(Sorry I wasn't on. Internet not working yesterday, fishing all day today until now. Starting to work on a post
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Takai peeked around a corner of a tall concrete building. Its lower stories were covered in layers of dust and soot and grime, along with nearly unintelligible human graffiti. Why had she come to this idiot human city in the first place? What was it called?
Something to do with temperature ...cold temperature... Freeze City, that was it. She wrinkled her nose. What kind of name was that? And it was all humans. Like there was nowhere else to go.
There wasn't. Not after I caught that scent. What could it be? Nothing, nothing had ever gotten my attention like this scent has.Humans started shouting in the background, and she could smell human blood and fear. More reasons to hate this place. Before they were out of here, those humans' scents would mess her up. They weren't any good for anyone, especially wolves. And it sounded like those idiots were getting closer. Oh boy. Just what she needed. If they started messing with her, Nocqae would show up in seconds. And Nocqae wasn't a wolf to mess around with when he was mad.
"Hey, there she is!" a human shouted. He and a few others were at the other end of the alley that Takai was, well, hiding in. They all had rifles slung across their backs, most had knives in their belts, and their leader carried a shotgun as well.
"You boys look like a pretty rough group," Takai commented as they walked towards her, eventually surrounding her. Takai's voice went from calm to icy cold. "There something I can help you boys with? Because if not, I really do need to go." She started to walk past them.
"We're going to talk to you, lady," the leader growled, grabbing her arm roughly just below the shoulder. "You better tell us what we want to know."
"I don't think that I know what you want to," Takai retaliated. A wolf shadow flickered across the far end of the alley, and her eyes widened.
"Want to bet?"
"Are you threatening me?" Takai demanded furiously.
"So, you're smart enough to figure that part out, at least," the leader mocked her.
A man about twenty years old stopped at the far end of the alley. His features were hidden by a hooded, floor-length black trench coat. He cast a glance down the alley, pausing when he saw the group and stopping when he noticed Takai.
"Nocqae, no," Takai shouted. Her brother took no notice of her words, running down the alley towards them. One of the humans shot at him, grazing his shoulder. Switching to wolf form, Nocqae attacked the man holding his sister. The other humans fled, not bothering to even give a few parting shots.
Just a minute later, Takai and Nocqae ran out onto a larger street. Cars, people, buildings, flew past them as Takai ran, half-dragging her brother behind her. Humans shouted at them as the two passed, mindless of others. "Hurry up, Nocqae, we've gotta get out of here," Takai said as her brother lagged.
"Uh, just a minute," he gasped, pulling out of her grasp. He fell into an alley, crashing against the wall and onto the ground.
"Nocqae!" Takai cried. "What's wrong?" She knelt by her brother. He switched to wolf form as he began losing consciousness, not fully aware of what he was doing.
"Takai, you gotta go if those guys show up again," he whispered.
"There's no way I'm leaving you," Takai half-shouted. She grabbed her brother and put his arm over her shoulders. "Even if I have to drag you around, you're coming with me!"
