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| Artist | Dragontrix [gallery] |
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The young pup was sitting between his fathers front legs, looking up at him with awe in his eyes, his mother tending to the fire not long away. The father smiled down at the pup, rubbing his nose against his ears, making the pup bat his paws at it’s much bigger chest trying to stop it. The father chuckled, shaking his head fondly.
“Papa, tell the story about Raziel, please?” the pup whined, making his eyes as big as possible looking up at his father. The older wolf chuckled, looking down at the pup.
“Again Skylar? Well, okay then, it begun with a brave warrior, a most feared fighter, that feel in love with a shadow...
Raziel was the only son of a Anaxian general many hundreds years ago, he was told to be a true fighter, a warrior that never backed down from a fight, and never lost. He won many fights, beat wolfs many times bigger then him, some say it was because of his beauty, that it distracted his opponents, so that he could defeat them before they had a chance to defend themselves. The story goes so, that one day the wolf refused to fight, something that had never happened before. Many a wolf tried to make him fight them, but he still refused, even when a wolf that had always been jealous of him wanted to fight him, he still said no.
Because he had fallen in love with a shadow, and the shadow had told him that he would never be with a fighter, a killer, that it wasn’t in his blood. And Raziel had listened, promised himself he would never kill again. And the shadow saw his stubbornness and willingness to change his life for love, accepted him, welcomed him. They meet in secret for many months, and as time passed, Raziel’s father become more and more displeased with the situation. One day he had gotten enough, and he told Raziel that he had found a girl that he was to marry, Raziel of course refused, he would never leave the shadow. His father locked him in the house making it impossible for him to meet the shadow. And when the day for him to marry, he had decided he would escape before the ceremony, to run away with his shadow.
The time for the wedding come, and there, behind a tree his shadow was, but not only them, a big wolf had them cornered, unable to escape. Raziel panicked, but the shadow saw him, shook his head, his eyes told him clearly to stay where he was. And the shadow took to the sky, powerful wings beating, getting them away from the bigger wolf who screamed angrily after him. The wedding had been stopped because of the screaming but soon started again like nothing had happened, but to Raziel it hadn't been, it had been the moment that would change his whole life, and that of his children, and their children, forever.
Raziel was never the same after he had seen his shadow disappear into the sky. He had learned to like the girl he had married, but but it never felt right, she wasn't his shadow, and would never be. Many years past and they had a child, a little boy. He become the most important thing in Raziel's life, and the only one he would ever tell the story about the shadow. The boy promised his father he would never tell anyone if it wasn't about life and death.
The thing that Raziel had feared come on a day when his son was a young adult, the day the shadow come back. But the shadow didn't even look at him twice, and even when he talked to them there was nothing in their eyes that could tell that they knew who he was. The young boy saw the despair in his fathers eyes when the shadow walked away. It happened the same way for over a month, but never did the shadow recognize him. After that Raziel become so full of despair that he never left his room, and his son was the only one he allowed into the room, and even when he had food with him he refused to eat it. He son grew more and more desperate, and asked his father if there anything he could do. His father just smiled, shaking his head. The son asked the same thing for a week, and Raziel continued to refuse the food and give the same small smile. After that one week had gone, Raziel was so week that he could barely lift his head, and only then, when it was obvious he only had hours left he answered his son's question.
He told him to protect the shadow, but to make sure they never saw him, to keep hidden. And the son promised, he would do all those things, he would make his fathers last wish his life. He lived his whole life from that day following and protecting the shadow. And so did his mate an his own son, and his son took over where his father left of, going by the same promise, the same duty, that would follow the family of Raz until the day they no longer would be able to fulfill their duty.
Because of one wolfs love for a shadow, even when the shadow disappeared and they could no longer be together. A love so strong it broke every rule and changed fate, because one choice of son that loved his father and would do everything he asked of him, no mater what.
The young pup yawned and snuggled closer to it's father. The older smiled, shooting a fond look to his mate that had laid down beside him. She smiled back and he laid his head on his paws beside their pup, she laying her own on his other. The young one had already fallen asleep, stubbornly staying awake for the whole story. They soon too feel asleep to the sounds of the forest and the sparking fire.




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