Across the River

Chapter 1

Imagine Orsin's bear looks like this! He's a brown bear just very light brown, or like dirty blonde. This story will mainly be following Orsin in third person point of view.
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*BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP*

"Ugghh shut it!" Orsin groaned out, quickly slamming his hand down on his alarm clock to shut it up. Unfortunately in that process he smashed it to pieces. "Damn that's like the third one this week," Orsin said to himself. He groaned again while rubbing his face to get the sleepiness out, it was 5:45 in the morning he had to be at the Warrior House by 7.

Orsin got up out of bed and headed to the bathroom attached to his bedroom, he stood in the shower for a while letting the hot water coarse over his body, relaxing him from the abrupt wake up call that was his alarm clock. He got out of the shower, got dressed and went to the mirror, clipped at his beard that was growing in nicely. Clipping away any hairs that made it look uneven or off.

Orsin looked at himself again, he stood at a tall 6'6, typical for an Alpha bear and had golden brown eyes. He was muscular with a six pack, of course. A weak bear didn't become the leader of the warriors in their clan, he had to be strong for his clan and the other bears fighting with him in potential battles. They rarely happened, but they were prepared for any attack that could come. He combed a hand through his light brown hair, grabbed his backpack, and went downstairs.

His mom was in the kitchen, along with his dad, and his brother. "Good morning everyone," Orsin said with them all saying their own good
morning in return. He walked over to his younger brother by 9 years and ruffled his hair with his hand, his brother Kannan's rank was kind of unknown. He didn't exert very much Alpha or Beta or Omega. They would know officially when he turned 18 though. "Orsin quit it!" Kannan whined and tried to put his hair back into place. Orsin only laughed and walked over to his mother, who was a beta, giving her a kiss on the cheek and grabbing a grill cheese that she had made for him gobbling it in two bites. He patted his alpha dad on the shoulder on his way back out of the kitchen and said "I'm going to the Warrior House, I'll see y'all later!" They all said their good byes after him, the calls being cut off from him shutting the front door quickly behind him.

Orsin went to the side of his parents home and quickly got out of his clothes, placing them into his backpack. He placed the back pack on the ground and let himself transform, his bones shifted and fur fluffed out all along his body. When Orsin fully transformed into his blondish brown bear he was standing on his hind legs. He lowered himself down onto all fours and sniffed around a bit taking in the smells of the forest surrounding his home. Even though his family is in a clan they enjoyed the forest like every other bear did, so Orsins father built their home from the ground up farther out from the clan closer to the river, he hoped to do that too someday when he found his mate.

He picked up his backpack in his bear mouth and trotted in the direction of the Warrior House, it was in center of the clans territory, close to their leaders home. Their leaders name was Harlan and he didn't take any shit, but he was a great leader when they needed him. Harlan was the reason Orsin became the official leader of the warriors at Warrior House, he saw something in Orsin and it gave Orsin a major confidence boost.

Orsin could hear the river close to his home getting farther and farther as he got deeper in the forest and closer to the Warrior House, he knew the meeting there would be quick. He'd just go over fighting moves and more training, or addressing patrolling around the territory and what not. When Orsin arrived everyone was waiting for him, he had changed back into his human form just before reaching the clearing that lead to the Warrior House. Orsin greeted his best friend Xeno his best friend since cubhood, who was basically his second in command in Warrior House. Xeno stood a couple inches shorter than Orsin, he was light skinned with hazel eyes and had a curly box-afro. It made sense that Xeno was a beta, but he was almost as strong as an alpha. Orsin's voice boomed as he said "Alright guys, we're going to work out and training for a while, today we're going to focus on our legs we need to keep them babies as strong as our arms! I'd suggest running around in your bear forms outside but you can also run around the track upstairs in your human forms. After that y'all are going to split off into groups with Xeno leading and patrol the territory keep an eye out and stay alert at all times. Get it? Got it? Good." The members of the Warrior House whooped in reply then went off to follow the instructions Orsin gave. Orsin walked up to Xeno, "You keep an eye on everyone I'm going to head to the river, I'll be in my usual spot." Xeno nodded in reply and turned to watch everyone in the house and provided advice to those who needed it.

Orsin took off his clothes once again placing them into his backpack and shifted into his bear again. He basically ran for the east side of the river from the back of the Warrior House. When he arrived he put his backpack down on his usual rock and sniffed the air. Orsin could smell the trees, the water, and the flowers surrounding the river. For some reason this was the only spot near the river the flowers grew, except for across the river at the very same spot. He ran and jumped into the cold water, his fur protected him from feeling most of it as his fur was very thick and fluffy. Orsin surfaced and werewolf paddled around for a while, he then flipped onto his back and floated around enjoying the sun beaming on his stomach and sighed contently. He loved being in the river water, it was so calming for Orsin and made him feel in his element. When he was a small cub his mom would call him an otter because he could always be found in the river water or somewhere close to it.

"Alright time to get out," Orsin said to himself. He had to get back and see how the Warrior House was doing, hopefully he hadn't been gone too long.

When Orsin returned the warriors were getting ready to go patrolling. "Wow you're actually here before we left? I was expecting to see you tomorrow!" Xeno says surprised. Orsin rolled his eyes "I decided not to stay that long today, I want to go patrolling, which group is going to be patrolling closest to the river?" Xeno looked around before pointing at a group of bears looking ready to go. Orsin shifted, not caring about his clothes ripping into pieces, he was going home after this anyways. There were 3 betas and 1 alpha in the group and they all bowed respectively when Orsin's huge bear stopped in front of them. Orsin waited until everyone going patrolling had shifted into their bears, he gave the roar to head out and everyone split up in their own directions patrolling the territory of their clan. Orsin lead his group to the north part of the river and they went counter clockwise around it. All they were doing was inspecting the ground around the river for any tracks that weren't a bears, and looking and sniffing towards across the river for any potential enemies watching them. As usual nothing new appeared, everything was normal.

Orsin ended the patrol back at the north part of the river and told his group to head home as it was getting quite dark even though they had some incredible eye site, and to stop by the Warrior House to report the normal through their mind link they shared. He began the walk back home going clockwise around the river, he didn't feel like cutting through the forest tonight, just wanted to enjoy seeing the stars in the night sky without having to look through a lot of trees. As Osrin reached his usual spot with its patch of flowers he smelled something. Orsin froze in his place it was the best smell he'd ever smelt in his life, it smelt like the rain, and crisp air on a cool summer day, with a hint of strawberry sweetness. Orsin breathed in deeply, turned his head and sniffed in the direction the smell was coming from, across the river. Across the river? He thought to himself confused, he got so close to the waters edge he almost fell in, he wanted to follow the scent that moment but no one ever crossed the river there was no reason to. There might be enemies over there and bad things for them, at least that's what Harlan said, and Harlan was always right. Right?

Orsin debated in his head on what to do for a long time and then out of the corner of his eye, across the river in the trees he saw a bear. A bear?? What the heck are they doing over there, Harlan said their group was the only bears for miles upon miles. Yet here was this beautiful midnight black bear with a white triangle that went from their shoulders down to their chest and stomach from what Orsin could see. The source of the smell was coming from them, he tried to see if he could mind link with them, maybe they were someone in the clan that he'd never met before? It didn't work, he betted he looked pretty dumb to them. Orsin grunted as a way of saying hello, the bear across the river sniffed in his direction before hurriedly turning around and dashing away. Orsin made a huffing, snorting sound and almost roared before stopping himself. There was no point they were long gone and they wouldn't come back tonight he'd scared them off. He could cross the river but he didn't know the area one bit, as an alpha he hated to admit it but he was afraid of what was over there. Orsin huffed again and began running back to his home, looking back once and seeing only the still forest across the river.
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Wassup guys!! I hope you enjoyed this first chapter, tell me what you think please! I'll most likely update tomorrow as I have nothing to do but I hope it's enjoyable so far. Who's this mystery bear across the river and why did they dash off like that? Questions, Questions, Questions, only one way to get the answers! Keep reading or wait for me to update this! lol