Tricks and Treats [Tain, Lan, Jay(?)/Open]

[tain]

Dust puffed from Tain's feet as she pranced along through the sand near the top of the volcano, a stupid grin on her face and her eyes flashing with pleasure. This was way more fun than walking. If she danced along hard enough, sometimes the ground would shake underpaw. And once she'd scared up a rabbit, although she hadn't caught it because it ran away too fast.
The gray she-wolf grinned up at the blue desert sky, her eyes following a wispy cloud for a moment..hey, it looked sort of like a bird..and it had a rainbow in it..kind of pretty..
Thud.
Tain picked herself up off the ground, looking over her shoulder. Oh, she'd tripped on a rock. Whoops. Next time she would have to look where she was going or something.
Alright..enough of that. Where was Lan? He was supposed to be running behind her..and Jay, too, maybe, although he might have stayed behind in Aldgar territory. After all, Xinelil wouldn't attack a pup so Jay had been perfectly safe.
Yellow eyes scanned the horizon for the white wolf and paused on..a cactus. Well, it was a pretty nice one. Spines, flowers, the whole shebang. Obviously it wouldn't be a substitute for Lan but Tain supposed it was better than nothing..
Nah. Cactuses, while green and/or prickly, were not very moveable. Tain leaves off looking at the spiny plant and instead stares off into the distance, looking for the wolf.
Hmm. He didn't seem to be standing there in the far-off-distance. Well, Tain would have to howl for him. She wasn't very concerned about the alpha finding her, since the alpha, Tain knew, was out to lunch (and breakfast, and supper, too.)
"LaaaaaaAAAAnnnnn!!!"
Simple enough. If every creature named 'Lan' on the island didn't respond to that, Tain would be very suprised.

The she-wolf flopped down in the dust to wait, panting slightly in the summer heat and flicking her ears to keep flies away. When Lan showed up they could go looking for all the Zananririr wolves and play their Good Trick. Tain couldn't wait for that. It was going to be the most fun she'd had in weeks! And it was ridiculously easy, too. All they had to do was pretend to be Alphas.
Or Betas, maybe.
Nah, Alphas. Betas were impressive, but Tain didn't want to pretend she was one of them. She didn't look very much like a beta anyway. More like a small loner wandering around making trouble, but Tain figured that nobody would be able to tell the difference between that and 'Wolf that has been made Alpha, temporarily.'

OOC: Complete, 470 words. Tain, Lan, maybe Jay, and open.

[lan]

The feet of a whitened wolf immersed within the heated sands. Lan hesitated, retracting his paw from the foreign, grainy substance. He eyed it, as if in warning. After a few moments of this, he became uninterested and attempted to walk on the shifting surface once more. This time, two paws had managed to make contact. This eventually lead to three, then the complete set of four. Lan gave it a whiff, the minuscule grains deciding it was good idea to irritate his nose by sticking to its insides. This brought on snorting, sneezing, and the like. Whatever he attempted met no avail, however, and the wolf eventually gave up, now knowing that he would hold a personal grudge against... whatever these grains were called, and moved onward to a spiky-looking thing that had taken his attention.

It was green, tall and planty-looking. It also held these strange priks... Perhaps poking them would be a good idea. "Ow!!" Okay... maybe not.

Now what? He knew Tain had gone somewhere around here... But where? Beginning to second guess his decision, Lan let out a heated breath of air, the blistering heat unfamiliar compared to his Arctic conditions. Well, there was no way in hell he would remain with the pup and the alpha. That only lead to annoyance and trouble. Plus, he had no where else to go other than follow this odd wolf, Tain.

Satisfied with his decision, Lan was about to move onward when the sound of his name prevented him from moving for a few moments, slightly stunned by its volume. He was certain that had been Tain. Ah-ha!! He had been following the right trail. Continuing forward at a slightly faster momentum, Lan made his way, slowly but surely, in the vague direction of Tain.

And there she was, appearing to be fairly relaxed in that pile of sand. "AH-HA," he said aloud after spotting her. Once that was done with, took a seat near her, his gaze casted toward the beating sun, panting slightly. "Man, am I glad I'm not a black wolf," Lan stated to no one in particular, knowing he would be much warmer without his light colour.

There wasn't much to say after that. He shifted his glance toward Tain, raising a brow in question. What was this 'new game' she had been speaking of? Lan had nothing better to do with his time... Well, except for eating, but it didn't look like that would be happening any time soon.