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Chapter 23. Where the soul goes
"I dont get it..." Hige whispered, kneeling down at a spot. We were in an alley still in Jaguara's city, but everything was becoming crazy. "I told Blue to stay here..." We all were looking around the alleyway. We heard many gunshots and the humans were dropping like flies. I leaned up against the wall.
"Well maybe she had to leave!" Toboe said trying to cheer him up. "Things are becoming so hard that even someone like Blue had to leave."
"Maybe she didn't trust you either." Tsume growled.
"It's not his fault..." I mumbled. Toboe nodded.
"Hige made things right!" He said. Kiba walked over to Hige and knelt down next to him, Cheza reached over to him and put her hand on his wound trying to heal it.
"Dont give up." Cheza said. "Paradise is for everyone."
"It's okay..." Hige whispered. "You can stop..." Cheza kept her hand on Hige's wound. I tested out mine, it hurt a lot and I could barley move my arm because of the stiffness. Hige flinched.
"Kiba make her stop." He said threw clenched teeth. Kiba got up and walked to Tsume.
"Tsume take Cheza." He said handing her to him. Kiba then walked over to Hige and knelt down.
"Grab on." He said. Hige put his arm over Kiba's shoulder and Kiba helped him up.
"When we first met, you told me that having pride wouldn't count for much if I were dead." Kiba said. "And nothing has change." We all just looked around for awhile not knowing were to go next. Kiba then looked at me.
"Rexy." He said. I nodded and staggered over to Hige's other side. I grabbed his arm putting it over my neck.
"We got ya." I said. Hige gave me a troubled look as we walked out of the alley. "What?"
"How can you still trust me?" He asked. "After I betrayed you." He looked away. I sighed.
"You didn't…" I whispered. We walked through the city heading towards the exit; it was easy since the scent was coming back to the whole dome. Once we reached the exit we got as far away from that city as fast as we could. Eventually Hige started to walk on his own, but then he stopped.
"Hige, what is it?" Kiba asked turning to look at him.
"I got a bad feeling." Tsume said lowly.
"When don't you." I mumbled.
"That's the scent…" Hige mumbled running towards the smell of blood.
"Hey wait up!" I called after him, when I tried to run my right side stung in protest. I froze next to Hige and grabbed my right arm. I growled in pain as Hige bent down to smell the blood, by this time Toboe had reached us followed by the others.
"Eck!" Hige exclaimed. "This is human blood." Toboe leaned closer to inspect it.
"Hey it's the old man." Toboe said leaning back up with Hige.
"Should have known that sooner or later she would go crawling back to the old man." Tsume growled angrily. "After all she's just a half breed."
"Hey!" Hige snarled aggressively. "Watch who you're talking about!"
"She would probable never make it to paradise." Tsume continued.
"Drop it." Kiba growled.
"I just think that we don't need any more dang distractions." Tsume growled as he walked away. We all walked in that direction soon enough, Kiba taking the lead after awhile; Cheza was riding on his back because she was still to weak to walk herself. I really wanted to be in the front with Kiba but my injury made me slower so I was walking with Hige and Toboe. I looked down at my paws and sighed. I heard a yelp next to me and then a thud. I quickly looked towards Hige who had fallen.
"Are you okay?" I asked worriedly.
"I-I can't get up…" He whispered struggling to push himself up.
"Guys!" I said to the others who didn't notice yet, Toboe was the first one over followed by the others.
"Hige!" Toboe whined. "Come on, you can do it get up." The first thing I heard was the thudding of paws in the distance.
"Hige!" yelled a familiar voice. "Hige!" We all looked over at a small hill and running down it was a familiar black shape.
"Blue!" Hige cheered. Seeing her must have gave him the strength to get up. He ran as fast as he probable could towards her. Blue leaped up and landed on Hige; the two tumbled in the snow for a few minutes. The rumble of a truck met my ears, and I looked in the direction Blue had come from. A truck soon came into view at the top of the hill and out stepped Cher and Hubb.
"Cheza." Cher whispered. Kiba glared at her now in human form and I gave a low threatening growl. We walked over to the truck, all of us in human form now.
"You're the wolves that are trying to get to paradise?" Cher asked; Kiba nodded.
"There is no where else to run." Hubb said. "Where going to go see how far we can go. May we come?" I growled at the thought of humans in paradise.
"Of course." Kiba said.
"What!?" I growled.
"Rexy." Kiba said, silencing me.
"Sorry about her." Toboe spoke up. "Rexy's really nice, but she had a bad experience with humans. Hi I'm Toboe!" Toboe ran up to them like a little puppy in a park that runs up to every person in sight just to wag it's tail and give a little puppy 'hello'. Hubb looked up at the sky and sighed.
"Only if we could escape this world." He said. "If we could go and fly to another planet…"
"Why?" Kiba asked. "Why do humans always look to the sky? Why do you try so hard to fly when you don't have wings? We'll run on our own legs." He then walked towards the back of the truck that was open and set Cheza in it. I glanced around and noticed the old man lying on the floor of the truck. I was curious as of what happened but I shrug it off. Hige and Blue got in also; Hige was too injured to walk little lone run.
"Rexy?" Kiba asked. I nodded getting in the back too. The truck roared to life and the bumpy ride began. I sat on a bench type thing next to Cheza. She rubbed her hand over my wound and it began to feel better.
"Thanks Cheza." I said. "I'm sure I'll be running out there with them soon…" Cheza just smiled lightly. There was a bright flash out side, which made us all jump. The truck swerved and tipped over; I hit the wall behind me before I fell to the other side of the now tipped truck.
"What was that!?" Hige growled getting up. Blue and I got up also.
"I think we crashed." I stated.
"Really?" Hige asked sarcastically. Blue put Quent's arm around her shoulder and walked out of the truck's open door. Hige and I followed, I looked at where the truck was at and gasped; it was really close to the edge of a cliff a few more inches and we could have been killed. I shuddered and hopped a few feet back. Hubb opened the passenger seat door and got out.
"Hubb take her." Cher said handing him Cheza, who looked weaker then before. Hubb took Cheza and turned around for a slight second to hand her to Kiba. The ground started to shake a bit, it happened so fast no one could react. The ground broke, and the truck with Cher in it toppled down the cliff. We gasped, but Hubb turned around and his eyes grew with shock.
"Cher!" He yelled running to the cliff. We also ran to it; it wasn't steep so we carefully made our way to the bottom. Once we made it I was shocked to see Cher's seemingly lifeless body, Hubb ran right over to her.
"Cher?" Hubb asked. Cher stirred and opened her eyes weakly.
"Are you going to be all right?" Hubb asked tears already coming to his eyes. "You're going to fine." He seamed to keep whispering this. I looked away looking at our surroundings, the truck was on its side still.
"Cher!" Hubb yelled making me jump. I looked over at them and I could tell she was gone. Every one remained silent as Hubb cried, though after awhile he knew it would not bring her back. Hubb carried Cher over to the water's edge and set her in the water then watched her slowly float down. We turned around ready to go, but Hubb walked up to the truck and began to push on it trying to push it back up right; it didn't even budge. Kiba walked up to it to and began to push on it helping. Tsume, Toboe, and even Hige started to help also. I took my place next to Kiba and began to push against the truck with my left side. The truck finally, with all our help, turned up right.
"Are you still going to paradise?" Hubb asked. Kiba nodded. "Then I'll make sure you get there." Hubb got back in the driver's seat; Hige, Blue, Cheza, and Quent got in the back again I stayed out of it because I would run with the other's where I belonged…
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