The Jaden Chronicles
Part the Fourth - A Friend ?

s Jaden began to wake up from the good nights sleep he suddenly felt the presence of some one watching him. In starteld anticipation he rose up from the ground

"Who are you!"

Jaden demanded of the figure.

"Oh calm please please no harm is ment tis just me a simple abserver."

His voice had a whiny high pitch to it with the giggle of a young child or a crazy man. It took a few minutes for Jaden to fully gain his vision in the paleness of the morn but as he did he could see a man in about his mid 20's perced on a stump at the edge of the forest. His pale skin deeply contrasting his dark green eyes.

Closing his eyes and consintraiting the way he was tought Jaden atemptld to read the stranger and learn what he could by his energy field.

"Oh we can have non of that now."

the voise laghed.

Whith the words Jaden could feel something in his head like a cold he was stufed up but insted of restricting breathing it was restricting his mind from tapping into energys.

At this time Red awok seeing that Jaden was strugling she leped at the figure who casualy jumped over her atack and tosed a small amount of green dust in her face and she fell behind the stump limp.

"What have you done!"

Jaden screamed in a anger never befor felt.

"Do not worry she only sleeps, tis not nice to attack a visiter when you know nothing about them"

"Who are you and what do you..."

"Slow down be calm I am simply and observer and I could not help but to meet you and yours."

"What kind of observer?"

"Now now I will ask and tell all just be calm yung Jaden."

"How do you..."

"You do not get it do you, I know all about you I have been watching I new your parents and theres they did great things for the world and for there time witch is yet to come. You think you know so much and yet you know so little about the truth the family you came to know is not your own your parints died befor you remember. In a time when technology had passed it's peak and magic had murgerd and began to reassend to the top as it is still trying to do. I knew them all in a differnt life as a differnt beeing with the same mind and memory. "

"WHAT! who are you what are you why..."

"Stop interupting or I will have to get tricky with you I have not played the part of the trixter in some time do not make me do it agin. All will be reveld to you in time, do not make the same mistakes as your father vengince is not the way do not go to simply avenge what has been done go to make sure that no one else may suffer the same. Now the sun is comming and I am gone always remember I am watching you."

And with that high laghter that he did so well the stranger simpley fell to the ground and turned to a strange green mist drifting into the dark forest that lay ahead. Imedeiatly Red awoke from her unnatural slumber,

"Red are you ok."

a paniced and confused Jaden cried out to his only companion.

Jaden and Red sat for a time gathering up ther things and pondering the occerances ther of. Jaden could only think this is just the begining of our jurny thrue the forest we have not even enterd yet and allredy the strange things begin, but what did one expect from a larg forest that sat smack in the middle of a dessert and island in the middle of land were all things were posible and nothing unherd of.

After packing there belongings and extiguting the fire the nomads jurneyd into the great forest slowly they made there way carfull to watch for trubles that could arise but suprisingly they made a good part of the trip with nothing haponing until. Red had went deeper into the forest to scout for some more food Jaden let her go as she pleased however he was worred for her but then as he made his way down the path a large very well built man came from the forest blocking his pass. The man was stagly and from the look of him had lived there in the forest with his taterd T-shirt and torn blue jeans and long wavey taterd hair but he wore a larg black jacket trench style going down to the bottom of his calves.

"Who are you that trespass on my teritory?"

The man demanded in a gruff raspy voice.

"I am Jaden a simple nomad I mean you no harm please let me pass."

"Jaden a simple nomad I do not care you are trespassing I could kill you were you stand and I may just do that."

Jaden hopping to have more luck than the last time agin tried to learn what he could from the strangers energy reading. To his utter shock the man was not human it was not a discise or an allution and he did not know what but he was not human.

"What are you?" Jaden questiond

"A simple nomand ha a nomad with the deep sight and the smell of the forgoten relm you were sent to spy on me were you not. DO NOT DENI IT I will rip your hart out and feast on its blood ingorged feast."

The Man began to come at Jaden with great intent. Jaden recaled his training in the fighting arts and was able to dodge the first lunge by his attacker.

"Please I do not wish to fight you"

Jaden pleaded

"Then you can simply die and feed my hunger"

The man came agin at Jaden this time conecting with a strong right hand Jaden had had enogh it is now time to fight back. Jaden taking his walking stick in hand in a ready position

"come at me then."

Jaden screemed The man tolk after Jaden and with a side step Jaden dodged the attack and using the walking stick triped his attacker sending him to the ground. The man rolled with his fall and more angerd than ever jumped to his feet with a screem and began to growl Jaden then watched in aw as the man began to chang his body grew in size his head elogated to that of one like a K9 hair began to cover his body Jaden did not know what to do he was paralized in shock and fear the beast then lepped at Jaden taking him down in one great leep and as Jaden watched the beast draw its masive claw to the air and as it was about to bring it crashing thrue Jadens skull Red from out of know were jumped on the back of the beast bighting into it's neck the monster shreeked in horror. Throwing Red to the ground and about to atack as the best saw what had attacked him and that it protected Jaden. The beast stoped and took back to the form of human clothing and trench still intact remacobly.

The man droped to one knee

"I am sory sire I had no idea"

then turning to Red he began to speak

"and to you I am sorry I did not know"

the man stud and helped Jaden up

"please forgive me I was not awre of your companion you travil with. So offten those who would harm me my kind and Mother Gaia come to the forest it has been along time befor I have seen a friend if I can call you that."

"What are you and why the sudden chang."

"Well you must be someone special to have the company you carry and as for me and my kind I am a Werewolf contrary to popular oppinion we do exist we are simply in hiding as we always have been living amougst humans never to be seen by them. There are more of us in the forrest and out side the forest you should be carful please take these."

The stranger handed Jaden a gun belt set and a pair of .44 meg revolvers.

"I do not mean for you to use thes on my kind but all should recognise the desin the belonged to a great leader of the past his name was Patch the original alfa of my pack he is well known in meny sosiatys. Go know make your way threu the forest saftly now there are other dangers here but if you hurry you will not see them.

Jaden thanked the strange man and taking the gift he was on his way taking his advise he hurred to the end of the forest without insodent. At the other end they came uppon aclearing and the last bit of the jurn to reach the city.

"Only 5 more miles of desert remain then we can rest agin."

Jaden thought all the whill unable to shake the realizations he had just been awere of in a very short period of time he fond that his parents were not his parents he never knew his family and that werewolves exict if all this is treu what else may be true his mind filled with unshuritys Jaden continued knowing somehow some day he would understand.