Standing on patrol at the top of some old ferris wheel, I looked out at the sky. Kiba had said that he was still suspicious of the place even though it was a run down amusement park that looked like it hadn't been touched for twenty years or more.
It was sunset outside and Kiba was trying to keep me awake and hadn't let me have a touch of meat fo three days. My stomach toyed with me and kept growling like a Wyoming tornado was going on in it. I looked down at Kiba and panted heavily like I had just run on a treadmill for days. It honestly felt like it, not having the meat. Kiba never ate in front of me because if I didn't eat on our journey, then that meant there was no food otherwise we would have to keep what we could.
I thought it wouldn't be hard. After seeing cheer leaders at school skip food a whole bunch just to show off their rib cage, I thought it wouldn't be hard, but it was torcherous. Kiba jumped up next to me on the ferris wheel. I yelped in shock and tumbled off landing face first into the ground below. I moaned as I stood up and shook the pain off. Then a rat walked in front of me, probably scavenging for food.
My taste buds went wild and I slowly crouched down and eyed the little rodent. Then Kiba landed next to me and glared down at me. I looked up at my friend and whimpered, "Please?" Kiba rolled his eyes, then nodded. I pounced on the rat, treating him like he was a deer. Ignoring the mercy squeals, I plunged my teeth into the rat, but then a bone went down my throat and I had to choke it out pretty much.
Kiba chuckled and looked down at the little skeleton that laid in frot of us in only minutes.
"You're as klutzy as a puppy and hunt like you haven't eaten for days," Kiba teased. I lowered my head and glared at Kiba. My lips curled back to reveal my fangs and a low snarl ripped out of my stomach, "You know how to push it!" I snapped, then pounced right on Kiba and nearly bit his neck but he clamped his jaw on my leg indicating that I was weak and would not win this fight. I stood back and my ears pinned back. As I limped away a string of curses escaped my mouth through a snarl.
My head rested on my paws as I was finally getting true rest after three days of no eating and sleeping and constant training. Kiba told me that the road to Paradise was going to be rough. He had finally admitted where we were going but seemed pissed about it.
As I slept I had a dream where I saw mom. We were hanging out at some old park near mom's house and it was kind of stormy but niether of us cared. I looked human and was pretty happy. And then I watched as a bald man in a black combat suit stomped out of the shadows with a rifle and instead of pointing it to me like the usual dreams he pointed it to my mom. She sat there crelessly like the man was invisible! I tried to warn her but my voice was mute and the man had one feature I suddenly realized. A mouth. One with disgusting, grimy, yellow teeth.
His chunky lips were grinning ear to ear. I gasped but it was mute. Everything seemed to go in slow motion as the man pressed the trigger. The explosion was somehow very loud and freaked the hell out of me. I fell back and watched as the bullet slowly reached my completely oblivious mom.
But as it was centimeters away I immediately woke my self up not even wanting to see such a horrible thing.
My eyes snapped open. I was back at the amusement park and never thought I would be so happy to be at the place. But it felt rather soft under my chin. The fur was much thicker than my two strong, but slightly smaller paws. I rolled my eyes down to see a big patch of white fur. Down the fur there were white ears. I was using Kiba as a pillow! Oh my god!, I thought. How had I gotten in this position?
I lifted my head, shook it, and grunted. One of Kiba's ears twitched for a second, then he winced, and I watched as his eyes snapped open widely. "CHEZA!" he screamed. I lifted an eyebrow. He had told me who Cheza was. But I couldn't quite remember.
"Kiba! Cheza IS NOT here! Chill," I snapped, not sure if I was comforting the wolf or not. Kiba gave me a scary/crazed look. "Cheza's gone," Kiba whimpered, forming into his human form and leaning against an old wind mill putt hole. I also formed into my human form and walked carefulley over to Kiba, making sure to seem a little more comforting. I placed a hand on his shoulder, "Well, Kiba. We'll see Cheza soon. Once we get to Paradise," I whispered. Kiba looked up at me. There was no tears on his face, just a really sad frown.
"You're right I guess. But Cheza was the key to Paradise. We will not find Paradise without her," Kiba muttered. I nodded and sighed. I turned and looked at Kiba, "Cheza WAS the key to Paradise. But now it's you Kiba. I just have a feeling in my gut...it's you," I said, my voice fading into a whisper into the end. Kiba looked down at me and grinned. Not a toothy ultra happy grin. Just a simple, calm grin. A Kiba grin I guess you could call it.
I sighed and patted his knee then stood up, "Well if were headed to Paradise we should o hunt real quick and then you lead the way!" I said with a wide grin. Kiba looked at me, his famous grin still on his face. Rolling my eyes I grabbed Kiba's hand and dragged him toward a run down carousel. I knew that was where the deer hung out for some reason. I wondered if they confused the horses for their own. Oh whatever.
I spotted a deer grazing on the other end of the carousel. Forming into my wolf form getting ready to pounce, I thought of how I had done most of the hunting! I turned around and looked Kiba hard in the eye, "Your turn bub."
Licking the last of the meat off of a rib bone I sat cross legged across from Kiba. He stared into space like usual, I lied down trying to find constelations in the stars. My mom had always told me her favirite one was one she once spotted of a howling wolf. "Why mommy?" I had asked when I was like, four years old, then she would change the subject. Now I had a feeling I knew why. Because the kid she adopted was one of these flesh eating creatures.
I mean did I not just prove my point about the whole eating deer thing. So I 'm not saying it's bad being a wolf and all. I guess...it's just different. Anyways, as I lied down looking for my mom's "favorite" constelation, Kiba was spacing out, probably thinking about his last pack. Now only me and Kiba were a pack. The rest of Kiba's guys were probably just playing around in lucious green grass and eating as much der as they wanted while me and Kiba had to try finding this Paradise place the hard way. Oh well...
Me and Kiba snapped our heads up to the sound of a door opening. A car door.
"You said you spotted the dogs here?"
"Uh...yessir!"
Oh my god! That sounded like Riley! What the hell was Riley doing. Telling who ever, where me and Kiba were. I watched as a flash light beam went through all the bushes that surrounded the amusement park that I had thought of as a sanctuary for barely over a month. I picked up a leg bone from the deer skeleton ready to fight. An hand wrapped around my arm tugged me into the inside of a roller coaster car.
My fangs went to full size and I swung around ready to rip the persons throat out only to see Kiba, "Oh. Sorry," I whispered. He put a finger to my lips, then pointed to what looked like a pretty higly armed cop with...RILEY?!
She still had a black eye from the thugs and walked with a small limp, but I suspected my human friend would soon get over it. Maybe. The flash light beam swung over me and Kiba but our shadows lost vibility from it by an inch.
I took a deep breath, then eyed Riley as she whined to the cop that she swore she had seen me. And another guy, I suspected she meant Kiba.
Then, the worst possible thing happened, Riley turned her head for a second and saw a small glimpse of me. "SHOOT HER! I SAW HER!" Riley pretty much screamed. I gasped and ducked behind the car. "Nice going," Kiba muttered then we ran off to the carousel where a bunch of deer scurried away already seeing what we had done to their friend. I gulped as the police pulled out a 9 mm. and aimed it right at me!
"Oh shit," I muttered ducking next to Kiba as a bullet flew over my head just barely missing me. I stood up to run for a second and a bullet hit my arm. I yelped in pain as the hot lead soaked in my skin. Wincing, I took in the pain and ran to Kiba. We jumped over the fence and the minute we got out, all I could see for miles beyond was a wasteland. Kiba jolted forward with agony on his face. "Kiba!" I panicked. I helped him up and as I did I felt something warm and sticky on his back. Blood.
Kiba had been shot. I felt for the bullet, then yanked it out. Kiba winced but the two of us ran off as fast as we could. Kiba was getting crippled at the completely wrong time!
What was I going to do?! I didn't want to hurt the police officer or Riley. I turned around to see the cop have his gun lifted and ready to shoot again. Riley was net to him screaming that I was a wolf. Pushing Kiba out of the cops target, I jumped up into the air, then landed right on the cop and bit the pistol out of his hand. I flung it a few feet away and dug my nails into his arm. Then I turned around to look at Riley.
"Why?" I whispered. Riley looked down and shook her head. "What happened to you Kachiri? Why are you like this all of a sudden? Where's Kachiri?" she whispered. I opened my mouth to say something "Rile-"
"KACHIRI! Hurry! Come on!" Kiba screamed. I gave Riley a frown, then ran off to my injured friend.
We walked for hours. I tried to make Kiba stop but he simply limped on. Then suddenly, an idea popped in my head of how to stop Kiba. As the two of us limped together, I yawned. Kiba gave me a quick look but then...limped on. Then I plopped down my ass but Kiba walked on. I knew if I fell asleep I would never catch up to Kiba but I really was getting tired. Finally I decided I would test me and Kiba's friendship then sprawled across the ground and closed my eyes.
When I woke up, Kiba was sleeping right next to me. I noticed that the bullet wound on his back had healed and my arm once again just had a simple scar. Kiba on the other hand looked untouched. I wondered how?
My tounge was dry and I decided to go look for a stray bird or squirell. There was nothing but a puddle with worms in it. Worms would attract birds, so I decided to wait behind a tree for a bird to come. Soon enough one DID come , but this bird was freaky. An owl, but his eyes were wide and he looked at me.
"Famished you are? Weak will you be?"