Beware the Darkness [Severus]

[Angel]

While Angel regarded all the wolves of Descai as her friends, she didn’t interact with them much, and today had been particularly boring. So the obvious solution was to go wandering outside of the pack’s territory markers in search of something interesting to do... And what a good decision that had been! The pretty white femme had come across the entrance to a large cave, and her explorations within it had revealed that it contained much more than she had expected; indeed there was an entire network of caves underneath the earth!

What was really weird was that she had this strange nagging feeling that she had been here before, although she couldn’t think why that would be... As she descended deeper into the cavern, however, the feeling soon passed, and her attention was distracted by the massive stalagmites growing from the slimy stone, and the difficult task of avoiding them when she could hardly see a thing. It sure was dark down here.

Angel paused as the strong musky smell of a rat assaulted her nostrils. It was close by, and although she was very unfamiliar with these hunting grounds she figured she may as well give it a go. So, using her hearing and sense of smell rather than her eyesight – which was pretty much useless in the pitch black cavern – the femme slowly tracked her prey. Suddenly, a squeak of fear alerted her to its presence right in front of her and she felt something brush against the fur of her right foreleg as the creature tried to make its escape from the dead-end it had apparently found itself in. Angel twisted awkwardly and blindly lunged down with her jaws, somehow managing to catch its rump with her sharp ivories. A second more accurately aimed bite and it was dead. She was victorious!

The white huntress lifted the rat in her jaws with satisfaction. Her packmates sure would be proud of her if they’d seen that! She wondered absently how the pack that lived here managed such difficult hunting, or whether they had claimed land above ground for hunting instead. Shrugging the question off, Angel turned and began picking her way back through the underground maze with the intent of bringing her kill to her friends in Kamari.

[Severus]

The grass rustled ever so quietly as the grey specked brute stalked his prey. He usually would be hunting in the cave system that was his home, but he had grown quite bored of feasting on rats all of the time and the face that Widow’s scent had reappeared, he figured that he would need to find bigger prey to fulfill both of their hunger. So Severus decided to venture outside of Aleru in hunt of larger prey. And to his luck, there was a small doe grazing not too far from the entrance into Aleru. The doe was on the small side of the scale but the alpha figured that she would be enough to hold two wolves over for a few days. He made sure to keep some distance as he stalked closer and closer to the oblivious animal. Once he was what he considered a comfortable distance, he prepared himself to make his move. He went in for the kill, but the doe was already on the move. He must have made too much noise during his preparation. He was prepared for a clean kill, not a chase, which but he switched gears and took off at full speed towards the doe.

It took longer than Severus would have liked, but he finally caught up to the doe and he finally was able to land the killing blow. Once the doe’s body went limp, he began to drag her back to the cave which took some time since the chase had ended some distance away from the cave entrance. Once inside the cave however, a foreign scent entered his nostrils, causing him to drop his and Widow’s meal, almost completely forgetting about it as he trotted off following the trail that the scent left.

The scent brought him into one of the deeper parts of the cave where stalagmites jetted out of the earth and that was when he saw her. At first all he could see was a white wolf that appeared to be a female. As his brown orbs adjusted to the dim light though, he noticed that she had a rat in her mouth, and that was when all hell broke loose as he lunged at the unsuspecting female. “How dare you steal from my lands,” he said through bared teeth.

Words: 387
Tags: Angel
Muse: Decent
OCC: This will be Severus's final transformation into a better wolf I believe. Also, he won't seriously hurt Angel because I would hate for her pretty figure to get injured. Also, I added the fact that Widow's scent reappeared because Fao PMed me saying that she wanted to keep her.

[Angel]

Angel trotted at a leisurely pace through the cavern, marvelling at the strange beauty of the rock formations around her as she made her way back up towards the surface. She must be getting close now; the darkness had receded a little, giving way to a dim light – still ominous and grimly oppressive but at least it allowed her to see the vague outlines of the stalagmites around her. In fact, the darkness really didn’t bother her at all, apart from being a slight inconvenience in trying not to trip over the uneven ground. She wasn’t one to get nervous in the kind of environment which normal wolves found spooky or unsettling; her home in the murky forests of Acerbus proved testament to this.

Of course, the huntress realised that this was not her home but the territory of an entirely different pack (no wolf, no matter how ignorant, could miss the alpha’s scent this far in) but she wasn’t particularly concerned about trespassing into this pack’s land. What was the worst that could happen? They would surely be forgiving of a sweet innocent lady just looking for some food to bring back to her packmates – it wasn’t as if there wasn’t enough prey to go around. Angel was relaxed about border lines so she assumed that others should be too.

Or not… A vicious accusing snarl broke through the darkness, shattering the white femme’s cheerful mood and immediately jolting her mind into full-blown panic mode.

Angel’s sky blue eyes opened wide in pure terror at the sight of the massive brute lunging towards her, and her jaws fell wide open to emit a loud fearful whine, her prey falling forgotten to the ground. “No! Stop! Help! I don’t- please! No!” The slim white femme attempted to skitter back away out of her attacker’s reach but in her haste her paws slipped on the dark slim stone and she ended up crashing into a stalagmite behind her. Still whining and whimpering hysterically, Angel squeezed her eyes shut tight and all of her muscles tensed in anticipation of the coming blow as she cowered with her side pinned against the rock.



((OOC: Severus can take his anger out on her until he realises that she’s not fighting back – I don’t mind where he bites her or how badly as long as it’s not gonna be a permanent injury.))

[Severus]

Brown eyes watched amusingly as the trespasser tried to back away from the male Alpha from where his lunge at her had landed him. He let a booming, maniacal laugh escape from his maw as he continued to watch the femme’s failed attempts to escape. With each step the she-wolf took backward, Severus took a step forward as he began to corner her. Severus could see fear in the she-wolf’s wide, sky blue eyes and that gave him more satisfaction then it should have. He was usually tender towards females, but the anger that had been brewing up inside of him made him forget his previous morals. He could care less whether the wolf was a female or male, all he cared about was making this wolf pay for trespassing into his lands and stealing his food.

The femme started to whine and the sounds of her whines were like music to the alpha’s ears. He was an alpha and alphas were supposed to be feared, and that was exactly what was going on at this very moment and that gave him great satisfaction. As Severus continued to close the distance, he watched as the she-wolf slipped and crashed into a stalagmite behind her. “You truly are pathetic, aren’t you,” he stated, letting out another laugh. There was no doubt that the she-wolf’s crash into the stalagmite would hinder her ability to fight back. Some wolves would think that that would be punishment enough since stalagmites aren’t something you would want to run in to. Not only can they give you cuts from their jagged points, but with enough force, they could easily break the bones of a wolf like the one that was here now. But to Severus, her crash was not enough of a punishment. She needed to learn that Ultoris isn’t a pack that should be messed with and that Severus himself wasn’t one to be messed with.

The alpha lunged at the ivory she-wolf. He wasn’t going to go into the kill immediately because that wouldn’t be fun at all. He was going to make sure that she suffered a slow and painful death. Upon landing on her back, Severus bit the scruff of her neck and then swiped his sharp talons against the delicate female’s side. Immediately the smell of blood entered his nares, but that wasn’t enough, he wanted more and he was going to make sure that he did.

Words: 406
Tags: Angel
Muse: Decent
OCC: Since this is so far behind, I was wondering if it would be okay with you to make this thread short. Also, sorry for taking forever to reply!

[Angel]

Angel remained in her awkwardly indefensible position, half-lying on the stalagmite pressed into her back as the large stranger approached. She couldn’t actually see him with her eyes shut, but she could hear his cruel laughter and his taunt at how pathetic she was, and she feared with absolute certainty that he was going to strike her any moment. Her response to this was another involuntary whine along with the releasing of the contents of her bladder, which unfortunately for the disgraced hunter only served to further confirm his words.

Her body ached terribly all along on side, and she wouldn’t be surprised if the fall had caused some nasty bruising. The combination of the sharp rock on one side and a savagely territorial brute on the other was petrifying, and the poor female would give anything to get out of the situation. Her position really couldn’t be any worse; doom was fast approaching and she would likely be killed and left to rot here in this horrid dark hole all alone.

Finally the blow she had been expecting arrived. It came in the form of a heavy mass thumping down on her back as the alpha crushed the frail femme’s body into the stony floor. Before she could even recover from the shock of having the air forced from her lungs, she felt an acute pain in the back of her neck and a harsh tear of flesh as claws repeatedly raked down her previously undamaged flank. With horror, Angel realised that she could feel her blood seeping out and staining her immaculate white fur a dirty crimson wherever her attacker’s claws and jaws struck. Spurred into action by the pain, the frantic female re-opened her eyes and began to struggle, desperately trying to find a way to escape the punishment.


Severus

[Severus]

As if the pretty, white female hadn’t made enough of a fool of herself, the strong, musky scent of urine that entered his nostrils made him realize that she had literally peed herself as a result of her fear of him. He couldn’t blame her, if he was in her position, he would have probably peed himself too. Severus could be very menacing at times which, in reality, gave the she wolf every right to be terrified. However, Severus was too caught up in his aggression to realize that, so instead her fear continued to amuse him, even more so now that she had peed herself. “As if you haven’t made enough of a fool of yourself already,” he chided with joy.

Right after he landed his blow, Severus could feel the female’s body collapse on the stony ground. Upon landing on the stone, cold ground, Severus could hear a gasp for air emitting from the female’s maw. This cause him to think that the she wolf has passed out, but that thought was soon disproved when she began to struggle in attempt to get away from her attacker. “Oh, no you don’t, “he snarled. In order to incapacitate the female, he caught ahold of the scruff of her neck and bashed her head against the same stalagmite that the petite, ivory wolf had stumbled on just moments ago. Of course he didn’t use enough force to kill her, he just used enough to knock her unconscious since he still wasn’t satisfied with the amount of torture her had already afflicted upon her.

However, before he could continue with his torturing, a flash back blasted full force into his memory, and suddenly he was reliving the day that his father murdered his mother and then killed himself. It seemed so real for he could clearly hear the screams of his mother and the breaking of his father’s bones as he ran full force into the tree. It was there that the flashback ended and brought Severus back into reality.

It was as that flashback had made something in him change, for his anger was replaced by guilt and worry and it all came flooding in at once. His brown eyes stared at the unconscious body of the female, he had to do something about her and had to do it kick. For the third time, he wrapped his jaws around the scruff of her neck, but this time, it was done with tender and care. He began to slowly drag her body back towards the entrance of Aleru. The dead weight of her body made the job tasking, but it’s the least he could do for attacking her, and a little over an hour later, Severus and the white female were at the mouth of the cave. He had been in the cave for so long that the sunshine blinded him momentarily, but once the sun’s rays stopped causing him pain, he gently let go of the female, placing her in a nice patch of grass.

“I’m so sorry, I hope that you can forgive me in time,” he said before he ran back in the cave. He was too ashamed of what he had done to the feel that he couldn’t face her whenever she was to wake up. He doubted that she heard his apology since she was unconscious, but he hoped that the fact that she would find herself outside of the cave and not in harm’s way anymore would make her realize that Severus was sorry for what he had done.

Words: 595
Tags: Angel
Muse: Really good!
OCC: The end