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 Posted: Sat Jun 19, 2010 9:22 pm
 Blackness...a heavy weight encompassing him from all sides...the burn of his lungs as they filled with the cold, deadly water. He couldn't breathe, couldn't kick his legs to reach the surface. Body growing heavy, he felt the water get colder as he sunk lower and lower to the lake bottom...
Snapping awake, Phrixos leapt to his haunches with a startled growl, his mohawked head hanging low as he panted. The dregs of the dream muddled his thoughts and he shivered, tail curled tight around his paws as he shook.
The goddamn dream had plagued him night after night, leaving him without a decent sleep for weeks. It showed in his lack luster gaze, and dull fur. The young wolf was too lean, but not skinny.
Yet.
The lack of sleep affected his hunting as well, and soon it would show.
Shaking his head vigorously, he growled at himself and looked up at the half moon shining innocently in the starry sky, a wave of homesickness washing over him.
"Pathetic..."
Sighing, he lay back down beneath the low branched tree, curling tightly upon himself. Please, please let me get some sleep...
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Posted: Sun Jun 20, 2010 10:14 am
There was no sense of pack anymore. Her brothers had returned and her grandmother, the alpha, was treating them as though they had never abandoned the pack in the first place. Fall, the bully brother, had also left, though there were rumors that he had killed a seer on the packlands before running away. May had never met a seer before, and the shaman who wandered about the pack was an idiot, so maybe the wolf her brother had killed deserved it. It was still interesting, though. So, May ran. Her parents were all torn up over their children's disappearances, and had never payed any attention to her - their only female child - and they would regret it now, if they ever even realized she had run. May had stuck with them through everything, and now she was grown. Now she would make it all on her own. Before she had left, she knew they were fighting, possibly breaking their life bond. There were two more puppies, two siblings that May had no attachment to, and had no care about what would come of them. May was small, like her mother, and like her mother's mother. But unlike her mother, and very much like her grandmother, she was determined to be self sufficient. She didn't need a mate, she didn't need a pack, and she sure as hell didn't need family. With this burning conviction in her chest, she ran as fast as her legs could take her.
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Posted: Sun Jun 27, 2010 7:42 pm
Phrixos jerked awake at the sound of furiously running paws, still distant, but rapidly approaching. Ears flicking, the young male stared in the direction of the sound for a short moment before crawling from his bed, shaking leaves from his fur.
Someone is in a hurry, he thought to himself, and that was when he saw her, a pretty little white thing with a dark stripe across her muzzle. Cocking his head, Phrixos thought she looked a little distracted, wondering if she even saw him since he was directly in her path.
If she didn't they were about to meet in a very interesting way.
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Posted: Tue Jun 29, 2010 6:52 pm
May couldn't stop. She saw the male coming at her fast, and at first thought that she was standing still and he was running at her. She was almost angry.
Then she hit him, wondering if he would give under her momentum, or stop her dead in her tracks and knock her to the ground.
Time seemed to slow down as her head tucked down, forced by the impact into the other wolf's chest. That would definitely hurt in the morning, if there was one... if he let her have one.
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Posted: Sun Jul 18, 2010 11:09 am
Phrixos grunted in pain and surprise when the femme ran into him, sending them both into the dirt. He unknowingly had played a game of chicken, and both of them had lost. Panting as pain zinged through his chest, he disentangled himself from her and lay down in the dirt to catch his breath, watching her.
"I think....that deserves....a hello....or something," he panted, his first thought being how cute this little female was.
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Posted: Tue Aug 10, 2010 10:40 am
She gasped for air as she found herself laying on the ground. Looking up, May realized that she had managed to knock the male down with her, and he was watching her now.
A hello? Oh geez, where were her manners? "I... " she stared, wide-eyed. "Hello, I'm May." she hoped the offering of her name would soften the already dealt blow to both of them.
He was cute, and the first male she had run across who wasn't family. This would be an interesting meeting, for sure.
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Posted: Tue Aug 10, 2010 3:11 pm
He gave the female a charming smile, or tried. Still young and unlearned in the ways of anything female, it might have looked a little odd to May.
"Hello, May," the big male said with a bow of his head. If anything, his family had instilled a strong sense of politeness and manners into the young male, and as he pushed himself back to his feet, he gave his head a shake to get the lime green mohawk out of his eyes.
"I'm Phrixos. It's a pleasure running into you."
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Posted: Thu Aug 12, 2010 10:53 am
The petite female arose when he did, and narrowly escaped exploding into a fit of giggles at the joke he managed. Running into her... yes. She likes him instantly, especially since he seemed nice and peaceful.
"Phrixos is an interesting name." she smiled, shaking herself from nose to tail to loosen any debris that had become entangled in her fur from the fall. None of her family had interesting names, that she knew of.
She almost rolled her eyes at the thought of them. Now was the time to think of other, newer, things. "Is your home near here?" she pondered aloud.
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Posted: Sun Sep 05, 2010 6:05 pm
The big male watched her with a slight grin as she did a full body shake, debris flying in all directions. He liked her already as well, noticing a slight spunk to her.
"May is a pretty name," he shoots back at her, smiling and wagging his tail. At the mention of his home, his smile diminishes slightly, his ears going back a little. "No, it's pretty far off actually. Couldn't tell you how far though, I lost track after the first week of running."
Realizing that probably sounded dire, he quickly added, "I just got the urge to run one day. How about you? Where's your home?"
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Posted: Sat Oct 09, 2010 6:47 pm
May smirked a bit at being called pretty. Well, her naaame had been called pretty, but she got his drift pretty quickly. She noticed the change in him when she asked about his home, and filed it away, to remind herself to only bring that subject up sparingly.
"Me? Oh..." she looked around, trying to gauge where she had come from. "I guess I'm kind of lost?" she flicked an ear when she admitted the fact. "Doesn't matter though, I'm like you... I just decided to run one day, and this is where I ended up."
Not too shabby, if she thought so herself.
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Posted: Sat Oct 09, 2010 7:41 pm
"Lost, eh? Well, it seems we've got a few options here." He gave her a flirting grin, his ears pricked forward as he gave a slight wag of his tail. "We can continue to be lost on our separate paths, orrrr," and here, he let the word drag out, his eyes rolling to one side as he seemed to ponder his own idea. But truly, the only thing currently on his mind was the fact that he liked this girl.
And they'd only just met.
Grinning again, he took a step towards her. "We could be lost together, and make an adventure out of it."
Well, wording it like that made him sound like a pup, but really, he'd only just turned old enough to be considered an adult. Sometimes he forgot that he was supposed to be all mature now...
Hopefully she didn't find his second option too childish, and took him up on his fake first option.
He had enough charm....right?
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Posted: Sat Oct 09, 2010 8:02 pm
May grinned like a hatter as Phrixos went on with his charade. He was cute, and she liked his cunning. She could see herself traveling with him, especially since she could definitely not see herself ever going home.
"Weeellll," she paused, also dragging out her words as though thinking as she spoke them. "It is lonely and dangerous traveling all alone." she took a step closer to him.
"What's a girl to do if she's attacked on her lonesome?" she played, subtly pawing at one of his legs.
"I think I would be up for this amazing adventure, Phrixos."
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Posted: Sat Oct 09, 2010 8:20 pm
When she pawed at his leg, his heart did a double thud and he almost swooned, barely catching himself from looking like a fool.
What the helllll was wrong with him?
"Awesome," he blurted out, dancing on his paws a bit, before his adult-ish brain could catch up with his tongue.
Really, he -was- trying...
He sat down before he'd make more of a fool of himself and pawed at her leg, mirroring her gesture. Who knows, maybe she liked his awkwardness, because really, he felt a bit awkward right now. The only other non-pack female he'd ever met had been Adriana, and she had humored his youthful sensitivity and young male ego.
But May seemed as old as him, a nice change.
A cute change....
"So this adventure of ours....We need a direction. Wandering aimlessly sounds fun.....but not really too adventuresome." He looked around, making a show of sniffing the air as a light wind played along their fur. Then he winked.
"Which way do you want to go, pretty May?" he asked her, his voice, now rich and smooth in his new adulthood, pitched in a flirtatious tone.
Though he yearned to go east, he wanted to give her the option to pick a direction. She was a lady, after all, and it was the polite thing to do.
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Posted: Sun Oct 10, 2010 12:44 pm
May looked all around them, stomping the ground with impatient feet. Which way, which way? Definitely not South again, she didn't want to end up back where she had started.
The trouble was, she had no idea which way South was, anymore.
"Hmm." she thought hard, not wanting to make an uneducated guess, but also not wishing to look stupid in front of this male. "This way!" she finally settled, picking a random direction finally.
Unbeknownst to her, it would turn out to be East. Thankfully, it wasn't South.
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Posted: Sun Oct 10, 2010 5:36 pm
Her show of picking a direction amused and endeared him to no end. He wondered if she was as flustered around him as he was around her, but remembered that his father had once told him that all females were more calm and collected then males at almost everything.
When she pointed her nose in a direction with a grin on her muzzle, he decided than and there that he didn't quite care which way they were really going.
As long as he was going with her.
"This way it is then," he said, tail wagging as he climbed to his feet. Phrixos couldn't help the way his front paws danced a little, he was just too excited and enraptured by her personality. Hopefully she would just think he was hyper.
Glancing at the sun, he gauged that they had a good 6 hours of light left, and that they could cover a lot of distance in that time. But the real question was, would his wanderlust slow its pace, and let him enjoy a somewhat leisurely travel with his new companion?
Well, to be honest, it didn't have a choice.
He was going to enjoy this.
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