Boys always have something to prove

[Faust]

It was the hottest time of the day yet there Faust was clearly pushing himself to the limit, for though his body was made (literally) for running his lungs were not. His chest was hurting like hell right now, and the pain made itself know on the blue male's face. Yet his steps seldom faltered, for he Faust had a mission, a purpose. And he was not going to give that up.

Josie was with him as well much to his dismay. He'd told her to stay, yelled at her, even bared his fangs (something which Faust seldom did). However the girl was persistent and he gave in to her demands.

'Where the hell is this pack so I can get this over with. A-and what kinda girl runs into danger when their pregnant.' He thought rather pissed off as he looked back at the female.

"H-hay, you doing OK back there?!"

[Jo]

"I'm fine," she snapped playfully, enjoying herself for once. Roaming the open mountainside was a wonderful thing after being stuck in a cage for most of your life and a thick jungle for the last few months. She followed him in a quick, wide-strided trot, tongue rolling out of the side of her mouth. She did move carefully, however; her belly was swollen with a litter of twisted puppies. It would be a few weeks before she' be due, though. The red hound caught up with a few lunges and noted Faust's dour expression.

"Don' be like that," she panted. Her speech had improved in the last few months, as she'd actually been talking and gving her unusual maw time to adjust."I c'n still keep up wit' you, can't I?

((Malice said she wanted to join, too.))

[Sadae]

((Hmmmmmmmmm I might join in later after Riv posts.))

[Malice]

((Mal is just following behind all ninja like. I won't post till things start happening, but she is watching Josie. If any of the wolves make a move for her, Mal will be out voicing a very angry opinion.))

[Faust]

"I guess..." The male said still angry about it. Did she not know what she was getting into, danger thats what she could be killed at anytime by wolves if the pack was large. And even if it wasn't their rage was good enough to kill one hellhound he was sure, shame and heartbreak did things horrible things that Faust did not want to think about.

"We're close now I think."

Honestly he didn't know how near or far they were, but something in his gut told so. It was a sick feeling that drove the male mad, and one would have swore that the redness in the whites of his eyes got darker.

'That girl, that girl will be here...Good god I hurt like hell.'

[Sadae]

(*laughs cause there's only two wolves officially in the pack*)

[Jo]

Josie sniffed lightly and looked around as she ran. Pine trees; a new and interesting site. Birds she'd never seen before (she marveled at their ability to defy gravity), rabbits in the rocks, mice scurrying about. Life. Well, healthy life.

"Nothin' bad's gonna happen," she muttered off-handedly, in an attempt to reassure him. It was empty; she knew that. She knew nothing of the ways of wolves; hardly what they looked like, for that matter.

[Faust]

Faust's frown deepened a great deal more then it already had just moments before. "Thats a lie..You don't know how, or whats going to happen. So don't say that nothing will, optimism is for fools." The blue hound replied glaring at the girl. She was so, naive. "You do know that you can give birth early just from to much stress?"

It was rather common for such things to happen to a female at the labs, seeing as they got tested even while they were carrying pups. It was quite ashame when a female died during child birth, yet it happened so much that Faust really couldn't care much about it anymore.

"Thats why I told you not to come with me. Besides you may be a hellhound but your still a girl, it would take much for a lot of them to rip out my stomach. Much less yours."

[Jo]

"I'm not the stressed one, that's you." she said, pausing for a moment to scratch her ear while still on three legs. Granted, she was a bit afraid. Neither she nor the blue hellhound knew how many wolves were in the pack-- it could be anywhere between ten and a hundred. But even then, wolves had to have some decency, or at least instinct, right? They wouldn't attack a pregnant bitch, right? Right? She tried to shut off the little voices in her skull telling her otherwise. But then again, what if they thought that once you had seen one hellhound, you had seen them all? She had done that with humans. But humans and hellhounds were different. Humans were very capable of evil. It wasn't Faust's fault. And she was exempt from this rule, at least to herself, because there had been dozens of scientists experimenting on her.

She tried not to think about it as she rejoined him running. "Where're they, 'nyway?" she said, in an effort to change the subject.

[Sadae]

(bump)

[Torrent]

((*trumpets play and angels sing as Riv finally posts*))

Sitting poised at the top of one of the tallest hills in the mountains, the dire surveyed his home with disdain, listening to the wind as it swept through the empty chasms and flicking his tail in tune to the cries of the mountain birds overhead. His golden gaze rested on the sky as opposed to the land, not like there was anything on the ground for him to look at anyway. At least there were birds in the air and they swooped and circled mindlessly around each other, further reminding the alpha male how alone he was in this massive expanse of a territory. His adviser had not been seen for months and the only other pack member under his paw was a bitch and rather disrespectful, if he did say so himself. Still, though he truly had nothing, the cocky dire sat tall, his chest puffed out as if he owned the world with these hills.

However, he seemed to bore rather quickly. Agitated by the bird's squawking, his charade faltered as he crouched rather suddenly, bunching up all his limbs and releasing all his dire might in a massive spring. His leap brought him nowhere near the birds that fluttered overhead but he seemed to startle them anyway and they scattered in all directions, effectively stroking the needless alpha's ego and playing across his face in a grin.

Who cares if there was no one to back him up? He was pack enough for anyone...

[Sadae]

Resting in the den Torrent had allowed her to stay in, Sinopa was just starting to stir from her sleep, her ears low on her head. She could feel the onset of hunger and the feeling quickly grew to a growling stomach. She gave a heavy sigh as she looked over at Sinopa and began to stand. She was pretty tired after getting less sleep than she was used to. Yawning and stretching, the tri-colored wolf walked out of the den and sniffed the air. Not much to eat nearby.

"Just a bunch of squirrels and birds..." She muttered as she stuck her nose to the ground to try and get a scent. Still not getting much, she began to walk, hoping to find something atleast about medium-sized. Something, tough to find on the mountains, what with the many places an animal could hide itself and its scent.

[Faust]

"Where're they, 'nyway?"

Finally Faust came to a stop. His chest was in a great amount of pain from the run, and he needed a brake from all the running. It would be far better now to howl out the the alpha of this land and have him come to them. The blue beast saw no harm in that, it was far better then running around the territory blindly.

"To answer your question, I have no idea where these wolves are." He muttered before coughing several times. "Why don't you...Call them her or something."

(bah, short)

[Jo]

"Uh...call them?" she muttered, glancing around in a way that suggested a diluted sort of panic. She lifted her big black nose to the sky. There was a very thin scent of other canines; she'd never smelled a wolf before but something within the primal side of her brain told her it was lupine.

Her olfactory system processed this interesting information. There didn't appear to be many; 3 or 4, perhaps. Huh. Kind of sad for a pack, she thought grimly.

"Al--alright, then." She adopted a wide-legged stance and threw her head back, baying a brief greeting. One cannot communicate fluently with howls, but it went something along the lines of 'We don't want to fight. We are here peacefully'.

[River]

((As Torrent. *lazy*))

Growing fond of his 'chase the local fauna' game, the young dire followed his current prey items in an almost aggressive fashion, head and ears raised, fur bristling. Occasionally, he gave a bit of a leap toward the overhead fowl, further startling them into flight until their white and brown forms grew too far out of sight to be fun anymore. So, attention was shifted again, this time to a target more earthly possible to catch: a hare. It darted from a nearby bush as the wolf trotted by and golden gaze was quickly shifted from the sky to the land, zeroed in on the prospect of the chase.

However, just as the dire prepared to pursue his new found target, the wind carried with it a message startling enough to freeze the confident alpha in his white and cream tracks. Body tense and legs spread wide in a defensive stance, it took him a moment to realize that sound was from afar, despite how loud it was in his sensitive auds, but even then, he dared not relax. It came not from the vocals of a creature he knew, one he trusted or one that should be within the confines of his lands.

Without actually pausing to listen what the message had to say, he was off like a furry bottle rocket, tracing the echoing tones back to the source. Off to the north, beyond the nearby hill, probably at the base of the northern foothills. A few minutes trot at most.

[Sadae]

((Do we have a posting order? >.>))

[Jo]

It's pretty much going Faust->Josie->River->Sadae. i think.

[Sadae]

Sinopa gave an irritated groan and growl as she continued on, sniffing at the ground, trying hard to find something or anything to eat. She smelled a deer nearby, her tail wagging happily behind her, she followed the scent to spot a lone fawn. Not much, but it was something.

Crouching down, she slowly and carefully stalked after this prey while using the rocks to hide. Just as she came within the perfect range to pounce, a howl rang out over the area. The deer, at the sound of the howl, quickly ran off and Ino was left frozen where she was. What kind of a hound made that noise? It didn't sound like the howl of anything she'd ever seen. Curious, she stood and trotted off toward the source of the noise.

[Malice]

((Yikes! this thread started again? crap I'm going to have to catch up. Malice is going to have to get her tail in here.))

[mal caught up]

((Don't stop because of me, Mal has stopped some way out of sight behind the calling hellhounds. She's hiding waiting to see what's going to happen. Anyone get's near Josie is going to have to deal with her.))