HEADS UP!
PLEASE READ MY NOTE!
(I'm NOT canceling, it's just a heads up)
Fair warning! This chapter is going to be a emotional! This is Clarke's side of the story of why she hates humans, there will be some abuse! This chapter explains exactly why Clarke behaves as she does. Now I do post warnings before parts that get rougher and I DON'T go into details of the abuse.
I wouldn't dream of making the whole story upsetting. Have faith in me readers, :) those of you who have read my stories know I am not one to have a story be depressing!
If you rather skip this one altogether then by all means you may do so and come back for chapter 3 where it dives right into the story. I will post a summary at the end of this chapter if you rather not feel emotional!
Again, let us thank Deveney! You are such a wonderful person to lean a helping hand to this silly wolf and her (hopefully) improving English.
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Clarke age 6
"Hey, Daddy! Look, there are humans over there," Clarke jumped about excitedly as she peeked around a large tree, her tail moving side to side curiously. She heard her father coming up close behind her, his huge stature didn't allow him to be hidden by the tree, like Clarke's small frame.
"Yes, there are Clarke, but remember you stay away from them, never go near them," Clarke felt his muzzle grab her by her nap and pulled her up; she swung a little as he carried away from the passing humans. Clarke looked up at her father batting at his nose as he hurried along,
"Why? Can't we play? They had a pup with them too," Clarke questioned. She could hear the humans getting louder, their laugher making her want to turn around to see them.
"They aren't like us, sweetie, they can't change as we do. They would hurt us if they knew how different we are." Her father was running now, rushing past bushes and jumping over fallen trees. Clarke swung in her father's mouth, his teeth held on to her nap tightly so as not to drop her.
"But they haven't hurt us, when they sometimes see us," Clarke argued as her father ran into a small puddle, she giggled when the water touched the back of her paws. Clarke kicked at the water enjoying the feeling of the warm summer liquid on her toes.
"Only because you have your big strong daddy to keep you safe and scare the humans away," her father teased. They were nearing the larger pool of water that was close to their den. Her father held her a little higher as he walked inside the lake and began to swim across. Once they were out of the water, he shook his fur out shacking Clarke a little in the process. Clarke could only shake her tail off of the heavy water that stuck to her.
"And mama! Don't forget, she makes human scream and run away like mouse!" Clarke giggled again as her father trotted quickly away from the lake and towards their den. Clarke squirmed around, wanting to be free from her father's mouth.
"Yes, especially your mama, which is why this little adventure stays between us sweet pup. Or your mama is going to make me scream like a little mouse." Once the den came into view Clarke's tail wagged excitedly, she squirmed more and this time, her father placed her back on the ground.
"Yes daddy! I keep secret, I go play with friends now!" Clarke ran off heading straight to where the pups were roughhousing. She could see Raven and Octavia tossing each other around, Raven was nipping at Octavia's ear. Clarke threw herself into the pair making them both fall over; she stood victoriously over them when they both yelped for being startled. "I win!" she howled happily. Octavia broke out of her shook first and pushed back with her rear legs and knocked Clarke over.
"Nah uh, you cheated!" Octavia playfully growled, she rolled over and tossed herself on top of Clarke and then Raven jumped on top of Octavia adding all their weight on the small yellow pup,
"And your small like a rat!" Raven taunted. Clarke huffed squirming around, she wiggled herself lose from under the pair.
"I'm small, but I faster pup!" Clarke turned around quickly and nipped both their ears making them both yelp. She laughed as she took off running and the pups scrambled to their paws to chase after her. Clarke jumped over rocks and ran around trees dodging her friends every time they almost caught her.
Clarke turned back around heading back towards the cave. They were nearing the limit line they weren't allowed to explore. She nearly missed being tackled by Raven, and Octavia tripped on her paws when she tried spinning around only to knock into Raven. Clarke giggled hearing them struggle to get back on their paws again, she looked back at them to see if they were still after her. They shook off their troubles and gave chase, though Raven was soon panting, her heavy coat made her get tired quickly. Clarke slowed down acting tired which Octavia took advantage of by running harder. Octavia was on her heel this time and Raven had fallen behind,
"Slow down! Too fast!" Raven whined out though she didn't slow down herself, continuing to run. Octavia looked back at her worried, she turned back and leaned down she used her muzzle to nudge Clarke's back leg making her lose balance and tumble over.
"I win! Ha!" Octavia stood proudly over Clarke, grinning widely. Clarke smiled back accepting her defeat. Clarke stayed on the floor to catch her breath and Octavia looked back for Raven as their beta friend slowed down to meet them. Raven was panting hard as she threw herself on the ground exhausted,
"I hate my fur, there's too much of it," Raven panted, rubbing her muzzle into the cold dirt, Octavia walked over to her and laid on top of her shoulders,
"I like it, it feels like rabbit's fur," Octavia buried her face in Raven's coat and Raven giggled not bothering to move. Clarke crawled forward till she reached the pair and laid her head on Raven's front paws.
"Yeah, it's so soft and fluffy. You should tell mama to groom you better," Clarke yawned out snuggling into Raven's chest fluff. Usually grooming was done by one's mother but Raven's mother vanished one day a few years ago and no wolf has seen her since. Though Clarke's mama and daddy happily took Raven in like their own pup, so to Clarke Raven was her older sister who she loved very much. Raven's breathing calmed down and she laid her head on Clarke's belly,
"I always tell her, she says she does a good job and I shouldn't be whiny," Raven growled out. Though she nuzzled into Clarke's belly, while Octavia stayed on top of Raven's shoulders.
"I groom you then, I groom big brother all the time. It's not hard," Octavia yawned out her voice drifting off, Clarke closed her eyes feeling sleep as well, she smiled tauntingly,
"course you want to, you want Raven as your soulmate..." Clarke drifted off and heard Octavia growl in protest. She only chuckled softly as she fell asleep with her friends. Clarke slept soundly, dreaming of chasing after mice with her dad and her mama watched over them while Clarke practiced her hunting skills.
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Clarke loved her life, she enjoyed being able to play with friends and to mess with the other wolves in her pack. Her pack was kind of small compared to others, there were only 16 wolves in her pack mostly parents and pups. Alpha Kane looked after all of them he was always making sure no danger came their way. There was another wolf pack that lived further out but they weren't the same as Clarke's pack. Her father and mother told her that those wolves gave up their human self and can be very dangerous to them, so they absolutely had to stay away from them.
The older wolves always taught the pups how they could disguise themselves as humans and that humans could be tricked into thinking they were the same as them. But turning oneself into a human was only for the alphas to do and only in case of an emergency. Clarke was a lucky one, she was born alpha and when she turned 15, she'd be allowed to just once change into her human form. Clarke look forward to that time but for now, she was happy with what she had.
Clarke got to play all day, learn to hunt, and the pack took care of her and the rest of the pups despite them not being blood-related. They had a huge space to live on and no one bothered them. Sure, some humans came around sometimes but Alpha Kane kept the humans away. If hunters ever came to close to their den the omegas lead all the pups to their secret hideout towards the back of the cave. Things were peaceful here, Clarke wouldn't trade her life for anything in the world.
Clarke was rudely shaken awake. She growled at whoever was trying to wake her. But the wolf was not going to let her go back to sleep, she nuzzled into Raven's fur ignoring them. But then the wolf grabbed her tail and yanked harshly,
"Wake up Clarke! Something's going on! Belly hasn't come back!" Octavia shouted at them. Clarke huffed as she backed out from under Raven's fur. Raven growled at the loss of her comfy pillow,
"This better not be another prank Octy," Clarke yawned as she stood up stretching out her legs. Raven sleepily rubbed at her muzzle and blinked her eyes rapidly,
"Prank? Again? God let me sleep," Raven growled out trying to curl up once more but then Octavia shot forward and yanking on her ear, causing Raven to whine,
"It's not a prank! There's really something wrong! Belly went out there 10 minutes ago and he hasn't been back once!" Octavia snarled baring her teeth. Clarke felt on edge seeing her best friend acting up so aggressively. Clarke got to her paws checking her surroundings, sure enough, things felt wrong, the air felt heavy and she could feel the stress of the pack. Not only that but the omegas had moved all the pups to the secret hideout. Clarke couldn't smell or see any of the omegas that usually stood guard outside the entrance of their hideout.
"Stay here," Clarke demanded as she moved around sleeping pups heading for the exits.
"Clarke! We're not allowed to go out there!" Raven whined out. Clarke looked back at her friends and wagged her tail gently,
"it's okay, I will be right back. Make sure everyone stays here," Clarke continued on ignoring when her friends who cried out for her to come back. Clarke stayed close to the ground as she moved forward checking around her now and again. The whole den was empty, not a single adult wolf was around. Something definitely felt weird, the closer Clarke got to the main entrance of the cave the more her nose tickled with the smell of copper and something sour.
Clarke could hear wolves fighting and very loud banging sounds that made her ears hurt. She shook her head to ease the pain. She crawled across the dirt then looked outside and her heart nearly stopped at what she was looking at. Outside of the den, stood a lot of humans with long metal sticks in their hands, they were shiny and white smoke was coming out of them. The smoke didn't smell natural to Clarke, she's smelled the smoke from fires that smelled of pine trees but this one was tangy. But that wasn't the only thing to make Clarke feel faint.
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Clarke's pack was laying on the ground, unmoving, everyone had large crimson spots on their heads or chest. Their eyes were glossed over with no sign of life, blood soaked the earth where they laid, not a single patch of grass or dirt was showing... only rusty red... no one was alive. Clarke froze up as she saw her mama and papa laying there too. Her Mama's once beautiful pure white fur was soaked in maroon all the way down her back. Even her papa was there close beside her mama but he was still breathing but very weakly.
The humans were walking around, the pup's play area kicking at Clarke's pack like they were rocks. Clarke whimpered, she tucked her tail between her legs terrified, the humans was throwing the dead wolves on top of a huge metal box that roared and spate out black smoke.
"The Queen is going to be mighty happy, she going to pay us really good for these fine wolves' fur. She'll pay even more if we do the skinning and cleaning up," a male spoke up, he had a nasty twig in his mouth that smelled worse than skunk. Clarke scrunched up her nose, she didn't know what to do. Her only thoughts were to go towards her dad to see if he was ok. But before she could move, she felt her dad connect with her,
"No Clarke! Run! Get the other pups and run!" Her dad demanded, Clarke wanted to argue back but then one of the humans heard her dad and placed that metal stick to his head. Clarke squeezed her eyes shut as the metal stick made another awful loud noise and more blood filled the air. Clarke's eyes stung as tears spilled down her cheeks, her pack...her mama...her daddy...were all gone.
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"Well well well, look what we got here, a really gorgeous looking pup," Clarke's eyes snapped open as she looked up to see the same man from before with that smelly twig in his mouth. He was grinning at her his teeth were all yellow.
"Finn! Come here, boy! Looks like you got your first pup to raise and sale!" The gross man yelled out, Clarke shrank back as another smaller human pup joined the man beside him. The boy had long greasy hair all over his face, his eyes were twisted like something was off as he looked down at Clarke.
"Ooh it's gonna be a pretty one too," Finn leaned down and grabbed Clarke by her nap dig his stubby nails into her skin. Clarke whined out and squirmed around trying to get away. "It's a girl too, when she gets older, she can make more pretty pups," the boy grinned he reached up and grabbed her muzzle he squeezed down on the side of her face tell she opened her mouth.
"Mm real young one too, more likely only 5 or 6 months. Too long of a wait time to raise and breed her, better to sell it off," the man blew out a puff of gray smoke and Clarke gaged. She growled baring her teeth in the best threatening way she could, even though her eyes stung from the smoke blown at her nose. It made her want to vomit. "Feisty one too, nah boy we going to sell it off to the highest bidder once it's older,"
"But pa! She so pretty, we should keep her!" Finn whined out. The man without warning smacked the boy across the back of his head hard enough to snap his head forward.
"Don't you talk back to me, you do what I tell you to boy!" The man snarled like a wolverine and Clarke shrunk back more afraid than ever. If that man was willing to hit his own pup what would they do to her!?
"Let me go! You ugly stupid humans!" Clarke snarled out, but they only stared at her and Finn glared. He shook her roughly until she stopped growling.
"Stupid dog, stop growling," Finn spat out. Clarke bared her teeth but didn't growl this time, her head was starting to hurt and her nap stung.
"I bet there are more pups around here. We better take a look around to see if we can find them. No pack this size doesn't have multiple pups," the man muttered and Clarke's eyes widen, fear took a hold of her at the thought of her fellow pups being found by these horrible people. Clarke swung around and with all her might she snapped her jaws over the boy's arm, she bit hard enough to taste copper. The boy screamed out and threw Clarke to the side making her hit a rock, she felt pain instantly and yelped.
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"You damn ass! What the fuck is wrong with you?! Don't fucking hurt it!" the man yelled at his pup, but Clarke couldn't waste any time. She forced herself up on her paws and took off running full speed heading towards her friends. "After her! She'll lead you to the others!"
Clarke felt a shooting pain at her side as she ran but that didn't matter to her, all that mattered was saving her friends. She reached out to Raven and Octavia and connected with them, "RUN! RUN! Hunters are here the adults are dead! RUN!" Clarke screamed and howled in warning. She could hear the pups getting up at once and some peaked out of the hole, they were hiding in. Raven was upfront starting wide eye at Clarke,
"wh-what? Hunters? But the—"
"RUN NOW!" Clarke snarled out and gotten everyone to get moving out the back exit, Octavia lead the group out and Raven was pushing pups towards the hole. Clarke hustled pups as well pushing them towards the exit and looking back every so often. The humans were getting closer and Raven was the last one to go, "Go, Raven! Hurry up!" Clarke demanded shoving her towards the hole. "We don't have time!" Raven whimpered but did what she was told, she squeezed inside and crawled out. Clarke poked her head inside to make sure everyone was through.
"There she is! I see her tail!" The humans' voices were louder than before. Clarke's heart clenched as she knew what she had to do to keep everyone safe. Clarke backed away from the dirt hole getting on her back legs. She pounced against the dirt until it caved in.
"Clarke! No Cla- "
Clarke's eyes stung more as the mind connection broke off, they were too young to hold on to a strong connection. Clarke's eyes watered and she heaved a sub but she was grateful that the hole was gone now. The humans wouldn't be able to know that there was even one there to begin with. The footsteps of humans growing closer to the hole and Clarke could smell that nasty smoke and grease. Clarke hunched against the wall and with all her might she snarled and fought as the Finn boy snatched her up again.
"Stupid animal, she's not pretty making that face," Finn shoke her harshly enough to make Clarke bite her own tongue. Clarke turned her body around ready to bite into his hand but then she felt something slip over her muzzle. Terrified she looked down to see a purple fabric closing her entire muzzle. She whimpered, she scratched at it desperately trying to pry it off, but the thing reached around her head making it impossible.
"You'll pay for this one day!" Clarke growled even with her muzzle shut she wouldn't keep quiet,
"Damn guess she was the only pup, come on then, we got to get a move on before those tree huggers show up." The man of smoke grabbed Clarke out of Finn's hands and roughly shoved her inside a small cage meant for birds. Clarke looked around confused and afraid, she curled up making herself small as possible. What was to become of her?
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Clarke 8 years old
"Don't fucking cause me any trouble tonight, Princess!" Finn snarled at Clarke as he slipped off the muzzle. Clarke felt too weak to attack him, he starved her for 3 days to make sure she was obedient for tonight. Clarke made no attempts to bite Finn as he began to roughly groom her fur.
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For two years she was kept in a gated area where there was no room to run and she was raised by Finn. During those years Clarke felt like it was the worst she had ever endured. Finn would train her like a house pet, day in and out. If she didn't listen, she was beaten with a metal coat hanger until she bleed or she was starved for days for not doing a command. Clarke had tried to fight such treatment, attacking and biting Finn every chance she got. But the amount of beating he would use on her became too much to handle and it was just easier to play nice.
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Clarke was reduced to being a house pet for the amusement of humans. Now Finn and his father Pike were selling her off to strangers at this big fancy building. There were other things here too, some shiny stones, rocks carved like humans, and even some huge cats Finn called tigers.
"There we go Princess, nice and beautiful. Someone going to pay me and my Pa big money for you girl," Finn stroked her muzzle. She wanted to move away but Clarke simply couldn't move, her stomach was hurting horribly as it clenched in on itself.
Clarke heard the zipper from the small bag Finn wore often, which made Clarke pick her head up. Clarke knew by now what was inside of it, Finn pulled out two dried meats but Clarke didn't dare try to snatch them out of his hand. Not like last time when that earned her a bruised cheek. "For being a good girl and you better keep this up for the auction and do your tricks." Finn placed the first meat on her nose, Clarke waited for the command while drool collected in her mouth.
"Please... please let me have it," Clarke whined out, even though she knew well enough he couldn't hear her. She's never mentally connected to a human and she wasn't planning on it either. Finn smirked in that awful way of his, that smug smile that said 'you're so pathetic it's adorable'
"Good Princess," He tossed the treat up in the air and she caught it. She chowed it down hungrily and was grateful that Finn just tossed the other on the floor for her. Clarke snatched it up gobbling it down quickly enough that it hurt her belly.
"Auctioneer 84, please come up to the platform. Auctioneer 84, please come up," the voice came from above somewhere. Clarke spared a quick look to see where it was but Finn tugged on her leash making her walk. Clarke followed behind Finn as he pulled her towards a wooden stage. Clarke could smell all the different animals that have passed through here. So many of them she could tell they were mistreated like her.
Clarke could hear more humans as they drew closer to the stage. Finn pulled on her until they were in the middle of the stage and he snapped his fingers. Clarke sat down and held her head up high. Finn patted the top of her head as an approval. Clarke stayed motionless as she could hear the people ooh and awe, saying how pretty she was and that they wanted her.
"Welcome to the stage sir, now Mr. Collins has informed me that he raised this fine beast when her parents abandoned her in the woods. More likely the parents didn't appreciate her coat as much as we do," the crowds of humans laughed and Clarke had to stop herself from growling.
"That's a lie, my parents loved my coat and they didn't abandon me, they were killed," Clarke snapped her teeth out of frustration which caught Finn's attention, his hand clenched at his side. Clarke whimpered sinking her head a little,
"Mr. Collins raised the pup on his own and has even taught the great beast to be obedient. If you could give us a few examples sir Collins we would appreciate it," the man spoke from afar Clarke wondered where he was. It was only her and Finn on the stage as well as the crowd of humans in front of them. All of them had their faces covered but Clarke could definitely smell humans and one oddly familiar scent.
"It would be my pleasure sir and Princess would be 'happy' to show off her talent," Clarke heard the keyword 'happy' and gave a small bark and flick of her tail. That made the crowd awe and tell her she was adorable. Finn dug in his pocket and pulled out the clicker who then showed it to Clarke.
"I hate that thing...at least I'll get a treat," Clarke started at the clicker and flicked her tail acting like she was happy to see it. Finn placed his thumb inside it and clicked once,
"Rollover," Finn commanded and let go of her leash, Clarke stepped back and laid on her belly then rolled over twice. "Stand up tall," Finn clicked twice. Clarke stood up tall puffing up her chest and holding her tail up high. The humans laughed and applaud. "Good Princess, who's a pretty girl?" Finn clicked three times quickly. Clarke barked, she was humiliated as the humans laughed harder.
"What an adorable thing!"
"Wish my wife obeyed like that!"
"She is a pretty girl,"
"Dance with me," Finn grinned at her and clicked four. Clarke cringed at the command. Resentfully she moved forward and stood on her back legs and placed her front paws on Finn's hands. The music played and Clarke remembered the song, she knew the melody by heart and knew how to move. This took her a long time to learn and Finn was relentless when teaching her. If she messed up, he would kick her in her stomach.
Clarke took the right number of steps and spun around on her own before Finn grabbed her paws again. He made her do it longer this time and Clarke kept up the best she could. But he was getting angry when she messed up somewhere, she couldn't help it though. Finn hadn't feed her in three days, she barely could stand on her own four paws let alone dance to this horribly haunting tune. Finally, the music caught off and she jumped down then bowed with her head between her paws. The crowed of humans cheered and applauded overwhelming excited for her tricks. Clarke was happy to be done but then Finn held up his hand to quite the crowd and he clicked two long clicks...
"Who do you love, Princess?" Finn sweetened his voice with a hard edge, Clarke froze up at the command. She didn't want to do it, it was wrong and filthy to do for a human. The crowd muttered unhappily, Finn clicked again, harder this time and he sneered out the words, "Princess. Who. Do. You. Love?" He growled out. Clarke looked at him knowing whether she did it or not he would hurt her for not obeying right away.
"Not you...never you," Clarke with regret in her soul tossed her head back and howled. The humans all around her praised her like a dog saying good girl. Clarke felt her eyes sting with unshed tears as she stopped the howl short and hung her head in disgust. Finn held up his hand to stop the applause and gestured up ahead and the man from before spoke again. Finn opened the bag on his hip, then tossed down a handful of dried meats, Clarke got them right away eating them before Finn could change his mind.
"Princess everyone one! What an incredible treat! Shall we start the bidding at 10k?" Clarke looked up and watched as many people raised white squares with numbers on them and the man was speaking quickly as he said higher numbers. Clarke wasn't sure what was going on, but then she felt Finn grab her leash and he purposely stepped on her back paw with the heel of his boot.
"You didn't obey your last trick in time. That earns you a punishment," he snarled out but gave that fake smile as his shoes dug in more and Clarke wanted to yank her paw away,
"Sold to bidder 56 for $54,000 Americans dollars!" the man shouted overhead, Clarke guessed that had to be a lot of money because Finn gave a real smile and removed his boot. Clarke's back paw ached, Finn tugged on her leash to make her move again. "Bidder 54 please come to the back room if you are done making bids for the day. Next up is a beautiful set of ivory horns straight from Africa..." Clarke toned out as Finn yanked her towards where they came from before she limped slightly as she tried to keep up.
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Clarke laid panting on the gravel floor, her underbelly burned horribly from where Finn kicked her with his pointed boots. Finn was now sitting down in a chair with his head resting in hands,
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"Can't wait to be done with you, Princess. Though I will miss you, you really are such a beautiful dog." Finn clicked is tongue, commanding her to come up to him. Clarke whimpered as pushed herself to her paws, her belly burned as she moved towards him placing her head on his lap. Finn ran his hand down her neck, Clarke blanked out not wanting to feel his touch what's so ever.
"Fine job son, you got yourself $54,000 dollars for this baby," Pike had shown up late having entered back staged. Finn had filled him in how much money they just sold her for. He came over and patted Clarke's head roughly though she didn't try to move.
"We, have that much money Pa, it's not just mine. If it wasn't for your teaching methods, Princess wouldn't be such a good girl. Down girl," Finn ordered. Clarke was only too happy to move away and lay on the floor on her side to keep pressure off her stomach.
"Ha! Fair enough, so where's the man who paid so much for our special girl?"
"I think they are finishing the transdu-"
"I am a woman, not a man you simple minded apes," Clarke picked up her head to look for the new voice,
"There's that familiar smell again..." Clarke tilted her head curiously as a woman came out of the dark and approached them. She had pale gray eyes, her hair dark blonde, she walked with a limp leaning on a cane and around her shoulders, she had the pelt of wolf. Clarke flinched back as she recognized the fur, it belonged to Raven's mother. Clarke whimpered and wasn't able to stop the tears from falling down her cheeks. Finn didn't notice her reaction as he stood up quickly greeting the woman.
"Queen Nia! Always a pleasure doing business with you again," Finn bowed down for this woman as well as Pike. But Nia ignored them only looking straight at Clarke, she hunched down and backed away. She'd never seen a human wear the fur of a wolf, why did she need it? Wolves needed fur to help them survive, yet this woman was wrapped up in one looking just fine.
"Of course, you have your money up front. Pike, how about you go and pick it up I want a word with your son," Nia commanded, she rested both of her hands on the cane she walked in with. Clarke noticed that even the cane had fur from different animals, Clarke couldn't smell what kind but from the sight of it she could at least make out a fox and bear. Pike bowed his head and took off at a brisk run,
"Are you planning on skinning her? That would be a waste you know, she be—"
"That's none of your business, take that ugly cheap leash off of her and put her this on her instead," Nia threw a leash over to Finn who caught it quickly before it could hit his face. Finn gave her a dirty look before yanking Clarke forward to switch out the leash. Clarke sniffed at the new leash, it smelled like buffalo skin.
"No need to be rude, just saying it would be a wa-"
"Do you have any idea what you actually had? What Princess truly is?" Nia interrupted, she moved forward and snatched the leash out of Finn's hands. Finn looked like he wanted to argue but said nothing, Nia pulled Clarke forward till she stood in front of her. Clarke felt something off about this woman, not only did she wear the dead, but her eyes were hollow, empty. As much as Clarke hated Finn, she felt like she would be somewhat safer with him then this person.
"Of course, I know, rescued her myself. She's a pure breed wolf with a unique coat," Finn boosted. Nia laughed at him, Clarke could feel his anger as the woman openly mocked him.
"Saved?! What a damn laugh! However, considering how I am the reason you and your father earn any amount of money, I will not be insulted that you withheld such a unique prize from me," Nia spat out laughing again. Clarke looked back at Finn, he was turning beet red,
"God if he was still holding my leash he'd be stepping on my tail," Clarke moved beside the woman, not willingly, just wanting to be out of reach of Finn.
"I change my mind! You can't have her!" Finn growled out and stomped forward. Clarke shrank back squeezing her eyes shut but the tug to her nap didn't come. Clarke opened her eyes to see what happened and was stunned to see that Nia had pulled out a large thin knife. She was holding the tip to his throat. She had broken the skin and a small trickle of blood oozed out. Nia was leaning against Clarke; the thin knife somehow came from her cane and now she was using Clarke to keep herself up. Clarke could hear her grunt out like she was in some pain, she looked down at Nia's leg seeing how the human stood off on her left leg.
"She is no longer yours, the moment your father went to collect that money; he no doubt signed away all your rights to this beautiful creature. This wolf is now mine to do with what I please, I can skin her, I can spoil her rotten, or I can continue training her the proper way. Face it, Finn Collins." Nia spat out the name, "You have nothing but your dirty money. Now I expect another shipment from you and your father in two weeks times, do not be late," Nia reached down towards Clarke, she flinched automatically but Nia only stroked her head. It was much gentler then how Finn or Pike ever touched her. Clarke wasn't sure that was a good thing or a bad thing.
"Maybe she's not so bad?" Clarke wondered as Nia continued to pet her gently scratching behind her ear.
"What meats have you been feeding her?" Nia looked at Finn with little interest as she took her hand back to put away her long knife inside of her cane. Nia leaned on her cane again seeming to be more comfortable as she used the cane to keep a steady poster. Finn's hand shook as he reached up touching his neck,
"D-Dry foods and dried meats for when she does her tricks right," Finn stumbled over his words. Nia made a disgusted sound.
"Naturally you would feed her like a dog. Whatever, this way I can actually feed her the right away," Nia reached down again and touched Clarke's ribs. Clarke moved her leg out of the way, "or even just feed her, uneducated brat." Nia touched her all the way to under Clarke's muzzle, she gripped her harder this time staring into her eyes. "Your new name is Blue, not that stereotypical ludicrous name," Nia told her firmly. She stared at Clarke waiting for something. Clarke wasn't sure what, she looked down avoiding her eyes. But Nia squeezed harder on her muzzle, Clarke whimpered as her nails dug into her lips,
"Ok! Stop hurting me!" Clarke whimpered. She meets Nia's eyes and dipped her head to acknowledge her. Now Nia smiled at her in a very uncomfortable way, that was definitely the wrong thing to do.
"I knew you were just like her," Nia reached up petting the wolf's pelt on her shoulders. Clarke cringed as she had been trying her best to ignore it. "Do not disappoint me like she did Blue, or you will make me a nice new coat once you are big enough," Nia dug her nails into her chin until Clarke nodded again. Now Nia let her go and stroked the side of her face. Nia leaned down and pressed her lips against Clarke's nose. Clarke felt nauseated no one ever kissed her like that, she wanted to bite her face off. "Let us go Blue, you need a proper bath and grooming. You smell of cheap imitation rose shampoo," Nia pulled her forward making Clarke walk. She followed willingly feeling her stomach twist up as she got further away from Finn.
Clarke felt her chest tighten unbearably, this Nia woman knew something about her kind. That was not a comforting thought in the least bit; her elder wolves always told her to never tell humans what they could do. That it would lead to her kinds downfall and ruin them completely. What on earth had Raven's mother told this woman?
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Clarke 18 years old
Environmentally Clarke was treated like a 'Princess' Nia gave her a bigger cage where she could actually wander around but not run. Plus, her cage was inside Nia's basement, her only source of sunlight was a small window that she couldn't reach. Clarke could smell the forest just on the outside, it was both comforting and agonizing. She had a big plush bed in the corner, she had silver food bowls that were always filled with fresh meat. Clarke was monthly groomed by some guy named Titus, who always wanted to make sure she was always in perfect condition. Yeah, she lived the life of a princess... but only when she was good.
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If she miss behaved, she was forced into a small cage where she could only stand up. Nia wouldn't feed her for a week only giving her water, that was for whenever Clarke growled at her. But if she tried to bite her, Nia would force her into the same cage with a heavy metal muzzle on and then she proceeded to stab her with a short knife. Needless to say, Clarke didn't try too many times to bite her like she had with Finn.
Nia only knew that Clarke could understand her, she knew nothing about her being able to mind connect or even change form. Not that Clarke could even try if she wanted to, she barely started learning to change form from her Alpha. Nia liked to ask a lot of Yes or No questions most of them was about what else she could do.
But for those questions, Clarke never answered which she would pay for dearly. Nia would chain her up until she couldn't move a single limb of her body. The number of times she had been tied down her fur was so thinned out around her paws and neck she barely had fur around there. Nia would then have Titus yank out her back teeth for refusing to answer and leave her alone for a few days to suffer until Nia got bored and let her go. But Clarke had stayed firm through that awful mess, refusing to give anything about herself.
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Eventually, Nia got bored of trying to find answers and began to teach her new tricks mostly with dancing. When Clarke perfected the dance, Nia liked to take her outside for when she was throwing a party and show Clarke off to her friends making her do a number of dance routines. Nia would put jewelry and human clothes on her for all of the dances; though Clarke was pretty sure it was just to hide all the scars Nia has inflected. If she didn't do Nia's dance routine right, she paid the price severally. She only got one chance to do it right and if she didn't Nia would muzzle her and price her with a hot poker. Nia really hated when she didn't dance perfectly, especially in front of her friends.
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Clarke could tell there was another party going on, she could smell all the different humans outside her window. It was a late-night party too, she wondered why Nia was doing it so late. Though it didn't make a difference to her, 10 years she's been living this life she's gotten used to it. Clarke curled up on her bed looking around her at the other empty cages that were smaller than hers.
Clarke could smell that wolves used to be in them, but they were like animals they weren't like her. She'd seen a few of the wolves that were brought in, they were profoundly drugged when they were tossed in. Afterwards, they would pace around like mad trying to figure out how they got there. But later on, they were gone the next few days, killed for their pelts which were collected in another room from what Clarke could tell. Clarke moved over to her bowl and while grabbing some meat to eat, she heard a low whistle coming from the only door in the place.
"Ready for another show my pretty pet?" Nia came in with her usual cane as she walked in with her head held high. Nia had two humans with her but one was new, she had light blonde hair with brown eyes and the other one was Ontari. Clarke looked at the new girl curiously. "Blue maybe you didn't hear me, are you ready for another show?" Clarke snapped to attention she sat down and nodded her head,
"That still freaks me out, how she can actually understand you?" Ontari drifted closer to the cage, she looked at her with both awe and appeal. The blonde joined her other side looking at her unusually,
"She really understands us? But she's an animal, they don't normally know what we are saying," the blonde tilted her head as she looked at Clarke. Clarke sniffed at her, she smelled familiar like the pine trees and soil as though she lived in the forest but she was human.
"She sure can Rachel, she's one of a kind and she may be the last of her kind," Nia said it so casually, so simply like it meant nothing, yet for Clarke, it made her heartache unfavorably. Clarke looked away from Rachel towards Nia, she saw her hand move to her mouth than below into that dog whistle. Right away Clarke backed away and laid on the floor she kept her eyes on the ground as Nia opened her cage.
"What the hell are you doing?!" Rachel panicked which made Ontari laugh. Nia scuffed at her silly fears,
"Calm down scaredy-cat, Nia has that thing tamed as hell. You could kick it right in the mouth and it wouldn't even bite you. I should know, I've done it before," Ontari laughed. Clarke heard one of the other cages open and the bells to her outfit cling.
"O-oh ok, seems kind of mean," Rachel muttered. Clarke felt Nia's hand in her fur running her fingers through.
"Come help Ontari dress Blue, Rachel. She won't bite you, she knows better by now," Nia patted her head giving her permission to left her head. Clarke looked at Rachel, she was an odd one. Most people didn't care how she was treated just cared about being entertained. Rachel gulped but nodded her head. Ontari tossed the jewelry at her and Rachel barely caught them in time.
"Watch it Ontari! That jewelry cost more than your damn paycheck at the end of the month," Nia snarled at her friend's recklessness. Clarke stayed on the ground as Ontari came over and kneeled by her side followed by Rachel.
"Sorry, my queen, she at least caught them, right?" Ontari jabbed Clarke's ribs making Clarke stand up quickly which made Rachel flinch. Nia rolled her eyes at the behavior as she got off the floor with the help of her cane and leaned against the cage's exit. Ontari snapped on Clarke's purple clothes that were apparently a lot like belly dancers as Ontari called them. Once Ontari finished, Clarke looked to Rachel, she tossed her head up to expose her throat giving the human a chance to snap on Clarke's gemstone collar.
Once it was securely snapped on, she lowered her head accidentally bumping her nose against Rachel's. Rachel kept the pose for a second longer than necessary before continuing to put on the rest of the jewelry with Nia instructions. Clarke felt puzzled like an old memory was trying to surface in her head. She was remembering a time when she was way younger and a light brown wolf liked to bop other wolves' noses. Her and her best friends nicknamed her boopy she was an odd alpha.
"I must have finally lost my mind...It can't be her. There's no way that it could be her," Clarke shook her head slightly to stop her mind from thinking. It was better not feeling, not to remember the past, it only caused so much pain in her chest. Rachel finished putting on her jewelry and stood up and walked out of the cage. Ontari snapped on Clarke's leash and pulled her towards Nia. Nia had her hand stretched out ready to take the leash,
"Ontari go ahead and let everyone know the show is starting soon. Here Rachel why don't you hold her?" Nia held it out to Rachel who took it, nodding nervously. Ontari had taken off already and like Clarke she always obeyed a command quickly. Nia lead the way with Clarke walking beside Rachel as they headed out of the basement. Clarke was kind of happy to be able to go outside, she didn't get to be outside unless she was performing. They continued on in silence as they walked towards the elevator. Nia pressed a few numbers waiting for the elevator to make it back down.
"Would you mind if asked how you got Blue?" Rachel spoke up. Nia looked over at her smirking proudly,
"Want one for yourself? Really beautiful, isn't she?" The elevator arrived and they stepped inside. Clarke sat down curling her tail around her paws. "Bought her in the exclusive action that only a select group of people are allowed to attend. Afraid you won't be able to get one for yourself." Nia didn't sound the least bit sorry, Clarke spared her a quick look as Nia looked at her nails. Rachel hummed,
"Oh wow, that must have been amazing. So, what makes you think she's the last of her kind?" Rachel asked, Clarke snapped her teeth a little, she really hated hearing that. She didn't want to believe that not one bit.
"Oh, trust me, sweetheart she's the last one. Wouldn't have paid that damn Pike to kill the rest of them for nothing," Clarke forgot to breathe for a minute, she hadn't heard that name in years. It brought on a wave of memories that Clarke wanted to forget, she shook her head roughly to stop them from coming up. "What the hell is going on with you!?" Nia growled out as she grabbed a handful of Clarke's fur and tugged up. Clarke whimpered "Are you getting sick?" Clarke shook her head no to please her, Rachel made no sound. Nia snorted and shoved her back down, "Good, you are not worth anything to me sick." The elevator stopped moving and Nia exited first.
Clarke moved to follow after her but then the elevator doors slammed shut barely missing her nose. Clarke stumbled back stunned she looked up at the buttons and noticed Rachel was pressing the closed-door button. Rachel was looking at Clarke with regret, Clarke moved back afraid of the punishment she was going to get from a stranger. Rachel kept her finger on the button as she crocheted down to Clarke's level.
"What's going on?!" Clarke could hear Nia's voice on the other side and hitting the outside of elevator. Rachel didn't take her eyes off of Clarke,
"I don't know! The-es b-b-button won't let me open the doors!" Rachel said in a panicky voice but her face was completely calm. Clarke titled her head confused and then Rachel pressed the very top button and the elevator was moving again. "Oh my god Queen Nia! What do I do?!" Rachel faked cried. Nia's voice answered but it faded away as the elevator went up. "She's such a bitch, fucking hate that woman with a passion. How can you stand her?" Rachel asked. Clarke didn't move and became very uncomfortable as she came close to Clarke.
"Stay away! I don't know you!" Clarke bared her teeth in warning giving a low growl but instead of Rachel backing away she grabbed her muzzle and pressed her nose against Clarke's,
"Please still be in there, don't you remember me, Clarke? It's me Niylah," she spoke softly. Clarke felt all her emotions hit her all at once as though lightening snapped a tree in half. She actually said her name…Clarke hadn't heard her name out of someone else's mouth in such a long time. Tears spilled down her cheeks at the overwhelming relief of hearing her own name; at seeing a wolf just like her; being able to feel something positive for once.
Clarke heaved a sob nodding her head, Niylah pulled her in close and hugged her. Clarke used her muzzle to pull her in tighter whimpering and sobbing into Niylah's neck. "What have these humans done to you, Clarke?" Clarke shook her head trying to clear her emotions, with a great amount of focus Clarke reached out and connected her mind with Niylah's,
"Enough that I can give you nightmares for the rest of your life," Clarke gulped down air trying to calm herself. Niylah held her tighter Clarke could smell something calming coming off of her old friend. Niylah was using her pheromones to help calm Clarke down,
"Fucking humans! Low life ugly vermin!" Niylah pulled back and grabbed Clarke's face in her hands, "Listen to me, Clarke, I'm going to create a distraction, a small fire and once I do, you need to run to our old den where we will meet the others. There's not enough time for me to explain, Nia probably overwriting the elevator to go back to the main floor," Niylah explained quickly though Clarke was more hung up on the others part.
"Others? Who else is still alive!?" Clarke demanded wanting to feel a spark of hope rise inside of her. Clarke didn't notice that the elevator was going back down and was slowing. Niylah stood up straight and backed to the corner acting afraid.
"Who else do you think? Octavia and Raven our leaders and the rest of the pups you saved," Clarke felt herself smiling right away her tail wagging excitedly.
"My best friends are alive!" Clarke barked happily actually feeling joy in a long while. Clarke had so many questions she wanted to ask, how did they find her? How did they know she was here? Who else made it? Where were they living now? But Clarke couldn't ask anything as the elevator door stopped moving and the doors were slowly opening. She sat down right away and wrapped her tail around her paws.
"Oh God finally, the damn elevator has been doing this now and again this month," Nia huffed. Once the doors fully opened first thing, she looked for was Clarke making sure she was being a good girl. Niylah was behind her nervously twisting the leash around in her palms,
"Plea-se don't make me hold on to your pet again. I was scared she might turn on me," Niylah held out the leash to Nia who took it and yanked Clarke forward. Niylah glided out of the elevator quickly before it could close in on her. Nia was staring at Clarke instantly, she reached down and grabbed under her chin,
"Did you try to hurt her?" Nia questioned. Clarke, shook her head no, doing her best to play it cool. Nia was being rather intense though, "Something's different, you are positive Blue didn't try to hurt you Rachel?" Nia let go of Clarke's muzzle and looked over at Niylah who was looking at the people passing by the windows outside.
"No, Queen Nia, I was just getting claustrophobic being stuck in the same area with a dangerous animal," Niylah pressed a hand to her chest faking a shudder. Nia rolled her eyes at her dramatic action. Clarke wondered why Niylah was letting this horrible woman call her Rachel. It wasn't the name her dad gave to her.
"Well no harm down, let us go Blue. Time to put on a show," Nia tugged Clarke onwards but Clarke didn't feel as empty as before. No Clarke felt lighter on her paws, she was going to be free.
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What was going to be a small fire became a disaster, Niylah must-have done something wrong because her small distraction created a wild fire that was spreading all throughout the forest. Clarke was being held on her leash by Nia, she was shouting at everyone to get away from all of the danger areas.
"Is everyone here brainless!? Move you out of here you damn fools!" Nia screamed as she yanked Clarke forward. Clarke had to figure out how to get away. Nia had put a muzzle over her mouth so she wasn't able to bite her like she had been planning to. People were running around like crazy some were trying to put out the flames while others were running off into their vehicles. Clarke hadn't seen so much going in a long stretch, she felt Nia's stress and anger building. Her 'friends' were shoving past her harshly not even trying to help her out.
"Where is she? Where is Niylah?"Clarke looked around frantically trying to spot her as people ran by her their fear of her forgotten as the fire was becoming more threatening. Clarke could see the fire was spreading out to the forest going further and further out. "How did she lose control? Oh God, I hope she's okay,"
"Stop that! You are fine!" Nia yanked on her leash she grabbed a hand full of her fur and pulled it from the roots. Clarke held back her whimper, "I do not need my pet losing it right now!" Nia smacked the top of her muzzle with her cane which stung more than the fur pulling, she couldn't hold back a yelp. Clarke kept her head down and instead searched with her eyes trying to find her old friend. She finally caught sight of her but it was not in a good way, Ontari had Niylah tied up by her hands and the side of her face was bleeding.
"My Queen! Guess who started the fire?" Ontari shoved Niylah down in front of Nia and added a cruel kick to her rib cage. Niylah screamed out, Clarke was in shock, why wasn't Niylah fighting back? She could take this stupid human down instantly. Clarke felt her leash shaking badly as Nia's anger reached its limit.
"Is this the thanks I get for befriending you?!" Nia screamed at Niylah as she tried to sit up but Nia dropped Clarke's leash and used her cane to hit her across the back making her yell out again. "I made you stand out!" SMACK "I turned you into somebody!" SMACK "you were nothing!" Nia hit her, again and again. Clarke snapped out of her daze, she could feel the fur rising at the back of her neck as Nia beat her old friend.
Clarke has taken all kinds of abuse, has felt more pain to last her a lifetime and she put up with it because she thought she had nothing left to live for. But Niylah was her friend and fellow wolf and has even told her that Clarke actually saved all of the pups from so many years ago. Clarke gave up her own life to keep her wolves safe and now this dehumanized basterd had the nerve to beat a pack mate right in front of her.
"Umm, my Queen your pet is acting weird," Ontari stated. She moved away from Clarke, but her attention was only on Nia and Niylah. Nia stopped hitting Niylah and looked back at Clarke eyeing her down. She pulled up that fucking whistle around her neck and below. That irritable sound made Clarke buckle forward, forcing herself to lay down on the ground even though she didn't want to but years of beating and torture forced her submit.
"She's not a problem!" Nia hissed at Ontari before turning back to Niylah. She kicked her side until Niylah was on her back looking up at her. "Answer me you gutter rat! Why did you do it?!" Nia spat at her. Niylah looked away from Nia and straight at Clarke,
"To save her," Niylah gasped out, she squeezed her eyes shut with the pain from talking. The open wound on the side of her head was leaking further getting into her eye. Nia looked down at Clarke who still laid on the floor,
"You must be joking! She has a home! Where she can have everything, she could ever want! She is loyal to me, she will obey me, she is my property!" Nia raised the cane again and hitting Niylah across her face. Clarke felt her anger boiling over, her fur was on end and her claws dug into the dirt. Niylah pushed up onto her knees she spat out blood and spit at Nia's shoes,
"You made her a house pet! You might have given her things to survive but not to live! You NEVER gave her freedom!" Niylah screamed back out her eyes flushed with hate, Nia stared at her for a long time before bursting into laughter,
"Freedom! She has freedom! Look at her now, she is by my feet even though I'm not even holding onto her leash," Nia smirked in a twisted way. She kneeled down and stroked Clarke's neck. Clarke felt the muzzle unclip and slip off her mouth, "I'll show you just how loyal she is to me. You'll see just what you're trying to save here," Nia snarled as she pushed back up on her feet. Niylah glared at her before looking down at Clarke, she felt the tingle of the mental connection,
"Run Clarke, leave me here and run! I'll be fine don't worry about me," Niylah pleaded with Clarke, but Clarke couldn't ever do something like leave a wolf behind. Clarke's entire body was on a frenzy as a storm browed inside of her, she could hear the faint sound of the whistle,
"Did you not hear me!? I said KILL!" Nia kicked Clarke's stomach but Clarke didn't feel the pain,
"Queen Nia... I really don't think that's a go—"
"Shut up! She will obey me! I own her! I have beaten her bloody! I have made her scream for hours! I created the perfect obedient lap dog! Because I'm the human and she's just a stupid animal!" Nia reared her foot back to kick her again but this time the hit didn't land.
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Clarke snapped around and grabbed Nia's leg in her jaw and bit down hard, copper filed her mouth and the sweet screams of Nia's pain broke her from her haze. Nia stumbled back falling flat on the dirt, her cane flung out of her reach as Clarke dug her teeth into the vial woman's leg. Clarke felt her muzzle and chest becoming warm and damp as Nia's blood stained her fur. She suddenly felt something price her leg. She released Nia's leg and spun around seeing Ontari had grabbed Nia's sword and sliced her back leg.
Clarke bared all her fangs having no doubt each one of her teeth were stained red. The human was shaking so badly she wasn't even holding her weapon well enough. Clarke raised her paw and smacked the sword clear out of the trembling human's hands; the sword sliced into the pad of her paw but Clarke felt no pain. Ontari stumbled backwards tripping over Niylah's feet and Clarke pounced on top of the girl.
The look Ontari gave her reminded her of her own fear when this brat would abuse her just because she was bored. Clarke snapped forward grabbing Ontari by her throat, CRACK. Ontari never got the chance to scream and Clarke spat out her blood that felt like vinegar on her tongue. There was the whistle again, Clarke looked back over at Nia who was scrambling away holding onto her injured leg. Nia's eyes were huge and filled with fear as Clarke slowly approached her, growling way down to the back of her throat.
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"S-s-s-stop! I-I-I com-m-mand yo-o-o-u to stop!" Nia howled like a baby, tears were falling down her cheeks as Clarke stepped over her using her front paws to hold her arms down. Clarke opened her jaws and roared, dropping blood and saliva on Nia's face as she quavered. Clarke bared her teeth right in front of Nia's eyes, she reached out and linked her mind with hers,
"You don't get to command me anymore!" Clarke didn't give her the chance to speak and grabbed the top of her skull in her muzzle. Clarke was ready to kill her, to take her down but then she heard gunfire. She yanked back only managing to scrape Nia's forehead. Nia screamed out again as Clarke shot back right away, she searched from where the gun fire came from. A random human was running towards them holding up a gun right at her,
"Stay there Nia and Niylah! I'll keep you safe!" The human shouted as he leveled his gun to aim at Clarke. Clarke turned away hoping to break Niylah's ropes but then the gun fired again hitting her back leg. Clarke cried out, this pain was different it felt like a fire was springing up her muscles.
"Run!" Niylah screamed inside her head, with shame Clarke jumped away from the next gunfire and took off running into the forest. Clarke vaguely remembered these woods; her old home was around here somewhere maybe just further out. Clarke pushed through her pain and forced her legs to carry her further and further away from her abusive home.
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It has been hours since Clarke has been running through the forest that was blazing in orange. But she couldn't stop, Clarke wouldn't quit, not if she could help it. The only time she stopped was to take off her stupid clothes and jewelry the only thing she couldn't take off was the heavy jeweled collar. She had dived into the closest lake waters to rinse off the blood and to keep herself safe from the fire.
Clarke's legs were burning and her lungs ached with all the smoke she was breathing in as she kept running. Her fur was dried out, she could feel the heat of the flames, some parts of her fur had seared. The pad of her paw that had been sliced was burning as she kept putting pressure on it and getting the wound dirty.
"I have to get home! My friends are waiting for me!" Clarke panted heavily, she could hear some humans close by shouting something about the fire. Which didn't concern her, she didn't care about the fire because she was free for once in her life! She was actually running in the forest on her own! No human was going to stop her! If any tried, she'd make them pay dearly,
"It's close, its close, the lake is so close," Clarke's ears twitched as she thought she heard something behind her. She just kept running, determined to reach her old home. The air was harder to breathe it felt like she was drowning as her lungs pulled in more air. Her run was getting sloppy as she ran into trees hurting her shoulders and her already aching back leg. There was coughing behind her, Clarke's heart rate picked up speed, it had to be Nia!
"Oh God, that soulless woman came to finish the job! How did she catch up to me?!" Clarke slowed down, her lungs burned and the pain of everything was catching up to her, the gunshot in her back leg was making her sloppy. Clarke looked around carefully seeing the lake her dad would swim through. She pounced forward into the water just as Nia caught up to her.
Clarke submerged herself in the water, it felt like bliss like the liquid was cleansing her of her past. She wanted to stay in the water longer to fully welcome it's embrace, but she had to finish Nia off so she couldn't hunt her down later. Clarke stepped out of the water seeing Nia on her hands and knees she was covered in some kind of shiny blanket. She had her hands up to her mouth trying not to breathe in the smoke around them.
"I won't go back there! You can't make me!" Clarke snarled, she walked forward getting extremely close, the filthy human lifted her head an— "Did Nia always have such green eyes?" Clarke wondered confused. She sniffed at her and realized this wasn't Nia just some random female human. But that didn't make a difference to Clarke she snarled at her again and she watched the female flinch back.
The female coughed out hard Clarke could hear her wheezing. The human reached up and pulled the shiny blanket off of her and she pushed herself off the ground. Clarke freaked out, afraid she was going to pull out a knife or a gun to hurt her with as the human reached out for her. Clarke snapped forward biting cruelly into her thigh hoping that would be enough to scare her away. Clarke could barely stand on her paws, they ached so badly she could tell she must have stepped in some fire. She wouldn't let this human kill her. Clarke will just have to tear her apart.
"St—op it, I'm hel—p—ing you," the female gasped out, which startled Clarke. She growled out louder trying to get her to leave. A warning if she didn't go, she would be forced to kill her. Her broken words didn't make sense to Clarke.
"Go away! Leave me alone you fucking hum—" Clarke stopped growling short as the female tossed the cloth around her. The female wasn't breathing right, she looked like she was going to lose consciousness. Clarke couldn't stop the whine coming out of her throat. "What are you doing?" Clarke stared at her as the female actually smiled at her, her smile...it was so relieved...so happy… Why? The female suddenly dropped as she passed out. Clarke looked down at her, at a lost.
"The human, was she trying to help me? Why? What does she want from me?" Clarke turned away from the female looking over to the lake across it was where her old den was, but then looked back at the female. Clarke huffed shaking off the blanket and turned away from the human facing the lake, she wanted to go. She wanted to swim across and get away from all these humans. Clarke stepped forward but she couldn't go any further. She looked down at the passed-out female. Even in a state of unconsciousness the human looked at peace. She had light brown hair, tanned colored skin, her lips were plump and pink, she was kind of cute, for a human.
Clarke growled at herself as she knew she may be doing something that will affect her timing to meet her friends. Clarke turned back to the blanket the human tossed on her and grabbed it in her muzzle. Going into the lake again she soaked the blanket in water, "what I'm I doing? Who cares if this human burn up to a crisp? Why the hell I'm I helping her?!" Clarke argued with herself as she dragged the heavy blanket across the dirt and threw it over the female.
The female didn't stir, Clarke wondered if she was even alive. She leaned down till her nose was close to her mouth and felt a shall breath. "Good, she's still alive. I'm done here," Clarke stepped back and looked down at the female. Clarke could feel something stirring in her chest, but she wasn't sure what the feeling was. Clarke's felt plenty of things before anger, hate, disgust, pain, bittersweet, grateful, even happy at rare times. But what was this feeling that made her heart raise and feel like it would leap out of her chest? Was she having a heart attack?
"Maybe I'll just stay till someone comes to get her," Clarke moved forward and curled around the human to keep her safe from the flames that grew closer. Clarke wouldn't touch her, just be a shield till someone came for the female, humans usually had company. Clarke noticed the female smelled kind of nice, like strawberries and honey, though she could also smell the blood from the wound Clarke made which actually made her feel...guilty.
Clarke was getting tired her eyes drifting close on and off again, she could hear some humans coming closer. Clarke pushed herself onto her paws ready to leave though she looked back at the female one more time. Clarke felt something hit her chest it only hurt a little. She looked down to see something red and fuzzy sticking out of her. "What is that?" Clarke slurred her words and she dropped onto side automatically, she couldn't move her legs or lift her head.
"Check on Lexa first! I'll check the wolf!" Some female shouted. Clarke felt someone touch her coat and she tried to growl but it came out like a gurgle. "Easy girl, you're alright, where did you come from beautiful?" the female stroked her back. Clarke cringed at that, she didn't like being told she was pretty, it always meant someone wanted to own her. Clarke whimpered as she passed out and memories of her past came to haunt her dreams.
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4 years
Clarke 22 years old
Clarke was walking around the permitted of her new caged home it made her feel safer to be moving around all the time. Clarke's new home was vastly different than her last two homes. This place had other wolves in a huge open field of grass and trees but it was surrounded by an enormous fence. Wolves weren't the only animals here though, there are foxes, bears, cougars, lions, and tigers (a lot of giant cats). There was this huge bridge that went over all the animal's cages, it was rather odd. Clarke would see people up there a lot and they would lean over and looking at all the animals.
Those humans sometimes pulled out their phones and snapped pictures while they leaned over, many of them always trying to call her over like a pet. The humans would bring their pups which she liked the least of all. They would always try to howl at the wolves. Well, howl wasn't the word Clarke would use it sounded more like they were choking on some bones. Those humans weren't too bothersome, they couldn't get close at all from what Clarke could tell. They just took their pictures stared at some huge metal square and were on their way to bug the next animal.
The humans Clarke was mostly worried about were the ones that moved around the outside of her cage. They mostly just gave everyone water and food then they would make sure the animals were 'happy'. They wear this bright orange shirts with purple writing on the corners that read The Wild Animal Sanctuary. The other animals that were here before her actually enjoyed seeing some of humans which Clarke thought was insane. Why would they enjoy them so much?
Clarke didn't trust the humans, she hated them. Most of them acted nice and didn't try to hurt her at first, which Clarke was always suspicious of. Nia was always very sweet with her when she wanted her to do something. Those humans had to want something from her in return for them being nice to her. She gave them a chance too, Clarke was a good girl for a little while but then those humans would come into her cage and would try to kill her! They weren't trying to groom her like Titus would, they actually brought poison and knifes with them to kill her and take her fur! Low life shits!
She's killed or damaged those humans, made sure they felt every tear into their flesh and the snapping of their bones. Clarke remembered the first time she killed a human, she was sure that they would end her but they didn't. Clarke didn't understand why they hadn't, maybe they realized that the humans had been trying to murder her.
These people at first named her Hema which meant golden, but after the many deaths and pain she has caused they now called her Wanheda which appearently meant commander of death. Clarke felt this name was the most fitting out of the two names she's gotten, though of course, she'd prefer her own name.
Clarke continued her patrol pausing now and again to look up at the humans passing by. They weren't too bad as long as none tried to get close to her, as long as they stayed away, they lived. Clarke was nearing the area where the humans feed them, there was the same woman that tranquilized her. Clarke growled under her breath, warning her to leave but the human ignored her. Anya (as the humans called her) was the leader here she ordered people around telling them what to do. She kind of reminded her of Nia, but this one didn't beat her but she didn't exactly like her either. Anya was near her cage, Clarke couldn't have that. She probably tries to stab her as Nia would. But she's been good, there was no reason to punish her! Clarke shot forward reaching past the bars and grabbed the woman's shirt. Clarke yanked her hard slamming her into the cage, Anya cursed at her.
"Fucking hell Wanheda. You damn evil creature," Anya cursed at her, she kicked with back leg hitting the cage trying to startle Clarke to let go. But Clarke held firm, if the human couldn't move then Anya couldn't hurt her. Clarke loosened her grip only to slam the woman back against the cage.
"If you hate me so much then let me go!" Clarke snarled deeply making damn sure that Anya could hear her, Anya's face lost its color. Clarke was ready to use her claws to really drive the message home, but then ice-cold water splashed across her face straight up her snout making her let go.
"Oh my god! Anya are you ok?! Did she get you!?" Clarke shook out her face trying to get the water out of her snout.
"Stop yelling Luna, that doesn't help at all. I'm fine, she just bruised me," Anya's tone was irritated. Clarke snorted finally getting the water out of her snout. Clarke looked over at Anya and Luna who now stood at a good distance.
"Sorry boss, with her history and all you can't blame me for freaking out," Luna muttered as she turned away and went back to cleaning the half breed wolf's cages. Clarke watched her leave before looking back to Anya who was glaring at her.
"I am so done with you, lucky for me that my best friend fucking wants you to be assigned to her," Anya crouched down till she was eye level with Clarke. Clarke bared her teeth growling deeply. "I really can't stand you, you know that? No zookeeper will work with you, they are all terrified out of their minds when your name is even mentioned," Anya sighed as she got up shaking her head at Clarke. She snorted at the comment since it made no difference to Clarke. Anya looked at her but not with hate but pity, "I really hope Lexa can turn you around," Anya turned away and continued the patrol of her landscape.
"That name...I know it..." Clarke went through her memories trying to recall that name and then it hit, worse than the water that went up her nose. Lexa was the female Clarke kept safe from the forest fire! Clarke's fur raised as her anger grew for this human. Lexa was responsible for her freedom being stolen from her. If that female never showed up Clarke would have gotten away and would have been able to see her best friends again!
"Lexa, turn me around? Like hell! I'll make her hate me so much she'll name me a lost cause and they'll have to let me go!" Clarke roared out her frustrations making the wolves inside the enclosure shrink back with fear. "Oh, Lexa, I'll make you regret ever meeting me. I'll even end your life if it means I gain my freedom," Clarke took off in a run, running about the worn-out path that she has made with her years of walking around here. Her mind spun a mile a minute as she set a plan into motion.
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What do we think readers? I hope that you will stick around for the next chapter! I know this one as rather emotional but it was necessary so that you may understand Clarke better!
I hope to hear from all of you soon! If I have the time, I will post chapter 3 in a week to make up for giving you all such a heavy chapter! Other whys you know the routine ;) come back in two weeks for another chapter!
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SUMMARY OF THIS CHAPTER
Clarke's pack was killed by hunters (because the 'Queen' requires wolf pelts) but thanks to Clarke she was able to save the pups from getting hurt. For this to happen though Clarke had to sacrifice herself which lead her to fall into the hands of Pike and Finn (father and son). Finn raises Clarke like a house pet, making her do all sort of tricks and if Clarke refused, she was punished. Later on, once Clarke has been 'trained' she was sold in an auction to Queen Nia, who was even worse than Finn. Nia knows that Clarke is different because she learned it through another wolf (Raven's mother) who she bought in a different auction years ago.
Nia trains Clarke to dance and be submissive and gives punishments when Clarke doesn't obey. Clarke is broken down to the point that she listens to Nia after suffering for so many years. One day an old friend (Nylah) comes to her rescue to free Clarke from Nia. Clarkes get a little bit of revenge before she has to make an escape to the forest.
Clarke meets Lexa and she feels something for Lexa that Clarke is not able to understand because of how she grew up. This eventually leads to Anya using a tranquilizer to have Clarke be moved to The Wild Animal Sanctuary. From chapter one you know that Lexa wants to work with Wanheda (Clarke) but of course Clarke is not all happy about that at all. Clarke blames Lexa for "stealing" her chance at freedom and begins to come up with a plan of her own to make Lexa give up on her and hopefully release Clarke back into the wild.
Here is a link to the song that Finn makes Clarke dance to,
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