NOTE: This and the next chapter are told from Hige's POV
Chapter 6: Nightmares and Awakening

I was running threw a room where wolves wearing collars were on display. They lined the halls, traitors of there own kind. I heard a voice calling to me, telling me to come to her. I felt my own collar getting tighter and tighter, trying to suffocate me. A door at the end off the hall opened and I went into it. There was a lady with long blond hair and a man with a wolf eye. I suddenly found myself pinned to the ground by a long spear and four wolves surrounded me. One cried, one was trying to convince the others to get the spear out, one gave me a 'how-could-you-do-such-a-thing?' look, and the last spat on me and called me a traitor. Then the man with a wolf's eye turned into a wolf and bit down on my throat and everything went black.

Then, I saw this woman. She had kind of spiky black hair and the most beautiful crystal blue eyes I had ever seen. She had a black jacket-type thing that went just a little down her legs, like a mini skirt. She had these really tall boots on that where above her knees and she had a pinkish scarf rapped around her neck. She seamed lost until she saw me. Her eyes filled with anger and she walked up to me. "We made a pact! We promised! We promise that we would always be together! And you've broken your end of the promise! You can't just walk around forever and not remember! If you don't remember soon, they'll leave without you!" She shouted.

I was taken aback. I felt like I knew her and I felt guilty but I couldn't for the life of me say why. The, her eyes softened a little. "Hige, when the pack is together, please come for me. Please wake me from the lie of a life I'm living right now and make me remember. Make me remember what I really am, even if I get angry. Do everything you can. I don't want to be left behind..." Her voice trailed off and all of the anger left her eyes. "But you have to remember first. Remember what you really are..." The picture faded into the darkness.

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"Remember what?" I said aloud and into the darkness of the early morning. I had the same dream for the past three days, but it never had that girl in it. It always had ended when that man with a wolf's eye bit my throat. I felt kind of peaceful not waking up in a cold sweat shouting weird things like Jagra, Darcia, Paradise, twenty-three, and Kiba. I looked out the window and saw that the sun was slowly rising in the sky. I got up and stretched, the dream quickly being replaced with thoughts of food. I left the abandoned building that I was living in and walked down the street to the doughnut shop.

"Hi Hige! Are you going to school today?" One on my friends, John, asked as usual, handing me a doughnut. He was a nice kid, a little older than I was with his tan hair cut close to the skin on his head. He always split his doughnuts with me. "I was thinking about it." I said, wondering if the girl in my dream was real. If she was, she might just go to the school I'm enrolled in. "I wouldn't go today, I heard this rumor that someone is going to try to burn it down today." He said, taking a sip of his coffee. I stopped in mid-bite. John never joked around about something like that. "Are you serious? I hope your not. If you are, I hope you're not in on it." I said, trying to read his face. He laughed. "I know better than that. By the way, you didn't hear that from me." He said, starting to eat one of his doughnuts.

I gave him a sad look, said good-by, and went back to the building to sleep. When I awoke, it was several hours later. I remembered what John said about someone burning the school down, so I headed off in the direction of the school. I was walking down the street about a block from the school when every sense I had told me to turn my head and look down the other side of the street. I decided to listen to my senses, and got a major shock.

There she was, just standing there waiting to cross in the crosswalk. The black coat thing, the really tall shoes, it was her all right. The beautiful girl from my dream. She turned her head and her crystal blue eyes met mine. Everything just seamed to disappear around me and all these images appeared. They were all different, but they all had a brown wolf with a collar on in them. And there was that girl again and the two were on a bridge talking to each other as the sun set. Then I saw them again; swearing never to get separated gain in a snow-covered landscape. I blinked and reality came into focus. The girl wasn't looking at me any more. I opened my mouth to call to her, but then thought better of it and continued my way to the school.

The fire alarm was going off. I stopped and watched in horror as the flame licked the building. I hope John didn't do it. I hope John didn't help. I hope John isn't in there. I hope John didn't do it. I hope John didn't help. I hope John isn't in there. I hope no one I know is in there. I hope no one dies. I thought over and over again. Horrible images filled my head, images of burnt bodies. I was so rapt up in my own thoughts that I almost didn't hear him speak.

"Don't worry Cheza, we'll find them again and they'll remember." A very familiar voice said. And I knew that name, Cheza. It was so familiar it was driving me crazy. I looked around wildly, trying to find the speaker. Just then, the fire trucks pulled up, They where so noisy I almost didn't her the words "This one knows that we will meet them again." I knew the voice! I turned my head and watched in complete shock as a boy that wasn't standing to far from me just vanish. But he wasn't just gone, for there was a huge white dog standing in his place. And I looked up and my gaze met the pink eyes of the girl that was standing next to him.

I remembered Cheza falling from the sky. I remembered standing there, looking in a cage at Kiba. I remembered the city with the wolves that had to work for humans. I remembered Darcia, the Noble with the wolf eye that stole Cheza. I remembered Toboe taking that huge walrus down. I remembered the collar and Jagra. I remembered everything.

I looked down at my paws, and fought the urge to run after them. Instead I ran back to the corner where I saw Blue. I was ashamed that I didn't remember her. How could I forget? We died together on the snowy peak where the gate to Paradise was. She wasn't there and it was to late to go back and try to find Cheza and Kiba, so I went back to the building where I was staying and fell asleep.


I would like to thank all of my reviewers, especially Mayako for giving me my 12th review. I've been waiting for weeks for my 12th review so I could post this chapter. I finnished this chapter the day after I posted chapter 5. I know there is some re-hash, but the re-hash will be over with by the end of the next chapter. I'm half-way done with it, so I'm asking for 14 total reviews before I post it. So, 2 more reviews before Chapter 7: A More-than-welcome Run-in.

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