In the Silver Wolf Pack's home base, Kai was sitting in a room with his cousins, next to the room where a meeting was being held. “And even though he survived, the mime will never walk again. We still need to pay off his family. That payment is coming out of Ino’s salary.”

“Not my fault, I know he was thinking I was short!”

“What is with you short guys and pulling this stuff?” A wolf asked before Ino grabbed them in a headlock.

‘When is grandpa’s meeting gonna be over… I wanna go literally anywhere else!’ Kai thought.

“Next order of business is about the upcoming games in Eleanoria, the one hosted by the Flock in their home turf.” Cujo explained with many of the pack growing in frustration.

“We’re not going to that event are we? We’d be literally walking into the belly of the beast, it could be an ambush or something.” Ino pointed out.

“As much as I know Ino for being a dumbass at times--” A short black bear Pangean spoke up with Ino giving them the middle finger and using it like a knife motion. “We can’t be certain this isn’t a trap or something.”

“The Flock is a lot of things…” A feminine voice spoke up, they all turned to a doberman Pangean in a leather jacket with a skull mask over their face and started to light a cigarette to smoke. “But they are not fools, they wouldn’t try it when we could easily take out so many of them.”

“Hmm, you make a good point miss Europa.” Ino replied. “But still, why did they want to host the games there?”

“They’re desperate.” Gin spoke up, all eyes and ears on the old wolf. “Ino, how many canines moved to Zubeth in the last year from Eleanoria?”

Ino looked at the documents in front of him and answered, “In total, around a few dozen, mainly in families, and if I remember right, reports stated some were injured like they were assaulted, some stayed in Cherryton.”

“I get it now/They think they are clever/So the old fart is useful!” Minos spoke, they slapped their last head. “It seems they want canine Pangeans to not feel in danger/This event is like a publicity stunt to make their home okay for canines/Idiots can’t control their people and hate spreads.”

“Huh? Wait, you mean to tell me they are hosting this event to boost morale or something?” Ino asked.

Gin nodded as he spoke, “That and, Cujo the documents I asked you to get,” Gin was handed a large stack of papers. “Due to the assaults caused by the Flock, Eleanoria has been suffering a decline in their economy, small businesses close, homes become abandoned, and Pangeans litter the streets and homeless shelters.”

“But why Kai’s school? There are a few in the city and they could have invited any number of them?” Cujo wondered with him noticing the doberman named Europa get up and walk into the other room where the teens were than behind Kai and started to shake him a little.

“This here!” She stops shaking him a little. “Kai here is a public figure who is highly known in the canine community, as well as many other communities due to his love for fights with Ferals and bad Pangeans, almost as much as your old man and grandpa. Plus, you’re a big spender.”

“Wh-- No, I’m not!” Kai stated before Europa dropped a large file on the table that was titled: Kai’s spending. He sweats a lot at this.

“Let’s see,” Europa opened the file and started to read. “Over a few hundred on clothes, a new TV every few months because you keep breaking them with controllers from your console that’s a few thousand, geez, thousands in strawberry milkshakes, as well as a guide on how to make milkshakes, and a plot of land for strawberries--”

“I GET IT!” Kai shouts, getting her to stop. He could hear so many snickers around him.

“Anyway, they want everyone to see that they welcome others no matter their species. It might actually work. And Kai is the key to that,” Europa explained as she walked back to her seat.

“And it should.” Gin said, surprising everyone. “This could be the first step opening relations with them, this could also mean the high population of homeless could return to them too.”

“Less homeless off our streets mean less issues, like assaults on them lately. We had seven hobo hunting parties, most were just teens board and wanted to be idiots. We creaked their skulls a bit, but two groups were adults who wanted them gone.” Cujo said as he made a knife out of fire and ash. “We made them go away, in body bags.”

“Good if you ask me, less scum who think they’re in the right.” Ino said as another thing came to mind. “What about Kai, should we still send him to Eleanoria? It could be dangerous? And I mean for the people there.”

While Kai listened to this, suddenly something small hit his ear, he looked to see a pomeranian Pangean with a silver coat flinging peas at him. Kai ignored it at first, but the silver pomeranian kept at it, hitting him with pea after pea, all on the ear. To make things worse, the peas were frozen, so they were hard and cold. After what seemed to be the 50th frozen pea, Kai slammed his fist on the table and roared, “MARCO, I WILL FUCKING RIP YOUR THROAT-- GACK!” Kai was interrupted by a pea hitting the back of his throat.

“Kai! Don’t speak or threaten your cousins that way!” a voice spoke out.

Kai spat out the pea before he quickly turned around, pointing at the Silver pomeranian named Marco and shouted, “Then tell this short little fuck nugget to quit hitting me with frozen veggies!”

“MY HEIGHT IS BELOW AVERAGE, YOU GARGAUNTUAN FUCK WAD!!!” Marco roared back, the two then got in each other’s faces and growled like they were getting ready to fight.

Then an a very heavyset husky with a silver and white coat quickly got between them, “Come on guys, let’s not fight,”

“Kai, resist the urge to hurt them.” Said a voice, he turned around to see two different Pangeans, both guards for them to make sure they were both safe and wouldn’t run off, the one who spoke was a giant brown bear Pangean with a pink scarf around their neck. The other was an avian Pangean, a raven one, an odd Pangean to be in the Pack.

Marco quickly interjected, “Oh, I’d love to see this big bastard try!” This quickly brought Kai’s rage back as they butted heads again.

The brown bear picked up Marco easily with one hand, Marco tried biting to get himself free but the bear’s fur was too thick, not that it made Marco stop. “Hehe! That tickles young Marco!” THe bear then flipped him upside down and hanged him by his legs.

Marco pulled his teeth from the bear’s fur before speaking “Feh! Mister Paulo, when was the last time you cleaned your coat?!”

“Just yesterday, not my fault I got dirty from fighting gangsters and thugs. Ha!” The bear Paulo spoke.

Marco made another grunting noise and clicked his tongue in frustration. “Honestly, you two boys are more violent than a honey badger.” Spoke up a feminine voice, Kai and Marco turned to see a Borzoi with a silver

“Young lady Ori.” Paulo said, bowing his head. He then dropped Marco who started to bite Kai’s legs.

“AH! WHY ME?!”

“Easy target!”

“Case in point.”

Paulo quickly got between the two canines again, he held them with no issue. “Sir George a little help with Marco’s jaw, he’s locked!”

“Save it tubby! Same with your dumb pink--” Marco stop speaking when the smile on Paulo’s face disappeared, he raised a hand where a thin puff of smoke came before it turned into a large battleax with the blades being on fire. “Um… your cool pink scarf.” Marco said, shaking.

“That’s better.” Paulo said with his weapon disappearing. He then got a chop on the back of his head to see the raven looking disappointed. “Hmm, oh sorry Fumiko, I shouldn’t have done that.”

“Just don’t do it again, our job is to protect them, not scare them. We also have to keep them from fight.”

“You’ve got a point Fumiko, these two need the most watching with how violent they are.” Ori replied. “Kai, don’t fight Marco, he is just a little kid who doesn’t know better.”

Kai turned away to sit down, but then Marco spoke up, “Yeah, he’s too much of a bitch anyway-” Marco stopped when he saw Kai lifting George, who was probably twice his height and weight, over his head before throwing George at Marco with incredible speed.

George crashed into Marco, slamming him into a wall, the resulting impact causing Ori’s drink to spill onto her shirt, which seemed rather expensive. “This shirt cost me 300 Panny Dollars… YOU BASTARDS ARE DEAD!!!” Ori roared as she clapped her hands together, before summoning lightning between her palms.

“Wait, I can--” Fumiko tried to ease the situation only for Ori to get pass her and crash into the three, causing a full blown fight. “-- get the stain out… damn it.”

Marco slipped out from under George and pulled out a cane before hitting a button and it transformed into a barbed whip, “Bring it on!!” Marco growled as he charged in.

As Kai, Marco, and Ori punched/whipped/blasted each other in a massive cloud of dust, Paulo went over to George to check on him. “Are you alright?” He asked.

“Yeah, a bit sore but I’ll be fine, I’m gonna stay here, I don’t wanna be thrown again…” George muttered.

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As the three fought they couldn’t have noticed someone was walking towards them, as they got closer they saw the fight. “Hmm, kids at heart I guess.” A feminine voice spoke, reaching into a carryon bag and pulled out a net, tossing it to cover the three covering them in a sort of energy.

“Huh? A magic net? Sasha?” Kai pointed out turning to see a Husky Pangean wearing a winter coat and sunglasses. “Could you let me out so I can kick Marco around?”

“Nope, you can’t.” Sasha the Husky answered.

“Why don’t we put them in that from the beginning?” Fumiko asked.

“Because the magic can wearout at any given--” Sasha was cut off as the net lost its glow. “--Moment-- shit.”

Within a second, Kai grabbed both Ori and Marco before slamming their heads into the ground. “Victory!” Kai cheered as the two collapsed unconscious.

“AHEM!” Everyone turned to see Gin standing at the door. “The meeting just ended and I see you’ve been trying to kill each other this whole time?”

Kai then replied, “What else is new? We do this all the time.”

“If it wasn’t for your healing powers, you’d all be dead at this point.” Cujo pointed with proof. “LIKE NOW!”

Kai nodded and replied, “Yeah, that’s why we do it so much, we know we can get away with it,” Kai then looked at the time. “Oh sh-- Um, I need to go and make a call!” Kai started to run off. ‘Today is the day I finally call her and ask her out on a date!’ Kai thought as he left.

“Where is he going?” Paulo asked.

“To try and call a girl he likes. He has been trying since yesterday. Saw him pacing his room thinking about what to say to them.” Cujo explained.

“A-ha, right Kai has a crush.” Sasha said in a joke-like tone, then saw everyone being serious. “Oh God you’re all serious? Is it the end of the world?!”

“Still he’s probably going to call on the house phone, so we could eavesdrop on him to see if this girl he likes is even real.” Ino suggested.

“Yeah, I want to see if this girl is real too.”

“Nothing is stopping us.

Suddenly, a loud smash came from upstairs followed by someone screaming “Bonzie!” in the building, “He just smashed through the walls and left, didn't he?”

“Yeap.” Ino answered. “And he is stealing Cujo’s car.”

“MOTHER-”

“Ehem!” A chihuahua cleared his throat, stopping Cujo.

“Fine, That little Fucker! Better?” Cujo asked, getting a nod.

Ino then smelled gas leaking from the front gate, “Aaand he crashed into the front gate again.”

“THAT LITTLE FU--!”

*****

Kai knocked on the door, before Kinto opened the door, “Hey, Kai.” Kinto greeted his friend.

“Guys I need your phone! I’m going to do it!”

“You mean, you’re really going to prank call the cops again!” Wu answered. Wu popped out of Kinto’s cloud wool, before realizing what Kai actually meant, “Oh, I gotta see how you screw this up.”

“I am not going to screw this up! I am going to call her and with hope ask her out on a date! Also why are you inside of Kinto?”

Wu popped his arms out from Kinto’s wool and wiggled them tauntingly at Kai, “You're gonna screw this uuuuuup!”

A loud crash could be heard from a couple blocks away as Kai slammed Wu’s head through a wall. “I’ll pay for that.” Kai stated as he entered the home.

“You better.” Wu got back up as they made their way to what looked like a living room, an elderly looking sheep was on a rocking chair knitting what seemed like a sweater with their own wool. “We can call her using Kinto’s phone.”

“Wait, are you alright with this Kinto?” Kai asked.

“Yeah, my parents are always out and my granny is always busy making clothes.” Kinto answered as they sat on a couch, the cloud sheep reaching for a phone to hand to Kai.

“Can your granny even hear?” Wu asked as Kinto’s grandmother paid them no mind, only to get up and hand Wu the sweater.

Kai looked at the phone, he felt confident. “Okay, I got this!” He felt powerful, like he could take on the whole world. “I’m gonna call her! He was ready for anything. “I’m gonna… not do it.” He lowered his head in shame as his friends facepalmed themselves. Kinto’s grandmother made a hat and placed it on Kai’s head.

Wu got up from his seat, wearing the sweater that had images of bananas on it and looked at his friend. “Dude, c’,mon, we have faced so much stuff together. We’ve taken on ferals, escaped from those Hoomen buildings, saved Zeek from being hurt by those thugs, and even survived Cujo when we filled his car’s gas with soda.”

“Yeah he was pissed that day.” Kinto added.

“I just don’t know…” Kai said as he got up from his seat, leaving the phone on the table, Wu looked to Kinto who nodded. “I just don’t know what to say or do when I saw her the second time I froze like how do I ask her out?” Kai looked out the window to see the sun close to setting. “I know I feel love and I want to hold her in my arms but… I don’t know what to do…”

“Well you better think fast because I just dialed her number.” Wu stated as he gave the phone to Kai.

“YOU WHAT?!?!” Kai shouted as he put the phone to his ear, it was still ringing, so no one had picked up yet.

“Don’t worry you got this! I fully believe you to screw up.” Wu replied with a thumbs then got his throat grabbed by his Silver wolf friend.

Suddenly, a voice came through the phone. “Hello?” Said a male voice. Everyone was silent. “Hello, how did you get this number?” Kai reconize this voice, it was Junfuku the Mad Crow. “Answer me who is this?”

Kai motioned for everyone to be quiet as he tried to hang up the phone.

“I can hear you breathing, three? No, four of you and one of you is knitting.” Junfuku said with everyone surprised by this.

Wu then said, “Is this guy a crow or a bat?” Before being swiftly choked by Kai.

“I’m a Crow you little shit! Now answer me, how did you get this number?! Answer me or I will hunt you down and skin-- Oh Lady Taiyo. Sorry for interrupting your rest.” The moment he said her name Kai’s heart skipped a beat. “Did- Did I hear a heart skip a beat? Hello, are you-- Hey, Lady Taiyo, no-- You’re still grounded.”

“Junfuku, who are you talking to? Give me my phone, please.” There was the sound of a spell being cast before a sound of motion could be heard as Taiyo began to speak. “Hello?”

Kai could not mess this up, he needed to speak. Now was the time. “HI!” His fur turned floofy, his friends tried not to laugh. “Um… hi, it’s me… again.” Kai squeaked his voice barely above a whisper.

Taiyo however was no different, her voice came through high in pitch as she replied with a near cracking voice, “H-HeLlo.”

“Um, Lady Taiyo, are you--” Junfuku was interrupted by the sound of something breaking then the sound of a thud.

“Are you okay?!” Kai asked worriedly.

“Um…” Unknown to him, what that was was Taiyo knocking Junfuku out with a vase. She picked him up by the side of his wings and dragged him into her room so that no one would notice a knocked out crow on the ground. “Yeah, it is alright… How is your face? Does it need a kiss.” Taiyo wanted to strangle herself for that.

“Um… Maybe…” Kai’s fur looked almost like a metallic pink with how much he was blushing.

His friends laugh before they hear a knock at the door, and Kinto leaves to check it out. “Dude, ask her out.” Wu whispered.

“R-right, um… are you free?”

“Not really, um, do-do you mean at the moment or in the future?”

“Yes!” Kai answered swiftly. “Yes, yes, are you free now or later. hehehe.”

Taiyo didn’t answer at first. “No… I actually got grounded for going to Zubeth and--”

“You were in Zubeth? You traveled outside your territory and into the Silver Pack’s?” Kai asked Taiyo not to tell her it must have been shameful to do such a thing, but not for Kai. “You’re a rebel, that’s hot.” He then realized what he just said. “Um, sorry I didn’t--”

“No, it’s fine, really. Thanks for that.” Kai could hear her heart racing. “I just wished there was a way for me to get out of here and hang out.”

Kai couldn’t agree more, if only there was a way for her to sneak out without being caught. He turned and found his answer to the problem, the same thing that gets him into problems, Wu. “Wait, I have an idea! I have dumbass friend--”

“Hey! Is it me?” Wu asked.

“Yes it is you.”

“Okay good I have a dynamic and reputation I need to keep.”

“Anyway, he is a Wukong and he could help.” Kai explained. “He has this ability to leave a copy of something or someone even change their appearances.”

Taiyo then quickly interjected, “Wait, Wukong? That’s right I almost forgot, do you understand the Wukong Language?!”

Kai tilted his head as he heard Kinto swiftly opening then shutting the door, “Yeah, the damn monkey thought it was funny to send me texts in said language. Why?”

Taiyo then quickly asked, “I bought a book in Zubeth that’s in the Wukong Language, you think you could translate it for-- no, WITH me?!”

“Does… That means we have a date?” Kai asked sheepishly, finally getting a hold on himself.

Kai could hear the golden phoenix being nervous before answering, “Yes we have a date.” Just then noise could be heard in the background on Taiyo’s side. “Uuhhh, I have to go! Bye!”

Kai hung up the phone, he did it, he talked to her and asked her out on a date. “YES!” He cheered for himself as Wu threw confetti at him. “I did it! I got to talk to her and ask her out on a date!”

“You did awesome! Now when do we pick her up?”

Kai then realized they forgot to set a date and time for this date. “Fuuuuuu-” Kai covered his mouth as they turned to Kinto’s grandmother who was finished making roses out of wool. “Dangit, maybe I should call again--”

“Hey, guys… you made sure no one knows where I live right?” Kinto asked as he walked around the corner.

“I think so, why do you--” Kai asked before Kinto came into full view with a sword floating in the air just an inch from his head. “Shit!”

“HEY!” The granny shouted, catching everyone off guard. “Language!”

“Sorry!” Kai apologized before turning back to see someone enter the building. Kai knew them, the raven, Fumiko. “What are you doing here?” Kai demanded an answer.

“I was just in the neighborhood. Thought I’d just drop by and say hi, sorry that I overheard your phone call.” Fumiko answered.

“How did you--” Kai asked, as he looked to Wu, who pointed to the window to the living room. He could see an ear floating next to it before suddenly turning into smoke. “You heard everything, didn’t you?”

“What? Yes… Taiyo, the daughter of Niji and possible next head of the Flock, let me say this Kai, nice.” Fumiko then tried made a thumbs up impression but hard to do with wings, she then plucked a feather and wrote on her wing like a quill, what she wrote started to glow: “Thumbs up” then the word formed a hand that made a thumbs up, everyone was creeped out.

“Ah! I hate your power.” Kai admitted. Fumiko could almost make anything she wrote as long as it was a set of short words, useful but he remembered a few years back she made an eyeball that watched him.

“So, you’re going on a date huh?” Fumiko turned around, Kai had no choice, he snuck close to her ready to knock her out or worse, end her. “I want to help.”

“I’m sorry what?” Kai said, confused at her statement. “You… Want to help? Why?”

“Simple, I care about you Kai, it is part of my job to help you as a member of the Pack, to fulfill the debt I am in with your mother as she saved my and my mother when we were younger.” Fumiko admitted she was loyal to the Pack, mainly to a debt but she had another reason. ‘That and that bastard Junfuku will be guarding her, I can get my payback on you… Mad Crow.’

“Okay how though?” Wu asked.

“Simple, Kai’s secondary bitch.” Fumiko whispered as to not get the old sheep angry.

“HEY! I’m his main one!” Wu was then smacked upside the head.

“I’ll take up guard duty on the day of the date, tell your family you’re going shopping with your friends for a school project, I even have been in and out of Eleanoria, one bird coming and going won’t raise suspension. I’ll get us in, you use Wu to kidnap your girlfriend, we go on your date. Easy.” Fumiko explained, almost sounding too easy.

“Okay first of all it is not kidnapping if she wants to go with me.” Kai said defensively.

“It technically is if her parents don’t agree and I think they wouldn’t.” Kinto added.

“Secondly, what if my parents summon me then? They’ll call you and tell you to bring me home and they’ll know if Wu sent a copy like last time.”

“That was funny, but don’t worry, I have a list of excuses on why we can’t get you home in time.” Fumiko stated, holding up an actual list of excuses.