Cue intro to 'Mosh'. "IT FEELS SO GOOD TO BE BACK!"
Hell, yes. I'm back. Took me more than a month to perfect it, but now I finally got another plot twist in without making it seem like too much going on, as well as a nice, long chapter filled with my corrupted comedy and a dollop of action.
Disclaimer- After 11 chapters (plus 16 more with my other fics), you'd think I'd be able to come up with a way to weasel out of this….No, I don't own Wolf's Rain. Fae is Rhythmic's (RB's) character, used with her permission.
Those of you who have read or plan to read Rhythmic's Blurry, don't mind what I used Fae for. I liked the character, and just wanted to include her in my fic. :)
Now that most of the serious stuff's kinda over with, I'm getting in some of my (sick) humor in here…Those of you who don't mind me e-mailing you, tell me! I just want to know what people think of the mysteries of this fic…
Chap XII
"Ugh…" I groaned, holding my nose. "Smells like Hige after he's had a bunch of beans…"
"Aw, come off it, willya, Lupus? It's not my fault I'm the only one who farted last night…"
"Oh, come on, that was hilarious!" I yelled back. It actually was pretty funny… Hige's snoring and dreaming about pretty girls, and then, BRRRRRRMMMPPHH. "Y'know…it was almost like a nuclear explosion, when you think about it…"
"Where do you come up with these ideas, Lupus?" Toboe looked a little bewildered.
Obviously, life's been as normal as it can get with the guys. And, it was kinda weird…we're looking for Paradise, but I'm practically in paradise searching for it. The only drawback is that we've got to go through some stupid cities…hate those damn things. We're in one right now. I can't wait to get out of it.
But…I've been feeling weird. Really weird…all these memories from long ago are coming back…like…about two weeks ago. This memory of playing with Kiba in the snow when we were pups came to me…I don't get it.
What was even creepier was that…these memories suggested Kiba and I were, or are brother and sister. Something told me they weren't an illusion, though. I dunno if it might've been Cheza with some freaky new power, or what.
But…if it really did happen, why wasn't Kiba remembering it? I know Kiba knows about his past…but, then, I'm not in it. So how's it possible that Kiba's my brother in mymemories? Dammit, it made no sense whatsoever…I kept walking through the streets, frustrated, until my nose caught something. Something stinks, and it's not Hige… I sniffed the air a bit.
"Hrnf, hrnf…hey, guys, you smell that?" I asked. ('Hrnf' 's supposed to be like a sniffing sound) "You've got a good nose, Hige. You picking up anything?"
"Hrrrnnnfffff…smells like booze…hrnf…some old geezer and a do- aw, shit," Hige replied.
"You mean it's that old guy and his dog?" Tsume asked, pissed, as usual.
"Yeah…think so. He's in this city, I know that…" Hige sighed.
"O-kay, a little explanation here? I mean, honestly. How in the hell can some old fart and a stupid dog be such a big deal?" I added.
"For some reason, that old guy Hige sniffed hates wolves. He's always trying to shoot us whenever he gets the chance," Toboe explained.
"Yeah, and his dog's no pushover, either. Strange, though…she sorta smells like Lupus."
"WHAT!" I yelled, giving Hige the death glare. "ARE YOU SAYING THAT I SMELL LIKE A STUPID DOG?"
"NO, okay! I mean, nobody else smells like that…" I glared at Hige.
"Maybe I smell like that because I'm a girl andyou guys are guys? Well, Toboe's questionable, but…"
"Heeeey!" Toboe whined.
Hige cracked up. Even Tsume and Kiba seemed like they were forcing back a few laughs, too.
"Yes, brilliant deduction, Einstein," I said, laughing.
After that little round of laughing, silence…and that always gets me all fidgety. I ran up ahead in the junkyard we were going through, ran around in circles, ran back, then got in front of everyone. I couldn't stand it…
"DAMMIT, GUYS, SAY SOMETHING! IT'S NOT LIKE AT A FUNERAL, FOR CRYING OUT L-"
RRRPPP. (this'll make sense in a minute.) CRASH.
Great. I'm trying to make a point, then I trip over my own fat feet…and of course, I just have to plummet to the bottom of some heap of junk.
"Dammit..." I mumbled, getting up. I looked up…the guys were waiting up at the pile of junk I fell from. I jumped up there.
"Nice, Lu-" Tsume stopped short. He just stared at me, and so did everyone else…well, everyone except for Cheza; she just giggled. But Toboe, Hige, and Tsume just kept staring…
"What?" Nobody answered. "WHY THE HELL ARE YOU STARING AT ME!" I finally yelled.
"Uhh…y'might wanna look down…" Hige kept on staring.
"Wha-oh, god." I realized in mid-sentence that my shirt ripped riiight down the middle. Basically, if I moved, it'd be…indecent. "Hige, keep staring and you're freaking dead."
"Heh…heh…" Hige nervously laughed. Death threats can be a very useful tool, sometimes.
"Here. I think you'll need this." Kiba handed me his jacket. Man…he's just so sweet sometimes.
"Thanks, Kiba…" I put it on, buttoning it up and covering myself. He just smiled. That warm, quiet smile of his…it was just so familiar.
"Hey…you guys almost look exactly alike," Toboe commented.
"Yeah…now that you mention it, you do…if Lupus let her hair down in her human form, had white fur, and didn't have those weird eyes, you guys'd look like twins!" Hige noticed. My right eye started to hurt…
"Well, we are twins," Kiba said.
"So it's pretty much impossible us to not look alike," I added.
It was…another memory. So Kiba and I weren't just brother and sister…we were twins. I think.
"Hey, Lupus, Kiba, if you're done spacing out, we'd better get moving. I smell a noble." All four of them (Toboe, Hige, Tsume, Cheza) were already up ahead.
"Yeah, yeah, we're moving, Tsume…" I moaned.
"Hey, Lupus," Kiba called.
"Yeah?"
"You know how Hige said that we look like twins?"
"Yeah, of course I do. He just said that about five minutes ago,"
"Something was screaming at the back of my head that we were twins."
I heard clanging and howls before I could think of an answer.
We took off.
It was those robots that attacked me way back when…the ones that looked like knights with spears. Toboe, Tsume, and Hige formed a little ring around Cheza, protecting her. The knights began closing in.
Kiba bolted in front of a line of knights, distracting them and letting Toboe and Cheza escape, while I destroyed a knight, took its spear, and drove it through the distracted knights. I weaved in and out between the knights, and Kiba attacked them from above. We took two spears and plunged them into a knight in a criss-cross manner, skewering more knights. Somehow, every single time Kiba and I attacked, it involved our teamwork…we performed it perfectly. It was like…we'd…practiced for it. But…I was doing it entirely by instinct. Toboe and Cheza had gotten out of the fight safely…we just needed to drive the knights back. Filled with energy and excitement, I felt at the top of my game. Apparently, Kiba did, too. We were like fire; quick, powerful, and devastating, continuing with our joint attacks. Hige and Tsume were doing pretty well, too.
The things finally stopped coming.
"Whew…feels good to attack something," I sighed. "Now... I need a new shirt so, one, Kiba can get his jacket back, and two, so Hige doesn't get ideas…"
"Why am I always at the butt of your jokes?" Hige whined.
"Because you're the designated cheerful pervert," I replied.
As reluctant as I was to do it, I had to head back into the city to get a new shirt. Didn't take me long to get one, as well as a gray-blue hoodie, too. Kiba finally got his jacket back.
"I hate the smell of booze…" I grumbled as we came up near a bar.
"Wait here, Blue…" some old guy grumbled, chaining up a dog I'd never seen before…it looked…like a wolf. But she smelled like a dog…this was weird.
"Oh, great. It's them…" Tsume moaned.
The dog suddenly looked directly at us, and started barking her head off.
"What, Blue, wolves?" the old guy said. He glanced around, and finally saw us…a giant rifle emerged from his coat.
Normally, I would've killed a guy like that. But…this old guy…something told me…he had a story to tell. He wasn't your average, boring human that smelled like booze…he had a story to tell. A tragic one…
"OW!" I hollered…my right eye was hurting like hell…and…I remembered something. It…it wasn't a memory…but…what was it? That scent….both the ones coming from the old guy and the dog …beneath all that booze and sweat, there was a scent that was faintly familiar.
"Lupus, look out!" Toboe yelled. I glanced up…the rifle was pointed right at me. I managed to dodge the bullet that shot out...but the old guy kept on firing. The bullets were easy to dodge…
Growling and snapping reached my ears. The dog was hurtling at me…she was easy enough to avoid, but the gunshots were limiting where I could dodge.
But…I just had to find out what that…whatever it was I was remembering…
"What the hell are you doing? MOVE!" Tsume yelled, dodging a few bullets that came his way.
"YOU move it. I'll meet you at the junkyard." I had to…just had to find out…
"Are you crazy, you idiot?"
"I said MOVE!"
"HURRY UP ALREADY, FAE!" I yelled.
"WHY DON'T YOU SLOW DOWN?" she screamed right back.
"Whatever, slowpoke." I sprinted off, not waiting for her usual bitchy reply.
Maybe I should wait for her. I mean, she did have good reason to be slow…she'd just gone hunting with her pack. Sometimes it really sucked that we weren't in the same pack…we were good friends, but we saw each other only about once every ten moons.
I stopped and waited. "Faaaaeee…" I hollered. No response. "FAAAAeeeeeee…" No sign of the oddly-marked wolf. To tell the truth, I was almost envious of those markings on her feet that looked kinda like socks. Ah, well, who cares? It can't be cooler to be a wolf blacker than night with a brother white as light…(my own little stupid, pointless saying that amazes me on how the hell I came up with it) "FAE! WHAT THE HECK ARE YOU DOING?" I backtracked through the forest. "FAE!" I smelled smoke…oh, no…did something happen? "WHERE THE HELL ARE YOU!"
I finally saw her…and the magnificent blaze she stared at. Smoke clouded my nose and eyes…but my ears…I could hear screaming. Painful screaming. Human screaming.
"Lupus! Fae!" a familiar voice cried.
"Mom!" I yelled. The gray wolf came running towards us.
"Are both of you all right?" Mom asked. We didn't answer. We knew Mom knew we were fine…she just asked out of habit.
"Oh…no…" Mom glanced at the fire. Planks and all sorts of junk came crashing down from the burning structure. "We have to find those humans!" she cried. Mom had this weird compassion for humans, and even had derived her name, Silver, from a human story. …I think the story's some weird name like Julie of the Wolves or something.
"Leave it to Mom to help a load of humans…" I sighed. I bolted in…and I smelled something like…
The scent. That's the scent. It's them! That scent in the house…that's them. Did…did I rescue them?
"Hold still, dammit!" the old guy grumbled, still trying to shoot me. Why was he trying to kill me? And his dog….why was she following suit? Dammit…
"COME ON, LUPUS!" Kiba yelled, still waiting.
"Damn it all…" I mumbled as I leapt towards Kiba. We bolted off together towards the junkyard.
Okay, I think that's enough for now. I've got to get working on the next one…