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I'm really tired right now and at the same time I'm watching Wolf's Rain. I got the Series thingy last night and this is my second time watching it. I always have to watch Wolf's Rain or something while I write about WR. I record it every Saturday so I can rewatch it about 10 times. I watched episode 11 about 15 times because the ending was so sad at the end. You know, the one with Darcia and those lazar thingies. That one was sad.
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But thank you so so so so much for the reviews! I love them so much. Sorry if this chapter is alittle, rushed. I just want to get to the end and my brother is getting me pissed of and I keep yelling at him and I keep getting even more pissed.
Tsume glanced around the cage looked at the 10 different soldiers surrounding the cage he was stuck in. One of the soldiers glanced down at him then looked back to the outside. Damn soldiers. Before they had caught Tsume they shot him in the leg to prevent him of attacking any more. No matter how hard he tried to get up and escape, they just kept sending him to the ground. Now he had tons of bruises, cuts and broken bones around him.
Lying still on his side, Tsume listened to every breath that each soldier took as they awaited the commands of the head soldier also known as the leader. Earlier in the day the head soldier had told them to prepare to move into the city. He didn't know what they wanted more in the city beside the wolves but the leader had said that the wolf was needed.
"That wolf sure has tired out since the day before yesterday. He was all riled up but now he's almost as good as dead." The soldier who had said that was looking down at him with pitiful eyes. He didn't belong here. He needed to go back home where he belonged.
Another soldier carrying a gun turned around and looked at him. But this soldier had a different look in his eyes. "Yeah, we should rile it up some. Just to get some action in this place." He took the end of his gun and shoved it in the cage so it punched Tsume's broken and sore ribs. Tsume yelled at first from the unexpected pain but then realized what it was caused from. Lunging at the side of the cage where the soldier was coming from, he growled heavily and tried to attack the gun but only missed as it went out of the cage. Tsume stood on all four of his legs even though his back left one was sore as hell. Growling, he stood his ground and gave the warning to leave him alone.
"Jenel stop it!" The soldier with the pitiful eyes shoved the other soldier away so he couldn't hurt Tsume anymore. "Leave him alone. He never did anything to you."
Jenel looked at him alittle surprised then started laughing. "He hasn't done anything to me but he did do something to our other soldiers who lay dead because of him! Besides, it shouldn't matter what I do to him. He doesn't belong to you."
"And he's not yours to torment either!" With that both of the soldiers remained quite as they continued waiting for further orders. Tsume relaxed alittle and fell back to the ground. He barely had any energy left. If he survived today he surely wouldn't survive tomorrow. Almost wishing they would kill him, he thought back to when they had first caught him. It had all gone by so fast.
Most of his energy had been wiped out by attacking Hige, then Hige left the place and he settled back down. The next hour or so everyone kept quite. Kiba said he got a feeling something wasn't right and he could smell a stench in the air. He said he would be back and he left the area for what seemed like forever. The next minute had gone by so fast; soldiers swarmed the building coming from everywhere and started shooting from different angles. Toboe managed to get out when Tsume made him run on telling him to find Kiba. He turned around and lunged at a few soldiers attacking them and killing them. All he saw for a few seconds or so was blood. It was everywhere. He knew he killed tons of men there. He was about to go after another one when he felt a sharp and painful sting in his leg. Falling to the ground he tried to get back up but was ambushed by tons of them who were hitting them with their guns until he finally passed out. Now he woke up here with tons of wounds.
Wondering where everyone was, he suspected they were going after Paradise again. But he also figured Toboe wouldn't let them leave without Tsume. He didn't even know if Hige was with them. He could still be out there wondering the street with his new human friend Konis. This was what happened when human knew who you were. This was most likely Konis's doing. He told them where they were staying and made them feel okay while he fed them meat and made Hige believe him as a friend. Then he betrayed him while he was acting as a friend.
Tsume sighed and looked back to the soldiers. He could smell someone knew they were coming to the area. He smelled again and recognized the scent as the leader from earlier that day. Lifting his head up he saw the leader walking over to the area where he was. He had a nervous look as he glanced down to Tsume. He knew that if Tsume were to get loose he could tear him apart within seconds. That was why so many soldiers were told to surround the area. If it weren't for all the locks on his cage, he would have been free by now.
"What is it?" A soldier asked.
"We're heading out into the city."
Great.
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Something just didn't seem right. There was just something that was wrong. Hige walked along the streets searching for the explanation. All last night he had felt like this and all this morning he had. He sensed something. He wasn't sure what it really was but he knew it was something.
He looked from left to right and back again to try and see anything that stuck out. Nothing. Everything looked normal from his point of view. The buildings were all held together and all the people were walking and talking normal. He didn't get sleep all night as he lay there trying to think of anything that wouldn't be right. Kiba and Toboe never sensed it for they slept peacefully under a giant oak tree. Hige though wandered all around the Grove trying to think. After a while his body grew tired and he fell down by the pond and lay there.
A sad feeling was inside him as he tried to think of anything that wouldn't be right. Maybe they had killed Tsume and he sensed it. Maybe, but whatever it was he felt an intense sadness within him.
Deciding it would be best; he headed in the direction where Konis usually was selling hotdogs and stuff. Hurrying up, he maneuvered through the crowds of people trying not to hit anyone. He could hear that bell of it. Man that thing was annoying. What was the use of it anyways? He could smell the meat getting closer and closer. If it weren't for him feeling so immensely sad, he would have been starving by now.
He could see Konis's back by now and Jaker's face as he handed Konis another box of meet. Jaker too, looked alittle sad. Reaching Konis, Hige came up from behind him and stared at his back for a second. His sadness greatened as Konis turned around to look at him.
"What do you want Hige?" Hige was alittle astonished at what Konis had asked. He usually was always so upright and happy. Today he just looked tired, sad and in pain. "Konis?" He also had bruises on his face and his right cheek was swelled up. It looked as though he fell down a hill, got tramped by a stampede of cattle, attacked by a wild animal, then repeated the process all over again.
"Oh my face? Nothing to worry about. Just got in a little fight is all." He turned with his back towards Hige once again obviously not wanting to talk to him. He seemed like there was something with him that he didn't want to mention at all. He looked as though he didn't care about anyone or anything. It was starting to worry Hige.
"You look terrible." Hige said. Well it was a start. He had to get Konis to say something. Figuring Konis would just ask 'why' he waited for the answer but didn't get the one he was expecting.
"Yeah well you don't look so hot yourself. You look tired and hazy." Hige grumbled.
"What's the matter with you and who did you get in a fight with?" He was demanding an answer by now if it meant to throw him over a side of a cliff. He would do anything to get him to talk about what happened.
Konis looked at Jaker then asked, "Can I have a quick minute real fast?" Jaker turned to him and nodded. Konis then set the box of meet on the ground and walked by Hige motioning for him to follow. Hige felt alittle weird but followed anyways. Konis lead him to an alley where there wasn't any noise and commotion.
"Seriously Konis what has gotten into you?!"
Konis looked at Hige with a heavily sad look on his face. "Hige, you have to listen to me. You need to get out of this city now."
Hige looked at him alittle weird. "Now your all nice and worried? But why should I leave? I'm going to leave anyways. Me and my brothers just have to wait for those soldiers to let us leave."
"That's the point. My brother, you know the one I told you about a while back?" Hige nodded and waited for what he had to say next. "My brother, he's a soldier. He works for the same people who are keeping everyone in the city. He thinks you're a wolf."
Hige gasped and looked at Konis with a terrified look. He look altered as he realized what Konis was saying. "Wait a minute! Why should I leave the city? I'm not a wolf and he can't prove that!"
"You don't get it! My brother doesn't care if you're a human or an animal. If he thinks you're a wolf he'll kill you! I don't want to see you get hurt so you must leave."
"I don't care! I'm staying here if he likes it or not. I'm not going to let some soldier decide where I live just because he thinks I'm something else. I'm not going to let my life get run by someone else so easily!"
"Hige you have to understand. My brother was at the house last night. He kicked my ass because I wouldn't tell him where you lived. I didn't want to see you get hurt."
"You're just like every other human! You don't want to help me! You just want me to leave so you don't have to suffer me getting killed. It's all about you isn't it?" Hige wouldn't let Konis say anything else and turned around and ran out of the alley headed back to the Grove. He didn't care what Konis had to say or not. He didn't want to believe him. This couldn't be the end to the friendship they had created. He wouldn't leave just like that. He could withstand any person who tried to kill him. He felt really sorry for Konis about him getting beat up by his brother just so his older brother wouldn't know where he was, but he wouldn't let his life he run by a human.
Hige ran along the trail at full speed not looking back or to the side. He just wanted to get back to the Grove. He knew Konis was right about what he was saying. Deciding what to do, Hige considered Konis right and decided it would be best to leave. They just had to get Tsume back. Hige could see the sight of the trees in sight and knew this would be the last time he would probley see it. If it weren't for the tears welling up in his eyes and his nose getting runny, he would have been able to smell the scent of the trap that lay ahead of him.
Hige finally slowed to a walk as he continued to the Grove. He had to warn Kiba and Toboe. They had to all find Tsume today because he didn't think they would have another chance at it. The tears started coming in his eyes, as he knew he would never see Konis again. Ever. He was leaving to Paradise and he would never come back to this city no matter what.
He entered the tree area and struggled to get through them. Entering the large peaceful area, he saw Toboe chasing birds and Kiba sleeping by the pond where small fished jumped up in the air to catch bugs then fell back in. Walking over to Kiba, Hige poked him a few times to wake him up from his deep slumber.
"Kiba get up." Kiba opened his eyes and looked up at Hige and growled slightly. "Well you've slept all day and night. You can't be that tired."
"What do you want?" Kiba sat up and glared at Hige who had a sad look on his face. "What's wrong?"
Hige hesitated on telling him what was really on his mind. He didn't want to face the fact or say it. "Kiba, we have to find Tsume today. When we do, no matter what the risk is we have to get out of the city."
Kiba looked at him confused. He wasn't sure what he was talking about. Wouldn't he want to stay because of Konis? "Why? We'll leave when we feel like it. But those soldiers are all over the place. It should only be about another week before they finally give up on trying to find us."
"This one person is after us and if we don't leave he will find us. We don't have a week. I don't even think we have a day! Don't underestimate him. Someone was telling me today of how dangerous he is. We have to get out of here before he hurts us or worse." Hige got up without looking at Kiba and walked over to Toboe and told him about leaving. Kiba still didn't understand about what he was saying but knew he was right. He wouldn't want to ditch a really good friend just for nothing. Even though it meant their life, he would at least risk his to be with the friend. Unless he was a human though. In that case he would ditch him easily.
Kiba stood up and walked over to Hige and Toboe who were both discussing the matter. Toboe didn't seem to get the idea why they were leaving but had a feeling he was serious.
"We'd better hurry and find him. We don't have much time." Hige said as he sniffed the air. As if one time, he caught a slight scent of Tsume and started running towards it. "He's near here! Come on." Kiba and Toboe ran behind him as he led them out of the trees and into a tall-grassed area. They ran for a bit dodging sticks in the earth. Finally they entered an area with tall shrubs and found Tsume inside tied up at his feet and ankles. What were the chances of him all of a sudden appearing at this moment? Odd, it seemed kind of weird and out of place.
"Tsume!" Toboe yelled and ran over to him. He pulled the ropes off his wrists and watched as he removed the rope from his ankles.
"Why the hell did you come here?" Tsume asked looking at Hige and Kiba.
"What?" They both asked.
"Get away from here before--," he couldn't even finish his sentence before tons of soldiers came in the area out of nowhere. One, that looked almost like Konis, started throwing a laughing fit as he saw the shocked look on their faces.
"You thought you could leave the city so easily did you?"
Kiba and Hige growled at him and stood still judging what he was going to do next. "Finally I caught my wolves."
"Your wolves? How could we belong to you?" Hige asked while he stepped aside from some soldiers closing around him.
"Hold off!" The soldiers who were surrounding him drew back and waited for further command. "You will belong to me by the time I get you caught. Once I catch you, you're mine for good and theirs no stopping that."
Hige growled then said, "You look like someone I know. Who are you?"
Shnown chuckled then said, "Oh you must be thinking of Konis right? Yes, I'm Konis's older brother Shnown. He wouldn't tell me who you were and where you were so I tried to force it out of him. It shocked me how much more abuse he could handle."
Hige grew angry as he listened to what he said. "How could you do that?" He watched as Shnown gave him a confused look then continued. "How could you hurt your own brother? One you are supposed to protect and care for all your life. How could you do that to my friend?"
Kiba and Tsume watched in shock as they realized that Konis never would tell him about them. They both almost felt sorry for him. No person should live like that. No person should have to live with a person like their sibling hurting them everyday. Nobody should be sentenced to something like that. Not even a human.
"Boys, get those three and leave this one to me. He seems like the challenge I've been waiting for." He looked at Hige while tons of soldiers rushed in on Kiba, Toboe and Tsume as they held some kind of dart gun at them. Hige watched in horror as tons of darts flew at them and hit them all in the neck making them Kiba to the ground while Tsume and Toboe just fell back from already being seated on the floor. He half expected a dart or two to fly at him but found himself alone.
"What the hell do you think you're doing?!" He screamed at Shnown who stood snickering.
"We gave them a tiny dart that should paralyze them for about 10 minutes. They're aware of everything around them, but they can't move. It gives us all enough time to tie them all down and shove them in some of our best quality cages. You should all like them fine." He moved forward towards Hige then said, "Now it's time for me to take care of you."
After Tsume, Kiba and Toboe were all tied up, they were all shoved inside on giant cage with all facing Hige and with their eyes pleading for him to get out of the way as Shnown came after him with a gun.
Hige watched closely as Shnown pointed the gun at him. He studied every movement of Shnown. He waited for him to fire the aimed gun that faced him. He heard it before he could feel the instinct to move. The sound of a great explosion then the feeling to move. He put all of the energy he had into him and jumped to the left. The bullet only grazed his leg as he fell to earth's floor from all the pain.
Shnown laughed as he watched Hige cringe from all the pain flowing through him. He watched and laughed from the pain he was watching. Though he saw Hige as a human, he knew he was a wolf. He knew a wolf just by looking at them. He was cast under a spell of some sort. Everyone was.
"You going to give up so soon?" He asked as Hige remained on the floor.
Hige gave him a sharp glare and sat up. With all his might he forced himself to stand up. He wasn't going to let this human control him like he did to his friend. He stood up on his legs with his back slouched so he looked like some caveman. Shnown smiled then raised the gun to his eye and aimed it at Hige. This time he wanted to kill him. He aimed it at his head that was at a regular person's chest level. Hige looked away knowing this was it. It wasn't worth the struggle. He knew in the end Shnown would get him.
Hige waited for the bullet to hit him. He saw Shnown out of the corner of his eye get ready to pull the trigger. He almost could hear Toboe, Kiba and Tsume's screaming voices for him to move. He didn't care. These were his final moments.
"NO!!!" Hige's eyes shot open as that voice rang through his head. He looked at Shnown and then realized Konis stood in his way as the shot rang through the air and hit Konis right in his chest. Hige stopped breathing as he realized what had just happened. Konis, just saved his life.
Konis fell to the floor as his knees buckled from under him. "Konis," Hige breathed. Konis lay on his stomach not breathing but gasping for air. Hige knelt by Konis and moved him on his back so that their eyes could meet for one last time as Konis took his very last breaths. "Konis, why did you do that?" Hige choked as the tears welled up in his eyes.
"I just saved your life. You have y-your little brother. T-t-t-take care of him like a-an ol-der brother w-w-would."
Hige choked up a major sob and put his hand on Konis's bullet wound that pierced through his lung. Konis looked down to Hige's hand and coughed up a sob himself. "I don't want to die." He closed his eyes tight and cried silently.
Hige watched him and decided that since Konis was his friend, he would tell him anything. "Konis, open your eyes. I have to show you something."
Konis opened his teary eyes and watched as Hige let go of his illusion and showed his true nature as a wolf. "Hige?" Konis asked. Hige whined and brought his head down to Konis's cheek. He whimpered as Konis reached his arms around Hige's wolf neck and hugged him tightly. "Thank you," he whispered so only Hige could hear him. Hige laid next to Konis and put his head on Konis's wound to try and stop it from bleeding. The blood from Konis washed around Hige as Konis's life slowly faded away into darkness. Hige whined and cried a shallow and sad wolf song, as he wanted Konis to live. If he could, he would have let Konis live and him die. It just wasn't right.
He slowly felt Konis's arms loosen and the sound of his heart stop. Hige picked his head up and looked down to his face to see his eyes closed. He had finally passed on. Hige sat up with the blood on his wolf chin and lifted his head in the air and gave a dark lonely a mournful howl to anyone around him. Shnown stood by himself alittle shocked he killed his brother. He didn't want to believe it though. The wolf did it! If it weren't for the wolf meeting his brother it wouldn't have happened. Shnown smiled and raised the gun to his eye and aimed it at Hige who had his back to him.
If it weren't for some voice inside Hige's head, he wouldn't have known about Shnown. He whirled his body around and charged Shnown who still had that sly grin on his face. Hige's mouth fit around Shnown's neck and squeezed down. Shnown fell to the floor with Hige still on him and finally closed his eyes forever.
After Hige knew he was dead, he looked at the remaining solders around him and charged at them too. He didn't want any of them to live. They all needed to die. One by one, he killed each of them out of all the revenge he ever wanted. He felt guilty for each life he took, but he did it anyways. Some ran before he could even kill them, but he killed the ones he could. He did if for Konis. He could hear Konis yelling for him to stop, but his jaws just kept finding another throat. After he finally killed the last man, he was covered in blood. Looking over to where the cage was, he limped over to it and picked at the locks. Finally he opened it up and each of the wolves slowly crawled out as the dart began to wear out.
Kiba stood up on his shaky wolf legs and looked Hige in the eye. 'Hige, I'm so sorry.' He whined as he looked at Konis's body. Walking over to Konis's body and stumbling here and there, he sat next to him and howled just as Hige had done before. He was soon joined by Hige, Toboe and Tsume as they all cried over his death. Yes it was a human, but Kiba accepted the fact that he was Hige's friend. And if it were Hige's friend it would also be his. All Konis wanted to do was to protect Hige. Not kill him. Just like any friend would want to do. Protect their friends.
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Konis- "I died? Why me?"
Hige- "The author is crazy."
Author- "Hey! And I might still need you for the next chapter Konis. You'll be here and there as a spirit I guess."
Konis- "Oh yeah! See she loves me so much because I'm cute."
Hige- "No, I'm the cute one!"
Tsume- "No, I'M THE CU---,"
Author, Kiba, Toboe, Hige, Konis- "......"
Author- "Anyways... lets read the script."
Toboe- "You changed it again?"
Author- "Tsume is starting to act weird so I think we should kill him"
Tsume- "I can't die!"
Author- "Joking!"
Well I hope you liked this chapter. It was rushed wasn't it? Tell me, tell me! I want to know if it was rushed because I think it was. I'm not good at writing those kinds of chapters. Sorry if it was too sad. It was a tearjerker for me.
Kiba- smiles and holds a 'REVIEW' sign
Hige- "THE AUTHOR IS CRAZY!!!"
Author- uses his head as an elbow rest "A heh, just review me. Don't listen to him. But I won't make you, I'll just stalk you if you don't. I already am stalking one person for them to continue (you know who you are). She's my stalkee!"
I'm really tired right now and at the same time I'm watching Wolf's Rain. I got the Series thingy last night and this is my second time watching it. I always have to watch Wolf's Rain or something while I write about WR. I record it every Saturday so I can rewatch it about 10 times. I watched episode 11 about 15 times because the ending was so sad at the end. You know, the one with Darcia and those lazar thingies. That one was sad.
You may want to have tissues for this chapter. I'm trying to not make it so sad but you might want them if you cry easily. You'll find out why at the end. Well I'd better let you get to the story now!
But thank you so so so so much for the reviews! I love them so much. Sorry if this chapter is alittle, rushed. I just want to get to the end and my brother is getting me pissed of and I keep yelling at him and I keep getting even more pissed.
Tsume glanced around the cage looked at the 10 different soldiers surrounding the cage he was stuck in. One of the soldiers glanced down at him then looked back to the outside. Damn soldiers. Before they had caught Tsume they shot him in the leg to prevent him of attacking any more. No matter how hard he tried to get up and escape, they just kept sending him to the ground. Now he had tons of bruises, cuts and broken bones around him.
Lying still on his side, Tsume listened to every breath that each soldier took as they awaited the commands of the head soldier also known as the leader. Earlier in the day the head soldier had told them to prepare to move into the city. He didn't know what they wanted more in the city beside the wolves but the leader had said that the wolf was needed.
"That wolf sure has tired out since the day before yesterday. He was all riled up but now he's almost as good as dead." The soldier who had said that was looking down at him with pitiful eyes. He didn't belong here. He needed to go back home where he belonged.
Another soldier carrying a gun turned around and looked at him. But this soldier had a different look in his eyes. "Yeah, we should rile it up some. Just to get some action in this place." He took the end of his gun and shoved it in the cage so it punched Tsume's broken and sore ribs. Tsume yelled at first from the unexpected pain but then realized what it was caused from. Lunging at the side of the cage where the soldier was coming from, he growled heavily and tried to attack the gun but only missed as it went out of the cage. Tsume stood on all four of his legs even though his back left one was sore as hell. Growling, he stood his ground and gave the warning to leave him alone.
"Jenel stop it!" The soldier with the pitiful eyes shoved the other soldier away so he couldn't hurt Tsume anymore. "Leave him alone. He never did anything to you."
Jenel looked at him alittle surprised then started laughing. "He hasn't done anything to me but he did do something to our other soldiers who lay dead because of him! Besides, it shouldn't matter what I do to him. He doesn't belong to you."
"And he's not yours to torment either!" With that both of the soldiers remained quite as they continued waiting for further orders. Tsume relaxed alittle and fell back to the ground. He barely had any energy left. If he survived today he surely wouldn't survive tomorrow. Almost wishing they would kill him, he thought back to when they had first caught him. It had all gone by so fast.
Most of his energy had been wiped out by attacking Hige, then Hige left the place and he settled back down. The next hour or so everyone kept quite. Kiba said he got a feeling something wasn't right and he could smell a stench in the air. He said he would be back and he left the area for what seemed like forever. The next minute had gone by so fast; soldiers swarmed the building coming from everywhere and started shooting from different angles. Toboe managed to get out when Tsume made him run on telling him to find Kiba. He turned around and lunged at a few soldiers attacking them and killing them. All he saw for a few seconds or so was blood. It was everywhere. He knew he killed tons of men there. He was about to go after another one when he felt a sharp and painful sting in his leg. Falling to the ground he tried to get back up but was ambushed by tons of them who were hitting them with their guns until he finally passed out. Now he woke up here with tons of wounds.
Wondering where everyone was, he suspected they were going after Paradise again. But he also figured Toboe wouldn't let them leave without Tsume. He didn't even know if Hige was with them. He could still be out there wondering the street with his new human friend Konis. This was what happened when human knew who you were. This was most likely Konis's doing. He told them where they were staying and made them feel okay while he fed them meat and made Hige believe him as a friend. Then he betrayed him while he was acting as a friend.
Tsume sighed and looked back to the soldiers. He could smell someone knew they were coming to the area. He smelled again and recognized the scent as the leader from earlier that day. Lifting his head up he saw the leader walking over to the area where he was. He had a nervous look as he glanced down to Tsume. He knew that if Tsume were to get loose he could tear him apart within seconds. That was why so many soldiers were told to surround the area. If it weren't for all the locks on his cage, he would have been free by now.
"What is it?" A soldier asked.
"We're heading out into the city."
Great.
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Something just didn't seem right. There was just something that was wrong. Hige walked along the streets searching for the explanation. All last night he had felt like this and all this morning he had. He sensed something. He wasn't sure what it really was but he knew it was something.
He looked from left to right and back again to try and see anything that stuck out. Nothing. Everything looked normal from his point of view. The buildings were all held together and all the people were walking and talking normal. He didn't get sleep all night as he lay there trying to think of anything that wouldn't be right. Kiba and Toboe never sensed it for they slept peacefully under a giant oak tree. Hige though wandered all around the Grove trying to think. After a while his body grew tired and he fell down by the pond and lay there.
A sad feeling was inside him as he tried to think of anything that wouldn't be right. Maybe they had killed Tsume and he sensed it. Maybe, but whatever it was he felt an intense sadness within him.
Deciding it would be best; he headed in the direction where Konis usually was selling hotdogs and stuff. Hurrying up, he maneuvered through the crowds of people trying not to hit anyone. He could hear that bell of it. Man that thing was annoying. What was the use of it anyways? He could smell the meat getting closer and closer. If it weren't for him feeling so immensely sad, he would have been starving by now.
He could see Konis's back by now and Jaker's face as he handed Konis another box of meet. Jaker too, looked alittle sad. Reaching Konis, Hige came up from behind him and stared at his back for a second. His sadness greatened as Konis turned around to look at him.
"What do you want Hige?" Hige was alittle astonished at what Konis had asked. He usually was always so upright and happy. Today he just looked tired, sad and in pain. "Konis?" He also had bruises on his face and his right cheek was swelled up. It looked as though he fell down a hill, got tramped by a stampede of cattle, attacked by a wild animal, then repeated the process all over again.
"Oh my face? Nothing to worry about. Just got in a little fight is all." He turned with his back towards Hige once again obviously not wanting to talk to him. He seemed like there was something with him that he didn't want to mention at all. He looked as though he didn't care about anyone or anything. It was starting to worry Hige.
"You look terrible." Hige said. Well it was a start. He had to get Konis to say something. Figuring Konis would just ask 'why' he waited for the answer but didn't get the one he was expecting.
"Yeah well you don't look so hot yourself. You look tired and hazy." Hige grumbled.
"What's the matter with you and who did you get in a fight with?" He was demanding an answer by now if it meant to throw him over a side of a cliff. He would do anything to get him to talk about what happened.
Konis looked at Jaker then asked, "Can I have a quick minute real fast?" Jaker turned to him and nodded. Konis then set the box of meet on the ground and walked by Hige motioning for him to follow. Hige felt alittle weird but followed anyways. Konis lead him to an alley where there wasn't any noise and commotion.
"Seriously Konis what has gotten into you?!"
Konis looked at Hige with a heavily sad look on his face. "Hige, you have to listen to me. You need to get out of this city now."
Hige looked at him alittle weird. "Now your all nice and worried? But why should I leave? I'm going to leave anyways. Me and my brothers just have to wait for those soldiers to let us leave."
"That's the point. My brother, you know the one I told you about a while back?" Hige nodded and waited for what he had to say next. "My brother, he's a soldier. He works for the same people who are keeping everyone in the city. He thinks you're a wolf."
Hige gasped and looked at Konis with a terrified look. He look altered as he realized what Konis was saying. "Wait a minute! Why should I leave the city? I'm not a wolf and he can't prove that!"
"You don't get it! My brother doesn't care if you're a human or an animal. If he thinks you're a wolf he'll kill you! I don't want to see you get hurt so you must leave."
"I don't care! I'm staying here if he likes it or not. I'm not going to let some soldier decide where I live just because he thinks I'm something else. I'm not going to let my life get run by someone else so easily!"
"Hige you have to understand. My brother was at the house last night. He kicked my ass because I wouldn't tell him where you lived. I didn't want to see you get hurt."
"You're just like every other human! You don't want to help me! You just want me to leave so you don't have to suffer me getting killed. It's all about you isn't it?" Hige wouldn't let Konis say anything else and turned around and ran out of the alley headed back to the Grove. He didn't care what Konis had to say or not. He didn't want to believe him. This couldn't be the end to the friendship they had created. He wouldn't leave just like that. He could withstand any person who tried to kill him. He felt really sorry for Konis about him getting beat up by his brother just so his older brother wouldn't know where he was, but he wouldn't let his life he run by a human.
Hige ran along the trail at full speed not looking back or to the side. He just wanted to get back to the Grove. He knew Konis was right about what he was saying. Deciding what to do, Hige considered Konis right and decided it would be best to leave. They just had to get Tsume back. Hige could see the sight of the trees in sight and knew this would be the last time he would probley see it. If it weren't for the tears welling up in his eyes and his nose getting runny, he would have been able to smell the scent of the trap that lay ahead of him.
Hige finally slowed to a walk as he continued to the Grove. He had to warn Kiba and Toboe. They had to all find Tsume today because he didn't think they would have another chance at it. The tears started coming in his eyes, as he knew he would never see Konis again. Ever. He was leaving to Paradise and he would never come back to this city no matter what.
He entered the tree area and struggled to get through them. Entering the large peaceful area, he saw Toboe chasing birds and Kiba sleeping by the pond where small fished jumped up in the air to catch bugs then fell back in. Walking over to Kiba, Hige poked him a few times to wake him up from his deep slumber.
"Kiba get up." Kiba opened his eyes and looked up at Hige and growled slightly. "Well you've slept all day and night. You can't be that tired."
"What do you want?" Kiba sat up and glared at Hige who had a sad look on his face. "What's wrong?"
Hige hesitated on telling him what was really on his mind. He didn't want to face the fact or say it. "Kiba, we have to find Tsume today. When we do, no matter what the risk is we have to get out of the city."
Kiba looked at him confused. He wasn't sure what he was talking about. Wouldn't he want to stay because of Konis? "Why? We'll leave when we feel like it. But those soldiers are all over the place. It should only be about another week before they finally give up on trying to find us."
"This one person is after us and if we don't leave he will find us. We don't have a week. I don't even think we have a day! Don't underestimate him. Someone was telling me today of how dangerous he is. We have to get out of here before he hurts us or worse." Hige got up without looking at Kiba and walked over to Toboe and told him about leaving. Kiba still didn't understand about what he was saying but knew he was right. He wouldn't want to ditch a really good friend just for nothing. Even though it meant their life, he would at least risk his to be with the friend. Unless he was a human though. In that case he would ditch him easily.
Kiba stood up and walked over to Hige and Toboe who were both discussing the matter. Toboe didn't seem to get the idea why they were leaving but had a feeling he was serious.
"We'd better hurry and find him. We don't have much time." Hige said as he sniffed the air. As if one time, he caught a slight scent of Tsume and started running towards it. "He's near here! Come on." Kiba and Toboe ran behind him as he led them out of the trees and into a tall-grassed area. They ran for a bit dodging sticks in the earth. Finally they entered an area with tall shrubs and found Tsume inside tied up at his feet and ankles. What were the chances of him all of a sudden appearing at this moment? Odd, it seemed kind of weird and out of place.
"Tsume!" Toboe yelled and ran over to him. He pulled the ropes off his wrists and watched as he removed the rope from his ankles.
"Why the hell did you come here?" Tsume asked looking at Hige and Kiba.
"What?" They both asked.
"Get away from here before--," he couldn't even finish his sentence before tons of soldiers came in the area out of nowhere. One, that looked almost like Konis, started throwing a laughing fit as he saw the shocked look on their faces.
"You thought you could leave the city so easily did you?"
Kiba and Hige growled at him and stood still judging what he was going to do next. "Finally I caught my wolves."
"Your wolves? How could we belong to you?" Hige asked while he stepped aside from some soldiers closing around him.
"Hold off!" The soldiers who were surrounding him drew back and waited for further command. "You will belong to me by the time I get you caught. Once I catch you, you're mine for good and theirs no stopping that."
Hige growled then said, "You look like someone I know. Who are you?"
Shnown chuckled then said, "Oh you must be thinking of Konis right? Yes, I'm Konis's older brother Shnown. He wouldn't tell me who you were and where you were so I tried to force it out of him. It shocked me how much more abuse he could handle."
Hige grew angry as he listened to what he said. "How could you do that?" He watched as Shnown gave him a confused look then continued. "How could you hurt your own brother? One you are supposed to protect and care for all your life. How could you do that to my friend?"
Kiba and Tsume watched in shock as they realized that Konis never would tell him about them. They both almost felt sorry for him. No person should live like that. No person should have to live with a person like their sibling hurting them everyday. Nobody should be sentenced to something like that. Not even a human.
"Boys, get those three and leave this one to me. He seems like the challenge I've been waiting for." He looked at Hige while tons of soldiers rushed in on Kiba, Toboe and Tsume as they held some kind of dart gun at them. Hige watched in horror as tons of darts flew at them and hit them all in the neck making them Kiba to the ground while Tsume and Toboe just fell back from already being seated on the floor. He half expected a dart or two to fly at him but found himself alone.
"What the hell do you think you're doing?!" He screamed at Shnown who stood snickering.
"We gave them a tiny dart that should paralyze them for about 10 minutes. They're aware of everything around them, but they can't move. It gives us all enough time to tie them all down and shove them in some of our best quality cages. You should all like them fine." He moved forward towards Hige then said, "Now it's time for me to take care of you."
After Tsume, Kiba and Toboe were all tied up, they were all shoved inside on giant cage with all facing Hige and with their eyes pleading for him to get out of the way as Shnown came after him with a gun.
Hige watched closely as Shnown pointed the gun at him. He studied every movement of Shnown. He waited for him to fire the aimed gun that faced him. He heard it before he could feel the instinct to move. The sound of a great explosion then the feeling to move. He put all of the energy he had into him and jumped to the left. The bullet only grazed his leg as he fell to earth's floor from all the pain.
Shnown laughed as he watched Hige cringe from all the pain flowing through him. He watched and laughed from the pain he was watching. Though he saw Hige as a human, he knew he was a wolf. He knew a wolf just by looking at them. He was cast under a spell of some sort. Everyone was.
"You going to give up so soon?" He asked as Hige remained on the floor.
Hige gave him a sharp glare and sat up. With all his might he forced himself to stand up. He wasn't going to let this human control him like he did to his friend. He stood up on his legs with his back slouched so he looked like some caveman. Shnown smiled then raised the gun to his eye and aimed it at Hige. This time he wanted to kill him. He aimed it at his head that was at a regular person's chest level. Hige looked away knowing this was it. It wasn't worth the struggle. He knew in the end Shnown would get him.
Hige waited for the bullet to hit him. He saw Shnown out of the corner of his eye get ready to pull the trigger. He almost could hear Toboe, Kiba and Tsume's screaming voices for him to move. He didn't care. These were his final moments.
"NO!!!" Hige's eyes shot open as that voice rang through his head. He looked at Shnown and then realized Konis stood in his way as the shot rang through the air and hit Konis right in his chest. Hige stopped breathing as he realized what had just happened. Konis, just saved his life.
Konis fell to the floor as his knees buckled from under him. "Konis," Hige breathed. Konis lay on his stomach not breathing but gasping for air. Hige knelt by Konis and moved him on his back so that their eyes could meet for one last time as Konis took his very last breaths. "Konis, why did you do that?" Hige choked as the tears welled up in his eyes.
"I just saved your life. You have y-your little brother. T-t-t-take care of him like a-an ol-der brother w-w-would."
Hige choked up a major sob and put his hand on Konis's bullet wound that pierced through his lung. Konis looked down to Hige's hand and coughed up a sob himself. "I don't want to die." He closed his eyes tight and cried silently.
Hige watched him and decided that since Konis was his friend, he would tell him anything. "Konis, open your eyes. I have to show you something."
Konis opened his teary eyes and watched as Hige let go of his illusion and showed his true nature as a wolf. "Hige?" Konis asked. Hige whined and brought his head down to Konis's cheek. He whimpered as Konis reached his arms around Hige's wolf neck and hugged him tightly. "Thank you," he whispered so only Hige could hear him. Hige laid next to Konis and put his head on Konis's wound to try and stop it from bleeding. The blood from Konis washed around Hige as Konis's life slowly faded away into darkness. Hige whined and cried a shallow and sad wolf song, as he wanted Konis to live. If he could, he would have let Konis live and him die. It just wasn't right.
He slowly felt Konis's arms loosen and the sound of his heart stop. Hige picked his head up and looked down to his face to see his eyes closed. He had finally passed on. Hige sat up with the blood on his wolf chin and lifted his head in the air and gave a dark lonely a mournful howl to anyone around him. Shnown stood by himself alittle shocked he killed his brother. He didn't want to believe it though. The wolf did it! If it weren't for the wolf meeting his brother it wouldn't have happened. Shnown smiled and raised the gun to his eye and aimed it at Hige who had his back to him.
If it weren't for some voice inside Hige's head, he wouldn't have known about Shnown. He whirled his body around and charged Shnown who still had that sly grin on his face. Hige's mouth fit around Shnown's neck and squeezed down. Shnown fell to the floor with Hige still on him and finally closed his eyes forever.
After Hige knew he was dead, he looked at the remaining solders around him and charged at them too. He didn't want any of them to live. They all needed to die. One by one, he killed each of them out of all the revenge he ever wanted. He felt guilty for each life he took, but he did it anyways. Some ran before he could even kill them, but he killed the ones he could. He did if for Konis. He could hear Konis yelling for him to stop, but his jaws just kept finding another throat. After he finally killed the last man, he was covered in blood. Looking over to where the cage was, he limped over to it and picked at the locks. Finally he opened it up and each of the wolves slowly crawled out as the dart began to wear out.
Kiba stood up on his shaky wolf legs and looked Hige in the eye. 'Hige, I'm so sorry.' He whined as he looked at Konis's body. Walking over to Konis's body and stumbling here and there, he sat next to him and howled just as Hige had done before. He was soon joined by Hige, Toboe and Tsume as they all cried over his death. Yes it was a human, but Kiba accepted the fact that he was Hige's friend. And if it were Hige's friend it would also be his. All Konis wanted to do was to protect Hige. Not kill him. Just like any friend would want to do. Protect their friends.
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Konis- "I died? Why me?"
Hige- "The author is crazy."
Author- "Hey! And I might still need you for the next chapter Konis. You'll be here and there as a spirit I guess."
Konis- "Oh yeah! See she loves me so much because I'm cute."
Hige- "No, I'm the cute one!"
Tsume- "No, I'M THE CU---,"
Author, Kiba, Toboe, Hige, Konis- "......"
Author- "Anyways... lets read the script."
Toboe- "You changed it again?"
Author- "Tsume is starting to act weird so I think we should kill him"
Tsume- "I can't die!"
Author- "Joking!"
Well I hope you liked this chapter. It was rushed wasn't it? Tell me, tell me! I want to know if it was rushed because I think it was. I'm not good at writing those kinds of chapters. Sorry if it was too sad. It was a tearjerker for me.
Kiba- smiles and holds a 'REVIEW' sign
Hige- "THE AUTHOR IS CRAZY!!!"
Author- uses his head as an elbow rest "A heh, just review me. Don't listen to him. But I won't make you, I'll just stalk you if you don't. I already am stalking one person for them to continue (you know who you are). She's my stalkee!"