Chapter 11: Paradise.
When Star awoke, she felt at peace.
She stood up and stretched, and when her vision was even better, she could see an open land a ways ahead of her.
Now she knew that Darcia was right, she would feel paradise.
She smiled, her parents were down there, and other wolves.
" Darica!" Star said happily, but when she looked down, he was gone.
" Darcia?" Star asked looking around.
" This is as far as I go." Darcia said, as he came out of the trees.
Star looked at him, " What do you mean? Don't you want to come to paradise so you don't have to feel lost anymore?"
Darcia shook his head.
Star's glee left her, Darcia had gotten her all this way, and now he was going to go back to the dangers.
" No." Star whispered.
" No!" She said louder, tears coming down her face.
" Darcia, you have to come with me, if you don't go... Then I'm staying with you!" Star said walking up to him.
" Don't be stupid, I brought you all this way, I'm not going back on that now, you should just be thankful and get over it, by the time you meet up with your family, our journeys will be long forgotten." Darcia said.
" No, I don't want to leave without you." Star cried.
" You must, now go." Darcia said.
Then unexpectedly, she put her arms around him.
He was surprised, but he returned the hug.
" I'll miss you. Don't forget me ok?" Star said.
" I won't." Darcia said as he pulled back.
Star sadly turned, and headed down the hill filled with green grass and in the distance, free animals, and running waterfall.
She turned back at Darcia one more time, who was already gone.
She sighed and went down the hill.
When she saw her parents, she smiled, " Star, honey, you've made it." Her mother said.
" Yes mother, with a little help of course." Star said hugging her mother.
" From who dear?" Star's father walked up to her.
" His name, was Darcia." Star said.
The two parents had a troubled expression on their face.
" What's wrong?" Star asked.
" N-Nothing, we just... Never mind, come on dear, let's get you something to eat." Mother said.
" Alright." Star said.
They were walking off when they heard a loud rumble, and the grounds shook.
They turned, seeing up in the sky, millions of space ships.
" Oh no." Star gasped.
Her parents stood in front of her.
Many humans dropped to the ground, wolves around the land looked up shocked, and were soon being shot.
One hunter, shot past Star's parents, and straight for Star.
...
Darcia was walking off, his head bowed down, looking at the ground.
He heard a loud yelp.
" STAR!" Darcia shouted, making his wolf form, and took off.
It was then, that he found himself following a hoard of space ships in the air.
He ran and ran, he knew that they had shot Star.
He approached the top of the hill, that led down to Paradise.
A blonde haired woman that looked so much like Harmona was standing in front of a group of gaurds, a white wolf was standing before them, standing in front of a girl with pink hair, and a white wolf laid limp on the ground.
It was then that Darcia realized.
Kiba and Cheza, were Star's parents.
" I will have to thank Darcia for leading me here, the girl as well." He heard Jagura say.
Darcia ran down the hill.
Jagura turned when she heard him.
Darcia was looking at Star who was limp on the ground, and when he got close enough, he lunged at Jagura.
The gaurds starting shooting, Darcia moved out of the way, and they ended up shooting their own master.
She fell uselessly to the ground.
Darcia stood before her.
She still had a little life in her to look up at him.
" My, you have grown even more powerful Darcia, but I am afraid you are too late." Jagura said.
Darcia knew what and who she was talking about, Star.
He bared his teeth and sunk them into Jagura's throat.
She gasped out, shuddered, and went stiff.
He tore her throat open, and stood up straight.
He made his human form, turning to the group.
Kiba growled at him.
" I mean no harm." Darcia said, mainly having his sights on Star.
Kiba made his human form, " You brought Star here?"
" Yes, I did." Darcia said simply, and he walked past Kiba and bent before Star.
Cheza stood up backing away.
Darcia slowly and gently picked up Star's limp body and held her in his arms.
She was in her human form.
Her head leant against his arm.
A drop of blood had formed on the corner of her mouth.
He didn't hear her heartbeat.
Slowly, he held her up, hugging her tightly.
He hated himself for leaving her, he shouldn't have, and now, she was gone.
He had her face hidden in his chest.
" Star, forgive me." Darcia whispered in her ear.
Cheza looked down at the two, and walked up to them.
Darcia rested Star back on his lap, looking at Cheza bending before them.
Her hand glew, and she brought it to Star's forehead.
" This is Paradise, no on can die here." Cheza said, removing her hand and stood backing away again.
Darcia looked down at Star.
" D-Darcia." Star whispered with her eyes still closed.
" Star?" He whispered back amazed.
Slowly, he heard her heartbeat.
Thump... Thump thump...Thump thump... Thump thump.
Her eyes opened.
She was looking in Darcia's eyes.
" You... Came." Star smiled.
" I am sorry I left you, please forgive me." Darcia said.
" Yes." Star said.
Darcia helped Star stand.
" Darcia. Will you take a walk with me?" Star asked.
Darcia nodded.
Star took his hand, and they walked off.
" I've never seen this side of Darcia." Kiba said.
Cheza smiled, leaning against Kiba. " Darcia has fallen again."
...
Crickets chirped, and Star and Darcia stood in a perfect patch of grass, watching the deer bound gracefully around the fields.
" It's great isn't it?" Star asked.
" Yes." Darcia said.
She turend to him.
" Darcia."
" Hmm?" Darcia answered, turning to her.
" Will you... Will you stay here? With. Me?" Star asked.
Darcia looked away for a second.
Star looked away too, already sad, thinking he was going to say no again.
She gasped when she felt a hand on her cheek.
She looked at Darcia and didn't realize he was so close.
" Yes. I will stay, because, Star..." Darcia sighed lowering his face towards her.
" Yes?" Star asked in a whisper.
" I... Love you." He said.
Star gasped out her breath as she wrapped her arms around him, tightening around his cape.
" I love you too, Darcia." She said breathlessly.
She raised her head to where their lips met.
Darcia was slow at first, making sure Star didn't want to pull away.
After a couple seconds, he deepened the kiss.
Star found this surprising, she had never experienced love before, was this what love felt like?
Darcia loved this girl, and he knew, he wasn't going to lose her, Harmona was someone different, there was no way they would ever be together because, she was human... She couldn't stay alive for him, she was ill.
Star was different, she was a lonely wolf, that he had grown protective of.
He felt Star move closer to him, kissing him deeper.
They found themselves moving down to the ground.
They broke the kiss when they sat down in the grass.
Star smiled, they looked up at the stars.
" Star. I think you're eyes look just like those stars up there." Darcia said.
She giggled, " You think?"
" Yes, diamond blue, very soft. Very beautiful." Darcia said.
" Thank you... You're eyes hold that of... Power, Protection... And love." Star said.
The two spent the night in the patch of grass, the holy grass.
They had made it, they made it to Paradise, and that was how Darcia fell again.
The End.