Chapter 5

Things went on with the same routine every day for a week, Yuki would go to school, Ame would go hunting in the forest and Hana would go to the agricultural fields. Hana could only talk to Ame and Yuki individually since they still wouldn't talk to each other. From time to time she would try to get them to talk to each other but it was no use they wouldn't say a word.

One day while Ame was alone in the woods waiting for the rest of the pack to show up, he began to think about the mountain home he had left behind not so long ago then a he felt a strange sensation creeping over him it was like a voice that was calling him he began to walk as if it was guiding him he, he continued to follow it until he came to the wall of the compound and then he realised that he was being drawn back to the mountains where he used to live. He then decided he must see it at least one more time before maybe forgot.

MEANWHILE

It was lunch break at Yuki's school; she sat down on a bench and began to eat her lunch, for the one week she had been there she had made many different friends, she was even invited to several of their houses where she met their families, some of their family members were in their wolf forms and she even once saw two little children in their wolf form playing around like puppies. It all fascinated her she didn't see what was so great about being able to transform into a wolf as far as she was concerned she would never turn into a wolf again. As she was pondering her thoughts a boy about her age came up to her.

"Hi my names Komoto nice to meet you," the boy said.

"I'm Yuki she responded it's nice to meet you too," Yuki responded

They both sat there and said nothing for a few saying nothing to each other, then the Komoto spoke

"Look I've been wanting to ask you this for quite a while so here goes, Yuki I think you are really cute and I wanted to know whether you wanted to go out with me sometime?"

The minute Yuki heard this her head began to buss part of her wanted to say yes immediately but then another part said he was a stranger and she should say no. Then a sudden thought popped into her head

Souhei, the only person she had ever told her secret to, how could she have forgotten him then she remembered that when the council had mentioned erasing the memories of everyone they had ever exposed their wolf forms to did that mean Souhei didn't remember her at all?

Suddenly she snapped back to reality and looked and Komoto

"Komoto I'm flattered that you think I'm cute but, I'm already in a relationship with somebody," said Yuki.

"Oh," Komoto responded with a disappointed look. "It's okay I wanted to tell you anyway well thanks for considering at least," he then walked away.

Yuki then made a decision she had to know if Souhei had completely forgotten her completely forgotten her.

Later that day both Ame and Yuki formulated their plans.

Ame decided he would use his wolf form to sneak along the walls and avoid detection by any of the guards who patrolled the wall day and night. Yuki decided she would use rocks and other objects to distract the guards while she snuck past them they both decided they would try to escape at night so they would be less easily spotted.

That night Yuki was very tense at the dinner table and didn't say a word to her mother meanwhile outside Ame was pretty tense too and didn't even take a bite out of hiss dinner. Later Ame looked at both Hana and Yuki's bedroom lights to see when they had fallen asleep once both bedroom lights went out Ame began making his way toward the wall, unknown to him Yuki has just snuck out her bedroom and was making her way to the wall. Ame and Yuki arrived at the wall at the same time they noticed that there were quite a couple of guards and a few search lights too they still didn't see each other as they moved down the wall to a find less occupied area, they finally arrived at a small section of the wall, they noticed that there were only a few guard and one search light.

Ame was the first to move, using all the skills he had learned from his master he easily avoided the search light and made it to a locked gate that led to stairs up the wall. He began to wonder how he was going to get the gate open his sensitive hearing picked up footsteps coming toward him. He knew someone was coming but he had nowhere to hide, he stood his ground ready to fight to the death, just as the guard was about to spot him he heard a loud metal bang nearby, the guard then changed his root to investigate the problem. In his rush he had dropped a card, Ame went to inspect the card and found it was an identification card, picking up the card he ran over to the gate, changed into his human form and swiped the card. When the gate opened Ame transformed back into his wolf form and ran swiftly up the wall, the rest of the wall was not as tight when he finally reached the top he noticed his final obstacle were security cameras, as he pondered how to get past them he heard a sudden crackle and saw that both cameras had gone out. Now he as home free and ran past the cameras and used his rock climbing skills to descend down the wall.

MEANWHILE

Yuki slowly made her way to the edge of the wall, taking extra precaution to avoid the search light until she made it to a locked gate. She noticed the gate had a keyboard and a card swipe pad, she knew she had to find a way to unlock it, she noticed a rock nearby and decided to use it to lure the guard from the higher platforms to the ground, she took the rock and threw it at the metal on the gate, it made a very loud sound which attracted the guards, using the shadows to hide her Yuki watched as the guard mad their way down for the wall, through the gate and onto the ground although it pained her she transformed into her wolf form and snuck behind the guards, luckily for her a clumsy guard had forgot to lock the gate behind him. She finally made it to the steps and changed back into her human form, she made her way up the rest of the wall with relative ease until, she saw two security cameras watching the top of the wall, she saw a power box nearby taking the last rock she had picked up, she summoned up all her strength and haled it the box. The box went out with a crackle sound and she made her way up to the top of the wall. Now her only problem was getting down the steep wall, luckily she noticed an old stair case that looked like it hadn't been used in years; she slowly made her way down it until she reached the bottom.

However unknown to both of then they had passed by an invisible laser beam which had now triggered a silent alarm. The council soon got word that two residents had gone outside the wall, they were furious about this and decided to send their beast agent to bring them back.

Ame was finally out in the woods were he had grown up running around without a care in the world, he soon visited various places his master had shown him and caught a couple of rabbits as he was moving but it didn't last very long. As the night wore on Ame began to get tired and then as if out of nowhere a net was thrown on top of him, he struggled to get free but it was no use soon a man wearing a hood hit Ame hard it the face and he soon passed out.

Yuki slowly made her way down the mountain toward the nearest town, when she got there she used her memory of the area to find the road that led to Souhei's house it took her some time but she finally reached her destination, as she got close to the house she noticed the lights were still on. Bucking up her courage she made her way to the front door but, she was stopped but by a man wearing a black hood. He grabbed her by her arms and began to wrestler her to the ground. Yuki fought like she had never fought before, she managed to free her one arm and she used it to grab the man's hood and with a swift tug she pulled off his mask. She could believe her eyes it was a face that she had only seen in a picture before but this time his eyes were red. Before Yuki could say anything she was hit hard in the face which called her to pass out.