Post by S.eiko&&H.isoka on Jun 28, 2009 16:12:26 GMT -8
Seeing as how it seems like quite a few people wanna read my little Paradise ditty story that I'm workin' on I'mma just post it here naow. Updates will come whenever, dun rush me please. >_> I write as insperation comes. It's from Sei's point of view, first person, and written somewhat like a journal. Sorry if I constantly switch from present tense to past tense, I haven't quite figured that one out yet..xD[/color]
Day: Whatever.
Time: Twilightish¡KI think¡K It has become cloudy¡K
All we do is walk. We have been walking forever, it feels close to that. But we are all getting anxious; you can feel it in the pack. Everyone knows what is coming, including myself, but yet, we stay. We do not run away, even though we all know we are going to die. Why do we bother? ¡K.It has gotten cold; all it ever does is snow now. The paw prints we leave vanish the moment we make them, wind whips at our faces every moment. I am growing restless, I feel like something is stalking our every turn. And sister, she is worrying me¡K I do not know where she is. But I pray she returns, we are already out numbered in this fight, we need her¡K
Day: Paradise
Time: Unknown.
"Come on guys, this isn't too bad, I mean, we had to go through worse when it was our trip." Toboe attempted to get our spirits up, the old wolf jogging ahead of us a bit as he turned around, letting his normal grin spread onto his face. "Right now, our journey, Tsume and Kiba would probably have been fighting again, and there I would have been trying to separate them." The brown wolf nodded his old head, seeming satisfied with himself, that was, until he looked at all of our faces. I let my own jade eyes scan all of my pack.
Shai was flanking me closest on my left, and although her blue flecked orbs stared back at mine without wavering I could see the small spark of fear in her. The fear of the unknown. I had to admit, I could feel it in myself. I did not know what I was going to be facing, I knew I would be facing the nobles no shit, but, what about after... Was there some weird second level of Paradise that old man talk-a-lot did not know about because he was alive? The rest of the pack, his pack, had died, and yet he was alive. And we were taking his word about Paradise. It did not feel right. ¡K
My head turned slowly farther back to behind me, looking to Shai's rear. Her pups, Ikusa and Kamoku, the two that I had before fought with Shai over. When she was still pregnant of course. Ikusa's black body was small compared to Kamo's, and I had to agree that if Kamo had been given more time to grow, there was no doubt that he may have grown taller then both me and Shai. I only wish that had been the case. Shaking my head I cast off those thoughts, letting my eyes wander once more.
Sora and Kiki were a few feet to my right and behind Ikusa and Kamoku, Sora trying to act tough but his fur betrayed him as he was practically a fluff monster. Kiki looked a lot calmer then him to tell the truth.
Quickly I fought down the random anger inside of me as I jerked my eyes to in front of Kiki and Sora a bit, where my sister, Kaori, should have walked alone, her head lowered but her eyes betraying absolutely nothing. If anything, she would have probably looked almost happy, hiding whatever it was she was feeling to try and make herself un afraid. At least, that was what I thought¡K With her, I was never truly sure. Keh, brother of hers for ten, eleven years and I still do not understand her¡K
And then, there was Amaya¡K Slowly I let my head turn to face the alabaster female that was only but a few feet in front of me, her head held high but tail relaxed as she cast an emotionless glance over her shoulder at the pack. Inwardly I felt something sear. After my four years of living without the pack our relationship had grown strained, very, very strained. And then, after I met up with Shai in the bar instead of rejoining the pack I remained separate, only to end up admitting to Shai my feelings instead of Amaya. ¡KI never honestly knew if she had gotten over that, but, since then Shai and myself have broken off our relationship just because it had not worked out¡K But then, at the start of this journey Amaya had admitted to me, more like confided. She had seemed so uncertain, as if not knowing if it was the right thing to do. She was alphess of this pack, she did not want her emotions to get in the way. And I understood that, but, heh, perhaps you could say I was selfish¡K I only wish there was more time, and as I lingered on that thought I felt my throat tighten and chest clench.
We were all going to die today, Kaori, Shai, Kiki, Sora, myself, Amaya¡K
We were all leading a dead end fight.
We were all sacrificing everything for the sake of this fucked up world.
Why are we? What is the point of dying when it will only return to this¡K hell hole? Toboe said it was for the better of the world, and it seemed most of the pack agreed. But, I do not know. Something does not feel right. Why should we have to die for the sake of other people that do not care? Why die for the humans? Perhaps all I had to do was look around though.
At the beginning of each of our lives we had been marked, chosen by fate to lead ourselves to suicide for the sake of rebuilding the earth in paradise. It was a fate that none of us had asked for, and that a few of us did not even want. I wanted to growl to myself as I walked quietly on, lowering my head and narrowing my eyes as the savage wind ripped at my face. Whenever my thoughts dwelled on that topic for too long, or what we were going to do within the days end, I wanted to quite literally sink my teeth into something that would gush blood everywhere.
Unfortunately, Shai caught on to my foul mood quickly, and the female stepped up to my side, her optics staring at my neck, I could feel it even without looking. "Something wrong?" Her feminine voice broke my mask that I normally kept, and my head sank lower, a sigh breaking past my lips as I stopped walking, causing Kiki and Sora to nearly bump into me. When they stopped and looked at me I shook my head, jerking my muzzle forward to tell them to continue on.
When I could not even see Amaya's white form due to the snow swirling did I start to walk again with Shai at my shoulder, our fur almost brushing which, at that moment, did not bother me. I never was one to show what I felt, but at that moment my gut was clenched to the point that, if I had pulled my illusion, I knew very well that I would be in cold sweat. I was scared out of my mind. I hated the unknown, still hate the unknown. I may have wanted to know everything about anything, but Paradise was something I no longer wanted to know about. Ever since we actually started on the journey I no longer wanted to go, I wanted to so badly back out, to let someone else take my place. But I knew I could not do that, and it was that thought that kept me there.
Shai was growing impatient at my side, and so I sighed, closing my eyes as we continued our trek, the ground beginning to slant up. "Everything." I grumbled, letting my tail wave towards her to rest against hers. We may have broken our relationship off, but buried beneath what I felt stronger to Amaya Shai was still a part of me that I would not be able to let go. That female had helped me pull myself together, I could not turn my back on her no matter what I did now.
"Why everything?"
"All die Shai. All.."
Her fur bristled beside me and I knew it was not the smartest thing to have said, so I dropped my tail from hers and picked up my pace a bit, breaking into a jog that brought me ahead of her. But Shai was beside me a moment later, an apologetic look in her eyes. "You don't know that for sure, Sei. It is possible that we may live. I mean, Toboe is alive isn't he?"
My head nodded slowly, but my fur flattened against my body, claws digging into the ice. "Only one."
I felt a small pain as Shai's teeth lightly nipped my scruff, and I stopped, staring at her as I raised my head on instinct to a higher position. Her own rose immediately, and a challenge began to build in my throat until I remembered what we were traveling to. Fighting amongst ourselves would be plain idiocy. We could not risk the injury of anyone. It was that thought that made me drop my head once again, turning my electric greens back to the front of the pack. ¡§Don¡¦t be so negative, Sei.¡¨ Shai¡¦s voice broke into my thoughts, causing me to flick my eyes to her.
¡§How not be?¡¨ I mumbled to the fae as I started my walk once more, one single paw after the other. It was almost hard now to walk; I could feel the dread beginning to leak into my limbs. No, I could not let that happen. I had to remain emotionless, calm. Anxiety would only kill me, make me make mistakes.
Shai¡¦s form once more came beside me, and as she opened her mouth to answer my ears shot upright. I slapped my tail viciously into her side once, and immediately she knew to silence herself. A single bark from me had the whole pack stilled, and I could barely see the outline of Amaya¡¦s off white pelt in the front against the snow. But what I had heard, I prayed I was wrong. Only, I wasn¡¦t.
I lurched forward, Shai a step behind as I bolted ahead of everyone, and everyone took the hint. I heard a yelp from Toboe as he too heard what was coming. ¡§Airship!!¡¨ The elder cried in fear as his old legs began to pump behind me, but it was quickly shut out. I was watching the ice ahead of me, waiting for it to happen. I knew it would, it was a matter of time. I silently counted the seconds. One¡KTwo¡KThree¡K Another yelp from Ikusa this time. Four¡KFive¡K Someone tripped, and I heard Kiki¡¦s paw steps run to their aid. I was still in the lead, and now the airship was louder, closer. And that high pitched keen¡K I knew it in a heart beat just as I heard the resonating click. ¡§JUMP!¡¨ I yelped at the top of my lungs just to be heard above the noise as red light violently crashed through the air.
Following my own order I leapt towards the cliff wall, praying that it would offer protection and that the rest of my pack had listened. Someone screamed, and painfully I recognized the cry from Shai. But I couldn¡¦t sit still, I had to move. Another attack was charging in the ship, I could hear the grinding as it readied. ¡§Move!¡¨ This time the order was from our alphess, and she ran straight in front of me, two flashes of red not far behind. I took my place beside the brown wolf and the other black.
Our paws were crashing into the ground with such speed I didn¡¦t even realize when we reached the cliff edge, but all I knew was suddenly I saw my pack mates disappear in front of me. I wanted to yell in fear, but before I could another attack smashed the ground behind me, and I was thrown into the air, flung over the icy edge with no mercy. I hear my own yelp of terror snatch from my lungs, Toboe¡¦s and Kamoku¡¦s mixing with my own. And then we were falling, falling down the mountain we had just successfully climbed.
Pain exploded from my shoulders as I first crashed into the hard ice rock, jolting my body into a roll. I am not sure just how long I rolled, but when I finally came to a stop I found myself lying beside Amaya, blood rolling from a fresh wound above her hip. Everything was twirling in front of me, and I felt my stomach clenching as it readied to force food from my system. Somehow I kept it down as I slowly pulled onto my limbs, clenching my eyes shut as I stood, slowly.
Reopening them I slowly looked around my pack, glancing to everyone recovering from the fall. Amaya was beginning to stir beside my paws, Kiki was already up and helping Sora stand. Shai and Kamoku were holding Ikusa and Toboe between them. Everyone was accounted for, and no serious injuries were apparent. I silently thanked our luck for once as Amaya¡¦s smaller form finally stood beside me.
¡§Everyone fine.¡¨ I barely whispered to her, but she heard for her ears twitched in response as she looked to the pack. Blinking her emotionless moonstones they turned to the peak of the mountain, squinting against the frozen rain falling from the heavens. I heard the faint breath of a growl, but she shook her head before looking to me.
¡§Gather everyone together. We climb again. . .¡¨
Nodding my large head I turned and silently stepped toward Kiki and Sora, nudging the female lightly before jolting my head towards Amaya, who was already moving to the cliff side. Next were Ikusa and the old man, but as I stepped towards them the brother pulled away from his mom and frantically pattered towards me unsteady, his red eyes huge. ¡§Sei! Sei, it¡¦s coming back. It¡¦s not done!¡¨
Stunned I twisted my neck to stare at the sky, and sure enough I could see that same outline beginning to circle. Simultaneously I bore my fangs in anger, hackles beginning to rise. Shai caught on and looked the same way before snarling. ¡§Everyone, run again!¡¨ She practically roared before roughly pushing Toboe forward, snatching Ikusa¡¦s scruff as she darted past me. Then we were all leaping up the cliff, mere dots of leaping color as we all scrambled.
Kamoku managed to see something through the whipping winds, and I heard the boy howl. ¡§There¡¦s a cave! Everyone, to the right!¡¨ And then his body disappeared as he launched across a gap, the sudden blizzard from the airship coating everyone in white. I heard Shai give a frantic yap as she, too, disappeared across the gorge. Bolting to the edge I skidded to a stop before jerking my body around to watch as everyone desperately fought their own way to where I was. Toboe jumped, then Kiki, then Sora. Ikusa was the unlucky one as the laser shot head long into where I had been standing a moment before.
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Pain flared across my hind as I leapt away, tackling the young wolf backwards away from where the laser had just crushed the ground. I felt the wounds burn into my thighs, but I had to ignore it. My weight had taken us too far, and now Ikusa and I were tumbling to the edge of the cliff. The boy let out a shriek of terror as I bore my bangs in his face before sinking them into his chest, planting my paws as firmly into the ice as I could. My claws squealed horribly against it, and Ikusa¡¦s bawl of pain made guilt over take me. And then fear shot over me as his body jerked down, wrenching my torso to the hoarfrost as my fore paws threatened to over take the edge.
You can not imagine what ran through my head in that split second, and even now I despise what I even considered. I despise myself for even being so selfish to even have the slightest fleeting thought of it. In the moment that I felt my ebony paws slip over the edge survival methods rushed into my head, and for the tiniest, the most minuscule moment of my life, I considered releasing Ikusa, letting the second youngest member of our pack more then likely tumble to either his death, or sure separation from the pack.
As I said, you would probably not even be able to imagine what I had thought.
But thankfully, I had felt more pain lace from my back, only this time it was good, it was welcome. Instead of using my fore paws to grip the ice now I clutched Ikusa¡¦s black body, and pulled with as much strength I had in my hind. ¡§Climb dammit!¡¨ I nearly gave the poor boy a heart attack as I had snarled at him, but he obliged, and within the minute my and his ebony bodies tumbled backwards.
Righting myself only after the first roll I saw Amaya do the same, and blinking in gratitude to my alphess I looked to Ikusa. The boy was bleeding from the chest as a result of my teeth, and there was a cut above his eye, and he was shaking like he was having a seizure, but nothing was serious. Grateful for once in my life my emeralds turned to the sky, glaring at the air ship as it circled again. But I could not hear the grinding of a charging assault; I could not even see that tiny red glow that would also show.
Amaya¡¦s tap made my sight jerk down to her, looking into her moonstones. The silent communication was easy for us to understand, it was almost like we spoke sentences through our eyes, the little twitches of our lips, eye brows, the flicks of our ears, even just the timing of blinks. ¡¥Alright?¡¦
¡¥Fine, thanks for the help.¡¦ A small nod, the narrowing of my orbs.
A tiny shrug of her shoulders, gaze twitching toward the cliff. ¡¥We need to move,¡¦ another look to the air ship above our heads. ¡¥It will come back.¡¦
I nodded before quick-stepping (no not bleach. xD) to Shai¡¦s pup, lightly poking him with my claws before shouldering the smaller male in the direction when he would not move. Damn coward was scared stiff, of me or the situation I still do not know. Walking to the new edge of the gap my stomach sank when I saw that where I had previously been standing was about ten feet away, making the used-to-be gap, which had nearly been about fifteen feet, now twenty five.
Ikusa whimpered by my side, and when I looked down on the boy I could see that his eyes were terrified. ¡§I can¡¦t do it S-Sei!¡¨ A rumble in my chest and my eyes narrowing were warnings to the pup, but he ignored them. ¡§It¡¦s too wide! Even Kam would have problems!¡¨
Pallid fur edged into my eye sight, so I turned my eyes to look at her, only to blink in surprise as I saw the slightly soft look in her own. ¡§You can Iku. Follow example.¡¨ A silent command for our brute bodies to move over was followed, and as I watched Amaya began back stepping, brows furrowed together and tail raised. When she was roughly twenty feet from the edge her front end dropped, muscles tensed, and then she shot forward, like a bullet from a gun.
Ashen form ran to the right, toward the edge which would lead down the mountain, for a split moment, until she reached the corner of ice connecting the two lips. Then, a sharp turn left, claws squealed, and the fae used her momentum to launch across the gap half way, aiming for the wall of ice on the left of the gap. I saw what she was doing, and nearly flattened my ears when I saw her lean paws hit the tilted wall of ice. She only hovered there for maybe a second, possibly two, but it was an eternity as I saw my . . . well, I saw Amaya hovering over the edge of death.
Then, she was gone again, shoving off of the wall toward the safety of the other side. I heard her body hit the lip of ice, saw her fore claws dragging for a hold as her hind did the same. Finally she was up and standing, shaking herself before focusing her grays on us. ¡§Try, quickly. Not much time. Only way.¡¨ Her commanding tone rang out, devoid of emotion to everyone but me. I heard that concern; she did not want to lose the pup to this journey, not yet.
The black pup was shaking his head, so I sighed before leaning down, actually having to crouch slightly to get eye level with him. ¡§Please. Not carry you, you must, you can.¡¨ It took more time then I thought necessary for the wolf to decide, but he finally did, and then he was backing up, his body shaking with fear. I could feel my own heart beat escalating; I was heavier then both Amaya and Ikusa, and larger, but I was faster. Would it make up for my weight? The law of kinetic energy would probably say I would be safe, but I doubted it. More weight meant it would be harder to grip the wall for just those two precious seconds, harder to push off. Could I manage this? Or should I go for the straight jump? No, that would be suicide. I could never make it with the distance provided for my running strip. If only there had been about fifteen feet more, maybe, but with just roughly twenty feet, I knew I could not.
I snapped from my thoughts the moment Ikusa¡¦s body ran past me. Taking the leap myself to be closer to the edge I watched as he copied Amaya¡¦s movements, running to the corner before jumping toward the wall. It was all perfectly copied, maybe, maybe he could get this!
My heart sank as I saw the angling of his paws as he leapt from the corner. They were not angled to take the impact correctly; he would put too much weight on his left, throwing him into the wall. Now, it would be luck if he managed to make it to Amaya¡¦s waiting form. ¡§To your right!!¡¨ Shai¡¦s scream ripped through the air as her form melted in next to Amaya, her frenzied green eyes watching as her son frantically tried to shift his paws in the moment he had left before touching the ice. It was too late, and Ikusa slammed into the wall, clinging for a moment as his huge eyes stared toward the females.
Then, he was slipping down, and in one last frantic attempt the boy kicked his hind legs, trying his damned best to get to the cliff. But he was already too low, and his attempt only brought him crumbling into the ice below where the females were standing, claws screeching as he slid farther away. ¡§Mom!!¡¨ Ikusa¡¦s voice was nearly a sob as he cried out with all the air in his lungs, and Shai reacted immediately.
Her illusion up the woman fell onto her stomach, her arm reaching down for her son. Amaya¡¦s raised in a second, and then her arms wrapped around the taller woman¡¦s waist as Shai slid farther forward, pressing herself into the ice and reaching as far down as she could. But it was futile, I could see it from where I stood, at the edge, on the other side of the gap. He was too far down, and it seemed, now the boy realized it too, because his form stopped shaking. Something was mumbled by him, and then Shai¡¦s ear splitting scream ripped from her throat as she nearly threw herself off the cliff toward her son as his claws lost grip on the ice, and he fell away from sight, disappearing into the swirling snow.
If Amaya had not been hanging onto the woman, I know damn well she would have gone over the edge with Ikusa. Instead, the black haired female pulled, and tumbled back, dragging the brunette away from the lip. Both were up in a second, only, Shai¡¦s form was trembling, and her illusion was weak. Without warning her fist struck out, catching our leader square in the face, knocking the smaller girl down. But what had happened under the illusion was what had made me decide what to do. Shai¡¦s huge paw had come crashing into the side of Amaya¡¦s head, and I had heard the sound of claws ripping through fur.
Leaping backwards I barely gave enough time to realize what I was doing before I found myself at the corner, turning and aiming for the wall that had just killed Ikusa. Grimly I noticed I over shot both Amaya¡¦s and Ikusa¡¦s landing spots by a few feet, far past half way of the gap before I turned and aimed for Shai.
I brought my own illusion forward as I now crashed into her form, my arms locking around her torso as we rolled across the ground. I felt my back crush into a boulder I had not seen due to the snow, and it made a small whine escape me, but I did not let go. Shai would be in a wreck right now, I knew it. I remembered the day that had ended us, when I had falsely accused her of seeing Hashi, who I had not known was dead at the time. Just that mention of her past mate had sent her into a fit, and now, I could not even imagine what would happen because she had just lost her pup.
I heard another scream building in her chest, for my ear was pressed above it as I locked my arms tighter, not wanting to know what she would try if her arms were free. I scented the rest of the pack around Amaya now, drawn by Shai¡¦s screaming; speaking of which, I do not suggest hanging onto her when she does.
¡§Let me fucking go Sei! LET ME GO!!!¡¨ Her thrashing beside me only made me more determined, and I now wrapped one of my legs around her own, so she would stop literally kicking me in the ass.
¡§Not letting you die!¡¨ I growled back to her, which earned me another scream, this one purely animalistic as her illusion vaporized from my arms, and I was left holding a snarling, thrashing wolf to my chest. ¡§Amaya!¡¨ A quiet growled command had my mate on the other side of Shai, her own arms wrapping around Shai¡¦s neck to prevent the sorrow blinded fae from hurting me, even if on accident.
A few moments later Shai¡¦s thrashing began to lessen, and now I could hear the sobs that were breaking over her form, the thrashing and jerking replaced with the shaking of tears. Unwilling to lose my illusion I buried my face into the female¡¦s fur, the thought of shying away from touch not even arousing in the slightest bit as I started to hum low in my throat, humming the tune that she had complimented me once on, saying it had been. . .soothing, if I remember correctly. And now, I hoped it was.
Kiki¡¦s scent washed over me strong, and opening my jades I spared a glance to see the small red wolf standing above Shai¡¦s head, tears brimming her eyes. ¡§Shai, please, you have to calm down. Screaming won¡¦t help us now. Please, Shai, you don¡¦t want Ikusa to have gone in vain, do you?¡¨ That brought about a fresh thrash as the femme I was holding tried desperately to turn toward Kiki. Unwilling to lose my current hold, I did not let her, instead latching my human teeth into her neck fur to help hold her. Amaya¡¦s hand, which was barely brushing my silver hair, tightened also.
¡§He shouldn¡¦t have gone in the first place Kiki!! It¡¦s your fault Amaya! YOU told him it was the only way!¡¨
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¡§It was..¡¨ both myself and Amaya said almost at the same time, earning another snarl and thrash. I continued the hum, trying desperately to calm the wolfess down. Perhaps it was a cruel thought to have, but I knew that if the screaming continued, if the nobles were any where close to us, they would hear. Frankly, I quite assumed we would want surprise on our side, not a screaming female.
Sora yipped in surprise at something, but I did not bother to look, instead, clenching my eyes closed as my fingers buried deeper into her ebony fur, feeling Amaya¡¦s hands tighten instinctively in response to me. ¡§Please Shai.¡¨ Kiki¡¦s begging voice mumbled quietly, her scent drawing closer as the smallest of the pack lay in front of the tallest female. A low whine from Kiki made a shudder pass down Shai¡¦s body, in turn making my own shudder. Grief was hanging like a thick cloud over us, almost tangible.
I heard Sora¡¦s paw steps away - and Kamoku¡¦s snarl of ¡§What the hell are you doing, seeing his body for yourself?¡¨ ¡V but what caught my attention was the softer paw steps of the old one, making his way to us. Suddenly, I was filled with anger to him, and in that anger I let forth a grumble to Amaya, basically telling the smaller female to hold Shai.
Standing on my own feet I glared at the old man, fists clenching and unclenching at my side. His illusion was raised, as was everyone else¡¦s, apparently a ¡¥safety measure¡¦ of ((„² yay 5,000 words)) ours of ¡¥if one lifts it, all do,¡¦ but only his was strong. Everyone else was letting theirs die off, but his was up and steady. Another rumble began in my throat, emeralds narrowing with the anger I felt. And yet, his brown eyes only met calmly with mine, and that fueled it. Then, of all the things he could do at that time, he smiled, not largely, but enough to be seen.
¡§I¡¦m centuries older then you, so your ¡¥glare of death¡¦ won¡¦t work.¡¨ Barely muttered, but enough to release my low throated warning growl I always gave when I was getting pissed. And right now, I was starting to want to say the hell with Paradise and throw this old fuck over the side of the mountain, make him follow Ikusa. Because was it not him that gave us the final shove to move for Paradise?
¡§Not care.¡¨ My own voice was becoming foreign to me once again, that throaty snarl clouding it. For a moment I did not speak, trying to rephrase what I wanted to say in my head. When it failed, I closed my eyes, clenching my hands and releasing a hiss of breath. ¡§If not you, Ikusa alive. You push Paradise, tell to go. Never asked for Paradise, never asked for you!¡¨ I snapped finally, not being able to stay in my ¡¥norm.¡¦ ¡§No one ever fucking asked for your precious Tsume and Kiba to open this,¡¨ I swept my arm around, my stance growing rigid as my mind soon began forgetting about my illusion, causing it to flicker, ¡§Paradise, and we sure as hell never asked for the task to do it again! If you had not told us it was completely, utterly necessary, I sure as the fucking sun rises would never have gone along with this!¡¨ My voice dropped suddenly, the anger dissipating to almost leave angst. ¡§I just wanted to be normal, and I could not even fucking have that.¡¨
The flare of anger gone, I swallowed, staring at the ground as I finally felt that grief cloud envelope me to include itself within my mood. That pup, even if he had been annoying as fuck to me sometimes. . .well, I guess I thought of him as my younger brother, maybe even a ¡¥son.¡¦ And now I finally realized, I would not have him around to annoy me any more, to try and cheer me up as he often did, to have to be used as a shield by him whenever someone bigger started something, or hell, to even be the occasional ¡¥father figure¡¦ in his life. It may have been rare, and I would hate to admit it, but truthfully, I guess I had thought of him as family.
And suddenly, that pain ripped another fresh wound into my heart. Kaori. She had not caught up to us, my sister had not found us yet. And Paradise was soon to be reopened. Did that mean she would die, and not be reborn because she would not be with us? Was that some fucked up rule, that the descendants must be with descendants if they want to die happily and be reborn? Another stab into my heart; what if she was already dead. What if my baby sister had already been killed. In my mind I replayed that final time I saw her, over, and over, and over again. Agonizing, beating myself up for it. I had had to leave her, leave her behind to those god forsaken hunters that had found us again. My back throbbed in response, the place where my fur had finally grown back in. Would they kill her? Was she dead? Had she been punished for my managing to get away?
Her face burned in my mind, even as she had been bruised, beaten, she had looked to me with her clear eyes, and a light smile on her face that she always wore. She had told me to get out of there, she would catch up, that she had swore she would. Something cold brushed my cheek, but I could not see at that moment, all I saw was my sister¡¦s brown face, the blood rolling from the cuts and gashes, and yet her look of jokes and the short time we had together when we were younger. That time with Shai, Hashibuto, Kiki, Amaya, when we had finally found each other again. How she had tackled me, her older and much taller brother, down into the snow. How happy we had been just to have each other¡¦s company again.
The smallest thought that maybe I could never see her again sent a jolt of pain so sharp through my body, so agonizingly excruciating, that my shields that had not been fully restored since that separation by choice from the pack for four years, suddenly threw back up, and I was numb once more.
Forced to look back to my conscious mind, I found that somewhere along the line we had moved to the cave Kamoku had saw, Kamoku and Shai near the back, I assumed grieving for their lost Uzikami. I could just smell Amaya¡¦s scent beside me, making my jades slowly blink, clearing any fuzz left within my vision. ¡§What¡K?¡¨ Getting my fore paws beneath me again I rolled to my stomach, slowly pushing my torso off the ice, shaking my head to try and clear it.
¡§Passed out suddenly.¡¨ Amaya¡¦s emotionless voice, and this time it truly was emotionless, spoke to me through her teeth. Looking down on her to see what she was staring at I followed her eyes to see Toboe at the mouth of the cave, illusion raised as he stared out into the sudden blinding snow. Confusion swept my mind for a moment, but my mask was securely up, because even as Amaya glanced into my eyes she looked away without seeing a thing.
¡§Worried..?¡¨ I barely mumbled to her in response to the nervous ear twitch I had seen. Unfortunately, she nodded.
A quiet sigh before she spoke let me know it would possibly be lengthy. ¡§Kiki went to find Sora after you passed out and Shai calmed down, and they have yet to return. And Toboe seems like he has to almost put effort into getting his illusion down.¡¨ Her moonstones turned to my emeralds, and I knew it was not all, for as I looked into their depths I saw the faintest hint of the old Amaya shinning, that sorrow that she would always try to hide. ¡§Shai and Kamo though¡K I do not know when they will be ready to move next, we can¡¦t wait-¡¨
¡§But can not leave.¡¨ I saw immediately that she was thinking strategy. In terms of fighting, Amaya, myself, and the two Uzikamis would be the only ¡¥willing¡¦ fighters, and Shai was a vital stone in the tower we had built of power. Remove Shai from our ranks, and you take a chunk of strength with you.
Amaya¡¦s white head nodded, turning to look at the black and silver masses hiding in the back of the cave. Then, to my surprise, I watched as Amaya¡¦s blank fur entered my vision, her head lowered but tail still proud. She immediately corrected that, dropping her tail between her legs as she glanced over her shoulder at me, giving me that twitch-of-the-lips weak smile before continuing toward Shai and Kam-Kam. It appeared she would talk with them now.
Which left me either to sit alone, or wander to Toboe. On normal circumstances, I would have gladly stayed alone, but with ¡¥the end of the world¡¦ annexing I felt that perhaps, I should get on good terms with this wolf. Standing I made my massive form saunter to the old man¡¦s side, plopping down nearly right next to him, staring out into the pure white. I sat on the ground beside the ¡¥human¡¦ gramps, while he was seated on an icy rock, but even so my head was a match for his shoulder. Ah, my size, a blessing and a curse. I began to rack my brain for something to say, something that would get us on the right foot and no longer the left.
¡§Sure is white.¡¨ Toboe¡¦s voice made my ears twitch, causing the ear rings I wore to jingle. I nodded my massive head, chuckling to myself on the inside. Such a simple sentence, and yet it made everything suddenly feel alright. ¡§Wonder when it¡¦ll stop.¡¨
I rolled my strong shoulders in a shrug, letting one scarred fore leg stretch out into the sudden blizzard, just to test. When my limb was jerked I pulled it back with bared teeth, natural reaction of mine to the unknown before my mind put together that it was the wind that had done that. Dropping lips I sighed, tilting my head back almost so it appeared I would howl. ¡§Got good time.¡¨
Toboe nodded, grinning at my sentence. ¡§We did, didn¡¦t we? To think, if we had been out there maybe five minutes longer, we¡¦d be caught in this. If it jerked your paw, I imagine it would throw poor Sora and Kiki off the cliff.¡¨ A moment later the gramps jerked a bit as he realized what he had said, but it had already been done. My shields had enforced, and I felt nothing that was unpleasant, only the faint tingle in my head that something was being blocked. I did not complain. Angst and guilt together were not feelings I dealt well with when dragged over a period of time, my fore legs were proof to that. Again, another tingle, and again I did not complain.
Talk-a-lot sighed, making my own mingle with his. I suddenly felt old, not Gramps old, hell no, but, like a grand father old; like I had seen far too much for my eleven years. Perhaps it was true, most did not have to ¡¥save the world¡¦ so to speak by age eleven. How old had Blue been when she had helped the pack reopen Paradise? Thinking of my ancestor always broke millions of questions to mind. What had Blue been like? And Tsume, Kiba, and the fabled flower maiden Cheza? Was Cheza much like Althaea? Was I like Blue? I opened my mouth to ask, but suddenly Toboe was standing on his rock.
While I had been in thought the blizzard had died down to almost nothing, merely small flakes falling now. Confused I turned to look out of the cave, standing slowly so not to let my anklet clang on the ice. Straining my ears forward I listened, twitching my nose and cracking my mouth open I scented. A moment later, unbelievable yipping, yapping, barking of joy erupted out side, making my eyes widen in surprise. Kiki and Sora, I recognized both their voices immediately. But, then, there was something else.
Padding from the cave with Gramps by my side I scented nothing, the snow having wiped clean scents. Gramps called for Amaya, Shai, and Kamoku, excitement in his voice as I was puzzled. Why was everyone happy? What was I missing? Had Paradise magically opened and I missed it?
No, what we found was much better. So much better that Paradise looked like Hell compared to what we found. And a single voice that rose above the rest proved that to me, and set my tail wagging.
¡§Hey, don¡¦t these belong to someone?¡¨
UPDATE 8/19/09
At that moment my own voice broke through the octaves into yelps of joy, and I left my pack in a cloud of snow as I bolted from the cave straight toward where the voice had come from. It could not be! But it was! I was aware of my paws leaving the ground, and a shocked cry, but I could not care less. I tackled that female, my illusion arms throwing themselves around her smaller frame. I could say easily, and without a single doubt in my mind, that that single moment was, indeed, the happiest moment of my life.
Kaori struggled against my death grip hold. “Jesus Christ Bro! Lemme go! I did tell you I’d catch up, didn’t I?” I still could not release her, only drank in her scent to make sure I was truthfully holding my baby sister in my arms.
“Yes, but thought dead. Took so long.” After another brief squeeze before I let her go, and then I stepped back. That is when I became aware that I was not the only one celebrating. I suddenly tuned into the happy cries and sobs of Kamoku and Shai, along with the ‘I knew it wasn’t right’s of Sora. I was not puzzled in the least bit as I remembered what Kaori had said, and with disbelief plain on my face I turned to look back at my sister, noting that her illusion had dissipated to reveal the brown and black fluffy fae who was wagging her tail. “How..?” I could barely even stutter the word out as I felt another yip building in my throat.
A wolfish grin cracked her face as she closed her eyes, looking rather pleased with herself, and I could not blame her. “How to how I found you guys, or how as to how I found these guys?”
“Both.” Toboe answered for me, his elderly illusion making his way beside me. I would not complain, now was the only time we would ever have to catch up in this life, and in the next, well, who even knew if there was a next.
Kao could not stop grinning, and it was contagious, for soon I too began to smile the lightest, a dramatic change from my shields mere minutes before. “Finding you guys actually wasn’t too hard. First of all I can pick up any of your scents from a mile away, and heck Sei, yours from at least two. Only when I hit the solid wind swept ice did I worry. But oh man, then that air ship flew over me, nearly took off my tail with one of its red laser things.” She promptly stood up and turned her end toward us, wagging her tail which did have obvious singed fur. I also painfully saw that some of her own fur had not grown back from that hell hole we had escaped, but I had to let it go as she continued.
“Playing dead worked for it somehow, all I really had to do was avoid a laser, but act like it hit me, and flop to the ground all dramatically dead like. Actually kinda fun really.. But, er, that’s besides the point.” My sister stammered on when she saw my eyebrows perk and gaze harden the tiniest bit, signaling her to continue on. “From then on I really just followed it, hanging really low and far back. I actually lost it a few times cause of clouds, but then I just kept going in the same direction and somehow found it. When it started shooting off again I kind of figured that you guys were on the mountain. Scared me when it stopped and suddenly flew low again. I thought they were going to pick up your bodies or something.”
“HA! Ya right! The minute those stinking nobles so much as touch my body by Paradise I’ll revive from the dead and rip their face off.” Kamoku chortled, and I watched as the youngest of the pack rolled onto his back in his excitement, freeing the trapped older brother from his weight, which Ikusa quickly took advantage of and scampered nearly on top of his mother. She did not seem to mind, instead practically smothered him more then Kam had. A fit of giggling erupted from the red ones of the pack as Ikusa appeared to gasp for breath and silently mouth ‘help me’.
“That’s about when I kicked it into high gear and hauled ass up here. Then it started shooting again and god dammit wouldn’t you know I nearly got squashed by the falling ice. But oh no, I don’t get smashed by the falling ice, instead I nearly get a concussion from this Bo-Zo.” Kaori grinned and stood, leaping over next to Shai and Ikusa, aiming to ruffle the boy’s fur apparently. Instead, she earned a hearty growl from Shai, who, in turn, nearly lay on her son.
UPDATE 10 / 28 / 09
“MOOOOM!” Ikusa gasped out, clawing at the ground as he tried to wriggle away from under his huge mother. “MA! You’re going to kill me!”
Shai stood up, Kaori forgotten, and stared down at her son, too many emotions jumbling her face together. Strange enough, I saw anger even find a place there. That question was answered soon enough as she lightly swatted him over the head with her muzzle. “Don’t you ever do that again Ikusa!! You should never give up like that! Never!!” The fae’s fur began to bristle out, ears twitching forward to show that indeed, she was getting angrier and seemed about ready to rip into one of her ‘Shai’ speeches.
Sister saved us from that by suddenly grabbing Ikusa and yanking him out from under her. “Give him a break Shai, he’s just had the shit scared out of him.”
“I can second that! Honestly, I told you to pee before we started climbing.” Kamoku chided his elder brother, causing Ikusa to send a small glare at the younger. But we just could not keep that angry mood around, and it dissipated, vanishing like it had appeared.
Blinking my jades I stepped back, away from the pack and took the two paces to be beside Amaya. Allowing my head to drop beside her ear I remained like that for a few moments, trying to calm myself down. Judgment needed to come first, so I had to calm the endorphins that were in my body. Calmness, coolness, that was what was needed at that moment. Let the others celebrate, but keep the plans in motion.
UPDATE 12 / 9 / 09 [/color]
A sigh worked its way from my body as I finally slipped back into the calm I so needed. Emeralds slowly reopened once more before looking to the pallid body beside me, my optics managing to catch her own gray. “Ready?” I quietly whispered to her, although I knew her answer more then likely. And with the single nod from her cranium I blinked my eyes and turned my massive head to the pack, the pack that was once more whole and not broken apart. At least, it was almost completely whole. We were only missing the one person most important besides Amaya.
Althaea. The flower maiden.
We needed her more then anything right now. How were we to open Paradise if we did not have a flower maiden to come with us? A fleeting thought I had had cross my mind many times now came again. Would the noble’s flower maiden help us? What was her name… I pondered momentarily, standing still as I thought. Something similar to Althaea… Acacia. Yes, that was her name. Acacia. Would she help us? Or would she turn her back on us because the nobles had filled her head with their slop of that we are savages and they the true? I felt my mane bristle for a moment before laying it flat. The chance would come soon enough, I told myself. The chance to taste their blood, to hear their dying screams.
A swift bark escaping my maw had the pack looking up, even Shai. Inwardly I grinned. Perhaps she had finally accepted that I was of higher ranking then her. … But now was not a time for that. We were one right now. And we had to think like one, act like one. Any weakness we portrayed the nobles would surely use to rip us apart.
“Let us go.” Amaya’s quiet but commanding voice rang as she turned her white body around to begin trekking once more up the mountain. I stood my full height as I watched, one by one, my pack work past me. Kiki and Sora, quickly followed by Shai herding her sons, and then Kaori helping Toboe, who was still catching his breath after all the excitement.
I brought up the end, head lowered once more. Troubling thoughts were beginning to arouse and show their ugly heads. Each buffet from the wind brought more. I knew we were all going to die, and moments ago had been a preview of how we would react. I was worried, to say the least. Shai had lost it the moment she had lost a son, and although expected, she would have to change that. We could not afford any blind rage when we reached the top, it would surely end us. And yet… Another sigh echoed from me. Why did it have to come down to this? Why could I not just have been some rogue wolf, living in the wild happily, maybe magically rearing a family of my own… eh. Scratch that last thought.
I do not know how much time passed while I thought and walked, but suddenly an excited ripple slipped through the group. I lifted my head, narrowing my orbs to try and gaze to the front of the pack. What, what was going on? I barely heard a drifting back of Amaya’s dead voice, and although I could not make out words I was up beside her within a few seconds, lips threatening to break back as the pack responded the same. Shai took Kiki under her, the expecting mother not complaining. Kaori and Sora huddled in beside Toboe, and Sora and Ikusa both stood bristling. Making myself not make a single sound was hard as I heard Amaya ask her emotionless question again, now understanding the words. “Why have you stopped us?”
It took everything, and when I say everything I mean everything to not attack that brute in front of us. Beneath Amaya’s dead exterior I knew what her inner thoughts would be. She would be in turmoil, as was I. In front of us was none other then her uncle himself, the cold hearted bastard that surpassed any of us for cruelty. I had seen it first hand, and if even only once, it had been bad, horrible even.
Senshi’s massive form was even larger then Shai’s and mine, taller then both of us by at least 4 to 5 inches. The blood red eyes that stared down at me made me feel enraged, not frightened, but full of that blood lust once again. Adrenaline poured into my veins, my heart throbbed faster, my claws sunk as far into the ice as they could. He was here. He was going to start this fight. We were going to have to kill him first before we could even continue on. I braced myself for the coming attack, visibly leaning back onto my strong hind legs, my tail whipping itself into an alpha position just as Amaya’s own slowly raised.
Then that grating voice of his, that sickly velvet sweet voice broke our silence. My lips lifted and revealed incisors sharp and white, ebony claws scraped against the ice, causing squeals. “Peace, my dear Niece. I have not come to harm you, whatever you may believe.” He spoke in a calm voice, so alluring that if I had been the opposite gender I have a feeling he could have possibly swooned me. But no, he made my blood boil, my fur hot as I waited for the impending fight, the feeling of blood raking over my teeth, my claws. The feeling of the fight or flight instinct to take over, just that pure and raw will to live.
Amaya’s dead eyes stared at him, and for a moment I thought I saw a flicker of life enter them, an almost fearful hatred skidding over them before she closed her eyes. “Why believe you, Senshi?” his name was torn from her throat, and it visibly hurt her as her body flinched over the name. I could not see her like that, and therefore I stepped forward.
“Tried kill many times. Trust now?” A growling bass escaped me, something I barely recognized as my own. I heard the intake of breath behind me from the pack, but my sole focus was on the murderer in front of me. Nothing else mattered, all that mattered was watching his every move. The twitch of his ear, flex of his muscles.
Anything could be a sign for soldiers to attack. A warning growl echoed from every member of the pack as he dared to step forward, and the air changed to vibrating around me as everyone began that rumble in their chest.
The midnight brute ignorantly lifted his head high to stare over us, gaze taking in everyone. “I see you found your missing members. It brings me joy to see that your pack is being led so well, Amaya.”
“Shut up!” I snarl snapped at him, sinking my teeth into air as I spat the words, the deathly growl continuing from my maw. Another pace forward brought me almost nose to nose with the noble filth, but I was in front of Amaya, and that was all I wanted. “Answer, or die.” I attempted a civilized voice, but it came out as a completely dead whisper. This was agonizing. I wanted to just kill him, to rip into his throat and watch as his blood drained. To throw his body over the cliff and howl our victory. But I could not. Not yet.
“I only want to help you, my over tempered brute.” And he flicked his tail. A sound echoed from behind him, and I lunged without waiting. It was the sign, it had to be. Fangs latched into his scruff in a heartbeat, my lengthy body wrapping into his chest as I fought for more of a hold. I felt as he left the ground with his forelegs, standing on his hind. And then I was thrown to the ground harshly, the back of my head cracking blindingly on the ice. My vision flashed black for a moment, blue and green dots dancing over my vision. I tried to stagger to my paws, but fell back, over whelming pain shooting down my spine. Amaya’s scent stood above me, and weakly I batted her stomach with my paws to try and get her off.
Blood scent washed over me in that moment, and I could not tell whose it was. All I knew was that Senshi was here, blood had been spilled, and now, Amaya was no longer above me, and the air no longer was echoing with the growls of my pack. In that second of silence choking terror washed over me as I fought for my vision back. One thought played over and over, do not let it be Amaya.
UPDATE 1 / 23 / 10 [/color]
Sight finally returned to me a moment later, and I was on my feet in a heartbeat, gaze snapping around to find that brown brute. But what I saw instead startled me, making my narrowed optics widen in surprise. Instead of seeing Senshi bleeding, or even Amaya for a fact, I saw the vagabond with his fangs in a noble soldier’s neck. Before I could get words to my lips I watched, stunned, as the monstrous male reared up and took another human under his paw, crushing him once he landed while grabbing the gun of another one and ripping it from his hands.
I recovered enough to move when I saw three of the original six begin to take aim at us all. As the first shot rang out I jumped into action, closing the distance between me and the woman effortlessly before I knocked her frame to the ground. Wasting as little time as possible, my back was to Senshi for Paradise’s sake, my claws ripped her throat open before I shoved the body off the cliff. Whipping back around I saw Senshi throwing another off the cliff as Shai was hovering over the only remaining man, whose life ended a second or two later.
Amaya was where she had been before the soldiers had appeared, and although the dead mask was in place her form was quivering the tiniest bit. Flicking my tail at my pack they understood the signal, and within the minute all seven of them were huddled around our alphess. I strode up to Senshi, a snarl forming on my face as the elder brute turned his now bloodied snout toward me.
“Why bring them?” I snarled, deathly quiet.
The timber colored male regarded me silently, those blood red eyes narrowing in thought before he shrugged. “The other’s would not let me leave without bringing some humans along.” His chilling voice answered, making my mane bristle up.
Kamoku stepped forward, obviously scared of the noble but trying to hide it behind his usual troubleish attitude. His own silver fur was standing up, and for a brief moment I felt something that may be considered similar to pride in the boy. He was not my son, far from it, but within this pack we had all become a sort of family. “You said others right?”
Senshi regarded him, expression closed off once again. “Yes.”
“Who is there left? I heard that Kaname and Ayana refused to come. Is it true?”
For the briefest of moments I could have sworn I saw a spark of something appear in that asshole’s eyes at the mention of Kaname and Ayana together, but because I did not know him well I was not able to place what it was. Finally he answered, dipping his head down to Kamo’s height. “It is, son of Shai, Kaname and Ayana did refuse to come, as did Tat. Kyo has attempted to make this journey, but I fear he will pass soon due to the sickness.”
“Sickness?” Toboe’s weathered voice echoed from the back as he walked up to the front, his illusion raised once more. I was immediately wary. Amaya had said that he was having a hard time dropping it, and now I knew what she meant. Moments before I had seen him, in his illusion, with a look of pure concentration on his face that could only lead me to believe that he was trying to drop it. Why was he having problems? Now was not the time to ask. Slowly my gaze drifted between the two oldest here, Senshi and Toboe.
It seemed Senshi did not quite trust Toboe, because his own expression let wariness show. “Yes. Delaya believes Kyo has begun to fall into Paradise sickness.”
Toboe nodded, his eyes turning scrutinizing. “Paradise sickness… Darcia’s lover was lost to that… He will lose his soul in the end.” A few gasps sounded from behind me, but I was not one of them. I knew very well what Paradise sickness did; I had read about it numerous times. Toboe continued on though, ignoring the shock that radiated from behind me. “If it is true, he should not last more then a few days after he started showing signs..”
Senshi’s head bowed, eyes closing it what was, I think, supposed to be a show of regret. But when he lifted his head and reopened his eyes none of that previous ‘emotion’ was there. “Then it is as we feared, for he showed signs nearly a week ago, when we discovered the location of Paradise.” A sigh rumbled out of him. “Without him for the fight, that I assume will be taking place, only Haru and Delaya to stand against you.”
Now I growled, bringing his crimson eyes to me. “You?” It took a few moments longer then normal for him to respond to me, but inwardly I suspected that was because he did not know me well enough to understand my one word speech. It gave me a sick sort of satisfaction.
“I will not stand against you, in fact, I would like to fight with you, if you would so allow it, my dear Niece.”
Amaya had been so quiet until the moment he addressed her, and once he did she drew in a shaking breath, closing her moonstone orbs. Comfortingly I pressed myself lightly against her side for a short moment, willing her to take the decision that would bring less pain for her. I did not trust her uncle one bit, but if what he said was true he could, and would, be a very valuable fighter within our ranks.
Finally, her eyes opened to stare at the dark color brute that both of us, and if not all of us, so hated. “Fine.” She spat the word, and anger kindled within her as she swept on. For a few brief moments, the old Amaya was back. “Listen. If you mislead our trust, we shall throw you from the cliff and watch as you break your back and neck.” Her voice was such a deathly chill I actually had to suppress a shudder. “I do not care for you at all, even if you are my kin. So you can be sure I will hold to this promise.”
Whipping her eyes over her shoulder her silver optics narrowed before she barked out more orders, taking on that strong alpha we all knew and respected, and the one that I had fallen in love with. “Shai, Seiko, you follow Senshi, who shall lead. Kiki, Ikusa, Toboe, remain in the back. Kaori, Sora, Kamoku, remain with me in the center.” Turning her burning optics back to her uncle she had the satisfaction of seeing him momentarily surprised that he would be leading, and also at how quickly and efficiently our pack responded to her orders.
Her mask returning, she gave him one last look of hatred before a malicious grin that was normally characteristic of me spread onto her face. “Lead the way, uncle.”
We fell into ranks almost immediately, Shai giving the older and larger brute a hard nip in his hind end to get him moving as I stalked up to beside her. I hated the fact that we were trusting him at all, but he had revealed information to us, and he had defended us against the humans. But that could easily be cover, he could be the one wanting to kill us himself, and therefore would kill the humans as to not lose that opportunity. My mind reeled continually with troubling thoughts, but I never lost focus on each paw step of that bastard.
A while later I heard a sigh echo up from Toboe, and that broke my gaze the smallest bit as I glanced back to see where everyone was. I was surprised to see that Sora had swapped places with Toboe, and that now Toboe was in front of Amaya, while Kamoku and Kaori flanked her on either side. But perhaps that should not have surprised me, because Sora was walking beside his mate now. And now I sighed before glancing at Shai. This was becoming tedious, almost mind-numbing. How high could this mountain be, honestly?
Almost as if he could read my mind Senshi called back from where he was about five feet in front of us. “We are almost to the top, perhaps another five, ten minutes at the most.”
UPDATE 6 / 14 / 10 [/color]
“Good, I was beginning to think we’d never reach the top.” Kamo’s tone rang from behind myself, and I heard a sound of agreement rise from his brother. It brought a small flicker of hope into myself as I lowered my head, stalking behind the brown brute. He had not attacked yet, would he perhaps truly stay on our side?
My emeralds drifted back to my white alphess, and the dead expression on her face as she nearly shuffled her paws along stabbed into me. That was when I whipped my head back around as Shai growled. Senshi had slowed his walk.
The beta fae lifted a paw and roughly shoved Senshi from behind, growling. “Move it, we can’t stop.” Senshi complied at that, which caused my eyes to narrow. My tail flicked agitated behind me before I slowly lowered it before moving it to my right.
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