mark william's Story

Sophia was caught off guard by the male male she and the others had passed on the stairs, "We haven't formed a pack, no one has agreed to it and I'm not the type to force my will unto others." She thought about the other half of what he said, "I understand this city is dark, that's part of the reason I'm here. I left my comfortable life with my parent's pack to make my own life as well as escape a badly created pack." She looked down, "I wanted to make myself worth my blood, and after hearing of cold blooded murders, rapes, and other crimes committed by our kind in this city I decided I would head here and make a difference, however small." Sophia locked eyes with the male, "Don't think I haven't killed before either." Sophia felt her expression go dark, "Every wolf is expected to at some point. My parents trained me to fight my entire life. I was attacked one night shortly after my twelfth birthday, a young male alpha sought to keep me until I was old enough to become his mate." Sophia fell silent in memory of that night, it didn't happen often but it wasn't as rare as it should be for alpha males to take mates by force, "He died like the desperate mange he was." Sophia sighed, softening her expression, "However if I had known he had a pup with no mother, I would have had my parents take it in in a heart beat. It'n not about what happened between you and the guilty, it's about whats right and wrong, and understanding who to punish and how badly to do so." Sophia smiled, "Does that answer your question?"

Alexander blinked slowly as he listened to what Sophia was saying, staying absolutely silent while she spoke. As she finished her story and gave the moral of it, he blinked again, breaking his intense focus. "It does answer my question." he said. He then looked to each of the other wolves in the room before looking back to Sophia. "You'll make a fine Alpha. But I will not be joining you." he said.

He then quickly reached into the pocket of his overcoat and pulled out a piece of paper and a pen, scribbling down an address on it before walking up to Sophia and stopping mere feet away and extending his hand to hand her the paper. "However, if I am required to help save our kind from killing itself off, you can find me here." he said calmly.

Even though he stood well within arms reach of an Alpha who's blood was nearly boiling earlier, he did not appear intimidated at all. In fact he seemed quite calm, almost as if he were holding back his negative emotions. His particular scent was much stronger than any normal lone wolf, but it was not that of an Alpha. If he were in a pack, it would almost appear that he would be equal to the Alpha, be directly under the Alpha, or, somehow, above the Alpha. There was just something... unnerving about him.

He then turned, the tail end of his coat swishing behind him, stuffed his hands in his pockets and started to leave the room, looking at each and every werewolf within the room again before finally leaving the room.

Sophia heard the noises of fighting down below, every bone in her body wanted to rush out and help, but a wolf like Alexander would not take kindly to being helped and Sophia didn't want to loose such a powerful ally. She could hear Alexanders cries of pain and his tormentors laughs of victory, then it went silent. When noise continued Sophia knew it was wolf form on wolf form, and Alexander was winning. Soon after Alexander's howl of victory filled the air before more silence.

Sophia noticed Jukka shift and head downstairs, and she could feel why, something wasn't right with Alexander. Sophia followed Jukka silently, but stayed in human form as to not seem challenging to Alexander. When she and Jukka got out the door she saw exactly what was wrong. Alexander was laying on his back barley breathing, he needed medical attention, and quickly.

Felan heard the fighting right after she finished speaking to Conner and terror filled her eyes but forced herself to not show more than that. The memories of the night she lost her family flooded into her mind and she curled into a ball on her feet covering her ears to try to block it all out "No no no no nononono..." she stayed this way until the fighting finally stopped but the memories remained when the shiver passed through her " Somethings not right here... " she whispered to only herself and Conner. She grabbed his hand and pulled him into the building, past the stairs and out the back door. A momentary look of panic crossed her face but she forced it away as she let go of Conner's hand and knelt by Alexander's side " How can I help? " she says worriedly having only really seen him in her panic and past. " It'll be okay, we'll get you some help. " She looked back at Conner " He needs help so please.." She says to him " I have a first aid kit but I don't think it'll be enough "

"Of course I can help you learn to fight, Master. But I will always protect you." Connor answered his new master's request. A howl was heard not too far away, this caused his master to fall to the ground and mutter to herself. Connor didn't comment, he just wrote down a new important note stating about his new master and clipped it over his name. It was more important.

After being dragged suddenly to the scene, Connor was met with pain. The body automatically attempts to stand straight when only using the legs to run, of course he still couldn't stay straight he was wincing and slightly moaning in pain until they stopped. This instantly allowed him to return to his hunched state, but instead he squatted down instead. This removed the pain and allowed him to view the injured being on the floor. "Hm..."

After being asked by his master to head off to get some help, Connor quickly turned around and lay his hands on the floor between his legs, ready to leap forward and run off. But he stopped when he looked back to see yet another person carrying the injured being. "Do you still need me to get help, Master?" Connor asked, still in the position to leap into action.

Felan backs up enough so Jessie could lift Alexander, frustrated she couldn't be of more use. Her interest was peaked when she mentioned a healer though. After some thought she nodded at Jessie "If you fellow Sophia too then I'll trust you" and she smiles "A pack is also a family right? and family trusts each other and helps everyone out" After saying this she went over to Conner and knelt down next to him "I'm sorry I pulled you like that I didn't think about it.." With that she gently hugged him around the neck "I'll try to be more careful, okay?.." She pulls back and looks at him "Just stay with me, okay?" She lowers her voice so only he can hear "Seeing someone hurt... I don't like it and I want to help but I'm not sure how and I don't want to get in the way.."

Sophia was relieved to hear of Jessie's friend, "I'm not a horse, but if theirs a rout out of sight I'll change and carry him on my back, you can ride with him so he doesn't fall off. Or perhaps Felan or Jukka can so you can guide me." Sophia knew carrying someone on her back would be uncomfortable, but if it would get Alexander help quickly, then she would gladly deal with it, "Oh and Jessie, I don't treat my friends like dirt."

"Aha, don't worry about me, Master." Connor gave a friendly chuckle as he accepted the hug. Causing him to blush slightly.
Taking the next speech as an order Connor replied; "Of course, Master." He wrote the 'order' into his notebook, ripped out the page and clipped it to the arm with less notes attached. It was the arm where he kept his orders.

"As for what you just said," Connor also lowered his voice, "If you want to help, then help. It is good to show that you are trying. Or just do it anyway, if anyone objects then I will take your side. I dunno, something like that." He smiled towards his Master and turned around to face the group again. Completely forgetting his first objective to find out about them. It didn't matter though, he has a Master now, so personal missions are pointless.

Felan smiled relaxing and thinking about what he said and spoke up a second after Sophia finished speaking, "I'll help carry him, Mistress!" She jumped up and walked to her leader's side. "I'll do whatever I can to help so he can be healed as quickly as possible."

Alexander turned his head to look at the entire group of wolves as they surrounded him, his teeth gritted from the pain. As Jessie laid her head on his chest and picked him up, he resisted the urge to let out a whimper of pain, and instead just let out a startled breath.

He had been bitten by one of his opponents in the chest, and it wasn't healing correctly. The only reason he wasn't bleeding all over Jessie's hands or clothing was because he was healing too quickly to let himself bleed.

He limply turned his head to the side to look at Sophia, giving her a small nod for some reason before looking away. His eyes were starting to get cloudy, and he was going to loose consciousness soon. By the time the group of werewolves had gotten him away from the apartment building, he would have lost consciousness, but his breathing would remain the same.

Sophia watched the young woman look over Alexander, she had the feeling she could trust this woman, gentleness seeped off her in waves and kindness danced in her eyes. Sophia sighed relieved that there was help for Alexander. She looked around for a chair and upon finding one dragged it over next to Jessie, "So Jessie, how did you meet her?" Sophia accompanied the question with a smile so Jessie would know she felt no threat from the woman, now at work on Alexander.

"N-no. Don't close the wound." Alexander managed to talk, bringing himself back from being unconscious. "T-there are teeth in my ch-chest." he wheezed. "Remove the teeth, I'll be f-fine." he said to Claire. With a shaky hand he unbuttoned his overcoat to reveal the bite mark.

The ends of wolf teeth were jutting out from his chest in some places, causing the wound to not be able to heal correctly. All other marks where he had been bitten were almost healed by now. "There's one that's ...d-deep." he said, wincing and letting out a pained whine.

His other hand gripped the edge of the table in pain, threatening to snap a part of it off with just the strength in his hand alone.

"I cant believe i left the keys in the store by mistake" as a said in a frustrated tone, holding my hand on my head "and to top it off im also hungry" while saying this i look around and i finally spot a person walking towards the store as as i call out "sorry i locked the door with the keys inside so it is pretty much closed until tomorrow" but the person kept walking like he never heard me taking another look i noticed a small glint in his left arm, studying it more i realized it was a small lead pipe, quickly getting to my feet i yell to the man "sir drop the pipe and get on the floor now!" while i was reaching for my holstered weapon, but as the man continued to walk just 6 feet from me i aimed my weapon at the man and said "last warning sir drop the pipe or....." before i could finish the man hurled the pipe at me and with quick reflexes i dodged to the right with the pipe nearly hitting me in the face and crashing through the glass doors behind be causing an alarm to go off, as i try to aim my weapon at the man he tackled me to the ground knocking my weapon to the ground and lying right on top of broken glass and a mugger right on me, as he threw a punch at me i try to get him off balance to throw him off but he just wouldn't budge and i take a fist into my face as as he pulled his hand back for another punch i quickly headbutt the guy on the head right on the nose forcing him to hold it it pain and that was my chance, i quickly threw the man off me and quickly getting to my feet and made a dash to the pipe for it was the closest weapon i could find and used it to hit the man in the gut, as he grunted in pain and fell back on the marble floor of the store i dashed back to my gun picked it up and aimed it to where the man was but he was gone like nothing happened, all there was is a blaring alarm, broken glass, blood where the man was and a bruised face, as i stood dumbfounded of how the man vanished out of sight so fast my thought was cut short with a growl on my guts and to turn of that alarm before my ears exploded, so i pick up a small bag of chips leaving the money on the counter, turned of the alarm and proceeded to sit behind the counter and open the bag of potato chips and ready just in case someone else attacks, "i cant believe that fight lasted 5 minutes" looking at the clock "it felt longer" as i take a handful of chips and shove it in the mouth

Sophia nodded attentively while listening to Jessie's story. A small smile filled her face as her heart warmed. She may not have known Jessie in her dark times, but she was very glad she had Claire to watch over her. Sophia had never had people like that, sure she had her parents and they did love her very much, but they were always working and if they interacted with Sophia it was mostly for lessons. Sophia supposed her loneliness had made her as kind and understanding as she was, while the packs dysfunctional and agitated nature had enabled her to see right and wrong in the actions of people. Sophia felt her eyes tear up slightly in wistfulness, she wanted someone like Claire, a role model, but she was an alpha and as such Sophia herself was cursed to always be the role model.

Sophia smiled at Jessie, "You're very lucky to have a friend like Claire, and I think Alexander is lucky as well." If Jessie hadn't known Claire Alexander would be dead. The smile faded from Sophia's face as she realized more serious manners were at hand, "We need to know who attacked him and why. If there's a gang of wolves just randomly attacking others then they need to be stopped." Sophia looked at Alexander, "If they had attacked another wolf they would have won and the other wolf would have died, I don't like my pack, or my allies in danger."

Alexander looked at Claire, opening his mouth to protest more, but then let out somewhat of a sigh. "Fine. Do as you will." he said submissively. Here he was, a big strong tough-guy of a werewolf not even bothering to argue with a kind, gentle nurse of a werewolf who didn't match up to him in strength.

He would let out a pained whine or a sharp breath of relief as Claire pulled out the teeth and closed the wounds. Though he wasn't saying much, Alexander was definitely thankful for being treated by someone so gentle. He then looked at Sophia and managed a smirk.

"W-what can I say? I've always been lucky..." he winced. "Okay, not always." he admitted. He then looked back over to Claire. "But thank you, Claire. I can't afford to die yet." he said, raising up an arm and gently placing it on her shoulder before letting his hand drop back down to the table with a loud Thud!

Felan sat by the door of the vet waiting not knowing where to really go having only getting to the city today. She looks up at Conner and Jukka and asks, "sooo.. How long have you two been here? I've only just gotten here so I'm feeling kinda lost at the moment eheh..." She folds her hands in her lap looking down. "I've actually never really been to a city before so I'm kinda anxious."

Connor reacted to his Master's question by searching through his notes on his arms and in his books. "I do not know how long,I don't place timestamps on my notes." He explained simply, using his boring tone as usual.

After standing around for a while, Connor decided that he needed to sit, he was beginning to ache. So he wondered over next to his Master and squatted down next to her, resting his arms on his knees with a notepad in hand. With that, he began drawing his surroundings with immaculate detail. Taking advantage of being close to the others by noting down any physical aspect he missed out into the profiles he made.

Felan smiled and nodded at Conner curious as to why but felt it best to keep it to herself. She took a peak at his drawing and smiled in amazement. "Wow you're amazing Conner, I kinda draw too but not as good as you." she said as she slipped her bag off her back and started to dig through it again. " My drawing book should be in here somewhere...". She practically stuffs her head into her big back packet and a muffled " Ah hah! " can be heard once she finds it. "Here, I've been drawing for a while now, mainly just creatures and things that were floating around my mind." she flips it open for the two of them to see, mermaids, dryads, fairies, normal wolves among other things were scrawled over the pages only a few though are actually colored though. "I'm not very good at coloring them in yet but I love to draw~".

Connor stared at the drawings, "Where did you see these things? My long term notes show nothing of them." He spoke with a kind of praising tone, but quickly returned to drawing his surroundings with one hand. Using the other hand to pull out a second notebook and begin jotting down descriptions of the beings he saw in his Master's book.

"I don't see what you mean by 'amazing at drawing' or 'coloring'. I just sketch my surroundings so I don't forget, or if something changes." Connor explained while concentrating. He could easily multi task since his memories were close to non existent, so his brain was basically empty. Kind of like a new computer being very fast due to massive memory space.

"What do you mean by 'love'?" Connor's attention was caught with the word, causing him to stop writing but continue drawing. It was as if he remembered hearing the word before, somewhere or everywhere. But he simply did not know why.

Felan giggled "I made them up in my mind, it helps keep me level and lets me get out my emotions." she says skipping past a few pages "I'd rather not show them out in the open though..." her voice wavers at this and shows another of a duck she saw once, "I drew this when I was still in my home state." She tilts her head to the side thinking about his question before answering, "Love.. I mean I really enjoy doing it. It really makes me happy when I can draw" her normally blank expression softens into a happy relaxed one as she kinda zones out into her mind.