Hey Wolf Pack!
I know I may sound like a jerk when I say this, BUT, I kinda maybe purposefully made you guys wait for the next chapter for suspense. :) Although some of the time I actually was really busy.
There's gonna be a change to how I do my short note to you guys at the beginning of each chapter. If you write a review and want me to answer to it, be it a question or your thoughts, just say so. If you don't say that you want me to answer or comment about it, then I won't do anything. I do read every review, so don't feel neglected.
Now…
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!IMPORTANT!
When reading this, you'll see that I used the names of gemstones to explain the color of Lone Sky's pendent, Sky's eyes, and Cassius' eyes. Please look up an image of these gemstones, it'll help you to understand how beautiful their eyes really are. Also, it's kinda important for a bit of backstory that has been explained a little, but will be delved into more later.
Here's a list of the stones:
-zircon
-tsavorite
-Kashmir sapphire
Many thanks,
WolvesoftheBlueMist
P.S
How do you all feel about shapeshifting?
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"Being lost in the world is scary, but being lost in your own mind is terrifying."
-boardofwisdom
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CHAPTER 4: Awake
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Cassius paced nervously back and forth in the medical hall of the castle. Ayleth was sitting on a chair, twiddling with the blue zircon pendant that was hung around the strange boy's neck. It had even stranger markings on the inside of the gemstone that was illegible. Zelda was inside the room with the nurses and a spellcaster, all of whom had been trying to heal the stranger's arm. They'd been there for about three hours.
Suddenly, one of the nurses rushed out, carrying a bowl with water stained red, and clothes that had been turned from pristine white to a dark crimson. Cassius recognized her as one of Zelda's friends, Krea.
"How is he?" the young Captain asked, stepping forward.
Krea paused and gave him a queer look. "You know, it's strange really. I've worked on more patients than I could remember, and while I've felt bad for them, none of it compares to what I feel in that room…Just-just seeing that boy in that condition, I'm not sure why, but I feel as though my heart is shattering." Tears welled in her eyes. "I can't explain it, but to see him in there, in that small room, wounded to the point of being on Death's door; it just feels so…WRONG."
Sniffling, Krea excused herself and rushed off to get fresh water and bandages, leaving Cassius and Ayleth to contemplate what the nurse had just said.
"You know," Ayleth began. "I felt the same way sorta. I mean, when I found that guy, I realized I was crying. Not sure why, but I felt so awful."
Cassius tilted his head and thought back to the group's frantic race back to the castle. He had been carrying the unconscious body back, and had found himself praying for the kid to be okay…
"I know what you mean Ayleth."
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Lunar Eclipse silently followed the golden wolf as they padded through the vast Field. They'd caught and killed a wild goat, although the golden wolf didn't eat, only prompted Eclipse to devour her share.
They continued after that without delay, and had caught a whiff of Epona's scent. Though it was a little stale, the comforting smell gave a gentle reassurance to the black wolf, strengthening her resolve to find her family.
It was now late evening, the sky already darkening, but the she-wolf had courage and hope, a sense of calm in her suddenly chaotic life. The two were catching up to the red chestnut, as her scent trail was getting much stronger.
Tail twitching, Eclipse quickened her pace to catch up with the bigger canine.
"Hey, Time, before we stop for tonight, could you show me that attack move again?"
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Darkness. Lone Sky was in complete darkness. Any normal wolf would've been fine with it, enjoying the quiet calm it provided. But this black emptiness was suffocating; closing in and around Sky with no restraint. Choking him.
Without warning, a flash blinded Sky, and when his vision cleared, the deadly all-consuming light was surrounding him, snarling and crackling. Desperately, he tried to flee, but his body refused to listen. Instead something was clawing at his arm, shoulder, and back rendering him helpless and unable to move. Terrified, Sky whipped his head to the side, trying to see what was preventing him from escape. Horror filled him as he stared into the dead, crimson eyes of a green monster.
Immediately Lone Sky began to thrash trying to throw off his attacker, all the while the death light coming closer; the heat unbearable. A pitiful bleating pierced Sky's ears. Turning, he saw the fawn; he saw its eye swelling; he saw the black charred bodies of…of Epona and Eclipse. Their gaze lifeless, yet still boring into his soul, ripping into his already broken heart-
With a strangled cry Lone Sky shot up, and found himself gazing at a pair of beautiful tsavorite eyes.
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Dinner was quiet. Of course, Cassius was never really one to talk when enjoying the company of the royal family and the one soldier that always tried to annoy him. The one soldier who was currently as still as stone.
"So, um, sweetheart, how was your ride?" asked Zelda's mother, trying to break the quiet.
"Oh! Ah, it was…well…eventful."
"Mmm."
Silence.
Snorting, Zelda's brother, Tristan stood up.
"May I be excused?" he asked. "I'd rather not sit through this wagon-wreck that we're calling dinner."
Zelda looked ready to protest (it was her birthday dinner after all), but Ayleth stood up.
"I'd like to be excused as well," she murmured.
Now THAT got everyone's attention.
"What, you don't want to stuff yourself with fifty plates of food today?" Cassius teased while the king looked as his daughter's friend in surprise, the queen gave a small understanding smile, and Zelda furrowed her brow in concern.
"Are you feeling okay, Ayleth?" she asked, knowing that her friend loved dinner.
"I'm just-well I just want to check on him. To see if he's doing okay, or if he's woken up yet."
Cassius frowned. "He was wounded pretty badly, Ayleth. I don't think he'll be waking up anytime s-"
For the second time that day, Cassius was interrupted by a shrill shriek that swept through the castle halls and reached the dining table. A maid burst in, gasping.
"Sometin's wrong!" she said. "The littl' boy was jest layin' der wen' he started thrashin' 'round and cryin' out!"
Ayleth shot an accusatory glance at Cassius that said I knew we should've checked on him, and ran out of the room. Cassius groaned and followed his soldier, grabbing his sword and strapping it around his waist should anything go wrong.
"Wait here," he told the royal family before disappearing out the room.
When the two got to there, it was worse than expected. Cassius had thought that the teen was shouting and maybe crying, but nothing worse. However, the blonde was making horrible animalistic sounds of rage, pain, and terror. He was thrashing around, and the nurses were staying away, afraid of getting hit by a flailing arm or leg.
As Cassius watched, he noticed the bandages at the boy's shoulder grow a large spot of red. Krea turned to Cassius.
"Hold him down! I don't want him to get hurt any worse!"
The captain nodded, and, seeing his opening, thrust forward and pinned the arms down.
"Calm down! Wake up! It's alright!" he shouted, struggling to maintain his grip, for the kid was far stronger than he looked.
Cassius grunted as a writhing knee collided with his side. All at once, the panicked sleeper froze. Hesitantly Cassius released his arms and promptly jerked back as the boy shot up to a sitting position.
It was then that the young captain beheld the most beautiful eyes he'd ever seen.
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To say that the eyes were the color of sapphires was and understatement. Or so believed Ayleth as she stared at the captivating and brilliant orbs.
'No,' she thought. 'They've GOT to be real sapphires just carved to fit into his sockets!"
Indeed it appeared that way. The boy's eyes DID look like actual sapphires. They were Kashmir blue with darker and lighter shades mixed in. The reflection of the light in the blue made it seem as though they were stars; twinkling in the gorgeous night. As the boy flicked his eyes around to inspect his surroundings, the shades of blue swirled around, like the ocean.
At last the analytical blue orbs fixed themselves on Cassius' green ones. Then the boy did something that surprised them all.
He growled at them.
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Lone Sky didn't know what happened to him. He didn't know where he was. All that he knew was that he was in a strange den, with even stranger creatures that somehow looked like him. Only fatter. And he knew that he had to escape. After quickly checking out his surroundings Sky focused his attention back to the closest creature; the one who was sitting a mere tail length away.
Narrowing his eyes threateningly, Sky growled, yet the opposing creature only blinked, and refused to back off. He then drew his lips back and bared his teeth, and obvious sign of threat, but still the stranger didn't move.
Immediately Sky took his chance. Leaping off the funny nest he was on, the pack member raced out of the strange opening to the den, past the others inside.
'Strange idiots.' Sky thought. 'What's wrong with them; they're so SLOW! And what's wrong with this place; it's like a fox-dunged rabbit hole! Tunnels EVERYWHERE!'
Looking to his right, Sky noticed the tunnel going upwards. Gritting his teeth and ignoring his pain, he raced forward and scrambled up the weird incline. Arriving at the top, Sky reached another long tunnel, and at the end he saw the sky. It seemed at bit blurry for some reason, but assuming it was because of the distance, the boy raced forward.
A strange cry rang behind him, and Sky heard the rapid paw steps of a pursuing creature. Snarling, Sky increased his pace as he closed in on the tunnel's end. If he could get out into the open then perhaps he'd be able to put up a fight.
Grunting, Sky launched himself at the supposed opening.
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The boy had surprised Cassius when he shot out of the room like an arrow. Leaping up, Cassius gave chase, Ayleth by his side, although she soon passed him. (She was the fastest person Cassius knew)
They followed the fleeing person around the corner, and to their surprise, up the stairs.
"If he was trying to escape," Ayleth shouted back to Cassius. "Then why would he go upstairs?!"
"I'm not sure!" he called back. "Just make sure you catch him!"
She grunted in acknowledgement a reached out her arm to snag the boy, only to gasp in surprise a he raced even faster, outstripping Ayleth by far.
Cassius ignored that though. The boy had already run past the last side hallway; where was he headed? Suddenly Cassius understood and he called out in alarm.
"NO! STOP!"
He was too late however, as the boy flung himself through the glass window that spanned the whole length of the back wall, leaving a flabbergasted pair of soldiers behind, wondering how in Hylia's name the boy had managed to do…well any of what he'd just done.
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I am a free spirit….either admire me from the ground or fly with me….but don't ever try to cage me.
-quoteaddicts