Chapter Two: A Journey Weaved with Strings of Hope
Hige's eyes parted slowly. "Hey, you're finally awake!" exclaimed Toboe.
"Where am I?" Hige queried, looking around at his surroundings. He was in the back of a jeep. Tsume sat in a corner, snacking on a bag of Lays, barbeque chips. Kiba was fast asleep, snoring like a walrus.
"You weigh more than you look, Tubby," said Tsume, "We had to carry your sleeping carcass out of the building. Little runt Toboe almost broke his back carrying you."
"Hey, take that back!" snarled Toboe.
"He's just kidding around," Blue informed.
Meanwhile, up in the passenger's seat, Cher was amsuing herself with a gameboy. Hubb stared lazily at the road ahead of him as he drove the car. "So, just where are we headed?" he asked his ex-wife.
"We're following after Darcia's ship," Cher replied.
"And with what, that gameboy as our tracking device?"
"It has a built in radar"
"Looks more like you're playing Pac-Man…oh well," yawned Hubb, "Do we have any chilled coffee in the cooler?" Hige passed a Bean Man™ Brand chilled coffee up to Hubb. But, before Hubb could even pop the top off, a bullet flew through the window of the car and sped through the can of coffee, spilling cold caffeine all over Hubb's pants.
"Well, I bet that woke him up," sighed Tsume.
"Where did that bullet come from?" questioned Toboe, looking around nervously. Another bullet sped through the car, missing Toboe's noggin by a few millimeters.
"Their Darcia's men!" gasped Blue. Kiba woke up, then there was a loud bang, and one of the car's rear tires blew out. The car skidded on the ground, and then tipped over on its side, sending everyone who was not wearing a seatbelt to the ground. The car windows shattered, raining glass down onto those who had fallen. Everyone scrambled out of the lop-sided car and out into the barren, icy land.
"Surrender yourselves or we have the right to shoot!" shouted one of Darcia's shoulders, pointing a machine gun at Hige. The other souldiers had their guns aimed at the other members in the group. "What do we do?" Toboe whispered to Hige.
"I don't know…" replied Hige.
"Put your hands up now!" ordered an impatient soldier, "Or we'll shoot you on the spot!"
Toboe put up his hands. Tsume looked at him funny. "We're not going to let those bastards get the best of us," he whispered to Toboe, and nodded his head at Kiba. Kiba nodded in response. Immediately, the two males turned into their wolf forms and charged at the soldiers. The soldiers fired, but the two wolves dodged the bullets expertly. Kiba sunk his fangs into the neck of a nearby soldier, severing his spinal cord, which proved to be fatal. Blue and Hige attacked the soldiers; both drove their teeth into the soldiers and ripped them to pieces. Toboe observed the whole battle alongside Cher and Hubb, the latter was drying the coffee off his pants.
"Well, that's the last one," confirmed Kiba, spitting out a hunk of soldier flesh. An object traveling at a high velocity zoomed past the group and blew up the car.
"We gotta get the hell out here! They have bazookas!" yelled Tsume.
"But where are we going to go?" Hubb yelled back. Tsume shrugged his shoulders. What were they to do now that there was no car and someone was firing bazooka shells at them? Nothing. All they could do was stand there and hope that whoever was firing the shells would run out of them soon.