Wolf\'s Blood

Grope 5: Pilgrim Snow:

This would go a lot faster if all of them had four legs instead of two, then again only two of them actually had four legs. When will the males ever remember how to switch from human to wolf? Maybe it could be force….

Seven looked at her semi-gloved hand and pondered if she could force them to call upon the ancient power of shift-shaping. Maybe the Darkness wouldn’t care if she hurried the process. After all four legs were better then two.

Somewhere in silence as the five travelers, a very large growl erupted. All of them stopped to looked at the plushie teen then another growl that didn’t came from the embarrassed teen erupted. Then another. Kibe and Tsume were the only ones whose stomach wasn’t complaining about the lack of food from the past week of walking.

“So, where’s the nearest Mickey D’s?” Hige asked, rubbing the back of his sandy head.

“No fast food out here.” Then the sympathy of growling stomachs start up again.

“Well, there’s that definition of fast food and there’s another one..” Let’s see whose the hunter of the group. There was no way that she was providing the meals too.

“You actually serious about that we catch our own food.” The real runt of the group spoke out. He was the little scrawny kid in dodge ball that also ended up going to the nurse’s office after being smack just one time by the big rubber ball. How the hell is he going to catch something that moves faster then him?
“Either that or see just how much of Fluffy there actually is?” ’Fluffy’ let out a challenging hiss from the top of Hige’s head. The she-wolf just return the gesture by her usual smirk.

The serious blue eyes side glared between the two rivals before asking the most important question: Who the fuck could hunt?

After a good four minutes all eyes went to the very person that didn’t want to in the first place.

“Why me?” She groaned as she rubbed in between her eyes.

“You’re the wolf and wolves are hunters by nature.” For maybe the first time since this whole thing started, Tsume smiled.

She gave a mocked ’heh’ and extended her thumb and middle finger at him before slipping off her bag and jean jacket and the black and red scarf..

“Just get a fire going when I get back unless you like it raw.” Then she shifted from human to wolf and took off.

“So how do we get a fire going?” The sandy teen shrugged when two sets of groans answered him. “Is it my fault that my folks never took me camping?”

This was going to be a long day.

The males and the kitten, who mainly sat off to the side to watch the poor fools, tried to a suitable fire going which failed the first three times before Toboe was hit with the idea to see if the tri-colored witch had a lighter or a box of matches. He was given the task to go through the black and hot pink shoulder bag, mainly because the owner may not want to hurt a fellow runt.

After a full five minutes of going through very questionable reading materials and other little gadgets that caught the light blood eyes, the little auburn boy finally found a silver Zippo with black cross on the side. So the four males finally got a nice enough fire going just as the light crimson eyed wolf walked up with two plump peter cottontails in her mouth and her face covered in tiny scratches. Mostly around the eye area.

“Nice, now give me back my lighter.” When she shifted back to human and tossed the plump rabbits to Kibe since he was closest to the fire pit with her semi-gloved hand held out for the runt to put the Zippo in it.

“We didn’t know how to start a fire so I thought-” He mistook the tired look on the light tan face for an angry one.

She waved her hand to cut off the explanation.
“I’m not mad, pup. Just worn out, that one big fat one right there.” pointing at the one that bushy haired brunet was currently fixing up to be roasted.

“Didn’t like going down with a fight.” She gave a big grin like she had won some great battle. Then she gathered her things and went to sit against an elm tree, telling them to call her when dinner’s ready before sticking her nose in one of the questionable mangas and ear plugs with music blasting in her ears.

Now with everyone well fed, Hige had at least three helpings claming that he needed the extra meat for energy for tomorrow, and tired, they all decided to settled down for the night. The night was too cold to be far from the already dying fire so everyone huddled as close as they could without actually lying in the fire.

Blue the fluffy white kitten used the plushie sandy teen’s plump stomach as a pillow as Toboe cuddled against Seven, mainly because he needed the extra body heat since all he wore was the dark purple button down shirt and the dark green army pants with the army boots. Plus, the other two males didn’t look like they would like the auburn boy using them as a pillow and blanket. And Seven didn’t seem to mind too much to the arrangement, for the past week they have been sleeping like this and she has yet to say anything about it. But for some reason, just about every night the bronze man glared at the girl before he went to sleep

Something was crawling on her, she didn’t need to open her eyes to know that there was something crawling on her bare collarbone. It was furry and prickly and by her count had waaayyy to many legs to be any thing the second thing she most feared in the world. A nasty eight-legged SPIDER!

With a shriek that could outdo a banshee, the frighten tri-colored girl jumped up, tossing the poor boy that was currently using her as a pillow onto the ground and started to shake uncontrollably trying to get the damn spider off. The only reason she didn’t have the spider’s memory flooding her own was simply that she was a big crying mess right now and that seemed to over power her memory power.

“GET IT OFF! GET THE FUCKING GOD DAMN THING OFF!” If the first shriek didn’t wake everyone but the dead then the uncontrolled round of scream sure did.

Toboe and Hige were the first to wake up since they both were the closest to the panicking witch and tried to warn her before she walked backwards into the smoldering remains of the fire. But as always fear was more powerful then anything, she still was trying to get the damn insect off of her which was now on its way up on her chin without actually touching the thing with her bare fingers and gloved hands.

“Watch it, you going to-” The sandy teen was too late as the terrified girl tripped backwards over a slowly waking Kibe, which proves just who was the really deep sleeper of the group was.
Not missing a beat, the brunet grabbed the thrashing girl’s arms, careful to touch only the clothed part and pinned the kicking legs down with the jean-covered knees of his.

“GET IT OFF!!! GET THE GOD FUCKING DAMN EIGHT-LEGGED FREAK OF NATURE OFF OF ME!!!” She screamed as said freak now moved over the bridge of her nose, with one leg now over the almost unseen garnet nose stud that up till now, Kibe had mistook it as a pimple at glance.

“Hold still and I will.” He was so trying hard not to laugh at this but seeing the normally cool and collected, smirking light red eyed witch sobbing over a tiny non-deadly and non-poisonous spider was all he could handle.

Wait did that mean that he might accidentally.. Suddenly one fear replaced another.

“No, stop. I I I’m sure it would eventually get off.” Seven said nervously and tried to move her face back away from the approaching hand.

“Look, I’m just going to pick the spider up, touching only the spider.” Serious but now reassuring blue eyes looked down at terrified light red orbs. He was saying that she could trust him with this with those cobalt eyes of his.

“Just hurry it up, I want to be sleep when dawn comes not before it.” Grumpily, the white-haired man rubbed his tired amber slits and let out an ’oof’ when the little amber eyed boy elbowed him in the gut from being harsh.

After a quick nod from the crying girl, Kibe used the balls of his thumb and index finger to pick up the little tiny creature that was causing a big fuss. A tiny brush of bare skin accident did went across the light tan skin but it was too faint of a touch to really do anything to the girl who was relived to have her nightmare taken away from her. But a image of a lilac-haired girl in strange coloring that shared the she-wolf’s light crimson eyes popped in his mind and the scent of the strange flower which still was not named override his nose.

“So, you’re scared of spiders huh Seven?” Hige smugly said with his arms folded and legs crossed. All that fuss over a tiny harmless spider? Oh, what fun ideas could the mischievous plush teen could come up with that golden information.

A nice big helping of payback was earned to him since on the first night, the witch placed a big black ant on his lower lip. Unknown to him, he licked his lips and brought the foul bug inside. He didn’t know that in realty instead of eating a crispy French fry, he was that hungry that night, he had eaten a bug till the next morning when the evil that had a number for a name asked him if he wanted ant for breakfast since he had it for a snack during the night.

“Shut up, Hige!” Toboe came to rescue to second person that nice to him while the first person that actually saved his life narrowed those slits of his even more before turning his back on the whole thing.

“Toboe’s right, we had enough fun for one night lets try to use what’s left of tonight to sleep. “ Oh, it was plain to hear the laughter that was hiding in those words and the kitten wasn’t at all trying to hid her amusement at this turn of events.

First the fat one, then Mister Serious then Fluffy. She quickly planned each soon to be victim’s demise as she and the little auburn boy settle back down in their usual sleeping positions: he laying back to chest with her right over his tiny body with her other arm used as her pillow. She made sure that he wouldn’t and couldn’t move but still as comfortable as possible. This way, accidents of any kind would be prevented.

Once every thing and everyone had quieted down, with a quick ear scan for anything change in sleep breathing from all sides, the prankster slowly moved, careful not to wake the small body, well not that small in comparison, and crept over to small area of dirt where she knew at least one good sizable worm would be. Oh. Sweet sweet revenge was hurries.

A good hour or two went by before suddenly a ‘What the fuck’ and “oh my god!’ rang throughout the woods. Seven had to bite her inner cheek to keep from laughing and had to fake a concern face while once again everyone minus the already cranky man had to calm some down from total hysteria.

Two days later, Hige still cussing under his breath at the bitch who was currently sitting on beside the top of the tiny waterfall while the four males were taking their turn at bathing. Blue was napping in the folds of Seven’s knee while she read an out dated magazine but really was sneaking glimpses at a certain cute ass. The only one who didn’t wear any thing under those leather pants of his for the sake of comfort. Today was a good day for numbered named people. The others still had on their boxers out of pure modestly, Toboe was still had a blush on his face when ever he snuck a look at the darker and much older man that waded in the river beside him. Turns out, Seven wasn’t the only one who thought Tsume was hot in both in the nude and in leather clothes.

Their clothes were already washed and hanged out to dry by the courteously of the tri-colored girl. In realty, Kibe forced her to do the good deed since it was her fault that twice someone tripped over him in a panic the night before last. It was worth knowing that she wasn’t the only one who could scream like a girl.

Blue had already bitten her twice for the prank, that last bite was hard enough to break the skin and cause the crimson blood to rise to the surface. Damn that cat and her sandy wolf.

“Come on, Hige. You got to admit it was funny.” Toboe was still trying to get at least one of the older males to not hate the tri-colored girl, he just couldn’t stand everyone hating each other. It made him even more nervous then being next to a nude Tsume who was walking out of the river and going behind the bushes to the low-branched tree where Seven had hanged up their clothes to be dry.

“And weren’t you thinking of doing the same thing to her?” He let out of small smile when the older teen started smiling himself for all the wrong reasons.

“Good point, runt.” He tussled the wet auburn hair before stepping out the river right behind Kibe.
Hige figured it was his turn to perform a prank and he was going to deliver a much better one then Seven’s last two.

Kibe, all morning, was silent and deep in his thoughts about theses dreams he had been having about that lilac haired girl that first appeared after the whole spider incident. He felt like that he should know her but for some obscene reason he didn’t. Just like he couldn’t place what kind of flower he has been smelling. That smart ass of a witch was the source of the flower scent but every time he tried to talk about it, she changes the subject. But it was nice seeing her screaming of something as small as a spider. What wasn’t nice was being a landing pad twice in the same night, only three hours apart.

Then suddenly as the three teens were putting on their freshly cleaned and dried clothes, a sound of a girl screaming filled the cloudless morning. All of them, even Tsume rushed out only to see a girl going over the waterfall and into the rushing water. Kibe looked up to see Seven looking down at the thrashing girl who must be at least five or four and wondered why she didn’t help the poor child before she went over the waterfall. More importantly why she looked so scared.

Before anyone could say anything, the runt of the pack ran into the water and tried to reached to the girl before she went too far and soon be where the big dangerous slabs of brown rocks.

She knew that the little girl would be falling into the water as she kept playing too close to the edge on the other side of the river. She should have told the kid to not be that so close to the bank but no, she had to choose to ignored the child and continue reading ’the top ten reasons why blonde have more fun’. The crimson eyed wolf did jumped to her feet when she heard that splash and would have helped the poor child out but suddenly before she could even take a step forward, the dreaded feeling of drowning ice cold water took over and all she could do was stare wide eyed, quick breathing as the girl screamed and thrashed as she heading towards and over that supposedly small waterfall.

The spell broke when someone, Tsume, yelled Toboe’s name. She dropped her magazine and leaped to the ground below. Now she had an even bigger problem, one of the wolves she was supposed to be taking to the Darkness was now heading towards bone-breaking rocks while in the middle of saving the damn brat that shouldn’t have been out in the first place without her mom.

She let out a ‘fuck’ as she pulled off her black jacket that she wore as a shirt over a light blue tank that had ‘Happy Bunny’ painted on it and right after the god-damn brats. Because the Darkness could drown her without her ever being anywhere near water.

Toboe, all he could think about was the girl was in danger and he must save her. Why? He didn’t know, just that someone needed help and he just happen to be around. That might get him killed someday. That if he survived this little swim first. He finally reached to the girl who wouldn’t stopped thrashing or going under after each scream. The auburn runt grabbed a hold of her pink sweater and tried to pull them both back the bank, against the rushing current. They weren’t making much progress as the big scary looking rocks came closer and became bigger within each beating minute. Something grabbed him around his middle and with great strength, pulled both him and the girl towards a nearby slab. With a series of grunts and pulls, Toboe found himself in between damped tattered jeans with the ends burn off and the girl still halfway in the water.

“God-Damned it, I hope that kid was worth it cause I ain’t doing this shit again.” The exhausted witch scolded him.

He turned his head around to give ’thank-you’ smile but the girl slipped out of his hands and went back to thrashing and screaming. Without thinking about again, he went back in the water but in wolf form instead of young teen form. Seven let out a growl as a curse to the gods that wanted to punish her from a past crime and jumped back in the unloving water. At least, she no longer had to wait for four guys to remember their real forms. One down, three to go.

She finally grabbed the young wolf-pup who held the girl’s pink sweater in his mouth and this time headed for the bank where Kibe and the others, and the girl’s mother who finally makes an appearance. The tri-colored haired girl pushed both pup and girl to the waiting hands of the bronze man and the brunet. Toboe shifted back to human when he laid on solid green grass. Seven would join them if it wasn’t for Kibe grabbing her bare arm. He jerked back, letting her go shaking like crazy as random images flooding his mind and she fall backwards in pain and headed straight into a large slab of rock.

A/N: and that’s the cliffhanger. One thing before I leave you people alone and go back to work on the next chapter. Did I send such a bad vibe that only two people reviewed this fic? I am still going to keep writing this thing till the end or my mind blows up whatever comes first but I would like some encouragement. Hell, I’ll even take flames if they prove that some body’s reading this thing.