Scarlett’s POV
I wake up bleary eyed and foggy, looking around I find that I am in a small steel container with holes which I can tell I am in a truck. Last thing that I remember was trying to escape from the hunters, but this is not the normal way the hunters work because normally they kill us or torture us for information and sometimes bargain us off to the highest bidder. So, this doesn’t add up to hunters.
Strangers unload us into two different cages that consist of cement and metal bars with a door on the opposite wall. As the movements stops and the people talking to one another and getting the areas ready for us. Suddenly the front of the box slides up giving me enough space to rush out and turn around at the person snarling at them. the bars keep me away from them as I try and claw them to shreds but they safely back away with the box and closing the one exit I know off.
The room actually more of a cage is empty except for some straw on the floor and a small wooden box in the corner. In the cage over I see Darius growling at some of the people as he slowly paces along the bars waiting for a chance to tear into one of them.
“Sir what are we gonna do with em, they seem way to hostile for us to be able to use,” One of the workers says, they look younger and seem a new employee.
“They’ll probably calm down afta a little bit, just pent-up stress and unease of being put in a new place,” The so-called boss states as he walks around the room observing us.
“Why do we need these two specifically anyway, there was others which would have been a lot easier to capture and a lot more docile.”
“We need them because there is something special and different about them, I just know it, they may look like normal wolves but they’re not otherwise why’d ya think them hunters were after them, also they will be good ones to exhibit.” They all slowly file out of the room and into the other room across from us, but the door is too thick to be able to hear anything.
Letting out a sigh I circle the room investigating everything in it and outside of the metal bars. Looking on the wall across from us above the door is a small camera that pans the room with a small blinking red light. Most likely someone is watching, and the cameras are recording everything that happens in this room.
After a long while a person walks out with two metal bowls that are filled to the brim with fresh meat, my nostrils flare as the mouth-watering smell gets my tummy to grumble for it, why does it smell so good. The gruff guy or so-called boss walks out taking the bowls out of the persons hands. Looking towards us he says something to them and put the bowls down as he walks over to a small leaver on the farther wall. Looking at the leaver and where it leads to, I can assume it lifts the small gate up that’s separating Darius from me, which means he wants to test how well we get along.
The gate slowly lifts up and I fully turn to watch Darius as he focuses on watching the gate slowly lift up until it reaches the top. He walks through making sure the gate doesn’t move and come down on him, then his attention turns to me as he approaches carefully, I briskly walk over to him then walk around him to analyse him before I sit down next to him with our sides touching. Once I’ve eyed the boss person I lay down, looking up I can see Darius’s confused stare, but he gently lays down next to me and softly rests his head on my shoulders. My attention wonders back to boss man and strange guy as they watch us and see that nothing bad is going to happen, they tell Mr Vet to put his stuff away.
They discuss amongst themselves about if giving us food will make their job easier because it might make us more complaisant or less easy to handle, without food I will definitely become less complaisant. I certainly do not want to be stuck here any longer but the longer I am here the more they may figure out what we really are due to the fact their already throwing wild guesses. And that’s all because the stupid hunters gave most of that away, but I guess luck was on our side that a wildlife park found us when they did. Which does make it hard to find a way out of here I am hoping Ensley will be able to get me out of here well I suppose both of us out quickly.
Amongst themselves they decide to leave the meat in a small fridge, meaning were not getting fed and it has now been a few hours so its safe to say I am agitated. I can’t help but pace around the room until I find a suitable place to lay down for a couple minuets then stand back up and move around. Darius notices my odd behaviour when I walk due to some of my injures still healing slower than normal making me slightly limp which should be unnoticeable, and I walk away from before he can investigate anything.
The time continued to tick away ever so slowly as I spend my time conserving energy by sleeping but keep my senses sharp and vigilant making sure that I don’t miss anything crucial. Sadly, Darius isn’t as intelligent as he is only half conserving any energy to escape and he is just standing watch and guarding me from everything, which at the present moment nothing is happening.
Huffing I stand us and start to pace the room again, with nothing to do becomes boredom as there is nothing to do and its unbearable, being stuck in here and if I do not get out of here, I might go insane and do something completely irrational. For now, I will wait until the last second to do it, so I will just keep pacing in a circle until I can’t ignore the pain in my body that’s spreading from my let to my chest. I can deal with it I’ve had worse and worse is yet to come. Suddenly Darius steps in front of me blocking my route looking past him I try and walk around him, but he moves in the way.
My ears fold down showing him my present annoyance, he looks at me analysing where I was slightly limping looking for other wounds and he won’t be able to find any because I can hide them quite easily and can act like I am not in pain. Apparently, my act hasn’t been as affective towards him, and he decides to nudge my leg causing me to shift away from him while softly growling.
He follows me as I keep walking backwards until by tail is backed up against the wall giving him an opportunity to figure out all my weak spots. Panicking I growl at him warning him to not step any closer and push me too much. He doesn’t listen and I want to claw my way out of this corner, but I know I can’t because the cameras would see and there is definitely someone watching. He might just pretend to care for the people, but I cannot stand being stuck in this situation with no where to go. Nipping at him he slowly leans back giving me enough space to give me an escape route. Running out into the middle of the room I spot the door slightly ajar letting a faint yellow light bleed out of the room onto the floor.
Almost immediately I could feel a small tug on an invisible leach pulling me to the front of the cage lining up to the door, completely forgetting about Darius as I trot past him while he follows shortly after. He stands next to me watching me while I ignore him and give my full attention on the shadows dancing in the light from the door.
The door swings fully open, I let out a low snarl as the bass man walks out and a kid, the man walks up to me with the kid in his grasp. I try clawing at him he just returns it with a smirk as he stands just out of my reach and the cold metal bars rub against my wounds as they start to get aggravated, and I can feel as blood drips down my leg I don’t heed it any notice as I watch what the man is doing. He shoves the kid forward making him stumble into the bars. I jump back out of the way and look towards Darius I tilt my head seeing if he knew what might be going on, but he just shakes his head. Creeping forward I reach the boy and he instantly try’s to move backwards the man just pushes him so he cannot move an inch away.
Moving forward I can smell the fear and anxiety on the kid as sweat forms on his forehead and rolls down the side of his face, his hands shaking and his small form trembles. Taking one more step to reach him I look up into his glassy honey eyes and watch as a tear slips down his face. Softly I nudge his hand, he instantly flinches away pulling his hands to his chest to protect them, so instead I sit in front of him. Darius stays behind me a few feet watching everything play out as he questions what I am doing, I can feel his questioning eyes bore into my back.
Shakily the boy puts his hand beside him, I look up to him and tilt my head to the side as I wag my tail trying to act like a dog when its curious and happy. A faint smile etches the corners of his mouth. Slowly I nudge my nose against his hand moving it put to my head where his fingers gently relax and start to move scratching and stroking my fur from behind my ears and under my chin.
“See I told you they are friendly, like I said they are my wolves just like any other dog but a bit bigger and a little wilder,” A familiar voice said from the doorway. Looking at the person I nod, and she gives me a smile then looks back to the man.
“I will be needing to take them back home where they belong if you don’t mind as they would like to have a run around their forest, which you so happened to trespass in,”
“That simple gesture doesn’t mean a thing, wolves might be like dogs, but it don’t mean their tame just cuz you hand reared them and trained them, they could still be unpredictable and wild and besides she has injured one of my men and almost killed him,” He lets the kid go and walks up to Ensley with bald fists, triggering a sense to waken in me and makes me growl at the man.
“See they are not tame, she doesn’t even know when not to growl at someone or something that’s moving that might be dinner for her,”
“I think youll find the reason for her animalistic behaviour Is you as you are threatening me, so if you kindly don’t mind taking a step back and unclench your fists, I would much appreciate it,” She gives him a soft smile and waits for him to listen, instead he steps closer, and I gently move away from the kid and closer to the boss man. Wanting to be able to break through the bars and attack him for moving closer to her. The kid moved away from the whole situation until he hit the wall at the end of the room.
Ensley moved away from the boss man until she stood directly in front of me and waited until she has my full attention to give me the command of ‘sit’ to which I obliged as well as Darius as he walked unto me and sat next to me. She waited before saying ‘drop’ and we both laid down on the ground. She turns to the boss man who looks shocked and a bit surprised but quickly makes a recovery.
“Anyone can teach strays that if you give them enough food, it still doesn’t prove their yours,”
“Well, they are completely friendly and well behaved but around strangers without me they tend to act up, also they can do dome tricks that I taught them when they were younger, would you like to see?” Oh god no not this anything but this, she’s going to make us act and do-little party tricks, why is it always me that has to put up with this part of her.
“If it pleases you to prove to me that they are trained, but I still need to see paperwork stating that they are officially yours with a permit,” He stated blandly with arms crossed and looking dead at us expecting something outstanding or maybe something that he can use for his own benefit.
“Of course.” She gets us to do flips, shake her hand, a little dance routine which I will forever hate her for doing, but at least she got us out of there and after a short drive we are able to shift back.
Well, that’s how it was supposed to go but sadly it took a turn for the worst as the boss man wasn’t having any of it.
The man spat on the floor and mumbled something to Ensley making her say something back instantly, but I didn’t catch what it was as Darius had come to my side and softly barked at me to stop growling but I couldn’t help it because it was an instinct to protect her.
Darius try’s to move me from my spot in retaliation I nip at him, so he backs off as the boss man goes to throw a punch at Ensley. She easily dodges his attacks until he pulls out a short knife and try’s to stab her in the stomach. Ensley moves quickly and he misses, and he goes to punch and misses and moves the knife quickly, he grazes her with the tip drawing a thin line of blood. My vision flashes red and I start to bark at them boss man and claw at the mars as well as the ground to try and get out of this stupid cage. Darius starts to growl at the man as well seeming to see the danger. The kid moves into my line of sight, my eyes flick over to watch him as he pulls a leaver that opens a gate up to let me into the room.
Bolting out of the cage straight to the man i push him into the floor pinning him underneath me, he struggles to push me off as his knees push into my stomach. Snapping at his neck finally gets him to stop and go stock still afraid of what I could do. Ensley brushes me aside getting the boss man to stand back up and say sorry to him making him scoff and yell at her then slash her again treating her shirt. He cut a line from her collar bone up to her shoulder, she looks down at the wound and then back up at him grinning.
I can see what would happen before she did anything and I moved away to give her more space as she pushed him into the wall knocking the knife out of his hand. It clatters to the ground, suddenly she looks down to me and spoke.
“Would you like to do the honours.” She smiles wickedly with her smile stretching from ear to ear as i lowered my head to the ground with one of my front legs tucked under me in a bow. She turns back to the man and punches him in the face, once he falls to the ground she walks away and lets me go in for the kill.
Padding up to the man I push him onto his back as he covers his face, sadly it’s a futile effort to stop me from what I will do to him. Digging my claws into his stomach I slowly tear through his skin downwards. He screams out in agony and moves his hands away from his face exposing his neck. Clamping my jaws around his throat I slowly inch my jaws tighter around until I close my jaws and tear his throat into ribbons and air pipe stopping him from being able to breath. Letting go I spit out any flesh and walk over to Ensley, she looks down at me smiling saying that I did a good job like I am a child and saying we can finally change back so i did and watched as Darius do the same.
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