▲Ah.. Hello! So you want to know my story do ya? Well, come close and lend me your ear because your in for an adventure.
The day I was born, was like any other. Birds on branches enjoyed a breeze, happily cooled from the hot summer day. It was especially hot that season, and I recollect that there wasn't much rain.. I, was the youngest and the last out of a litter of six. The, uh-Runt as you might say. Now, my parents weren't anything special regardin rank. My momma was a simple Hunter, and my pap was an omega. But they did the best they could to provide for us pups and our pack, at the time. I remember it was quite small. It only held about eleven wolves, and that was including my siblins and I. Now, growing up wasn't no pic-i-nic. With so few wolves, most of my siblings quickly became hunters like my momma. But not me, no sir-e. I took after my pappy. I was an omega, and over the next year my siblins made sure I knew it to. Well, about a year later I set off on my own. Brakin away from my pack, to find a mate elsewhere. Leaving my pack was a dangerous gamble, but boy did it pay off in the long run. I musta trekked nine miles until I met 'er for the first time. Boy was she a knock out. And thats not a comparison, she nearly did knocked me out. The first time i met my mate Fawna, she was sliding across the ice on a frozen lake and crashed right into my side. I remember being so surprised and irritated, b-because she sent us right into the center of the lake! Have you ever tried walking on ice before? Your slipping and sliding all over the darn place! Neither of us could get our footing and we ended up just laying, sprawled out on the ice trying to catch our breath....and then she just laughed.... I remember being so irritated and angry..but let me tell you somthing... The minute I looked her in the eyes..the minute I heard that laugh. I...I was never the same. Never in my life had I seen a Fea more beautiful then Fawna. Never had I heard a laugh so amazing..I.. I can't even begin to explain just how life changing that moment was. It was like I had opened my eyes for the very first time...we stayed out on that ice lake for hours..we talked about ourselves, and shared our stories...I knew then that I would do anything for her.... That next spring, Fawna and I...well, we welcomed 5 healthy pups into the world. 4 Feas which we named Ava, Willow, Lumen, & Cara- and one brute, which I called Kodak after my pap. That spring, we officaly had a family and by that next summer I was the Alpha of a new pack.
I didn't know then, just how fast time would fly. But boy did it ever. It felt like only minutes had passed, when my daughter's began attracting mates and starting their own families. And as for Kodak? Well.. He left searching for somthing different. I still wonder, every now and again, if he had ever found what he was looking for. Ah, but back to the story. Well. About one year after my last daughter was mated, did the number of mouths to feed grow drasticly. By mid fall Ava was the mother of two, Willow of five, Lumen of three, and Cara had only one if I do recall correctly. I reckon our pack of six had just grown to seventeen in just over two months and the pressure for food was more dire then It had ever been before. Us males, began hunting more and eating less. Trying to get enough food to strengthen and fatten up the pups for the coming winter... We tried to prepare the best we could... But it was not to be.. That winter I saw more death then my old brain cares to remember.. Felt enough heartache to last a lifetime... Over the winter, the number of deer plumeted. Their numbers desimated by a giant neghboring pack. Soon there wasn't one deer left in the valley. It wasn't long before Famine and Illness griped my pack. By the end of winter we had lost five pups, my daughter Ava, and Willows mate, Shiva. Fawna had done everything she could to save them...but there was only so much she could do.That winter, my pack was destroyed. The impact of so much loss in such a short amount of time taking its effect, and breaking up my family as well.
In the end, Willow left with her only remaining pup. Cara and Karigin went East with their son to start a pack of their own, and Ava...well she dissapeared, leaving her pups behind. Fawna and I were all that was left. Together we carried our grandpups.We searched for a new place to live and looked for someone... Anyone who could take in Ava's babies. Eventually, we managed to locate a pack willing to take in the pups. Both our grandsons went to a pack in the East.
Now dont get me wrong, It was hard...But we were growing old and had no business caring for such fragile things anymore. We...we just couldn't protect them like we wanted to....
Well, some time after that the love of my life passed away...
I...I remember it very clearly... It was mid summer, an unusually cool night. We were laying in the middle of a field watching the moon rise.like we always did... When she turned to me and said the darndest thing... You know what she told me? She looked me right in the eyes, and told me that she was going to see the ice lake. And that she didn't care how long she had to wait. She was going to stay there until I came to see them to... I didn't understand what she meant then, but I did the next morning...
I laid with her for hours...telling her how much I loved her... I cried more that day then at any other point in my life. She was my everything...but as much as I love her, I wouldn't ask to change what happened or bring her back... I wouldn't, because
I know..that somewhere out there... There is an Ice lake. Surrounded with tall pines and a fresh blanket of snow.Tucked away between a mountain cove and a thick forest. And on this lake, my sweet heart is waiting for me.
Well...That's my story. I've gone from being a bachelor to a father, gone from omega to alpha. survived the impossible, grown old, and even fallen in love on Ice Lakes.I've had many great adventures. But now that you've heard my story, what will yours be? What risks will you take? What are you going to do, with the time that you have left?
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