The Lone Wolf
Chapter 5: The Female of The Species.
In the morning after his rather eventful hunt, Link was sleeping, curled in a tight, white
ball of fur in a hallowed out nest in the snow when a clump of snow fell from an
overhead branch and smacked him in the muzzle.
Link woke with a start, leapt several feet into the air, whirled around shaking his head,
and snarled, till he saw no one was around. He looked at the ground and saw the lump of
snow, and chuckled.
"Man, I got to learn to control that." He muttered to himself. Link looked at the half
eaten deer carcass then, and probed it with a claw.
It was frozen solid, hard as a rock.
"I'm going to have to find a flint or something if I want to be able to thaw that out
later…" he thought.
Link slung the rest of the carcass over his shoulder and continued down the path.
* * * *
Link was getting tired. The carcass was feeling heavier and heavier as the day wore on.
Link hadn't been able to eat any of it at all. And he'd thought he'd found a flint rock or
two, but they weren't really flint at all.
Later on in the evening, Link had just about given up trekking for the day when a bear
roared behind him.
"Oh crap." Link thought as he dropped the carcass and turned to face the beast.
The bear was emaciated, very thin and its coat was lackluster. Its teeth were yellowed
and some broken.
It was eyeing both Link and the body of the dear with drool running out its mouth.
"Isn't this thing supposed to be hibernating?" Link thought in a slight panic.
The bear was starving and desperate for a meal, otherwise it would likely have avoided
Link altogether. Nevertheless, it was here, and it was ready to kill Link and devour him
and his kill, or die trying.
Link readied his large clawed paws to defend himself, and growled defensively.
The bear took that signal and charged at Link, it's mouth frothing and a fire in its eyes.
Link managed to avoid a gnashing bite, but instead got a claw rip through his shoulder.
Link retaliated by trying to slash at the bear's throat with his claws, but they got snagged
in the thick fur around the bear's neck.
The bear shrugged Link off and stood on its hind legs, equal in height to Link at its full
9' height. It bashed Link in the head with its right paw hard, and then another time in the
midsection with it's left paw, sending Link flying into a tree trunk.
Link slid limply to the ground. The bear looked at him, sniffed at him for a minute, then
at the deer carcass. The bear grabbed the Deer carcass in its mouth and dragged it off
elsewhere.
* * * *
Link awoke some time later. He found himself in a cave, lying on a pile of soft pelts. A
fire was burning in the middle of a ring of stones. Another fur was stretched over the
cave's entrance tightly, keeping out the cold wind. And a cloth was tied tightly around
his injured shoulder.
Link looked around and spied a second pile of furs on the other side of the fire. The
head and fore paw of a black furred wolf was lying just out from under a skinned pelt.
The creature's eyes were shut, and its breathing was slow and even.
It was asleep.
Link attempted to get up, and pulled on the wound he'd received earlier. He whimpered
slightly, and fell back into the pile of pelts.
Suddenly the black wolf woke up, it looked over at Link with a pair of dark brown eyes.
"You're awake, good. For a while there I thought the Bear had knocked you into next
month."
Link just stared at the Wolf. The voice he'd just heard had been very feminine.
"What the…?" Link stammered.
The black wolf stretched and got up, on two legs.
It was a creature just like Link had become, but different. Its fur was primarily black
with a dark brown underbelly, just like the wolf that had followed him earlier. The
creature was almost 2 feet shorter than Link was, about 7 feet, and had thinner fur at the
loins, but much thicker fur at the chest to cover a pair of largish, shapely breasts.
"Great Goddesses…" He murmured, completely stunned.
Chapter 5: The Female of The Species.
In the morning after his rather eventful hunt, Link was sleeping, curled in a tight, white
ball of fur in a hallowed out nest in the snow when a clump of snow fell from an
overhead branch and smacked him in the muzzle.
Link woke with a start, leapt several feet into the air, whirled around shaking his head,
and snarled, till he saw no one was around. He looked at the ground and saw the lump of
snow, and chuckled.
"Man, I got to learn to control that." He muttered to himself. Link looked at the half
eaten deer carcass then, and probed it with a claw.
It was frozen solid, hard as a rock.
"I'm going to have to find a flint or something if I want to be able to thaw that out
later…" he thought.
Link slung the rest of the carcass over his shoulder and continued down the path.
* * * *
Link was getting tired. The carcass was feeling heavier and heavier as the day wore on.
Link hadn't been able to eat any of it at all. And he'd thought he'd found a flint rock or
two, but they weren't really flint at all.
Later on in the evening, Link had just about given up trekking for the day when a bear
roared behind him.
"Oh crap." Link thought as he dropped the carcass and turned to face the beast.
The bear was emaciated, very thin and its coat was lackluster. Its teeth were yellowed
and some broken.
It was eyeing both Link and the body of the dear with drool running out its mouth.
"Isn't this thing supposed to be hibernating?" Link thought in a slight panic.
The bear was starving and desperate for a meal, otherwise it would likely have avoided
Link altogether. Nevertheless, it was here, and it was ready to kill Link and devour him
and his kill, or die trying.
Link readied his large clawed paws to defend himself, and growled defensively.
The bear took that signal and charged at Link, it's mouth frothing and a fire in its eyes.
Link managed to avoid a gnashing bite, but instead got a claw rip through his shoulder.
Link retaliated by trying to slash at the bear's throat with his claws, but they got snagged
in the thick fur around the bear's neck.
The bear shrugged Link off and stood on its hind legs, equal in height to Link at its full
9' height. It bashed Link in the head with its right paw hard, and then another time in the
midsection with it's left paw, sending Link flying into a tree trunk.
Link slid limply to the ground. The bear looked at him, sniffed at him for a minute, then
at the deer carcass. The bear grabbed the Deer carcass in its mouth and dragged it off
elsewhere.
* * * *
Link awoke some time later. He found himself in a cave, lying on a pile of soft pelts. A
fire was burning in the middle of a ring of stones. Another fur was stretched over the
cave's entrance tightly, keeping out the cold wind. And a cloth was tied tightly around
his injured shoulder.
Link looked around and spied a second pile of furs on the other side of the fire. The
head and fore paw of a black furred wolf was lying just out from under a skinned pelt.
The creature's eyes were shut, and its breathing was slow and even.
It was asleep.
Link attempted to get up, and pulled on the wound he'd received earlier. He whimpered
slightly, and fell back into the pile of pelts.
Suddenly the black wolf woke up, it looked over at Link with a pair of dark brown eyes.
"You're awake, good. For a while there I thought the Bear had knocked you into next
month."
Link just stared at the Wolf. The voice he'd just heard had been very feminine.
"What the…?" Link stammered.
The black wolf stretched and got up, on two legs.
It was a creature just like Link had become, but different. Its fur was primarily black
with a dark brown underbelly, just like the wolf that had followed him earlier. The
creature was almost 2 feet shorter than Link was, about 7 feet, and had thinner fur at the
loins, but much thicker fur at the chest to cover a pair of largish, shapely breasts.
"Great Goddesses…" He murmured, completely stunned.