Delta (Wolfblood)

The Call of the Wild

Sierra was out in the woods with the group of four younger people on their rope swing, and she smiled at them as she watched them fly through the air.

"Tom! Are you all right?!" Maddy shouted as he fell off of the swing and everyone ran over to him, except for a certain Tracker who was convinced at once that there was someone out here with them.

"Someone's there." Tom said as Sierra's eyes flickered quickly and she jogged out after the person, who looks at them and ran off fast.

"I'm gonna go after the person, whoever they are. You guys go on ahead, I'll meet you guys at Bernie's soon." She said and they all looked at her, but nodded as Tom and Shannon went ahead.

But Maddy and Rhydian waited for a second, inhaling the familiar scent of the wild wolfblood.

"Look, I can handle this, all right? She can't risk shiftin', even out here, so I'll keep my guard up, alright? I'm a good, tracker and I can take care of myself. I need you guys to go, now." She said as they looked at her but eventually nod.

"All right, but if anything happens-- I need to know you'll call Mum and dad for help." Maddy insisted and Sierra's head bowed.

"I won't need their help, but yes I promise." She said and Maddy nods as she shoves Rhydian and they both ran off to Bernie's.

"I know that you are out here, Ceri! I recognized your scent, the first time I fought you by accident." She said, and she waited for a moment, as a woman who looked homeless stood in front of her.

"Sierra, you have grown up, my strong young girl. My young cub." She said and Sierra shakes her head at her and she bowed slightly. "Forgive me, it was my sworn duty, to take you amon' my family, but you ran before I could, I never thought I would see you again my dear." She said and Sierra let out a small, tiny whimper.

She hugged the wild wolfblood, her arms wrapping around her tightly as she leans her head on Ceri's shoulder and she blinked back tears.

"Do you still use all of the tracking skills? The ones, that the wild pack and your parents taught you?" Ceri asked as they both sat down on a log that was next to the rope swing.

"Yes, of course. I can't just abandon what my parents taught me about all of this, bein' a wolfblood. But I've also learned quite a few new things from a few humans and tame wolfbloods."

At once, she saw Ceri's face change swiftly to one expression of rage on her face at the mere mention of the tamed wolfbloods of the city like the Smith family. Like Maddy, Emma and Daniel.

"They have tamed you! Exactly, just like they have tamed my son!" She'd shout and Sierra growls loudly at her and she looked at her.

"Your son?" She asked as she looks at Ceri in confusion, until her mind had swiftly connected the dots to what the information was.

"Rhydian... he is your son? The one that you always told me about when I was still with the wild pack?" She asks and suddenly Ceri stopped, and they'd hear and scent Rhydian as he walks in the woods on his way home.

He had run off after Ceri had tried to talk to him and now he was talking to her at Bernie's, while Maddy paced on the sidewalk outside with Sierra, who was watching in slight amusement.

"He's going to go with her!" Maddy kept insisting and Sierra looked at her with a slight nod.

"He might. But my question is for your sanity right now. Maddy, would you be just as upset about it, if I went back with her to the Wild?" She asked and Maddy stopped pacing, her eyes going wider the full moons.

"No. No, no, no, you can't be thinking of seriously, going with her!" Maddy's veins began to pop up as Sierra's eyes narrowed.

"My whole family belonged to the Wild Pack, I was raised there until I ran off after my parents... I still have a older brother and a little wolfblood sister out there somewhere Mads. I'm not going to say no, to a chance, to see my real pack again." Sierra says and it was like Maddy was being torn apart.

"I can be a real Tracker out there, for a pack who really needs one. I want it badly, I can't live here, where I am not wanted." Sierra whispers, and Maddy, she slaps her without thinkin' and she looks at her, as her lip was bleeding, a little bit.

"I understand Maddy. I'm not leaving right away, not until Rhydian makes a choice of his own. But, I need to leave, at some point and there is no one who is going to be changing that. Not, even you." Sierra growls sharp and quiet as she walked away.

She found Rhydian and Ceri in the woods at night, trying to unlock his Eolas senses, which is what made her such a good tracker.

Rhydian had helped the team win their football County Cup match and they were all cheering for him.

He had decided not to go and Sierra had decided to stick around for a little while longer as well, considering she had nothing to lose.