Get of Fenris
Chapter Two: My Name is Fang





"The Mage-Garou?" The chancellor turned toward King Albrecht. "Are you certain you can trust him?"

"He's the only Shadow Lord I have faith in in that Tribe." He walked to the window. "Besides, he's our Trump Card against the Wyrm."

"Trump card? But understand, Sire... he's not..."

"Let me tell you something now, Fends-through-the-Night. If it wasn't for the Mage-Garou, we wouldn't have even seen the signs of the Apocalypse."

"What are you saying?"

After that, Albrecht's silence repacked the hostile ice. Fends-through-the-Night wandered through the hallway until a surge of lightning nailed the old Garou. Albrecht turned around, just as a jade-haired woman floated down to him.

"What matter of Wyrm-Spawn are you!?" Albrecht shouted, almost reaching for his Grand Klaive.

The woman blew a kiss to the Silver Fang King, then dove right at him. Then from a gust of wind, a cloaked figure appeared before Albrecht, seperating her from her potential assassination target. The figure's midnight blue eyes stung right into her soul, raping whatever was in there. He drew the mighty greatsword of silver, its' essence crackled all through the blade.

"No one saw you enter... no one has to see you leave." Brad's mouth didn't even move upon the quoting.

"Get.... out of... my head." The woman roared, her hand reaching for Brad's head. Calmly, Brad's hands gripped the black leather handle of the greatsword, the brightly glistening blade slide right between her fingers. She winced as blood trinkled down the Grand Klaive, it fizzled upon the lightning. The woman pulled her hand away, snarling in a beastial frenzy at the Shadow Lord. In Brad's eyes, sorrow lingered deep within their dark hues. He tore his gaze from the woman's, his hand still on the grand klaive. "I have no patience to deal with the likes of you. You threaten the Garou, you tried to take a pop shot for my King, next, you corrupt my sense of rationality with the decaying rot of the Wyrm and your very essence is polluting this sacred ground. You should be lucky I'm sparing you now."

"Little boy." The woman grinned coldly at him, then lightning crackled around her arms. "Are you stopping because you realize you can't defeat me?"

"You claim to love the lightning." Brad turned toward her, his eyes white and glowing, the rage of Grandfather Thunder alive in his blood. "If you truly are a being of the lightning, then eat mine!!!" The ceiling cracked with the pressure of striking white spears of lightning, then finally burst through. The pillars of lightning consumed the floating woman whole then in an explosion of lightning and sparks, her body was thrown clear across the room. The mournful Shadow Lord turned toward his King and bowed. "I am deeply sorry for the ceiling and for Fend-through-the-Night."

"Do not be, Splinter-in-the-Mind's-Eyes." The Silver Fang smiled and patted Brad on the back. "You did what you had to, now stake that Wyrm-slut's body on the wall for future threats."

"Yes, milord."


"Uriko!" A female voice called from the wooden walkway leading up to a nice sanctuary.

"Alice! What are you doing here!?" The teenager jumped upon seeing the chocolate-haired nurse standing there behind her.

"This is the Temple of the Tiger Kings." Alice looked up, in the shadows of the temple's roof, her eyes still sparkled like gems. "Long comes here often..."

"I knew he would." Uriko folded her arms and sighed. "But I didn't come here to see Long."

"Then... why?"

The cat-zoanthrope stepped up to the stairs and turned to face her adopted older-sister. "Don't pretend you don't see it, Alice!! Yugo's been seclusive since we left Wolf Mountain!!"

"I don't want to see it, Uriko." The lagomorph frowned sadly, her hands clasped together. "I don't even think Yugo left Wolf Mountain the same..."

"Are you going to attempt to talk to him?"

"No. What's the use?" Alice began staring into the clear water, soon they were joined by the cloaked figure, Brad. Alice snarled as she turned toward him, her arm raised for the slap. Brad grabbed her hand in midflight, then backhanded her back. Uriko jumped upon seeing that, she ran to her sister's side. "Why'd you do that!?"

"Stop whining." Brad's eyes were cold and bitter, he stood up and walked for the doorway.

"HEY!!" The teenager ran for Brad, but the doors closed before she got there. Frustrated, Uriko turned toward her sister, Alice was on the floor crying.

"You shouldn't cry, Alice."

"I know why he's not speaking to me!" Alice shouted in anger.

"Why??"

"One of those filthy man-animals followed us back to the city..." She wiped her eyes and looked at her sister.

"What?? I thought the Garou weren't supposed to leave the sanctity of Wolf Mountain just yet!"

"One did follow, I swear!!"

"..." Uriko closed her eyes, the teenager turned around to the doors of the temple. "...deep in my soul, I feel I SHOULD believe you. But until I see this Garou with my own eyes, I can't... we were told that no Garou is to leave the mountain unless he was of high status amongst them and they had outer-Tribal duties."

"..." The young lagomorph looked at the tear-soaked wood of the walkway, then sobbed again. "I don't want to lose Yugo!! I love him so much!!!"

"Tough!" Uriko turned to face her sister, tears in her eyes and anger written all in her face. "Now you know what it's like to lose someone to the thralls of duty and obligation!!! The reason he threw you off was because you were cruel to him during the tournament of champions... how do you really want him to act toward you after that!?"

"Uriko...."

"You make losing Yugo to his duties sound like the Ninth Sign of the Apocalypse. Get over it." The cat-zoanthrope walked passed her and vanished from view.




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