(A/N-Very useless junk explained throughout this part of the chapter that I felt like was needed for the final pairing that I'm going to do.)
I found myself falling down. I hadn't realized it but I had been falling for about 3 minutes. I didn't see anything except for white below me. I tried turning into a crow but I didn't have much energy left from moveing worlds. I closed my eyes and waited for my body to hit the ground. I felt a layer of precipitation hit my face and I decided to open my eyes again. I started panicking a lot from what I saw.
It was the ocean, I tried to turn around on my back so I wouldn't damage anything important (like my spine wasn't very important but I was panicking a lot and couldn't thing straight.) With a loud splash, I hit the water. The severe wounds I got from by battle opened up and the salt form the water stung. Closing my eyes and letting my breath go, I waited for my consciousness to fade.
What I expected to see after that was white, everywhere. Or maybe to be in a grey void floating around with nowhere to go. I didn't expect to see the sun and sky and clouds.
I turned my head and saw pure tan sand. Slowly, I got up, stumbling a little before stretching out. I looked back at the spot I was in and sighted. There was traces of blood from my open wounds. I reverted back to my original form, a wolf, and scattered the sand that had my blood on it. Once accomplishing my act, I transformed back into my human appearance and walked around, starting to study my surroundings.
Next to the beach I was in, there was a forest. Farther down the beach, I could smell the scent of many demons and angels mixed together. In the other direction of the beach, there was endless sand, for all I could see. I went into the forest, trying not to be caught by anybody. I eventually came upon an apple tree forest and I happily nommed on the apples there. Once I was half filled from the apples, I saw a big red apple on one of the tallest trees in the forest. I jumped up to the lowest branch and started climbing. I finally reached the apple and picked the apple off the branch. I took a big nom out of the apple and I squealed.
"(^ω^) That's super sweet!(^ω^)" I took another big nom and smiled. I finished the apple and I stretched. Yawning, thoughts of meat crossed my mind as my stomach started to growl again. I climbed back down form the tree, this time making sure my scarf didn't' get caught on the branches. At the bottom, I reverted back to my wolf form and stretched again.
I sniffed the air and followed the smell of cooking meat. Making sure no one saw me, I stayed close to the shadows. Walking out of the forest, I saw a building that was radiating the meat smell. The building looked like it was from the story books that I used to read when I was small. I sat and stared at the building. The building looked very different from the buildings at home. The building had glass windows to see through while we just used animal skins for the non-important buildings like homes and glass for buildings that are used every single day. Another difference was the roof. Roofs in my world were flat and made out of wood and were painted with dyes. This roof though, it was like a triangle with slanted tiles for sides. Around everything else was the same.
After moments of staring at the building, I resumed my mission. Before darting out into the open, I made sure there was nobody that would see me. I ran tot eh back and saw the door slightly opened. I squeezed myself through and searched for the food. There was a thump of a foot and I hid in the shadows. Before me was a… thing. It was yellow. It looked like a cat, but it was standing up. Its face looked at if were in eternal happiness.
"I guess it was nothing then, my imagination," the strange yellow cat thing said. "Well then, time for my break!"
As soon as I couldn't hear the cat's footsteps, I sighed. What was that thing? I shrugged my thoughts away as I saw the meat on the counter. Jumping up and grabbing the meat in my jaws, I made a quick escape back to the forest.
I quickly ate, starving for the taste of some kind of meat. Once I finished my meal, I sat down and stretched on m stomach. I hadn't realized it but I let my guard down, by a lot. At the time, I was happy that I was fed and didn't care about anything else. I didn't notice anything until it was too late.
"Hey look Froze! It's a wolf!" an awfully cherry voice yelled. At this voice I jumped and looked around.
In the distance, I saw four girls, two demons and two angels, one of the demons running straight at me. I panicked and tripped over my tail and landed on my snout. The demon that was running at me earlier picked me up.
She looked like one of those annoying people with unlimited amounts of energy. She had light green hair with a pink horn on the left side of her head and an artist hat where the other horn should have been. Her clothes looked like the clothes I saw in my story book that the 'humans' made. The other girls were wearing equally strange clothing. I whined and squirmed around in the girl's hands, trying to act as young and wild as possible.
"Yosafire, I don't thing the wolf likes that," The angel with blond hair stated.
"But Froze! It's adorable!" The one named Yosafire complained.
"Yes, the wolf is quite cute," a voice said behind Froze.
I craned my neck around so that I could see the other girls. There was a pink-haired demon that was smiling at me very creepily with some kind of look in her eyes. The other was an angel with brown hair that was slightly smiling at me.
"Macarona! Not you too!" Froze exclaimed.
"What does wolf meat taste like, I wonder," The pink haired demon asked. I squirmed a little harder.
Yosafire held me in her arms ad looked at the psycho demon. Then, she patted me on my head and said, "Don't worry Wolfy, I'll protect you."
"Yosafire, are you going to keep it?" Froze asked.
Yosafire nodded cheerfully before throwing me up in the air and catching me when I fell down. I whined, showing my discomfort from being thrown in the air.
"We should tell Lady Etihw and Lord Kcalb about the wolf then."
"Alright! Time to head to the castle!"
Kcalb and Etihw huh…? Wonder if they'll recognize me. Should I go or should I stay? Maybe I can pick a fight with them and get stronger that way!
It was a short walk to the castle as I sat on Macarona's hat. The nervousness kept on growing in my stomach as we neared the castle entrance. One inside, I widened my eyes and looked at my surroundings. Though the only colors present were grey, black, and white, it gave off as much impression as any colors could give. The girls walked towards a little white stone and placed their hands upon it. For a second, I felt like I was falling but I realized that we just teleported to a different place. I looked around, trying to act like I was confused as the girls opened a large door leading into a slightly brighter room.
"Oh!" Yosafire exclaimed. "I need to finish my homework! Rawberry and Macarona, can you help me?"
The two girls nodded and I felt Macarona pick me up off her head and place me on the ground.
"See ya later Froze!" Yosafire yelled as she teleported back using a black stone instead.
Froze picked me up by the fur on my back and held me in front of her. "Lord Kcalb, we found this word in the apple park and was wondering if you knew about this wolf," She explained.
"Bring it to me," Kcalb said with his back turned towards me.
As Froze walked forward, Kcalb turned around and saw me. He grabbed me by my tail and dangled me in the air. "Thank you for telling me about this Froze," Kcalb told her, "you may go back now. As for the wolf, it's staying here."
Froze nodded and left. Kcalb walked back to the table and dropped me on it.
"Auburn," I almost tensed up when he said my name but decided to play it cool. "I saw you falling in the ocean and knew that you would find yourself here. Also, there aren't any wolves in these parts."
I changed into my other form and said with a scowl, "Well, excuse me for not being able to control my energy usage yet,"
"You can stay here while you train. I'll tell Etihw about you too,"
Can I trust him? I looked at him for several moments and then said, "Thanks,"
"Auburn, welcome to the Gray World," Kcalb said with a smile so light that it was barely noticeable if you didn't look close enough.