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Chapter VIII

I'm sorry Soui," he hold her softly nuzzling against her soft pale skin

"No Kiba, I'm sorry....there's something....I've been hiding from you...." Soui opened her mouth again to continue telling him until the tank came to a stop within a enclosed wall and building. "Oh god no, we can't be here..."

"Where are we?"

"Darcia's castle"

Soui sat in the back of the tank with Kiba looking around as the tank had stopped. Kiba held her close, but she had a horrible feeling in her. Her scar burned with immense heat and pain, but nothing she would voice aloud.

"Kiba...when the guard comes for me, what are you going to do?"

"Don't worry, I have a plan."

As soon as Kiba finished speaking, the sound of big boots crunching through the snow was heard. The men were mumbling something, and Soui laid face-down when the men opened up the gate

"Stupid girl, I don't understand why a noble like Darcia needs her"

"Every man has his reasons" Another shrugged and picked up her falsely limp body. They carried her along, her arms and legs loosely waving in the breeze. Soon they disappeared into the castle via an automatic door and a sliding key card.

Kiba had propped himself against the ceiling, making him unseen. He jumped from it and landed looking at the castle. It reminded him of the dome where they had kept Cheza, only, larger. There weren't guards on patrol on the outside. The walls were tall, and the only entrance was a key card. They must've figured no one could get in....never underestimate a wolf.

Inside Soui was thrown onto the ground face first again into a room, the floor felt like grass. The door shut, and the lights turned on. It was a huge meadow, indoors, it was rather weird. Soui wasn't sure if she should move or not, in fear she'd give away her identity.

"Get up wolf, I know you're not her" His voice ripped through the air. "But I figured this would happen, I tricked you into it all anyway"

"What are you talking about?" She asked finally sitting up holding her shoulder

"I'm not looking for the flower maiden right now," he loaded a gun "I'm only looking for you"

Kiba had easily scaled the outer wall, and found himself in the courtyard of the castle. He looked around in every which direction, and closed his eyes taking in a deep breath "Where are you..." he asked sniffing the air again and again to find even the faintest hint of Soui's scent. Kiba opened his eyes to look for some more entrances. He jumped in a tree and he watched two guards walk by talking with each other.

He jumped from tree to tree, following them as they went along, they had to eventually get to some sort of an entrance. It was frustrating for him though, he was running out of time, not liking that Soui was all alone in Darcia's castle.

"Ah...Kiba..." Cheza looked up at the sky holding her knees. They had hidden themselves in a remote area only a few miles from where Soui and Kiba currently were. Blue sat down next to her and placed a hand on her shoulder

"Hey, don't worry about Kiba. I'm sure he and Soui are just fine" Blue smiled softly

"Kiba...Kiba heard Soui..."

"Well, we all heard her scream, it wasn't hard to miss really" Blue told her again quietly. Her eyes scanned the horizon, hoping any moment they'd all show up. It was taking its toll on Toboe and Tsume, she could easily see it. Tsume had wandered off to his own solitude, and Toboe only whimpered looking up at the sky

Cheza shook her head and simply looked up at the moon. Blue got up and wandered over to Hige, and he wrapped his arm around her "Worried about your partner in crime?" He laughed softly

"It's different with Soui around. Before, yeah we worried about getting hurt, but with her, what is it about her Hige? She isn't weak, that's very obvious after all she endures, but with her being here, why are we so extra careful? I mean, even with Cheza we didn't worry about as much"

"I'm not sure Blue." Hige started staring at the stars "I'm not really sure at all. I didn't think another member would change the flow so much. It seems, that everyone has taken such a weird liking to her. I mean, Toboe practically sees the girl as a mom, and Kiba is so obsessed with her for god knows why, and Tsume, well, Tsume is still same old Tsume." Hige laughed at his last comment "We haven't had a new wolf join us in a while, and we've only had her with us for maybe two weeks. Things will ease over...hopefully"

"Tsume....hey Tsume?" Toboe wandered the forest looking for him

"What is it runt?" Tsume growled leaning against a tree

"Tsume...do you think....Kiba and Soui will come back? They will come back, won't they?" Toboe asked in such a pleading tone

"Look kid, I don't know if they're coming back! I'm not a psychic. I will tell you, Kiba is strong, and so is Soui. There is no point worrying about them, we're not even a real pack" Tsume told him calmly "Just wait and see"

"How can you say that Tsume....we are too a pack...look at us...how everyone's worried about them....we've helped each other out so much." Toboe's little fists were shaking "Don't you tell me not to worry about them when I know you are worried too!"

"Look Runt I might be worried, but I'm not going to waste myself away like you are! People, wolves we come and go and eventually we all die! That's a part of life kid, and you better just get used to it!"

Toboe clenched his fists some more and he felt tears in his eyes. Even if he was supposed to act like a man, or grown up whatever, he wasn't going to let the fear of losing Soui escape him. "...I thought you loved her..." He whispered under his breath. Tsume looked up surprised, and Toboe ran off into the woods

"You...the crescent wolf, do you know why you have that scar?" Darcia asked her circling around like a shark

"So you could track me down, and cause me all the pain in the world!" She spat struggling to her feet and holding her arm

"Indeed, those are definitely fundamental ideas..." he continued circling her "You really don't know do you?"

"Of course I don't! You're just a damn bastard who killed my family and left me in this world completely alone and destined to hurt others because of this scar!"

"Hmph you fail to see the larger operation here don't you? You stupid wolf, it is destiny working. You had this scar, and then you met Kiba. Your brother for that matter. What do you cause, pain, and what would cause Kiba the most pain?"

"Killing Cheza"

"No. Cheza won't be killed because I still need her. How would he feel, knowing he had a sister, and all the time he'd fallen in love with her? Someone, his own flesh and blood, right by his side, and she had never said a thing?"

"Bastard...you know as well as I do...if you tell him, fate is going to be completely altered"

"Fate was never real at all! It is something you worthless creatures like to blame your problems on!" Darcia told her laughing finally pointing his gun right at her "This isn't fate, its just your death" and he fired.

Soui scrambled to dodge it, still standing as a girl. Her amber eyes glowed with her fired anger. She growled at him, and the scar on her forehead was glowing as well.

"Darcia. You've brought only pain to this world since the moment you entered. Your obsession to bring a loved one back, has blinded your entire life. No one can be brought back from their death, that is only in the power of the gods. You killed my family, and you lost your love. Aren't we one in the same, just on different sides of the coin."

"What would you know of pain you stupid wolf. I loved her with my whole self!" He fired another round of bullets and Soui jumped behind a rock "You stupid wolf you cannot comprehend the pain" He shot at the rock and chipped it away until Soui ran out from behind it

"Oh no? You killed my entire family, my pack, all 12 of them. You killed my husband, my brother, my mother and father. You gave me this scar, that hurts even more people. How the hell could I not know?" Soui charged at him. Darcia tried to shoot, but he had run out of bullets, and he was pulling out another canister to reload "Cheza cannot bring people back from the dead!" With that she slammed her fist into the side of his face and he stumbled back onto the ground releasing the gun midway through his fall. Soui grabbed the gun and threw it into the never ending fields of grass.

"I don't understand...wolf...why do you fight me....as a human?"

"Why do you, fight me as a man, when I know you can shift forms too?"

"That scar...it was meant to slow you down, and kill you from the emotion...why are you...becoming stronger?" Darcia gasped shuffling back on the ground until he stood back up.

Soui clenched her fist and growled "Someone told me, to be strong we must survive, and we must endure the pain. I will not die until I know you've felt my pain!" Soui charged at him as he stood unsteadily and kicked him in his abdominal area. He went flying back.

Soui loomed above him angrily. The scar on her head glowed like its own fire, and for the first time, Darcia might have been some what afraid. Soui was in such a rage she shifted down into a wolf and walked on top of him and stared down into his eyes Darcia, you will regret, ever interfering with my life.

"No....it shall be you!" Darcia pulled out a dagger and lunged at her, but Soui had seen it and dodged only to have him get part of her shoulder. She shuffled back and shook her fur, licking at the blood. As the blood dripped from her, it landed on the pure white flowers, and slowly they became a pink. "Damn wolf, why won't you die?"

If you wanted me dead, you should not have spared me that day. What do you want with me?

"You are that idiot Kiba's sister. There has to be something important to you. Only the destined one could have accepted my cursed scar and survived all this time. I need to know, what magical entities you hold."

Bastard, one minute I'm not important, the next I am, one minute I'm worthless, the next I'm salvation. Make up your damn mind! Soui charged at him aiming for his throat, he stepped to the side and kicked her with his boot and she gasped but then bit his foot.

"I thought you were useless, and I scared you for the fun, but now after further investigating you, you easily show the potential of power. No being has ever been able to make it glow the way you do. It, intrigues me, you might have more power than the flower maiden does"

I will not, be part of your sick game, to bring the dead back. They will only be shells, without their spirits and ghosts they are useless. What will you use her for but your sick pleasures and abuse. No matter how many times you'd say you loved her, she would never be able to respond, no emotions in a shell

"Shut up!" He stabbed her opposite shoulder and she scampered back still growling, her fangs coated in his blood "You will help me, and I will get my love back!"

I'd rather die. Soui charged at him again, snapping her jaw backing him up slowly until he was pinned against the wall. She stood up a full human and grabbed him by the neck. She twisted his arm until he dropped the dagger. Now he was fully out of weapons "Darcia the noble, there is nothing noble of a love sick man lost in the past" She squeezed his shoulder, and just like that, he was unconscious. She tested his unconsciousness, in case it was a ploy, but it wasn't.

Soui sat down and let out a sigh as his limp body fell to the ground. She looked over his face and body, and finally her scar glowed, and turned completely red. She rested her fingers on his forehead and closed her eyes. She had entered his mind. It was black, very dark, inside his mind she saw confusing things. The Book of the Moon turning its pages, one of Kiba, one of Cheza, one of the pack, the end of the world, and finally, one of her.

"Soui?!"

Soui opened her eyes again, unable to read the page about her. She turned to see a panting Kiba. She smiled and gave a wave "Hey Kiba, I'm alright, he's out for now" She told him softly. Kiba ran up to Darcia. He picked him up and looked like he was about to bite his neck, and Soui just shook her head. "He is my link to who I am. Only he knows, why I have this scar, why I'm the only one who wasn't rejected by it. He knows, the connection I have, with the book of the moon"

"Why do you want to know if it caused you pain?" Kiba asked curiously

"Everything has a purpose and reason. I need to know mine, so then I may know, when it will be completed. Kiba, I have to tell you something,"

"I know." Kiba looked away

"...That I am your sister," She looked at the ground.

"Why didn't you tell me?"

"Kiba, our family's job for the generations was to protect the destined wolf to help the flower maiden. My duty was to protect you, as my brother, and as the white wolf. My emotions were not to interfere. That's why so many times, I tried to leave, because this scar was causing you troubles."

"But why! Why couldn't you just tell me!" He looked at Soui with pain in his eyes

"Because if you were worrying about me, you'd be turned away from your job Kiba! You are to go to paradise, and go there with all your pack and Cheza. I was never part of that legend. I am here to protect you until the moment I die. After that, you will be on your own"

"No! You're going to come to paradise with us!" Kiba told her, falling to his knees, grabbing her by the shoulders and shaking her "Come with us!"

"Kiba, I have been touched by Darcia, the darkness, I am no longer pure to enter such a place. I am one with the devil, even if I do walk the path for the justice. I will be rejected, and killed from it"

"No.....No......" Kiba shook his head. He could feel his usual calmness and composed walls breaking down. "You...can't..."

"It's okay Kiba." Soui smiled gently "When I'm gone, I can be with my family...our family again. You don't remember them I guess..."

"Why did you, leave me like that when I was young?" Kiba asked her

"When Darcia attacked, all of the family was dying, being picked off one by one. He was looking for you Kiba, and you of all wolves, had to be alive. We left you with the Indian, because he understood your destiny and would allow you to remain the way you were, without domesticating. It was out of my hands Kiba"

Kiba looked at Soui. Soui was looking down at the grass, tears in her eyes. This is when Kiba understood, why she was always so sad. Why she always told the others to run away when she was in danger. She was doing her job.... "I'm sorry..." She whispered quietly. Kiba eye's widened with surprise until finally he crawled over to her and wrapped his arms around her.

"Thank you....Soui....for guarding over me all this time. In all your pain, you put me, and even our pack ahead of your own life and emotions" He squeezed her tight and rested his head in her blond hair taking in deep breaths of it. Soui rested her head on his shoulder and kissed his cheek

"It's good to see you, brother."