Meanwhile, Tsume stirred ever slightly at the sound of Toboe's voice. He shook his head a bit at the words, only recalling some of it.

She's gone? How could Cheza be gone? Toboe seemed so... hyper. He was up and gone before Tsume even really had a chance to react. He lowered his eyes at the female wolves in the corner of the room. He didn't know what to think of them then. He tried moving a little to go examine them more -- or get a better scent, but his entire body froze when he tried to move, pain rushing up his back and down through his paws.

Toboe dropped the sausages on the floor and handed some to the females, and the rest to Tsume. He hoped it was enough to help Tsume get some strength back. He then laid down, tired.

Tsume shifted a bit more. "You... didn't have to get me food. I'm... fine. I just need a bit of rest, that's all." Tsume may have been conscious, but he wasn't fine. He was bleeding internally -- nothing that the other wolves could see, but he could feel it and sense it in his body. As stubborn as always, Tsume refused to eat the sausage. "You shouldn't wander out there by yourself anyways -- just because the others are gone, doesn't mean we should break up anymore..." he eyed the two females. "I suppose I'll have to believe you this time, and trust them. But... for now... let's sit tight. I can't go far anyway. Tch. We should wait for a while -- before going after Kiba and Hige. Hopefully together they won't do something stupid." He glanced at the sausages as he spoke, swallowing hard. "You look pale, Toboe. How long has it been since you've eaten?" he narrowed his eyes.

Shilaze smiled to Toboe in thanks for the food. She quickly ate and turned her gaze to Tsume and sighed. She didn't know what to think of this guy... he was defiantly stubborn that was for sure. Shilaze was slightly a nerve by his comment as well. She wanted to get back at him so badly but deiced agent it "he's just cranky... and tired with all those wounds..." she told herself. Shilaze gave a mental shrug and looked over to Meshawa who was still asleep, she smiled slightly and looked back to Toboe asking with her eyes if it was ok for her to approach them... herself not to sure of Tsume.

Meshawa yawned and stood stretching. "So he came too." She looked over to Shilaze and sneezed a wolves way of laughing out loud. "You look like you were hit by a train short snout. But I can't say much, I'm not even as good off as you are." She looked over to Toboe and Tsume. "You two all right?"

Toboe knew Tsume was still hurt badly, but didn't pressure him to eat. He knew better. Tsume firmly told Toboe that he shouldn't run off alone, and the young wolf shook his head to acknowledge his understanding. He winced when Tsume was a bit harsher to the females. But he was just being cautious, something Toboe rarely was. Maybe that's why trouble seemed to follow him.

Tsume said they should sit tight and wait, and Toboe readily agreed. He was worried Tsume might jump right up and go after Kiba and Hige. He was eager to get some sleep himself. He glanced at Shilaze, who seemed to want to come near them. He moved over towards her, and placed his tired head on his paws.

"You look pale, Toboe. How long has it been since you've eaten?" Tsume asked. Toboe glanced at the sausages, trying to hide his hunger. "I-I really can't remember" he mumbled softly, but quickly added "But I am just fine! I'll feel a lot better once everyone is back together."

Meshawa asked how the both of them were. Toboe spoke up quickly to change the subject "I think were going to be alright. We all need some rest." with that, he could not fight off the drowsiness any longer and drifted off, dreaming of paradise, a full belly, and his pack together again with Cheza.

Shilaze sighed as she watched Toboe drift off to sleep. "guess he's right we all need some rest.." she thought to herself "...but someone needs to keep watch..." she mumbled as she returned to her post at the door, and gazed up to the sky waiting for the others to return. She wanted to go after them so badly, but she stayed put, someone has to watch out for the others and Meshawa is too wounded to fight... Shilaze sighed in thought.

Toboe dreamt on, a nightmare was forming.

There was nothing but darkness, nothing but emptiness. Suddenly, There was bright light, and the scent of Lunar flowers. Cheza sat in a chair, bound and limp. She lifted her head up, and began to cry. She screamed "KIBA!" and fell into a hole. A white light followed her into the hole, trying to save her. Then a another duller light, almost brown, followed both in. They were falling, falling further. The white light seemed to reach out for Cheza. It yelled out "I'll save you! Don't worry anymore." Cheza was bound and could not move, the hole began to cave in, darkness was descending upon the lights, the air grew tight, the bottom became more evident. Here it was, the end of the fall...Three fell, upon the harsh floor
Toboe awoke in a cold sweat screaming "NO!NO!"

Kiba allowed himself to be led for a moment, eyes blank. For just an instant they flickered. "Cheza..." Kiba pushed himself forward, trotting clumsily as quickly as he could. Cheza was close--

Before Kiba had a chance to notice, a flood of humans came bursting through the hall, blocking their path.

Hige's mouth dropped as the humans came pouring into the room. He knew he should of finished off that guy who he stole the hot dog from.
The humans pointed their guns, and Hige leapt first, taking the first two out. Bullets started to fly every which way. Hige quickly and carefully dodged them, moving in and out from between legs, a few guards ended up shooting themselves in the feet or the arms. Bodies dropped to the ground, one fell on Hige as he sunk his teeth into a human's neck. He briefly lost his balance and tried to get to his feet again, but one of the humans had Hige's paw. The human, yelling loudly, tried to shake off the fangs that were now wrapped around his wrist. Hige jumped him, and then to the next, and took about a 11 more humans when 30 more people joined in.
Hige wished badly that Tsume or Toboe were here to help him and Kiba.

Kiba fought blindly, clumsily dodging bullets and swords and axes. His leg had begun bleeding profusely again, even worse than before; if it hadn't been broken before, now it most certainly was. More of the humans went for him due to his injury; they wanted to take out the 'weak' one first. Kiba, however, was far from weak- he took out jugular after jugular, digging his claws into the dead bodies that piled up around him.

Kiba wished badly that these goddamn humans would kindly move so that he could get to Cheza. They were being awfully rude.

Wolves! Breg hated animals. Two of 'em were loose and looking for that creepy thing they kept downstairs. Why? Maybe they were hungry? He usually would not care, but apparently he had to get that flower thingy to the nobles. When the alarm was sounded, he grabbed his helmet and his gun and headed into the fray.

Man after man went down before his eyes. The wolves were killing everyone! Breg took a moment to find that creepy girl. If he could get her outta here, then the men could grab the wolves and kill them!

He headed towards her, and tried his best not to look at her, because she was watching the white wolf with wide purple eyes. It sent a chill down his spine. That white wolf...he was powerful. It amazed Breg how an animal could fight so hard for this... girl. It didn't make sense. But no matter, because Breg had a clear shot of the white wolf. It was headed his way. He raised his gun, and put the white hide in his sights. He whispered to himself "Gotcha" and smiled.

Hige did his best to keep up with the amount of humans Kiba slaughtered. He should of been counting the number of humans that dropped at Kiba's feet, but he was too preoccupied with the five dozen of them that were grabbing, shooting, swiping at himself. Hige sunk his teeth into one, bounced off another, and knocked the breath out of the third. These guys were desperate!
He briefly panted, noticing one had a shot on Kiba. He also noticed Cheza sat in a room behind him. Hige didn't know what to be shocked at first. He flew through the air, managing to take a mouth full of the man's shoe. It was the most thickest material he ever tried to bite though. The guy simply shook Hige's mouth off with his foot. When Hige realized his teeth were loose, he looked up to see the barrel of the gun pointed right between his eyes.
Hige bounced to the left right as the bullet went off, slicing open his cheek. He howled in pain, and struggled to dodge the remaining bullets that began to fly from the few guards still standing. The wolf cursed left and right, grabbing a few jugulars on the way. Another sharp sting of pain went through his hip and across his shoulder. On his four wobbly legs, Hige jumped and took out the last human, collapsing on the bodies.
He wasn't sure if Kiba took out the guy who shot him, all he could think was to get Kiba & Cheza to safety.

Kiba limped past the dead humans toward the temporarily-unguarded Cheza. He was covered in scratches and bruises, and his back right leg dragged along the ground, bent outward at an unnatural angle. "Cheza..." he whispered, reaching to bite through her restraints.

The wolves were getting ever closer now. Cheza could hear gunshots and growling. She could smell the scent of the wolves' blood hanging heavily in the air. She heard the sounds of bones crunching. The presence of Kiba getting stronger. Her eyes widened as he drew nearer, tears trickling down her face. She tried to reached out to him, but her arms were restrained. She could almost touch him. Suddenly, he collapsed.

"Kiba..." she whispered.

Just as Kiba had almost reached Cheza, he came up against a hard wall--an invisible dome wall surrounding Cheza. He crashed into it again and again, before his leg finally buckled under him, and sent him to the floor, whimpering quietly. "Che... zaaa..." He struggled to get back to his feet, determined to break through to her

Hige lifted himself to his feet, climbing down the bodies of humans. He first nudged Kiba with his nose, "Are you ok, Kiba? Just hold still, I'll get her out of there." He crashed into the shield a few times, his face swelling as blood poured from his wound. He rammed the wall a few more times, then paused to catch his breath and strength again.

One of the living humans pulled out a remote and pushed a button. A low strange buzzing sound came from the dome wall. Hige whipped his head around to see who could of made the noise. He spotted the human and leaped at him, finishing them off. The remote fell down the pile of bodies.

Hige made another leap at the shield, hoping that a full charged jump would break the dome wall. When the wolf hit the shield, loud and bright sparks flew from the impact; he yelped as he felt every nerve in his body go numb. Hige flew across the room, rammed against a wall, and landed on his back. Smoke was coming off his fur.

Kiba blinked out of his zombie-like state as sparks flew from the dome. He saw a large brown mass go flying over his head. Struggling to his feet, he turned to see Hige lying limp against the wall, fur singed and smoking. "Hige?" Kiba limped over to his brown-furred friend. He nudged him with his nose. "Are you okay?"

Hige opened his eyes and sat up, his fur standing on end. "Ok, that didn't work," he managed to cough out. Hige lost his balance standing and fell against Kiba. "Sorry." He caught his feet again, which were now shaking horribly. "I'm ok, Kiba."
The wolf stepped down the bodies to the humming dome wall and sighed. "How the hell do we get past this thing?"

Kiba gave Hige a sidelong look that said something along the lines of 'I know you're not 'okay', but I'm not exactly one to talk.' "Is there something that will turn it off? It wasn't doing this a minute ago."

Hige looked around for anything that might have turned this thing on. He looked around the room for anything out of the ordinary, that wasn't there before they arrived. He finally spotted the remote. "What about this thing?" The brown wolf sniffed the remote and looked at Kiba. Hige batted the remote around with his shaky paw. He wasn't sure what to do.

Kiba studied the remote, spying a large red button on it. He lifted a paw slowly, pressing down on the general area. The alarm sounded, the entire room flashing red, a nearby coffee machine began dripping, a gate dropped down over one of the entrances, Cheza's dome began to fill with liquid, and the sprinklers turned on.

"Not the right button," said Kiba matter-of-factly.

Hige gave Kiba a pained, displeased look as the sprinklers began to soak his fur. Hige spotted a small white button and tried to follow Kiba's movements. A large wall fan began to groan into action, and a thin trail of gassy smoke came from the ceiling.

Hige smiled, stupidly. "Guess that wasn't it either."

Kiba tried again, this time picking the remote up into his teeth, trying to press a single button more precisely. Oxygen masks dropped from the ceiling, and a plasma TV high on the wall turned onto Cartoon Network, where they were playing a special on Shape shifters.

Hige tried Kiba's method again. A mirrored ball appeared from the ceiling and began to spin, and a radio began to blast out some strange pop-rock hits.

Kiba was unable to keep his tail from swishing as "Straaaay, Straaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay" came out of the ceiling. Nonetheless, he growled, pressing his paw into the remote and pushing it away. As he pushed it, the ball exploded, confetti and the message "HAPPY BIRTHDAY" falling to the ground. Kiba shook the confetti out of his fur discontentedly.

Frank limped down stairs as the gates fell his gun ready. "dam wolves..." he muttered as he slowly limped in to the room with his leg bandaged. He glanced around the room, most of the men were dead, and others were wishing they were. Frank swallowed hard as he entered the room that they kept that girl but froze as his eyes fell on the brown wolf that had bitten him earlier, he was about to put the mange wolf out of his misery when a large white wolf came over to him growling baring his fangs. Frank thought quickly, his orders were to kill any wolf... but yet he was the only one left... he smiled to him self as he backed away. The wolf turned back to the other, Frank saw his chance. He ran out of the room as fast as he could, as he ran he stepped on the remote crushing it allowing the barrier to fall around the girl. He ran until his legs gave out form under him, he gasped for air leaning agent a building. "Others will come for me... I'll just tell them the wolves killed everyone and ran off with the girl...Yeah that's it.." he grinned as he thought up the perfect story making it sound like he was a hero.