Tsume POV

"Give me Armani and I will let you wolves go alive...barely." The voice demanded.

Suddenly, Tsari began to stir. She was trying to get up. When Tsume tried to stop her, she pushed him away.

"...N-no...w-way in hell." She growled with a bit of a stutter.

"Hmm, seems we have a bit of a fighter on our hands. I'll make good use of you...and Armani." The voice said coolly. A bright light suddenly surrounded Armani and Tsari. When it disappeared, so did they.

"Tsari!" Tsume shouted. He slumped onto his knees and ducked his head. "I feel like I'm losing her all over again."

"We'll find her, Tsume. Both her and Armani. Alive." Toboe said firmly.

Tsume had to admit that Toboe had grown up. They all had to. They were all thinking about it so hard that they forgot about the ship. A bright light, even brighter than the one before, shone on all of them, then the ground exploded around them. Then, for all of them, everything went black.

Kiba POV

When Kiba came to, he was covered in newly fallen snow. He lifted his head to take in his surroundings. The others, except for Tsume, were still unconscious.

"Tsume, you alright?" He said as he got up to stretch.

"Why did that...bastard...take her? He said he had good use for her, but why her?" Tsume asked himself.

"Tsume..." Kiba whispered. He looked around them. The noble's ship was long gone. Nowhere in sight, even for a wolf.

"Urgh, what happened?" a voice mumbled.

"Toboe, are you okay?" Tsume asked, pawing his way over to Toboe.

"My head hurts...*gasp*! The noble! He took Armani and Tsari! We have to look for them." Toboe gasped.

"Oh, man, Toboe. Did ya have to be so loud?" Hige complained as he go up and stretched. "Blue, you alright?"

"Yeah, I'm fine. Just got a little side swept, that's all." Blue said.

"Let's go. The scent is still fresh, so they're going to be easy to find. That noble...I want to know who he is, or who he thinks he is. He could be following a certain noble's foot steps. We all know who I'm talking about. Darcia." Kiba said coolly. The others bristled. Darcia was the reason they had never reached Paradise in the first place. He had killed them all.

"We're not...going to let that...that...freak...take them away from us. We are going to find Paradise this time. I swear it on my former pack." Tsume growled.

"I swear it on my life." Hige added.

"I swear it, we'll find Paradise. I swear it on my wolf's blood." Blue said.

"I swear it on the moon, full or not. Let's go to Paradise." Toboe said. They all looked at Kiba.

"I swear it on the blood of every wolf that tried to find Paradise and failed. Let's go." Together they ran in the direction of the scent of lunar flowers. Little did they know what was going on on that ship.

Chapter 7

Pixie POV

Pixie was different. All she dreamed about was wolves. No surprise, she was one. She was just...special. She didn't have a pack. That wasn't all.

A few months ago, she had been running in the open, she suddenly heard a ringing sound from above her, she then was beamed onto some sort of ship.

"What the-" Pixie exclaimed.

"You're Pixie, am I right?" A cold voice said from the shadows.

"Yes. Who the hell are you?" Pixie grumbled.

"Call me Crotuse. I plan to use you to open my own Paradise. I won't hurt you, that is, if you do what I say." Crotuse replied. Pixie had a bad feeling about this noble. She had heard a rumor that long ago, in another life, another noble like Crotuse tried to open Paradise using wolves who were doing the same thing. The noble's name was Darcia. The wolves that he had used...they all died.

"What do you need from a half breed like me?" She asked.

"Oh, poor thing thinks she is useless, being only half wolf. She doesn't know her full potential. Well, alone you may be useless, but with a flower maiden, you can do anything."

Now we fast forward to the present.

"Crotuse, why are we slowing down?" Pixie asked weakly.

"Because I have found the flower maiden, Armani. She will help us if she wants to keep her friends alive." Crotuse replied.

A minute later, not one, but two new people were in cages. One was pale, with red eyes and strange pink hair. The other was a wolf with light gray fur. In her human form she had flaming red hair. It was strange, but Pixie felt as though she knew her.

"Hello. My name is Pixie, what's yours?" She asked the girl.

"My name is Tsari. That over there is the flower maiden, Armani. What are you doing here?" Tsari asked.

Pixie gasped. Tsari, from her former pack. She was alive.

"T-Tsari. I have to tell you... my name isn't Pixie. I changed my name because my past wasn't really the best one." Pixie started. "My name is Taki. I'm Tsume's little sister." Taki finished.

"...Taki...i-it c-can't be. You...Taki is dead, she died a long time ago." Tsari whispered.

"N-no. It's me. I can prove it. Remember when those other wolves were chasing you, and then Tsume told them to back the hell off. I was there. And I noticed that you were bleeding, so I cleaned it for you. Remember?" Taki said pleadingly. Tsari did remember.

"Taki...oh God. You're alive. But how?" Tsari whimpered.

"This One is feeling a great deal of pain. For both you...and Tsume. He was hurt. He left the pack, and went to the city. This One...tried to help him, but he..." Armani started.

"He developed a thick skin. To put it bluntly." Tsari replied. Armani nodded sadly.

"I had no idea...remember...the day before the attack, we had a fight. The attack...he didn't think I could handle it. So...I left." Taki whispered. She started crying.

Suddenly, bang! The ship started bumping along the ground.

"Did we hit something?" Tsari asked.

The cargo door was suddenly kicked open from the other side. In came five wolves, one of whom was very familiar to Taki.

"Tsume..." She said.

"Huh?...i-it can't be...?" Tsume whispered. "Taki...you're alive! Guys, let's get 'em out of here!" He said urgently.

They all bit through the cage bars and hi-tailed it out of there.

When they were far enough away, they stopped to rest.

"It's got...to have...been months since I've been outside..." Taki gasped.

"M-months...just months, when you've been presumed dead for ten years!" Tsume shouted. He wasn't angry, or even surprised really. Just upset.

"...Big brother...Tsume...I-"

"You led me to believe you were dead. That's all." Tsume spun around and strutted away, leaving Taki to collapse and cry.

"...I-I j-j-just...I wanted to sh-show him that...I could t-take care o-of myself. I never m-meant t-to lose h-him forever." Taki cried in between her loud sobs.

Tsume stopped in his tracks. "Why didn't you tell me...?" He whirled around, picking Taki up, and held her tightly. "You are such an idiot." He said, chuckling. Taki laughed with him. Then the others joined in.

"C'mon, let's go to Paradise." Tsume said grinning. They grinned and ran into...a trap.

They just didn't know it.