Chap8. The song of sleep.
We stumbled on down a mountain trail. Cheza walked over to the edge but turned around before falling off.
"How does she know?" Toboe asked.
"Well she's a plant aint she?" Hige stated.
"Yea." Toboe answered.
"Well she uses her antenna." Hige joked.
"She dossent have any of thoughs!" Toboe argued. I rolled my eyes.
"Wait..." I said. "Plants dont have antennas! Bugs do." Hige shrugged.
"What ever you want to call it." He said. Toboe looked at Cheza.
"I wonder if she's on edge." Toboe said. "Around us..."
"Its because you are all on edge, around her." Kiba said as he led us to the ground.
"Who wouldn't be on edge around her." Tsume said. "She's not a human and she's not a wolf or even a flower..."
"I'm not on edge..." I mumbled.
"I don't get why we have to take her." Tsume growled lowly.
"Cheza is more important to us then anything." Kiba growled. "And if you're a wolf Tsume you should know this!"
"I'm sorry but I don't." Tsume growled. Here we go again…
"She's going to get us to paradise." Kiba growled.
"I am so sick of that word!" Tsume growled. Cheza looked up to the moon, and started to hum a very soothing melody. My eyelids grew heavy. Hige fell asleep leaning on a tree, I took a face plant where I was standing, Toboe was beginning to fall asleep.
"So sleepy…" I murmured trying to keep my eyes open. Toboe was falling asleep to.
"Dang it Toboe don't fall asleep!" Tsume growled as he swayed.
"Too late…" Toboe said before he fell asleep.
"What's happening!" Tsume growled.
"I don't know…" Kiba said as he to fell asleep. Then I started to drift off…
I was having a dream it was pleasant, so that's what Toboe meant of how his dream made him think it was actually paradise. Of course I didn't know I was dreaming.
I looked around, I was in a field as far as the eye could see. There were flowers of every color, and water that was crystal clear it was exactly what I told Toboe of how I thought paradise looked like. I walked over to a flower bed and with a sigh I laid down.
"I could get used to this…" I murmured.
"Could you now?" I heard a familiar voice; I woke up then smiling.
"Hey! Rexy come with us into town." Hige was nagging me.
"Okay." I said as I got up. We walked down the hill into town, I looked around smelling the air.
"Man those guys are every where." I growled.
"Yea" Hige agreed. I went off on my own for awhile, I stuck my hands in my pocket and sighed. I walked around for about an hour. Well better go meet up with Toboe and Hige now. I walked up to where we were supposed to meet.
"Rexy look!" Toboe beamed and showed me something in his arms. I jumped back.
"What is that!?" I asked. Hige walked up to us, Toboe showed him the… coat…
"What the heck?! Is that thing?" Hige asked.
"It's a coat, you know I thought Cheza might get cold…" Toboe said disappointedly at the coat.
"No, she's a flower the colds got nothing to do with it." Hige said. Toboe and I looked at what Hige was holding.
"Oh really?" I asked sarcastically.
"W-what are those?" Toboe asked. Hige was holding a pare of pink, boots.
"I thought that the mountain pass might be rough on her delicate feet." Hige said proudly. I held back a laugh.
"Even if she's a flower?" Toboe asked sarcastically. We all felt a shiver go down our spines.
"Lets go." Hige whispered to us urgently. We started to walk away, but we had a feeling that we where being followed.
"I-Is it them?" Toboe asked afraid.
"No I could smell them from a mile away." Hige replied.
"W-Who could it be?" I stuttered.
"I heard something from the cats here in town." Toboe said. "They said that t-theres a ghost."
"A-A g-ghost." I started to shake.
"Are you scarred?" Hige smiled. I shook my head. Toboe looked back behind us.
"Is it following us?" Hige asked, starting to walk faster.
"Y-Yea…" Toboe said fearfully. We started to walk even faster. I looked back and seen it.
"I-I'm going to run now!" I started to run and so did the others. We turned a corner and there it was again, we all yelled and ran as fast as we could.
"Quick!" I yelled. "Let's get back to Kiba and Tsume!" We ran out of town, and back up the hill to the place where we were staying.
"Took yea long enough." Tsume said.
"Yea, sorry the runt kept wondering off." Hige said, he threw a bag at Kiba. "Some food." He said. Toboe held up the coat. I jumped back.
"You still have that thing?" I asked alarmed.
"Yup." He smiled.
"What the heck, do you plan to do with that?!" Tsume asked annoyed.
"What do you think?" Toboe said. "It's a present." He walked over to Cheza and put the coat on her, she frowned and looked down.
"I guess… you don't like it." Toboe said dispassionately.
"Looks that way." Kiba said.
"Don't take it personally, it scares all of us." I said. Toboe sighed in defeat.
"Now these are great!" Hige said setting the shoes on the ground in front of Cheza.
"Don't be to sure." Tsume smirked. Cheza slipped her feet into the shoes, then got up. She smiled as she spun around in circles then smiled at Hige.
"Yea, like em' uh?" Hige smiled to. Cheza started dancing around and spinning, but she froze in her spot and stared straight ahead.
"Cheza?" Kiba asked following her eyes. We all looked, it was the "ghost" we had called it. Toboe, Hige, and I jumped back.
"It's the ghost!" I whispered. It was an old woman, she started to walk towards Cheza but Kiba walked in front of her.
"Wolves…" She said angrily.
"Old women, who are you?" Kiba demanded. The old woman took off her sunglasses, she had eyes just like Cheza, Kiba gasped.
"You are like this one?" Cheza asked. "This one could tell by your scent, but you are not like this one."
"Yes that's because you are a perfect creation." The old woman said.
"I guess she wasn't a ghost…" Toboe mumble.
"Yea." I mumbled.
"Perfect creation?" Kiba mumbled to. I sniffed the air, and so did Hige.
"Its them!" Hige said.
"I knew we shouldn't have stayed any longer!" Tsume growled. We all ran threw the trees, the old lady lead us to a tree that was hollow and it had some sort of house in it. We walked in and went to a room that we would be safe in. We all stood around as Cheza and the old lady talked.
"I sensed you were here." The old woman said.
"This one has been waiting…for them" Cheza said.
"The wolf seeks out the flower, and the flower seeks out the wolf." The old woman said. "But you mustn't go with them."
"Are you crazy!" Kiba growled.
"Wolf!" The old lady said angrily. Kiba growled, Cheza looked sad she wanted to go with us.
"What do you hope to accomplish by going with them?" The old woman asked.
"We're going to paradise." Cheza answered her.
"Uh-oh guys!" Hige said alarmed, as he looked out the window there was a woman walking around the tree. "Ive smelled her back at the castle, Ive seen her before but I forgot where."
"Lets go" I said as I jumped out the window and the others followed. Tsume, Toboe, Hige, and I were in the trees, we jumped down and landed around the woman, that was there probable looking for Cheza.
"You… You're the kids I saw." She said. "Who are you." Kiba and Cheza were standing next to the tree, she looked in that direction and gasped.
"Cheza." She said. Kiba grabbed Cheza's hand and they ran, then Kiba jumped up to a ledge. When they landed Kiba was in wolf form, then in human form he ran away and we then followed, leaving the woman speechless. We ran down hill to the town, Cheza stopped once we were in town.
"She's crying…" She said sadly.
"Who?" Kiba asked. "The old woman?"
"Kiba, is it okay if this one comes with you?" Cheza asked.
"Cheza you have to come with us." Kiba said.
"Toboe?" Cheza asked. Toboe just nodded and smiled.
"Hige?" She turned to him.
"Yea, when you're on a journey the more the merrier." Hige replied.
"Rexy?" She asked me.
"Uh, duh" I said.
"Tsume?" She finally turned to Tsume.
"Well… If it gets us to where we're going, I can put up with yea." Tsume said. Cheza smiled. Kiba found a pink raincoat type thing for Cheza so we can move around with out sticking out too much. She even passed that woman, without her even noticing.
I leaned up against a tree and sighed as I looked up at the moon. We were back at that tree because Cheza wanted to say good bye to the old woman. When Cheza came back out her and Kiba where standing in front of us.
"Did one of you tell her that we're going to paradise?" Tsume asked
"No." Hige replied.
"Not at all…" I said, we all looked up at the moon…
