Chapter 5
Groaning Tala slowly opened his eyes, blinking several times he at up. Putting his hand to his head he closed his eyes. Taking a deep breath he opened his eyes and looked around. It was painfully obvious that he wasn't in the mansion anymore…in fact it didn't look like he was anywhere near the mansion.
"Where the hell am I"
"Wolf! Oh! Wolf where are you?"
Tala swerved his head to where he heard a female voice. Standing up he brushed himself off. Walking over to the place from where the voice came from. Hiding behind a nearby oak, he saw the a woman. She had dark brown, almost black, hair. She had light tan skin and beautiful sky blue eyes. She wore a white blouse that had the sleeves that flared out at the wrists. Around her waist was a red sash that flowed with her dark blue skirt. On her dainty feet was black slip on shoes.
Captivated by her beauty, Tala tipped his head. Then he got to thinking, 'Where am I? Well now that better question is…When am I? And who is she? Wait! She looks like that woman in the portrait in the hall! What was her name? And who is this wolf?' The woman swiveled around and her sky blue eyes caught his deep ocean blue ones. Her face contorted in slight anger.
"There you are Wolf! I've been looking all over for you! Why did run from me?"
Tala looked around, a baffled look on his face. Was she talking to him? Who was she talking to? The woman walked over to him and placed her hands on her hips. A frown set on her beautiful lips. Tala looked back at her, with a confused look on his face. This received an aggravated growl.
"Don't play coy with me! Wolf! You ran from me!"
"Who are you?"
"Not this again!"
"I'm serious, listen you look familiar, but I can't place your name?"
"You are serious…aren't you?"
Tala nodded. She mumbled a few curse words and looked at him again. This time with a look of pity. She reached up and touched his face, he kind of pulled back from her touch. She retracted her hand. She looked down for a bit, then reached in a pouch that was around her waist. She pulled out a bottle. Tala tipped his head again, a confused look still on his face.
"Here. This should help jog your memory."
"What is it?"
"It's a potion… to help with your memory loss."
"I don't have a memory loss…I just…I don't know."
"Well take this…it'll help."
"If you say so."
She handed it to him. Taking it, he looked at her. She got a big smile on her face, causing him to smile a little. Tala looked down at the potion and popped it open. He took a drink, made disgusted face, making her giggle. Putting the lid back on it. He handed it to her. She gave him a questionable look.
"Well, do you remember?"
"Remember what?"
"Me, where you are, who you are."
"Kiara?"
"Yes! Yes!"
She wrapped her arms around his waist and placed her head on his chest. Tala got a blush on his cheeks. She held him close, for some reason he felt like he knew who she was. Like he had lived here all his life. He instinctively wrapped his arms around her. She looked up into his eyes, then she smiled. He smiled back at her. A twig snapping caught their attention.
"You have to go Wolf."
"But why? What's wrong?"
"My brother."
"Ethan."
"Kiara! Dear sister where are you?"
She pushed at his chest. "Go, GO! He'll hurt you!"
"No. I'm not leaving."
Tala thought, 'What the hell am I doing? I have no idea what I'm saying. I can't control myself though. It must be Wolf…but what is happening?' After all of her efforts, he still didn't budge. Then the man, that Tala recognized as the man in the picture, was standing right in front of him looking at him…well…more like glaring at him. He stormed over to Tala and jerked Kiara from his arms.
"Kiara!"
"Wolf!"
"You'll keep you hands off of my sister!"
"I'll do no such thing! You don't have control over her life!"
"I'm her brother! And I have to protect her from jerks like you!"
"The only jerk I see around here…Is you!"
"You'll regret that Wolf."
"I don't think so."
"Well I do!"
With that Kiaras brother tackled Tala. Tala reached out and punched him in the jaw. Growling the man started to beat him in the stomach, knocking the wind out of him. Tala took his knee and jammed it straight into his abdomen. The man was knocked off of Tala. Kiara ran over to Tala. She wrapped her arms around his shoulders, tears ran down her face.
"Brother! Please stop! Don't hurt him! I love him!"
"How could you love something so worthless?"
"She loves you doesn't she…so I think she can love someone more worthy than you!"
" Why you!"
The brother pushed his sister out of the way and grabbed Tala by the throat. Gasping Tala grabbed his wrists and tried to gasp for air. The brother chuckled as he tightened his grip a per son tackled the brother and pinned his arms to his sides. Coughing Tala sat up, Kiara ran back over to him.
"Wolf, Wolf! Are you okay?"
"Yeah…"
He looked over at where the brother was struggling. A bot that looked like Rei was on top of the brother. He had been struggling to hold the brother down. Kiara smiled and ran over to the man.
"Tiger! I'm so happy to see you!"
"I'm glad. It looks like I came just in time too."
Tiger looked over at Tala. "You all right wolf?"
"Yeah I'm fine…thanks."
"No problem."
"Get off me!"
"Control yourself man!"
"You'll regret this Tiger."
"Blah, blah, blah. Just like I'll regret all those other times. Now will you calm down?"
"Fine. Now let me up."
Tiger reluctantly stood up off of the brother, watching him closely. Glaring at all of them he bowed to his sister and glared at Tala, who glared right back. The brother mouthed, 'This isn't over.' Then walked away. Kiara hugged Tala, who hugged her back. Tiger walked over to them and smiled.
"You two stay out of trouble. Ya hear?"
"Yeah…we will."
"All right. Bye Wolf. See ya Kiara."
"Good bye."
"See ya."
Tiger walked away leaving the two alone. Tala looked own at Kiara. Then he thought, 'Where am I? Why does that man hate me? How did I get here? Why am I here?' Off in the bushes the sun glinted off of a shiny object, a knife. Then with a smile the brother pulled the knife back, and threw it.
A.N. The end of another chapter! I hope you all like it! So what happens next? Why is Tala in the past? Will these questions be answered? Yes! Read the nest chapter to find out! 'til then Ja ne!
