Disclaimer: No I still do not own wolfs rain. Yes it still sucks. No you still cannot Sue me. (Glares at lawyers.)

Special thanks to foxbrush for following the story. It means a lot

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His sense of hearing. That was the first to comeback. But it sure was slow about it. The sounds that were reaching him sounded like they were coming from underwater. It's like he had come down a very large mountain and he was waiting for his ears to pop. after a while, sounds started to sound more normal. The humming of a generator. The sound of the central HVAC system. The whir of those machines with colorful screens. Humans called them computers or something like that. The sounds of voices. Kiba slowly opened an eye and looked around groggily. He was inside some sort of cage. The bars around him had a wire like mesh over it. He looked around and , finding no one in the room with him at that point of time, went to try to chew the wire off so he could chew throught he bars and get out of there. As soon as his fangs made contact with the mesh, a bolt of electricity shot through him. He was thrown off with a yelp and hit the back of the cage where he was zapped again. He fell to the center of the cage, twitching from the overload of his central nervous system. He laid there, panting and twitching for a moment. Finally, he got up, mindful of the cage walls and looked around again.

"Great," he muttered. "How the hell am I supposed to get outta here with electrified wiring?" Almost as an answer to his question, the door to the room opened and a figure walked into the room. She could be considered beautiful by human standards what with here knee length blond hair and purple eyes and lips. She was wearing gold armor and a red cloak. She had dual swords on her sides and looked like she knew how to use them. she came to a stop in front of Kiba's cage and peered in evily. Kiba raised his hackles and bared his fangs, a snarl coming from his throat.

"Why hello there my beautiful chosen white wolf. So nice to see you," she said in a mockinally sweet voice. "Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Jagura. But you may refer to me as lady Jagura. I am the noble of this region. I'm so glad you and the flower maiden could join us. I have a lot of fun things in store for you."

"Where is Cheza," Kiba demanded. "Damn you Jagura, what have you done with her!"

"Now now. Don't get all huffy with me. I think it's time to bring that attitude level down some. Now, I'm sure you have noticed the specialized collar around your neck. You see, that let's me have all sorts of fun with you. And it also allows me to control you.

"You ain't controlling me you sanctimonious bitch. When I get outta here, I'm gonna enjoy sinking my fangs into your throat!"

"Oh really? Watch this." With a flourish of her hand, she made a motion in the air and spoke some words in an ancient dialect. Kiba felt a shooting pain go through his skull. Then, his vision got hazy. He blinked his eyes and then opened them. The cage door was opened. He tried to run out, but his legs wouldn't obay his commands. He let out a frustrated growl and tried again. Still nothing. He looked up and glared at Jagura with hate in his eyes. She gave a good laugh at his predictament.

"Now come here boy." Kiba walked up to her. "Now sit." Kiba sat down. The whole time, he was not in control of his actions. He glowered at her again. "Now come with me." Kiba got up and followed her out. "Now, I guess you are wondering where we're going. Well you see, I have limited control over you now. I can make you do simple things like any good dog being trained." Kiba's fur bristled at being called a dog, but he continued walking against his will. "Now what we are going to do is get you acclimated to the collar. That way, I will have more control over you and you will have no choice but to follow any order I give you. And after that, I will get some information out of you. Then we shall proceed with your first mission. The anniahlation of your pack."

As Kiba continued to follow her unwillingly, his mind whirled with how he was going to get out of this mess.

- 'Gotta keep moving. Gotta keep moving.' That was the mantra that kept going through her head. Blue had been traveling for two days trying to find Hige and the others. She had caught his scent once but lost it not long after that. She had no food and very little sleep since the attack and all she wanted was to find Hige and the others and start making plans for rescuing Kiba and Cheza. She didn't even know if she was going the right way or not. She stopped for what seemed the hundreth time that day and sniffed the air once more, trying to see if she could catch a scent of any of her friends. Nothing. She kept walking for several more hours when she caught a whiff of blood. She sniffed at the air again, moving in the direction of the scent, when she felt something sticky under her paw. She stopped and peered at what she stepped into. It was blood. She carefully bent and sniffed the blood. It belonged to Toboe. He was hurt. She saw a few more drops leading in a south westward direction. She picked up her pace, following the trail. Finally things were looking up. She just had to keep faith that she would find them. She couldn't give up.

"I'm going to ask you again. What is so special about the flower maiden?" Kiba glared up at her from the blood stained floor, not saying a word. He was on his belly on the floor, a chain hooked to each leg. His legs were streatched out to his sides, not allowing him to move even an inch. The collar was forcing him to stay in his wolf form. Jagura gave a sigh and, pointing to Kiba's back, muttered some words. A small flame sprang up between his shoulder blades. He gave out a pained yelp and small whines escaped him as the fire burned his flesh. Jagura snapped her fingers and the fire went out. Kiba slumped down, eyes squeezed shut in pain, breaths escaping him in small pants, the smell of his burned flesh lingering in the air.

"okay, I'll change my line of questioning. What do you know about the lunar wolf?" Kiba turned a look of confusion on her. "Don't give me that. I have not only got the last few pages to appear in the Book of the Moon, but I have got most of it deciphered. I know that there was a special wolf who was born of the mixed blood of the chozen wolf and the flower maiden and blessed by the light of the full moon. Now, you see, the thing is is that the lunar wolf would be drawn to the chozen one. Now, the wolf who was the chozen one in the last life was named Fang. I would only assume that you are the chozen one because the chozen one is the chozen guardian of the flower maiden. Since the flower maiden and you were found together while the pack was trying to cover your escape, and since your name is Kiba, which means Fang, then that could only mean that you are the chozen one. Now that you have been caught up on everything, why don't we try this again. What do you know about the lunar wolf?"

Kiba glared up at her and said, "I don't know nothing about no lunar wolf. I never heard of such thing until you just told me. And even if I did know anything, I damn sure wouldn't tell you bitch. You won't get nothing out of me so you might as well just give it up."

"Well, that sure is not what I wanted to hear. Well, just know that you brought this on yourself." She went over to a case laying on the table, the only piece of furniture in the room, and removed a whip with three ends on it. On each end, was a little blade. Jagura sauntered over to Kiba, presenting the whip for him to see. "Are you sure you don't want to cooperate with me? It would be so much easier on you."

Kiba eyed her as she walked over to him. "Do your worst. you will get nothing out of me."

"Then so be it," she snarled. She raised the whip and struck Kiba across the back with the whip. The blades sliced into his back. He gave a high pitched yelp of pain as the blades dug into him. Jagura yanked the whip, ripping the blades out of his back, his blood flying out and hitting the floor as she did. She raised the whip and struck again and again a cry of pain escaped him. She struck again and again and again, ripping Kiba's back to shreads. His blood was pooling the floor around him and splattering the walls. His shrill yelps of pain echoing around the room. It got to be too much for him because somewhere in the process, Kiba had passed out from the pain and blood loss. Jagura put a stop to the beating, knowing that there was no sense torturing someone who was unconscience. She whiped the whip off on one of few clean spots left on his fur and returned it to it's case after coiling it up. "Well then, when he recoveres, we'll try again." She walked to an intercom and, pushing a button, said, "Get in here and clean this mess up. I want the prisioner healed. Not fully, but just enough where he will make a full recovery. I want him to bear the scars. Have him ready for interrogation by tomorrow." She opened the door, walked out, and let it close behind her.

The deer was contentedly munching grass in a field not five miles from the second mountin range. Even though it might have looked defensless, it was anything but. It's ears constantly twitched as it's sensitive hearing picked up sounds in it's environment, constantly analyzing them for danger. It's sense of smell constantly analyzing any dangerous scents. It picked up on the smell of grass, the smell of trees, the sounds of the forest life, but nothing dangerous. It was content in the knowledge that it had two big racks of antlers coming out of it's head. It could cripple any enemy. It may not have been defensless, but it was unaware of the two wolves just down wind from it not even twenty meters away. At a signal, a husky brown wolf slowly made his way to the otherside of the clearing, staying hidden in the trees. He was to get in range for the deer to pick up on his scent and when the deer bolted, was to herd it towards his companion. The deer's head shot up as he caught the scent of the predator, and stood there for a moment as he tried to figure out whether to run or not. The scent came closer and the deer took off, bounding away from the threat. The brown wolf leapt out of the treeline, running after the deer, nipping at it's heals. He steered the deer towards a certain part of the trees on the other side. When the time was just right, a gray wolf bounded out of the trees, straight for the deer's throat. Before the deer could react, the gray wolf was hanging off his throat, fangs sinking into the soft flesh of it's neck. The deer went down, the gray wolf was still holding on, strangling the deer. After a momentm the deer laid still, never to move again.

"Nice take down Tsume. Quick and clean. Good job."

Tsume snorted and then said, "Let's get this thing back to the Runt."

"You got it." They worked together and dragged the deer back to the third member of their little group. When they got there, Toboe's tail started wagging. He was walking now, having had a couple of day's to recover, but was still walking gingerly. He was still having trouble breathing since the bullet that had grazed his side had fractured a couple of ribs. He limped to his companions to meet them.

"Tsume, Hige, you're back." he exclaimed, tail wagging.

Tsume just snorted and Hige said, "Good to see ya Runt. How's the war wounds?"

"They're a little better. Thanks for asking."

Tsume started eating and the others soon joined in not long after. When their meal was done, they started talking about what they were going to do.

"I still think we should go after Kiba and Cheza. They're depending on us."

"Right Runt, but how are we going to find him? Tsume asked.

"I don't know, but we gotta do something."

"Right now, we need to get moving. Are you alright to walk Runt are do you need to be carried again. And don't say you're good so your not a burdon. We help each other." Hige said.

"I can't really put much weight on it."

"That does it. I guess it's my turn to carry you." Hige squatted down on all fours next to him. " Alright, climb on my back." Toboe carefully got on Hige's back. Once he was in position, Hige carefully got up and the group started walking again into the unknown.

A white and black wolf with brown patches was leading two others on a hunting trip. there was four groups of them and they had to get enough meat for their big pack. the wolf turned his head, stoping to sniff the air for a moment. The moonlight shining on his face, illuminating the burn scars on the left side of his face, his neck, and his shoulder. A distinctive scar was on the high left portion of his chest; an old bullet wound. His left eye is milkey white with blindness. One of the other members of the pack, a sandy brown female with a patch of white over her left eye came up to him. She stood shorter than the scarred wolf for she was still in puphood but close to maturing. She had gone with the hunting party this day to get more practice in. Once she had made her first kill, she would be considered a full fledged hunter.

"Why did you stop Koda? Do you smell something?"

"Yeah, can't you Shay?"

Shay put her nose in the air and took a couple of sniffs. A very light sweet smell hit her nose, mixed with pine and a subtle hint of spice.

"That smells like another wolf, but maybe not full wolf."

"That's right. Keep smelling. My nose doesn't work as good as it used to. There's something else, but I can't tell what it is.

Shay sniffed the air again. "Oh no. It smells like wolf blood." She turned to Koda. "Are we gonna help them?"

"There's only one, but yeah, we're gonna help." He gave a short bark and the other member of his hunting party caught up with him and shay.

"Doss you pokey ass, keep up."

Doss, a chocolate brown wolf with black patches on his fur, lowered his head and tail in submission. "Sorry sir."

"No problem. Now, the situation has changed. There is an injured wolf out here somewhere. Find the scent and imprint it. We're going to split up and find it and see if it needs help."

Doss put his nose in the air and quickly caught the scent. "Got it."

"Alright, fan out, increase spread as we go to cover more ground. If we don't find the wolf in half an hour, I'm going to call the other parties over here for help. I'd hate to do that though because we need the meat. Alright, lets go."

The three wolves fanned out and searched the area, using their sense of smell and visual clues if there was any. About fifteen to twenty minutes into the search, there came a short bark from Shay. Koda and Doss made their way over to her. "I found her guys."

When they got to Shay's location, there laid a black wolf. She was skiny and her ribs poked out of her sides. It looks like she hadn't eaten in days. She had blood all over her. Koda put his nose to her side. He felt a faint heart beat. He put his nose up to her nose and felt faint warm air coming out of her nose. She was breathing.

"Shay, Doss. Get her on my back now. We gotta get her back to the caverans." Doss and shay gently picked the black wolf up and put her on Koda's back. Then they started making the four mile trip back to the underground caverans where their pack lived.

"Man, this is hopeless," Complained Hige. They still had one more mountain to climb and they were only half way up the one they were on now. Then they had to go through a tree lined valley before finding a town. They were hoping to get information on those soldiers that attacked them. If they could, they could try launching a rescue mission to free Kiba and Cheza. Hige still had not given up hope on finding Blue, but the main priority now, as he had said on several occasions, was to free Kiba and Cheza. He would get a sad look in his eyes when he would say this and it made Toboe sad. Tsume always looked indifferent, but Toboe could see the concern in his eyes no matter how he tried to hide it. They were resting from a day of travel and had just finished eating several rabbits that Tsume had caught. Toboe was walking on his own now but they still had to take it slow. He still had to be carried at times but not as frequently.

Hige looked over at Tsume and asked, "So Tsume. When we get to the town, you still going on your own?" Tsume just ignored the question. He was laying with his back to everybody, staring at the moon.

Hige walked over to him. Before he could get a word out, Tsume interupted him. "I don't feel like talking right now Porkey. Why don't you talk to the Runt?"

"Because. He can't answer my question."

"Well I'm not answering it, so go away."

"Fine, sheesh. It's just one question, how hard could it be," he mumbled as he walked off. Tsume just laid there, staring at the sky. 'Can I just walk away now? After everything that has happened, can I really walk away? I'm actually looking at the Runt like a kid brother for pete sake. Hell, more like a son. When the hell did that start happening? When I thought he was going to die, I felt a sense of loss, like I was about to lose my own family. I haven't felt that since I lost Clutch.' Tsume hadn't thought about Clutch since this journey started. Thinking about him now brought a sense of loss back. It was all he could do to hold back the tears. He suddenly jumped up and started walking.

"Hey, Tsume. Where are you going?" Toboe asked.

"For a walk. I'll be back later." he called over his shoulder.

After two days of "interrogations" Kiba hadn't said nothing. Jagura had brought him to the brink of death several times and he still maintained his silence on the flower maiden and his insistance that he knew nothing about the lunar wolf. Jagura, to say the least, was getting frustrated. She was walking down the hall back to her ballroom, the heels of her armor clicking loudly on the floors, echoing off the walls with an ominious sound. She flung open the doors to her ballroom and stormed inside. She took her helmet off and seated herself at the head of the dining table. A servant brought her dinner to her. Fried wolf stake and a goblet of wolf blood. She looked up at the figure of Cheza floating in the glass sphere of liquid at the other end of the room. She cut a piece of her steak and took a bite. Cheza's eyes got big and filled with tears. Jagura took another bite and Cheza screamed. Jagura laughed as she washed it down with a sip of wolfs blood. Cheza was squirming now, trying to get free. Jagura indulged herself in the torture her dinner was putting on Cheza. After she was finished, she went to her war room. Darcia was there along with General Rainz.

"Ah, my dear Lady Jagura, how good of you to join us." exclaimed Darcia. "We were just about to go over the plans of opening our own Paradise.

"Well unfortunately, my dear Lord Darcia, we cannot even begin that step yet because according to what I learned in the Book of the Moon, we still need the lunar wolf to completely open Paradise."

"Do we still need the white wolf my lady?" General Rainz asked.

"No, he was only to draw the lunar wolf here, but I don't see that happening in the near future. So What I propose is we use the white wolf for our own fun."

"What do you mean fun?" questioned Darcia.

Jagura gave a smile. "Well my Lord Darcia. It's like this...

"hey, I think she's waking up."

"Shh. Give her some space would ya."

"Sorry. Got excited."

"That doesn't suprise me. You always do where a female is involved."

"Hey, not true."

Slowly she opened her blue eyes. Everything was blurry. She waited for her vision to clear and then chanced glancing around her. She saw several other wolves looking at her. None of them looked or smelled familiar.

She slowly tried sitting up. A wolf with a scarred face leaned his shoulder against her, supporting her. When she finally got to a sitting position, she turned to the wolf who had helped her up. "Thank you."

"No problem. You were hurt pretty bad. What happened?"

"I got split off from my pack. I was trying to make my way back to them but I got attacked by a bear. Before I new what happened, I was knocked down in a ravine. I don't remember much after that."

"Well, looks like you're recovering pretty well. And don't worry. We'll help you find your pack. If they're anywhere in a thirty mile radius, we'll find them."

"I can't thank you enough." Blue looked around her and saw stone and dirt walls. "Where are we anyway."

"An underground caveran. My pack resides here. I know it isn't the great outdoors, but it keeps us alive and the Nobles away from us. Now, do you feel like you can walk? If so, I'll show you where you can eat. You look hungry."

At about that time, a gurgling sound came from Blues stomach. She looked up at Koda with an embarrased look.

"That cinches it. You're going to eat something girl before you expire. Come with me. While we're at it, I'll introduce you to the other two who helped find you"

They walked out of the cave like room they were in and into a vast caveran with dozens of tunnels leading off of it. It was a vaulted room that could house hundreds of wolves comfortably. They walked to the other side of the caveran and through a tunnel that led out into another vast room. There were tables set up with wolves in human form eating. Some wolves were on the ground eating. It was amazing. Blue looked at Koda and said, "I've never seen this many wolves gathered in one area before. especially underground. How did this big of a pack come to be."

"Simple. Most were strays that were taken in who lost family to nobles. Like Shay over there," he said pointing over to a mostly grown wolf pup with a sandy brown coat. "She was forced to watch while her parents and siblings were executed in front of her. We got there in time to save her but not her family. To this day, she is still plauged with nightmares that will never really go away. The one sitting there talking to her is Doss. He was a prisionor of Jagura's. Somehow, he escaped and we found him and took him in. He doesn't remember his family. They died when he was just a pup. Come on, I want you to meet them." He led Blue over to the two wolves. "Shay, Doss, on your feet. I would like to introduce you to Blue, the she-wolf you two saved."

Shay and Doss stood up and gave a wolfish bow. Shay spoke up. " It's good to see you're okay. Wow, I see why they call you Blue. You have the most unique blue eyes I've ever seen."

"Thank you. And thank you for the rescue. Both of you. I owe you my life."

"Nah. It was nothing. Just glad you're still among the living." Doss said.

"Alright. We're gonna get something to eat and then we're gonna have a meeting with some of our best trackers and fighters to see about finding her pack.