Good Feelings (open)

[Zirena]

Zirena had been venturing farther and farther away from the dens in recent weeks. She had been entranced in the beauty and wonder of the world around her. Everything was new and exciting. There were many new smells and things to explore. Today, she had traveled completely through Kamari, which took a long time on short legs, and was now in this new place. She had no idea what it was called but she had followed a butterfly here. She had chased it and pawed at it and jumped at it as it fluttered higher and higher. It was a pretty blue butterfly that she had started following in Kamari. She had hardly noticed the scent change and was completely entranced in the butterfly and wanting to catch it. "Come here, flutterby! I only wanna play! Come here!"she called to it but it was ignoring her! She continued to chase it but it just flew up so high that she couldn't see it anymore. She huffed and plopped her rump down on the ground. It wasn't until then that she had realized that she was lost. She didn't recognize anything around her or any of the smells. The young wolf began to panic. She knew she was in a new place but she didn't feel upset until now. Her golden eyes looked around as they threatened tears. Her breathing became abnormal as if she was about to cry and her ears fell flat on her head. "Mommy!Daddy!"She yelped, as if they were just around the corner. She feared that she would never see her family ever again, that she had made some fatal mistake and that she would be lost out here for the rest of her life. She hadn't yet understood the concept of death so obviously she would just have to live on her own for the rest of her life. Never again being able to see her brothers or Sly.

Her lip trembled and tears fell down her cheeks. She wanted to go home. She didn't want to play anymore. She looked around again, still sniffling with tears coming down her face. It was hard to see in through the blur of water covering her eyes but she thought she saw something she had never seen before. Suddenly, she became only interested in going to see it. It was a weird looking creature that she hadn't seen before. She picked herself up and wiped the tears off of her face. While still sniffling, she walked over to the creature. It slithered along the ground and had a funny looking thing on the end of it's tail. It had brown diamond type shapes on it's back. Zirena followed it at a short distance, watching it. She wanted to go over and touch it to see if it was squishy..but that wouldn't be nice to surprise it. She would just keep following it to see where it was going to go. It looked like it was going somewhere important. Maybe it was going somewhere fun!

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She had practically lost Lucian in the fog and was now just walking. She wasn't sure if she had gone through any pack territory but she hadn't smelled any scent markers. She stopped for a moment to look around her. It was quiet, besides the natural sounds of animals and insects around her. It had been a while since she had actually stopped to listen after meeting Lucian. But Faolan just guessed she would find him sometime. Can't be that hard, she was on an island, not like he could go really without having to swim really far to land.

Her ears perked up at a voice. It was probably not even a few yards away from her. She started towards it, was that crying? She though to herself as she continued forward. When she was just a yard away she noticed a wolf. "What is a pup doing out here all alone?" She asked out loud to no one in particular. Then the sound of a type of loud rattling nose. She looked around her, snakes were not her most favorite animal. Noticing that the sound of it wasn't close to her, she then noticed the pup was following something. Her eyes widened and took off towards the pup, no way was she going to let a snake hurt a pup. Snake bites were fatal and if she wasn't mistaken, the rattle was of a rattlesnake, and one of the most deadliest.

"GET AWAY FROM IT!" She yelled to the pup, charging towards the snake. One way to stop a snake, step on the back of its head, and do it with extreme caution. She needed to be smart about this otherwise she or the pup or both of them would get bit. She quickly went over what she could use and what to do if one of them were to be bitten. She knew not to flinch, but did the pup? She would have to get the pup away from the snake before it bit the pup and Faolan was not positive that the area had what she would need to help with the snake bite.


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[Zirena]

As Zirena was quietly following the strange creature that might become her new playmate, she was making quite a bit of noise. She stepped on twigs and dry grass and almost tripped over herself. She wasn't experienced in the least bit on following. She wasn't stalking this creature as she had no intent on killing it. Regardless, the amount of noise that she made hardly seemed to bother the creature. It didn't look like it had any ears anyway so she bet that it couldn't hear her. That would be weird to play with someone that didn't have ears. It would be hard for her to tell them what they were going to play. Zirena always picked the games that she played with her family because she was the best game picker! Everyone loved the games she picked..or at least that was what she believed. Zirena was a very young wolf and was quite selfish and self-centered as most children are. While she was following this creature, she had forgotten completely that she didn't know where she was. Her tracking ability was also very minimal so her ability to find and scent and then follow it all the way home was minimal at best anyway. Her best luck of getting back home would be if a wolf brought her home or her parents found her. She hadn't thought about how worried they may be about her. She had only been concerned with the butterfly she was chasing when she had left the land of her father and mother. She didn't often think about her actions would affect others around her that she cared about.

All of a sudden, there came a loud voice and for a second, she thought it might be her Mommy. She turned and looked with a smiling face, ready to run to her mother and tell her all about the adventure she just had. But instead, it was a white female she didn't recognize, yelling at her to get away from the creature that she had found. She ran a yard or two away from the creature. She wasn't used to being yelled at like that. She had no idea what this female wanted to do with the creature. It was then that she remembered that she didn't know where she was and that she was even more lost than before she had found the creature. She began to cry again. She didn't know this strange white female. She didn't know if the female would hurt her or not. She did her best at hiding herself in the grasses but her sniffling and soft crying didn't help her disguise.

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Though she didn’t look it from her outward appearance, Shayde was deeply worried. The pups had grown so quickly in such a short amount of time, almost to the point of not even needing supervision at all. Shayde was spending more and more time away from the pups lately, a fact that saddened her just a bit. But she needed her space, and the pups needed to start assimilating into the pack. This was for their own good. It was just a little painful for the first-time mother. What pained her more, however, was discovering that Zirena was simply gone. Neither Zephyros nor Sypher knew of her whereabouts, and Shayde didn’t dare tell Vorilye at all. She was more than capable of tracking down their daughter. Besides. He had bigger things to worry about. When she finally found her daughter’s scent, Shayde let out a sigh of relief. It wasn’t terribly fresh, but it wasn’t old either. Zirena had passed this way within the day. With a huff of contempt, the red femme trudged after her daughter. The little femme would get a good talking to for this one. Wandering off without telling anyone... These pups would be the death of the Descai beta. To Shayde’s horror, Zirena’s scent passed over the Descai border. There were no other scents nearby, none powerful at least, so the chances of her daughter being pupnapped were slim. But that didn’t quell the fear in Shayde’s heart. She picked up her pace, loping across the border into I’queyer as quickly as she could. Her brown eyes darted here and there, searching for the distinguishing red fur her daughter possessed, the telltale sign that Zirena was Shayde’s progeny. The young pup’s scent had grown stronger, closer, but Shayde’s heart still pounded furiously within its cage. They were outside Descai terra. While Shayde was certain Vorilye would rush to her aid, she had a doubtful hunch that he wouldn’t make it in time to save them should they be surrounded by loners. She needed to find her daughter. Now. The sound of a crying pup caused Shayde to perk up instantaneously. “Zirena!” she cried, bounding towards the pup’s cries. Sure enough, Zirena was just up ahead, crouched low to the ground, sniffling in fright. Shayde didn’t even stop to think what was happening. She rushed to her daughter’s side, licking the young pup comfortingly. When she looked up and saw the white femme, the fur along her spine stood at attention. With a warning snarl, Shayde stepped in front of Zirena protectively. “You had best not have touched a single hair on my daughter’s head.” This femme may have been bigger than she was, but Shayde was certain her motherly protectiveness would give her the strength she needed to best any foe. words:: Four-Hundred and Eighty-Five tags:: Zirena and @wolfangelgirl ooc:: Mommy to the rescue <3

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As another wolf came bounding towards the pup, Fao practically slid across the grass to a stop a few feet away from the two. Her small snow white form relaxing to show that she wasn't going to harm the pup. But the rattle of the snake had her full attention at the moment, and whether the new femme wolf would attack her are not, she sprang up and pounced forward, carefully but swiftly jumping on the snake with a paw behind the snake's head, keeping a firm grip on it so it wouldn't bite her or slither away.

"I'm no harm to you or your pup but I would be just a bit more concerned with the creature of impending death now beneath my paws." she said as she breathed a sigh of relief with the snake safely secure.

"The rattling sound is what got me running towards her. I was just as curious as a pup and almost met my own doom with one of these little devils. Didn't want her to get hurt." she said, nodding to the pup, the snake hissing beneath her paws and its tail writhing around trying to escape her.

She looked down at it and pressed firmly down just to be safe, it's mouth opening wide to reveal pin sharp fangs.

"Though if you want you can get a closer look now," she said, looking up to the pup, then she turned her head to the mother, "I swear on my life that I will not let this thing go until it is properly taken care of. Trust me."

She bowed her head to the wolf, relaxing her entire body and letting her tail hang down, ears back but alert. Her bi-colored eyes looking over the two wolves with interest and curiosity. Her snow white fur lying flat, while her nose twitched, taking in the two wolves scents and the scents around them. This was no time to get jumped. She mentally went over what she would do if she did need to fight. She would submit but that was as long as they didn't completely attack or try and kill her. She was well fed and rested, but she wouldn't put the pup in danger. Even if it was a trap, she would take the snake with her somehow. She was good at catching snakes but hadn't had a huge hand in killing them without getting almost bit or bit even.

[Zirena]

Zirena was just laying there, sniffling with her tears blurring her vision. There were some bugs crawling around on her paws and she didn't even bother to get them off. That was how upset she was and how scared she was. What was that? It was Mommy! Zirena's face lit up as she saw her mom. She was so excited she didn't even see the white female slide on the ground, which she would have thought was hilarious. Still snuffing up the last bit of her crying, she rubbed her body along her mother's legs after she had gotten a comforting tongue bath from her. Mommy was here! She wouldn't have to live the rest of her life out here with no one around her!

Mommy seemed angry though. But not at her so that was good. Zirena hid behind her Mommy's legs. Zirena was still quite small and short so to her, her mother was a good thing to hide behind. She wasn't normally a frightened puppy. No, she was brave! But, with everything that she had been through today, she didn't want to be brave. She wanted to go back home and see Zeph and Syph and Daddy and Sly. Maybe she would even take a nap in the dens with all of the familiar smells of home around her.

Peeking around her Mother's legs, she saw that the white female had captured the creature that she had found! Wow, she must be REALLY brave! Zirena herself hadn't even dared to do that. The white female said that she didn't want to hurt her and that she was more concerned with the creature that would bring "impending death"... whatever that meant. She also told her that she was just as curious as she was as a pup and that she almost met her own doom with one of them. Doom was a funny word. Doom. Dooooooom. Doooooooooooommmmmmmmmm.Zirena laughed a little at how funny that word sounded. She didn't think about how random her laugh would have been to the adults around her.

The white female also said that she could go look at it now! She looked up at her Mommy, now by her shoulder, and said: "Can I Mommy?"Her eyes were full of excitement and anticipation. Her paws danced on the ground as they wanted to go closer to the creature and check it out. Surely Mommy would let her go. The white female said that she swore on her life! That was pretty serious. Zirena felt that the asking part was only a formality but, she would ask anyway. She knew that she would be in trouble in a few minutes anyway. So, she might as well get her fun while she can.