The Canis Quest
                                                 Part 2:
                                          Many Meetings


	In our last exciting, riveting adventure, Jake and Chance visited a
beautiful cinnamon-colored gypsy kat.  La Esmeralda told their fortunes,
including a very intense, mysterious future for Jake, involving White Wolves,
talismans, family roots, the TurboKat and T-bone, and the forces of Darkness.
 
	Little by little the tale started to become true.  Shandor the White Wolf
appeared and started the quest for Jake’s past.  The Wolf granted several
documents and scrolls which the two SwatKats poured over for hours until they
found two things of greatest interest.  The birth certificates of Jake and
his brother Chris, and a map to the Temple of the Wolf Pack of Peace, in the
Memanshon Rainforest, in the country of Lantis.  
	Still cowering from meeting his brother after so many years, Jake decided
they would check out the temple first.  There they discovered the legend of
the Wolf Pack, its founding, and the tale of the stones.  There they also met
Okrab, only brother to Bakro, the leader of an evil gargoyle clan, who Jake,
with Shandor’s help destroyed.  Okrab managed to swallow magic stones from
the Jewel Hoard of the Temple and absorb all kinds of innumerable powers from
Jake’s ancestors.  
After accidentally ripping the parchment he sought in two, he fled,
destroying the temple, and very nearly our two heroes!  Jake was at last
persuaded to leave this treasure of his heritage behind to save himself, but
not after salvaging a few things, most important being the Heart Stone.  The
Heart Stone was the one powerful magic that evil could not command.  It
absorbed several shards of other broken crystals, the effect of which we will
learn later.  
	They then sought after Jake’s brother, and were interrupted surprisingly by
Okrab.  For some reason, he was attacking Hard Drive, and for all he had,
Hard Drive could not repel him.  The Swatkats came to his rescue, when at
last Hard Drive actually saved the day.  They katnapped him only to question
him, when suddenly they discovered that somehow Hard Drive had the other half
of Jake’s amulet!  
The story now continues…



	The two kats mirrored each other in shock.  For awhile they just stood
there, staring at the pair of amulets.  Then they turned to each other,
open-mouthed.  Finally T-bone came to his senses.  He grabbed Hard Drive and
held him at bay, but somehow Hard Drive was still able to get his amulet for
himself.  Razor picked up his own amulet as well, and full of wonder, sat
down before he passed out.  
	"Where did you get that?" asked Razor.  
	"It’s mine, and you can’t take it from me.  No matter who tries."
	"Yours…" said Razor, dazed.  "What’s your name?  I mean your real name."
	"Like I’d tell you."  Hard Drive caught the shine of the amulet in his eye,
he suddenly and strangely relaxed.  "Christopher James Clawson."  
	As if in a trance, Razor took off his own mask.  "I’m, Jake Clawson.  I’m
your twin brother."  
	They were all silent for awhile to think about what this meant.  "You’re not
taking me to Fahren.  I just want to stay here.  I’m not going on any wild
goose chase for you, or to save the world.  That’s your job!  I’m not getting
killed!"
	"Fahren?  Who said anything about Fahren?"  
	"This dream…  I keep having this weird dream over and over for almost a
month now."
	"That’s about the time we visited the fortune teller," said T-bone.
	Chris ignored him.  "I’m in this rainforest.  And there’s this big temple
behind me.  I see this White Tiger.  And she tells me I have to go to Fahren.
 Something about destiny.  I’m to follow a Wolf, with my brother at my side,
to find something there.  It starts a marvelous quest.  Then suddenly
everything changes.  The Tiger becomes a Wolf.  I hear howling and there’s
mountains and plains, and a huge golden castle."  
	"Then I guess that’s where we have to go."  
	Chris’s entire composure left him and he totally freaked out.  "YOU CAN’T
MAKE ME!  YOU CAN’T MAKE ME!!!  I WON’T GO!"  
	Suddenly Jake stood up in a voice of power and held out his Stone.  "IN THE
NAME OF SHANDOR!" Chris went limp with shock yet relaxed in T-bone’s grip.
 "You have to come.  We have to go.  We have no choice.  We must go without
delay."  
	"But Razor, Where in Fahren?  It’s a fairly big country, and we don’t even
know if he’s telling the truth.  He could’ve stole the Stone and killed your
brother!"
	"He didn’t.  My brother is alive, and sitting right there.  I just know it’s
true."  

                                              
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