The territory for Shadow Lurkers pack wasn't big and it was easy to remember even the tiniest rock that wa on their ground and Buttocks made sure that Luna remembers all of them. Even every leaf on the trees. They've been walking around the territory for quite a while and it was slowly getting dark. Really slowly. Or more like it should've but in this world it's always day. Night does not exist. Buttocks showed Luna the hunting grounds that were quite far away from the packs territory. Suddenly, she smelled an unfamiliar scent.
„Umm, Buttocks.. What is this smell?" Luna pointed to the direction from where it came. Or so she tried. Then Buttocks stoo in front of her with an „Let professionals hande this" pose and turned scent view mode on. He saw a the scent trail of a bear which was in blue color but it was slowly getting stale. The bear had been here 16 minutes ago.
„It was a bear, obviously. Why do you ask me to check things for you when you can go in scent view mode yourself?" He looked at Luna suspiciously and stared right in her soul. If it was the alpha, she'd feel like he was going to eat her unborn babies. Again.
„To be honest, I really don't know how to do that. Do you think.. That.. You could teach me?" SHe looked at him and tried to imitate the puppy eyes expression but she overdid it and he backed away from her and surpressed a laugh. Did she really look that stupid?
„Man, what a retarded expression.." Buttocks whispered to himself but loud enough for Luna to hear. „Anyway, absolutely not. I can't teach you something like that, you learn it yourself. You'll learn it someday. Let's move on and kill an elk. I remember them being somewhere close to us. Like, maybe, 8 minutes away."
Luna hesitated. The alpha had said that there is no use in killing them. „Um.. Buttocks.. Umm, maybe we could just find a dead one and eat it instead of killing another one? I remember the alpha saying that there is no use in killing one because they spawn like crazy all over the place!"
„I'm bored and there is nothing to do. It's okay to kill them for fun not eating. We can just kill it and leave it there, maybe the coyotes will eat it." Buttocks answered her but he didn't sound very convincing. Well, whatever, they'll do it anyway.
Buttocks was leading the way for since Luna doesn't know how to switch to scent view mode. She felt so useless. I must learn how to use this mysterious power he's talking about. It sounds like it's really useful. Luna thought and didn't notice that Buttocks had already stopped and was switching between the elk herd in scent view mode to find the one with the lowest health bar. I mean.. The injured one that's easy to kill. Luna didn't noticed that she was still moving and right in the herd of elk.
„Dude.. What the hell? Come back here! They'll see you and if the bull elk gets you, you're screwed!" Buttocks whispered to her but Luna didn't notice for that she was drowning in her thoughts. She completely disconnected her from the reality and was drifting away in her own world. „Omg, she's so dead." Buttocks said but didn't move an inch. He was actually hoping to see some action because it's been so boring to live in this world where there is no night, only elk, coyotes and hares to kill and living without the knowledge of how does water taste. It hurt his soul and he was hoping to see at least someone of his kind being killed. How evil. But Luna kept on moving and the elk had already noticed her. The weakest and slowest were trying to run away and the strongest females were pushing the weakest to move faster away from this murderous creature called Wolf with capital w. The bull elk moved towards her with a threatening sound coming right down from his throat. Or more like it seemed that it would because the elk make no sound in this world. Expect for their hooves hitting the ground while running other than that they're all quiet. They almost seem mysterious and they must have a tribe or a clan or something where they do black magic and other mysterious things. It must be that. Luna snapped out of her world only when her head hit the bull elk, she looked up and saw completely soulless eyes looking at her or maybe even past her, she couldn't tell but panic rose up in her. She now couldn't control herself and let out a bark of horror and started whining. She was too frightened to be able to move and just stood in front of the beast. Buttocks stood behind the trees almost completely invisible and drooled. The bull elk raised his head and got himself ready to hit the pitiful creature in front of him with his horns. Suddenly, Luna's life flashed before her eyes but the before death moment was cancelled because a ginger flash went right by her eyes and she wondered what it was. Her brain lagged and begged for that she'd increase her memory. She had forgotten that she neede to defragment herself. The screen was loading for her and it now had completely freezed. When the lag stopped and the screen unfreezed, all she saw was the alpha in front of her and a few other packmates with the alpha standing by the dead body of the bull elk. The alpha looked back at her, cleaned all the blood from her mouth and stepped up to Luna with worried eyes.
„Are you okay? What the hell were you thinking standing just right that in fron of the beast of this forest?" MingerStar said and Luna knew that she was holding back all the rage was living deep down inside her for that she's a ginger.
„I.. I'm sorry, I was spaced out and didn't noticed what I was doing." Luna apologized and didn't dare to look in the alphas eyes.
„Nevermind that, why were you here all by yourself?" MingerStar looked suspiciously at her. Does she still think I'm a spy from a different pack? I must not let her think so.
„I wasn't here by myself. Buttocks was showing me around the territory and we then decided to hunt the elk for fun and thats when I spaced out and didn't notice that we already found the herd. The next thing I remember is that I was right in front of the bull elk." Luna said and tried not to sound like she was blaming Buttocks. She didn't really want him to have trouble because of her mistake.
„Buttocks? But he's not here.. What are you hiding, Luna?"
„kfnaejnf I swear! He was right behind me!"
„I'll ask him when we get back to the den but if you're lying to me, I'll make sure you die a slow and painful death, Luna." Mingerstar said and her eyes blazed like fire when she said „slow and painful death". What is this strange pack and why do all they want to see is other's dying and blood? Luna's head was spinning with the information overload. She needed some time alone to defragment her brain. But that can wait just a bit more, now she had to deal with the trouble that Buttocks had caused her. If she didn't agree to go hunt with him, she shouldn't have to go through all of this and plus she was really afraid from the soulless ginger that right now lead the way back to the den. She noticed that all the packmates were escorting her and making sure that Luna had absolutely no chance of escaping. Her heart was pounding so fast and loudly that she was pretty sure that these bloodthirsty creatures could hear it. Is this where I die? Luna asked herself and tried to surpress the fear she felt. She had too look like she's not afraid and that it's all true she had said to the alpha and she was sure Buttocks will agree with what she had said because that's totally how it happened! There is no way he'll disagree. But how can she be so sure if she only know him and everyone this pack for 4 hours?
To Be Continued.