DISCLAIMER: I do not own Wolf's Rain, only the idea for this story.
Grace's P.O.V
Grace woke up Hige once more before running to Tsume. Tsume was all alone on the other side of the enclosure.
"Where's Toboe?" I asked.
"He ran off, saying something about Kiba, so I decided to look for him, but he's not here," Tsume angrily answered.
"Hey, you don't have to be so mean to the ladies! She was just worried, that's all," Hige interrupted.
"I could care less about his snobby jerk," I replied.
"There they are!" a new voice announced.
"What?" Hige asked.
"Shoot, run!" I replied. It was some people who work for the zoo aparently. I definately didn't want to go back into that cage, so we all ran away. They were talking pretty lound on their radios, so I could pick up fragments of their conversation as they ran after us.
"They're... got one... too fast... have to corner... get ready," one of the idiots announced on his radio.
"They're going to try to corner us! Split up!" I announced. Tsume ran to the left, Hige ran to the right, and I was left in the middle. There were only two guys, so one went after me and one went after Hige. Tsume got away. I ran until I got to the other side of the wall and had to stop. There was a ladder! I couldn't get up in my wolf form, so I howled for the others and changed.
"WHOA! What are you?" the guy behind me asked as I climbed the ladder. "Zack, you've got to see this! Tell Marko to go to the top of the ladder!" I continued up the ladder until I reached the top. A very large guy met me. I jumped on him and bit at his neck, but he pushed me down. Soon a bunch of his friends were around me. Before the thought of jumping over them crossed my mind, a sensation of numbness went through me leg. I fell to the ground, still growling in my human form until the darkness took me over.
"Where am I?" I drowsily asked.
"I think we're back in those cages," Toboe replied. I jumped, but calmed down. It was only Toboe.
"These aren't the same cages. This one is bigger, and it looks like there are humans," I commented.
"Darn right there are humans! Now, were'd your friends go? The grey one, maybe he looks different, but at least that is what we saw when he slipped out of the habitat, or the other one, the tan one," a human asked. Toboe and I growled at him until he laughed and grabbed me by the collar. "Now listen here you mutt! You are going to go out onto that stage and do your little magic act where you turn into a human or you're little friend here get it!" I growled and tried to break free of his grasp, but he wouldn't let go. I had to do it or Toboe would get hurt. Tsume and Hige were gone, so it was just me and Toboe. I didn't have time to think because I was thrown onto a stage in front of a never ending crowd of humans.
I walked around a little, trying to think of a way to escape, before showing them my human form. After a few minutes of gasping and pictures, that human motioned for me to come back. I did so and nipped at his feet before going back into the cage with Toboe. I heard another human walk in. "Fifty gs for the grey one," the new human announced.
"Fifty! Fifty for a wolf that can turn into a human! Make it seventy!"
"Sixty,"
"Sixty five,"
"Deal!"
"Come on, mutt!" I growled as I was thrown yet again, but this time, I was thrown into a seat of a truck. I growled as that human and I drove off, leaving Toboe behind.
"Shhhhhh! Now now, I was sent by the flower girl," the man announced. I gasped before going human. This made the guy laugh. I guess I wasn't in any trouble, but what about Toboe?
The night was dark as the human and I drove down a road. It was barely visible, but the human managed. We spent the time with me asking him questions, but what can I say, I'm curious. "So how did you meet ChezAAAAAHHHHHHH!" I screamed at the truck ran into a semi.
Kiba's P.O.V
Ramisha had become more and more violent by the minute. She was becoming impatient, so she threated me. I didn't care about what she said, it was just that every time I look at her, I remember that evil that lurks within her history. Darcia. The devil.
"Well well well, looks like another one of my plans have been destroyed. That zoo was supposed to keep your friends locked away! I guess you have more good news. Looks like the grey one and the the one with a collar escaped!" Ramisha yelled at me. Tsume and Hige got away, but what about Toboe and Grace?
Tsume's P.O.V
I was lucky to escape that shit hole, but unfortunately, I had to leave without Porky, Runt, and Girly. I had only barely escaped myself. Those idiots called for their friends. Luckily, that zoo aparently doesn't keep their zoo in good condition, so I squeezed out of a crack and ran. Now, I had to go back. I was currently ontop of the walls where the other people watched us. Now, the zoo was closed and I was the only one there. I was leaning against a collum, shadowed by the darkness, so I couldn't be seen. Girly was right, these zoo people were idiots.
"YOU SOLD HER!" a guy yelled.
"I sold for sixty five gs," the other guy replied.
"We could have made MILLIONS off of her!"
"The guy seemed pretty desperate,"
"It doesn't matter! Do you at least have the other one?"
"Yeah, but I don't know if she was one of a kind, ya know,"
"Yeah, I know!" a new voice sounded in. There were some growls and groans, but when I turned around to see what had happened, Hige stood there with two dead men on the ground.
"You could have tried to be neater, Porky," I complained.
"I could have, but what's the fun in that?" Hige smiled. I didn't admit it, but I was happy to see the pig again.
We didn't exactly know where the Runt and Girly were, so we split up and decided to howl whenever one of us found them. I ran across rooftops and other buildings, I even asked some of the animals there, but none of them had heard of two new wolves. Hige soon howled. I ran over to the place the howl was sounded and found Hige.
"They're down there, or at least Toboe is. I still don't have a clue about Kiba. Never did find him. Look!" Hige announced.
"You worthless mutt!" yet another guy referred to Toboe as he kicked a cage. I growled and jumped down, followed by Hige. "What does this look like, a party! Get lost!" That made me loose my temper, so within about five seconds, the guy's throat was on the other side of the room. I wiped the crimson from my mouth with my hand and released a shaken Toboe.
"Tsume! Hige!" Toboe smiled as he changed into a human.
"Where's Girly?" I asked.
Toboe looked at the ground before saying, "Those guys sold her to some one about a half hour ago."
"Do we really need her?" I asked. We had enough trouble as it was, but with a girl, it wouldn't be long before she would want to be groomed and all that girl stuff.
"Uh, YES we need her! If we don't find her before that woman, it won't be OUR Paradise anymore! She is the one who called us here, remember!" Hige yelled at me. I sighed and agreed as we took off through the zoo until we got to the road.
It was about forty five minutes before we found the wreckage. Fire and pieces of cars spread out everywhere alond the road. We all looked in horror as we thought about what could have happened. I at least was a little happy. If that girl died, there would be no need for her. We started to dig through the piles of scrap metal. Hige called us over when he discovered a hand. We all started to dig before we found a man. His face was disfigured and glass was spread all over the mess. The dashboard was merged with his chest. He was definately dead.
"Who is he?" Toboe asked.
"Don't know. Maybe he's the guy who bought Grace," Hige assumed. We left him and continued our seach. I sniffed around an especially large pile of car parts and caught a wiff of lunar flowers. I started digging until I found a paw.
"Over here! I found her!" I yelled to the others. We all started to dig until we were able to drag her out of the trash heap. Her fur was covered in blood and several large cuts were on her. We all got silent, listening for breathing. She wasn't breathing.
Grace
Grace wandered through the field of tall grass. The rabbits loped on by and the elk grazed. Grace didn't care about them, she was too joyful to be concerned. She came to a small clearing in the midst of the the field. Cheza stood in the middle. Her arms out stretched as Grace ran to her, letting the sweet smell of flowers engulf her.
"Grace! Close your eyes!" Cheza asked. Grace did as told and let her eyelids drift shut. Suddenly, Grace could here many different voices of Cheza. They said things like don't eat, don't sleep, don't breathe, don't drink, and don't think. Grace got scared, but didn't open her eyes. She could here one particular voice saying, "Don't open your eyes." Grace was terribly afraid and ran until she bumped into countless things. She finally opened her eyes to find that she was no longer in a field of precious flowers, but instead, she stood in a never ending wasteland of ice and snow. "I told you," Cheza smiled and turned into snow. The snow on the ground turned into ice and cracked. The pieces started to fall, but Grace was frozen in terror. She started to fall until she found a heat.
She welcomed this newfound sensation before opening her eyes. The forest was on fire. The pack started to burn in Hell's flames. Small pups crying for their mothers before being engulfed by flame. Wolves that were trapped inside a cage of fire as the bullets sped. The pack started to drop, one by one until Grace was the only one left. She couldn't move. She was too terrified of the memory. She saw a hunter raise a gun that he pointed at her. Grace couldn't close her eyes as the bullet sped into her, but she didn't die. She didn't fall to the ground, but instead, a sweet smell entered her nose before she blacked out. She awoke on the outskirts of a town.
Grace screamed as she sat up. Toboe screamed a little and Hige yelped, but Tsume only backed up a little. She was alive.
This chapter is longer, but it is also a little fast paced, sorry. :-( If you aren't Carolynn or Jessica, the ones I know, please don't read this message. IT IS RATED T FOR LANGUAGE, BLOOD, AND GORE!
