Time is Running out for Me, for You
Authors Note: Jeez when was the last time I updated, anyway sorry it has taken me so long to update, especially my good friend Beth (who is persistently annoying when I don't update.) Plus I don't own Wolf's Rain (unfortunately).
Chapter 2 – Bloody Snow
Amane's POV (Channon)
We had been travelling for a couple of days now, we had dropped our human illusions feeling we would be safe to travel in our true forms and Yuzu was starting to fall behind, tripping over her feet constantly. Even Courtney and Beth were occasionally stumbling behind me now, although I was used to the harsh blizzard like conditions. I used to live somewhere out in the snow, but with a bit more cover. I stopped and sat patiently waiting for the other three wolves to catch up. I lifted my nose, calmly trying to pinpoint the males behind us, locking on to the scent, I noticed that they where worrying closer than I had thought.
"Shit," I muttered under my breath, "You guys better hurry up I'm already behind schedule and those wolves will be nipping at our tails soon," I shouted over the howling wind. Yuzu sneezed and landed face first in the snow, I growled this was getting me nowhere. I stalked over to Yuzu who was shaking the snow from the ground off her fur only it was annoyingly replaced by the falling snow from the sky. I roughly grabbed the scruff of fur around her neck in my jaw lifting her from the ground and broke out into a full sprint, the other two soon followed. I was glad Yuzu was so light, for it was getting tiring carrying her around.
Yuzu yawned, "Hey Amane when can we sleep?" I stopped momentarily and dropped Yuzu to her feet, nightfall was approaching, we had two choices:
find somewhere to sleep and risk the wolves catching up with us
Or
Travel through the night and risk Yuzu, Courtney or Beth getting lost or left behind.
Beth and Courtney had caught up,
"Look we can either find some shelter and rest now but then we will run the rest if the way no stopping, because I'm already behind or we can run through the night and rest when we get to freeze city" I told them, I think I was a little harsh but I needed to get to freeze city soon.
"We've already ran for 2 days with only a few hours of rest, Yuzu's exhausted and I'm almost at the stage of passing out we need to stop for a bit," Courtney glanced at Yuzu who was trying desperately to keep her eyes open.
I sighed,
"Fine we'll rest, I'll try locating somewhere to stay just wait here and Beth look after them please," I sprinted off onto the raging snow storm, not giving Beth a chance to argue or for Courtney to complain. As I did I could feel the others watchful eyes.
Kiba's POV
We had been travelling for a least a couple of days now slowly gaining on the females that Hige was so eager to catch up with. It seemed that they were also heading for the next city. I wondered why, had they smelt the Luna flower too? I stopped, there were voices. I could hear the females talking. Hige slammed right into me and Toboe skidded before toppling over landing face first in the snow. Tsume glared at me. They had stopped and I could just make out an orange and two other yellow blobs in the distance. We slowly edged forward, but as we did lots of snow was kicked up momentarily blinding us. Tsume was swearing under his breath in-between spitting out snow. Higes face lit up when he realised why we had stopped and before any of us could think to stop him he was gone, sprinting towards the girls.
"Hige wait for me," Toboe whined before standing up and running off after Hige.
"Moron," Tsume growled, "he's only going to scare them off"
I shuck my head, "he can't help himself, he doesn't think,"
Tsume and I followed after at a more casual pace after the perverted wolf and Toboe.
Yuzu's POV
I collapsed on the floor as Amane sped off to go find some shelter and maybe some food. As if on cue Courtney's stomach rumbled, all three of us looked at it at the same time. I laughed under my breath and rolled over. Although I momentarily had forgot about the layer of freezing cold snow underneath me and jumped up with a yelp as the white substance touched my back. Sitting up I noticed Courtney was rolling around laughing at me. I stuck my chest out and 'hmphed' at her, but it just made her laugh harder.
"Hey stop laughing!" I shouted sticking out my tail and flicking it backwards and forwards unconsciously.
Suddenly snow flew up around me coating me in another layer of snow and I fell over under a pile of snow. I sighed and went to stand up only to be kicked in the side and have a weight fall on me, I rolled only to see a copper coloured wolf about the same age of me staring at me. I felt my face immediately heat up. He had really pretty amber coloured eyes. I was grateful for the layer of fur covering my face.
"Um... I-," he was cut off as the other group of wolves around us started growling.
"Toboe get over here now," a large grey wolf with an 'X' shaped scar on his chest.
"Yuzu," Beth growled out and I jumped up on my feet as did the copper coloured wolf who's name I assume is Toboe, did the same. I ran up to Beth and obediently sat next to her before examining the other wolves in front of me.
There were four of them in total. There was the small coppered coloured wolf, named Toboe and as I was looking at him I caught his eye immediately my face burnt up. I quickly moved on to the next wolf that was a chubby golden wolf who now didn't look too hostile. Alongside them were two other wolves the grey wolf who was glaring at Beth, who was matching his intense stare and a white wolf with golden yellow eyes. He had a sense of leadership and a big ego radiate off of him. He was most likely in charge of the pack. I noticed Beth and the grey wolf heatedly staring at each other daring the other to make a threat towards their friends/pack. I gulped this was not going to end well.
Amanes POV
I hadn't got far when I found a cave with a small entrance, it would be easy to miss in the shower of thick snow and it wasn't clear if it was inhabited. I cautiously stepped towards the cave sniffing, looking for a scent that might tell me if somebody used it. I reached the back of the cave, it had opened out into a large space there was some water dripping in the corner and it had created a small puddle that had surprisingly not frozen. I went to lap some of the water and take one last look around when there was a loud howl. I instantly recognised Yuzu's call and sprinted towards the tight entrance, scraping my shoulder on the way out. I charged towards the sound of her frantic howl. My shoulder was really hurting so I gritted my teeth. The sound of scuffling and rolling around could be heard, I ran straight into a wolf fight.
I tried to figure out who was fighting and it seemed to be Beth and a large grey male wolf. Yuzu was standing there whimpering and Courtney was tense looking for an opening to stop the fight but she looked unsure of whether she should get involved.
"TSUME!" a commanding male voice called out and that's when I noticed the other three males standing on the other side of the two fighting wolves.
The grey wolf, who I assume is Tsume, didn't stop. I growled and launched myself at Beth's back. Grabbing onto the scruff of her neck I yanked back pulling her from the grey wolves bite towards her neck. She fell from my pull and landed on me, which caused us both to roll across the snow and in the process I wrenched my shoulder. I picked myself meeting the defiant glare from Beth with my own intense stare.
"How dare you, I could handle him perfectly fine on my own," She spat at me, we had started circling each other. Matching the others movements perfectly.
"You may have been fine but what about Yuzu and Courtney, what if the others had decided to attack and you had your head stuck in his jaw," I flicked my head in the direction of the panting gray wolf.
Now Beth was pissed off and she lunged at my neck, I stepped back and went behind her trying to grab her neck when I noticed something on her back. A scar. A familiar one at that. I looked at her face and realisation hit me. It was her, the wolf I had worked with all those years ago. In the past I have tried so desperately to forget but know I can't escape. I looked into her eyes and she knew too. I got off her.
"A-Amane your shoulders b-bleeding," Yuzu whimpered hesitantly walking towards me and taking a sniff at my shoulder. I looked down and not surprisingly blood was pouring freely from a gash on my should,
"Shit," I growled carefully moving my shoulder hissing as pain shot all the way down my leg (she's still in wolf form).
"That really needs cleaning and dressing or it will get infected," somebody piped up I looked up a young copper coloured wolf had spoke he had been hiding behind a larger golden wolf the entire time I hadn't noticed him.
"Yes I know but I don't have many clean thing to do that with," I muttered back, "come on I found some where we can rest, there were some hare droppings outside and they're fresh so we might get lucky," I got up and walked towards where I had found the small cave. The others followed.
"Kiba," The young pup inquired if they were following and he shuck he head for no, he nodded towards me as a thanks, I nodded back and we walked our separate ways.
OH MY FLIPPING GOD THAT TOOK FOREVER TO WRITE!
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