Royal's Story

Royal crouched, waiting for a chance to sneak up on the doe. She crept slowly forward.

A small lupine form stirs from the underbrush, his ears swivel as the howl reaches him. Lifting his head his nose twitches. A small whine escapes him. Getting to his feet and stretching languorously and sniffs again. Wolf... slightly older... maybe Female. The long kneeing howl rings long and clear, a howl of companion ship. Skat hops from one foot to the other. His body quivering with excitement. Another wolf.
Taking off at a full gallop he howls in return, he must find her. Whining in frustration he pushes him self faster, air huffing in and out, digging his claws in to the soil and using his back legs to push himself faster and faster. It's been too long since his last interaction with anyone else.
Bursting into a small clearing he puts his nose to the ground. She's been here and recently too, but which way now. Throwing his head back and opening his mouth he lets his voice sing into the morning sky, full on uncensored joy and excitement.

Bahamut heard the howls coming from the forest, he smelled that familar scent on the air. There were other wolves here, which meant he was right, he had found the Forest that Dusk the crow had spoken of. Bahamut bolted in the direction of the howls and the scent, tracking his way through the forest. He wasn't normally this excitable, but he hadn't seen another wolf in a long time. He missed having companions, having a pack to run with. With the that thought he steeled himself and pounded on through the forest, his large form like a red bear barreling through the forest.
He stopped at a the tree line surrounding a lake. On the other side of the lake he spotted what he was looking for. A black wolf was kneeling down taking a drink from the water. Bahamut raised his head to the black wolf and howled a greeting.
"Hello. My name is Bahamut!" and waited a response from the black wolf.

Following the sent trail, with his nose to the floor. His fur bristling with excitement Skat starts trotting towards the source of the smell. Bursting through the brush and into a bigger clearing. Facing him, a lake with two wolves. Lowering his tail and whining softly he approaches the two wolves. Tummy close to the floor and avoiding eye contact whilst tucking his tale between his legs.
"Uh, hey. My names Skat" putting his ears close to his head and hanging his tongue out the side of his muzzle he shows a wolfy grin.

Bahamut moved closer to the new wolf named Skat, who had approached them in a very submissive manner. Bahamut took this to mean that Skat considered him the boss, and so Bahamut held up his head and stood over Skat imposingly. Bahamut's large figure dwarfed the other wolf's smaller form. This might be an omega, thought the large red wolf, he seems timid.

"Hello Skat, I'm Bahamut. I am alpha," growled Bahamut. He smiled and bared his teeth, but didn't threaten the smaller wolf. He lowered his snout for the other wolf to lick, keeping his teeth bared. This small wolf looks like a pup he's so scrawny, but he seems friendly.

Abigail hears a howl that probably came from a female wolf. It was welcoming but she still stood atop the hunter weighing weather she should let them go and go after the howl or stay and deal with the hunter. She doesn't want to be in a huge pack like the one she was invited to mere minutes ago. Maybe they're looking for members to form a small pack? In the end, she makes up her mind. "You guys can deal with this filth. I need to go." she says to the other wolves hiding. She waits patiently for another wolf to stand on the hunters legs before getting off them. "Thanks." she says when the wolf stands on the hunters body pinning them down. Abigail growls at the terrified hunter one last time before bolting. She lets out a yip as she runs. She's not felt so free in days. With the possibility of a small pack to join, she wants to get there as quickly as possible before they stop accepting.

She walked past a lake earlier when she was wounded. They have to have somewhere to drink. Right? Although she had no idea where is is anymore when she fell asleep. The moon starts to rise behind her as she sprints towards the scent. She is getting really close to the source of the howl. She sees a rock and leaps up onto it quietly not wanting to disturb anything and reveal her presence. She sees in fact three wolves. One wolf at the lake that was just drinking a few seconds ago is female, one male wolf appearing dominant over another younger male wolf with their belly close to the floor with their tail in between their legs. Abigail slowly and quietly lies down on the rock. She puts her front two paws on top of the other and puts her head on top of them and continues watching to see what happens.

"Royal, do you have a pack?" Bahamut growled and bared his teeth, lowering his head a bit but still standing tall, looking like a large bear reading to fight. He wagged his tail a little, showing Royal that he was more interested in making a pack than fighting her. I hope she doesn't want to fight, I don't want to hurt her.

Sensing trouble Skat stopped trying to play, planting him-self between the two alphas he tries play bowing Bahamut again but to no avail. Using his scrawny frame he tries leaning against Royal whilst licking her muzzle, trying to create a bigger gap between the two, with out being assertive or aggressive. Lowering his head slightly and sticking his bum in the air trying to get Royal's attention to play he mouths her muzzle and paws trying to get her to step backwards

The tension begins too ease slightly as Royal registers his attempts to play. Yipping playfully he tries play bowing, a small rustle in the grass catches his attention. Planting his feet firmly and setting his sights he pounces but missis, a small mouse scurries away from his out stretched paws, his stomach grumbled hollowly a deep knot forming in the pits. Growling in frustration
"I'm gonna.. Just sit still" pouncing again and again trying to catch the mouse his attempts growing more and more frantic. The mouse reaches it's hole, Skat's attempts thwarted.
"Stupid mouse. Didn't want to eat any way. Probably taste nasty" kicking a tuft of grass with his paw he heads back to the other two. Plopping his hind quarters down and ginning.
"So uh, who's got dinner..? I'm starved. That mouse was like a super mouse or something, no way he coulda gotten away from all this fury" he nodds his head, in a matter of fact way. Looking from Royal to Bahamut and whining softly as his stomach growls again.

Abigail watches as the young wolf runs into the water and the female go behind the dominant male. She seemed to be threatening him. "This won't end well..." she mutters. The dominant wolf makes himself look bigger in front of the female. The young wolf gets in between them and imitates the females moves and then the young wolf's attention is put onto a mouse. It tries to catch it but couldn't. The other two seem to still be looking aggressive. The males tail wagging as in 'Do you want to be my mate?' or something along those lines. Abigail lifts her head off her paws before spotting 2 other wolves run to the lake, one jumping in and swimming back. "I guess it's time to introduce myself" Abigail thinks. She drops off the rock landing on the ground elegantly and walks to the wolves.

The black wolf named Royal in front of Bahamut seemed to be calming down, and Skat had chased a mouse and asked about food. "Well Royal, I think we would make better pack mates than rivals." Bahamut approached Royal slowly and circled her, wagging his tail, showing that he is a friend. He sat down in front of her and put his large paw in the air, as if to wave, pointing at Skat. "We should try to find some food soon, Skat's already hungry."

The sun had begun to set and shown off the lake beautifully. Bahamut made to move when he noticed another female wolf coming up behind him from the nearby rocks. She didn't look like she was sneaking, and she didn't seem to be aggressive. Her white fur and blue eyes shown brilliantly in the light bouncing off the lake, entrancing Bahamut. "Hello there, I'm Bahamut." He called and stood up, wagging his tail to welcome her.

Abigail walks up to the dominant male and the male notices her. "Hello there, I'm Bahamut." he says. Bahamut's tail is wagging as he stands up. "What's going on? I thought he was acting dominant over everyone..." Abigail thinks. "Uhh... Hi?" she says. She doesn't wag her tail to say she isn't looking for a mate. She sees the black female take down a doe and she walks up to her. "Hello?" Abigail says.


James gets tackled by Shane. "Scared of a fluffy chap like me?" Shane says. As the hunters suddenly come in, Shane runs away and James is open for a shot. Luckily he jumps as the bullet leaves one of the hunters rifles so it misses. James sprints in the opposite direction following the wind. It was childish but effective, you never know when the wind's direction will change. As James predicted, the wind changes to the general area of where Shane ran. He seems to have thrown them off. James slows to a walk just in time to see Shane and another wolf playing about with a stick. He crouches on his belly and watches them run around. As they leave the area a few minutes later, James starts to stalk them they both start to sprint so he copies them until he reaches a lake. Shane jumps right into it leaving the female on the rock. Thinking she won't notice him, he moves closer before moving slightly to the left in hopes of her not noticing him.

Royal comes down heavy on the deer, Skat hops excitedly from one foot to the other whining anxiously. Charging the kill, he tares into the fresh meat, a warmth floods his body, each bite filling him. He sits cleaning his paws on the grass, rubbing them back and forth on the dewy grass. Sitting bolt up right he hears Royal growl. A deep and guttural sound that instantly puts Skat's hackles up. Growling softly and pulling his lips back over his teeth he springs to his feet and charges into the forest, his feet become tangled in a branch and he sprawls to the floor. By the time he rights himself Royal comes limping from the forest, something metallic hanging from her side, the rusty smelling red liquid seeping through her fur. Recognizing the thing in her side as a human weapon he flattens his ears to his head and growls running to Royals good side he lets her lean on him

Neoma runs through the woods with the moon to her back in her human form trying to get away from the hunters that caught her killing one of them. There were wolves nearby too and she almost shot one of them by accident. Luckily it seems they both got away without being hurt. They've not been seen, heard or smelt in the past few minutes so maybe she got away? No, hunters never give up that easily. They've obviously slowed down in hopes that she's slowed down too. Deciding she would be faster in her wolf form, she changes to her wolf form and sprints through the trees, still running away from the moonlight but the wind is making her fur wave and it feels better to her. Suddenly, she collides with another wolf.

James and Neoma both tumble down the small drop after the collision and falling into the water. Neoma suddenly keeps turning to and from wolf and human form in shock. It scares James and he quickly gets to shore as Neoma start to swim to shore now in her wolf form again. James backs away slowly with ears down and belly on the floor. Neoma sees the other wolves and panics, staring to try and run away.

“This forest is more dangerous than I could’ve imagined.” Bahamut thought out loud. He heard distant growling and a yelp coming from the direction that Skat and Royal had run off to. He sensed that something bad had happened, and made to run after them, when suddenly a wolf and… something else, came splashing into the lake.

From Bahamut’s perspective he saw a wolf and a human tangled in the water, but the human kept shifting between a wolf and a human. Although odd, Bahamut had seen some strange things in his day. The two reached the shore of the lake and clambered onto the rocky ground. Before Bahamut could react the human was a wolf again. So she can move between the two forms. I won't let her endanger this new pack, but she could be a valuable member too.

The human-wolf started to try and run away, but Bahamut wanted to know more about her, so he ran to block her. He knew if he could get in front of her his huge form might scare her back, or he could try to pounce on her and hold her down with his weight. Either way he had to catch her quickly.

Neoma is blocked by Bahamut and she jumps back and goes to human form. With the cliff behind her and being in her human form, she can easily get away by climbing but is it worth the risk of finding the hunters again? In the end, she changes back in hopes that the wolf in front of her won't kill her.

Abigail watches as royal kills the hunter but gets stabbed with a knife and then back away from the young wolf who now appears angered. Turning around, she sees a human and a wolf fall off a cliff and into the water. "Oh my god!" she blurts out. Abigail runs to the waters edge watching the human turn to a wolf and then back until they finally stay as a wolf when they get to shore. She growls at the black wolf. The black wolf tries to run but Bahamut blocks them. The black wolf jumps beck and becomes a human again. Abigail gets ready to pounce but they change back before she attacks. Now focusing on the real wolf, she walks up to them the male wolf is scared. "Uhh... You ok?"

Bahamut had backed the wolf-human into a cliff face, and effectively cornered her. She looked like she was about to try to run away, when she instead turned into a wolf and braced herself, waiting. He could tell she was afraid, but she didn’t look too hostile. Now that she was in her wolf form however, Bahamut’s instincts kicked in and he raised the fur on his hackles, his tail held out straight and his teeth bared.

“Who are you?!” Bahamut growled loudly, the question tinged with a faint warning. This human-wolf was new and strange, which spelled danger to Bahamut. On one hand Man had always been trouble for Bahamut, and he tried to steer clear of them. On the other hand she was part wolf, and Bahamut’s instincts to dominate and protect his fellow wolf rang clearly through his head.

Neoma takes another step back, the wolf seems aggressive and she doesn't understand what the wolf is saying. She still doesn't know all of the language. He said 'are' at the middle of what he just said. Seeing as he looks like he is about to pounce, she takes it that he's going to kill her. Being as small as she is, she darts around the wolf and into the water, turning back into a human so she can swim better.

Neoma is picked up and held by the throat, now out of the water again. Her black clothes are soaked and the cold of a normal winter's night didn't help either. She needed to change back to a wolf and she had an idea of how. Maybe the male wolf won't take kindly to there being another werewolf in this area. Neoma starts to choke from lack of air as the older werewolf gripped her neck too tightly. "Who are you? And what are you doing on my land?" the werewolf choking her asks. Neoma doesn't reply. She just act dead by not blinking and letting her body go slack. Hopefully the girl will drop her and she'll be able to turn into a wolf.

Watching everything happen at once, Abigail stares at the three blankly. Watching Royal the supposed 'Alpha' turn into a human, Abigail realizes that howl was probably to attract wolves so they can kill them. James seems to pick up on this too and he slips away unseen. Now she carefully walks up to the 2 wolf/human hybrids, not getting too close. "So uhh... Your here to kill us all?" she asks before backing up a bit.

It seems it didn't work. Maybe she should tell her the truth? Although she probably won't believe her for a second. "I am Neoma Vigilante. I was running away from hunters after I shot one of them and I tumbled off the cliff after I collided with another wolf." Neoma says. It's the truth but will she believe it? She has a knife up both her sleeves that she could use and 2 pistols, one on the ground and another in her left pocket.

Abigail is taken aback at how demanding the girl is. Nevertheless, it's important that she joins this pack. It seems only two wolves have joined right now. "Uhh... I'm Abigail Seelenfreund and I came hear after hearing your howl." she says.