Feathers

Dangerous Surroundings

                                                         No POV

Since the travel to the new mountain range would take a little while(and because Gupil and Furr didn't want the Wind to speed past the scenery), the two boys decided to talk about the weird feathers that perched on Gupil's head.

"So, how do you think that event occured?" Furr asked, and Gupil thought for a moment while keeping a strong arm around the wolf pup.

"Maybe I had touched them a long time ago, and it sort of.......saved some memories? But that wouldn't explain some of the memories that I saw...." Gupil responded, mumbling the last part to himself as Furr glanced around them at the scenery.

"Hmmmm..........then how would it save memories? Is it some special type of feather? And that doesn't help any of the other questions, such as "how you woke up in a cave with almost no memory of what caused you to get there" or "why you even have feathers on your head"!" Furr exclaimed, and Gupil turned away from his friend's gaze a little, remembering that he hadn't told Furr that there were more than just the feathers on his head that triggered memories.

Gupil huffed in exasperation and faced the sight ahead of him, before an idea popped into his head, and he rolled up the sleeved of his ragged clothes to reveal the long feathers that both covered and went out like a cape on his arms.

He made sure that his sleeves wouldn't roll down again, and basically t-posed, standing up and allowing the cold mountain air to hit his face to try to see how tight the feathers were latched onto his body, when he noticed that a feather suddenly dislodged from his left arm, and he caught the feather before it flew away with the passing wind.

Gupil was suprised that when he held the feather, he didn't experience any flashbacks of any sorts, except for a voice that threatened him through the feather.

"You'll know when you get here, that you'll regret your choice of ever coming to the Alpha Mountains." The voice said, and Gupil almost dropped the colored feather in suprise.

"What?" Gupil whispered to himself, earning the attention of the wolf in his arms as they looked up at the hybrid, and whined in concern for its friend.

"Don't worry, I'm fine. Just....confused, is all. Did you hear it too?" Gupil asked his companion, and the wolf pup looked at him with a confused expression, and repeatedly licked his chin.

Gupil sighed and continued to look ahead as he sub-conciously let go of the feather, and the wolf pup watched as the feather floated to the ground, softly whining in anticipation as the colored feather dissapeared from sight into the dense forest below.(Ooooooooo foreshadowing-)

Soon, after about 20 more minutes of floating on the Wind Spirit, the group had reached the edge of the mountains and had hopped off of the Spirit onto the ground, and Gupil let the wolf cub down as they started walking into the highly-elevated biome.

As the two boys chatted, they didn't notice the wolf's continuous tendancy to look behind the group of four and softly growl until a low 'thump!' could be heard from behind the group.

Gupil noticed and turned around in confusion, to see a cloaked human standing in a straight position a little ways away from them, and the Wind Spirit started protectively circling around the trio as the young wolf yelped in fear.

Gupil picked his partner back up into his arms and started walking faster, wanting to get as much distance between the stranger and the group as fear obviously radiated off of him, when suddenly, the stranger broke into a sprint and brought out a staff with a knife attached to the front end into a threatening position.