Wolf-Bound

     "Thank you so much, onii-chan~" She whispered excitedly. When Kiba had finally come out all dressed and fully ready to go, she grinned and ran down the stairs. She was wearing a simple white dress today that matched a white bow with purple stripes. She carefully opened the door so she wouldn't wake up their mom, and led Kiba out the door. She skipped all the way to the arena before opening the gates and swirling towards the middle.

 "Ahhh, the moon is so beautiful at night, don't you think so Kiba?" She asked as she stopped twirling and walked over to the cage. Macha's ear flaps immediately perked up at the sound of her opening the gate and growled at the intruder that disturbed her sleep. When the gate opened, she pounced upon the white haired girl and growled, but was taken aback by the girl and her playful purple eyes. Macha growled and jumped back, seeing as it was her again.

 "Hi there, Macha~." Luna said calmly as she attempted to approach the dragon. The night fury hissed and bolted to the other side of the ring. She giggled and put her hands behind her back and rocked back in forth in the full moon. "Aren't you a pretty fury, Macha?"

   Kiba walked after Luna out to the training arena. He grumbled in annoyance. "What's so important about this night fury that we have to go in at midnight? I mean it'd probably just eat us anyways..."

   Kiba remembered seeing it's cage in training the other day. The nadder was coming towards him and he had nowhere to go. Holding what was left of his sheild in his hand, he ran towards the edge of the arena. The nadder's spikes struck the walls beside him, preventing escape. Turning around, he pressed his back against the wall and held up his sheild, waiting for the worst.

   Suddenly he heard the ripping of fabric and a pain in his side. Claws ripped down his back and he looked behind him to find that he was backed up against the feral night fury's cage! His friends yelled frantically for him to get out of there, and he tried his best to duck and run under the attacking nadder, but as he got near it a flood of spikes imbedded themselves in his sheild and ripped through his shirt.

   Caught between two dragons, Kiba had no choice but to retreat back to the cage as the nadder advanced. The nadder's spikes rained down on him, imbedding themselves through his clothes and into the wood behind him, trapping him against the cage. The fury began to get aggitated and grabbed Kiba's shirt in its claws. Claws dug into his skin as Kiba began to rise off of the ground, lifted by the angry night fury. Lights sputtered behind him and the grip on his back tightened in anger. The fury was going to shoot!

   Grabbing a nadder spike off of his sheild, Kiba did the only thing he could think of and drove it through the crack between the doors. The fury screamed, the boney spike digging into the flesh of its foot. Furious, the fury curled Kiba's shirt into a fist and the boy was squeezed against the wall.

   Kiba yelled in pain. He was barely aware of people trying to get the nadder under control so that they could help him. Kiba was about to be squeezed to death when he heard his shirt beginning to ripp. Suddenly, Kiba's shirt exploded by the force of the night fury and Kiba tumbled to the ground, gasping for air. With no time to rest, Kiba frantically stumbled away from the cage as the night fury let out a shrill scream of fury. Fire spewed from the cracks around the doors and warmed Kiba's body as he lay for a moment on the stone floor of the arena.

   Jet ran over to his best friend and looked over his body. "Gods Kiba how did you manage this??" Kiba's back was bleeding from multiple claw marks, which came together on his right shoulder where a large wound lay from the fury's grip. Kiba's face was beginning to fade from blue to a dull red as he lay on the ground coughing and gasping for air. Jet got up and yelled across the arena as the other trainees began to gather around him. "HEEEEEY!! WE NEED HELP- KIBA'S HURT!! BRING THE BANDAGES!!!"

   Kiba grunted and began to get up, his arms shakily holding his weight. Jet crouched down to his friend. "Hey don't get up! It's okay now we're getting the bandages. Kiba-"

   Kiba sat up and lay his arm on his knee. "It's alright Jet I'm fine. Just, please don't tell Luna about this okay?"
   Jet nodded as people rushed over to help. "Sure man, whatever you say.."

   As the twins walked into the arena now Kiba could feel the cloth of the bandage rubbing against his shoulderblade. His torso was practically covered in the stuff. Darn dragon. That was my best shirt too....... Kiba heard a click and looked up to see Luna at the cage, and the fury jump out at her. Kiba yelled. "LUNA!!"

   Running to his sister, Kiba stopped in his tracks and stared at the feral dragon. When it stared back all he could do was stand frozen to the ground. Looking now at the full length of the night fury, he reeeeally disliked being in the same room with the thing, but he was scared for his sister. He scowled, shaking. His fists closed angrily by his sides. "LUNA!! I thought we had agreed to LEAVE it IN IT'S CAGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

     The girl cowered back and looked hurt. "But... Macha isn't that bad, brother..." She said sullenly.

     Macha eyed the girl with strained pupils as she tried to convince her brother to keep the dragon out of the cage. True enough, the cage reeked of dead eel and it waws too small for comfort. There was barely any fresh air, little moonlight/sunlight (if any at all), and the food was horrible. Dragons deserved better treatment than this! She about to sulk back off to the depths of her cage when she spotted tufts of blonde hair behind the white haired girl. She recognized the scent from earlier today-that ignorant boy! The night fury growled, deep blue marks pulsing underneath the moonlight as she slid forward on the stone floor. Luna stopped in mid sentence and turned around only to see Macha jumping over her and clawing at Kiba. She couldn't believe her eyes.

 "Macha, Macha stop!" She cried as she ran over to the howling fury, who was intent on killing Kiba.

   Kiba's heart skipped a beat when the feral dragon pounced. He just managed to pull himself together enough to dodge the first attack, spy-rolling over the rocky ground and ending up next to the weapons rack. Looking back at the fury who was turning back towards him, Kiba grabbed a sheild and tried to grab a sword but a huge black tail hit him under his feet and he began falling. Suddenly a massive paw came out of nowhere and sent him sprawling across the floor of the arena. His sheild hit him in the gut, rendering him immoble for a few seconds. When he looked up again, the fury was standing over him, its teeth bared.

   Kiba whipped up and tried to hit the fury in the face. The fury's wing blocked the blow from the sheild but then Kiba struck with his other arm, punching the dragon square in the face. The fury roared in anger and struck him in the face with its wing, catching him under the jaw.

   The blow sent Kiba onto his back where he quickly rolled over and tried to leap away, but the feral was too fast. Catching him by the ankle, the night fury flipped him over onto his back and leapt on his body. One paw was pressing his sheild wrist into the stone and wood, which felt like daggers driving in his wrist, since his sheild wasn't in the right position. His eyes squeezed shut against the searing pain. The back two legs were on the lower side of his body and legs, and the final paw was on his chest, the claws on either side of his torso. He screamed in fear and angry helplessness as he frantically tried to free himself with his one free arm, but it was no use. All he accomplished was flopping frantically under the feral's grip like a hooked fish. Kiba's heart nearly stopped as the fury opened its mouth above him, its throat alight. NO!!

     The purple-eyed night fury bellowed and screamed at the boy as he tried to escape from her clutches, but she was too quick for him! Macha pounced and landed on him, ready to blast him to smitherenes. She opened her mouth and charged her breath weapon. Goodbye, impudent boy! She growled to herself in her head. Just as she was about to deliver the final blow when a gronckle slammed into her side, making her miss her target and blow out the metal net above them. She rolled over and hissed at the sight of Fishlegs and his dragon.

"Get back!" The professional dragon rider growled, axe in hand. He charged at the enemy dragon and swung at her, battling until she finally dropped down out of exhaustion. The gronckle shoved her back into her cage, and closed it for good before Fishlegs got off and turned to scold Luna.

"How many times have we told you to stay home, Luna?!" He growled fiercely. "This fury's caused enough trouble for the all of us, damn it all! We don't need you making it worse!!!"

"But I wanted to see her!" Luna protested valiantly, puffing out her cheeks angrily and balling up her fists. "Why won't anyone let me see that dragon?!"
 She stormed off angrily, leaving Fishlegs to deal with a trembling Kiba and hyperactive night fury. He glanced back and forth until he came up with an answer everyone would agree with.

 "I have to talk with Hiccup tomorrow. This dragon buisiness had gone on for a week too long!" He said firmly as he helped Kiba up. "Kiba, go get yourself patched up and find your sister. Keep her away from the village tomorrow, alright? No training in the morning."

   Kiba lay in a ball on the ground, shaking with fear and pain. Though he heard the elder viking speaking to him, he did not get up. Fishlegs sighed and tried to haul Kiba to his feet. Grabbing the boy's wrist which had fallen out of the sheild, he tried to yank Kiba into a standing position.

   As soon as Fishleg pulled on Kiba's wrist he screamed in pain. Fishlegs immedeatly dropped the boy, startled by the sudden scream. Kiba once again fell to the ground, gasping and crying. Fishlegs looked on confusedly. Having no medical skills at all, he sighed. Why me? Why did it have to be me?.. Picking Kiba up in his arms, Fishlegs walked out of the arena, heading towards the village to get Kiba the help he needed.

     Luna sat in a dark corner of her room, sulking. The night's activities had gotten her AND her brother in trouble... but what was going to happen to the fury? She couldn't even begin to contemplate the consequences Macha was going to face. Tears streaked down her face from fear-both for her brother and for the night fury. The feral didn't seem to trust anyone. How can I get through to her...? She asked herself. It's hopeless, isn't it? Macha will be killed now, for sure! And Kiba...... please, please, PLEASE don't die on me. I can't live without you... She let a few more tears fall to the ground before she let her hair fall down from her bow and she crawled into her bed, crying herself to sleep. A terrible nightmare soon followed in her dreams.

   While Kiba lay in the upstairs room of Hiccup's house, the grown ups gathered in the main room around the fire, faces grim. Astrid came quietly out of Kiba's room and shut the door, heading down the stairs. Snotlout looked at Hiccup sternly. "Hiccup, we have to get rid of it. Now."

   Toothless growled by the fire and Hiccup stroked his head to calm him. "It's okay buddy, I know." Toothless put his head on his paws and growled lowly in his chest.  Hiccup looked up at Snotlout. "No. We are not going to kill that feral. All creatures have a right to life."

   Toughnut stood up, his fist clenched. "But Hiccup- That dragon is a menace! You must see that."

   Ruffnut stood up too, backing up her brother. She spread her arms. "Even if we took the time to relocate it, the channels and rivers and sea would all freeze over, and no boats could get through. The dragons couldn't carry enough food for us all, and the feral as well- that's why we normally take boats. Anyways, winter's going to come soon and we need everyone to help with the preparations."

   Snotlout leaned forward sharply, hands on his knees. "If we let it go, it will be too close to the village. A dragon that angry will attack every person it sees! If it is released around this area, there will undoubtably be another attack!! We were lucky so far, but you've seen what it's capable of. It's too dangerous!!"

   Hiccup stood up and slammed his hands down on the table. "WE WILL NOT KILL THAT NIGHT FURY!! THAT IS FINAL!!!" He stood up and walked to the door, Toothless following behind him. Turning at the open door, Hiccup looked back at the band of trainers. "We will release the feral in five days at dawn. Make all the preparations necissary and meet me then. Good Night!!" He slammed the door behind him and he and toothless headed down the stairs, leaving the whole bunch staring grimly at the dark oaken door. Astrid hurmphed, and strode back to her room. Fishlegs of course walked out the back door, his work being over for the night.

   Tuffnut turned to the others. "We can't let that fury hang around here, no matter what Hiccup says. The longer it's here, the more people will be hurt. No doubt about it."

   Ruffnut nodded in agreement. "If Hiccup releases it and it is allowed to escape, then we will lose track of it and there will be no telling where it is, or where it will strike next."

   Snotlout looked into the fire. "It has to be killed. As soon as Hiccup releases it we will track it. And on that sundown," He flung the knife he had been fingering down at the table and the blade landed with a muffled thump, sinking into the wood. "we strike."

     Luna gazed at the empty space of paper she held. She meant to start drawaing, but nothing came out on her paper. It was like the pencil didn't work. She squinted, hoping to at least see a dot of graphite, but... nope. Nothing. She sighed and put the empty sketch book on her bed and stared out the window at the filtering sunlight. Morning. It was bedtime; she'd stayed up most of the night pondering what would become of Macha. Hiccup was generous enough to let her go, but with her attitude... Luna was afraid she would be engulfed in endless anger, and ultimately get killed. Maybe even Hiccup was getting annoyed. She was so worried for Macha... But she was more concerned about her brother. He was the one who was injured; and badly at that. She yawned and crawled into bed, shoving the notebook aside and closing her eyes for the last bit of sleep she would get before lunchtime came around. She would go to training tomorrow-if there still was training. She almost never attented training as an actual student-she just never liked it. Sighing, she wiped the dry tears off her face and slept.

   In the morning, everyone was up bright and early for training. Shu sat off to the side behind a tree in the shade, eyes cast away from the other recruits. That morning the gang had found the door to the arena closed and locked with an iron bolt, and were presently sauntering around the outside, wondering what to do.

   Jet paced around the entrance to the arena while the others sat around the meshing. His arms crossed, he kicked at the dirt with his feet impatiently. "Come on, damnit! Why is the gate closed? We gotta train today! How are we gonna do that if we can't get into the ring? And I wass all PUMPED UP TOO!!!!!!!!!!"

   "ENOUGH!!"

   Jet turned around and sighed. "Oh. Hi, Dad."

   Snotlout walked over to Jet and scowled at him. "Now is that any way to greet your father?" Walking in front of the gate, he turned around and faced the trainees. Planting his feet apart, he placed himself squarely in front of the entrance. "This arena is closed until further notice due to an incident last night tha-" There immedeatly came a series of loud groans and protests.

   Snotlout put his hands on his hips. "STOP YER WHINNIN' THAT'S THE RULES!!!!" He slammed his axe on the ground. "WE'RE OFF FOR TRAINING YOU JUST DON'T GET TO DO IT HERE SO STOP COMPLAINING!!!"

   Jet shrugged. "Oh whatever. I guess it's fine as long as we train... But wait-" He turned back around. "How are we going to train? We can't or the dragons will get away."

   Snotlout shook his finger. "You're forgetting the trained ones. We can use them for training, and just not hit them hard."

   Jet nodded. "Okay, Then what're we WAITIN Fer? LETS GO!!!" He ran to the field followed by the other trainees. Shu waited until they had all gone by then watched Snotlout trudge by. Getting up, he dusted his legs and followed them slowly. What kind of accident?....

   Kiba awoke that morning under the large covers of a bed. He squeezed his eyes in pain when he jerked his fingers and suddenly his eyes flashed open, the events of the night coming back to him. Kiba sat up quickly, taking in his surroundings. He couldn't get his bearings though, because he just stared at the room blankly, not recognizing anything.

   "Oh, you're awake."

   Kiba looked over to the door which was open and saw Astrid standing in the doorway. "That's good, it means you're feeling better."

   Kiba reached to pull the covers off of him, but a lancing pain shot up his arm, immoblizing him. He lay back down and curled up, his wrist on fire.

   Astrid sighed. "Look at you- you're a mess. I guess I really should've put a splint on that before you woke up, because you were sure to do something stupid like that." She grabbed the bandages and splints and called downstairs. "Hiccup, he's awake!!" She grabbed Kiba's hand and put the sticks on either side, then began tying the bandages around it.

   Kiba winced and looked down at his chest. The bandages had been changed and the wounds dressed. Astrid sighed, finished. "Okay that's that done." She stuck her finger in his face. "But you are going to eat before you go anywhere young man."

   Kiba held his hands up in surrender. He wasn't about to climb out of the warm bed anyways- he felt too stiff. Laying back down on his back, he faced the ceiling and let his eyes droop. Maybe I'll go out.. In a little bit..........................

     Luna sat upright in her bed and groaned as the late morning light hit her face. It was almost 10-so she slept a good nine hours. Yawning, she got up and got a fresh dress on, put on her belt, and grabbed a heavy sword from the back of her closet. It belonged to her dad, but she only recently discovered it. It was pure steel-something that was a rare find around these parts. She debated on taking it, then shrugged and decided it would be good for her arms. She sheathed her sword and placed it on her back, the leather a comforting brush on her back. She made sure she was ready before bolting outside. She hoped Kiba was okay... Luna shook her head and focused on training as she arrived at the arena. There were wining kids everywhere and Snotlout attempting to quiet them down. He sighed and glanced over to Luna, happy to see that she was finally attending a training lesson.

 "Great to see ya, Luna." He greeted her. "Finally changed your mind?"
 She shook her head silently and let it hang a bit low, but she still held her eyes up strongly to stare at the crowd. She wasn't as friendly as she used to be-she seemed sort of down. That was not normal for her, considering she was the cheery one in the bunch that made everyone smile and happy. Today she seemed to have a dark cloud loom over her white head.

   Jet frowned at Luna's dark, gloomy expression then shrugged it off, assuming she was having a bad day. Ugh, depression. Slinging his iron chains over his shoulder, he trudged over to the field. "Okay let's get this-........" Jet scratched his head and looked around. "Hey by the way, has anyone seen Kiba?" Lazy bum. Would it kill him to rise before the sun? His inquiry was met with shrugs and shakes of the head, further annoying him. He sighed. Did Luna not think to wake him?

     Luna's ears seemed to ring at the sound of her brother's name. His voice and resounding cries echoed in the back of her head as she watched Jet's lips flap. She swallowed hard and tried not to show her emotion as she answered what the others were repeating over and over again.

 "He's not here." She stuttered. "It's my fault, so don't go pestering him about it. Leave him be."

 The children stared at the girl, who was on the verge of tears now, then looked at each other's faces before following Snotlout off the training grounds. She silently followed, worrying what would become of her precious brother. She couldn't stand the thought of what she would do if he were to die now.

   Jet shrugged and turned. Then he of course noticed that he forgot his sheild and trudged back to the makeshift pile at the edge of the field. Slinging the circle of wood over his back irritably, he muttered to himself under his breath. "First Luna, sometimes Shu now Kiba.... Everyone's ditch'n on me...."

   Jet felt a hand on his shoulder and turned around to see his father standing over him. His face grew even more excited, wondering how many more pleasant surprises would spring up today. Snotlout hurmphed. "Now don't look at me like that. I just came to tell you something that I think you should know."

   Jet fingered the points on his chain while his father talked, pretending to be interested.

   "Um, Kiba's at Hiccup's place recovering. He was attacked by the feral fury last night and his wrist was injured. I just thought you should kn-"

   Jet stared in shock at the guy like he was pulling his leg, then began fuming. "THAT THING IS A MENACE!! WE SHOULD GET RID OF IT NOW BEFORE IT HURTS ANYONE ELSE!!!!"

   Shu was sitting next to the sheilds now, and stuck his lance in the peaty soil, setting work on cleaning his sheild. "Hiccup's going to release it in four sunrises so keep your helmet on..."

   Jet, who's helmet was indeed crooked, straightened his hat and clenched his fists, now scowling at Shu. "I didn't mean set it free- I meant to KILL IT!!" By now the shouting Jet had caused a stir in the other trainees, who glanced over to see what was going on. Jet made a slashing motion through the air in front of him. "If that dragon is set free with that kind of anger it will light the whole village! Not to mention what it could do on its own- no one would be safe to travel beyond our borders!!" Snotlout was nodding slightly in the backround, but made no comment on the matter.

   Shu raised his arm to the mountains behind him in a big swooping, annoyed gesture. "How do you know what it would do? It may just fly off into the mountains! Dragons don't attack without provokation."

   Jet fumed. "I HAVE ALL THE PROOF I NEED!!" He grabbed a handful of Shu's sleeve. "That thing ATTACKED LUNA while she was sitting in the forest minding her own buisiness!! Now how do you explain that phenomenon?!! Luna was definately provoking it then!!" His other fist slammed into the earth in frustration. "It's attacked Kiba twice now and he's in recovery!! Tell me how he did anything to provoke it huh?!!"

     Luna listened to all of the conversation. She didn't want a part in it-but she felt like she might have to be a part of it at some point. She stiffened at the mention of killing Macha. Is that the way the whole village felt? Was that it? She didn't want Macha to die. She let her head hang low as she unearthed a ponytail holder from one of her belt pouches. She held her hair up high, but her head was seldom held high as she weaved her fingers through the white strands of hair attached to her head. She then re-tied the lavender and white bow to make her look ever-still cute and adorable.

 "T...Twice?" She whimpered to herself, her eyes narrowing and her body beginning to tremble. Kiba... Why did you not tell me?

   Shu scoffed and brushed the hand off of his shirt. "Well of course! What would you do if you were inside a cage, and some boy just suddenly slammed into your cage door? With your kind of temper you'd probably kill them!!"

   Jet just got even more pissy, and grabbed Shu's shirt again, harder. Shu frowned and took it off. Jet grabbed it with the other hand and immedeatly Shu grabbed it. Pretty soon they were playing touchy touchy and keep away with Shu's shirt.

   "YOU'RE SO INFURIATING!!"

   "YOU STARTED IT FIRST!!"

   "YOU'RE SUCH A DWEEB!!"

   "GET YOUR HANDS OF MY SHIRT!!"

   "I'LL PUT 'EM THERE IF I WANT TO!!"

   Suddenly Jet grabbed a large, firm fist-ful of Shu's shirt and Shu pushed him away. Jet fell back and his fingers slipped through the fabric until he closed his hand again to keep himself upright.

   Rip

   Jet fell back and hit his head on the hard dirt with a handful of cloth.

   "Oh, my head...."

   "MY SHIRT!!"

   Jet looked at the fabric and scowled, tossing it to the ground. "It's probably filthy anyways. Smells like dragon dung- stable boy." He kicked Shu's feet out from under him, not bothering to get up.

   Shu felt the structural integrity of his balance leave him, and presently dropped to the ground, where he found Jet next to him. The two adolescent boys immedeatly yelled and started rolling across the ground, both struggling to be on top.

   Shu grabbed Jet's shoulders and flipped him over, now with his hands gripping the boy's shoulders while his knees lay on either side of him. Shu growled. "You're just a jerk without a soul!!" Jet scowled and grabbed Shu's shoulders, flipping him over and landing on top.

   "And you're just a worthless stable rat!!"

   Shu's eyebrows furrowed and he flipped Jet over again. "WHY DO YOU ALWAYS HAVE TO BE SO PERFECT AT EVERYTHING?!!"

   "WHY DO YOU ALWAYS GET SPECIAL TREATMENT?!!!!!"

   Shu stopped struggling for a moment, caught off guard. Jet took that chance to throw Shu off and place his knees on the stable boy's arms so that he had to listen. Jet placed his hands on his shoulders. "I've seen the way the grown ups act around you- 'Look after Shu' 'Watch out for Shu', 'Make sure that Shu doesn't get eaten'!- YOU'RE LIKE THEIR SPECIAL  LITTLE PET!!" He scowled. "Especially Hiccup!! It must be nice being the cheif's favorite isn't it?- While all the rest of us work HARD in the ring, and actually HAVE TO COME TO CLASS!!!!"

   Shu stared at Jet in shock, at a total loss for words. Is that really what he thinks of me??

     Finally, Luna couldn't stand the fighting anymore. As soon as the shirt ripped, her patience snapped. She turned around, only to see that the two boys were rolling on the floor.

  "WHY DO YOU ALWAYS GET SPECIAL TREATMENT?!!!!!"

 She blinked at the statement. Special? She never saw Shu as anything but a normal boy. How was he special? Her face darkened and she swayed towards them, her legs like jelly all of a sudden. As soon as she regained her balance, she shoved Shu off Jet and pounded them both hard in the stomach with her sword's hilt.

 "ENOUGH, BOTH OF YOU!" She commanded, her growl turning into a ferocious bite. "Whatever the hell you guys are fighting about, it's not worth fighting over! Just stay the hell away from one another and get back to training, alright?!"

   Kiba's ankle hurt as he trudged up the hill to the training fields. His arm was in a sling and he had all new bandages around his body, most converging on his left shoulder. His whole left side was devastated, a huge wound on his shoulderblade where the feral bit him, and his wrist hung in a splint resting in the sling on his arm.

   Coming over the crest of the hill, Kiba looked out upon the training field, and saw Jet and the Shu boy snarling at each other, and his sister was in the middle of it! Luna gave Jet the stare of death and Kiba was glad he wasn't over there. He was about to walk in and announce his presance when Jet turned around and stormed of.

   Jet snorted and shoved his hands in his pockets. "Fine, whatever." He turned and thought to storm off, when he suddenly turned back to scowl at Shu. "Actually come to think of it- You wouldn't even bat an eye if the village was burned to the ground. Father like son- ain't that right, Shuensha?"

   Alright, that was it- he had crossed the line

   Shu's ears filled with clouds at the mention of his shared name. That was it, his secret was out. He didn't care- not like anyone liked him anyways. Memories of his father always tucking him in and riding with him flooded over him, but they were all torn down by the scorn in the boy's- the village's voice. Face red with fury, he screamed at Jet. "YOU DON'T KNOW A SINGLE THING ABOUT ME!!! DON'T YOU DARE UTTER OUR NAME WITH YOUR FILTHY MOUTH!!!! YOU KNOW NOTHING ABOUT HIM!!! YOU DON'T EVEN DESERVE TO SAY HIS NAME!!!!" Shu's fist suddenly collided with Jet's nose, throwing the black-haired adolescent to the dirt.

   Blood dripped down Jet's face as he lay in the grass, cluttching his nose. He let out a muffled yell, blood spraying from his words Shu spat at him. "That's for my father." Taking off at a run, he disappeared into the trees. Flying through the forest, Shu only stopped when he reached the cliff of the sea. Sliding down the rocky slope, he eventually hit solid sand and ran farther until he found a sea cave hidden amidst the shadowed rocks. He went into the darkness of the mouth and huddled on the cold stone, wiping the tears from his eyes.

   Jet lay rolling in the grass, the earth beneath his head staining red. "OOOOOOOOOOOOOWWW!!!! MY NOSE!!!!!!! IT- IT BURNNNSS!!!!!!"

   Kiba walked over and stopped at the pile of sheilds. "It serves you right! Why the hell were you two fighting in the first place? You're both imbeciles!!"

     Luna just stood there in utter shock. The Shuensha? She thought to herself, her lips beginning to quiver in fear. The one that betrayed our village?! She felt her heart go tha-thump tha-thump against her aching chest as she thought of what she had experienced that day. Her father's death bed was the day she shed all the tears in her life-she didn't think she could cry until she felt her lips purse in agitation. It was a regular habit, but she only did it when she was really upset. Her face flushed red as she held her breath, but Shu ran past her and air swooped up into her lungs in a desperate attempt to keep her conscious. She hyperventilated and looked towards where Shu was going to run off to. She attempted to follow him at first, but stopped herself when she finally realized that there was blood all over her arm from Jet's nose. Luna wrinkled her nose at the horrible smell that eminated from the blood, but when she looked up the smell was overrided.

 "KIBA!" She shouted, completely ignoring Jet. His nose could be fixed faster than what Kiba had. The white haired girl raced over to her brother and shoved the sheilds out of the way. "What the hell are you doing here?! You're supposted to be RESTING!!!"

   Kiba blinked. Shuensha.... He couldn't mean the Shuensha could he?  Jet must be mistaken- Shuensha the traitor died during the battle with my father. No one would name their Son after that traitor, and I've never heard anything about a son. Whatever may have crossed his mind vanished the next instant, for Kiba looked up to see his sister storming over to him, a scowl etched on her angry face.

   Kiba held his good hand up. "WOAH SIS! CALM DOWN!!" He took a hasty step back as Luna trudged up to him in anger. "I'm okay now, honest! I simply sprained my wrist that's all. I'm not supposed to be doing anything. I got to feeling better this morning so I decided to come out and see what you guys were doing."