chap5. Fallen Wolves
"Hey guys I had a dream last night!" Said Toboe "We all reached paradise, there were all these red and blue flowers, and you know what they were lunar flowers! And granny was there and she took care of us and made us good food. It was like a party and we were all guests!" We were resting for awhile and Toboe was happily telling us about his dream the night before.
"You dont even know what lunar flowers look like!" Hige complained.
"Well, not even Kiba told me what they look like." Toboe argued, I looked at Kiba who smiled. We walked over a hill, but Toboe was straggling.
"Hurry up!" Hige yelled.
"I'm coming!" Toboe yelled back.
"Are you okay?" I asked
"Yea." He panted
"What's the hold up?" I asked when Toboe and me reached the top.
"The ocean..." Said Kiba. I looked on at it, the only way across was some old train tracks.
"Are we crossing it? And on those train tracks?" I asked
"Yes." said Kiba "It's the only way." We walked on the very long tracks, for at least an hour. We started to smell lunar flowers.
"We're here! Its paradise, I just know it!" Toboe cheered as he ran down the tracks. We ran to catch up, we looked upon a city. We walked to it and walked the streets looking around.
"What a junky town." Said Tsume "Some paradise."
"You know, I dont think this is paradise." Toboe said after awhile. I looked at him cocked my head to the right side, did my wolfie smile let my tong hang out then said.
"Uh, Duh!" I looked around. Hige and Toboe laughed, Tsume looked anoyed, and Kiba just smiled like always. That beautiful smile...Stop it! Dang I'm doing it again.... We were still laughing when we came to a bunch of people that were sitting around a fire but they weren't ordinary people they were wolves!
"Its a women." Hige whispered when he seen the female wolf, again what am I choped liver.
"Are you kids from out of town?" Asked the alpha male but it was more as a statement.
"Yes." said Kiba "We are just passing through."
"Besides what's it to yea..." I lowly growled at them.
"Rexy!" Toboe grabbed my arm. They alpha male looked angrily at me then said.
"Where you kids heading?"
"To Paradise!" Toboe stood up to them and put is hands on his hips. The wolves just started to chuckle.
"Kiba, why are they laughing?" Toboe asked innocently now.
"Street trash." I lowly growled again. "I know their type..."
"Its because they dont know anything about paradise." Kiba answered
"Oh, we now all about paradise." Another wolf answered "Its more like heck then paradise." We had, had enough we walked away to the waters hedge, where we sat for awhile. I sighed.
"I can't believe that!" Tsume growled "Getting told off by the likes of them!"
"Your the one to talk..." Hige whispered
"What was that!?" He growled
"Oh! Nothing its just that in a few years we could be just like em' " Hige tried to save himself. Hige's stomach growled.
"Man, how do they get any food around in this place..." He whined. Tsume's stomach growled to. "Ha but that time it was Tsume!"
"I think we're all hungry..." I said.
"I'm also tired..." Whined Toboe.
"Lets go find some where save to sleep for tonight." Kiba said, as he got up. We walked until we found a cemetery.
"This place creeps me out..." I felt a shiver go down my spine. "Are we staying here?"
"Yes." Said Kiba "We shall be safe here for tonight." I shivered again.
"Oh, is the great she-wolf warrior afraid?" Hige teased me, when he saw me shiver.
"No, I-I...." I tried to think of something to say
"Dont have an excuse..." Hige laughed. Then something popped out of a hole in the ground. Scarring Hige, Toboe, and me to death almost. We screamed, Toboe fell into Hige and they both fell to the ground, I jumped and hid behind Kiba.
"Ha! I knew it! You are scared!" Hige said, then he looked at the thing that poped out of the hole. "What the heck!?" It was an old wolf.
"Hey, Gramps you scared the heck out of us!" Hige complained.
"Sorry, I was just digging my self a hole." He said.
"You mean you were digging your grave?" Kiba asked a little bit shocked, he turned to look at me.
"Sorry!" I said walking back to the place that I was.
"I knew you were scared..." Said Hige
"Well, when you get to my age." The old wolf was explaining. "You start to know when your time has come..."
"So you are digging a grave." I said
"Yes." He said.
"Old man?" Kiba asked, "Are there any lunar flowers around here?" The old wolf gasped
"A flower bed that went on forever!" He held out is arms. "Years ago, this hole island was covered, but alas they have all been dug up."
"Years ago, you say" Tsume said "Then there is no reason for us to stay in this junk hole."
"Where are you kids heading?" The old wolf asked
"To paradise" Kiba replied.
"Oh! Our pack once tried to go there..." The old wolf said, "The door to paradise is right over there." He pointed. We gasped as we looked at the hole, in some round cement door. Then the alpha male came up.
"That's enough old man, remember there is work tomorrow." He said
"Well, I dug it deep enough." The old wolf replied.
"Is this the entrance to paradise you took?" Kiba asked
"You kids better leave at dawn." The alpha said before walking away. We made our way to an old broken-down, Mausoleum thing.
"Those guys are really getting on my nerves." I growled.
"They're getting on all of our nerves." Tsume agreed with me. Then the female wolf walked in.
"Hey I brought you guys something to eat." She said, then Hige started to grovel at her feet.
"Oh thank-you!" He said. I glanced at Kiba he walked outside.
"Kiba wait up for me!" I ran after him, I heard Toboe some distance away.
"Rexy! Kiba!" He yelled. But he didn't find us.
"Why did you take off all of a sudden?" I asked Kiba.
"Rexy go back." He said.
"Why?" I asked he just shrugged. "Then I'm coming!"
"Suit yourself." He said. We were walking when we past the wolf pack's hang out where we first seen them.
"Where's your pack?" One of the wolves asked.
"Street trash..." I lowly growled.
"Rexy." Kiba said, restraining me.
"Just let me bite one?" I growled. I looked at him, and he shook his head. He turned to the wolves.
"What are you guys doing?" He asked "Standing around without a purpose. Your nothing but a pack of dogs!" He made them angry, they were advancing on us.
"Uh, Kiba..." I stepped back.
"Run, if you do not want to fight..." He said calmly
"Me back down from a fight...Never!" I growled. Then they attacked...
"I thought you said you never back down from a fight?" Kiba smirked later that night.
"When the going gets tough, the tough gets going." I shrugged, but I then winced from the pain of doing so. "This sucks." I growled.
"Yea." Kiba replied. We stumbled into an ally since we were too hurt to go anywhere else. When we got in the ally Kiba sat down, then immedently laid down. His wounds were worse then mine, since I really wasn't a target I just happened to be there. I sat there for awhile looking out of the ally, into the street before finally falling into an uneasy painful sleep.
"Kiba?" I asked the next morning. "Do I talk in my sleep? Or was Hige Lying?" It was just killing me and I had to know.
"Yea you do." He replied. I sighed and turned away from him as I blushed. Dang I hate that I do.
"So, shall we go find the others?" I asked changing the subject.
"Yea." He got up. We both staggered on.
"Where do you think they are?" I asked
"I don't know, but we might want to start looking at the train station, they could be there." He said
"Yea." I said, with a shrug. I felt much better today. We walked into the train station when I immedently picked up Toboe's scent.
"I found Toboe's scent!" I told Kiba. So we followed the scent until we seen something just terrifying. Those wolves that lived here they where pulling something for the humans, just like a bunch of dogs. The old wolf that helped us, was lying there dead, he had died because of those dogs, and those humans. Kiba was so mad he was shaking, I lost myself some where. I was in wolf form and I howled a howl of sadness and terror.
The others noticed us then. I snarled at the so-called alpha wolf. Kiba ran as a wolf now to the other wolves that were tied up like dogs, I didn't know, what he planed to do when he got there though. The alpha wolf jumped down and landed on Kiba, so he couldn't get there. The alpha looked at me, and with a snarl I jumped up to where Tsume, Hige, and Toboe were.
"Look who decided to join us." Tsume said angrily.
"Are you just as mad as I am!?" I yelled angrily.
"Yea!" He snarled. "You should really be a human now though."
"I don't care!" I snarled "These wolves want to live like dogs, they can go ahead! Don't mess with me I am ready to rip something's throat out!"
"I like this side of you." Tsume laughed "What brought this on?"
"These dang dogs attacked Kiba and me last night!" I growled.
"What!?" Toboe, Hige, and Tsume said in unison.
"Well come on we better go save Kiba now." Tsume said. I changed back into a human. Hige walked over to me.
"Speaking, of which." He began. "What did you two crazy kids do last night?"
"What did you say!?" I growled at him, if I wasn't so angry I would blush.
"Leave her alone." Tsume said. "You can mess with her when she's not so mad."
"The She-wolf worrier doesn't like losing." Hige mumbled. We all cooled down a bit later on that night when we went to the back to the cemetery. Kiba was leaning on a head stone. I walked up to him. From the corner of my eye I saw Hige starring at me. He knew something.
"Are you okay?" I asked Kiba.
"Yes and no…" He said, he then looked at the alpha with a murderous glare. "You call your selves wolves, you're living like a bunch of strays, clinging to this disgusting place…"
"You kids… are still young…" That was all the alpha had to say…
