Main Characters:

ANThony: ANThony (ANT is always capitalized) is the main focus of the story. He's a typical 
mid-teens teenager. He's easily impressionable and quite the rebeller. He's not too bright either.
He tends to not catch on to certain situations until he's already in over his head. 

Norberto: Leader of the Fireants gang. He was abandoned as a child and has drifted from foster
hill to foster hill. Eventually, he started living on the surface world with a group of fellow lost ants.
He started the Fireants. They are a tightly knit gang who take part in certain risque actions. 
Norberto is normally calm, but one thing that irritates him to no end is someone who turns his
back on the gang.

Sub Characters:

Mother: ANThony's mother. Her husband was killed by the Anteater. Ever since then she's been 
even more protective or her son, even to the point it irritates ANThony. 

The FireAnts: The only other Fireant member mentioned by name is Norberto's girlfriend,
Ursulina. There are 7 members in all, not including ANThony when he joins. They were all basically
social rejects and have banded together to become almost a seregate family. And they have a deep
love for eachother.

The Anteater: She is a Greater Anteater who has been terrorizing the ant hill ANThony is from. She 
is the same one that killed ANThony's father years back. She tries to attack the Fireants, but ANThony
runs back and distracts her. He is able to trap her in a tree. Where she is trapped and soon dies of
starvation.

Mayor: He accepts the Fireants into the community after they saw how ANThony cared to save them
even after they beat him

Plot: ANThony's tired of the daily chores that all the ants of the hill must do. When his 
mother asks him to come out and help feed the grubs, ANThony slips out and finds his way to the 
surface. He wonders about and finds a group of kids his age. He gets involved with them but finds out
they are nothing but trouble. So ANThony decides to weasel his way out, but the group catch on
and the give him a severe beating. As he is leaving, the Anteater shows up, and ANThony hears their 
yells for help. And rushes back. He throws stones at her and she chases him. He scurries to a tree 
and when she proceeds to stick her tongue in to get him. He nails it to the ground. After he does so
he yells for help. People from his ant hill and the Fireants rush to his aid. They push the massive 
creature into the tree, and seal the hole. Sealing her fate. ANThony becomes a hero of the hill and
the Fireants. ANThony asks the mayor of the hill if the Fireants could live here. By this time,
ANThony's kindness has made them turn a new leaf, and from that point on they became producive
members of the family.