Bleeding Fire: Burning Light
The next morning brought nothing but further darkness. As i regained my senses after a long nights sleep i found Kira Huddled up next to me providing a nice warmth. She didnt seem anything like the fighter i saw last night, she was too peacefull and . . . cute.
I tried to sit but an increadible amount of pain surged through my legs forcing me to stop further movement besides lying down again. After the pain passed I found something pointy and slightly sharp sticking in my shoulder, I felt fur as i ran my hand over it to find out what it was exactly, cloth parted my hand from the soft fur. My hand ventured further to find an ending to the cloth revealing softer fur, I touched cloth again and something rising above it. Finally i gave up guessing and took a look for my self. My hand rested just on Kira's tail base, her muzzle connected to my shoulder. My hand quickly found its way back to my side.
I decided to go back to sleep since i couldnt really move at the moment besides i really didnt mind my current position either. A cold wind blew through the air causing me instinctivly to huddle into a small ball against the vixen next to me.
Another hour or so later i was woken by a violent shaking. "I'm awake already, quit it!" I yelled out, starting to fear my head falling off.
"About time, you sleep to much." The vixen was sitting on me her gentle hands resting on my shoulders. "Do you know how loud you are?" she asked me a slight grin forming on her face.
"What are you talking about? I dont snore." I took the hint of what she meant but i couldnt figure out why she said it.
"Well i suppose it could be that you were breathing rather hard into my ear." With this she stuck one finger in her ear trying to recover from my loud breathing.
Again i must have looked funny with a scared look across my face, because she let one of the girlish giggles, that somehow they manage to make when laughing at someone. "Dont worry about it, no harm was done."
A deep sigh of relief escaped from my lungs allowing the embarrasment to flood out of me. "Where were we going again?" I changed the subject, uncomfortable with the current one.
"As soon as we get out of here the city of Vesiron is where we are headed," she climbed to her feet again brushing off her lower clothing, "I dont still need to carry you right?" she asked me offering her hand to me.
"I'll be fine." I lied taking her hand in my own, letting her pull me up.
Walking was much more difficult than I had actually thought in the beggining, it seemed like i tripped over every little pebble. Each gust of wind was a hazard as well blowing me here and there. Every once in a while my legs would give out for no apparent reason too. Finally Kira came and offered her help. I took it gratefully, growing tired of falling over.
"I'll have to get my mother to help you with your legs, since thats where we're going anyway, i dont think she'll have any trouble tending to you, since you might be the key we've been looking for." Kira blurted out at one time.
Only she kept me moving at that moment. "What do you mean? I havent agreed to anything yet." I really didnt have trouble going to Vesiron to get my legs fixed, but i didnt want to be some kind of lab experiment either.
"You'll have plenty of time to decide at this pace, anyway, its a little complicated to explain these things so my mother will tell you when we get there." She explained almost as if she had said this before.
I didnt say anything else. Although i wasnt really upset anymore, I couldnt think of anything else to say at the time so we continued in silence untill we reached the forest borders.
"Ah, sunlight is so refreshing." Kira turned her face up to the sun, her eyes closed as if she had slipped back into sleep again.
By the position of the sun i would have guessed it was about three in the afternoon. The sunlight did help clear my head and refreashed what strength i had lost in the dark forest.
I continued walking on my own looking back at Kira's form, which seemed to almost glow in the light, like an angelic figure.
"Uh, Jake?" She lowered her head looking a little ways behind me it seemed.
"What?" I almost turned to see what it was but i didnt really care at the moment.
"Behind you." She pointed to something that stood behind me. I turned quickly to find my muzzle a few centimeters from a sign, pointing travelers to the city of Vesiron.
I sidestepped the sign and turned around to face Kira again. "Thank you mistress." I said feeling a little foolish adding a bow to the words.
"No need to be formal." She laughed, and what a wonderful sound it was to hear, to me it sounded as if all joyfull sounds clamboured into one sweet musical tone just for my ears.
She jogged to catch up to me, pushing me forward as if in a hurry to get somewhere.
Finally I found myself staring up at a huge building covered with metallic plates, the sun reflecting on them did however make it hard to see without going blind. "This is the lab where my mother works, ill show you the main part." She paused for a breif second licking the side of my face before walking up to the front doors of the laboratory.
I followed shortly after opening one of the four doors for her, bowing as i pulled it open. "Thank you kind sir." She smiled at me, stepping inside the complex.
I followed letting the door slide smoothly shut behind me. The inside of the building was almost as increadible as the outside was, if not more. Machinery lined the walls, wires potruded from small holes in the wall crossing the floor in a tangled mess.
Kira led me through a few doorways bringing me to a room filled with electronic machines. the thing that drew most of my attention was a small table just big enough for the panther currently lying on it and a huge scanner looking thing hovering just above it.
"Mother! ive got another one for you!" Kira called out, the panther gave a jump and raised his head bewildered from the loud echoing shout Kira had produced.
"Kira, how many times must i tell you not to shout during my experiments." An older vixen emerged from a glass room that had been placed conveniantly in a wall, a snicker was heard from the panther.
"Shut up Chris, im sorry mother, this is the self proclaimed Bloody Eyed Wolf." Kira snapped at the panther before answering her mother seeming to make fun of my nickname.
"Jake to be correct." i growled quietly hoping neither of them heard me.
"It is a pleasure to meet you Jake, or would you prefer i call you by your nickname?" the older vixen asked me.
"Just call me Jake." I answered, giving a sideways glance to Kira.
"Kira, did he agree to my experiments? or did you drag him here like you did to Chris?" The vixen turned to her daughter, an icy questioning look held in her deep blue eyes.
"Last time I asked, he was undecided." Kira said, turning her head to me a bit.
"Perhaps he has changed his mind since then, shall we find out?" The vixen turned that icy look on me. "Do you agree to allow me to do a few tests on you?" she asked.
"eh. . . well, sure." i replied shaking noticibly hard. Kira gave a sideways grin to me and the panther now known as Chris lowered him self back onto the table.
"Good, we will start as soon as Chris and the other have finished." She turned off her entrancing stare and made her way back to the box.
Kira led me out of the testing chamber and through a few more doorways, before I tripped over one of the wire jumbles on the floor. I instinctivly reached out for something to grab hold of and caught something, my brain to distorted at the moment to think of what it could be.
"Hey! let go of my tail!" Kira yelled possibly facing the ceiling the way her voice echoed through the halls.
I felt around with my fingers before letting go very quickly. I half expected her to draw her tail away from me and walk off in a hurry. Instead she let her soft tail brush against the side of my face before the sound of a door opening caused both of us to jump.
"Find yourself a playtoy, Kira?" a familliar snicker filled the hallway.
"So what if i did? he's much cuter than you are." Kira said dropping her arm down stroking my leg.
My eyes went wide at her compliements even if she was only joking i still found it quite nice.
"I only came to tell you that its Melissa's turn to be tested." The speaker gave himself away as Chris with the last comments.
"Fine, since your too lazy to do so yourself." Kira laughed, shifting her weight a bit so i could now see Chris from between her legs.
"I am not lazy, you are heading in that direction anyway so it would be easier if you did it." Chris growled glancing down at me with a look that was too quick to read.
"I already said i would, so quit arguing and go do whatever it is you do around now." Kira started sounding annoyed with the panthers attempts to argue.
Chris didnt reply, he only walked off in a hurry too. Kira got to her feet again. "He can be such a pain."
"Sounds like it." i got off of the ground brushing my clothes off.
"Yeah, anyway lets keep going your room is only a little further." she started walking off further down the hall adding a nice swaying motion to her hips.
I couldn't help but stare as we walked. I lost track of everything else but what was currently in front of my eyes, until she stopped moving that is. The door to my apparent room was pushed open and she let me walk inside first. Every thing was shiny in here too.
I heard the door close behind me and Kira stood infront of it. "I wanted to thank you for letting us do our tests on you." she stepped a little closer to me closing the space between us by a good amount.
Before i could get anything out she had her muzzle pressed to mine in a short kiss.
She broke it soon enough and walked to the door. "I'll see you later." she left pulling the door shut behind her. I let a deep sigh escape as she left.
A good hour or so later i found myself on that examination table. the scanner hovering over me made me a bit nervous. A green light turned on and swept over my body, turning off again as soon as it reached my footpaws.
The second test began as a very sharp object jabbed into my back, causing me to nearly leap upward. "I should have warned you about that." A metallic version of the older vixen's voice filled the room.
I layed back again feeling the sharp needle slide into the hole it had made in my back. it retracted again a short while later.
After three more painfull tests i stumbled into my room finding a note lying on the sheets of my bed. It read: You wont get away that easy.
Now i knew the white tiger that seemed so intent on my death would be coming here sometime in the near future. i figured the note could wait at least until i had gotten some sleep.
Authors note: this was exctiting to write, i would love to get some feed back on it so please feel free to do so. the fourth and fifth will have more violent stuff in it so if thats what you want youll get it then. Jake (The Bloody Eyed Wolf), Kira, her mother, Chris, and Melissa are all copyrighted to me and if you would like to use any of them please contact me first. Chris and everyone will have more important roles in the next two stories.