NOTE: Dont kill me if I mistake their personalities a little Xx or if I
call it the ruins... I dun wanna call it the wastelands for some reason,
dont ask... did I mention this fanfic is more of romance? oo sweatdrop
Chapter 3: Ghost of the Ruins
[Morning...]
Kira yawns and slowly sits up. She rubs her eyes and glances around. She notices Kiba awake already. Hige and Toboe were waking up too. And Tsume...
"Where's Tsume??" he was gone. She looks around and notices Toboe shocked when he sees Tsume gone. Hige rubs the sleep out of his eyes and had a confused look on his face.
"Mmhmmm... what's going on?" Hige mumbles.
"Tsume was leaving when I woke up. He said he was going his own way." Kiba answers. "But... Im sure if you catch up with him now, if you want to, he'll come back."
"What??" Toboe (wolf) bolts out of the hole they came from.
"Wait for me, Toboe!!" Kira (wolf too) runs after him.
Hige yawns and scratches his head.
"Well, guess it's just you 'nd me for now." Hige (wolf) tries to push himself through the hole that the others came in from. He didnt want to get out the other way. He manages to get his head and front paws through, but his hind legs were a problem.
"Errrmm.. eeeehh... mind giving me a push, Kiba?" he asks, but before he knew it, he was pushed out. "Heh, thanks."
"Whatever." Kiba (wolf) hops out and walks along to find a nice spot to rest while the others went to find Tsume. He sees a flat icy area and lays down in the middle of it. Hige follows and lays down next to him. They both stare at the sky.
It was silent for a while. They both stared at clouds and shaped them out. Hige breaks the silence.
"Sorry about yesterday, I thought for a second you were going to knock her out." Hige explains.
Kiba was silent for a moment before he spoke.
"To tell you the truth... I was about to." he admits. "I was going to, and leave her there since we didnt need another one following us. But then I remembered something..."
He stops.
"Remembered what?" Hige asks.
"Secret... but if you tell me a secret of your's, I'll tell you it." Kiba seemed to grin slightly.
"Exchange secrets?"
Kiba nods.
"But it has to be use of me, if you tell, I can tell someone." (Kiba)
"Uhh..." Hige thinks. "Okay, I got it, you first."
"No, you."
"Why? You!!"
"Your first."
"No, you."
"But I made up the deal."
"Okay, okay..." Hige turns red slightly. "I think I might like Kira."
Kiba was silent. No expression swept across his face, just a blank stare at the sky.
"I thought she could have been... my sister." he seemed to choke on "sister", but Hige didnt notice.
((For all of you Wolf's Rain freakos who know he doesnt have a sis or someone else is his sis whatever mumbo jumbo, drop it, it's a fanfic.))
"Your sister??" Hige's eyes widen. "I didnt know you had a sis."
"She could be..." Kira looks away from the clouds and turns his face away from Hige. "Im not sure..."
[Meanwhile...]
"Tsume!! Tsume!!" Toboe yells. "Tsume!! Tsume!! Tsssuuuuuummeeeeee!!!"
"I just hope this isnt my fault..." Kira looks down at the ground.
"Hey, hey, it's not your fault." Toboe nudges her head up with his snout. "What makes you think that?"
"Because... he got mad at me last night." a flashback in her head appears of the scene. "I was looking at his face, trying to see if I could recall who he was, because he looked awfully familiar... but then again, Kiba and Tsume both look familiar to me..."
"And?" (Toboe)
"And... he woke up while I was looking at him. He choked me and demanded for why I was doing that, but I couldnt speak. I started to cry... then Kiba... attacked to make him let go. And that was pretty much it."
((Oh shit, just remembered suddenly. Kira is about the age of Toboe.. uhh... a lil older. About the age between Kiba and Toboe.))
"Oh.. I must have been sleeping." Toboe looks up and begins calling for Tsume again.
"Yes, you were..." Kira helps.
"Tsume!! Tsume!!" Toboe howls. "Tsumeeeeeee-huh?"
Toboe steps on something. It looked like a bolt. It sinks into the snow.
"What is it?" Kira asks.
"I dont know, I stepped on something." he shrugs. "Oh well... Tsume!! Tsume!!"
[Tsume...]
Tsume peeks out of a window from a deserted building in the ruins. He could hear his name being called by the two pups.
Hmph, they'll have to give up soon... he thought. He didnt really want to go, but he didnt like the presence of Kira there. He hated her. Hated her for what she had done to him before... No, not the incident at the night. But what she had done to him... in the past.
Luckily she doesnt remember... he grins. Otherwise, she'd probably attacked me by now. Not that I really care...
"Tsummeeeeee!! Tsummmeeeeee!!" Toboe calls out. Tsume peeks out of the window again and notices they've come close enough for him to see them.
"Tsume! Tsume!! Tsume!!!" Kira howls.
Toboe runs up to a cliff sort of thing.
((Kinda like Lion King thing, you know what teh hell mey talkin' about if you've watch Wolf's Rain...))
"Tsummeeeee!!" he howls.
Tsume was about to poke his head back in, untill he notices something moving under the cliff Toboe was standing on.
"Hm?..." he mumbles, but it seemed to come from the back of his throat.
The end of a machine gun could be seen from under a piece of metal, or something. It pokes out and aims at Toboe.
"Oh shit!" Tsume jumps out of the window and jumps to Toboe. The gun shoots.
[Back to Kiba and Hige...]
Kiba's ears perk up and twitch.
"Hm? Hear something?" Hige asks.
"I thought I did... but Im not sure..." Kiba looks back suspisiously.
"So anyways, if she was your sister, why dont you want her to know?" (Hige)
"Because..." Kiba looks back at the clouds. "...of what happened in the past."
"Hmm... what did happen in your past anyways?" Hige curiously asks.
"...Not much..." he begins to have flashbacks of his past. "...Not much at all..."
[Back to Tsume, Kira, and Toboe (now all human now!!)...]
"Tsume, are you alright?" Toboe asks and tries to help the limping wolf. He had been shot in the leg trying to move Toboe out of the way.
"Get away from me!!" Tsume pushes his head away, making him fall to the ground. Kira walks over to him and helps him up.
"Im sorry if I made you mad last night..." Kira says quietly to Tsume. He glares at her.
"I dont care," he growls. "You're better off not knowing why I decided to go my own way."
He continues to walk away.
I wonder why he risked his life to save Toboe... Kira thought. Her and Toboe continue to follow him.
"What was that thing anyways?" Toboe ponders.
"I dont fucking know, but we better get the hell out of here before it comes back..." Tsume stops dead in his tracks. He looks over his shoulder, past the two pups. It was some sort of machine, with red lens sensors, which looked like eyes. It had a huge machine gun-like arm, and moved on one of those army tank kind of things.
Toboe and Kira both slowly turn their heads. The machine stood several feet away from them. Using it's heat sensors, it tracks down the three wolves. It aims it's gun at them, ready to shoot.
"SHIT! RUN!!" Tsume breaks into a run, Toboe and Kira dashing behind him.
The machine shoots at them, all of them dodging all of the hits. It moves forward after the wolves.
The three stop at a drop. It was probably a 3 story drop, but Tsume hesitates with the wound on his leg.
"We're gunna have to jump." he says while moving along forward and jumping off the edge. He lands hard on all four. A sharp pain ran through his whole leg.
"Aaargh..." he mumbles quietly. Moments later, Toboe and Kira hop down to Tsume. They quickly get up and continue running. The machine stops at the edge. It searches around to target the three again. It continues forward and jumps down. Since it was literally a big hunk of metal, it falls down like a huge rock and makes the earth vibrate.
Damn, that doesnt even stop it?? Tsume thinks. Suddenly, the ice below Kira (human) begins to crack. A hole forms under her foot, causing her foot to fall in. Toboe stops and notices this. He runs back to get her. Tsume stops and growls. (okay, everyone human now)
"What now??" he snarls. Toboe makes it over to Kira. Tsume runs back to make sure Toboe would be alright, but when he came close, the ice completely shatters and breaks underneath them, causing the three to fall down into a fairly large opening. It looks like there was once a river there. It was definatly a longer fall than before...
[Back to Kiba and Hige...]
"You dont want to tell me why?" Hige says with a slight whine tone.
"No." Kiba says flatly.
"Aww.." Hige glances back at the sky. "Hey, if she is your sister, you wouldnt mind me liking her, would you?"
Kiba was silent. Hige keeps quiet as well, trying not to be rude.
"Uhhaa... yeah..." Hige looks away and back at the sky. He wonders if he should tell Kira the truth, but still wasnt really sure of his feelings towards her. He suspects that Toboe has feelings for her too, he notices he was acting strangly ever since she came. And now he seemed to care about Kira a lot.
Hige takes a deep breath and sighs. He figures he has to think over if he loved her or not.
[Back to Tsume, Kira, and Toboe...]
Tsume groans. He smelled Kiba near his nose. He stirs slightly before opening his eyes. He looks down at his leg and notices Toboe was licking his wound. He was slightly disgusted.
"Dont touch me!!" he pushes his head away from his leg. He had Kiba's jacket over him, and notices his head was laying on something. He looks up and realizes his head was resting on Kira's lap... but what he saw, he wasnt expecting.
SHIT!! he could see up Kira's tanktop. His face turns a nice shade of red. He looks away, but cant help glancing back at it occationally. He looks around and notices they were in some sort of a small cave.
"Where's the thing that was attacking us?..." Tsume mumbles.
Kira looks down at him and smiles.
"It's okay, it's gone now." Toboe explains. "We should be safe now."
Suddenly, there was a rumbling sound above them. Small chunks of the top of the cave was begining to fall. Seconds later, it stops. Everyone was silent and still. Suddenly the machine appears infront of the cave from above. It had fallen down the cliff. It falls hard with a large "BOOM" and makes the earth shake once again, but this time, it could probably be felt from a mile away.
"What the..." Tsume's eyes grow wide. "THAT FALL DIDNT EVEN STOP IT??"
He sits up and was about to stand up but his wound was keeping him down. They all sit there still, waiting for the machine to spot them.
[Back to Kiba and Hige...]
Kiba bolts upright like he was shocked or something was about to hit him. He starts to growl slightly in the back of his throat. He breaks into a run deeper into the ruins to find Tsume, Kira, and Toboe.
"Hey! Wait!" Hige stands up and trots along behind Kiba, then into a run. "Where are you going??"
Kiba was silent an kept on running. He didnt have time to tell Hige, he just had to get there fast...
[Annddd... back to Tsume, Kira, and Toboe...]
The machine seemed to look around, and finally spots the three. An idea hits Toboe.
"Kira, take Tsume and run. I'll distract the thing so you two can get away." he (wolf) says but before Kira or Tsume could say anything, he runs out of the cave. The machine notices this and turns it's attention to Toboe.
"Come on." Kira gets up, puts Kiba's jacket back on and helps Tsume up. He definatly didnt like Toboe's idea since he had to be stuck with her. But there was nothing else for him to do. He stands up and Kira stands beside him and puts his arm over her shoulders to help him walk.
They both walk out of the cave as fast as Tsume could go. They walk the other direction of where Toboe was distracting the machine.
You better stay alive, Toboe... she thinks.
"Hey!! Over here you big stupid thing!!" Toboe taunts. He runs away from Tsume and Kira who were escaping. Kira glances at Toboe, he looks back. A strange expression swept across her face, which he noticed, and quickly fades away. She turns back around to Tsume.
The machine stops and spots the two escaping. It turns around and moves towards them.
"Hey!" Toboe says annoyed and runs after the machine to get it's attention again.
Tsume trips over something and falls, Kira going down with him. She turns her head to face Tsume.
"Are you okay?" she asks worried.
"Wha' do you care??" he snaps and attempts to get up by himself but that only caused his wound to open up. A puddle of blood starts to form. They both look back and see the machine behind them, ready to shoot. Kira suddenly throws her arms around Tsume's neck and holds on tightly. She was shivering, he could feel it.
It's over... he thinks and puts a hand on her back.
Suddenly, Kiba appears and jumps onto the machine. He bites the gun part and holds on tightly. The machine spins and tries to throw him off. It thrashes hard, throwing Kiba around, but he still held on.
"Hey!!" Kira hears Hige's voice. "Kira! Tsume! Over here!!"
Hige (human) waves and points to a way they could get out. Kira lets go of Tsume, helps him up and both hurry to Hige. Toboe runs over to them and trots along beside Kira, making sure they would make it.
Kiba lets go and goes flying onto a flat surface jabbing out of the edge of the cliff. The machine aims it's gun at him and shoots. He doesnt move. A cloud of snow rises around him from shooting. He emerges from the small cloud with a huge icicle in his mouth. He lands ontop of the machine and stabs it into the gun part. He jumps off and follows where the others escaped.
The sound of water could be heard from a distance. Like a waterfall, a river of water emerges from the path of the river-like cliff. The machine gets hit by the flow and flows along the river...
[Back to the wolves...]
(Everyone wolf now)
The five ran off ahead and away from the ruins. They didnt want to run into the machine again.
(Human...)
Tsume held his leg. It had stopped bleeding and Toboe had wrapped a cloth around it, just like he did to Kira.
"Why..." Tsume growls. "Why did you come save me? And dont say it's because Im your 'friend'..."
"Well that's easy," Kiba says calmly. "It was instinct."
Tsume didnt have anything else to say. He was beat, he didnt have anything else to say back. He turns around and continue on their journey to Paradise. (now wolf)
Kira takes off Kiba's jacket and holds it out to him.
"I dont need it anymore, it's actually quite warmer, enough for me to handle." she smiles. "Thank you, it kept me warm."
A flashback suddenly hits Kiba's mind. It was his sister, smiling at him and giving him his jacket before he went out. But the flashback quickly fades away...
He takes the jacket and smiles slightly back. He throws it over him and slips it on. He (wolf) turns and catches up to Tsume.
The search for my sister... Kiba thinks. ...has ended.
(Everyone wolf now...)
Toboe, Hige, and Kira all run off to catch up with Tsume and Kiba, continuing their journey to Paradise...
End of Chapter 3.
Chapter 3: Ghost of the Ruins
[Morning...]
Kira yawns and slowly sits up. She rubs her eyes and glances around. She notices Kiba awake already. Hige and Toboe were waking up too. And Tsume...
"Where's Tsume??" he was gone. She looks around and notices Toboe shocked when he sees Tsume gone. Hige rubs the sleep out of his eyes and had a confused look on his face.
"Mmhmmm... what's going on?" Hige mumbles.
"Tsume was leaving when I woke up. He said he was going his own way." Kiba answers. "But... Im sure if you catch up with him now, if you want to, he'll come back."
"What??" Toboe (wolf) bolts out of the hole they came from.
"Wait for me, Toboe!!" Kira (wolf too) runs after him.
Hige yawns and scratches his head.
"Well, guess it's just you 'nd me for now." Hige (wolf) tries to push himself through the hole that the others came in from. He didnt want to get out the other way. He manages to get his head and front paws through, but his hind legs were a problem.
"Errrmm.. eeeehh... mind giving me a push, Kiba?" he asks, but before he knew it, he was pushed out. "Heh, thanks."
"Whatever." Kiba (wolf) hops out and walks along to find a nice spot to rest while the others went to find Tsume. He sees a flat icy area and lays down in the middle of it. Hige follows and lays down next to him. They both stare at the sky.
It was silent for a while. They both stared at clouds and shaped them out. Hige breaks the silence.
"Sorry about yesterday, I thought for a second you were going to knock her out." Hige explains.
Kiba was silent for a moment before he spoke.
"To tell you the truth... I was about to." he admits. "I was going to, and leave her there since we didnt need another one following us. But then I remembered something..."
He stops.
"Remembered what?" Hige asks.
"Secret... but if you tell me a secret of your's, I'll tell you it." Kiba seemed to grin slightly.
"Exchange secrets?"
Kiba nods.
"But it has to be use of me, if you tell, I can tell someone." (Kiba)
"Uhh..." Hige thinks. "Okay, I got it, you first."
"No, you."
"Why? You!!"
"Your first."
"No, you."
"But I made up the deal."
"Okay, okay..." Hige turns red slightly. "I think I might like Kira."
Kiba was silent. No expression swept across his face, just a blank stare at the sky.
"I thought she could have been... my sister." he seemed to choke on "sister", but Hige didnt notice.
((For all of you Wolf's Rain freakos who know he doesnt have a sis or someone else is his sis whatever mumbo jumbo, drop it, it's a fanfic.))
"Your sister??" Hige's eyes widen. "I didnt know you had a sis."
"She could be..." Kira looks away from the clouds and turns his face away from Hige. "Im not sure..."
[Meanwhile...]
"Tsume!! Tsume!!" Toboe yells. "Tsume!! Tsume!! Tsssuuuuuummeeeeee!!!"
"I just hope this isnt my fault..." Kira looks down at the ground.
"Hey, hey, it's not your fault." Toboe nudges her head up with his snout. "What makes you think that?"
"Because... he got mad at me last night." a flashback in her head appears of the scene. "I was looking at his face, trying to see if I could recall who he was, because he looked awfully familiar... but then again, Kiba and Tsume both look familiar to me..."
"And?" (Toboe)
"And... he woke up while I was looking at him. He choked me and demanded for why I was doing that, but I couldnt speak. I started to cry... then Kiba... attacked to make him let go. And that was pretty much it."
((Oh shit, just remembered suddenly. Kira is about the age of Toboe.. uhh... a lil older. About the age between Kiba and Toboe.))
"Oh.. I must have been sleeping." Toboe looks up and begins calling for Tsume again.
"Yes, you were..." Kira helps.
"Tsume!! Tsume!!" Toboe howls. "Tsumeeeeeee-huh?"
Toboe steps on something. It looked like a bolt. It sinks into the snow.
"What is it?" Kira asks.
"I dont know, I stepped on something." he shrugs. "Oh well... Tsume!! Tsume!!"
[Tsume...]
Tsume peeks out of a window from a deserted building in the ruins. He could hear his name being called by the two pups.
Hmph, they'll have to give up soon... he thought. He didnt really want to go, but he didnt like the presence of Kira there. He hated her. Hated her for what she had done to him before... No, not the incident at the night. But what she had done to him... in the past.
Luckily she doesnt remember... he grins. Otherwise, she'd probably attacked me by now. Not that I really care...
"Tsummeeeeee!! Tsummmeeeeee!!" Toboe calls out. Tsume peeks out of the window again and notices they've come close enough for him to see them.
"Tsume! Tsume!! Tsume!!!" Kira howls.
Toboe runs up to a cliff sort of thing.
((Kinda like Lion King thing, you know what teh hell mey talkin' about if you've watch Wolf's Rain...))
"Tsummeeeee!!" he howls.
Tsume was about to poke his head back in, untill he notices something moving under the cliff Toboe was standing on.
"Hm?..." he mumbles, but it seemed to come from the back of his throat.
The end of a machine gun could be seen from under a piece of metal, or something. It pokes out and aims at Toboe.
"Oh shit!" Tsume jumps out of the window and jumps to Toboe. The gun shoots.
[Back to Kiba and Hige...]
Kiba's ears perk up and twitch.
"Hm? Hear something?" Hige asks.
"I thought I did... but Im not sure..." Kiba looks back suspisiously.
"So anyways, if she was your sister, why dont you want her to know?" (Hige)
"Because..." Kiba looks back at the clouds. "...of what happened in the past."
"Hmm... what did happen in your past anyways?" Hige curiously asks.
"...Not much..." he begins to have flashbacks of his past. "...Not much at all..."
[Back to Tsume, Kira, and Toboe (now all human now!!)...]
"Tsume, are you alright?" Toboe asks and tries to help the limping wolf. He had been shot in the leg trying to move Toboe out of the way.
"Get away from me!!" Tsume pushes his head away, making him fall to the ground. Kira walks over to him and helps him up.
"Im sorry if I made you mad last night..." Kira says quietly to Tsume. He glares at her.
"I dont care," he growls. "You're better off not knowing why I decided to go my own way."
He continues to walk away.
I wonder why he risked his life to save Toboe... Kira thought. Her and Toboe continue to follow him.
"What was that thing anyways?" Toboe ponders.
"I dont fucking know, but we better get the hell out of here before it comes back..." Tsume stops dead in his tracks. He looks over his shoulder, past the two pups. It was some sort of machine, with red lens sensors, which looked like eyes. It had a huge machine gun-like arm, and moved on one of those army tank kind of things.
Toboe and Kira both slowly turn their heads. The machine stood several feet away from them. Using it's heat sensors, it tracks down the three wolves. It aims it's gun at them, ready to shoot.
"SHIT! RUN!!" Tsume breaks into a run, Toboe and Kira dashing behind him.
The machine shoots at them, all of them dodging all of the hits. It moves forward after the wolves.
The three stop at a drop. It was probably a 3 story drop, but Tsume hesitates with the wound on his leg.
"We're gunna have to jump." he says while moving along forward and jumping off the edge. He lands hard on all four. A sharp pain ran through his whole leg.
"Aaargh..." he mumbles quietly. Moments later, Toboe and Kira hop down to Tsume. They quickly get up and continue running. The machine stops at the edge. It searches around to target the three again. It continues forward and jumps down. Since it was literally a big hunk of metal, it falls down like a huge rock and makes the earth vibrate.
Damn, that doesnt even stop it?? Tsume thinks. Suddenly, the ice below Kira (human) begins to crack. A hole forms under her foot, causing her foot to fall in. Toboe stops and notices this. He runs back to get her. Tsume stops and growls. (okay, everyone human now)
"What now??" he snarls. Toboe makes it over to Kira. Tsume runs back to make sure Toboe would be alright, but when he came close, the ice completely shatters and breaks underneath them, causing the three to fall down into a fairly large opening. It looks like there was once a river there. It was definatly a longer fall than before...
[Back to Kiba and Hige...]
"You dont want to tell me why?" Hige says with a slight whine tone.
"No." Kiba says flatly.
"Aww.." Hige glances back at the sky. "Hey, if she is your sister, you wouldnt mind me liking her, would you?"
Kiba was silent. Hige keeps quiet as well, trying not to be rude.
"Uhhaa... yeah..." Hige looks away and back at the sky. He wonders if he should tell Kira the truth, but still wasnt really sure of his feelings towards her. He suspects that Toboe has feelings for her too, he notices he was acting strangly ever since she came. And now he seemed to care about Kira a lot.
Hige takes a deep breath and sighs. He figures he has to think over if he loved her or not.
[Back to Tsume, Kira, and Toboe...]
Tsume groans. He smelled Kiba near his nose. He stirs slightly before opening his eyes. He looks down at his leg and notices Toboe was licking his wound. He was slightly disgusted.
"Dont touch me!!" he pushes his head away from his leg. He had Kiba's jacket over him, and notices his head was laying on something. He looks up and realizes his head was resting on Kira's lap... but what he saw, he wasnt expecting.
SHIT!! he could see up Kira's tanktop. His face turns a nice shade of red. He looks away, but cant help glancing back at it occationally. He looks around and notices they were in some sort of a small cave.
"Where's the thing that was attacking us?..." Tsume mumbles.
Kira looks down at him and smiles.
"It's okay, it's gone now." Toboe explains. "We should be safe now."
Suddenly, there was a rumbling sound above them. Small chunks of the top of the cave was begining to fall. Seconds later, it stops. Everyone was silent and still. Suddenly the machine appears infront of the cave from above. It had fallen down the cliff. It falls hard with a large "BOOM" and makes the earth shake once again, but this time, it could probably be felt from a mile away.
"What the..." Tsume's eyes grow wide. "THAT FALL DIDNT EVEN STOP IT??"
He sits up and was about to stand up but his wound was keeping him down. They all sit there still, waiting for the machine to spot them.
[Back to Kiba and Hige...]
Kiba bolts upright like he was shocked or something was about to hit him. He starts to growl slightly in the back of his throat. He breaks into a run deeper into the ruins to find Tsume, Kira, and Toboe.
"Hey! Wait!" Hige stands up and trots along behind Kiba, then into a run. "Where are you going??"
Kiba was silent an kept on running. He didnt have time to tell Hige, he just had to get there fast...
[Annddd... back to Tsume, Kira, and Toboe...]
The machine seemed to look around, and finally spots the three. An idea hits Toboe.
"Kira, take Tsume and run. I'll distract the thing so you two can get away." he (wolf) says but before Kira or Tsume could say anything, he runs out of the cave. The machine notices this and turns it's attention to Toboe.
"Come on." Kira gets up, puts Kiba's jacket back on and helps Tsume up. He definatly didnt like Toboe's idea since he had to be stuck with her. But there was nothing else for him to do. He stands up and Kira stands beside him and puts his arm over her shoulders to help him walk.
They both walk out of the cave as fast as Tsume could go. They walk the other direction of where Toboe was distracting the machine.
You better stay alive, Toboe... she thinks.
"Hey!! Over here you big stupid thing!!" Toboe taunts. He runs away from Tsume and Kira who were escaping. Kira glances at Toboe, he looks back. A strange expression swept across her face, which he noticed, and quickly fades away. She turns back around to Tsume.
The machine stops and spots the two escaping. It turns around and moves towards them.
"Hey!" Toboe says annoyed and runs after the machine to get it's attention again.
Tsume trips over something and falls, Kira going down with him. She turns her head to face Tsume.
"Are you okay?" she asks worried.
"Wha' do you care??" he snaps and attempts to get up by himself but that only caused his wound to open up. A puddle of blood starts to form. They both look back and see the machine behind them, ready to shoot. Kira suddenly throws her arms around Tsume's neck and holds on tightly. She was shivering, he could feel it.
It's over... he thinks and puts a hand on her back.
Suddenly, Kiba appears and jumps onto the machine. He bites the gun part and holds on tightly. The machine spins and tries to throw him off. It thrashes hard, throwing Kiba around, but he still held on.
"Hey!!" Kira hears Hige's voice. "Kira! Tsume! Over here!!"
Hige (human) waves and points to a way they could get out. Kira lets go of Tsume, helps him up and both hurry to Hige. Toboe runs over to them and trots along beside Kira, making sure they would make it.
Kiba lets go and goes flying onto a flat surface jabbing out of the edge of the cliff. The machine aims it's gun at him and shoots. He doesnt move. A cloud of snow rises around him from shooting. He emerges from the small cloud with a huge icicle in his mouth. He lands ontop of the machine and stabs it into the gun part. He jumps off and follows where the others escaped.
The sound of water could be heard from a distance. Like a waterfall, a river of water emerges from the path of the river-like cliff. The machine gets hit by the flow and flows along the river...
[Back to the wolves...]
(Everyone wolf now)
The five ran off ahead and away from the ruins. They didnt want to run into the machine again.
(Human...)
Tsume held his leg. It had stopped bleeding and Toboe had wrapped a cloth around it, just like he did to Kira.
"Why..." Tsume growls. "Why did you come save me? And dont say it's because Im your 'friend'..."
"Well that's easy," Kiba says calmly. "It was instinct."
Tsume didnt have anything else to say. He was beat, he didnt have anything else to say back. He turns around and continue on their journey to Paradise. (now wolf)
Kira takes off Kiba's jacket and holds it out to him.
"I dont need it anymore, it's actually quite warmer, enough for me to handle." she smiles. "Thank you, it kept me warm."
A flashback suddenly hits Kiba's mind. It was his sister, smiling at him and giving him his jacket before he went out. But the flashback quickly fades away...
He takes the jacket and smiles slightly back. He throws it over him and slips it on. He (wolf) turns and catches up to Tsume.
The search for my sister... Kiba thinks. ...has ended.
(Everyone wolf now...)
Toboe, Hige, and Kira all run off to catch up with Tsume and Kiba, continuing their journey to Paradise...
End of Chapter 3.