Mari had to sacrifice that life. Why? Why?
It's all my fault. It's my fault, Midnight silently sobbed, her heart aching, but... it's over. I can't do a thing. Focus. Two more days...
It was still dark. Midnight ran, she knew, she passed the last path- the unseen path. It was unseen, covered with corn.
Midnight's breath was heavy, from the incident. What would I tell Sunrise? She saw what happened... Can I bluff through her sorrows?
After an hour of running, she stopped by a small river, she set Sunrise down and then satisfied her thirst. She had sleep already. In the farmhouse in the shed with the chickens, so she plunged her face into the cool river, freshening her up. She shook her face wet, some droplets splashed on Sunrise.
The black wolf stared into her reflection. She gasped. Between greens of leaves, there was a splotch of grey. It was waving with the river's current. She looked up, and saw that same grey block. The ruins! Midnight eagerly thought. As gently as she could, she mounted Sunrise onto her back and she walked as quick as she could towards what seems to be the ruins. Bushes rustled, and she stayed alert. It was just breakfast, a brown bunny. She devoured it and saved a small portion for Sunrise as the fox began to wake slowly.
As Sunrise nibbled a little on the meat, she asked something in her fox language.
Midnight nuzzled the fox. "Sorry I don't understand you, Sunrise," she whispered. "I know, though, they'll... they'll..."
She couldn't bluff anymore. Sunrise won't even understand her.
Midnight noticed that Sunrise couldn't eat anymore, so she urged Sunrise up and made her walk slowly. When Sunrise was too exhausted, Midnight lifted her up to her back and walked on towards the ruins.
The Rygeane Ruins was dusty. Rubble was everywhere. Midnight set Sunrise down on a log, curled up. Midnight stepped into the ruins, the dust swirling with the wind.
She exhaled.
She was finally here...
Still... Are there supposed to be glowing eyes. staring at her in the ruins?
She blinked. It's still there, then, it disappeared, and then a shadow dashed by.
Midnight turned. Just get a rune stone...!
She dashed for a rune stone, but there was a sudden wolf before her. "Huh," said the wolf, snorting. "Another one."
"Since when is this your area anyway?" growled Midnight.
The wolf eyes opened, revealing them to be grey. "The only place and sanctuary of mine is anywhere away from murderers! Unless you're going to help me..."
"Help you?" laughed Midnight. "You just called me a murderer a while ago."
The black wolf swished it's tail, sighed, "Some in life are too lucky to have never experienced the loss of others."
"Well, I'm sorry," snapped Midnight. Who did this wolf think it is? How dare it mocked her for the loss of her mother. The wolf was the lucky one, not her.
The black wolf's eyes began to collect tears, but blinked it away. Midnight's once foggy eyes of tears focused and immediately spotted that the wolf was a male.
Midnight's voice softened up, cracked a little, afraid she thought wrong of the wolf. Judging him by his tears, he had lost at least one. At least.
"Excuse me... I just need a stone from this... uh, ruins," she said in a soothing voice, hoping the wolf will understand. "Or I'll be... exiled."
The wolf tensed. "Just be exiled, rot in the woods like how you all kill!"
Midnight was taken aback, but the wolf wasn't done. "Good for nothing! Murderers, and we are of the same species, same group!"
"Please, I don't know what you're talking about..."
"Denial, eh?" snorted the wolf, grey eyes sparkling with anger. A short pause. "I remember you!"
"Do I know you?" Midnight asked.
"You killed my mother!" accused the wolf.
Blood seemed to boil in her veins. Her, kill some stranger's mom?
"Then what's my name?" challenged Midnight.
"It's in the back of my head, when the time's right, I'll know," choked the black wolf, "but you'll pay, alright, you'll pay."
His claws looked dull, but when he slashed them by Midnight, she could feel that they were sharpened sometime ago. Not long.
Midnight ran, but not towards Sunrise, she aimed for a rune stone.
"You lied to my father!" cried the wolf.
Midnight just raced and grabbed a rune stone, flipping it around to make sure it had the "Ry" sign on it. She picked it up in her jaws, and from the skies, the black wolf fell on her. She was in shocked, dropped, the rune stone bouncing away, her breath heavy.
"Do you even remember who I am?" was what the wolf said. Midnight struggled against the weight, which was somewhat around Wisp's weight.
"It's not... like I know you," Midnight spluttered.
The black wolf forced more weight on her. "Don't deny, you assassinated my parents."
"Assassinate is a very strong... word choice," growled Midnight, panting even harder.
A squeak. Midnight forced to look back saw Sunrise entering the scene. Sunrise kept looking at Midnight, the wolf and the log she was on. "Who's this runt?" growled the black wolf."
Midnight was silent. "Look, tell me what... this situation is..."
"Who's? My fool-proof one or your story to guilt-trip me?"
"Yours, of course..."
The black wolf got up and left her. Sunrise dashed towards Midnight, the wolf forced herself to stand with Sunrise's help. Sunrise sniffed her, and Midnight just weakly licked the kit. "I'm okay," said Midnight.
The black wolf walked in circles around her. "I believe your chief had a grudge with my family," said the black wolf. "My mom was always considered a loner, secretly breaking rules, but your chief, he fell in love."
"What's your chief's name?" asked Midnight.
The wolf shrugged. "I wasn't born back then, I didn't know. The chief, though, he realised my mom had more than once wolf to pick. About five wolves were attracted to her, she was beautiful, sea green eyes, snow fur almost as it was crystal blue, and the chief just needed her, so said the chief to my mom, but she chose someone else. She knew the chief isn't generous, his trust and promises never filled to the brim, unlike my father, trustworthy and willing to sacrifice for the better good."
Midnight cocked her head, her breath retrieved. It was ridiculous. It's a love story.
"My chief loathed my mother after that, despite his vows of love," coughed the black wolf in a scratchy voice. "He sent my family away. Mom and dad."
Midnight stroked Sunrise. "About a year later, I was born, and raised. I'm about two and a half years now, and... half a year ago, I met this she-wolf. Her fur, was coarse, but as dark as a moon-less midnight. Her eyes, deep blue, and she had the underside of white, grey, her paws tinted with grey fur. Like, you..."
Midnight was taken aback. "You think I'm that wolf?" she asked.
The wolf nodded slowly, then roared, "How dare you tell your chief, you father, that I have insulted you! As deep as the darkest waters at night isn't an insult!"
"I didn't!" Midnight protested once more. "Who the fang are you?"
"You'll pay! They way your father sent his hunters after me, death for words I can take back!" snarled the wolf, his grey eyes burning with the fire of hatred. "I know you will... pay."
Author's Note: CRAZY WOLF! RUN AWAY, MIDNIGHT! Please don't be mad at me, I tweak things a little, okay? By the way, we'll see who this wolf is, but I think someone in the crowd knows who.
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