The air is heavy as you make your way through unknown territory, as you pause to sniff the air a drop of rain falls onto your nose. It is soon followed by another and another and soon the rain is pelting down in sheets, soaking you to the bone. The clouds are an angry purple and the menacing drumming of thunder rolls over the sky. Squinting your eyes against the blinding water you find yourself at the edge of a large, dark pine forest. You are too desperate for shelter to notice the scents that mark the border and plunge in, and nearly into the chilly stream that runs through the territory. You veer away and as you are shaking the water out of your fur you notice a large pair of icy blue shards gazing at you. The storm has passed now and beams of sunlight filter through the thick canopy of pines, illuminating a massive male wolf not three feet away from where you stand.
His pelt looks like a bad patchwork job of black and white and beneath them you see large, hard bands of steely muscle and you know this is a warrior for his torso is marred with many battle scars. His banner curls over his back and his lips are drawn, exposing sharp ivory daggers. When he speaks his voice is deep and dominant, like the thunder you so recently heard.
"Wolf, you have found yourself in the terra of the Andere Seite Pack. I am Eclipse, king of this land."
It is only then that you notice another pair of lanterns gleaming in the penumbra and a dark-pelted fae slinks out into the clearing to stand next to the king, her own banner waves and her green and blue eyes bore into you. She is the same size as most males and a crisscrossing pattern of scars show that she too can take care of herself. Her voice is cold and has a snake-like sound to it yet you can see they are both fair rulers.
"And I am Nephthys, queen of Andere. We don’t care much for strangers so you must make your choice, Submit to us now or flee our lands and never return. If you fail to do either you will have little time left to regret it."
The formidable pair pierces you with their gaze and you feel as if all your secrets spill out before them. You are left with a decision now. Will you submit and take refuge in this dark forest or will you flee and never know what secrets these trees hide? Make haste, you can see that the pair grow tired of waiting.
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Posted on December 18, 2009 at 04:46:52 AM by Zanzibar
[Firestorm, for the plot, no one figures out that the wolf is really Eclipse, so be sure that he’s nothing more than “familiar” to any of your charries. =) ]
The masked pup was closing in on teenage years, though was lanky enough to obviously be a pup. He had grown, though, since the lynx attack that had happened back in the spring. And around the turn of the year he would be a year old. And quite the long year it had been. Just in that amount of time he had lost one and a half sets of parents. Now he had Nephthys … who he no longer viewed as his adopted mother. No, she was his mother, more than anyone else had ever been. Though that had taken time … the only wolf Zanzibar had ever really made a strong connection with had been Eclipse, his adopted father. Well, until the oreo male had left. That had devastated the pup, who had been several months younger then. Since then it had been him and Nephthys … the two of them together, and he by now could tell that he was one of the last couple strings connecting her to sanity. Not that sanity was really so important … as long as your insanity didn’t open much darker, lethal doors.
For a while he had been looking for his mother, though she was good at keeping to the shadows that he had yet to completely familiarize himself with. He had started to learn them though … to try and become one with them as she did. His mismatched eyes would observe and try to copy. Just a pup he was, though, and had a great amount of knowledge to take in still. Something different about him was his want for this knowledge … for such great intelligence. Like a sponge, he soaked in all he could. So as he practiced moving along the shadows, a fresh wash of his mother’s scent came to him, and he broke free from the dark fingers of the shadows, cutting across one of the many paths, and then going into thick, untraveled forest. He was large for his age, but still having plenty of trouble making his way through all the overgrown foliage.
When he came out at the other side, making hardly any noise, at first all he saw was Nephthys’ dark form facing away from him and some males from the pack. He paid them no attention, and walked out so he was on the side of his mother that the two males weren’t. His shoulder was about even to the bottom of her stomach now … yes, he had grown, but Nephthys was quite large for a female. Leaning over he rubbed against her side as he approached her front, giving a loving son to mother greeting. She seemed tense, though, and when he was beside her front paw, he stood straight so he was no longer touching her. No, not from fear, but because she was at work right now. After looking up towards her face, his eyes shifted to the wolf who was waiting for judgment.
His mismatched eyes looked upward and saw an icy blue pair that gave him a painful flashback. They looked so much like … Eclipse’s. A subtle whimper sounded from Zanzibar’s throat, and his features fell slightly. It wasn’t Eclipse … he knew that, but those eyes reminded him so much of the male who had once been a father. Obviously the stranger would have noticed the presence of a pup … or at least, he might have unless his concentration was totally on Nephthys. That might not be a bad idea, too, since even at his young age, the pup wasn’t foreign to the sight of her killing a wolf. Looking away from the eyes, he noticed the wolf’s coat was similar to Eclipse’s … which made it that much worse. Finally his eyes just dropped to the ground, not allowing himself to find anything else this wolf might have in common with that male. No wonder his mother seemed so tense, he thought, and he leaned slightly sideways just so he could feel her leg against his shoulder.
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