Chapter 5: Blank

“Did you heard that?”, Black jumped off the grass, looking to the direction the howling came from.

“Did I heard what?”, Kiomi asked wondering.

And again, this time louder.. a howl from Haru.

Just as Black heard the second one, he sprinted extremely fast back to the castle. Kiomi couldn't keep up and got left behind.

He ran inside of the castle again. In between all the people on the streets he could see far away a Big cage, carried by four knights. And in the cage were Haru with a muzzle, but even so, Black recognized him from miles away. They two always shared a rare strong bond, Haru was a truly loyal companion.

That was the reason why he couldn't just stand there and look how his wolf gets carried away into some basement-prison. Black had been in the prison of the castle often enough to know that this prison isn't fun.

He tried running to his wolf but since there were people all over the streets, he didn't came far. He got very angry and frustrated..

“What the hell am I suppose to do now?!..”, Black thought while looking down at the ground. While looking down, his eyes had filled with tears. He wouldn't know what to do without Haru. Just the thought what his wolf needed to go through if Black wouldn't save him quickly.. He couldn't even think straight while this thought crossed his mind.

“Puh, why did you just ran off like that?! I thought were gonna talk a bit more?” She said, trying to catch her breath from running after Black.

She noticed He didn't answered her.

“Black? Is everything alright?”, Kiomi asked.

Black turned around to her so she could see him in tears looking perished from his emotions.

“Was it all a plan?..”, Black asked her quietly looking to the ground.

“What are you talking about?”, Kiomi answered in a very confused tone.

“IF ALL OF THIS WAS A PLAN?”, He screamed at her grabbing both of her arms looking straight in to her face.

Kiomi saw that Black's face was full of tears. His hands were grabbing her arms very tight.

Seeing Black talking like this to her made her tear up herself. He never been this angry to her.

Kiomi's lips started shivering just like every time she was about to cry. Her eyes filled up with tears that felt as big as the ocean, her eyes even hurt before the water couldn't be bottled up in the eyes anymore and the tears started rolling down her face.

Black let go of her arms turned around and said “Don't you dare cry because of guilt now. I-”

“I don't even know what plan you mean!! I have no idea what's going on!” She screamed back at him, with her shaky voice from crying.

Black didn't turned around to her. “The knights got Haru.”, he said in his serious voice.

Kiomi got surprised, “I can help yo-”, “cut it off already, you did enough.” He said, walking away from her. Leaving her alone.

“I need to find Haru.. If I try my hardest and fight the knights one after another.. I could get him back and get out of here.” He thought while walking towards the castle.

The streets finally cleared up and the people went home because it was getting very late.

Black came as close ,to the basement gate of the castle, as he could. Full of anger Black just ran at the knights with a loud scream. The first knight he killed with a clear stuck in the throat by his sword. The other one tried to kill Black with his sword though his stomach, but black crossed his sword with the one from the knight, before it could reach him, and pushed his sword away. He couldn't think straight or control himself at that paint anymore. Black kicked the knight down and smashed him against the stone wall. Black stepped closer to end the knight. He got down next to the Knight laying all bloody, too weak to stand up to the ground.

He grabbed his hair to pull his head up, laying his sword on the throat of the man.

With the last breath of the knight he begged Black to have mercy and spare his life.

“Please.. have mercy..” the knight begged him.

“There is no mercy.”, Black answered him, his face and cloth covered with blood.

In the next moment, he slit off the head from the rest of the body and threw it in another corner.

He didn't wasted time and got to the stairs down to the basement were the cages were.

“Haru! Make a noise!”, He screamed full of adrenalin. But no answer. He ran through the end of the first floor and reached the next one. “Haru!! Answer!” He shouted. And this time, he actually were able to hear a quiet howl.

Black stand in front of the cage now, looking at Haru through the metal bars. He had a few wounds and looked exhausted.

“Hey! Hey, good boy. Don't worry we will get you out of here. I am here now.”, Black told Haru while trying to cut the metal bars with his sword. But of course he couldn't. With his face full of tears he stopped and took a moment to breath, he softly put his head on the metal bars and were holding on them as well. Black was looking at his wolf all crawled up in a corner. He couldn't bare to see his wolf like that, so he closed his eyes. When he opened them again, Haru were looking suddenly very scared and even a growl came out of him.

Before Black knew what was going on, it was too late. A knight punched him on the back of his head and Black got knocked out.

When he woke up again he found himself laying on the ground in a cage. But from Haru were not a trace.

His head hurt but he tried to get himself up. He could only sit straight, he was too weak to stand up.

There he was, all alone. Thinking by himself.

“Why did I do that..? I knew I would have get caught like that. I was so close.. I could even see Haru already. He seemed so scared..

And why the hell I left Kiomi all alone outside in the dark.. Why did I got so angry at her?.. She is the only one that can make me feel happy.. The only one who never got scared of me and now I managed to make her feel scared of me as well. What have I done..”.

“I will probably be dead by tomorrow..”, Black thought starring at the floor of the cage.

“If a miracle happens.. and I survive this.. I swear to god I will show Kiomi how important she is to me.. I will protect her ”, were Black's final thoughts before falling asleep.