Sibling Rivalry part 3- Bargains with wolves

Rozi

*** Right then… time for the next part of the story…***

Angua led Elsa and Andrei out into the woods, the snow was falling heavily and the trees seemed to tower over Elsa, who shook not only with the cold.

Angua could smell the pack; she ran ahead in wolf shape and entered a clearing.

There they were, in the middle of the clearing was Gavin. He had waited patiently for her, his quiet, but absolute, authority over the pack radiated like a fire. A few slightly smaller deputy wolves were behind him, they glared apprehensively at Angua.

"Are you ready to go?" Gavin asked "We will take you to the other humans; I will take you both in if I am needed to, but the others will not."

Elsa understood canine, she smiled gratefully "Thank you," she said, "thank you all so much."

The wolves gave her a look of mild distain; she didn't smell right to them.

They were a little happier with Andrei; he was mainly a wolf with a little more human intelligence to them.

Angua stepped in front of Gavin and said "We ought to leave immediately; I will keep an eye out for Wolfgang."

Gavin nodded "Yes."

The pack moved across the snow covered banks, the wolves flattening the snow for Elsa and Angua held her nose to the air. They had been running for what seemed like hours and the moon was now quite high.

Nothing yet, but then again, the snow wasn't helping. At least it covered their tracks a little, but Wolfgang had a good nose.

"Werewolf," Gavin trotted beside her, "we are not far from human place."

"Yes, about two miles or so I'd say, we'll be there soon."

She turned round to check Elsa, who was looking tired. Her small pack wasn't a burden, but her shoulders were beginning to sag and her eyes looked sullen.

'This cold's not doing her any good at all,' Angua thought, 'I hope she's going to be alright.'

Gavin sniffed "You worried?"

Angua turned to look back at him "Yes, a lot," she replied.

"She will be all right," Gavin said, "she with us."

Angua nodded "I can't tell you-"

"What are you going to do?"

The question was rather a shock.

"What?"

Gavin indicated over to Elsa and Andrei "They leave, what will you do?"

Angua stopped.

"I'm… not really sure… haven't thought about it really."

Gavin sniffed "Not think about future?"

Angua looked at Gavin, full in the face, her eyes meeting his deeply unsettling gaze.

"No… I'm more concerned about them."

"Oh."

Angua went in front of Elsa to help the other wolves even out the snow, thinking about what he had said.

The future? What about the future? ....

Wolfgang and his wolves prowled behind them, his nose caught their scents immediately, but they were faint and far off.

"Very clever," he muttered and signalled to two of the werewolves behind him "Fyodor, Rurik, go ahead and corner them, Ivan, Josif go to their right, Julius and Malvik to the left. We will box them in the old fashioned way."

The snow was falling fast and thick and the moonlight shimmered above the sharp spears of pine as the wolves dived away to their designated posts.

A werewolf, named Grigory, trotted up to Wolfgang "She is supposed to be clever," he muttered, "yet she picked a night like this! Doesn't sound intelligent to me."

Wolfgang grinned, insofar as a wolf can grin, and said "Obviously wasn't thinking ahead."

Angua paused, her ears twitched and her nose was high.

"Oh Gods," she muttered, "He's close."

Gavin's head darted around; he picked up the scent and spun to the other wolves. They began to panic; some of them backed away and began to whine at Gavin. He bared his teeth "Keep going!"

Whimpering, the wolves ran faster and Andrei was nudging the back of Elsa's legs with his nose "Elsa! What is matter?"

Elsa looked up; her faint werewolf nose could smell Wolfgang's scent not to far away, she sniffed and blinked snow out of her eyes "Hard… to… run," she muttered, "too tired."

"Elsa!" Angua ran back to check on her "Keep running Elsa, we're nearly there!"

She tried to push her legs and run, but they were buckling under her and Angua could see it. It turned her stomach, this was a bad idea! What the hells was she thinking?! Bringing them out on a night like this!

But I thought Wolfgang wouldn't be able to track us, she thought, he must have found out.

How the…

Well, too late to worry about that now.

Far too late.

They leapt out of the forest before any of the wolves had time to think. Teeth bared claws out and fur bristling.

Angua turned quickly, ready for the first assault which came from a werewolf's jaws in her hind leg. She roared and kicked hard, there was a crack from the hapless werewolf as she landed her other back leg right between his eyes. He fell back and lay still.

She wheeled round in time to see teeth bared towards her, its ravenous eyes fixed on her neck. She dived out of the way and it hit the snow, she leapt to subdue it, but then two more werewolves sprung out and leapt on her. She could feel their teeth tear into her skin and she tried to shake them off in the confusion of blood, rage and screams. More and more of the werewolves sunk their jaws in and tore at her and she begun to fall. All she could hear was her own heart, the roars of the wolves and, faintly but ever present, was Elsa's cries. 

And that was it.

She really hadn't thought ahead.

Elsa backed against a tree as the werewolves circled around her, teeth bared and dripping with wolf blood and…

"Angua!" She screamed as she watched her sister fall in a flurry of jaws, even Angua couldn't stand up to the whole family.

"She'll be fine in a while," snarled a voice from out of the shadows, "I wouldn't worry about her right now if I were you."

The wolves had been scattered, in the confusion she could barely smell them or Gavin. Andrei's shrill cries were heard in the distance, she could hear howls rising from the forest all around, wolf and werewolf, all calling for reinforcements. They had been disastrously outnumbered by the werewolves.

She sobbed and stared into the faces of her family, baying for her blood and turned away.

Only to stare into the worst face of all.

"Hello Elsa," Wolfgang in human form, leered sadistically, "a nice run in the forest never fails to buck the spirits eh?"

Tears streamed down Elsa's desperate face, "Wolfgang…"

"You threw us off for a while, I have to admit, but it is full moon and we are at our best! You couldn't out run us; surely you must have known that? Or do you forget your place half-breed?"

Elsa backed away; Wolfgang grabbed her by the hair and hauled her up painfully to look her in the eye. She stared back into eyes that glowed with the heartless fury of a monster.

"But, I am not completely unreasonable little waste-blood, after all, what would be the fun in just killing you here with out a good chase?"

He threw her hard against a tree, she slammed her fore head into it and blood began to trickle from above her eyebrow.

Wolfgang picked her up by the hair again, "I am offering you a chance to live Elsa, if you make it back to the castle then we will allow you to leave Uberwald and never come back. If you do not make it… well, even you would know what will happen then."

His teeth glinted like ice, his smile was contorting into a muzzle and his eyes danced with the same murderous glimmer.

She knew in her very soul she would never make it back.

No one ever did.

He flung her to the ground again and she landed in the snow. She looked up and Wolfgang towered over her "Well," he said expectedly "aren't you going to run?"

She shook her head "No!" She cried, tears running down her face "I don't have to run! No one ever has to run!"

She staggered to her feet "I'd rather die here and save you the satisfaction of watching me run!"

Wolfgang faltered for a moment, just a moment, and then he threw back his head and laughed cruelly "Trying your hand at bravery? How adorable, how sweet, but I think you will run."

He motioned to two other werewolves in human form and they walked over to the body of Angua, one of them pulled something out from a rope around his waist and it glimmered in the moonlight. He held it to Angua's throat.

"Oh gods…" Elsa sobbed.

"It was hard to come by, believe you me, but we found some. Despite being a yennork you still can only be killed by fire and silver. I was going to use it on you, but why bother? This is much more fun."

Wolfgang knelt down and said "I believe we have a bargain?"

Dun dun da…

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