Angel: hello my lovely readers. I apologize greatly for not updating at all during the past few months, college is hard…training to be a nurse before I even join the program to increase my chances of getting in. Thankfully, it's Thanksgiving break so I'm going to try my hardest to update Forbidden Desert Love and Full Moon: Tides. But like I had promised before, I was going to redo Call of the Wolf, well, Demon and I have talked about it and worked some of it out and we pray to Goddess that this one may be possibly better.
Demon: this version should be a lot clearer. It still has your favorite wolves, your not so favorite vampires, and of course the goddess Tsuki herself.
Angel: We are still squeezing out our pups of ideas so yeah this may take a while to pick up. If Demon would stop calling me every weekend to tell me a new idea, maybe these ideas would finish.
Demon: Buuuuuuuuuuuuuut ! You love my ideas like Sounds of the Slithering Fox.
Angel: SHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! *smacks back of head* they aren't supposed to know it yet! Goddess Damnit! Sorry about him, he gets delirious when he's too horny.
Demon: Quit lying to yourself. I'm not horny I'm telling the truth damnit! Don't listen to her! You can't trust that innocent face!!!
Angel: We'll talk about this later…at the Funny farm I'm sure that the doctors are wondering when I'm going to take you back. *takes laptop away from Demon* anyway, here is the new version of Call of the Wolf, Enjoy and Review!!!!
He opened his bright blue eyes, looking up to the smooth stone ceiling above him. Growling quietly, he covers his eyes with his paws, desperately trying to go back into the loving embrace of Tsuki-sama's dream pelt. Don't wanna wake up…take me back to the dream pelt! Yet the annoying pups of his pup sister started to whimper for their early morning feeding. He growled in annoyance standing up on all fours, he shook his body to rid some settled dust that gathered within his sand-colored course fur. Then he extended his front paws far in front of him and stretched his back, shifting from wolf to human form. He grabbed his black hakamas and put them on before leaving his den into his sister's den.
The beautiful rusty female wolf was nudging her two pups to her belly to nurse. She was growling softly and soothingly to them to help them. Once they started to nurse, her green eyes met her brother's. Good morning, brother. Did the pups wake you?
"No, Natsumi," the blonde man answered, "They helped me get up though." He knelt beside her bed. "How are the boys today?" He gently stroked their backs as they whimpered and nursed. Both of the boys were red-furred. One was darker than the other because of their father, Gaara.
They're hungry as normal, Natsumi responded, But not as loud as they were yesterday. She was silent for a moment, licking her pups slowly and gently. Naruto, will Gaara be safe?
Naruto watched his nephews nurse. Their father, Gaara had gone out on a mission back to his pack to appoint a new pack leader to lead the Suna wolves so that he could live here with his mate and pups. With the increase of vampire numbers, Natsumi had begun to worry about him. "I'm sure he'll be fine. He's not the kind to look for trouble. He can outrun any vampire and the Suna pack is very well hidden. He'll be home soon."
She sighed. I just don't want to lose him. I don't want our sons to be fatherless.
"I know." He scratched her ear. "And their father will come home to them." She licked his hand, then nuzzled to her pups.
Naruto stood up and walked into the pack cavern where all the dens enter to. He stretched backwards one more time, grunting. He walked to the food den to grab some deer before starting his morning duties as pack leader in the Konoha Wolf Pack. He sighed, seeing that they only had two whole deer left. Throwing his head back he howled to alert the hunters to suit up and get ready to hunt. Then he walked back to his den to suit up his human armor.
He picked up his father's silver pelt, stroking the smooth fur. When his father passed, giving Naruto the pack to lead, it was Naruto's duty to salvage the remains of his father to use for helping the pack. His fur was made into alpha clothing for Naruto, his bones were forged into a weapon for Naruto and the rest of his body was to feed the pack, mainly the pups. It was said that when the pups would eat the remains of the passed alpha wolf, they carried his strength in their ages.
After he suited up, he phased into wolf, the armor disappearing, but if needed, he would be able to summon them back onto his body when he phased into human form. At the cave entrance, he saw his closest friends and best hunters, Shikamaru, Kiba, and Chouji, waiting for him. He stepped up to them. May Tsuki-sama bless us with a good hunt this night. The three wolves nodded, then all four of them leapt into the silvery glowing forest from the full moon and towards the temple of Tsuki-sama where hunt is more rich in numbers.
She swung her quiver of arrows over her shoulder and then her bow followed after. Her long, indigo hair was tied up into a messy bun leaving a few strands of bangs to hang over her pale face. Her lavender eyes looked sad, yet determined at the same time. Several years ago when she was ten, vampires raided into her family's home. She had hid but her parents and sister where not so lucky. They were changed right before her eyes. That was when she ran to the temple of Tsuki-sama, a place where she could be safe. The priests and priestesses took her in and raised her. They trained her as Tsuki-sama's avatar, as she was the last of her kind. Her family was the perfect blend of vampire, werewolf and human, making her the closest thing to the goddess Tsuki-sama. But when the vampire's took her family and she ran, it made her the last one of her family…of her kind.
Now at age 17, she would teach the young children the stories of the wolves and vampires and of their goddess. The older children she would teach them how to perform certain rituals for their goddess and even to attempt to bring peace between them and the vampires.
She sighed and went out to the temple's water garden, sitting down at the edge of the river and meditated. She would spend an hour here clearing her mind of sorrow and hate and confusion before going to train and teach.
Naruto padded towards the temple for just a short while, he enjoyed sitting on the steps of the temple, the priestesses welcomed him and his pack members to sit and relax. In a way, the pack was the temple's guards. If danger were to ever arise, the wolf pack would be ready to protect them. He then stopped. The wind blowing toward him smelled awful of death and blood. There would be only one explanation for that smell. He howled in warning into the night to catch the attention of his hunters to rush to the temple. He then dashed forward pushing himself to the highest speed possible for him to the temple.
Her eyes snapped open as the wolf's howl pierced her ears. Something was wrong, normally the wolves would just howl to sing to Tsuki-sama. That howl sounded like danger was near. She ran to the front hall of the temple, seeing all her brothers and sisters of the temple gathering against the back wall. "What's going on?" she asked, "What's happening?"
One of the girls looked over at her, her green eyes wide in fear. "We believe we'll be dead this night, Lady Hinata."
Hinata looked out the window and saw a black mist was creeping up on them. She gasped, "Vampires." Even though vampires were blessed with immortality and unsurpassed beauty, their vainness caused a thirst for blood and the most darkest powers imaginable. The vampires were the seven sins of the world and very deadly. The girl was right, they would be dead. If the mist didn't kill them in time, they would be new vampires. She took off towards the front doors stringing an arrow to her bow.
"No, Lady Hinata! They want you! Run we'll stall them, you must save yourself."
She opened the door just a crack. "I don't want to seem helpl…." An arrow ran through her side just below her lungs. The force of it threw her body back several feet. The other humans cried out in shock and worry.
Just then they heard snarling and a loud crack of bones snapping in two. A wolf head pushed into the crack of the door. Get her to a safer place, we'll handle them. The girls carried Hinata to a farther corner of the room and laid her down.
Naruto kicked the door closed and charged back into the advancing forces of the vampires. The other hunters he took out were tearing the vampires apart. Their jaws snapped at the vampires' necks in attempts to rip their heads off or snap their necks. Naruto's jaws clamped down around a vampire's neck and he jerked his head, snapping the small bones in the creature's neck. The sickening crunch excited him. It was a long time since his last battle when he was just a young wolf.
Soon after twenty or thirty vampires were slaughtered, the rest of the platoon began to retreat. Kiba began to charge after them. Kiba! No save your energy. The blackish-brown wolf followed orders, turning around and trotting back to the hunter group. We have to see if the humans are okay.
This mist will cause the worst of pain for changing into them, Naruto. Shikamaru padded up. We must burn the temple and everybody who isn't of pure good or pure evil. So if we can we must get the high priestess of this temple and the avatar they have. The fire will stop the mist before any other human gets hurt.
Very well, let's move out. Naruto led the other wolves inside the temple. The humans were sobbing and holding each other. It seemed that they knew that they were going to die either way. They knew about the mist. He cleared his throat. The vampires have retreated. We don't want to do this, but to ease you're suffering, we must burn the temple down and everybody in it to stop the mist. Where are your avatar and high priestess or high priest?
"It's just Lady Hinata here, kind wolf," a man answered.
"Our high priestess vanished before the attack," a woman said, "We fear she may be dead…or worse."
Naruto could see that the mist was already taking effect. Their skin was beginning to pale to death's color. They had to hurry.
At that moment, a grey wolf entered the temple. She phased into human and stood Tsunade in her medic clothing. The woman walked over toward Hinata who just started to sit up.
"I'll be fine," she muttered, swinging her feet over the bed. Tsunade examined the arrow that pierced through the girl's side and stuck out through her back. The girl's eyes were bloodshot.
"That doesn't seem good." Tsunade snapped the arrow and Hinata shrieked in pain. All the wolves' noses twitched at the stench. "She's been poisoned! We have to get her to my den now before it's too late!"
I'll take her. Kiba you come with me, Shikamaru and Chouji you know what you have to do here.
Hinata knew what that meant. She shook her head in shock as the woman helped her onto Naruto's back. She cried out, "No! Not my family! Not again!"
"Get her out of here, Naruto, she can't see this!" Tsunade snarled phasing back into wolf as Naruto leapt out of the temple and ran his hardest back to the dens.
Hinata sobbed into the wolf's fur. She felt like she was reliving her past. First her family was changed before her eyes, now the people she cared for deeply who took her in as a child was going to burn with her home. She was afraid that she was cursed with being the avatar. Soon she'd be the end of these wolves who wanted to take her in and save her own life.
When she opened her eyes finally, she saw she was in a roomy den with shelve filled with herbal tinctures and herbs themselves. A few beds made for human and wolf forms filled the corners and some spaces, leaving plenty of room for walking around. She saw the grayish-blonde woman who was in the temple with her mixing some herbs together. Across the room at the den entrance was the alpha wolf. She could tell by his size and they way he stood tall. Then he turned and walked out. I'll be back with the others, Tsunade.
Hinata closed her eyes, feeling tears start to threaten to show again. She didn't want to seem weaker in front of these wolves. It wasn't fair to them that they had to rescue her because she was weak.
Naruto stood on top of a high hill howling to the moon as the fire raged below him. Shikamaru and Chouji were controlling the fire to just the area containing the temple. He howled in prayer for Tsuki-sama to accept her passed children into her arms and to forgive them for ending their suffering through death.
Soon the entire pack joined Naruto in his howling whether it was howling with him or singing the prayer. Hinata cried hearing the beautiful lyrics and soon joined them.
We all come from the Goddess
And to her we shall return
Like a drop of rain
Flowing to the ocean
We all come from the Goddess
And to her we shall return
Like a drop of rain
Flowing to the ocean
Ooth and corn ooth and corn
All that die shall be reborn
Corn and grain corn and grain
All that fall shall rise again
We all come from the Goddess
And to her we shall return
Like a drop of rain
Flowing to the ocean
Sage and crone sage and crone
Wisdom's gift shall be our own
Crone and sage crone and sage
Wisdom is the gift of age
We all come from the Goddess
And to her we shall return
Like a drop of rain
Flowing to the ocean!
Hinata cried herself to sleep on the cot in the infirmary den. She felt sorrow for her brothers and sisters of the temple.
Naruto laid down in his bed in wolf form, feeling depressed more than he ever had before. Something was different since that avatar arrived…whether it was bad or good, he didn't know.
Angel: Well that's the end of this chapter. I sure hope that this is much better than the old version.
Demon: They're coming to take me away ha ha! They're coming to take me away ho ho he he ha ha to the funny farm where life is beautiful all the time and I'll be happy to see those nice young men in their clean white coats and they're coming to take me away HA HA!!
Angel: *sighs as the doctors take him away* I do miss him in case you all were wondering. Anyway, I sure hope you have enjoyed this story and hope that it's much better. Please review and leave advice…that is if you can come up with some LOL J