Chapter Three-Meeting
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.
Loki is one of my characters, though, and I would be very sad if you took her. –tear-
Warning: This story is an A/U. There is angst and death.
Rating: P.G.ish for violence.
Pairing: None for the entire story.
Author's Notes: -hums softly- Three chapters in one day. Now you know that I need a life… -coughcough- Oh, that's right. I do have one. It's just run off. –sniff- -curls around her Tsume plushie- I'll have to stop typing after this chapter's done until I get better.
Read and review… -sneeze-
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Chapter Three-Meeting
Somehow the lone femora knew about Paradise and the meaning behind the Lunar Flowers; it was a part fo her. But she had no idea what it was or where to find it.
'I'll follow my nose…'
She decided, descending from the city and to the snowy tundra. Taking deep breaths, she could smell nothing.
'Hm. Maybe this isn't the right way.'
Her ears flickered, and she could hear voices nearby.
'Huh?'
There was also a flicker of more gunfire; which made her even more skittish.
Scaling the rocky outcropping to the side of her, she peered over the side and managed to stay out of sight.
It was four male wolves, but the person that she noticed first was the strange-smelling woman with the unusual company. The wolves seemed to be protecting her from an armed unit of soldiers for some reason. If it was her…well…she would have already ditched the person and saved her own fur.
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"Hand the flower maiden over!"
One of the men yelled at the five. When Kiba refused, he hefted the gun and pointed it at the closest wolf. Tsume.
However, before he could fire, a blank blur crashed into him from the rocky cliff to their side. The gun fired, bullets completely missing everyone.
"What the hell!?!"
Tsume was knocked back, trying to avoid the bullets. The other soldiers opened fired on the attacking creature, most bullets missing. Another two fell before they even knew quite what had hit them.
Firing behind them, the surviving soldiers ran away. One was lucky, and the black canine was hit by three iron-tipped bullets.
Whimpering from the agony, she, too, ran away as fast as her injured body could go.
"Woah."
Toboe blinked several times from his position beside Hige.
"That wolf was familiar."
Kiba murmured quietly.
Cheza stood there, staring at the bloodstains on the ground. Tears spilled down the side of her face.
"Is there something wrong, Cheza?"
Hige asked, looking closely at her.
"This one…this one cannot understand."
Before the wolves could ask Cheza what she meant, she ran off; following the path that the she-wolf took. With a shared shrug, the guys all ran after her.
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Pain.
That was the first and foremost thought resounding in her mind.
Wet.
The lower half of her body was submerged in the freezing lake water, where she had ended up sliding into when her legs had finally gave out while she was running on the steep path.
It was over.
She tried to stand up again. She couldn't even raise her head.
It really was over…
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Cheza knelt down by the limp body. At odd intervals; the wolf took a sharp breath, but as the minutes ticked by the breaths seemed to dwindle and grow even weaker.
Cheza ran her fingers through the ebony fur, pulling them away to find them completely covered with blood.
She was still alive. That was all Cheza needed.
A pink glow radiated from her hands. She wasn't strong enough to heal the she-wolf all the way, but she could at least stabilize her enough that she could heal on her own.
Enough.
When Cheza tried to pull the wolf from what would have been her watery grave, a light touch stopped her.
"Kiba?"
The white wolf lifted the young female with the help of Tsume, and they took her to dry at the fire that Hige and Toboe had already started.
"Will she live?"
"This one did all that this one could do. This one hopes so."
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End Notes: Eh, hope I go all those 'This one's right. Cheza and the way she speaks. Uh. Oh well. –coughsneeze- Well, until I get better… This is Kadiska-chan, signing out.