Wolf Girl

chapter 2

I was walking with my sister Jade when we heard papa’s howl of warning, telling us that there are hunters in the area and to be very careful not to get close to them. Just as we heard him a twig snapped behind us making us both shoot our heads toward the noise. I was looking right into the barrel of a gun, there were three men standing there looking at us. The one with the gun pointed at me must have realized that I am not like my sister, he moved the gun from pointing at me and is now pointing at her. I stepped in front of Jade to black the gun's path.

“Little girl you need to move, there is a savage wolf behind you.”

I just growled at him like a wolf and took my fighting stance. I know it's crazy how a small girl like me could possibly take on these hunters. Little do they know that I watched a couple of people who camped here practicing their fighting skills and once I see it one time I am able to copy it. So I learned how to fight already. The man on the right stepped forward and tried to grab my arm to make me move but I ended up grabbing hold of him and shifted my feet kicking one of his legs making him fly up in the air and over onto his backside landing with a loud grunt. The other two looked at me in shock, making their biggest mistake because it gave me enough time to knock them both to the ground quickly. In a fright they all three got up and ran off heading back down the mountain.

Jade and I took off heading back to the cave to make sure everyone was alright. I walked over to papa and pet his head, he looked up at me c*****g his head to the side indicating he wanted me to sit down. I got down on the ground of the cave and momma came over and rubbed her head on my arm. Jade had told them about what happened and how I got in front of the gun for her. We all cuddled up and laid down for bed. Tomorrow is going to be a long day, our hunt is going to be on the outskirts of the woods close to town and it will be the closest I have been to a town since I was three. After we woke up Jade, Demon, Damon, Slade and papa all headed down the hill to where the deer had moved to. They do this every spring. They will go down the mountain near the villages, but I am most excited about this because this is my very first time that I get to join them. It took us about two hours of jumping over logs and dodging trees, climbing down rocks just to get where we needed to go. Once we got there it was a beautiful sight. All kinds of deer stood in a clearing eating at the tall grass that stood to their stomachs. Instantly my stomach started to rumble in hunger, papa took the lead and the hunt began.

We were heading back up the mountain with our kill when momma howled loudly as though she was in pain. I instantly dropped the dead deer in my hands and looked over at the rest. Papa had his ears sticking straight up, next thing I know we are running up the hill as fast as we could to get to momma. Once we got to the stream we saw momma laying on the ground, a couple of the other female wolves walked up to momma and rubbed their snouts with hers whimpering. I looked around and realized that hunters had come, papa and I walked over to momma and she confirmed what I had been thinking. She was laying on the ground with none other a bullet wound, momma looked over at us and whimpered out about one of the pups being taken. I growled loudly howling out my pain that they had one of our own. None of us knew what they did to the ones they caught but this is the first they went after a pup.

I carried momma to an area where we bury our dead, it’s a beautiful place to help them with their rebirth. Trees lined up in a row and a small pond in the center, ite best in the winter when the land is covered in untouched snow shimmering in the daylight. Papa and my brothers dug the hole for me to place momma in, I couldn’t help but cry out. Tears stained my face that night but the rage in my heart and the desire to find our pup grew with each passing minute. I decided to leave in search of the pup, I haven’t been able to name this one yet and the thought of them hurting him and the look of him crying in a cage made the need to find him grow phenomenally.

Not wanting any more of my family members to be in a cage I left before anyone had woken up. I crept silently out of the cave and once I knew I was a good distance away I started to run really fast using the wolf speed my papa and momma gave me. Jumping from rock to rock as fast as I could once I got to the rocky part of the mountain I had caught the scent of the pup and the ones who took him. I didn’t start to slow down until I got to the border between the mountain and the human town. I sniffed at the air trying to decipher the scent of our pup, I even figured out a name for him as I was making my way down the mountain. I am naming him Valor, he had to have so much courage to deal with the way these humans were treating him. I walked through the streets trying desperately to catch Valor’s scent when all of a sudden a big whiff of it hit me so hard. The only way his scent would be that strong is if he had started bleeding in the area where it is the strongest.