The walked deeper into the forest looking around carefully, even though the moon light lit the area pretty well it was still hard for June to see in the distance, it was no trouble for Vilkas and Farkas though with their special eye site. "There!" Farkas whispered quickly getting down. Vilkas and June both looked and saw a pretty good sized Elk grazing on the grass.
Vilkas slowly got out his bow and drew back an arrow, he waited a few minutes and than quickly shot the arrow but missed startling the Elk. "Damn..." He mumbled as he watched the Elk run off. He heard June snicker behind him, he sneered at her as he got up from the ground and started to walk again. "Next one we see I get to shoot." June said following behind him.
Vilkas handed her the bow and arrows. "Fine, but I doubt you'll be able to get one in the dark." He said with a smirk on his face. "Don't underestimate me." She said taking the bow and walking away from him. She walked a few ways and than stopped seeing a goat laying down on the ground a few yards from them.
She drew back an arrow taking in a deep breath, she knew the darkness would throw her off so she lifted the arrow a bit high and than quickly shot it. A few seconds later they heard a painful cry from the goat and than the sound of it falling over. "Looks like I got one in the dark." June said with a grin giving the bow and arrows back. Once she turned her back on him to walk to the goat Vilkas mimicked her as him and Farkas followed.
She stood by the goats corpse with her arms crossed as she started to think. "What's wrong?" Farkas asked looking at her. "It just came to me...What exactly are we going to do with is? We can't really collect meat from it here or at the Inn.." She said looking at the goat trying to figure out what to do.
Farkas and Vilkas both exchanged looks as they began to wonder, they didn't really think about it before. "I guess we can just give it to the Inn keeper and he can get the meat from it." June said shrugging. Vilkas looked at her a bit surprised. "What?" June asked him raising an eyebrow. "Nothing, it's just not like you to be so generous." Vilkas said looking away from her. June furrowed her eyebrows down at him a little insulted.
Farkas knelt down next to the goat corpse and examined it. "How do you suppose we get it across the river?" He asked standing up and looking back at them. "Carry it, how else?" June said crossing her arms. "Who carries it?" Farkas asked again. "I'm sure Vilkas can." June said smirking. Vilkas glared at her a little. "Actually I will." Farkas said kneeling down grabbing the goat. "I'm sure Vilkas can carry you across the river." Farkas said throwing the goat over his shoulder.
June and Vilkas both looked at him a bit surprised and than at each other. "I'm sure I'll be fine." June quickly said looking away from him. "You had no problem letting Farkas carry you earlier." Vilkas said a little offended. "So are you saying you want to carry me?" June asked with a teasing smile. "N-no! I'm just saying." Vilkas stuttered looking away from her.
Farkas sighed shaking his head at them. "Well, we can't keep hunting while carrying this around, so I'll stay here with it and let you two finish up." Farkas said leaning the goats body up against a tree. Vilkas raised an eyebrow at his brother confused by his choice, Farkas gave Vilkas a small smile and a gesture with his hand towards June.
Vilkas glared at Farkas annoyed. 'Why would he think that I'd want to be alone with her!?' Vilkas thought to himself getting a small nervous feeling. "Whatever." June said as she was already walking away from them. Vilkas quickly ran off to catch up to her, they walked down a path that led up another hill and into more trees. They walked in silence, Vilkas looked at her and slightly bit his bottom lip trying to figure out what he could say to break this awkward silence.
He quietly sighed and looked away from her. "Farkas has a gentle heart you know." Vilkas hesitantly spoke. "What?" June asked him confused by what he had said. "My brother Farkas, he has a gentle and kind heard which can break easily." Vilkas went on. "Why are you saying this?" June asked him coming to a stop. "Because it seems you two are getting close and enjoy each others company, I don't really know you I just know what you do, so if you're serious about Farkas please don't take advantage of his heart, he may not look it but he is sensitive." Vilkas said turning his body towards June but he had his eyes looking down.
June just stood there raising an eyebrow as she was completely confused by what he was saying. "What do you mean if I'm serious about Farkas?" She asked him scratching her head. "I mean if you're serious about being with him." He said slightly looking up. June blinked and just stood there in silence, looking at him. Vilkas furrowed his eyebrows down noticing the long silence, he looked at her trying to read the emotion on her face but it was hard in the dark.
Than out of no where June just starting laughing. "What's so funny?" Vilkas asked keeping his eyebrows down. "You really think I want to be with Farkas?" She said with laughter. "Y-yeah..." Vilkas said a little confused. "I mean it's obvious by the way you act around him, from the first day-" He was cut off by June laughing even more. Vilkas glared at her as he was getting annoyed by it. "You got the wrong idea!" She said laughing more.
Vilkas scratched the back of his head. "What do you mean?" He asked even more confused. "I don't really like him, I mean he seems like a nice guy and all but he's not my type." She said with a smile on her face. "W-wait, but the way you.." Vilkas stuttered scratching the side of his face. "The only reason I act like that is because I think it's funny when you get jealous." She said slightly looking away from him with a smile. "I'm not jealous of anything!" Vilkas quickly yelled glaring at her annoyed. "Keep telling your self that but even Farkas can see it, it's always written all over your face!" June said looking back at him with a bigger smile.
Vilkas sneered at her. "You shouldn't mess with Farkas's mind like that than!" Vilkas yelled at her. "I'm not messing with him, he doesn't like me and I'm pretty sure he knows I'm just teasing." She said shrugging. "You really do need to learn how to take a joke." She said looking away from him. "J-joke.." Vilkas stuttered again as he began to feel a little embarrassed. "Well than so do you.." He quickly said trying to think of what to say.
June looked at him raising an eyebrow at him confused by what he meant. "Like last night was nothing but a joke, I just wanted something to hold over you." He said quickly with a fake grin on his face. She looked at him a little surprised. "You were drunk though so I doubt you came up with that.." She said with a serious voice. "As far as you know, you never know what drunk people will do.." Vilkas said keeping the fake grin on his face.
June glared at him as she felt a fire start in her stomach, it angered her to hear him say such things for some reason. She was confused by her emotions but she ignored them and just kept glaring at him. Vilkas's grin slowly disappeared as he realized she was quiet for a long time, they were just standing there in silence looking at each other. June quickly looked away as she glared at the ground. "Well too bad for you than." She mumbled. Vilkas furrowed his eyebrows down as he got confused by what she said. "Too bad for me? He asked.
June quickly looked back up at him. "Yeah too bad for you, I actually did enjoy it but now that I know it was just a joke I guess it's nothing now." She shrugged walking away from him. 'Is she serious!?' He thought to himself disbelieving. Vilkas quickly turned his head watching her walk away. 'Why would she say such a thing!? Is she just saying it to get back at me? To mess with me?!' Thoughts and questions flooded through Vilkas's mind. 'She said that on purpose! Some how she knew it would..' He cut himself off from his thoughts and quickly looked up seeing she was no where in sight. 'Shit.' He quickly thought to himself running off.
He didn't realized how long he had been standing there lost in his thoughts so she was able to slip away. The fact that it was dark made it worse, she was wearing dark armor meant for the shadows, even with Vilkas's eyes it was still hard. 'I knew she did that on purpose!' He thought to himself as he began to feel panicked. He quickly came to a stop looking around quickly, he suddenly heard footsteps going down a path to the left of him. He quickly turned and ran down that path. 'When I find her I'm going to-' He began to think to himself in anger but stopped once he saw a sudden light appear in the distance.
It looked like a fire, maybe a torch. Vilkas blinked not really sure of what to make of it, he started to run again. The wind was blowing against him causing goose bumps to rise on his skin, a small hint of a familiar scent hit him. It was June's, he would know that sweet smell anywhere, anytime he smelt it or got close to her he could feel the wolf inside him stir.
He ran faster trying to catch up to her and than quickly stopped once he saw her just standing in the distance. The only reason he could actually see her that far away was because she had lit a torch somehow, but that's all he could see was the glow of the fire around her. He started to walk towards her and as he got closer he was able to make out some more figures in the distance. It wasn't people or animals, it looked like buildings but they looked odd shaped, they looked broken.
Vilkas's eyes widened as he came closer to the strange buildings, once he caught up to June's side he stopped and looked around carefully. They were buildings and they were broken down as if they had been through a fire. Vilkas slightly looked at June and was surprised to see sadness written on her face, she was looking down at the ground and it looked like her hand was trembling.
Vilkas stood there for a moment in silence not sure of what to make of it. "Do you... Do you know this place?" He slowly asked her. June just stood there quiet for a moment but than quickly looked up realizing she was lost in thought. "No." She quickly answered him. "I just...stumbled upon it." She said quietly as she turned around walking back down the path. 'Liar...' Vilkas thought to himself as he watched her walk away for a moment before he began to follow her.
He knew it was something else, he knew there was something on her mind by the way she looked. The look on her face before made him want to put his arms around her, it almost looked like she was in grief. He wanted to say something to her about it but he didn't know what he could say to bring it up so he just sighed and looked down as they walked back to where Farkas was.
Farkas looked up hearing footsteps approach him, he was leaning his back against a tree but once he saw it Vilkas and June returning it sat up and walked out to them. "That didn't take long.." He said looking at them both. "It's getting late, we should get back and rest for tomorrow." Vilkas said looking up at his brother. Farkas shifted his eyes towards June seeing she was looking away from them both, she had a strange emotion in her eyes but he just shrugged it off as nothing.
Farkas nodded and walked over to the goat grabbing it and throwing it over his shoulder. "Let's go." Farkas said beginning to walk with June and Vilkas close behind him. They walked down the path and back to the river but they all quickly stopped and were surprised to see that the water level had risen. "We weren't gone that long.." June said looking at the water. "It must be raining elsewhere." Vilkas said watching the rushing water go towards the falls. "Seems the current has picked up too, might be hard to get this goat across." Farkas said walking up to the river.
June walked up to the river as well and stopped standing next to Farkas, she rubbed her chin as she watched the water. "Well, it's just one goat it's not a big deal if we lose it." She said looking up at Farkas. "If you think it's to dangerous to cross the water with it you can just dump it." She said looking back at the water. Farkas stood there watching the water as he was thinking of what to do. "I'm sure it's fine." He finally decided as he took a careful step into the water.
Farkas wasn't expecting the water current to be so strong so he almost lost his balance but he quickly caught himself. "Be careful!" Vilkas said as he watched his brother with a worried look on his face. Farkas lifted the goats body above his head as the water level was now almost to his chest, by the look on his face June could tell that he was having trouble keeping his balance in the water.
June gasped as she was caught off guard by Vilkas suddenly scooping her up in his arms. "Alright let's go." Vilkas said slowly taking a step in the water. He looked at June noticing a small glare on her face. "What? If you try to cross you'll get swooped away." Vilkas said with a small smile. "Care about me do you?" She said with a grin. "Hmph." Vilkas mumbled looking away from her.
June jumped as she felt the cold water start to touch her bottom as he got deeper in. "Hey careful I'm getting wet!" She said giving him a small punch on the shoulder. Vilkas came to a stop and just stood there for a moment in the middle of the river, ignoring the rushing water against him. "What are you doing?" She asked looking at him confused. "You afraid to get wet?" He said giving her a small grin.
June blinked in confusion by his question but it didn't take long for her to get it once he started dunking her down in the water a little getting her body completely wet. "Hey!" She yelled at him as she held onto him tightly. Vilkas just laughed at her as he continued to dunk into the water causing her to just get more wet, her hair was now soaking wet. "Dammit qui-!" She began to yell but was cut off by water hitting her face. "Hey you shouldn't be doing that in this kind of water Vilkas you could loose grip of her!" Farkas shouted as he watched them play in the water.
With out thinking June slammed her fist into Vilkas's face causing him to stumble back and accidentally letting her go. He quickly got his balance back and once he looked forward all he could see was June's hand above the water as the current dragged her down and washed her away down river. "Crap!" Vilkas yelled as he quickly dove into the water letting the current take him.
Farkas quickly dropped the goat and sprinted along side the river trying to make it to the falls before they did. Vilkas kicked his feet as hard as he could trying to get himself to catch up to June, he managed to get his head above water being able to take a quick breath and see that she was getting closer to the falls. 'Dammit!' He thought to himself in a panic as it felt like he wasn't getting any closer to her.
Farkas made it to the edge and leaned in as close as he could to the water trying to watch for June and Vilkas. Vilkas dove down under water and kicked his feet off the bottom trying to launch himself forward, he opened his eyes up under the water and was able to see June wasn't too far from him, he launched himself forward one more time. He was now able to reach June, he quickly reached forward and grabbed her shoulder pulling her close to him.
Vilkas wrapped his arm around her keeping her close to his chest, Farkas looked around in a panick not being able to see them yet. Vilkas launched himself up breaking through the surface of the rushing water, he took a deep breath and he could hear June also taking a deep breath. He felt a little relieved to hear her breathing but it quickly faded once he saw them quickly nearing the falls.
Farkas saw them and quickly looked around for anything they could grab, the best he could do was lean over and reach out his hand. "Vilkas grab onto me!" He yelled watching his brother struggle in the water. Vilkas tried to slam his feet down onto the bottom of the river to stop them but it was no use, once he lost his balance the water had him. Vilkas looked over hearing his brother yelling for him, he saw his hand and tried to move himself to that side of the river.
It was difficult but it seemed he was getting closer and closer to Farkas's hand. 'Almost...' He thought to himself as he held June close to him. He felt her wrap her arms around his neck and hold onto him tightly, Vilkas took a deep breath and jumped as hard as he could leaping towards Farkas's hand. It was barely enough but Farkas managed to grab onto Vilkas's hand but the current of the water made it hard to hold on, it almost caused Farkas to fall into the water as well.
It made Farkas begin to slide on the ground no matter how hard he kept his feet down, Vilkas saw that his brother was about to go over along with them. He looked behind him seeing the falls and gulped as he began to feel a little fear rise up but he sighed and took a chance. He looked at his brother meeting eye contact and than let go of his hand. Farkas fell over as soon as Vilkas let go. "No!" Farkas yelled quickly getting up and running along the river, but it was too late. They had already went down the falls and were quickly out of site.