(Hige)
Hige stops running with Blue behind him, who was now getting tired of all the incessant running. "Hige!" she exclaimed. "DON'T FOLLOW ME!" he snapped at her, getting her to back up a bit. It was only a minute before the tan wolf begins to maniacally laugh at seemingly nothing. This worried Blue. She wondered why he was acting like this.
The same striking pain punctures Hige once again. Only this time it was so strong that it made him fall to the ground unconscious. Blue runs to his aid and shakes him by the shoulders. He was limp. "Hige? What's going on? Are you okay?" she asks, shaking him. But he didn't respond to her.
"Hige, stop playing around. Please wake up! Toboe needs our help! Hige!" she cries frantically. He still didn't respond. Panic starts to set within her. Why wasn't he responding to her? What was wrong with him? She pulls him into her lap while holding onto his hoodie. "No… C'mon, you need to wake up! Don't you dare do this! Don't you die on me! Please… no…" she sobbed, pulling him into her arms.
His eyes slowly fluttered open and he moaned softly. Blue pulls him back to look at him. "Hey Blue… Can you do me a favor? My collar…" he weakly asks, gazing up at her. "What?" she blinked. "Take my collar off me. I don't need it anymore." he says. Blue looks down at his collar. It was the collar that was controlling his memories. It was hurting him.
Blue dug her wolf fangs into the leather of his collar and tries to pull it off. However, the material was too thick for her to rip it off. She lets go and pants heavily. "It's fine. Leave it." Hige quietly says, his body slumped over. "No! If this what's hurting you, then I have to get it off-" Blue says but the touch of Hige's palm on her left cheek stopped her.
"You know… you're a great woman." he grins at her. "Don't talk crazy on me now!" she retaliates. Hige glances downwards with sorrow written all over his face. "I've been so damn blind… Much of it I never understood. It's funny you know. All of my memories… It was nothing more than a damn lie…" he said, closing his eyes. What could he possibly gain by trying to hide the truth from himself? There wasn't anything to gain. All of those memories he's suffered with were blatant lies.
Suddenly, their moment of forlorn was interrupted by beeping sounds coming from a monitor as they started to approach them. Blue sees them and doesn't hesitate to charge at them in her wolf dog form. She lunges at them with her wolf fangs bared; grabbing the gun and knocking the soldier over. The second soldier makes a shot at her and ends up scrapping her left arm.
"Blue!" Hige cries, eyes widened. He jumps up to his feet and quickly grabs her. His collar was shot off his neck when the soldiers were shooting at them. But the two wolves had bolted out of there before they were followed.
(Luna, Tsume, and Toboe)
I was sitting down against the wall of our cell and hear Tsume using his body to ram into the cell door. The thought of seeing my parents in those tanks stuffed like trophies ultimately broke me into pieces. I realized how vile this noble actually was. Not only has she killed her own wolves but she had killed mine…
"Stop that. You'll only hurt yourself more. The others have tried that." an old she wolf said. I didn't look at her though. The images of my parents stuffed bodies were all over my mind. I could barely think.
"Luna. My dear is that really you?" a familiar voice brought me out of my sorrows. I look over to my right and wipe my eyes with the heels of my hands. "Huh? Who's there?" I sniffle. "Luna, it's grandma Mahika…" the voice said again. I look over and quickly run to the cage door. Across from me was… my grandma. Tears filled up in my eyes. "How? I thought…" I cried, wanting to hug her so badly.
"No my dear. Not all of us were killed by that witch Jaguara. I too made an escape. For a long time I believed you were dead like the others." she spoke. Hearing my grandma speak again was hard because I was close to her as a pup. Seeing her now in these cells was the last thing that I expected.
"I missed you so much…" I say to her, tears streaming down my face. "I missed you too dear. You are all grown up. Just as strong as your parents." she says, inspecting me. The tears were flowing down my face. It hurt to talk about them. "What's wrong, Luna? Did something happen?" she asks me. "They're… They're…" I stutter, trying my damndest not to cry.
Out of my surprise, Tsume picks me up and brings me into a comforting hug. I didn't tense up or anything. I just… let it happen. "They're stuffed and mounted like damn trophies. Much like the other wolves Jaguara is keeping." Tsume finished for me. "Oh… Oh my… Are you sure?" Grandma asks, her voice changed to sadness. "Yes." Tsume said. I pull back from Tsume.
Grandma was silently crying with her eyes shut. She felt the same pain I was feeling at this moment in time. We then all fell silent. Tsume and I soon learned that Hige's old pack he used to run with had been ordered to kill the other elder wolf's pack. She had been the only survivor. It only angered me more that Hige was ordered to kill his own kind. How could he do this to them? They were given a place to stay and given food.
Just then, the doors open. Grandma and the other elder wolf gasp. "Let go! Let go of me!" Toboe's voice squeaks. Tsume and I snap up and ran to the door. "Toboe!" Tsume yelled. I see he's being carried by one of those soldiers. "Toboe, thank god!" I cry. "Luna! Tsume! I said, let go!" Toboe grunts, struggling against the soldiers. The soldier stops in front of the cage adjacent to Tsume and I's.
It opens and the soldier throws Toboe there. Toboe grunts loudly at the impact of the floor. Once the cage closes, the soldier goes to the cages of Grandma and the other elder wolf. "No! Don't touch her!" I yell, seeing what they were about to do. The soldiers ignore me. They raised their guns and shot both of them. "No! You bastards!" I yelled, my voice filled with sorrow and anger. Through my tear filled eyes, I see dragging the bodies of my grandmother and the other elder wolf out of the cells.
She was dead… The last wolf of my family was gone. I close my eyes and hug Tsume; to which he hugs me back. "Wait a minute… those women… they were wolves?" another voice said in disbelief. After a bit of grieving, I pull away from Tsume. We go back to the bars and I wrap my fingers around the bars. "Tsume, Luna…" the red wolf whispered. We look at Toboe and notice how Hige wasn't with him.
"Where's Hige?" Tsume asks in slight panic. "I don't know! We got split up! Where's Kiba?! Wasn't he with you guys?" Toboe stuttered, swallowing hard. I look away for a moment. "He's got to be somewhere in this keep." I answer, lowering my voice. If he's smart enough, he'll find his way around to where we're at.
"Do you guys think he's…" Toboe squeaks, starting to worry. "If something had happened I'm sure we would've felt it. Kiba's alive… he has to be." Tsume said. We all stand in wolf form. My wolf ears were air planned and my muzzle was pointed at the ground. "What do we do? What'll happen to us? We won't be able to save Cheza either." Toboe whimpers. "I don't know. But it won't matter if we don't get out of here." Tsume growled, lifting his wolf head. He sounded frustrated by the sound in his voice.
"But how Tsume? We're gonna die like those two old wolves did! We won't see the others again…" Toboe said, his voice breaking. I close my eyes and exhale sharply by that statement. "Don't whine, runt." Tsume said. "We won't make it to Paradise either!" Toboe said in desperation. "Don't say that Toboe. If I know my grandmother, she'd want me to carry on with my pack. She wouldn't want me to die in this god awful place. We'll be damned if we let it end like this." I say mostly out of anger. I wanted to get out of here just as much as them.
"Excuse me, are you three wolves?" that same voice asked. We look ahead to who made that voice. I recognized that human. It was the husband of his female counterpart. Why was he here? "You are, aren't you?" he asks again. "So what? Who the hell are you?" Tsume said, giving the human a distrustful glance. "Wait, you were with your wife. Why are you here?" I say, holding onto the bars. "Like you three, we got separated. And as for Cheza, we were brought in together." the human says. All of us jump fully awake at this.
"However, I don't know where she is in here though." the human said calmly. My body began to shake. Cheza was really here. "We gotta get out of here now!" Toboe cried. We all then proceed to use our shoulders to slam into the bars as hard as we could. We needed to get the hell out of here and get to Cheza. Honestly, I don't want to know what Cheza was going through now that she was in the hands of that bitch.
(Kiba)
At that moment, the white wolf arrived to a set of french doors. He pushed the doors open and the first thing he laid his eyes on was none other than Cheza in a giant orb with green sparkling liquid in it. "Cheza! Are you alright?!" he cried out, running to the orb. Tears filled his eyes as he looked as her sleeping form. "I finally found you…" he whispered, placing his hand on the cold orb. "Why won't you answer me?!" he cried, his desperation tipping over.
"The white wolf…" the voice of Jaguara pulls his gaze from Cheza. He stands in his wolf form with his hackles raised. "You are the wolf chosen by the flower… how beautiful you are." she spoke in a voice that simply oozed poison. Kiba snarled at her with his wolf fangs bared. He tried lunging at her in an attempt to attack her. But it was put to a sudden stop when she used her powers to stop him. There was a bright green ring that was much stronger than he was. It pulled him down to the ground like he was being strapped down.
The noble walked passed the white wolf and to Cheza. "Cheza… open your eyes for my Paradise…" the noble said, getting her eyes to open wide. Then, the sound of glass cracking made Kiba's wolf eyes widen. The water from the orb touched his white fur and he growled lowly because he couldn't get to Cheza no matter how hard he tried to.
"My prayers have been answered. Cheza, we must celebrate with a feast, don't you think?" Jaguara gleefully says. Cheza only hung by the restraints on her arms.
Hours later, the noble had taken the chosen wolf to another room where their alleged Paradise would finally be open. She had him strapped down to a table over a strange crucible with tubes penetrating his wolf body. They were planning to suck the blood from him so they can open their Paradise. As of now, she was getting prepared for the feast.
"The preparations are complete. Tell me… am I not beautiful?" the noble speaks, placing her lipstick on the table and kissing at the mirror. "Of course you are, my lady." her servant replies, bowing to her. "For the final right, we will stoke the Moonlight Crucible with the white wolf's blood." she says. Her servant bows and walks away.
As he wakes up, Kiba feels his whole body heavy and numb. He keeps his wolf eyes shut and asked for only one thing. "Cheza… please… sing for me." Just then, the sweet sound of Cheza's voice was echoing in not only his wolf ears. He opened his gold eyes slightly.
(Luna, Tsume, Toboe)
During our attempts to escape, there was a familiar sound lingering in the air. I stop slamming my body against the bars to listen. Gasping I say, "Guys stop! Listen… Am I not the only one hearing it?" Toboe and Tsume also stop to listen. "No… I hear it too." Tsume said. "It's Cheza's song!" Toboe cried out. The sound of her voice was… sad… Tears started to form in my eyes.
"Why is she crying…?" Tsume asked, listening keenly. "It's so sad…" Toboe sadly replies, looking down. "Cheza… No…" I say, my voice shaky. "Are you guys hearing Cheza's voice?" the human asks. Suddenly, I feel my whole body shaking vigorously. I wasn't shaking because of feeling scared. I was shaking with fury and rage. Tsume and Toboe were also shaking in the same manner.
With determination, I used all of my strength to slam into the damn bars. Tsume and Toboe joined me. We had to get Cheza back… We just had too.
(Hige, Blue)
Hige and Blue make it to the keep; unknowing what was occurring within Jaguara's walls. Hige looks at the keep with a look of sorrow on his face, his back facing Blue. "Hey, I'm sorry I made you run so much back there." he apologized. Blue forgives him for that wholly. Hige knew exactly what he had to do now from that point forward. He knew he couldn't bring Blue with her because he didn't want her to get hurt.
"Blue, I've got to go." he says sadly. She looks at the tan wolf sadly. "Are you going to save them?" she asks. "I'm gonna try." he answered, looking down. "You know, I believed it was luck that brought me to them. But… I guess it's just a joke. Trouble's been my middle name since I could remember." Hige continued.
"That's not true and you know it." Blue disagreed. "Yes it is. But that's when my memory wasn't all the way there." he replied, rubbing his neck. "Paradise had been on my mind since I joined him. I thought we could make it there." he continued. The wolf dog's eyes blinked at what he said. "Then we ended up here. That's why I've got to get them." Hige said in a whimper. "I'll go with you." Blue said, taking a step forward. Hige gives a warm chuckle before looking back at her. "Somehow, I knew you would say that. But… I can't let you." he denied. "Why not?" she asks.
"Just wait here for me." he said. She had begged him not to leave her with a sliver of tears in her eyes. "I won't Blue! I promise I will come back for you! I have faith in myself in knowing you'll be right here waiting for me. I won't give up. I promise…" he preached. Her expression softened before she nods for him to go. She can hold him to his word.
Hige then jumps down from the ledge and he sprints on the cables that would lead inside of the keep. He had to rescue to others of near death and destruction. He didn't want to be responsible for their potential deaths.
(Kiba)
The pain in his wolf body was only growing more intense and more worse as the blood was being sucked from his body. He growled from the pain. "CHEZA!" he cries out. The nobles began to 'celebrate' their alleged opening of their Paradise. This was not good at all.
Aww man poor Luna... Not only did she witness the stuffed bodies of her parents but she had to witness the death of her grandmother as well.
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