A New Wolf: A Secret Past

(A/N: Hiya dudes and dudettes! I want to clear up a few things before we get started, I don't feel like getting my bum set on fire by all the crazy flames that have nothing better to do. I know you guys are maybe a little thrown off by the title and think I stole it from someone else. In all honesty that is not true. When I was much younger and a hardcore fanfiction addict I wrote a fanfic named 'A New Wolf: A Secret Past which was centered on a she-wolf named Kira. I never finished posting it because I lost the login info and well you know how school and friends who don't understand anime can dampen your spirits. Well after much debate and quite a few years I decided to bring the story back but on my current account. I've changed a few things, like my ooc's name but everything else will be the same worries I will eventually figure out my old info and take the stories down so there will be no further confusion. That is if there was any. Until then please bear with me.

Love Always, Shi-chan aka PaintedWolfPup)


Summary: While wondering through a small town, our favorite wolves stumble across a young she-wolf on a mission to find her long lost brother. Meet Tsunari, a spunky and brave girl who holds a dark and terrible secret she herself has no idea about. Will Kiba, Toboe, Tsume and Hige find a way to reunite Tsunari with her brother and make it to paradise?


Prologue – The Beginning

"This is not right"

His name was Lawrence Vincent, though the majority of his colleagues and students either called him 'Vince' or 'Professor'. He was a highly decorated war hero and a world renounced scientist. He'd seen his fair share of bodies during the great wars that raged even at this point and healed many of the casualties of said battles.

The old man was a legend to all, though only humans cared enough to gift him with medals and honor. Lawrence, along with his team of two researchers and two gun toting former army men took down a whole pack of wolves. Though only the professor could see what they truly were. They managed to trick his whole battalion, save him.

He himself was the one who took down the pack leader, Gale he called himself. The old wolf spouted nothing but rubbish, even after he slowly bled out on the snow of the Arctic. The old professor remembered the way the harsh snowflake lace wind seemed to ruffle the alpha's thick white fur. Even the faint sheen of death reflecting in the wolf's amber eyes, made Lawrence toss and turn in his bed at night.

"What do you mean?"

A warm hand landed on his shoulder. Even through his thick white lab coat and the light feeling of pressure, he knew who had spoken up behind him. He twisted around slowly, savoring the rich smell of lavender laced with vanilla. She was more beautiful than any words you could pull from a dictionary and sweeter than any sugary substance.

His fatigue glazed brown eyes searched the face staring back at him. Her skin was the palest ivory, her lips heart shaped and full. Her eyes were a rich honey amber and much too bright for her slightly oval shaped face. She was smiling back at him, a faint crease at the corners of her eyes. She wore a white lab coat much like his own though she wore a fitted black skirt that ended just above her knees, unlike his black trousers. She was stunning today, which wasn't different than any other day.

Lawrence swallowed hard, "It just isn't fair. I've experimented on thousands of wolves to try and figure out how they can blend in with humans so easily. Yet, none of them were this young. Why the hell did she capture this poor creature and demand me to test on her. She is already nearly dead thanks to the noble's soldiers."

Her smile fades slightly, "What we are doing her is of grand importance, Vince." She made a wide sweeping gesture with her arms signaling they weren't the only ones in the room, "They are waiting on us to change the world. You know how demanding our sponsors are. She is expecting grand results this time."

"I know this, Tia." He said with a sigh, "I just wish I knew why Lady Jagura is so damn insistent we break the spell. I say if we don't bother them, they won't bother us."

"Lady Jagura is no different than the other nobles of the world." Tia's eyes narrowed, "She just wants to rule the world and my guess is she fears wolves will hinder her take over."

"I doubt that." Lawrence shrugged his disapproval, "I'm sure she has her own reasons for making us do this."

"You are always the intuitive type, Vince." Tia's long blond ponytail bounced as she laughed, "I would try to shut down that side of your brain before a noble's soldier puts a laser through it."

Lawrence glared at his loyal assistant for the past four years, before letting his attention drift to the young girl resting on the table. She looked deceased, but Tia and Lawrence knew better."

She was resting on her back, with her eyes lightly closed. They flitted every once in a while to assure the scientists she was in a deep hibernation, but the light rise and fall of her chest hinted she was alive. Lawrence heaved a heavy sigh when he noticed the scar.

She looked very young, no more than seventeen, possibly sixteen it was hard to tell while she was sleepy. Her long ebony hair was neatly tucked into a surgical cap, exposing her lightly tanned neck.

"She's quite beautiful." It took him a moment to register Tia's soft voice, "It's such a shame the soldiers got to her first. I think she is the specimen that will make it through the experiment. She will be the one to succeed where her parents failed."

"And what do you think will happen to her brother?" Lawrence had a soft spot for the little boy the girl laying on the table protected to the very end, "He is far too young for this trial. He's only ten."

Tia shrugged, "I think if she makes it through this, her brother won't need to be the next in line. Though if she parishes he might beg for the procedure."

Lawrence was seething, "Peace be still your tongue."

Tia's soft face fell as she looked away from him. It was obvious his sharp tone upset her, but he honestly didn't care at that moment. Often times he found himself getting short with her more often than not. The blond was cold and precise when it came to her job. Lawrence remembered acting the same when he was much younger and a rookie.

With a heavy sigh the old man muttered a quick "I'm sorry" before addressing the small collection of students hovering around each other and chatting loudly.

"Quiet please."

The six students fell silent almost immediately. Lawrence couldn't help the grin that tugged the corners of his mouth up. It felt nice to be so important in such a world. Maybe he didn't feel powerful, but needed still felt pretty nice.

"Are you ready, Tia?" Lawrence asked well naturedly.

The blond nodded and moved to the other side of the table. Lawrence's eyes lingered on the sleeping girl only a fraction of a moment, before following Tia's movement towards the machine she stopped in front of. Huge wouldn't even describe its sheer mass. It was an invention of his design. A machine with the sole task of redirecting the illusion transformation that allowed the wolves to change into humans.

Tia's head bobbed up and down with a nod, before she moved to the side of the machine. She was now standing in front of the lever that would soon release a bright blue colored toxin into the young girl's blood stream that would cancel out her ability to throw up her human facade. After that, a secondary mixture that was black would force her to shift. If the first mixture worked, she would shift back to her wolf form and be unable to change.

"Pull the lever." Lawrence directed, as he sent out a mental prayer that it would be a success.

Tia looked downright giddy as she gripped the long red and black lever in her hands. It hesitated around the middle, before slamming down to the bottom with a heavy metallic clinking sound.

Lawrence held his breath.

The machine made a loud hissing noise, before it pumped the blue liquid from the glass contain located at the front, through the tubes until it was dripping through the IV drip. The girl's veins on the tops of her small hands lit up and unearthly color, as the liquid surged through her bloodstream. Her body gave a violent jerk, before her skin started to glow the same blue as the toxin.

"Wow!"

"It's beautiful! She's glowing."

"I knew it would work."

"Dr. Vincent is brilliant!"

"I'm so glad I skipped math to watch his exhibition."

"Oh my goodness, is she supposed to be glowing like that?"

Lawrence shook his head as his students continued to banter on about him to each other. He felt sick to his stomach, even after Tia gave him the thumbs up that the patient was indeed still breathing. Something told him this was going to go terribly wrong, but he decided he was being paranoid.

"Release the final component, Dr. Rockwell." He ordered, swallowing his nerves.

Tia followed his orders not long after the words left his mouth. Thick black liquid moved at a snail's pace through the tubes, and dropped like lead into her IV. The bright glow that the girl's skin once emitted faded to a dull shine, before disappearing altogether. The blond nodded pleased with her part in the experiment and mouthed a slow motion "I told you so" at her mentor, before stepping away from the machine.

See old man, it was just paranoia that was clouding your judgment. He chided himself mentally.

The old man ran his long boney fingers through his thinning salt and pepper colored hair, before smiling at his assistant. She returned his smile, her amber eyes shimmering in the bright overhead light in the large lab room. He could vaguely hear the loud chorus of his students cheering for him and whistling loudly. Yet, everything was a dull roar in his ears as he spared a glance at the girl lying on the table.

Wait…isn't she supposed to be in her wolf form now? Lawrence felt his stomach sink as the thought nagged at the back of his mind.

A gut wrenching scream suddenly filled his ear, making his heart stop and his body jump. His head jerked to the table where the girl once slumbered peacefully. It was a reflex that much he knew. The girl was alight, but this time it was a deadly blazing crimson aura that seemed to circle her body.

She was screaming at the top of her lungs, her head tilted back and her mouth stretched open as her body arched against the leather restraints pinning her to the table. The metal buckles of the leather bindings protested against her jerking body, yet Lawrence knew deep down they wouldn't hold for long.

"Shut it off!" He yelled.

"I can't." Tia screamed, "The lever is jammed."

Lawrence rounded the table as quick as he could, as he tried to ignore the shouts of his students as the dashed through the swinging white door. All he knew was he had to help his assistant with the lever. The duo fought the lever and after a few heartbeats the lever slammed up with more force than was needed.

"You're all going to die."

The voice bounced off the walls of the lab room and gave the two pauses. The voice was definitely feminine, though it was strained and morbid. It sounded as if the speaker hadn't spoken up in decades, yet the words rolled off her lips perfectly. The voice reminded Lawrence of an angel's melody.

Lawrence felt a prickling sensation in the pores on the back of his neck and knew without a shadow of a doubt that the fine hairs there were standing on end. Something was beyond wrong. It wasn't just his sense of wrongness, but the fact that the girl's once black hair was slowly turning white.

The two scientists watched with bitter fascination, as the darkness washed from her hair and gave way to a stark snow white. The colorlessness of the hair that escaped the cap looked odd sprouting from the girls head, though her lightly tanned skin looked far paler than it did before the procedure.

"What have we done?" Tia breathed against Lawrence's chest.

Suddenly, the girl sat bolt upright. The chains and leather bindings snapped effortlessly and hit the floor with a defining clang. Her head hung limply from her neck and bowed forward, her white hair finally free from the cap spilled forth and covered her face. The thin white sheet that covered her innocence body pooled in her lap, where her fisted hands rested.

"You all shall suffer!" The girl roared menacingly, "For the sins of humanity shall end soon and your crimson tears will be offered to the Gods as a sacrifice."

The girl's head rose with each word she uttered and leveled on the two scientists that cowered in the far corner of the room. Lawrence gasped mere moments before Tia collapsed against his chest.

"You two will know of the pain your species causes my kind." The girl growled, "Because in the end only wolves can enter paradise."

Crimson eyes blazed mere moments before the entire research facility building caught fire. The inferno engulfed the entire buildings, as cries of agony sung a symphony to the full red moon.


(End Note: Okay well there you go. Exciting, eh? Well if memory serves me right there was no prologue in the original. This is completely new and something I came up with recently. To be honest when I went back and re-read the original it seemed sort of lacking. Sure I found the plot exciting, but there wasn't much background. So yeah, that's all you get. I will not give away anymore spoilers for the plot. Hope you enjoyed it. R & R if you want, it'd be nice but I won't demand reviews before I update.)