After a couple days of planning, the group and I decided on a 8 year old boy named Grayson. He was said to be the Alpha's son, so surely he would have heard something.
The Wolves had a huge population. And such a huge population needed a large housing area. I wondered where it was, and how they kept it hidden.
Fang, Nudge, Iggy, and I were currently (well I, once again, was being carried by Fang) flying towards what was the Wolves' main base. It was where majority of the population lived.
In cross-species, there were usually two kinds of sub-types. The wild, and the domesticated. The wild ones lived in well, the wild. Lived off of the land, and usually stayed fully shifted. The domesticated usually blended in with the plain humans, rarely shifting and living a normal human life.
We were after a mix of the two. The facility was said to house both types comfortably.
We landed in a small clearing, near a running spring surrounded by lots of big gray rocks.
"Well, where is the entrance?" I asked, not seeing anything that might even closely resemble any sort of living quarters.
"Here, common," Fang said, waving me over as he walked over to a particularly huge pile of rocks.
In an instant, Fang had disappeared from my vision.
"Fang?!" I yelled, worried that he was taken too.
A black head popped out from between the rocks. Fang. "What?" he asked.
"Where'd you go?" I asked.
"Let me show you," Fang responded.
I walked over to the pile of rocks. I jumped up onto one and looked down. Indeed, there it was, a Wolf-sized hole that seemed to lead down at an angle. I climbed in and was immediately surrounded by dirt. Iggy and Nudge followed.
"Ew ew ew ew ew!" Nudge began to shriek. I whipped myself around.
"What?" I asked.
"Bugs! Lots of bugs!" she whined.
"You know, owls eat bugs," I grinned at her. Nudge made a gagging motion.
We continued walked down through the tight tunnel. All of a sudden, we arrived at a small dirt room lined with light bulbs. At one end, there was a metallic door.
"Well, are you guys ready?" Iggy asked.
"I dunno, but I'm gonna say sure," I mumbled.
"Remember, try not to attract too much attention. They'll be able to notice an Avian scent easy," Fang warned. I gulped. This was for Angel.
The metallic door didn't even make a sound as it was swung open. The sight was something to see.
Made out of dirt and supported by metal was a huge structure. A hallow tunnel that spanned dozens of yards across went down the middle. Along it's sides were rings, balconies really, with doors that each probably led to different rooms and places. The whole thing was lit up, too bright for the eyes. What must have been the Wolf symbol was found everywhere.
"Well..." I swallowed. "Where do we start?"
"Higher you go, the more higher-ranked the Wolves are. So the kid would be somewhere near the very top," Fang said, looking up.
"Well, how do we get up?" Iggy asked.
"Could we fly?" I suggested.
"No, we'd seen," Nudge said. "But wouldn't it be so cool to fly up that tunnel? It'd be ep-"
Iggy slapped a hand over Nudge's mouth, hugging her from behind while doing it. "Shh... We'll also be heard if you continue like that," he whispered into her ear. That shut Nudge right up, and tinted her dark cheeks pink.
"We need to find how the wolves get up..." I said, searching around.
"I think this is it.." Fang whispered loudly from some distance away. I guess he had wondered off in search of the answer.
I walked over, Iggy and Nudge behind me. I saw Fang standing in front some sort of doorway. I stepped into it, and looked up. What must have been the hugest staircase in the world lay above me.
"Well, this is gonna take a while," I stated.
Fang came from behind me. "Too bad we can't just fly straight up. The tunnel in-between the stairs was too small for even your wings, which now have a wingspan of 8 feet?...and are the smallest pair out of our group. We'd never fit," Fang chuckled. I snapped around to look at him, and noticed our close proximity. He was practically spooning me from behind. I felt my own cheeks go hot. What was up with Fang and Iggy today? They were being.. I dunno... More hormonal than normal.
"Let's start, and not waste time," Nudge said, winking at me as she pushed me forward.
I stumbled foreword and began the long hike up. This would be a while.
"Oh. My. Fudge. Nuggets," I groaned as I finally walked up the last step of what felt like a million.
"Common, let's keep moving. No time to lose," Iggy panted, kneeling over to catch his breath.
Nudge marched forward and sniffed the air. "Lots of Wolves on this level," she stated. Huh, I guess the owl genes in her gave her a heightened sense of smell. Same with me and my falcon genes, cause I could smell the earthy foul stench too.
"How the hell are we gonna find him?" I asked as we walked out onto the level. "There's hundreds of them."
All of a sudden, I heard a yell in some weird tribal-sounding language. Geez, these guys were like all-out tribe members.
Fang grabbed my arm and started running. Nudge and Iggy followed. Three large Wolf men appeared and started chasing us. I felt adrenaline rush through my body. I smiled.
"Just look for the kid with the red markings on his forehead!" Fang yelled at me. Red markings?
We kept on running and running and running. More and more Wolf men kept appearing. It looked like we were gonna be a feast for a creepy tribe soon.
All of a sudden, using my raptor vision, I spotted a little boy running around on a lower level. As he turned his head to my direction, I saw some red markings. And his hair was unusually gray. Taking a quick decision, I hurled myself off the balcony and into the large tunnel that ran down the center of this whole thing.
"Fang!" I yelled, just as I jumped. A look of confusion crossed his face, before he jumped off the edge himself. Nudge did the same, Iggy trailing behind her.
I aimed forwards the lower level, not even flapping as I glided down. Hopefully I would land safely.
I did not. I crashed and tumbled and turned till I felt my body slam into a wall. Shakily, I got up. Fang stood in front of me, worried.
"What the heck did you do that for?!" he nearly yelled. I pointed towards the boy, who was now in front of us and curiously watching.
Fang nodded at Nudge, and it was like she understood immediately what she had to do. I guess she did, 'cause she leaped towards the boy, scooped him into her arms, and threw herself off the edge of the level while clutching the boy tight.
"Iggy!" I yelled, just as Fang's arms encircled me and I suddenly felt like I was surrounded by air. Iggy leaped up into the air and seemingly followed my voice, right before putting a hand on Fang's foot. Together, we dropped lower and lower and lower. I thought that we were going to die.
Fang abruptly snapped out his wings last moment, Iggy doing the same. We landed on a familiar-looking level, and started running. I saw Nudge and a screaming boy ahead of us. We were escaping.
Fang put me down and started running through the exact same tunnel that we had used to enter. Iggy ran behind me, running his hands along the wall to guide himself.
As soon as I saw light, Fang turned around and grabbed me tightly around the waist, preparing to take off. I would have slapped him if we had been in any other situation.
In just those few seconds, the four of us (well, 5 if you counted the Wolf kid, who now remained silent) were soaring farther and farther away from that creepy-but-amazing hole in the ground. I let out a sigh of relief that I quickly realized I had been holding this entire time. I clutched on tighter to Fang's arms, happy that we had gone safely through with the plan.
Though I did feel a spark of sympathy for the kid who had just been ripped away from all he had ever known, and thrown into the sky.
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