(Hige)
What seemed to be miles away from the other four wolves, Hige stumbles upon a dark alleyway. He used the narrow walls to support him. The pain in his head struck him again, causing him to groan loudly. "Damn it! What the hell is wrong with me?" he moaned, holding his head. From his peripheral vision, a camera was there. Looking at it made his vision split into two. When it was clear, he realized in absolute horror as to what kind of camera it was. It was a security camera.
He starts to sprint in fear from it. But with every corner, there was a camera. A naked eye watching his every given move. He couldn't take it anymore and he howls loudly into the air that was filled with distress that echoed through the city.
(Luna, Tsume, and Kiba)
The three of us were walking down the keep casually. Luckily, there were no soldiers around to catch us. To think that their ignorance got the better of them. However, that thought alone didn't settle me completely. The atmosphere unsettled me and I shivered. The only audible noise was our loud, echoey footsteps. I wasn't the only one who was scared by this.
"Look, I know we've been to places like this before but…" Tsume says, breaking the awkward silence. Kiba looks at us with furrowed eyebrows. "But what?" he questioned. "It's just that… we've never felt such danger lingering in the air before. It's quite unsettling." I say, rubbing my arms. A chuckle comes from the white wolf. "What?" Tsume says, looking at him. "That's new. I never thought I'd ever hear either of you complain like this." Kiba cooly states. I glance away from him. "Well, it's natural under the circumstances." Tsume replies. "And Luna, if you're getting uncomfortable, you can always go back." Kiba says. I jerked my head towards him.
"Hell no. I'm not leaving all the fun to you two." I argue. Tsume grinned at my spunk. We continued onwards for another couple of minutes. Then, the scent of flowers hit my nose. I sniffed the air. "Do you guys smell that?" I ask. "Yeah." Tsume answers, also sniffing the air. Suddenly, we saw that Kiba was nowhere to be seen. "Tsume?! Where's Kiba?" I ask, looking around. "I don't know! I think we're separated." Tsume answers, looking at a giant wall.
"Shit… That's not good." I say. "Well, there's nothing we can do about it right now. But, we're going to the same place." Tsume replies, walking passed me. I walk with him on his right side. We both walk in our wolf forms down in this corridor. "But one thing's for sure. There's flower's up ahead." I say, lifting my wolf nose up a little. Tsume agrees with me.
(Toboe)
The red wolf had jumped onto a high ledge that looked over the cleansed city. It was hard for him to get a good vantage point from that height. "Even from here, I can't see anything." he sighs before going to another area. On another ledge, he sees that the wolf hunter was sitting on a bench on a sidewalk. His tactics worked. "Wow, he actually made it! That's awesome! Luna will be happy to hear that!" he says to himself happily.
But the wolf hunter wasn't at all happy to see him. He gradually pulls out his rifle and aims it at the young wolf, getting his eyes to widen. He gasps with shock for a brief moment. His gaze then softens and he smiles. Despite the many occasions he tried to shoot him, he didn't hate him for it. He didn't want to nevertheless.
He makes a run for it. "Hold it!" Quent shouts, chasing after him. He goes up a flight of stairs but ends up missing him. The red wolf was nowhere to be seen yet again.
(Blue)
Blue and Cher wander through the streets a couple of hours after taking the tags off that guy. They had talked things over about the relationship with the other wolves and the relationship with Cheza. The connection with the flower was just as immense as the other wolves. Blue couldn't shake it off.
They come face to face with a dead end. "Jeez, another dead end! What is wrong with this place?" Cher moans in frustration. Then, the sounds of metal feet came from behind them, getting the girls to turn around. "Excuse me misses? You two lost?" a soldier asks. "No. We're not." Cher responds frostily. The soldier wondered where they came from.
"I'm sorry?" Cher said, getting anxious. "Oh come on. There's no need to hide it." the second soldier asks, taking a couple of steps towards them. "If both of you got ID's then we'll leave you be." the first soldier said, "If you're not from Freeze City that is."
Blue's eyes narrow. "We're from a town called Kurios." she tells them. The soldiers exchange equal glances. "Kurios, huh? It's strange you come from there because that place got torched to the ground many years ago." the first soldier says. Blue narrows her eyes further. "Yeah, it was the first village that we burned down. There was a pack of wolves hiding in it and it was our job to kill every single one of them." the second soldier says, smiling proudly the whole time.
The first soldier stood over Blue. "Man, that was a beautiful fire… We burned every single inch of it until there was nothing left of it." he whispered. Blue felt as though her whole world had shattered right before her very eyes. The whole time she believed it was her own kind that was responsible for the burning of Kurios. But… it wasn't. The wolves had nothing to do with it.
Her eyes squinted in anger and rage. Her fist clenched into a tight ball as she upper cutted the soldier so that he flew several feet from them. The second soldier tried attacking but was unable to due to Blue using her leg to knee him in the jaw, knocking him over onto his back.
The soldier she punched lifted up a bit and put his visor on. Only he didn't see a black haired woman with deep blue eyes. It was a dark blue wolf dog with eyes of the same color. Her wolf dog tail sticking up, ears pricked up, and wolf fangs bared. "Hey, she's a wolf!" he calls out. The second soldier tries to shoot her but was stopped by Cher who grabs the gun.
It gave Blue enough time to make her escape of the soldiers. She looks back at Cher once more before bounding off towards the other direction.
(Hige & Blue)
The energy started to wane weaker and weaker from Hige's body. He grabs his collar in desperation, causing him to snap into realization. Soon, all his strength fades away and he slides down to the floor.
After that encounter with those soldiers, the truth of the death of her village swam through Blue's mind. All this time she had believed it was the wolves. But it was far off. "Wolves didn't do it, Pops… It wasn't them." she says to herself, tears in her eyes. Walking by an alley, a tired moan made her stop walking. Her eyes trail towards where the sound was coming from. It had come from a fallen Hige who was on the floor.
"Hige? Is that you?" she asks in a gasp. Hige opens his eyes and sees the wolf dog there. "B-Blue?" he groaned. She sighs in relief and runs to his aid. She kneels down next to him. "Are you alright? Did someone hurt you, Hige?" she asks in concern. Hige pushes himself up to a sitting position with a tired groan. "I'm glad you made it out of there in one piece…" he mumbled, sitting against the wall. Worried for Hige, she sits next to him and stays close to him.
"You know, I knew we'd meet again some time but I didn't believe it'd be in the back alley's of this awful place. The only thing I could ever ask for now is to find Pops. I can tell him so much now!" she said with excitement.
"I can tell him that it was soldiers who destroyed our home. Wolves didn't have anything to do with it. It was never them…" she said, tears welling up in her eyes. She buried her face in her knees. Hige smiles weakly at this. "Hey Blue… Why don't we just… forget this place?" he asks her. She looked up at him as she wiped her eyes. "We can't stay here forever." he tells her, standing up as if nothing happened.
"Wait, what about Kiba and the others?" Blue wonders, standing also. At the very mention of them, he got agitated and his whole demeanor changed like a light switch. "I DON'T CARE!" he shouts, grabbing Blue by her wrist. He pulls her away from the alleyway in a sprint. "Wait! Hige, what's wrong with you?!" she cried. Hige was back in his panicked mental state. He needed to get away from there. Anywhere that he couldn't be watched.
However, there were cameras everywhere they turned. "Hige! What happened?!" Blue exclaimed, pulling out of his grasp as they make it into a street. Looking at the camera, he cries in sheer panic while grabbing his head. "They're watching me! I just know it! They're always watching!" he shrieked, bolts of sweat trailing down his head. He knows exactly who was watching him from the other side of that camera and it chilled him to the core.
"Hige… you're scaring me." Blue whispers to him, getting antsy by his sudden change. He grabs her hand again and tows her behind him again. "We need to get out of here!" he shouted.
The two wolves were still running and Hige was losing his breath. Blue was starting to get irritated. "Hige! Stop, would you?!" Blue yells but Hige refused to stop. "We need to get out of here fast!" Hige yelled in panic. "Where are we going?!" she cried. "It doesn't matter where! We shouldn't have ever come here!" Hige yowled. A few alleyways later, Blue decided enough was enough with this and she stops running. "Hige! Stop it would you?!" she yelled, pulling her arm out of his iron grip. "We need to get Cheza and everyone else! Why leave them behind like this?"
The tan wolf looks at her with frightened eyes and each breath was shaky. "It's too late for that! It's over… for them." he said, his voice drowning out into a whisper. Blue blinks at him worriedly. "It's my fault! I brought them here! It's all my fault!" he cries out, grabbing his head. "Hige…" Blue says. Then, the two heard a howl of distress not far ahead of them
They look up towards the sound. "It's Toboe!" Blue exclaimed. Both wolves follow the howl and they leap on a ledge. They find Toboe in his wolf form. He had been taken down by the same soldiers that Hige saw earlier. "Toboe, no!" he cries out, getting the soldier's attention.
(Luna and Tsume)
Tsume and I make it through corridor after corridor in silence. We weren't going in circles that I was sure of. We did come up to a narrow chamber. Neither of us talked while talking therefore the only sound was our echoing footsteps. I felt nervous and scared at the same time. Normally, I wouldn't ever feel like this but I couldn't shake it off.
"Maybe there's something in here." Tsume quietly says, coming to a set of french doors. I look over at him. We both open a door each and found it to be dark as hell in there. It looked as if there was a storage room. At first, I didn't see anything. However, I was proved wrong when I saw a tall glass tanks in the room.
I swore I felt my blood turned to ice when I saw exactly what was being held within those containers. It was wolves… Stuffed and mounted into trophies… I saw that they were wearing the same collar that Hige wears. "Tsume… are you seeing this?" I say, feeling a lump in my throat.
"Yeah… What the hell is this?" he asked in horror. "Oh god… I think I'm gonna be…" I begin, looking around. My eyes were now locked on two of the tanks.
"What the…?" I breath, walking to it. The wolves in the tanks were a light grey wolf and a black wolf. My heart shattered into pieces when I realized who they were. "Mom… Dad…" I say, my eyes filling with tears. My father was stuffed into a position like he was howling. My mother was stuffed in a position to where she was looking at me. I tried not to cry in front of Tsume but my emotions failed me horribly.
I fell to my knees as I hit the glass of the tanks. Tsume catches up with me. "Luna what is-?" he starts but sees what was upsetting me. Suddenly, a large metal cage drops down on top of us. We too were captured.
(Kiba)
Kiba had finished off soldiers that worked under the reign of Jaguara. The white wolf had quenched his thirst for blood. He could get back to focusing on finding Cheza. Though he was given many cuts on his wolf body, that didn't stop him from moving. "Cheza… I'm coming." he strained. He could sense that she was close. Very close.
