Wolf's Rain Fan Fiction ❯ Blood of the Luni ❯ Chapter 1--- New Encounters ( Chapter 1 )
[ Y - Young Adult: Not suitable for readers under 16 ]
The wind whipped through the trees unmercifully, bringing with it the scent of human blood. The scent was strong enough that it made their eyes water. The two female wolves made their way cautiously through the pass towards the stench. Keeping their eyes, ears, and noses focused for any movement.
Whatever had killed had done so recently, and they did not want to come face-to-face with it. Keeping to the rocky outcroppings they studied the bloody scene below. The ground was littered with corpses. They were clearly soldiers of one of the Nobles, but from where they stood they couldn't tell which house they were with.
"Do think we should go take a closer look?" The golden colored one asked.
"No I don't, whatever killed those men might still be down there. I don't think..." the dark red wolf stopped suddenly. When a different scent was brought to them by the wind. She moved closer to the edge and inhaled deeply. "Dawn, do you smell that?" She asked.
"All I can smell is blood." Dawn responded sniffing cautiously at the air.
"No, there something else... it's hard to describe... but it smells like... flowers?"
"Blaze, I think your nose malfunctioning. There haven't been any flowers out here for years." Dawn said laughing.
"Wait... there's something else." Her ears went flat against her skull, and she growled low in her throat. "Get back behind those rocks now!" She said as she herself jumped behind them.
_____ SHIFT_____
"Man, I'm hungry! Can we stop and find something to eat?" Hige whined.
"Shut up Porky! Were ALL hungry! If you hadn't eaten ALL the food last night, then we all wouldn't be so damn hungry!" Tsume growled at him.
"I didn't eat ALL of it on my own!" Hige snapped back.
"Hey, cut it out you guys." Came the pitifully sad voice of the Toboe.
"Zip it Runt!" Tsume snapped at him.
They were running again, had been since the sun had risen. Kiba didn't want to stop just yet. They were still too close to Darcia's keep for him to feel safe, but as he came out of the tree line he stopped dead in his tracks.
Hige, who was busy arguing with Tsume, and not really paying attention to where he was going, slammed right into Kiba. "OUUUUU!!!!! What's the big idea! Next time give some kind of warning before you stop like that would ya!" Hige grouched as he recovered from the impact. Then Hige saw why Kiba had stopped so suddenly.
The clearing directly in front of them was covered with human bodies. The ground was soaked with the blood of the dead. Some of the bodies were badly mangled; faces gone, arms and legs ripped off, side's torn open. The cuts and the bite marks indicated that one or more wolves had done this.
Cheza walked ahead of them and said, "This one is saddened by what she sees. These men were killed by a wolf."
Tsume responded in his usual monotone voice, "There's definitely the scent of wolfs blood in the air. It's faint but it's there.”
___SHIFT___
Blaze cautiously peeked around the rocks that she was hiding behind. The sight that greeted her sent shockwaves running threw her. There in the middle of the field stood a young girl with purple hair, the familiar sent of flowers emanated from her. It can't be! She thought. But there was no way she was mistaken about that scent. The girl was most definitely a Flower.
With her were five wolves, four male and one female. The black was the female. She was not a pure wolf jugging by her scent but that didn't seem to bother the others. The four males ranged in size, age, and color. The largest and oldest was a gray, next was a pure white, then a heavy-set brown, the brown and tan was the youngest and smallest of the group.
Strangely she found her attention was more focused on the white wolf then any of the others. Shacking her head violently trying to clear her thoughts she mentally scolded herself, I cannot be attracted to that wolf! I wont allow it!
But deep down, she was. She had never felt this way about any of the males in ANY of the packs that she had lived with over the years. Not one of them had attracted her eye the way this one did.
___SHIFT___
Kiba told Toboe to stay back in the tree line with Cheza, while he and the others checked the surrounding area for danger.
Toboe, the youngest of the group shuddered and whined, “You don't think the wolves that did this are still here do you?”
Tsume gave him a look that told him to not be such a pup and Blue growled in defense of the younger wolf. Tsume glared at her then “Tsh”ed when he saw Hige glaring at him.
“Let move!” Kiba said as he began to search the field. The others spread out and began to do the same.
___SHIFT___
“Hmmm….” Blaze said. “I wonder what or who they're looking for?”
“I don't know, but I think we'd better get out of here before they find us.” Dawn said from where she was hiding behind an outcropping of rocks.
“I think your right, let's get going. Make sure that you stay up wind, we don't want then to catch our scent.” Blaze replied.
They would have to be careful; from her vantage point Blaze could only see two of the wolves. She knew that the tan wolf, the youngest one and the girl had retreated to the tree line. The black and the brown wolves were still working the field. She had no idea where the gray or the white had gone off to. But she knew they were close.
“Jeez, I hate this. Creeping around here like we did something wrong. Stone would laugh at us if he saw what we were…” that was as far as the thought got when she was tackled from behind.
Red: Ok I know this is kinda a short Chapter but I will post more soon I promise!!!