Katsume opened her eyes. She had been dreaming about the other night when Darcia stole her and Cheza away from the wolves.

Katsume found herself seated in tightly to some sort of chair, a thick and cold piece of metal wrapped around her shoulders, arms, and legs as it firmly held her down.

She then looked up to find herself in the same room as Darcia and Cheza.

"Cheza." Katsume spoke weakly as she saw the apprehensive heap of the flower maiden, water up to her knees in some kind of tub looking tank.

Cheza's eyes lifted and she smiled when she saw Katsume.

Katsume smiled back, but was fearful when Cheza's smile faded and Katsume felt a dark shadow of some sort creep over her alarmed form.

She jerked her head back to Face Darcia's, a strain starting to pull at the back of her neck.

Even though Katsume was petrified by his cloaked darkness and what hid behind his eye patch, she could really just sense the presence of a grieving and frightened man.

Katsume didn't know what scared her more, his bittersweet expression of revenge, or his face beaming too much sadness.

With great cautions Katsume began to speak.

"What exactly did you mean,.....about a wolf becoming human after drinking the blood of a flower maiden?" Katsume stumbled, jumping in half blind to Darcia's world.

Darcia hesitated for a second, half upset that she asked it so calmly and half amused that she asked such a question.

"I myself....am not quite sure with the whole process, but after drinking some of the original flower maiden's blood some time ago, I have found that it helps to cool down any other drastic changes on me." Darcia replied, stepping back a few steps to admire the two on board with him. He never had much company.

"Drastic changes?" Katsume asked confused.

With a smirk Darcia leaned down infront of her, and removed his eye patch for a few seconds, then replaced it quickly.

'His eye! That is they eye of a wolf!' Katsume breathed in sharply as these thoughts crossed her mind.

"What are you?!" Katsume cried quite mortified. Everything seemed to be spinning in circles lately. Way too fast to catch up.

Darcia only ignored her and retreated back to his perch up front with the steering.

Suddenly before Katsume could say anything else, a large crashing sound could be heard from the far end of the shuttle, making the sturdy flying transport become quite shaky as more hits were taken.

"Katsume!" Cheza called fearfully as another violent crashing sound followed by more shaking erupted from the wall next to Cheza.

"Just hold on!" Darcia yelled back at her, flipping a few switches so they moved through light speed again, only this time back where they came in hope to shake off the people firing at them.

They came through safely, the area where they first took of looking the same as it had always been.

Then all of a sudden something blew up somewhere in the shuttle, making it turn almost all the way on it's side and become quite loopy in the air.

The latches just un locked themselves and Katsume fell face first on the floor, sliding a bit towards the far end wall along with Cheza.

Katsume looked confusingly up at Darcia who was hammering away at buttons and levers as a red light flashed giving a warning sign.

Katsume quickly with much difficulty pulled herself up to peek out one of the glass windows to see they were now floating above some water.

'This is it. Our only chance of escape.' Katsume thought, taking in a quick breath as she remembered her fear of heights.

"Cheza get ready to jump with me!" Katsume called to Cheza, anxious to get off the dieing shuttle and be free from Darcia's keep.

Cheza nodded, and with the Help of Katsume they opened the hatch door, wind rushing around them swiftly, blowing their hair this way and that as they looked down among the blue sparkling water.

Darcia looked over just in time to see them jump out.

As soon as he saw them splash in the water, that annoying stalling sound of a machine ringed through his ears.

"That bitch." Darcia mumbled, referring to the people who shot them.

Then suddenly the shuttle slowly turned itself as it came crashing down, partly in the water and part of it on rocks as it had floated on a bit more.

(Quick note)

Thank you everyone for reviewing! Yes, I understand some things about my story are confusing and have yet to be explained. The thing about a wolf drinking a flower maiden's blood and becoming human is as clear as it's going to get. (for now I think.) I'm not too clear on it myself. Just use your imagination for things. This is a fantasy story so anything really goes if you think about it.

Thanks again.

Misskagome.

Be sure to check out and review my other newest story, Kagome the Pirate princess.

It's full of fluffy romance(more soon to come) Inuyasha turning into a demon, kagome being a miko pirate trying to kill the demon Raku and Inuyasha and Miroku getting pan cakes at four in the morning!

If you don't want to that's alright, but it has a fairly good story line so I suggest at least checking it out.

Thank you all again.