Cory's POV
I was in the woods for some reason, I want to get home but I have no idea where home even is! Or why me, a 9 year old, is alone in the woods! Like, seriously, what the ****?!?! I walk around for a while and call out for my mom and dad but no one comes. I walk around when I see a clearing, at the center was a huge pile of leaves. Being the silly and playful kid that I am, despite the beatings, I jump into the pile of leaves.

Then.... I hear a 'click' and a 'snap'.

Ouch! I can't move! I start panicking and crying and trying to get out of the bear trap but it doesn't work. I see a grey wolf crouched down, growling, and coming near but it stops. It sniffed the air, looked towards me with friendlier eyes, and... shifted into a kid like me? What? "H-h-hey, d-d-don't b-be sc-scared! I-I'm going t-t-to help!" He said and started biting and tampering with the screws on the bear trap. I take the time to look at him. Curly brown hair, fancy amulet, yellow eyes, wearing completely black, and red shoes. I hear a snap and the pain lessens somewhat. "T-thank you. M-my name is C-Cory and I-I'm kind of l-lost..." I say. "My name is Adam, nice to meet you! I remember seeing you before and I know these woods like the back of my hand so I think I can get you home!" He says, smiling. I smile, too. He's really cheerful, but it's almost as if... I wave my hand in front of his face but he doesn't react. "A-are you.... blind?" I ask worriedly. "Y-yeah... but I have my other senses so it's almost as if I can see!" He says, proudly. I smile again, bigger than I did a couple minutes ago. He helps me stand up and before I know it, I'm back home. Not too excited but... it's comforting to know I'm home. "H-hey, before you leave, can we be friends?" I ask. "YEAH!!!" He says excitedly. Next thing I know, Adam is running in circles around me screaming 'Wheezy' and it was getting dark but I didn't notice because I was too busy laughing my butt off.

I wake up in my bed, I have been having that dream a lot recently and I'm just glad it didn't continue this time. I don't want to cry in my sleep because of the pain when we have.... uh.... 'guests'. I curl up in a ball and see someone put my old yellow cat plushie on my bed. Weird, thought I buried that outside. Oh well, I grab it and squeeze it tight until I fall asleep. I barely noticed Nick in the doorway, smiling a small, kind smile.

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Barney's POV
I was napping in a tree just outside of the orphanage. My parents came to give birth to me here but they were mistaken for illegal residents, whatever that means, and they were killed just after I was born. That's what I have always been told whenever I ask about my parents. Now I'm just a lazy orphan who barely eats, moves, or talks. I hear a bell signaling its lunch time but I don't move. I don't even open my eyes. "BARNEY, GET IN HERE!" I hear 'mistress' yell. I groan and sit up. I jumped off the tree branch and walked inside but before I could get inside a huge fire was lit and someone blindfolded me. I eventually passed out.

When I woke up I was in a cell next to a screaming red-head. The things he said could be described with 4 words. Unpleasant, disgraceful, and ****** up. A guy came downstairs and started laughing at all the curse words being thrown while his friend, covered in bruises, opened the cell door. "Calm down, we're here to help!" He said as the door opened. I was still half-asleep so you could only tell I was awake if you realized my heart beat sped up slightly, showing I wasn't asleep. "Hey, what's your name? I'm Adam, this is Cory!" The guy who was laughing said. "I'm Max" the red-head said. Heh, that rhymed. "Barney" I mumbled tiredly before I pass out. But before I pass out, I see tall men wearing black cloaks run downstairs into this messed up dungeon.

I wake up to a shaking at my side, I'm kind of grateful for it since I don't have to relive the pain and see all the blood like I have the past couple days but the shaking worried me. I look over to see Red asleep and shivering since he wasn't under a blanket. I see tear stains on his cheeks and I'm confused for a little bit before I remember.... it was supposed to storm tonight, and Red said he doesn't like loud noises. As if to prove me right, lightning strikes. I got out of bed, put my blanket over Red so he would stop shivering, grabbed my extra pillow and blanket, and headed downstairs to sleep on the couch, a smile on my face.

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Adam's POV
Why can't I be normal? I'm half wolf and can transform into a freaking wolf! Ugh, I hate this so so much! I walk through the woods, in my wolf form, and try to find a rabbit or something to eat. I can't find anything so I settle down to sleep but I jump up and start running at the sound of a gunshot. I hear two other pairs of feet running after me and several more gunshots. ****, hunters! I hate hunters! Like, more than I hate throwing up after trying to eat cheese! I run and run until I smell the ocean and I almost slip off of something, I guess I'm at the cliff. If I was in my human form and was old enough to say it, I'd swear so much right now. I smell the hunters behind me and try to pinpoint where they are standing. After doing that, and hoping my calculations are correct, I leap at the hunter to the left but turn mid air so I land and run in between their legs. The other hunter tried to shoot at me buuuuuut.... let's just say when I ran again only one followed. I ran and ran until I saw a huge grizzly bear. 'Help me, hunters' I explain to it and it nods to me. I hide behind it and the hunter comes out of the bushes. The grizzly leaped and-

I wake up to a STUPID ******* NOTIFICATION ON MY PHONE!!!! I hate waking up because of electronics, that's why I don't have an alarm clock. But I guess I should be grateful, I don't particularly like blood... at all. I look around my room with my wolf night vision thing and see Jin reading one of the books in my bookshelves. He was reading little red riding hood, but the version that was from the wolf's perspective. "All I wanted was to borrow a little sugar so I can make a tea to go with my chicken noodle soup because I am sick, but the mean old pig wouldn't let me, like the other brother. I go to walk away but I feel a sneeze coming on. I huff and I puff and I sneeze, causing the wooden house to fall down and kill the pig. Oops" I heard Jin quietly read the book out loud, why a smart guy like him would read that book instead of a science-y book I have no idea, but that just happened to be my favorite part of my favorite book in the bookshelf. I smile and hug myself tight as I slowly fall back asleep to his beautiful voice. Before I fell asleep i saw him look at me and smile before going back to reading.

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Max's POV
I was giggling and watching funny compilations of dogs being stupid and cats being jerks on my phone, no one was around to see the big bad wolf was giggling like a little school girl and I needed to watch something to make me smile after getting out of that awful building. I heard laughing behind me and I instantly turned my phone off and felt my face heat up with embarrassment. I turn around and see Adam laughing. "So, Mad Max isn't actually Mad Max but Glad Max? That's better than Sad Max-" I refused to let him finish so I tackled him to the ground and sat on top of him. I don't care if he's letting me stay at his cabin in the woods, I hate it when he does that! I get off of him and we start laughing. We then sit down and watch the video I had been watching. Eventually Cory and Barney are able to sneak away and come watch it with us. But all the laughing was interrupted by a gunshot. It had missed but it startled us. We stood up and saw 7 men behind us wearing all black, we couldn't even see their faces! One tries to shoot at me but Barney, my arch enemy, jumps infront of the bullet. Why? We've always hated eachother since the day we met, why'd he do that? WHY THE **** WOULD HE SACRIFICE HIMSELF FOR A PATHETIC LOSER LIKE ME?!?!?! Everything turns red and I black out. When I wake up, Barney is awake and patched up and the others are sitting beside me. "W-what happened?" I ask. "You went crazy, they were no more than bloody pulps when you were done with them!" Cory told me, his blue eye shining in the sunlight. I instantly pull them into a big hug and let all the tears I had held in for the year we've known eachother pour out. I was just glad they were all alright, though I never said that.

I wake up from that dream, again! It's always so sad, but it's when they finally found out I wasn't the toughest guy in the group, I was the most fragile. They are a lot nicer to me, even Barney, so I'm nicer to them. I hear the door open and a certain someone comes into the room, he looked so strong, calm, and collected before but now he looks so small, weak, and... fragile. We're more alike than I thought.... and that he will ever know. "S-sorry t-to b-bother y-you. I-I d-don't l-like b-being a-alone S-so I w-was w-wondering I-if I c-could st-stay I-in h-here?" "Sure, but don't get too close." "W-why?" "My bite is worse than my bark" I tell him, he flinched and I smile a little. He sits down on the end of the bed with a blanket. He eventually falls asleep but looks like he is having a nightmare. I get up, grab my old stuffed bunny I named "Dust Bunny" when I was little, slip it inbetween his arms, sat down next to him, and leaned against him. "Thank you" I heard him whisper. This made me smile, but luckily I was facing the other way so he couldn't see. "You're welcome, sloth" "I'm not a sloth" he whispered angrily before i felt his heartbeat slow and he started softly snoring. I chuckle a little bit before sleep consumes me, too.

(I wanted to do a little chapter to start off the ships and reveal a little bit of their backstories. Also, which ship included in this book is your OTP? Mine is Mithross, Max X Ross, but there is also: Redney (Barney X Red), Cory X Nick (don't know the ship name), and SkyBop (Sky/Adam X Jinbop). Hope you all have a nice day! Er, night. It's kind of late for me :P)