Here's chapter 2! Enjoy!
Hige, Kiba, and I all walked down the street with our hands in our pockets and glance at some soldiers piling people in vans. I turn around and smile as I hear two women talking about someone seeing wolves. I looked down and saw a little pug hiding behind its owner's legs I stopped as Kiba and Hige kept walking. Watching the pug I smiled and then snapped my teeth at it scaring it even more. Laughing I ran to catch up with the others. I watch Hige run over to a hotdog stand and take a couple whiffs while Kiba and I walk past it giving it a quick glance. Hige runs past us and turns down a corner and I pick up the pace to follow him while Kiba sticks to his slow walking. While we're walking Hige says "See, what I'd tell you? Nobody notices us." He turns sitting down on some steps while he throws Kiba and I a hotdog. I chuckle a little as I watch Kiba's surprised face when he caught the hotdog as I take a bite of mine. Hige pulls his out and starts eating it too as Kiba sniffs his a little and takes an experimental bite. I laugh harder when Kiba whispers "This is awful." "That's the best you can get around here." I reply and giggle as Hige says "If I see a deer loping by I'll be sure to catch it for ya." I finished my food the same time Hige did and watched with an amused expression as Kiba ate his.
Hige watches a bird and I say "Looks like the nobles are at it again." Nodding his head he adds "Seems like they pick up one idiot after another." Also watching the bird Kiba questions "Where do the troops take them once their caught?" Turning away from the bird and looking at Kiba he says "Well, the same place they took you I guess." As all of our heads turn in the direction of the building. Kiba still looking that way whispers "That's prefect. I'll blend in and sneak inside." Hige looks at him with a funny look and says "What? But we had to fool them just to get out of there. That hotdog fried your brain." I laugh until Kiba turns around with a serious look on his face and replies "I'm going back in." Leaning forward with a pissed off look Hige cries out "Now wait a second! What the hell happened to paradise?" I look at Kiba and say just as he's opening his mouth "The scent of the Lunar Flower is coming from somewhere inside that building and Kiba wants to get captured so we can get in there, right?" Kiba answers me "Yeah, you know what's there don't you? What's hiding behind those walls? The beacon that will lead us to paradise." Hige just leaned back and with his eyes closed and says "Well forget it, you'll never get close to Cheza." Kiba watches Hige and questions "Cheza?" Hige opens one eye watching Kiba and says "The Flower Maiden that was created form Lunar Flowers. That's what they say anyway. Listen it's useless, they got that place locked down. Even I couldn't get as far as the lab."
Looking a little pissed off Kiba spits out "Then why'd you try to sneak in there?" Opening one of his eyes and looking towards me he says "For a little excitement, I guess." "Hige, don't you believe in paradise too?" Hige closed his eyes and tilted his chin up and responds with a simple "I'm not going. No way." Kiba sighed and began to walk away saying "Alright, see you around." Hige leans forward calling after him "Hey, Kiba." Kiba ignored him and continued walking. I stood up and ran to catch up with him. I heard Hige shouting after me as I followed Kiba "What? Katalina!"
Later on that day
Kiba and I look up when we heard the clicking of the lock to see Hige walk in with a few other guys. "Yo!" was all he said as he sat down to my right since Kiba was already to my left. Kiba watched him before I questioned him "Hige? What in the world are you doing in here?" Leaning back and looking at us with one eye he said "Come on! We're all friends now aren't we?" Kiba looks past me and says "Coming from you that's sounds kind of fishy." Hige just chuckles and leans against the wall.
That night
My eyes pop open as I hear the ringing of a noble ship and by the sound Kiba made I think he heard it too. Kiba whispers from lying down beside me "Did you feel that?" Hige groggily replies "Feel what?" Kiba twitches his legs and says "This doesn't feel right. Something's going to happen." Sniffing the air Hige replies "I don't smell anything. Except for the mildew." I whisper "It's getting closer." Shuffling beside me Hige says "So you wanna break out of here?" Without any hesitation Kiba says "Yeah." Throwing off our blankets we stand up and I watch as Kiba goes to break the bars before Hige pats his shoulder and pulls the key out of his hair. Running in front of us Hige kicks out a vent further up the space and Kiba and I jump out after him. Waving to his right Hige whispers "This way."
We all run in that direction and stop as we see a man carrying Cheza.