GAAAAH! I'M SORRY! XO I have a reason for not updating *sigh… I got my things confiscated…Yeah not cool, so I had to go old school and write in my notebook :/
Takes22Tango: I'm glad you like the Pegawolf thing! ^_^ I was kinda worried after I put wings on a wolf that people would stop reading it, lol! XD I have no idea when I will come out with the AkuRoku horror story I'm still writing the prologue…Hope you like this chapter! :)
Ern Estine 13624: glad you think it's getting good! This story is practically writing its self, lol!
I apologize for any mistakes or misspellings, I tried to correct some things but I'm tired its like almost 2 in the morning where I am sooo im going to bed.
Okay now onward!
Saving Roxas chapter 4
2 months later…
Roxas was growing more and more each passing day; he's grown very fond of his new parents. Today, he was going to meet Ventus friends little siblings at their den; Axel has been fairly busy keeping the rogue wolves out of his territory as of late, he's even been racing out of the den in the middle of the night and coming back with some gashes and what not.
Roxas and Ventus were inside the den playing around until a howl sounded from outside alerting the occupants inside stopping all motion.
"Stay here Rox," Ventus commanded as he trotted away to the opening of the cave. He would have taken Roxas with him but he could never be too careful of wolf howls now since a rouge pack moved in and was masking their howls as their friends to force them to mate, how they did it was beyond Ventus. Ventus trotted down the rock hallway to the opening, before he went out he sniffed around the deerskin to smell a scent wafting through and he instantly knew it was…
"Terra!" Ventus bolted out from behind the deerskin scaring the poor brunette wolf half to death and glomping the other sending them down into the slowly dissipating snow.
"Hey there Ven," Terra greeted as he nuzzled the others head against his.
"I haven't seen you in months!" Ventus exclaimed as he backed away from his best friend his tail wagging a mile a minute.
"Yeah I've been looking for a mate now…But its so hard now since those rogue wolves came in," Terra growled, he remembered when he was charming a pretty female wolf that was about to submit to him until one of those horrid little flee bitten b-
"Axel has been marking around here so much I just want to jump his bones," You see, when males mark their territory it also leaves pheromones behind making there mates know where the territory is or get other wolves succumb to them…and lets just say Axel's is much more potent than any other wolf Ventus has smelled.
"Hey we have innocent minds here!" Terra yelled, just then Ventus remembered they did have innocent minds, he looked down to see three sets of eyes on him; one glaring gold, the other cerulean blue, and aquamarine.
"I don't think you met my little brothers. This here is Vanitas," Terra pointed to a little black pup, but he wasn't quite a pup per say he looked a little older.
"…hi," Vanitas said dully still glaring, with a I-don't-want-to-be here-and-if-you-talk-to-me-I-will-kill-you look.
"And this one is Sora," A little brown cinnamon puppy that had one ear flipped over with big blue eyes and one front left white paw.
"Hiya!" Yep he was a pup about Roxas age too, Ventus thought, annnd a little to cheery for his liking. Just imagine him with sugar, at that made Ventus shudder.
"And Riku he's not my brother he just came along," A small grey pre-wolf (see what I did there? Pre-teen pre-wolf lol! XD) with the aqua eyes sat next to Sora.
"Hello," Riku said politely.
"Hey there I'm Ventus call me Ven for short!" A chorus of "okay!" and "whatever" came obviously from Vanitas.
"You guys want to see Roxas?"
"Yeah!" Sora agreed instantly as he stood up his tiny tail wagging.
"Rox come here!" Ventus howled, few seconds later a tiny head popped out from the deer hid looking around cautiously before coming out slowly, then he just ran straight to Ventus and hid behind him.
"Yes?"
"There's people I want you to meet," Ventus turned around and grabbed Roxas from the scruff of his neck and sat him down in front of him.
"You guys this is Roxas, Roxas this is Terra, Vanitas, Sora, and Riku," Ventus introduced, Roxas ran back behind Ventus front leg to get away from the others, Sora had something else in mind.
"'M not gonna hwurt you," Sora said softly before stumbling over to the barricaded Roxas looking deep into the identical blue eyes before mischief shinned in Soras eyes. Poor Roxas didn't have time to react before he was tackled to the ground.
"Gotcha!" Sora yelled in victory, as he pinned Roxas to the ground. Roxas looked up with wide eyes as he began whimpering.
"D-don't h-hurt m-me," Roxas whimpered, Sora noticed this and backed off of him flicking his ears back while pawing at the ground with his head down.
"I'm sowwy," Now Roxas felt absolutely horrible for hurting Sora's feelings. He just wasn't really used to the foreign contact, it took a good long while for him to let Ventus and Axel touch him again after that other incident. Summoning up his dignity (like he had any anyways) he cautiously walked up to Sora and hesitantly rubbed his head against the other and Sora happily returned the gesture.
"Wanna be friends?" Sora asked, as he looked deep into Roxas eyes, while Roxas stared back at him. He didn't want friends because if he did they'd get hurt; and Sora was just too delicate to be told no so he took a chance.
"Sure,"
And thus the new beginning of a newfound friendship…or so they thought.
Later that night…
Roxas was exhausted from playing none stop with Sora that he didn't even want to eat but by Ventus and Axel's persistent nagging he finally gave in and ate. Ventus put him to bed right after he ate in a cozy warm deer hide in front of the fireplace. He meant to ask Axel something when he caught fire when saving him and Roxas but never got around to it; so now was the perfect time.
"Hey Ax?" Ventus called as he walked over to the older that was currently sharpening his claws on the stone floor.
"Hm?" He grunted flicking his ears forward to signal that he was listening.
"Do you remember when you save me from those Sabertooths?"
"Yeah, why?"
"Do you remember when you…Um…Caught fire?" Axel stopped clawing at the stone to stare blankly at the other.
"Um…I remember being angry but not on fire,"
"Then that's it then! You catch fire when you're mad!" Ventus concluded, as Axel just looked confused beyond belief.
"Ven you okay?"
"Yeah totally now that I know why you caught fire!"
"Ventus I didn't get caught on fire. I don't know what you saw or what happened that night-but maybe you got hurt more than you knew," Axel stretched during mid sentence then laid down putting his head on top of his paws sighing through his nose; he might have to get up and ward off more wolves tonight.
"But all the others saw it too! So it wasn't just me, Axel!" Ventus defended, Axel was slowly losing it with this subject.
"Ventus I don't want to hear about this again! So please just drop it!" Axel barked, he didn't want to force him into submission like that but enough was enough.
"But-"
"Ventus," Axel stood and growled threateningly, pushing him to let the subject go.
"…Fine!" Ventus gave in throwing his ears back at Axels' increasing growl going over to lie down next to Roxas. Axel sighed also laying back down, he knew Ventus wasn't going to let it go anytime soon, he thought that he contained his hidden power inside; but obviously he got to angry and released the burning flames that were cooped up in him for many years.
Now he wasn't so sure if he can keep it in again when his anger flares.
12 years later…
It's been 12 years…12 long years! It almost felt like yesterday in Roxas mind now he was 16 and proud! He's been with Axel and Roxas for 12 years, even celebrated his birthday even though he forgot it since he was so young they decided to have it on the day Ventus found him which was January 13th, Axel and Ventus have been the best parents he ever had since his mother died. Still, it was a sore subject to talk about sometimes but he'd been thinking of the good memories he barely remembered of her along with his new parents instead of the bad hurtful ones.
Sora had become his best "acquaintance" as Roxas would put it, he still didn't let them (including Vanitas and Riku) get to close to him in fear of something bad would happen to them. It was almost if he was cursed, that he got his father and mother killed, everything was his fault; he wasn't going to let that happen to the rest of them either. It's already bad enough he has Axel and Ventus close to him now, one thing he's good at is "acting" like he's their friend he wasn't ready (or ever be for that matter) let them in; in reality he wished he could, but fate was never on his side.
The Rouge wolves had planted themselves permanently on Xaznic much to the ones already residing on it dismay. Fights have been more frequent, and Terra's still single Roxas kinda felt bad for him…Couldn't get a girl if his life depended on it, even the Sabertooths moved higher up on the mountain to get away from the constant howling of a oncoming fight to begin, to get such a large predator out was extremely rare, if that's all the other wolves had to do was fight all the time to get the large cats to stop killing them they should have thought of that a long time ago!
Roxas sighed as he leisurely walked through the forest in his wolf form on a bright sunny Spring day…Much to Ventus chagrin, it took Roxas forever to ever go out and roam on his own with some help from Axel saying Roxas needed to do something more "outdoorsy" whatever that meant, he went out sometimes with his "friends" but Roxas had a hunch it was to get him out of the den so Axel can have some Venny time…Ahem, anyway, Roxas was to attend high school tomorrow with Sora, Vanitas, and Riku at Twilight Mountain High, Axel and Ventus taught him all of their knowledge of the human world's school requirements.
He also learned how to shift to his human form when he was eight, naturally, when there kind is born there born as pups (wolf form) not as a human baby. Not only that though he learned that Axel appeared to be in his early 20's in his human form but was actually 61, Ventus was around the same as Axel in appearance only he was 59…Epic mind blown. Roxas gaped at them when he first asked how old they were, granted, their kind stops aging at 22; he chuckled quietly to himself as he recalled the day he blew up at the couple…just 3 weeks ago.
Flashback
"Ya know, I never asked how old you guys are, cuz to me you look like your 20," Roxas said out of the blue as he sat down on the cool stone floor in the den in his wolf form.
"Oh right, I'm 59 Axel's 61," Ventus said casually. Roxas just stared at the pair; Axel was squirming around on the floor on his back scratching his back, probably not even listening to the conversation.
"…How in the world can…I don't…Wahh?" Roxas was beyond confused, how in the world could they be so old when they look so young? Aren't they supposed to look all wrinkly and grumpy like old people?
"Us Lýkos (1) stop aging at 22. You didn't know that?" Ventus explained as if it was the most obvious and easiest thing in the world.
"Uh…No?" Nope no one told him what he was at all not even his mother! Maybe because she wanted him to remember what he was when he was older, cause god knows he was a troublemaker with the attention span of a squirrel when he was little.
"Well, now you know," Axel said as he stood up and shook himself off, oh so he was listening.
"Yeah…I guess so,"
End of Flashback…
Roxas chuckled quietly to himself, he couldn't sleep for days with questions reeling through his mind but he soon let it go and went on with life; it was just how he was made. As he trotted through the forest an idea came to him, Maybe I can go swimming or something, he hadn't done that in a while so he turned around and ran to the big lake surrounded by trees and wild flowers. AS he came upon it he stopped dead in his tracks as he saw a boy with the reddest hair ever with it spiking up in the back sitting in the grass, he first thought it was Axel but soon disregarded that thought for their scents weren't the same. This redheaded human had on a black shirt and tan shorts, he couldn't see what he was doing but by the smell of it, he was probably painting.
He would have growled to run the boy away but curiosity got the better of him as he silently walked up next to the spiky red head going unnoticed…Well that was until a growl reverberated behind them. Roxas jumped away quicker than lightning and hid behind a tree as he looked a wolf that he'd never seen before; a dark blue (almost black) wolf with a X across its snout, black socks, and an seven in Roman Numerals on his left leg shoulder in black…Odd.
The red head stood up abruptly drooping his painting on the ground backing away from the slowly inching wolf that cornered him to a tree, the wolf was about to jump him but Roxas jumped in while the other was in mid jump taking it to the ground.
"Leave him alone!" Roxas growled baring his canines.
"Why are you protecting a human?! They're the ones that kill us off!" The wolf growled back. Roxas yelped and jumped off the wolf that bit his front leg but he wasn't going down that easily.
"Not all humans are like that and you know it!" He barked.
"Is that what you really think?" Roxas stood there and stared at him, that was a bad choice and he knew it but; what in the world was he talking about? Just the way he said it sounded like he knew something he didn't, which was probably true. The other wolf took this time and jumped Roxas pinning him to the ground biting anywhere he could as Roxas struggled under the wolf's weight the last thing he wanted to be was on the bottom. Roxas crouched his legs up to his belly and pushed outwards throwing the wolf off of him affectively while standing up shakily.
"Learn to know whom you defend in this forest," The wolf growled before he ran off, when Roxas was sure he wasn't coming back he collapsed to the ground panting with bite marks and scratches littering around his neck and legs. He tried to avoid getting into fights with these wolves but the wounds saved an innocent life.
"You okay there buddy?" A smooth voice said behind him startled Roxas as he tried to stand but failed. He actually forgot all about the boy, Roxas tried to stand again ignoring the ache in his legs as they protested against him standing wanting to be healed, he turned around staring at the boy in front of him.
"Will you be okay?" The red head felt a little stupid talking to a wolf but he some how knew he was listening. Roxas limped forward cautiously as the human stepped back out of reflex, Roxas knew that so he kept coming and rubbed his head on the boy's leg. Said boy stooped down and held his hand out to pet him, causing Roxas to throw his ears back and sniff his hand, he really wasn't used to people petting him, let alone a stranger!
"Hey I'm not going to hurt you, names Lea," This Lea person said softly, Lea really did look a lot like Axel the only thing that could tell them apart was that he didn't have the purple triangles under his eyes like Axel does. Lea reached again to pet Roxas head, this time he allowed it and met him half way rubbing his golden fur on his head against Lea's hand.
"Thanks for saving me,"
"Welcome," Roxas barked, it kinda scared Lea a little but he soon realized that he answered him.
"ROXAS!" A loud howl sounded from near the den, it sounded like it was Ventus.
"COMING!" He howled back.
"Looks like you have to go," Lea said as he stood walking over to pick up his fallen things putting them in his black backpack. Roxas whimpered a little he really didn't want to go home but he really needed to get ready for his first day of school; just the thought made his tail wag.
"Well, I guess I'll see you later," Lea said to the wolf bending down ruffling up his fur on Roxas head causing him to growl in annoyance, Axel did the same exact thing and it was super annoying. As quick as the hand was upon him it left as Lea stood up straight and walked off in the direction of civilization.
Roxas watched him as he left just making sure no other wolves where going to jump out and hurt Lea. With a sigh he trotted/limped his way back to the den where Ven was sitting down in his wolf form in front of the deer hide, as he got closer Ventus suddenly jumped up and ran to him.
"Oh my gosh are you okay?! Are you hurt?! What happened?!" Ventus rambled on as he checked Roxas over for any life threatening bites. It appeared that he was bleeding from his left flank leg so that was probably how Ventus knew something was up as blood drifted through the air.
"Yeah I'm okay," Roxas replied as he limped to the deer hide pushing through as it swept over his form.
"What happened?" Ventus asked as he trotted next to him supporting Roxas body as it leaned against him unknowingly. Roxas didn't want Ven to go back on "protective mode" again, he was ready to explore and have his space, but he didn't like lying to his only parents, he never did! But desperate times call for desperate measures he knew he was going to regret it later but he wanted some freedom.
"I was chasing a deer through the forest and didn't realized that I jumped into a…err…Oh! I slipped into a bush that was covered in thorns, yep, thorns," Geez he really needed to work on his lying if he was going to get out of this alive, to his surprise Ventus actually bought it!
"Soo, where's Axel?" Roxas asked changing the subject as he licked clean his wounds.
"Out keeping the territory up," Ventus sighed dreamily as he laid down, oh dear god, Roxas thought as he realized what that sigh secretly meant. Lets just say Ven has been constantly flirting with Axel as of late, Axel didn't seem to mind he actually liked the flirtatious crazed Ven's attention when he went out marking his territory more than needed; that's also the reason he wanted to get out of the den more, because the sexual tension was just plain disturbing.
"Say, are you excited for your first day of high school?!" Ventus piped up after a long moments silence, in a way Roxas could wait and couldn't at the same time. It would be something he wasn't really going to be used to but he did say he want to get out more right? So this is the only way.
"Yeah, I guess so," Roxas said with a hint of doubt. One thing that was truly on his mind constantly was that if anyone was going to like him there, not that he wanted more friends he just wanted to fit in.
"You'll be fine, just be you and don't let anyone else change who you are inside," Ventus assured sternly, he seemed to pick up on the doubt in Roxas voice, he knew he was scared at his first day because people somehow knew he was different than the others and they didn't like that so they bullied him.
"Thanks Ven," Roxas smiled, he really did need that spark of inspiration.
Now he couldn't wait for his first day in the real human world…
~Saving Roxas
(1) Lýkos: Wolf in Greek, pronounced: E-leecoss
So this is just really a filler chapter for the next one…I was going to put it into one chapter with Roxas first day but I wanted it separate plus I wanted to get this chapter done with cuz I've been gone too long! :/
So anyways PLEASE REVIEW I'll write faster I swear! :)