(Discontinued) Rise of Umerica

Chapter 7 - Blackstar

The nearest town to the village was called (idk I'll come back to it). It was maybe a few hours or a little more on horse back. But on foot the time drastically increased. He had been walking on foot along a dirt road. His village far in the distance. He didn't know how long it had been but it was well into the night. He'd have to stop soon to rest for the night. It had been a long time since he had slept outside. He couldn't exactly set up camp on the side of the road either. So he continues to walk until he the road cuts into a forest. Perfect. He heads off the road and into the forest. He eventually finds a decent clearing. Then he starts gathering material to make a fire. The moon was bright so he could see well enough. As he gathers kindling and wood to make his fire he hears something that sounded like whimpering. It was coming somewhere off to the right of him. Against his better judgment he decides to investigate. Moving through some bush he sees a small body of something shaking. As he gets closer he realizes it's a baby Wolfhound except this one was different from the ones he knew. For one thing it's fur was white and on its forehead was a patch of black fur in the shape of a star. He felt sorry for it. It was definitely abandoned here. For what reason he didn't know. He takes some dried meat out his sack and approaches it. At first it's cautious bearing it's fangs. Then Tesla holds out the meat and approaches snatching the meat with its mouth. Tesla smiles as he watches it eat. Then he continues to gather firewood but it starts to follow him. Tesla doesn't mind though. Once he gathers enough firewood he heads back to his spot. It was a decent clearing so he had some space. He unrolled a sleeping bag. Then takes out some cookingware. He lights the fire with magic and begins took cook over the fire. When it was done he feeds himself and the Wolfhound pup. He puts out the fire with water magic and gets into the sleeping bag. A few seconds after getting comfortable the pup gets inside it as well. Soon the two are fast asleep.

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Tesla wakes up to something wet on his face. He opens his eyes to the Wolfhound licking his face. He rubs and scratches the dog.

"Hey boy good morning" He whispered smiling.

He gets up and packs his sleeping bag and clears out the campsite. He skipped breakfast because he didn't want to waste anymore time. He looks up at the sky. He guessed was late morning so he'll probably be in the town by late afternoon. He sighs.

"I really need to make a watch soon"

He saddles his pack on his back and begin walking in the direction of the road with the Wolfhound pup in tow. He actually tried to get it stop following him but gave up when it didn't listen. So he picks it up. Looking at it he decides to he was gonna have to give it a name.

If he was being honest it kind of reminded him of a war dog he served with. It saved him and his squad many a times until it was fatally wounded in battle.

He looks at the star like patch on it's head and it came to him.

"From now your name is Blackstar" he tells it.

Upon giving it a name it starts to give off a shine. Startled he drops it and then it seemed to grow right before his eyes. When it stopped it was about the size of the average wolf you'd find in his world. Shocked he could only stare. Simply giving it a name caused it to grow? That's crazy. Well he shouldn't judge this world by his world's standards. But it was definitely bigger and wagging it's tail.

"Well then let's go, Blackstar" he says to it after regaining his composure.

It lets out something between a howl and bark as if in reply. With that two head through the forest and back to the road.