Chapter 3: Teachings of old.
"So…your name is Maddy?" Kane asked her. Maddy nodded, her short brown hair flapping around "Yea, I want to thank you again for saving for me, those damn Fevered" Kane moved closer to her, his legs hanging comfortably over the ramparts. Maddy was a slim girl Kane's age, her stomach was flat but her chest couldn't be anymore of the opposite. Her face was pretty and her eyes were blue. Kane stared at her "What are you doing so far out from the main cities? Fevered have infested the outer area, it's not safe." Maddy sighed and looked out across the forest "My parents and I were from a village about 6 miles away from here, yesterday a mass of fevered attacked and my parents were killed, and my little brother also." She said softly, starting to cry. Kane pulled her to him, hugging her as she cried "Shhhh, its ok, your safe here." Maddy cried into her chest as Taylor jumped up onto the ramparts "Kane, um…now's not a bad time is it?" Looking at Kane and Maddy holding each other he saw she was crying. Kane shook his head as Taylor sat on a battlement next to them "Did you feel the power behind that Mura Rae Kazna? It was enormous, that's more energy then I could ever want to pump out into a blast I cast." Kane nodded and looked down at Maddy, she had fallen asleep with her head pressed against his brown shirt "What an odd girl" Kane muttered. He looked up at his dad and asked "So you going to teach him?" Taylor looked over to the Grand Tree and nodded "Yes, it's time" Kane scooped Maddy up into his arms and carried her to the mansion. Taylor walked into Clouds room and stopped. He smiled as he saw Sarah lying beside him on her back. Cloud was beside her with his head on her chest as they both slumbered. Taylor shook his head and walked back out, closing the door "I'll give him another hour" Taylor thought, smiling at how Cloud had become as mischievous as him in his younger days. Kane walked in beside him "I put Maddy in my room so she can rest" Taylor didn't seem to hear him as he asked "Didn't Cloud say Kazana instead of Kazna? He said Mura Rae Kazana" Kane gasped "He did! Maybe that's why the WolfSaeiga reacted so violently, Cloud said it wrong" Taylor clenched his teeth "Or maybe he said it right…" Kane patted him on the back and went downstairs to the kitchen. Taylor opened the door again and went to pick up the WolfSaeiga. He walked outside with it and to the outside courtyard. Taylor looked at the sword in its sheath, to feel the handle he was so familiar too. Taylor closed his eyes, setting his mind on protecting Kacie now and forever. He pulled the blade out and it became the reverse blade sword. Taylor wondered if what Cloud had said might have been the reason for such a blast. Taylor clenched his teeth and jumped high into the air, roaring "MURA RAE KAZANA!!!" He swung the blade through the air as a swirling shockwave roared out through the sky. The sky darkened worse then when Cloud had released it. The shockwave met the ground and created the look of an atomic explosion as the ground shattered and hell erupted into the sky. Lava shot into the air as a massive crater sunk its way down into the ground. Taylor landed on the ramparts and looked in utter shock and horror at the destruction he unleashed. He looked at the WolfSaeiga, the blade glowing with an eerie light. He sheathed it and turned. He jumped back slightly as he saw Cloud standing behind him. His eyes were wider then Taylor's when he had seen the blast "Dad…what was that!?!?" Cloud gasped. Taylor gave Cloud the WolfSaeiga "It's the power you unlocked, all this time it was Kazana, which is WolfKaiHanyou for Scar, and not Kazna, which is Strike, So its Red Blood Scar, not Strike, I'm proud of you son" He shook up Cloud's hair with his hand in a sort of encouragement and walked down the wall stairs. Cloud watched him go but quickly caught himself and ran to the stairs "Dad wait!! How do I make it the reverse blade!!!??" Taylor stopped and turned "Just believe Cloud, your heart will tell you, literally" Cloud blinked a few times "My heart will tell me? What does that mean!?" He looked back at the crater, the lava filling it close to the brim, the sky remaining dark and clouded. He looked at the WolfSaeiga and gripped the handle. He jumped up high, about 100 feet in the air, and began his fast decent towards the ground. "WHAT MY HEART TELLS ME, WHAT IS IT TELLING ME!?!?" Cloud roared out as the ground was approaching quickly. Cloud felt his heart skip a few beats as he thought of only one thing which confused him: Sarah. He screamed and pulled out the WolfSaeiga. The blade glowed as it curved upwards and he pointed it at the ground. The blade dove through and made a large crater beside the lava filled one. Cloud looked at the blade in awe, it was so beautiful. He placed the tip inside the sheath and slid it forward. It flashed as he continued pushing it, the reverse blade changing back into the straight form. He sheathed it fully and gripped the handle again, thinking about Sarah and how much he wanted to keep her safe. He pulled it back out halfway and saw it becoming the reverse blade. Cloud gave a loud "HMPH, so that's how it works" Cloud turned and started walking towards the gates when a loud growling could be heard behind him. He whirled around towards the lava filled crater and pulled the reverse blade out. The lava bubbled as Cloud growled back through clenched teeth. The lava bubbled more violently as Cloud took a few steps back. He heard loud hissing noises and growling from the crater. He was about to run off when he gasped in horror. A large inhuman dog like creature crawled its way out of the crater to face Cloud. Its eyes were blood red and the fur was pure red. It growled at Cloud and prowled closer to him. Cloud gasped out "The stories Dad told me about creatures from lava, they weren't bed time stories!!! IT'S A HELL HOUND!!!" Cloud screamed as the HellHound roared and pounced at Cloud as he screamed the word his brother had used earlier "SHINKIROGARA!!!!!" He swung the blade at it and the silver disk about 50 feet in diameter roared into the HellHound, slicing him straight down the middle. Cloud gasped as the two halves fell in a sickening splat on the now red grass. Cloud jumped back up into the ramparts screaming for his dad when he saw him by the mansion doors, leaning against them. He ran with full speed towards him as he said "DAD!!! THERE WAS A-"Taylor looked at him "Hellhound, I know" Cloud stopped and looked at him as he continued on "The WolfSaeiga had many abilities, Wolf taught me. The Shinkirogara I learned on my own, the Gouyakutaruya was burned into my mind when I was infected with Wolf Fever, and the Mura Rae Kazna, or Kazana now, along with the Crimson Embers Light, which I haven't used in SUCH a long time because I thought it used to much energy, but the summoning of HellHounds is something I could never do, even Wolf couldn't master it. The trick isn't to summon them, it's to CONTROL them." Cloud nodded as his father changed the subject "It's May Cloud, know what that means?" Cloud narrowed his eyes and shook his head, wondering what Sarah was doing right now. Taylor laughed and looked over at him "Oh come on, don't you feel a little odd this month? You know, love wise?" Cloud gasped and shook his head, remembering that he had indeed developed a crush on Sarah. Every time he saw her he just wanted drool or rip her clothes off, which made Cloud very, very, VERY embarrassed and perverted. He looked up at his dad "So there is a reason behind it? I thought it was natural" Taylor sighed "Well it is natural, in a way…Cloud…It's mating season" Cloud gasped in utter shock "Mating season? What the heck? I didn't know I had a mating season" Taylor tried not to roar out laughing as he continued talking "Well, I already gave you 'the talk' when you were 13 and now I'm giving you the 'Mating Talk'" Cloud nodded and urged his father to go on "Ok, well Mating Season for us, you know, Half-Wolf, Half-Human, or a WolfKaiHanyou is from April to late June, and our bodies just roar out with……..well…feelings, as we look for mates. Kane already knows about it, Ryan knows about it, Mura and Sarah are getting this conversation in about a week. You're going to feel a lot of… 'Urges'…weather you choose to ignore them, I don't care. Whatever you do, you have my consent, as for your mother, she may care more about what you do about….your actions….then I would, you should talk to her….and remember, Sarah will start feeling the same things so try not to rush things if you two DO decide to…whatever just go talk to your mother" Taylor said, chuckling. Cloud bowed and thanked his dad before going into the kitchen. He walked in as Wolf tore the newspaper in half and Kacie through her dish into the sink, shattering it. Cloud piped up "Whoa! What the heck's going on here!?!?" Mura was crying on Kiara's shoulder as Maddy hugged Kane, who was looking straight out of the window. He saw Sarah (while resisting his urges) and looked closely at the letter she was holding, her face contorted in fear. Wolf looked at Cloud sadly "It's the Dark Wolf Army, Kane is the proper age to fight, and they've come for him to go fight against the fevered" All Cloud did was let his jaw drop.