Wolf in The Desert of Ice

The Past

"What?" Oki asked, shocked at the proposal

"Well, it's not like you have a place to go back to", Shiek replied calmly, "And besides, I haven't had someone to talk to for years."

"You know why that is right?" "let me guess, I am a shifter" Shiek got up and headed deeper into the cave. wanting to change the subject he asked  "What's your name, dragon girl?" "Oki", The girl replied as she looked at the rest of the cavern,

It was small, barely three meters tall or wide; there were carvings on the wall,  carvings of ancient people, the history of the shifters she guessed. Still, before she could start to understand the carvings, Shiek returned holding some bundled cloths .

"Here I got you some clothes," He said, handing some poorly made leather clothing to the girl. "I am not a craftsman, so this is the best I could do; they might be a bit big for you as they were made for me."

"Thank you", Oki looked at Shiek; the young man might have been  around her age, but unlike the boys in the village, he had broad shoulders and unkempt hair. wearing a shabby shirt with no sleeves made out of pelts and pants too large for him, he looked uncivilized, she thought, but that was right Shifters were savage and uncivilized beasts, even worst than the dragons who murdered her father, at that thought anger filled her again.

Shiek noticing her mood changed looked at the wall beside him, "Looking at the carvings?" Shiek asked, breaking her brooding . "Yes, it is unexpected for your people to record history "Oki replied almost immediately,  Shiek let out a small laugh. "Do you want to know what it says? See if it's anything different from what they teach you?" She griped the blanket harder, irritation clearly visible on her face, was he insulting her, how dare he so angrily she replied  . "And why would I do that? Listen to the history of savages". But Shiek still kept his cool "History is written by the winner. Perhaps you will learn something new". Oki scoffed at this, what foolish ideas, she thought "Everyone knows the story of your kind, Born by the unholy union of the god of men and the goddess of beasts, You inhabited all the lands, stronger than men, smarter than beasts. Your clans were many and fearsome, but you were just another race until the coming of Atyer. He united all the clans and turned you against everything else. Under his rule, you started to kidnap anything that could be used to further increase the power of your species. And what you couldn't exploit you devoured, until the races of men, elves, dwarves and orcs united, their forces ambushed Atyer's tribe and killed him, without his leadership the other tribes dispersed, but kept following his twisted teachings"

Shiek looked impressed by her knowledge, but as he approached one end of the wall he layed his hand on the carved wall, he sighed, he looked at the carving but his sight was somewhere else, somewhere in the past. "The god of man, he loved the world and everything within it, he loved all the races, but he feared the beasts who could easily overpower men, so one day he struck a deal with the goddess of beasts, she would birth the first Shifters, and they would protect both beast and men, they would keep them away from each other. So the first five were born, Moonfang, Stronghorn, Coldscales, Fastfeet and Whitewing. The first five decided themselves upon the continent, Stronghorn went west to protect men from the treacherous beast that inhabit the hills, Coldscales hurried south, from there he would always watch the waters of all the continent, Fastfeet went east to great planes where he could outrun any beast, Whitewing went north where the endless sky became his domains, and from there he would watch the world from the peaks of the Ugrudu Mountains. Moonfang came to the desert, here he would connect the four lands and help those who wished to cross."

He moved forwards along the wall. A picture of five men with animalistic features was carved on the wall. One man had horns on his head and hoofs at his feet, another had wings on his back, one had fins and scale,  the fourth has rabbit ears, and the last had a wolf head and tail. "They protected the land for the rest of their lives than passing on their powers to chosen members of their tribes, this continued for 200 years, or Until Atyer was nominated the new Moonfang, he had grown tired of protecting those who had forgotten of the Shifters deeds, and he was not the only one. all the other chosen gathered under his banner and started to live like they wished. They let go of their human side and embraced the beast within, this lead them to want to evolve, they kidn*pped men and women with powers, they forced them to breed the new generations, but at last, Atyer was defeated, and the shifters were driven back, but the damage was done, new shifters were born, and our reputation was tarnished."