“breath steady,” a calm cold voiced echoed around the cave, the damp walls, the dripping tiny drops of water, syncing with Tier’s steady rhythm of breathing in and out. His chest puffing back and fourth, showing how deep he was putting it into. “calm.” the voice continued. Tending to the voice, Tier relaxed his muscles, his mind, without lingering thoughts, his surrounding, being fully aware of them. All he could think now, was he ready for this? Was he ready to know his spirit power? What if it killed him? What if he accidentally hurt someone? “don’t fear, you control you power, not the other way around.” Tundra assured him.
He opened his eyes, his violet eyes now full of determination. He was ready. The orbs glowed, a bright shine of yellow light engulfed them, he could feel it, the power, its as if he had always known how to do it. “don’t belittle yourself, it might seem obvious at first but don’t let it best you.” Tundra finished. Tier could feel pebbles and clusters and rocks floating around him, almost as if he had his own gravitational pull. The debris rotated swiftly around him, faster and faster, gritting his teeth and showing his fangs, feeling the air pressure around him starting to tighten. “focus! Don’t be afraid!”
With that final sentence, that final saying full of assurance and guidance, Tier found it. Just enough energy to push out. He gathered all he could, and released. letting out a howl, the cave started to shake, the spikes on the ceiling started to descend, Tier saw them coming, and shielded himself from the spikes with a huge boulder of earth nearby right above him. As the quake worsened, the cave shattered, more and more until Tier noticed a becon of light shining down upon him. The cave had been destroyed to the point it had a new opening. Using the rocks as stepping stones, the teen wolf took advantage of his new awakened powers and headed outside.
There, he met the owner of the voice; Tundra. The blue wolf, full of charisma and power. Tier never knew why he gave off a strange aura that made him feel safe. “You did well, almost beat a record.” he smirked. Hearing this made Tiers eyes light up in shock. “really?” he barked. “yeah, you’re just two hours away from one of the rookies.” the azule wolf’s smirked widened, leaving the teen pup’s smile turn upside down. “not funny.” he narrowed his eyes. “Don’t pout Tier, at least you’ve got spiritual powers.” Atka trotted along to his brother. “we all do little one. We just don’t know when we’ll use them. But when we do, its as if we could have used them all along. That is where the saying ‘one just knows’ comes from.”
“Tundra, I’ve been waiting for quite a while, and since I’ve passed my trail, I’d like to hear your story about how you found your power.” Tier approached, chest high. “hm, don’t look so serious, I promised you and so I shall grant you your request.”
Deep in the raging blizzard, where layers upon layers of snow blanketed anything in its path, a wolf carrying another wolf was crawling in the depths of one of natures worst. “We’re almost there Taku, hang in there.” Tundra panted, gazing his surroundings, his partner, Taku, the beta of the pack were on a scouting mission to find any other packs around. Turns out they found some and had attacked the two wolves without warning. No punches were pulled in the fight, making it a nasty battle to the death. They came out on top just barely. The storm came faster than expected, they were supposed to meet up with the pack before midnight, unfortunately the fight took up a good chunk of time on their paws. Tundra could see ahead just only a couple of feet away just barely, a cave. “finally, look Taku, shelter, we can rest in there before the storm stops.” Tundra yelled over the screaming wind, getting only a groan in response.
Once inside the wolves shook as many snow out of their fur as possible. Taku was hurt the most out of the two, and was wounded pretty badly. “You gonna make it for the night?” he asked, his throat full of pressure, trying to make sure not to upset any internal damages. “speak for yourself, look at you you’re a mess.” Tundra scoffed, climbing on top of his partner. “unlike you I have no medical knowledge, and even if I did there’s nothing but snow around here. The least I can do is to clean your cuts and pressure them. Hope this works.”
It wasn’t a comfortable experience, but it was the only way to lighten things up for the better. “Tundra I need to tell you,” the brown wolf grunted, baring his teeth and hissing in pain. “save your breath.” he tried interrupting him “No, listen if I don’t make it, I want you to go to the northern cave, there you‘ll be given instruction on how to use your gift. But only if-,” he panted out a final breath before collapsing into a deep slumber. The blue wolf checked his partners pulse, still alive, just exhausted. What did he mean by gift? What could possibly benefit him? A wolf? Other than besides food? Tundra wasn’t one for greediness but his curiosity was quite intrigued. Though he knew one thing, he was not going to leave a companion to die. After all, they were pup hood friends. Granted they fought each other a lot but they still showed passion towards one another and they strived to become better than the other each time they met.
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a small whimper chirped out of his mouth as he padded across the stone hard ground, his paw was aching thanks to a thorn stuck in between his toes. the little pup couldn't take it out by himself, he tried countless times but to no avail.
"Are you ok?" a young red pup walked up to the blue cub. "sure I'm ok. now beat it kid before I-ow," Tundra grunted under his breath. "You don't seem ok, let me help." the newcomer gestured, only for tundra to snap at him. "I don't need your help brat!"
the little brown red wolf was taken aback from the blue wolfs bark, slowly backing up away from the wounded pup. "I'm the brat for trying to help? no friend you got it the other way around. I'm only trying to help out. just let me and I'll leave." he tried to butter up to him.
"I'm not your friend. I don't like you and don't try to play nice either." Tundra huffed pushing this newcomer away. "Boy that thorn's really turning you into a jerk you know that?" Tundra didn't notice that this pup had already been trying to extract the little devil from his paw. gasping and having not enough time to react "Don't touch-, OW! hey~" the pain, it suddenly vanished, it was gone! "There you go that wasn't so bad was it you big baby?" the red pup giggled wagging his tail. Tundra just huffed in embarrassment, not wanting anything else to do with this runt. The red pup started to take his leave but was halted by Tundra's voice "and here I thought you were gonna try and persuade me to be your buddy brat."
the pup showed well that he wasn't affected by the taunt "My name's Taku. and sorry, I don't have time for friends." Taku said with a hint of sadness in his tone of voice. "Well, me neither. friends are for losers. all they do is hold you back." Tundra added. "No, its just that every time I try and get to no someone they're killed the next day. I'm starting to think I may be a curse. please prove me wrong mister." Taku took once final look back at the blue wolf waiting for him to give his name "No one messes with Tundra!"
Taku smiled a bit at the proud remark. Turning tail and started running as the blue wolf chased him, probably offended. He had to admit he liked this guy.
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One might call that rivalry but to them, they knew they were friends deep down, without even mentioning it. That was quite something. “Taku before I met you I was nothing more than a bratty kid. We were a lot alike. Not wanting a pal, but for our own reasons. You didn’t want friends because you were born during a war and didn’t want to experience the pain of lose. Me, I always thought I was too big for friends. I saw them as a weakness. Until you showed me that its also a strength. Mark my words I’ll get us both back home.” he sighed under his breath.
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Taku layed battered and beaten, two wolverines had just gave the cub a pounding and where about to finish the job, "Hey, back off you rats!" Taku heard a growl, followed by a series of fighting noises, a yelp, then next, silence. "You really are weak kid." Taku looked up to find Tundra standing tall and proud. "You're alive!" Taku lit up with glee. "Told you no one messes with me. Now what are you doing here in my spot?" Taku took his time cleaning his cuts, not minding Tundra's harsh tone, just happy that this new acquaintance of his was still breathing. "Just picking a fight with a bunch of bullies," he lied, in reality they picked a fight with him, and for no reason for that matter.
"Guess I bit off more than I could chew. but hey you came to save me." Tundra gocked at the remark, "You get stronger when you want to protect someone you care about." he finished with a smile, shutting his eye's as if he was ready for Tundra to beat him up. but it didn't come, he opened his eye's to find Tundra gone. Taku didn't mind, he was just happy that Tundra proved him wrong about being a jinx.
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As the minutes passed by they soon became hours. The blizzard soon weakened, almost enough that the wind was hardly herd. Tundra peeked outside, the coast was clear, he took the chance and ran for it. Carrying the other wolf on his bare back, he raced, the blankets of snow reached almost to his elbows, “this is ridiculous, just my luck.” he grunts, stopping in front of a frozen pond lake. “come on Taku, nows a good time to tell me what that thing you gave me was, whatever it was I gotta feeling it’ll help us get outta here faster…” he groaned. He was not one for taking the long way. But what other choice did he have? Better safe than sorry. But his ears perked up, something big was coming, in fact, it was right behind him. A giant wild eyed grizzly slashed his claw at the wolf, pushing him back and onto the slippery frozen rank of ice. “oh perfect.” could his day get any worse? Of course the bear approached more and more, closer and closer. *crack* “shoot.” Tundra didn’t need to look behind him to see the cracking ice was beginning to fall apart. “T-tundra…” Taku groaned unconsciously. “Taku…don’t worry, I’ll get us out of here.” he said with a light of confidence in his voice.
Tundra’s eyes soon lit up with yellow light. He blew with all his might and as it turned out, the air he was blowing was freezing mist! The mist covered the bear, enclosing him into a block of ice. Tundra turned around, blowing again at the unfrozen water, making a path for him to walk on through safely to the other side. The blue wolf didn’t even slip, its as if he was walking on solid ground. Tundra didn’t look back, until he reached the other side, to his surprise the bear was no longer their, as if it never was. The scent wasn’t even picked up.
A faint chuckle could be heard behind him. “heh, Aniu…” Tundra smiled at Taku’s saying. With that he turned back to towards his destination and headed off.
“Wow, Tier would you do the same for me?” Atka asked his brother. “Of course, what are brothers for?” Tier chuckled. “what are brothers for…” Tundra repeated with a faint smile across his muzzle.