Ch 5: Lonely
The small party of wolves sat in a semi-circle in a corridor of the castle. The deep, dark brown she-wolf lay gasping on the floor while her sister paced frantically about, often sticking her muzzle down and licking at the wounds frantically.
"Calm down." Snarled Tsume out of annoyance. He looked at the white wolf who stood silently over the unmoving she-wolf and felt a strange familiarness, as if they had met before. "Who are you?"
"My name is Kiba." He said and lifted his muzzle to sniff the air. The fox's scent was gone and all that fluttered around his nostrils was the strong stench of metallic blood and the hidden scents of far off, rich foods. "There must be some sort of gathering." He said calmly.
"What do you care?" Snapped Aysu. She lapped at the wound largest wound of her sister. The dark brown wolf stirred and lifted her head, blinking. Her eyes matched her sister's, a strange deformation in their genes that turned their eyes silver. "This isn't right." Aysu said suddenly. "My sister Gin isn't this color. She is suppose to be silver."
The brown wolf shook her head and slowly got to her paws, blinking even more. "There…was a fox."
"We know." Aysu said. "She's gone now-"
"And a pretty flower that she took. She took it to…someone…"
Kiba pushed Aysu away. "Where? Where did they take her?"
"Her?" The dark wolf asked. "The flower? Away. Onto a plane…or train or car…something, something that made a lot of noise and heat."
Kiba snarled. "Out of the city? They took her away?"
"Yes…but, I don't know where…"
Tsume snarled. "This is the only safe-haven for a thousand miles. Where could they possibly have gone?"
Aysu pushed her muzzle into her sister's fur. "Com'n. Let's get going."
"No. I want to find the flower. It's important…I think."
Tsume shrugged. "Yeah, it's important. SO what? We won't be able to find it anyway."
"Follow me." Kiba said. "I can find her. I know I can, out of the city."
Aysu and her sister looked up sharply at him. Aysu stepped forward. "How? Are you the one the birds talk of or are you just some crazed wolf?"
He was silent and brushed past her, their fur mingling together for a split second before he was gone around the corner. Gin, the now brown wolf sprinted after him and Tsume caught just a glimpse of silver under the darkness. He shivered and walked in the same direction, leaving a stubborn Aysu to stand silently in a cold, dark, and strange hallway. She felt very alone.
Been a long time…so yeah. This one and the next one are short, but I'll have action in the one after the next one…that's confusing.
I dun own Wolf's Rain…it belongs to someone from Japan…they get all the good stuff