Tears of Twilight
Chapter 5
After about an hour or so of trying to figure out any leads, they came upon a stalemate. They found themselves right where they've started at, square one. With all of the frustration that had built up in the room, they've decided that it was a good idea to take a break. On his way outside, Kento slowly walked passed the mantle. He stopped for a few seconds, and then grabbed for a silver frame, and then he continued on his way. As soon as he was outside, he sat down, gave a quiet sigh, and started to stare at the silver framed picture. He remembered the day that Kaye gave him it as his last birthday present. The picture was of Kaye with Kento on her right, Cye on her left and Lightning laying down in front of them. Mia took the picture without any of them knowing that she did, and then one day, Kaye was having a hard time trying to figure out what to get Kento for his birthday. Mia motioned her over to the desk and pulled out the picture that she took that day.
Kaye gave Mia a sisterly hug, and then told her that she had the perfect frame to put it in. Kento's eyes began to water as he gently caressed the picture. "Hey Kento, what are you doing out here by yourself?" Flash asked as she walked up next to him.
"I just needed some air." Kento replied quietly as he kept his eyes onto the picture. Flash looked on with concern, she didn't know what to say exactly to make him feel better. She noticed that the picture he was holding was suddenly becoming wet. She gave a confused look up, there wasn't a single cloud in the sky, then she looked a bit closer, and noticed that it wasn't rain drops that were falling onto it, but tears, Kento's tears.
"Kento," Flash asked in concern. "Are you actually...crying?"
Kento stiffened, he hated it when people saw him this way. Kento of Hardrock, was always considered the strongest person, he never cried in front of anyone, ever. "NO, I'm not crying." Kento replied as he wiped his eyes, trying to make his tears from flowing down his face.
"Kento, it's ok. Crying doesn't make a person weak, it just means that they care." Flash said as she look towards him.
"I said, I'm not crying!" Kento replied angrily as he threw down the silver framed picture. Just as the picture hit the ground, the glass inside of the frame broke into tiny pieces, and the shards flew everywhere.
Kento's eyes went wide as he realized what had just happened. "God no, what have I done?" Kento asked in a whisper as he knelt down and started to pick up the broken frame.
"Here, let me help you." Flash said as she began to carefully pick up the broken pieces.
"I don't need your help, would you just please go, and leave me alone?" Kento asked quietly. Flash looked over at him, she knew that he didn't mean to act harshly towards her. His heart was shattered in so many pieces, just like the frame.
"Sure Kento, see you tomorrow?" Flash asked as she stood up and was about to go back inside. Kento nodded and then continued
to pick up the shards of glass. Just as she was walking inside, she almost ran into Ryo.
"Hey, careful." Ryo said with light amusement.
"Oh, sorry about that." Flash replied.
"It's no problem. Hey, what happened out there with you and Kento?" Ryo asked in concern.
"We just started talking, and the next thing I knew we're picking up broken shards from a shattered picture frame." Flash replied.
"That's what he took outside with him." Ryo mused quietly.
"What was that?" Flash asked curiously.
"Nothing, ah Flash, I just want to thank you and your friends for wanting to help us find Cye and Kaye." Ryo replied as they walked over to the rest of them.
"Sure, I hate to say it, but it's late and I think that we better get home." Flash said as she, Thunder and Scorpio started to leave.
"Wait, ah will I. We see you three tomorrow?" Ryo asked as he quickly recovered from his slip hoping that no one picked up on it.
"Yea, until tomorrow." Flash replied as they left.
"Flash did have a point, it is getting pretty late. Maybe we all should be thinking about getting some sleep. That way we would be better rested for when we start searching again tomorrow." Mia said just as Kento came inside.
"Kento..." Rowen started to say as Kento carefully laid the broken frame back onto the mantle.
"Yea, I heard. Night." Kento replied quietly as he slowly walked upstairs. As they heard Kento shut his door, they all followed his lead and retired for the night. Each of them knowing that they won't be able to get much sleep anyway.
"What's going on? Why am I feeling this way? I should be more concerned about Cye and Kaye, but for some reason, I can't stop thinking about Flash. There's something about her. Damn!" Ryo thought angrily as he threw his pillow across the room, and hitting White Blaze right in the face. The tiger looked straight at him, and gave a low growl that in his own way asked him what was his problem? Ryo gave an apologetical look towards the annoyed tiger. White Blaze gave a quick nod and then picked up the pillow with his teeth and then threw it right back in his face. Ryo quickly brought the pillow down and gave a quick look at the tiger. White Blaze gave a quick snort and then went back to sleep. Ryo shook his head and then he tried to get back to sleep.
Meanwhile...
"Where am I? This can't be...no, it can't be! It was destroyed, Talpa's castle was destroyed, wasn't it?" Cye wondered
as he squinted his eyes to get a better look in the dimly torch lit room. "Then does that mean, that Talpa is..?"
Just then the dim torches flared to life as Jakada entered the room. "Yes, Cye of the Torrent, Talpa is alive." Jakada replied as he came closer to Cye.
"NO! You're lying, he can't be alive!" Cye said angrily as he glared at him.
"Oh, but Talpa is definitely alive, you'll see the proof soon enough, right now though, you have a guest." Jakada replied smugly as he motioned his ninjas to bring the unconscious Kaye inside.
Cye's eyes went wide, Jakada noticed the shocked state that he was in, "yes Torrent, I have captured Kaye of the Tiger. She gave a good fight, just like you, but as you can tell it wasn't good enough. Since now the both of you are here. Shackle her up along side of him, and then leave them." Jakada ordered. The ninjas did as they were told and then they disappeared.
"Kaye...Kaye, wake up!" Cye said urgently. A weak groan was his response as she started to slowly regain consciousness.
"Cye?" Kaye asked weakly.
"Yea Kaye, I'm here," Cye replied. "Are you all right?"
"I've been better," Kaye whispered. "Where are we?"
Cye hung his head and closed his eyes. After all of the stories that they told her about Talpa's castle and the Dynasty, he was hoping that she wouldn't have to go through all of what they did during the Dynasty wars. "Cye, please, if you know where we are, then please tell me?" Kaye asked again.
"All right, I'll tell you, we're in Talpa's castle." Cye replied quietly. When Kaye didn't respond he became concerned, and then tried to turn his head towards her, but he couldn't because of the shackles.
"Oh God Cye, I'm so sorry." Kaye whispered quietly.
"Kaye, what are you talking about?" Cye asked in confusion.
"I feel like it's my fault somehow that you're here. I shouldn't have kept pushing you to open up. I felt that you were angry with me for some reason, and you wanted some time to yourself. Then when Sage called mom, heh sounds kinda funny saying that." Kaye explained quietly.
"Don't say that, it's not your fault. Don't blame yourself for something like this to be happening." Cye replied.
"But..." Kaye said as she tried to object.
"No, I won't hear any more of this. You will stop blaming yourself right now." Cye replied.
"Cye." Kaye said as she tried to look towards him, but the shackles also prevented her from doing so.
"Aw how sweet, brother and sister have patched things up." Jakada said as he and another person entered the room.
"Stow it, you ugly piece of gutter trash!" Kaye replied as she glared at him. Jakada didn't take what Kaye said very well, so he went up to her and punched her across the face. At the same time she and Cye tried to hold back the pain of Jakada's punch, but simultaneously yelled out in pain.
"Interesting, so it is true." the other person mused as he joined Jakada.
Cye looked up and saw someone that he thought that he would never see again. "Talpa!"
Kaye quickly jerked her head up to see who this Talpa person looked like, and she knew right then that was a mistake. "What do you mean when you said that it's true?" Kaye asked as she tried to not show her fear.
Jakada moved to the side as Talpa approached her, "I'm talking about the bond between you and Torrent that the both of you share." Talpa replied as he got closer.
"Bond? What bond?" Cye asked in confusion.
"You mean that your mother didn't tell you about the "special bond" that you and your sister have?" Talpa replied in arrogance. "Very well then, I'll tell you. It seems that whenever either one of you is hurt and you're in close proximity of each other, the other one can feel the other's pain."
"You're lying!" Kaye said angrily.
"No, actually Jakada has already proven my theory when he punched you across the face. You and Torrrent both felt the pain at the exact same time." Talpa gloated.
"Then that explains all of the weird things that have been going on." Cye realized as everything finally became clear.
"Yes Torrent, now you understand everything that you're suppose to up to now." Jakada replied as he gave a cold, evil grin.
"Get them down from there, but keep a firm hold on them, oh and don't forget to take these, for safe keeping." Talpa ordered as he took the two kanji balls away from Cye and Kaye.
"NO, you can't!" Kaye exclaimed as she tried to get them back.
"Insolent girl!" Jakada yelled as he kicked her in the stomach making her and Cye fall to their knees. Two of Jakada's ninjas bowed, and then disappeared with the two kanji balls, leaving them at Talpa's and Jakada's mercy.
"Now that's settled, I believe that it's time for me to tell you something that your mother neglected to mention." Talpa said as his hand began to glow.
"Leave our mother out of this, Talpa!" Cye replied angrily.
"Unfortunately, I can't do that, because she's as much a part of this little drama as we are." Talpa said as he came closer to Cye.
"What do you mean?" Cye asked angrily.
"Torrent, have you ever wondered about your father? Of why he left you?" Talpa asked amusingly.
"What do you know of my father?" Cye asked as he glared at him.
"Believe me or not, but I'm your father, Torrent." Talpa replied as he raised his hand above Cye's head.
"You lie!" Cye said angrily.
"I can back up my claim, on top of your left eyebrow, it's the same shape as mine." Talpa said as he got ready to make his boast real.
"Get away from him!" Kaye yelled angrily. Talpa just laughed, and then he made the weird shaped X on Cye's left brow glow the same color as Talpa's. Both Cye and Kaye yelled from the intense pain, and then they stopped.
"Oh, but the fun doesn't stop here. There's one more thing that I should bring into the light, so to speak." Talpa said as he moved from Cye to Kaye.
"Whatever you have to say, I'm not interested!" Kaye shot back.
"Not even if it's about your dead father, or is he now a dead tiger? I get so confused." Talpa asked in amusement. At the mention of her dead father/tiger, Kaye was trying very hard to hold back her tears.
"What do you know about him?" Kaye replied as she choked back.
"You see, our family is quite an interesting, and complex one. Let's just say that we're from the same family tree. In other words, I'm his descendant." Talpa said as he got very close. "And you have the same tattoo that your father had when he was alive. Let's see if I'm right, shall we."
Jakada motioned for the ninjas to restrain Kaye's right arm long enough for him to tear her sleeve clear off revealing the tattoo of a Japanese eagle and the sun. "Let go!" Kaye said as she and Cye winced in pain.
"I think that's enough for now, don't you agree Jakada?" Talpa asked as he glanced over at him.
"Of course Talpa. Ninjas, shackle them up again, and then return to the throne room when you're done here." Jakada ordered
as he and Talpa finally left. Cye and Kaye tried to fight them off, but there were too many to even come close to making a
dent. Even as the ninjas were trying to shackle them again, Cye and Kaye kept on trying to fight against them. But the ninjas won, and they found themselves shackled again.
Later that night...
Thunder for some reason couldn't sleep. So he decided to see if Flash was up. On their walk back home, he noticed that she had something on her mind, and he was wondering if she wanted to talk about it. Besides, she was there for him when he needed her, so he figured that it was his turn. As Thunder got to her room, he noticed that her light was still on. "Flash, mind if I come in?" Thunder asked as he knocked on her door.
Flash opened her door and let him in. Thunder looked towards his friend as she settled back down on her bed again. "Flash, mind if I ask you something?" Thunder asked.
"I guess not, what did you want to ask me?" Flash asked back.
"I was wondering if you're ok. I noticed that on our way back, that you've been preoccupied with something. Care telling me what's on your mind?" Thunder asked.
"I was going to wait until morning, but since you've asked, I might as well tell you. Ok, you remember when I followed Kento outside earlier tonight?" Flash asked. Thunder shook his head, showing her that he did.
"Well, during our conversation, I asked him about a particular picture that he seemed to be so interested in." Flash said as she continued her story.
"Yea, so what about it?" Thunder asked, now that he was getting really curious.
"Don't you think it's rather odd to have a tiger living with them?" FLash asked back.
"Oh yea right, and it's not odd having a white wolf living with you either?" Thunder asked with a smirk.
"Funny Thunder, but what I'm getting at is this. The tiger is not exactly normal in color, if you know what I mean." Flash replied.
"I think that I know what you mean, but you might want to explain a little more." Thunder said somewhat confused.
"I mean that the tiger is silver, and it has golden stripes as well as golden eyes." Flash replied.
"Then, do you think that it's the same tiger that Chinook told us about?" Thunder asked.
"It has to be, otherwise, none of this would make any sense. But the weird thing is that I haven't seen this tiger around, have you?" Flash asked in curiosity. Thunder shook his head no, come to think of it, no one even said word one about another tiger living with them.
"Flash, then what do you think could of happened that they don't talk about this tiger?" Thunder asked in curiosity.
"I'm not sure Thunder, but I think that tomorrow that we had better find out." Flash replied. Thunder nodded and then headed back to his room. Just before Flash settled back in for the night, she couldn't help but wonder if they should tell their new friends the real reason of why they're in Japan. Would they be able to trust them after what everything that has happened so far?
Chapter 5
After about an hour or so of trying to figure out any leads, they came upon a stalemate. They found themselves right where they've started at, square one. With all of the frustration that had built up in the room, they've decided that it was a good idea to take a break. On his way outside, Kento slowly walked passed the mantle. He stopped for a few seconds, and then grabbed for a silver frame, and then he continued on his way. As soon as he was outside, he sat down, gave a quiet sigh, and started to stare at the silver framed picture. He remembered the day that Kaye gave him it as his last birthday present. The picture was of Kaye with Kento on her right, Cye on her left and Lightning laying down in front of them. Mia took the picture without any of them knowing that she did, and then one day, Kaye was having a hard time trying to figure out what to get Kento for his birthday. Mia motioned her over to the desk and pulled out the picture that she took that day.
Kaye gave Mia a sisterly hug, and then told her that she had the perfect frame to put it in. Kento's eyes began to water as he gently caressed the picture. "Hey Kento, what are you doing out here by yourself?" Flash asked as she walked up next to him.
"I just needed some air." Kento replied quietly as he kept his eyes onto the picture. Flash looked on with concern, she didn't know what to say exactly to make him feel better. She noticed that the picture he was holding was suddenly becoming wet. She gave a confused look up, there wasn't a single cloud in the sky, then she looked a bit closer, and noticed that it wasn't rain drops that were falling onto it, but tears, Kento's tears.
"Kento," Flash asked in concern. "Are you actually...crying?"
Kento stiffened, he hated it when people saw him this way. Kento of Hardrock, was always considered the strongest person, he never cried in front of anyone, ever. "NO, I'm not crying." Kento replied as he wiped his eyes, trying to make his tears from flowing down his face.
"Kento, it's ok. Crying doesn't make a person weak, it just means that they care." Flash said as she look towards him.
"I said, I'm not crying!" Kento replied angrily as he threw down the silver framed picture. Just as the picture hit the ground, the glass inside of the frame broke into tiny pieces, and the shards flew everywhere.
Kento's eyes went wide as he realized what had just happened. "God no, what have I done?" Kento asked in a whisper as he knelt down and started to pick up the broken frame.
"Here, let me help you." Flash said as she began to carefully pick up the broken pieces.
"I don't need your help, would you just please go, and leave me alone?" Kento asked quietly. Flash looked over at him, she knew that he didn't mean to act harshly towards her. His heart was shattered in so many pieces, just like the frame.
"Sure Kento, see you tomorrow?" Flash asked as she stood up and was about to go back inside. Kento nodded and then continued
to pick up the shards of glass. Just as she was walking inside, she almost ran into Ryo.
"Hey, careful." Ryo said with light amusement.
"Oh, sorry about that." Flash replied.
"It's no problem. Hey, what happened out there with you and Kento?" Ryo asked in concern.
"We just started talking, and the next thing I knew we're picking up broken shards from a shattered picture frame." Flash replied.
"That's what he took outside with him." Ryo mused quietly.
"What was that?" Flash asked curiously.
"Nothing, ah Flash, I just want to thank you and your friends for wanting to help us find Cye and Kaye." Ryo replied as they walked over to the rest of them.
"Sure, I hate to say it, but it's late and I think that we better get home." Flash said as she, Thunder and Scorpio started to leave.
"Wait, ah will I. We see you three tomorrow?" Ryo asked as he quickly recovered from his slip hoping that no one picked up on it.
"Yea, until tomorrow." Flash replied as they left.
"Flash did have a point, it is getting pretty late. Maybe we all should be thinking about getting some sleep. That way we would be better rested for when we start searching again tomorrow." Mia said just as Kento came inside.
"Kento..." Rowen started to say as Kento carefully laid the broken frame back onto the mantle.
"Yea, I heard. Night." Kento replied quietly as he slowly walked upstairs. As they heard Kento shut his door, they all followed his lead and retired for the night. Each of them knowing that they won't be able to get much sleep anyway.
"What's going on? Why am I feeling this way? I should be more concerned about Cye and Kaye, but for some reason, I can't stop thinking about Flash. There's something about her. Damn!" Ryo thought angrily as he threw his pillow across the room, and hitting White Blaze right in the face. The tiger looked straight at him, and gave a low growl that in his own way asked him what was his problem? Ryo gave an apologetical look towards the annoyed tiger. White Blaze gave a quick nod and then picked up the pillow with his teeth and then threw it right back in his face. Ryo quickly brought the pillow down and gave a quick look at the tiger. White Blaze gave a quick snort and then went back to sleep. Ryo shook his head and then he tried to get back to sleep.
Meanwhile...
"Where am I? This can't be...no, it can't be! It was destroyed, Talpa's castle was destroyed, wasn't it?" Cye wondered
as he squinted his eyes to get a better look in the dimly torch lit room. "Then does that mean, that Talpa is..?"
Just then the dim torches flared to life as Jakada entered the room. "Yes, Cye of the Torrent, Talpa is alive." Jakada replied as he came closer to Cye.
"NO! You're lying, he can't be alive!" Cye said angrily as he glared at him.
"Oh, but Talpa is definitely alive, you'll see the proof soon enough, right now though, you have a guest." Jakada replied smugly as he motioned his ninjas to bring the unconscious Kaye inside.
Cye's eyes went wide, Jakada noticed the shocked state that he was in, "yes Torrent, I have captured Kaye of the Tiger. She gave a good fight, just like you, but as you can tell it wasn't good enough. Since now the both of you are here. Shackle her up along side of him, and then leave them." Jakada ordered. The ninjas did as they were told and then they disappeared.
"Kaye...Kaye, wake up!" Cye said urgently. A weak groan was his response as she started to slowly regain consciousness.
"Cye?" Kaye asked weakly.
"Yea Kaye, I'm here," Cye replied. "Are you all right?"
"I've been better," Kaye whispered. "Where are we?"
Cye hung his head and closed his eyes. After all of the stories that they told her about Talpa's castle and the Dynasty, he was hoping that she wouldn't have to go through all of what they did during the Dynasty wars. "Cye, please, if you know where we are, then please tell me?" Kaye asked again.
"All right, I'll tell you, we're in Talpa's castle." Cye replied quietly. When Kaye didn't respond he became concerned, and then tried to turn his head towards her, but he couldn't because of the shackles.
"Oh God Cye, I'm so sorry." Kaye whispered quietly.
"Kaye, what are you talking about?" Cye asked in confusion.
"I feel like it's my fault somehow that you're here. I shouldn't have kept pushing you to open up. I felt that you were angry with me for some reason, and you wanted some time to yourself. Then when Sage called mom, heh sounds kinda funny saying that." Kaye explained quietly.
"Don't say that, it's not your fault. Don't blame yourself for something like this to be happening." Cye replied.
"But..." Kaye said as she tried to object.
"No, I won't hear any more of this. You will stop blaming yourself right now." Cye replied.
"Cye." Kaye said as she tried to look towards him, but the shackles also prevented her from doing so.
"Aw how sweet, brother and sister have patched things up." Jakada said as he and another person entered the room.
"Stow it, you ugly piece of gutter trash!" Kaye replied as she glared at him. Jakada didn't take what Kaye said very well, so he went up to her and punched her across the face. At the same time she and Cye tried to hold back the pain of Jakada's punch, but simultaneously yelled out in pain.
"Interesting, so it is true." the other person mused as he joined Jakada.
Cye looked up and saw someone that he thought that he would never see again. "Talpa!"
Kaye quickly jerked her head up to see who this Talpa person looked like, and she knew right then that was a mistake. "What do you mean when you said that it's true?" Kaye asked as she tried to not show her fear.
Jakada moved to the side as Talpa approached her, "I'm talking about the bond between you and Torrent that the both of you share." Talpa replied as he got closer.
"Bond? What bond?" Cye asked in confusion.
"You mean that your mother didn't tell you about the "special bond" that you and your sister have?" Talpa replied in arrogance. "Very well then, I'll tell you. It seems that whenever either one of you is hurt and you're in close proximity of each other, the other one can feel the other's pain."
"You're lying!" Kaye said angrily.
"No, actually Jakada has already proven my theory when he punched you across the face. You and Torrrent both felt the pain at the exact same time." Talpa gloated.
"Then that explains all of the weird things that have been going on." Cye realized as everything finally became clear.
"Yes Torrent, now you understand everything that you're suppose to up to now." Jakada replied as he gave a cold, evil grin.
"Get them down from there, but keep a firm hold on them, oh and don't forget to take these, for safe keeping." Talpa ordered as he took the two kanji balls away from Cye and Kaye.
"NO, you can't!" Kaye exclaimed as she tried to get them back.
"Insolent girl!" Jakada yelled as he kicked her in the stomach making her and Cye fall to their knees. Two of Jakada's ninjas bowed, and then disappeared with the two kanji balls, leaving them at Talpa's and Jakada's mercy.
"Now that's settled, I believe that it's time for me to tell you something that your mother neglected to mention." Talpa said as his hand began to glow.
"Leave our mother out of this, Talpa!" Cye replied angrily.
"Unfortunately, I can't do that, because she's as much a part of this little drama as we are." Talpa said as he came closer to Cye.
"What do you mean?" Cye asked angrily.
"Torrent, have you ever wondered about your father? Of why he left you?" Talpa asked amusingly.
"What do you know of my father?" Cye asked as he glared at him.
"Believe me or not, but I'm your father, Torrent." Talpa replied as he raised his hand above Cye's head.
"You lie!" Cye said angrily.
"I can back up my claim, on top of your left eyebrow, it's the same shape as mine." Talpa said as he got ready to make his boast real.
"Get away from him!" Kaye yelled angrily. Talpa just laughed, and then he made the weird shaped X on Cye's left brow glow the same color as Talpa's. Both Cye and Kaye yelled from the intense pain, and then they stopped.
"Oh, but the fun doesn't stop here. There's one more thing that I should bring into the light, so to speak." Talpa said as he moved from Cye to Kaye.
"Whatever you have to say, I'm not interested!" Kaye shot back.
"Not even if it's about your dead father, or is he now a dead tiger? I get so confused." Talpa asked in amusement. At the mention of her dead father/tiger, Kaye was trying very hard to hold back her tears.
"What do you know about him?" Kaye replied as she choked back.
"You see, our family is quite an interesting, and complex one. Let's just say that we're from the same family tree. In other words, I'm his descendant." Talpa said as he got very close. "And you have the same tattoo that your father had when he was alive. Let's see if I'm right, shall we."
Jakada motioned for the ninjas to restrain Kaye's right arm long enough for him to tear her sleeve clear off revealing the tattoo of a Japanese eagle and the sun. "Let go!" Kaye said as she and Cye winced in pain.
"I think that's enough for now, don't you agree Jakada?" Talpa asked as he glanced over at him.
"Of course Talpa. Ninjas, shackle them up again, and then return to the throne room when you're done here." Jakada ordered
as he and Talpa finally left. Cye and Kaye tried to fight them off, but there were too many to even come close to making a
dent. Even as the ninjas were trying to shackle them again, Cye and Kaye kept on trying to fight against them. But the ninjas won, and they found themselves shackled again.
Later that night...
Thunder for some reason couldn't sleep. So he decided to see if Flash was up. On their walk back home, he noticed that she had something on her mind, and he was wondering if she wanted to talk about it. Besides, she was there for him when he needed her, so he figured that it was his turn. As Thunder got to her room, he noticed that her light was still on. "Flash, mind if I come in?" Thunder asked as he knocked on her door.
Flash opened her door and let him in. Thunder looked towards his friend as she settled back down on her bed again. "Flash, mind if I ask you something?" Thunder asked.
"I guess not, what did you want to ask me?" Flash asked back.
"I was wondering if you're ok. I noticed that on our way back, that you've been preoccupied with something. Care telling me what's on your mind?" Thunder asked.
"I was going to wait until morning, but since you've asked, I might as well tell you. Ok, you remember when I followed Kento outside earlier tonight?" Flash asked. Thunder shook his head, showing her that he did.
"Well, during our conversation, I asked him about a particular picture that he seemed to be so interested in." Flash said as she continued her story.
"Yea, so what about it?" Thunder asked, now that he was getting really curious.
"Don't you think it's rather odd to have a tiger living with them?" FLash asked back.
"Oh yea right, and it's not odd having a white wolf living with you either?" Thunder asked with a smirk.
"Funny Thunder, but what I'm getting at is this. The tiger is not exactly normal in color, if you know what I mean." Flash replied.
"I think that I know what you mean, but you might want to explain a little more." Thunder said somewhat confused.
"I mean that the tiger is silver, and it has golden stripes as well as golden eyes." Flash replied.
"Then, do you think that it's the same tiger that Chinook told us about?" Thunder asked.
"It has to be, otherwise, none of this would make any sense. But the weird thing is that I haven't seen this tiger around, have you?" Flash asked in curiosity. Thunder shook his head no, come to think of it, no one even said word one about another tiger living with them.
"Flash, then what do you think could of happened that they don't talk about this tiger?" Thunder asked in curiosity.
"I'm not sure Thunder, but I think that tomorrow that we had better find out." Flash replied. Thunder nodded and then headed back to his room. Just before Flash settled back in for the night, she couldn't help but wonder if they should tell their new friends the real reason of why they're in Japan. Would they be able to trust them after what everything that has happened so far?