Above All Opps

The Wolf Of The North

Chase was heading north as indicated on the world map that his aunt had given him and after a couple of hours of flight, the weather suddenly changed to extreme cold. He put his hood over his head but even though it was not enough to protect him from the cold, he didn't care.

Suddenly, a snowstorm emerged and there was nothing in sight. This could be quite dangerous as he did not know if he had reached main land yet and he didn't want to drop in cold water so, he started to descend slowly, trying to see if he could find at least a piece of land but there was nothing.

He decided to risk it and descended even more thinking that there was only water there but thankfully, his foot hit a piece of land making him silently sigh in relief. He was pretty sure that he hadn't moved an inch from his spot but he quickly found himself going downhill. And his descent was not stopping. He kept on going lower and lower as well as faster but he hadn't quite reached the bottom yet.

Trying to fly away would be a risk as there was no way of telling what could come down from above and his current position did not allow for him to do any kind of sudden movements. The snowstorm was not helping and the fact that he was rolling around in it did not make him happy but he had to deal with it until he touched solid ground. Finally, he finished his descent into nowhere and stood up, dusted the snow off of himself and took in his surroundings: The snowstorm was still fully visible and there was no telling of when it was going to clear or even where he had fallen from.

At least he wasn't dead... Yet.

Without any warning, the snowstorm cleared. But the thing was, it had cleared up at the area where Chase was but further up, it was still going strong. Chase looked around and could finally get a clear picture of where he was. It appeared that he had fallen into some kind of pit but rather than a pit, it looked like a giant marble bowl. Everything was made out of marble but the wall had some kind of pirate ship design except that the eyes were glowing blue. Chase didn't know why but he wasn't feeling this place.

Before he could fly out, a soft howl escaped from the wind and a rumbling was heard, causing the snowstorm to reappear and block his view. Chase noticed that the blue eyes were extremely close, even though he was at least 60 meters away, making him want to get out of there faster than ever. But, fear paralyzes. Chase could not move and all his senses seemed to be blocked as he watched the eyes get closer and closer.

"Who dares trespass these lands?" A deep but booming voice asked. Chase heard a snarl and did not know what to think anymore.

Once again, the storm cleared and Chase saw a large bluish wolf menacingly standing in front of him, looking ready to attack.

The wolf's head was of a dark blue shade with three huge strands of hair going over his head. Its eyes were completely blue and it seemed to flare up. It had a black nose and his tail was white and blue. There were also three blue marbles floating around its neck and the rest of the wolf's body was white but it had some kind of ice markings on his sides and legs and his paws were a shade of blue. Blue white Wings were located at the wolf's side and ice could be seen sticking out of the wolf's legs as well as ice wings on its shins. He was a fearsome predator.

"State your purpose!" The voice said again. Chase's period of fear had passed and he felt somewhat... calm.

He didn't answer and looked the wolf dead in the eyes without a hint of fear.

'There's something unusual about this boy', the wolf thought to himself as he contemplated the boy in front of him. 'He doesn't appear to be frightened in the least.'

The wolf roared at Chase's face expecting some kind of reaction but there was only silence. The wolf started contemplating about life and thinking about why he couldn't make some kid scared but, looking closely at the boy, he realised that his eyes were dead meaning that there was no emotion in him making him almost... soulless.

'What is the meaning behind that boy's eyes?' The wolf thought again before deciding on what to do next. He focused on the boy again and its completely blue eyes changed to completely white and time seemed to have stopped.

"I see," the wolf said as his eyes changed back to blue. "The pain you felt was immeasurable," he said calmly. Chase did not know how he knew the pain he had experienced but stayed quiet.

"You're probably wondering about how I know about you." The wolf read his face. "In fact, I know all about you." Chase still said nothing and was looking quite annoyed at the fact that someone suddenly knew all about him.

"You-" The wolf was interrupted by Chase turning his back against him and started to walk. He clearly wasn't interested in what the wolf was going to say and he didn't want anyone retelling him his past.

"Wait!" The wolf shouted behind him. " I got a proposition for you. " Hearing that, Chase stopped walking and looked back at the wolf and waited for him to continue.

"I know where you're going and i can help you." The wolf continued but Chase started walking again. "As you are right now, you'll get killed before you even step foot inside that place." The wolf said again. "But, if you listen to me, I'll be able to help you."

Chase knew that the place he was going was no joke and he knew that the wolf was not lying so he turned around and walked back towards the wolf.

"Thank you" the wolf said before continuing: "We'll make a contract. It will be a master-servant relationship with you being the master and I the servant."

A brown scroll appeared in front of Chase, saying: Master-Servant contract.

The wolf continued: "Read the contract and if you accept it, I will be yours but you can also refuse it and if you don't want anything to do with me anymore, the contract can be cancelled and I'll return to this place."

Chase studied the scroll carefully and found that it had some interesting conditions in it, for example:

- Telepathy could be used between the two;

- If the master dies, the servant also dies but not the inverse;

-The stronger the master or servant gets, the stronger the other one gets.

"You're probably wondering what I gain from it, aren't you?" the wolf asked, causing Chase to nod in response. "I felt a great distress in you and if I am not with you, I fear that something terrible would happen." He continued, "In simple terms, I see a part of me in you. I can feel your anger and despair and I do not want you to fall deep into darkness. So there are my reasons," he concluded.

"If you accept the contract, put a bit of your blood on the scroll at the bottom." Chase thought about it for a moment, shrugged and then cut himself a bit with a sharp stone that was at his feet before pouring his blood on the scroll.

The scroll lit up yellow and disappeared before 3 holograms appeared in front of Chase.

"Choose which one you would like to have to represent our contract." The wolf instructed.

Chase analysed the three holograms: one of them was a silver stud, the other was a tattoo emblem that had a double sword design and a blue bracelet. He didn't like bracelets so he ruled that out. The tattoo was fire but he didn't want people to ask to many questions, so he settled on the stud.

Upon pointing towards the hologram, the other items disappeared and a materialistic earing presented it self in front of Chase.

"It's not going to hurt your ears even if they are not pierced." The wolf informed him. Chase took that info in and pierced his ears with it. To his surprise, it didn't hurt and no mark of blood was visible on his right ear.

"Only you can pull it out of your ear and the moment you do that, the contract will be cancelled." The wolf warned. "Now then master," he started, "I would need a name."

Chase was about to argue as to why he didn't have a name yet but he liked having to come up with his own ideas so he thought about it for quite some time and finally decided on something interesting.

"Tridius." He simply said. The wolf thought about it and nodded.

"From now on, I, the wolf king of the north and the god of ice shall be named Tridius." He said before bowing to Chase. "I submit myself to master Chase and from here on out, he is my master."

The wolf stopped bowing and looked at his new master.

"I know where you're going and the moment you go there master, you will die." Tridius said, getting straight to the point without wasting time. "You're still too weak." The words were harsh but it didn't bother Chase since what Tridius was saying was true.

"What do you propose?" Chase asked.

"I'll train you." Tridius said, feeling confident.

"When can we start?" Chase asked.

"Right now." Chase placed his bag next to the wall and awaited further instructions.

"This training won't take long. It will only be for the place you want to go." Boreas said as he circled around the boy.

"Let's get this thing started shall we?"

*****

In the meantime, Maria was feeling quite cranky. She hadn't got anywhere with her 'finding Chase case' and it was doing her head in. It was 1:10pm and here she was, sitting behind her desk in school thinking about what to do next before a knock on the door snapped her out of her thoughts.

"Come in!" She exclaimed as she awaited for the person behind the door to come in. "Hello there Lazuli!" She exclaimed brightly as she welcomed her niece into her office. "I get it that your mission is done and you're heading back to class."

"Yes." Lazuli said, looking very tired and bruised. Maria gestured for her to sit and she took a seat in front of her aunt. "But before that I wanted to talk to you."

"About what?" Maria asked, smiling.

"About the thing with Chase."

"Do you have any information?" Maria asked desperately, wanting to find her nephew.

"Lucas knows something."

"How would he know?" Maria asked. "You said that Chase had returned to the supermarket not that Lucas was there."

"Sorry, "Lazuli started, "I lied to you." Maria sighed heavily and looked at her niece in the eyes.

"You know that all this searching could have been avoided if you told me." Lazuli looked at her feet and said nothing. "Tell me what you know." So Lazuli started with how they were coming back from the supermarket and how Lucas and his friends coincidentally encountered them on the road and how they took Chase with them.

Maria listened but said nothing, waiting for Lazuli to finish. When she was finally done, Maria smiled a bit and finally spoke. "Thank you for telling me Lazuli, now tell Keiaa to come to my office and you can go back to class."

Lazuli stood up, said her thanks to Maria and left the room. 4 minutes later, a boy came inside the room, looking frightened out of his mind. Maria gestured him towards a seat in front of him and waited for him to sit down.

"Thanks for coming Keiaa." Maria unhappily said. The reason she called Keiaa instead of the main perpetrator was because of the fact that Keiaa was the weakest out of Lucas' group and not only that, she knew that he would be scared the moment he stepped inside the room unlike the others who wouldn't care.

"H-how can I help you Ms?" Keiaa said nervously.

"I heard that you were involved with Chase's disappearance." Maria said, straight to the point. Keiaa jolted and he felt himself sweating. "I know that you don't want to get in trouble Keiaa, so tell me what happened." keiaa felt uncertain and Maria was about to threaten him but he started speaking.

"Would Lucas know what about this meeting?" He nervously asked.

"He would if he saw Lazuli telling you to come here." She said, "But don't worry, this conversation is only between you and me." Reassuring him.

But Keiaa wasn't completely convinced and questioned her again. "What happens if I don't tell you the truth?"

Maria put her hands on the table and answered the boy. "You would potentially get excluded and never get into another school again and because of my connections, your family might not be doing business anymore." She didn't like threatening people but in some cases she had to do it even though threatening to blow him up would have been easier, talking about his family's business made him queasy.

keiaa looked uncertain but started talking. He told her about everything that had happened and where he last saw him. Maria attentively listened, hiding her true emotions very well and when he was done, she demanded for him to bring her to the place where they had left him. They exited the school and flew out of it for quite some time before coming to an end in the middle of nowhere. Upon landing, Keiaa led Maria towards the area where they had last left Chase and to their astonishment, there was no trace of him.

"So..." Maria started, "Where is he?". She looked around a bit and came to a conclusion that no one was there.

"I-I don't know Ms." Keiaa nervously said. "The last time we saw him was here."

"But no one's here right now." keiaa looked nervously at the ground before a hand patted his shoulder in a comforting way. "Let's go back to school."

"But-but-but aren't you going to check for any traces of him?" He asked.

"No need." She simply stated before turning her back towards the kid and walking. "We won't be able to find him since the traces of blood have vanished and he could have gone anywhere or a monster might have eaten him whole." She started flying upwards and Keiaa followed. "I'll get a couple of government agents to spread out and look for traces of him but you need to keep a low profile since Lucas learning about where you were today may not end well for you." keiaa nodded but said nothing and with that, they headed back to school in complete silence.