Note if you cannot handle blood, you shouldn't read this.
Preface
The pale moonlight shone through the branches of the dark brown trees, glowing onto the wolves’ fur. It wasn't bright enough to wake them, but light enough for Purity to watch over them. Purity was the Goddess of The Sky. A young wolf sat under a tree, awake. The pretty young wolf's name was Frost. Frost's grey eyes were glittering as she watched the wolves sleep. Another young wolf,Azami, sensed Frost up. Azami stretched out and walked over to Frost. She scanned Frost's white and brown coat, to see if anything was wrong.
" You don't look well." Azami said concernedly.
" I..... I feel odd" Frost admitted.
" Why don't why travel up to Komori?" Azami pointing out. " She will see what's wrong with you."
" Can we wait until sunrise?" Frost asked as it would seem odd leaving at nite.
Azami nodded and she laid with Frost, until the sun raised. Then, they'd leave camp before it would be to late in day to go. Frost could tell Azami didn’t want to take her, but she knew Azami went by one simple rule: Pack comes before yourself. Frost liked this rule, you have to be devoted to your pack if you want to survive. Every wolf should follow this, but most chose not to. That’s what caused trouble between the packs of the land. Stealing from humans, trespassing, the battles, it all was just so wrong. Frost sat there and thought and thought and thought until she fell asleep under the twinkling stars and glittering moonlight.
Chapter 1
The sun's rays shoned in the wolves eyes making them glitter like the stars did at night. Azami was in front, leading the smaller wolf, Frost. Komori was Azami's little sister and Azami trusted her with all her heart. It was silent, the loudest noise they heard was their paw-steps. It was way to quiet for Azami, so she decided to make a conversation.
" What do you think is wrong, Frost?" Azami said quietly.
" Oh, Nothing big. Just not feeling well." Frost admitted.
" Ok, thats good." Azami paused. " We absolutely do not need a wolf of our pack dying."
The short conversation was pretty much over now, Azami looked ahead, and seen her sister Komori, sitting on the edge of rocks were she lived. The sun's bright rays that gave off light were shining down on Komori, letting Frost know she was there. Azami began running to her sister, with Frost following behind. Soon enough, their large paws hit the rocks, and Komori greeted with a friendly hello.
"Hello Azami." She paused. " What seems to be the problem, you only come here if some one is .." Komori seen the other wolf, Frost, and stopped her question.
" Could you please look at her, she doesn’t feel well." Azami pointed out the obvious.
" Sure." Komori said bringing the brown and white she wolf with her.
Frost was scared, she had told Azami it wasn't anything big, but what if it was? She trusted Komori, she knew Komori wouldn't hurt her. Frost answered all of Komori's questions truthfully to make sure she got the correct answers, she was scared to know what was wrong. Komori looked up with a face that you could read she was confused.
" Honestly, I don't know what is wrong," Komori said putting her head down in shame, she'd never failed before.
" That's okay," Azami said, knowing Komori tried her best, but she still wanted to know what was wrong with Frost.
I hope nothing is seriously wrong, Frost thought with blurry vision. It was getting worse, she just didn't tell Azami. She had enough on her hands and didn't need to deal with Frost's sickness. Frost hopped it was just today she wasn't feeling well, because if not she had a good chance of death which wouldn't be good for the group of wolves she lived amongst.
***
Azami was dominate female, she could leave the camp whenever she pleased. She padded over to Blizzard, the dominate male, who was watching over the camp while Azami was out.
" Sorry, I was out with frost." Azami said apologizing to Blizzard.
" It's okay," Blizzard replied turning to Frost, " Why don't you go guarding?"
" Yes ,Blizzard," She replied.
Frost padded off, alone. Wind blew in her face bringing snow along, getting in the way of her sight as she ran quickly to guard. A familiar voice rang in her ears.
" Wait up!" Kafel shouted loudly so Frost would hear him nice and clear.
"Guarding?" Frost asked.
" Yes. Blizzard said there is a wolf on our territory, but not any pack wolf."
" Really?" Frost says.
Kafel nodded and ran to her side. Crunch, Crunch. Frost and Kafel's head jerked. A big, black wolf was standing behind them with an angry stare. Frost tried to run but Kafel kept her still. Don't move, Kafel thought. The black wolf approached them quickly not giving Frost and Kafel much time to think.
Kafel lowered his muzzle and snarled at he wolf. They became a tangling, deadly fight.The wolf bit his shoulder, but Kafel snarled and lashed at his shoulder. The wolf snarled and bit deeper into his shoulder. Kafel whimpered. Frost jumped up, helping Kafel. Scratching the wolf, leaving a deep and bloody wound. The wolf, bit Frost, pushing her to the side.
The larger wolf was winning.The wolf tore at Kafel's flank then clawed his muzzle. Kafel fell back and the wolf raced away.
Frost gasped at the amount of blood seeping out of Kafel and herself. She was so terrified, she looked up and howled as loud as she could. Soon, Azami and Okami were there.
" Oh my!" Okami gasped.
" Let's get him back to camp." Azami said.
Frost,Okami, and Azami took him back to camp. Kafel staggered into camp and collapsed in the middle, blood seeping.
" Are you okay?" Blizzard asked.
" No" Kafel said barely breathing.
"You'll be ok." Okami reassured him, curling up by his side.
"I'll be back" Azami said padding out of camp.
Frost's illness was making her unsteady
Azami was worried. Kafel had gotten attacked by Kage, her brother. She padded over to were Kage stayed. She sniffed the air, he was there. Azami waited for her brother come out. It wouldn't be long until Kage darted out of his den, sniffing the air, recognizing the scent.
" A-a-zami?" Kage stuttered.
" Hello Kage." Azami replied. " Why were you on my pack territory? And why did you attack Kafel?"
" Whoa, whoa, whoa. Slow down. I did NOT attack Kafel! He saw me and darted onto my back."
Azami felt Kage was lying and demanded to know the truth " Is this true?"
" I swear. I was padding, minding my own business when he attacked. So, I fought back." Kage paused. " Would I lie?"
"No," Azami said to her brother. " What did you want anyway?"
" I wanted to take part in a wolf pack. I knew you'd accept you brother." Kage said.
" Ok then. Follow me" Azami said leading her brother to her pack of wolves.
Kage and Azami arrived at their pack. Kafel, Frost, Okami, and Blizzard looked at the strange wolf. Kage was nothing like Azami, and the pack could already tell. Azami's expression let her pack know everything was okay. Okami walked over to Azami.
"Who is that?" Okami whispered in Azami's ear.
"I'm getting to that." Azami said. " Pack, This is my brother Kage."
Kafel recognized the wolf's fur and scent. He snarled at him in the same order he had before. When Kafel attacked Kage. Traitor,Kafel thought.
" Now, now. You've all heard and seen Kafel got into a fight with this wolf. I am not taking sides, but Kage's story is likely. He will be a member of the pack. No ifs,ands, or buts about it." Azami said.
"Thank you so much, Azami." Kage said. " So, were do we sleep? Who gives us orders? "
" Blizzard and I give orders. You sleep outside in camp or in large dens." Azami said.
" Never thought my little sister would be giving me orders" Kage said.
Azami snarled. He better watch it, Azami thought to herself. She was tired, so she rested her body on the long,cold ,rocks. She hoped blizzard would watch over the pack while she rested.
***
Okami circled back and forth waiting for Azami to awake. Okami's paw-steps were getting louder and louder on the thin rock. Moments later, Azami's head peered up. She looked around, then yawned, and spoke up.
" Yes, Okami?" Azami asked.
" We are low on fresh kill. I- I wanted to make sure it was okay to leave camp and who to take with, and Blizzard said I should wake you up now. So, I figured I'd ask you while I was here." Okami replied.
" Thats fine. You may go alone, or take Kage. He is an excellent hunter." Azami told her.
" I'll go get him, now. Bye Azami!" Okami said.
Azami walked over to Blizzard. Seeing he was sitting on a rock watching over his territory, Azami sat next to him. The cold snow fell on there heads, but they continued watching incase something happened to their camp. The sun's rays made Azami's eyes glitter. Blizzard looked over at Azami.
"Is your brother adjusting to pack-life okay?"
" Yes. He is with Okami , hunting now."Azami replied kindly.
" Watching is boring." Blizzard said.
" What are you watching?" Frost asked as she came up to Azami and Blizzard.
"Watching our camp." Azami answered before Blizzard could.
" Then I agree, it bor-" Frost said getting cut off.
Blizzard darted down. Over to the entrance of the territory, barking like a dog at a cat. He snarled at the lone wolf. Waiting for him to back off, but he didn't.Quickly, Azami showed up behind Blizzard snarling.
" You'd better go, things could get ugly." Azami barked.
"I'd like to see a girl, hurt me." The wolf growled.
" You have no idea what Azami is capable of" Blizzard chuckled.
The white wolf jumped onto Blizzard but Azami knocked him down and pinned him with her sharp claws. Azami laughed and yelled " Get!" very loudly scaring the wolf off.
Blizzard laughed along with Frost. Moments later, Kage and Okami showed up.
" We ran here as fast as we possibly could" Kage said. " What happened?"
" Nothing." Blizzard said seeing the large prey the had brought back.
Before digging into their fat, juicy, deer they checked the unusually quiet camp. They scanned the dens cautiously, and carefully incase something was wrong. Kage sniffed, the fresh, winter air but everything was the same, and how it should be, but then another pack's scent filled the air were Kage was standing. It smelt like Axel, leader of another pack, and it was the biggest.
" Wolves of my pack, as you know we need to talk with the other packs. I've decided we needed to set up a talk with them, it shall be a just a few days. There will be 6 wolves there, 2 from each pack." Azami said
***
It was sunrise and Azami was not up,she was quite wore out from yesterday, her body was stretched out on the long, cold, black rock. Blizzard let her sleep, while he looked after the camp. The sun's warm rays kept them warm, but not to warm to melt the snow. All the wolves of the pack hoped today would be less dramatic than it was the previous day but with their luck it probably wouldn't. It was still early, so Blizzard let his pack rest or roam freely.
" Morning Blizzard" Azami greeted him half awake. " I'm going down to the river."
"Mm okay" He replied.
Azami padded down to the river, she was thirsty. Good thing a bit a ice was melted to provide water for her dry mouth. Unexpectedly, she seen Kage sitting there. She pretended like she didn't see him, she wasn't ready to have a conversation this early. She washed her muzzle in the melted ice. She drank a bit and went to head back to camp. Azami decided she could use some alone time so she stayed out. Thank god for having Alpha Male and Beta wolf, She thought. Azami ran in the open field, wind blowing threw her fur. She wasn't on anyone's territory, she was safe and free.
I hope no one sees me, Azami thought.
If someone had seen her, she’d be dead. The whole land would have been talking about how the alpha female was running in the field, playing around. Axel would make a big ordeal and then he’d have a good excuse for attacking. Azami’s pack had always been nice to his pack, and in return they got various attacks. That still would not stop Azami’s pack from living in that land. Her pack as lived there since ancient wolves, always have always will. Nothing Axel could do would make her pack leave, She thought.
***
Azami was trotting along on her way back to camp. She was thinking of things she needed to do before she reached camp, so it wouldn’t look like she forgot, even though she did. Cool winter air blew in her brown fur, making her feel so free. But before she knew it, she’d be back to being in charge and doing nothing exciting.
Chapter 2
Tonight was the night Azami picked a member of her pack to go with her.Every wolf in her pack hoped Azami would choose them to go . Who should I chose?, Azami thought. Wolves were trying 'kiss up' to her. Azami hated picking someone, she didn't want to hurt anyone's feelings.
" Kage?" Azami whispered. " Would you like to go?"
" Me? There are other wolves you are more worthy than I am." Kage said.
" I want you to go, not the worthy ones." Azami said making him feel better, after all he was her brother.
" Well, if you insist on me attending" Kage paused." Then, I will."
" Alright then, It's tonight." Azami told her older brother.
She walked away and up to the rocks were Blizzard was sitting. She wanted to let him know who she had chosen to attend.She waited quietly until Blizzard was finished speaking with Frost.
"Who have you chosen?" He asked.
" Kage, he seems like he should get to know the other packs and all." She replied.
" No need to explain, great choice. It should be fun for him." Blizzard says.
****
It was time to leave to chat with the other packs.. Azami and Kage were on their way to go. Blizzard and the pack said their good-byes and sat in the dens waiting for them to come. Once Kage and Azami got there, the dominate male the biggest pack rises to talk.
" I hope you happy." He snarls at Azami."Your tiny,wimpy, pack has been tress passing on OUR territory."
" WHAT?" Kage whispers.
" SHH, he is talking" Azami scolded her older brother.
" Yes, YOUR pack scent is all over our territory, Azami could you explain why?" Axel, the most cruel hearted of all, asked.
" Look, we don't have what even half has many wolves in our pack. What wolf would be stupid enough to mess with your pack? You may be stupid enough to do it to us, but my pack is far more brighter than yours."
The rest of the pack representatives from the other packs agreed with Azami. The all nodded. Kage could sense Axel was lying. Kage was getting mad, he wanted to rip Axel because he remember Axel's scent on their territory.
****
Later, Azami and Kage returned , and the pack members could tell by Kage's expression it did not go well, at all. Blizzard didn't ask Azami how it went , but she told her pack anyway.
" You are my pack and you deserve to know the truth about everything."Azami paused. " Axel is lying. They said we are going onto their territory. But we all no it's a lie. We are just going to ignore it."
" Are you sure? Because I can rip Axel into tiny little pieces." Kage spoke up loudly, not knowing last one day he’d get to.
"Ha, I'd pay to see that!" Okami said.
Kage looked at Okami. He liked her personality. Why won't Azami let me kill Axel??, he thought. Kage was tired, so he laid beside Okami. He fell asleep quickly. Azami on the other hand was pacing back and forth thinking about what Axel had said . Azami snarled.
" What's wrong Azami?" Blizzard asked curiously.
" Stupid, Axel. Such a liar" Azami growled angrily.
" Forget about him" Blizzard said not caring about Axel.
Blizzard and Azami laid down in their den and went to sleep, hoping everything would be okay when they woke up. Probably not, but it was always worth a shot. You never know what the day may bring.
****
Okami woke up to the sound of snarling, she darted up, and got Azami and blizzard. Azami shot up like a rocket, she knew her pack needed her to come, so she followed the booming sound of snarls. Okami followed behind her , scared. Azami hoped it wasn't Axel and his pack, she started padding faster and faster , to where her pack was surrounding a small,skinny wolf.
" Who are you?" Azami asked angrily hoping it wasn't a wolf from Axel's horrid pack.
" Kurai." She spoke up.
" I can tell you need us" Azami said looking at Kurai's dirty fur. " Come."
Azami showed Kurai around the pack, introducing her to each wolf, and tell her rules she must follow. Kurai nodded, understanding everything. Hurry up, She thought. Kurai needed to see Kage, he had to know something very important that may not be so pleasant.
The first thing that turns people on is your story, it sounds really interesting and your character ( I believe she is female, yes?) seems really kind and caring and moral. I agree with the whole wolves thing. If I were you, I'd keep this character the same throughout. She's great. Maybe you might want to develop a fear in her? Something that ties her greatest quality with her worst fear. Something to make me really love her.
They don't have thumbs do they? But maybe I'm just a wolf ignorant homo spaien)
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