Raven Wolf - 01 - The Wilds - Chapter 04 by Kurapika < Submission

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Raven Wolf - Book 01 - The Wilds
Chapter Four

Teddy is making his way to the locker room, having just finished a very long day of paperwork concerning the end of the job that he had been performing here for seven years. He enters the room pausing when he sees two fellow guards inside, they tending to several fresh wounds they had received. Teddy shaking his head and ignoring them as he approaches his locker, opening it and grabbing his clothes so that he could change out of his uniform and go home for the day, this action stopping when an announcement plays on the loud speakers.

“All available security personal please make your way to the north-east hallway on the fifth floor.”

Teddy sighs as he throws his clothes back into his locker. “With Yula gone I guess that would be me too.”

The two security guards that were in the locker room dressing their wounds get panicked looks on their faces. “Not again.” They quickly get up to leave running out of the door as fast as they could.

Teddy watches them leave curiously. “Again…?” He runs after them, following them to the destination the announcement had called them to. Now that he thought about it, announcements like this had been going off on the loud speakers all day, but he had never responded to them because he wasn’t allowed to leave Yula unattended, but now that Yula was gone he made up one of the ‘available security personal’ that was supposed to response to these messages.

He reaches the elevator, several members of security already crowding into it, Teddy quickly squeezing his way inside before the doors shut and the elevator begins to move up to the fifth floor. Teddy looks around at the security officers around him, each one readying their weapons, Teddy although confused by the action at first doing the same, the elevator doors opening and all of them running out onto the fifth floor beginning to rush towards the north-east hall.

They reach the north-east hall where general Mort is waiting for them, he barking his orders to them as soon as he sees them. “Subdue her! Use whatever force you feel is necessary but DO NOT kill her!”

One of the guards speaks up. “Where is she?”

Mort frowns as he looks down the hall. “She escaped, we tracked her down to this hallway, my men on the other side said she hasn’t come past them. So she’s hiding in one of the rooms in the hall.”

The guard that had questioned General Mort looks back to the group counting the heads he had available. “Alright then that’s one to each room. Everyone take a room and search it, if you find her do not engage, radio everyone your position and wait for backup.”

The security guards all nod their heads in understanding, Teddy and the rest of the group splitting up, each one taking a room as they had been ordered to and beginning to search through it for the test subject that had escaped.

Teddy searches through the room with weapon drawn and ready, he not entirely sure of what he was looking for or what to expect. He knew that it was a woman, and Mort had used the word escaped so she had to be one of the test subjects as no criminals or prisoners were kept in this building. The caution that was being used in regards to her meant that this test subject was violent and capable of hurting someone if they were to confront her alone.

He comes to a stop when he hears a threatening growl, Teddy turning in the direction it had come from and catching a slight glance of movement. Someone was defiantly here. He points his weapon towards the area while bringing his left hand to his radio, holding the button down and beginning to speak in it. “This is Teddy Conner, I’m in room number five-twenty-three and I think that I may have found-”

Teddy doesn’t get a chance to finish as the shadow he right now had his weapon pointed toward leaps out, quickly dashing to his right side and attacking him, Teddy reacting quickly to meet the advance blocking her attack and throwing her back, her body hitting a table and sending her and the object both toppling to the ground, a threatening snarl filling the air as the woman gets back to her feet leaping over the table to attack him again.

Teddy drops his weapon freeing both of his hands, his right hand grabbing onto her neck while he left pushes back against her body to keep her back and hold her in place, a surprised look filling Teddy’s face when he sees her. “A white wolf…”

The door to the room opens several security guards rushing into the room, the white wolf pulling away from Teddy and preparing to attack the new threats, Teddy grabbing onto her arm and twisting it behind her back, latching one of his legs around hers and bringing her to the ground pinning her down and keeping her in place.

The female wolf lets out an angered scream as she struggles to get free from the lock Teddy had her in. “Get off of me!!” Her struggling immediately comes to a stop when she sees just how many security guards are in the room with their weapons pointed at her.

General Mort enters the room, he staring at Teddy and the white wolf he had pinned against the ground. “… you took her down on your own?”

Teddy nods his head well aware that his orders had specifically asked him not to do that. “She attacked me when I was calling for back up, I had to react as the situation called for it to keep from becoming a casualty sir.”

General Mort stares at him. “That’s fine then.” He looks back to several other security guards. “Return the subject to her quarters, and don’t let her escape again!”

Teddy lets go of the white wolf when the others have her restrained, watching as they lead her out, general Mort approaching him and speaking up to get his attention. “You said your name was Conner right?”

Teddy looks back to him with a nod of his head. “Yes sir, Teddy Conner.”

“You wouldn’t happened to be related to a Dolly Conner would you?”

Teddy nods his head, he actually not surprised that General Mort would know about his sister, she someone that was highly talked about among the military for various reasons. “Yes sir. She’s my older sister by four minutes.”

The general nods his head. “Interesting.” He turns around leaving the room, speaking lowly to one of the staff near him. “Get me the files on a Teddy Conner will you?”

Teddy lets out a relived sigh, he having thought that he was going to get in trouble, he looks over to one of the security guards standing near him. “I was just waiting for someone to tell me that I had jumped the wrong person and make me look like an idiot.”

The security guard next to him laughs. “No you got the right girl all right. Test subject #2800356. She was brought in last night and had been causing us trouble ever since. The head of security is going crazy trying to keep her under control. They can’t seem to find anyone capable of handling her.”

Teddy sighs at the information. “And I just took her down with my bear hands in front of everyone… great… there goes my slim chance of getting back out on the field.” He slouches his shoulders and he begins to take his leave, heading home as he had first been intending to. “I should have ignored the announcement and just went home like I was going to…”

*******

Teddy arrives at home with a tired look on his face, he kicking the mail that had been placed through the mail slit in his door and was now littering his doorway, he making a note to himself to get to checking the mail later.

He lays down on the sofa staring up at his ceiling, a detail regarding his encounter with the woman bothering him. “She attacked me from the right…” He lifts his hand up holding it over his right eye, seven years ago he had been wounded and ended up losing his vision in his right eye, as well as his ability to work on the field as a soldier, but that had been years ago and after a surgery and much recuperation he had gotten his vision back. Sure from time to time it would be a little fuzzy, more so in the dark, but that wasn’t much of a handicap at all he had thought.

The white wolf though, she had somehow figured out that his eye had been wounded, and had tried to attack him where she had thought a blind spot to be, unaware that the problem had been fixed and that the blind spot was no longer there.

Teddy lifts his hand from his face, perhaps he was thinking too deeply into this, maybe it was a coincidence that she decided to attack him in the manner that she did. He closes his eyes trying not to think about it as he begins to drift off to sleep, today had been a long day and he was more than ready for it to end and for tomorrow to come.

*******

As soon as Teddy arrives at work the next day he is called to meet with the head of security, and just as he had predicted that night before heading home, Teddy was given the task of keeping test subject #2800356 under control.

Teddy leaves the head security office, his head down and shoulders slouched, he had really hoped that he could have been put back out on the field instead of continuing to work within the confines of this building, but apparently not only had he demonstrated himself how capable he was, a lot of high up figures whom he had hardly heard of had many very positives things to say about him, so much so that it would be foolish to hand this job to anyone else in the security division.

A voice calls out to Teddy getting his attention. “Hey Conner, it looks like the two of us are going to be working together, how about that?”

Teddy brings his head up as he looks ahead of him spotting a skunk leaning against the wall in wait for him to come out of the room, Teddy recognizing him almost instantly. “Magellan, what are you doing here?”

Zack Magellan was a newer member of the military that teddy had seen before, he always observing on the sidelines from General Mort’s side and never on the field, unlike Teddy though he was still regarded as a soldier and not as a guard. When Teddy had last seen Magellan the two didn’t exactly get along, but they didn’t really fight either, for the most part they were indifferent to one another.

Zack looks back at Teddy with a grin. “General Mort thought that he would bring in one of his more trusted soldiers to help keep the white wolf under control. She’s been causing a lot of trouble I hear. He doesn’t want to take chances, so he wants two dependable soldiers on her at all times.”

Teddy nods his head, although he was honoured to be thought as comparable to a soldier, he had still been stuck with the task of guard duty. “Yeah, apparently she keeps attacking her guards and trying to escape.”

Zack smiles at the idea. “This is my second assignment where I’ll be active on the field, well... so to speak anyway. Save a few exceptions here and there everything up until now has just been observation, that’s partly why you were brought in, the military does not want me working alone just yet. General Mort has set it up so that I’m only aloud assignments if I have a partner.”

Zack crosses his arms looking at Teddy with an impressed grin. “I heard you were able to take her down all on your own. That’s pretty impressive for a security officer, I know how difficult she is to keep under control so I’m aware of how hard that is to do.”

Teddy and Zack begin to walk down the hall, Teddy questioning Zack as they both started heading towards their destination. “You know her?”

Zack nods his head. “Of course I do, even though it wasn’t technically a part of my orders I was one of the men that caught her and brought her in. Trust me it wasn’t easy, everything about the assignment last night was hectic, and she put up a tough fight, then if dealing with her wasn’t bad enough trying not to get killed by her father as he tried to get her back made things almost impossible.”

Teddy stares at Zack disturbed by the information. “You kidnapped her?”

Zack shakes his head no, he not believing that to be the case at all. “It’s only kidnapping if it’s a registered domestic, wild’s like her that refuse to become a part of society obviously don’t fall under the same rules as us domestics.”

Teddy looks to the side, that not sounding right at all, wild or domestic they were still people with lives and families all the same. “My parents were wild’s you know, so does that mean that if someone were to kidnap me or my sister that it would be just fine and no one would get into trouble.”

Zack turns back to Teddy. “How many times do I have to tell you? Don’t go openly admitting stuff like that to people. Not only does it creep people out but it’s gotta be embarrassing to you doesn’t it?” He stops in front of the room the subject they were supposed to look after was waiting in. “Not to mention, the keyword in that sentence of yours is ‘were’, they cleaned up their act and became domestics right? So you and you sister are safe from kidnappers.” He laughs at the thought. “Though I don’t see how either of you would have to worry, it’s hard for me to picture either you or your sister allowing something like that to happen.”

Teddy frowns at the response. “It was more a question of morality than one of concern about myself.”

Zack places his hand against the door beginning to push it open and enter the room. “Look, when it comes to wilds you can do anything you want to them and nothing about it is going to be morally wrong.” He looks over to the white wolf who is giving him a cold glare having overheard his comment. “Bet you missed me didn’t you cutie.”

The white wolf lets out an angered snarl as she pulls against the guards that right now had her restrained. “Only because I didn’t get the chance to rip your head off.”

Zack laughs at her response turning back to Teddy. “See what I mean? Nothing more than a wild animal, domestic rights are not wasted on things like that.”

The wild wolf yanks herself free from the guards that right now held her in place, she rushing towards the two in front of her and attacking, quickly darting to Teddy’s right and baring her fangs to strike, Teddy catching onto her attack, turning to and catching her, twisting her arm behind her back and holding her in place.

Zack lets out an impressed whistle. “Nice, good to see that my partner is capable.”

Teddy holds the struggling wolf in place, again she had tried to attack him from his right.

Zack walks over to the wolf, lifting his finger and flicking her in the nose while Teddy had her restrained. “What did you go and attack him for anyway? I’m the one that was harassing you.”

Teddy gives Zack a warning stare. “Knock it off or I’ll let her go.”

Zack looks back to Teddy with a frown. “Come on Conner, no reason to get so defensive. Our job is to keep her under control right? At this point she obviously doesn’t grasp the idea of who’s boss, it’s our job to educate her with this information.” He steps back when the expression on Teddy’s face does not change. “Fine then, be that way.”

He turns around with a sigh. “Let’s take her to her quarters than.”

Teddy begins to follow Zack while keeping the white wolf locked in place. For the longest time he had be upset that he had been unable to work out on the field, but hearing that the military was kidnapping people and then justifying their actions made him glad that the papers he was constantly sending in to get out on the field never went through.

Teddy and Zack are now sitting outside a bared cell that the white wolf was right now locked away in, her constraints being much more drastic than Yula’s ever were because she was always trying to escape.

Zack lets out a bored sigh as he slouches over in his chair. “This is so boring!” He looks over to Teddy aware that he was used to doing stuff like this all day. “How can you stand sitting in one place all day? The guard duty business sucks.”

Teddy nods his head in agreement. “Why do you think I worked so hard to get back out on the field?”

Zack gets up from his chair unable to stand it for much longer. “Look I’m going to go take a walk before I go crazy alright. You know what you’re doing so I’m sure you’ll have no problems with her while I’m gone.”

Teddy watches him leave shaking his head and leaning back in his chair. “It’s going to take a while for me to get used to that guy…”

He sighs as he looks back at the test subject he was supposed to be watching, the white wolf sitting on the bed in the cell and staring at him. “You know your accommodations would be a lot nicer if you would just act a little bit less… I don’t know… violent I guess.”

The white wolf doesn’t seem the least bit interested in that idea. “You attacked my father and his people and then kidnapped me! Any violence I show towards you is well deserved.”

Teddy shrugs his shoulders, he couldn’t help but see her point. “I guess you’re right.” He looks back at her curiously. “Hey, this may be an odd question, but you don’t happen to have the mark of a black bird on your chest do you? I can’t really see myself because of the clothes they’ve put you in.”

The glare does not leave the white wolf’s face. “Why would something like that concern you?”

Teddy gives her his explanation. “No real reason I guess… It’s just that if you did than you were in a dream that a friend of mine had.”

The white wolf turns away from him not amused in the least. “I don’t want to hear about any types of dreams you people would have about me.”

Teddy looks back to her quickly trying to explain. “It wasn’t a bad dream honest! Or no… I guess it may have been bad… I think Yula may have seen your kidnapping through his dream.” The white wolf looks back to him, she now interested in this information as Teddy continues to speak. “I mean… from what he told me, and then from what Zack told me, I think that’s what it was. I know it’s pretty unbelievable that he could have actually seen something like this in a dream, but he did.”

He looks back to her, the white wolf no longer staring at him with a look that could kill as she had been doing all day. “So, what’s your name? Mine’s Teddy Conner if you would care to know.”

The white wolf seems unsure as to if she should answer him at first, she getting up and walking over to the bars of her cage stopping near him. “You’re a wild wolf right? You look more like me and my people than you do anyone else here.”

Teddy shakes his head no, though he without a doubt looked the part he defiantly was not a wild. “I was born and raised here in the city, my parents were both wild’s though, so if I look like one that would be why.”

“What tribe were your parents from?”

Teddy looks back to her. “Whistling Wind.”

The white wolf smiles at the information. “The Whistling Wind tribe was known for producing passive males and wild females.”

Teddy nods his head. “Yeah that sounds about right.”

“That pack has been gone for decades though…”

Teddy looks back to her not finding that hard to believe. “I guess that would somewhat explain how my parents ended up in this city.”

The white wolf looks away from him remaining silent for a moment, she eventually looking back to him and answering Teddy’s question. “My name is Iuana. My pack is known as Raven Wolf.”

Teddy looks back to her. “Iuana? I like it.” He turns his chair around so that he would now be facing her. “So Iuana, why did everyone go through so much trouble to catch you and keep you here? This building is a facility of science, and you’re being referred to as a test subject, so what kind of tests are they planning on doing?”

A perplexed look fills Iuana’s face. “I don’t know what they want with me… all I know is that they lied to my father and tried to trap him. They had told my father that they wanted to stop the fighting, that they wanted to exchange talks for peace, the exchange of the leaders children into the other’s pack and culture was supposed to be a symbol peace in the highest form. But all of it was a trap… when the exchange was made one of the men on their side fired a gun and killed the boy that was meant to enter our pack, they blamed us for the murder and no one was around to prove otherwise. My father was accused of making a declaration of war and that is when the fighting broke out.”

She lowers her head, the whole incident unfavourable to think back to. “I was already on the other side of the battlefield, surrounded by the enemy… I fought against them as best as I could but I did not stand a chance, and was captured and brought here.” Her ears lower sadly. “I can still hear my father calling out my name…”

Teddy looks to the side, the whole situation was depressing, and it felt wrong to keep her locked away like this.

Teddy’s shift for the day ends and he is sent home, Teddy not returning home just yet, he instead arriving at his parent’s house, he intending to question them about the white wolf that he had met that day, perhaps they would know something of interest.

Teddy sits uncomfortably on the floor in a room filled with strange tribal decorations, beads and text tiles. He never did like being surrounded in stuff like this, growing up it was embarrassing, not only did he had to deal with having a silly name but be was also mocked for being a descendent of wilds, his parents not helping maters with how obvious they displayed their culture and how obviously native they acted.

Teddy’s father looked just a stereotypical as he acted, though his clothes was different from what was normal worn by members of a tribe he still dawned the colourful wooden beaded and feathered jewellery and other trinkets common to their heritage, his build too was huge and built, just like any male wild was, Teddy’s father twice Teddy’s size in height and who knows how much bigger in muscle.

Teddy’s father sits in front of him with his legs crossed, his voice deep, the tone of his voice profound. “She’s from Raven Wolf you say?” He shakes his head letting out a long sigh. “That’s no good.”

Teddy doesn’t seem to understand. “Why? What’s so bad about that tribe?”

His father starts speaking in a very matter of fact tone of voice, this obvious information that everyone should know. “They’re cursed, each and every one of them. It’s best to stay as far away as you can less you want to be cursed too.”

“What do you mean cursed? How?”

Teddy’s father begins to explain. “Long ago, before the domestics came to this land, the Raven Wolf pack was known as Laughing Meadow. Despite their unassuming name they were a prosperous and powerful pack, their ways were fair and very little did they wage war against the other tribes. Those of Laughing Meadow were highly respected by the other packs because of both their kindness and great strength, unfortunately the strength they had is what got them cursed.”

“When the domestics came to this land much conflict arose, the spirits that governed our lands did not approve. The owl spirit was offended by the way the domestics would carelessly destroy places of history and wisdom. The buffalo spirit was insulted by how they conquered the land instead of living as one with it as you should, the ant spirit-”

Teddy clears his throat interrupting his father. “Can we please not go through all the spirits… there’s a lot of them so it’ll take forever.”

Teddy’s father lets out a tired sigh, though he believed the opinion of each of the three hundred animal spirits was important he moved forward in his story as Teddy had requested. “All the spirits were angered by their presence, but none more so than the raven and wolf spirits. You see, the domestics feared the black feathers the raven carried, the raven spirit was seen as a bad omen, a messenger of death and bringer of curses. While the wolf spirit was seen as an evil entity, that would spirit away the souls of children in the night and consume anyone it saw. The monuments and areas of worship that had been dedicated to those two spirits were desecrated and destroyed, in hopes that with these gone the spirits would no longer show themselves, even the tribes that carried linage of the wolf were hunted down and slaughtered in the name of keeping the domestic children safe.”

“One day the raven spirit approached the wolf spirit to speak to her, because it was the wolf spirit whom governed these particular lands permission was needed to act against the domestics that attacked them. The two spirits were in agreement and decided that the domestics must leave their land. The wolf spirit called forth all of her tribes upon her land, allowing the Raven to choose the pack which would follow out his orders. The Raven Spirit’s eyes falling on whom he saw as the most powerful, he choosing the Laughing Meadow tribe to do his deed.”

“The raven spirit cried out in his anger. ‘As long as the domestics live upon this land I am seen as a bringer of curses, while the wolf is seen as a thief of souls, until you drive these people from our lands that is what we will be! You walk these lands no longer as its children, you will not prosper and your lives will no longer be a part of the sacred cycle of life, than when you die your spirits will not be reborn and instead will be stolen and kept by the wolf. Once the intruders are driven away or ended the curse will be lifted off of your pack and your souls will be free.’ It was then that each of the members within the tribe was marked with the image of a black raven with the head of a wolf, and the name of the Raven Wolf was given to them.”

Teddy’s father closes his eyes. “Just as the Raven had said that tribe was removed from the sacred circle of life, there time would no longer rise and fall like all others, instead they would wander the land unable to die naturally, never to complete their circle, when they were killed or died not from a force of nature, their body would not decay and return to the earth as they should, and their spirit would not be reborn into new life, and would instead be taken by the wolf spirit.”

Teddy thinks over what his father had said, it all sounded like a bunch of made up stories meant to scare small children, but he wasn’t about to tell his dad that after he had gone through all the trouble of telling him all this. “So… they’ll wander the lands with this curse until they get rid of all the domestics?”

Teddy’s father nods his head, that exactly it. “At this point it’s impossible to get rid of the domestics, so they will carry this curse until this world’s time ends, or until each one of their lives are taken by the domestics whom hunt them down.”

Teddy sighs to himself, none of this information explaining at all why the military would want Iuana as a test subject. “Well… thanks for the story dad, I guess I’ll be heading home now.”

His father looks back toward him, he not finished speaking. “Shiya. That was the name of Raven Wolf’s leader when I was still considered a wild. He is probably the same one leading them now. Of the family of four children he originally had only one remains, his daughter Iuana. The other three as well as his mate were killed by the domestics.”

Teddy stares at his father, he without a doubt recognizing his name. “Iuana…”

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