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Chapter Three- Lone Wolf

The next morning, after basking as best she could in the moonlight all night, Sukiaketa awoke, and looked around the building. Zoë was nowhere in sight. Sukiaketa stood slowly, and moved over to the stairs. She heard Zoë giggle, and another entity burst out laughing. She looked out the window by the stairs, and there she was, sitting in between three boys, giggling and laughing away. Sukiaketa moved outside, and around to the other side of the room, and crawled in.

"I thought she was going to kill me,"

"Keta is really nice, she's just protective."

Sukiaketa quirked an eyebrow, and slid up to one of the window sills to sit. The boy with black hair turned, and looked at her. "Keta!" Zoë cried, finally noticing she was there. The boy with light brown hair that she attacked backed up as much as the room would permit.

"So what is it you think you are doing?" Sukiaketa asked bitterly.

She looked at the three boys, two of which who didn't look older than sixteen.

"Oh Keta, Kiba was telling me of this wonderful place called Paradise! I want to go with them, oh Keta, let's go with them!" Zoë asked, practically begging on her knees.

Sukiaketa remembered hearing of Paradise. A place where wolves ruled over the land, where you could do anything you wanted.

"If you want to go to Paradise, we'll find it ourselves."

The boy with black hair, who Sukiaketa assumed to be Kiba, stood and smiled.

"I understand, Hige, Toboe, let's go." He said, and the smallest one stood tentatively.

"But Kiba,"

"Let's go. She doesn't want us here."

The boy, Hige, Sukiaketa guessed, reluctantly stood, and followed Kiba and the little Toboe. But before he got too far, Zoë ran to him, and whispered something in his ear.

Sukiaketa cleared her throat loudly, and Zoë came trotting back, frowning.

"I don't know why you don't like them, they are really nice."

"Zoë you know why I cant trust any other wolves…you know why, now stop making me worry. I don't want to lose you too."

Zoë knew why she was worried, but she continued, "Hige was telling me about Cheza, the flower maiden, Kiba seems really anxious to find her,"

"Good for him,"

"Well, anyway, she was taken by some Darsia figure."

"I don't care."

"Kiba told me he disappeared into thin air, so that's why they are looking for his keep."

"Zoë, do you honestly believe all that? It sounds like a load of crap to me."

Zoë pouted, and slumped down to the floor, and Sukiaketa took her place back on the window sill again.

"I really hate that about you," Zoë mumbled, and Sukiaketa was taken aback by that statement.

"Well I'm sorry I just want to protect you,"

"Well maybe I don't need your protection!" Zoë was on her feet again.

"Zoë," Sukiaketa gave her the 'not-this-again' tone.

"No Sukiaketa, I'm sick of it! I'll show you I can do fine on my own, I'll find Paradise!"

"Zoë, you wouldn't go alone," Sukiaketa said, hopping down from the window sill. "You'd go with Hige."

"I like Hige-."

"Fine."

Zoë stopped and looked up at Sukiaketa astonished, "Really Keta, you'd let me go with him?"

"Yeah, you can go ahead and go wherever you want." Sukiaketa told her, getting a bit angry.

"But Keta, I want you with me."

"I'm going for a walk, why don't you go find Hige, maybe I can find us some food." Sukiaketa walked to the door and looked back.

"If something happens, howl, and I'll be there."

With that, she ran out of the building, and took to the back alleys, until she came to the center of town. The first thing Sukiaketa saw was another wolf. A tall gray wolf, with a criss-cross scar on his chest. He had the same kind of air around him that she did; untrusting, and very hard coated. At least that's the way he came off to her. She watched as he looked suspiciously at two men, and directed them elsewhere. Sukiaketa walked out from the alley, just as two boys knocked into her. They had been running as fast as they could to get away from some man.

Sukiaketa fell hard, and jumped back up as soon as she could. She had fallen on her right arm, the one that was still in recovery. It began to bleed again, gushing actually, the wound she had deepened by a rock. The boys kept running, and the man ran past her as well, almost knocking her down again.

The wolf noticed all the commotion of course, but instead of coming up and asking if she was alright, he ran the other direction.

Instead an old woman carrying flowers came up to her, and picked up her arm. The bleeding had slowed down a bit, but it hurt to the touch. She yelled out, and the woman took a step back.

"You need to go to the hospital!" She cried, and Sukiaketa shook her head, and ran away in the direction the other wolf had gone.

Sukiaketa trudged back into the empty building, and slumped down by a window. The blood on her leg had dried, and she continued to lick it gingerly.

She wondered where Zoë was. She didn't hear her howl. What if the wolfs didn't give her a chance to make a noise? She was about to go look for her, but she heard someone's beautiful singing, and she fell into a deep sleep.