Chapter 17-The Handsome Yukio

The icy blizzard stung Hige's face.Yukio laughed at this as the snow-filled wind blew through his hair. God Hige hated that laugh. Both in their wolf forms, they darted at each other clawing and biting each other.Shives was now about 40 feet in the air but could still see the two fighting and blood staining the snow. She wanted to help Hige.She pulled and thrusted her body forward until the ice shattered around her legs, leaving here dangling in the air.

Hige panted heavily giving all of his attention to Yukio.He hated everything about this guy. He was polite, charming, perfectly built, and most of all, cuter than him.

What Hige didn't know was, Yukio was psychic. He listened to everything Hige thought and smiled.

"You know who's going to win, don't you Hige? The good guy. The prince if I may say. Yet the only wolf I see who could be as charming who possibly be me!"

"Shut up! I'm just going to kill, get my friend back and leave."

"Oh! She's your friend. Then why do you want to save her? If you love her, I would understand."

"Look! I'm not here to talk, so shut up already!"

"No wonder she could never love you. You have such a temper."

Hige growled in pure hate and envy. His thoughts soon changed for the better when Shives came from the heavens and slashed Yukio straight down his back causing blood to fly everywhere.

"Take that you womanizer!" Shives cracked her knunkles.Wait! Did I just call him a womanizer?! She looked at Hige, who was grinning goofy.

"Never expected you to do that. Ow!"

Shives punched him over the head.

"I can't believe you did that?!"

Shives sighed. "Well believe it or not. But, believe that I'm going to kick your butt!" Shives jumped into the air and clawed and scratched Yukio.Hige later joined feeling bored.Yukio kicked the two of them off and ice spikes and heavy snow started to rain on the three of them.

Hige and Shives tried not to scream as the ice cut through their skin and 2510 pounds of snow covered them completely.

"I could have made you my mate, Shives.You could have been my very on ice queen.Oh well." He smiled to himself.

"Ice queen?! You assassin!" Shives pushed her way out of the snow and struggled to get though the blizzard but made it to him.

She used the trick Tsume used on her and tripped Yukio.She sat on top of him biting his arms and clawing his face in pure rage. Her eyes began to water as she flashed back to the snow pile Hige and she was still in.

"Hige? Hige?"Are you alright?"She could barely breathe as the snow kept pulling on them.

Hige lay next to her his eyes were closed. She felt his cheeks. They were cold as stone and were a bluish-purple. She noticed these symptoms.

"Oh God no!" She rubbed his frozen body and hugged him trying to keep him warm but with the heavy snow just made her effort in vain.

"Hige? Please?"

He still didn't respond. First Toboe, No not Hige.She listened to his heart, nothing.She tried to hold back her tears as she stared down at him.Hige, the greedy, always hungry womanizer. He may have been all those things but she loved him. Shives kissed his freezing lips.

"I love you, Hige." She whispered softly.

She snapped out of her flashback when Yukio kicked her in the stomach sending her flying.Yukio's perfect face was now bloody and not so perfect.

"You little wench! You destroyed my face. My beautiful face.!"

Shives landed face first into the snow but she was laughing even if it was muffled.

"What?! Why are you laughing? How dare you laugh at me! I shall destroy you once and for all." He raised his bruised hands to the sky, created a gigantic 23 feet long ice spike and hurled it towards her.

Shives slowly rose as the ice spike drew near at an alarming rate. She looked up at the spike. It was long but thin and with Yukio controlling it saw couldn't out ran it. So she did the only thing she could do.

Shives back was facing the spike and she could hear the once handsome Yukio laugh hysterically. She did a back-flip and perfectly kicked the spike like a soccer ball sending it straight into the ice wolf's heart. She smirked to herself and looked at the pile where Hige laid behind her.

She walked over Yukio when he grabbed her ankle.

"Ice queen, wait." He whispered.

"For the last time I am not an Ice Queen!" She pulled her leg out of his grip. "Why are you still alive?"

"My dear, I most tell you something. It's about the black wolf you seek.Kint."

"What?"

"If you find her, she may not be as she seems."

"My not be as she seems? What's wrong with her?"

"You will soon see.Here, take this." He handed her the same blue rose that she most of dropped before.

"I don't have time for your charms, Yukio."

"It'll be quite useful to you, Shives.Maybe more than you can imagine." He looked in the direction of were Hige was.

"Hige...Toboe."Her eyes narrowed.

"Yes even your Hige and your Toboe, whoever that is, can come back to you. Just get Kint to use, if you can."

"What are you talking about? A rose can't-"

But before she could say anything Yukio melted into clear water and evaporated. Shives stared at the floor where Yukio was and then Hige.She turned around and continued her walk down the gray bricked lane now surrounded by water with black spikes raised out of it.

Shives was alone now, in a world without Hige and Toboe.

(Happiness is everlasting but sadness fades ever so slowly.)