Do check out the link to the picture of Hana, Tsuki and Shippo on my profile page. The picture is very blurry because it has a byte limit and I kinda screwed up on fixing it up so I'll try to find a way to show all of you in a much better scale but right now, it will have to do. I'm trying Deviantart, but that doesn't want to work for me.

22.

"Find a place to rest; we have to wait until he wakes up!" Kiba whispered loudly as they ran blinded through the sewers. The paths were only lit by the lights outside and shouts and screams were echoing from above.

Shippo was ahead of all of them, pointing to a small dead end, darkening by the shadows. Shippo walked in first, testing the size of it. After walking in by a few feet, he discovering it was too small for all of them to fit in comfortably.

Toboe walked in and sat down against the wall, Shippo sat down next to him. Toboe rubbed his healing bruises. Hana smiled and sat down next to him, handing him a potion for further healing and sleeping.

Hige help Kiba set Tsume down easy on the ground. Cyan sat down and Hige sat down next to her, squeezing between her and Hana. Kiba sat down across from them and Tsuki rested next to him. Tsuki held onto the Book of the Moon.

They looked at each other in silence until Hana broke it, "what's going to happen now?"

"Off to Paradise of course," Shippo replied. The sounds of the alarms still were going off.

"One problem," Hige interrupted, "where is it?"

"It's about 300 miles from here, in a deep crystal cavern in the mountains," Tsuki read the pages, Toboe handed her the missing pages they gathered and she placed them in the right spots.

"Seems that you are a hero, Kiba, same with all of you," she looked to Toboe, Cyan, Hige and Kiba.

"Kiba, what did happen when you reached it?" Hige looked up to him.

"I fought Darcia; he was a black wolf with the human eye and the wolf eye. Cheza sprouted into a plant and Darcia tried to kill her, but I fought him, and I lost. He tried to enter Paradise, but he wasn't allowed to because he was part human. Her blood poisoned him though and he died. Cheza and I perished together in the snow and now, everything was reborn."

"Why did it happen though? Why is everything reborn?"

"Because I never entered Paradise and because this world is tainted now. Darcia's eye poisoned it and now evil is here, and because evil is here then we are here to stop it. Paradise was there, the beginning is Paradise until humans or other creatures destroy it. It has to be reborn, no Paradise lasts forever, if it did, it would be too perfect, too unreal."

Tsume smiled, "We are Gods to them and our purpose is amazingly spiritually unreal."

They all gasped and looked down at the grey, eye closed wolf. Toboe whispered, "Tsume?"

"The lost and the forgotten it seems," he grunted and Toboe smiled. He would've jumped and tackle-hugged him if he wasn't so sore.

They laughed though, before Cyan put a finger to her lips to quite them. They almost forgot and sat there quietly.

"What's going on outside?" Tsume asked softly.

"Oh just some evacuation of the city because Toboe escaped and you are back," Shippo replied quickly.

"You mean the pup set off an alarm? I'm impressed, great work Toboe," Tsume continued to keep his eyes closed because they were just sore to him and he didn't bother.

"Who are the other wolves I smell?"

"I'm Tsuki, I brought you back," she smiled at him and he nodded, "thanks for that, at least someone cares."

"I'm Shippo."

"I'm Hana."

"Nice to hear you both, I would open by eyes, but I'm still kind of tired."

They laughed softly and heard a few gunshots. They looked up and saw a man fall over on the manhole cover.

"Sounds pretty bad, I think we'll be down here for hours," Hana whispered. She moved closer to Shippo and hid her face against his shoulder. He smiled and moved a comforting arm around her.

"Let's get some rest, tomorrow is going to long journey," Kiba said and leaned back. Tsuki was still reading the pages from the tiny light of the glowing moon, she offered a shoulder for Kiba to rest his head on and he did so.

"Agree." Cyan curled herself up in her human form and leaned against Hige. Hige beamed and rested against her.

After about 10 minutes of absolute silence between the Pack, Tsume burst out into a question, "what happened while I was in a trance?"

Everyone groaned. They will tell him the story in the morning but now was the time for a good night rest, well, actually morning as the sun rose slowly in the distance.