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Chapter 7: Red Hiding

Blossom:

"Ow! Is the main joy of your day making feel pain?! Because if it is, you're doing a bang up job." He said he looked at me with a scowl. At least until he noticed the position we are currently in, and at that I start to try to shove myself off of him. "You can stay there if you'd like. I'm quite comfortable right here now." He said smirking as I rolled my eyes and got up.

Or at least I tried to get up, but it was made completely difficult when he grabbed my arm pulling me down so that I couldn't get away. He had a smirk plastered to his face as he held me close to him. When he finally let my arm go, I began to get up. It was all okay and I was standing on my own two feet. I began to walk around his head as he began to get up. I had made it all the way around him, and I felt triumphant.

But my triumph was short lived because my next step was my downfall. I literally stepped into a muddy area that had not yet frozen and slipped falling back into the red headed male werewolf's lap. I had literally slipped and landed on my butt on his lap. He again screeched in pain.

"Gosh, dang it! Can you at least try not to hurt me for at least an hour?!" He said as his face showed that he was in a lot of pain at the moment. I wasn't trying to hurt him; I had only purposely hurt him the first time. And that was because he was acting like a perverted jerk, and that was at the party.

"Well, I'm not trying to hurt you. It just keeps happening by accident! I need you to help me find my sisters, so why would I want you to be hurt?! I mean seriously, I have no reason to want to hurt you. I need you to help me find my sisters and help me find my way home." I said looking him in the eyes. His eyes are a deep ruby color, that's not an eye color you see often.

"What do you mean you need me to help you find your sisters?" He asked looking into my pink tourmaline colored eyes with confusion.

"My sisters, the ones that I was hanging out with and I was running away from you and your two other friends with. The two girls that kneed the two guys with you, those two are my sisters." I explained as his mind began to process and understand what I was telling him. He was nodding in understanding.

"Yeah, well those two guys that your sisters happened to knee in the crotches were my brothers." He said finally looking back at me. "Can you get off of me now?" He asked scrunching up his face in question.

"Oh, yeah, sorry." I said as I tried to get up off of his lap. But I ended up trying to stand and ending up falling back onto his lap again, but this time my elbow slammed down where it really shouldn't have hit. He immediately whimpered in pain, and I could see that tears were beginning to come to eyes from the pain he was experiencing. "I'm so sorry! Why don't you just help me up? That way I won't fall back and harm you any further because you'll be supporting me." I suggested as he nodded and he pushed me up to my feet. And then immediately forced himself up to his own feet, that way I couldn't fall onto him again.

"Let's go find our siblings and hope that we can figure out how to get back to our packs and our homes." He said trying to smile. He took a deep breath and exhaled a sigh of relief. At least werewolves heal extremely quickly. It means the damage I just accidently inflicted to his lower area is now just a lull of pain. "What's your name? I figure that I should at least know what your name is if we are going to be traveling together." He suggested. It was a smart idea since we are stuck together, and I do at least owe him that since I've inflicted so much pain in the brief time that we've known each other.

"My name is Blossom." I say with a small smile. I need to be at least as polite as I can for the rest of the day, tomorrow I can act normally and complain if need be. "What's your name? If you don't mind me asking." I ask as politely as possible. He smirks to that laughs a little, ending with tilting his head and looking at me curiously.

"No need to be so polite. But it is kind of cute when you are because it looks like it takes great effort for you to be polite." He said teasing me, I clenched my teeth and began to walk away when he grabbed my arm and spun me to him. "I like the way your nose scrunches when you clench your teeth. I'm sorry; it's hard not to try to be charming around a girl. My name's Brick. And we're looking for my brothers, Boomer and Butch. So thank you for being willing to deal with me this long, so we can find them." He said genuinely, looking at my face the whole time. I need him to help me, and he needs me to help him.

"Well… I'm looking for my sisters, Bubbles and Buttercup, so we're in agreement on how important it is for us to find them." I said simply and easily. I was getting a little uncomfortable standing this close to him when we're both in the woods half naked.

"What are you? Because you act tougher than any omega, and you act like you have a lot to take care of like an alpha, but it seems like you do what you're told like a beta. So what exactly are you?" He asked searching my face like the answer was written on my face.

"When have I ever done what I was told to do?!" I blurted out offended.

"At the party, when the non-live music had begun, an alpha guy had asked you and the blonde-" He said before stopping to put his hand up saying that he didn't care what correction I was going to make. "He asked you two to help him get the music set up correctly. And the raven haired one, I'm guessing Buttercup, sang at the party as well." He answered simply.

"Bubbles and I helped him because he kindly asked us, and Buttercup had agreed beforehand. I'm not an omega, but I'm also not a beta." I said rolling my eyes in the process.

"Oh, so you're an alpha girl?!" He said as I pushed him off of me and began to walk forward to find some form of shelter because we were never going to find our siblings tonight. He laughed and began to follow me. "I can't tell if there are any good places to stay for the night, we have to, but maybe I could tell better if we shifted into our wolf forms. It will look weird if anyone sees you walking half naked behind a wolf." I said before shifting completely into a wolf. Not a moment late I saw him come trotting up next to me.

As a wolf I could smell the trees and areas around us better. I averted our path far enough to avoid a recent home of a badger. The one creature that seems to hate us on an all-out crazy reason, that they can tell that we are both human, wolf, and both at the same time. But after averting the badger I lead us back onto the path we had been heading on.

And by some lucky chance, we found a wolf sized cave to stay in for the night. I let Brick go in first because I figured he deserved to go in first due to all the pain I had inflicted during the few hours that we've known each other briefly. I went in after him and laid down far enough inside to stay warm, but close enough to the edge to fall asleep watching the snow fall.

I began to drift to sleep thinking about the first winter that my sisters and I were allowed to go outside because we could finally change all the way into our wolf forms without any pain. And the way our father agreed to let us go, Buttercup had looked at it as a triumph and ran outside as a wolf, she slipped and fell into a giant pile of snow and we followed suit. It was one of my most fond memories. We had just stayed outside for hours, skating on the frozen thick pavement that one of the pack members had set up for all the children. We skated on the ice, threw snowballs at each other, played as if we were a dog sled team with one of the younger pack children, and made snow angels in the snow.

We made sure that no one felt left out. We made sure that everyone got to play and have fun on the cold winter-y day. My sisters and I had so much fun making the others in our pack smile and have fun as well. It makes we smile, and yet it also makes me want to cry. I want to cry because I'm worried about my sisters and I'm wondering what their thinking right now. I hope I know that my sisters are remembering our first snowy day as well, so that maybe I can feel that we are all connected together as one. I close my eyes and drift off with that last thought.

Brick:

I awoke the next morning and had to look around until I remembered what had happened yesterday. How the hunters had kidnapped us and set us free to just make the game of the hunt more interesting and fun for themselves. And that they had sent us all in different ways, so that now we were all separated from our siblings. Then I remembered the warmth I had felt when I had grabbed Blossom. That's when I looked to see if I could spot her, she was lying near the entrance of this little cave we had stayed in, fast asleep.

I carefully got up, bumped my head, and decided to crawl as far as I could, so that I wouldn't wake Blossom. I crawled and got about a foot from where I had been asleep a few minutes ago when she had turned to me drowsily and scowling.

"What are you doing?" She asked as she sat up and began to stretch.

"Well I was trying to crawl and be quiet so that you could sleep. But I got maybe a foot with crawling before you sat up, awake, and asked me what I was doing. So that was fail, I'm not as quiet as I would like to believe I can be." I said not looking at her and sitting where I had stopped. My legs were in an L- shape.

"You are quite quiet, you just can't crawl or whatever in the morning without waking me. I am a tracker remember. I could hear and smell you getting closer. I wanted to make sure that you weren't going to try anything while I was asleep. But you were just trying to not wake me, so I'll ignore my first thoughts." She said beginning to wake up some more. I rolled my eyes at that comment of me trying something while she was asleep.

"Well, we should probably start going. Maybe we can find our siblings or some trace of our siblings, at least, today." I suggested finally looking at her. Her auburn red-orange hair, that is at least a tint lighter than my hair, was in some weird braid, but it was messed up from sleep.

"Well then we'll be in our wolf forms today. For one it's easier to track and smell anything as wolf, but also because I'm not walking barefooted through that much snow." She said gesturing to the outside ground. There was at least two inches of snow on the ground and still more snow building on it just as quickly. I was definitely not going to try to be in my human form today.

"Okay, let's get going." I said as she nodded and we both shifted with ease before running out of the little cave and into the white crystal-like snow. The wind ripped at us and I began to think about how even though the wind was pushing at us, Blossom had a certain determined attitude that just seemed like she was so sure of herself. Blossom looked beautiful as a full on wolf as she is as a full human. I wonder if her sub-change form is just as beautiful. It has to be, it is a mix between her wondrous human form and the sophisticated beauty of her wolf form.

And the way her cherry lips look so sweet, I wonder if they actually taste like cherry. It's torture to just think about the way she'd my name, if she would ever actually say it. It's torture thinking about all the ways I could kiss her, and all the places that I could kiss her. And…wait, what the heck am I even thinking right now?! Why am I thinking about something that that, and about her?! She's just a girl I met yesterday at a party.

Suddenly she just stopped and started to sniff the air. Then her ears went down and she began to lower herself in a cower and look all around her. I quickly made my way over to her. When she saw me, I could see the fear in her eyes. I didn't understand it; I don't know what's going on. But whatever it is is scaring her too much. I look around and try to smell what it is that she is smelling and hearing. That's when I catch a whiff of something, something I wish I could not have to smell. The smell of truck exhaust, the same exhaust as the hunters have, the ones that put us out here to have more fun while hunting for us.

We have to hide, but where? We're nowhere close to the color of the snow or anything out here. We have to hurry; we have to think of something to do. We're too far from that little cave we had found to go back. Where could we…I was thinking before I saw a slinking light auburn wolf slinking to the side of the small valley we're in. I quickly follow suit.

She's just quietly sniffing the ground and paying attention to where the hunters are. I could hear that they had parked their truck and were trying to quietly find where we were. I stopped paying attention to what they were doing and put my attention back to the light auburn wolf in front of me. She was carefully sniffing around a certain area of the ground; I quickly and quietly went up to see what she was doing. The minute I sniffed the area she had been sniffing, I smelled them.

She was going to give the hunters a bunch of red herrings. She was looking for the den full of our red herrings. She was looking for the den that was hidden under the snow full of foxes! Our fur is a close enough match in color to that of a fox's coat of fur. This girl is brilliant! The hunters will be confused and believe that any of the foxes could be us, but once they shoot they'll scare the foxes even more, making them go all over the place. So our options are to run with the foxes and get out of here. Or take the foxes' den and stay hidden in there until the hunters leave for the night. I'm okay with either, but I would prefer the latter.

We began to quietly dig at the hillside slope of the ground. There was an open part to the hillside. And as soon as we opened it up even a little, the whole thing came down to reveal a family of foxes. They hissed at us and then ran when she dived into their little hillside hole. They began to run together, but then the shots came from the hunters and I was pulled into the hole by Blossom and the foxes were running every which way frantically.

The little hillside den was crowded and all dirt, but it was the perfect hiding spot for right now. The hunters wouldn't be able to find us…hopefully. The crunch of the hunters' shoes on the snow sounded, it was getting closer by the second. They were looking everywhere. The crunching of their boots stopped near the top of the little den that we are in, my heart began to race as fast as my legs would carry me if I were running.

"Those wolves must have scared the foxes and then ran wild with them! They're probably completely gone!" The red bearded hunter, the one who's boots were at the top of the hole, yelled to his companions.

"If they ran with the foxes, then they would have had to have gotten hit. They have to be around here somewhere. All we need to do is find the wolves' blood trail. And then we can easily follow it to the wolves." The gray bearded hunter shouted to both of the other hunters. As far as I could tell there were only three hunters that had let us go just to try and hunt us down again.

"Yeah, but there's a lot of blood." The last hunter, the one that looked like he was the youngest, yelled to the other two. His voice also sounded the youngest.

"Son, man up! We are hunting, not helping our wives pick out wedding venues!" the hunter near us said to the one without a beard. He was beginning to walk away from hole and toward his son, but we wouldn't be able to leave because his gun was in the way of the exit.

"Well, I told you that a week after the wedding we could go hunting! Or we could actually bring my fiancé out her to hunt with us! She hunts with her family!" The young hunter said to his father.

"Great idea, we'll stop for today and tomorrow when we come back to hunt again, we'll bring his fiancé. I'm tired and cold anyway, since someone forgot to include the thermostat in our supplies for today." The gray bearded one said as they all walked away and got into their truck. Blossom and I carefully crawled out of the foxes' den and carefully went across the snow until we were sure that the hunters were completely gone. Then we worried about getting ourselves out of this mess and finding another shelter to stay in for the night. Luckily after a few minutes of seeing nothing, but snow, we saw an old fur trappers shed in the short distance. We quickly made our way over to it and climbed inside and out of the cold winter air. Only to fall quickly and heavily asleep watching the snow.

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