Here's the rest of Chapter 1.
The first thing I noticed was how uncomfortable it was. It felt like I fell asleep on a bed of rocks and laid there for hours. I opened my eyes and realized I was in a cage made of metal, but I didn’t know how I got there. Then it all came flooding back to me. “Iana!” I shouted sitting straight up and banging my head against the top of the cage, adding to my discomfort.
I looked around and found I was in the forest surrounding Fox Village, at least I think it was. Then I saw that another cage next mine. It was too dark to see what or who was in the cage, but I softly called out, “Iana, you in there.”
A groan came from the cage. “Perosk, that you?” asked Iana to my relief. “How did we get here? I remember someone walkin’ behind you, then nothin’.”
“We were attacked by humans. They snuck up on us and hit us over the head I guess.” I reached up and felt a lump right between my ears and winced at I touched it. “Yes, they definitely hit us.”
“Where are we, Perosk?” Iana asked.
“I think we might be in Yertilop, the forest surroundin’ the Fox Village, but I can’t be-” I was suddenly stopped short by the rustling of leaves behind us. I whipped around to see a group of three humans walking toward us in deep conversation.
“What do we do with these creatures?” one of the humans asked. “They are too savage to be put in people’s households as pets.”
“I say we put them in the Arena and have them fight,” a second human replied. “I think they will make perfect entertainment.”
“Yeah, but will people watch it?” the first human asked.
“Of course, people love to see a good fight. If Yinklon City can make a fortune with those animal fights we can do it too.” The first two human continued walking towards a camp that I didn’t see before and sit down, but the third human stared at me and Iana.
He walked right over to us and sat on his haunches and stared at us. Then he finally said, “Can you talk?”
I was surprised at the question. I looked at Iana and saw that she was just surprised as I was. “Yeah,” I said simply. The human stared at us as if he didn’t believe the talking came from us. “What are we doin’ here?” I asked just to prove it was me talking.
“Then my father must’ve been right,” he said to himself. “So those buildings were really built by you creatures and they are not abandoned Human colonies?”
“Yeah,” I replied, “and we do have names you know. We’re not mindless beasts.”
“Reok,” one of the Humans by the camp called, “your talking to creatures who understand nothing of what you’re saying. Come on and get something to eat.”
“Can you get us out of here?” I asked as he walked away. All he gave me was a look that said, “Sorry”.
“Perosk,” Iana called when the Human left, “I think I can get us out of here. There are locks on these and they don’t look that secure, I think I can get them open with my claw.” Then I heard a heard a faint scratch of metal coming from Iana’s cage, then a faint click.
I looked over to the men and saw them in deep conversation, then I looked back at Iana as she slowly opening the cage. It was almost open where she get out. Then a screech of metal tore through the night.
The men turned around and the first one yelled,” They’re escaping!” He ran towards, but didn’t get far till a gunshot went off and her crumpled to the ground. Behind him stood the Human who talked to us.
“Reok,” the other Human yelled, “what you do that for!”
“I can’t let you hurt them, Lojin” Reok said. He turned his gun on his partner. His body was shaking like a leaf in the wind, but his gun stayed fixed on Lojin.
“You choose to kill your fellow man because of these creatures!” Lojin yelled in surprise. He took a step towards Reok, but Reok’s aim remained steady. “You let your father get to you.”
“Leave my father out of this!” He took a step forward and put the gun barrel to Lojin’s chest.
“Your father was senile, Reok. He actually thought these beasts could talk. They are only mindless animals.”
“I’m sorry, Lojin.” Reok pulled the trigger and Lojin collapsed to the ground. Reok fell to his knees on the ground and cried. I glanced at Iana and she hurried out and unlocked my cage within a few seconds.
I cautiously walked over to Reok who was still crying. I knelt down, picked up the gun, and aimed it at him with shaking hands. “Shoot me,” Reok said without looking up at me, “I got nothing left to live for. If I go home I’ll be killed just the same.” Could I kill the man that saved my life. Part of me wanted to shoot this human and get revenge, and the other part said I should drop it and run.
Iana’s black furred hand appeared at the end of the barrel and she looked me right into my eyes. “Don’t do it, Perosk, we owe him our lives.” I lowered the gun from Reok’s head and stared at him intently. He was still crying, but I felt no need to comfort him.
“I threw the gun to the ground and said, “I don’t owe a Human anythin’. Come on Iana, we need to get out of here.” I walked away, but Iana stayed behind. “Come on.”
“Perosk, we can’t leave him here,” Iana said kneeling down next to Reok. She put her arm around his neck and whispered something I couldn’t here. He looked up and stared at her then he nodded. “He’s comin’ with us.”
“No!” I shouted. “He’s a Human, it’s ‘cause of them we are in the predicament.”
“But it ain’t his fault, Perosk.” She stood up and walked up to me and got in my face. “What problems do you have with Humans?”
“My problem?” I said angerly. “You wanna know my problem with Humans. Humans killed my family! I had to watch my parents killed for Human entertainment! I only escaped because I was lucky; I was chosen for a the Hunt. I managed to escape and find the Wolf Village who brought me home.” I looked at her right in the eyes. I saw surprise and sorrow in the eyes. “That’s my problem with them,” I said quietly and walked off towards direction I was sure the village was.
“I’m sorry, Perosk, but he is comin’ with is.” She walked over to Reok and offered him her hand. He grabbed it and stood on his feet. “Come on,” she said and walked past me into the forest. I looked at the Human who still stood there. I turned around without a word and followed in after Iana.
We kept silent for most of the trip except when Iana talked with the Human and asked him a few questions. The forest was dense and since night had fallen long ago it was hard to see where we were going.
After a few long hours I started noticing signs that we were nearing the village. A giant boulder was on the path, with it’s point facing towards the way of the city. It was carved that way for lost travelers to find the village. Then I saw the beginning of the path; we were almost there.
“We’re almost there,” I called back and ran forward. I was stopped in my tracks with what I saw. Fox Village was destroyed.

