Somethin' Bad's About To Happen (Zofia)

[Ryker]

Ryker hiked his butt all the way up the cliff known as Ryn-Eldbel. It wasn't as easy of a task as it seemed. There were rough, jagged rocks littered everywhere as well as explosives. He had never actually seen any explosions and he doubted that there were any actually there but on the off-chance that there were, Ryker didn't feel like getting exploded into a million pieces.

When he reached the top, he looked over at the water beneath him crashing against the earth. This was one of those spots that Ryker thought that he'd never travel back to again. His mother had committed suicide here. Only months ago, this place held some of his darkest memories. But now, it was one of his favorite places. Perhaps it was the rough climb up here that attracted him. Maybe it was the threat of falling. Whatever it was, this place made him feel at peace. He liked to come up here to think and reflect.

It's fair to say that Ryker didn't get the best hand of cards but he was done feeling sorry for himself. The past was the past and there was nothing he could do about it. All he could do was look forward. His fourth birthday was quickly approaching.It was hard to think that his life was already almost half-over and what had he done with it? Mourned for his family? He was disgusted with how he had spent the past 3 years and 5 months doing nothing. He had been given the gift of life. He was the one who had survived. The only pup from his litter to have made it. He needed to celebrate that fact instead of feeling sorry for those he lost. However, that didn't change the fact that he felt the need to do something. His father had left Descai in his paws with the hope that Ryker would make it better. He had heard an old parable about a man who had given money to each of his sons and each did something to create more money except for one. The one son had burried the money and given it back to his father. Ryker refused to be that son.

He knew just how to make Descai better.

[Zofia]

Green eyes starred in wonder as the she wolf entered the lands known as Acerbus. Even though these lands were also owned by her father, she had never been in them before. However that was about to change since her confinement to the lands of Kamari had ended now that she was a yearling. Her mom always ensured that her sister Valeria, her brother Atlas, and her never wandered off too far. Now that she was older, she couldn’t really blame her mom for doing so because she never realized how big Descai’s territory was, and she could have easily gotten lost or even injured. The thought of her mother and her brother caused her tail to drop slightly. No one had seen Sarin in a long time. Word had it that she ran off again for good, but Zofia found that hard to believe since she knew that her mother would never do that to her offspring. The whereabouts of Atlas was also a mystery, but the information that she had found out about his parentage gave her an idea to what had happened. Before Atlas’s disappearance, Zofia learned that not too long after mating with Vorilye, Sarin had mated with a male from the east. So even though that they were born in the same litter, Atlas wasn’t Vorilye’s which caused Vor to be repulsed by the brute. Her father’s repulsion of Atlas gave her the notion that maybe he was the reason that her brother had disappeared, but she never dared to ask.

Before long, the slender Mackenzie Valley she wolf found herself ascending some type of a cliff with jagged rocks being the footing. She had never been here before, but she had heard tales about this place. The name of this area was Ryn-Eldbel and it was man made. The humans had made an entrance into something called a mine by using explosives, and the aftermath formed this ridge. It is said that there were still explosives scattered on the ground, but Zofia found that hard to believe. So she carelessly bounded up the rocky terrain, sending rocks tumbling everywhere as she ascended the ridge. About midway up, she caught the scent of another wolf that had made the same trip up here not too long ago. The mystery wolf smelled of Descai, yet she couldn’t put a name to the scent. Nonetheless, her tail perked back up and began to wag furiously as she continued bounding up the side. She almost slid back down a couple times the rest of the way up, but she finally made it.

Panting heavily, she flopped down on the soft grass. It took her a minute or two to realize that the wolf she had caught scent of was not too far away on the edge of the flat area. He was completely black, but had a gold muzzle and gold paws like her. The rims of his ears were also gold. At first she thought it was her father, but the scent didn’t match. He looked like her in a way, but she had never seen him before. She knew that she had some half-siblings, but she had never met any of them before. Due to the similarities, Zofia made the assumption that he was one of them. “Are you one of my half-siblings,” she asked the mystery brute.

words: 562
muse: Decent
tags: Ryker
occ: It's been forever since I've RPed o.0

[Ryker]

Ryker had spent most of his childhood in Kamari but that was when it wasn't ruled by Descai. A pack named Haishin lived there at that time. Whenever he thought of that pack, memories of his twin brother fogged his brain. Taqqiq was a thorn in Ryker's side most of the time. He was so soft and squishy. He cared too much. He even "adopted" that little cougar cub before he died. He was so righteous and forgiving. His soul was pure. Ryker had hated his twin for taking so much of their mother's attention. Taqqiq had been the center of the universe and Ryker had been pushed to the side and forgotten. Aside from all the hurt and anger, Ryker loved his brother. They were totally opposite beings but they still had shared a connection. Taqqiq was the only real brother that Ryker had ever had. With his fourth birthday ,their fourth birthday, approaching, family had never been so important before. There was a saying that friends come and go but family stayed forever. Unfortunately, that wasn't the case for Ryker. Family seemed the most flighty out all relationships Ryker has had.

"Are you one of my half-siblings?" Ryker heard the voice of a young female. Ryker had many half-siblings and he had met most of them but Sarin had chosen to keep her young in Kamari where she was the most comfortable. Ryker remembered Sarin fondly. She had trained him as a fighter and helped turn him into the wolf he was today. He considered her a friend. He also knew that she wasn't known for staying in one spot for long. There was a time that she left the territory for a little while and shacked up with a white male from the East, thus resulting in Atlas. The rumor was the she had left for good and was never coming back. Sarin had always been a bit off so it wouldn't surprise him if that were the case. Ryker had met Sarin's young shortly after they were born but none of them would remember him.

Ryker stood and turned to look at the white and gold she-wolf that stood before him. She had a golden maw like himself and the golden paws of his father. She was almost like a reversed image of himself in much smaller form. He looked at her with kind eyes. He had no quarrel with this young wolf. She was family. She was one that he had taken this position to protect. To prosper. Though he didn't know her personally, she was part of this pack and part of his family. Ryker wanted his family to be close to him. "Yes, my name is Ryker and you must be Zofia." He remembered the white and gold wolf from when he had first met her. She was still young. A little over a year old by the looks of it. He wanted to see if she was surprised that he knew her name.

His kind reaction to her felt strange and foreign to him but also pleasant. He didn't want his family to think of him as an evil tyrant or as a monster. He wanted them to love him just as he wanted to love them. When Ryker saw Zofia, something in his brain connected her to his own siblings though they looked nothing alike. Perhaps the universe was giving him a second chance at having a family.

[Zofia]

"Yes, my name is Ryker and you must be Zofia,” her half-brother said. Her green orbs grew wide in shock that the male knew her name. “Yes I am,” she replied slightly dazed. She did not ever recall meeting Ryker, especially since when she was a pup, her mother kept her, Valeria, and Atlas isolated from the outside world for the most part. “How do you know me,” she asked her sibling.

As a pup, she could never understand why mother wouldn’t let them venture off too far, but as she grew older, she heard things about her mother. The most common thing that she heard was that her mother’s sanity was questionable. From what she could remember, her mother seemed relatively sane, but then again, she was just a pup and was relatively ignorant. For quite some time Zofia didn’t want to believe that her mother was slightly off the rocker. She loved her mother and it hurt her to think ill of her mother. However, the more she thought about it, the more it made sense, and she slowly started to accept that her mother was never quite right.

Then the thought hit her, maybe Ryker knew more about her mother and her brother’s disappearance. She badly wanted to know what happened to her beloved mother and brother, but a part of her was slightly hesitant. What if they were dead? Zofia didn’t think that she could handle that because she still had hope that they were out there somewhere despite the amount of time that has passed since they were last seen. If they were dead, Zofia couldn’t necessarily go to anyone for comfort. Valeria loved their mother, but she wasn’t fond of Atlas. She couldn’t go to her father because for one, she never was able to tell if her father ever loved her mother, and two, he hated Atlas. Other than Valeria and her father, she had no one that she could run to, so that would leave her on her own to mourn in the loss.

Her curiosity ended up getting the best of her. “Hey Ryker, do you know what happened to my mother and brother,” she asked as she tried her best to prepare herself for whatever response she would get.

Words: 379
Muse: Getting there
Tags: Ryker
OCC: Wrote this during my Postcolonial class xD

[Ryker]

Ryker was not at all surprised by his half-sibling's response. Her green eyes had gotten wide in shock. The innocence of the young pup lifted Ryker's spirits a bit. She asked him how he knew her. It was strange to think that Ryker hardly knew some of his own siblings, his own flesh and blood. " I came to see you after you were first born. I'm not surprised that you don't remember." Ryker had gone and seen all of his half-siblings births. It was sort of a tradition now for him.

Ryker thought about all the children that his father had had. It was difficult to even remember them all, let alone count them. An alpha has two roles within a pack. The first of those being protection and leadership. Vorilye had protected Descai from harm since before he had even been born. He had led Descai to be one of the largest and most powerful packs on the island. The second was to make sure that his children lived on to continue his legacy. Though all of Ryker's siblings were now deceased, there were hardly any deaths in the other litters. Vorilye had filled that role as well. Now, It was Ryker's turn to protect and lead Descai onto bigger and greater things than Vorilye had ever dreamed of. The thought of finally having sole breeding rights to the females of the pack wasn't a bad thought either. Though he was related to most of them which would hinder Ryker in his second role. He had never really thought about fatherhood and fatherhood really wasn't what he was looking for. He wanted someone to keep him company at night. Or a couple someones.

Zofia's voice broke his train of thought and he was brought back to reality. She asked him if he knew were Sarin and Atlas had gone to. Ryker knew what it was like to have a parent run out on you. When they leave you behind, it's the worst feeling. When Ryker's real mother had committed suicide, it felt like she had abandoned him. He imagined that Zofia was feeling the same way. He wasn't sure how to tell her that he had no idea where they had went to. He was the alpha. He was supposed to know everything. Well, that's what he had once thought. Ryker had recently come to realize that he didn't know as much as he thought that he had. This job was harder than it looked and it didn't look like it was getting any easier.

"No, I don't. They left without so much as a word though. I'd like to think they're together. I'm sorry," Ryker felt that honesty was the best policy in this situation. Zofia was old enough to not need to be lied to. He apologized partly for her mother and brother disappearing and partly because he didn't have an answer for her. He wanted to have all the answers but, he simply didn't have them.

[Zofia]

Zofia slightly cocked her head to the side as she listened to Ryker talk. He informed her that he had met her and her siblings when they were first born. Of course she wouldn’t remember that because her eyes were closed. “Well it is nice to formally meet you, Ryker,” she said in her bubbly tone. It was always nice to meet other wolves. She loved Valeria very much, but it was nice to converse with someone else for a change. She wanted to get to know her half-sibling more and possibly befriend him. She always liked making new friends so this would be a perfect opportunity for that. Then the thought hit her, she had almost completely forgot that Ryker was the new alpha of Descai. Her sister resented him and she knew that if Valeria found out that she had befriended him, that she would never forgive her. Then again, Zofia knew that Valeria loved her family so maybe she wouldn’t get too mad about her befriending him.

The Mackenzie Valley she wolf’s tail drooped as the brute notified her that he didn’t have the slightest idea about her mother and brother’s whereabouts. Maybe it was time to accept that Sarin and Atlas were gone forever and move on with her life. This would be hard to do though since she was the type to always stay positive about things. But maybe it was time to break the habit for this occasion and be realistic for once. If they were still alive, they would have returned already or at least Atlas would have since her and him were very fond of each other. The only explanation is that they were gone forever and Zofia decided to try and learn to accept it. “Thank you for being honest,” she said in a soft voice.

Zofia decided to concentrate one getting to know her half-brother better to try and get her mother and brother out of her mind. She knew close to nothing about him other than that they had the same father, he was older than her, and he was the new alpha. “So tell me about yourself, brother.”

Words: 360
Tags: Ryker
Muse: Pretty good!
OCC: <3

[Ryker]

“Well it is nice to formally meet you, Ryker.”

Zofia's tone was bubbly and soft, like a child's. Ryker's lips pulled into a small smile. "It's nice to formally meet you as well, Zofia," Ryker's voice was tender and soft. He felt no need for hostility towards his own flesh and blood. Zofia was no threat to him, she was family. Ryker hadn't made very many friends in the pack. He mostly just kept to himself because it was easier for him this way; however, it was nice to have a pleasant conversation with another of his kind.

For a few moments, Ryker had forgotten that he was the new alpha. It was nice to not have to think and re-think about every action he took. He didn't have to think about the future of the pack and his role in whether or not it succeeded. There was a lot of controversy about Vorilye's decision. Ryker knew for a fact that Valeria had wanted the job and he suspected that others did as well. He knew their eyes would be on him, waiting for him to make a mistake. Waiting for their chance to say that he wasn't a fit leader. They thought this job was easy. They thought they could do a better job. They were wrong. Had any of them been chosen, they'd be in the exact same spot with no prior training and only going off their gut. Hoping, that their pack would put their trust in them just as Vorilye had.

“So tell me about yourself, brother.”

Now there was a question. What to tell? What to leave out? What was appropriate for his young half-sister? He didn't want to give her nightmares of his hellish life story but on the other hand, lying wasn't the best route in this situation. If he lied, she'd eventually figure it out and he'd lose her trust. Though it may have sounded silly, Ryker needed the trust of each member. Each one of them counted.

Ryker thought to himself a moment longer, deciding what he was going to say and then laughed to himself. He hadn't talked about everything that had happened to him in a long time, if ever. So the thought of revealing his life story to a pup not even mature was a little funny.

"I was born in Kamari to my mother, Kallik, along with three sisters and a twin brother. Kallik was taking refuge from our father after telling him of her pregnancy. He didn't believe her. He thought that she was after power and that she was making the whole thing up. Instead of being Descai's omega, Kallik ran to Haishin, the pack that occupied Kamari before we did. I think I was 8 months old before I met my father. The day I met him, a cougar attacked my mother and siblings. He and Kallik had managed to kill the cougar but not before it took two of my sisters with it. " He paused, leaving out the part that he had almost died in the attack. The cougar had him in it's mouth but his mother had knocked him free, saving his life. He continued, "My brother and I found ourselves here not long after the attack. However, the alphess of Haishin was after Vorilye and while my brother and I were sitting by the lake, she attacked my brother believing that he was our father. He died, but so did the alphess. Ever since then, Shayde had become like a surrogate mother to me. She helped me deal with all of the deaths that had happened. I haven't seen my other sister in a couple years;however, I'd like to believe that she's still out there somewhere."

Ryker hoped that after hearing a modified version of the story, one that left out gruesome details, that Zofia might understand him a bit better. Maybe, she wouldn't believe that he was nothing but a spoiled brat like some other pack members did. Maybe if he reached out to her, he wouldn't get hurt.

"What about you?"