Chapter 1: An Odd Life
Ammaterasu looked up at the man who she was in the ark with. Waka, as usual was giddy and enveloped with an odd pink robe.
The wolf shook her head as she stared at him. She would never understand him or his antics. Then again, he was human. Well he looked human. Ammy mind reared as she tried to find a word to describe what Waka was.
'He seems human, but he's immortal…' she thought. 'What an odd being.' She let out a wolfy sigh and averted her eyes to the ground, half expecting to see that odd little bug on her snout.
'He's not here…he's at the bridge…he'll always be there…my odd, annoying, little friend is gone…he is not here…' Realizing how lonely she was, Ammy walked to a corner and lay down on the cold tile of the ark's floor.
Issun could understand what she said…he was kind of odd-even creepy at times-but Ammy would miss him. The only reminder of Nippon was Waka, whom in her case, was nothing compared to Issun.
She couldn't communicate with him, and even though he was kind and knew the best places to pet her, she never really felt comfortable around him. Maybe it was the fact they had a past history together that she barley remembered.
Maybe it was the fact that he always gave her those odd, twisted smiles whenever he teased her or Issun. Whatever it was, she always felt mixed emotions around him- emotions that seemed to burst at the seams of her sanity-her being.
She shook her head and sank her head slowly to the tile, relishing the comfortable coolness of it that seemed to chase away all thoughts of odd humans, bugs, and the confusion she had about everything in her odd life. 'Wolves may be the only ones who are normal…maybe…then again, even mortals may look down on me and call me…odd…' She thought to herself. 'Life is strange…'
Clunk! The ark shook with a force strong enough to wake the goddess from her deep slumber. 'Oh goody, we just have to land right when my teeth sank into that rabbit!'
She trotted over to Waka who was trying his best not to crash into any approaching hills or mountains. Ammy barked at him, demanding to know why in the world he had to hit an obstacle, therefore disturbing her sleep.
"Sorry Ma Cherie," The prophet told her shaking his head. "It's not like I can tell the future!" He cried, laughing at his own joke. Only silence greeted his laughter.
Looking at Ammy, her eyes throwing daggers and You-make-up-the-most-stupid-jokes-and-I-know-you-can-tell-the-future-so-don't-try-to-fool-me expression, he ceased his giddy laughter.
Only to start more jokes that is. "I am being glared at by a wolf who is the reincarnation of the sun goddess!" He bellowed, throwing his hands up at the sky. "Ma Cherie, you are so funny at times!"
Ammy blinked once, throwing him a puzzled glance, and then continued to glare. The whole afternoon the wolf and prophet "talked". That night, Waka turned to Ammy.
"Come on Ma Cherie, I have to show you something," He said, leading her up a flight of stairs to the top of the ark. Like a giant pirate ship, the gigantic floating boat was equipped with below-deck quarters, where Waka and Ammaterasu bid their time.
Now, on the deck, they could see a full survey of the sky and land of the Celestial Plains that was not so far below them.
Ammy wheeled around and ran to the back of the ship, back to where Nippon would be. She let out a long, low howl-hoping that someone in Nippon would hear it and spread the word that she existed, and that she was safe here on the Plains, safe with this odd, immortal prophet.