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Character(s): Toboe, and anyone who wants a cute puppy to run into. [Is punted by muse.]
Content: Toboe arrives at Paixao, and he;s very confused and scared.
Setting: Vanaheim Gate and the surrounding area.
Time: Late Morning (Week...26 I think?)
Warnings: Just a scared ~~runt~~ pup. He won't bite.

Toboe had followed Kiba out of the city with Tsume and Hige. They had run very far that night, trying to get as far away from the city and the humans as they could. When they finally stopped to rest, Toboe fell right asleep…

The problem came when he woke up. When he had fallen asleep, it had been snowing, and he had been pretty cold. Now, he felt the warmth of the sun and soft grass underneath him. Toboe got up with a start, looking around and trying to find his companions. No matter which direction he looked, he couldn’t see them. Their scents weren’t even around, except maybe...Tsume's? Instead, there was a large done close by, similar to the domed city he had just escaped from, but also very different. Toboe put on his illusion and carefully approached the dome, afraid of what he might run in to.

Unfortunately, there were humans everywhere. Well, it was a city. It was humans that tended to build them. On the plus side, none of the humans seemed to pay him any attention. Instead, they were all standing in a line outside a large gate that led inside the dome. Not knowing what else to do, Toboe joined in.

Before too long, Toboe reached the end of the line. He froze in fear as the human stared at him.

“Welcome to Paixao.”

Before Toboe had time to react, a strange devise was shoved in his ‘hands’ and he was shoved out of the way to make room for the other people coming in.

“Paixao?” Toboe stared at the devise, then looked around. No. this place was nothing like the city he had just left. It was more lively, and yet, more dead at the same time, the only scents Toboe being able to pick up was that of humans and the food they ate. He could tell just from the smell of the place that the plants weren’t real, and he couldn’t hear or smell any other animals around either. Not even rats.

Toboe found a place to stay out of the way while he tried to grasp his bearings. “Kiba? Tsume? Hige?” He knew calling out for them would yield to nothing, but he couldn’t help it. Fear gripped the young wolf, and he walked over to an unoccupied corner, sitting down against the wall and trying to figure out what to do next.

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But that - it couldn't be! But then she thought she picked up Tsume's scent at one point... Was Toboe really so strange? She saw him, right in that corner, and still she couldn't quite believe it. Toboe.

And so, without the knowledge base of when Toboe showed up from, a very excited Blue in her wolf form runs towards him. "Toboe!"

Toboe could smell her coming. The dog that the crazy guy had as a pet to hunt him and the rest of the pack down. He suddenly stood up and froze when he saw the dog running towards him.

Wait a second. Did she just talk? Did she just call out his name? What was going on?

Toboe back up to the wall, fear plastered on his face. "Wha-When could you talk? Where's that human that always follows you?"

Blue comes to an immediate halt and pulls back with a fear of her own.

"T-Toboe, what are you talking about?"

Why was he acting like this? And how he was referring to the old man... After everything...

Something was different. Very different. Why wasn't she trying to attack him? Why wasn't her human with her? Why did she know him?

"What are you talking about?" Toboe's instincts were telling him to flee, but the dog...no, she had to be a wolf in front of him prevented him from doing so. Thankfully, Toboe couldn't see or smell the old man around. "Last time I saw you, you chased us out of the city!"

Toboe was ready to high-tail it, and he'd do what he could to get past the ~~dog~~ wolf in front of him.

Blue's human illusion slid over her. Part of her was happy that Toboe had yet to experience the horrors that came later to them - maybe there was a way to save their lives now...

"Toboe, things changed!" She insists. "All because of Cheza..." She glances down sadly. "I guess then... I'm from your future. Heh, this city..."

Toboe's eyes grew wide as he saw the illusion form around the ~~dog~~ wolf.

"Cheza..." that name was familiar. Oh, yeah! "You...you know about the flower maiden? You know about Paradise?"

Toboe was still on edge, but his fear was melting more into confusion. "What do you mean? You...you're from the future?"

Was this something the Nobles came up with? Nothing made sense! What was going on?!

"I'm sorry, Toboe... I'm sorry it's so confusing."

How could she tell him without giving away the worst of everything? No. The others succeeded. She's sure of it.

"It's this city. It can drag people from their worlds - many different worlds - and... different times. Cheza is very dear to me. Everyone is..."

Toboe stood there for a moment, trying to absorb the information the wolf was giving to him.

She couldn't be lying, could she? The human certainly wasn't around, and she could put up the illusion.

The idea that there were other worlds was mind-boggling. Toboe sat back down, his human illusion seeming to slide down the wall of the building and putting his head in his hands. "So...so I guess your part of our pack now?" He looked back up at the wolf. There was nothing threatening about her now.

He then looked back down, his human illusion blushing a little from embarrassment. "Well, you know my name. But I don't know yours." He looked back up and gave her a curious look.

She smiles. "Yeah. We headed to Paradise together. I'm Blue." It was the name the old man gave her, after all. She glances away from the boy, out towards the city.

"I think Tsume is in the city, somewhere, but I haven't been able to find him. I don't think he uses the journals either." She points to his own. "Those help keep in touch with others around the city. It's safe to be a wolf here."

"Tsume? I thought I caught his scent earlier." It was very faint, but Toboe knew it just had to be Tsume.

"You mean...the humans? They're not scared of us?" Toboe looked around at the people. Not only did they all seem to smell the same, but they looked a lot alike too.

Then again, they weren't in a panic when Blue was running in her wolf form. But still, she had passed off as a dog before, so surely she could do it again if she really wanted.

Toboe then looked back at the devise one of the humans and given him. "Do you think we'll be able to fine Tsume with this? What about the others? Kiba nd Hige are here too, aren't they?"

She hangs her head. "There are other creatures here that they need to worry about. There are a lot of non-humans, too. Giant cats - lions, I think people were calling them." She sighs.

"I already tried contacted Tsume through it, but with no such luck. We'll have to track him down. But the others... No, they're not. With Tsume lurking about and now you..." Her expression changes to a mix of sadness and joy. "I never thought I'd ever see any of you here..."

"Giant cats?" Toboe remembered stepping on a cat by accident before, and they could be mean. And they were small. But giant cats? "They don't eat wolves, do they?"

Toboe's fear was gone now. Instead, it had been replaced with disappointment and sadness. He could tell Cheza wasn't here. Her scent was nowhere to be found. But knowing that Hige and Kiba were somewhere off on their own...it just made Toboe sad.

"We should start looking for him then!" Toboe knew that Tsume could very well take care of himself, but Toboe just wanted to be around a friend, even if Tsume had yet to admit that they were friends yet.

"I haven't met one face to face yet, so I'm not sure." She had conversed with Scar, but that hadn't gone overly well in her opinion. He didn't know she was a wolf, either. "I think they've left the human population alone."

They did need to find Tsume. She could only hope that he was from a closer time period than Toboe though not so far as the trauma Darcia had caused...

Blue wanted to hug Toboe. For everything that hasn't happened, for the connections and understanding they had once shared, and for being able to see him alive again.

But she held herself back.

"You're right. Between the two of us, we'll find him."

Toboe sensed something...wrong with Blue. There was something very sad about her, but Toboe didn't understand where it came from.

He was distracted by the idea of searching for Tsume though. He smiled. "We will find him! Let's go!" His illusion took hold of Blue's wrist and he pulled her forward a few steps, then suddenly stopped. Tobow sniffed the air, but he couldn't really catch Tsume's scent. If he had been around here, it was ages ago, thus, they wouldn't be able to follow a scent trail. He turned back to Blue.

"Where do you think we should start?"

Her face took on a brief flicker of surprise to be pulled along by the younger wolf, but it was only for a moment. She thought of what she knew of Tsume, and whether or not he knew Blue was here. But he could be like Toboe... thinking she was hunting him, and thus avoiding her at all costs...

"Well, I doubt he's in the park. He's probably taken residence in one of the buildings, but... that doesn't really narrow it down." She pulls out her journal and opens up the map function so that Toboe could see what she was doing. Blue had been a part of this city for far too long. "We're here," she says, pointing at the Vanaheim gate area. Her finger moves to point at G6. "Jogo da Crianca is the park. From there... I'm not too sure."

Toboe looked at the devise Blue was holding in wonder. So...his could do the same kind of stuff?

He snapped back to what he should be thinking about. They had to find Tsume! "He stayed in an old building back in the city. Uhm...the other city." It would make sense for Tsume to find another empty one to have for shelter.

"Well...maybe he went to the park to get food." Toboe still couldn't smell any other animals like birds or mice or rats, but maybe they just weren't in this part of the city.

"There's nothing to hunt in this city. Well... nothing edible, that is." Lumens were hardly a meal, and she had been on their bad side once; she wasn't looking to go through it again. The natives sell food for simple items though." And old building didn't much narrow it down either. She tries to think. Something abandoned, maybe?

"Perhaps we can move through the city and try to attract him by howling. The domes may help to amplify it."

Toboe frowned. Nothing to hunt? Granted, there wasn't much to actually hunt in the city, but at least there was food to be found. Kiba and Hige had found rats in the sewers...

"You mean the humans?" Toboe have them a nervous glance. His experience with humans never seemed to end well. Even though Blue had mentioned that these humans weren't afraid of them, that didn't help Toboe's fears.

"If we howl though...won't that...won't that scare the humans?"

She shrugs, unconcerned. She knows this city a fair extent. "No. The natives don't react to much of... anything. And if it does scare them, they'll get over it quickly. They've been through worse and always seem to bounce back."

She glances off to the side, putting away her journal. "We might attract some other company, but they're alright. Sort of like us, in a way."

Blue's explanation still didn't do much to comfort Toboe. "W-well...if you say so."

He perked up at the other comment Blue made. Other company? "Are you talking about the giant cats?"

"No. There's a half-wolf in the city - not in the same way as I am." Did Toboe know that tidbit? Well. He did now. "And some other that I can't quite pin down, and probably never will." She couldn't blame the guy; if she was back home, or new to Paixao, she would be on edge about letting anyone know of her true form... even if she could pass herself off as a dog.

"How's he different?" Toboe cocked his head. He was definitely a very curious wolf, and his questions would keep coming until he understood or someone told him to shut up. Which ever came first.

"I think it's because he's from a different world. Things operate differently. He's... peculiar, that's for sure." It didn't explain much, but that's all she could really offer Toboe at the moment. "Don't worry, he's friendly. We should get to searching for Tsume, mm?"

Well, if he was friendly. Toboe wouldn't mind running into him then.

"Yeah! Let's go!" Toboe's enthusiasm suddenly returned to him, but maybe a bit too much. He wanted to run. Run and find Tsume. That's almost all that was on his mind, other than food further back there. He didn't know the way to the park though, and thus, had to wait for Blue to lead on.

Blue knew the city well enough, and with a flash of a grin to Toboe, she bursts out into a run, dodging the random native and being sure not to lose Toboe on the way to the park; it was where she had spent most of her time, but after her injuries that she received from Halloween Town, she had taken to sleeping in a distant alleyway.

Jogo da Crianca at least wasn't a long run from Vanaheim, and Blue had taken to her natural form, if only to prove to Toboe that they were remotely safe like this.

Once she makes it to the edge of the park, she paces around its outer area, then sits amongst the unreal grass, gazing around.

Toboe follows Blue, glad that he can run. He almost tumbles in surprise as she loses her human illusion, and he stops for a second, realizing that she was right all along. No one seemed to care, or even notice that she did so.

Toboe drops his own illusion and does his best to catch up, now following her scent more than his view of her. He reaches the park to see that Blue had found a place to sit.

His curiosity takes over a bit though, and he walks off a small distance, sniffing at an artificial bush with crystal flowers and emerald leaves. He really can't decide if he likes such...plant life or not.

It only takes a moment for him to return to Blue. "I don't smell Tsume at all. All I smell are the humans around here." He could also pick up on some other scents he wasn't familiar with, but guessed that they came from different animals. Hopefully, none of them came from the giant cats Blue had mentioned earlier.

"Human smells will cloak most of the city, and then some..." She admits. "Finding one wolf amongst a sea of them..." But then she smiles, tilting her muzzle towards Toboe. They would find him. Somehow, eventually, they would find him.

"This place," she meant the park, "is strange but... often times there are less humans, except off in that direction," she points her nose off towards where the playground rested.

Toboe cocked his head as he listened. There were fewer human smells in this area than in the others they had just run through. Despite the fact that the plants were fake, far to sparkly, and had no scent, the park seemed pretty nice. Toboe had a feeling he'd like it there.

"So, where should we start looking? I don't smell Tsume anywhere."

Blue stays quiet for awhile, looking around them and trying to think where they might find Tsume. She had first picked up his scent around one of the gates, but after she followed it, it had already been washed over by the numerous other residents and fanned out around.

She sighs. She was much out of practice when it came to tracking.

"...maybe splitting up and taking different halves of the city would be easier."

Toboe was silent for a moment. Even running around without his illusion and not getting a response from the humans, he still wasn't sure about them. He had too many close encounters with Blue's human.

It didn't take too long for him to cave though. "That should make things easier I guess. Which way should I go?"

She didn't have any particular way she'd rather go, so she just shrugs and nods over her shoulder. "I'll start out this way, you take the other?" It wasn't a perfect plan, but it'd be something better. "Try not to get too distracted, yeah?" She chuckles.

"Yeah, ok!" A grin was plastered on Toboe's face. He'd find Tsume, and then they could all look for Hige and Kiba too, and then go back to finding the flower maiden and Paradise.

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