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Hey I hope you guys will like this chapter. Sorry for chapter two being so short. It just seemed like a good place to stop, that and I had to work on a little bit of homework. But don't worry about homework getting in my way now because SCHOOL IS OVER! So anyways, you can get on with the story now. Hey after you're done reading this, can you send me possible ideas for this story. I want to make it more interesting.

I have to admit though that some of the characters may be OOC. If they are could you tell me and then say what he would have done instead. It will help me cause next time I write I'll have them do that instead of the OOC way. Thanx!

((TSUME'S POINT OF VIEW))

"That cougar that attacked you... had a virus created by the beast humans."

He looked at me kind of confused at first. Not really realizing what I was clearly saying. I sighed and looked away into the woods. I guess I'd better explain to him what this 'virus' really was. I wasn't really sure where to start to I just began from where I could first think to.

"The first I ever heard about this, virus, was at the back of a building just standing there. I heard two men walking by me as they rambled on about hunting. They were just talking about hunting cougars. Nothing that really interested me, but I eavesdropped anyways." I changed positions to where I was facing the woods so I wouldn't have to turn my neck to see them. I swallowed, then continued, "One of the men mentioned this new creation that had just been invented. It was the use of the cougars to hunt down coyotes without having humans to really go out in the woods to hunt them. The cougar would just kill it then bring it to a nearby city where the fur would be skinned of and sold. They would then give the cougar the meat to eat. The cougars remained at these celled cages and were let loose in the morning to hunt for coyotes. If they would happen to breed, the people who owned them would take the cubs and train them to be like the parents. So it was this on going chain of hunting. But the virus, was this shot that would be given to them so if they encountered any other animal such as a bear, their claws would inject it into the system and after a few weeks, the animal with the virus would... die." I stopped and rubbed my eyes and took another breath to continue, "The virus stored in the cougars system only reacts on animals other then the coyote. So people never had to worry about themselves being contaminated with it. That's really all I can remember."

Hige had a worried look on his face as he realized what I had just said. I guess he's never been in this kind of a position before. He just kind of got the point that he was going to die in a matter of days, unless, we got the cure.

"But there is a cure," I added. His face filled with relief and looked at me as though I had saved his life. "But we have to get to that city to find it. Since you were attacked in this area, the city shouldn't be too far away. All we have to do is find it. Then hope we can get it in time to save you without you dying from it."

Hige continued to look at me like everything was fine again. "So I'll be saved?"

I nodded and stood up. "But only if we find the city. We have more then a few days to save you so we can start by looking for this city when Kiba and Toboe get back. Until then, we'll have to wait." I walked over to this fallen log and lay next to it. I just hoped we could save him in time. It would break everyone's heart to loose him. At least we have to try to save him.

((NARARATORS POV))

Kiba and Toboe arrived back at camp the next morning to find them both still asleep. They brought back bandages they had stolen, and some food they caught on the way back. They walked over to Hige and wrapped up his wounds and woke him slightly up. His cut on his neck managed to heal up so they didn't have to worry about that.

After waking up Hige, Toboe woke up Tsume so they could eat. While Tsume and Hige ate, they mentioned to each other how bad his wounds looked. The least they figured was that they were infected or just highly swollen. Nothing to worry about too much. Tsume would definitely know what to do about them.

As the day slowly faded into the evening, Tsume started to take more trips into the woods to see if he could locate the city anywhere close. Finally he came back near towards the night and told them what he found instead.

"You found the cougar refuge?" Hige asked astonished.

Kiba and Toboe sat confused trying to figure out what they were saying. They listened to them rambling on about the looks and the people they saw there. All dressed in pure white carrying black rifles incase of cougars going wild.

"How did you find it? Is it even near here?" Hige was practically jumping for joy to find out that the answer was found.

"I saw a cougar by the end of that stream you were at and watched it for a bit. After sitting for about a half an hour I heard a faint beeping. But the beeping was strong enough to ring in your ears. I looked to see what it was and heard twigs breaking. I looked back to the cougar but didn't see him there. I then heard feet running away and looked towards them to see that cougar running. As fast as I could, I followed the cougar and saw the refuge. It was a while away but not that far. But that beeping noise was to alert all the cougars to come back. But I never suspected there would be so many."

Not even knowing what the subject was about, Kiba asked anyways. "How many?"

"Hundreds. They were coming out of the woods from everywhere. I kept watching not even realizing how bad this place was. But, it was horrible. The cougar I fought was strong, some that I saw were bloody and skinny. They were being whipped and beat everywhere you looked. I couldn't help but feel...sorry for most of them."

Toboe asked, "What are you two even talking about?"

Tsume sighed and explained to Toboe and Kiba what he had told Hige earlier that day. They both sat astonished and kind of quite at what they were being told. When he was finished they both couldn't say anything for a minute or so still trying to take everything in he said.

"So did you find a cure?" Kiba asked with the same expression on his face from when Tsume begun on explaining.

"I managed to get near the building but I couldn't make it inside. I was hoping that we could go back tonight and get inside it. At night all the cougars are inside their small cages and we could break an entrance without being seen. I already got a route for us to use."

"Yeah but will the cure be in there?" Toboe asked with wide eyes.

"I'm not sure but I would think it is. Think about it, if one of their workers got attacked they'd need one around to help them."

Hige smiled, "Then I got the perfect idea."

(())

The four boys crept inside the building using the shadows for their hideouts. Finally they reached a room with a white door and entered it. Inside they found tons of white uniforms that the workers used everyday. Each of them slipped one on and then slipped to the cafeteria where they found some workers still eating their midnight meal. Entering the kitchen, Toboe went to the refrigerator and grabbed some ketchup. He then went to the sink and poured some ketchup inside a plastic bag and put a small amount of water in it to water it out. He shook it slightly then added more ketchup to even it out. He turned around and smiled giving the 'thumbs-up' to show he was ready.

Kiba was still working on Hige's white uniform by putting different slices in it to make it look as if he got scratched many different times.

After they managed his uniform, they walked to another room labeled 'rifle room'. They walked inside and found themselves within rows of riffle shelves. "This will take a while." Tsume said as he grabbed a rifle from the shelf and broke it into half. "Toboe lock the door real quick." He said as he went to another one.

Each of them would grab a rifle and break it then out it back so it looked unharmed. A few times they would hear somebody walk by making them freeze from what they were doing and then wait until the footsteps completely faded into the distance.

After an hour of breaking and putting the rifles back, they left the room and went to the next step. They finally left the room and walked down another hallway.

"I'm sure it's over here." Hige said as he read all the doors signs as he walked by.

"Ask for directions. We're not going to find it like this. There are tons of other hallways. At this rate it will take us hours. And it may not even be in a hallway." Toboe said.

"Fine." Kiba said. He looked down the hallway and saw a man walking in pure black towards them. He would most likely be the night watch. He walked over to the man and waited for him to come to them. "Excuse me sir, we're kinda new here and we're not too sure where the Control room would be. Do you think you could help us?"

The man smiled then started to burst out in small squeaky chuckles. "Yeah help you find the room for retesting." He said laughing. "Oh man that's a funny one." He then stopped laughing and looked at all four of them with a serious look. "Ok, enough with the bullshit. Where are you supposed to be?"

Kiba looked at Tsume looking for some help. Tsume stepped forward the said, "We're not sure. We just came by and couldn't figure it out." Kiba glanced at Tsume like he had just killed thousands of men. Tsume gave him a kind of, 'sorry,' look and continued to look at the man.

"Okay, where's you ASCP cards?" He held his left hand out for them to give it to him.

"ASCP?" Toboe mumbled quietly to himself.

"Uh, let me see where I put it," Kiba trailed off to himself. He fumbled through the pockets on the sides of his uniform trying to guess where it would be. As he switched his hands through his pockets, the man suddenly reached in his pocket and drew a radio out and put it to his mouth to speak in it.

Everyone stopped what they were doing and held their breath. He looked at them with his eyes as he opened his mouth to speak. The world seemed to slow down for Tsume, Kiba, Hige and Toboe. Every little movement echoed in their ears as if it was an explosion.

Finally the man spoke a firm but very meaningful word to the group, "Yes?" Everyone looked at him with a huge grudge of confusion then sighed a heavy sigh. Through the radio they heard another man say, "We got some kind of disturbance at sector 9-80. We're going to go check it out. Remain on hold."

The man sighed and stepped back. "I hate when they do this." He looked at the four people in front of them and then spotted Toboe. He was way younger then any other of the men so he was obviously not a worker. "Did you get the schedule messed up too?"

They all looked at him confused for a second then realized what and whom he was talking about. Everyone looked at Toboe and then waited for what the man was going to say next. "Bring you son to work day is next week boys." They all looked at him again and started giving forced laughs.

"Yeah, uh my wife said it was today. Didn't want to bring him but he started crying to me and begging me to come. Couldn't help but feel sorry for him." Tsume said still laughing.

Toboe growled at him and then played along. "Dad! I wasn't crying I was coughing and I had dust in my eye." He said and crossed his arms. "Besides, it wasn't me who was the one making noises last night. It sounded like you and mom had fun." He said smiling.

Tsume looked down at him with an angry look like he was going to kill him. "We'll talk about this later son." He cursed.

The man quietly laughed along with Hige and Kiba and then waved his hand signaling for them to move on. "All right with you then." He said then laughed once again.

The four boys moved along without looking back at the man. They all sighed with relief and continued on with the mission. From behind them, they heard the man yell, "The control room is down the hall to the dorms." They all waved from behind themselves to say they understood.

Finally walking down the hall they saw the rooms listed with the dorms. They continued walking then found a room labeled, 'control room.' Under it had a label saying, 'Enter under administrator supervision unless commanded by law.'

Kiba reached for the knob and turned it to find it locked. Tsume slightly pushed him aside then reached his hand out and punched it. The knob fell to the floor and the door swung open. "Peace of cake." He said rubbing his knuckles. They all walked in on Kiba's lead and admired all the equipment.

There was buttons everywhere leading to switches that had little labels under them. Above them were tons of large pipes leading in all direction. "Look at all this junk," Hige trailed off wiping the dust off of switches.

"Don't touch them," Tsume warned pointing to the labels. Hige looked down and saw the labels reading stuff like, 'explosive convener,' or, 'default backup,' He then looked at a big green button with the label, 'malfunction chip.'

"What's that?" He said pointing to it. Kiba walked over and then said, "It's used to trigger a device inside the cougars body that kill them." He sighed and walked away with a sad look on his face. "Oh," Hige said looking sad too.

"Look for the button that we talked about, then cut the electricity to the place." He then pointed to the button that Hige was just at. "Then destroy that." He then walked away and started looking down the row of switches. "Found it!" Toboe yelled.

"Toboe be quiet!" Hige hissed looking in the doors direction.

"Sorry!" He whispered back.

Tsume walked over to where Toboe was and nodded. He then looked at Hige and the clothes he was wearing. It kind of surprised him nobody had noticed about the clothes. But then they didn't really expect to run into anyone. It was kind of a coincidence. Tsume nodded to Hige and they both started to leave. "Good luck!" Toboe whispered.

(())

Tsume and Hige entered the outside in the back where tons of cougars were shoved in small cages. They both went to a cage and Tsume used his teeth to open it up slightly. The cougar on the inside got up and started hissing wildly at the disturbance. It growled and arched his back then lunged at where Tsume's head was. Tsume removed it then looked at Hige.

"Okay," Hige said. "Wish me luck." He then quickly squeezed himself inside the cage and dodged the cougar's claws coming at his face. He jumped to the top of the cage and waited for the cougar to settle down a little. "Go Tsume." He whispered to Tsume.

As loud at Tsume could, he yelled, "Help!" As he said that, Hige dropped to the ground and waited for the cougar to lunge at him. As loud as he could, he screamed as if the cougar had just attacked him. He jumped around the cage until he saw shadows of men coming and stayed still. Out of the corner of his eye, he saw about five men surround the cage and hold their weapons to fire at the cougar. One fired a dart that hit the cougar and forced him to fall to the ground.

Tsume waited for them to open the cage and ran to Hige's side putting on an act. "Can you hear me? Come on don't die!" He then saw three men come in and drop the Hige's side. They opened his shirt and looked at his wounds. They still looked fresh and looked like they were bleeding from the ketchup.

"Bring him to the medical. Call for reinforcement, we'll have to put this cougar down." One man in black said to another. The other one nodded and spoke into the radio calling for heavy reinforcement. A few minutes later, almost all the men in the building came out holding their 'weapons', which were broken.

Tsume grabbed Hige in his arms and brought him inside the building. He stood by the frame and waited for more men to walk out. Then he shut the doors and waited for Kiba and Toboe to come in. He then heard all the locks switch, meaning that switch was flipped, then the cages of the pens swung open. From the inside he could see the men screaming and hollering from the cougars coming after him.

Then he watched as the power went off and the pens locked open. The plan was so far succeeding. He then heard Hige whisper, "Can I be put down yet?"

"No, the act isn't over yet. We still have to get you to medical." He then left the sight of all the men being hurt by the cougars and continued walking down the hallway. Soon the cougars would find that the gate to freedom was open. The men wouldn't die but the would still be wounded heavily from the attack. He didn't want it to end like this but he had no other choice. He couldn't just ask them to set them free. If they shut down the power and opened the cages, the men would still come after them. This was the last resort.

He walked to the control room where Kiba and Toboe waited for their return. Then they continued down the hall and stopped at the medical room. Walking in, the saw it completely white with tons of antidotes and bandages in. On the wall were tons of glass tubes filled with shot medication. Tsume laid Hige on the mettle table in the center and waited for Kiba and Toboe to find the right one. Finally they both walked back with a shot and a tube filled with a yellow solution.

Hige winced at the sight of the shot but remained calm. He watched as Toboe lifted his shirts sleeve and washed the area with an alcohol wipe. Kiba inserted the needle into the tube and pulled the plunger so the needle filled with the solution. He then put the needle to Hige's arm and gave him the shot. Hige looked away and didn't think about it. Finally when Kiba was done, he rolled his sleeve back down stepped away. Hige sighed and got up. Kiba reached from inside his shirt and pulled Hige's clothes out from where he had kept them. Hige slipped them on real quick and waited for them to get done slipping the clothes off.

Finally, they quietly started towards the exit. When they saw it they ran to it as fast as they could and slammed their bodies through it to force it open. The doors swung open from the impact and they continued on without looking back. In the distance they could still hear the roar of cougars. For once, they would be free.

(())

The next morning, the boys were walking through the woods talking about the previous day and it's advents. Hige started laughing when Tsume told them about how he had to put on a gay act to get Hige through it. Hige started to mach Tsume by saying, "Can you hear me? Come on, don't die!"

Tsume growled and turned around and punched Hige in the arm where he got his shot. Hige stopped what he was doing and felt as his face turned red and hot. He looked at Tsume's smirking face and lunged at him jokingly having a fun game.

"Get off me!" Tsume yelled. Hige kept jumping on his making him frustrated. Finally he stopped what he was doing and watched Tsume with a discussed look on his face. He laughed and continued on. Things were starting to get normal again.

So what do you think? I would continue with and all, but I'm out of ideas and I'm going to start another wolf's rain fanfiction. So review what you think all in all of my story. Review what ever you want. Thanks for reading it!