The Golden Wolf

Chapter 6 The run

Hopes pov

I push Freya back after we shift. I’ve been waiting for a run for what seems like forever. And I take off my pink paws hitting the ground with every stride. I climb a tree and jump onto a branch that is thick enough to hold my body weight and start jumping to other branches. I find a large tree that has a hole in the trunk. The hole is above a thick branch so it can’t be seen from the ground. It's a large hole big enough for me to fit in my tiger form. I crawl in the hole to see that there's nothing in there. Deciding to claim it I claw it. Leaving long scratch marks which turn gold.

That's odd, “Freya, look at the claw marks.” I tell her

“Whose are they.”

“Ours.”

“You did that.”

“Yes.”

“Go try it on another tree.”

“Okay.” I jump down and run over to another tree. I put my front paws on the tree and feel my claws come out as my paws slide over the rough bark. The claw marks I leave behind turn gold. “Look.” 

“Should we tell anyone?” She asks.

“Just Cynthia when she wakes up and Maze.”

“Okay,” Freya tells me as she goes and lays down in the back of my mind. 

I take off back into the woods. I jump over a fallen tree and run into a clearing. I sniff the air and smell a rabbit. Licking my lips I search for it’s trail. Finding it I follow it. It leads me to a hole. I smell around it to see if it left realizing it was in it hole. I growl trying to scare it out. 

When that didn’t work I reached my paw claws out into the hole to try and grab it. My nail hooks onto its tail and I pull it. Growling to scare it when it's out of the hole. It was an all white rabbit with 3 black paws and 1 white paw. The tail and ears were black too. I let it go to chase it. 

It runs for its life. I pounce missing by an inch. I do this for half an hour. Before I pounce one last time landing on it. Growling I bit its neck, killing it instinctually. I eat before I run out of the clearing and back into the woods. 

I close my eyes as I leap over a fallen tree log. Enjoying the feeling the wind flow through my fur and the feeling of freedom. Opening my eyes to watch where I land not expecting the fallen tree to be at the edge of a cliff. Falling into a pond that was at the bottom of a waterfall. 

Swimming over to the edge of the pond to climb out. It’s not like I don’t like water, I love it. I just wasn’t expecting to get wet. After shaking my body. I looked up to see the sun setting. It was beautiful too. 

Deciding to go for a swim. I run and jump making a huge s***h when I land in the pond. Swimming in circles. Whenever I made a splash I tried to bite the water. After I swim for a while I get out to shake again.

I lay on a rock and look up at the sky. There are a lot of stars out tonight. 

Walking back toward the pack house I shift when I get to the edge of the tree line. I put my clothes on and head in to get a drink. 

I walk into the kitchen and grab a coffee cup down from the cabinet. I then walk to the large pantry to grab a hot chocolate package. As I wait for the water to get hot I grab the milk and pour a little bit into my cup. Milk makes it more creamy. After the water was hot I put the mix in the cup and water. Then I stirred it.

Taking a sip deciding it needed marshmallows I went back into the pantry and grabbed them after dumping them into the cup. I drink it slowly before looking at the time. I was 1:23. Damn it's later than I thought it was I head back to Cynthia’s hospital room to check on her and Maze.