(A/N: I've gotten lots of motivation lately so here's the next chapter! I've also given the chapters names, each name is a song title since the title of this fic is a song title(by Linkin Park). Chapter 1 is Coming Home by Alter Bridge, and Chapter 2 is Welcome by Paradise by Greenday(ha ha just had to have that one in there.). This one is I'd Come For You by Nickelback. This is also the longest chapter, I'm going to try to make the next chapters alot longer than the previous chapter. Please review!)

Chapter 3:

Tsuki and Raikou led Tracy back to their camp in the clearing and introduced her to Ravyn. Surprisingly, the young she-wolf(who was really no more than a pup) was cheerful and friendly to the outcast of the pack and Ravyn brightened up for the first time in a while. The two chatted for a while but soon Tracy was sniffing around and exploring the camp. She seemed to be filled with nothing but energy and excitement.

Raikou sat alone at the edge of camp, expressionless, when she heard paw steps coming up from behind her. She glanced over slightly, seeing Tsuki halt next to her. He was watching Tracy with a hidden expression in his gaze.

“Do you think we’ll find more of them?” Tsuki asked.

“Of course- although it will be more like that they will find us. There’s a reason why we’re all showing up now: Paradise is calling. And sooner or later the others will listen and be led here as well. You told me yourself that Darcia extended his boarders into some of Paradise’s territory, but now that land is being tainted. Paradise is supposed to be a place of peace and tranquility for wolves, not death and blood. Paradise is calling out to all our lost wolves to come back and defend their territory. And who knows how many loners will show up too.”

“Sounds like you’re ready for a fight…but four wolves can’t take on Darcia’s Army. Its massive!”

“Are you saying that we should just back away with our tails between our legs?” Raikou snarled. “That our parents should have all died in vain? That we should just let that murderer do as he pleases? I will fight and I’ll take down as many Army wolves as I can- including Darcia. Besides, all we need to do is take out the top wolves of the Army and then the rest of the Army will just fall apart on its own. Numbers do not win a war.”

“But they sure help…and you‘ve seemed to have changed your mind.”

“What do you mean?” Raikou turned her head toward him, tipped slightly with an ear pricked.

“Well when we first scented Tracy you said ‘If its not a Canyon wolf, then its of no interest to me’. And since when are we in a war?”

“That’s not changing my position. I’m only interested in the Canyon wolves because I want to kill them to avenge my father and prevent them from causing pain and death to any other pack. No wolf should have to go through what our pack did but I’m sure that in the past two years, many others have fallen and suffered under Darcia’s treachery. Honestly, I don‘t care if the other wolves of the 2nd Generation find their way here or not. But I‘m in my own personal war- to kill Darcia. After that…I may not bother sticking around.”

Tsuki’s eyes widened a little and his ears pricked a little. “But why?!”

She shrugged and replied simply, “I’ve never liked being around other wolves, and I never stay in one place for long. I’m better off on my own anyway. I don’t get along with much of anyone.” Raikou stood up and slinked off, leaving it at that.

She went off to the edge of the clearing, glancing back slightly. Raikou smirked, seeing Tracy prowling up behind an unprepared Tsuki. Tsuki was deep in thought, his tail flicking back and forth. That young, small she-wolf had crouched down and was stalking towards him. Tracy lunged, pouncing onto his tail and trapping it between her paws.

She’ll make a good hunter, Raikou mused, Small, lean, - with her coloring she could make a good scout too. Probably won’t be much of a fighter but she’ll probably be fast enough to dodge most attacks and throw in some of her own.

Tsuki yelped in surprise, whipping around and knocking Tracy down in the process. “What was that for!” he bristled.

“I was playing. Duh. Haven’t you ever played before?” Tracy blinked her icy-blue eyes rather innocently, confused at his outburst.

A strange look crossed over Tsuki’s expression. “Not since….well not since for a long time. OK? Besides, now is not the time for playing. Darcia lets his wolves run rampant and they could be anyway. They’d love to catch us alone but really, we’re no challenge to them. It would be all too easy for them to come in and get rid of us all. But we can’t let our guard down- letting our guard down just only makes it easier for them.”

Tracy rolled her eyes. “Pfft. Whatever. I’ve heard you guys say soooo much about these Canyon wolves but I haven’t seen them even once!”

Raikou turned away and walked off, letting Tsuki and Tracy’s argument fade into the distance. Tracy had a lot to learn, just because you couldn’t see the Canyon wolves, it didn’t mean they weren’t watching. And by now Darcia knew that the daughter of Kiba- his most hated enemy and biggest rival- and the daughter of Toboe were here in Paradise with the son of Tsume and his own daughter. Oh yes, Raikou was sure that Darcia would be quite thrilled and would invite them over for a nice deer or two to reminisce about their parents and have a wonderful little reunion. Or not.

Finally, Tracy and Tsuki’s bickering was just a mere whisper in the wind. Raikou halted, facing the wind and standing completely still as the wind ruffled her fur. The sun had steadily risen higher during the day and it would soon be sunset. She was standing up at the top of the valley and looking across the forest, valleys, and meadows that was Paradise, Raikou could see a section of the forest at the other end where it was dark, shadowy and rotting; that was the land of Paradise that Darcia controlled, and it was tainted, dying. The trees thinned and the land became rock as it stretched on to the Canyon, looking like a dark abyss with the setting sun casting shadows across everything. Darcia’s territory looked especially foreboding, while the rest of Paradise was everything it was supposed to be: perfect and beautiful.

The winds changed, bringing new scents to Raikou. At first, she only scented the usual: prey, the forest, lunar flowers as they prepared to bloom for the upcoming full moon but then she scented…wolves. However, the wind was not coming from the direction of camp so it wasn’t a Paradise wolf. Raikou narrowed her eyes and turned towards the scents. Could it be Canyon wolves? she wondered. No, the scents weren’t coming from the direction of Darcia’s territory and the scent was wrong. Then who could- Raikou’s eyes widened and she turned, taking back off for camp.

She skidded to a halt once she reached camp and let out a slight bark, “Tsuki, I scented wolves at the entrance to Paradise.”

“Canyon wolves?” Tsuki rose to his feet, he and Tracy had gotten into a bought of play fighting as she had tackled him during their “argument”.

“No. They’re strangers.”

“Well then lets go greet them.” Tsuki’s eyes glowed as he slunk forward, Ravyn and Tracy following, ears pricked with interest and curiosity.

Raikou turned and bounded forward slightly to Tsuki’s side, only a little bit a head of him to lead the way. She could feel anxiety radiating off Tsuki, his muscles tense as he shielded the emotion of hope in his eyes. Raikou felt a pang of sympathy for him; every time they found the scent of a new wolf in Paradise, he got it into his head that it might be his little sister, and so far every time he’d been disappointed. He must miss her a lot, she’s all he has left if she’s not already dead. Raikou, however, had a feeling that he would only get disappointed again this time.

The group neared the entrance and halted at the edge of a small clearing, the first place where each of them had stepped foot into Paradise. At the entrance stood a lean, black he-wolf with ice-blue eyes. The he-wolf look at all of them sharply, wariness and suspicion filling his gaze. Out of the corner of her eyes, Raikou saw Tsuki let out a silent sigh but he let no sign of disappointment cross his gaze. She stepped forward, closer towards the he-wolf, who stood his ground and lifted his head.

“Who are you?” Raikou asked coolly, eyes flashing slightly. She already had an idea of who he might be. That ink-black pelt, those ice-blue eyes…who else had those among the first wolves of Paradise?

“None of your business,” he replied curtly.

“Actually it is. See, you’re in our territory. I’ll ask you again: who are you.” Raikou flicked her tail. She saw Ravyn narrow her eyes slightly at her from the corner of her eyes. No doubt the black she-wolf didn’t like Raikou taking charge, Ravyn acknowledge Tsuki as her leader but Tsuki had made no move to ask the newcomer any questions. He seemed quite content to hang back for now.

The stranger’s eyes lingered over all of them and his eyes narrowed to slits, lip curling slightly. He obviously didn’t like the fact that he was outnumbered. If it had just been Raikou, or even only two of them, he might have tried to give them the slip. Finally he lowered his head slightly and said, “My name is Hinto…”

“And let me take a quick guess at who your parents were,” Raikou said, amber eyes glinting. Hinto’s eyes narrowed, tipping his head a little. “You’re the son of Blue and Hige, aren’t you,” she continued, a little smugly.

“How did you-”

“I’m Raikou, daughter of Kiba,” she interrupted. Raikou glanced behind her as Tsuki came up to her side.

“I’m Tsuki, the son of Tsume. Did you happen to meet a wolf on your travels who was a gray and silver she-wolf with green eyes?”

Hinto shook his head. “No, I haven’t met another wolf at all in my life until now.” Tsuki sighed, ears drooping a little.

Tracy padded up to him, eyes wide. “Really? Not another single wolf? But how! I mean, surely you at least got a glimpse of one!”

“No,” Hinto replied, “I only saw dogs, never any wolves. It wasn’t until I neared Paradise that I even started to scent other wolves. But,” he added looking back over at Tsuki, “I might have scented another wolf behind me. I‘m not sure, it could have been an old scent but I who knows.” Hinto shrugged and glanced at Tracy’s bangles and continued, “I take it that you’re kin of Toboe?”

Tracy nodded, ice-blue eyes lit up. “Yeah! I’m Tracy!” she smiled at him. No doubt, the young she-wolf would be pestering him for the rest of the day with questions.

Hinto turned his gaze over to Ravyn, who had stayed back. Ravyn had her head low, ears flattened slightly, trying to stay hidden in the shadows. The black she-wolf probably thought that Hinto would think along the lines of Tsuki and Raikou and not trust her. “So who are you?” he asked.

Ravyn blinked slightly, hesitated slightly before replying, “I’m Ravyn…” she paused again then decided to go ahead and tell him up front as she went on, “I’m Darcia’s daughter…”

Hinto didn’t seem at all bothered by her parentage, “Well at least you have some sense and didn’t go on with his ruthless massacres.”

Ravyn’s ears pricked surprised and was about to say something before Tracy interrupted, “C’mon!” the young she-wolf urged, “lets go back camp! There’s a yummy deer we haven’t eaten yet and I’m starving. Besides, we need to show Hinto the camp!” Tracy pranced in place then bounded back to camp, Hinto and Ravyn sharing a glance then following after her.

Raikou hadn’t moved at all from the place where she had sat down. She merely watched the other three leave and turned to look over at Tsuki. “Well? Aren’t you going to go back to camp?”

“Aren’t you?”

“I’m not tired. And I asked you first.”

Tsuki sighed, “Raikou…do you think that maybe we could…go out and try to find that wolf that Hinto scented?”

“Why?”

“It could be my sister! I have to find Sukai! And if you wont’ come with me, then I’ll go on my own! If my sister is nearby, then I have to go out and look for her!” He lashed his tail defiantly.

“Do what you want but if she’s nearby, then she’s probably already on her way here so there’s no use looking for you. Isn’t that one of the reasons why you stayed here all this time instead of going out to look for her? To wait for her in Paradise? If you had gone out searching with no idea of where she was then you could have easily missed her even though it would have been smarter than staying here along with Darcia on the other end of the forest. Sukai will come here in time.”

“But…” Tsuki seemed torn.

“Tsuki, she’ll be fine. You’ll meet her again here, in Paradise. Hinto said she was behind her, she’ll probably be here by morning and then all the wolves of the 2nd Generation will have returned.

Tsuki let out a long sigh, turning and gazing at the entrance to Paradise with a deep, brooding look. Finally he looked back at Raikou and nodded. “I guess you’re right. Sukai is coming to Paradise so I guess I don’t really need to be chasing after her…and I guess you were right about them all showing up one by one, Paradise must really be calling to them all…”

“Yup.” Raikou stood up and stretched. “You can go back to your camp if you want but…not me.”

“Why not?”

“I just…don’t feel like it. I’d rather be out here.” Raikou blinked, her pelt even whiter as the sun had set and darkness had fallen across the land like a blanket. The white she-wolf padded away, amber gaze burning and her paws itching with restlessness. She left the clearing and went her own way, the paths of the forest lit with starlight when she felt that urging again, that feeling that something or someone was pushing and pulling at her. Something was calling to her again. Raikou let out a sigh, here we go again…'

Thanks to MihaelK33hl who pointed out that I started calling Ravyn by another name. If anyone else caught that....well you have a spoiler for future chapters! Its kind of like back in the second chapter where I had called Hige "Hinto" and had to change it. A little random thing, Hinto means "Blue" in a Native American language!

Remember this is RP based so I do not own all the characters. So far, only Raikou and Sukai are my characters. Any other recognizable characters and places are copyrighted to Bones media and whoever else owns the Wolf's Rain series so Kiba, Tsume, Toboe, Darcia, Hige, Blue, and Paradise are not mine. Thank you for reading.