DISCLAIMER: I do not own Wolf's Rain, only the idea for this story.
Grace felt the hairs on her body stand straight up. She quickly turned around, ready to face the suspected danger behind her. As quickly as she saw the figure, it vaporized. Grace felt a confuzed look spread across her face. The only thing she had seen was something pink and heard giggling. Grace waved it off and went back into her house. A soft bed awaited her, and that was the only thing keeping her going from this newfound drowziness. She collapsed on the bed in her wolf form. She slipped into a dream of a happier time, a time when she had a pack once again.
Grace streched her stiff body as she slumped out of the bed. Her stomach growled. She decided that food was first on her list of things to do today, so she set out for the center of town. In the town center, vendors hoarded every inch of available space with food and other supplies humans might want or need. She swiped a hamburger and hotdog and headed to a small lake just outside of town.
Once she arrived, she sat down on an old bench. The lake had once been part of a park, but after years of ignorance, the grass became over grown, and the whole place just became a simple memory. Grace stared at the two foods in her hands. She didn't like to pick, but she decided the burger was first. After scoffing down her food, she stared out to the lake. It was peacefull to just watch it with it rippling every now and then. Just as she started to relax for the first time in ages, a figure rose from the water.
Grace jumped up and started to growl in her wolf form. She wasn't taking any chances with anything today. The figure finally was fully out of the water and started to skip gracefully across the water. Slight ripples came from the places her feet touched. Grace didn't know what to think, but she knew that this girl wasn't human. She had red eyes and pink hair. She didn't have on what regular humans would wear either, but she also had a strange scent. It was like flowers. Grace was too busy taking in the breath taking smell to realize that the human was out of the water and was staring at her. Grace didn't even realize that the girl was walking towards her. Grace only faintly came back to reality after she touched her. Grace jumped back and started to growl again.
"This one is of no harm, this one only comes with a message. You must go to the mountain where they all ended, and your destiny began," the girl smiled.
"What are you talking about! What mountain, what destiny?" Grace angrily asked. None of this made any sense.
"The mountain with the flowers! The Garden of the Ones!" the girl said. Before Grace could say another word, the girl had run back to the water where she burst into millions of water drops. Grace didn't know exactly what had happened. She didn't know if she was just lonely enough to imagine that, or it really happened. Grace blinked a few times before changing into her human form. She walked over to the bench and slouched down, taking in all of what had happened.
Grace asked around about The Garden of the Ones, but no one knew what it was. Grace had no idea. She was starting to think that her mind did just make it up. Grace walked through the streets one more time. She was determined to find a wolf who knew about it. The first two she had found just brutally mauled her until she left. She sighed until she entered a small café. As soon as she went in, she knew that there was another wolf. She looked around and saw an older wolf. His human disguise had wrinkles and grey hair. Grace didn't care about what he looked like, just as long as he kne about the garden.
"Umm, hello. May I sit here?" Grace asked, being as polite as she possibly could.
"Oh, of course you can my dear. Now, tell me, what do you want to ask this old wolf?" he asked.
"How did you know I had a question?" Grace wondered.
"Oh, I know that no wolf would sit with this pile of old bones if they didn't have a question. Now, ask away," the old wolf spoke again.
"Well, umm... do you know anything a bout a garden, one around a mountain. Maybe it was called The Garden of the Ones?" Grace asked tentitivly.
The old wolf's eyes opened wide as he spoke," The garden, The Garden of the Ones! Oh how I loved that garden!" he answered.
"You know it!"
"Know it! That place was a piece of Paradise the Ones laid down on this world for us wolves! But, sadly, the garden was destroyed in a fire about two or three years ago. Not a petal left," the old wolf spoke with a somber tone. Grace winced at the thought of the fire destroying the garden.
"Thank you, but do you know where it was?" Grace asked.
Grace walked down a small path that was supposably going to take her to the place the garden used to be. After that old wolf gace her directions, Grace had told him thankyou and left. She was eager now that a she didn't think herself too crazy anymore.
Grace walked until she came to a clearing. It went for as far as the eye could see. The ground looked charred, as if the fire had happened last night instead of years ago. Grace held the tears back as she walked through the area. She could see the mountain in the near distance. Grace started running, thinking that if she did, the sooner she'd be able to leave this place.
Once she got there, she noticed a little metal place in the ground not too far from where she was. She wandered over to it and looked. It had two dents that looked like paw prints. She transformed into her wolf form and placed her two front paws in the slots. The ground turned yellow as an engergy swept through it in waves. The more the waves went under an area, the more sprouts popped up. Before Grace could figure out what was going on, all sorts of white flowers started to bloom. Millions of flowers that spread over the land. That's when she realized that the flowers smelled just like the girl.
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