"still, there is a rivalry." she lay down her head. "Good night."

Shadow smiled at her "good night" he said happly and layed down next to her

The next morning, Umay woke with a yawn. She looked around. Nothing was unusual, no one missing..... except for Tyson. probably got something to eat because he didn't eat last night. she thought. She got up, woke Celest and went after him.

Alex soon woke up when he felt hungery and went out to get a bunny or something

Instead of finding Tyson hunting, which it appeared he already did, he was practising battle moves. "what are you doing?" Celest asked.

Alex had found a bunny not to far off from where Tyson and the others where and went up into a tree to jump onto it

"I'm battling this tree trunk." he said. They all knew the tree trunk, their Mama said that it had been here since they arrived, they had all tried to get it down, but none provailed. It made the perfect battle apponent.

Alex soon jumped down onto the bunny and growled when it did it. Then bit into its neck and smiled happly at his kill.

"Wow, I think your winning!" Umay exclaimed. She was right, the stump had wood chips flying off of it each time Tyson ran into it.

Alex started to head back when he saw tyson practicing. He smiled and continued to head back to shdow

"Can we help?" "Sure." soon they were all butting the stump. Celest heard something. "I heard a crack!" she exclaimed. They all were soon running at it and finally, finally, it fell over. "hooray!!!" they cheered. "Hooray indeed." said a voice.

Alex was on his way back to the others to ask them if they wanted to play a game when he has heard tthe tree fall down.

From the stump came an odd looking little thing, a sort of a fairy. "I am Dryad, to spirit of this tree." she said in a whispery voice. "Thank you, I was stuck here until someone let me out." Umay nodded. "Your welcome!"

Alex looked at the Fairy with wide eyes. She looked beautifull and he walked to go and talk to her, but felt like he should stay away

"Umay!" Celest hissed. "No, it is alright. I won't harm you." Dryad said. "Don't worry, now you will have the Guardian's of the Trees to help you when you are in trouble." "Thanks!" They all said and Dryad nodded.

Alex smiled and came out "hey who wants to play a game" he said pretending to not see the fairy at all

Dryad quickly darted into another tree and dissapeared. "Not now Alex!" Celest pipped up. "Yeah, we were going, uh, going to..." "We were going to hunt!" Tyson jerked up. "Yeah... hunting...." They dashed off.

Alex watched them go and sighed. He felt alone now and went off to go hunt or something.

"What was that?" "Waddya mean 'what'? You mean 'who'!"

Alex soon found himself digging a hole in the ground because he could

They finally agreed to not tell anyone, just to keep her a secret. They ran back to Hazel and said, "We knocked down the big tree root!!!"

Alex soon found himself tunneling undergorund.

They had been told to find Alex and bring him back. Soon they were sniffing and came to this big hole. "Alex?" Umay called uncertainly.

Alex soon popped his head out of the hole and looked at Umay "Oh Hi" he siad and smiled at them. HIs face was covered in dirt and he looked like a mole

"Mama wanted you to come home." Celest told him. Tyson nodded, but didn't say anything in fear that a growl might escape him.