Disclaimer- god DAMMIT! HOW MANY TIME DO I HAVE TO SAY IT? I DON'T OWN WOLF'S RAIN, LUPUS AND VI ARE MY CHARACTERS, AND DAMN EVERYTHING TO HELL!!! (yeah...I've kinda been watching Yu Yu Hakusho on the Toonami block right now...where there's the Chapter Black tape that shows how horrible humanity is...and I recently finished studying Enlightenment philosophers, one of them saying how corrupted humanity is...). I can imagine my history teacher falling over in his chair, laughing, if he heard this. Actually, pretty much anything gets him laughing. And that's a good thing.
Chap. V
Oooookaaayyy, then. Vi's talking, actually, was talking, to me like she's alive, but isn't. Some hocus-pocus scroll didn't know I was supposed to exist. The fate of...of the entire world would change with whatever screwy stuff I did.
Dammit, my brain hurt just summarizing it. Just take it one step at a time....step one...ask myself, AM I FUCKING INSANE?!?!
I think I'm going to leave that question unanswered. Step two. Make choices...did I just hallucinate a nice but really, really screwed dream, or did that actually happen?
Let's go with that that really did happen. It's just too...too...too weird to be a dream. So that meant I needed to accept the fact that the stupid scroll thingy hadn't predicted that I would exist...damn, that was just plain screwed!
Hang on a second...why'd I have all this energy?
"Rrrrrghhh....what's taking them so long?" Hey...I heard that voice just a little earlier...
"Maybe we should go looking for them..." The pup's voice. I was still with that pup and fat pervert.
"And leave her here?"
"Well, I mean, maybe one of us could go looking for..."
"Oh, and what'll happen then if that someone gets lost?" Maybe the fat pervert wasn't that unbearable...but what confused me was why the pup's ultra-innocent voice didn't piss me off.
"DAMMIT!!!" I hollered as something bonked my head. My eyes shot open along with my mouth. I was in pretty much the same situation as the last time I opened my eyes- the same two guys staring at me. "WILL YOU QUIT STARING AT ME, ALREADY!?!?"
"Whoa," the one with the dog collar started. "Weird eyes."
"One's brown...the other's green..."
"I said, QUIT STARING AT ME!" I pulled my fist back as if to punch. One thing I liked about the human form- I could punch stuff.
"Jeez...so feisty...but, I'm used to it," the guy with the dog collar replied.
"Probably because you're a fat pervert," I mumbled.
"That pretty much sums it up!" the pup giggled. If it wasn't for his scent, I would've had issues knowing whether he was a guy or a girl. "By the way, I'm Toboe, and that's Hige."
"Lupus, nice to meetcha, all that crap. We've already had our stupid first impressions with that howling thing. What the hell happened?"
"You mean about those knights and what happened back at that city?"
"What do you think?" I began to glare at the pup. "What's your name again?"
"Toboe." He didn't look too happy as he said it. I kinda liked the sound of that- Toboe. I've got to remember to tell Vi about the name. Knowing her, her preppy reaction's going to leave me in stitches.
A burst of pain randomly erupted through my leg.
"OWOWOWOWOWOWOW!!!" I screamed. "Damn it all...." Stupid pain. Vi was right when she said that I should've been more worried about my leg.
"You all right?" Ho...h....uhh....Hige! That's it. Hige- he actually looked concerned.
"You might not be as unbearable as I thought..." I commented with a smug smile.
"Heh, I get that a lot, too."
I don't know why, but it just cracked me up. And with my maniacal laugh, I wouldn't be surprised if either of those two wolves left me there right there and then. But they didn't. They laughed along with me...I think I was gonna like these guys.
"But seriously, are you okay?" Hige pointed at my leg. I shrugged and tried getting up. Pain overwhelmed my leg and I crumpled to the ground
"Dammit..."I cursed. Damn....that spear from the knight's attack must've broken my bone or something, and now I can't even walk. For crying out loud, I'm about as useful as a lump of rotten, rancid meat!
"You're definitely not okay!" Toboe was starting to seem like a fat, old mother duck to me (yeah...I kinda got that idea from Brian Jaques' The Long Patrol.). He just worried too damn much. Hang on a sec...I'd chatted with Toboe through all the howling...didn't he say that there were four wolves and some flower maiden or something?
"Hey....you said that there were a bunch of other guys with you. Where the hell are they?"
"They were with us...but..." Toboe started. He didn't exactly finish.
"But what?" I started feeling pissed. Still no response from either of them. "But WHAT?" Silence. "SPIT IT OUT, DAMMIT!!!"
"We split up. Kiba and Tsume were supposed to take a longer route around the city to keep Cheza from any danger..."
"And who are those three?" I asked. "I'm assuming that the first two guys you mentioned are wolves?" Toboe nodded. "And you'd said that there was some flower maiden or something like that...could you explain?"
"You don't know about the flower maiden?" Hige looked pretty shocked.
"No, dumbass. Do you think I'd be asking if I did?"
"Well, Cheza-the flower maiden- she's basically a girl composed solely of Lunar Flowers..."
"And she smells just like them!"
"Mm-hm! And it feels sooooo good when she pets you..."
Those two were getting really excited just describing her. I listened to them ramble on and on about her, intrigued. I'm serious- it was just...just...nice, hearing two wolves being so...open, I guess, to me, like I was one of their pack. I'd never felt that before...that sense of belonging, even with Vi. I mean, it's not that I never felt accepted...it's just...I'd never been a part of a pack. With Vi, we were just strays, nowhere to go, nowhere to belong. Then it was back to being a lone wolf again, after Vi died. Come to think of it, I can't remember anything before I met Vi. Nothing about being a little, little pup. Nothing about my parents, where I came from, nothing. Not even when I was born. How come I'd never thought of this before?
A strong scent broke through my speculation. And whenever this particular scent was strong like that, death smiles and prepares to take another soul.
"Blood?!" Hige yelled, interrupting Toboe's latest details on Cheza. It wasn't mine, I know that. My wound had stopped bleeding a while ago.
"This can't be good..." I started getting up to investigate, forgetting about my leg.
I really regretted that. I screamed once again in pain, collapsing to the ground. Damn everything to hell.
"We can't leave you here..." Maybe Toboe's worrisome personality wasn't so bad.
"Then we won't!" Hige hoisted me onto his back and took off, closely followed by Toboe. I was left speechless, stunned. They cared enough not to leave what'd end up as a burden behind- me.
"Why're you doing this?" I questioned, still on Hige's back. Not something I was used to.
"Because you're part of the pack. You're one of us now."
Those words echoed through my head. I was....actually part of a pack. I was part of a pack. I'm part of a pack. I like the sound of that. I'm part of a pack. I'M PART OF A PACK!!! Happiness swelled and bubbled inside of me. I grinned.
But my giddiness was short-lived. The scent of blood growing stronger and beginning to mix with a slightly familiar scent- that of a wolf- worried me. But a sweet scent persevered through it all. I smelled that sweet scent before...before I went unconscious during the knights' attack.
"Oh...no...that can't be..." Toboe was horrified.
"KIBA!" Hige yelled. I craned my head away from Hige's mess of hair, only to see a white wolf, splotches of his fur dyed red with blood, stride towards us, letting some pale figure off his back. Both Toboe and Hige rushed over to the white wolf. "What the hell happened..."
"I'm fine...this isn't my blood. Cheza's all right, too," the white wolf stated. Both Hige and Toboe looked relieved.
"What about Tsume?" Toboe inquired. The other wolf hadn't noticed me.
"I'm right here." A black wolf seemed to appear out of nowhere. And he had one hell of a deep voice. The complete opposite of Toboe. Vi would've fallen madly in love with this guy.
"Did you...oh." The white wolf noticed me.
"Uhh..." I was clueless.
"Oh, yeah, I never got to finish...well, back at the city, we all saw you fighting those noble's troops, but Kiba didn't want to put Cheza in harm's way, so me and Toboe went off to rescue you while they took the long route around the place." Hige explained. That explains a lot, but I felt pretty guilty making these guys do so much for my sake.
"Are you all right?" the white wolf inquired.
"Uh-uh! She isn't all right! She can't even stand up!" Toboe yelled.
"SHUT IT!" I hollered back.
"Would you mind not screaming in my ear?"
"Sorry 'bout that...eh?" I felt a hand on my leg in the middle of my apology to Hige, whose back I was still on. Looking down, I noticed the pale figure kneeling on the ground, holding my leg. Wait....this was....Cheza. With Toboe's and Hige's descriptions of her, I couldn't help but recognize her. But I felt distracted- my leg started to tingle, and I felt a burst of energy run through me.
"That...feels...GREAT!!!" Energized, I sprang off of Hige's back, and landed on my feet. "Hey....my leg doesn't hurt anymore!" My mood was getting better by the minute. "Did you do this?" I asked Cheza. She simply smiled and looked at me. "I'm taking that as a 'yes'....thank you!"
"This one can see you have much power..." Cheza's high-pitched voice started. Every single wolf (including me) stared at Cheza in bamboozlement. "This one can see that you have enough power to change the future itself."
So what Vi told me was real.
Wow....to all those reviewers, THANK YOU SO GODDAMN MUCH! I've come up with a really, really twisted idea for this....I think it'll be revealed next chapter. Actually, I'm planning on making a parody of YYH for Halloween, so don't get pissed if it takes me a while to post Chap. 6.