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Chapter 4 - The little wolf

I watched the white wolf as it tilted its head and awaited my response, I stroke its head in a calm way and spoke out `` hello little one, my name is Arthur Blacklite, may I ask what name you have?``, as I said that it voiced a happy bark, then something came upon its mind that made it sad, which I could feel through the link we had. Then as I was about to ask what made it sad, a flow om memories coursed through me, at first I was confused at whose memory these belonged too , but the realization when i processed the memories, it belonged to the little one and it seemed that its family was chased by a horde of vicious foes, so the feeling of panic and fear coursed through me as I got deeper into it. It seemed like his mother left him outside the house and urged him to walk inside and then she lured almost everyone that chased them towards her, and that was a day ago, and the reason he could not follow her after this long was that the one of the foe was still outside, that I had just somehow slain.

and then a picture of it laying on the ground was sent through our link and the little wolf, when he saw it began to realize he could met his mother again, which resulted in it barking happily and wagging its tail. `` My name is Luna,`` it shared its name with me with the link we had. I smiled at the wolf when it wagged its tail happily, then I stood up and gestured him to follow me out, ´´ lets go find your mother,´´ I said as I walked out from the room and downstairs. When I opened the door to outside with Little wolf, just few steps behind, a chill coursed through me as I saw the spot where I killed the decaying being, there were no body except a puddle of blood and it seemed like something had dragged the corpse away, I readied my sword and signaled Luna to stay behind. As I followed the trail of blood, the sound of flesh being ripped and bones cracking could be heard, as I neared the sound, and saw whatever thing it was, my body froze for a second, It was a human or rather the figure was that of a person, but it had decaying skin, and he was eating the corpse of the thing I killed before. I readied myself and the moment I did that, It noticed me, and it let out a horrible shriek, that was loud and horrible. It slowly stood up from the corpse, and then immediately rushed towards me. I stood still awaiting it to get closer, and the moment it was just few steps from me, it lunged, and I dodged it with a hair margin, by stepping to the side, and then pushed the broken sword into its skull, with everything I had. The sound of its skull cracking could be heard, and it instantly stopped moving as the sword reached its brain.

I released the grip from the sword and the being fell down with a thud on the ground, ´´ What is happening around here,´´ I thought for myself as I then tried to pull out the sword from its skull, but it was stuck and even thought I tried, the sword did not release itself from the skull. Then I heard movement behind me, I turned quickly around to see whatever was behind me. I directly feel the chill down my spine, as I saw more of the those things. I immediately thought of running away, as I had no weapon. When i pondered what to do, the shriek of them made me take a step back,at that moment I moved into something hard, and at the same time soft. I slowly turned around, what I saw gave me hope, It was a Snow white wolves and there were around five of them and their size were 2 meter except for the one i walked into, it seemed to be taller and larger. It looked at me with curiosity, and it immediately noticed the white moon emblem on my right hand. Somehow i knew it was relieved at the sight of the emblem, which I guess that it knew what it means.

Then the larger wolf looked at the beings in front of us and howled, the sound, and impact from it caused the beings to stop in their tracks and started to back away, it was only for a moment that they hesitated, caused the other wolves to fly like a arrow shots forward and then when they were near enough, their lunged at the foes, and it ended with a massacre of the decaying creatures. As the one sided battle ended with the wolves annihilating those strange things, I then focused on the wolf next to me that seemed to be the leader of the pack. ´´ Where is my child, strange one?´´ sounded in my head as I watched the their leader, the voice had the tone of a woman somehow. I was about to speak out, when the little wolf appeared from the corner of the house it was in, It happily wagged its tail and sounded out with happiness as it ran towards its kin. I watched as it ran around the leader of the pack and I could hear it voice out its thought ´´ Mother, i missed you so much!´´ was what I could heard among other things, and the gist was that it was very happy to reunite with its mother. ´´ My name is Aeritho and this is my daughter Luna´´, the white wolf said and awaited my response, but Luna the little wolf quickly said my name to its mother. When Aeritho was about to say something, a distant roar could be heard, and all the wolves tensed up, and I could see fear in Aeritho eyes and I knew that whatever that sounded out that sound must be a very dangerous thing. She then after giving me a quick look, picked up Luna and gave me a slight bow with its head and, as quickly as their came, they vanished into the forest opposite of the direction from the sound came. I looked at the abandoned village and then the direction the wolves ran towards, and decided to follow as I didn't want to hang around with a creature that scares wolves that had a length of 2 meters and beyond.