Tristan sat in the leaves with the rest of the pack scattered around,some sleeping,some nursing.But all stayed silent in front of Tristan.One of the younger females spoke to her friend."I wish he would drop dead,I liked the old leader.....I think Tristan was lying through his teeth that day." She whispered ever so silently.Tristan's ears twitched,he snapped up and stomped over.With a mighty blow to the girl's ribs,she went flying and rolled,then sprawled in a pathetic manner on the dirt.He had knocked the wind out of her leaving her helpless.He held a large paw above her neckbone,aiming carefully. "No one should ever speak that traiter's name in this pack....never!" He barked his paw was coming down when a voice broke the cold dead silence. "Tristan!!" It called.Tristan stopped and looked behind him."One side." Tristan growled to the others.All of the pack stood in a neat single file line on either side of Tristan,leaving a path through the middle for Tristan to plod through.Tristan was a huge wolf with bulging muscles,with bones jutting out,and many many battle scars in battles HE had won without breaking a sweat."Look whos back from the dead.I thought you had passed on years ago Victor......" Tristan maliciouslly grinned.Victor softly trotted through the line,faces passing.Some where shocked,some were whispering to their neighbors,some were staring.they looked at the holes in his neck."Look at his skin!" One of the girls franticlly whispered to her lady friend.Yes,his skin was cold to the touch and blue from death....with no living blood to pump through those veins."I did." Victor whispered.Tristan growled in the thought that Victor was mocking him.Victor copied the growl.Inuyasha finally caught up.Tristan looked at Inuyasha,and Inuyasha just froze in his spot,looking at the muscular male beast of burden.Tristan jumped at Inuyasha's throat,wrapping his pointed jaws around it.Tristan's hot sour breath filtering through his fangs onto Inuyasha's pulsing neck.Inuyasha felt it.There was a disgusting cracking sound as the grip tightened.Inuyasha then felt Tristan being torn of his neck.Victor had saved him by grabbing Tristan's tail and throwing him off.Tristan snarled and growled,drooling Inuyasha's blood.They started a stare down,circling each other down."How pitiful you are to call yourself a wolf." Victor spat.Tristan jumped across the circle but Victor dodged and the stare down continued."Shut up!" Tristan snarled."You aren't even a dog." Victor grinned.Tristan snapped from across the circle.Victor dodged again and it still continued."Don't be so cocky you dead bastard!!" Tristan snapped."You are a wolf murderer.A theif.An abomination to this pack.You are nothing but a pitiful....." Victor grinned."Human." Victor shot that word across the air in Tristan's face.This time,Tristan lost it and ran like an aimless giant and rammed into Victor with all his brute strength and knocked Victor senseless.......for a mere three seconds."Weren't you listening.I'm already sensless.I'm already dead.I'm already gone.As far as I'm concerned,I'm invincible!" Victor smirked as he gathered himself up.Tristan was shocked.He was sure that Victor was just mocking him when he said he was dead."You killed my children.You murdered my wife.It was your fault I died in a way nobody should ever die.I was hunted,forced to go without warmth or shelter for weeks you heartless bastard!And then when it finally WAS over,Hell,I couldn't even die peacefully!I was dragged out of the afterworld to have a crappy responsibility!A graveyard guardian!And now that I'm back,you are going to suffer!Fair warning.I abhore violence!It sickens me,but it's only fair that you should take your half of the actions you made.Prepare to suffer Tristan.'Cause the day's going to drag on!" With those meaningful words,Victor lunged,then dragged Victor up and pinned him up on a tree.Tristan was terrified and beyond words for this angered spirit.He had no idea of what was to come."You know."When I was dying,my paws bled form running for my life on jagged rocks!" Victor tartly grabbed each one of Tristan's paws and scraped them as hard as possible on the rough tree bark,Tristan winced in pain."Then,five human bullets were shot into my neck after the fur was buzzed off!" Victor screeched.Victor took his fang and punctured five holes in Tristan's neck.Tristan just screamed and struggled to get loose.But the spirits grip was not soon to loosening."Then,my paw was being hacked off!" Victor snorted.He then bit and tore up Tristan's front paw.Tristan was bleeding and begging like a child for mercy."Oh ho!So you can shatter a person's dreams,kill his family just so you could enjoy being a leader....and yet when revenge comes you don't want to be the one to die!Then they slit my throat damn you!" Victor wailed!This time Tristan was hysterical and was crying and wailing and moaning!Blood covered the tree and the leaves hanging down were red."I'm sorry!Gods let me go!I hate this!Think of what you're doing!Please.............don't kill me!My dear god!" Then Tristan started mumbling.Victor smiled in a satisfactory manner,removed his paw,allowed Tristan to slide down off the tree and,for the first time in five years...........smiled in CONTENT.He had let Tristan live.And he heard all he needed to."Inuyasha.Come,lets go and we'll get something for your neck." Victor quipped.Inuyasha noticed his neck still had holes where Tristan had bit him.Thank god he was still alive.