Disclaimer: I do not own Wolf's Rain or any of its characters. I created Captain Popagan (aka CEO Popagan) and Tomo Hiragizawa. I do not own Ashella and Hemolal, because they are flower maidens. They belong to the creator of Wolf's Rain. Cheers!

Hige:Cheers? Cheers about what?

Supreme Author: About what? The new chapter of course dummy!

Hige: Cheers for you. I'm not even getting paid to do this.

Supreme Author: Remember our agreement…..If you do not do as you say, I will refrain from feeding you Kibbles….

Hige: Noooo! Not the Kibbles! Anything but robbing me of my Kibbles! You can even sic the yaoi fangirls on me! Just don't take away my Kibbles!

Supreme Author: Alrighty, on with the show, er fic.

Chapter Sixteen: An Encounter

It was about eight thirty when the SE09901955-CHZ47549-NAN-0343 MELVIN6079 was attacked by a loud thunk on the starboard side.

"What the hell was that?" Tsume blurted out, waking up from his nap. Blue came running out of the control room.

"It's Darcia's ship! It's firing at us!"

"You don't need to worry," Hubb shouted from the control room, "I'll turn on the Type A Force Barrier." All of a sudden, the ship was engulfed in a dark blue energy.

"Look at the pretty colors!" exclaimed Toboe, staring at the blue phosphorescence.

"Wow. I'm surprised it's not pink," Tsume commented. A volley of explosives fired from Darcia's ship, only to be negated by the blue energy field.

"Well, it's time Darcia got some payback," Hubb muttered to himself. Several blue energy blobs molted off the SE09901955-CHZ47549-NAN-0343 MELVIN6079 and drifted towards the enemy craft. They hit the sides of Darcia's aircraft with the force of a small tank; gouging trailer home sized holes in the ship. One of the azure energy blobs hit one of the canons on the antagonist's steel behemoth, blasting it to oblivion. A crackling noise ripped through the atmosphere. Two steel nodules popped out of the underbelly of the adversary's ship.

"Oh shit….he's got Dual Bending Lasers!" cursed Hubb. Damn, now everyone is going to pay for this, and all thanks to me! Two bright red streaks of energy shot out of the two nodules. They missed the SE09901955-CHZ47549-NAN-0343 MELVIN6079 by mere millimeters.

"That was close," commented Ashella. Then, the two red beams came bouncing back, one smashing through the forcefield, into the tailfins of the wolve's ship. Everyone except for Hubb was thrown to one side of the aircraft. Hubb flicked off Darcia's ship and pushed a verdant button to his left. The force field's color shifted from blue to green to yellow, to orange, and then finally to red. Orange sparks flew off the force barrier, as if the barrier itself reflected Hubb's rage towards Darcia. Then, the energy field flew entirely off the SE09901955-CHZ47549-NAN-0343 MELVIN6079, sped towards the cockpit of Darcia's ship, and hit it with full force. Almost immediately, the enemy ship began to spiral towards the ground at a break-neck pace.

"YAHOOO! WE DID IT! WE BEAT DARCIA!" cheered Toboe, Ashella, and Hige. They should have knocked on wood. One last beam of red energy emanated out of one of the nodules on Darcia's ship. It knocked off one of the SE09901955-CHZ47549-NAN-0343 MELVIN6079's wings with deadly precision.

Everyone aboard could feel the plummeting sensation that churned his or her bellies. It was not at all bearable. Tsume barfed.

"Here! Grab a parachute!" ordered Blue, handing out parachutes. By the time she held the last parachute, everyone, except Hubb and herself, had jumped off the plane. She handed the parachute over to Hubb.

"Hey, I don't need this," said Hubb.

"Take it!" snarled Blue.

"Listen, because I am a human, I have been doomed for eternity. The human race has no hope of reaching Paradise. But because you are a wolf, you can find Paradise. Now go and find happiness. Go now, please Blue." Hubb handed Blue the parachute.

"Thank-you," she said, strapping on the parachute. And then before she jumped out of the plane, she whispered to her human comrade….

"Good-bye"

Then, Hubb could no longer see her.

"Well Hubb," Hubb murmured to himself, "At least you weren't found out by the wolves didn't realize you married Cher, the creator of mloid." He couldn't stand the looks on the wolves faces if they found out he was a traitor. Then, Hubb smiled. The clouds were gone, and he could see the desert below. He began to sadly sing a song he had read out of the Book of the Moon.

It all returns to nothing

The desert became clearer.

It all comes tumbling down

He could make out a few dots, which were boulders.

Tumbling down

He could now see the ground in detail

Tumbling down….

Then, the plane collided with the ground, sending up a brilliant explosion.

Blue hung sadly from her parachute, as she stared mournfully at the explosion.

She mumbled to herself. "Hubb, you dickhead…"

To be continued……