As the woman stepped closer to the hesitant and alarmed Katsume, the woman smiled with a glow of fascination in her eyes.
Bright blue orbs that seemed to pierce into Katsume's own eyes, making her command herself to stand up and face the woman who was only a few inches taller then Katsume.
"Who are you?" Katsume blurted out, her voice wavering on the edge of a threatened and absorbed tone. The one thing everyone always seemed to ask at times like these.
A slight wind blew a few strands of hair whipping at the sides of Katsume's face, but she dare not move to pull it away, for she didn't quite know if this woman was friend or foe.
Even though the presence of this woman was yet un-detected, somehow Katsume knew the beautiful elfin looking woman in front of her meant no harm.
"I am Sora. Ancient Guardian of the Lunar flowers and Wolves." The woman replied, her voice silky and smooth.
"My name is Katsume. Are You..... a Guardian like me?" Katsume asked, raising her shoulders to a strong and secure posture to hide the uncertainness in her eyes.
Sora looked at Katsume through slanted eyes for a second, as if scanning something unseen. Then she opened them wide once more and smiled a small warm and understanding smile.
"I understand you have yet to learn your purposes, but sadly I cannot tell you, for I think you will learn them better through yourself with the help of others. But I am here to tell you something. It might not be long, detailed, or very good at all to answering some of your questions, but it is something. So if you like, I will tell you the ancient past of the Flower and Wolf Guardians." Sora told Katsume, her hand quick and clear with small gestures as she stared openly, her monotone voice speaking crisp and clear.
Katsume could only nod in response and quietly in her mind repeat to ask herself if this was really real.

"You see," Sora started as she carefully pulled away a lock of hair that had blow over the line of her high cheekbones, the rest of her long golden hair falling around her lower back like a cascading water fall. "I may look like an immortal elf to you, but too true has it been for the last long years that I've only been a shadow. The power of one to create things like this blue world around us, because I am part of it. Part of the shadow."
"Were you, are you a Guardian too?" Katsume asked, her question sound simple and child like compare to the mature and wise words of Sora.
Sora titled her head to one side and replied,
"Yes and no. You see Katsume, I am of a higher power. For generations, we the Guardians have protected all sorts of Lunar Flowers, Lunar Flower Maidens, and Wolves too. Everyone has a guardian angel. I guess you could call our kind that. And I guess I could call you an earthly angel. An angel yet to find her wings." Sora beamed at Katsume, letting her fair long fingers stretch out and gently pat Katsume's fake wings, now ripped and shredded up a bit from adventure.
"Me? An Angel?" Katsume more asked then said bewilderedly. "It was more then I could understand when hearing I was a Guardian to a Flower maiden experiment on the run, but now an angel too?"

"You don't have to be an angel, because of being a guardian. You're already an angel for taking such a task." Sora spoke, her voice quiet with grace.
Katsume smiled at Sora's thoughtful words and thought,
'Is this really real? It all feels.....so warm and new at the same time. Confusing the most.'

"Now, about the Guardians and about you. You were born from the likes of an angel being like us and a wolf, but, because you aren't very wolf at all, except for maybe some of your sense. Well that is because of an old ritual that wolves did when they wanted to become human. You might of heard of this before. Drinking a Flower Maiden's blood."
Katsume gasped as she remembered the words Darcia seemed to have burned into her mind. Words so odd and un real that she couldn't stop thinking of them.
"But, how?"
"Some say a Flower itself is very spiritual and holds great power, but when they become a maiden their power must increase for reasons I am quite un sure of. So if a Wolf were to drink even the slightest drop of a Flower Maiden's blood, then the spiritual power would transfer into the Wolf, therefore changing them fully into their fixed state of hiding their wolf side behind their human figure." Sora replied.
Katsume nodded. Even though it was still a fully detailed subject that she found hard to grasp, she somewhat understood it better now.

After every word Sora spoke, Katsume felt a new overcoming feeling rushing through her veins, as if telling things hidden inside her body to wake up.
"And now, The last of things that I have to tell you before letting you go. A long, long time ago we angel guardians used to presume our chosen job on earth peacefully with whom we were supposed to guard, but then Jaguara came in and banned us farther then the skies stretched. To another dimension. So now our job was a bit harder and more lonelier with out being at the side of the things we guarded. Very few, like you were mistaken for humans and left on earth, but your lives were hard and cruel as you always searched for something you did not know of, because of being raised with people who do not believe such things. But, lucky you earthly angels were blessed with the rare power of protection. It is not an easy thing to forgo, and it only comes up once in a while when you really need it. You will find that most earthly angles like yourself find themselves with moonstone necklaces one day." Sora finished her long speech, pointing to Katsume's necklace which was in fact a moonstone.
"So, you are saying that my kind is somewhat different from yours, us being....earthly angels." Katsume said, her words intent on the subject.
Sora smiled with respect.
"Guided by ambition and protected by love." Katsume said aloud, reading from the Japanese engravings on the silver plated back of the moonstone.
"That is what you earthly angels are. You have found the person you are supposed to guard, or have you?"
"What do you mean, Sora? Cheza herself told me I was to be her guardian." Katsume asked puzzled.
All around them the blue hue lingered on, waves of it colliding with everything else blue.
"Like I said before, I cannot tell you everything. You have to find the answers for yourself, but right now the only advise I can tell you is to follow the chosen wolf. For you may be the chosen earth guardian and grow wings so you can fly from earth to the dimension of angel guardians." Sora said to Katsume as she smiled at her like she knew something Katsume didn't.
"But how will I know who the chosen wolf is?" Katsume asked desperately as everything quickly faded away, leaving her to herself in the light of the moon.
"Listen to what your dreams are telling you." Came Sora's soft voice suddenly, echoing through the trees as if she were the night time itself.
Katsume's eyes grew wide and her heart thudded against her chest as sudden flash backs from her dreams of a white wolf entered her mind.
That white wolf was Kiba.

Katsume found everyone asleep by the time she came back. She had no idea of how long she was gong.
Katsume sat down besides Cheza who automatically as if by sense leaned herself against Katsume in a state of younger to older sister or daughter to mother way of feeling safe and protected.
Leaning her head against the rough bark of a tree Katsume closed her eyes, an old poem that she used to sing like a lullaby to the trees, flowers, and animals at night time ran passed her head, which reminded her of this moment.
The poem went something like this,
Stay with me in my sleep, for your presence calms my slumber.
The night I touch, shifting beneath the moon. The scent of Lunar flowers caressing my breath as I breathe in the white petals, haunted by a snow colored wolf.

With the remembrance of the old verse ringing through Katsume's ears she soon fell asleep, un aware that she was silently and softly singing it as she drifted off, and also unaware of two eyes watching her and two ears listening to her sugar coated voice.
Kiba watched as Cheza was instantly drawn near to Katsume as she sat down, and wondered where Katsume had been for the last hour, but then he had suddenly felt something twist and turn inside him as the words of what Katsume sang floated around in his head.

Kiba stepped out from the shadows to tend to the small fire a bit before sitting down next to Cheza and staring up at the stars.
Kiba was only a little offended when Cheza didn't sense him and lean closer to him like she did to Katsume.

(Thank you peoples who tried to help me out with that woman's name. After your reviews I actually found the name and the way it was spelled. It may not seem like it, but soon this story will be coming to an end. =( I know it's sort of rushed and a bit spread out everywhere, but I'm slowly working my way to making an end to this. Thanks again!)
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