He got so close to my hand and stone, a golden haze blew onto the stone. Making it very very warm. "Carry this with you everywhere. Even when you change it will become part of your wolf. This is my token to the battle you face. Should you need me I will come just say my name." He rose to his full height. "Once this shift of darkness has happened. I will come back, I will teach you what has been taken out of your memories." With that he rose high into the air with just a jump. "Take care young she wolf."
Then he was nothing more then a bright star in the sky before he disappeared in the distance. I looked to the brown dragon, as he looked to me. An odd silence followed.
"My name is Joe." The brown dragon spoke after a few more minutes of silence.
"Accalia, though my friends call me Lia." I answered.
"Nice to meet you Lia," I heard him reply. "Have you ever shifted into wolf form?" He asked.
"No," I answered. Tala was jumping with excitment in my mind.
"I see," as he said that you watched as he morphed into a large black and silver wolf. "It takes practice. But I suspect your change will be quick based on your lineage." He stood before me, "I need to share breath with you as that way your change can be activated." He asked.
"Sure," I said.
His wolf leaned forward touching my forehead, I felt a jolt of not just electricity but something else I could not place. My mind saw my wolf form running forward as if coming closer and closer. I heard Tala let out a howl of exictement. I felt muscles I had bever felt before, parts of a body I never knew I had. The wolf in my mind became the wolf in real life. Joe stepped back, quiet he stood.
I felt Tala take the lead on this form, showing me how to run, jump and use the four legs I was suddenly given. "This feels amazing!" Tala squealed in delight.
I turned my eyes to see the black and silver wolf just sitting watching. Tala took us right to him and bumped heads with him. "Thank you," she almost purred.
"You are welcome. I will take you to the One who Remembers. She wishes to speak with you." Joe stood, leaping forward he took off well to the North of the ruins. My home and Red to the south. Soon I told myself I would be home and back in his arms.
As we ran Tala asked Joe "are you both wolf and dragon?"
"Yes, my father the Alpha and my mother a dragon ruler to the area," his tone solemn but with care.
Tala said no more. We ran, I waited to feel this body get tired. But, it did not. Just as we made it to a gate, I felt a magic unlike anything I had before. I seen an old plott hound long since gone, though in corporeal form stand before me. Another black female alive with ice blue eyes just next to him. One a ghost and one flesh a bone, working as a team. How odd, I thought.
"One who Remembers asked me to bring her descendent cub to her." Joe spoke to the two canines before us.
"You are the one recovered by Tvso?" The Plott hound asked.
"I am," I had Tala get the body to sit. Like I had seen Lada do many times.
"I will take you to her." The black female with the light blue eyes lead the way.
Both Joe and I walked in silence behind the dog infront of us. I was not sure who this was but knew somehow we were related. An earthen and stone home came into view. I seen horses off in a pasture. They looked up from a spacious grassy pasture. They were beautiful and very unique in their color markings and conformation. It was Joe who shouldered our side snapping our attention forward. Tala and I both in awe at the huge white wolf. The wolf's eyes were violet like Lada's. The size of this wolf bigger then even Joe.
"I see Joe activated your wolf." One who Remembers said.
"He did," I nodded. I was not sure what to call her.
"I am known as One who Remembers around here." As she said this, her form melded to an ancient looking woman. Her braid long and white down her back, her blue jeans faded, sandals on her feet and a tank top with handmade necklaces around her neck.
I felt Joe, elbow us yet again. With a sigh I heard Tala step back as the wolf in my mind did too. Looking down I was standing just as I had when Tvso had dropped me off at the ruins.