As well as the spot were he and Claire had kissed for the first time. After six months he had finaly retured to the village he called home. As Jaden cleared the summit expecting to see The villidge he had called home as long as he could remember but, insted he found a sight that made his stomic turn. It had been destroyed nothing was left every thing was in ruin. The pain and sorrow sorred threu his body in the bitter realization that everything was gone. As he ran down to were his villige was stood he tryed despretly to convince himself that this was not a dream. He enterd throu were the gates had stood and could smell that horable stench of burnt flesh as he gaged and the hored stench he felt somthing rub agenst his hand. Jumping in a starteld scare to the side to see what it was he triped and fell into a large mud hole only to find it was just Red Roses the wolf that he had met well on his jurney. Her head was down and the look of sad pitty in her face was unbarible for Jaden and as the tears began to fall Red went to him laying her head in his lap. Jaden slowly made his way through the villige only to find the villige was a compleat loss every thing distroyed and every one killed his parents and his oldest sister in the cabin that they lived. Many of the villigers were mangled to the point of no recognition. As he wonderd who could do such a thing and thought if any one had excaped his hart was filled with hope as he had not yet found Claire perhaps her family had went to the nieboring villige to visit her brother. Deciding there was nothing else he could do hear he made his way to the edge of town to make the three day walk to Nazdine the city were Claires brother lives. As he aproched the edge of town he saw the body of someone there hands tied behind there back the body was mangled beond any recognition Jaden's stomic turned agin in discust that any one could do such a thing. Then as he walked past the body to leave the villige a sparkle on the ground near the body cought his eye. Thinking it may be a clue as to what hapend he decided to invetigate the object it was coated in blood and ash and as he lifted it from the ground he found it was conected to the body's neck. With trembling hands he cleand of the neckless to reveil that it was the very neclase that he had given to claire just be for he left. Hit by the sudden realization that his fist and only love had been killed the tears agin fell as Jaden fell crying ever harder untill he sleep. As Jaden awoke he found his wolf companion Red Rosses had nussled herself next to his body and as he rose she awoke looking at him with her bright eyes with a look of such consern and love. Jaden realizing he could not let this go unchalanged he would find out what had happend and with this thought he grabed his pack and started the jurny to Nazdine.