Life

I watched my beautiful daughter run around the wild flower field with her friend Spirit. I was an old wolf getting close to the end. But I still had enough life in me to raise Indura till she was old enough to awaken the blood of Sheiesh in her.

I must keep her safe till then even if it cost me my life.

I moved my ears forward to catch the end of the conversation she was having with Spirit.

“I said I love you Mitch!” She shouted at him.

I suppressed a laugh as six year old Spirit fumbled with his steps and face planted into a dandelion. I grinned at them they both knew about the Legacy and about the promise. Indura was more against it because Spirit was just her friend but looking at them now I could tell she would grow to love him as he does her.

I closed my eyes thinking that they look five and six as humans but really there fifty and sixty year old Royal wolves. I opened my eyes to find Spirit had changed back to his human form was blushing madly. His little hand was out holding the dandelion he had fell on out to Indura. She grabbed it smelling it and giggling.

“I, I uh love you Indura…a lot.” He mumbled.

This time Indura fumbled, I don’t think she expected that from him.

If only she knew the truth about his feelings.

I emerged from the shadow of the tree hanging over the den. Indura heard me and ran after me with her dandelion clutched to her chest. Spirit ran behind her in his fluffy little white wolf form.

I bowed my giant head so she could hug my nose and Spirit could lick my muzzle. Even thou he was Maka’s child I felt like he was my own son. In the future he might very well be but for now he is just a boy enjoying play time.
“Look Mom! Spirit gave it to me you like it?”
“It’s pretty Indura, and kind of you Spirit what brought this on?” I asked him teasingly.
***

Hours later I heard a grumbled from outside the den. From the entrance I could see the white coat of a Royal wolf. The scent told me it was Maka come for Spirit late. I looked back to see Indura sleeping in her werewolf form on spirits human chest, their fingers laced together. Often when Spirit stayed the night they would somehow find that position while they slept.

I smiled and managed to maneuver Spirit out from under Indura with a paw as I lifted him by the shirt. He never woke nor did she as I carried him out into the night to his mother. When I was closer to her she shifted back to her human form taking him in her arms. She, unlike many Royal wolves, still lived by Halos ways. She lived in the cave five miles on the other side of the river with her mate Seth and her son Spirit.

She nodded her head as blonde hair fell in her face. When she looked up she looked wild with glimmering wide eyes. Her hair was tousled and had a few strand braded with sinew. Maka turned and walked off into the woods toward home. I watched her diaper before I returned to Indura still sound asleep.

Promise

I watched as blonde hair popped up and down along the fallen log as he stalked his mother trying to scare her.

He is a silly little one,

I looked over at my own cub pulling Seth’s ears as she sat on his massive head,

just like her.

Seth had decided to come along for once when they dropped off Spirit for a hunt. I think he started regretting it twenty minutes ago when Indura climbed on him.

“My lady Rima.” Seth pleaded to me.

“Indura why don’t you go find Spirit and play with him while we talk.”

“Mmmm ok ma.” She said.

I laughed when Seth jumped as she spring board off his face.

She is quite the athlete.

I turned my golden eyes on the two human formed Royal wolves before me. Seth looked like a male version of Maka with wild eyes and blonde hair. They bowed to me and I returned it.

“About the promise alpha.” Maka said.

“Is there a change?”

“Well originally Spirit was promised to Indura for when she awoke as the alpha. I think we should change that.”

“To?” I inquired.

Seth took a step forward bowing his head slightly. I nodded to him so speak.

“We’d like to change it to for whenever they fall in love or reach the age of eighteen.” He said.
“Why eighteen? I agree to the first part but I wish to know why the age.”

“Because by then she will have to awaken on her own or be forced into it.” Maka said.

I looked down pondering. She was right alphas awaken before eighteen and for ones who don’t it is painful when they reach nineteen. Then I remembered the issue of my sister Kina. She was on a hunt for Royal wolves that’s why we live in the mountains. I scratched at the ground thinking about Indura and Spirit. It was obvious she was stronger with him and in the future would love him intensely.

I looked back to Maka and Seth nodding my head with approval. The promise was made so Indura would be stronger from the lack of full Royal wolf blood. And Spirit being the descendent of Halo’s father, Karus, and a Royal wolf he had strong blood in him. Plus their souls resonate well together whenever they hunt as a pack.

Soul and Soul Made For One Another

I ran down a fallen tree leaping off it as my paws extended to grab the thigh of the buck I was running down. It had been a week since I hunted and we were low on food. I threw the buck off balance and locked my jaws around its neck breaking it.

This should last us another week,

I thought as I trotted back home with my kill. I saw a flash of white from the corner of my eye and stopped.

Indura was running after something and Spirit was right behind her. I followed them quietly as they chased something. There run took us farther from the den then I would have liked it to but I couldn’t ruin their hunt. I changed my eyes to look at their souls, Indura’s white with black flecks and Spirits blue with white flecks. What I saw amazed me.

They didn’t use signals or sounds to communicate, they used their souls. It was something I never seen before only heard of. My mother Nyx told us about soul resonance between two soul mates. ‘If they are truly met for each other their souls will flicker and create an arc to the other one, the colors of both souls blending into one another in harmony.

If they achieve that then even the simplest gesture normally needed to communicate is unneeded. There resonance link will tell them what sounds would have. ‘I watched as the link made its self known as they closed in on a mountain lion. Normally I would have jumped in by now, hunting a mountain lion of all things.

But I simple wasn’t needed. Indura’s white soul zapped through the arc of their resonance link into Spirit. The link harmonized again turning a pale blue with grey edging, almost like the colors had been mixed. I watched as Spirit flank the cougar nipping at its heel’s almost like that zap of Indura’s soul had told him to. A line of blue ran through the link and Indura jumped onto the cats back clawing at the neck.

The cat let out a roar rearing on it back legs and shaking its head to get Indura off. The link flashed white again just before Spirit lunged at the throat of the lion to take it down. The big cat fell to the ground dead as the two pups backed away. Indura had her stuffed wolf in her hand that wasn’t there before. I rushed out then to make sure they were ok.

“Indura, Spirit!” I shouted.

"Mom! it took my wolfy.” She pouted.

“Are you ok? Both of you?”

“Yes aunty.” Spirit said.

“Why did you go after that cougar alone?” I asked.

“I wasn’t alone I have Spirit. He always has my back no matter what.”

“I promise no one and nothing will hurt her aunty.” He chimed in.

I looked over to him as he changed back into the blonde haired boy. His hazel eyes sparkled when he put his hand on my daughters arm.

Soul mates indeed mother soul mates indeed.

Closing In

The pain was horrible consuming my entire body from my chest to my hands. My eyes were weak and I shook if I tried to stand. I lay on my side struggling for breath as my ashen colored hand reached for the picture in front of me. I gripped it with a weak hand and it dropped. I shifted catching it in my teeth gently then placed it back on the rock ledge looking at it.

A tall curvy woman with long flowing brown hair held a baby in her arms. It was safely wrapped in a pink blanket. A tall man had his arm around the woman’s waist as he looked down at the baby gripping his finger. He was much tanner then the woman and his hair was raven black cut short enough to show off a scare, but he was so handsome.

“Kevin.” I whispered to the picture as I pressed my nose to it.

I fogged it over when I breathed out so I pulled back. I still looked at my human husband and five month old daughter.

I can’t become human again it will kill me. I am nearly 458, long past the life a human could survive. But I want to hold Indura one last time,

I looked down at my paws,

I can’t like this.

A whine escaped my lips and I bolted out the den entrance running to clear my mind as I felt tears fall down my face.

I knew my life was closing in on me, even as a Royal wolf I was getting to old. The wind whipped through my fur as I raced over the mossy forest floor. The birds fled in fear and called out when I ran past them. Sliding to a stop at the river I lapped up some water. I looked at the reflection of a white wolf with golden eyes stare at me.

I stood ram rod straight when a threatening scent came to me. I growled jumping the river to run after her. I burst from the ferns into a clearing where she was. She flipped her blonde hair over her shoulder and walked forward as I growled at her.

“Come now is that how you great you little sister?”

“Kina.” I growled.

She looked just like she had three hundred years ago. It was something I never figured out. When I started to age after four hundred she stayed young. But she would still die when she reached five hundred like another Royal wolf. Of course she was a human with the blood line; she was a rare case in Royal wolf history. She was a child of the absolute alpha who inherited nothing from the bloodline but a long life. I took a step forward growling at her to leave.

“Go away Kina, now!” I said using a commanding tone.

She flinched back from my alpha tone and glared. She whispered to me and left, her words hung in the air putting me on edge.

“For now big sister for now you win, but don’t think this is over, I will have her.”

Warning to Late

It was only yesterday that I encountered my sister. I was on edge watching my surroundings more than normal. Every rustling leaf or moving bush was suspicious. I could never tell Indura about Kina but I could tell someone who I trust to stay by her side forever and protect her. Right on time Spirit walked in rubbing his blonde head smiling at me.

“Aunty you wanted me?”

“Yes Spirit I’m afraid the time has come sooner than I would have liked.”

He froze staring at me then rushed to my side. He hugged my leg tightly crying into it. I sympathized with him nuzzling his shoulder to reassure him. I trusted him with the truth about my end coming near and about Kina. He pulled back whipping away the remaining tears so he could but on a brave face. He looked so cute with his little dimples and angry pout.

“What do I have to do?”

“Spirit I know this is asking a lot but,” I paused closing my eyes, “I fear Kina will attach soon. I want you to take Indura away with you to Maka. She will know what to do from there. Just tell her the time has come.”

His lower lip quivered as he nodded. I dismissed him then resting by the picture of my family before Kevin died. If I knew my sister she would act in the next day or so. Hopefully Spirit will have Indura away by then, and they will grow up safely. I heard a crash then a scream as Spirit called out my name in panic.

Intruder

The scene I found horrified me a Royal wolf loomed over Indura. Spirit was bleeding but he still forced himself in-between her and the wolf. He sifted growling at the massive wolf as it tried to kill Indura. My eyes found Indura holding her bleeding arm and side and I became furious. He

Hurt my daughter! I finally made it to them at that time, knocking the Wolf away.

“Spirit now!” I shouted over my shoulder at him.

I focus back on the wolf in front of me as he lunged for my throat. I dodged taking his leg in my jaws and flipping him. I could sense Indura’s soul fading and I made the mistake of looking over to her. She was in a pool of blood as pale as the moon and lifeless as a rock. I was panicked she was dying and I had to deal with this Royal wolf. Speaking of the Royal wolf intruder, Kina’s scent was all over him.

I turned and lunged at him intending to kill so I could help Indura. I felt something impale me and looked down to see a man with buzzed black hair and a mustache holding a spear. I fell backwards;

I didn’t think he would shift back to his human form, or have a spear.

My body hit the ground hard knocking the wind out of me. A horrible howl came out of my chest as I felt death close in on me. I rolled to my side I had to keep going till Spirit got Indura out of here. I flopped to the ground with the spear still in me, I could see Indura. She was in Spirit’s lap still dying, her soul almost gone.

Spirit was crying attempting to use his soul to bring her back. He was to inexperience with soul exchange he would never make it in time.

But I can.

I closed my eyes as the man, now a wolf again, let out a hot breath on my neck as he bit into it killing me.

“She’s dead.” He told me.

Soul Exchange

In the second it took him to kill me I had pulled my soul from my doomed body. The ball shape of my white red flecked soul flew to my daughter. I entered her chest and her body gasped for air arching upwards as our souls fought to combine and resonate. The white of our souls merged and I was thrown into darkness where Indura and my soul took on our human forms. For once it didn’t hurt to be human.

“Little one wake up.” I said.

I stroked Indura’s soul cheek trying to make it flicker back to life. It was so small and dim now as I held her in my arms like I had wanted to for so long. I didn’t have much time till it faded. Something brushed me and I was flung out of the dark back to her body where I was fighting to link up.

No not now,

she was rejecting me because she was dying.

Spirit can you hear me?

I need help.

I left my daughter’s body and went to Spirits. His blue soul was blazing with sorrow. I latched on to it letting the red flecks flow through his soul and make the resonance ink between him and Indura form. I took that as a bridge to enter the dark again.

Spirit came with me this time cradling Indura’s soul. I could see the sparks arc between them even thou her soul was so weak. I reached out again and force my life into her. A scream rang out from her body and Spirit screamed too. Indura’s body would feel pain because her soul was being combined with mine so she would revive.

But Spirit’s scream puzzled me, at least until my existence disappeared into Indura and she took in air again. Small red flecks of my soul stayed with her till her own was fully revived. It allowed me to see the resonance link between them. Black flecks ran to Spirit embedding in his soul,

she was awakening and trying to mark him to her.

I flung my red flecks to Spirit and shield his soul. Indura was too young to do this right she would kill him. I knew she wasn’t doing it on purpose but it was merely her soul needing more energy and since they were linked right now it was trying to take some from him. I shielded his soul by letting mine be taken away fully. It was the one thing I could do for them in the end.

“I love you.” My soul sang to them both before it disappeared forever.

Impressum

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Tag der Veröffentlichung: 02.08.2011

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