O.K, I know with the last chapter there were a couple of questions you guys had. I honestly was going to explain it all in that chapter, but forgot, as I was in a hurry to get it done, as I was sat in a music lesson and my music teacher kept coming over to see if I was doing the work, which I wasn't. Because I was writing the last chapter.... I don't think I ever got that work done....... Ah well. The questions were more or less 'Why was Yami taken and why was he not just killed?' and 'Why does the hunter collect wolves?' both questions should be answered in this chapter, so fear not. It will all make sense. It does to me at least. But then again, I know the plot, and you don't :p!!!
Oh, and doesn't ANYONE seem concerned at what happened to Astennu? I mean you haven't heard anything from him from the past five chapters!!!! Ah Well, enjoy this chapter!!!
EgyptianShadowWolf xXx
Yami's eyes flickered open. His head hurt badly, and his body ached whenever he moved it.
His throat burned as he swallowed painfully. How long had he been here? He sat up sharply, willing the pain to be over, only to bang his head on the cage that held him. He rubbed his head, frustrated at not seeing the large black bars above his head.
They were BIG and BLACK. How could he not see them?
He straightened out his body (or tried to), trying to make himself as comfortable as possible in the limited space he had.
Even a wolf wouldn't be comfortable in this space. This made Yami's eyes widen in realization. Wolf.
Where was Destiny? He tried to cast his mind back, but his head hurt terribly, so he couldn't. All he could remember was seeing Destiny battling two large black wolves. Worry tore him up inside. He had brought her into this. If she was dead, it was his fault. All his fault.
Yami rested his head against the back of the cage and closed his eyes. He didn't know what time of day it was. There was no way of telling. A single light hung in the middle of the windowless room, only letting Yami see small amounts of the room, which was mostly bare, except for a large brown table in one corner of the room accompanied by a chair, and two doors either side of the room.
Great. Yami opened his eyes again and looked sadly out of the cage. His 'rescue mission' for Yugi had badly failed. Now, not only was Yugi going to die, but so was he and Destiny, if she was not already dead. There was no way out.
The handle on door on the left suddenly turned and in came a large human figure. Yami scowled. The poacher. The poacher smiled and grabbed the chair that was by the table and brought it over to the cage that Yami was in, and sat on it.
"Someone's awake then!" the poacher said, talking as if he and Yami were good friends.
Yami scowled and turned his eyes away.
The poacher smirked.
"Which is more than I can say for your wolf friend..."
Yami instantly looked at the poacher.
"You what?" Yami said through gritted teeth.
"You heard!" The poacher said, before laughing.
"If you have hurt her in any way, I swear, you'll wish you were never born!" Yami threatened. It wasn't convincing.
"Ha! What are you gonna do? Scowl me to death? Unless you're not aware, you're in a cage, or would you like me to put you in something more fitting. Like a pet carrier?" The poacher smirked.
Yami searched his mind of what to do. The poacher doesn't know you, he thought. He doesn't know that you can speak to wolves. Big it up, his conscience told him. Fake it.
"I might not be able to do anything, but I have friends outside of here, they will put an end to you"
The poacher smirked again.
"What? The wolves? Oh Yeah, like they pose a threat. I have guns. Pah. Useless petty creatures. No use to me what so ever." He turned his attention to the gun that Yami had only just seen on his lap. He had a cloth in his hand, polishing it.
Yami thought again. Maybe if he kept him talking, he might not feel the urge to kill Yami, not yet any how.
"If you think they're useless and pathetic, why do you have two of them?" Yami asked. This was something he was pondering over since he had seen them. The poacher smirked yet again as he continued to polish his gun.
"I'm glad you asked that actually. Well, that forest was ridden with wolves. Full of them. Disgusting creatures" He paused to spit in the opposite direction before continuing.
"The council asked us to be rid of them, but we thought ahead. There were too many of the damn things for us to kill on our own, so we thought...." But he was cut off by Yami.
"Did it hurt?" Yami asked sarcastically, his arms crossed.
"Hm. Funny!" The poacher said angrily before continuing again.
"Anyway, we thought that we could capture a load of wolves instead of trying to kill them. Then starve them of food and water and make them forget who they really are. Make them forget that they are true wolves of the forest, and instead, they are slaves of man, forever our slaves. We then give them a little food and water. And my, what they would do for food!" The poacher started to laugh. When he stopped, he continued.
"They then did as we wanted them to, turning them against each other, as long as they got their food. So, our plan was, to capture lots of the wolves and make them obey us. Once this is done, we will instruct them to kill their own brethren, their own packs and families, until they are all gone. We then kill those left." The poacher sat back, satisfied with his story telling.
Yami took a deep breath. He hated this person right down to his guts.
"So where do Yugi and I come into this?" Yami asked finally, after a moment of silence.
The poacher leaned forward again.
"Well," he began.
"You stood in my way in the forest. You wouldn't let me carry out this plan. Meanwhile, one of my friends was being attacked by one of those stupid wolves. You would probably know him. The big grey one. He seemed like the biggest."
Yami smiled.
Karu.
The poacher continued.
"My other friends went to help the one in trouble, and the wolf took them down as well. I could of helped them. But you stood in my way" The poacher growled this, looking at Yami.
"So I took your friend that I see you often about with. He didn't seem to care where he went. He seemed to come running out the forest, so I took him, easy peasy, and held him here, where I wrote you the note and tempted you here. I didn't think you would take the bait, but I was astonished when you took the bait. You turned up like a lamb to the slaughter."
The poacher paused to examine his gun. He then looked at Yami.
"So I'm holding you here, so you won't get in the way again. I don't care if you die here. In fact, I'm counting on it. our plan isn't exactly working. The wolves are taking a long time to adapt to obeying us, longer than we've got. So me and some of my remaining friends have decided to do the only thing we can." The poacher paused.
"We're going to blow this place up. You know, Kaboom!"
Yami's heart raced.
"That's clever, blowing yourself up" Yami tried to say without his voice shaking.
The poacher laughed.
"I'm not going to be in it stupid! Only you, your friend and the wolves!"
Yami begun to panic more. His breathing became more difficult in this cramped space. He was going to die.
He was going to die. He was going to die. He was going to die.....
What on earth was he going to do?
He remembered what he had said earlier.
I have friends outside of here that will put an end to you...
Yami closed his eyes. If destiny was still alive, she would have to hear this no matter what. He was going to try to do something he had never done before.
His mind cast back to when he was still in the pack and the pack would howl all together, Karu and Nevada's voice heard the most. He remembered their howls.
Keeping this memory locked in his head, he threw his head back and howled in his human voice.
The poacher nearly fell back with surprise.
Yami continued the howl for a while. When he ended his howl, there was a pause of silence, before a real wolf howl broke the air.
Yami's heart jumped.
Destiny!
Another voice joined hers. And another. And another...
Soon hundreds of wolf voices seemed to join hers, and Yami blinked in astonishment. Could he really have been that good?
The poacher growled.
"So you speak to them now? Well, we'll put an end to that then shall we?"
The poacher aimed his gun straight at Yami's head.
Just before he could pull the trigger, there was a great thudding at the door. Three thuds later, and the door flew straight off its hinges, crashing across the room. Then, three wolves entered.
The first was Destiny.
Yami had to blink twice at the second wolf.
Alpha Storm?
The third wolf was a bit of a mystery. It was dark brown and Yami didn't think he had ever seen it anywhere....
But as Yami looked in his eyes, he thought he recognized them.....
Yami's thought was distracted by the growling that the wolves all made. They were looking at the poacher, taking in his gun and the best direction to attack from. Moments passed that seemed to take forever.
Then, with what seemed like lifetime slowness, Alpha Storm leapt, ready to end it all.......