Hi! So I had to split chapter 2 because I realized it was really long so chapter three will start off the rest of the second chapter. Hope you enjoy this chapter!
Luna's P.O.V: The dark gray clouds continued to roll along the skies as I walked into the lost abandoned garden with my hand holding onto Cheza's hand while Kiba held onto her other one. Cheza is the name of the flower maiden from what Kiba told me as she was stolen by a noble inside the city where he found her and the other wolves who trail behind us. I softly looked behind my shoulder catching another glimpse at the three wolves named Tsume, Hige, and Toboe seeing their eyes focus at Cheza before looking away and back at the path ahead of me. I wasn't so sure if I could trust them very easily but if they came with my brother then maybe they weren't so bad, I just wish I wasn't the only she-wolf in the pack.
First there was Tsume, a gray wolf with a nasty attitude, seeing that nearly everything set him off. In his human form, he had white silver short hair with a pony tail growing in the back and piercing yellow eyes wearing a gray shirt hiding underneath his black leather jacket with the sleeves torn were the shoulders meet his arms and black leather pants. He also wore black boots and two gold stud earrings on both ears with a golden hoop earring dangling in his right lobe. Tsume also carried a scar in the shape of an 'X' marked on his chest which seemed mysterious to me but I didn't know if he could be trusted on our journey to Paradise.
The second oldest of the group was Hige, a golden brown Timber wolf who seemed laid back and looked somewhat excited to see me as it probably meant it's been a while since he's seen a member of the opposite sex. He had brown bushy short hair that stick out with golden amber eyes, he wore a yellow hooded sweatshirt with a black pullover underneath and light gray sweat pants with black and gray tennis shoes. There was also a large brown leather oversized collar wrapped around his neck with a silver plate with a number at the center. As he introduced me, I knew he was becoming too friendly and Kiba being my brother told him to back off which Hige fully understood not wanting to mess with him, but Hige did seem nice.
And lastly was a red wolf named Toboe, he was the youngest of the three and about my age of sixteen. Toboe in his human form had long reddish brown hair reaching the tip of his shoulders and had gorgeous golden eyes filled with innocence. He wore a rusted red zipped up collared shirt with the sleeves rolled up to his elbows and olive green cargo pants being tucked inside his black Doc Martens. Toboe also wore four silver bracelets on his right arm as it made me curious just how Tsume ended up with that scar and Hige with the collar around his neck, but Toboe was nice to me when we met and sweet too as I hope we could be good friends because I never had any friends other than my brother. The red wolf was even cute as he accidentally made me blush after telling me I was pretty and I was glad Kiba didn't threaten him, maybe it was because Toboe wasn't like Hige. The strange feeling in my stomach continued to grow inside as part of me felt that it wasn't because of Cheza.
(End P.O.V)
Toboe's P.O.V: My brown golden orbs wander ahead of me staring directly at the flower maiden, Cheza who was going to help us reach paradise. She looked soft and delicate just like a flower and she smelled really nice too.
"This way, this way everyone…" I watched her speaking to us with her red eyes staring at us while motioning her hand to keep up as Hige's voice spoke out.
"That's Cheza, all right. That's the flower maiden." My eyes looked up at him as I answered. "She's a flower and a maiden, that's weird." I let my eyes wander at Luna, Kiba's sister as the knots in my stomach reacted to her smiling at Cheza and Kiba.
"Well, as the story goes, some noble had too much time on his hands made her from a lunar flower in a lab somewhere…" Hige continued speaking, telling us the story as we followed the two white wolves and the maiden through the garden.
"They made a human from a flower? Give me a break. Do you really believe all of that?" Tsume asked him as we crossed a stone bridge resting above the wide river coming from the lake where we found both Cheza and Luna. "Come on, she's standing right there, isn't she?" Hige told Tsume as I agreed.
"Yeah and she smells nice too, like a flower." I let out a wide smile while my eyes continued to stare at Luna again seeing her long brown hair shining in the sunless light.
"Smell or no smell, I don't trust any of it…" Tsume spat out, as I looked at him in disbelief.
"Even though your heart skipped a beat too?" He didn't say anything while I looked away and Hige's voice filled the air again.
"Well, I for one believe it. I mean, just think about it, as crazy as it was for the time, Kiba led us straight to this place on instinct or whatever you call it, right?" My eyes didn't meet his as I only gave a small nod staring at Luna in her human form.
She had these amazing blue eyes that looked like moonlight and her long brown hair fell below her shoulders tied back with a black bow. She wore a white dress decorated with a pink waist band that fell above her knees and a grayish black sweater as she wore white heels with the straps crossing her ankles and a pair of white stud earrings on her ears. Luna was pretty and I admitted that to her when I introduce myself to her as it made her blush right away only making my heart beat faster for her. She was also a white wolf like Kiba with the only differences being that she is smaller than him and her blue eyes stayed the same in her true form while Kiba's eyes were yellow in his form. But when it came to Paradise, she acted just like him.
"Even of it is just some big coincidence, it feels like we're one step closer!" Hige's voice brought me out of my thoughts as I spoke in agreement. "It sure does!" I smiled while hearing him again. "And now we even found Luna to join us on Paradise. Either way you look at it, Cheza isn't my type, it's too bad." His lips curled into a small smirk while Tsume answered.
"Neither is Luna, Porky. Kiba will have you dead if you try anything on her." My heart pounded beneath my chest while hearing him say her name. "Yeah, don't remind. Who knows, maybe the runt here will have a better chance than me." The warm heat spread across my face as I felt my ribs being nudged by Hige and being put on the stop.
"What? I don't know. She's Kiba's sister and all, besides I rather be her friend." I softly let out trying to ignore them. "You say that now, but eventually you won't be able to help yourself." Hige placed a wide grin on his face leaving his words to build in my mind as we followed Cheza, Kiba and Luna leading us inside an old abandon keep that was nothing but ruins.
(End P.O.V)
Luna's P.O.V: As Cheza led us out of the beautiful garden we came into the path of an old castle that has been abandoned for centuries leaving only several plants and trees to take over the place. The three wolves were nowhere seen as I lost sight of them after a while passing through the ruins of this place and staying close with my brother and the maiden.
"This one has been waiting for the both of you. This one was born here for that very reason." Cheza's delicate soft voice spoke out to my brother and I as moss and rubble scattered along the dirt path soon reaching another room in the left side of the crumbled wall. "Everyone, this one is home." I felt my hand being released by Cheza as she did the same thing to Kiba and ran into the empty room.
It almost looked like a lab of some sort, there were wires and long tubes reaching through the room as far ahead was a large glass spherical containing cell now cracked and everything covered with moss.
"Oh, my, there is no one here anymore. They…they all withered and died." I watched as she fell closer to the ground with her knees pulled up against her chest. I slowly walked up to her and place my hand on her soft shoulder as I tried to comfort her. "This one is the only one left…" My hand squeezed her gently while Kiba stand close behind as the air was struck with the sound of bullets firing close in the distance and footsteps followed afterwards coming closer.
"Kiba, we're in serious trouble! There are humans all over the place!" We were reunited with the golden brown wolf, Hige as he shouted for our attention while Toboe and Tsume ran into the room seconds later. My blue eyes looked up at them as I still stayed on the ground with the flower maiden feeling a twinge of fear.
"I think we're surrounded!" Tsume let out as his yellow eyes instantly fell upon Cheza as she felt his presence and faced him with her scared red eyes. I placed my hands on her and shield her with my body glaring up at the gray wolf knowing I could never trust him. "No, it isn't her. She has nothing to do with luring the humans here!" Kiba stepped in front of him seeing these two had a history and both wanting to fight at any moment.
"Come on guys, we don't have time for this. We've got to escape!" Toboe proved his point as the humans could find us soon if we don't act.
"What do you mean 'escape'? We're surrounded, damn it! Where the hell are we supposed to go?" Hige shouted in panic as I felt Cheza slowly standing up.
"Cheza?" I looked at her while getting up to my feet as she walked towards an opening leading through another passage possibly the exit.
I glanced over at my brother and the others before walking over to the flower maiden and taking her hand again as Kiba followed.
"Where are you going?!" Tsume growled at us but I ignored him while Hige shouted after us. "Didn't you two hear what I said?" None of us listened to them as we reached the corridor and walked away from them with our instincts trusting the flower maiden.
(End P.O.V)
Toboe's P.O.V: As I watched Kiba and Luna leave with Cheza to escape from the humans despite being surrounded, I began to panic more not knowing what to do as I turned to Tsume and Hige for help. "What do we do?" I let out with fear in my voice as the humans were coming to find us.
"We don't have a choice!" Tsume answered turning the other way from where we came and disappeared from sight while Hige rubbed the back of his neck. "Argh, Kiba and his sister have lost it…" He ran after Tsume to face the humans while I was left to fend for myself and quickly made up my mind. "Kiba! Luna! Wait for me!" I shouted and ran after them hoping they didn't go too far.
"Hi, Toboe." Luna greeted me with a light smile as the knots in my stomach double, I was still scared but seeing her smile calmed my nerves a bit.
"What happened to Hige and Tsume?" I heard Kiba's voice before answering him. "They left to deal with the humans." Luna's blue eyes stared at me from over her shoulder for a few seconds as she turned away. "They'll be fine." She let out softly as I continued to follow them further down the dark path but couldn't help to see a small speck of worriedness in her eyes.
(End P.O.V)
Luna's P.O.V: As I continued to move down the long corridor with Cheza and Kiba, I decided to walk with Toboe, who kept looking behind his shoulder trying to find any sign of Tsume and Hige, even the humans. He was scared, but I knew we were going to be okay. Suddenly my ears picked up the footsteps of a nearby human coming into our path from behind a wall pointing his gun at us but before the air was filled with gunshots, my brother reacted quick and pushed Cheza into me as I guarded her and watched as Kiba struck his fangs into the man's neck killing him instantly. Seconds later, another human appeared from on top a pile of rubble firing his gun at us, I quickly took Cheza's hand and Toboe's leading them behind the protection of a large piece of stone nearby. Kiba jumped high into the air as the human continued to shoot bullets at him but none of them hit him as he was slashed in the chest by my brother knocking him out cold.
As we thought we were safe, I looked at Kiba and waited to join him but the air thunderously cracked with a series of bullets firing down the corridor causing my brother to seek shelter behind the wall near the pile of rubble. I held Cheza close shielding her from being hit by the bullets while feeling another pair of hand wrapped around me as I turned my head over my shoulder and saw Toboe protecting me as he held his eyes closed. The sudden rush of warmth crept on my face as I tried to forget about the butterflies in my stomach. The humans were overpowering us as they continued to fire bullets in front of us until the sounds of gunshots quickly died down and soon bodies hit the ground as I watched Toboe's golden eyes opening up and looking at me before we peek our heads to find out what happened. We found Tsume and Hige standing over the humans bodies as their blood stained the ground seeing that they attacked from behind.
"Toboe, thank you for protecting me." I looked at the red wolf seeing the light tint of pink spreading across his face. "Oh, you're welcome." He let out a smile as I returned it back to him before hearing Hige's voice.
"We're in serious trouble! They've got that tunnel totally covered." He explained to us while Tsume's irritating voice made me angry.
"What do we do? If we left her here, we could get away." I held onto Cheza's hand as I yelled at him for not caring about her.
"No, way!" I glared at him as my brother also shouted. "Forget it!" Kiba stared at the grey wolf as I felt Cheza's hand releasing from my grasp and heard Toboe's voice calling out to us from a distance signaling my head to turn around. Toboe waved out his arm for us as Cheza poked her head from behind a wall wanting us to follow her. Kiba and I were quick to follow as we reached the hallway finding the maiden standing a few feet away from us and the other wolves telling us to follow her as Cheza ran down the dark corridor leaving my brother and I ran after her with the other behind.
Openings of the walls allowed streams of light to come through as we ran with the flower maiden straight into an open wide passageway as Tsume took down another human who aimed bullets in our way. Within minutes, the six of us reached a dead end where a large oak tree stood in our path.
"What the hell?" Hige shouted in frustration while Toboe panicked. "It's no use! It's a dead end!" It may look like that but there had to be a reason why Cheza led us here.
"We could always try surrendering?" Hige mentioned as he saw Tsume glaring at him and soon placed his hands into the air defensively. "I'm kidding, I'm kidding…"
My blue eyes turned to Cheza walking towards one of the wide roots belonging to the tree and placing her hand firmly against its bark. A soft white light began to appear from her touch as within seconds the base of the trunk created an entrance possibly leading to the forest and safe from the humans.
"Kiba…" I softly let out as I felt the weight of his blue eyes staring at me and then at the tree looking surprised.
"This way." Cheza spoke to us with a smile on her lips.
"Where did that giant hole come from?" Toboe gasped in awe as he and the others soon found the new passageway inside the tree while I simply answered.
"Cheza…" I smiled shortly before pulling my legs into a run, chasing after the maiden through our escape as Kiba and everyone else ran afterwards while the tree began to close its doorway letting none of the humans to follow our trace.
(End P.O.V)