User blog:Shark0Bait/Werewolves - Turf War - Chapter 1 - Part Two

Nora wakes up later in a dark room that seems to be moving. She guesses it’s a moving vehicle.

“Soren? Soren, are you there?” she whispers. She tries to stand up, but hits her head on something metal. ‘A cage?’ she thinks.

“Nora?”

“Soren, where are you?” Nora asks.

“I’m in a sort of cage.”

“So am I. Oh, what’s going on?”

“Well, we went out for a walk, this thing bit us-”

“Soren! I mean now!”

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt; line-height:107%;font-family:"Candara",sans-serif">“…oh…I knew that.”

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt; line-height:107%;font-family:"Candara",sans-serif">Nora groans, “We aren’t getting anywhere. Let’s just try and think.”

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt; line-height:107%;font-family:"Candara",sans-serif">Suddenly, they feel queasy, as if they were on a violently rocking ship. Then, the cages do rock for a while, then stop.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt; line-height:107%;font-family:"Candara",sans-serif">The back of the vehicle opens. Nora strains to see who opened it, but bright light coming from outside forces her to blink. The world becomes dark again as a blanket is fastened onto her cage.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt; line-height:107%;font-family:"Candara",sans-serif">She hears voices from outside the cage;

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt; line-height:107%;font-family:"Candara",sans-serif">“So, what’s the catch t’day, Eagle?” says one.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt; line-height:107%;font-family:"Candara",sans-serif">“Eh, nothin’ much, just two from Soluna,” replies the one Nora guesses is Eagle.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt; line-height:107%;font-family:"Candara",sans-serif">“Soluna?” says the first, “I think I knew ‘er in training. Odd one, she was.” Eagle laughs, “Well, either oddity is skill in the business, Codfish, or she’s just plain good, ‘cause she’s the best hunter we’ve had!”

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt; line-height:107%;font-family:"Candara",sans-serif">Codfish chuckles, “Ah, those were the times, Eagle. Each SerpentClan pup wanted to be an ‘unter. I mean, at least we even got a job! Some pups were left with as much dignity as Omegas, Iotas!”

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt; line-height:107%;font-family:"Candara",sans-serif">“Oh, well,” Eagle sighs, “let’s focus on our job so we can keep it, Codfish! Hurry up and bring these ones to the Academy.”

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt; line-height:107%;font-family:"Candara",sans-serif">Eagle and Codfish stop chatting, and the cages move again. The cages are then placed down, and a few minutes later, the blankets are removed. A silver wolf stands before them. Nora and Soren both gasp.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt; line-height:107%;font-family:"Candara",sans-serif">           “No need to be afraid!” says the wolf.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt; line-height:107%;font-family:"Candara",sans-serif">Nora shrieks; so does Soren.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt; line-height:107%;font-family:"Candara",sans-serif">           “Y-you’re a t-t-talking w-wolf?” Soren stammers.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt; line-height:107%;font-family:"Candara",sans-serif">           “Why, yes,” says the wolf, “what’d you think I was, a talking rabbit?” Then the wolf starts laughing, “Oh, just a joke.”

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt; line-height:107%;font-family:"Candara",sans-serif">           “W-where are w-we?” Nora asks nervously.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt; line-height:107%;font-family:"Candara",sans-serif">           “You are at Serpentia Academy for Werewolves and Pups. I am Mantispelt, daughter of Alpha Serpentia of SerpentClan.”

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt; line-height:107%;font-family:"Candara",sans-serif">           “But…we’re not pups or werewolves…uh, Mantispelt.”

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt; line-height:107%;font-family:"Candara",sans-serif">           Mantispelt points to their hands, “See the bite? We’re not normal wolves…We live in a separate world from where you come from. This is the First World, our world…yours is the Second World. But back to the bites…we can enter your world, obviously, and we’re only wolves there in darkness, like Soluna was in your world. In the sun, we’re normal humans. But here, we’re always wolves.”

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt; line-height:107%;font-family:"Candara",sans-serif">Nora and Soren stare at their bites; nothing irregular there.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-size:16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Candara",sans-serif">“Oh, don’t worry,” Mantispelt says, “you’ll become a werewolf in a couple days.”

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt; line-height:107%;font-family:"Candara",sans-serif">           “WHAT?” Nora screams, “I CAN NOT BE A WEREWOLF FOREVER! Is there any antidote or something?”

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt; line-height:107%;font-family:"Candara",sans-serif">Mantispelt shrugs, “Probably. But first, let’s head to your rooms. You need to become fully werewolf before you can start your classes!”

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt; line-height:107%;font-family:"Candara",sans-serif">Mantispelt leads a protesting Nora and Soren to their rooms.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt; line-height:107%;font-family:"Candara",sans-serif">Nora wakes up later in a dark room that seems to be moving. She guesses it’s a moving vehicle.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt; line-height:107%;font-family:"Candara",sans-serif">“Soren? Soren, are you there?” she whispers. She tries to stand up, but hits her head on something metal. ‘A cage?’ she thinks.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt; line-height:107%;font-family:"Candara",sans-serif">“Nora?”

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt; line-height:107%;font-family:"Candara",sans-serif">“Soren, where are you?” Nora asks.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt; line-height:107%;font-family:"Candara",sans-serif">“I’m in a sort of cage.”

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt; line-height:107%;font-family:"Candara",sans-serif">“So am I. Oh, what’s going on?”

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt; line-height:107%;font-family:"Candara",sans-serif">“Well, we went out for a walk, this thing bit us-”

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt; line-height:107%;font-family:"Candara",sans-serif">“Soren! I mean now!”

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt; line-height:107%;font-family:"Candara",sans-serif">“…oh…I knew that.”

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt; line-height:107%;font-family:"Candara",sans-serif">Nora groans, “We aren’t getting anywhere. Let’s just try and think.”

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt; line-height:107%;font-family:"Candara",sans-serif">Suddenly, they feel queasy, as if they were on a violently rocking ship. Then, the cages do rock for a while, then stop.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt; line-height:107%;font-family:"Candara",sans-serif">The back of the vehicle opens. Nora strains to see who opened it, but bright light coming from outside forces her to blink. The world becomes dark again as a blanket is fastened onto her cage.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt; line-height:107%;font-family:"Candara",sans-serif">She hears voices from outside the cage;

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt; line-height:107%;font-family:"Candara",sans-serif">“So, what’s the catch t’day, Eagle?” says one.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt; line-height:107%;font-family:"Candara",sans-serif">“Eh, nothin’ much, just two from Soluna,” replies the one Nora guesses is Eagle.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt; line-height:107%;font-family:"Candara",sans-serif">“Soluna?” says the first, “I think I knew ‘er in training. Odd one, she was.” Eagle laughs, “Well, either oddity is skill in the business, Codfish, or she’s just plain good, ‘cause she’s the best hunter we’ve had!”

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt; line-height:107%;font-family:"Candara",sans-serif">Codfish chuckles, “Ah, those were the times, Eagle. Each SerpentClan pup wanted to be an ‘unter. I mean, at least we even got a job! Some pups were left with as much dignity as Omegas, Iotas!”

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt; line-height:107%;font-family:"Candara",sans-serif">“Oh, well,” Eagle sighs, “let’s focus on our job so we can keep it, Codfish! Hurry up and bring these ones to the Academy.”

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt; line-height:107%;font-family:"Candara",sans-serif">Eagle and Codfish stop chatting, and the cages move again. The cages are then placed down, and a few minutes later, the blankets are removed. A silver wolf stands before them. Nora and Soren both gasp.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt; line-height:107%;font-family:"Candara",sans-serif">           “No need to be afraid!” says the wolf.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt; line-height:107%;font-family:"Candara",sans-serif">Nora shrieks; so does Soren.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt; line-height:107%;font-family:"Candara",sans-serif">           “Y-you’re a t-t-talking w-wolf?” Soren stammers.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt; line-height:107%;font-family:"Candara",sans-serif">           “Why, yes,” says the wolf, “what’d you think I was, a talking rabbit?” Then the wolf starts laughing, “Oh, just a joke.”

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt; line-height:107%;font-family:"Candara",sans-serif">           “W-where are w-we?” Nora asks nervously.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt; line-height:107%;font-family:"Candara",sans-serif">           “You are at Serpentia Academy for Werewolves and Pups. I am Mantispelt, daughter of Alpha Serpentia of SerpentClan.”

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt; line-height:107%;font-family:"Candara",sans-serif">           “But…we’re not pups or werewolves…uh, Mantispelt.”

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt; line-height:107%;font-family:"Candara",sans-serif">           Mantispelt points to their hands, “See the bite? We’re not normal wolves…We live in a separate world from where you come from. This is the First World, our world…yours is the Second World. But back to the bites…we can enter your world, obviously, and we’re only wolves there in darkness, like Soluna was in your world. In the sun, we’re normal humans. But here, we’re always wolves.”

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt; line-height:107%;font-family:"Candara",sans-serif">Nora and Soren stare at their bites; nothing irregular there.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-size:16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Candara",sans-serif">“Oh, don’t worry,” Mantispelt says, “you’ll become a werewolf in a couple days.”

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt; line-height:107%;font-family:"Candara",sans-serif">           “WHAT?” Nora screams, “I CAN NOT BE A WEREWOLF FOREVER! Is there any antidote or something?”

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt; line-height:107%;font-family:"Candara",sans-serif">Mantispelt shrugs, “Probably. But first, let’s head to your rooms. You need to become fully werewolf before you can start your classes!”

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt; line-height:107%;font-family:"Candara",sans-serif">Mantispelt leads a protesting Nora and Soren to their rooms.