I'd like to thank Cring White Wolf and WhitewolfKiba for reading and obviously enjoying, I'm glad both of you love the story a lot. I'll keep updating then.
8.
Kiba stirred in his sleep, he dreamed of the Agents. They were the followers of the leader, Tsukimono. He rules the land with bad intentions among those that follow him. For decades he wanted his city to grow, he killed the forests for factories, killed the farms for road. Everything died in the palm of his hand and no one could stop it. He remembers hearing the cries of the world dying around him. Tsukimono would order the Agents to kill all that tries to oppose him; wolves were of that group. For years, wolves tried to stop him, to kill him. However, his power was far too great to be destroyed. Some said that Tsukimono was immortal, that he was not of this world to rule for over a 100 years. Or perhaps that Tsukimono was a son of the original ruler. No one ever sees the face of the powerful beast. He keeps away into his palace where no one can see him or if he did come out it'd be in disguise. The rumors forever travel along the lands, not matter right or wrong, evil still happen. Kiba never understood what caused the Earth's pain until now, sometimes he felt the wolf in him, sometimes it burned in his soul that it pained him.
You are wolves degenerated into humans…you can't change your form anymore.
"Ah!" he awoke from his sleep. Pain suddenly took its toll on him, his whole body feeling as if he was hit by a moving car. A pebble hit him in the eye. Toboe looked at him with fear in his eyes. He was in his wolf form and he was shackled to the ground with handcuff bindings that came from the floor. He was badly beaten up by the look at his dirt matted fur. He looked down and found his ankle was shackled as well.
"Kiba, these wolves...they don't like us."
He looked around again; they were in a jail cell. The walls were concrete and moldy. Only hay was on the floor of the cell and it reeked of piss and blood. Kiba shook his head to free himself of his suffocation.
"Where's Tsume?"
Toboe nodded to a cell across from them. Kiba looked through the bar doors and saw Tsume leaning against his cell wall, his grey coat stained with red. He put up a well fight by the looks of it, though it looked as if he didn't have much time left to live. Some flies swarmed around his body. Kiba's eyes widen a bit and he stood up.
"TSUME! WAKE UP!"
A familiar voice ranged through his head:
You are wolves degenerated into humans…you can't change your form anymore.
Toboe looked up at Kiba and looked down, his ears folded back in sadness.
"TSUME!"
Kiba's cries echoed through the cells, though his friend didn't answer. He cried his name louder and louder.
"Kiba… I think… I think he's gone…"
Toboe lifted his head and howled softly. Kiba continued to cry his name. Tears began to choke his cries and he grabbed the bars for support. Leaning his face against the bars, he stared at his friend. A friend he had to see die like this before, and this time… there were no goodbyes.
The voice echoed through his head:
You are wolves degenerated into humans…you can't change your form anymore.
Anger shook through him; his eyes flared as he grabbed the rusty chains and began to tear. Toboe stopped howling and looked at him. Kiba's hands were turning red and his skin was beginning to tear.
"Kiba stop, you'll hurt yourself!"
He didn't listen and continue to tear with all his strength. His grunts were turning into growls and he was turning into wolf.
The voice spoke again softly:
You are wolves degenerated into humans…
His body crumpled, bones broke as they reformed, and his disguise as human faded as his white wolf self appeared. His fur shown brightly with a soft white glow emitting from it. He grabbed the chains with his fangs and bit down hard. The shackles fell off his feet. Toboe starred in awe as Kiba did the same to him, biting off his shackles as well.
Shouts of men came from the end of the dungeon. Kiba ran to the cell door, not worried about the shouting but more for his friend Tsume. He grabbed a bar with his jaws and pulled. The bar bended, he continued to pull so the bar was wide enough for both of them to go through.
Toboe just starred at Kiba, tears still in his eyes. He had never seen his friend like this, such determination for one of his companions; he only remembered seeing him like this in the case of Cheza… The page! He searched through his pockets from his human form; he couldn't find any trace of it.
Kiba bent the bars enough and slipped through and Toboe followed easily. Kiba ran over to Tsume and looked at him closely for any sign of breath. There was none.
"Stop, you!"
Both of their heads shot up from Tsume and they looked at an Agent, he has a gun aimed at their bodies.
Kiba hunched down and snarled. The man shot and he leaped away and onto the Agent. Toboe ran ahead as Kiba killed him.
"No, this way," Kiba said after he jumped off of the bleeding corpse. He indicated a small door at the end of the hallway where the Agent had came from.
"Are you crazy?" Toboe whimpered.
"Don't you smell it?"
Toboe sniffed the air, catching a small scent of…
"Lunar Flower," Kiba nodded.
Kiba darted towards the door and charged the door knocking it down. Toboe and Kiba walked into an office. It was cramped up and looked more like a storage room then anything. The Agent must have been the cell keeper by the looks of the books and keys on the walls. Kiba walked slowly, sniffing the air for any trace. He disguised himself and his fingers ran along the book bindings.
Each of the books were old and needed a good dusting. He examined them closely. Toboe examined the books on the other wall.
"Kiba? How… how did that happen?"
Kiba shrugged as Toboe was speaking to him, his fingers running down the spines, "It was like the wolf wanted out of me."
Toboe nodded and went back to looking, he began tossing papers around, trying to hold back his tears. He smiled and found the page that they stole and stuck it back in his pocket. A stange script caught his eye and he opened it. It was an old letter that dated back over a hundred of years ago. He began reading a few lines outloud:
We have found The Book of the Moon… It was hidden in the depths of a cave where on top of the mountain was where we thought the entrance to Paradise…
Kiba stopped to listen to the words of Toboe.
It's filled with secrets and a language that cannot be read in our tongue. It might have what you are looking for the changing of the humans. I will arrive in a fortnight with the book.
T.E.
"T.E.?"
Kiba face snarled together. He clenched his fists, "let's go find Hige and Cyan."
Toboe nodded and they walked out quietly. They walked down the hall to the opposite door which they figured it was the way out. They passed by Tsume's cell without a second glance. The thought burned through their hearts and they couldn't stand to look at their beloved friend.
As they reached the end, Toboe heard a faint whimper coming from the end of the dungeon in the first cell. He ran to it and looked around. Kiba watched him and followed, "what is it?"
Toboe strained to see in dark, a small figure curled up in the corner. It was a wolf pup, a little younger than Toboe and from what he saw, the pup had beige and grey fur.
"Hey little guy, we're here to help you."
The pup looked at Toboe with yellow eyes, it was frighten to death. His little body began to shake with fear at the intruders. He sniffed the air for any signs of friendliness. Toboe reached out to him and wagged his tail. The pup got up slowly, one of his ears were flipped down over his eye.
"Keep watch, I'll get him out."
Kiba chewed the bars, bending them slowly and the pup jumped away again. Toboe heard footsteps, "someone's coming Kiba."
He bended the last amount of space and the pup ran out. From wolf sight he looked about a year and a half old, probably a month or two younger than Toboe.
"Do you know how to shield yourself?"
"No…"the small voice responded.
Toboe jumped back as the knob handle turned. Kiba stood his ground and the door opened.
"Here I think this is where they put them," a familiar voice spoke. And then Hige opened the door fully and the wolves smiled. Cyan walked in afterwards.
"HIGE!" Toboe shouted and jumped up.
"Hah, I knew my nose smelled right. Neko came and told us that you guys were caught so we decided to find you."
Kiba smirked, "sounds like old times eh?"
Hige laughed and Neko sprinted out jumping onto Toboe's shoulder. They motioned for the time to go and they walked out.
"Hey, where's Tsume?"
Kiba and Toboe looked down. Tears welled up in Toboes' eyes.
"Tsume will no longer be with us," Kiba spoke softly. Hige gulped down the lump in his throat and he looked down. Cyan sighed and laid a hand on Hige's arm to comfort him.
They walked out into the dark of the night. There was no moon in the sky to light the gloomy night, the stars even shown dimmer in the dark of the night. As they walked the streets, Hige kept glancing over at the new wolf.
"Who's the squirt?"
The pup looked up, "I'm not a squirt, I'm Shippo."
Ok, for all of you Tsume fans... I'm so sorry. I had to just kill off somebody… I would've killed off Toboe but I decided Tsume was my best bet. I can understand now if you wont read the rest.
Oh, and I'll give you a prize if you can guess the name of the voice that is talking through Kiba
And no Shippo is not taken from Inuyasha it means tail so I had to add it into the name for the Wolf's Rain name of the characters.