Episode 7

The Flower Maiden

"C'mon Runt! If you don't get a move on, we'll leave you behind!" Hige shouted. I shook my head. Toboe was so slow. We were currently walking through a dense forest. I heard no sounds aside from out paws hitting the ground.

"Hey, doesn't it this forest seem kinda strange to you? There aren't any animals around" Hige rolled his eyes.

"You do know what you are, right?"

"huh?" I sighed.

"They probably ran off when they saw up coming" I said. Toboe looked at me with a slight confused face.

"Oh, right...!" Hige shook his head

"This is the problem with city kids"

"But I haven't smelled the flower since we left that cave" Toboe said "I wonder if this is really the right way" I yawned, covering my mouth with my hand.

"Mind if I ask you something?" Tsume asked Kiba. I turned my head to Tsume and grinned.

"You just did?" Tsume growled at me and whacked me in the back of the head.

"Ow..." I muttered. Kiba ignored us and answered Tsume.

"Where are we headed?" I rolled my eyes.

"To paradise" I said slowly. Tsume glared and I fell back to walk with Hige. Hige chuckled at me. I smiled innocently up at him.

"Hi" he shook his head and looked away. I turned to Toboe.

"Want to play!?" Toboe nodded and we ran off.

"Don't go that far!" Hige called after us. We nodded and ran off into the woods. I stopped, Toboe crashing into me. My ears flickered and I looked up.

"You hear that?" I asked. Toboe nodded and covered his ears.

"I hate that sound..." he grunted.

(Break)

I yelped as the earth shook. Toboe grabbed my arm.

"What's going on!?" he yelled.

"The air ships are fighting each other!" I yelled back over the tremble. I shook as a feeling went over me.

"She's here" I whispered.

"Who's here?" Toboe asked. I turned to look at him.

"You don't feel it?" I asked him in surprise. Toboe didn't answer. I looked through the forest and saw Kiba running towards the sound.

"Let's go! We have to get to the pack!" I shouted and ran through the forest. Toboe nodded and ran at my side.

(Break)

"look!" I pointed up into the sky. Toboe followed my finger and saw something falling.

"It's her!" I shouted again in glee. Toboe and I busted through the forest and into the pack.

"Toboe, Shita!" Hige said in surprise. I left Toboe with Hige and over took Tsume and stayed behind Kiba. Her scent finally took to my nose. The scent of Lunar Flowers.

"That scent..." Hige smelled it now. Kiba kept looking into the air with a new look on his face. He saw Cheza. We were running to her.

(Break)

I gulped as I placed another foot on the rocks. Once fall and I was dead. I look for anther footing and swung myself onto it.

"Yep, it's coming from up there... there's a faint scent" Hige sniffed the air. Kiba grunted as he climbed up. I panted as I rested on a rock side.

"Why are you so worked up?" Tsume called up. Hige groaned.

"But it's got the stink of noble mixed in with it..." Tsume looked down at Hige.

"A noble?" I crawled up another rock and stopped beside Toboe.

"Hey, Kiba!" he shouted. Kiba looked back at Toboe's call.

"Something in my chest is kinda tingling is that what you mean?" Kiba nodded.

"Let's get moving" he ordered.

"I'm doing the best I can" I muttered as I lifted another leg and started to climb. My muscles strained as we climbed.

(Break)

I walked behind Kiba as we tracked our way through the dense woods.

"I don't know why, but my hear is pounding...!" Toboe blushed "And I feel all warm, too..." Hige groaned in pleasure.

"this is the sense of excitement you get just before you pounce on a pretty girl..." I looked back at Hige in disgust and shook my head, inching my way away from the males.

"Don't let you guard down" Tsume snapped. I looked back at him in relief. At least he was acting idiotically. My ears twitched as Tsume spoke in a whisper.

"I Do feel a shiver running up my spine, though" I groaned, not him too! I grabbed Kiba's hand as we continued to walk. We finally broke away from the forest and into a open field that met a lake. The field shimmered with flowers and it smell heavenly. A flicker of movement caught my eye.

"Kiba! Look!" I pointed into the water. Kiba gasped as he followed my finger. It was the Flower Maiden. She was sitting on a concrete block with her feet in the water. She opened her eyes and smiled up at us. All the males blushed and gasped, my eyes widened in wonder.

"It's her, it's really her!" Hige said in amazement. Toboe placed his hands against his chest.

"My heart just skipped a beat...!" he awed.

"Who is that?" Tsume asked.

"The Flower Maiden" I whispered and watched as Cheza hopped down from the concrete block and waited. Kiba started forwards, his hand following away from mine.

"Wait!" I warned. The pack all watched as Kiba walked into the water and to Cheza.

"Cheza" he said as if he was taking his last breath of clean air. Cheza smiled and we watched as Kiba reverted back to wolf form and Cheza stroke his head and muzzle. She knelled in front of him and embraced him around his neck.

"We meet at last..." she whispered against his white coat. I smiled as content and happiness flew off Kiba's scent.

"I wish somebody'd hold me like that..." Toboe awed. I took a quick glance at Tsume and then looked away.

"Is that really...?" Tsume asked us. I nodded.

"It's the Flower Maiden" I whispered.

(Break)

Cheza and Kiba walked in front if us, holding hands. They stopped and Cheza waved us over.

"This way! Over here!" she said. I picked up my pace as did the rest of the pack.

"That's Cheza, all right. That's the Flower Maiden" Hige said with a large smile on his face.

"She's a flower and a maiden? That's weird" I grunted and elbowed Toboe in the ribs.

"Don't be rude" I hissed.

"Well, as the story goes, some noble with to much time on his hands... made her from a lunar flower in a lab somewhere" Hige informed us. I looked down as we walked across a bridge. Small fish floated in the water.

"They made a human from a flower?" Tsume asked. "Do you really believe all that?"

"Hey, she's standing right there, isn't she?" Hige said.

"Yeah" Toboe said. "And she smells nice, too" We walked through a large garden, covered in flowers.

"She smells like a flower" I murmured. We walked back as we hit a dead end.

"Smell or no, I don't trust any of this" Tsume said.

"Even though you were effected by it too?" I asked in a teasing voice. He growled and gave a faint blush.

"I Believe it" Hige said with a nod.

"Just think about it. It's true that Kiba led us straight here on instinct or whatever you want to call it, right?" I nodded. "Even is this is just some big coincidence, it feels like we're on step closer"

"It does" I said.

"Well, either way, she's not my type" Hige smirked. "It's to bad" I puffed out air and groaned.

(Break)

We moved into a building, following Cheza and Kiba. I shivered as the cool air flew past us.

"This one has been waiting for you all this time" Cheza said. "This one was born here for that very reason" I ran from the three males and stopped as I reached Kiba side. We watched as Cheza ran gracefully into an abandoned room.

"This one is home, everyone!" she said in delight. She starred at the ruined room, vines and weeds ran down from the sealing, covering the walls and grounds. Kiba and I walked to her side.

"Oh. No one is here anymore" she whispered in a sad voice. I took her hand in mine, giving her the only comfort I knew.

"Now this in understands. Everyone was withered and died" she continued and knelled down at the white wolf's feet.

"This one is the only one left" she said. I jumped as gunshots echoed across the room. I looked back as Hige and Toboe ran in behind us.

"We're in trouble, Kiba! I smell humans all over the place!" Hige yelled out. Tsume ran in.

"We're surrounded!" Toboe screamed. Tsume stopped and glared at Cheza. She looked back at him with large red eyes filled with despair. Kiba stepped in front of Cheza and I, since I was still holding her hand and knelling beside her.

"No! It wasn't her!" Kiba defended Cheza. Toboe panicked.

"Hey! We don;t have time for this! We've gotta escape!" he shouted.

"Escape!? We're surrounded, damn it! Where are we supposed to go!?" Hige argued. Cheza held my hand tighter as she stood. She pulled me after her as we started to walk.

"Where do you think you're going!?" Tsume snapped.

"I said it's dangerous over there?" Hige yelled. Kiba grabbed Cheza's other hand.

"What should we do?" Toboe shouted in alarm. Their voice faded as we walked.

"Wait for me, Kiba!" Toboe yelled after them.

(Break)

Cheza, Kiba and I walked calmly. I shoved my instincts back down and followed the alpha. He always knew what to do. I gasped as an armored man with a gun walked in front of us. Kiba pushed us behind him and flew at him. The man fell with blood spurting from his chest. I moved my foot away just as bullets raced past us.

"Kiba!" I yelled. He jumped over the bullets and killed the other man where he stood. Toboe pushed us down and covered us with his body. More bullets littered the air. They stopped as two thuds where heard. I looked over Toboe and saw Hige and Tsume jump down to meet Kiba.

"We're in serious trouble! They've got that end totally covered" Hige said.

"What do you want to do? If we left her here, we could get away" Tsume reasoned. Kiba snarled.

"Forget it!" my ears twitched as more bullet rounds reached my ears. Cheza grabbed my hand again and led me down a narrow strip.

"Guys!" Toboe said and followed us. Cheza stopped and looked back at the males.

"This way!" she said. Cheza and I started to run. Kiba ran after us. I heard Tsume's, Hige's and Toboe's after his.

(Break)

Kiba jumped at a guard as he fired at us. We ran past the dead and falling body.

(Break)

the boys followed Cheza and I into a room.

"What the hell?" Hige snapped. We were trapped. A dead end.

"It's no use! It's a dead end!" Toboe whimpered.

"Wanna try surrendering?" Hige asked dryly. Tsume and I glared at him.

"I'm kidding, I'm kidding!" he said with his hands in the air. Cheza reached out a touched a large tree trunk. I watched as a large hole appeared under her hand.

"This way" she said. I smiled at their bewildered faces.

"Was there a hole there a second ago?" Toboe asked. Kiba didn't say anything as he ran after Cheza and I. I heard the rest of my pack behind me. We got away with Cheza.

The Flower Maiden

Sorry for the long Update. Been busy. And This is not an Kiba/OC story. Kiba is like Shita's... pack father... please please please Review!