Chapter 2

  The nd is covered in hills and mountains or bare ftnds. Rivers run through the nds and forests are c many spots.

  In a forest, no different than from the rest of the nds, a pure white forest. Snow and ice cover the ndscapes. Only bits of brown and green were seen orees.

  Beasts were roaming everywhere, showing a ck of civilization.

  In a river, flowing through said forest, we see a group of unknown fish, swimming.

  They are surrounded by deep blue, slightly murky water. Above them, a thick sheet of ice, emanating a deep ess, which they seem unbothered by, having lived and evolved in this temperature for millennia.

  These fish were quite rge, about 40 length, and they definitely weren't thin. They were minding their business, just h in a group, until they started to hear a thumping from atop. It was sort of rhythmie of them started to slowly get away from the thumping noise, but most stayed.

  The thumping noise kept ing until a different sound was reverberating through the water... a crack. And before any of them could react, a hole shattered through the ice, and an unusual hand shot through, grabbing one of the fish, the rest scared away.

  Getting ripped out of the water, the fish sees the creature that grabbed it.

  It was a small one, not bigger than the smallest of wolves. It had no scales nor feathers, only a bit of fur at some spots. But before the fish could analize any further it was already bitten in half, dying on the spot.

  A feass, and we see anroup of animals, wolves. These wolves appear to be normal, all except oheir leader. He was covered in a deep grey fur, almost bck. Its eyes were as red as the blood stains around its mouth. On his head there was a hor right atop aween its eyes, arg backward. On his back, right below its first set of shoulders was a boe on each side, givira prote but not limiting its movement. This wolf was covered in scars left and right, one even going over its right eye.

  The pack of wolves was a unique mohe same ohat grabbed the fish a few days back. Like the fish had already spotted, it cked both scales ahers and was only partly covered in fur, white. The only spot of fur its head. They also noticed the abnormal feet and hands, and the fact that it was standing bipedal. All these parts indicated it being part of the humans, which they would normally attack. Yet their leader had stopped them.

  Talking in moongues with each other. The you asked, "Shouldn't we attack it? It's just alone, unlike normally where they are in rger groups?"

  Everyone agrees, except the leader, "No, while it is almost identical to the humans, something in my very core is telli isn't and that I should stay away from it. Look, while most of it looks human, some things are different. The teeth are sharp and simir to ours. Its eyes also are slitted like that of a reptilian. Also, look at how it walks, while it stands like a human, it walks on all fours like us beasts. And not to mention, its ck of prote from the cold. Normally the humans cd themself in the fur and skin of our kin to protect themselves from the weather. But this one has nothing of it, yet it is still alive. Not to mention, from the looks of it, this one seems to have barely left its infancy stage. Yet it is alive while being alone. Nothing adds up. We shall circle it and not approach it, that's an order, ck of pliment will lead to death."

  With that, the wolf pack left, leaving the "human" unaware of their presence.

  A few more days pass and the "humaurns to its home, a cave. With a crater just outside, the crater holds small bits of shell. These, belong to the egg the "human" hatched from. It still remembers that day, it opes eyes and was surrounded by a thick liquid and a hard surface. Feeling the o break out, it started thrashing around, bashing against the shell holding it in. But it realized it wasn't getting anywhere. It also felt the, to it unknown feeling of air leaving its body and the need for oxygen. Survival instinct started kig and it thrashed around even more. Until it found a weaker spot in the surface, a craot caused by it. It started hitting that area more and more. And after a few hits, the surface cracked open. It burst forth, into a freezing blizzard, yet it seemed unbothered. Feeling the o feed, it started dev the shell it broke out of., leaving only small fragments and stains of the liquid.

  Fshing back to the present, the "human" was thinking about ging its territory. It knew every nook and y around here. So it got b. And it started realizing that it was being watched sometimes, it didn't know from where or by what but it had the feeling.

  Having no possessions nor attat to this pce, it started wandering in a random dire. Unbeknownst that it was wandering towards the west.

  Time seemed to pass, as it any new pces to rest. Only to quickly wander on. Until one day, it entered something new.

  It was starving, had been in its viity and rivers or ponds were nowhere near.

  It was just wandering, being pgued by hunger, as it had en in 4 days until it's arted pig up the sent of blood. So it followed it and there it was, a beast it had never seen before, standing on all fs, covored in grey fur, their eyes log onto eachother, exgin stares.

  It was a normal wolf, but the "human" didn't know that. The only thing the "human" knew was that it was not normal prey.

  It noticed the wolf was wou his right hind leg, a gaping cut being present with dried, frozen blood, indig the wound being a bit older. Yet, even with the cut being present, its senses were telling it that the wolf was not easy prey.

  The "human" had an easy time finding food up till now. No fighting was o get what it wanted, but this was different.

  It khat it had to fight the wolf, the pain of hunger was getting too great. But the fact that it had never experienced a fight was making it nervous. Us oppo, it had no natural ons, no cws, or anything except maybe its teeth. The wolf was alser than itself, due to still being young. But in the face of unimaginable hunger, nothing mattered.

  Not one of them made a sound, it was dead quiet, as even the wind paused for the uping fight.

  And so it started, the "human" approag the wolf on all fetting faster and faster, until it started running on its two legs.

  The wolf turowards the approag enemy and also started pig up speed, though not as much due to the wounded leg.

  They both reached their maximum speed, just before g. The wolf had clear iions of ending this fight as fast as it could, opening its jaw and jumping foing straight for the neck. But the "human" wasn't going to let that happen, jumping to the side out of pure instinct, barely dodging the attack. The wolf, nding on its legs, flinched and yelped due to the wound. The "human" used that p forward and buried its teeth straight into the wolf's spine. Causing it to roar up in pain. The wolf tried to shake the "human" off but to no avail. So it rolled on its back, crushing the "human" us immense weight and feeling the teeth loosen out of its spi jumped up and got on top of the enemy.

  Now, the "human" was looking up at the monster right in its face, as it started attag. Using its cws ah to shred the "human" to pieces. As the "human" had never felt pain before this was an unfettable experience, screeming.

  Finally, after having had enough, the wolf tries to go for the killing blow, again going for the neck. But just before its teeth could sink into its neck, the "human" barely mao move its o the side, resulting in the wolf sinking its teeth straight into its shoulder. Breaking nearly every bone present with the sheer biting power. Blood rapidly and the "human" could feel its life slipping away, so it mustered up every ounce of strength it had and pushed the wolf away, resulting in the wolf ripping off a huge k from its shoulder. With the huge shoulder wound and the cuts and bitting wounds it had received earlier when the wolf positioself over it. It could feel the time running out.

  It went a few steps backward to build distahe "human" was unaware of how anatomy worked, it only realized that if it bit something long enough it would die. But after the wolf going straight for the neck a sed time it thought of something. What if that's a way to kill something quickly?

  And so it waited, it waited for another jump attack from the wolf. And soon enough it pounced forward. Dodging again, the wolf nded on its wounded leg and flinched. Using this ce the "human" again jumped forward, but instead of going for the back, it went for the neck, sinking its teeth straight inside. And using its remaining strength it ripped its head backward, removing nearly half of the wolf's throat.

  The wolf stood there for a few more seds, only to colpse right after, its eyes lifeless.

  The "human" slumps to its knees, breathing heavily. But it khe fight wasn't over just yet, its blood was still flowing, and eg that with the feeling of tiredness and fatigue getting stronger by the sed, it had to do something. Looking at the wounds, only ohing came to mind. And so it started ripping and tearing the wolf's body apart and stuffing bits and pieces of the wolf's flesh is own wounds. The feeling was unimagi was so painful that it screamed and yelled, but tiuffing the wounds.

  Having fiuffing the wounds, it didn't waste a single sed to eat the rest of the flesh, letting nothing go to waste, from muscle to brain.

  Afterwards the feeling of fatigue was still present, so it searched for a pce to lie down, and the moment it did. It copsed, closing its eyes and going into a deep sleep.

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  Bestiary index: Wolf

  Wolfs are pack beasts, a single wolf is rather weak, but in a pack, they bee 10x more dangerous.

  Wolfs ck magical power but are physically superior.

  They have a natural resistao id the cold. Which is why they only reside in such areas.

  While they are rather social for a mohey are still ruthless to their kind. If a wolf 't keep up with its pack it's getti behind. This normally happens to old wolves or those that got wouhe only exception is if a wolf is pregnant. Then it's the pack's top priority to protect the female and the cub that is born. The cub gets to ride one of the wolves until it is old enough to keep up.

  If a wolf mao survive enough battles ao a certain point in life it evolve into a new form, called the dire wolf.

  A dire wolf is reizable by its increased size and its horn and boes on its back. These dire wolves will mostly bee the pack leader but have the bat power to walk alone and survive.

  Unlike mas, wolves do not have a lust-based desire for humans and other races. Staying within their own kind.

  Entry end.