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"Holland's girl couldn't be far.." says Mirmo. They were roaming around Dark Forest, looking for a little girl who got lost this morning. Since the Guardian joined the Moon Pack's rescue team, they were fully occupied with tracking devices and guns. Like they need them anyway! But still, not all of them were born as werewolves!
"Can you track her scent? I mean, that's your thing right?" asks Jein. Mirmo shakes his head.
"Usually, we will conceal the scent if we need to roam around this area to avoid any unwanted attraction," he replies as they walk along the path in the deep forest. There were three more werewolves who join this mission as well. Two of them walk at the back, one in the middle while Mirmo took the lead.
"You guys must be familiar with the surrounding,"
"Not all of us. Only me and Puff. The other two never step afoot in this area. But they are among the best tracker in the clan," says Mirmo.
Joon glares around. The air seems quite familiar to him. He noticed it since the first time they passed the border from the Moon Pack compound. He inspects the ground and trees around them.
"Joon, what's wrong?" Jein asks him. He feels uneasy when he saw Joon keeps looking around, as his level of curiosity got increased time to time. It's been a while for that man to have some kind of expedition. Maybe the trauma is still there, making him too anxious about his surrounding.
"We need to be fast, before the sunset.." suddenly Joon speaks up. Mirmo nods.
"It will be too difficult and dangerous to continue the rescue with a dark surrounding. Joon, looks like you are quite familiar with this area.." Mirmo looks at him. Joon didn't pay attention to that question. He was busy looking at the ground and ferns.
"Our adopted father is an archeologist. And Joon always went on an expedition with him. So he get used to this environment," says Yoon.
"Is he the Guardian too?"
"Yes, he possessed the dog tag," Yoon replies.
He checks the fern again. He frown as he stares at the path.
"Looks like the girl went to this way. Although the path shows a different way. She was making a false track. Maybe something is chasing her," says Joon, showing them a trace of snapped fern which is still fresh and new.
"According to this, I believe she's not far from us," again, he says. Based on the previous statement makes Cygnus, Sun, and Jein hold each other's firearms in hand. They must get ready for any kind of threat.
Byul steps forward and checks at the new path that Joon pointed before. She frowns, as she got a good but not good feeling.
"Are you planning to change course?" asks Mirmo.
"I guess we need to.." says Joon.
"Okay then, let's go!" says Mirmo, leading the way, followed by the rest. But this time Twix and Justin take over the last position in-crowd. Twix smears some of his scent using a piece of cloth.
"Why did you do that?" asks Justin.
"In case if anything happens, Moon Tribe can track us using my scent. And, since I am the Alpha, other creatures will back off from this area temporarily," Justin nods.
"I guess there's a lot of things we don't know yet," says Sunny.
"Yeah, and again, I thought I was finished roaming around Cosmos City," says Justin.
"Well, who wants to go deep in the forest for leisure activity?" Cygnus threw his comment.
"Joon does.." says Yoon. Yeah, that's a good example!
"Why it sounds so Deja Vu for me when listening to this kind of conversation?" asks Byul. Looks like they have had the same conversation before.
"Mountain Peak, remember?" Byul finally grasp the moment. It's not long since they raid the building. That's why it sounds so familiar.
Joon cues them a signal to keep silent. They look at him, roaming around the area, looking for some clues. Mirmo tries to track the girl's scent. It was there but not too strong.
"She's still a young girl, that makes things harder. She didn't know how to conceal her scent, yet it so mild to track it," said Mirmo. They begin to scatter around, helping each other to find her.
"Stick with the two-man group. It will be easier," says Jein. He follows Joon's footsteps. The rest stick with each other's Guardian. Mirmo looks around with Puff and the other two remain still, in case if anything comes towards them.
Joon walks into the direction. He senses something but he wasn't so sure. Jein is quite far from him. But still, they walk in the same direction.
Suddenly he sees a small little cutey wolf cub sitting still on the ground. It looks so scared and shivering. It growls at him in a cute sound.
"I found her!" says Joon. He quickly went towards the cub, unaware of his surrounding. One mishap and...
"Joon!" Jein screams as he watches Joon disappear into the ground. The rest run towards the direction at the same time.
There's a huge hole under the ground that the cub was standing in. It can't move from there because one miss-steps will lead her into the ground. But Joon didn't aware of the warning that the cub gave to him just now.
Both of them fall into a deep hole. But, when they reach the pit, it wasn't so narrow. They can even stand. The dust from the fall impact makes the cub sneeze, and she back into her human form.
"Help!!" the girl hugs him tight.
"Shh... it's okay. We are here to save you.." says Joon. He watches from inside the hole and sees Jein's head poke out at the hole.
"Hone-Joon!! Are you okay??" he yells at them.
"I am fine! No scratch. The girl is okay too.."
"Please don't touch anything okay! We couldn't help you if anything happen. Just wait there.." says Jein. Not too long, everyone gathers around the rabbit hole.
"Aah.. can't guarantee that. It's dark, and I need to hold on to something so I can stand...oh!" Jein began to panic when he heard that silly partner of him yelp.
"Yargh! You and your destructive touch..!!"
"O..kay.. somebody please save this girl first.." Joon's voice changed all of a sudden. They look at each other. Something's wrong.
Puff gets down the rabbit hole after they prep him with rope. He manages to get down only in a few seconds. He looks at Joon and the girl, and some eccentric background.
"Take her and listen to me carefully.." he left a few messages. Puff nods and takes the girl with him. They pull the rope carefully until both of them reach up safely.
"Joon asked me to convey this message. He wants all Guardians to go down into the hole right now. Mirmo, we need to get back to the Moon Pack, and ready to guard the border. Sun, do you have someone at your base that we can contact? Joon said we need a huge backup," Puff says with one long breath only.
"Slow down.. we don't get it!" says Yoon.
"Yeah, I got someone in base, but why?" asks Sun.
Puff looks at them with wary in his eyes.
"Joon said, he found it.."
"Found what?" they ask him in union.
"Entrance.. to The Maze City.."
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