Chapter 5 - Wolf Blood

Vejiita bashed the door open after sensing Grey Wolf's ki all but dissapear. He beelined for her room. "Grey Wolf!!" He yelled, bashing that door open as well. Grey Wolf was tending to Saito. Her sword and assasination skills were at the level that she had instinctively dodged all of Saito's internal organs. "Jesus..." Vejiita whispered, noticing Grey Wolf's state as well.

"Vejiita... go get Tokio. I need her help." He ran to the master bedroom, then to where Tokio was still asleep.

"Tokio... wake up..."

"What is it, Vejiita?"

"There's... been an accident. Grey Wolf and Saito are both badly injured. Grey Wolf will be fine, but she needs help to stop Saito's bleeding." Tokio immediately got up and rushed to the bathroom, getting supplies. She then backtracked to the other side of the house, where Grey Wolf, Zac and Saito were.

"He... he's been drinking." Tokio said in surprize when she smelt the alcohol.

"Yeah..." Grey Wolf whispered. "I had to send a spirit sword through his side to stop him..."

"Jesus." She sat down next to Saito.

"Mom, hold this to the wound-" -She held out a rag to Tokio- "-and apply pressure."

"I will. Tend to your wounds."

"Hai." Grey Wolf walked into the bathroom in her room.

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Grey Wolf walked to where Tokio had moved Saito, their bedroom.

"He'll be fine, Grey Wolf, don't worry."

"I know. I just wanted to check up on him..."

"He's ok. He'll flinch from pain every once in a while, as if he's really hurting, but it goes away..."

"Ok..." She walked to her room. Zac was in it, waiting for her.

"Hey..."

"Hey."

"Saito ok?"

"He'll be fine. My dad's had much worse."

"Ok..."

"So what's wrong with you?"

"Nothing..."

"Zac, I know you. I can sense when something's wrong. Now, please... tell me what it is."

"It's nothing, really... I just..." His voice trailed off, as if he were still thinking whether or not to tell Grey Wolf.

"Tell me. It'll stay between us."

"... I... I love you."

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Zac lay in his sleeping bag, next to Grey Wolf's bed. He lay in a deep slumber, finally stopped from thinking about what Grey Wolf had told him, after he had revealed to her, the one thing he had always feared for her to find out. She, however, lay awake in bed. Two people after her. Two having confronted her. However, she could only choose one. One, she cared more than anything for. The other... she cared more than anything for. How could she choose? She twitched slightly. Something was wrong. She felt so strange. But what was it? Was it the predicament she was in? ... No... something else... She turned to the window, suddenly realizing what it was. Before she had a chance to look out the window, the moonlight radiating in transformed her, her ability to hold off the transformation all but dissipated. She bounded out of the window, the image of a tundra wolf. She hardly knew the danger she was in. A werewolf, when transformed, has no recollection of their life. All they have is an overwhelming bloodlust, and memories of their second life as a werewolf. So, in this state, Grey Wolf did not remember that there was another werewolf, in an extremely bad state, that needed her help. Help needed because, while in werewolf form, any wounds taken on while in non-werewolf form were retained, and visa-versa, thus, Saito Hajime was stumbling around, with a hole through his stomach, in desperate need for help, while Grey Wolf was out looking for prey- and for the hell of it, she could kill Saito in her bloodlust. A howl broke through the night. Grey Wolf bounded in that direction to meet the pack.

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"Nito, our alpha wolf is gone, we believe dead." A wolf told Grey Wolf in werewolf tongue, calling her Nito, her wolf name.

"Really. We must decide on a new leader then."

"The festival of blood will commence?"

"Yes. At once. We have no time to waste-" Grey Wolf stopped. She had heard something. She turned to see a badly injured wolf enter the clearing. "How painful."

"I agree. What should we do? You're the alpha female, and with no alpha male, that makes you leader."

Grey Wolf thought for a moment, before whispering, "It must be in pain. Put the poor creature out of its misery." The wolf snarled when the other wolves tried to get near it.

"Damn thing won't let us, Nito!"

"Fine. Let me handle this." Grey Wolf walked toward the wolf. It scratched her across the face, and three slashes appeared across her cheek. "Son of a... perhaps it doesn't want to die. Too bad. No one touches me and gets away with it." Grey Wolf walked toward the wolf and he stood. Backing away, he growled, ready to attack, as she was. She ran at it, swiping it across the shoulder, then ducked back. He jumped at her, swiping at her throat, but she ducked back, then lunged at him, grabbing his throat in her jaws. She was experienced at fights, and could kill a wolf with ease. Even the former alpha wolf would have been no challenge for her. The subclavical vein would soon be punctured, and this wolf would bleed to death. Grey Wolf was almost finished with the wolf, until the strongest male wolf in the pack told her to stop. She let go of the lone wolf and slashed the male across the face.

"Until you are alpha male, you take orders from ME."

"You'll really kill him. And, unless I'm mistaken, you were never a murderer."

"You know what I'm saying is right! It's not your choice who lives, and who dies! That is up to god!"

"God... god, who... condemned me straight from birth to be this abomination... who created me solely to kill... who curses my very existance... IT IS NOT HIS CHOICE!" Grey Wolf went insane with rage at the male and jumped at him, using her claws to tear him to pieces. Blood flew over the pack, as her eyes shown that exact color- blood red. "I AM THE ALL POWERFUL BEING! I DECIDE WHO LIVES AND WHO DIES!!!"

"What... what is she?"

"I-AM-YOKAI!!!" She screamed. Every single pack member knew that this could not be Grey Wolf, and that it simply had to be someone else. The eye color was strange, a mix between a human form yokai and a wolf, but before they could figure anything out, she slew three more members of the pack with her claws, ripped another two's throats out with her teeth, and slammed into four more with strength enough to crush their lungs, suffocating them. There were only five members left of the once prominous clan, plus the mysterious wolf. Grey Wolf decided to return to that one, and used her powerful feet to launch at it. He moved, and Grey Wolf slammed into a tree. She would've gotten ready to attack again had the sun not shone on them both, revealing a near dead Saito and a surprized Grey Wolf, not knowing what the hell was going on or why there were so many dead bodies all around them. Not one would ever know what had transpired that moonlit night, or why the ground soaked in wolf blood.