τφ When Two Worlds Collide φτ

[Kifo]

" Zyanya!" Reece jumped to his feet and hurried over to his leaders' sister. " Oh, God. Why here? Why now? I have no idea what I'm doing. Zyanya!"
He began pacing back and forth, completely not helping the jaguar at all, trying to remember what it was that Choby and Raimundo had told him about their sister. After a few seconds he mumbled 'What is wrong with that family?' before trying to lie the jaguar on her side.

" Snowstorm. Great." Kaygis grumbled, overhearing Dakota. He then raised his head and called out to the eagles. " Call off the search! You two won't be able to handle the winds! Another storm's rolling in!"
" I hate storms." Barb muttered as he swooped down to land on Kaygis' back.
" Tell me about it." Cragus sighed from Zolo's back.
" My guess is that you're not going to get off, are you?" Zolo asked.
" Not unless you want to lose me in that snow. Do you realise how deep that stuff is?"
" No. I'm just walking through it."
" Am I the only mature one here?" Kaygis asked as the wolf and eagles continued to banter.

[Bakura]

Zander moved away from the teen to give the snow leopard some room and he sat by his family.
"Ahh..." He asked nervously. "Is she alright, I thought it was just a shiver... But I'm assuming by your reaction its more then that..." He lay his ears against his skull and lowered his head. "Is there anything i can do?" Skype and Tsume looked at Zander confused but they could see how worried he was about the teen he spend little to no time with so they stayed silent.

"If... If you guys wish to turn back, I completely understand. I however, must keep searching." Dakota murmured.
She twitched when a familiar scent flowed into the wind around her. "Brother." She yelped as she started running in the direction the scent was coming from. "Moonlight!" She skidded to a stop when she saw both her sisters appear in the distance without their brother.
Said wolves landed before her and Gemma dropped the bandanna over Dakota's paws.
"We... We found it near a gorge hidden by a snowdrift." Mana explained as she brushed her paw over her nose to try and relieve the frozen feeling.
"We couldn't find Moonlight or Krystal anywhere... And there was a third, unfamiliar scent with them. I believe it was a she-dragon."
Dakota picked up the Bandanna and closed her eyes. Both Gemma and Mana awaited her to rejoin them.

[Kifo]

" She is definitely not alright. She has cancer. So unless you can figure out a cure..." Reece sighed, trying to calm himself down for Zyanya's sake.
Slowly the coughing fit died away, leaving a once more sleeping jaguar in it wake.

" Iora." Kaygis exclaimed, his head jolting up at the mention of a she-dragon.
For a split second he went rigid and his eyes glazed over. He saw a long, black and gold blur horizontally race past him as he looked in the direction that Mana and Gemma had come from, disrupting the bandana from its place above the gorge. He heard the coughing sound of Iora's searching call echo in his ears. He could almost smell the blood that she had smelt. Then he was brought back to the present when another roar echoed through the area.
" She was searching for him." He whispered.

[Bakura]

Zander cleared his throat uncomfortably. "I... I'm sorry, I didn't know." He whimpered before getting up and unsteadily trotting from the cave. Both Skype and Tsume watched him leave with sad eyes and both released twin sighs.
As Zander left the cave both Snowdrift and Bloodshot looked to him with worry and followed him out into the snow, shifting into dragons as they went. They lay down on either side of the cave entrance and watched the wolf with worry.
"Is everything alright uncle?" Snowdrift asked and Zander trotted over to Bloodshot and lay down over the dragons front leg.
"Yeah, just bad memories you know." He whimpered before closing his eyes.
A shiver ran through his body and Bloodshot lay his tail over the wolf and curled slightly trying to warm him up.
"Just sleep now." He said as he lay his wing over Zander for extra warmth.
It wasn't long till said wolf slipped into a state of unconsciousness.

Dakota's eyes snapped open at Kaygis' voice and she turned to the panther. Whilst it was only very sudden and short Dakota noticed him freeze and the glazed look crossed his eyes.
"Kota, we need to follow another trail at the moment, but Moonlight is in the direction we came from. Good luck." Mana said before nuzzling Dakota.
Gemma then nuzzled her as well before both sisters took off in the direction of the fire they were originally following.
"Be careful!" Dakota called after them before she looked back at Kaygis.
"Who was searching for who? What did you see?" She asked in a soft voice.

[Kifo]

" What I do? Was it something I said?" Reece asked.
He was about to wrap himself around Zyanya when he turned into a snowy owl. With a sigh, he trudged up to the jaguar draped one of his wings around her.

" Iora. She's a good kid, you know. If she senses anyone's hurt she'll do anything she can to help them. She was looking for your brother. My guess is that she's trying to get someone over there to help him." Kaygis replied as Zolo trotted up beside him.

[Bakura]

"No... No it's nothing you did or said. Zander just has... A lot of trouble dealing with people with cancer. As someone very close to him, died of it not long ago." Skype explained still watching the cave entrance with worry.
"Although, he has a tough nature, he is a very sensitive wolf. Don't let his actions get you down, he just needs some time to himself." Tsume twitched his ear in slight annoyance as he stared into the fire before him.

"How much futher do you think the fire is?" Mana asked floating on her back with her eyes closed.
"Not very far." Came Gemma's excited reply.
Mana turned over to see what she meant and saw what her sister saw.
"Bloodshot! Snowdrift!" She called out with excitement as both her and Gemma dove down towards the cave where 2 of their family members lay in the snow.
Said dragons looked up at the two wolves.
"Mana! Gemma!" Snowdrift called back as the two wolves landed before them.

"Then we best get moving, judging by the distance of which Mana & Gemma came into view, we have quiet a walk before us. I want to find them as soon as possible. If its alright with you, we run." Dakota said before shooting off in the direction her sisters pointed out. She had a limp in her run, but still moved as fast as a cheetah.

[Kifo]

" Don't you just love it when someone asks you something and then they just go and do it?" Zolo grumbled sarcastically.
" Shut up and run." Kaygis growled in reply. " We're going to have to keep her tracks in sight before the snowstorm hits if we're ever going to catch her. I'm not as fast as I once was."
" When it comes to running."
But the two ran off after the wolf in any case.

Slowly, Zyanya opened her eyes. The first thing she registered was the red and black snowy owl. Then she noticed everyone else. And none of them were people she knew... except maybe Reece.
" Where am I?" She asked croakily, a thick Brazilian accent coating her words.
" None of us are sure, Zyanya." Reece replied, managing to be calm despite the fact that he was almost sure that she was looking at him with some kind of hungry look in her eye.
" Where's Choby?"
" We're trying to find that out, too. I got separated from him."
" Who are you?" Zyanya directed the question to the others in the cave.

[Bakura]

Dakota felt her compainions presence fading behind her and knew that they were falling behind, she shook her body and continued on, straining past the pain. She just had to find them. She lowered her tail towards the snow and let it droop so she left a bigger trail for her new friends to follow.

Skype cleared his throat and glanced at Tsume before talking.
"I'm Skype and this is my brother-in-law, Tsume. We stumbled upon you and Zander whilst trying to find the others."

[Kifo]

" Zandar?" Zyanya asked. Then she realised something else. " What is that white stuff? Why is it so cold?"
Reece, unfortunately, couldn't answer. Before he knew what was going on, he had transformed into a frog and was beginning to turn into a frogsicle. And, even more unfortunately, Zyanya could provide little warmth despite her size. He was really starting to hate his life right about now.

By the time Zolo and Kaygis had picked up on the bigger trail, Zolo was ready to drop out of sheer exhaustion. Barb and Cragus kept urging him on, though. Kaygis, however, seemed to be getting new bursts of speed whenever he began to get tired. The younger ones assumed he was using his master of time abilities. Not a sound passed between them, though... unless you counted Barb and Cragus. But by the time they finally had Dakota back in their sights, a great jet of golden flame shot into the air, seemingly melting a small part of the snow filled land.

[Bakura]

"Zander, is the grey wolf that found you. He's just outside with Snowdrift and Bloodshot. They are my nephews." Skype explained softly and he smiled slightly when Tsume grumbled something under his breathe before getting up and walking around the fire, to lay down behind Zyanya. He curled around both her and Reece, using his tail to cover the frog's small body.

Dakota's vision was starting to blur from both pain and the snow, she was starting to tire and it wasn't long before she felt the others presence behind her. They were catching up fast. She started to slow down even further when a stream of golden flames shot into the air not far from her. Newfound hope washed over her and she sprinted in the direction of melted snow and a bright light.