Prologue

I suppose the first thing I remember as a pup is my mom's warmth. The second would be just when my eyes where opening, I remember a lot of blurs, and loud cracking. I remember hearing my sibling's cries, and the loud snarling of my mother, and then the sudden searing pain on my fore left shoulder and my left ear. That's the last I remember for a while.

When I had woken up it was dark out and very cold. And I was alone. I cried for the loss of my mother, and cried for the loss of my siblings. I cried myself to sleep that night, shivering.

A pulling on my scruff jerked me awake. I curled my tail in between my hind legs as pups tend to do, and whimpered softly to be put down.

I was put down on my paws. Looking up I found that the wolf carrying me was an adult male wolf, with an 'X' shaped scar on his chest. Me of course being the pup I was said," Whoa! You're huge!"

The gray wolf scoffed and looked at me pointedly. "No you're just a runt is all."

I blushed under my dark black and white fur. I looked up at him. "Hey what's your name?"

He blinked "Tsume, and what's your name?"

I looked down at my black paws, "I was never named. My momma….was killed before she had named us…."

"Rika"

I looked up at him, head cocked. "What?"

He looked away from me while standing. "You look like a Rika to me…"He started walking away from me.

I looked away sadly, 'I guess I'm not wanted…'

"Hey"

I looked up and he was standing farther away, looking back at me. "You coming or what?"

I got up and clumsily ran to him, when I had caught up to him I asked. "Hey, can I call you poppa?"

Chapter One

I spent a good few years with Tsume and he was like a father figure for me. We had traveled far and had found this dome city we now reside in, it was called Freeze city. Tsume is the alpha of a human pack, although I guess in human terms it would be the leader of a gang. See he can only do this because he has two forms, his wolf for and his human. His human form was an intimidating figure towards humans. He was clad in leather and his scar showing on his chest, always wearing his sun glasses, his short silver hair in a thin pony tail. Like I said he's intimidating to humans, but not to me he's like a giant teddy bear.

Earlier I had stated that most wolves had two forms a human and a wolf form. Well I'm weird and can't go into my human form. So I stay in my wolf form all the time, since I'm small enough. I'm small because apparently I'm part dog…..embarrassing I know. But luckily I look more wolf than dog. Tsume makes everyone think I'm a dog by taking me on a leash, and collar, although on missions I either wait outside, at our temporary living space. When I do go on missions with him I just have to wear my collar. My collar is lime green with spike's. The good part about it though is that people pet me and it feels really good! Tsume hate it when they do it saying their spoiling me. Over all its nice here.

But lately I've been feeling weird lately, like something is going to happen, something life changing. Though…when I tell Tsume this he just laughs and waves me off saying 'Oh its cause your female'

(INTERLUDE)

Today we'd had a big raid on a passing by noble train passing by. Now we're on our way back to our meeting spot by the big tree. We were walking past a bar at the moment and Tsume stopped suddenly. Everyone else kept walking back to the hide out. I kept walking until I was standing right next to him and looked at where he was looking at. We were outside an old bar. There was a big blue dog tied onto a fire hydrant via her leash and color. The blue dog spotted us and started barking and snarling angrily.

Tsume grabbed my scruff, and with a yelp from me, he was running. He past the part of the gang that had gotten ahead of us, and yelled a quick 'hurry up '.

It was later in the day were Tsume and I were actually on our way back to the big tree. When we got there everyone was crowded around it.

"I think it's a big dog…" One of the members said to another.

Tsume frowned to himself and told them to pull it out, all the while saying that it's not a dog.

One of the men went to pull the 'dog' out but it attacked and killed them both. Ghel, who was standing close by looked scared out of his mind. The white wolf looked up; Tsume ran and punched Ghel to get him to move.

The two glared each other down for a minute, and then bolted me quick in tow although slightly slower.

I arrived at a large abandoned building. I loped up the stairs following their scents. When I got to the roof they, were talking about what the white wolf had done down at the giant tree.

"Tsume!" I called to him while trotting to his side.

"So not only do you hang out with a pack of humans but also with a half breed mutt!" The white wolf snarled.

"You have a lot of nerve for someone half dead." Tsume growled.

They jumped at each other growling, and snarling, Next thing I know Ghel comes running from the doorway swing his wrench weapon at the white wolf. Said wolf glared at me and Tsume and ran away.