Quote from Indy on August 22, 2018, 2:46 am

Dez:

Logan remained still, listening as the large werewolf explained briefly what he desired for them to do. Certainly he wasn't serious? Did he really just expect them, her, to bend to his will so easily? She had made the bitter mistake of surrendering earlier and somewhere in the depths of her mind was regretting doing so, wishing she had continued to fight even if it would have meant the death of her. Fleeing, though once completely unconsidered, now seemed like a less humbling option than allowing this male to dominate over her. Although it was too late for such an idea, she was bruised and tired and try as she might, running now would only prove futile.

In spite of this, she had no intentions of turning her back to the enemy. Her muzzle once more tightened into a snarl and she made her way towards the alpha, taking her place a distance behind him instead of in front like he had indicated for them to do. Her ears were angled back, and her demeanor suggested that should anybody come within a yard of her, she would lash out on them without further warning. The situation seemed precarious despite Kratos' reassurance, and so her wolf was edgy and at unease. Following an alpha into his pack? Distorted images or snarling werewolves preparing to attack made themselves present in her foggy mind and her eyes bolted over the area to make sure there were still only two others excluding herself.

Quote from Indy on August 22, 2018, 2:46 am

Kale:

Kale slipped easily through the tree's her wolf at the forefront, her nose picking up the scents of blood, fear, adrenaline, and anger. Kale only paused momentarily when she realized she had a choice to make.

Follow the strange scents and her alpha, or follow the scent of Timothy, who was probably out of control, and Kieoki and Toby.

Kratos was on his own against two unknowns, and Kieoki and Toby were facing a wild Timothy. Both had a fifty fifty chance of ending badly. Kale knew the Alpha was very big and very strong, but the unknown factor of the strangers were a dillemma. She also trusted Kieoki to contrl herself against timothy, and her fighting skill was not to be doubted, but kale also knew that timothy was viscous when he lost control, and Toby's skill was undetermined. Kale had never seen him fight.

the blue-grey wolf snarled, it's instincts warring themselves, and her rational mind rather subdued at the moment.

indecisive, the wolf lifted her muzzle and howled, the lone call carrying out: who needs help?

Quote from Indy on August 22, 2018, 2:46 am

Soar:

While caught up in mostly thoughts and memories, Jackie hadn't been paying much attention to her surroundings. At best, she perceived a blur of colors, smells, and sounds that all mashed together into something incomprehensible that her mind was too busy to understand. Only when she realized that she had stopped walking and was now laying down on something that felt prickly and springy did she draw out her senses into the world.

Something black loomed in front of her and she blinked several times. It's features clarified until she was looking at a very foggy, but recognizable, Ulric. She saw him open his mouth to speak and heard sounds that must have been words, but it took her 15 seconds for their meaning to even reach her brain and another 15 to formulate a response.

"It's in a b-black box. Under my-bed. In m-my room, first room to the left of the s-staircase," she wheezed the words quietly, knotting her face with effort of explanation," But you should smell it f-first... smell's like chemicals".

She offered a half-hearted wheeze that must have been something of a laugh.

Quote from Indy on August 22, 2018, 2:46 am

Cathannah:

Toby whined and raced off after Timothy and Kieoki. His mind spun with different actions he could take to stop, or perhaps, seperate the two of them just long enough for Timothy to get outta sight or for Kieoki to calm down and accept that Timothy was not himself.

As Kieoki moved in to attack Timothy again, Toby cried out toward her. "Just forget it Kieoki! Why won't you leave him alone? You can't stop him, let him work it out! What's wrong with you?"

Perhaps if he could get Kieoki to lay off for a moment, he could try to talk to Timothy. "Let me talk to him, Keoki!" He said, then sensing that perhaps Kieoki wouldn't agree to that, he added; "If you don't lay off and let me try, I'll run and tell the alpha what's going on, and that Timothy's going crazy and you can't handle him!"

Quote from Indy on August 22, 2018, 2:47 am

May:

Kratos' wounded pack member did not respond quickly after Ulric's question, her breathing was hoarse and Ulric assumed she had lost consciousness. He had delicately carried her over the corral fence and laid her at the corner of the barn on a bedding of weeds.

Ulric used the bushes which had grown through the fence to conceal Jackie from the immediate detection of werewolf eyes, he also began squeezing the leaves of this particular bush and rubbing the liquid around the area. This he did, though the plant was odd and Ulric did not know exactly what it was, because the thick earthy smell of it's leaves was strong enough to mask all other scents beneath it, including blood.

It was in those few moments while he was about concealing Jackie, that Ulric heard her voice and was taken slightly aback as she struggled to answer his previous inquiry. He listened carefully and when she had finished he nodded his head.

"Alright I'll retrieve it. Hang on just a little longer, you'll be okay." Ulric said, then he turned and quickly jumped the fence and ran for the cottage.

It was surprising to Ulric that Jackie had managed to stay conscious for as long as she had.. Ulric knew werewolves were stronger than the average human being, but even the endurance of a werewolf would eventually fade.

******

Timothy had stalled his retreat waiting for his opponent's decision, but when he knew that she would follow he picked up his pace. Listening to her paws draw nearer behind him, he carefully calculated a path around the area where the bison had attacked, but across the same pasture toward the forest.

Though she did not know it, Kieoki had done just as Timothy had desired. The two werewolves would be equally matched in battle, as Timothy had observed, and the one way to gain the advantage was to cause her to blindly attack him.

Timothy now ran on a fixed course toward the forest where the terrain would also turn to his favor, but not as quickly as he was capable, he wanted his opponent to stay on him.. And perhaps he did not leave sufficient distance, for his opponent quickly gained an opportunity to overcome him and she seized it!

Within moments Kieoki had dug both tooth and claw within the flesh which she had moments ago forcefully repaired. Timothy crumbled beneath her weight into the grass, his teeth clenched and his face distorted in pain. All maliciousness fled his mind as the nerves under his opponent's jaws delivered agony to every limb in his body!

******

Ulric had sped his pace on all four paws and crept onto the cottage porch. Though the inside of the cottage smelled of that thick bush, he sought the scent of Jackie's chemical at the doorway and was relieved to quickly detect a fresh trail leading out into the yard. It seemed that one of Jackie's pack members had come here earlier to pick the medicine up, but where had they gone with it?

Knowing that time was against him, Ulric chose not to go into the house and blindly search for something to have been left behind; he quickly followed the chemical's scent out into the field. As he went, he began to hear the three pack members clearly ahead of him and was forced to slow his run.

The scent of the chemical grew stronger as Ulric drew nearer. He could hear the voice of a woman and he decided to lift his head above the grass. Ulric saw the black shadows of three werewolves some yards ahead of him just as two of them engaged each other and shot off in the opposite direction as his own position. The third was quick to follow and Ulric heard much of their growling and shouting even after they had passed out of sight.

Not wasting a second, Ulric raced to where the three other werewolves had stood not a moment ago, and to his great relief, found Jackie's box laying in the grass! Inspecting it he found that the box had been slightly chewed up but it's contents were unharmed.

Just as Ulric turned and began running back to where Jackie was hidden, he heard a heart-rending human cry behind him and came to a complete halt. His auburn eyes caught the light of the moon and shown bright red once again as he looked over his shoulder.. Then he slowly inhaled and looked away, continuing his run back to the barn where he had laid Jackie..

*****

The warm liquid drained down his back like rain beneath his thick coat, his shoulders throbbed, and his fingertips stung. In the seconds that he lay upon the ground, Timothy had forgotten his enemy..

"Just remember we care about you, and we won't hurt you.. We're your family." Someone had said that, but Timothy didn't know who or how long ago and he didn't understand why he had remembered it just then.. He remembered being afraid of the one whom spoke, but why would he be afraid of someone whom said such things? Yes, he understood the meaning of the words. But family, he couldn't understand why this made his chest ache.. The thought suddenly reminded him of how much pain he was in and that he was just crouched down taking it.

Timothy howled and clenched his fists! Pain, pain is what he feared the most.

"Get up, get up worthless boy! Yes, go ahead and cry, but it won't make it go away." That was another thing he had once been told, he had feared that person too..

Timothy's turquoise eyes finally opened and the liquid from them drained down his face. Heaving heavily he pressed hard on the ground with his front paws and tucked his knees beneath his chest, then with incredible speed and strength he caught hold of Kieoki's hands and clenched them painfully in his own!

The next thing Timothy did was thrust himself up on two legs and jerked his head downward, using his opponent's weight to pull them both forward into a roll and smashing Kieoki between himself and the ground!

Though Timothy had lost track of time when he had gone down, there had only been thirty seconds between Kieoki's attack and his retaliation.

****

Meanwhile beyond the ranch and high in the mountain the Alpha's attention now fell completely to the female stranger.

"You will walk there ahead of me of your own free will or you will not walk at all." Kratos' deep voice rumbled threateningly. He had now turned around to face the stranger, yellow eyes blazed and teeth bared.

The Alpha had already calculated the dangers of having the strangers walk behind him and had chosen instead to have them walk ahead.. After presumably killing a member of his pack this stranger was unwise to test Kratos' patience.

Quote from Indy on August 22, 2018, 2:47 am

Mariel:

Kieoki faintly heard Toby, but her wolf was past caring for him enough to even work up a reply. It was an odd moment, but her and her wolf were working together entirely, working to defeat Timothy. Somewhere in her mind she remembered that she wasn't striving to kill him, but it was a very faint thought and definitely not a main concern. Kieoki was pressed on clinging to Timothy, and it was odd when suddenly all his fight seemed to drain out of him as he crumpled to the ground. It was only for a few seconds though, because then he seemed to regain his motivation and moved faster than she could get away.

Kieoki wasn't sure what happened or how he'd done it, but she suddenly felt her back slam against the ground, Timothy's weight on-top of her, pressing her into the ground. Kieoki lost her breath for a few scary seconds where she couldn't breathe, but as soon as she could she let out a chilling growl, anger pulsing through her paws, numbing the pain in her arm. She didn't struggle under his weight, but forced upwards against it as she suddenly made a lunge at his throat! She closed her jaws around his neck, biting hard, but not enough to do any serious damage. she wasn't aiming for that after all, though it was extremely difficult to stop herself from tightening her grip enough to tear into his neck and let him bleed out to death.

It was an odd position, with Kieoki more or less hanging from his neck, but she didn't mind. Kieoki was trying to work her front paws free. But that didn't work and so she ended up taking her hind legs down Timothy's stomach in an effort to push him off and away. But was that what she really was going for? After all, she wasn't going to just let go of his neck easily, so why was she pushing away?... She pondered this for a moment until she realized her and her wolf had both moved their body, but both had done a separate thing. Odd. She cursed out her wolf, who snarled for a minute before agreeing with her and joining her again.

Quote from Indy on August 22, 2018, 2:47 am

Kaqurei:

Sabrina felt like her veins had filled with ice. She'd heard Timothy's scream. She had recognized it. She heard the agony, the hurt that was not new in his voice. She did not know whom had caused him pain or why, but reasons did not matter to her suddenly. In another instant, she could smell blood, and her face and neck felt hot. The animal within her was, for possibly the first time since she was a child, screaming for control. She wanted death. She wanted whoever it was that had caused pain to Timothy to die, be it the Alpha or anyone else--regardless of what the boy might have done to "deserve" it.

For some time she stood with her body completely rigid, though her face was completely expressionless. She had only just led the newbies out of the "boot camp" when she had heard the scream. Within, she fought herself. How could she expect to earn the trust of these, to teach them, if she succumbed to the wrath of the animal herself?

She cursed every other superior in this pack that they were not here. This was their responsibility, Timothy alone was hers (self proclaimed, but still). Where were they? What was happening?

At length she inhaled deeply, then exhaled. "We're..." her voice trailed off and she swallowed hard. She sighed sharply, but the forced a smile. She had to focus on this issue at hand. But she could not abandon Timothy's fate to the mercy of these idiots! But she had to keep the newbies calm, keep the training field ideal. Curse the Alpha, curse all of his underlings. Why had they not better prepared? Why did every full moon have to be a night of disaster? They should have prepared for this. The Alpha should have communicated his plan better! Did he really believe that his pack full of newbies and loners could possibly come together and everything work out without strenuous training for this moment, without any planning on his part? As the Alpha, this really was all his fault. Her own Alpha never would have--

"We're going to begin the hunt, as I said," she said calmly, with perhaps so much that the storm raging within her mind could not even be faintly detected. "But I do not mean that we will track down something and kill it. Nay, this would feed only the desires of your wolf within. Rather, we shall work to train those instincts. I tell you this now so that you will be mentally prepared to control the powerful urges you will experience. We will track our prey and find it. Then we will chase and capture it. But we will not kill it. I want to see teamwork on the behalf of all of you here, and when it comes down to it, I want to see restraint, no matter how desperate your desire to taste blood is. Is that understood?" The last sentence was spoken with a decidedly stern and strict tone, expressing that she would not tolerate less than perfection when it came this.

But she did not expect perfection. That would be miraculous. No, she expected them to fail, which is why she did not lead them to the aide of their pack members. Rather she led them in the exact opposite direction, where she could pick of the scent of something she considered to be expendable should they fail.

Then she heard Kale's call. She paused, then let out a long low reply: Help Timothy.

It killed her to turn her back on him. Had she not promised him that she would protect him? Had she not promised that he was with family, that he was safe? But what choice did she have? None. Either way, she would abandon those that needed her, those that had no one else to lean on. "The needs of the many or the needs of the one", so it was said.

What choice to make.

****

It surprised Levi when the alpha spoke, rather than taking what was his right to take after the surrender. Levi had braced himself for death then, though not without whatever fight he had left in him, and it did not come.

Regardless of the alpha's reasons, he had spared Levi's life for the present. This was an advantage, an opening where before he saw none. Maybe there was a chance for survival yet, but he would have to play his cards very carefully from here on out. He lowered his head and limped forward as the enemy had instructed. Pain surged through his body with every step, but he would not be dragged to meet whatever fate this alpha had in store. Be it death or otherwise, he would meet it with dignity. But, if death eluded him once again, perhaps he would have a chance to escape. He would have to keep his wits about him to seize that chance.

The large female was not beaten either. Levi saw that she would not even feign defeat for a better advantage later on. Rather, she deliberately disobeyed the orders of the enemy to show that while her body may be, her spirit was far from broken. The move was impressive, given everything, but it displayed her inexperience. She was obviously not from a pack. She was a loner in a strange land, without a single ally to her name. She was proud and strong. In any other circumstance, Levi would have admired her. As it was, she too was an enemy, and he could not forget that.

Quote from Indy on August 22, 2018, 2:47 am

Cathannah:

Toby reacted quickly the second Timothy flipped himself over onto Kieoki. Thrusting himself forward, Toby twisted in the air and fell onto his back, squeezing himself as best as he could inbetween the two of them. When Kieoki's jaws came down, it wasn't on Timothy's neck as she had assumed, but rather Toby's shoulder as he placed his upper torso over her and began to push against the ground with his hind legs. Forcefully trying to push the two away from each other.

His hands were busy prying Timothy's fingers off of Kieoki's hands.

What a curious dog-pile it would look like from any outsiders point of veiw. For Toby though, his body was twisted in an uncomfortable position, he was using all his werewolf strength to render Keoki and Timothy apart from one another, and now he'd been bit by the terrifying girl who had hit him earlier.

"Timothy! Stop this and come to your senses right now! She's only a grumpy female, you know how girls are when you hurt their pride! What's attacking her gonna proove? She's just a girl!" He snapped loudly and forcefully.

Yup, he had a feeling that Keoki was gonna take issue with that- But he also had a feeling that he had to say something really blunt and strangely obvious to get Timothy to listen again. He only hoped he'd said it right.

Quote from Indy on August 22, 2018, 2:47 am

Mariel:

How in the world had toby managed to get caught up back in this mess? One second her teeth had been for Timothy, and the next they were around toby's shoulder and not Timothy's neck. Kieoki growled, not letting go of toby's shoulder because she was listening to his words. The idiot! No matter how much toby thought he was doing right, he had effectively pinned her against the ground. She couldn't fight with the weight of two pressed upon her. Well, she couldn't fight very well, but she may still be able to do something if she could get toby out of here.

But Kieoki heard toby's words.

And she almost snapped her jaws together to slice open his shoulder. Almost. She only managed to stop her wolf at the last second, even though she was enraged herself. She let go of toby's shoulder, much to the rage of her wolf, and realized that he was pushing up against Timothy, trying to get her free. So he wasn't a total idiot. She still was angry at him. She glanced down towards her hands and frowned for a moment until she slackened her own grip, and jerked her fingers free in a few tries. In another second she was out from under the two of them and judging the situation. Toby seemed to be very determined to stop them, and was going to do anything so it seemed.

Thinking things over for a second or two, Kieoki suddenly shot towards Timothy and toby, jumping over toby and towards Timothy. She let her shoulder slam into Timothy, knowing that the odd combination of her weight and toby -who was pushing up from the ground- should unbalance Timothy and send him to the ground. But Kieoki wasn't following Timothy this time. As soon as she slammed into Timothy, she leaped clear and landed with a small growl. She looked towards Timothy, her wounded shoulder causing her to lift her paw off the ground. She snarled at Timothy, but didn't lunge. She was waiting to see if toby's horrid words had done anything.