Chapter 19 : " The Pack "
When sun light had peeked through the cave entrance I open my left eye since I still could not see on my right eye.
'it's already morning. Time to see where am I' I thought yawning.
I began to look around the cave where Ragnor was but it looks like he already woke up before me.
I decided to peek my head out of the cave to see what's going on outside and as well if those Alphas are not close by.
When I did so my eye was greeted by a beautiful view. The area was a giant meadow with quite tall grass, it was surrounded by many caves in the slope of the hill. If not the fact I already had the place to rest and sleep I would stay here, but I knew I need to get back to the family as soon as possible.
"Come on out" I heard the voice to my left.
I turned my head into direction of the voice and saw that was Ragnor. His voice sounded almost like an order and he was demanding a respect from me by doing what I'm asked for.
'He must be Beta I think. The way he speaks to me and his Alphas' I thought carefully walking outside the den with head and tail low to the ground.
"Good, now follow me" he said walking down to the lower parts of meadow.
I did not even replied, I just followed him down to the meadow.
When we were walking I saw other allos starring back at me from caves.
This pack wasn't as big as my father's but still quite impressive. There was at least 6 adults counting Miakoda, Maka and Ragnor.
When we made it to the pond I spotted Maka. I immediately stoped since ouer first meeting almost end up in him tearing me apart.
When Ragnor noticed I was frozen in place he came back and said.
"Come on Sky, the faster you get there the faster it will be over"
"I-i can't" I said trying to not show how I was shivering from fear. Even if we were both the same I was afraid of what will happend. I know for a fact my father used to make an Omegas out of trespassers on our territory, and those Omegas were just like a punching bags for higher ranks. That's was the only think I did not liked about my father, in my opinion he was to too strict when it comes to those thinks.
"Why is that ?" asked Ragnor standing next to me.
"I-i-i want to go home. I don't want to stay here" I said lowering myself to the ground.
"Just tell that to Maka. I think he will be pleased if you will want to leave. He mostlikely don't like newcomers anywyas" said Ragnor turning around and walking towards Maka and Miakoda.
I just stood up and slowly moved behide Ragnor still with head and tail low to the ground.
I stoped good twenty meaters away from them while Ragnor moved to Maka.
"I had brought him here" he spoke up to which Maka looked at me scared quite some distance away.
"Come here Sky. I need to talk with you" he said tried to reassure me it's going to be fine.
I took a slow and careful step towards them then another. I tried my best to not show fear but that was beyond me. I was shaking all over.
When I was finaly close to Maka still with tail and head low he started to speak.
"Is your wound still hurting?" he asked.
"N-no ... i-i don't think so" I answered, stuttering.
"Eh don't be afraid Sky. I know you maybe see me as a crule and mean Alpha but I just was worrying about safety of the pack" he said.
"Lets see if it's healed already" he added while he moved closer to me to take the leaves from the wound.
"Alright try to open your eye" said Maka.
I slowly opened it expecting the worst possible scenario that I will lose vision in my right eye.
"Pfff I can see well with it" I sighed in relief.
But then I noticed that Maka was sniffing me.
"Ummm Maka ... w-why are you sniffing me?" I asked scared and confused.
"Because you smell strange. Why do you have a smell of multiple gigas on you?" he questioned growling and topping me over afterwords.
"AHHH stop that I beg you!" i yealed when he stomped on my stomach.
"Why are you realy here ?! What's the true reason for you going on ouer territory?!" he growled demanding the answers.
"Maka are you crazy?!" said Miakoda from behide.
"No I'm not. I have sensed gigas on him and want him to speek. And he will speak and he will tell me what I want or else I will end him" replied Maka.
"Maka! Just moment ago you said to him he dose not need to be afraid! He trusted you! And now you just act like he is immediate threat!" said Miakoda coming closer.
"But he might be! I need to know the truth so he better start speeking" growled Maka.
"Let him go Maka! I'm sure he will explain why dose he smell like that, but forceing him by dealing pain will not speed up the process" replied Miakoda to which Maka pined me down even harder and holding my head so I could not defend myself.
"Speek!" growled Maka.
"I will! I will just don't kill me I beg you!" I yealed begging for merci.
"See how afraid he is now!" she spoke up when she saw I was shivering from fear looking at Maka.
"Speek already!" said Maka.
"W-well ... it's because" I tried to speek.
"I got adopted by gigas when I was adolescent" I replied.
"Yet you still got bitten by them!" growled Maka.
"It was an accident" I said trying to defend good name of my family.
"An accident huh? Will you say the same when they will come to kill us?!" growled Maka again.
"Can you stop Maka! A little bit of faith in his words will you ?!" said Miakoda anoyed by how Maka was acting.
"Fine !" he growled and continued asking
"You say you got adopted. How did you end up being adopted?" he asked.
"Well it was nearly a year after I lost my pack. One of the females found me injured when I tripped over a rock when I wanted to drink. She took me to her den since it was raining. Later on she decided to adopt me since I had noone else. She is my mother now, she fulfills the hole in my life after a lose of whole pack" I explained, snobbing.
"As far as I remeber you said you were a juvenile after you lost your pack" said Maka now a bit more calm but still not trusting me at all.
"Yes. I had to survive almost a year on my own before I met them" i answered picking my head higher with every question.
"You have big collection of scars in such young age" he said.
"Ummm well" I said not sure how to react about it.
"Miakoda, come with me. We need to talk." said Maka walking towards the pond.
"So Sky. You will have to stay here with Ragnor for a while until me and Maka will decide what to do with you" she said and started to turn around.
"Ummm Miakoda?" I asked.
"Yes Sky, what is it?" she asked.
"Well ... I want to go back to my family. They are probobly already searching for me since I did not came back yesterday from patrol" I said.
"Dont worry Sky. I will try to make it happend" she replied as she continued to walk towards Maka.
As I was laying down I heard how Ragnor was walking up to me.
"H-how far are we from that swamp area?" I asked looking at him.
"Well it's quite far away. Why you even ask you know I won't let you go away until Alphas won't decide what to do, right?" he answered.
"No I just don't want anyone to get hurt" I replied.
Ragnor just looked at me in silience as I was trying to stand up.
It wasn't long until Maka and Miakoda came to us.
"Sky listen. I know you want to go but ... " started Miakoda.
"But we don't want to risk letting you go and bringing those gigas here" finished Maka.
"WHAT?!" I said surprised and scared.
"So what you will do with me now? Kill me ?" I asked lowering myself.
"No. At least not now" said Maka.
"Why won't you let me go? Why would I want to come back with gigas, you have saved my life?" I asked.
"Because I don't belive you!" growled Maka.
'He acts just like Kalash. He is literally minatur version of him' I thought to myself as I lowered myself so much that I was technicly laying on the ground.
"Maka chill out. He is not a threat. In my opinion-"
"I don't care about your opinion Ragnor"
"Look, Maka, if he only wanted to he could just kill me in sleep and then run away but he didn't so trust him a bit" said Ragnor.
"Why would I?!" growled Maka.
"He first need to earn my trust" he added.
As they were arguing I tried to crawl away since I was laying between them. When I crawled a bit away I heard voice behide me.
"Eh boys" that was Miakoda that spotted me trying to get away from them.
I just froze afraid that if I gonna do one more move it won't endup too well.
"It's ok Sky don't worry I won't harm you. Come I will show you where you will stay for a night." she said pushing my side to make me stand up.
"Can't I just go. I don't want any problems" I said shaking in fear.
"Think is letting you go will give us more problems then you stying here" she said.
"Anyways other want to know you as well" she added looking at other pack members coming closer which I did not saw since I was looking at the ground.
"Huh ?" I said looking up and seeing realy close presents of three other adults and few juveniles behide their legs.
"Alright guts this is Skylen Xander, introduce yourself" started Miakoda.
"I'm Cesar" said adult male. He was brownish orange in general and he had black stripes on his tail as well as black crust.
"I'm Ramsey" said adult female. She was bright gray nearly white. She alsaw had gray spots on her face as well as gray crust.
"I'm Kaasari" said adult female. Her underbelly was tan in colour and her back was bright green and dark green stripes going across her back and tail and her crust is washy red.
Behide those two females I alsaw spotted two juveniles hiding each behide those two females.
The one behide Kaasari was dark green and dark brown in colour and the one hiding Ramsay was nearly whole tan in colour but it alsaw had gray stripes on it's back and tail as well as bright gray crust.
"Come with me Skylen. I will show you where you will stay today." said Miakoda leading me pass other pack members.
"Here's where you stay for now" she said after we get to the spot.
That place I was supposed to stay was a small hole in the between rocks but it was big enough for me to fit in.
"Sorry that you will need to stay like that for now. The reason you could sleep in cave was that Cesar was on a hunt yesterday night so Ramsay and her kid were sleeping in his and Kaasari's den" She explained while I looked around.
"Its fine I understand" replied trying to make myself comfortable.
"Alright. If you want to eat feel free to eat what we have" she said walking away.
"Thank you for staying between me and Maka. I know he only wants to protect his pack but I don't want to be torn apart" I spoke up when Miakoda was walking away.
"No problem Sky. He is sometimes too protective. Which dose not mean we are let you go just yet. You still could possibly bring your gigas here" she answered.
" sigh ok ... " I said laying down and curling up in a ball.
Soon i fall asleep to make time go by faster. But when the sun was high in a sky I woke up since it was shineing right at my eyes.
'Ouhh . I better will go to take some meat' I said to myself when I felt my stomach was demanding food.
So I stood up and walked down the meadow close to the pond where food was.
"Sky you still covered in mud ?!" asked Maka that I did not saw. He was laying in bushes few meaters to my left. I got surprised how well he can camufage.
"W-well ... " I said lowering my self and backing away.
"Go to that stream on your right. It should be deep enough for you to clean up" he said.
"O-ok" I said backing away for a while more and then standing up and walking towards the stream.
'Ah finaly I will get ride of that dirt' I talked to myself as I layed in the stream taking my time to do so.
After a while I finaly was clean again and I came back to eat a bit and after doing do I walked up to my spot as it was close to the evening and I went to sleep hoping I will soon be able to come back to my family.