I awoke to the sound of loud sirens going off by my alleyway. My eyes widened as I jumped up in surprise, thankfully it was just the sirens. I let out a slight sigh of relief and stood up out of the tin trashcan and stretched letting my mouth drop into a long yawn. I paused a moment turning around to examine my filth of a home; a half flattened tin trashcan with a few ripped towels in the base of the worn can. Papers and others kinds of trash were scattered near the thing I so hesitantly called home. Another sigh let loose from my lunges as I turned around and began to walk out from the alley. I looked up at the sky after finding out that not many people walked the streets of Freeze city on this afternoon. The sky was grey with a light tint of blue, more rain. Or so I had thought. The dark sky darkened my rusted colored pelt shadowing my reddish-brown underbelly and muzzle. I also wore a thin leather collar around my neck.
Snorting, I took a couple steps back as the sirens rushed passed me and turned a corner heading to the nobles place. 'Darn nobles.' I thought to myself deciding to follow the sirens. I stuffed my dark hands in my pockets and sighed as the sound of the sirens soon faded away. I didn't worry though, I would find them, I always did. A few humans passed me giving me a look of glee and released smiles my way. I returned the favor to the stink of the town and walked on. To the humans I was only merely one of them, though the way I dressed showed I was different and clearly not from around the area. Though I wore a pair of baggy camouflage pants with a black hoodie, which my right arm was pulled up to my elbows. Beneath that I had a white tank top on with a pair of black sneakers. My collar hung loosely around my neck and jumped with each step I took.
I was sure that if I were to ask a human of my odd accessory, they would surely agree that it was rare and peculiar. If it were to come to that, which I knew, that would be said, I would so much as shake it off and thank them for being honest. I agreed with many of my friends that I once had, that I was strange and to thank a human of being honest would be very bizarre to my once friends. I didn't care though, I was happy with the way I was. Humans, they didn't bother me, just the main smell in the city were the humans. It was disgusting the way they smelled but I still spoke to them. People around here I noted, a lot of them wore dark brown and crusty things. Nothing two colorful except a few things here and there, but it seemed as if I would go color blind if I ended up staying in this town any longer.
"Mhm.." I moaned interrupting my own thoughts. I had an awkward feeling about this day. Like something interesting was about to happen. "Oh well," I mumbled to myself. "I guess I'll soon find out." I told myself turning the corner walking after to sirens. They were long gone but I could faintly hear them, I couldn't guess a distance but I shook it off walking into an alleyway. The smell was still great. Another smell was great as well. Hotdogs. I breathed in the scent as a smiled tugged at the corners of my lips. Telling myself that in all do time I would soon be able to feed my hungry stomach. Though in the mean time I slid my fingers through my blonde hair that was up in a ponytail. Taking the ponytail from my hair I slid it onto my wrist. My hair hung to my shoulders, it was curly and thick. I slid my fingers back through my hair and brought it up and fixed it then used the ponytail to hold it up. I continued walking till I head voices in an alley next to me and stopped. I slowly stalked to the edge of the alley and listened.
"Nobody notices us." I caught the end of the sentence.
There was a long pause. "This is awful." I head a deep voice say.
"It's the best you can get around here. If I see a deer loping by I'll be sure to catch it for ya." I could smell the smell of precious hotdogs and my mouth watered. I heard birds chirping and closed my eyes. "Nobles are at it again. Seems like they pick up one idiot after another."
"Were do the troops take them after their caught?"
"Oh, um same place they took you I guess." My eyes opened as the lighter voice spoke. Nobles? I was slow to catch on. I peeked my head around the corner to see a boy sitting down with a pair of pants on obviously, I just didn't know they name. He had a yellow and bluish black hoodie on that cut off at his elbows. He wore a long sleeved grey shirt under the hoodie and I caught a glimpse of grey shoes. He had shaggy looking sandy brown hair and rusty red colored eyes. The man standing up wore blue jeans a faded blue colored jacket accompanied with a navy blue collar and a white t-shirt on. He had dark brown hair that went almost to his shoulders and light blue eyes with, what looked like converse. Though what I noticed earlier on was that they were wolves.
"Ugh, that's perfect." I heard the deep voice say. The other looked at him curiously. "I'll blend in and sneak inside." I gasped and covered my mouth. I hadn't been heard.
"What? But we had to fool them just to get outta there. That hotdog fried your brain." The boy said quickly trying to persuade him out of his stupid decision.
"I'm going back in." I couldn't take it any more and before the younger boy had a chance to say anything else I jumped out.
"You must be crazy to go in there, they'll kill you!" I blurted out. They both gasped softly and twirled towards me. I didn't think about my actions before they had already been made. I blushed a bright red and held my hands behind my back looking at them sheepishly.
"A girl," I heard the boy sitting down say. He was the sandy brown one and had a leather collar thicker then mine that hung around his neck. He was plump and husky. He got up and I watched him warily. My gaze slowly turned to the one already standing; he looked at me with a cold stare.
"Who are you?" he asked a hint of gruffness in his voice. This wolf was the white one. The other boy looked at him.
"Hey, Kiba that's no way to speak to a girl." He began. The one named 'Kiba' tossed his hotdog away and swallowed.
"Sorry about that." The younger of the two spoke with the same high pitched and happy go lucky tone he had before. "I'm Hige and this is…" He turned around after pointing to himself and pointed at Kiba only to find he wasn't there. Hige caught him right as he was turning a corner and hurried after the offhand wolf. I decided to follow after them and did right behind the sandy brown wolf.
"Wait! Kiba!" He called. Kiba stopped and turned towards us. He gave me a cold stare.
"I don't care, whether you come with me or not I'm going to that place." Kiba spoke in a deep and stern voice. Hige took in a deep breathe of air but Kiba shushed him. He turned around and began to walk away.
"Stubborn guy." He said turning back towards me. "Oh, hey." He said sheepishly. "Yeah, that was Kiba." He grinned sliding his fingers through his hair. I chuckled and smiled at him.
"I'm Bliss." I said in a low voice. He closed him eyes and chuckled. I allowed my blue green eyes to scan the trash in the alleyway.
"Nice name." he said turning to walk. He looked back at me as if waiting for something. "You coming?" He asked stuffing his hands into his pockets. I slid my hands in my own hoodie and caught up with him.
"Sure, where are we going?" I asked leaning forwards and looking at his face. He was definitely taller then me.
"To bail this retard out." He said lowly chuckling a bit. I shook my head and smiled to my self. 'This was going to be interesting.' I decided walking along side him.
~ * ~
It had probably been an hour once we finally turned ourselves in. we were led to a jail sell and walked in quietly. I thought the idea had been stupid my self but I had followed Hige faithfully. He had filled my in about finding interest in going to paradise or finding paradise with Kiba. As I listened I quickly decided that like Hige I was adventurous and ready for a good journey.
"Yo," Hige said in a light voice grinning at Kiba.
"Hige," I heard him say. Kiba looked up and his eyes seemed to lighten up once he saw me and Hige, or just Hige. "What in the world are you doing here?" He asked curiously, his voice rising a bit in tone. Hige slid down the wall beside Kiba and I slid down beside Hige. I kept quiet and listened to the small conversation.
"Come on were friend now aren't we?"
"Coming from you that sounds kinda fishy." Kiba said peering over at me. Hige only grunted and smiled.
"Hello," I said after a moment. "I'm Bliss." I said holding out my hand. He held out his hand and shook mine this stuffed them back into the pockets of his jacket. I did the same looking out the bard window seeing that I woken up later then I had though. The sun was setting and I was getting tired again. How weird.
~ * ~
I awoke from my sleep feeling the ground tremble slightly. A high-pitched sound blistered through my ears as I gasped and jumped up. The pink blanket that had been resting against my body was thrown off. I turned around to see that Hige and Kiba were already up and standing. "Ya'll heard that too?" I asked scratching my head yawning. Hige and Kiba both nodded. Kiba bent down trying to bend the bars but Hige tapped his shoulder making Kiba turn around. I watched as Hige pulled around a key and opened an eye looking at it. Kiba shook his head and stood up awaiting him to open the door. 'How did he just do that?' I asked myself standing up. Hige opened the door and walked out. The two of us followed and watched as he left the key in there. I followed the two males walk through the halls and followed silently. Hige then began running and Kiba and I followed after him. Where was he headed?
"Where are we going Hige?" I asked.
"I smell something just follow me." He answered turning a corner. We followed close behind and kept running. We ran until Hige stopped and stood still looking around. He took the air vent off the wall and climbed through Kiba helped me in then he jumped in and followed closely. We crawled after Hige until he came to a stop. I knew something was happen and that seemed pretty obvious since we were moving quite quickly. Hige positioned himself so he could kick out another vent leading to the outside and jumped out. I was second to jump out then it was Kiba. We took a second to look around and then Hige was off again. I groaned and balled my fists up running after him. Kiba was right behind me but kept quiet. It looked to me that we were in an alley behind the lab of the nobles. I wouldn't have known since I tried to stay as far away as possible from the nobles and their evil plans. Not even ten feet from where we had jumped from the vent Hige stopped as well as Kiba and both gasped. I followed their gaze and looked up gasping myself. I swallowed at the sight before my eyes. There was a man dressed in black, it looked like he had a clown hat on and he was holding something in his arms. I looked at his arms to see a small girl with pink hair and lavender clothing; I took in a small breath and gasped once more. "The flower maiden?" I blurted out absently. She let off an extraordinary smell that made me feel joyous but in this situation I thought differently. The man in black stared down at us from the little bridge like thing and spoke deeply.
"Wolves." He said, all three of us gasped and I trembled. "You have my gratitude, for it was you that woke her." I swallowed as he spoke. How did he know we were wolves? The other seems to wonder that as well, I could feel it.
"Wha- who the heck are you?" Kiba growled
"The flower maiden is mine."
"The maiden?" Hige wonder aloud. "Is that Cheza?" He asked amazed. If this hadn't been a serious even I would have rolled my eyes and said duh and that I had already said that. I didn't know how I knew what or who she was, I was merely guessing. A moment after he said that my eyes widened as a bright light surrounded us swallowing us. An exceptionally loud sound erupted through the sky as Cheza opened her mouth and tears streamed from her eyes. The sound hurt my ears and made me cover them in groan in pain. My eyes squeezed shut as I opened my mouth gritting my teeth. Hige seemed to be doing the same thing as well but Kiba did differently.
"We'll meet again in paradise." I surprisingly heard him say through the loud sound. "If we meet again that is." The bright light got brighter and engulfed the man in black making his disappear. I opened my eyes only to see that Kiba had begun running towards the man. Then all of a sudden it was gone, and so was the sound, which Hige and me were thankful for. It seemed as if Kiba didn't even have ears. Though we stood there shocked and in a stance of fear and even more shock. I took my hands from my ears and looked over at Kiba who was wide-eyed and somewhat disappointed. After a few seconds the light in the building came back on and I could see a little bit better. I began to think about it and the sound faintly came to my ears. It seemed sad and lonely. I huffed in annoyance and shook the thought off then looked at the others.
Moments later Kiba began walking away and Hige ran after him to follow. I was soon close behind and he stopped at a sewage door. Kiba opened the door and we all stepped again and covered our noses. Kiba jumped down into the sewer and the two of us followed. There was a long moment of silence as we walked until we got deeper into the hole. I longed to ask what and where we were going but kept quiet. Finally, Hige being the one who seemed not able to keep silent he asked.
"Where the heck are we going?" I snickered lightly and shook my head. I couldn't catch the rest of what he said except for, 'Rough on my delicate nose.'
"I got a hunch theres food down here." Kiba answered both our questions.
"Huh?" Hige and I asked in unison. We both sounded funny with our noses plunged, it sounded as if we were having nasal issues.
"Just a hunch." He said absently. I heard mice scurry around and squeak through the sewage flowing down the tunnels. Finally we came to a stop and sad down in front of these bars stopping us from going further. The two males sat down and I ended up reluctantly, following their lead. I took in a deep breath only to get a strong whiff of trash and other nasty smelling things. They soon began catching rats and eating them. I refused to eat anything until my stomach growled making Hige chuckle at me and Kiba flash me a low grin. I blushed and watched as Hige caught another rat. Utterly disgusting.
"Looks like that guy stole the only food we had." Hige said. I slowly nodded my head as he reached his hand over and handed me a rat. I snarled and bit the rat's head off spitting it out then beginning to eat the rest of it. It was disgusting but better then nothing. Beside I hadn't eaten the whole day except a little bit at the jail. "The scent of lunar flowers is gone now too." Hige said.
"Hige, he knew about paradise that's why he took her." Kiba began. I decided that it was a conversation between the two and kept my mouth shut. I listened with open ears though.
"Well, we'll just have to find another flower. She can't be the only one around, right?" I hadn't heard Kiba speak of paradise yet for my self. I didn't believe in it but hey, why not follow and decide what I thought about it.
"That man knew us. He saw what we were the moment he looked at us." He said ignoring Hige's comment.
"Why don't we blow this town, C'mon lets look for paradise."
"He'll meet us there, that's what he said." Kiba said keeping his gaze content of Hige's shoe.
"He said a lot of crazy stuff. Listen if you're thinking of going after him your out of your mind." I nodded in agreement to Hige's comment. "He's a noble if I ever saw one."
"A noble?" Kiba asked. I nodded my head once more.
"I keep forgetting you're new here. Look those guys are bad news, and I for one are smart enough not to mess with them." Hige said. "Trust me, just let it go don't worry about it." He assured him laying down resting his head on his hands. I sighed not intending on saying anything and looked at Kiba as his gaze broke and looked at me. I shrugged and laid down as well closing my eyes. I soon fell asleep hopeful to get enough.