Title: The Dark Eclipse Saga
Disclaimer: I don't even claim to own Wolf's Rain. It's a fabulous anime without my tampering, so I suggest for everyone to watch it.
Tagg is my character, though. So please do not even try to steal her. Thank you!
Warning: This story is an A/U. There are suggestive situations and even angst and death.
Rating: P.G.ish for cursing and violence. -evilish grin-
Pairing: Mainly TsumeTagg (OC). Later there will be KibaKya (OC) and even AshTagg.
This story will be updated infrequently, so...it will take a while in-between chapters. To amuse yourselves between those updates, you are more than welcomed to go and check out my other stories.
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Prologue-Destination
Weary paws pad lightly against the harsh terrain. Feral yellow optics, narrowed and almost closed due to extreme pain, take in the surroundings.
Nothing. Just the desolate snowy tundra which continued on as far as the femora's eyes could see.
Every step, every breath grew weaker than the last. Her vision blurred, blood dripping from her serious injuries to the ground-leaving a trail of blood in the snow. She limped off her left leg; the bone shattered due to a blast from the weapon of a soldier. Two other bullet holes lay on her side, causing for her to lose blood even more rapidly.
Finally, even her stubborn and headstrong heart wasn't able to go on any further. Sinking to the ground, she collapsed to her side. Laying there, the frigid wind gusting powerfully, those yellow eyes blinked slowly then finally closed...
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"I still say that we should eat it."
That cold, embittered voice was the first thing to pierce her frozen mind. One eye opened, trying its hardest to focus upon the four dim figures standing around her. One seemed to draw even closer.
"Hey, it's still alive!"
A young voice. Two other voices joined in a discussion, but then she merely sunk back into the comforting and healing darkness.
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The next time when she returned to the waking world, she found herself lying by a flickering flame. Her broken left leg had a white bandage on it, striking against her dark ebon fur. Feeling something as her side, she manages to weekly lift up her head. A young rust-colored wolf crouched there in his human illusion, lapping and cleaning her injuries.
She growled at the young male, her voice surprisingly soft and weak. Yet there was still a note of danger that managed to linger within none-the-less of her condition.
The male jumped back, surprised that she'd awoken on him.
"Hey! You're awake!"
That voice...was the second one from before...
"Kiba! Hige! Tsume! She's awake!"
A powerful looking snow white wolf padded sedately over. Behind him moved an easy-going tan-colored wolf. And off to the side sat a dark silver-gray wolf with an X-shaped scar on his chest.
Males. All of them were males...
"Feel any better?"
The white male questioned, his eyes expressionless. She didn't answer. Not because she was rude or anything like that, but because she didn't have any strength left.
A sigh filled with pain, and she fell back asleep. A sleep filled with healing.
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A cold wind caused her to wake up again. Shivering, she lay there unable to at least curl up into a ball and use her own body heat to warm her.
Toboe glanced up. The fire had died out by this time, and all the wolves felt the cold chill of the wind. But the female...
Leaving Tsume's side, he loped over to her. The female slightly opened her eyes, barely able to focus them upon the young male. Toboe laid down next to her, using his own body heat to warm the both of them. Tsume woke briefly, looking at them then paying no heed...
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"She's gone!"
Toboe had awakened to find that the she-wolf had vanished during the long and bitter hours of night. Paw prints led away from the camp, odd looking in places as she limped off her severely wounded leg.
Kiba just looked off into the distance, standing there in his human illusion for the moment. Hige moved to his friend's side.
"Do we go after her?"
Kiba only shook his head.
"No. It was her decision whether or not to leave or travel with us. We cannot force her to do anything against her own will."
Toboe stared at the white wolf in shock.
"How? How could you just do that? She's hurt real bad, and she'll die out there."
The young wolf ran off, following her rapidly disappearing paw prints.
Tsume took a few steps after him.
"I'll go fetch him back."
He too raced off.
"I understand why Toboe is confused about all this, but he really shouldn't just race off like that. It's dangerous out there."
Hige muttered almost to himself.
Kiba yawned slightly than sat down.
"We'll await them here."
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End Notes: Hope you enjoyed the story so far. I promise, Chapter One will probably be longer!