Chapter 9

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New Friendship

Ryan was going about his day at school the following day and is met with a new face in his class a red and black wolf similar in appearance and the same age as Ryan named Dante, Dante was a kind and charismatic wolf, but he gives off an unusual feeling about him, like he has something hidden about him, Dante says warmly ''hey I'm Dante you must be Ryan Zarla's told me so much about you honestly it's so great to meet you'' Dante shakes Ryan's hand, Ryan gives him a smile still unsure about what he feels about Dante, but acts obvious to the uneasy feeling, he responds to Dante saying ''it's nice meeting you as well Dante'' Dante says in return ''hear you're on the swim team anything you could teach someone like myself? I'm thinking of joining'' Ryan was about to speak but all of a sudden he's pushed to the ground, by a rather overweight bulldog named Butch who says sarcastically ''funny thought I saw a rather annoying blue bug, oh if it isn't Ryan'' Ryan gets up and brushes himself off ''ha ha ha very funny Butch isn't there a girl you should be grossing out now?'' Butch growls and goes to punch Ryan, but before he could land his punch, his arm was caught in a lock when he looks he sees it's Dante, giving him a death glare and Dante says coldly ''would you want to find out what it's like, to have your arm broken slowly?'' Butch growls at Dante but pulls his arm away and walks off, Dante then helps Ryan up and Ryan looks surprised saying ''uh thanks wasn't expecting that'' Dante shrugs saying casually ''think nothing of it'' Ryan then asks curiously ''uh Dante do you study any form of martial arts?'' Dante says calmly ''Muay Thai it's a self defence martial art'' Ryan looks at Dante curiously, wondering who they are then the bell rings for the first class and they all head inside

2 years go by and one day Ryan finds in his bag, a rather strange package as he's preparing to do his homework, he looks at the package written across it in red ink was ''ANSWERS'' Ryan seemed confused, he didn't have any exams coming up or anything important, he opens it and finds police reports, paper trails and so much more in there which all links to one thing his mother's death potential links and theories and comes across one name that it links to Robert Julius, Ryan also sees likely locations Robert was prone to showing up in, he hides the details he was given mysteriously and goes about working on his homework in the back of his mind, formulating a plan to get to where he needs to get to, later in the evening when all is quiet and Ryan's father went to bed, he then prepared for his evening not wanting an opportunity to pass him, he put on a black hoodie and pants grabbed his bokken and bag he then sneaked out to find Robert Julius, he soon arrived at the pier awaiting his target