Chapter Thirty: Howl To My World

Here is the next chapter for you all.
I hope you all enjoy and have a Jesus filled day.

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Previously:

"My lady?" Jaguara looked up placing the pictures down but her other hand still playing with the collar. "He's been spotted in Dome City with a man and a half wolf."

"I see." Her eyes looked at the pictures of Kiba on her desk, "Keep an eye out for when he and his pack leave." Her finger traced the wolf in his human form, at least that is what she called it since cameras and other technology could pick up what the wolves wanted people to see with their illusions. "I want him and his pack alive however he is be of the upmost importance."

"Of course ma'am, we'll make sure he is unharmed to the best of our ability."

The man walked out making her smile and stare at the picture, "Soon my dear pet, soon you will be safe in my hands. No one will harm you so long as you are with me."

Now:

"Keith!" Kristi (1) yelled as she got tackle hugged by the male white wolf, "Gosh, it was so boring without you or Markus (2) to keep us entertained."

"Maybe used you should learn to actually be funny." Kiba chuckled amused jumping away from her and hugging his other illusioned wolf friends.

"Oh ha ha." The greened eyed wolf said placing her hands on her hips.

Kiba chuckled pulling away from Levi (3) with a wide smile on his face. Taking in his friends he felt much better about being in the dome when he had the full pack with him. He definitely felt much safer with them so close by and able to see their face much more than he did when he had to leave them. Mark went up to Cher, who was in the kitchen his tail wagging. The blond laughed amused and pet him on the head when she finished drying her hands. Looking at the small pack of wolves in her living room she couldn't help but smile at how happy they were to be around each other. Scratching the black furred wolf behind the ear one last time she stood up and made her way into the living room. Reaching it she pet Toboe and Hige before making her way to sit on her couch where Blue was sitting happily letting Hubb scratch her behind the ears. Turning to the man that had brought her the woman asked, "Any luck catching the stray that stays near your place?"

"Nope." Quent replied, "It doesn't help that those blasted police force keep hindering me from doing so."

Hubb chuckled letting Blue run over to her master as Toboe jumped up placing his paws on his lap. Petting his 'dog' he asked, "What is it like with Keith in the house?"

"Eh, Key is just as much as a pain as when he was a little kid." Ignoring the small 'hey' from said wolf the man continued to talk, "However he does make life at the house a little more interesting. He even gives Blue a little crap like he does me, though I seem to be his favorite target. I've even seen the stray taking a liking to him."

"That is good." Cher said reaching down to pet Naomi (4) who had laid her head on the woman's lap. "Do you think you will be able to catch him with Keith there?"

"Not sure. That boy is hard to predict." Quent smiled when he remembered Mark telling him he had convinced the ever resistant grey wolf to actually agree to being caught by Quent. He wondered when the two wolves were going to put their little plan into motion. "Either way I catch him one way or another. I can't let him stay out there that long without a home. There is no way of telling when a dog like them will get caught and be forced into a kennel. I'm not sure a place like that is for a dog like him."

"From what you have told me, I agree with you." Hubb said as he leaned back in his chair. "Goodness I am glad to be home. The office was unnaturally rowdy when I got in today. I prefer hyper teenagers over all of that." Said teenagers laughed as they wondered off in the direction of one of the rooms, "Remember the rules, door open."

"Oh come on, like we'd try anything with Kristi." Levi complained looking around the corner.

Hubb looked at him with a raised eyebrow, "I don't care. If she was my daughter I wouldn't want her alone in a room with a boy, let alone three."

"Ugh fine, what ever you say." The brunette said as Naomi followed him down the hall leaving the three adults in the room with just Blue to keep them company. Toboe and Hige having followed them to play with the other wolves not in their solid human illusion.

"I don't have kids yet and I can already see what a pain they will be when they get older." Hubb complained causing Quent and his wife to laugh at him.

"So how is work going for you, Quent?" Cher asked laying her head on her husband's shoulder.

"Ah, not much as changed but I do have to keep Keith either with me or in my office." The blond's looked at him concerned, "Some man went up to my car and was staring at Keith, freaked the poor kid out. The only reason anyone went to check on him was because Markus was barking. By the time I got to my car Keith was in the back seat petting Mark as a means of calming himself."

"Oh my goodness, was Keith okay?" Cher asked covering her mouth with one of her hands.

Quent nodded as he replied, "Just a little freaked out. I don't blame him. There is a lot of creeps out there and there is a lot someone would do to get a hold of a young person like him."

"Yeah, I bet." Hubb said with a sigh, "I'm glad that he is okay."

"Personally I have to check to see if he is in his room before I go to bed myself. After just one interaction with that guy and I already feel like someone is going to try and take him out from under my own roof." Quent rubbed his arm in irritation, "I also have men going by my house to see if that man tires to get close."

"Do you know how long till they stop going by your house?" Hubb asked leaning forward.

"No, but it wont be too long. I suspect they are also looking for the stray at the same time." The elder replied with a soft groan after cracking the pops in his back, "I can only hope that Keith is smart and stays were he is surrounded by people if he and his friends go out at any point."

"That is the hope of me as well. As much as these kids drive me nuts at times, I can't help but adore them all the more." Hubb smiled when heard laughter coming from the boy's shared room. "I swear those boy's remind me of their parents."

Cher giggled in agreement, "Yes, they certainly are as lively as I remember you telling me their parents were."

"What about you Quent? What was Keith like when he was a kid?" The married man asked with a smile as he took his wife's hand.

"He's definitely grown from the super brat he used to be. Though he still has some of that trait of trying to annoy the others around him for light entertainment." The man laughed, "Can't say I dislike how he turned out. He's as lively as he can be and I'm glad for that. I remember when I was the kid's age. Man that was the life."

"You can say that again." Hubb said in agreement as he smiled at Cher, "I'd live through winning you all over again." While the woman blushed Quent gagged, "Oh come now Quent,…" The man said with an amused smile, "…I know you miss her but you can't tell me you wouldn't enjoy winning your wife's heart all over again."

"Yeah I would and then I'd try to make sure that she actually live instead of losing her and Russe." The elder put his hand on Blue's head when she laid her head on his lap, "I just wish that with all that is going on that it would stay good. The world going to crap like it is makes living not worth it sometimes."

Hubb squeezed Cher's hand as he felt the pain of once again being unable to bare a child due to the state of the world, "Yeah, I know what you mean."

"Trust me, Detective. What you get to see in those kids you have with you right now…that's your chance to have a kid." Quent smiled at the married couple, "You don't have to bare the kids to enjoy them. Sometimes that joy comes right to your doorstep."

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"I don't know about you guys but we have to leave at some point soon." Charley (5) said laying on the ground near Kristi's feet, "Being in the city is not the safest for us. Nobles visit these kind of places far too often."

"That is true." Spencer (6) said in agreement as he took a seat on the bed that he had for the time being. "Though not ever wolf comes to domes like this they do get caught in these types of places way too easily."

Toboe tilted his head, "Hige and I have been able to pull through okay."

"That's because you have a near flawless cover." Mark said as he draped himself over his best friend's lap, who was sitting next to Spencer, "When a wild wolf tries to blend in with humans over a long period of time we eventually get caught before we can masterfully do so." Toboe looked down sadly, "I don't mean to put you down but that is how it is. Why do you think we've never tried to stay in them? It's far too dangerous without the fake dog life."

"That is true." Hige agreed as he laid down near the open bedroom door. He looked at Bailey (7) chasing her tail despite the serious conversation going on around her. Looking back over at Kiba he tilted his head, "What's wrong Kiba, you look like you are expecting someone to come through that window."

"It's just this man that creeped me out a couple days ago." Blue eyes looked into Hige's golden wolf eyes, "It's the way he looked at me. Like he had found what he had been looking for this entire time."

"Did he look familiar?" Toboe asked walking over and sitting next to the pack leader.

"Not from what I could tell. But I could tell that he was a danger to me in some way. I just don't know in what way." The blue eyed illusioned wolf shivered at the memory, "I am really hoping that me being here hasn't doomed all of us is all."

Bailey stopped chasing her tail and walked over to her worried friend, "Don't worry so much Key. Everything will work out our way. One way or another, we will make it to paradise."

"Yeah, but it isn't going to be easy unfortunately." Hige said with a groan, "While it was indeed tough in the last life, this life is going to be much harder. I wouldn't be surprised if our enemies have their memories as well. Even if they didn't. we have no clue where Cheza is."

Kiba made a face at the name, "Who's Cheza?" Toboe and Hige looked at him in complete shock, "I'm serious who is Cheza?"

"She's the flower maiden that is going to lead us to paradise when we find her. Cher used to actually work in the lab in our last life where she was." Still seeing the blank expression on the illusioned male's face prompted the fluffy wolf to continue, "She a flower maiden made out of lunar flowers." Kiba's mind went back to a dream he had with that crazy man trying to get him to remember something.

Flashback:

"Come to me…"

Kiba back away a couple of steps, "What do you want?!" His ears were moving trying to pinpoint where he man was but it seemed like his voice was coming from everywhere at once.

"The flower waits for you."

"Flower? What flower?" Kiba asked turning his body to look around. His nerves were on fire causing him to want to keep moving. This voice had dark intentions he just knew it.

"Please,…find this one."

The white wolf shook his head, "Wake up, wake up. You are dreaming."

"Come, white wolf the maiden waits for you in the waters."

"Please, save this one."

"Stop it! Stop it! Leave me alone." Kiba yelled out wanting more and more to run away but his instincts told him it would be of no use.

"Please, this one needs you."

Kiba felt conflicted, his instincts were telling him to do two different things. Run and find. "I don't understand."

"She needs you wolf. Find her."

"I don't understand. I don't understand. I don't understand." Kiba said frantically, "None of you are making sense. Who is this maiden? Why does the flower need me? Who is she?"

"You know who I am talking about. Think about it."

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Shaking his head Kiba said, "Ugh, my head hurts."

"Wow, you really can't remember her?" Hige asked amazed, "You were the one that was trying the hardest to find her. Nearly got yourself killed several times."

"I…I don't…know who she is." The blue eyed brunette held his head, "I'm not sure why I can't remember who she is. No matter how hard I try I can't recall her face."

"It's okay Kiba." Blue eyes looked at the youngest wolf in the room, "You will remember her in time."

Kiba smiled, "Thanks Toshiro." He pet the young wolf on the head gently, "You sure do go out of your way to make others feel better."

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Coal looked off to the side wistfully with a small sigh. It had been far too long since she had seen her son. She missed her Snowball very much and she wanted nothing more than to be near her precious baby. Watching him run with his old pack members away from her pack hit her in the heart harder than anything that ever happened to her. He looked so grown up running off with his own pack. It was such a proud and painful moment seeing him run with his friends. It didn't help that they as a pack had not gone in the same direction the kids had run in. Taking another deep sigh she slid to lay down and stare off into the distance in the direction that her Kiba had run off in hoping that he would be running back to see them.

Feeling someone lay down next to her prompted the sorrowing mother to look at Mable (8) laying down in her wolf form. The other mother looked at Coal with her yellow eyes, "I miss my boy too."

Coal whimpered, "I didn't want him to go. Why does he have to be the wolf that this world needs? Why can't I just keep him all to my family and the world use a different wolf to find paradise?"

Mable nudged her fellow mother, "I know what you mean. As much as I love that our son's are best friends I sometimes wish he hadn't been so he could still be with me and his father." The red furred wolf let out a soft noise, "While Author (9) doesn't mention him all the time, I know he is always thinking of him. I just want to hear my boy's soft words of encouragement and see his empathic eyes looking at me every time he knows something is wrong. Mark is all Author and I have left of our family, why did he have to go."

"I miss Kiba and Mark's laughter as they ran around in our pack." Coal said feeling tears gathering in her eyes, "Every time you heard them laugh you knew that everything was going to be okay."

"I wonder if they are having fun wherever they are at." Mable said looking in the direction the mini pack had ran off in, "I know they have all their friends and all but…with such a heavy mission their shoulders…"

Coal looked down with her golden eyes sadly. Zali had told her that Kiba would be okay but deep down she knew that he was about to face more hardships than he ever had to face when he was home with them. In their past life they had been found and put to through so much pain before they had been killed in the end. She remembered all of it and the one thing she didn't want was Kiba to see his friends being hurt just for some noble's sick pleasure. Kiba had far too great a life for him to be forced to endure that. 'Please, don't let my Snowball suffer like that. He's my boy. I don't want him to suffer.' Mable leaned against Coal as both mother grieved at the feeling of lose their children put on their hearts and the dangerous adventure they were facing.

Behind the mother's stood their mates watching them saddened by their hurt. Zali shook his head walking away with Author right behind him. "How are you holding in there, Zali?"

"About as well as expected." The alpha replied making sure to keep his head up and not to show any physical signs of weakness. "Kiba was our world when we raised him. We didn't get that in our last life. Not even a pup of our own to raise. This time we had the chance to raise Kiba and get to feel the pride of a parent. When I watched Kiba running off all I could feel was pride. I know he's about to face a danger I could never prepare him for but…I'm so proud that I got to be the one that raised him from a pup. I got a chance to see what really made him Kiba. I'm not sure I'll get that in a different life time and I feel sorry for a later version of myself. Kiba really does change your view on how to live life. Even before he knew what he was being raised to do."

"Kiba was really a special wolf, you have every reason to be proud of him. And with my son next to him, he will be able to do almost anything. Maybe even finally ask the girl he likes to mate him."

Zali chuckled slightly amused, "I don't know. Kiba is kind of clueless about all that. He's always been like that. Kiba has a one track mind and he is stubborn to boot, I think that is why she likes him back." Author looked up at the sky fondly as the alpha asked, "What about Mark? Does he have a girl he has his mind on?"

"No, and I think it is because he sees the girls in his pack like sisters. Though I wouldn't mind him being with one of them, especially Bailey or Charley. They would be able to keep up with him no matter what."

"They'd make each other happy too." Zali said amused, "No matter what happened they would be just happy to be together in the end. That's why I've been happy with Coal. While we got no blood pups of our own, I would never trade her for the world." Closing his eyes Zali's mind went back to when Kiba was a pup and playing in the snow with Mark and Levi. He could still see their small puppy forms running and getting stuck in the deep snow. The parents always had to save them from their entrapment, despite their best efforts on trying to dig themselves out of it. No matter how old Kiba got, he could and would always see the white wolf as a puppy. Walking around and tripping over his own paws or trying to bark and growl to look intimidating as his father. Goodness Zali missed all those times when Kiba was looking up to him and trying to be like him. Now Kiba was a fully grown wolf and strong all on his own.

Author looked the alpha distracted by his thoughts and memories of the kids. Amused he thought back to his own child and how quick the pup had a grasp on what was going on around him to know when someone was in pain or needed comfort only he seemed to know how to give without seeming to over stay his welcome. Looking up at the full moon with his dark silver eyes he let out a deep howl he hoped reached his child wherever he was. He wanted him to know just how proud of him he was. The fact that he had the privilege to see a great child like Mark grow up to be the proud and strong wolf he became. This made the father feel more proud of his child every day.

Some of the wolves picked up on his howl and added their own, Zali included. Some of the howls were of the parent's of the children that had went on their own adventure, other were those that felt a deep love the kids that had left, but most were of wolves just letting out their own emotions out and singing to the world around them. The world would end but this pack was sure going to live as long as they could no matter what.

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(1) (Kristi (Female): Is the child of Jack and Rosslyn. Is a white furred wolf with blue eyes. Human short pale blond hair, green eyes, tan, and wears cool attire.) (funny, chatty, happy a lot of the time)

(2) (Mark (Male): Mable and Author's pup/child. Black wolf with light red eyes. Human short dark brown hair with green eyes, tan, casual with fingerless gloves (lost his two sisters to his previous packs slaughter)) (very empathetic, sweet, friendly, energetic) (Dog name is Markus)

(3) (Levi (Male): Carrie's child. Black furred wolf with yellow eyes. Human short black hair with green eyes, tan, and casually dressed.) (sometimes serious {depends on his mood}, spacey, sweet)

(4) (Naomi (Female): Patrick's child. Red furred wolf with grey eyes. Human long red hair, brown eyes, tan, girly attire.) (energetic, happy go lucky, funny) (Dog name is Nancy)

(5) (Charley (Female): Chastity and Manson's child. A grey furred wolf with brown eyes. Human short black hair with grey highlights, blue eyes, tan, tomboy attire.) (curious about everything, spacey, energetic) (Dog name is Cammy)

(6) (Spencer (Male): Is Corey and Mary's child. Is a grey furred wolf with yellow eyes. Human short black hair, pale blue eyes, tan, and biker attire.) (easily angered, serious, playful with his friends)

(7) (Bailey (Female): Is Roger and Carmen's child. Is a brown wolf with green eyes. Human long brown hair with a white bang, green eyes, tan, and casually dressed.) (energetic, funny, playful) (Dog name is Britney)

(8) (Mable (Female): One was a member of a different pack before they go eliminated. Is a red furred wolf with yellow eyes. Human long blond hair, green eyes, tan, and casual attire) (Mother of Mark)

(9) (Author (Male): Mable's mate. Is a black wolfs with dark silver eyes. Human short black hair, light green eyes, tan, casual with a heavy jacket either on or tied around his waist.) (Father of Mark)