THE SUPREME OMEGA ( A VegasPete Story )

The White Wolf

THE CERULEAN ISLANDS

It's been more than two weeks and Pete was still moody and snappish keeping Rita wide awake and careful around the clock. Pete is not hot-tempered, but his demands are always unreasonable, Rita is used to it and knows how to please the prince.

The most worried was the king with Pete's disappearances at times, it has happened many times before too. Pete loves to change into his wolf form and roam around the island along the shore and in the wild. King Arch knows Pete comes back after enjoying his full and his moods is always uplifted on his return, but the king still worries.

(ALL THE CHARACTERS WHEN IN THEIR WOLF FORM, I WILL USE BOLD TEXT FOR THEIR NARRATION AND CONVERSATIONS....... )

Pete loved roaming around alluring locations, he felt a different connection with nature, only if he could become one with the nature, his life in the palace was not particularly anything close to a mess but he still was always pulled towards the waters and the wild. 

On the island there are many territories marked by the king wolf and Pete was always suggested by his grandfather to only go around those areas, but Pete was not the one to listen. When in his younger days, out of curiosity when Pete entered the forbidden wild for the first time, he was quite cautious and nervous, he knew he shouldn't enter, the king had warned him and told him all the dangers of entering in a territory of wild animals, not only in territory of wild wolves but also of other predatory animals' territories. 

Curious young wolf in Pete was unable to hold himself and he did enter the forest. There were few forests claimed by the king's wolf and Pete had visited them, but this forest had an eerie feeling to it, also the prince didn't know whom he will encounter and when, he was walking lightly contrasting the dark woods with his shiny white fur and eyes imitating the deep oceans. The forest only had browns and greens and some colors here and there.

At first, he saw few birds and Deers who stilled upon sensing a wolf, Pete still had a small built but with his white fur it wasn't easy to go unnoticed. Pete was not always interested in hunting alone, he only hunted small ones that too when he was very hungry. He walked past them, still cautious and aware of his surroundings, passing by groups of different species of deer to realize he was deep within the forest. he was glad he hadn't met any predator now and he had no idea what he can see as no one from the capital visits unclaimed areas by the king, also the royal army were mostly around the coasts and not deep in the kingdom as there was no threat from within.

Pete halted on sensing a strong smell, he looked towards the source of the smell to see a pair of dark eyes on him watching from behind a large tree, it was a big black beer. "at least it is alone, I can't fight it, but I will definitely be faster than him" Pete started making strategies in his mind incase the beer attacks him, but the beer walked away and Pete kept walking to encounter a leopard resting on a tree and Pete started walking back words keeping his stance light and ready to run at any moment, but the leopard didn't move despite noticing Pete.

Pete took a left and kept walking, aware that the sun will set soon yet he decided to go further passing small and big groups or herbivorous animals. He came to the conclusion that there are not many predators in this forest or are well hidden. The sun was about to set so he decided to return to the palace, very much pleased with his little adventure.

After walking for a while, he started sprinting on the gaps between tall trees, feeling the rush and cold air which can barely hit his skin past his two layers of fur, jumping over the fallen trunks, having best time of his life, oblivious of his surroundings.

Pete kept running for a while through the forest toward the capital, when he was on the tree line of the forest he stumbled, he was startled to find two big wild wolves on his way and couldn't stop. he tried to stand as big as he can. when he found his ground, he realized he was surrounded by a big pack of wolves, there were also pups in the pack and Pete was now daunted, that they will see him as a threat also him being alone was concerning.

The biggest red wolf started howling and after few moments the whole pack started howling. Pete could not understand the meaning behind it as he has never been taught the ways of wild, he started getting terrified as he can't find a way out and even he finds a crack to run out, the pack was too big and once they start chasing him it will be hard for him to stay ahead for long, given he was still young and the pack had many matured wolfs. Pete didn't move from where he was standing, as long as the pack didn't attack him first he decided to not provoke them.

After a while the howling stopped and all the wolfs lay low on the ground. Pete was confused but he knew this was sign of submission. "Are they letting me pass? maybe they don't see me as threat and just a young wolf" The dry leaves crackling loud under his paws breaking the deafening silence, Pete started walking slowly, still very alert and finally he was out of the forest, he returned to the palace thinking they must be some family from the capital of town around who went in their wolf forms in the forest and have recognized him as the prince.

After his first experience Pete kept exploring new locations and to his luck, he encountered wild predators not many times and whenever he did, they would not be interested in him.

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After sulking for weeks and ordering Rita around, Pete was very much bored, so he decided to go out of the capital informing the king that he won't be returning for days. It wasn't rare occurrence for Pete to go out in wild in his wolf form only to return after few nights.

Pete decided to go to a certain wetland which will take him two days to reach. he has been there before and loved the place. not far from the ocean this tidal wetland also had rivers coming down from mountains and quit a number of ponds created by beavers.

The place had verities of wild animals and wild wolfs. when Pete first visited this wetland two years back, he was already used to the ways of wild with his frequent outings and to his pleasant surprise the wild was not as dangerous as everyone described or, the wild animals of the island were of different breed, of the calm type.

Two years back Pete was roaming around without any worries along the river where there were different animals drinking water as it was peak of summers. He spotted few grey wolfs and after carefully observing them he decided that they are not a threat. Pete had learned of the ways of the wild, so he was carefree yet alert at all times. He still couldn't figure out that why not many animals are aggressive towards him, it's not that he has never been attacked, for all these years he started to come out in the wild Pete had his share of fights but not any major one and he has always won in the fights with minor injuries.

Pete had always thought that maybe because of his white coat, the animals don't see him as a threat as he has never seen not heard that the island has white wolfs.

the grey wolfs came to drink water too and Pete was already hungry as he hadn't eaten anything since he left the palace, so he decided to catch some fish and he went near the stream. there was a rustle on his right side, what he saw was that one of the wolves was coming sprinting towards him. It has never happened with Pete before, since he started coming to the wild from his teen years no wolf has ever attacked him.

Pete was ready to defend and to attack when he saw the wolf after coming close, instead of jumping at him drifted to the side. when he turned, he realized that a cougar was about to attack him from the back and the wolf just saved him. Other wolfs came running to attack the cougar and killed him within minutes and then they all left without even eating it, leaving Pete very much thankful and confused "Did they leave it for me to eat?"

Coming back to the wetland after two years now, Pete observed that nothing much has changed other than increased dams and ponds built by beavers also he didn't saw any pack of wolfs "Did they leave to claim other territory" Pete wondered.

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