Tiergan Wolf
Chapter One: Secrets No More
(evil laughing)
Spirit... Do you really think I don't know your secret? I stared dead at her with all eyes in the cold night on me. Oh... does your pack not know either? "Spirit, what is she talking about?" asked a pup. My eyes move to the ground. I can feel my blood boil in side my veins. My teeth baring slowly. Returning my crossly glare, "No... no... my pack does not know... and you know that." "Well, well... let me do the honors." I turn and for a brief moment look up at the moon and sigh looking back at her. With a satisfied grin on her face she turns to my pack to reveal what I have kept to myself for so long.
"Spirit is not truly one of us! She has not always been what she seems... (smiling) This is not her true form." What are you talking about?!" yells and adult. At this point my head and my tail are passive. I just want to absorb into the ground below me. Surrounded by my pack I look up, all eyes on me... (sigh) "I was once... " "HUMAN!, yells Alicia. I hear my packs surprised voices... "What? How? She couldn't be... What? Spirit? Alicia's lying... grrr...," Their confused words tormented my ears.
Silence fell over us all as our she alpha approached me. I'm unable to make eye contact. My tail tucks to my belly and my ears fall back. "Akkuna... I... I'm sorry..." Looking up at her I see the anger in her eyes. "Spirit! You're a HUAMN!? A lycan?!" "No, no I'm not!" "Then what are you!?" "I'm... I was... grrrrr..." I begin to feel my blood boil again. My teeth drooling... "I'M A WOLF!" and with that I run past her deeper into the forest. I feel my heavy paws beat the earth with no mercy. I finally stopped after I reached the place my pack called Deep Meadows. I stood there looking into the open sky at the dark clouds and glittering stars. For a brief moment I feel a smile come up from deep inside myself. I walk through the tall grasses and smell rains in the distance. At the other end of the field lays and old rusted Ford truck. Time has taken its toll on the old clunker. Jumping into the cab I stretched out onto the tattered leather seats. I can still make out the faded scents of the humans whom once sat in these very spots. I close my eyes and dream... dream of them... of humans.
Waking up to the sound of padding through the grass I remain calm. Ears perked and focused, my eyes peer through the shatters of where the wind shield use to be in the old truck. In the distance I see two figures in bright orange walking effortlessly in the grass. "Humans, of course, not making any effort to keep themselves unknown," I think while rolling my eyes. Scents of fresh blood saturates my nostrils. Taking it in with a grin. Clearly their hunt was successful. A fresh deer has been killed and the humans are dragging the carcus behind them. Only after they have passed, leaving their orange no longer visible, do I emerge from my sanctuary. Turning North I head back to my pack's territory as the humans continue South. Not in a hurry, I take my time through the woods and pass the river beyond Rush Mountain Pass. "The high mountain is quite soothing to the eye," I think with a grin.
Descending down the mountain I can see my pack feasting on a fresh elk kill. I always enjoyed a good hunt. Due to my well coordinated hunting skills I have always been placed second in command during a hunt. "Well, here I am." I tell myself. Taking a deep breath, and releasing it, I relax my head and tail to neutral. "Spirit?... SPIRIT!" Smiles all around ,I feel a sense of relief, as I'm greeted with wags and howls. Our reunion doesn't last long. Silence falls all around us as Akkuna emerges from the den. This time making eye contact with her, I await my fate.
"Spirit, come with me." she commands. "No." I say... "Excuse me?" "No, Akkuna. Whatever you have to say to me you can say here in front of the entire pack." For a moment she seems almost as stunned as I am that an omega, as myself, would disrespect and alpha in such a way. "Very well then Spirit. I spoke with Alicia after you "fled" from me. Its no wonder you are so large for a she wolf, even if you were a male your size would be questionable. You "were" human... at one time." Like a fledgling caught by a snake I can not escape her this time. "Yes... yes, I was. I walked on two instead of four. I rode their metal beasts instead of the wind. My food cooked instead of fresh from the lands. I WAS a human, but not anymore... I AM a wolf Akkuna. I am the same person, er... wolf, that you all have always known. What is it you want from me? You already know my story. What more do you want!"
I now stand tall with my tail slightly raised and my fur puffing up slowly, eyes locked on Opal. "FINE! I was human... and one night while hunting white tail deer in lands the humans call West Virginia I was attacked... I was attacked by a wolf. I don't know if it was a werewolf, a lycan, or what! I'm not able to change to my human form at free will and I don't transform during a full moon, so I don't know what it was. All I know is that I was sitting in my tree stand with my rifle and suddenly what I thought was a large dog, started up the ladder. When I awoke the next day the sun was up and I laid naked in the leaves. I got up and fell over unable to move. The pain was down my back and in my head. All my contents from the day before returned from my stomach. Certain that death was upon me I lay back down and waited for life to pass from me. To my surprise I awoke a second time. Getting up I relized something was different. My senses were elaborate and I felt perfectly fine. As I stood up I realized I was no longer... no longer a human..."
"Akkuna please... I beg your forgiveness. I know we are a pack and we are foe to the human kind, but I am not your enemy. I... I am your pack mate... your family. " My fur and tail now gentle I lick her chin in submission and step back. Her glare does not change. I just stand there and after what seems like time enough for a hundred full moons to have passed she speaks. "Spirit... humans are not allowed among us. What we see here now is not your true form. I must ask you to leave our lands." "Akkuna no!" my pack mates exclaim. "Akkuna please reconsider!" "SILENCE! All of you!... It seems our pack has come to an intermission." Jumping atop of the old log that hovers above the den's entrance Opal stares down on the entire pack. All I can do is glare up at her. "Spirit, you are exiled. Anyone who wishes to follow Spirit has my leave to go. You are never to return to these lands. Humans are not welcome here. All those who wish to stay return to the feast!" With that Opal appointed two guards to escort me and the five others that chose to accompany me. They forced us West of the pack's boarders. "Spirit, we truly are sorry" the guards said. Offering them a weak smile weak I turn to my new pack...
