Chapter 4

Unexpected memories

He just sat there, shocked. She turned into one too? Was this like some kind of world epidemic? Were random people turning into wolves as they spoke? Of course not, but the thoughts kept rising in Yan's head; he couldn't comprehend anything anymore. But, in all his insanity, he found a new peace.

He finally reached a decision on how to make sense of it all. He would throw away all of the ideas he previously had about all this stuff; wolves, paradise, life in Freeze City… and just start anew. It only made sense considering all the events that unfolded over the past two days.

With a surprised expression still on his face he spoke, "Well, my name is Yan… if you wanted to know…"

Now the surprised expression transferred to Sasha, "Yan! Is that really you! Do you have any idea how worried I was about you? Do you know what the hell's going on? I just woke up, minding my own business, walked through the market street, and suddenly these huge guys in army suits or something just came up to me, shot me, and locked me up here!"

Yan just chuckled for a second. It was one of those times where you lost all hope, so laughing about the simple things was all you could do. "Well yeah, that's pretty much been my day too."

Kiba, confused, asked, "What are you even talking about. You really aren't like the others. You're supposed to disguise yourselves in front of the humans according to most of them. That bastard Tsume thinks he owns this place. A wolf's pride can't be tarnished by looking like one of them!"

Suddenly something clicked. Hearing that name triggered a memory in his already critically confused mind. "Tsume", it felt like he heard that name before, but he didn't know where…

Yan continued thinking about it, and his heart was pounding. Why was it pounding, he didn't know.
"It has something to do with…paradise?"

Yan needed to know. If he wanted to sort out all of the things going on with him, he had to learn more about paradise. "How do you get to this paradise?"

Kiba just smirked again, condescendingly this time, and answered, "You can't just get to paradise. It's not that simple. You have to reach it. That's why I'm here, in this city… I could smell the lunar flower miles away from here, so I had to come.

His facial expression suddenly changed from amused, to angered, "I would've been fine if I hadn't run into that bastard Tsume. If he didn't bite me in the damn leg I wouldn't have gotten caught by those sickening humans."

Yan asked, "You think I can meet this "Tsume" you keep mentioning?"

Kiba looked at him with a confused expression. "Why the hell would you even want to? He's a disgrace. I don't even know where he is. If you can get out of here yourself then have fun finding him."

Yan just lost the only lead he got, in about 2 seconds. It seemed there was no reason to look for the truth. He was going to rot in this jail anyway, so why did it matter? He looked at Sasha's eyes, but suddenly they appeared a dark blue shade. Was he seeing things? What was going on?

"If I can be with you when the world ends, it will be enough for me!"

What was that? He heard a woman yelling that, but as he looked around no one appeared to be screaming. It was so loud that it couldn't have been very far off. It was almost like a memory to him, a forgotten one at least.

Quickly, the "memory" faded away, and he found himself staring straight into Sasha's emerald green eyes again. He shook his head in disbelief, trying to rid himself of any more perplexing thoughts entering his mind.

He looked to his right and saw Kiba already biting through the bars of the prison.

Almost simultaneously in disbelief Sasha and Yan yelled, "What are you doing!" He actually got through one of the bars, and Kiba was working on breaking apart the next one.

It was just crazy, but then again, their experiences in the past few days made the situation seem actually pretty normal.

Kiba looked at them with a smile, then he did something different. He howled. The howl sounded like a beautiful melody to Yan's ears. It was a sound that seemed so friendly, but it could mean so many other things. It sounded so familiar…

Kiba's voice cut through Yan's thoughts. "Come on, we gotto go!"

The three wolves ran straight out of the cell into a hallway flooded by light. All the walls were a grayish blue color, and metallic panes stretched across the ceiling. There were a few air vents here and there, and guards scattered all over the place.

"Come on, there's no time to admire the scenery, get over here!"

Yan quickly realized this was his only chance to escape, and he ran as fast as he could to try to catch up with the other two. He saw as Kiba jumped up onto a guard's shoulders and bit his neck, leaving the man falling to his knees and finally onto his side, bleeding out. Yan picked up speed and finally caught up to Sasha. Then, almost without thinking, he jumped into a security guard and bit his arm, and ran away as fast as he could.

Kiba seemed surprised as he looked backwards at Yan. "What are you doing? Just kill them if you need to", exclaimed Kiba.

He had no time to think though about it though, and the group of three flew through the front entrance door into the light of the day. Kiba kept running and went into a random alley on their left. Where was he going? It didn't matter. Their ultimate destination was freedom anyway.

Sasha looked back at Yan to make sure he was alright, and Yan gave a nod back signifying he was. After about 15 minutes of running, they arrived at some kind of abandoned factory building. The sun was setting, so they decided to go inside and see if the place was safe to be a hideout.

Yan immediately flopped down onto the hard floor, getting ready to take a nap. He couldn't believe the adventure he had just gone on, and even though the floor was cold and concrete, it was warm and nice to him since he just found freedom from the crazy world. Finally, he could relax.

About a moment into his "perfect moment", he heard a voice. The voice sounded familiar, just like how the voice of that woman he had heard back at the prison sounded like a distant memory, but not quite the same person, or for that matter, wolf. The voice was … intimidating and loud.

"What the hell do you think you're doing here!"

Kiba answered the mysterious voice, "We needed a place to rest."

The voice boomed back, "What the hell is that supposed to mean! Get out of my territory!"

Yan looked in the direction that Kiba was talking in, and was petrified with shock.

The intimidating voice came from an intimidating man, or wolf for that matter. He was completely gray, with a lighter shade of gray on his underside. He had sharp yellow eyes that seemed to pierce through Yan's very being, not to mention an x shaped scar on his chest.

"Just get lost, okay? I'm getting pissed-off. And that only happens when I'm around idiots like you."