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Chapter 15

With Kiba

Kiba was only standing for a second. What he did see was Cheza withering away. She was dust within seconds, but that smile stained his memory. He stared into space as Cheza's dust sped away on the wind. He heard Hige yell his name before he fell over. Pain took over and for a moment, dying was a good option. When Kiba did come to, Hige hadn't noticed. Hige was leaning against a tree eating an apple or something. Toboe was trying to pry a little girl off of Tsume. Tsume had that look on his face as the little girl hung on. Hige snickered before Tsume growled at him. Kiba sat up and every one stopped and turned their heads toward him.

"Kiba, welcome to the living! How do you feel, I mean, you were dead for almost a day?" Hige asked.

"Fine, where's Cheza?" Hige looked at the snow.

"She brought you back, but she also withered. Check this out though. Hey, Melody, come here!" Hige announced and that little girl released Tsume who sighed a relief sigh, and ran over to Hige. "Melody, why don't you meet my friend, Kiba," The little girl smiled and walked over to Kiba. "Take a look at her eyes. Tsume said that they weren't like that before. I guess Cheza's reincarnation was Melody." Hige was right. Melody's eyes looked like Cheza's.

"One more thing, what about Toboe?" Kiba asked.

"I remember!" Toboe announced with a smile. The pack was back.

With Hige

Hige had watched Cheza wither, but he didn't say so. He was just happy that Kiba was back. They were all together again.

"Hey Melody, you can go bother Tsume again if you want," Hige whispered into the girl's ear. A smile as big as the ocean spread across her face as she ran to her target.

"How did you find her?" Kiba asked as he sat down beside Hige.

"I didn't, but her other half over there did. He told me that after he escaped Darcia, he was running away when he fell into someone's backyard. It just so happened to be Melody's. I guess she must have followed him here, but she seems to know that we are all wolves, but she keeps calling us dogs," Hige smiled as he watched Tsume try to pry Melody off yet once again.

"What happened to Darcia?" Kiba broke the silence.

"I think he ran away. I would have gone after him, but I didn't know I could leave the force field at the time," Hige responded.

"Why did I come back?" Kiba started to look concerned.

"Cheza sacrificed her life for you, that's why! Melody is like our new Cheza," Hige tried to cheer him up, but he only seemed worse.

"We better tell Melody the difference between a dog and a human," Kiba gave a little smile.

"Yeah, but let's do it after the show. This is gold!" Hige laughed.

With Tsume

Tsume couldn't get Melody to let go. He had tried talking to her and pulling her off, but once she was off, she would just race back to Tsume's leg and get back on. He finally managed to push her away for a minute.

"Hey runt, why don't you watch the kid for a while?" Tsume asked.

"Sure!" Toboe smiled and called Melody over. At least Tsume was rid of her. He sat down beside Hige and started to listen in on their conversation.

"What should we do now? We are all back together and we all have our memories. We also have a kind of Cheza," Hige asked.

"Look for Paradise," Kiba answered.

"We don't even know where it is anymore. It might not be on top of that mountain anymore,"

"We have to look, don't we?"

"We don't have to, but it would make sense if we continued. This city has started to get boring anyway,"

"We'll leave in the morning,"

"Okay. Toboe, Melody, why don't you guys come over here?" The two smiled before running over to Tsume's side.

With Toboe

Melody was really nice, almost like Cheza. Melody was younger, though. She was about eight or nine years old. Toboe was fourteen and he used to be the youngest. He wasn't anymore. Hige snored in his sleep and Tsume had gone to a different tree about an hour ago. Kiba was in a light sleep, and Toboe could tell because his ears twitched at every little sound. Melody was laying on Toboe, asleep. Toboe was just barely awake. His eyes slowly drifted shut as sleep can to him.

"Wake up runt. You're going to be left behind. Melody got up before you!" Hige nudged Toboe.

"Wha…?" Toboe drowsily stood up and rubbed his eyes while yawning.

"Hey Toboe!" Melody ran over to Toboe. She reached for his hand and Toboe gladly accepted. They trotted along behind the others. It felt good to Toboe to not be the only kid. He wasn't the only one who fell behind anymore. Melody also liked to talk about stuff. One second she would tell Toboe the exciting story of how she just saw a butterfly, but then the next she would talk about her like for dogs. She was an energized little girl, and she seemed excited by everything. One bad though lurked in Toboe's mind, though. What if Melody had a family who was searching for her right now?

"Why did you guys stop?" Toboe asked. The others didn't answer, so Toboe and Melody ran up to them. Toboe's jaw dropped.

I hope everyone liked it!