DISCLAIMER: I do not own Wolf's Rain, only the idea for this story.

Chapter 9

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Blaze

"What on Earth do ya think y'ere doin?" one of the men said. I was still trying to figure out what each little thing did before we took off.

"What does it look like? We're trying to get out of here!" I yelled. I stomped my foot down on what I thought was the gas and the car went backwards, busted through a wall, and kept on going.

"Turn it around!" Celest yelled.

"I'm trying!" I responded. She growled and pushed me out of the way. I sat down in the only open seat while Celest turned us around, got us onto a road, and kept the truck straight and at a steady speed.

"Now that's a female," Snipe snickered. I elbowed him and sat in amazement. There was Celest, driving a truck. That was my girl. What?

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Breeze

Okay, so, the ride in the back was pretty boring. It was extremely hot outside and I accidently changed forms once or twice. The only funny thing that happened was when Forest got car sick and was throwing up over the side when he almost fell out. Everyone laughed at that.

The car seemed to be going slower, so I asked, "Why are we going so slow?"

"Uh… we're out of gas," Celest groaned as the car came to a stop. We all jumped out and decided to continue out on foot. We walked beside the road. It had started to sprinkle, and the woods around us were pretty leafless. I assumed it was around fall.

"So, where are you all headed?" Blaze asked.

"To Paradise, you?" Forest replied.

"Us, too," Forest stopped, but only for a second.

"We thought we were the only ones trying to get there, but I guess not. Tell me, how did you all find out about Paradise?" Forest continued the conversation.

"Well, that one's tricky. When we lived in the city…" Blaze started.

"You lived in a city, too? What city?" Forest interrupted.

"What was it called?" Blaze pondered.

"I think it was called Salt Lake," Celest answered.

"Yeah, Salt Lake City. At that time, I lived in the cellar of an apartment building. One night, a guy brought down a book. The book talked about Paradise and all that. The next day I ran into Celest. We stuck together after that. After we started our little journey, we found Snipe following us. Then I got bit by a snake and somehow Maddy came into the group," Blaze finished, but that last part seemed to baffle Forest.

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Forest

It can't be! Was it this group of wolves that I smelled? There's no way, but now that he mentioned it, Maddy's scent does seem familiar. I think I smelled it at one point in the city…

"Back down to Earth, Forest!" Brook waved her hand in front of my face. I shook out of it and looked around. "Tell them how we got together, Forest."

"Oh, yeah, sure, well, I saw Brook walking through town, so I stopped her and said hello. She followed me back to my place and we heard a howl, so we went to investigate. We found Breeze jumping off buildings in the middle of the night. The next day, Brook accidently bumped into Copper and he joined. There is one thing that bothered me, though. When we heard that howl, there was a different scent than that of Breeze, and when we set out on our journey, we found a broken log with some blood. There was also a strange scent there, too. Ma…" I started.

"LOOK! There's a building!" Breeze screamed with joy. It had started out a sprinkle, but now it was fat globs of water falling from the sky. Before I took off running towards the building with the rest of them, I noticed that Maddy was giving an evil kind of scowl. I waved it off and started to run.

We all ran as fast as we could. We walked inside and it was probably one of my worst nightmares. We were standing in a bar, but it wasn't just a bar. There was a stage and rooms up top. I was about to walk out that door when I saw Breeze ran up to the bartender.

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Breeze

"So, I haven't seen you here before. Where are you all from?" The bartender asked.

"Oh, uh, we're from Salt Lake City," I answered. The bartender sat a bottle in front of me and placed one in front of Copper.

"Salk Lake City, my my my, you all sure are far from home," The bartender continued.

"Yeah, uh, hey, could we rent some rooms?" I asked.

"How many?"

"How many you got?"

"We have two rooms available,"

"We'll take them, uh, will this do?" I pulled out some money from a wallet I stole from a guy in the bar area.

"Sure, here you go," I smiled and brought the two keys to Forest. He wasn't the strongest, but we kind of considered him to be the leader.

"What are those?" he asked.

"I bought us some rooms for the night," I replied.

"How many?"

"There were only two,"

"Well, we had better check them out,"

"You go ahead; I'm going to stay down here with Copper for a while,"

"Okay," Forest gave me a weak smile and took the keys. I took a big swig of the stuff in my bottle before going back to the bar.

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Brook

Since there were only two rooms, Forest decided one for the girls and one for the boys. I personally think he did it because of Breeze and Copper, but enough of that. I climbed up the stairs until I got to the girl's room. There was only one bed, but there was a carpet on the floor. There wasn't much interior decorating, but there was a bathroom. Celest was already in there. She was sitting on the bed in her human form. Her head was leaned back against the wall and her eyes were closed. I closed the door, but it made a loud creaking sound and she opened her eyes.

"Hi," I waved a little and sat on the rug. She smiled at me and then closed her eyes again.

"Brook, do you ever think about someone else?"

"Yeah, all the time,"

"No, I mean like Blaze,"

"Sure, I guess,"

"Nooo, I mean like do you have this feeling around anybody?"

"Oooh, that, well yeah…"

"Who?"

"It's… uh… it's… well… um… it's Forest," I let a little sigh.

"I should have guessed. I get that feeling around Blaze. He's saved my life like twice, but I don't think it's just gratitude, I-I think I really like him,"

"Have you told him?"

"No,"

"Why?"

"The same reason you don't tell Forest," We didn't talk about anything for about a half hour, then Copper came barging in.

"Girls, come quick," Copper stumbled and almost fell, but he caught himself and went back down the stairs. Celest and I gave one glance at each other before racing down the stairs.

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Celest

We ran into the bar room, but before I could process what I was seeing, a beer bottle flew right over my head and I ducked on instinct. I saw Forest trying to get people to stop throwing stuff and to leave him alone, but that was no use. This was a bar fight. Fists were flying, bottles were thrown, and only one person was laughing. Blaze. He was standing on the stage, but he wasn't there for long. He jumped on the back of some big human and head butted him. The man instantly fell to the ground and Blaze was only momentarily stunned. He quickly regained his balance and picked up a bottle. He was laughing like this was something GOOD!

"Blaze! What is going on!" I yelled, but no one could hear me besides Brook and Copper, well, scratch that. Copper was fighting with some other human, too. Breeze was nowhere to be seen, but I spoke too soon. She was hammering down humans faster than the guys. She would throw a punch, dodge another, and grab a bottle all within a heartbeat. I was stunned and… even a little jealous. I started to march over to where she was, no one noticing me, but I stopped dead in my tracks. A fist swung and was only inches from my nose when I grabbed it. I swung my fist and knocked the guy in his nose. He crossed his eyes and smiled dumbly before falling to the ground. That was the point where I joined the fight. Of course I didn't grab any bottles, I used my fists. Once or twice I heard Blaze yell something like Go Celest! Or Right, left, right, YEAH! It was fun, for a while, but the bartender had apparently called the cops. As soon as they came through the door, we snuck away through an emergency exit. I had to admit, that was the most fun I'd had in, well, forever!

Okay peeps, I'm like super sorry for not posting in forever, but... I don't know. I just got kind of lazy. I've been working on school and practicing drawin. Oh yeah, my deviantart is like awesome! I suggest you check it out. My username is Isiybelle, of course. Other than that, good, late afternoon or whatever. One more thing, I've never even gone to Salt Lake City. It just popped in my mind so I put it down. :-)