Shilaze turned at the sound of Toboe's screaming and ran over trying to comfort him "are you ok... It was only a dream..." she nosed him gently trying to reassure him "It'll be ok... don't worry I'll keep you safe..." she stopped did I just say... she looked down and sat next to him.
Meshawa had now taking Guard duty again letting Shilaze have some time with the others.
Shilaze sighed as she watched over Toboe.

Toboe was still half asleep when he woke from his nightmare. He shivered and huddled himself together, as if coiling up would soothe his mind and body from this unexplainable dark feeling.

"It'll be ok... don't worry I'll keep you safe.." A soft voice broke through, calming Toboe instantly. That voice held a kindness, a familiar tone he'd heard once before. In his half-awake state, he whimpered slightly before shifting and drifted back into the land of slumber. His body demanded this rest from him, and he had no choice to obey. But his mind was ever working, ever focused on the problem at hand. Kiba and Hige and Cheza. His mind opened further and his dreams settled on a more pleasant idea.

In his twitching sleep of dreams, he said ever so lightly "we're together again..." and smiled

Shilaze watched as Toboe fell back to sleep. She needed sleep as well but didn't want to give in. I'll just rest my eyes a bit... that couldn't hurt... She laded down next to Toboe curling up into a ball and wrapping her tail over her nose. Slowly she drifted off to sleep ignoring her large to stay awake.
As she slept she dreamt of being back with the pack, back with her family. They were all alive and happy again. Shilaze smiled slightly as she slept.

Tsume suddenly shook awake, no telling what stirred him into consciousness. Was it Toboe's whimpering noises and the soft comfort of the female wolf... or? ; He shifted, eyes searching around him frantically, until he caught sight of Toboe, and Shilaze curled up at Toboe's feet. He snarled slightly, feeling almost angry and uncomfortable at seeing them so close together. But they were both asleep. So he decided to see what was going on. He had no idea how long he had slept, just that his head was pounding like nothing else. Frustrated he tried to stand to his feet, and failed, falling over, chest aching. He tried again this time, pushing with his hind legs and drew himself up slowly, like an old wolf would. He limped across the enclosed area until he made his way to the opening. He poked his head out slightly gazing around at their surroundings and then glanced back at Toboe and the female wolf. He noted the food Toboe had left for him to eat was still settled at their feet. He snorted.

"You could have at least eaten it. Brat..." he grumbled more, and watched Toboe for a few more moments in silence, before he slipped around the corner, out of their shelter.

In Toboe's dreams, life was as it should be to him. Nothing was chaotic, nothing was wrong. And everyone was together.

Suddenly, as if his heart knew, Toboe awoke, and with eyes still clouded from sleep, glanced around the shack. He felt warmth coming from Shilaze, and he was almost tempted to fall right back asleep, yet he did not. He focused his eyes a little and glanced at the spot where Tsume was...

GONE!

Toboe bolted up, and stupidly searched every corner in thier little shack. As if the big grey wolf would be missed in such a tiny space. He even called out into the emptiness "Tsume? Tsume? Are you here?" His heart sank a little, and he headed out the door. Maybe Tsume was getting some fresh air? He went outside, hoping to see Tsume's Grey form, the one he'd come to rely on, to...But he was met with the vast empty of the hill.

"Tsume" he whispered lightly "Where did you go?"

Shilaze opened one eye sleepily "wha… huh?" she asks still slightly asleep as she looked around the room. Meshawa was still by the door only know was asleep...again but Toboe... and Tsume were both gone. She slowly rose to her feet stretching out some as she did Grate... now what? she thought with a sigh as she started to walk out looking for them. Meshawa will be fine on her own... besides it's not like I'm going to be gone that long...
She walked out expecting to see both Tsume and Toboe but only saw Toboe. She looked around to make sure he wasn't just out of her sight. Seeing he wasn't she turned back to Toboe. "Toboe? Where's Tsume? He's in no condition to be out by himself... regardless of what he says."

Toboe felt Shilaze coming up behind him. He didn't mean to disturb her, both her and Meshawa needed rest. He didn't take his eyes off the distant stretch of land. Why did he leave?

Toboe tried to disguise the hurt and worry in his voice. "He probably went off to go find his own food, or maybe..." he stopped and looked back at Shilaze, "He's strong, he probably needed to walk around a bit." He nodded, as if to convince himself that was true. He wanted to bolt, pick up Tsume's scent and find him right away. He needed to be close to him, like if he didn't keep one eye on him, he'd disappear like a grey morning fog in the afternoon sun.

"I want to go see if he is ok. Ya know, just to make sure he didn't get too tired and get attacked or something. I promise it wont take me too long, if you wanted to stay here with Meshawa?"

Tsume had only stepped out for a little bit. His whole body ached and his legs were sore, he wanted to test his surroundings and just look around for a little. He'd return to the others soon enough. He had to watch over them. He was the oldest after all. He wandered a bit, limping as he went, and he sighed, realizing that he still was a mess. Little droplets of blood were trailing behind him from his leg.

He sighed a bit and sniffed at the air, snarling once he caught that familiar scent. It certainly wasn't Hige or Kiba. It was humans. He swallowed hard, the smell nearly driving him to nausea. He wandered a little bit further, staying low.

Chh. If only I had more time to heal myself. I don't think we are safe staying where we are. If we continue we may never find the others, but if we stay here... we could easily get surrounded by humans and trapped.

He sensed something horrible was going to happen, his ears shifted with a breeze, trying to hear what was going on around him.

Toboe sniffed the air, and he caught Tsume's scent. But he also caught another scent, one familiar, one that brought fear hurtling at him like a fallen star. Humans. He turned to Shilaze, and whispering so close to her said "Humans are coming, Get Meshawa, we have to go find Tsume and hide."

The urgency in which he felt the danger approaching made his voice scratchy and dry. He swallowed hard, thinking about guns. His skin crawled and his heart raced. He wondered if the other wolves always felt this way around danger? No one else seemed to be this affected by it, in fact, some seemed to welcome it at times. Toboe pictured Tsume, he was a great fighter. Toboe wanted to be just like him, always strong, always helpful.

A crunch behind him made Toboe almost scream. Humans were coming up the hill! He fought the urge to tuck in his tail, and yelled to Shilaze.

"They are coming!"

Shilaze nodded and ran back in to the shack where Meshawa was. "Meshawa... humans are coming we need to go!" Meshawa sighed and mumbled something under her breath as she followed Shilaze outside.
Shilaze turned back to Toboe "Go on... Meshawa and I will hold them off"
Meshawa was already facing the humans growling with her hackles raised. More humans came, more then what just two wolves could keep back. Oh shit... "Meshawa, there are to many... we have to go... NOW!" she yelled as she ran off. Meshawa grumbled and followed after her as the humans came...

Hige felt like a ton of bricks were dropped on him. He batted at the pieces of remote that were left on the floor. He gave another pained look to Kiba.

Kiba twitched.

Then twitched some more.

Growling, the white wolf limped in a circle, heading back toward Cheza. The dome was now filled with the green liquid which preserved her.

The electric dome was filled with fucking WATER.

Kiba was no scientist, but he had a feeling that that wasn't a good thing.

It was instinct, damnit.

Hige backed away from the dome, out of the water, and onto the upstairs steps. He finally got a full view of the room. His ears perked up. He saw these things before, in the human areas.

Hige jumped, leaping through the water to a chord on the wall. He grabbed the soaked chord between his teeth and pulled and yanked on it. His tongue began feeling the sparks fly from the wire that were now showing. He gave one final tug, and was tossed back a few feet into the water. The end of the wire chord fell against the wall. Sparks began to fly from it every which way, since those damn sprinklers were on.
Hige was soaked, his mouth was numb, teeth still chattering, but the electric shield was off, and the water began pouring out like wildfire.
He smiled graciously. Cheza was free.

Kiba nearly smiled, his lupine lips actually seeming to turn up slightly. "Cheza!" Kiba limped-er, swam toward the flower maiden, biting her restraints and ripping them off.

It was imperative that they escape as quickly as possible. Electricity and water, obviously, did not mix.

Though it's not like Kiba knew that. It was just instinct.

Cheza wrapped her arms tightly around Kiba, partially from relief at seeing him again and partially to prevent him from drowning. She knew he was week and was lacking in any tremendous amount of energy. She couldn't heal him at the moment since time was a factor, but as soon as they got to safety, she would do as much as she could.

AS they were swimming away, a thought tickled the back of her mind.

"where's Hige?"

Kiba paused in his wolfie-paddling to look around quickly. "You're right...Hige? HIGE!" He shouted, trying to be heard over the alarm that was still blaring. The wolf had been right behind them a moment ago, but now he was nowhere in sight.

As Kiba rescued Cheza, Hige began to paddle, as good as he could, around the dome. His arms were heavy, his face and mouth were numb, and he could barely see out of one eye, less two. He wasn't sure where he was paddling to, he heard Cheza and Kiba call out to him over the alarm, but his head bobbed in and out of the water. The wolf didn't have enough strength to call back to them.

His paddling slowed as he came into another room. He bobbed around in the water until a door opened. Hige closed his eyes and swam with the rush of the water that came into the new room. He landed face first on the carpet, the water now to his ankles. At least he was on solid floor.

After what seemed like hours, Hige stood on his wobbly feet, lifting his head. A rush of a cold feeling fell over him. There was Frank, with the rifle pointed directly at his head.

Frank held the gun at the wolf's skull "Your that bastard that bit my leg and stole my hot dog...you'll pay for that" He pulled the trigger expecting the gun to go off but instead he herd a Click. He tried again click, click, click... Frank started to sweet as the wolf growled "Oh shit..." He ran from the wolf but the brown wolf was to fast he leaped in front of Frank "Dam wolf..." he muttered and tried to run the other way, he was blocked again. Franck hurriedly looked around trying to find a way to escape for the wolf when a long loud howl filled the air. The brown wolf turned his head in the direction of the howl. Frank saw his chance and ran form the room closing the door behind him and continued to run out into the main part of the building. Other humans came and questioned him as to what had happened. Frank quickly told them the story he made up and was lead out of the building them believing every word of it. A few of the humans went back into the building to take a look around, and to see if there were any other survivors.

Kiba howled again, desperately trying to stay above water. What with Cheza clinging to him, and one leg being useless, it was a constant struggle just to secure air for the both of them. They needed to find Hige, quickly. Kiba tried to turn in the water, which was constantly increasing in volume, due to the tube which had previously led into Cheza's dome. It had never been turned off, and thus kept producing the water.

"Cheza...can you sense him?" Kiba asked quietly, senses too unfocused to properly locate the brown wolf

Hige growled, but it came out an awkward purr due to his throat full of water that he swallowed, and his numb tongue. The guy ran away anyway, the brown wolf was impressed with himself. Hige saw another way upstairs and began to slowly climb it, his legs shaking horribly.

He stopped in his tracks when he heard Kiba's howl, or what sounded like a howl. Hige struggled to get to the top of the stairs and padded around on the laminate floor, looking for the door to get down the stairs again. His eyes widened. The water was halfway up the steps and rising fast.

Hige sensed both Kiba and Cheza and dived into the water. He forced his head to the surface and saw the two of them.
"Ki-" Hige lost control as a large flood of water slapped over him. He sunk down a bit, but popped his head back out again.

"KIBA!" He cried, his howl in a panicked tone. Hige went under again.

Kiba struggled over to Hige, beginning to panic. He knew the brown wolf couldn't swim well--"It's not good for my delicate paws," he once said. Well, at least they had him located. "Cheza, hold your breath," he commanded. Taking a deep breath of his own, he dived under, prying his eyes open in search for the "big-boned" wolf. He only was able to catch a big brown blur, a few feet under him. He reached out, grabbing Hige's paw.

It was really quite unfortunate that wolves can only grab things with their teeth.

Hige was sinking fast. He thought he saw a white blur swim over him, but he wasn't sure what it was. He felt Kiba bite his paw. Thankful, the brown wolf began to be pulled to the surface. He grabbed a quick breath of air and finally saw Kiba and Cheza together.

Hige turned around in the water and began to paddle to the stairs. A team of humans baring guns peeked down the steps. They stopped at the water level, not going any further. "Turn that damn water off!" A voice shouted. "You idiots are ruining the equipment down here!" Another voice said in the distance, "We can't sir, the dome malfunctioned."

Hige turned around again, his eyes wide. He began to swim towards Kiba and Cheza. "There's another way out, but it'll be blocked with guards." He accidentally swallowed a gulp of water. "What do we do?"

Kiba gritted his teeth, barely staying above water due to the extra weight of Cheza with her arms around his neck. He quickly looked around; he could have sworn that there was another exit...Kiba turned in the water, looking over his shoulder at Hige. "This way." The white wolf took a deep breath, pushing himself and Cheza under the water.

Hige almost whined. He took a deep breath and followed Kiba and Cheza underwater.

Hige held his breath as long as he could, he went for the surface again. He lifted his snout out of the water and touched the ceiling with the his nose. Fear came over him quickly. He swam down to Kiba, realizing he couldn't tell him what happened.

Kiba reached the end of the room, finding a small, closed door. Kiba was nearly sucked into the door as water squeezed between its cracks. Kiba opened his mouth, water flooding into it, and bit down on the knob, trying to turn it. When he couldn't get a good grip, he looked to Cheza, who was perfectly fine under the water, if not a little sleepy.

Cheza reacted as though she could read Kiba's thoughts. She reached for the doorknob and gave it a yank. However, with the pressure of the water building against the door, it was difficult to pull the door open. She was able to get it partially opened, having had to release Kiba in order to get a better grip. Kiba wedged his snout in the opening and forced his head through. He struggled to push the rest of his body through the doorway. The water was pouring out, but it wasn't doing it fast enough. Hige paddled his way over and also tried to wedge through the door. Time was running out. Kiba and Hige were only getting weaker.

"Captain! Captain! The wolves! They have the girl!"

Captain Jeso peered out into the chaos, to see two wolves swimming with the flower maiden. At first, he thought his eyes had deceived him. Wolfs were extinct, they had been for over 200 years. Yet there they were, and they were taking away the prisoner.

"Circle your men around where you can get a clear shot. I don't want anything to get past this dome, you got that!"

The Captain took up his barrette and waded down the stairs. He wasn't about to let those...damn wolves get away. He took aim, and just as he was about to take a shot, a loose wire came down, nearly making the good captain loose his cool. I can't see a damn thing down here...there is only one other choice...

"Sergeant! Open all the door, we need to flush this place out!" he screamed through the fray. He'd catch these wolves, and get back the flower maiden. He had to, he wasn't one to give up a fight.

Kiba wedged himself through the door, painfully wriggling his back leg in order to get through. He soon found himself sliding out with the water into the relatively empty hall. Once he was able to stand, he turned back to see a brown blur trying to push through the door...

A really big brown blur. Kiba would have to watch Hige's eating habits.

Kiba couldn't get close enough to help, what with all the water spewing out. He just had to sit and wait.

Cheza picked herself up and made her way over to where Kiba was lying, panting heavily. She placed her hands on him and began to pass her hands over his wounds, starting the healing process. As she was doing so, she squeezed some of the water from his fur. She also kept an eye out for Hige, who she knew could use her healing touch as well.

Hige somehow made it through the door onto the solid soaked floor. He took two steps onto the laminate, pulling in two huge breaths of air. His head began to swim and he fell against the wall for support. The brown wolf managed to take two more steps towards Cheza and then he hit the floor with a plop.

Kiba stared at him evenly, allowing Cheza to caress his leg. "Glad to see you could make it."

Hige was having a dream, or something. He thought he was conscious, lying on the floor. He could feel his body tingling from the electrode zaps he got tonight, and water deep in his stomach from the flood. Yet, he felt like he was being watched. Hige was sure Kiba and Cheza were there, he sensed them, he sensed Kiba's healing, but he could swore that there stood another person, or a wolf, nearby.

Maybe he was dreaming.

Hige felt his head lifted onto a soft pillow, or a blanket to rest. He opened his eyes to meet a pair of blue eyes. "Kiba?" He asked. The wolf twitched his head.

Kiba don't have blue eyes, you dolt.

Hige's vision came blurry. He struggled to look again. No. It's a female. A hand came towards Hige, touching his face. He felt a memory of a shock of electricity rip though his body, and he shot straight up on all fours.

Hige stared at the hall, stupidly.

That female with the blue eyes was gone. Hige blinked, looking numbly at Kiba and Cheza, then laid down at Cheza's side, with his head on her lap.

Kiba nodded to Hige, glad to see that he'd woken up. Now that his leg was finally healed, he stood up an stood watch. "Hurry Cheza," He commanded softly, "They're going to follow us here soon." The water flow from the other room had started to slow.