Star's POV
I hear screams all around me. It feels like a bright, white light is piercing all the way through my body. All of the sudden the screams turn into howls. The light fades and I see the same scenery of the dark street. Wait, I'm on four legs. I'm a wolf again! I think happily to myself. I look down at my wonderful, wonderful fur. I have white fur with a black underside. My legs and ears are black as well, and I have green eyes. Kira is a black wolf with one shy blue eye and one aqua eye. I run up to her and bark excitedly,
"We're back to normal!"
"Thank god! I was getting a little tired of being all human, believe it or not." She barks back.
"Trust me, I believe you." I respond. All of the sudden, I feel several pairs of eyes burning into my flesh-I can tell that Kira does too. We turn around to find our self surrounded my a bunch of other wolfs. One has white fur with yellow eyes. Another has gray fur with a lighter underbelly, and light green eyes. A wolf close to where I was just standing has light brown fur with an even lighter underside, below the chin, and around the eyes. That wolf has golden eyes. A forth wolf has musky brown fur with lighter extra hair, and pure yellow eyes. Finally, a wolf in the distance has black fur and blue eyes. "Hey Kira," I whisper to my friend, "Call me nuts…but I think those wolfs are our friends and that guy from the motorcycle." All of the sudden I remember something. I look over across the street to a lump of orange fur. "Steve!" I yelp. I run over to him and sniff his wounds. He has a small gash on the top of his head and a nasty burn on his left flank from hitting the motorcycle. His right hind-leg looks all jagged. "A-are you awake?" I slightly whine. I nudge him with my muzzle-no response. Kira runs up to my side. She rest her right ear on Steve's up-turned chest.
"I don't hear any breathing." Kira says, gloomily.
"No." I whine. Out of sorrow, I lift my head and howl for a bit. I whip my head down and bark out sadly, "Didn't that weird light make him any better?" Kira rests her head on my shoulder for comfort. I turn my attention to all the other wolfs. "Do you remember your pasts?" I ask them. "When all of you tried to find Paradise. But instead opened this world." As if all the memories jumped into their heads at once, they all exchange glances. The wolfs all run up to each other in excitement. As they chat, Kira leans in to me and asks,
"How did you know that?"
"Didn't the voice tell you?" I ask her.
"Not that much." She pouts. I turn my attention back to the ginger wolf. What came over him? I wonder to myself. I gently run a paw over his fur. I stop as I feel a rough spot around the left side of his face. I sniff the rough spot, then rest my muzzle on his face.
"That's odd." I say, pulling my head up.
"What's odd?" Kira asks me. As she steps up next to me, I raise a paw and wave it over Steve's face.
"His left eye feels bigger than his right."
"Maybe something's in it?" she suggests.
"No. If there was, the eyelid would be puffy or discolored." As I lean in closer to his face, Steve's left eye flashes open. I see that it's blood red-yet it's not bloody. "Steve?" I talk to him, cautiously. I see his muscles bunch-up under his pelt. Steve springs back up on his paws. "Good, your okay." I say, relieved. He flashes a moth of sharp teeth at me and says,
"I guess you could say that. Now that all of you are together, I can make my move!" Steve springs on top of me. He snaps his jaws, trying to bite my neck. But I dodge his razor-like teeth. Unsheathing my claws, I batter his underbelly with my hind legs. I then thrust him off of me with my forepaws.
"What the hell, Steve!" I yell. "Do you have termites in your brain?"
"I work for a secret organization. I'm hired for one and only one reason-to exterminate you and your friends." Steve says to me.
"And why would you tell me this?" I ask him.
"Because I know you won't live to tell another soul." He lunges and leaps towards me. I dash to my right and kick him with my hind legs. He rolls out but springs right back up. He head-butts me-I fall onto my back. He lingers over me and whispers in my ear, "Sorry for deceiving you." I look up to see that his right eye is still hazel colored. Right as his teeth are about to connect with my neck, he flies off of me. I see black fur race over and tackle him. Kira pins Steve by his shoulders and growls at him.
"Don't you dare touch her!" She angrily barks at him. She bites hard into his left ear. I see him savagely eye her. "And don't look at me with that freaky red eye!" Extending her claws, Kira thrashes at Steve's left eye with her left forepaw. Blood squirts up, and I see her fling Steve's red eye off of her claws and out on the road. She shakes the blood off her paw and says, "Much better." Proceeding cautiously toward them, I see the look in Steve's remaining eye change-he goes limp and passes out. I turn around to see the others looking at the eye-hair on end. Kira and I walk over to them.
"What is it?" I ask.
"T-this eye." Toboe stutters.
"It looks like that bastard's Darcia." Kiba growls angrily. All of the sudden, I see a man with slick black hair wearing a black cloak and a weird mask. The man takes off his mask to show one golden eye-a left eye-of a wolf. I then see him as a black wolf fighting with Kiba. Kiba kills Darcia-his eye turns over in a lake.
"He tried to open paradise too." I say, numbly. Looking over at the wolfs I say, "I know why the true paradise didn't open." They all stare at me. "Paradise can't exist in a world tainted with evil. Kiba," I look at the white wolf, "When you defeated Darcia in your past life, his eye escaped his body. It then rolled in a nearby lake. Since it got in that body of water, it became one with the new world. But it tainted the world with evil. It's that reason that paradise didn't open." Scanning my gaze over all of them I say, "We-all of us-have a mission. I'll tell you what it is, but first…" I look over at Steve's limp, out-cold body, "We need to learn more about this 'organization.' And why they want us defeated."