Stay Strong (Descai)

[Ryker]

Ryker's heart beat inside his chest as he waited to make the call. He felt like he needed to address the pack as their new alpha. It had never been officially announced and he knew that some may not take the change of power well. He knew that it would take a while for them to see him as their alpha and not Vorilye. He knew that some would still look to his father for leadership even though the once king was now the beta to his son. Ryker knew he had made the right decision in keeping his father a beta. He needed his guidance and reassurance. The young alpha felt like he had been thrown into this situation with little to no training. He felt overwhelmed, stressed, and frightened but he knew that Descai couldn't have a weak alpha. He couldn't show weakness to them. They would chew him up and spit him out. He had known most of these wolves for the majority of his life but that didn't change anything. He needed their trust and their loyalty but he also needed their obedience. If he allowed himself to be a lax leader they would over run him. He needed to keep them on a tight leash until they understood that he was now the king and regardless of his age, they needed to listen to hm. It was a scary thought for Ryker to know that Descai was now in his paws. Every decision that he made would affect all of them. Every move he made would be watched and scrutinized. He had large paw prints to fill and he knew if he was anything less than his father... well he didn't want to think about what would happen then. He didn't care so much that the pack gossiped about him. That was an inevitable thing. What he cared about was letting Vorilye know that he made the right decision.

Ryker needed to kill the fear that he was feeling. The best way to do that was to jump head first and conquer what he was afraid of. He howled to the pack without a second thought. He told them to come to him. He stood in front of the dens, waiting, and thinking about what he had just done. Now he had to speak in front of them. He took a breath and told himself to stay strong.

[Angel]

The slender white form of a beautiful she wolf flitted through the dark and eerily foreboding trees of the Lleingas Woods, her flawless white coat a ridiculously stark contrast to the murky environment. Angel felt perfectly comfortable here though – Acerbus had been her home for the past two years and she didn’t recall ever having run into any trouble. As a result, the naïve femme’s attention was entirely focused on the hare she was stalking, rather than being as alert to her surroundings as she perhaps should have been. Hence when an unexpected noise suddenly exploded in her ears, Angel’s head jolted straight up in surprise and she hurriedly spun to scan the trees for danger. At recognising that the sound was in fact a summoning howl from the alpha’s eldest son, Ryker, Angel let out a bark of laughter. There was nothing to be afraid of! There was, however, a call to obey – and so the huntress turned and bolted for the mines, her intended prey forgotten as she raced to be the first one there.

Fortunately it wasn’t far to the dens; Angel let out a triumphant yip as she saw that the area outside the entrance was virtually empty save for the wolf who had howled in the first place. “Hi there, Ryker!” Angel cheerfully bounded over towards the black and gold coloured male, tail wagging excitedly. She came to an abrupt halt a few feet from him and planted her rump on the ground. “Hey, what’s up? What did you call us for? Is this gonna be a pack meeting?!” Angel’s blue eyes brightened at that thought; Descai hadn’t had an official gathering in a while now, and the social white huntress was eager to finally get the opportunity to talk with her packmates. She didn’t have a lot of opportunities for conversation these days, now that her pups had grown and were independent from their mother, and hadn’t yet had the chance to get to know many of the others in the pack. Indeed, Descai had changed so much recently that Angel wasn’t sure she even knew who was actually still in the pack anymore. Oh well, she guessed she would just find out once the others arrived.



((OOC: Terrible post but at least it's something.))