"So, Banzai, do you know something about what Maldey may be planning?" asks Kira a little calmer but alert of her surroundings.
"The thing about creating chaos and destruction you got right, my dad hasn't stopped talking about it for weeks, he says that things are finally going to change as they should be, that everything will be fixed."
"And what is that supposed to mean?"
"I have no idea. That faun has very rare beliefs, he was not born in the community of fauns in Greece."
"What's under that huge tarp on the middle truck?"
"I don't know, my father hasn't let me see it, but their grunts are monstrous, so that can tell me a lot."
"We'll have to find out before it's too late, there are others your age here in the group, right?"
"A few but I know them well enough to say we are colleagues."
"We may need their help, we'd better come back before they start looking for you."
The two return to the market almost running, Banzai has to approach the trucks, where some adults began to look for him and scolded him for having separated; he just shrugs his shoulders giving an unimportant excuse. Kira follows them, moving carefully in the water, she watches as a steel pulley crane lifts the huge package of the truck still, carrying it over the most abandoned buildings.
The she-wolf returns to its human form, following Banzai in the shadows before, since all the buildings are tents made of fabrics, they can only serve to hide her. Kira stops to see that so does Banzai, being held by the adults to leave the box he carries with the others in a pile.
Banzai gives him a meaningful look when the man leaves. Kira beckons him to come closer, but he seems to hesitate for a moment before she growls and comes out of hiding carefully, grabs him by the neck of his clothes and takes him to hide behind the boxes.
"Were you thinking of backing down?" growls Kira frowning.
"No, of course not!" says the boy.
"Then I didn't deny you when I called you, you have something different clothes or something to wear to cover your head, it will help you hide your identity."
"But everyone here knows me, it sounds stupid to have to do it."
Kira rolls her eyes and grabs some torn fabrics with her hands, exerting enough force to break them, creating a makeshift wide scarf.
"Believe me, when the time is right you will thank me. Now use this and also to cover your mouth, we need to find the point of all this, and where these vessel will end."
A new smell of hyena piqued Kira's interest and she hides among the fabrics again, she can still at least smell the waters of the swamp. From there she can see four other boys and girl, Kira identifies them as hyenas the smell. She couldn't help but look at her defiantly from there, growling, hyenas being matriarchal pack any female can become a problem for her.
The girl is shaken by the sudden chill running down her back, feeling like she is being watch, turn everywhere sniffing the air before asking Banzai anything in another language.
Banzai simply shakes his head yet it is not the time according to his criteria, thanking that the smell of the wolf is perceived so easily. He should talk to them first and see their position on what was going on.
Kira sees how they grab several boxes between them and put it on a cart, starting to push her through the lonely streets. She follows them for a while, losing them to people who start accumulating as they move towards the market, , starting to push her through the lonely streets. She follows them for a while, almost losing them among people who start accumulating as they move towards the market until you reach a series of large, completely empty tents.
The place is located in a large, circular square, almost looking like an amphitheater that reminds you of her home. Kira looks up at the sky, it was getting dark fast.
"See you at last, Kira," Anastasia says through Kira's mind.
Kira searches with dissimulation for the figure of her godmother among the tourists, finding the one almost on the other side of the square, leaning against a column. Kira simply separates from her hideout, making a faint signal to Banzai that she won't be far away, walking to an unoccupied picnic table next to a cart of food.
Kira didn't wait long before her godmother arrives with some sweet snacks and two glasses of juice.
"I see that you are still having a whole affair," Anastasia kept talking through her mind as she eats to avoid curious ears.
"Very funny, I stink like the devil after breaking through the Whistle swamp, you were able to warn me of the strange creature." Kira growls while enjoying one of the soft sweets that look like jelly.
"You wouldn't have had fun, surely," Anastasia smiles sideways.
Kira rolls her eyes, her godmother always has a rather weird sense of humor.
"It's not the word I would use, exactly, but I guess it is. I can't say the same about what's being cooked here."
"What did you find out?"
"Maldey likes to put drugs or something different in his mud mixture and in some paintings, I don't know exactly which ones but his smell is very strong."
"So he's one of the drug dealers, the question is what his ringleader or boss is, but we need to be sure that it is what traffics, samahabdira being a place where these things are not used, they are sent to home of humans."
"What can it be then?"
"I have several options but I can also be wrong about each of them."
"Do you think the other two rivals have something to do with it?"
"Those two are pretty intense about their art and tonight they'll make sure to excel at the festival," Anastasia scratches her chin thoughtfully before drinking the juice.
"I'll see what I can get with the vessels."
"Lend me your smartphone, I think it's time for me to pass you the most useful app in our group and it will connect you with the Goat of Oblivion."
Kira passes her cell phone around the table in disguise, returning to eat while her godmother plays with her phone and hers, both are on the table. She for a moment thought about taking out the book she had found in that bookstore, but he was able to catch Banzai beckoning him from the stall. Kira frowns before getting up
"Where are you going, Kira?" asks Annie when she feels her getting up, but she didn't answer him and kept walking away. "Kira!"
Kira ignores her godmother until she reaches the post and reaches the back next to Banzai.
"You disappeared quickly without even expecting me to talk to them," says the young man with arms crossed.
"I have to gather my own information on the outside, I need to find out what exactly Maldey products have." Kira snorts as he grabs one of the cups. "Did you have some luck with your peers?"
"They don't quite agree with obeying Maldey, two of them are here for forced labor to pay off their parents' debts; the problem is that they are not convinced by working with a werewolf."
"I'm not a werewolf, but a lycan" she growls.
"What's the difference? They are the same species."
Kira growls deeper, although Kira growls deeper, threatening, her eyes seem darker, although her voice never increases the volume.
"It's a big difference, I'm sure your species also has two divisions. But if that will become a problem, I'll take care of that."
"If you know that we are guided by females our packs, right?"
"Of course I know, but the girl seems more somewhat submissive than domineering, I won't say she has material for alpha at least; but it is one thing to observe it from afar than to how to act."
"Don't judge someone by their appearance."
"Where are they?"
"They went to eat, they have a moment of rest not far away, although you are going to have a problem, they speak nothing but Swahili or Etiokon, the sacred language of hyenas."
"And how are they handled here? Samahabdira is only spoken English mostly or Reitiayon."
"They use me for that," he rolls his eyes. "Now, what do you plan to do? We still have to discover what they bring under that canvas."
Kira is silent, she would clearly need Banzai to have them for help, at least she appreciates having him on her side even if it is temporary.
"Find out everything that hides or at least what contains the different works of Maldey, so that we have to check each one before any of his servants arrive. Go for the others and start collecting some samples, I will bring something so I can identify them, I will come back in a moment."
Kira walks back to the table where her godmother is.
"You seem to be busy and in a hurry apparently," Anastasia speaks again because of the mental bond and smiling sideways.
"You guys gave me something to do, didn't you?" replies Kira in the same way, "I can get access to Maldey merchandise."
"You can use this application on the cell phone that I just added for that, I added several extra things to the interim part too, I am not an expert for this; but at least it will work and you will have access to the electronic library. Then we'll see how to update it better."
"Since when do you have so many secrets?"
"And you still have to discover more," Annie smiles enigmatically. "We're going to see those substances, it might take you a while to get a response."
Annie stares at her cell phone screen with a frown
"What's the matter?"
"Stallone, I just got one of the alerts from the micro cameras that follow the man, I'll have to go and see what happens."
"And the Maldey thing?"
"You will have to do it, don't do anything weird with what you find."
"Not that I had five years old, I am old enough to be cautious," Kira already beginning to be seen, growling some curses she headed towards Maldey's shop.
Kira reaches the door but looks first through the fabrics, inside there are already several managers organizing the pieces. She curses, although she suddenly remembers that she still has things in place before.
"Kira, over here," Banzai speaks from the back of which is reached through a corridor.
Kira goes to him where the other five were, the boys surrounded the only girl, each carrying a commodity from the faun.
"We managed to get some things at least, but we can't keep them for long," Banzai continues before growling in warning to the girl, who was showing Kira her teeth.
Kira looks at her simply as she opens the app, luckily she have a quick read of the app's instructions and open the camera through the device. She pulls the cup and cloth from one of the bags at her waist.
Activate the capture button of the phone and a reddish light begins to read the cup completely, although it does not skip any response from the reading; but she continues to do the same process with each of the commodities that each one has, under the curious gaze of the others.
"What's that?"
"A specialized application to do certain things, including reading the composition of some things."
Kira is still focused but can perceive movement near her, the smell even indicated that she is one of the new hyenas. One of the boys tried to snatch her cell phone when she got distracted, she holds his almost brandish wrist tightly when he tries. Her face writhes in a grimace of anger and her growl rumbled around her; although because of the rudeness his smartphone ended up on the ground. She kneels him in the stomach, pulling him to the ground before retrieving his phone.
"Don't even try," she growls but is soon overwhelmed by the five Hyenas, who jumped on her.
Kira roars, transforming fast in seconds, shaking them as if they are rag dolls, thus better hiding her cell phone.
"Do you really think you will beat me in number? Think better, beginners!" she nails her teeth into one's back ignoring her moan as she shook him back and forth.
Banzai growled somewhat in Swahili before transforming as well, removing the girl from one of Kira's legs. Ignoring the insults of his fellow traitor hyenas, he is not a traitor, he hated that kind of life and if he has to use the wolf to get out of it, he will.
Kira begins to hurt her wounds, hyena bites are very serious because of the strength of the mandibble. She begins to hear more voices and heavy strings falling on top of her, seeking to tie her up. Turning around, he saw a group of three dwarves and several Maldey keepers, throwing linked strings.
Everything has been an ambush, the damn hyenas have set a trap for him. Only Banzai began to go through the ropes and pull them. Between the two, although the smaller one, they manage to let go, pulling the strings to throw it through the air, even using them to hit the others.
"Bite without remorse!" Kira growls forming a new connection with Banzai at once, surprising the boy.
"I don't need a conscience and not even to be told," Banzai responds for the new step open in his mind, letting out a menacing laugh and showing his teeth. Side by side, watching each other's back.
It is when the sky suddenly lit up when a whistle rises into the sky, exploding into an infinity of red and gold stars, following others. Fireworks kick off the festival.