I haven't had a disclaimer in a while...

Disclaimer: I dont own Wolf's Rain, sadly, but I do own Rexy!

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Chap 10. Moon's Doom

I looked around at my surroundings and shivered. Hige noticed this.

"Oh are you scared?" He laughed.

"No!" I growled. "It's called the forest of death, it's just creepy but I'm not scared." I turned to Kiba.

"Right?" I asked, Kiba just looked at me then walked on.

"I'm not scared…" I muttered.

"If it makes you feel better Rexy." Toboe said walking up to me. "I'm scared to."

"I don't get scared." I lowly snarled.

"Every thing gets scared eventually." Kiba said. "It's a natural emotion." I was about to say something when Hige butt in.

"Its weird you think there would be a rabbit or a fox around." He said.

"Rabbit uh?" Toboe said. "In other words you're hungry."

"Ah, sue me." Hige snapped. I was about to tell him to back off when Toboe took a step back and with a crunch sound a giant bug began whizzing around us. I screamed and jumped back but unfortunately there was a tree root behind me that I didn't see, I fell back and landed with a thud. The bug flew towards Toboe, who gasped and shut his eyes. Tsume with his fast reflexes reached out and snatched the bug.

"Thanks Tsume." Toboe sighed. Suddenly all eyes were on me, I blushed and got up. Hige was about to say something about it when Kiba stopped him. Dang I hate ackward silences… Tsume who was still holding the bug broke the silence.

"Here." He showed the bug to Hige.

"What the heck do you want me to do with it!?" Hige yelled.

"You're hungry arnt you?" Tsume growled. "Go ahead eat it." Hige had a disgusted face but then a sly one he grabbed the bug.

"Let's give it to Cheza!" He started to walk over there. My stomach-growled ewww, desperate times call for desperate measures… I trotted up to Hige and snatched the bug out of his hands.

"Moron." I said before I took a bite out of the bug. The others looked at me shocked that will show em' that I'm not afraid of anything. I started to eat the bug.

"Hey!" Hige said. "I wanted to see if Cheza was going to eat that!" We all shot him angry glares.

"This one does not eat." Cheza said.

"Not at all?" Hige asked.

"This one drinks and basks." She said with a smile.

"Basks in what?" Tsume asked, Cheza looked up and then frowned.

"But not here…" She said.

"Oh I get it." Toboe said. "Sunlight."

"It makes sense she is a flower." Hige said. We continued on through the forest for another hour it seemed but before we could get any farther Toboe tripped over a root. Kiba was looking at his ankle.

"Is it sprained?" I asked kneeling down near Kiba.

"It looks that way." Kiba said.

"Leave it to the runt to get hurt." Hige said. "Like I always say you cant take city kids to the woods." Cheza walked over and started to rub Toboe's leg.

"W-Wow thanks Cheza" Toboe said. He started to smile.

"Does that feel good?" Hige asked.

"Y-Yea!" Toboe started to giggle he had become giddy.

"H-Hey Cheza could you pet me to?" Hige asked sitting down, she began to pet him to. Hige became giddy as well. "She smells SO good!" he giggled. I looked over at Tsume who looked like he was getting annoyed. We began to walk through the forest again. All of a sudden Cheza collapsed but luckily Kiba was walking behind her and caught her. We all looked towards her.

"Its okay." Cheza said breathing heavily. "This one is fine."

"Its fine." Kiba said. "We'll rest awhile." For a minute I thought I heard a flapping noise.

"Hey!" Hige cheered. "It's a bird! We got meat!" He ran off in the direction of the noise.

"I better go get porky." Tsume said before running to go get him.

"Yea me to." I ran after them. When I caught up to them I heard Hige complaining to Tsume.

"I swear I heard flapping it was an owl!" He said.

"It was just some dead leaves falling." Tsume said angrily. We heard the flapping again, we all turned around to see an owl in the branches.

"See I told you." Hige said taking a step closer. "But theres not enough for ever one."

"Stop Hige." Tsume said holding him back. "Something's suspicious about that owl. It has no scent." I sniffed the air, no scent at all came from the owl.

"An owl that looks suspicious!" The owl cawed. "Wolves that look delicious, they all wondered in as one and got lost well done."

"What!" I snarled.

"That thing's screwing with us!" Tsume growled as he jumped towards the owl and went to kick it but it flew off. Tsume landed with a snarl. I looked in the direction of where we left the others, there was a howling from that way.

"That's Toboe!" I said panicked as a lead the others in the direction of the howls. We ran to the others, Kiba was holding up Cheza who looked like she fainted or something I jumped to the other side of her.

"What happened?" Tsume said running up.

"I don't know!" Toboe said worriedly. "She just collapsed all of a sudden!" Tsume got down to get a closer look and noticed something.

"Wait…" He said. "Is she withering!?" We all looked and sure enough she was!

"We have to get her to water!" Kiba said. "Even sunlight would help!" We all looked up.

"But theres none here…" I said softly.

"She's right it's the forest of death." Tsume said. "The ground is to dry, and the forest is to thick."

"We have to try." Kiba lowly growled. We wandered to the aria where we found the owl and it was there.

"It's the owl!" I said.

"The dang thing is back." Tsume growled.

"Do you think it knows where there is water?" I asked no one in particular.

"It can't be helped if there is no sunlight!" The owl said. Stupid rhymes! "It can't be helped if there is no water, it can't be helped if the flower is withering…"

"What did he say!" Kiba snarled.

"Is there any water in this forest?" I yelled up to the owl. It just flew off we all ran after it.

"Go astray my good wolves!" It cawed. It led us to a cave.

"Does it want us to go in here?" I asked innocently. Kiba who was carrying Cheza took a step towards the entrance of the cave.

"You're not seriously going in there are you?" Tsume asked angrily.

"It's the only lead we got." Kiba said walking into the cave I soon followed, then the rest. We wandered the cave aimlessly until I sniffed the air.

"We're walking in circles!" I whined. Hige sniffed the air to.

"Ugh, we are!" He whined.

"We went left last time" Kiba said taking the right he almost tripped over a rock but caught himself.

"Dang it all!" He snarled.

"Kiba you're just tiered." Toboe said. "Do you want me carry her?"

"I'm fine!" Kiba snapped.

"Kiba put Cheza down…" Tsume growled.

"Why Tsume do you still not trust her?" Kiba growled

"Its you we can't trust!" Tsume growled. "A leader has to be calm in a situation…" Then they started to argue. I sighed and turned away, why couldn't we all get along we are a pack aren't we? Hige came over to me and leaned towards my ear to whisper something.

"What?" I asked.

"You can stop them." Hige whispered.

"And how do I do that?" I asked. I laughed at the thought of me stopping them.

"All packs have an alpha male." Hige shrugged. "And a alpha female." He looked over at me.

"Hige, are you okay?" I said sarcastically. "You must be losing it because you're so hungry." I mock panicked.

"I'm serious!" Hige defended himself. "Kiba is our leader right?"

"Sure." I shrugged.

"And are you his mate or not!?" He sounded annoyed. I just started at him. But then something clicked.

"Oh!" I said.

"Thank you captain obvious!" Hige laughed. I turned towards the arguing males, meaning Tsume and Kiba.

"Stop!" I snarled out the order. All the wolves in the pack even Hige jumped back heck I to jumped back. They all heard it, I even heard it, and it was there in my voice. The tone was of an alpha female. When Toboe jumped back he stepped on something and heard a crunch. We all looked, it was the bones of a bird.

"Hey is this an owl?" Toboe asked.

"It looks that way." I asked. Then I giant rollie pollie like bug jumped out from the bones and attached itself to Hige's leg. He yelled out swinging his leg back and forth until it flew off and hit a rock. But then at least one million bugs came crawling out, and we where cornered. One leapt out and latched itself onto Cheza's back, but was pulled off by Toboe.

"Get off you stupid bug!" He said as he threw it down and stomped it.

"Up here!" Tsume yelled on a ledge. Kiba threw Cheza up to him Tsume jumped down and we lined up.

"Are wolves going to lose to a bunch of bugs?" Tsume asked sarcastically.

"Though I have to admit we do hang around with flowers." Toboe said.

"Nicely said runt." Hige grinned.

"I was hoping for more of a challenge." I growled in participation.

"Here they come!" Kiba growled. The bugs where every where so many… They dug into our skin and ripped it open, we would whimper but other wise keep going. We where bloody and it was a mess, but there was just too many.

"Kiba…" I panted. "What do we do?"

"I don't know." Was all he said as we rushed into battle together. I could hardly stand as my legs throbbed and buckled.

"This way!" I heard Cheza, I looked and she was running to a hole like thing in the wall. We all ran after her and slid down the hole where we found Cheza lying there but she was okay. I looked over at a bunch of plants.

"What are those?" I asked

"This one heard them." Cheza said, "They said they were hungry."

"Their plants that eat bugs." Tsume answered me.

"Well I guess that means we were saved by Cheza's friends." Hige cracked a joke. We all started in wonder for a few minutes before Toboe cheered.

"I found the way out!" He pointed to a opening with light. We all ran out.

"Look theres water!" Toboe cheered. "And check it out theres moon light to!" Kiba carried Cheza over to the water. Tsume, Toboe, Hige, and I jumped into the water and started to splash around. Hige pushed Toboe under the water, and I bit his collar and tugged at it playfully. We laughed, then we all looked at Cheza who was glowing under the moon light.

About an hour later we laid down under a tree in wolf form to sleep, with Cheza sitting in the middle. I snuggled closer to Kiba as sleep took over. But I don't know if it was a dream but I thought I heard something… a voice…

"Flowers don't live forever." The voice said. "And lunar flowers are no exeption…" I jumped awake and looked at Cheza. She smiled at me then petted me to soothe me down, I laid my head down and sighed.

"Are you all right?" Kiba asked without opening his eyes. I snuggled even closer to him.

"Yea." I said. "It was just a night mare…" Just a dream… that's all…