(3 months later...)
The snow was becoming more thicker the more I ran through it. It started sticking to my black wolf's fur and it stuck to my now nicked wolf ears. In the last three months, I have not seen any other wolves in this dying world. It felt as though I'm the only wolf left. As I continued to run in this blizzard, my wolf nose began to catch a rather sweet scent. Like the scent... of the legendary Lunar Flower that my pack had talked about many times before when I was a pup. Being an adult now... I believed that's what that scent was.
I stop on top of a snowy hill while the heavy and rough winds blew through my black wolf fur, making it move to the left. My wolf ears twitch off to the left when the sound of a gun cocking and the sound of a dog growling. When I turn my wolf head in the direction of those sounds, I get a good look of what this dog looked like. It had blue black fur with bright blue eyes and a spiked collar that humans supposedly use and erect pointed ears. The human had a gun pointed at me and was ready to fire at me. The only thing I could do was take off running in the other direction in trying to avoid being shot.
From behind me, I hear the dog barking viciously over the rough, loud wind. I knew I'd be followed because my wolf paw prints surely left im prints deep in the fresh snow. There were also loud gunshots behind me though I paid no mind to them and continued to follow to scent of that flower. In the back of my mind, I knew it wouldn't be the last time that I would see those two while I'm out here in trying to survive. There's only so much a wolf can do out here.
When I make it to where that scent was coming from, I stop to see that it was nothing more than a domed city that was inhabited by humans. It looked eerie and looked like it was a place where wolves shouldn't be. But that's where the scent was coming from therefore I had to follow it and find it. Once I make it down there, I look around for a entrance. Unfortunately, I couldn't go in there in my wolf form, my true form.
I shift to my human form in order to get in the domed city. This was the only way that I would be able to get into the city without letting the humans know that I'm a wolf. Because apparently humans are scared of what I really am. They just freak out in a certain way like that human I had an encounter with just now with his hunting mutt. I put my hands in the pockets of my jean jacket and let my black hair hang loosely on my head. Needless to say, it was tied to a ponytail and it hung over my right shoulder while my bangs hung over my eyes, giving me a tomboyish appearance.
As I walk by the humans undetected, I took notice that a couple of dogs way smaller than me suddenly hide behind their humans. It's no surprise that they can see that I'm a wolf. I've been in a couple of other cities and seen dogs do that so I'm not bothered by it. These humans can't because of their blinded visions. The further I walked into this dingy city, the more I caught the scent of the Lunar Flower.
Something also tells me that I'm not the only wolf here. It mixed in with the Lunar Flower scent. When I turn into an alley way to get out of the humans' sight, I then run into this... other wolf. It was a tanned furred male wolf with a collar around his neck with an scarlet X on the front of it. He wore a mustard yellow short-sleeve jacket over a long sleeved dark grey T-shirt, pale green (almost grey) sweatpants, and a pair of dark grey sneakers in his human form with dark amber eyes and sandy shaggy hair. He seemed to be chilling on a set of stairs with is arms behind his head and his eyes shut as if he were relaxing.
He seemed to hear me coming because the second I walked into the alley way, he opened his eyes and jolted up to an upright position with wide eyes. "Whoa! Take it easy there." I say, lifting up my hands as if I were offended. He gives me a smug grin and stood up. "Well hello there. Never thought I'd see a pretty she-wolf like you." he said, trying to butter me up. I roll my eyes and put my hands back in my pockets. "Don't even think about it tough guy. I'd just be willing to kick your ass if you try anything. Huh. The first time I see another wolf in a city and this is the first impression I get from them." I say in a sarcastic yet truthful way. He lets out a cheeky laugh as he scratches the back of his head.
"Heh. Sorry. Just a force of habit. I'm Hige if you wanna know." he said, using his thumbs to point to himself. "I'm Luna." I introduce in a friendly manner. He smiles at me and continued to scratch the back of his head. "Say, you want to get something to eat? You do look hungry." he offered nicely. I just smile at him as I walk up to him. "As long as you don't try anything, I think we'll be alright." I say, making sure that he don't do nothing that's going to set me off.
The two of us walk through the city undetected by the humans who inhabited this place. Never in my life have I thought I'd meet another wolf. I thought I was the only one since my entire pack was killed before my eyes. However, once we get out onto the street, the sound of a loud gunshot echoed in my ears. It got Hige's attention too. "Man, looks like their really going at it today. They seem to pick off one moron after another." he said to me. "Yeah... it seems that way." I say, more distantly than direct. In curiosity, the two of us decided to go check it out. The closer we got to where that gunshot came from, the closer we begin to figure out that there was a scent of another wolf in this city and that the gunshot must've been connected with that.
Hige then began to follow his nose as to where they were taking that wolf. I raise my eyebrow in seeing this. "Hey, wait up." I call, catching up with him. In all honesty, I didn't want to go however a part of me wanted to see where this wolf was going to. Hige looks back at me for a moment with a sly grin on his face. Well, so much for getting something to eat to hold me over.
The two of us make it to a building with what appears to be human scientists in it. Although we still went in human form, I saw our wolf shadows appear on the right wall. That would be the humans way of figuring out that Hige and I are wolves.
The two of us walk into a room with a single cage in it in wolf form. Inside the cage, was the body of... a pure white wolf that seemed to be sleeping. My wolf ears raise completely at seeing this wolf. When Hige and I approach the cage, I slightly lower my wolf head to get a better look at him. I couldn't take my golden wolf eyes off of him. There was blood underneath him so it clicked to me that he was the one who was connected with that gunshot.We then shift to human form, kneeled down to the white wolf's level. We continued to observe until the sounds of a male human voice made us stand up. "Hey! What department are you two in?" he said. I look back at him with a cocked eye. "Oh, uh, sorry. We were just looking for some cleaning supplies and we must've gotten lost." Hige said in a fib, scratching the back of his head nervously. The humans standing at the doorway, a man and woman, were just looking at us before the man human points us towards where the supposed cleaning supplies are.
However, the two of us walk into an empty room that didn't have anything in it that was adjacent of the white wolf's cage. We pressed our bodies to the wall of where the door was and listened in very closely to what the humans were saying. I kept my head turned towards the door to listen closely.
"So, you think it's really a wolf like Quent Yaiden stated?" the man asked. "I don't know. I've never seen a real one before. But if it is a wolf, it may be the cause of Cheza's sudden change." the woman replied. I cock my eyebrow at the name Cheza because it's a term that I've never heard before in my life. No one in my late pack had ever told me anything about Cheza, or much about Paradise. It seemed off to me.
"Cheza? Who's that?" I whisper, still looking off to the doorway. "She's the flower maiden created from the Lunar Flowers. The nobles created her from lost alchemy and boom, she's here." Hige vaguely explains to me in a soft toned voice. That makes as much sense as any and I guess I'll find out more about her soon enough. In looking around the corner of this room, I could see that the humans were now gone.
"Okay. They're gone." I tell him, walking out of the room and see that they are in fact not in the room. We re-approach the cage with the white wolf in it to see him with his wolf eyes closed. I kneel down so that I was sitting on my knees with my hands resting on them and my ponytail resting over my right shoulder. I couldn't take my eyes off of him for some reason. "Damn, you really screwed up." Hige started but got no reaction. I scoffed at this and rolled my eyes. "You must've been really blind sided to get yourself caught like this. Can't say it's the first time I've seen our kind get caught like this." I say to him in a stern tone. The white wolf opened his wolf eye to look at us. They were golden yellow like mine when I'm in my wolf form.
"I can leave when I feel like it." the white wolf says firmly. He had an aloof yet slightly deep toned voice. "Really? Then why are you in there?" Hige wondered, his head resting on his left hand in a care free way. "I just... needed somewhere to rest is all." the white wolf said in a tired tone. That made me grin; not in a caring way but in a joking kind of way because I don't see how laying in a cage laying in a pool of one's own blood is considering finding a place to rest.
"I'm Hige. It's nice to meet you. And this here's Luna." Hige responded in a chuckle, introducing the two of us. The white wolf didn't seem amused by how Hige said that and I honestly don't blame him because I'm not amused either. "So why are you two here?" the white wolf asked, still looking up at us. I lean up and shrug my shoulders.
"Eh, no reason really. It seemed like something interesting was going to happen and we just followed our noses." Hige answered in a sluggish way. "May I remind you that I just met you and I chose to come with you to see what that gunshot was connected too." I say, reminding him as I looked at him. Hige looked back at me and grinned. He still seemed to be flirting with me because of how he's grinning at me and I'm liable to kick his ass for it.
"Those forms... they're not your true ones. Why hide yourselves?" the white wolf stated, seeing that Hige and I are wolves as well. "So we don't end up like you. I only do it to keep myself protected from the humans here. Mostly in any city I've been through." I answer straightforwardly. Part of that is true because I have walked into cities in my human form which I had learned to use a couple of months ago actually. This white wolf doesn't seem to get the whole, 'Stay in your human disguise so that the humans won't think anything of what we are.' kind of thing. "It's what we do to protect ourselves. Keep looking like that and you'll wind up back here in no time." Hige added, seeming to agree with me. The white wolf begun to growl at us lowly, partially baring his wolf fangs at us.
"You two are living lies... you two want to live a miserable death in this city?" he retorted in an irritated tone. His tone and growling didn't phase me in the least bit. "Hey, it's what we do to survive. You're really asking for trouble if you think staying in your wolf form all the time will protect you." I spat, narrowing my green eyes at him. I hold my ground at what this white wolf was getting from. "Have you two given up your pride as wolves?!" the white wolf snarls, jumping up with his wolf fangs bared in a snarl. Hige was surprised at what he said but soon softens up.
"Man, you are strange. But having pride doesn't count too much if you're dead. You know?" he said in a cool tone, leaving the white wolf dumbfounded. Then, a loud siren blared above us, getting me to look up at the ceiling. "I think that's our cue to get the hell out of here." I say, feeling the urge to leave this place, "Unless you want to let your wolf pride dig it's heels into you completely, how about you let yourself blend in with the humans for a change? It's the only way you can survive in this messed up world." Both Hige and the white wolf look at me with widened eyes. "You're a lot smarter than I thought for a female." Hige said with a warm smile. I glare at him for a moment before standing back up. "Don't test me. We need to leave here before the humans show up." I answer, getting him to back off a little bit. I put my hands in the pockets of my jacket and watch as the white wolf twists his wolf head off to the side and grab ahold of the metal bars in a growl.
With a tug, he managed to pry them apart without hurting his wolf fangs. It was enough for him to walk out of it. Once the white wolf walks out of the cage, I watch as he takes his human illusion. I grin at what he looked like because he blended right in and didn't stick out like a sore thumb. I mean, if we walk through this deranged and dying city in our wolf forms, we would definitely be the attraction or a danger to the humans here and we'd stick out like sore thumbs. He had medium brown hair and icy, sky-blue eyes. His clothing consists of a white shirt, a grey/black jacket with rolled sleeves, blue jeans, and black and white sneakers.
He seemed to have an aloof and quite distant with strands of his brown hair hanging in front of his face. His pale white skin suited his features very well. As we walked out of that room and out of the building, I kept my hands in my pockets and saw our wolf shadows on the wall again. The humans here didn't think anything of us as we casually walked by them. I know having to use an illusion to protect ourselves from the humans is something a wolf is gonna have to get used to and the white wolf will figure that out the more he uses it. It was difficult for me too; I don't know about Hige and how long he's been using his human illusion.
Once we got outside, it was night time outside and I look up at the ceiling of this dome and I see the full moon above us. The humans don't realize that three wolves had walked by them. "Sir! That big dog! It's gone!" one of those humans cried, getting the attention of those humans that Hige and I saw earlier. Soon enough, the three of us were on top of a building so we were out of sight of the humans. I sat down at the edge of the building about a few feet from the white wolf and Hige was on a piece of the building so he had a better view of the dying city. The white wolf laid on the roof with his legs hanging over the edge.
"Have your wounds healed up yet?" Hige asked the white wolf. "Yeah. After all, it's a full moon tonight." the white wolf said firmly. I glance over at him and grin before looking up at the ceiling with the moon gleaming down at us however, no moonlight did not illuminate us. "So... what brought you here? Is it because of the Lunar Flower?" I ask, still looking up at the ceiling. The white wolf seemed surprised that I knew of the strong attraction to it's sweet scent of the Lunar Flower.
"How'd you know that?" the white wolf asked, partly surprised. I look back at him to see him looking at me with a raised eyebrow. "It's because that scent also brought me here." I answer, looking back at the ceiling. He must've had a greater attraction to the scent better than me. I don't know about Hige though. "That's cool. With my nose, I can tell when a dog is taking a dump. Especially 10 miles away." Hige said, getting me to look at him with a furrowed eyebrow. "Really? That must really stink." the white wolf muses. Hige laughs at what the white wolf said and turned to meet his warm, friendly smile.
"So... why did you two decide to come with me?" the white wolf asked. I shrug my shoulders at his question. Truthfully, I didn't see the problem with being with another wolf. Especially one that seemed to want to be alone for a majority of his spare time. "Eh. I don't know. It seems like I got no where else to be. Plus, you seem interesting." Hige answered smugly. "I've got nothing better to do. I'm wandering everywhere and seemingly nowhere. So... where are you going to?" I answer, looking at the white wolf.
"To Paradise." the white wolf answered, getting both Hige and I to raise our eyebrows. "Paradise huh? That sounds like fun." Hige said, agreeing with the white wolf's plan. "Looks like I know where to go now." I say in agreement. The wind then proceeded to pick up as the white wolf said his name. "My name is... Kiba..." he said, still looking up at the ceiling. Kiba. That name suited him well. This was the start of a new founded friendship. Just Kiba, Hige, and I.
