Disclaimer: I dont own Wolf's Rain, but I do own Rexy!

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Chap 17. CONSCIOUSLY

"W-Why?" I asked.

"What do you mean you want to stay?!" Hige asked. Toboe finally looked up at us.

"Its just I like the way Eek and his people live." Toboe said.

"So this is it runt?" I said. Toboe looked sad, I only call him runt when I'm upset with him.

"I should have known you wanted to stay." Tsume said. "Come on, we're leaving." Tsume and Hige started to walk away, I walked towards Toboe and gave him a hug and ruffled his hair a bit.

"See you around..." I whispered before running to catch up with the others.

"I should have known he wanted to stay." Tsume said again. "Ever since I've met that pup, he's wanted to be around humans."

"Yea, I kinda noticed." Hige said.

"We just gonna let him stay?" I asked.

"If its what he wants." Tsume said. "Now lets go find this bone head." Hige and I smirked.

"You're starting to sound like him Tsume." Hige said. "Since when?"

"If wolves really do cause the world to end then I want to be there when it happens" Tsume shrugged.

"Yea that would be pretty cool." I said. We climbed over one more hill, and came out to a desert in the middle of it there was a large bush looking thing.

"Look!" I pointed to it. "Do you think that's it?"

"Yea it has to be!" Hige said. We began to run to but it was some distance. I heard a car comeing towards us, I looked to see a large solder's truck going towards the bush.

"We have company!" I yelled. We made it to the bush, I changed to wolf form and hurled myself into the nearest solder knocking him down. But another solder one wearing a lot of armor used his shield that had that weird power that throws you back, and so I flew up and landed a few feet away. Tsume tried to knock the shield out of the solders hand but was unsuccessful. An arrow hit the ground around the solders' feet, Eek and Toboe arrived on the scene.

"Toboe!" I cheered.

"Oh Yay, the runt is going to save us." Hige said sarcastically. The solders then fell unconscious.

"What the heck!?" Hige yelled.

"Rexy get away from the bush!" Tsume yelled.

"Dont breath in the fumes, it's poisonous!" Eek said. I held my breath and ran over to the others. I glanced towards the bush where white fur could be seen under all the leaves. Toboe gasped when he seen Kiba's still body.

"I-Is he… He's…" Toboe stammered.

"He isint dead!" Tsume and I growled in unison.

"How are we going to get to him?" Hige asked.

"Someone will have to hold their breath and get him." Eek said.

"I'll do it." I said.

"Are you crazy?!" Hige said.

"Perhaps." I smirked taking a deep breath then, in wolf form, I started to walk towards the grass. The others watched patiently as I reached the grass and opened my mouth being careful not to breath the fumes in.

"BE CAREFUL REXY!" Toboe yelled. I jumped exhaling some of my precious air; I shot daggers towards Toboe.

"Toboe be quite!" Tsume growled. I grabbed hold of the tuff of fur around Kiba's neck and then I slowly pulled him out, once we were back near the others I took a much-needed gasp of air. Eek picked Kiba up and laid him across his horse's saddle.

"Toboe." I panted. "When you want someone to be careful tell them before they go diving into danger, and not when they are in it already." Toboe mumbled an apology, and I changed into the human form.

"Man Rexy you're eyes are really blood-shot." Hige said.

"What do you mean?" I asked.

"Their really red." Hige said. I shook my head then walked over to Eek.

"I-Is he going to be okay?" I asked.

"His soul is lost in the garden of eternity." Eek said. "But our elder may be able to save him." We quickly made our way back to the Mon tribe's home. We entered the tent where the elder was.

"Elder their friend has lost his soul." Eek said. "Can you save him?"

"I will try." The elder said. He started to chant and do other weird stuff that I don't under stand. The whole thing only lasted a couple of minutes but it seamed as if it took a couple of hours. Kiba's eyes opened slowly.

"Kiba?" Toboe whispered. Kiba just stared up at us.

"Kiba!" Toboe half yelled.

"Hey guys…" Kiba said meekly.

"Dang you scared the heck out of us!" Hige growled.

"Are you okay?" I asked.

"Yea." Kiba said.

"Good cause I'm going to kill you…" I growled making my hands curl up into talons. Kiba laid his head back down and went to sleep.

"He did not just go to sleep when I was taking to him!" I growled.

"Well you do have that effect on all of us." Hige joked.

"What was that!?" I growled Hige put his hands up in defense.

"You're friend needs to rest." The elder said. The others walked out of the tent so he could rest but I stayed.

"I was really worried about you…" I whispered to Kiba who slept. I sighed getting up to leave when something on the wall caught my eye. I walked over to it; it was one of the Mon tribe's old legend stories. I carefully studied the picture shuddering in the process. It was of a wolf that was an ashy gray color, it was howling up towards the sky, its eyes were a crimson red color. The wolf had a red coloring to its muzzle, which I guessed was blood; at the wolf's feet was a dead wolf that was covered in blood head to tail. Above the two wolves is what scared me the most… It was a red star… I stepped away from the picture slowly accidentally bumping into the elder.

"Sorry." I said.

"That is a very old tale of our people." He said pointing to the picture. "It is of the great evil silver wolf."

"The Grim." I said silently.

"Yes." The elder said. "Most wolves die when they encounter the grim, actually they all do. This is the first time I have ever met a wolf that has survived." I instinctually grabbed the left side of my neck.

"I-I was just a pup…" I whispered.

"You have been marked by the grim?" The elder asked though it was more of an accusation. I nodded.

"The grim feasts on the blood of other wolves." The elder said.

"Like some sort of vampire?" I asked jokingly.

"You could say that." The elder said. "Why are you not like him?"

"Because I was raised by a wolf who taught me right from wrong…" I said. "I don't need to suck the life out of my own kind to live… I pushed past it, I'm just an ordinary wolf… now…"

"That may be true but you can't run away from what you are forever." The elder said. I ignored him and sat down beside Kiba, I soon began to stroke his matted fur.

"What does he know." I lowly growled once the elder left.

"I'm guessing a lot…" I heard a voice.

"Kiba!" I said jumping up. "How much did you hear?"

"I just woke up." He said getting up now in human form, I sighed in relieve that he didn't hear any of that. I ran over to Kiba and wrapped my arms around him and buried my face into his chest.

"I thought I lost you…" I whispered.

"I thought you were going to kill me." He laughed returning the hug. "Rexy I think this is the exact opposite." I looked up and he gave me a quick kiss, I then stepped away.

"So where were you?" I asked.

"It was just like paradise…" He said. "I was losing my memory. I forgot all of you… There was a strange girl there… It reminded me of how much I missed you, all of you." I smiled.

"Just don't leave any more kay?" I said. He nodded. "Lets go tell the others you're okay." I walked out of the tent and walked over to the rock where the others sat. I plopped down next to Hige. Kiba then walked out of the tent with his head up taking in the moonlight.

"Where have you been?" Tsume asked.

"It was like paradise." Kiba said. "And there was a nice girl there."

"A girl!?" Hige said. "Man, how come Kiba has all the fun!?"

"No wonder why you seem less up tight." Tsume joked. We all started to laugh except Toboe.

"What? I don't get it!" Toboe whined.

"And you wont until you're older." Hige laughed.

"Why cant I know now!?" He continued to whine.

"You're too young!" I laughed. The next day we set out to continue our journey.

"Are you going to come?" I asked Toboe.

"Yea…" Toboe said. We all said good bye to Eek and the elder, all that the elder said was in the back of my mind. The only thing that any of us were thinking of was to save Cheza and get back to searching for paradise. I ran up to Kiba.

"Where are we going now?" I asked.

"I don't know I guess we'll try to find out where Cheza is." Kiba said. I nodded walking at pace with him, I wonder where we will go next…

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R&R please! Oh and all that grim stuff really doesn't have anything to do with this story. When I finish SheWolf's Rain and make a sequel to it, all the grim stuff will most likely be in the sequel. :)