Winter Break was refreshing, It's good to be back to typing again. Sitting is a pain in these stupid hard rolling seats because I bruised my tailbone. Hopefully I'll be done in a couple of months but I don't know. I also realized I never made a disclaimer….well.. I do not own the rights to BONE's Wolf Rain, so don't sue me if my writing is crappy.

17.

Kiba awoke early in the morning and looked around, sitting up slowly. He saw Alexander pondering over his computer. Glancing towards the screen, Kiba saw pictures of people and of wolves. He stood up slowly, lifting Tsuki's head of his lap and placing it down gently, he walked to Alex.

"You need your sleep, son," he mumbled softly. His bright green eye fixed on Kiba, while his glass eye remained motionless.

"I'm fine now," he took a seat next to Alex. Thoughts racing through his head as Alex looked back outside. How long has he been here? Kiba wondered but couldn't bring himself to mention it. He sighed then another memory popped into his head, "I was a human once, I don't know if I was born a wolf, but…"

Alex laughed and cut him off, "You don't need to teach me how to become who I am, I am now who I was meant to be."

Kiba looked at him confused. Alex continued, still watching the outside world, "What we are is who we were meant to be, I was meant to be a human, though I possess the powers of a wolf that is not me. Our lives are written on cold slate by ones greater than us, it's our story, our lives. Its how we are supposed to live them and who we interact with and who we are," Alex turned and looked at Kiba, "I was supposed to meet you and help you."

Kiba nodded in understanding, "I told you we were on the way to Paradise, do you believe that it exists?"
Alex sighed and leaned back, "ah, Paradise, you'd be the first to talk about it in a long time," he cleared his throat, "once, when I was a pup, my friends set out for Paradise, they had only hints and clues, here." He pulled out some parchment and it read an ancient story in symbols and the same picture of Kiba and the others. Alex handed that to him carefully and turned around pointing at the computer screen.

"If wolves could cry tears, I would have cried an ocean," Alex sighed in sadness and on the screen he showed an old picture of his family, humans, then it flashed to wolves. There were three kids and two parents with their hands on the shoulders of their offspring.

"I was the oldest," he pointed to the scruffy looking boy to the right of his dad, "my parents were killed by Tsukimono, the Agents came and killed them. I took care of my sisters until…"his voice trailed off as he choked. Kiba watched in striking hate and terror. After a minute, he continued, "one man, the main knight of Tsukimono can see us as wolves, he knows what we are. I think they call him Blade. I came home from school, I was about 18 then, and my sisters were outside playing a game. I went to make dinner for all three of us and after I was done I called them in but they didn't come. I walked outside and I didn't find them, I looked everywhere, they were gone. I searched days and days, I could never find them. I assumed them dead. Afterwards, my friends and I did the same thing you guys are doing, we set out to kill Tsukimono and head to Paradise. That is how I got this," he touched his eye and around his face were scars, "My friends didn't survive. I ran away from the Agents and the machines, and I found this place for storing food and water and a lookout place. I changed into a human, and I never changed back. I never wanted to be a wolf again."

Kiba's eyes looked down at his hands, "I'm sorry."

"No, don't be, you've learned something from this story, have you not?"

Kiba nodded and turned around to see Cyan sitting up to see her arms around her legs. She had heard the whole conversation. Another picture flashed onto the giant screen, it was a picture of him and his friends as wolves. There were six of them, each looking at the screen smiling widely. Alex smiled at the picture then turned it off.

"Destiny always has a shortcut; I'll see all of you in Paradise."