set, we ran. The moon rose, we ate, then ran once again. The sun broke through the horizon as we ran. The forest came to a stop and a meadow lay before us. I wished we would stop running, but the only time we did was when we ate. The sun and moon rose and fell, we ran and ran. Once we stopped and slept for about a day, then began to run.

The phantoms counted the days we ran. We spent 2 days in forests, 1 and a half in meadows, and the other half in mountains. We ran, but mostly walked, 4 days.

During that time we discussed what happened. We never found out how the creatures where made in the first place, but we guessed it was from our unnatural energy. The floating must be from the energy we use during ceremony's. The electricity might have been from the bioluminescence in our antenna and spots. The new creatures may be able to spin silk or goop like us. The creatures white eye also came from our eyes.

I found out that the phantoms where running to the area that they landed in when they first came to this earth. One night Neeka told me phantoms could control glow on their antenna and spots, which explained why it was so dark the night we slept, the phantoms turned off the glow. I also found out that all the phantoms that they knew where at Jamaa. There could be a chance some escaped, but the amount would be small. There where only 130 phantoms to begin with, and now 27 remained!

We entered a overgrown forest. There where glow worms everywhere. Small caves poked from the ground now and then, vines covering the entrances. Soon we got to the thick of the forest. Hakko said that you would have to be a pro to find your way around now. Apparently the phantoms navigating us to the area where pro's.

I will skip some of the endlessly wandering around for you, but we ended up finding a clearing with sun and food and glow worms. Apparently, during the night we slept the older phantoms did a quick ceremony and called any remaining phantoms to this location. We met some of them there, but others where still arriving. While we waited for the rest, we slept, ate, and ate more. I asked Neeka why Hakko was shoving so much food down our throats. She shrugged, saying that Hakko had a good reason for about anything she did.

Once all the phantoms arrived, totaling about 38 phantoms, the elders uncovered a cavern. Despite the small, vine covered entrance, it was very large and round on the inside inside. Of coarse, glow worms where everywhere. I even almost breathed one in, but Neeka saved me.

All the phantoms in the cave parted the way as a elder walked to the center. The elder had black fur and his antenna and spots had a dimmer glow then others. His face drooped down making him look annoyed and angry.

I felt someone pat my shoulder. I turned and saw father behind me. He has new scars on his hide and one across one of his eyes which was shut. I gasped with joy and wrapped my paws around him. He laughed.

"I missed you." His sweet voice made me cry with joy. He pulled me back to reveal the tears on his face. He opened his mouth to say something but was shushed by Hakko. She pointed to the elder who was waiting for silence. Father and I turned our attention to the elder, but kept our paws around each other.

The elder coughed then began to speak. "Fellow phantoms. We have witnessed the death of many of our friends and family. The grief hits us hard. Because of this mass murder, we elders have come together to discuss it. We have considered every path, and the answer for this is time. Grief takes support and time to leave, well, the worst part of the grief. Jamaa will hunt for us, and our death will only satisfy them. Other then us all dieing, Jamaa with give up the search when to much time passes."

I turned to look at the other elders. There eyes turned to look at the floor, as if ashamed and hurt by the answer to this mess. I turned to Hakko. She smiled at me, popping the bubbling fear.

The elder coughed again. He sounded like he was about to cough his guts out. Just in case, I looked away. Once the coughing stopped the elder began to speak. "So, we have decided-" Cough, "That we-" cough. Hakko shook her head and walked up to the elder. She helped walk to the other elders where he coughed more then any creature in the universe.

Hakko walked to the area that the elder was speaking in. "I have been trusted to know before hand of the decision the elders made. With much difficulty, they chose eternal sleep."

The crowd gasped. Neeka shouted "Cool" and was the only to do so. Hakko waited for silence, which took a while. Hakko had to growl for everyones attention.

"No one will discover us in this forest. We will sleep off the hunt, and once we awake, we shall seek justice. The sleep shall begin tomorrow night." Hakko walked back to us. Some of the phantoms walked out of the cavern, other discussed things with the elders.

"So is this eternal sleep, like, eternal?" It was a dumb question, but I really did not want to sleep forever. Hakko sighed. "The eternal sleep is when the phantoms make cocoons, enter them, and sleep. It is like hibernating, but not over a winter. The sleep is not eternal, it lasts for about 100 years, or at least one generation. The only thing we need to do to prepare for it is eat a bit more then normal." Eat a bit more? We ate about 3 full meals more!

"Will me and dad join?" I asked. Hakko nodded. To night we shall feast, and try and calm down the angry phantoms."

That night we did feast, like we had been fasting for 40 days and 40 nights! We went to sleep early and woke at the crack of dawn. We ate more, then hunted for food. I caught a mole and gave it to Hakko. She laughed and licked my ears. "Good job." Her voice was sweet like mothers.

The rest of the day was hunting and eating. That day pasted quickly. Surprisingly, no phantom discussed the elders choice. After our 4th supper, and dinner, we entered the cavern. I nodiced newly planted berry vines where planted by the entrance, Hakko told me it was for after we slept. The strongest of the phantoms covered the entrance with rocks. The phantoms then where divided by family and friends into different parts of the cavern. Me, father, Hakko, Neeka and a dark green phantom who was Hakko's brother where put in a small corner. Neeka spun her own cocoon and Hakko spun mine and Koko spun fathers.

Once we finished Hakko turned to me and father. "I forgot to say, me and the elders think will turn your appearance into one of a phantoms." I turned to look at father. He looked at the ground for a while, then nodded. "It is fine with me" He turned to look at me. I nodded. "Fine with me to." Hakko smiled and licked my ears.

"Zaara, look at my cocoon!" Neeka was jumping up and down next to her cocoon. I walked over. Her cocoon looked just like everyones. It was the size of wolf, but a bit bigger. It glowed green and had a slit down the middle for her to climb in. Thick green liquid oozed from the tightly woven strands. Hakko told me that when we enter, hakko will close to cocoon for me, then I will close my eyes and let the green liquid ooze from the strands. We will fall asleep like normal and in about a day the ooze will fill the whole cocoon. The ooze preserves our body and we hibernate. After the years pass the phantoms will wake up and open up the cocoon. Hakko said that our body will wake us up because of natural instinct. If we didn't wake up, Hakko said that the cocoon could last thousands of years without fading or falling apart.

Soon the elder gave us the signal to enter. I carefully entered the cocoon. The silk stuck to my fur and I felt a bit to comfortable. Hakko came up to my cocoon. "Don't worry. I did this when I was your age, everything went fine." I smiled back. Hakko then weaved the sides together. I watched through the green silk as Neeka entered her cocoon. I silmed at her from mine. Neeka smiled back and looked to happy to sleep, but she feel asleep quickly. I watched father enter his and everyone else. Hakko and Jujie entered theres. I breathed a sigh of relief. A part of me said that this was a trap, but I knew it was lying.

I then closed my eyes. The cocoons soft silk pulled me into sleep, and I followed without protest. Sleeping was a interesting way of dealing with your problems, but I guess with this is was the best. The next time I would wake I would look fully phantom, and break the record of sleeping in. The last thing I thought of was if I fart, I would have to smell it for 100 years before relief.

Chapter 7: I Slept in for a Couple Thousand Years
I couldn't fully remember the sleep, not like it was unnatural. I would have these moment where I was on the verge of waking up. It was like my body was saying, "Hay! Your sleeping in, like, a extra year or to!" In the moments I would have dreams. Some times I felt like I had to wake up, so my body would move, but a crashing wave of hurt and weariness would lure me back to sleep. I once felt like I had opened my eyes, but yet again the weariness came and pulled me back.

I once had a dream that a giant Sir Ashen was chasing me and I couldn't run away. That was the moment I felt my eyes open a slight bit. I then remembered Hakko, Neeka, father. I didn't want to be lured into the sleep again. The weariness didn't come this time. I fought to open my eyes. I couldn't sleep any longer. Then, my eyes opened.

I took a deep breath. Slime filled my mouth. I screamed and dug my claws into the cocoon around me. I felt weak, tired. Hunger fought at my strength. Hakko, Neeka, father. I screamed again. I couldn't waste more time. I felt the cocoon rip. I pulled myself out and fell on something soft. I opened my eyes to see light streaming in to my eyes.

What happened to the cave. I carefully pulled myself to my feet. In front of me was the cavern, but part of the cavern roof had fallen to the floor. Yet the rocks from the fallen cavern had aged and crumbled and become part of the ground. Luckily, no phantom had built there cocoon in the middle of the cavern. All 38 phantom cocoons rested in tight corners. The cocoons where a dusty brown and the string looked like it was falling apart. Even in the light I could hardly pick out a cocoon from a mossy bolder.

Hunger pained me again. I stood on my paws which felt like lifting a 50 pound boulder. I saw that the entrance had also collapsed. Moss was growing over every boulder, and berry vines!. I tried to walk over to the berry vines but my feet wouldn't hold up my body. I then crawled to the berry vines. I then ate more berry's then I thought true. Strength grew in my limbs. I lifted myself up.

Turning back to the cave, I saw that no phantom had awaken yet. I thought Hakko said that most of the phantoms awoke at the same times, unless something went wrong.

I heard a squeak. Turning around I saw a rabbit. I crouched and began to stalk. Something fell in my face. I forget that I had antenna. I wiggled my antenna. Carefully I moved them out of my face, by using my brain. I stalked closer to the bunny, and it jumped away. i chased it into the under growth. No matter where I chased it, it could always find me. My fur was pitch black now, how could it see me. then I remembered my antenna and spots would glow. With ease, I turned then off, but the bunny had run away. growling I went back to the cave. I noticed my movement was less noisy and I was a bit faster. My tail kept getting stuck on twigs because I forgot how long it was.

I made it back to the cave and saw two deer. I could tell they where feral. I carefully stalked them. Once I got close I jumped on the back of the male. He bucked and kicked, but I held on. Using my claws I cut his throat. As he dropped down dead, I jumped off and chased the female. She jumped though bushes and dodged trees. With my newly slim body I soon tripped her by scratching her leg. I pulled her body back to the cave. Two newly fresh deer, killed by me. A improvement from a single mole.

I walked over to Neeka, Hakko, father, and jujie's cocoons. A phantom should have woken up by now. I remembered how much a struggle it was in the first place. Hakko said the cocoons held up just fine for a normal sleep, but now they slowly fell apart.

With a claw I cut open all there cocoons. Dirty liquid spilled out along with the bodies. the moment Neeka hit the ground she awoke.

"I'm awake! I'm alive!" Neeka jumped to her paws. She shook her body and the ooze flung everywhere. "Uggg, i'm so hungry!" Neeka then collapsed and rubbed her belly.

"That's why I got us fresh deer!" I moved a deer closer to Neeka. Within seconds she was gulping it down in large bites. I laughed.

"What's going on?" I turned to see Hakko crawl over to a deer.

"I have no idea. I* had to force myself to wake up, and when I did I was starving. I ate some of the berry plant and hunted deer for you guys, because I felt like you would feel the same way."

Hakko ate some of the deer. "Was anyone else awake?"

I shook my head. I heard father groan and I helped him to a deer. I saw Hakko's brother crawl to a deer. Within minutes the two deer where eaten fully. "I'm going to hunt more, you guys can wake up the others."

"Wait!" I turned to see Hakko stand on her feet. "You woke us up?"

I nodded then turned and ran out of the cavern. I stalked the woods and caught many more animals. Neeka joined me after about a hour. Together we caught a moose. We laughed when I failed to catch a squirrel. Together, laughing, we brought back loads of food for the awakening phantoms. We had to take a few trips back because we caught so many animals. When the last of the animal where taken back cavern, Hakko said we could rest.

"Why rest? We slept in for 100 years!" Neeka laughed.

"Not 100." A elder who was looking at a cocoon turned to us. He was investigating the cocoons to find out how long we slept, and to see why we had so much trouble waking up.

"We slept in for a thousand years."

== Chapter 7: What the Future Looks like (Note: Hakko's brother who's name was Jujie, is being changed to Koko. The name Jujie will be used again for a more important charictor. Spoiler: Jujie is the phantom name for guidance) == Phantoms gasped. I recalled Hakko saying "Everything will be fine." Sure, I am just 1,000 years old now, no biggie.

I'm going to skip all the questions, because, well, we couldn't answer them. That night the phantoms decided to set up search parties to see if we could find civilization.

That night I talked with Neeka. We talked about the weird dream we had, and possibilities of why we slept in so long. Despite the 1,000 year sleep, me and Neeka fell asleep quickly.

As the morning rays swooped in, the phantoms gathered to be put in groups. Me, Neeka and a young boy phantom where put in a group to explore the SW. Neeka told me the phantoms name was Deroko (DE rO kO). Apparently he was super annoying and had bag of energy wanting to be spilled. I thought that was what Neeka was like, but apparently he was annoying X 10,000.

We walked through the thick under growth. "Soooooo" Deroko started "I heard you where a animal. What was it like?" Neeka growled. "It was just like being a phantom!"

Daroko laughed. "But we are so different! We have antenna, she has-" Neeka interrupted again.

"She doesn't have antenna!"

"I never said that!"

"I know!"

"Then stop blaming me! I just want to know what it is like being animal!"

"It is almost the same as being a-"

"But we-"

"Stop interrupting-"

I slowly moved away from the argument. No matter how far I moved there voices somehow reached me. I flattened my ears to my head. Neeka and Deroko where both stubborn and wild, which ended in pure destruction.

"Zaara! Tell Deroko that he is wrong!" Neeka shouted to me. I looked up to see Neeka running to me. "Why wont you guys just be quiet for a few moments?" I asked.

Neeka frowned. "He started it!"

Deroko run up to us. "You continued it!"

I screamed and started to run away. I jumped over logs and dodged trees. Neeka and Deroko chased after me, yelling my name. I continued to run, then, a strange sent hit my nose. I pulled myself to a stop. Deroko rammed into me and made me fall over. The ground sloped where I had stopped and when I fell I started to roll down the hill. Ferns, leaves and sticks whacked my face and the slippery mud made me slide faster.

I tumbled down into a opening, Deroko next to me. I pulled a leaf out of my fur and shook out the mud.

P OLD STORY
"Sloths are so dumb! Now, where is the dungeon list?" "hEaR QueEn" one of the phantoms gave the list to me. With it I could see that we had 4 sloths, 2 pigs, 2 pandas, 3 eagles, 3 tigers, and 2 crocodiles. "Okay, very

UNIMPRESSIVE YOU CAN DO BETTER OUT OF ALL THE ANIMALS IN JAMAA YOU ONLY HAVE 16 I guess I AM GOING TO HAVE TO DO IT MYSELF AND YOU ARE COMING WITH ME!"

The sun set, it was time to go. "No sign of animals right?" I asked the phantoms. I looked behind me just in case there were.

"Okay then I guess i'm going to do this the hard way Greely," I said. "You always know i'm there and this time you will not take any more animals" Greely said "Greely Greely you may know a lot of the phantoms secrets but you do not know any of mine".

"i know your secrets," Greely growled. "Okay so if you say you know all my secrets let see if you know this one," I responded.

I took off my top hat and opened my eyes that had a demon red glow. "yOu Do NoT TeLl mE wHat To dO" I said in a echoing voice the trees shook with the ground, 5 houses collapsed with the animals in them running out.(there was multiple animals in the houses)

A red glow surrounded them "YoU wILL NeVer stOp mE" I said, then me and the animals disappeared, with the top hat.

Chapter 4: The Phantom Fortress
I locked the new slaves in cells and grabbed the dungeon list. On the list I added the new slaves.

"3 foxes, 2 arctic wolves, 4 raccoons, 2 elephants, and 3 wolves".

I said to the new slaves, "Let me go over the rules before you begin working."

1 "do what we say"

2 "if you do something that we do not like you will get punished"

3 "do not make friends"

4 "do what a phantoms said"

"Like we will do that" a wolf said "Yeah!" the rest of animals agreed.

"Looks like you you didn't follow one of the rules." I lifted my top hat the tiniest bit and a spark of pain shot though the animals bodies.

"qEeN wE nEeD to BreN tHe pRisEneRs To thE PhaNtOm ForTreSs RiGht AwaY" a phantom said "ok" i said back the the phantom

some time later.....

I could fell the cracks of the earth as we walk to the phantom fortress with the prisoners in a cage with phantoms pulling it.

"hear we are" a phantom said.

and we began to climb the fortress.

some time later......

"ok its time for work"i said a phantom took the elephants to a factory with tubes going from wall too wall "ok you to bigees are going to pull the tubes over to the corner and the other animal will put the tubs together" i said as i walked to the dungeons.

once all the animals where at work i was looking for the animals that where not doing there work i saw a bunny walking around throwing small tub at the ropes holding up the big tubes.

"what are you doing" i said "i was doing nothing"the bunny said "are you trying to break the ropes"i said "n no" the bunny said i swepped the bunnies face with my claws the bunny screamed in pain as i walked away.

i saw a monkey running around "what are you doing" i said "my job is to hard" said the monkey "well what is your job" to put tubes together the monkey said.

"oooo ok then i have a new job for you follow me"i said as the monkey followed me i brought her to a ladder that led up to a hug tube "now take that bag of phantom goop clam the later open the bag pour the goop in to the tube ok bye" i said and left the monkey to her work.

after 5 minutes i heard the monkey scream "THIS IS TO HARD!!!" i walked over to the monkey "why did you give me a harder job" she said "well" i said "if you complain you will get a harder job" but can i go to the job i had before" she said "no" i said in a carefree voice and left "i know i will be saved and you will be put to slavery" she said i glared at the monkey i began to run up the later she was on and her face making her fall of the ladder.

"no one yells at me" and i ran of the ladder and looked at the monkey she no longer was breathing.

"i hope all you slaves saw that because that will happen to you if you do not follow me".

"this is the last time you will have slaves amber" a deep voice said.

Chapter 5: Free
Out of the dark, Greely came. “This is the end.” he said as he threw a Boom Seed at the biggest tube, making it crash and fall, breaking the roof, making everything collapse.

"Greely, this is the last time you will ruin my plans. Also, the name is Amber. It’s my old name now I’m a ghost, not an arctic wolf like I was before." I said.

"You may be a ghost, but you will never make it." Greely replied.

"Well Greely, you may think you are stopping me for Mira but you aren't." I said in a tone as cold as stone.

"Stop your lies." said Greely.

"This is not a lie, I saw Mira." I replied.

Greely’s eyes widened.

Stop lying.” Greely said after a few seconds.

"Did you forget I wasn’t a ghost when I lived? Then, Mira was still around." I said.

Suddenly, Sir Gilbert crashed into the wall, letting all of the slaves in the dungeons out.

“This is not over!" I howled as I ran through the wall.

the end
lol I fixed the grammar hope you don’t mind. You can change it back if you want.