Chapters nine and ten.
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I feel rather guilty about her capture, if I didn't let her go it wouldn't have happened. I wouldn't have died, and life would be different for us all. But that could have never happened, her desire to find Zorropelt was to strong for me to sway. But if it didn't happen who knows what would have happened to Rainfur and Stareye, they never could have survived without her. But I'm getting ahead of myself, here is the next part in the tails of a wolf.
Chapter nine: captivity
When she regained conciseness Silversheen found herself in a steel cage that seemed to suck the heat out of her. It had started raining again and the sky was gray and overcast. She was still in the back of the truck, it was driving along a paved rode now, she didn't know how long she had been out. The forest around her seemed unfamiliar to her, it was blanketed in a shroud of mist. She estimated she had been out for at least a day, maybe more.
She was cold and was soaked from the rain. The memory of Snowpelt's death was still fresh in her mind. The memory brought a wave of sorrow and hopelessness over her. She remembered the sorrow and hate in Ashpaw's eyes as he stood over her body.
She had no idea were they were taking her but if she was cough in the same place Zorropelt was there was a chance they were taking her to the same place as they took him. She couldn't get the strange wolves that had attacked her out of her mind. There must have been more of them that were in another part of the forest and they were so strong. She hoped that they weren't strong enough to attack her pack. She thought her pack was strong enough to fend they off but she wasn't sure, not with her disappearance and Snowpelt's death.
She was hungry and her side heart from being pressed up against the cage for so long. She winced as the truck hit a bump and her paw was cough under the cage and was pulled hard. The rain continued to fall and felt soothing on her fresh cuts. She could hear strange sounds from the front of the truck, strange beets mixed with human speech. She heard other louder slightly off key voices joining in with the notice every so often and winced as it hurt her hears.
It was several hours before she noticed her truck wasn't the only one on the rode. She looked up and saw another cage in the back of another truck that was driving next to her. She looked closed and saw that there were two young wolves huddled together in the other cage. They looked scared and about as miserable as she felt.
They hadn't noticed her yet and she debated alerting them of her presence. She looked at them again. They looked so helpless and she saw them jump as thunder boomed across the sky. She wished she could comfort them but she couldn't see how.
She decided to at least let them know she was there. She let out a quiet howl. The two wolves looked up and saw her, a quick flash of hope in there eyes. It disappeared quickly tho as they saw she two was in a cage. She looked at them reassuringly but she couldn't talk to them over the noise of the trucks and the falling rain. There truck pulled ahead and Silversheen got a fain smell of there cents.
She was disheartened when she didn't recognize there cents. She would have sworn that she had smelled it before but she didn't know were. She searched her mind, trying to remember were she had smelled that cent before.
Her heart skipped a beat as she realized were she knew it from. It was so long ago she had almost forgotten.
The two young wolves shot her a questioning look when they saw her astonishment and excitement. She ignored them and tried to figure out how this was possible. Her truck hit another bump and she winced again. Is this why he was taken? She said to herself.
She howled in pain as she tried to shift her position and a sharp peace of metal tore a deep cut in her paw. She moved back to her original position and started licking her heart paw.
The young wolves hearing her howl looked at her and saw her injury. They shot her a sympathetic glance but there was nothing more they could do.
Bloody water was washing around the bed of the truck now, staining her fur a reddish color. She decided to try to sleep and hope her journey would end soon.
She had new hope now, for now she knew the answer to a question that she had long seance given up hope of ever finding the answer to. She knew the wolves in the other truck were from the same pack as Zorropelt.
Chapter ten: Help of sorts
Tis a fine day today mate, get up! Redfur barked his his brothers ear. Redfur was a red furred wolf that had a undercoat of silver that give him an odd almost glow when in direct sunlight. He had blue eyes and one white paw. He had an easy going way of life, he hunted when he needed to and did what he liked.
His brother, Grayear, groaned and rolled over to look at his older brother. Grayear was a cream colored wolf with one silvery-gray ear fir which he was named after. He had brown eyes and was not in a good mood after his awakening.
Get up yourself, iv no reason to. He replied irritatedly.
Your reason to get up as a fat rabbit that was stupid enough to walk out in front of me, unless you want to catch your own meal you best get up.
With this Grayear was up in a flash.
Why didn't ya say so mate! Wares the food?
Redfur chuckled, all he had to do was mention food and his brother was there in a flash.
They were in a forest not far from a rode, Redfur could hear the sounds of distant cars and smell the fumes they released. He didn't like how close they were to the rode but a promise was a promise and he had nothing better to do.
He signaled in the direction that the rabbit lay and his brother ran over to it and started eating.
Ima go watch the rode, you do what you wish for the time being.
He barked as he ran off into the trees.
It was only a short walk before he saw the rode. There had been more traffic than he had liked the last few days witch met he had to spend more time here. Only two more day. He thought, then he would be under no obligation to stay in this place. It wasn't that bad, but the rode made it hard to hunt and the sounds of the cars kept him awake at night. His brother on the other hand, he could sleep threw anything.
If we went back, would we be excepted? He thought out loud. He had left the pack with his two brothers long long ago. They were only pups when they had left. After there dads mate disappeared he had become angry. Altho he was not all that big and strong, he was fast and extremely smart.
He sighed at the memory of his brother Redtail. They had looked almost exactly the same, except for there ears and his one white paw. He disappeared about a week after they left, there had been no singes of him that the young wolves could find. His brother Grayear was barely old enough to eat soled food and he was only about three months old at the time. He had always thought that if he had the skills he had now he could have found his brother but he didn't and his brother had been missing for almost twelve months.
He was distracted from his thoughts as two trucks came to a stop a short ways away. A man with a blood stained cloth rapped around his left arm got out of one and walked behind a tree on the other side of the rode. He decided it wasn't anything interesting when he hears winning from the back on one of the trucks. He went to investigate, sticking to the shadows till he was behind the trucks.
He almost cried out when he saw the two wolf pups in the cage. He recognized there cent immediately as one of his old pack. Who were they? He wondered. He knew were the trucks were headed and he knew he didn't have the time so save them, not now at least.
He saw the man walking back to the trucks and disappeared back into the trees.
He watched the man get into the truck and start it. As the first truck pulled away he saw the silvery wolf in the cage of the other truck.
When he saw her he knew this was the wolf he was watching for.
She saw him and caught his eye. She looked startled but she sent him a silent plea in that few seconds before her truck started on its way again. He didn't know her cent but there was no mistaking her.
So there is a Silversheen going to the grounds after all. He muttered realizing what had just happened.
He knew he had to go after the trucks, and he knew were they were going to stop next. He ran threw the forest till he was at his camp.
Grayear! He called sliding to a halt.
What is it Redfur? I just finished the rabbit and I'm trying to not do anything physical.
He saw his brother and groaned. He looked like he had swallowed a watermelon.
I saw her, we need to go now if we want to make it to the human camp before nightfall.
Grayear looked startled.
You actually saw her? I thought that guy was just being paranoid when he said a silver wolf would be caught.
Well I hope your not to fat to run mate, because we have a long day ahead of us.
They both took off running into the forest, there destination was clear. It was far away, several miles but Redfur had no doubts they would stop there. They didn't need to get there ahead of the trucks but he knew that they would be gone in the morning and he didn't want to risk being to late.
His younger brother was already panting after only a few minutes of running. He needed to get moving more, all he relay did nowadays was eat and sleep and his body showed it. He was a smart wolf and had a good personality, but the easy life he was living was making his slow and weak. Redfur on the other hand was lean and fit from hunting for the both of them and keeping active unlike this brother.
So what are we gonna do when we rescue her? Grayear panted.
I don't know. Redfur admitted. But we owe that wolf our lives and we promised to save her.
What ever happened to the other guy who escaped with us?
Gone, iv not seen nor heard from him, I didn't even learn his name before he disappeared.
Grayear grunted acknowledgment and turned all his focus to running.
Redfur thought about how they were going to rescue the silver wolf. He also couldn't leave the pups he had saw, but they would slow them down and make a quiet escape hard. The female pup looked a lot like the silver wolf, they both had the same silver fur and blur eyes. It reminded him of his mother, she had been a silver wolf too. He pushed the thought out of his head, he needed to come up with a plan, and sooner rather than latter.
It was a nice day. Silversheen thought, the niceness of the day seemed to be mocking her. The humans had given her a bowl of brown balls that tasted like sawdust. She had been so hungry she had eaten them anyway. They had also given her a bowl of orange tinged water that she lapped wearily. It was discussing and tasted old and stagnant but she drank it anyway.
The cut on her paw was starting to heal but she felt aches and pains throwout her body. The sun was nice and it wormed her and took away the cold that had come with the rain. They had left the misty forest behind. When they had stopped for a brief time earlier that morning she had gotten the chance to talk to the two wolves in the other truck.
They had been captured in the forest near there dens, they weren't suppose to be out roaming the forest and wished they hadn't that day. She found out they were twins, a boy and a girl, and at that Silversheen felt guilt and sadness wash threw her. They were so small, to young to survive on there own. They reminded her of Ashpaw and Snowpelt on the night of the storm on there last day of training, helpless and scared. She mad a promise to herself at that moment to protect these pups, she would let nothing happen to them.
There names were Rainfur and Stareye. Rainfur, the girl, had a light silver-gray pelt and her eyes were a light blue that reminded her of rain. The name fit Silversheen decided. Stareye had a white pelt with splotches of brown. His eyes were his most interesting feature, they looked... strange somehow. They were a dark almost purple and looked, for lack of a better word, starry. They were like looking at the night sky, endless and full of stars. It was almost creepy.
Silversheen had told them the story of her and Zorropelt, how they knew each other and how she left for hunter training. She told them about how she had gotten back and he was gone and how in looking for him she had watched her friend die and gotten captured. When they were done talking a man yelled something and they had started driving again.
Silversheen started thinking about how they could escape. She didn't know were they were going but she knew she couldn't let the pups go there. She knew she had to, it was her only lead in her search for Zorropelt, but she would save the pups first. Her thought were cut short as they stopped again and one of the men got out and ran behind a tree.
She waited for him to return her thoughts wandering when she caught a movement out of the corner of her eye. She turned her head and saw a wolf. At first Silversheen thought he looked just like Zorropelt and she was about to cry out when she noticed he didn't have any white on his ears and he had a white paw. Her mind was racing. Was he going to rescue them? Would this solve her problem? She caught his eye and she saw recognition flash in his eyes. She saw the silent promise he made to her, they he would help then disappeared into the trees as the man came back and the trucks started again.
Silversheen's mind was whirling with questions. The wolf had looked so much like Zorropelt, had he been from the same pack? Why had he been this near a rode? Had he been looking for the pups?
She didn't know the answer to any of these questions and she soon fell asleep in the morning sun, she didn't know what the day would bring but she knew her situation was going to change drastically.
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