Here's Chapter 2 you guys. Enjoy.
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As he opened his eyes, Nars found himself in an all too familiar setting. The void of whiteness.
"This place again," Nars said.
"It seems you've surprised me Nars," Nars jumped at the elderly she wolf appearing behind him.
"What the hell, don't do scare me like that," Nars as he breathed heavily.
"My apologies, I didn't mean to startle you," the she wolf said.
"Look what do you want? I already apologized to Daria and made up with Floyd," Nars said.
"I did not come here to ask you for a favor," the she wolf said. "Only to thank you for admitting your faults to Daria and to apologize on behalf of Floyd's statement towarde you."
Nars was sincerely shocked the wolf's words. The first time he had met her see almost killed.
"No problem ummmm," Nars had not learned the wolf's name.
"You can call me Maya," the wolf named Maya said.
"Well no problem Maya," Nars said as he smiled.
Suddenly, like before, the landscape received black blotches signifying that Nars is waking up.
"I hope we will meet again Nars," Maya said as she vanished.
"Same to you," Nars said as he woke up. He saw that Magril and Fleet were playing a game of pounce with each other.
"Good morning," they said in unison.
"Good morning. Are you pups hungry," Nars asked prompting his kids to nod.
"Can we hunt with you dad," Fleet asked.
"Okay," Nars agreed as him and his pups went out to catch breakfast.
Outside, Nars saw that it was already the middle of morning as the sun was out as well as some wolves. Him and his pups continued towards a good spot for caribou. When they arrived at a field, Nars, Magril and Fleet saw a couple of deer frolicking.
"Ok kids, first you need to see if any of the calves have some form of disability or disadvantage. Just because they're small doesn't mean they're not dangerous," Nars explained.
Fleet and Magril looked around and saw one deer calf was sick as it was slow and that another had a severe limp.
"Now just go in silently and try to look out for some twigs and rocks," Nars instructed as his pups continued towards the two calves.
Once they were close enough, Magril and Fleet lunged at them and pushed their claws on the young deer's backs. Despite their disabilities, the calves put up a good fight as they fiercely shook try to get the pups off of them.
However, Nars' pups bit on the calves' necks causing them to slow down due to severe pain. With a snap of their necks, both calves were killed in an instant.
"Good job pups," Nars said cheerfully as he walked towards Fleet, Magril and their kills. He was quite amazed with their hunting skills at this young age.
"Thanks," they said. After that Nars ran after one of the adult deer and one Chase later successfully killed it.
There, the wolf family are each of their game at that spot. After they finished their breakfast, Nars, Fleet and Magril went back to their den. Fleet and Magril had to train in Alpha School with their mentor Michel.
"Bye dad," Magril said as she hugged her father.
"Bye dad," Fleet added as he hugged his dad's leg.
"Goodbyes pups. Be careful training out there," Nars said as he pups went out.
"We will," they said as they were gone. Nars sighed with despair as he watched his pups left. He got really lonely when his pups went out. The fact that they were out training for Alpha School didn't help as it signified that they were growing up soon.
He felt a heavy weight on his chest as he began to think about his pups moving out, leaving him by himself. He got more depressed about by this thought until he decided not to think about it anymore and went out to take a stroll.
Nars said hi to some of his friends as he tried to soothe his thoughts. It was then he thought of something. Maybe he could head over to the Western Pack and see how Daria and Floyd are doing. He didn't know how to explain it but he had this weird feeling when he was with her yesterday.
"Maybe I could talk to them a bit," Nars said as he headed towards the Daria's new pack.
After one trip, Nars arrived at the Western Pack as he went to see Kate and Humphrey and ask them if Daria was busy.
As he arrived at their den, he saw them talking with Lilly and her mate Garth. They saw Nars walk over to them and greeted him.
"Hey Nars, you here to see Daria," Kate asked. Nars was surprised by Kate's question.
"How did you know I came here to see her," He asked in return.
"Well considering Magril and Fleet are too busy to play with our pups, we considered you might be here to talk to Daria," Humphrey answered.
"Oh, do you know where she is," Nars asked.
"Yeah she's taking a walk with Floyd, she didn't go too far," Lilly said.
"Thanks," Nars said.
"By the way, she went South from here and there seems to be more scents near Daria so she might have other as well," Garth added. Nars nodded before heading in Daria's direction.
As he walked further, Nars smelled both Daria's and Floyd's scent, as well as two more scents. He noticed that they were female and smelt similar to Floyd.
Nars began to deduce who they were and found he instinct was correct as he found Daria and Floyd walking with two female porcupines.
"Hey Daria," Nars shouted as the other four animals turned to his direction. Daria smiled at Nars' appearance.
"Oh hi Nars. It's nice to see you around," Daria said cheerfully.
"It's good to see you too. I wanted to see if the caribou I caught you didn't upset your stomach in any way," Nars asked.
"No it went down well and was very delicious," Daria said.
"Ah so this must that wolf that gave you the meat as an "apology"," one of the female porcupine said with a snide attitude.
"Fran I've already told that he didn't do it for romance," Daria protested.
"Are you sure Daria? From what I heard that counts as courtship and courtship is meant to show that a men likes a woman," The other porcupine added.
"Frieda," Daria whispered in slight annoyance.
Nars was shocked when he realized that what he did with Daria was sort of courtship. He knew that some wolves may take it the wrong way. It didn't mean that Daria wasn't suitable for a mate. She did have a lot of good things about her.
Nars had to admit that there was some beauty with Daria's appearance and her personality. Though he wasn't in love with her.
He soon realized that feeling in his chest had returned, but like before he ignored it. Nars was getting a bit nervous and was not aware that he was blushing heavily.
"Hey Nars why are you blushing," Fran questioned.
"Huh... oh you it's nothing. It's just that it's humid here," Nars lied. Immediatelly he knew it was a horrible lie as he realized it was quite cold in the forest.
"Yes it's blazing hot where," Frieda snarked. Nars sighed at her commented as Daria desperately tried to change the subject.
"So Nars how are your pups doing," Daria asked.
"Oh umm they're doing well. Fleet and Magril are at Alpha School right now training," Nars answered wanting to forget the previous subject.
"Yours too. Stinky and Claudette are there as well," Daria responded.
"Hey didn't Runt go to Omega School," Floyd asked.
"Yeah," Daria responded.
"Denial, typical," Fran whispered to Frieda.
"Give it some time. These relationships always seem like this at first," Frieda replied as she and her best friend giggled.
"What are you girls talking about," Floyd questioned.
"Oh nothing just a joke we heard from a moose the other day," Fran answered as she and Frieda continued to laugh. Floyd shrugged his shoulders and turned his attention to Nars and Daria.
"So ummm do you want to take a walk? I mean you were already doing but you mind me tagging along," Nars asked politely.
"I wouldn't mind at all," Daria said. With that the two wolves and three porcupines walked around the Western Pack for a bit.
They checked out the gorgeous scenery and said hello to some wolves. However after a while Fran and Frieda left to meet up with some friends and Floyd went back to the den. Oddly enough he didn't give any clear reason why though. Thus Nars and Daria were by themselves.
This didn't stop them from continued their walk and they decided to into to the forest. Daria began to tell Nars about her life before joining the Western Pack. Saying that he was shocked about her backstory would be the understatement of the year. Nars' wasn't exactly perfect and he did lose his wife, but compared to Daria's it wasn't even close to half bad.
What got to him was how her mother died saving her from Head Wolf and how her father was killed by him as well, leaving her sister Lois all alone.
"I never knew your life was that hard," Nars said with remorse.
"Well I least had Floyd, Fran and Frieda to be with," Daria said optimistically. Nars could only smile at Daria's happy go lucky attitude. Honestly she could make the most depressed of wolves smile.
The two wolves continued to walk until Nars had to pee. While he was doing his business, Daria decided to walk around. She could somehow sense the beauty of the scenery. It was most likely the air that she could image the scenery with as she had a heightened scene of smell.
Unfortunately she hadn't see a wet leaf as she slipped on it. However it got worse as she slipped over the edge of a cliff.
"Nars, someone help," Daria yelled with fear. She held on to dear life as she feared for the worst. She couldn't tell how far deep the ground was but that didn't stop her from not wanting to fall.
"Daria," she heard a voice say. She instantly recognized it as Nars' voice. "Don't worry I'm coming."
Nars bent towards Daria as she didn't know what to do.
"Okay Daria, try to jump and grab onto my shoulders as quickly as you can," Nars instructed.
Trusting him, Daria jumped and grabbed onto to Nars as he fell backwards so Daria wouldn't fell she let go.
As they stopped tumbling, Daria got off of Nars as she noticed that she dug her claws into him.
"Nars I'm so sorry," Daria said with guilt.
"It's alright it's just a wound," Nars said as he touched it, unfortunately causing him to since in pain.
"This wouldn't have happened if I wasn't some kind worthless burden," Daria said.
"Daria, it was just an accident. You're not a worthless burden," Nars said.
"That's not true. Everyone either losing their lives, have awful lives or risk their lives because of me," Daria said before she began to cry and run off.
"Daria wait," Nars said before chasing after her. He was worried what she might do considering her behavior.
When Nars found Daria, he found her in a rose field weeping to herself.
"Just go away Nars. All I am is a plague onto others," Daria said as she continued to cry. "Runt and his family should've let me die back at my old back."
Nars was horrified by Daria's words. He never knew that she was so guilt-ridden that she wished she was dead. Nars knew that only one thing would help. He walked over to Daria as he proceeded to hug her. She promptly cried into his chest as she continued to mourn about her past and the suffering her family went through. All Nars could do was soothe her and nuzzle Daria to comfort her.
After a while, Daria finished crying as she pulled out of Nars and wiped her eyes dry.
"Thank you Nars," she said as she gave her own hug to him. "That really helped."
"It was nothing," Nars said as he embraced Daria's warm appreciation. "Promise me you won't say those words again. How do you think your friends and family would feel if they saw you act like that?"
"I guess they would be crushed," Daria said.
"It's alright to mourn your loved ones, but they wouldn't want to see you live the rest of your life in despair."
"You're right. Thank you Nars."
"It was my pleasure to help you."
Nars and Daria proceeded to head to Daria's den as it was getting late. Unknown to them Floyd had watched the whole thing to see how they do on their own.
"I guess he really is meant for her," Floyd said with glee as he faced back to his band Daria's den.
When they arrived, Daria and Nars saw that Floyd was in the back of the den sleeping. They said their goodbyes right as Nars left to pick up his pups... though not before Daria's kissed Nars on the cheeks. She went back into her den leaving Nars flustered but happy for some reason.
He, however, regained his thoughts as he continued back to his pack. During the walk home he had that strange feeling again, but he had an idea as to what it meant: Love.
And that wraps up Chapter 2 nicely. Hope you enjoyed it and I'll be working on my fanmade Secret of NIMH 3. Cya guys later.
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As he opened his eyes, Nars found himself in an all too familiar setting. The void of whiteness.
"This place again," Nars said.
"It seems you've surprised me Nars," Nars jumped at the elderly she wolf appearing behind him.
"What the hell, don't do scare me like that," Nars as he breathed heavily.
"My apologies, I didn't mean to startle you," the she wolf said.
"Look what do you want? I already apologized to Daria and made up with Floyd," Nars said.
"I did not come here to ask you for a favor," the she wolf said. "Only to thank you for admitting your faults to Daria and to apologize on behalf of Floyd's statement towarde you."
Nars was sincerely shocked the wolf's words. The first time he had met her see almost killed.
"No problem ummmm," Nars had not learned the wolf's name.
"You can call me Maya," the wolf named Maya said.
"Well no problem Maya," Nars said as he smiled.
Suddenly, like before, the landscape received black blotches signifying that Nars is waking up.
"I hope we will meet again Nars," Maya said as she vanished.
"Same to you," Nars said as he woke up. He saw that Magril and Fleet were playing a game of pounce with each other.
"Good morning," they said in unison.
"Good morning. Are you pups hungry," Nars asked prompting his kids to nod.
"Can we hunt with you dad," Fleet asked.
"Okay," Nars agreed as him and his pups went out to catch breakfast.
Outside, Nars saw that it was already the middle of morning as the sun was out as well as some wolves. Him and his pups continued towards a good spot for caribou. When they arrived at a field, Nars, Magril and Fleet saw a couple of deer frolicking.
"Ok kids, first you need to see if any of the calves have some form of disability or disadvantage. Just because they're small doesn't mean they're not dangerous," Nars explained.
Fleet and Magril looked around and saw one deer calf was sick as it was slow and that another had a severe limp.
"Now just go in silently and try to look out for some twigs and rocks," Nars instructed as his pups continued towards the two calves.
Once they were close enough, Magril and Fleet lunged at them and pushed their claws on the young deer's backs. Despite their disabilities, the calves put up a good fight as they fiercely shook try to get the pups off of them.
However, Nars' pups bit on the calves' necks causing them to slow down due to severe pain. With a snap of their necks, both calves were killed in an instant.
"Good job pups," Nars said cheerfully as he walked towards Fleet, Magril and their kills. He was quite amazed with their hunting skills at this young age.
"Thanks," they said. After that Nars ran after one of the adult deer and one Chase later successfully killed it.
There, the wolf family are each of their game at that spot. After they finished their breakfast, Nars, Fleet and Magril went back to their den. Fleet and Magril had to train in Alpha School with their mentor Michel.
"Bye dad," Magril said as she hugged her father.
"Bye dad," Fleet added as he hugged his dad's leg.
"Goodbyes pups. Be careful training out there," Nars said as he pups went out.
"We will," they said as they were gone. Nars sighed with despair as he watched his pups left. He got really lonely when his pups went out. The fact that they were out training for Alpha School didn't help as it signified that they were growing up soon.
He felt a heavy weight on his chest as he began to think about his pups moving out, leaving him by himself. He got more depressed about by this thought until he decided not to think about it anymore and went out to take a stroll.
Nars said hi to some of his friends as he tried to soothe his thoughts. It was then he thought of something. Maybe he could head over to the Western Pack and see how Daria and Floyd are doing. He didn't know how to explain it but he had this weird feeling when he was with her yesterday.
"Maybe I could talk to them a bit," Nars said as he headed towards the Daria's new pack.
After one trip, Nars arrived at the Western Pack as he went to see Kate and Humphrey and ask them if Daria was busy.
As he arrived at their den, he saw them talking with Lilly and her mate Garth. They saw Nars walk over to them and greeted him.
"Hey Nars, you here to see Daria," Kate asked. Nars was surprised by Kate's question.
"How did you know I came here to see her," He asked in return.
"Well considering Magril and Fleet are too busy to play with our pups, we considered you might be here to talk to Daria," Humphrey answered.
"Oh, do you know where she is," Nars asked.
"Yeah she's taking a walk with Floyd, she didn't go too far," Lilly said.
"Thanks," Nars said.
"By the way, she went South from here and there seems to be more scents near Daria so she might have other as well," Garth added. Nars nodded before heading in Daria's direction.
As he walked further, Nars smelled both Daria's and Floyd's scent, as well as two more scents. He noticed that they were female and smelt similar to Floyd.
Nars began to deduce who they were and found he instinct was correct as he found Daria and Floyd walking with two female porcupines.
"Hey Daria," Nars shouted as the other four animals turned to his direction. Daria smiled at Nars' appearance.
"Oh hi Nars. It's nice to see you around," Daria said cheerfully.
"It's good to see you too. I wanted to see if the caribou I caught you didn't upset your stomach in any way," Nars asked.
"No it went down well and was very delicious," Daria said.
"Ah so this must that wolf that gave you the meat as an "apology"," one of the female porcupine said with a snide attitude.
"Fran I've already told that he didn't do it for romance," Daria protested.
"Are you sure Daria? From what I heard that counts as courtship and courtship is meant to show that a men likes a woman," The other porcupine added.
"Frieda," Daria whispered in slight annoyance.
Nars was shocked when he realized that what he did with Daria was sort of courtship. He knew that some wolves may take it the wrong way. It didn't mean that Daria wasn't suitable for a mate. She did have a lot of good things about her.
Nars had to admit that there was some beauty with Daria's appearance and her personality. Though he wasn't in love with her.
He soon realized that feeling in his chest had returned, but like before he ignored it. Nars was getting a bit nervous and was not aware that he was blushing heavily.
"Hey Nars why are you blushing," Fran questioned.
"Huh... oh you it's nothing. It's just that it's humid here," Nars lied. Immediatelly he knew it was a horrible lie as he realized it was quite cold in the forest.
"Yes it's blazing hot where," Frieda snarked. Nars sighed at her commented as Daria desperately tried to change the subject.
"So Nars how are your pups doing," Daria asked.
"Oh umm they're doing well. Fleet and Magril are at Alpha School right now training," Nars answered wanting to forget the previous subject.
"Yours too. Stinky and Claudette are there as well," Daria responded.
"Hey didn't Runt go to Omega School," Floyd asked.
"Yeah," Daria responded.
"Denial, typical," Fran whispered to Frieda.
"Give it some time. These relationships always seem like this at first," Frieda replied as she and her best friend giggled.
"What are you girls talking about," Floyd questioned.
"Oh nothing just a joke we heard from a moose the other day," Fran answered as she and Frieda continued to laugh. Floyd shrugged his shoulders and turned his attention to Nars and Daria.
"So ummm do you want to take a walk? I mean you were already doing but you mind me tagging along," Nars asked politely.
"I wouldn't mind at all," Daria said. With that the two wolves and three porcupines walked around the Western Pack for a bit.
They checked out the gorgeous scenery and said hello to some wolves. However after a while Fran and Frieda left to meet up with some friends and Floyd went back to the den. Oddly enough he didn't give any clear reason why though. Thus Nars and Daria were by themselves.
This didn't stop them from continued their walk and they decided to into to the forest. Daria began to tell Nars about her life before joining the Western Pack. Saying that he was shocked about her backstory would be the understatement of the year. Nars' wasn't exactly perfect and he did lose his wife, but compared to Daria's it wasn't even close to half bad.
What got to him was how her mother died saving her from Head Wolf and how her father was killed by him as well, leaving her sister Lois all alone.
"I never knew your life was that hard," Nars said with remorse.
"Well I least had Floyd, Fran and Frieda to be with," Daria said optimistically. Nars could only smile at Daria's happy go lucky attitude. Honestly she could make the most depressed of wolves smile.
The two wolves continued to walk until Nars had to pee. While he was doing his business, Daria decided to walk around. She could somehow sense the beauty of the scenery. It was most likely the air that she could image the scenery with as she had a heightened scene of smell.
Unfortunately she hadn't see a wet leaf as she slipped on it. However it got worse as she slipped over the edge of a cliff.
"Nars, someone help," Daria yelled with fear. She held on to dear life as she feared for the worst. She couldn't tell how far deep the ground was but that didn't stop her from not wanting to fall.
"Daria," she heard a voice say. She instantly recognized it as Nars' voice. "Don't worry I'm coming."
Nars bent towards Daria as she didn't know what to do.
"Okay Daria, try to jump and grab onto my shoulders as quickly as you can," Nars instructed.
Trusting him, Daria jumped and grabbed onto to Nars as he fell backwards so Daria wouldn't fell she let go.
As they stopped tumbling, Daria got off of Nars as she noticed that she dug her claws into him.
"Nars I'm so sorry," Daria said with guilt.
"It's alright it's just a wound," Nars said as he touched it, unfortunately causing him to since in pain.
"This wouldn't have happened if I wasn't some kind worthless burden," Daria said.
"Daria, it was just an accident. You're not a worthless burden," Nars said.
"That's not true. Everyone either losing their lives, have awful lives or risk their lives because of me," Daria said before she began to cry and run off.
"Daria wait," Nars said before chasing after her. He was worried what she might do considering her behavior.
When Nars found Daria, he found her in a rose field weeping to herself.
"Just go away Nars. All I am is a plague onto others," Daria said as she continued to cry. "Runt and his family should've let me die back at my old back."
Nars was horrified by Daria's words. He never knew that she was so guilt-ridden that she wished she was dead. Nars knew that only one thing would help. He walked over to Daria as he proceeded to hug her. She promptly cried into his chest as she continued to mourn about her past and the suffering her family went through. All Nars could do was soothe her and nuzzle Daria to comfort her.
After a while, Daria finished crying as she pulled out of Nars and wiped her eyes dry.
"Thank you Nars," she said as she gave her own hug to him. "That really helped."
"It was nothing," Nars said as he embraced Daria's warm appreciation. "Promise me you won't say those words again. How do you think your friends and family would feel if they saw you act like that?"
"I guess they would be crushed," Daria said.
"It's alright to mourn your loved ones, but they wouldn't want to see you live the rest of your life in despair."
"You're right. Thank you Nars."
"It was my pleasure to help you."
Nars and Daria proceeded to head to Daria's den as it was getting late. Unknown to them Floyd had watched the whole thing to see how they do on their own.
"I guess he really is meant for her," Floyd said with glee as he faced back to his band Daria's den.
When they arrived, Daria and Nars saw that Floyd was in the back of the den sleeping. They said their goodbyes right as Nars left to pick up his pups... though not before Daria's kissed Nars on the cheeks. She went back into her den leaving Nars flustered but happy for some reason.
He, however, regained his thoughts as he continued back to his pack. During the walk home he had that strange feeling again, but he had an idea as to what it meant: Love.
And that wraps up Chapter 2 nicely. Hope you enjoyed it and I'll be working on my fanmade Secret of NIMH 3. Cya guys later.
