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Ch. 2: The Two Odd Humans
Four depressed wolves' sit/lie in a worn down warehouse, deep emotions shining in the colored eyes. So close. So fucking close! Cheza, the only one who could've led them to Paradise, is dead!
Kiba closes his grief-stricken gold eyes, remembering Cheza's scent fading away in his arms. He nearly lost all of his friends, and for what?! Looking for Paradise? A lot of good that did, they all got nothing and went nowhere. The scent of the Lunar Flower is dead, no longer here with them.
He places one of his paws over his muzzle, not crying but wanting the image of the flower he cared for (practically loved) die within his arms out of his mind's eye.
"Wait… for this one!" Was the last thing her sweet innocent voice said.
Half way opening his eyes, Kiba looks at the dirt ground. Wait? Wait, for what? Kiba asks himself.
Every wolf here, even Tsume, seem to miss the young naïve Flower Maiden. All finding an interest in the floor. Blue perished as well leaving a deep depression fluffy light brown wolf, Hige.
The two wolves have lost two females they both loved. Both having them die right by them. Now what?
The morning hours pass by slowly, and the afternoon hours even slower.
Cheza, it's been nearly a month and I still smell your scent, not to mention that we can't move on. You were our only hope of reaching Paradise. Kiba thinks gloomy to himself.
His nose twitches in irritation the lingering smell of Lunar Flowers fill his sensitive nostrils. How can the scent of the only Flower Maiden still be here?
Slowly lifting his massive white wolf head, Kiba sniffs the late afternoon air. His golden eyes widen; this wasn't Cheza's scent her was pure Lunar Flower, but this scent has the Lunar Flowers and more wildflowers.
Standing in his human form, Kiba slowly walks out of the broken warehouse and into the busy streets of the keep.
"Kiba?" The voices his pack mates fade away from his ears. The only thing he is sensing is the scent of his favorite blossom. "Kiba! Hold on!" His speed increases once he knows for sure that he smells the scent.
"She can't be…. She died in my arms…." He says to himself quietly.
"Kiba!?" The shouting of his pack doesn't go unnoticed by bystanders. They stare at the young men running after the other.
"Hold on!" Tsume's hand grabs onto Kiba's shoulder, turning him around. "Just what the hell was that about, running out of there like that?"
"You mean to tell me that you guys smell that?" Kiba shrugs Tsume's hand off with a glare.
"Smell what, Kiba?" Toboe asks, with big light brown curious eyes.
Kiba doesn't answer, he runs into the direction where he was running before. "Gah! Damn-it all!" growls a frustrated Tsume.
Seconds later the other three wolves smell the intoxicating scent of Lunar Flowers, making them all speed up. The humans in the street seem to dissipate as the get further and further into the new city.
"Sasha? … Sasha?! … SASHA!!" The teenage woman yells, wondering where her pup-ish friend is at this time of day. Her long light brown hair and the light pink bangs framing her face follows the wind and her pink knee-length skirt and white scarf moves too, her rose colored eyes look around for a familiar black haired teen.
Looking into anything that consists with shadows or where food is being sold, she looks.
Rose blows away a stray pink hair out of her face; her matching red eyes show great irritation. "She's always doing this to me! Sasha knows how much I detest her walking around when she's hurt!" Rose lets out a stressed sigh and rubs her temples. "When I get my hands on her… grrr…. Just because she's a two months older than me she thinks that she can just- GAH!!"
Rose doesn't finish her own sentence, for her own anger enables her of continuing. Placing her fists on her hips she glares at the passing people.
The tiny hairs on Rose's neck stand on end. "Don't even think about it, Sasha." She says emotionlessly. The sound of a tongue being trapped between two lips and it moving sounds behind her.
"How did you know it was me?" Sasha skips in front of her (more responsible) friend. When she sees Rose's look Sasha couldn't help but let out a little laugh; her long black hair and her gray trench coat is taken with the cool breeze. A black headband hides her fluffy wolf ears from others' view and her trench coat does the same mission with her wolf's tail.
Sasha's dark street outfit contracts with Rose's innocent colored outfit.
"I'm your sister," Rose crosses her arms over her chest. "I know everything. Now where were you?"
Sasha couldn't help but laugh at the irony. "I thought you knew everything!" she places her clawed hands behind her head and gives Rose a fanged smile.
"I know everything, but I also want you to confess your sins!" Rose whacked Sasha across her head, Sasha groans and rubs her pounding head. Taking Sasha's hand, Rose places her on a barrel and begins to inspect her friend's right ankle. Her light brown eyebrow begins to twitch with annoyance seeing Sasha's crimson blood leak through the white bandages, this wasn't something Rose wanted to see. Whacking Sasha across the head Rose tells her that she shouldn't be walking around (much less running).
Sasha groans in reply. "But, Rose, I'm fine! Look, could someone that has a hurt ankle do this?" Sasha twists her bleeding ankle, then begins to 'tap' dance mostly on her right foot, showing that it's perfectly fine.
"Stop that, Sasha!" Rose hits her older sister across the head, and then grabs hold of Sasha's shoulders and sit her down again. "Keep off this ankle for a while, okay? The less you use it, the more quickly it will heal."
With a sigh of defeat Sasha gives in to her younger sister's request. Gingerly standing, Sasha keeps off her right foot – not wanting to lose any more brain cells.
The walk back home is quite, though Sasha feels on edge but doesn't say anything for her friend's sake.
The four male wolves just saw the strangest scene. The one that smells of Lunar Flowers doesn't look a thing like a flower maiden. Even though her eyes are a rose red color and the hair surrounding her pale face was the lavender pink, she still looks human. Her outfit resembled Cheza, but only a little; the human/flower dressed in white off the shoulder short-sleeved shirt, a knee-length pink skirt, a white scarf, and white ballet shoes.
The one that smells like a wolf and a human wears dark clothes but has the personality of a pup. She wears dark blue jeans, a black T-shirt that shows her midriff, black boots, a gray trench coat, and a black headband.
"What the hell was that about?" Hige asks his pack mates. The others remain silent still processing the imagines into their brains.
Toboe blinks back to earth, finally able to see his true surroundings. "That… was odd…." He simply states.
Kiba begins to fallow where the two have headed off to, only to be stopped by Tsume. "Hold on, Kiba. That one girl – that has the scent of a wolf – must've already smelled us."
Kiba looks back at the gray wolf with one cold blue eye.
Getting the message Tsume continues. "We don't know if she's kind to other wolves without that other woman around. The human wolf's scent is all around this area, so lets ask around." Tsume gives the 'leader' his own cold look.
"Since when did you become the voice of reason?" asks Hige, only to get a cold glare from the scared wolf.
"We'll split up and ask around about those two, and we'll meet back at the warehouse." Kiba heads in the opposite direction the two girls headed in. Hige went into the closets alley; with the knowledge of them he didn't have to worry. Tsume decided to head where Kiba was going to go, but won't follow their scent. And Toboe went with Tsume, just to make sure he won't do something rash.
My sensitive nose twitches, letting out a deep growl my black wolf ears flatten against my head. "Damn." I swore under breath. Sitting on the windowless sill I look out; its noon now and those pure male wolves won't leave. "If it wasn't for this damned ankle I'd rip them to shreds if they don't get out." I growl out deeply.
"Rip who to shreds, Sasha?" My ears perk up and twitch at the sound of my soul sister's voice. Looking at her, my tail wags against the brown brick wall seeing her carrying our lunch. "Sasha?"
Looking at her inhuman colored eyes I explain to her that I sense some travelers passing through, leaving out the part them being wolves.
"You're still not going out." Rose says sternly, but still in her normal gentle tone.
I give her a small smile. "I know, Rose!" I say childishly.
With the lunch in my lap, I gaze out at the city. Luckily we're up high enough so no one can see me sitting here. Taking a bite of the turkey sandwich I glare down at the people below, searching for the wolves.
Remembering pervious encounters with other wolves, my nostrils flare out. They're trying to get information, good luck with that you wolf bastards.
Relaxing my nose I start up a conversation with Rose, wondering what we'll need when I can walk/run again without worrying her. Along with some female chatter. Even though I'm no longer fully human, I can still think and talk like one.
A useless human hits the ground dead, blood pouring from his neck. "Tsume, was that really necessary?"
Tsume doesn't answer the red wolf pup. They've doing this for hours now and not one human here knew anything about those two female 'humans', the only thing that this city is burning with is someone called 'Shadow Wolf'. And whenever he asked about those two girls they say the same thing: "Don't know pal. … One of them your girlfriend?" and they always end with a smirk.
Growling in irritation Tsume refuses to go back to the warehouse, his (damn) pride won't let him go empty-handed. He walks out of the alley with a glare in his gold eyes and Toboe right behind him.
The two wolves are soon intoxicated with the scent of Lunar Flowers. Looking up at a towering building, they don't see much people but the scent of the two girls are strongest in that building. With a smirk of satisfaction Tsume walks back to the broken down warehouse, Toboe following him like a shadow.
My nose and ears are on fire! "Damn-it. Don't these humans have anything better to do than to talk about Shadow Wolf?" I yell irritated.
"Um, no… why do you ask?"
"I ask because hearing them talk about me is annoying!!" I pout; looking down at the humans below I hear more whispers. "And just because I got hurt, the nobles think that they've won."
"Well technically they're not talking about you they're talking about Shadow Wolf." I stick out my tongue at Rose, for her rather smart-ass comment, and she returns the gesture and we both smile at our sisterly immaturity.
"But seriously, Rose, why do they keep talking about… Shadow Wolf?" I take a bite of my sandwich.
"Hmmm…" Rose closes her eyes and swallows a piece of her PB&J sandwich. "Maybe their lives are SO boring that you (as Shadow Wolf) spice things up here."
"But we lived here for more than a year!!" I bright brown eyes nearly bug out.
"True, true. But no matter how many times they strike you – thinking that you'll bleed to death – you always come back and steal from them, and no matter what the circumstances is in that lab you always come back here alive. So you see, Sasha, their lives are so boring that they need to gossip about something, and that something is Shadow Wolf."
I swallow the bit of my turkey sandwich, licking my long canine teeth I look down smelling human blood. Odd, since when do these humans kill themselves?
Placing the plate on the floor, I place my right foot on the window's sill and my left next to my plate. "I'll be right back." With that said I jump off towards the next building ignoring the shouts and empty threats from Rose. (Fixing my headband over my ears and wrapping my tail around my waist, so it looks like a furry belt because I didn't have time to get my coat.)