This was supposed to be a One-shot thing, but most people wanted another chapter so here it is…
Toboe continued to lay in the middle of the road, unaware of his surroundings. He just didn't care anymore, earlier he had been so happy but after what he had done to Leara, all of his happiness just seemed to pour out of him. As he lay in the road, he heard a loud honking noise and before he could realize what was happening, a large semi-truck began pass right over him. The wheels of the truck slightly grazed his brown tail causing him to yelp out. He tried to stand but the truck was still above him. His pointed ears roughly scraped the pipes on the underside of the truck until at last the truck carried on. The young wolf staggered off of the road and into a ditch. All he wanted to do was sleep and forget everything.
"What is it?"
"It doesn't look like it's doing to well…"
"Mommy is it dead?"
Toboe could hear voices but he had such a headache that they became muffled together. He slowly opened his eyes and tried to focus the large blur. A large crowd of people had gathered around the wolf. A little boy was kneeling down beside him, looking at him with large brown eyes that were filled with curiosity.
"Excuse me, coming through, Pardon me!" A man in a brown coat and hat was trying to get through to Toboe.
No one moved…
"EXCUSE ME!" This got the people's attention and they created a path so the detective could get through. Hubb knelt down next to Toboe and cautiously felt his chest.
Toboe could feel the warm hand brushing against his chest and flinched, but it hurt to move. Hubb injected him with a tranquilizer, which caused the wolf to slowly drift off to sleep. The officers lifted him up and placed him onto a stretcher, not noticing that when they had moved him, the metal bands had slipped off of Toboe's leg.
Hubb stood up and without warning, let out an enormous sneeze. "It just had to be dogs didn't it…" He followed the officers into the van and drove off. The crowd diminished, leaving Toboe's armbands behind.
Three hours later Toboe awoke behind bars in the middle of a large room. The cage was small and had no room to move around much less stretch out. His tail and ears were still a bit numb and his fur was stained with red blood. He didn't care though; the last time he had been in a cage was many years ago. He was even younger than he was now and even more frightened.
Flashback
The little wolf whimpered, as he lay curled up in the corner of the alley. The rain was coming down even harder now. He hadn't eaten anything in days and his fur was soaking wet. Suddenly he heard the sound of footsteps and he opened his eyes. Two men were slowly approaching; they must have heard the whimpering. One of the men carried a large net. Toboe tried to blend in with the garbage and miscellaneous items thrown about the street, but he couldn't stop himself from whimpering. The men were only a few feet away and there was nothing Toboe could do but get up and run. The little wolf ran as fast as his short stubby legs could take him.
"Hurry up!" The man called out to his partner.
Toboe kept running without looking back. Suddenly, as he ran through a puddle, his feet slipped and he fell over. The men caught up to him and before Toboe could get up, the large net had been thrown over his small fragile body. The men threw him into the back of their truck and drove off to the pound. The wolf pup hit the wall hard and fell to the ground unconscious. When he awoke, he was surrounded by bars and other dogs, also locked in cages. Days passed and people came to look at each of the dogs. But instead of lowering himself to the level of a household pet, he huddled himself back in the corner away from the eyes of anyone, especially those loud, obnoxious children. Every night he would stare out of the small window above the room's door and howl at the moon. Sure it kept everyone awake, but he was lonely and depressed. The only thing that gave him comfort was the moon.
The next day, an old woman came into the room and knelt down by his cage. She had kind eyes and a welcoming smile. She saw how scared he was and decided he was the pet for her. As she held him in her arms, she whispered to him, "I'll call you Toboe. We'll always be together and I'll never leave you behind, ok boy?"
End Flashback
And the world's so big
I just don't understand how
You can smile with all those tears in your eyes
Tell me everything is wonderful now…
"That's the only thing, she wasn't always there for me, she broke her promise. I know she died and that wasn't her fault, but I can't help feeling upset. She was the only one who looked after me, who cared for me…" He muttered.
Now he had lost two people he cared about, the old woman and now Leara. Everything was going wrong, all he could think about doing was sitting back and crying himself back into the dreamless sleep that he had experienced so many nights before.
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