CHAPTER FOUR Meanwhile Hige and Blue run frantically

"We have to run away from here fast." Hige said panting.

"Run away? To where?" Blue asked

"It doesn't matter where, we never should of come to this stupid city in the first place." He replied as they ran to find Toboe.

"Aaaahh." Toboe said trying to dodge the guards but unfortunately he was knocked out.

"Toboe NO!" Hige cried seeing his friend fall to the ground. Blue grabbed his hand and led him away so that they wouldn't get caught too.

Tsume

Bang, Bang, Bang. Tsume tried desperately to get out of his cell.

"Stop that." An old lady from a cell across from Tsume's ordered. "You're hurting yourself for no reason. They all tried to get out that way, but it was useless."

"Who's they?" Tsume asked softly.

"They captured my entire pack and brought us back to this place. There were many others that were caught too. The only wolf they spared was the one wearing the collar." She began.

"What did you say?" Tsume interrupted.

"That bastard betrayed everyone of us." Hearing this Tsume gasped.

Hige

Hige runs down the street getting weaker and weaker.

"Hige?" Blue yells after him.

"Don't follow me." He snaps at her. Suddenly he falls and Blue rushes to his side.

"Hige!" she tries to wake him. "What's going on? Please, what happened to you?…Hey come on quit playing around, You have to get up! Toboe needs our help! Hige!" Her eyes start to tear. "No, come on you've got to wake up. Don't do this, don't you die on me. You can't, please don't leave me." She hugs him close and begins to cry. Hige stirs and she instantly snaps out of it. "Hige?" she says his name in a low whisper.

"Hey Blue, do me a favor will ya? My collar…"

"Your what?…"

"Would you take this collar off me?" he asks his voice week.

Tsume

"My pack was relatively small, but we managed alright. Everyone looked out for one another. Whenever we came upon a stray, we tried to make them feel like one of our own." The old woman continued her story to Tsume. "So naturally, when he came along we took him in without a second thought. We shared our food, our beds, everything. We should have known. Soon after we met him, we started getting attacked by soldiers without warning. No matter where we hid, or how far we ran, they'd find us. When we came here, we finally figured it out. We knew then that it was all because of him."

Tsume thinks about this thinking of Hige.