Shaun Blackheart's Story

Shaun snorted as he trotted around the forest. There was nothing for him to do, but he did enjoy being a wolf. He was curious as to what the Pack was doing, but he didn't call them. He let out a soft howl, hoping to hear responses from any of his pack mates. Finding a stream he jumped into it and took his "bath" as he even drank the water. Oh lovely... nothing to do today. He thought to himself grimly. He jumped out of the stream and continued trotting around, as he shook the spare water off of his fur. A rabbit darted across his line of sight, and immediately the hunt was on. He chased after it, with a feral growl. Catching up to the small hare, he closed his massive jaw on its neck, snapping it in half. Feeling quite satisfied with himself, he started eating the animal, his tail wiggling happy as the warm meat and blood entered his belly.

Licking his snout, he proceeded to mark his territory, and bury the leftover hare for later. Today is going to be fun. He thought as he plopped down on a stone, so he could bathe in the sun.

Azalea had chosen to leave without breakfast...and through the backdoor of the Shadow Moon house. She had heard all the kerfuffle between the Alpha and the Beta and had decided against making the situation any more volatile than it had been. She yawned and stretched for a moment before deciding that today was one of the days she would prefer to spend in her wolf form. She took a running leap and shifted in mid air, landing as a wolf with browns, cream and grey all over its body. She shook herself roughly before taking off at a run in the direction of a stream that was close to the boarder between the two pack territories.

Her hazel-brown eyes scanning the area and her nose constantly scenting to see if there was anyone else. Her pace slowed as she smelt blood, urine and...wolf. It wasn't a wolf she knew, so she kept on her side of the river. Azalea began to slink cautiously through the trees, licking her maw for a moment and then flicking her ears forwards. Her wolf form wasn't the largest around, but she was built for speed and stealth...so if the other gave chase, she would be swiftly hightailing it out of there. But for now, her thirst kicked in and she went down to the stream to drink. She got one good slurp in before she realised that the unknown wolf was still around. 'Oh great...just my luck of the draw...well, I shall be sorely vexed if this wolf ends me before I attend the ceremony tonight.' She thought before she drank more swiftly and then backed away from the stream, sitting firmly in her pack's territory. She let out a yip, it echoed through the trees for a moment and she was given a chance to wonder if they'd play a word game with her...before she thought that she'd heard a reply.

Shaun's ears flicked back as he heard a yip. Grumbling he stood up and, sniffed around smelling a wolf that was not of his pack he walked back to where the scent was. He saw a small wolf, that looked a bit like him in wolf form. He gave a bark, as his tail wagged, much like a dogs.

A howl was heard in the distance, and he gave a louder, much more stronger howl. He was glad that someone from his pack was doing alright. He sat there and waited for her to yip or bark back. He leaned down and took a drink, his eyes trained on her.

Dylan took off into the bush. Jumping over lifted roots and swiftly making her way to her Alpha. She smelt the river, its cool, fresh scent made her feel thirsty and she picked up the pace until she saw her Alpha. He stood proudly and large.

She walked until she stood beside him and saw a young female wolf on the other side of the river.
'is she from the shadow moon pack Alpha?' Dylan asked threw the packs mind link

Azalea turned her head towards the sounds of movement and she settled down on her haunches again as his tail wagged and she licked her maw again. His tail was high....she'd seen it, he was the Alpha of another pack. His louder howl just confirmed this for her. She stood up on all fours and stretched again before going a little downstream and rolling in the cold water for a moment. That would have to do in terms of a shower until she returned to the house. She stepped out of the water and shook herself, sending water spraying everywhere. She then spotted another wolf, it was white, must be another of the other pack. No matter, she was only here for a game and recently her pack had seemed a little fed up with her antics...so she thought she deserved a little play time.

Her playful side showed a little as she lowered her chest to the floor and raised her hind quarters. She was not so prejudiced as to not want to play with another wolf...just because they were in the wrong pack. Her tail waved for a moment before she winked at him and barked back, before sprinting off along the bank of the stream on her side. Her bark could have been roughly translated into a challenge of chasings...or hide and go seek, whichever the other translated it as. Her paws flashed underneath her as she sent pebbles and rounded stones skittering into the stream, creating little pattering sounds. She was content to just...exist. The other wolf was not aggressive or threatening at the moment, so she had no qualms with him...but if he did, she was out of there, quick as a goblin's sneeze.

Azalea slowed to a stop and turned back, coming back to the two other wolves. She looked right at the other female, yipped and wagged her tail. She nodded to the way she'd been heading before she flicked her ears forward, seeing if they were both going to play.

'How dare she speak to me like that, like i am HER beta, her grandfather am have been Alpha until my father challenged him for the land so his pack could get more territory, but her grandfather and his pack lost giving my family claim of this land, she is lucky i even made her my Beta' Luke growled and ran faster. His long black legs carrying him towards the stream that ended his territory and went into someone elses.

He was now close enough to smell the river. He also caught the scent of his beta and gamma plus to unknown wolves.
He saw the back of his gamma and walked over to her, domanance in his stance as he saw two other wolves on the other side.

One looked to be another alpha and the other one....
was beautiful

Her pure white fur glistened with water coming from the river, her tail wagging playfully as she lay on her belly and her silver eyes held amusement. A strange urge to go and play with her coursed threw Luke but he ignored it as he stood beside his gamma, now fully in the view of the other alpha

A pleasurable shiver ran threw Dylan as she saw a huge pure black wolf step beside the female. He seemed to have an aura of power around him that only a powerful Alpha would have. She whimpered and stood by her Alpha incase anything were to happen.

'but why do i feel if we were to fight i would defend him?'

When both Alphas gave the all clear, Azalea gave a joyous yip before watching the white wolf and her own leader run off. She turned her head to face the male, and gave him as cheeky a smile as she could in her current form.
"You are so kind as to let me have a chance to play today. Would you like to play chasings with me?" She asked before boldly stepping over onto his side of the boarder, her tail in the position that one would expect a Gamma to have. She ventured so close that he would have been able to see the diamond shaped smudge between her eyes, right at the base of her muzzle. being built for speed rather than brute force would work in her favour today....or so she hoped.
"Come and get me...if you can~!" The mottled femme flicked her tail over his nose for a moment before sprinting away across the stream and back into her comfort zone, hopefully with that strong and handsome-...ah...with the non-enemy male in tow.

Azalea smelt the white female, her alpha and her beta on her side of the border and she leaped once showily before keeping her pace up. She turned her head to see if he was following and she realised that he was being a little hesitant. She looked back in front of her and made a surprised noise when moments later he went sailing over her and almost rolled into a tree.
"Oh my goodness, are you alright?" She asked, stopping short and then trotting towards him as he stood up and shook himself off.

She stopped short again as he ran towards her and she doubled back, heading for his territory instead, so he had more of a chance of catching up and such, besides...she had always been curious about how the other side lived. Her tongue flopped out the side of her mouth and she looked at him for a moment, her brown-hazel eyes searching for something before she blinked and she turned back. She trotted away until she reached the stream and took a little bit more of a drink before splashing through it. However, her stomach chose this time to growl at her and she sighed, stretching slightly for a moment before she sat just inside his scent markers.

"They will not harm her, if you do not harm me...this is a peaceful play session...but on a more serious note, should I be wary of any places in your territory today?" She said, staring at him again for a moment before looking down as her stomach demanded something more than water for sustenance. Her tail wagged from side to side as she smelt his scent more thoroughly, it was a scent that was so vague...but she knew it so well. It only came around once a year or so, something to do with autumn? She shrugged it off before flicking her ears toward him and getting up. "You know....you'd think that my Alpha would be tired of his Gamma trying to find playmates, he had as of recently. On that note, I should introduce myself. My name is Azalea Redwood, what about you?" She licked her nose once as she waited for his reply, her tail still wagging.

Shaun chased her feeling much more confidant in his territory, he knew where everything was. He clawed a tree near the stream on his territory. Looking down at her he gave a wolfy smile, "I am fine.. never better... I needed a good tumble actually." He barked, his ears flicked as he heard her stomach grumble, he trotted over to the buried hare and dug it up.

"If ya's don't mind leftovers... here's some of mine." He thought to her once more as he dropped it by her feet. Sniffing around he rolled his shoulders, "Just stay away from my cave...unless...I invite you there." He smirked as an Amber eye rolled over on her and in a cheeky tone he added, "I only invite the ladies I wanna impress and mate with." He snorted and laid down stretching out happily.

Sniffing her he found she kinda smelled like the pine trees after it rained. "Call me Shaun... Shaun Blackheart." He said standing up, placing a paw over his torso as he did an impression of a bow. He was Alpha, but he did have manners.

She returned the wolfish smile and a slight giggle passed through her mind link, straight to his.
"You need a good tumble in the morning?" She teased before he went over and dug up something and then laid it at her paws.
"Haha, all I get are left overs once I come back to the house for food. I'm always out somewhere checking our food stores." She replied before she laughed at his cave comment through her tenuous link to her. She wasted no preamble in eating the remains of the hare and once done, she licked her maw before responding to his slight teasing.

"I don't think my Alpha would allow his Gamma to do anything with you, however I wonder how many females I would smell if I went there with you." She replied smoothly, her human voice coming through now. It was gentle, and lilted slightly with her speech pattern, as though she had learned a prior language before English. "I guess I'm not impressive enough for your tastes my good sir, although...being a little lighter on my feet, means you have more of a game on your hands, rather than in your cave." She teased him before he laid down and stretched out quite happily.

She caught him sniffing her and she grinned a little.
"Well Shaun...would you like to see my other form? Because I'm sure I'll be able to play hide and seek better if I can climb trees and such....don't you agree?" She said lightly, batting at his ear with one of her paws in an acknowledgement of his bow. "And who knows...maybe I'll figure out why you seem to think you're the hottest thing around here if you shift back too..." She said before looking at him sidelong from the corner of her eye.

He agreed to shift and she nodded as he mentioned that he was a virgin.
"Not to worry, I'm sure everyone is waiting for their mate. I am too." Azalea replied before she sat up a little and watched him transform from wolf, to man. A very deliciously hot man, and she hadn't been a fanatic about piercings, but on him they were perfect. Her eyes darkened for a moment as he crossed his arms and smirked, leaning against a tree.

"I'm sure others could give you a run for your money in that category." She teased lightly before she stood on all fours and shifted in a matter of moments, she was very good at it you see, going from one form to the other. Her fur retreated and her muzzle changed back to human features, paws to hands and then her tail grew smaller and smaller, being reduced to a tailbone. She looked almost like a pixie, her features fine and gentle, her light blonde and brown hair gleaming a little as she stood up. Her eyes were a lot lighter this time however, almost a gold-hazel. She stood at 5'6", dark jeans and a non contracted band tee with a dark leather bomber jacket.

Her hair almost blocked out one of her eyes from sight, so she tucked the offending locks away from her face.
"Now...still think that you're the prettiest thing on this side of the earth?" She asked with a laugh, before winking at him.
"So, who hides first?" She questioned, tilting her head to one side with a soft smile curving her pink lips upwards.

Shaun heard Dylan's voice and he let out a human snarl, "Excuse me miss." He said making sure to take in her perfect petite form. He started running across the stream, taking no time in shifting into his wolf form. I'm coming! He shared through his link with her, his voice full of anger and rage.

Tree's shot past him until he found Dylan hiding behind some bushes, he gave her a caring nuzzle and leapt over the bushes giving a dangerous snarl. He wasn't happy that his Dylan was hurt, and someone was going to pay. Who did it?! His strong Alpha voice broke through the forest. All fur was on end as his teeth showed, his eyes full of anger.

He was not a happy wolf. You alright Dylan? He asked in a soothing voice. Every muscle was tense in his body, he wanted someone to know what it felt like to be hurt.

'i..i..i'm f..ff..fine just a little bleeding in my neck but its already healed i just...i'm sorry alpha i just ran i didnt know what to do, when they attack all i saw was the night my parents were killed..i am so sorry' Dylan whimpered.
She didnt know what came over her, the fear of death clouded her mind and she wasnt thinking.

'their Alpha have already dealt with them...i..it was just an a..accident i think' she stuttered threw the mind link.
Crawling up in a little ball she forced the imagines of her dead parents faces from her mind.

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Mia and Alice jumped in surprise as an angry looking Alpha shot out of the bushes. They looked to their Alpha, but they already got the message

'he told the other alpha if we were to hurt anyone in his pack the other alpha would deal with us' Alice whimpered, tucking her tail in between her legs
'i know, its not our fault it was an accident!!' Mia barked weakly, stepping in front of her younger twin but still coward under the Alpha's angry glare.

The moment Shaun left, she did too, immediately shifting and rocketing through the forest, leaping over the stream. She came to a stop in a spray of dirt and ground cover as she surveyed the scene. The white wolf, although now healed, still had blood stains on her neck and Azalea's ears drooped a little. She'd taken this chance, forgetting all about the more volatile members of her pack...she stared at the two young wolves for a moment and sighed.
"I take full responsibility for this, I wanted to play, so I shall take their punishment, whatever it shall be. But girls, this is not out of kindness that I say this, nor foolishness. And to both Alphas, they are young...rather as I should have definitely known better. Forgive me." She said before laying down and rolling onto her back.

"Are you alright my dear?" She whined out at the white wolf, turning her head to see how the other female was doing. She saw her bonding well with the Beta and the Alpha. After thinking that she had been showing her belly for a long enough time, she got up and went to the white wolf, licking the blood off of her fur. She felt it was the least she could do.
'You shouldn't have had to be keeping an eye out for them...I am sorry that this has happened.' She whispered into the white female's ear before she moved away a little to give everyone room to check on both the white wolf and the two wolf sisters.

Dylan cuddled into the two wolves that surrounded her. Feelings of warmth circled threw her body and she loved it. She whimpered when the cream colored wolf moved away.
'please stay' she whimpered, she didn't care if she was acting childish, she haven't felt like this since her parents died. The two wolves that attacked her crawled over on their bellies joining the little circle of warmth they all had created.
'we are so sorry' they whimpered at the same time.

'its alright no physical harm' Dylan said calmly. Though there was no longer any physical harm she still felt torn inside at the thought of her parents. She hadn't thought of them in years.

The only time she had ever talked about them after they died was when she became so depressed her Alpha got worried. Thats when he pulled her into his office and helped her with the pain. She have done anything in her power from that day forth to please her Alpha. Even now as he stood protectively watching she left like a little sister to him. The warm feeling spread at the thought and without realizing in she fell asleep welcoming the comfort it now brought her.

He snarled and sat down, he didn't know why this young wolf would take their punishment. He looked over at Dylan and sighed, I told you to be careful! His tone was full of supressed anger, but mostly concern for her. Standing up he walked over and nuzzled her. Everything will be allright... Do you want to go home? He looked back at Azalea and shook his head, I do not wish to punish you... but... it is up to your Alpha who gets punished and how they get punished. He paused and motioned around with his face. I am not in my territory. I will respect his role as Alpha. He gave the black furred wolf a firm nod. He stood back up and gave another snarl to the twin wolves. He sat down and watched everyone else. He would not leave until someone got punished for harming one of his pack, even if he had to harm someone himself. Which wolf made the attack? He asked firmly.

When Dylan shot up out of her spot between Azalea's Alpha and Beta, the mottled femme moved and sat right in front of Dylan. With all the growling and snarling, it was giving her a bit of a head ache. She stared right at Shaun, and held the stare...she knew she shouldn't have, but she was determined that if anyone had to take the fall for something, it would be her.

"There doesn't have to be pain. Just no more playing for a long looooong time. Everybody wins, no blood being spilled, no noses out of joint and we all go our separate ways for a bit. Brute force is not always the answer, and I will protect these girls to the death." Her voice only quavered when she barked out the word death, She meant no disrespect, but the more she stared, the more she knew that she could very well die here. Look away....do it! A voice in the back of her head whispered, and she pushed it away, blocking it right out as she continued her staring at Shaun.

(ooc: Okay...seriously Hayden? No acknowledgement of Azalea and her actions...at all? this has happened like....3 or 4 times now and it's not cool, I mean...she's not even getting grizzled at for staring at Shaun?)

Azalea snorted as her Alpha preached at them, still staring at Shaun before she sneezed and had to look away. His words washed over them and she sighed as he said the two girls would be punished later.
"The two girls won't be happy when they go to see their mate, with any sort of punishment hanging over both of their heads." She grumbled in her mind, unknowingly also grumbling it aloud as she stared at the forest floor. It was times like these that she hated her Alpha, so much arrogance and confidence in such a young man. He was short sighted, couldn't he see that the girls would likely be imagining what their punishments would be, even through the mating ceremony? It would likely cause them to be in a fearful mood, and any mood other than a joyous one, was not something that Azalea stood for.