Chapter 3: Path to Paradise.
Star was hiding in a tree opening, waiting nervously for Darcia.
There had been gunshots for a few minutes, but now, it was dead silent.
She suddenly heard the sound of crunching leaves, a pair of feet walked past her hiding spot.
Star gasped, pressing herself against the all of the tree.
Her gasp blew her cover, the feet approached at the tree again.
" I knew there were two of you." The man smiled holding his gun at her.
Star closed her eyes.
A snarl sounded, and the man let out a scream.
Star opened her eyes again seeing a black wolf, his teeth sunk into the still standing man.
He fell to the ground, and the wolf released him.
The black wolf walked up to where Star was hiding.
" You can come out now." Darcia said.
" I... Thought they shot you." Star said, slowly coming out.
" Those humans are lazy shooters, they couldn't shoot a wolf if it was standing right in front of them." Darcia said.
" Thanks for saving me... Again." Star said.
" No problem, now, about paradise, I can tell you what it looks like, but now is not the right time. Come, we will spend the night at the top of that mountain." Darcia faced a direction where a huge mountain waited.
The two walked through the forest silently, in their human form.
" So." Star took a deep breath, hating the silence.
" What's been happening in your life?" Star asked.
Darcia was silent for a long time, but finally spoke.
" What is there to tell? Everything in my life has left me." Darcia said.
Star looked over at him.
His face was... Saddened and lonely.
" I'm sorry." Star whispered.
" Do not be, it is my loss, I must deal with it." Darcia said.
" No." Star stopped them, " You don't have to deal with it, y-you can find the people you lost in paradise. You're not alone Darcia."
He stared at her, his expression unreadable, but inwardly was shocked, ' All I did was save her life, now look at me, I have grown feelings for another young woman, whom I am probably going to lose in the end.' Darcia thought to himself.
" Come, we need to climb the mountain before sunset." Darcia said, and he called his wolf form, and walked off quickly.
He was considering slowing down, so Star could catch up, but, a white form was beside him at that moment.
They took off in a sprint climbing the mountain.
Darcia reached the top, he looked back down at the panting and struggling white wolf.
Star was exhausted, she felt like her claws were going to fall off, because she was clearly working them to death.
She lifted up a paw, finally, she felt the flat land of the top.
Forgetting to extract her claws, she lifted up her other paw, preparing to leap up, but her paw holding the flat ground slipped.
As soon as they did, she felt a pair of sharp teeth grab the nape of her neck, and she was being pulled up.
" Are you ok?" Darcia asked.
When she was close enough to be pulled up, the teeth on her neck... Were now replaced by Darcia's firm hand on Star's wrist.
" Are you ok?" Darcia asked agai as he pulled her up with an accidental rough jerk, and she was pulled up agianst his body.
Immediatley Star pulled away, clearly blushing. " Yeah, I'm fine."
Star moved over to a tree and sat down.
Darcia went off somewhere.
' What was that?' Star talked to herself.
There was a strange feeling she experienced when he pulled her up, and an even stranger feeling when her body met his, so she had pulled away.
Darcia returned with a couple things in his hand.
As night came, the fire lit up the top of the mountain.
Darcia watched as Star called her wolf form, and she walked close to the fire and laid down.
He watched her closely.
She curled her body close, to where her tail, her long fluffy white tail came around meeting her chin.
Darcia smiled lightly, she was a beauty, enough said.
For a few more hours he watched the young white wolf sleep, her fur on her stomach moving up in down, in sign that she was breathing.
Then finally, Darcia rested himself against a tree, and fell asleep.