Original AN: Hey everyone, it's me again! I'm stealing onto a friend's computer to work on some new ideas of mine. No worries, though. Look in my profile for stats on all the old stories. I promise, they are there! Now that my notes are over, here's my new story: Wolf's Moon. Please R and R!!!!

New AN: Okay, we're trying something funky here. I wanted to see what writing this in first person and just kinda jumping around in different point of views would be like… Which is really making me wish this site allowed different fonts, it would make telling them apart that much easier. So instead, check in the chapter title for whose point of view the particular chapter is in. Chapters will still only be around 2000 words, maybe a little more or less (this one got away from me O_o), but I think that's fine, right?

IF YOU ARE JUST NOW READING THIS STORY OR WOULD LIKE AN UPDATE ON PROGRESS go read my profile. The full status of this story is there, along with the status of my other stories, what stories I'm working on according to my new posting schedule, and what my life is like at the last moment I posted anything so you can try and see how long till the next update.

Wolf's Moon Chapter One: Muyo

Domino City, Japan (Kyūshū)

My entire body was charged with energy as I sat patiently at the base of a tree, dressed in rough clothes all made from lamb's wool. I felt it coming, like always.

Slowly the sun set, the bloody glow fading. Without it to cancel out her affects, the Mother Moon stood out proudly in the dark sky, ripe and full.

It hurt. It always hurt. The pain was strongest at the polished piece of obsidian set into my forehead and spread to the back of my skull. It followed the veins of my blood to the rest of my body in pulsing waves. I never questioned it. It was probably because of my impurity that it hurt so much, the human blood in me rejecting that of the Moon Child's. I couldn't exactly ask my family about it, or another Moon Child for that manner. So I just gritted my teeth and bore it, every full moon.

My skin crawled. Every sound seemed ten times as loud. My vision swam as my legs refused to hold my weight anymore, my body crashing to the ground. I wasn't even able to catch myself with my hands. I wanted to rip, scratch, and somehow end this nightmare as my mind temporarily lost its hold on sanity. Smells flooded my nose, sending my brain into overdrive trying to categorize them all. Muscles spasms wrecked me, made me twitch uncontrollably as my bones ached.

What felt like a life time later, though it was only a few minutes, the shift finally ended. Standing, now on four legs instead of two, I shook out my fur. The black strands along my back, down some of my tail, and over my head shimmered with dark blue highlights, even as the white and gray of my legs, belly, the rest of my tail, and my muzzle shone silver in the Moon's glow. This was what it meant to be a Moon Child.

Or half of one, as the case was.

I padded along the park that was the only forest I had been able to find. The sprawling city that was basically all of Japan had made it tricky to find somewhere safe to take on this shape as I must during the full moon's cycle. Normally, I was safe on the family's estates in time for this, but tonight my elder brother had made a request I couldn't deny.

Howls echoed through the still air, and I paused, taking in the scent. Several packs had conjugated in this city tonight. Not surprising, with tonight being a lunar eclipse, a special event for those of the Moon's blood. The songs were that of different packs greeting each other. Tonight, courtships between packs would be observed to make sure they were solid, betas would vie for dominance with their alphas, and most importantly, the head alpha of this particular pack could be challenged. To my knowledge, this was the middle of the Western Pack's territory, and it had been ruled by the same family for generations. The current head alpha was young, but strong and supposedly a bit of a genius. I wouldn't be complaining if I was part of this pack, but the piece of obsidian in my forehead instead of a sapphire said quite plainly that I wasn't so my opinion hardly mattered.

My attention was dragged towards one particular set of songs, one that was painfully bawdy and inappropriate. Normally, I would be sympathetic for the pack. The head alpha was going to rip into them, guaranteed. This was an event that allowed pups to attend, specifically the younger brother of the current head alpha. He would not appreciate it. However, I recognized the hoarse timber of the lead singer as that of Tsume, and all sympathy vanished. That idiot had stalked me this entire visit, and if I hadn't needed to know the pack met in this city during the lunar eclipse, I would have ripped his throat out myself.

Stopping for a moment, I took a drink from a nearby fountain, listening to different songs.

We should sing too.

Hush, I scolded the voice of my inner wolf, something I frequently denied having to my family.

They should know we are here.

I said hush. We don't want them to know we're here, we want to eavesdrop, remember?

This isn't right, Muyo! You know it isn't! We are all children of the Moon—

And I'm also a child of Saya, so shut up and let me do as Onii-sama asked!

That thankfully shut it up. Mentioning of my elder brother usually did.

Trotting alongside a path rather than on it in case of humans taking a walk, I paused again only when I heard a sound much closer than the songs. It was a whine, an inarticulate cry for help, and it was definitely coming from a pup. Sighing, I knew better than to ignore it, which would be as good as being cruel to the poor thing in the eyes of its family and the last thing I needed was a blood grudge. Changing my direction, I worked through a good many gardens and trees till I finally found it.

Not necessarily scrawny, he was definitely a pup that was starting to grow, meaning he was gangly. The fact his black fur was long and shaggy did nothing to help. Plaintive, dark blue-grey eyes looked around pathetically before he whined again. Rolling my eyes and snorting, I gave a soft, commanding bark deep in my throat as I approached. He looked up, eyes shining and tail wagging.

"Are you trying to look like a lost puppy dog?" I teased, using the lupine language as he squirmed eagerly before me. Sure enough, a sapphire was set in his forehead. He was part of the Western Pack, then. Swooping down, I picked him up by the scruff of his neck. Normally used for carrying smaller (i.e. younger) pups, it was meant as a form of chastisement for one his age. I was just lucky he wasn't adolescent-sized yet, so I was able to carry him. My wolf form wasn't that big, after all.

"That's not very nice…" he accused, tail tugged between his legs as he squirmed to try and get free. I held him for a while longer, ignoring his yips of discontent and whines to be let down before I finally set him down to trot alongside me.

I snorted as I sniffed out the trail to the pack gathering that I wasn't planning on attending but was going to anyway now. "If a human had found you instead of one of us, you would have gone home a pet," I reminded him, "You surely know how to sniff out your own trail, don't you?"

"I'm just now learning how to track…" he muttered, obviously ashamed. I had little sympathy. If he hadn't been so quick to panic, his inner wolf would have guided him in how to find his way back. Mine had been training me by the time I was his age, since I only really had instinct to go on. However, I could tell that same little voice was telling him the exact same thing I was thinking, so I gave him a playful nudge. He licked my muzzle in apology and our silence became amiable instead of judging.

I felt my tail tuck down as we walked through a heavily forested area and into a large clearing. This was very clearly pack territory, and I was definitely an intruder.

Still think we shouldn't have sung?

Shut up.

The pup beside me didn't notice any difference in my demeanor. His tail wagged as he darted ahead, though I noticed he waited for me and wouldn't go further without. Since I found him, I was in charge of him until I found his parents.

Joy.

I like pups.

I know you like pups, and I know what you are hinting at. Now would you shut up already?

No. It's my job to remind you of what you actually want, remember?

I inwardly growled at my inner wolf. Damn it for being right.

The pup seemed to notice I was distracted, since he quit frolicking around in front of me. When I looked down at him out of the corner of my eye, he smiled in the lupine way, tail wagging. "You're like Ani-ue," he said matter-of-fact, like it was easy to tell. If I had eyebrows in this shape, I would have raised them at the term for his older brother. I could only dream of calling mine that. Hell would freeze over first.

Speaking of Hell, it seemed my night was going there. I whined myself as a dark gray male with a lighter gray belly approached us at a trot, tail raised like a banner behind him. By scent and attitude alone, I knew it was Tsume. Following him were his two tag-a-longs who I assumed were part of his pack, both male, one ginger with a streak of lighter fur running down his forehead and the other mahogany with a lighter brown belly thanks to white fur mixing with the rest of his coat. All three had sapphires set in their foreheads, of course. I was never as aware of that stupid obsidian as I was now.

The pup heard my whine and looked at the approaching males. Before I could say anything to him, he scuttled under my feet like I was his mother. I looked down at him, baffled. "And what do you think you're doing?" I demanded, shocked at his behavior.

"Tsume is bad… Bad, bad…" he whimpered, cowering as the males got closer. "Ani-ue is always complaining about them causing trouble, and getting away with it because they are so big…"

Pup has a point there.

Both my inner wolf and the pup were right. Tsume and the two behind him were large by wolf standards. And me? I was… well, I was walking the line between the small side of normal and petite. This was going to be ugly, especially if I had to worry about a pup under my feet or around me.

An idea occurred to me. Nudging him with my nose, I managed to scoot him out from underneath me. "Go find your older brother," I ordered him firmly, broking no arguments. I nipped him as soon as he tried to give me one. With a yip, more out of surprise then pain, he was off at a full out run. Relieved of both a hazard and a distraction all at once, I instinctively sunk into a crouch, fur bristling and fangs bared as the trio finally came to a halt, Tsume in the middle and in front of the others.

"Muyo-chan!" he greeted me casually, ignoring both my growl at the cutesy honorific on my name and the stance I was in. "I wasn't expecting to see you here. If I had known, you could have come with me and my friends," he stated cockily, reaching to lick my cheek.

I snarled and snapped at his ear, almost managing to sink my fangs into it before he jerked out of the way.

Damn it, so close but no cigarettes, I mentally grumbled as Tsume backed away with a snarl of his own, both of his apparently mute cohorts coming to attention and snarling at me as well. I just bared my fangs again, ears flat against my skull in warning.

Muyo…. Muyo, this is not good! Why did you send the pup away? Others would have jumped in to save a pup from these thugs!

Because a) he's a pup, damn it, I am not getting him involved in this, and b) his precious "Ani-ue" owes me big for bringing him back, he will probably come with his back to help.

Probably? Please, for the love of Mother Moon, tell me you did not just say probably! I don't want us to die!

Why did I get an inner wolf that panics easily? Right, because I jump into situations like this. Three really big, male wolves against little old me... Great... I've faced worst odds.

…I just can't remember them right now...

"So the loner bitch wants to play rough?" Tsume asked mockingly with a growl, though it wasn't really a question. His buddies had me blocked in, if I tried to run off in either direction except at Tsume or away from him (not an option, not ever) they would be on me like white on rice. I stood my ground, waiting.

True to what I guessed him for, Tsume lurched forward, ready to take a piece out of me. I braced myself…

…but thankfully needn't have bothered. A silent streak of brown collided with Tsume in mid-air, throwing the gray wolf to the side. Not paying attention to that, my head swiveled as both the ginger and mahogany wolves darted forward to double-team my savior.

Oh, no, not with me around, I warned mentally and growled physically as I darted forward. My fangs sunk into the ears of the ginger wolf, the one that had been closest to me, and with a yelp he jerked away, tearing his own ear to shreds in the process. Whining pitiful, he backed away from me. Growls rumbled from deep in my chest, making my entire body tremble. I couldn't see the mahogany one, but when I saw both Tsume and the now one-eared wolf high-tailing it away from the clearing among jeers and snapping jaws, I finally was able to relax some.

Turning my head as I registered something behind me, I discovered what my brown streak-savior was. Another wolf, another male. And oh my…

Mother Moon… What did his mama feed him? HE'S HUGE!

Thank you for stating the obvious.

The chocolate brown male easily towered over me, his sapphire blue eyes matching the stone in his head perfectly as they stared down at my coldly. My fur immediately flattened, my ears went back, and my tail went between my legs. Oh boy… Why does it look like he's about to punish me like I still had my milk teeth and had done something stupid…? That punishment was usually being tumbled head over tail. Humiliating, and it left bruises.

"Onee-sama!"

The delighted bark of the black pup pulled me from my fear as I was pounced from behind, the small bundle of warmth playfully grabbing my ear and pulling before letting go to slid down in front of me, a wiggling mess of excited. My brain, however, was caught on what he called me. Big sister? In what world?

"Mokuba."

The deep timber of the voice of the chocolate wolf was icy cold, but that wasn't what made a shudder run through my entire body.

Oh yeesssss…

No, down girl, no jumping the bones of the scary alpha, I scolded the inner wolf. I wasn't going to argue that the completely dominant and controlled voice didn't attract me, but I wasn't going to make an idiot out of myself either.

Thankfully, neither male noticed my mental jabbering. The black pup calmed considerably, looking up at the older male adoringly. "Ani-ue, this is Onee-sama, the one who found me when I got separated!" he informed his older brother, eyes wide and bright.

"I realize that, Mokuba. Go find Suzuki," the elder brother ordered, obviously used to being obeyed. Sure enough, the pup paused long enough to lick my muzzle and for me to return his affection before he scurried off. I saw him greet an older female, and guessed that to be his nurse or something like it.

Around me, I heard mutterings as conversations picked up again. My ears pricked forward as other packs were mentioned along with the names I was looking for. One of them referred to the male that saved me from being tromped on as the head alpha, Seto Kaiba. Fabulous, I thought sarcastically, though I kept my mind focused. As I was making mental notes, I watched Kaiba, still somewhat tense. I wasn't sure how well this was going to end.

"Mokuba is no longer your concern," he finally informed me before turning his back to me in an obvious snub.

Astounded at his arrogance, I froze for a long moment. Finally, I snorted derisively at him and turned to leave myself.

Next thing I knew, I was pinned by Moon-only-knows-how-many pounds of icily enraged male wolf. "Back off," I snapped at him, both verbally and physically, holding in the yelp when he nipped me warningly in return. "You are not my alpha." When he growled at me, I jerked my head, making my obsidian piece catch the Moon's light.

He froze above me. "Loner." It was a statement, not a question. When I didn't say anything, he slowly backed off and away.

I stood and shook, knocking off the dirt that had been on my fur. "I didn't mean to intrude on your gathering, I was just in the park because it was closest and safest," I informed him calmly, though inside I was shaking.

Get away, Muyo, get away before you roll over and beg him to take—

Don't finish that, for the love of the Moon, don't! I'm hanging on by a thread, I know, okay?

He nodded, accepting my reasoning for being in a place I didn't belong. With a nod of my own, I backed up two steps, a sign of respect, before I turned and took off for the woods.

I had to be back to my brother's side by the next night. I had the information he wanted.

Okay, I didn't get as far this time as I did the last one, but I was already almost at 3,000 words and actually I would rather do a chapter in Yami's POV next anyway where the big plan is revealed. No complaining, y'all, this means more story. YAY MORE STORY!

Okay, long ass note, so bear with me.

Wolf's Moon is going to cover the events through the eyes of Muyo, Kaiba, Atem (a.k.a. Yami Yugi), Yugi, Ryou, Bakura (his yami in the canon), Serenity Wheeler, and Duke Devlin. I'm using a bit of a mix of English and Japanese names, applying English names where they would fit concerning our different locations while giving Japanese names and honorifics according to location as well. Currently, those are translated as:

Kyūshū—the southern-most island of Japan, holds many different prefectures, including Okinawa and, for the instance of this story, Domino City (I know, canon says it's most likely a Tokyo suburb, but I needed it more south!)

-chan—cutesy name for children and adolescent girls

Onee-sama—big sister

Onii-sama—big brother

Ani-ue—also big brother, slightly less formal and more endeared than onii-sama

Now, understand my knowledge of Japanese is limited to manga and wiki, so I'm guessing about the levels of respect here. Ani-ue just seems like more affectionate than onii-sama to me, probably because I've seen onii-sama attached on to names like a title and I've only seen ani-ue by itself like a nickname. Reasoning behind Mokuba calling Kaiba "Ani-ue"? He calls him "big brother" almost all the time in the English anime. *shrugs*

Hunter's Moon is going to be a companion to this story written after I finish this one. It will follow our remaining main cast, Malik, Marik (his yami), Tea, Tristan, Jou, Mai, and the final couple which I won't reveal until the actual story itself (you will be surprised, trust me) during the EXACT SAME TIME as Wolf's Moon. This means they will share some plot elements, but in the end the characters make things entirely different.

List of Known Packs, with Locations, Gems and Head Alphas:

Loners=Obsidian (Known: Muyo)

Western Pack [Domino City, Japan (Kyūshū)]=Sapphire—Kaiba Seto

Okay, that's all for now! TTFN!