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[Resin]

Resin and Ash-

Against her will, she fell asleep and woke curled next to Ash. Looking to the sky, she noted the position of the sun that just barely shone through the clouds. They had slept too long. By the time the rest of the pack got here and they began to cross, darkness would blanket the sky.
Rousing Ash, she turned and faced the direction of the pack. She howled long and low, instructing them all to wake and make their way to the ice canyon. Again she howled, this time asking for haste. If they moved fast, they could all get over the ice bridge before full night came.
They had some time before the pack reached them, so Resin padded carefully across the bridge, Ash following once she had crossed. "We have some time. If we can hunt and find something, the pack won't worry as much while crossing."

Resin and Ash walked several paces from one another, but still side by side. Each scanned and scented for prey. After a time, Ash alerted her to a large lumbering shape in the distance. The pair crouched low and moved in to investigate. Both of their stomachs growled. Mammoth.
The mammoth had left the far north years ago. Their immense weight sometimes caused them to plummet through the ice. After a time, they became wise to that fact and had moved South. This lone mammoth was huge, but it was by far the biggest mammoth they had ever seen. Killing it would be tricky, but Resin was determined. "Clamp and Tear," she whispered to her brother.
'Clamp and Tear' was a kill strategy. Basically Resin would come in from one side and latch onto the beasts throat or face and Ash would fly in from behind and tear open the belly. The light wolf nodded and they were off.

Staying low, they both took their places. The mammoth, a bull, was distracted, it seemed. He was trumpeting, calling out to his herd, most likely. As she drew nearer, Resin noted that the bull had an injured leg. Not only was this a blessing for the wolves, but it would be a blessing for the bull. He would have led a painful life.
Once close enough, Resin scanned the opposite side of the bull, looking for Ash. He was in position. With a burst of speed, the dark female took off and, diving beneath the swaying tusks, latched onto the beasts lower jaw. The mammoth bellowed and began swinging it's head, but she held on.
Ash did his part, running in quickly, he began tearing at the belly. It was difficult to get through due to the mass amounts of thick fur, but he would eventually get there. Every bite counted.
Resin felt something wrap about her midsection. The mammoths long nose appendage had curled itself around her and he was trying to pull her away. Between bursts of pulling, Resin adjusted her bite, still latched on to the lower jaw. The flesh was tearing and her mouth was full of sweet, warm blood.
It was becoming difficult to breathe due to the squeezing, but she refused to let go. This mammoth would die so that her pack could live. Pain lanced through her and still she hung on.
The battle continued until the mammoths knees buckled and it fell to it's side. During the fall it had released the dark female. Resin inhaled sharply, filling her lungs with cool, crisp, life giving air, then dove towards the mammoths stomach, ripping into it next to her brother.
Soon the beasts struggles stopped and the life left it's eyes. "Tell them," Resin panted. Gladly Ash raised his muzzle and called out to the distant pack, the promise of a great meal in his song.

[Apocalyptic_Punk]

Curse
{{Fae||Straggler||22||W/Mirage}}

Curse was asleep quite deeply though her ears twitched when she heard Resin call the pack to come to the ice bridge. She didn't move at first until the second howl this one, calling them to hurry broke fully through the fog of sleep. She sighed softly opening her eyes and watched her breath curl upwards in a smokey white cloud. She slowly lifted her head off the back of the wolf she'd pushed into making it here and looked around, letting out a yawn that issued a squeak at the end she rose stretching from fore to aft and back again, before standing up to her full height. She shook herself as hard as she could sending a spray of snow flying about her.

Finally once she felt fully awake she looked down at the wolf she'd helped get here only a short time ago. She twitched her ears as she watched him, yes he was only asleep, but he had obviously not heard the howl. This kind of behavior would result in him getting left behind, and eventually his death. She let out a huff of air again watching it curl upwards and away before she leaned down and nudged the younger brute. "Time to get moving," She said her voice still horse from disuse. She rolled her eyes when he groaned and curled up tighter. She let out a frustrated growl and reached out and bit down on his shoulder, not hard enough to break the skin or bruise, but enough to alert the pup that he needed to get up and get moving now.




Mirage
{{Brute||Omega||10|| W/Curse|}}

Mirage was asleep, he excelled at sleeping or so his father had always joked. He was quite good at it and he enjoyed doing it. He did hear the Alpha Resin calling them to get moving, but he figured he would catch a few more minutes of sleep, because he was so warm and cozy. Especially with the much larger fae who had gotten him to this point. He probably wouldn't make it the whole way, but that was okay, he was sleeping now and he was happy. He heard a second cry from the Alpha this one more urgant and demanding, and felt his new friend? maybe, get to her feet behind him. He let out a small silent sigh knowing she was going to push him up again and indeed he felt her nose butt his shoulder and her gravely voice demand he get up.

So he did what felt right and curled up tighter hoping she would get the idea and leave him alone. A few minutes passed and he was relaxing back towards sleep when sharp pain radiated from his shoulder. He bolted to his feet with a yelp and a sneeze as he'd inhaled snow as he whirled looking for his attacker before realizing it was just the fae. "That's not buddies," he whined looking at her intently.

"Who said I was your buddy, now move," She said pushing him towards where the others were moving.

[BlackJaguar]

Attican

73 - Brute - Keeper

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Attican's deep curled up sleep was jolted suddenly when Ash's call hit his ears. Having slept in his pit for hours and with the light snow accumulation his head literally seemed to pop out of nowhere from the ground like a daisy. "Mhumpphh...?!" He grunted incoherently, not expecting to get such a slap of cold in his face at the same moment of waking up. His legs fumbled around trying to get beneath his body again to stand.

Ash's voice once again pierced the sky, coming in much more clear to the brute the second time around. The brute's eyes got wide, finally understanding the wake up call message. Food. And by the tone in the Beta's voice, it sounded plentiful.

Questions filled his head as Attican stood up, snow rolling off his back. The bitter air hit him hard as he did so, causing his tail to curl under him in attempts to hold in heat. One thing was for sure, the weather at the moment was getting colder due the sun falling. When had a hunt taken place? Who had hunted? Had the brute missed something? Looking around he noted that other wolves seemed to look as confused as he was, not sure of what to do with the call. Looks like he wasn't the only one then. He spied a few wolves seeming to dance around lightly at the prospect of food. Despite his questions he couldn't help but smile at that for a moment.

Trying to make sense of the situation and for the time being taking a type of lead, the Elder told a few members to gather the wolves together best they could as he went to go see what was going on. He followed the direction of the Beta's voice, nose tipped upwards in the air and ears swivelling like satellites. The wind blew against him from time to time, making him shudder. What he came across in his search though was gently disheartening. The crossing. Yes the food was there, now being closer he could definitely smell the scent of a fresh kill, but the only way to it was a bridge of ice. It looked temptingly crossable, but at the same time very dangerous. Now Attican understood the sound of urgency in the call, they had to cross before the light from the sun depleted completely.

With newfound vigor the Keeper ran back towards the group, barking for them to begin movement towards the crossing. His mind was thinking hard trying to think quickly of the best ways for everyone to cross. He feared for everyone to cross altogether - one slip could cause a domino effect and result in wolves plunging towards the black and icy waters below. Also he wasn't sure if the small passage could hold that kind of weight with all the great wolves on it. Yet at the very same time, going single file would surely result in not everyone getting across in time. He raced with ideas, the bridge now only looming in the foreground.

"Okay everyone!" He called out, yipping a few times to grab their attention. "Resin and Ash are across this passage, and in order to get there, we have to cross too. The sun is lowering so time right now is not our friend. Find a partner, doesn't matter who, just find someone to cross with. Pups go together with an adult. We will cross two at at time."

Attican bit his lower lip, hoping he hadn't jumped the gun on this move. But on the same hand there really was no time to falter and question. He decided he would be one of the last to cross with Xani, just to make sure with her that truly everyone had made it. His head raised, giving return call to the siblings on the other side, telling them that they were beginning their crossing.

[Resin]

Resin-

She had left Ash to watch the mammoth and decided to go back to the ice bridge just in case something happened. If someone fell, she would be the one to risk her life saving them. This was her pack. Her responsibility. The wind blew hard, periodically almost pushing her from her feet. This crossing would be very, very difficult.
As she reached the ice bridge, she saw the pack on the other side. They prepared to cross and she yipped, telling them to stay put. Slowly and with great care, she crossed the bridge towards them. More than once the wind caused her to slide. During these times she had to stop and hunker down, pressing herself to the bridge. Doing this caused her ribs to ache where the mammoth had squeezed her and she winced when she did so.
Once across, she shot Attican a look of concern. She panted through the achey pain then addressed the pack. "Though we're losing light, you must move slowly. If the wind starts to blow, get as low as you can so the wind can't push you off. Take. Your. Time. I can't stress that enough."
She agreed with Attican that everyone should pair up. The buddy system would make everyone feel a bit safer, at least. And then, to add to the appeal and desire to get across, she spoke again, her voice strong and sure. "Ash and I have a surprise for you on the other side. You can no doubt smell it, but wait til you taste it!" She grinned, white teeth flashing before she nudged the first pair of wolves.
They started across with no trouble, then a gust of wind blew and they both pressed themselves against the bridge. Resin could see them sliding, but the gust ended and they continued until they made it to the other side. She could see them jumping about happily.
"See?" She spoke. "Simple stuff. Who's next?"

[Nuclear_Angel]

Hannibal : Bruit : Straggler : 24 years old

The wind was harsh and the blizzard was coming. Hannibal was curled up in a ball. His feet tucked tightly together, with his head near them, and his tail came around covering his black noise. The snow had blanked him in three inches of snow, but yet he wasn't cold. Matter of fact the snow helped him keep his body heat in and cut down on the wind. He was hidden away to not to be seen by the untrained eye.

In the howl of the wind Hannibal could hear voices. At first he shrugged it off. Thinking that finally over the years solicitude that it was starting to get to him. The voices came again and this time he couldn't shove them to the side. Hannibal picked his head up out of his snow blanket and flickered his ears. He waited to hear them once more. He could barely make them out, but knew it was voices of his own kind.

Hannibal's icy blue eyes searched the the horizon. The snow was too think to see far away. He stood and shook his coat to rid himself of his blanket of snow. He stretch backwards and then forward. After lumbering up he padded towards the sound of demanding voice ahead. As the voices got louder he slowed. The packs' blurry figures slowly came clear. He could see the pack attempting to cross a ridge. They faced away from him and the wind was on his side. He could smell them, but they couldn't smell him.

Just to be on the safe side Hannibal slid to his belly and dug his body in to the snow covering himself. For nature was always changing. He laid his paws across his black noise hiding it. Now he stayed still and watched them. Two by two he notice their pattern right away. He noticed the one giving orders, but covered it up with a pep talk. This one had a burning determination for the group. "That one must be the alpha..." Hannibal thought to himself.

[Apocalyptic_Punk]

Curse
{{Fae||Straggler||22||W/Mirage}}

Curse watched as 2 by 2 the pairs made their way across the thin icy bridge. She shifted her body and glanced at the younger male then around at the rest of the pack. Nerves were running high, there was a lul in the high winds and she suddenly could smell the warm hot blood of prey. With a low grumbling growl she rose to her feet and nudged the pup to his feet. "Move," She growled sharply and headed for the bridge.

Mirage
{{Brute||Omega||10|| W/Curse|}}

Mirage could smell the food and his stomach was roaring for it, so when The female shoved him towards the bridge he had no problem scrambling to his feet and heading for the bridge, and soon the two of them were making their slow and precarious way across the bridge. His muscles strained as he dug his claws into the ice, crouching when the wind picked up in strength, digging into his hide like millions of Icy claws, he let out a whimper of fear, but then focused on the ashy tail of the female and was half tempted to grab onto it. But he restrained himself and soon they were across.

Once his feet hit solid ground he let out a yip of excitement and began to spring around the fae. "We did it! Were safe! Were safe!" he howled happily.

"Yes, we are safe, but the rest still need to come across," She growled at him and it settled him down as he turned to watch the rest of the pack silently.

[Hannah Elise]

{I'm going to make a loner male who doesn't care about helping anyone particularity the pups on the journey but eventually he will die at some point through the journey ....}

River
4 summers; female grey wolf pup

River felt horrible that hearing Junco's parents had abandoned him as well and was glad to be consider apart of his family. River's eyes lit up and her tail wagged slightly before bounding over towards him and curled up close to Junco's belly before falling asleep, all that traveling had made her really tried and although she was enjoying the adventure River was scared that she won't make it. But soon all that worry disappeared after hearing a song drift through the wind and after awhile River was fully asleep.

Eventually after a peacefully sleep a howl in the distances sounded she didn't want to get up but another howl sounded this time more like an order, not wanting to be in trouble or left behind. River stood up and shook most of the wet snow that had covered her fur, looking around River could see most of the wolves getting up and moved forwarded. Yawning River placed her front paws on Junco's shoulder before she started to tugged on his ears a little bit harder than last time incase he ignored her "Junco! Get! up!" whimpering slightly River licked him before sitting back down not really wanting to be abandoned by the pack and watching everyone moving slowly towards where the call came from River tugged his ear one more time before bounding towards Attican and the others hoping Junco would meet up with her later.

After reaching the group River padded slowly towards the edge and froze in fear, although it was a big drop down River looked at the bridge and wondered if she would make it cross by herself. Hearing what the Alpha and Attican had said about pairing up River started to worry if she would be annoying to any wolf who didn't want to make their way across a bridge with a pup. Sniffing the air River could smell food across that bridge but all of a sudden she wasn't hungry for food any more, flicking her ear slightly River whimpered and she sat there watching most of the wolves slowly making their way across the bridge. Crouching down River tried to decided if she should go next or not eventually she slowly stood up with her tail between her hind legs and made her way towards the bridge before anyone else could step onto the bridge River made her way out.

The wind was quite strong pushing her small body slightly towards the edge even time it went past her and at one point she almost slipped of the edge. Shivering with fear River crouched down like the other wolves did but all of a sudden a big swoosh of wind pushed River and she found herself dangling of the edge of the bridge. Taking a breath River closed her eyes trying to clam herself down before slowly clawing her way back up almost slipping a few times a big loner brute that she was with kept going not even caring if River made it or not as he walked by he brushed River making her slip even more.

[Only_Sky]

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Ｌａｙａｋ - Capable
Fighter Fae ☽ Twenty Two ☽ Single ☽ Crush on Dionysus

Yawning gently, Layak trailed at the back of the pack. Sitting down now and then, the fae whined quietly. ' I don't want to leave. It's so unfair, I mean, yeah the ice is melting, but can't we just move to a new patch? ' Growling ta herself, she thought again ' Ugh, what a dumb thought, of course we can't just move to another patch of ice. There is none! Why am I so silly? ' She asked herself, shaking her head and speeding up so she wasn't trailing so far behind.

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Uh, mind if anyone can give me a recap? Not very good at reading longg posts. ]]

[Resin]

Resin- Alpha Female-30 summers

Yellow orbs stayed locked on each pair as they crossed the narrow ice bridge. Not many wolves had problems as long as they followed her instructions. When a gust of wind blew, most of them crouched low, reducing their resistance to the wind.
When River dashed onto the bridge alone, Resin barked an order for someone without a partner to go after her. A loner male followed. Instantly she regretted the order. He was pushy and didn't seem to care in the least whether or not River made it to the other side.
Resin snarled at the male, cursing him for his lack of sense. "River. Just stay there. Let him cross, but stay there." She looked to Attican. "Once I'm across, send the rest. We're losing light." Indeed the sky had begun to darken. Then she turned her attention back to the pup and the male who was in for a world of hurt.
Once the male cleared the other side, Resin made her way out onto the ice bridge. Slowly and with sure footing, she reached River. The pup was still small enough to be carried, so that's what Resin would do. First, however, she pulled the pup against her chest using her head and neck, trying to give her a bit of warmth.
"Ready, River?" Waiting for the wind to take it's next breath, she picked the pup up in her jaws and moved slowly and methodically across to the other side. Once her paws touched the safety of the other side, she released River. Her next order of business? To reprimand the sloppy brute.
Resin didn't receive any pleasure out of making an example of other wolves, but it needed to be done in this case. Rushing the loner male, she bowled him over. Her tail was held high and her dark ruff stood on end. Pulling her lips back, she bared her curved killing teeth, placing them a hairs breadth from the males face. She snarled, standing over his prone form. "If you ever pull a stunt like that while in the company of my pack, I won't hesitate to chase you off." She stared daggers into him, a deep growl still mixing with her words. "And if you get one of my wolves injured or killed... I'll kill you myself without a moments hesitation."
Stepping away, she allowed him to rise, but sunk her teeth into his hindquarters, proving that she would indeed carry out that threat.
Catching her breath, she brought her attention to Curse and Mirage. "You two did well. It wasn't as hard as it looked, eh?" The dark female cracked a slight grin before directing her attention back to the others crossing the bridge. There weren't too many pairs left to finish. Soon it would be time for Attican and Xani to cross, then they could all go eat. If they were lucky, the insides of the mammoth would still be warm by the time they reached it.

((All of the posts are going to be long, Demon. I'll recap this time, but next time you'll have to read them. The wolves are travelling South in search of a new home. They're crossing an ice bridge in pairs. There's harsh wind and the bridge is slippery. There's a meal waiting for them on the other side. That's about it.))

[Only_Sky]

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Ｌａｙａｋ - Capable
Fighter Fae ☽ Twenty Two ☽ Single ☽ Crush on Dionysus

Still at the back of the pack, Layak watched the wolves pair up near the front. Whining the fae looked around, gently speaking, her voice low as she hadn't spoken in a while '' Uh, would anyone like to pair up with me? '' She asked, looking around. Silently, she wondered if anyone could even see her, considering her white coat was almost the exact same colour as that of the snow around them, but her amber eyes and black nose were visible, even if a thin coat of ice covered her nose, you could still see her deep amber eyes. Clearing her throat, the white wolf asked again, only louder '' I currently have no wolf to cross the bridge with, does anyone mind joining me? ''. Shaking her fur, tiny icicles flew off of her fur, making Layak give a sigh of relief as the cold frozen droplets left her body.

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Yeah, sorry. ]]