Chap 9. Misgivings (Or maybe not!)
"Where are we going?" I asked. We where walking some dark, damp cold alleys in town.
"There is a dump not far from here." Said Kiba. "We will be safe there for tonight."
"Great." Hige said sarcastically. "More smelly places." I rolled my eyes. We walked in the alleys for who knows how long? We had to because this place was crawling with humans that were looking for Cheza. Dang humans, why do they want her? We finally arrived at the dump, though it was mostly cars. We looked around for shelter until we found a type of bus.
"This should work." Kiba said as he walked in, the rest of us followed.
"Cheza you stay here with Toboe." Kiba said. "The rest of us will go look around, to find a way out of this town."
"You can count on me!" Toboe said proudly, I smiled.
"Be careful." I said before we all walked out of the bus, then went our separate ways.
"What am I looking for..." I murmured to myself, walking around the junkyard. "Food? A way out? Kiba really should have told me what to look for..." I sighed. I had a nagging feeling in the back of my head. I felt like I was being watched. I studied the feeling, Ive come to know different feelings when I'm being looked at. It wasn't the angry feeling when Tsume glares at me, nor the proud one when Toboe looks up to me, it definitely wasn't the annoyed feeling when Hige "secretly" checks me out, or that weird feeling when Kiba looks at me. It was one of danger.
I looked around frantically. I sniffed the air, but got nothing because there was no wind blowing. I was about to go back to the bus but then I thought to myself. What if they follow me there!? I just knew that had to be why they didn't attack me when my guard was down. I was in trouble, I didn't know what to do but I knew I couldn't lead them straight to Cheza and Toboe. But I was sure they where the humans. I was just standing around, terrified not really I was because I didn't know what to do.
"Who's there!" I snarled loudly. "Come out I know you're there!" I looked around angrily. Three of those humans who were looking for Cheza jumped out with their guns aimed.
"Dang it..." I growled lowly.
"Today is you're lucky day." One of them said. "If you tell us where Cheza is, we'll take you as prisoner and not kill you." What stupid humans, us wolves would rather die then spend our lives in a cage!
"What do you even want with Cheza!" I snarled.
"The real question is what do you want with it?" Said the human. Did he just call Cheza an it? She's nothing more then an experiment to them. I growled.
"She's going to get us to paradise!" I yelled, the humans looked shocked. "Or we will die trying!" I hurled myself, in wolf form, to the nearest human, the other two were still in shock of what was happening. I felt the human's blood as it splattered on my fur. When I was done with that one, I felt a pain in my leg I looked at it, and was shocked to see blood gushing out. I was shot! I looked to the other humans who were advancing on me.
I shut my eyes tightly waiting for the end. Well the bright side is now I know what they mean when they say you're life flashes before you're eyes, and boy did my life suck...But then I heard a loud snarl and my heart filled with hope, it wasn't my time yet. I opened my eyes in time to see a white wolf hurl himself into one of the humans.
"Kiba!" I cheered with happiness. I looked at the other human who aimed his gun at Kiba, and with a snarl I jumped at him, knocking the gun out of his hands. Once I was sure that the human was no more I got up off him and heard a sound that sounded like skin ripping.
"Dang it..." I winced and looked at my leg. Yup the skin was mine, I stumbled a few steps away and collapsed.
"Rexy!" I heard Kiba, as he ran to me. "Are you okay?"
"Yea..." I said painfully. "Its just a scratch, Ill be fine..." Though I was a little worried it hurt a lot for just a "little" scratch. I then realized what the pain was.
"Dang" I said as I started to scratch at my wound, a bullet fell out. It was quick relieve, but then more pain because I made the wound bigger.
"Are you sure you're okay?" Kiba asked again, wow there was pure concern in his voice. I looked up to the white wolf.
"Yea." I said. I tried to get up but was unsuccessful. "I guess Ill rest here a while..." I curled up into a ball, being extra careful of my leg. Kiba laid down where he was standing, I gave him a questioning look.
"There could be more of them." He said. I began to think of things when I realized something.
"What were you doing here?" I asked. "I thought you went into town."
"I-I didn't go yet..." He looked away, What! He stammered! I squinted my eyes at him. He looked back at me, and sighed when he saw my expression.
"I guess, you won't take that for an answer." He said.
"You guess right." I smirked.
"I was staying close to you..." He said as he looked away.
"Whaaaat?" I said slowly.
"It was to dangerous for you to be alone with all these humans around." He said looking at me again. "And look I was right."
"And you care why?" I asked.
"You're a member of the pack." Kiba said. "Why wouldn't I?"
"Is it because of the fact I happen to be the only female?" I said, typical…
"No its because…" He was debating on something. "I… Never mind…" He looked away again. I sighed. What was he trying to say!? I looked at him, with a sad face on. He looked at me and sighed, looking at me he said.
"I love you…" He still looked at me waiting for a response. He Whaaaat!… For the first time in my life I was speechless. I was filled with mixed emotions joy, love, and stupidity because I loved him to but never even thought of telling him… until now…
"I love you to…" I said quietly, looking off into the distance. He looked at me shocked, maybe I wasn't as obvious as Hige lead me to believe… Kiba got up and walked over to lay by me, once he laid down I nuzzled into his fur. But then I looked up.
"We should get back to the bus…" I said.
"Yea." He agreed. We were in human form then; I put my arm around Kiba's shoulder so I could walk, and he put his arm around my slender waist.
"Its about time!" I heard the last voice I wanted to hear right now I turned around.
"Hige!" I whined, as he strolled over casually with his hands in his pockets.
"Don't worry…" He said. "I heard it all, but I won't tell the others."
"The others!?" I asked loudly.
"We argue enough as it is." Hige smirked. Hige walked on, Kiba helped me back to the bus. I stumbled into one of the seats and winced.
"Rexy! Are you all right?" Toboe ran to me.
"Yea." I replied. "Just got into it with a few humans." Tsume walked in then, and glared at me.
"Did they get away?" He asked angrily.
"We took care of them…" Kiba turned to Tsume. Toboe got down in wolf form and started to clean my wound the saliva burned but I felt it healing already.
"We're leaving tonight." Kiba said to us. "Theres a place nearby that the humans call the forest of death."
"The forest of death…" Toboe said as he shivered, done cleaning my wound.
"Can you walk?" Kiba asked softly, Tsume squinted his eyes suspiciously.
"Yea." I nodded and smiled.
"Every one get some sleep." Kiba said. "It might be awhile till we sleep again." We all laid down in the seats. Kiba sat next to me, so I laid my head on his shoulder and fell to sleep…
"Rexy wake up!" I heard Hige's voice. I jumped up the sun was setting. I looked at my leg it was healed up.
"We're leaving now." Kiba announced to every one. "There are more humans around." We ran out of the bus and found a pipe that we would escape into. Hige and Tsume ran off to go create a distraction while Kiba, Cheza, Toboe, and I went through the tunnel.
Kiba was the first one out to make sure it was safe, then Cheza, then I, and then Toboe. Hige and Tsume's distraction worked the humans were all running to the spot. We ran through the alleys of town then down the hill to some cemetery. I looked beyond it and seen a terrifying forest made of completely dead trees.
"Where are they?" Toboe asked.
"Their here already." Kiba said. Hige and Tsume jumped from the ledge above us.
"Taken care of." Hige smirked. But then a shot was fired, it went right between Toboe and Cheza I looked up to the ledge. It was the hunter from when I first met Tsume and Toboe!
"You dang wolves!" He yelled. He fired more shots, we all scrambled and luckily the bullets missed us all. But I looked behind myself and Cheza had tripped! Kiba jumped in front of her and took a bullet.
"Kiba!" I yelled. The hunter pulled the trigger again but there was a click he was out of bullets, while he reloaded Kiba helped Cheza up then ran towards the rest of us. I looked at the forest before us, then we all ran into the unknown but we do that a lot. But with Kiba by my side I could over come it…
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Yay! *Jumps up and down* Rexy and Kiba are finally together. But how will the others (Toboe&Tsume) take it when they find out? Any way R&R!
