The Return of the Starnik
Chapter 1: New Lives
5000 miles across the ocean, on the edge of London, England, in a crop field, lays a man, Scott. And 5000 miles back across the ocean in Jasper Park, Canada in the middle of a forest lays a wolf, Rosie. Both in a small crater in the ground, scorched grass all around them. They are the Starnik; they are part of a prophecy to bring both man and wolf together to live in peace and harmony. To aid them in fulfilling their destiny, they have been granted special gifts and abilities, they must be reunited and complete the prophecy. But there is a force working against them. They call themselves the Ditori; their ancestors fought the Legendary Dire wolves 3000 years ago, and their sole purpose is the kill every descendent of the legendary creatures, which is every wolf alive! In order for Scott and Rosie to complete their destinies they need to be reunited and put a stop the secret organization.
Scott and Rosie were no longer a secret, the local news crews witnessed and recorded the entire event that arose in the city of Kalispell that was soon broadcasted across the city, then the state, then the country and eventually the whole world soon knew after a few days. The news reports put it down as a major supernatural occurrence, and lives were lost. Scott and Rosie were now amongst the worlds most wanted. Conspiracy groups had come together and were on the hunt for the two as well as government agencies. Speaking of the two, after the incident in the city they had a choice to make, either to die together or spend their lives apart. They chose the second option and vowed to each other that they'll meet again and they wouldn't stop looking. First let's go to the human Starnik, Scott. After the two vanished, Scott was transported across the ocean to the country of the UK, London to be precise. He landed in a field on the edge of London in a crater about 17ft in diameter, the small crater covered in black scorched grass and small fires lit in spots around him. He lay on his side unconscious and has been for 2 hours now. Eventually he begins to stir and slowly flutters his eyes. It's 3:46am in the morning so it's still dark. His eyes then shoot open and he sits up quickly expecting to see the Ditori with blazing guns, but no, nothing.
"Rosie!" He calls out to his friend, but no-one answers. He recalls the nights' events, remembering what happened. He recalled escaping the Ditori's complex, running to the city, saving his friends, going on a rampage, and agreeing with Rosie to live apart. He began to cry when he remembered the last part. He fell back, lying back on the ground covering his eyes as he wept away his pain. After 30 minutes crying, he began to settle and shakily arose to his feet. He observed his surroundings and saw that he was in a large wheat field. The small crater he was in covered in dead, burnt crops. The moon was around 80% full meaning he would turn into his wolf form in the next week. He could still do that as it was a gift he received by his spirit guide Sarah, that also made it a curse as he would endure the immense pain of his body changing shape. He put that thought aside for now, he needed to know where he was and how to find Rosie.
He stumbled out of his clearing, he could see bright lights meaning a town or a building. When his eyes saw the source of the light, his jaw dropped to him it felt like it hit the ground. He recognised one of the structures of the city as Big Ben, the huge clock. He couldn't believe it, he was in England! That answered one of his questions. Now he needed to find a way to locate Rosie. He wondered around the city, unsure of what he should be looking for. Nothing was open due to it still being the early hours of the mornings so he decided to sleep rough in an ally and fall asleep until it was lighter.
Time skip 2 years later
Two years ago Scott awoke from his disappearance from America and awoke in London, England. The next day he wondered the streets getting to know his surroundings. He passed a TV shop at one point and all the TV's had the news channel on. It was showing a supernatural occurrence that happened back in America the night prior. They had a photo of his face and that he needed to be found. Also there was a story of a crop circle found in the field he landed in last night. Scott didn't stop to watch for long and quickened his pace and moved on. He lived rough on the streets for about a week when his life began to change. He found a newspaper someone had thrown away whilst rummaging through a bin, he had a little look through it and found the job advertisement page. One job caught his eye. "Psychics wanted. No C.V needed, just prove you can do it." Scott took this as a way to get off the street. He could do this job as he could still use his telepathy, but not to reach Rosie as he could only sense minds up to a kilometre away and she was 5000 miles away. He went for the interview and discussed with the manager. He wasn't too pleased to see Scott as he was dirty and stank, that's what happens after living on the streets for a week! The manager had low expectations and thought he was an absolute nutter just looking to find a job. The manager took Scott through to his office and asked him to tell him something about his past. Scott looked him in the eyes trying to put on a little act. He looked in his mind rummaging through his memories. It was like looking through a filing cabinet, everything organized into sections of memories. He found one that seemed to be good enough. He recoiled back out and spoke.
"I see you, a woman, and three children. One set of twins, girls, 4 years old and a 13 year old boy. Twins have blonde hair and blue eyes like their mother, the boy has brown hair and blue eyes. You were married once before, this is your second marriage." Scott said among other things. The manager looked at him in amazement. He stood up extending his arm smiling.
"You're hired." Scott stood up and shook his hand. He left and lived rough for a few more days until he could afford to buy a small apartment. It was a tiny thing. Living room, kitchen and bedroom were all in one room, toilet was in another. The bed was a fold out one but he left it out, there wasn't really much point in folding it away. The job paid well, £10 a client and in a day he got around 15, so he earned a lot. After a few months he moved out of the small accommodation and moved into a bigger flat, everything in separate rooms, much more spacious. He missed his old den he used to share with Rosie. Sleeping next to his friend every night, waking up to the sound of birds and the wind, not here though, here he woke up every morning to car horns or the grumpy neighbours. He would take the underground across the city to get to work. He was very good friends with the manger who's convinced he's some sort of cold reader. Scott worked as a mind reader and psychic in a spiritual advisement office. He would take phone calls and do one to one readings with clients. He was careful not to draw to much attention to himself as he didn't want the Ditori to find out where he was. As much as Scott wished he could say his secret, he couldn't. He had cut his hair shorter, not by much only by about two inches and shaved off all his stubble, this was so if the Ditori came for him they would find it a little harder to recognise him. The incident back in America had died down and nothing had been mentioned about it in 5 months, a year after it happened. It was mentioned a year after it happened as a kind of memorial thing for the few people who died.
Today was the normal routine he would follow. Get up, go to work, read some minds, go home, cook dinner and go to sleep. Tonight though would be a little different, for it was a full moon. He had turned multiple times now, the pain much less immense as he begun getting used to the pain. It still hurt a lot but not as much as it did. He would cry out but not as loud. He would go to the woods on the outskirts of town and unwillingly turn as not to be heard. He would undress and put everything in a bag, hide it and the next morning come back to it, get changed and go home. Scott hadn't forgotten Rosie but was unsure if she remembers him. He thought she would have moved on. He had no idea how to find her and was thinking of staying permanently in the city.
Let's move on to the she-wolf Starnik now, Rosie. She awoke a few hours after vanishing from the city. But she did not wake up in a crater, no, she slowly stirred and fluttered her eyes, being blinded by the sun light. Her vision cleared after a few blinks and she looked around, she was in a den. How did she get there? She tried to get up but fell to her stomach, too weak to move. There was a scurry of footsteps emitting outside the den, she looked towards the entrance and see a silhouette of a wolf watching her.
"Hey, you're awake. You ok?" The dark form asks. It was a male, his voice seemingly friendly.
"Yeah, I'm fine. Who are you?" Rosie asked groaning feeling a little light headed. The silhouette padded towards her, she could now make out the wolf. It was a male, pure white fur ran down the sides and underside of his body and down his tail. It went up to his face going along his muzzle and under his eyes. Black fur covered his back down to his rear, it reached up to his head covering his ears and going over his blue eyes. His front legs were white but his back ones were black, save for his his back left paw was white, just that paw, nothing else. It looked good on him, it was something unique about him.
"Shadow, the names Shadow. Who might you be?" He asked sitting next to her. She eyed him suspiciously.
"Rosie." She replied.
"Nice name. What happened to you last night. I saw a flash of light and found you out in the forest in a crater." She recalled the events that transpired last night. When she remembered Scott she broke down crying, covering her eyes with her paws. Shadow walked up to her and placed a paw on her shoulder. "Hey what's wrong? You can tell me." He asked in a caring tone. Rosie sniffed and said.
"I lost a great friend last night and I don't know if I'll see him again." She wept. Shadow was unable to think of what to say so he tried to change the subject.
"You think you can walk?" She sniffed again and nodded her head as a response. He helped her up and they both walked out into the sun. Rosie was blinded by the radiant light. She looked over at shadow, his pure white fur glistened as the sun reflected of it, he look amazing. The two padded down a gentle incline and towards some thick trees, the two walking side by side in silence.
"So where is this? She asked.
"Jasper Park, Canada. I guess you're not from here?" He responded. She just shook her head. The two came to a thick bush, Shadow courteously moved the bush out the way with his paw and let Rosie walk through first. Rosie thanked him and walked into a clearing followed by Shadow.
"This is where I found you last night." He said. Her jaw dropped when she saw the burnt crater, anyone would think a small meteor landed here. She looked up to see the tips of the trees were burnt as well as broken as if something crashed through them and into the ground. "Do you know what happened here?" Shadow asked.
"Yeah, but I can't really tell you." She said looking down.
"That's fine. I won't force you to tell me." He was being really sweet to her. He was the nicest wolf she'd met. The two stepped into the 17ft crater and looked around. "Can I at least guess?" He asked cheekily. Rosie smiled and said.
"Sure, and I'll tell you if you get it right." He thought for a moment and came up with several things like she's an alien, a human experiment, all just for a joke. Rosie found it all very amusing. It looked as though he ran out of ideas. Rosie looked at him and saw him shuffling his paws.
"What's wrong?" She asked.
"I do have one more theory." He said looking down as he continued playing with his paws.
"Well do share, if you guess it right I'll tell you." She said smiling and sitting to listen to his latest theory.
"Well, are you a falling star? Stars are beautiful in the sky, when I saw the fire I thought one had landed but instead I found you, and you're just as beautiful." He said smiling. Her jaw dropped and her eye's began to water, that was the sweetest thing any wolf had said to her. He was being so sweet to her.
"Nope, not quite. But that was very sweet of you, thank you." She said hugging him. She'd only met the wolf a few hours ago and now they were hugging.
5 Months Later
Rosie and Shadow had developed a relationship. They were married, mates in the animal world. They had become real close over the month. They would do everything together, hunt, sleep, play, you name it. Today they lay lying in a field, the grass was short and purple flowers dotted around the field. They were just talking about stuff, kissing, just like a couple does. Rosie had learnt that Shadow was a lone wolf, he had never lived in a pack and his parents were murdered by hunters when he was a few months old. Rosie told him how her father left when her mother became pregnant and that she was shot over two years ago. She hadn't told him about her past or the fact that she's a one of the Starnik. She wanted to and she was going to, today. She brought him to their favourite place, the field. She thought if their relationship was to go any further then he needed to know. They both lay on their backs, watching clouds. Now was the perfect moment. "Shadow, what do you know of the Starnik prophecy?" She blurted out randomly. This caught him by surprise but he'd known her long enough to know she did that.
"Well, I know of it. A human and a wolf will come together to bring the two species together to live in peace, no more hunting us, total harmony." He replied confused by her sudden outburst.
"Anything else?" Rosie asked.
"Well, they were given powers to protect both species and that's all I really know. Where's this going?" He asked. Rosie rolled over onto her stomach shortly followed by Shadow. The two look each other in the eyes.
"How would you feel if you met one of them?" She said continuing the random topic.
"Well, I don't know. Honoured probably" He said. "Why are you saying this?" He added. She looked to the ground thinking this was a mistake. "Rosie what's wrong?" He asked concerned placing a paw under her chin making her look at him again. With a shaky breath she told him.
"I'm one of them." He looked at her in disbelief.
"You, a Starnik?" He laughed. "I would know if you were. Your eyes would be different, that's what gives them away supposedly." He said laughing a little.
"Look at me." She said quietly. He did so and looked into her amber eyes. Well they were amber, until they changed to a bright, fluorescent, swirling green. He reeled back in freight, getting up quickly to his paws. Rosie did as well and continued to look at him. She could see the fear in his eyes so she returned her iris's to their amber colour. The two stood facing each other absolute quiet. Rosie then broke the silence. "Shadow, I understand if you fear me now. I just wanted you to know before we went any further. If you hate me then fine, I can tell you do so I'll just be leaving." She said as tears began to fall from her eyes. She turned to leave but she felt a paw on her shoulder. She turned and came into a surprise kiss from Shadow. She was a little taken back by this but closed her eyes the savour the moment. Their lips locked for about two minutes, doing nothing but kissing. Rosie then pulled away and Shadow began to talk.
"I love you Rosie, I don't care what you are or what you can do. I love you and I will never hate you." Rosie began to cry again and pulled shadow to her, she buried her head under his and cried into his chest fur.
"Thank you for understanding, I love you so much." She said.
"I can't describe how much I love you." He replied. They held each other for a moment before pulling away. Shadow felt really awkward but he had to ask. "So err, what can you do?" He asked sheepishly. Rose let out a little girlish giggle and answered.
"Well I can't at the moment, but a lot of different and complicated things."
"And why can't you?" He asked.
"Well, there are two Starnik isn't there. The other is called Scott, I met him when I was 7 months old and we lived together since." She told him. He listened as she explained everything. Living with Scott, his powers, the Ditori, escaping after being captured and having to leave him and that he is looking for her. She began to cry again and Shadow hugged to comfort her.
"So that's why you were so upset when I met you." She nodded and the two sat in silence for a bit. The rest of the day Shadow asked her questions about it and she gladly answered them. He fully understood why she never spoke much of her past and he accepted it.
Another 3 Months Later
Shadow had now gotten used to the fact that his mate was one of the Starnik and the two had never really spoken about it since he found out. Today they were in their favourite field again, lying on their sides, kissing and looking into the others eyes. Rosie was now at the age where most she-wolves had pups or came into heat for the first time. Scott had explained everything about a she-wolf's anatomy, what heat was and the process of pregnancy. That was a really awkward day for the pair of them, they were both glad when that day was over. She was glad they did have that talk as Sarah wasn't around to have that mother to daughter talk about that stuff and it was weird that it was coming from a human. She was happy she did as she had no idea what to expect and how anything happened.
Rosie came into heat for the first time just over a week ago and Shadow instantly smelt it in the air. He had a little trouble controlling himself around her sometimes, but he would walk away from her a little while to clear his nostrils of the intoxicating scent before returning to her, she fully understood why he had to do it. He would breathe through his mouth usually when being around her as not to get a huge whiff off the mind controlling scent. Rosie herself was suffering just was much. Being in heat was torture, she had an almost uncontrollable urge to mate with Shadow, and she was only just able to hold herself back. She would sometimes find herself flirting with him without her knowing, it was like the heat was controlling her mind, making her do things she now regrets. Both of the couple were suffering just as much as the other. They both agreed not to mate unless they were both ready for the consequences.
They were lying in their favourite field; it was better to be outside then in a confined den as the smell of heat was very strong in there and nearly drove both wolves insane. The fresh air was doing them both some good. Shadow could still smell it coming off her, but he held himself back and didn't let it take over his own urges it gave him. They lay looking into each others eyes, kissing, just enjoying the moment. Rosie then started a conversation. She was nervous about what she wanted to ask but she wanted to know Shadow's opinion.
"Shadow honey, can I ask you something?" She said rolling onto her stomach. He did to and looked at her quizzing.
"Sure babe, what's up?" Rosie struggled to find the right words, so in her usual style just blurted it out.
"Well, what would you say to having pups?" His eye's shot open wide at the question; nothing could have prepared him for that! "I feel I'm ready and it's not the heat talking. I want to have pups and I want to have them with you. But not unless you want to." She added looking at him hoping he'd say yes.
"I don't know, I don't think I'd make a good dad?" She crawled closer to him and licked his cheek.
"You'd make an amazing father, look how you've treated me over the months we've known each other. I can see you doing the same with our pups." She said smiling looking deep into his eyes. He thought for a moment and looked at Rosie with a grin.
"Well you're the mind reader. What am I thinking." He said with an even bigger grin. Rosie brushed against his mind and saw he was thinking of a dirty thought of them mating. He on top of her like two wolves do. She reeled back out of his mind and let out an excited squeal tackling him to the ground, her on top of him lying on his back. They rubbed their noses together and then kissed deeply, a light purr escaping her throat. She stepped to the side letting him up.
"Well, what do you say he head home and make some pups?" She said in a seductive voice and brushing her tail under his chin as she walked past. He gulped and walked with her. He walked slightly behind her so he could watch her, especially her back end and her hips; they swayed side to side and made him very excited. They reached their den and walked inside. (I won't tell you what happened; I'll leave that to your imagination.)
Nine weeks had past and sure enough Rosie was pregnant. Now into her eighth week and she was huge. The pups were already kicking desperate for life outside the womb which excited the couple. Rosie would grab Shadows paw and place it on the spot where the kicking came from. She had been though the morning sickness and mood swings. Oh they were the worst parts. Puking every 6 hours for days and also she would lose her temper for no reason or become upset, Shadow would walk out the den to let her calm down and return and few minutes later knowing it was just a mood swing. She would apologise and the two would carry on like nothing happened. She was due to give birth any moment now, could be a few seconds or a few days, they didn't know. She was the type of wolf that didn't like to sit around all day so she was up and about, much to Shadows disapproval and concern. Eventually it came to the point where her ankles where swollen to the point where she became tired after a 15 minute walk. She was immobile for three days as walking become barely possible at the size of her belly.
The next day the moment came. She gave birth to two beautiful pups, one boy and one girl. Giving birth was the most painful thing she had ever experienced. She screamed though the whole ordeal, shouting for her mother and spirit guide to help her, but she never came. Besides, it was worth it in the end. The first to come was the girl. She had light tawny brown fur on her back, head and sides and a white underbelly, her legs were white as well. She looked just like her grandmother, Sarah. The boy was nearly all black, his face, back, legs and tail was pure black, his chest and belly was pure white like his father but with a little more black. His back left paw was white, just that paw giving him uniqueness like his father. Shadow said his father was all black so his genes were obviously present in him. Both pups were now nursing off their mother's milk, their eyes still shut so their eye colour wouldn't be known until a week later. Shadow sat beside them nearly crying in happiness.
Then it came to names. They never really thought of names before, Rosie looked at her son and a name came to her instantly. "Dakota." She said reaching over and licking him in between the ears. Shadow loved the name. He turned to his daughter and a moment later a name came to him. "Lupa." He said licking her side. The new parent's shared a quick kiss and Rosie pulled back shortly, completely exhausted and fell asleep a moment later. Shadow curled up beside his mate to make a sort of pen so the pups couldn't get out.
1 year and 3 months later
Dakota and Lupa and grown to be stunning, fully grown wolves. Their fur colour hadn't changed at all. Dakota's eyes were that of his father's and Lupa's were a hazel, the same as her grandmother Sarah. Both pups showed they had a share of both family genes. They may not be pups anymore, but they still acted like it. They played and frolicked around playing games like hide and seek, tag, hunter and hunted but not the version Rosie and Scott played, and other games they could come up with.
As they were growing up they appeared to be normal pups, but like everything that's born, they carry genes from their ancestors. When Rosie was turned into one of the Starnik, her's and Scott's genes were altered to be able hold and harness their abilities, Lupa and Dakota both carried those genes. Lupa and Dakota were only around 7 months old at the time it happened. What happened was one day, Rosie and Shadow were bathing in the day's sun as their two pups were out playing, they then heard screams and saw the two running out of the trees an towards their parents crying. Shadow and Rosie being concerned parents ran to them and asked what was wrong. They wailed at them whilst running that they caught some disease and they were going to die. When the parents saw, they reeled back in freight when they saw that their children's eyes were bright fluorescent green. They explained that it happened whilst they were playing and it just happened, they were playing tag and Lupa had her brother pinned down when suddenly their eyes turned bright green. Neither Rosie nor Shadow could believe it; Rosie had passed the Starnik genes to her own children! She calmed them down and watched as their iris's returned to their original colours. It took a while but eventually it did. She sat them down and explained to them what had happened. She told them about the prophecy, who she was, who Scott was, what her powers were and that they were passed down to her children. They all thought she was telling a fairy tale or just joking around. To confirm it all she flashed her eyes at them, the green light starting from her right corner of her eye and quickly moved to the left, they gasped and jumped up in surprise. Rosie had taught them about how her powers were fuelled by the emotions in a memory and that they would have to find out their powers and what triggers them. She spent days with them trying to figure out what it was and how it worked. One day, after weeks of trying it happened and boy was it impressive.
They eventually found out their abilities with the help of their mother. Lupa could generate a force field, it could stop anything. She could create it as a wall, a dome, even wrap it around a figure to make like a protective layer around them. It looked like a layer of thin water as it rippled slightly, but it was green, the same colour as their eyes. When she first learnt of it and how to generate one, first it was a small thing, no bigger then a dinner plate, but the more she practiced the better and bigger she could make one. Now she can create one the size of a truck if she wanted to. This she found when a huge branch above their den fell after a stormy night and nearly crushed the family, but luckily she blocked it and saved her and her family. It was fuelled by fear or adrenaline, and the fear of losing her family provided her with it. A shield too big or stopping something that placed too much pressure on it made her nose bleed form the intense pressure place on her, so she had to take it easy.
Dakota could teleport. He and everyone else referred it as "jumping". He would be in front of you one moment and then be behind you the next; it was freaky, but cool. He would disappear but leave behind what looked like shards of glass levitating mid air and would one by one fade away. When he first found out what it was, he could only jump himself, now he can jump others, and objects. First only small things like a stone, now though he could jump his family as lng as he's touching them. If he jumped something too big for him, something he wasn't ready for would result in a nose bleed and severe pain all over his body, something similar to having every bone in your body break at once as he said. He found out his ability when he was nearly trampled by a heard of caribou, his family thought the worst but when they saw he wasn't there, but 30ft away, they were gob smacked. That's when he realised his jumping gift was fuelled by fear as well. They were the only abilities the two possessed; they couldn't read minds like their mother and Scott, that was a Starnik thing. Rosie gave them some rules like no using it near others, don't use them in the open and don't let the humans see them with it. That was the most important one. Life was great for the family. The children were happy playing with their abilities and Rosie and Shadow were happy being powerless mortals watching their children learn their abilities. They still acted like a normal wolf family; they still played and hunted together.
Oh, hunting. Rosie had a major hunting accident two months ago. She was skewered by the horns of a caribou. She was left with a scar running down the length of her body from shoulder to hip. The scar showing very clearly as no fur had grown over to cover it. She bled a lot that day and as she couldn't heal it, was left immobile for over a week for the wound to heal naturally. Her family were very concerned for her physical state; would she be left with some long term injury from the accident? Thankfully she wasn't. While she was recovering, she had some time to think. It's been a long time since the incident in the city, is Scott even looking for her? She's had time to find a mate and start a family and he still hasn't found her. She was very depressed for a while, certain that she wasn't going to see her best friend again and that the Starnik would never be reunited and fulfil the prophecy.