Koli's Story

Wisp stretched her wings and glided down to Earth, a trail of mist flowing behind her. Her paws landed softly on cold, hard-packed snow. It was cold here, but could didn't really affect her. She gracefully tucked her wings in and shook her fur. She quietly crept forward. The snow swirled around her, and it became colder. She stepped onto ice and her paws gently scraped the surface. She dissolved into a mist and floated forward, noticing the decrease in temperature. She stepped out from behind a pile of snow to find a wolf. Must be an ice wolf. She formed into a wolf and stepped forward."Hello, ice wolf. I am wisp," is what she meant to say, but like always, her voice came out in a sort of a song, of ah's and oh's, like a disfigured howl or a song that was taken in the breeze. The wolf turned around and she nodded her head to the ice wolf.

Wisp really didn't know how to answer. Sure it was a little chilly, but how could she freeze to death? Well one she was already dead...maybe she just did not feel cold or heat. "I am a spirit wolf. I am already dead. Nothing affects me." The howling sing song voice contorted her words, and she felt bad that she couldn't really communicate. She also felt bad that this wolf could freeze people if they got to close. He must be lonely. Like her. She stepped closer and stretched out her wings. She tucked them back in and turned into a mist and reappearing closer. She felt her paws and fur, and still all she felt was a cold chill.

Kilo couldn't understand what Wisp was saying, and th eonly word he managed to get was spirit. "A ghost?" He thought as he noticed that the mist was getting closer to him, but h didn't feel any wrong intention coming from it, so he let it be. He also felt another presence near them, the blizzard could always tell him what was near him. He dicided to ignore it, so hopefully it would get cold and leave. "Why have you come to me? You are the only thing i came communicate with, and i can't even understand you. It's just not fair." He said as he layed down in the snow, making the blizzard soften up.

Wisp looked around. There were three wolves. One, if gotten any closer, would most likely freeze to death. The other could kill the wolf of ice. She felt bad for Koli. But she needed to warn the wolf who appeared to be of electricity. "Stop!" she said to the wolf, but it probably wouldn't help, her words an inaudible song. She looked into Kilo's eyes and dissolved into mist. She floated toward Koli and disappeared into his chest. The mist filled up Koli and entered his soul. She didn't like doing this do often, but he deserved to know answers. Her strange song voice disappeared and instead the words echoed in Koli's mind. "I am wipe, a spirit wolf. Nothing much affects me. I understand you. Sometimes I feel lonely myself. I am can not communicate. I am also not necessarily a tangible surface. I feel bad that everyone who comes near you freezes to death." The words echoed and faded into the singsong voice after she was done speaking. The mist drifted back out and she formed into a wolf again. She walked in front of the wolf of electricity and opened her wings, flapping them. "Stay back. You will freeze to death." She said, but her voice came out, again, in a sing song inaudible howl.

Thunder was running around when he tripped over a wolf. There was another wolf only slightly there with wings flapping frantically. He regained his posture again and looked around. Then with a yip of joy he let out a howl. "I am also a wolf of the great mother nature." He howled out. He had been looking for the others for a while. He looked around confused now. Why had they been brought to this icy world when one would melt it all and the rest would freeze. He was considering changing the temperature to a more suitable temperature for them all but was afraid he would hurt the ice wolf. He just raised it slightly more where him and the other two wolves stood. Then he looked back at a wolf engulfed in flames and figured she had it handled.

Scarny rolled her eyes at the frantic mess. She gave in and diffused her flames but her step was still hot enough to melt the snow and ice she looked at the others wolf the one with wings. "Why are you so frantic? I am sure there has been worse than this." She disregarded the once side that was cooler than the other side. She looked at the two other wolves that just fell over each other. Then she noticed the temperature getting slightly hotter over there. "I can heat this place faster than that." She teased knowing if she went full flare she would need to be angry and plus it would kill the ice wolf and probably the other two solid wolves. very few can handle black fire.

Koli was stunned that the wold Wisp had entered his soul and talked to him. "Stay, talk some more!" He yelled out, trying to locate the spirit. Thats when he noticed that a lot of creatures were around him, at least three others. "How did I not notice them before." He thought as he pondered his options. He could try to get close, but that always killed, or he could increase the storm, which would drive them away. Stuck between a rock and a hard place, he noticed that one of the wolves was of fire, and that scared him to death. He felt his blood run cold, which never happened before, and the storm suddenly grew much larger, trying to defend himself against fire out of instinct, although he didn't really want to hurt anything else, but he was stuck out of fear, and couldn't move.

Another wolf had showed up. She wasn't used to so many wolves around, and it made her uneasy. She didn't want to enter the souls of every wolf here to communicate with them. She stepped back and put her head down, disintegrating into a fine mist, becoming invisible. SHe was still there though, just unseen to the wolves. She would only intervene of this turned into a fight. She flapped her wings open and laid down in the snow, wrapping her wings around her, peaceful.

Wisp picked her head up. She looked to Koli. The blizzard around them was crazy and he needed help. She didn't want to enter his soul. She never liked entering people's souls, she never really knew quite why, but she didn't like it. She appeared and stepped to Koli, stopping right in front of him. "Calm down. Calm." She said. She frowned. Talking wasn't going to work, he would never understand her. Maybe she could calm him by singing. "Calm, calm the soul and the mind. Calm, calm until your heart beats in time. Close your eyes and imagine the world in a better place. Let your emotions send free to the air. Let your calmness take over. Calm, calm is in your body, let it seep into your soul" She sang. Since her voice was sing-song before, singing made it beautiful. The song came out loud, and erie, very calming. Most of the words wouldn't be understood, but every wolf was silent around her.

Wisp was about to disintegrate into mist and sit down again, when a voice cut through the air. She turned to see another wolf coming closer. It's eyes were sort of closed, but not as if it were squinting through the blizzard. She studied the wolf. She finally decided that it was blind. She then realized why the wolf was blind. It was the wolf of sound. "Hello wolf of sound. I am sorry for the blizzard. It must disturb your hearing. I am the wolf of spirit, named Wisp." It felt so good to say something and be understood. "What might your name be?" she asked. She then remembered the blizzard. Koli must have calmed down a little, but it was still swarming around them. She stepped closer to the wolf of sound and touched her paw to his chest, gently. She knew he wouldn't feel that much pressure, especially since she really wasn't a substance, but she wanted him to know she was there. "I am here." She spread out her wings, trying to block some of the blizzard.

Wisp smiled, but then realized the wolf wouldn't be able to see it. "Moonsong" She sang out, instead. She looked over to the ice wolf to see the blizzard come down a bit, but it was still wiping around them. She looked around, and spotted a couple of trees. She leapt over to them and turned into a mist again. She went sort of inside the trunk of a tree. At first there was silence, but then crackling tumbled towards the wolves, and the small tree fell. She then continued on, breaking and shifting, placing trees in a way that made a make-shift shelter. It took a while, but it was easier for wisp. She didn't want Koli to feel left out so she shifted a small iceberg to make a nice place for him to sit. She nudged Moonsong with her muzzle. "Follow my voice." She said, leading him toward the shelter to protect the wolves from the blizzard. She started to sing softly, with no particular words or notes, just singing.

Moonsong looked up as he felt the blizzard die down slightly. He gave an experimental bark to see if his echolocation was back to normal letting his hopes rise. The bark came back clearer than before but he could only read clearly up to a few yards ahead. He cocked his head in confusion as wisp did not show as clearly as normal wolves. He thought it could be because of the blizzard but he could detect another wolf and she was much clearer. He could tell it was a girl because he could catch a glimpse of a conversation she was having with another wolf. How many wolves are in this place he wondered recalling the few he could detect with his limited range. 4 he answered himself knowing there were probably many more beyond his senses.
He felt the spirit wolf nudge his muzzle and turned in her direction. He shivered a bit more from the weird sensation accompanying Wisp's touch than the cold. "Follow my voice." She said her voice easily overpowering the wind from the blizzard. She started to sing and he could hear her voice start to edge away indicating she was walking away. He started to follow her listening as her song cut through the blizzard just as easily as before but he soon stopped. Being led by her voice like this reminded him of his pack feeling he needed special assistance because he was blind. He sat down and let out a loud howl fighting the blizzard every moment. He had a rather nice howl but it wasn't something he did often because it hurt his hearing. He kept up the howl until he could gather everything he thought there was to know in this blizzard. When he finished he got up and padded to the hut where Wisp seemed to be leading him smiling all the way.
Sitting down in the hut he collected everything he had heard. There were in fact 7 wolves here and not 4 as he had previously thought. This was the only thing important in the blizzard as he couldn't hear any of their individual conversations over his howl. He lied down and contented himself to scouring the forest behind him taking pleasure in the meaningless sounds he could now hear. He hoped Wisp didn't mention his howl as it was quite rude of him to reject her help as he did.

"No I'm not." he said hardly believing it as the words came from the tree. He hadn't been thinking when he had said that. The instinct of protecting himself had kicked in and he had done nothing to stop himself. He could feel the nervousness rising up in waves from his pelt and he did nothing to stop it. He had never had reason to lie before. He had always believed that it was best to get straight to the point instead of wasting his senses on people trying to pick apart his lies. Not to mention that who would he lie to as a loner and the consequences of lieing as an omega were too terrible to even consider lying. However when he thought it over he realized he was glad for the instinct. If he had told them he was the wolf of sound then he would instantly plant the image of a blind wolf in their minds. Hadn't he just been thinking about how he had longed to have fun but couldn't with his reputation. Well he could do that with these wolves. He could create a whole new identity for himself through this tree. But first I have to think of it he thought turning his mind back to the situation. He would have to come up with some explanation as to why he could speak through this tree. He contemplated saying it was one of the many powers of the wolf of earth and decided that was the best chance to make the lie come across.
Taking an audible gulp he thought Here goes nothing. "My name is Adik and i'm the wolf of forests not sound. What kind of element is sound?" he said throwing in the self inflicted insult to make it more believable. He gave a small chuckle as if he was thinking about the comedy of the thought. He would admit that the name wasn't creatve in fact he had just reversed the letters of kida's but he was new to lieing and he was coming with all of this on the spot. As he progressed though became fluent in this language of deceit and the lies spun easily from the tree's core. When Shelbie asked him if they could speak face to face he immediately had a lie prepared for why they couldn't. The only problem was how he would convey it without earning sympathy from her as compared to the playful mood he preffered her to be in. He could get sympathy easily enough without the use of adik but he bagan his fable. He explained that he couldn't come out because he was shy and that his body wasn't fully formed yet. Mother nature had just recently created his conciousness and was still working on his body so for now he existed in the trees and bushes of this forest.
The whole time he was thinking of how he would pull off the ruse. To be the wolf of forests meant he would have to be able to manipulate nature like he could do with sounds. I should probably start off with a demonstration to prove i'm not lying even though I am. He contemplated how grand he should make the demonstration whether it be as simple as moving a vine or rustling every tree in the forest. The bigger the effect the more believable Adik will be he thought giving off an inaudible sigh. He got up from his spot asking wisp and Kida to stop their conversation for a moment and sat down someways away from any where he had found any of the wolves. He had a aching headache by now after all the multi-tasking he had been doing. Even now he was listening to Shelbie and Zaira and answering whatever questions they had through Adik, Listening to see if Wisp was saying anything he would need to translate when he got back , and echolocating his path. Needless to say he fell short of the latter may times and was covered in grass and dirt when he finally stopped in the clearing.
It was the same clearing that the blizzard had been i but it seemed to have concentrated itself to a small part of the clearing. Sitting slowly in the clearing he began concentrating on making a sonic boom loud enough to shake the leaves all the way back to Shelbie and Zaira. He would give himself a headstart by collecting the noises of the forest around him discretely enough as not to arouse suspicion from wolves. To start this he had to drop his attention from the fronts it had been on before and he had a brief moment of relief until he reigned control of the boom. Just these sounds weren't enough so he started lending enough sounds until he could barely control it anymore. To add to this as soon as the sound was released he would have to silence it so it wouldn't bust the eardrums of anyone or thing. The speed of sound was really fast and he didn't know if he would be able to protect himself from the blast in time while still controlling sound. He felt the chill of the bizzard against his fur and almost lost control. He didn't give himself time to think instead walking into the freezing cold of the blizzard. As he expected his hearing was instanly cut off within the blizzard and he was able to increase his concentration until it was perfect. He had just enough sound energy to rustle the leaves for miles without breaking anything major. Turning his head in the intended direction his breath drew in as he prepared to give the releasing bark. His eyes and ears were glowing a blinding white sybolising the stored up potential energy held within him now. At the same moment of release he had Adik say "Hey watch this." and the wave burst forth. He barely had enough energy to silence it before passing out beside in the middle of this bliizard. If you listened carefully to the boom the only thing you would hear would be the faint yelp of a blind wolf.

Moonsong finally awoke from his slumber with the pain of ringing ears. It could be worse he thought remembering the first time he had attempted a sonic boom. He had been deaf for hours and been forced to face the humiliation of being blind and deaf. He shivered at the thought before stretching himself in the remains of the blizzard. He looked to the wolf he had heard beside him ealier but decided not to say anything. He had other things to attend to. He shook his head back and forth but his ears were still clogged. Even the blizzard around him was a mere whisper to him right now. He gave a series of loud barks until he could hear them just as clearly as he should have been. "Much better" he said to himself just thankful he could hear. Problem was with his hearing back the blizzard was as loud as ever and he fled from it quickly.
As for the next problem he could face was maybe the hardest thing so far. He had no idea how long he'd been out but he doubted the world would stopped on his account. Shelbie or Zaira could have said anything in response to his demonstration and he would know nothing of it. Well he could deal with that when he was somewhere safer than the middle of a field. As he set off his stomach growled reminding him that he hadn't eaten in even more time in a long time. He wasn't sure how much time he could spare hunting while paying attention to his other conversations but he knew he would have to eventually. He refused to have someone else hunt for him so he set about his special hunting process. Being blind their were many things that he had to teach himself because a blind pup wasn't usually allowed to live. Only his echolocation made him seem like the other pups. Hunting was one of these skills and it was completely different from the conventional methods of a wolf. Instead of stealth and teamwork he used deceit and planning to get his meal.
Too start he dug a hole that was as deep as he was high that could act as a trap to chase prey into. With that done he sat and listened. I was about time for prey to be stirring so they should be looking for food and too slow to react to his deception. Soon he was able to pick up the distinct fall of dirt that fell as a rabbit scampered from his hole. Now the deceit could come into play. Hiding himself in the brush he started to create the noises of every predator the rabbit face from every direction bu the one moonsong was in. The rabbit's instint kicked into play and it ran in the only direction it thought was safe. Moonsong did this every time the rabbit straye off course until the rabbit fell into his hole. Even a rabbit couldn't jump that high and so it stayed at the bottom of the hole frantically searching for escape. Now came the part he dreaded about hunting when he had to go and actually kill the rabbit. Jumping down into the hole he pounced at the rabbit. The rabbit was faster than him and it darted out between his legs to the other side of the small hole. "Come here rabbit." he muttered spitting dirt from his mouth. "No your going to eat me." the rabbit shot back quickly as it darted away from another one Moonsong's pounces. Next to being blind, understanding the language of literaly everything was another downside to being wolf of sound. They both combined to make hunting excruciatingly painful. When the prey talked back he just felt cruel killing it.
"Of course I am. I'm a wolf and your a rabbit. That's how it works."
"But we can help each other. Perferably in a way i don't have to die."
Moonsong stopped his attempts and cast his blind gaze on the rabbit. This rabbit was peculiar to put it simply. His meals had tried to appease him before but never offer a partnership.
"What do you have in mind?" he asked without any intention to hear him out.
"Um well..," he didn't seem to have thought moonsong would actually listen. "You could offer me protection and I could-"
"Feed me?" moonsong interupted.
"Be your eyes." he said pleased he had come up with something.
With a growl moonsong finally caught the rabbit beneath a paw and fumed angrily in his face. "What makes you think i need eyes?"
"Well you wouldn't have caught me like this if you could see or hunt like a normal wolf. And with this rain coming you won't be able to hear right."
Moonsong glared sightlessly at the strange rabbit before taking him in his jaws. The rabbit scrambled in between his teeth fearful that he had gone too far with the comment of helplessness. Moonsong dropped the rabbit above the hole before he jumped out himself. The rabbit started off in one direction but Moonsong just headed back towards where Wisp and Kida waited. They were probably agitated with how long he'd been gone by now and anxious to continue their conversation. "How cool was that?" he had adik say so he could continue on his way with almost no priorities. He wished that the rabbit would have been content with his life and leave but the rabbit was loyal and felt the need to describe everything that he passed in detail. Moonsong sighed and wondered how he had made a guide of a meal.