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Absolute Territory [Lion!]
« on: December 16, 2017, 12:39:27 am »
The Midhaven was a place that was often eerily quiet in certain places, away from the small clusters of people and their settlements. The din that echoed down from the heavenly cities above and the scuttering of small creatures in the dark bouncing and echoing off of forgotten, disheveled streets and the buildings within was nothing short of spooky.

Not that Morrigan minded in the slightest.

Her wet, dark blue nose was currently buried in the dirt as she snuffled around on all fours, tiny blue paws carrying her through the rubble with surety and confidence as she bounded over fallen structures and poked her head into old dumpsters and the occasional shell of an automobile long since rotten and started the slow decent of being eaten by the rotting earth.

She was on the hunt for something good, and sometimes when she got too focused on a task, she tended to get tunnel vision and forget about some of the golden rules taught to her by her family, like keeping her eyes, ears, and nose pricked for her surroundings. Always be aware of your surroundings, they would tell her, over and over again constantly beating it into her head. She was totally aware of them!

Even right now as she passed a scent line that crossed into the territory of other wolves! Totally aware of it and not at all chasing a rat that went scurrying past because woof she was kinda hungry!

She didn't even notice the scent line as she bounded right over it, darting around nooks and crannies, under and over haphazardly stacked garbage piles, yipping playfully with that doggy grin of hers as she chased after the rodent with excitement bursting in every movement... Until it finally ducked into a hole in a building that even she couldn't squeeze through. She let out a whine, pinning her tall ears back as she stuffed her muzzle into it and pawed and digged, old floorboards creaking dangerously underneath even her weight as she shifted and tried to get into it, until finally she put a paw down on the wrong board and the old material cracked and gave under her weight.

She let out a surprised yelp as she fell down with the debris and landed in a bin full of old fabric, a cloud of dust and dirt and the weightless corpses of dead bugs leaping into the air in clouds around her from the sudden movement that stirred gods knew how many years of rest. She sneezed and shook her head, squinting as the dust and dirt settled and realized after a moment of looking around that she could barely see in the low light, and a quiet whimper warbled through her throat as she struggled to pull her way out of the crusty old cloths--cleaning rags, at least at one point they had been--to look over the edge of her bin and see that the ground around her was littered with all manner of nasty things. It smelled rank, like droppings and decaying corpses, and a shiver ran down her spine as she noticed the kind of sheen the ground had to it, almost like sludge that had been solidified and undisturbed. It seemed this place had flooded, with what was... Questionable.

She looked up, realizing that even if she was human right now she wouldn't be able to reach up and pull herself out. And who knew how far she would sink, or what kind of acidic crap she would be burning herself with, if she tried to walk on the questionable filth.

Oh hell, she'd gotten herself into a real pickle, this time.

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Re: Absolute Territory [Lion!]
« Reply #1 on: December 16, 2017, 02:27:59 am »
He'd caught the scent from less than a mile away, and to know it was so close was enough to raise the hackles on the back of his neck. The scent was unusual and piqued his curiosity. Even in the midst of the film and filth down here in the Midhaven, Darlin' Coire had enough sense about him to determine the differences between separate odors and detecting something foreign.

He wasn't even on 'guard duty' to so speak. But the last few runs through the western edge of their territory had been little more than a junkfest. Nothing to salvage, nothing to claim, and nothing to flip around for a quick profit. To say the least, some of the others weren't exactly happy with him. It was easier now to just bite the bullet and suffer the fate. Keep an eye out, pounce on anyone trying to cross over into their territory and rip them to shreds, the directive was simple.

The job couldn't have been more boring were it not for the interesting scent of someone or something near. He tilted his head and reached up to scratch at the beard on his face, the itchy hairs wrinkling as he focused even more on the scent, honing it in and scampering off after it. Well, if his job was to pounce, well, now he had a scamper to catch.

Whiffs of it drew him off toward a dilapidated building that was hollowed out and stunk of mildew and mold. Darlin' crouched low, jeans flexing and expanding the rips at the knees, and his sneakers having more than enough grip to keep his balance on the uneven rubble. He jumped a few feet forward, legs strong enough to propel him forward, stopping just where the scent seemed to be strongest.

Venturing through, he paused, focusing and feeling his pupils dilate.  A female? Here? More importantly...a wolf female.  Crossing over into unwelcoming territory.  Darlin' frowned and shuffled forward until he was at the precipice of where floorboards had been broken and he heard the helpless whines of a dog thing at the bottom of the hole.

And quite obviously stuck. A small smirk at the corner of his mouth and he crouched again, his sleeveless shirt blending in with the dark background of the rest of the building. But thankfully he smelled a lot better.

"You need any help down there?" Clearly she did, but perhaps it'd be better just to leave her? No, no that would never do. The flesheaters would come along and make this little critter mincemeat. "That's a pretty rough fall."

The obvious comment was idle, and he slipped onto his belly to lazily cross his arms at the ledge of it, unable to help a modicum of amusement that curled on his lips.  "You clearly are not from around here."

and he landed just at the precipice of a massive hole in the ground.

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Re: Absolute Territory [Lion!]
« Reply #2 on: December 16, 2017, 02:56:50 am »
Morrigan wasn't exactly sure how long she had been wallowing down there, trying to think of ways to escape her predicament. Searching for stairs would be next to impossible in the low lighting but it was quickly seeming like her only choice, provided the ground didn't melt her skin off or some other weird stuff if she touched it. But what other options were there?

Her ears perked up suddenly when she heard the sound of someone else creaking on the floorboards up overhead, and she quickly barked, the tone higher in pitch due to her small size (no bigger than the average coyote), trying to get whoever's attention she could. Maybe they would help if they saw she was just a poor helpless... Blue... Coyote!

She blinked then, eyes widening a bit as a human face appeared over the edge of the hole with a distinctly wolf scent. Another wolf!! Those were so hard to come by out here!!

He mentioned she had quite the fall there and she started prancing on her paws with excitement, yipping and doing little half jumps as she looked up at him hopefully, tail wagging a moment before it suddenly held still as she cutely tilted her head at him before she flopped over to show him her belly.

See? I'm cute! You should help me and play with me!! Was her exact thought process here, although she had to admit--from what she could see he was also very cute himself. Bonus points!!

Her family would be so disappointed in her right noe, relying on a stranger to get her out of her own mess. And yet she thought of it as being clever and quick on her thinking feet! Taking advantage of what she had available to her and all that!!

That being said, she hoped she was too cute for him to resist, and that maybe the fact that she was a female might work in her favor. At least, that's what her Teinari culture had taught her anyways. She could make babies, that made her valuable. As much as she didn't exavtly like admitting it.

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« Reply #3 on: December 17, 2017, 08:29:37 pm »
Now matter how you sliced it, this was one hell of a pickle. Darlin' in no way envied that small wolf in the dirty hovel. Absolutely without a doubt that sludge was something awful and toxic. No doubt ripe enough to make the fur on her body melt right off. That was a distinctly unpleasant thought that made Darlin's stomach do a very unpleasant flip. Nope, no.  Even if she was just some stray wandering into her territory, maybe he could just pull her out, give her a bone and let her go on her merry way.

Like a chew bone. Not the other bone. She clearly was too naiive to not believe someone wouldn't take advantage of her like that. Down here, there wasn't anyone that wouldn't take advantage of her like that. Not the pack, not the flesheaters, not even the Pilots that liked to shake up the dwellers of this deep dark. As if their lives weren't already miserable enough.

He held his breath and glanced at her surroundings. There wasn't much in the way that she could climb on or she probably would have done it already. And...  "What?"

He had to blink twice to dab away at the incredulity clouding his vision. "You want me to rub your belly huh?  Ok then. Just be careful.  And kinda step away from the sludge. I'm coming down," he narrated just as he stood up and leapt down into the hole, careful not to stick a shoe into that sludge. Nope he'd have to burn it after that alone. That was not something duct tape could fix and the pack was running low enough as it is.

Darlin' didn't waste any time asking permission and gracefully grabbed her up by the scruff like a pup and tucked an arm underneath her belly, and one underneath her chest and right forearm, and crouched low.  With a grunt he jumped out of the hole, scraping his knee and subsequently tearing his jeans on the edge of the wood.  He yelped and dropped the blue coyote dog on the unbroken ground, and scuffled around into a sitting position to better inspect his leg.

Splinters prickled up from his leg and he carefully picked them out, brow furrowed and breath hitching as he did so.  "Hmm," he whimpered just a bit and flicked them to the side. It was a small wound that would heal, and he'd have to sew his pants, but it was better than leaving that poor pathetic hound in that hole just like that.

"You ok, pal?" he murmured, half taken aback and crouching on his good knee, reaching a hand out for her to sniff.

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« Reply #4 on: December 18, 2017, 12:13:34 am »
Yes! Yes! Good, he got it, and he was going to help her. Hell yeah she wanted belly rubs, and he'd need to get her out in order to give them to her!

She had to admit, she was surprised; even with her optimism she'd been skeptical he would actually help, and yet as she rolled onto all four paws he prepared and jumped down to join her, another cloud of dust and dirt blossoming into the air like a billowing cloud.

Before she even had time to react, a pair of strong arms had scooped her up and she was held up as he jumped out, much farther than she could jump herself. For a moment her heart leapt into her mouth as they were airborne, and she wasn't sure if they'd make it. He scrabbled for purchase and she immediately struggled to get out of his grip, claws scraping across the old wood as she pulled herself free so he had both arms with which to haul himself up with.

She immediately turned and scampered back to him with whines of concern escaping her as she scented blood in the air and saw he'd scraped his knee. That had been her fault, and her tall ears pinned back against her head, tail drooping as she stepped over and as soon as those splinters were out she was licking his wound, laving her tongue over the iron taste of blood before she set her head in his lap and whined at him as if she were saying sorry and asking for his forgiveness--which she totally was.

And yet she didn't stay that way for long, suddenly picking her head up and dancing back as her tail wagged a little and she gave him a gentle and encouraging yip. Now that they were both out of that mess, that meant that maybe they could play!! He seemed nice enough! She pranced a little on her paws, eager as she lowered her front end to the ground and wiggled her haunches with excitement and yipped at him again, darting forward to nip at his shirt before dancing back out of reach.

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« Reply #5 on: December 18, 2017, 11:55:50 pm »
It was just a small scrape, nothing that Darlin' couldn't handle. Just a few dabs, maybe a bandage and it would heal. Not that bandages were in any great supply or anything, and his jeans probably would need to be sewed up. Yup, he sure as shit had a lot of those.  Ah, well, they were already ripped, it wasn't anything new. Darlin' favored his leg for a brief second longer before the shewolfcoyotething took it upon herself to...clean him..

He hitched his breath and his hand immediately slapped over his mouth to stifle that gasp and he stared at her with wide eyes. What was she doing?  She wasn't pack! Did she just plop on her head a little too hard when she took that digger or did she just not understand she was in unwelcome territory. Maybe she was just thankful for him getting her the hell out of there. And she was just returning the gesture.

Darlin' relaxed visibly and settled down where she laid her head down in his lap.  A gentle grin spread across his face, the dirt exposing the creases in his face as he smiled, which he had very little reason to do so in recent years. He grinned wider, feeling a small jolt roil through his belly and he reached down to pet her head gently. He always liked that, the head pets, and rarely got them. It felt good, and she was kind of adorable.

Ugh, when was the last time he smelled a female...  Darlin's cheeks flared up with embarrassment and when she bounded away, he sighed gently. Yup, it'd been too long.  Maybe it was better if she just scampered off before anyone else found her.

But...no. Nope, she wasn't in any mood to go away. Darlin' watched her for a brief second and carefully took his shirt off, shoes and pants following. Yeah, it was probably a good idea not to ripe those. He had to admit he was curious. The energy she displayed was infectious and when was the real last time he'd gotten to...  scamper.

Darlin' shifted and the feeling of his body changing into a maroon wolf. His bones extended and his entire body grew with it, muscles growing taught and lithe as he shifted.  It still hurt, and would always bring even a small measure of discomfort, but how often did he have an opportunity to do just this.  He barked and bounded forward to nip at her ear because they were so fucking huge, he just couldn't resist.

Already his tail was wagging and his ears were pressed back, and he emitted a happy little whine.

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« Reply #6 on: December 19, 2017, 12:14:00 am »
Morrigan had been aware that this male wasn't exactly a member of her pack, and that she was probably either in his territory, his pack's, or somewhere unclaimed that he was also exploring. She hadn't really cared either way; her concern was still valid and she still wanted to make sure he was okay. No regrets.

No, she was the happiest pup ever right now, for the moment he'd started to strip she yipped again and bounced around on her dainty little paws and ran herself in a circle a few times maybe because OOH! OOH! 8D

FRIEND!

He shifted and she wasted no time meeting him half way as she bounded up to him, ears perked at his pretty coloring and his... Bigness. She was still looking up at him, he was much bigger in comparison to her tiny stature. Not that she minded. He nipped at her ear and she whuffed at him before she immediately flopped onto the ground, rolling over to show him her belly in submission with that happy dog grin on her face from before, and then she rolled again and was back on her paws.

She wasted no time in curiously sniffing at him, burying her nose in his fur and picking up the scents of other dogs. He wasn't a stray, like she was. Well, technically she had a pack, she just chose not to stay with them at this time. She didn't exactly want to go back any time soon--not because they were horrible or anything, but because the world had so much to offer and she wanted to see it all! And this male was one of those things offered. And she was so glad she met him!

She spotted that wagging tail and chased it, catching it in her mouth and lightly holding it in her maw, careful not to hurt him as she gave him a playful growl before she let it go and darted a few feet away from him, turning on a dime and lowering herself to the ground, barking at him. They could wrestle! Wrestling was fun! It was so rare she got to play, let alone with another pup, she was going to enjoy every moment of it while she could! Especially when he was so unusually nice.

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« Reply #7 on: December 19, 2017, 01:50:41 am »
Darlin' was nice. Half the time that was the problem. Half the time, he was too busy skirting the line between savagery and wanting nothing more than to not make waves. Waves were bad, ripples made other ripples and traveled to the very extent of the pond. He didn't want that. He just wanted stability in the pack. It always seemed however that everything else had a different idea of what stability meant.

Stability, for now, could take a backseat to the more interesting interloper that had encroached on unwelcoming territory. It'd be fine, Darlin' reason quietly in his mind mind. It'd be fine because they would play really quick and scamper around and have fun and she'd calm down and wander off back to wherever she came from. No pack every came wandering in this direction anyway. Except the roving ones, but he wasn't scared of them.

Usually they were little more than 4 or 5 in number. They weren't organized, and the smell of his own usually warded them off. Usually.

The second she rolled over exposing her belly, Darlin' was over her, smelling and pawing at that soft underfur. Mainly because he didn't ask her if he could rub it, and he'd never seen another wolf so willing to expose it without having done something wrong. It was a sign of submission, and yet...    His tail just couldn't stop fucking wagging.

What the hell was this? 

And for a brief sad moment he realized that he'd forgotten his tail could wag. That when it wagged, he was ...happy.  Darlin' sniffed her and stuck his nose into her fur, smelling everything in the Midhaven and where she'd been, where she'd stuck her face in, and that there were others like her, but perhaps she'd been gone from them too long?

Maybe she had no one.  Maybe...!!!

Darlin' jerked his backside away from her the second she held his tail just a tad too long and the contact was unusual and made him bristle slightly, growling down at her until she barked at him, lowering her body into play posture once again.  He relaxed and made soft chuffs back to her as if to say, "Okay, I'm game."  Because if his tail was any evidence of it, he definitely was.

He darted forward and nipped at her other ear that he'd neglected and quickly turned his head to nip again at her shoulder, at the same time pushing his body into hers in order to get her to knock over, shoving with increasing force until he had her turned and pinned.

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« Reply #8 on: December 19, 2017, 05:36:30 am »
The thought that this wolf had a pack had indeed crossed her mind, albeit briefly; it wasn't often she encountered other wolves in the wastes, if ever at all. Pack mentality and politeness was the last thing on her mind, and he didn't seem too concerned about it, maybe they were lenient with strays as long as they weren't challengers and just went about their way. They probably got quite a few stragglers wandering through their territory the concept didn't surprise her.

She yelped as he nipped at her other ear, all in good fun of course, she wasn't actually hurt and she let it show as she danced excitedly around him, teasing him by nipping and licking at him before she pranced out of reach, her energy levels admirable for how gloomy the environment they lived in.

And yet when he pushed her over she didn't concede defeat, pinned under him she nipped at the ruffle of fur by his neck before she strained upwards to lick at his chin before she was squirming to try and wriggle her way out from underneath him.

And yet it seemed Darlin' hadn't been the only one to pick up on her strange scent and follow it. Had she been paying attention like her parents had always told her, she'd have probably heard the distant sounds of growling or the strike of paws against the littered ground as they approached the two playing dogs.

But she was too busy play-growling, nipping and licking at the other wolf's ankles and paws, tail wagging up a storm as she wondered in the back of his mind what his name was and if they could be friends. Did this make them friends now? She sure hoped it did!

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« Reply #9 on: December 19, 2017, 07:04:50 pm »
The nips at his scruff and the lick on his chin made Darlin' shiver and the muscles along his back clenched and a chill ran through him. She was so friendly, so different. Exciting and he couldn't help himself as she managed to wriggle out from underneath him, although he could have easily dropped all his bodyweight on her and keep her pinned now.

The temptation to do just that was so very strong, but he also enjoyed scampering around with her so much he was sure the sheer joy vibrating through his tail was going to make it fall off. Oh that would be bad if that happened. Yeah, tails weren't supposed to do that. Darlin' nipped and barked softly and yipped back at her. Content to bury his face into her neck fur and just take in her strange and interesting scents.

Boy she'd been all over. He wondered if she could shift back, and if they could talk. But already he was getting so much by smelling her alone that he almost didn't hear the sounds of other paws stepping over rubble, or the odd whiff of another wolf in the air. A familiar scent. Jaspar.

Darlin' gave a vague whimper and paused in their playing, in fact he'd gently wrapped his head over her neck and pulled her close, somewhat protectively.

The purple wolf was already twice Darlin's size. Not Ignatius, but the Alpha's right hand. Of course he would follow Darlin' of course he would track that loose scent, and when he emerged from around the side of the building, Darlin' did the only thing he could think of and immediately nipped at Morrigan's scruffed, biting hard and growling, pressing all his weight against her.

He fought to pin her and hold her down despite the play they'd initiated earlier and he kept his eyes staring down at hers as if to say, "Please don't struggle stay still. I'm not trying to hurt you. But that wolf...will."  And he secured his jaws around her throat, applying enough pressure to keep her still.

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« Reply #10 on: December 19, 2017, 11:44:25 pm »
The play was a much welcome stress relief; because surprise surprise, even Morrigan got stressed out sometimes. Scavenging and fending for oneself out in the Wastes was damn hard, even for a dog like her who could hunt and eat raw rats for food. It was still taxing, mentally exhausting. There were times where the days would stretch on and on, almost endlessly, with no contact with other sentient creatures. Sometimes without even food.

But the freedom of it was worth it, to her.

She didn't want to stay in Teinar where she would just be expected to use those reproductive organs of hers to make more babies for the goddamn population, there was so much more out there in the world and she just knew it.

She danced around Darlin' with a wagging tail and that grin never ending, her teeth flashing bright even in the dim lighting of the Midhaven as she playfully yipped and nipped, until he stuffed his face in her fur and she let out a huff, standing still for a moment to return the favor and bury her nose by his chest and shoulder. Where she smelled of many places, people and things, he smelled mostly unified. He stayed in one place, with his pack, who she scented on him now as her ears flicked back to lay against her head.

She didn't hear the sounds of the approaching wolf until after her new friend had, and the movement of being pulled closer to him caught her off guard.

She let out a slight confused whine, which then quickly turned into a high-pitched yelp as suddenly jaws were around her throat and she was pushed down to the ground. She knew better than to fight back with teeth so close to her jugular, and let him do as he will. Had she been tricked? Was this a ruse? Of course it was, of course it would be too good to be true--

And yet she heard the snarling of the other wolf and looked up in between her own soft, pleading whining and realized that she might have bigger fish to try to fry here in a second. Suddenly she was regretting coming here as a pup, if she had her clothes she'd have at least had her weapons on her. Not that it would do her much good if this guy was pinning her down with a shiv pressed to her throat then, either.

The other wolf snarled and growled, looking from Darlin' to Morrigan and back again, as if to ask him what the fuck this mess was. And yet he stepped forward, taking a few quick whiffs as his ears swiveled forward with the realization that this wasn't just any mutt Darlin' had come across today--this was a female.

That would please the Alpha greatly.

Morrigan whimpered again as he whuffed at Darlin', baring his teeth at her before he turned tail as if he expected her 'friend' to follow him. Wide eyes looked up at said friend with alarm and confusion plain as day in their bright blue depths, but she wouldn't fight him if he made her go along with. She picked and chose her battles carefully, and right now would not be the time or place to try and struggle.

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Re: Absolute Territory [Lion!]
« Reply #11 on: December 20, 2017, 01:31:38 am »
I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm so so so sorry, he kept thinking to himself over and over again. He couldn't help himself. No, he couldn't help himself and the dread of what Jaspar would do upon finding them made him hold onto the smaller pup even more firmly. At least then the death would be quick and they wouldn't have to worry about her anymore. She was a stray, but she was female. And a dead female was useless to them.

Darlin's eyes flicked to Jaspar, watching the purple wolf as he assessed the situation and by the time he decided it was better to drag her along, Darlin' almost wanted to clamp his jaws down around her throat right in that instant. It'd be fast and quick. Sure as shit a hell of a lot better than anything Jaspar or Ignatius would do to her. Darlin' looked down to her again and gave a slow blink before his jaws loosened.

Releasing her neck he nudged her up, onto her paws and he pushed her up to follow between him and Jaspar. All the way back to the stronghold, where the scents around them grew stronger and they left behind the rubble. And as an afterthought Darlin's clothes. He could always go back. There were spares somewhere. He'd rumble someone else for some proper attire.

He pranced along beside her, paws darting over dirt and rocks and when the scent got the strongest, run down pub was at the center, it's dilapidated face tilted off to the side, and Jaspar leading the way inside. The purple wolf skirted around the edge and lead them around a hollowed out side wall with a staircase that led downward toward a stone staircase that led them below, to a small subsection of tunnels that opened up to a large cavern.

The side they walked along was only a minor outcropping and it slopped down toward a set of large barrels where fire burned and a few others roughhoused by the fire, snarling and another wolf taking his opponent and pile driving him into the ground.

"Enough!" Jaspar cried out as he shifted back and the moment he was within range the other wolves settle down and eyed him from the corner of his vision. "Darlin'. Drag that mutt forward. Iggy's gonna like her."  He sniffed and grinned down at the smaller pup, pulling a robe over his body to clothe his nakedness.

Darlin' shifted back and stood over the smaller pup. He reached down and nodded his head to her. "Hey. You're a shifter. Change back. Now. Make it easy on yourself." His fingers wrapped around her scruff and gently gave her a squeeze. It was apologetic and he stared her in the eyes. Comply, please.

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« Reply #12 on: December 20, 2017, 01:52:18 am »
Quickly Morrigan's cutesy carefree demeanor began to wane as she felt the tension being tested in the other wolf's jaw, feeling those teeth come dangerously close to breaking skin, enough so to make her growl.

Look it was all fun and games until someone seriously got hurt, and given Morrigan's upbringing it sure as shit wasn't gonna be her.

Those few moments where the other wolf had sniffed her were intense as she became perfectly aware of the fact that this red wolf was thinking about how easily he could snap her neck. If she changed at the last second she might be able to twist out of his grip, not without some blood shed but it was worth a shot--

Just as she'd been preparing to shift she was released and nudged to her feet. She refused to budge for a moment, growling with her ears pinned back against her head and her hackles raising, before she finally complied and followed after the purple wolf. Whatever she'd gotten herself into was quite questionable for certain, but it was looking more and more like it wasn't going to be an easy one to weasel her way out of.

And yet... Something told her to hold off on running. Not just yet.

So she followed them, the scents getting stronger as they undoubtedly neared their base of operations. She followed the wolf down, keenly aware of her 'friend"s' presence right behind her.

The sound of wolves fighting echoed off the cold walls and floor, and Mori was unsurprised to see that the big wolf turned into an even bigger man. Her friend shifted behind her and stood over her buck naked, not that it wasn't a sight she hadn't already seen.

He scruffed her and she growled again, glancing up at him with hurt and confusion in her eyes, and seeing the look in his her gut twisted. She couldn't tell what position he had in the pack yet but he clearly wasn't Alpha, and he clearly wasn't important enough to make big decisions.

She took in a breath, realizing her clothes were left back somewhere in the wastes, and that this pack was of almost all males. There was one female scent, slightly stale as if she wasn't here at the moment. And that was it.

Every pair of eyes had turned to peer curiously at her, more than one gleaming with that predatory stare.

She whined one last time before she shifted back; her transformations were always lickety split quick, a point of pride she'd always had, though right now she wished it hadn't been the case.

She knelt there on the cement floor, her long straight blue hair falling to cover her breasts as her long blue tail curled around her frontside to also obscure her from view, not that it did much. She noticed every ear perk, every peak of interest.

These wolves hadn't seen a female in quite some time, and instinctively she leaned into her friend's warmth, wishing she hadn't come here earlier.

She moved as directed, standing slender and tall with curves in all the right places, her best feature being her wide hips and shapely ass, though it wasn't as if she didn't have the pretty face to go with. It was odd, looking at her friend at almost eye level for a brief moment over her shoulder before the purple wolf grabbed her roughly by the arm and yanked her forward to shove her onto her knees in the venter of the wolf circle, and she knew better than to look up into the eyes of the Alpha that awaited her there.

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« Reply #13 on: December 29, 2017, 10:36:51 pm »
If he'd conveyed any weakness, that he was sorry he'd dragged her here, Jaspar would have ripped him to shreds. Darlin' wasn't afraid of him, but nor did he want to have claws tearing out his throat either. Nor did he want to give the others an excuse to tear apart this poor thing he'd dragged here to the center of the den they'd all called home. The others here, some of them stragglers, some of them that had been with Ignatius for years, all 15 of them. Some came and went, but those that proved themselves stayed, found their place in the pack.

Darlin' had been one of those.  The years before that he wanted to, but couldn't forget.

The second she was exposed, Darlin' felt his chest lurch and his pulse quicken. He watched her evenly, eyes widening, flicking over her blue hair, covering he breasts, her tail tenderly draping over her front. She was fucking beautiful, and he felt heat immediately flush his cheeks and his heart was rattling in his chest. His eyes met hers, and he felt his chest lurch again, and he took a step closer to her.

The need to stay close was oddly powerful, instinctual even. And he would have taken her away to be cleaned up, washed down and clothed, if given the chance. But that was immediately robbed of him.

He heard Jaspar make a soft deep throated rumbling growl beside him. Shortly before he grabbed her away from Darlin's presence and threw her in the center of the other males. Ignatius came out of his hovel at a balcony that overlooked that underground den, over the small ring of barrel fires, and when the newcomer was thrown into the center, he launched himself over the ledge, landing gracefully on his feet and standing tall in front of her.

Ignatius was tall and broad shoulders, barrel-chested and brutal, scars lining his face and body, his brow low and angry as he walked over to her and grabbed her up by the chin, forcing her to look up at him. He easily dwarfed Darlin' by a full head and a half, breaching seven feet, and he gripped her small face in his hand. He sniffed her, leaning his head down and tilting it when he was close enough inspect her fully.  Her shapely hips would do, wide enough to bear pups.

"You'll do. But you smell of the outside." He gave another unsatisfied sniff. "You'll have to be scrubbed until you're red.  Who found you?"

Jaspar sneered and was about to step forward when Darlin' - heart still rattling - quickly moved in front of the larger wolf, panting lightly. "I did!" he interrupted.

"I found her in a hole and pulled her out. And I dragged her back here."

"You're a liar - "

Darlin' wasted no time at lunging for Jaspar's throat and although his exposed state left him more vulnerable. He held his hand firmly around the base of the other wolf's neck, knocking him down and pinning him to the ground, muscles tense and holding him firm.  Darlin' bared his teeth and snarled.

Ignatius let Morrigan go and scowled down at the pair. "That's enough! Darlin' fine. You take the girl down to the cistern and get her cleaned up... Jaspar. We'll have words."

Darlin' slowly removed himself from Jaspar and walked back to Morrigan. Clothes?  He could scrounge some up on the way. He was still scraped and scuffed and dirty himself. "C'mon," was all he said, as he took Morrigan by the arm and led her away from the circle of wolves, some of them smelling Morrigan as Darlin' walked her by.

The second they were parted from the main group, Darlin' frowned and looked over to her. "I'm sorry. I'm really really sorry. I shouldn'ta brought you here," he grumbled and shook his head vigorously, puling her along with him and keeping her close, taking her down a separate path where an underground embankment of water flowed through the southern end of the den.

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Re: Absolute Territory [Lion!]
« Reply #14 on: December 30, 2017, 12:18:23 am »
Pack Alphas, in the limited experience she had with them, tended to be big guys for good reasons. They had to establish dominance, fight off the rest of the pack and defend their territory and all that. Had to fill his mate with pups and all that. But gods damned this guy?

He was a brute.

She felt the ground shake when he landed and she let out the tiniest eep of fear when strong, calloused fingers grasped her chin and yanked her head up; she rose a little on her knees so he didn't just lift her off the ground by her head. He smelled none too nice, her ears flicking back as she fought the urge to recoil as he sniffed at her, and said that she would do.

Do?

Do for what?

She opened her eyes wide when he asked her a question and as she parted her lips to try and stammer out some kind of response, knowing full well this guy could break her like a stick if he wanted, she was interrupted by her friend from earlier.

Like everyone else her eyes turned to him as he spoke up, and her tail twitched just slightly as a few sparks of hope shined in those bright blue eyes because maybe he'd thought of something, maybe he had a way to get her out of this. But he didn't--instead she got a great front-seat show of him pinning that purple wolf down when he tried to speak up, those taut muscles under his skin performing well and showing that they weren't just there for looks. She felt her heart skip a beat, ears perked and swiveled forward as her focus went entirely to him. He was the last bit of normalcy, if it could be called that, that she had here, of course she'd cling to that.

She was dropped and she shook herself a little, shoulders hunching to try and make herself as small as possible as the Alpha barked his orders, immediately taking Darlin? Darlin's words over the purple guy's, something in Mori's brain clicking as she wondered if perhaps Darlin' was the Beta.

Either way, he came over to her and helped her up, and the moment he was touching her she scooted just a tad bit closer. He was warm, he felt safe, or at least as safe he could given the situation. She had no idea who he was or if she could trust him, but there was something in the way that he looked at her as he led them away and apologized that made her want to believe him.

"S'alright," She said with a soft smile, glancing over him in full now that they were alone and... Jeepers.

He was huge, too. More comfortably so though, like she didn't feel like he could snap her in two like it was nothing.

"Didn't seem like ya had a choice much." She said with a slight shrug, feeling better and better the further away from that pack they got.

He brought them to an underground stream and she blinked, realizing now the entire weight of what was about to happen, her cheeks turning to a lovely shade of pink as she realized she was going to have to bathe in front of him. As nice as it would be to feel clean again she wasn't... Entirely sure that would end well for either of them. He was a hunk, and the way he looked at her made it hard to suppress a shiver down her spine.

She stared for a moment at those pecs of his, before she tentatively reached out to touch one. Yep. Definitely real. She quickly attempted to pull her hand away, as if afraid he might bark at her or scold her.

"Um, what's this that I'm supposed to do for? Do what?" She asked, the nervousness clearly ringing in the tension in her voice as they stepped into the water, the cold of it chilling her and making her fur stand on end.

Was this really necessary? Why did she have to bathe? It was almost like they were preparing her for something, and the longer she dwelled on it the more the horror dawned on her. The female's scent had been stale, the pack was full of males, they lived in the Midhaven...

Oh gods.

She was about to become a sacrifice, wasn't she?

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Re: Absolute Territory [Lion!]
« Reply #15 on: January 03, 2018, 02:22:21 am »
Bathe her they said. Make sure she was clean so that Ignatius would claim her, make her his and by scent alone no other would would be able to make claim to her. The very thought sent a nasty chill into the pit of Darlin' stomach, and made him sick. He frowned, the lines of his face creasing and making little white lines in the dirt and grime already on his face. His brow furrowed and although they were near the water now, he was only recently stirred from thought, his head pointed downward toward her chest.

Darlin' blinked..  oh hello. That was a pair of tits.  Right, because his job was to get her cleaned up. To make her fresh for claiming, take the scents that she already had - the places she'd been and the people she'd interacted with - and make them null. That was hard to do, he'd have to rub her raw enough to make it so and Darlin' blinked, staring down at her chest with a flare of guilt springing up. 

And then she touched him. That roused him again from his ruminations, blinking himself back to reality. "You can touch me," he found himself saying, sputtering it out too quickly before he realized what the implication meant. Of course a touch was a touch, a curious inspection by the hands. If it was unwarranted, she could refuse.  Darlin' stepped into the water with her, approximately six inches away from her and he flicked eyes back up to her features.

"I clean you," he said softly, his beard and mustache moving with his grin. "You don't have to do anything. Just kinda stand there. Oh..."  Darlin' reached down to flick off a piece of dirt that lingered on her hip, his hands plopping there and he didn't remove them, eyes drifting back to her features. The boldness of pinning Jaspar had yet to leave him.  Did he want to pin her?

The thu-thumping in his chest told him that he did, very much so. But so did every other male in the pack. And that thought made the thu-thumping flow into something ugly. They couldn't have her. No, not even Jaspar could have her.  A vague relief. And abruptly robbed of him at the realization that neither could he.

His fingers dipped lower, his palm pressing against her hip as he hugged it and he gently pushed her further into the water until it was waist deep.  It was cool, and flowing around them, with small bioluminescent plants growing along the wall, igniting the slick stone around them. "Do you not want me to touch you? I can stop. Just say something. But uh, the soap is over there, I'll have to do it. That's the way it's always done."

Darlin's eyes flicked over to the small bucket he'd neglected to drag off to the side where a scrub brush and a bar of precious soap lingered. He was reluctant to leave her side, and instead his hand slipped around to the small of her back, his body leaning in closer until he felt the tips of her breasts brushing against his chest.

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Re: Absolute Territory [Lion!]
« Reply #16 on: January 08, 2018, 01:04:00 am »
Darlin, apparently his name was, didn't seem to mind her touching his pecs in admiration and shock at their... Realness. Told her she was allowed to touch him, and for some reason that made her cheeks flush just a little bit more as she pursed her lips and looked away shyly.

He didn't exactly answer her question, though she'd done a poor job at phrasing it--exactly what they were doing this for. But she had a feeling she already knew the answer, and it chilled her to the very bone; which was a bit of a shocking sensation when coupled with the warmth that spread over her body in a wave of tingles when he pressed his palm to her hip and pushed her further into the water.

She obeyed, ears lowering as he explained with a smile that she didn't have to do anything--essentially let him do all the work, and while in any other context some might have almost called that romantic, this situation was a little bit different. He was under pack orders, and he had to obey his Alpha. They were alone right now, weren't they? Could she escape? No, she couldn't trudge through this water quickly enough without him easily catching her.

And yet he stood so close to her.

She could feel the warmth from his body, and as he stepped closer still, one hand pressing to the small of her back she felt her breath hitch slightly, ears swiveling a bit as she looked up at him in a mixture of curiosity, vulnerability and the slightest bit of fear--not of him, but of what was going to happen.

"O-Okay, uh, Darlin'--is that your name? Darlin'?" She asked quietly as she moved to press closer to him still, their bodies flush against each other now as the cold water running around her pale bare skin made her shiver, just a tad, wanting to soak up all the warmth he was giving.

She glanced down at him again, her eyes following the natural curves of his muscles from his chest down his torso to his hips, and she hesitated for a moment before her fingertips reached out and she settled her hands on his hips with a warm, feather-light touch before she slid around his sides to wrap her arms around him and hug him, closing her eyes and resting her face against his chest as she took a moment to breathe in his scent and hope that it would help calm her nerves.

"I'm sorry, I got you in trouble... I'm scared."

Her voice was quiet, he could probably barely hear it over the sound of the running water, and she squeezed him just a little bit, nuzzling against him and wishing it really was just the two of them.

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Re: Absolute Territory [Lion!]
« Reply #17 on: January 09, 2018, 08:00:40 pm »
Darlin' couldn't lie. He couldn't ignore the tingles he'd felt along his skin, and the hackles that raised on the back of his neck at the way her skin felt underneath his fingertips. Way softer than she looked, way smoother than he ever would have expected. He couldn't say he'd touched many females, not like this. Definitely not Ignatius' female - not in many many moons. The last one he'd touched was Cecil...but he...couldn't save him.

Darlin's heart was pounding in his chest and he continuously found himself lost in thought at the proximity with which they were moving toward each other until Morrigan was flush against him, and his entire face flushed red.  Gods, OH GODS! His heart throbbed in his ears and they felt like they were practically on fire. His hands slid down her sides and gripped at her hips.

"Yeah, that's my name," he nodded. "Domnall, really, but uhh. Everyone calls me Darlin'. It's easy to remember."  He cringed internally. Domnall was the name of a wolf pup in tunnels and caves looking for his mother. Separated from his siblings, running from the animal that his father was. He wasn't old enough to forget that, try as he might.

A soft whimper escaped him and he wasn't even conscious of himself until he felt hands sliding over his sides from his hips. And then around his back and he shivered again, his eyes opening and she was hugging him. A strange wolf such as he, and already her arms were around him. Darlin's heart was throbbing right where she was resting her head, and he let out a steady breath shifting his head to rest it down against her shoulder, nuzzling her cheek to his cheek, the roughness of his beard scratching the soft skin there.

"It'll be okay," he found himself assuring her. "I won't let them hurt you. And once you're the Alphas, ain't none else can hurtcha either. Pack rules."  He hated what he just said and he tensed at how sick they made him feel.  This was his family now, and yet the thought of what awful things could happen to her from any of these stray males made his arms slip around her shoulders and hug her tightly to him.

Oddly natural, and the response was so easy, he lifted her up just a little out of the water, pressing his face into her neck.  "I'll protect you. I promise."

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Re: Absolute Territory [Lion!]
« Reply #18 on: January 22, 2018, 11:54:44 pm »
Domnall, Darlin... She kind of had to admit, she did like Darlin better. It certainly sounded more friendly, and it was oddly fitting of him. Perhaps she thought that because he'd lent her a helping hand, perhaps she thought that because he was big and strong, and arguably handsome underneath the dirt and grime, but the point still stood that she was stuck here right now until she found a better way out.

And she really hoped she could avoid violence if at all possible; she liked Darlin. He was sweet. This was his family, as creepy and cruel as they seemed to be at first glance.

She nodded in confirmation that she'd heard him, understood his name. "Darlin is nice." She murmured, squeezing him just a bit tighter.

At first when he said it would be okay she started to ease up; the idea of being protected, especially by him made her ears flick as her heart started to race--but then it picked up speed for a completely different reason.

The Alpha's? Once she was the Alpha's??

She froze up, tensing as the horror hit her in full force as her fears were confirmed; it was one thing to speculate what was going on, it was another to know that she was undoubtedly correct. She was being offered as a sacrifice of sorts, and she was going to become that... Thing's slave. She wouldn't use the word mate. She refused.

She refused the concept of slave even now.

As he picked her up slightly, holding her tight, she started to squirm, the fear and panic starting to grip her, sinking its cold teeth deep into the marrow of her bones as she struggled to try and get away. Somewhere in the back of her mind she knew resisting like this was absolutely pointless and futile, she wasn't going to get anywhere and he wasn't going to just let her go. But she still couldn't help it as her tall ears flicked downwards and she looked up at him, eyes wide with terror as she silently begged and pleaded that he just... Let her go. Let her run off into the night and he'd never see or hear from her again and she'd never cause any more trouble or look back. Even though she would want to.

"I'm not the Alpha's, I'm not anybody's!" She whimpered, thinking back to the way the ground shook when that brute landed on it, the sheer force of willpower and the aura of a dictator that floated in the air around him like smog. She trembled at the memory of it, thinking of that guy trying to do anything with her made her want to retch.

He promised that he would protect her and yet he still had full intentions of handing her over to that monster, an Alpha that he had no proper withstanding in the pack to protect her from. It felt like a lie even though she knew he probably meant it as sincerely as he could--or at least, she wanted to believe that he did.

She opened her mouth to protest further when her ears picked up the sound of rocks tumbling on the ground, and despite her previous efforts to get away, she immediately went back to pressing herself against Darlin and peeking out from behind him, looking past him to see if she could see what sent the rocks moving, but saw nothing. Her heart was in her throat. She needed to think of an escape plan but she didn't have a whole lot of time and she didn't want to ruin Darlin or hurt him because of it.

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Re: Absolute Territory [Lion!]
« Reply #19 on: April 14, 2018, 12:30:00 pm »
Darlin' was an oddly fitting name. And it was easy to hear that name and expect a cute little scamp of a thing instead of a medium sized werewolf of stocky and scruffy build. Darlin was as friendly as he had to be. The pack understood his place and he understood it along with it. There was no confusion,  and any scuffles were quickly settled.  He was still Beta, after all.

When the smaller wolf started to wriggle, he let her go, loosened his grip, knowing keeping her chained to him would do nothing to stave off the stress he knew was building. She wasn't his...she was the Alpha's even if that knowledge made his heart pick up speed in his chest. Darlin' huffed, feeling his face grow heated and he dropped his eyes, closing them briefly.

"I didn't lie.  I...."  He didn't have any justification. He promised to protect her. He would hold true to his word as best he could. And his heart only rattled further in his chest, heart pounding heavily in his ears.

And soon she was pressing herself further against him. And his eyes widened, lips pursing and pressing tightly together.

"What makes you think you're good enough to take the morsel to Jaspar?  You're dismissed Darlin'. Boss wants you elsewhere," the voice behind him called out. Darlin turned around, keeping Morrigan behind him and feeling his hackles raise, a small growl erupting from the back of his throat.

"Go away Daiv. Jaspar commanded her cleaned. Ain't no assistance needed."

"Maybe you didn't hear me," he hissed, standing tall at the precipice of the pool, broadshouldered and towering over Darlin' by a head.  "Go away. Ain't no party of three here.  Go on now, before you get hurt."  He didn't wait for Darlin to obey and instead threw himself from the edge of the pool and tackled Darlin' from the edge of the water.  "I wanna taste of that morsel. She ain't Jaspar's yet."

Darlin's reeled backwards, splashing water everywhere as he turned and tumbled with Daiv, claws out and growling at him, sinking teeth in to where he could as they barreled in the water still.  He tried to avoid Morri, or stand between them, but Daiv managed to lunge an arm out and snatched a massive clawed hand around her throat. One that Darlin threw his fangs around and bit down hard on the forearm.

 

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