Call of The Wolf Part 1/3: The Lost Wolves

Chapter XV: The Second Attack

Audrey sat in her hut, meditating. She knew that there was about to be a battle so she wanted to put her mind at peace and connect with her wolf form. She heard a knock on the door.

"You may come in," Audrey said with her eyes still closed.

DeadEye entered the room to see Audrey meditating and her tattoo glowing.

"I'm sorry, I didn't know you were connecting with your wolf form through meditation." He said. "I'll leave now."

Audrey opened her eyes to see DeadEye leaving.

"No please, Andrew, stay. It'd be nice to have some company."

"Alright."

DeadEye sat down.

"You wish for me to join you?"

"Why else would I have you stay?"

"I don't know."

DeadEye and Audrey started to meditate. They both felt their wolf forms flow through them. Audrey and DeadEye opened their eyes. Audrey looked at DeadEye worried.

"I feel it too, Audrey. They're here."

DeadEye and Audrey turned into their wolf forms and ran to the meeting hall. When they got there, they were greeted by the general.

"Hello, NightHowl, DeadEye, what brings you here."

"The war is starting sooner than we thought," DeadEye told the general.

"When are they coming?"

"They're outside the walls right now!" Audrey said.

"Oh dear god." The general said.

The general pulled out a horn and blew into it.

Everyone in the entire village ran to the meeting hall with their wolf gear equipped, and weapons in hand. Alicia walked out of the meeting hall, also equipped with wolf gear.

"My people," Alicia stated, "We may not be ready for this, and we haven't fought before, but I believe we can do this because we have something they don't: A reason to fight! Over the past few years, we've had food stolen, buildings destroyed, and people lost."

Alicia remembered what happened to her mother.

"But right here, right now is where Wolf War 1 starts! Right here, right now is where we stand our ground! Generations ago, when our ancestors were at war when one pack was divided, our first Alpha believed there could be peace, peace between the five packs that would last for generations to come! That peace is the same peace we were tasked to protect, and behind those gates, an army is trying to destroy that peace! SO ARE WE GOING TO LET THEM?"

"NO!!!" Everyone yelled.

"Then let's show 'em what we've got!"

Alicia looked at the general who was standing next to the gate.

"General! Open the gate!"

The general opened the gate, and the entire village went out to fight the army of The Red Wolves. Audrey and DeadEye went to fight, but Alicia stopped them.

"Follow me," Alicia said.

Audrey and DeadEye followed Alicia to a silver cell.

"Why are we here?" Audrey asked.

"BloodWolf knows that DeadEye is here, but not that he's on our side."

"She's right," DeadEye said. "They think The Lost Wolves took me as a prisoner. I need to go in."

"But DeadEye, we need you on the front lines, fighting The Red Wolves," Audrey said.

"Audrey, you won't be fighting either," Alicia said.

"Why?"

"The entire village will be fighting, so there will be no one guarding DeadEye."

The room started to get colder.

"Why is it so cold?" Audrey asked.

"Oh no, it's the full moon," Alicia said.

"What happens in the full moon?" Audrey asked

"Here, during the first full moon of winter, there is a snowstorm," DeadEye said.

"Oh, no is right," Audrey said.

"Quick, put this on," Alicia said, handing Audrey a guard wolf's armor.

Audrey put the armor on, and DeadEye went into the silver cell.

"I must fight, you two stay down here," Alicia said, leaving the room.

When Alicia left, the room was silent.

"So, NightHowl-"

Audrey looked at DeadEye.

"Remain silent, for you're my prisoner now," Audrey said grinning.

DeadEye grinned back, then quickly had a shock of realization.

"What?" Audrey asked.

"I have a plan."

"What is it?"

"Let me get caught, The Red Wolves will suspect nothing, and then you change into your wolf form-"

"And follow the army back to their fortress." Audrey said, "But the snowstorm-"

"Gives us an advantage," DeadEye said.

"In what way?"

"Your wolf form has white fur, so you will be camouflaged."

"This could work, but how would I get in?"

"Leave that to me."

"After that, what happens?"

"We take them down from the inside."

"Alicia needs to know our plan."

"No, she's been acting differently recently, and there's a mole in The Lost Wolves, we don't know who could be listening. This plan stays between us, no one else."

Audrey and DeadEye heard The Red Wolves enter the meeting hall.

"Quickly, Audrey, hide in that closet," DeadEye said.

Audrey hid in the closet, and DeadEye was taken out of the village.