Now, after Part 2 has occured...I'm actually going to write of how Tiger
and Rosa parted ways in the past. Get out the tissue... O.o;;;
Oh, and only one poem at the end, again belonging to me. Got that?
And one more thing. Like, DO I PAY ATTENTION TO YOUR FLAMES? Hell no
I don't, so don't even put that crap on me by spamming up my reviews with
any insults.
Gone With Thy Wind
Separation- Part 3
By Tiyanu
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The past....
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"Are you sure there's a better land beyond this icy
tundra, Rosa?"
"We've got nowhere else to go, Tiger."
"I'm not complaining of the cold...just that I never
expected to actually venture into it."
A troupe of hybrid Tigers, only one of them a purebred,
were traveling among the frozen wasteland of the desolate northern heights.
They were in search of a paradise, devoid of humans yet abundant of foods
galore. Finally realizing they could not get away with stealing for long,
the pack had no other choice but to search for a fresh start elsewhere.
Rosa called themselves Freedom Fighters, though not in the sense of justice
that one might think at first.
"How many more miles to go?" asked one of the hybrids,
a green Dino/Tiger, curiously asked.
"Since we started about a week ago," the silver
Gray Wolf responded, "should be another three days past this glacier."
"I can't wait for all the sweets that awaits us,"
another hybrid pack member chimed in, "Think of how our lives would change
from now...!"
"Wish this place wasn't cold though," a Hare/Tiger
griped, "not all of us are used to such extremites in climate conditions..."
Leading the pack, was the fiery-spirited Rosa, with the purebred lupine Tiger, walking paw to paw next to each other. His blood brother, Gray Wolf, was walking alongside them as well, but since he had risked enough teasing the two wolves beforehand, he decided to play it safe and stay amongst the pack. He, like many others of Rosa's pack, knew as clear as day of the very intimate relationship the sapphire and ruby lupines were having, yet only he had the pure audacity to tease them about it; it was no big deal to Rosa, but Tiger was a little embarrased even further than she was, after all, this was his little brother that was rubbing this in his face! At first, the icy lupine was a tad edgy about going public of their newfound love, but the mates knew they would rather be found out sooner than later, and both admitted their feelings for their clan to hear, to deter any suspicious of treason or betrayal within the dedicated group. It was only the sapphire wolf's little brother that actually caught any mutual acts; he remained silent of them, for the most part, but for how long, was the primary cause of concern.
Only one incident, and the one that caused the lovers
to confession, was during a failed act of protection. An ebony Black Golem
was attacking a pair of humans, both young and recently married, and Tiger
was the first to view, clear as day, watch the 'enigma' crush the two with
a blood-stained fist. In a burst of rage, he desired the assassin's death,
as with any other that would threaten his loved ones, and unleashed his
pure animosity in the blasts of his thunder...
The sapphire lupine searched the corpses of the
badly mauled humans, knowing they had already met their maker, and found
only one item of interest; an undamaged emerald-gem pendant. Retrieving
it carefully, he placed it over the neck of his lover...never noticing
his fellow clan mates crooning and howling with delight at the public act
of kindness, a trait that was thought to become totally out of character
of the blue warrior....if compared to the present day.
"I wonder what's on the other side of this wasteland,"
Rosa said wistfully. "Will we find our true refuge of retreat...or are
we falling deeper into the plunges of the humans and the tyranny of Moo...?
Are we always going to be on the move like this...? Why...?" Her audible
thoughts were interrupted by her mate; he licked her face playfully in
an attempt to cheer her up, and he nuzzled her neck in content. At first,
the red hybrid could only gaze at his spirited blue eyes and wonder why
he was not as downtrodden as the rest of the pack; was Tiger really
this adept to the cold? Or was it already in his nature before he met me?
But she appreciated this gesture of kindness, and returned the favor with
her own lick and nuzzle. "Don't you worry," the blue lupine reassured her,
"we've made it this far thanks to you, I'm sure we'll go the distance and
finally be free. Just like..."
"...the wind," she finished with a cheerful smile.
But even the wind itself is a prisoner of the earth, mere mortal.
Tiger blinked in surprise of the dark thought that
he was unsure where exactly did it originate. Surely, he wasn't going this
psychotic. Or was it just a figment of imagination that somehow blended
within reality...?
Rosa glanced at her mate, eyes gleaming with worry
as she immediately saw his sudden moment of discontent. "Is something wrong...?"
Ahead, shadows of unknown figures began their approach to the pack...
"...Over there!" He pointed a forepaw towards the coming evil, sensing the aura of malice and deceit around their newfound enemies. The others drooped low into battle positions, for they knew who seeked their destruction.
"...It's Moo."
The dark, gold-armored giant himself, had come to
deter the plans of the Freedom Fighters. "Ah...the infamous little band
is a rather pitiful number of seven," he taunted to the clan. "A terrible
waste of good monsters....that could have pledged their allegiance to me,
instead." He stroked his chin - or what it looked like his chin - with
an earthly brown claw, then added, "What am I saying...? These weaklings
serve in my army...?"
"Who you callin weak?!" Rosa stepped in defense.
She crouched into a battle stance, all others followed in repertoire. The
caped demon simply cackled at the feeble attempt to protect their pride.
"I think you will become a great service in my entourage,"
he hissed in the most vile of tones, pointing a finger at the ruby lupine,
"as a baddie."
Hearing those simple words marked a new anger inside
the icy wolf, who leapt in front of his mate in defense. "Not if I have
anything to say about it!" growled the angry lupine, and sprung to action.
"Out of the way...!" In the last second, the malevolant
lord simply clawed him away like a mere housefly, and the blue lupine flew
away, sprawled into the thick snow...already, his face was bleeding from
a gash on his left eye, leaking heavily with crimson blood. Everyone, especially
Rosa, could not believe their very eyes at that moment of time...especially
her.
At the instant shock of seeing her lover at the
brink of death, a shriek of fury resonated from herself, piercing even
Moo's very essence... Her own clan members cowered under the very sound
of her rage, as did the dark armored one's minions... In a rush of scarlet
flames, she breathed out intensely at her adversaries, vengence and sadness
mixed in the attack, a deadly combination of emotions...especially when
it came to combat.
In that instant, lost discs immediately formed within
the tense heat...unfortunately, Moo was not among one of them, to the Freedom
Fighters' dismay; however, he did not survive the attack unscathed. But
he was not their primary concern at the moment; they were tending to their
fallen lupine...
After her fury had dissipated, the flame-colored
lupine breathed heavily, her body unable to withstand the sudden loss in
power, and fell unconsciously into the thick snow, barely visible. The
other Tiger hybrids whirled to her at the instant she connected to the
ground, and only then their hatred went fully untamed...
All leapt toward the sneering master of the darkness,
vowing for vengence for their lost leaders...
...but what remained of them were a small gravestone of discs, failed in their vain attempt for restitution...except for one.
The silver wolf bled severly, pain coursing through every part of his bones. He knew that he could resist no longer, though he wondered why had he not entered death, just like his comrades in arms yet...
Brother...Rosa...everyone is...
But then, he felt a tremendous hand lift him from
the stained snowy ground, and from then on, he could remember no more.
All that Gray Wolf could accept, before completely
lost from his memory, was that everyone was no longer in his heart.
***
Back to the present...
***
In the brink of the dawn...
Rosa gasped awake at that final shot of memory, a memory that she had long struggled to stop remembering...one that permanently traumatized her for the years that followed... "Oh, god..." she uttered in the bare silence of the unlit cave, before burying her face in her paws, quiet tears streaking from her face. "Why...why, of all people..."
...huh? Who is that I hear...crying...?
The ice wolf struggled with himself to try to awaken, somehow sensing the forbidden tears from the one that shared his heart, mysteriously leak into his very being.
No, it can't be...
He slowly raised his eyes open, glancing toward the silent red mate, and gaped at the sight that he thought he would never see again.
You're...crying?
He wrapped one paw around the mute, sobbing lupine, which slightly startled her, and caused the winged wolf to slowly eye her worried lover.
"What's wrong?"
"I...I remembered...everything...long ago..."
It was all that he needed to know, for he could also recall that 'certain' memory as she did. Rosa simply sunk her head down on Tiger's body, her tears now streaking down to his fur... He could only nuzzle her emotionally wounded mate and share her scar with his own...
The two remained cuddled to each other, as sunrise began to seep into the darkness of their shelter, and closed their eyes to sleep away the memories...
***
"What the..."
Hare gazed curiously into the dark cavern, his search
now over, and peered at his sleeping rival...along with a winged lupine
that he failed to recognize. "So you're here after all, Tiger....but who
are you with?"
Well, this is interesting,
the sly rabbit thought to himself. Seems he's got a girlfriend...Wait
until I tell the others!
***
Inside chocolate
Is the sweetness of desire
Is the desire of ecstasy
Is the fuel for my fire.
Inside candy
Is the joy of the sweet
Is the remedy for bitterness
Is the power of my heat.
Inside you
Is the unlimited cheerfulness
Is the unbound intelligence
Is the element that springs away my loneliness.
**Yeah yeah, this part is not as long as I wanted it to be...but trust
me, everything WILL be settled in the next part...Me promises! ^_~**