Growls and barks were coming closer to me, I could hear them. It didn't help that I felt weak in this form and I had no idea why. My ears had gone down, my tail down, head low, and fur gently bristling. A whine escaped from my person, a plea for help. The kept taking over my thinking for a while until I saw five wolves come toward me from the border I passed.

There were two with a slightly cream white color; those seemed the smallest out of all of them. A black wolf with piercing blue eyes looked like it was one of the three larger wolves, it being surprisingly the smallest out of the three big ones. One wolf had a gray color for its fur and brown eyes; it seemed like the second biggest. The biggest one out of all five was a black wolf with honey brown eyes.

I was scared big time. Each of them was focused on something behind me. The biggest, black one stepped forward, tail high and growling that seemed to be directed at me. I made my way over, head low to stand behind the black wolf. Once I was behind him, I looked back to where he was looking at. A whimper escaped me.

Standing about a yard in front of him were four other wolves that all had a gray coat with gold eyes. The two biggest were flanked by the other smaller two. By their scents there were two males and two females. This brought me to notice there were about five males surrounding myself. The smallest two were the creams. The smallest was whimpering to me after looking directly at the gray wolf now to the right of the black one that came up to me first.

I looked toward the small cream, walking slowly towards it, getting the idea it wanted me to follow him. He yipped once and started running out the way they came. The larger cream saw I didn't move and nipped my tail, growling at me. The smaller one up ahead at stopped to look back at us. It took one more nip from the one behind me to get me sprinting toward the smaller one. As I caught up the smaller one it turned and kept running again. The one that had nipped me was by my side and every time I made a lead to the left to get away, it would nip me hard on whatever part it could get of me.

We burst through the clearing and I saw the familiar backyard and house. Once we were near the fence, I stopped, looking back toward the forest, panting. My tongue was out and jaws slightly open, seeing light plums of water vapor escape into the chilling autumn air. The other two that were with me didn't seem to mind that I stopped. Instead, the smaller one lay down in front of me, head on paws looking straight towards the woods.

The larger one on the other hand sat behind me as I myself lay down, but my sides were facing them, my head resting on my paws just in 'outer space', not really paying attention to anything. The next thing I knew the younger one had leaped up with a yip/bark type of thing and ran toward the emerging three wolves. I made to stand, but the other older cream had stood and took hold of my scruff, standing over me and preventing me from getting up from my laying position. I growled at him until he bit harder and got a whimper out of me. I was already still weak and did not have the strength, nor the energy to fend him off.

As the three larger ones approached, he let go and I stood. I was about the same height as him I noticed, but I felt so small as the other three approached me. The largest black one was ahead of the gray one on his right and the black wolf with blue eyes on his left.

The four wolves stood at positions that seemed to surround us in a ring. That is, surround my black wolf self and the largest black wolf with the honey brown eyes. This did not look good. I looked to the others, but they averted their gaze as I looked at them. My greatest hope seemed to be the smallest one. I made my way over to him, my tail just resting low in a comfortable position. I whined to him and he looked up, whining back, looking to the others that formed the border of the ring. The only one that helped him was the larger cream that ran for me and tackled me.

He growled at me and I growled back, snarling as I did so. Out of all of them he seemed to be the coldest one to me and I don't think I had done anything to hurt him. His teeth were bared at me once I had gotten him to roll off of me from the earlier tackle. I had gotten back up, facing him with my own teeth bared. I could tell my body language was fierce. My pelt had bristled, my ears were back, and my tail was threatening his position.

My legs shook from the fatigue that kept getting worse, but I held my ground. He was about to lunge at me again before the larger black wolf stepped in front of me with his tail high and teeth bared, and a tumbling low growl seeping through his chest. The cream snarled and went back to his position of the border.

The black wolf turned around and looked at me. He was about a foot taller than me and I was around four feet tall right now in this form. Our gazes meet and they held. I blinked, but I didn't look away. After a while, he began to growl as his tail raised as my own threatened his.

The next thing I knew he was on top of me, growling as fiercely as ever. My stomach was facing up and I was laying on my back, jaws opening and snapping at him even though he held me down. I kept protecting my neck. Wow… what such déjà vu this was. Except it wasn't that black wolf with the blue eyes. Wait a moment! I took a quick glance to the other black wolf. It was the same one that wanted me to submit earlier!

I looked back to the one on top of me and growled, back claws scraping his belly. He snarled, finally finding an opening to my neck. He took hold and bit down. I yipped-barked and struggled against him and it only made the pain worse. He bit down harder and I continued to whine. By the pitch of the whine, I could tell that the small cream was pleading. With whom, I did not know. Then I looked into the wolf's eyes on top of me and it hit me.

He wanted me to submit to him because he was the Alpha, he ruled over the pack and I was just a pup right now. I slowed my struggling and relaxed, brining my head to rest on the ground, my posture signaling I was defeated. I kept whining from the pain his jaws inflicted, scared for my life right now.

Then the pain was gone. I looked up at the wolf to see him looking down at me from his standing position over my body. His eyes sparked and his tail remained high. Slowly, he brought his head back down and covered the tip of my muzzle in his jaws, biting down until I whined and he let go. Then he stepped off of me and slowly I stood, my legs shaking. I would probably collapse any minute now. Soon he left my side and let the others come up to me. The small cream was licking my nose and nuzzling my neck. The other cream only came close enough to take in my scent and then heading back to the house.

The gray wolf nudged me with his nose and then he himself went back to the house, pulling the small cream with him, keeping hold of his scruff every time he made a move to run back to me. I wolf-grinned, and then looked to my right to see blue eyes staring at me. I jumped and brought my head up, completely taken by surprise. A small wolf-smile appeared on the wolf's features. He nudged me with his head against my shoulder and sniffed, burying his nose in the fur of my shoulder. Then he sneezed and I growled at him before he growled back and headed back to the house at a run.

"Come on, let's go."

I jumped and whipped my head around to my left side seeing the black wolf that made me submit next to me. It sounded like it came from him, but he couldn't have said it out loud. Was he thinking the conversation over to me?

"Yes, now let's go. You can talk to me through your mind too. Once you submit to the leader of any pack, you receive a mind link with them and it's available to the rest of the members, but they have to accept you by themselves first. It may take time, but eventually they will open up and accept you as a member of the pack."

Wow… well, there was my explanation. I looked over to him and my posture sagged. He looked over at me and tilted his head, tuned to my current state.

"You okay?"

"Sure, just really… tired."

I got out and grunted before I said 'tired'. He chuckled and shook his wolf head.

"Try to make it to your room first. I had Wyatt and Layla setup a place on the floor for you since you'll probably fall right asleep in your wolf form once you hit the ground. Plus I doubt Layla would like it if you messed up the clean covers of the bed."

"Whatever, let's go, I'm tired."

He chuckled as he led us up to the deck in wolf form. Once on the deck, he changed back into his human form and opened the door for me. He said something about me not having the strength nor the energy to turn back to my human self and was he right. I went straight to the grand staircase and made my way up, getting smirks from the boys and I snarled at them. It shut them up and they went back to whatever they were doing.

I made it to my room and found the door slightly open. I pushed it with my nose and went in, seeing the nice comfy sheets and pillows that had been set up for me on the floor. I staggered over and plopped down, my head resting on the pillow as I lay on my side, belly facing the door.

I smelt someone walk in and briefly opened my eyes to see Wyatt. I closed them and ignored him, thinking he would go away. I heard the door being shut, but not all the way and then smelt Wyatt sit near my head. Now I had his scent and face recognized anyway, so that only left the rest of them. I let out a breath and lifted my head to move it off the pillow.

I sensed Wyatt moving his hand to stroke my fur and I growled at him with my eyes shut. I sensed that he stopped and didn't growl. Then gently, he placed his hand on my head and began to stroke the soft fur. It felt good, so I let him pet me. I snorted at something that entered the room and I heard Wyatt laugh.

This upset me so I rolled so my back was facing him and I was facing the wall. His hand traveled to my neck and then my back, like he was petting a dog. It sounded awkward, but it felt good, soothing. I continued to let him pet me. I only growled once more as that scent of 'something' made its way closer to us. Wyatt chuckled quietly and then stopped to tell the person the leave. So that 'something' was a 'someone'.

Once I smelt the scent leave the room, I relaxed a little more than I had. I felt Wyatt's hand on my head and moving near the space between my eyes. I flinched at first, but relaxed as he 'shushed' and gently stroked the area around my closed eyes and underneath them. It was like he was doing that so my eyes stayed shut and I could go to sleep. I let him continue and then felt something tugging in my mind.

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