Always losing me in a cloud...--Wolf's Rain Soundtrack

"We finally did it. After months of trying...we finally got her back." She placed a hand on the glass sphere and looked up at the girl in awe. Her sapphire eyes were glued on the girl made of lunar flowers, feeling like the weight of the world was off her shoulders.

"Yeah and about time too. Now, what do you think about Darcia?" A manly voice came through, appearing behind the woman. He too looked up at the flower maiden, put in a glass sphere with specialized water.

Cher Degre placed her hand down and took her eyes off Cheza. She turned to the man and spoke in a business-like tone. "Darcia is going to be chasing after those boys thinking they still have her. We have enough time to put our plans into action."

The man known as Captain simply nodded at the scientist. "Will you need any guards standing at the door?"

The blonde shook her head and looked back at Cheza, she was obsessed with her research and the flower maiden. "...She's beautiful, isn't she?" Cher whispered the rhetorical question.

"Anything that can lead us to Paradise is beautiful, I say." Captain chuckled, turning around and heading out of the laboratory, leaving Cher alone with the submerged Cheza.

Cher took a chair and sat in front of the large glass sphere, simply staring up at the sleeping flower maiden. For months they had been looking for her, trying to retrieve her. And at last, they did.

I finally did it, Hubb. She smirked faintly, thinking back on her ex-husband. He always did tell her she was too into her work. But how could she help it? In her hands she held the key to Paradise. That wasn't work to her, that was a God given gift.

She really did miss her Lebrowski. She missed him extremely. Him and their passionate love. But...she was passionate about her research as well. And if he couldn't understand that then...

"Quit thinking about him, Cher. You got Cheza now." She gently scolded herself, knowing the damage dwelling on the past could do to her.

She got up and pondered as she gaped at Cheza. Darcia was intelligent. He'd figure out in a while that those meddling boys didn't have Cheza anymore. She knew he'd find out. But she also knew that she had more than enough time with Cheza before Darcia could do anything to stop their research. Much less those boys.

Cher pursed her lips together and placed back the chair. Captain and his soldiers didn't finish them off, but it wasn't necessary. But she prayed for them, because if they tried to get Cheza back, they'd fail miserably. They had no idea where the laboratory was. And even if they did come to the right place, they'd be too late.

Feeling a bit hungry, Cher decided to head out and satisfy her hunger. As she began to leave the chamber, she turned around and spoke to Cheza. "You'll be better off here with us..."

With that, she left, feeling like God had given her a pair of wings to actually fly up to Paradise.

Little did she know what would happen later...

It had been days since the group of scientists took Cheza from them. The Lunar Flower scent had long dissipated, leaving them only with the white wolf's strong instincts. But even his instincts were faltering a bit.

There they were traveling across a vast wasteland that seemed to span forever. Civilization was left behind and the only thing they had was each other and discombobulated constructions and desert.

"Cause I am due for a miracle, I'm waiting for a sign...I'll stare straight into the sun and I won't close my eyes...Till I understand or go blind..." Hige sung quietly, trying to keep himself entertained. Problem was, that was the only song he kept singing for an hour straight.

"Mind shutting the hell up for a while?" Tsume growled, irritated with the song. Hige rolled his eyes and stopped his singing. "It's not like we got anything else to do. Geez, why do you have to be menopausal ?"

"What was that?" Tsume snarled, tempted to bash Hige's skull in. These last few days had been stressful. Kiba was more silent than before, Toboe wasn't his cheerful self, and Hige and Tsume kept bickering more and more. It was surprising to see that Kiba didn't shut them up.

"You guys, don't start this again." Toboe sighed, feeling more than a bit depressed.

"You shut your trap, runt. I'll show you menopausal you overweight house dog." Tsume snapped, his temper getting the best of him.

Tsume stopped, turned around and glared at Hige who glared back and shot back. "Better house-broken than a worthless mutt!"

"Your pathetic girlfriend's the only mutt here! What is she again? A she-wolf or a bitch?" Toboe gasped, knowing what this meant.

"THAT'S IT! I'LL KILL YOU FOR THAT!" Hige lost it completely and went to pounce Tsume who was more than ready to pound Hige to a pulp.

"Quit it. Now." Kiba spoke in a loud, firm tone, stopping both of them again.

But Hige had snapped and snarled. "No, man! What the hell! I'm not gonna let some egotistical bastard with no heart what so fucking ever talk about Blue like that."

Toboe was now in shock, never did he hear Hige curse nor be so defensive. Hige, ignoring Kiba's intense stare walked past him and went ahead of them.

Kiba just looked at him, and then at Tsume who rolled his eyes. When their eyes met, Tsume glared, "Don't even start with me, Kiba. Don't. Even. Start."

Toboe looked up at Kiba with frightened eyes and to Tsume. "Tsume..." He whimpered, not liking the way things ended. The gray wolf glanced at the pup and kept walking.

What the hell was wrong with everyone?

This tension between them was killing them. Kiba turned around and led again, with Hige yards in front of them. The pack seemed to be so dysfunctional lately, and it was definitely bad for them.

Miles and miles to go before the next city, and here they were, not talking to each other.

Toboe stayed close to Tsume who was more than annoyed at everyone but let the pup near him. Why? He didn't know himself.

Kiba just walked, silent as ever, his thoughts on Cheza and Paradise. And how he would kill the creeps that took her. He would definitely kill them all.

Hige at the front, just kept walking, fuming silently. Blue was not his girlfriend. Not officially. But he would never let anyone talk about her like that. If Kiba weren't around, Hige would probably have fought Tsume to the death just for insulting the radiant Blue.

I hope we find Cheza before we break up...Please be ok, Cheza...The innocent rust-colored pup prayed in his mind, hoping their journey as a pack would not come to an end...

Night had come, extremely darken, barely starry. The four wolves decided to finally take a rest and early in the morning they'd journey once again. They found a place to sleep in, shaded by the moonlight.

Hige sat far away from Tsume while on the other hand, Toboe kept close to the silver-haired man. Kiba was the one was standing up, away from the others, looking up at the moon's radiance, trying to sooth his soul. The others were quiet as they too gazed up, all of them being reminded of someone.

"Cheza..." Toboe whispered solemnly, seeing a faint image of her face in the moon. Tsume scoffed but said nothing, deep inside hiding his true feelings. Tsume knew only three things that involved Cheza.

1. He needed to protect her

2. He had to have her around

3. He found the flower to be like...a pup. A newborn one at that. Annoying but...cute.

To him, Cheza and Toboe were exactly the same. Annoying, childish, and in need of protection.

Hige laid on his back with his hands supporting his head and stared up at the moon. He wondered where Cheza was and at the same time, he thanked her. He thanked for showing Blue who she really was. He hoped that his secretive crush was ok with her lunatic owner, Yaiden.

Yet it was only Kiba who felt like a huge part of him had been ripped out. Her laughter rang in his ears and her face came to his mind. Cheza...I'll find you...

Unbeknownst to them...Cheza was looking up at the same moon under the same night sky.

"Kiba..." The lunar flower child sighed, missing her companions. She stood under the moonlight while being watched by 6 guards. Cher and the others had decided that a little moonlight would be good for the flower maiden and so they allowed her to go outside while being guarded.

She smiled softly up at the moon and twirled slowly around with her arms out. She closed her eyes and thought of the nights where all five of them danced around in fields being covered in moonlight. Just those thoughts brought a wide smile to her face and made her sing a gentle tune as she prayed for them.

Moon goddess...mother...protect my wolves...protect them from the bad...please, for this one...

Soaking in the luminosity of the moon, Cheza sung louder, her soothing voice enticing to even dogs in near neighborhoods. She hoped with all her might that the song would carry off into her wolves' ears and souls.

Little did she know that somehow, somewhere, the foursome began to gradually loosen up from their stress.

"It's time to go back in, Cheza." Cher announced softly, astonished by the flower's maiden techniques. Cheza slowly came to a stop and ended her song. She opened up her ruby eyes and looked at the scientist.

She nodded and walked towards Cher, ready to go back inside. "This one...is done..."

A/N

Ok, so I really didn't have enough friendly affection between Tsume and Toboe ;-; Umm...sorry? ;-;

I'll super duper try next time! And I'll try to sneak in a guest appearance by Blue, but give me time! School and baseball are killing me

Keep reviewing for moi! It really helps