Up In the Mountains

[kahlem]

Kahlem's claws tried to dig into the icy path, but it was hopeless. One more step and she could slip and tumble back down the mountain. What was she doing here anyways? Curiosity, of course. Even though the saying curiosity kills the cat was ringing through her mind, she didn't think much of it. Besides, last she looked, she was a wolf.

She glanced once up at the sky where the sun was beating down onto the snow and ice. It was a wonder of how the sun could be so bright and hot on her fur, yet the snow never melted. She had heard of avalanches from the snow that did melt, but those were sometimes rare. Of all things, I hope that sun at least melts some of the ice on this path.

Sighing, Kah lifted a paw and slowly walked along the icy path. She looked up at the tall snow cliffs around her, the thought of an avalanche strong in her mind. She knew nothing about these snow slides, but knew the only way to avoid them was to not be on the mountain. It didn't matter now, though, since she was.

There was probably only one good thing about being up here, and that was the fact that there was no other wolves. She usually was a social loner, but today she just wasn't in the mood to chat with anyone. Or worse, fight with any stupid loner who likes to beat up on the first wolf they see.

One of her paws suddenly slipped and Kah's claws scratched into the ice. She found her footing and slowly tried so stand up straight, slightly dazed. The fur on her neck and along her tail was bristling in fear, but she shook it off. At least if I die, no one will be around to laugh at me.

[miki]

With hear copper ears lied back, Meikou made her way up the mountainside, up towards the dens. Aldgar's dens. Her pack... Miki swallowed a hard lump in her throat, butterflies danced in her stomach. Who was all there? Did everyone hear her call? Would they accept her as the new alpha in place of Xin? Xin... Meikou blinked away unconscious tears. She shook her head and furrowed her brows with determination. No, she had to be brave. She couldn't be shy, weak, emotional Miki no longer! She needed to be, mature adult, alpha Miki. Alpha, Alphess. It sounded so foreign to her. She'd never even known the Alphas of her old pack that well, just their daughter, who'd been her best friend.

Miki couldn't help but sigh at the thought of her old pack life. Bitter sweet memories is what they where. She winced slightly away from that stray path and continued to focus on realitiy, which at the moment in current time was treading up Kinath. As Meikou made her way up the sound of paw steps echoed hers. For a while she thought her paw steps where just really echoing. She was up high in the mountains, surely any sort of small sounds would echo, right?

But as soon as she realized those echoing paw steps where not her own, she was suddenly on gaurd and alert as she'd ever been. Her muscles stiffened and her ears lied back as her butterscotch orbs searched for the echoing steps' owner. Then, a bit of color caught her eye as the sudden movement of someone almost falling got her full attention. Panicking, Miki cried out. "Careful!" She barked as the tundra fae maneuvered her way over to the other femme, forgetting this significant other could be of harm to her or her pack.

Once close enough to the femora, Miki made a path of paw prints for the other femora to follow. "You need to be careful, it'd be quite easy to fall off." She told the other femme with a smile. "I'm Meikou by the way," She offered her name before realizing once more she was alphess of Aldgar and this wolf was technically a trespasser. Wrinkling her nose, Miki put on her serious face. "I'm alpha of Aldgar, the pack that rules these lands, and you ma'am are trespassing. What is your reason for doing so, might I ask?" She felt a bit sorry for the femora who seemed nice enough. She couldn't image having a kind femme come up to her then doing a complete three-sixty in personality.

[kahlem]

Kahlem carefully followed the path, her heart beating fast at the thought of almost falling. "Thanks for helping me," she panted. "The name's Kahlem, but most just call me Kah." She was slightly taken aback by the wolf's sudden seriousness. Of all things to happen, she didn't want to get into a fight, especially up in the mountains. "I didn't mean to trespass. I wasn't really paying attention to where I was going. I guess you could say I was following my, um, stomach."

Kahlem took one step back, but not too far so she wouldn't slip again. The fur along her neck rose a little, though she was really scared than threatening. It was weird to her how wolves could go from nice and friendly, to suddenly wanting to attack her as soon as she let her guard down. "Please don't hurt me," she whined, taking another careful step back. She knew the alpha had a reason to be mad at her, but Kahlem had been attacked by so many "friendly" loners, she saw everyone as a wolf just out to get her.

She gulped a little, eyes staring at the alpha's paws instead of eyes. This wolf had saved her, but who knew what she was going to do to punish her. She'd lived a terrible life anyways, so who would miss her when she's dead anyways? She should've never even came up the mountains in the first place. She could've easily turned around long ago and gone back to her overprotective family to be safe forever. Besides, not being stuck in camp wasn't too bad. At least she was able to play with the pups. Now, she was going to be attacked by an angry Alpha, or if she did live, knowing her she might as well accidentally slip on the ice and fall.

[miki]

Meikou couldn’t help the smile that tugged at the corner of her lips as the other femme cowered. Never in her life did she ever think she could be intimidating to someone else. Being alpha might be a little fun, though she would never abuse her powers and authority. Being an alpha was a great honor and a privilege. A gift but yet a curse all the same. She recalled the stress being an alpha had put on Xin, and she was afraid that would be put on her as well, however. ‘I can do this. Xin wouldn’t have left me in charge if he didn’t think I couldn’t do it.’ She licked her lips and gulped.

Remembering about her company Meikou smiled and shook her head. “I will not hurt you. I was just merely warning you, if it had been another alpha you might not have been so lucky.” She smiled kindly to the femora before her. Flicking her tail ever so slightly, she turned her head and gazed up the mountain. The dens where not very far and hopefully the pack had gotten her howl, and with that everyone would be in the dens awaiting their alphess’ return. Their alphess, the word seemed so odd, foreign to her. It had not quite sunk in yet that she was now Aldgar’s alpha.

Licking her lips, Meikou turned her head back towards the other femme and smiled. “Come, our dens are not far, you look like you could use some rest. My pack will be kind.” She said, and soon thought of Kadhi. She knew he got a bit worked up over the smallest of things but she did not think he would be a problem, well maybe. She wasn’t sure how he would respond to her being an alpha. She’d always responded to him, as he was her higher up… However, now, he would have to listen to her. Would he? The command came from Xin, he’d left her in charge, would they all follow his wishes and respect her as their alphess? She felt a bit discouraged.

“Kah, right? Yes, if you would like, you may stay in our pack for as long as you see fit or even perhaps join. Our pack could probably use some more members.” She chuckled softly, coming off as more light hearted. She’d already scared the poor femora once; she did not want to do it again. Smiling, Miki jerked her head slightly towards the direction of the dens. Gesturing for her to follow, turning Meikou went on to hiking up the mountain tops back towards the dens.