(Alexi's POV)
I woke up with my back pressed against the she-wolf. I slowly lifted my head to catch a glimpse of her beautiful face. Her fur was the purest white that I had ever seen. A cold breeze blew from the small opening that led to the out side. I shift away from her so I don't wake her when I stand. I sigh as I crawl up the narrow passage. I push the rock out of the way, blinding my self with the sun's radiance. I walk further out of the cave. There wasn't a cloud in the sky, and it just filled me with such happiness. This may be the last great day to do what ever until spring.
Suddenly, I hear a yawn come up from behind me. Looking over my shoulder, I see the she-wolf stretching. I smile at her," How did you sleep?"
Calla looked at me warmly," I slept better than I have for a while, thank you for sharing your den space; I know that it isn't very big and having two wolves living there makes it a little cramped."
I huff," Don't worry about it. So, in celebration of this beautiful day, I want to take you somewhere."
Calla tilted her head," Oh, where?"
I laugh," I can't tell you silly, it's a surprise!"
I give Calla a wolfish grin as I tilt my head, signaling for her to fallow. She sighs and does what I say as I lead her into the woods. Through the woods, I notice Calla looking around for something.
"Did you lose something, Calla?" I ask.
She shakes her head," No, I just want to remember the surroundings since I am going to be living here, I don't want to get lost when I'm hunting."
I nod," That would suck, but don't worry, you don't have to worry about hunting for a while."
Calla smiles at me as we walk on. I lead her through the forest. Stopping every once in a while, waiting for her to catch up with me. I look at her as she sniffs a tree. I smile at her. Finally, we get to what I wanted to show her. I stop in front of some bushes as she looks at me questioningly.
"Welcome to the home of all rogues," I say as I pull back one of the branches.
I hear Calla gasp as she takes in the view of the place. She steps through the opening and into paradise, I follow from behind. The paradise of every rogue consisted of a large cliff wall that rose about a hundred feet into the air. Scattered caves acted as dens to the wolves, with little path ways that were carved into the cliff by man some time ago.
Many different kinds of wolves traveled along these small passage ways, all of different cultures. Red wolves from Europe lived side by side with arctic wolves from the far north; regular grey wolves were guarding the boundaries, making sure this wolf utopia stayed safe.
Calla stood frozen, taking in all the magic. Finally, she turned toward me and showed me a big wolfish grin.
"This is incredible; I have never seen such a diversity of cultures! Where did all these different wolves come from?"
"Well, the red wolves came from Europe. They were captured for a zoo, but they escaped and eventually came across this place. You can imagine everyone's surprise at seeing two wolves that not only didn't belong in this state, but didn't belong on this continent. However, despite their differences, we took them in and last summer the pair had a litter of pups."
Calla grinned at me and licked her slightly swollen stomach.
"The arctic wolves came from Alaska. They said that man had started hunting them for their skins and they didn't want to risk getting hunted so they traveled down south. They say that a group of humans found them and surprisingly took them in and helped them get down here, I think that the wolves said something about the group being called Indians, but I'm not sure. Of course, this happened a long time ago so there wasn't any cities that were blocking their path down here."
Calla nodded and walked further into the utopia. I follow behind, wanting to see her expression. Suddenly, she lay down and started to weep. I walk up to her side and give her a confused glance.
"Calla, are you alright, what is the matter?" I ask concerned.
Calla sniffs," I can't believe that wolves can be so social. All this time I thought that it was every pack to them self and then I come here and realize that we wolves can care for one another, like we were meant to!"
I grin at her," Of course, we are not corrupted by the idea of a pack. In our eyes, every wolf is considered pack, or as we like to think, family."
Calla shook her head and continued crying, attracting the attention of one of my favorite she-wolves, Cerce. I watch as she walked toward us and gently nudged Calla's head.
"Dear, I was watching you when you came in and you suddenly broke down and started crying, might I ask you what's wrong?"
Calla looked up at her and smiled," Oh dear, I'm sorry about this, I am just so happy, I have just figured out that there is goodness in the world."
Cerce smiled at her," Of course, there has always been goodness in the world and there will continue to be, you see Hati, one of our Gods makes sure that there will always be good in the world, it is her job!"
Calla looked at her for a minute," Wait, as in the Norse god Hati?"
"I don't know about Norse but I think so."
Calla smiled at her," Norse was a human race, sorry."
Cerce laughed," Don't worry, I don't associate myself with humans, it's not your fault."
Calla smiled at Cerce, laughter in her gaze. I walked up to the she-wolves," Cerce, do you mind giving Calla a tour of the place, I have to find Zorak and ask him a question."
Calla looked at me," Who's Zorak?"
I looked back at her," Zorak is the head guard, he is pretty much the leader of the place, but you know, we really don't have a leader, but if we did, he would be it."
"Oh," Calla still looked confused.
I heard Cerce give a snort," Don't worry Calla, Alexi sucks at explaining stuff. I'll explain everything to you on our tour."
I give Cerce a curt look as she grinned at me and ran in the opposite direction, Calla hot on her tail. I sigh and shake my head and head to the nursery.
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The nursery is in a low hanging alcove at the bottom of the cliff. Bramble bushes had formed around it, making the perfect shelter. I shove my way through the bushes and into the nursery. It was dimly lit and smelled of the comforting scent of warm milk. All around you could hear small breaths as the pups nestled against their mother's belly. I imagined Calla in here with her pups suckling at her belly. The thought comforted me, knowing that she will have shelter while her pups grow up. I know I said that I would care for her, but I am not going to let her stay in my cramped cave. It was cramped with just me in there, I couldn't imagine if there were pups included to, the thought made me shiver.
I spot Zorak near the back of the cave, nuzzling his mate, Julie. They had just had a litter of two beautiful pups. I walk up to him.
"Hello, Zorak." I greet.
He turns his gaze from his mate to me," Hello, Alexi, I've heard you came with a she-wolf, is that true?"
I sigh," I can't believe news has spread so quickly. Anyway I did come with one, and it doesn't mean anything. I lead her here because she was driven from her pack when she was pregnant and she needs some where to stay, I was hoping she could stay here."
Zorak inclined his head," Of course, every wolf in need of help is welcomed here, however we will need to find someone for her to live with, we have become a little crowded."
I nod," Don't worry, I plan on asking Cerce and Maxie if they could shelter her until her pups arrive."
"Why don't you shelter her?" Zor asked.
I sigh," My cave is too small I couldn't if I tried, it was so cramped last night I awkwardly slept with her back pressed to mine."
Zor looked at me with puppy dog eyes," Awwwwwww, that's so cute, so did you like it?"
I growl at him," Shut up douche!"
Zor cackles like a hyena and sighs," Anyway, I don't want you asking something like that to them. You know that they're tryin' to have pups; it's not fair putting either of them through that awkward situation. I'll look for a bigger cave for you guys to live in somewhere else and one of the elders that's complaining about the noise here can take your cave, that sound good?"
I look down feeling uncomfortable," I don't know, You know that I am attached to that cave…"
Zor looked at me sadly," I know that your cave makes you feel closer to your dead mate, but Calla needs you right now and if you don't like sleeping close to her, then you either need to tell Calla about how you feel or you need to suck it up and help a wolf that really needs you!"
I sigh knowing that he was right, I hesitantly say," I'll think about it."
Zor nods and turns back to his mate and pups as I walk out of the cave. I catch sight of Calla and Cerce returning from their tour. They seem to have grown a liking for each other. Well that's good; I like to know that Calla has a friend in the rouges besides from me.
However, just seeing her makes me feel a ping in my heart knowing that I'll need to break the one tie I have with my mate in order to help this helpless she-wolf.
Hello all my faithful readers!
It makes me so happy to know that you hate Shay as much as me. And if you don't, why are you reading this? Considering that it is pretty much making Shay to be out as a egotistical jerky teen wolf.
I know that I haven't updated in a while (like six days) but I have had a lot of work to do for the upcoming school year (I had to read two books for honors English and oh my god!) I might not be updating as fast as I did the first two chap. but I will write every singe minute I am not doing homework (junior year, you know…)
Any way, I know this chapter is long, and I hope to make them at least two full pages.
So, to top off this incredibly long speech of mine, I say goodbye my fellow Ren lovers.
Be sure to R&R!
