Raven Wolf - 01 - The Wilds - Chapter 06 by Kurapika < Submission

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Raven Wolf - Book 01 - The Wilds
Chapter Six

Eve stands before a group of children holding her hand to the old maps behind her as she usually did. “The new land was different, harsh and primitive, and the people could not so drastically change-”

A child that had wandered from the group calls back to the others while pointing down the hall he had come from. “You guys!! They got real live bugs here!! Come see!!”

The kids all scream in excitement as they run in the direction of the other to check it out, their teacher following after them to try and get them to come back.

Eve lets out an angered growl as she watches them leave, the scene all too familiar. “Those stupid bugs!!”

Fitz turns a corner coming to a stop when he sees the very angered expression on her face. “Hey Eve, you look like the incarnate of evil more than usual today.”

Eve lets out an angered growl as she glares over at him. “Fitz, you have five seconds to get out of my sight. If in those five seconds you’re still stupid enough to be near me I guarantee that you’re quickly going to find yourself in the hospital.”

Fitz stares back at her while Eve glares back, Eve speaking up bitterly. “Why are you still here?”

Fitz scratches his nose. “I kind of wanna stick around and see how this is going to turn out.”

Eve turns away from him storming down the hall and grumbling angrily under her breath, Fitz calling out to her. “Hey! I thought you said you were going to send me to the hospital!”

*******

The day passes and Eve starts her work at the military labs, finding herself sitting at a table across from Yula, a bored look on her face as she asks him the same question she always did. “Did you have any strange dreams?”

Yula shakes his head. “No.”

Eve nods her head having expected as much. “That’s it for today, Miss. Conner will escort you back to your room now.”

Eve lets out a disappointed grumble as she props her elbow onto the table and rests her head in her hand. It had been two weeks since the subject had supposedly had that vision of his, and not once since having it had anything significant ever happened again regarding him. “It must have been Conner or Anderson’s influence…”

She had to admit it was very disappointing, only two weeks ago it seemed as if her job might actually start to get interesting, even if it was a hoax pulled by the old guards her subject had. Her thoughts are interrupted when she hears arguing coming from the hall, she getting to her feet and leaving the room to check it out, finding Yula and his new guard Miss. Conner in an argument.

Yula speaks with his voice slightly raised, though he wasn’t used to and disliked arguments he couldn’t let this continue as it had been for the last two weeks. “I’m not a prisoner alright! That means that I can leave my quarters and wander just as long as you’re by my side! As long as I don’t leave the building I’m fine.”

Dolly Conner stares at Yula with arms crossed, she a lot stricter when it came to handling Yula then Teddy ever was. “I know my orders, and keeping you safe and making sure you don’t run away is a lot more effective when you’re confined in a room.”

Yula frowns at her. “Teddy let me leave the room, he said it didn’t make his orders any more difficult because I was so cooperative and behaved.”

Dolly grabs onto Yula’s arm dragging him back to his room. “Well I’m not Teddy now am I?”

Eve sighs as she intervenes speaking to Yula. “Don’t be difficult for Miss. Conner. She’s just doing her job in what she feels is the most effective manner, if you ask me Mr. Conner was much too lax when it came to keeping charge of you.”

Yula seems disappointed to hear this, he now allowing Dolly to pull him along, Eve looking away from them and heading back to her office to fill in her report for the day, another scientist in the building calling over to her when he sees her, getting her attention. “Hey Eve! Just the gal I was looking for! I’ve hit a wall in my project, I was wondering if you could give me a hand after you’re done work.”

Eve smiles at him happy to be of assistance. “Of course, I’ll pay you a visit as soon as I’m finished.”

*******

Yula is once again confined in his room, he looking out the window on his door over to Dolly. “You know believe it or not Teddy said you were a nice person.”

Dolly frowns as she glances over to him for a moment. “Teddy and I haven’t spoken in years, he has no idea what kind of person I am anymore.”

“Well you’re a mean person!”

Dolly lets out a tired sigh. “Aren’t you supposed to be around three hundred years old? Why does it feel like I’m dealing with a six year old?”

Yula turns away from her, walking back to his bed and flopping down on it. “I’m not talking to you anymore!”

“Good, that will make things easier for me.”

Yula sighs sadly at the response as he hangs his head. Hardly a minute of silence passes between the two of them before Yula once again speaks up. “So how come you don’t talk to Teddy anymore? The two are brother and sister right?”

Dolly sighs to herself as she pulls a gun from her side and begins to look it over in her boredom. “I thought you said you weren’t going to talk to me anymore.”

“I changed my mind.”

Dolly responds in a sarcastic tone of voice. “Lucky me.” She sighs to herself deciding to answer Yula’s question, she having nothing better to do right now anyway. “It’s not that I hate him or anything like that. It’s just what happens when you move out and live a life of your own, you just don’t find the time to keep in contact.”

“Doesn’t that make you sad?”

Dolly shakes her head no. “I can honestly say it doesn’t really affect me.”

Yula seems surprised. “Really…? I would think you would be upset. I mean, Teddy always spoke so highly about you.”

Dolly turns back to the room that Yula is in. “Did he?”

“Yeah, he said all kinds of nice things, I was really looking forward to meeting you because of it. I’d say he really respected you.”

Dolly thinks over what Yula was saying, a smile crossing her face and she places her weapon back to her side and gets up from the chair she is seated in. “Alright kid you win.” She approaches the room that Yula is in, using a card in her position to open the door for him. “Let’s go get you something to eat.”

Yula excitedly gets up. “Really!?”

Dolly nods her head. “Nothing puts me in a better mood then hearing my brother admit that he looks up to me.” The stern look returns to her face. “You had better behave yourself though, or else you’re never leaving that room again.”

Yula nods his head. “Yeah of course! Don’t worry I’ll be really good I promise!”

Dolly shakes her head as she watches him run out the room and look about him excitedly. “You know you really are like a little kid… are you really some all knowing creature that can see the future?”

Yula turns back to her, even he not sure about that. “I don’t know… I mean I’ve never seen the future… at least I don’t think I have. Maybe I’m supposed to do something special or something before I got to sleep.” He thinks back to a week ago. “I keep trying to think if I did anything different that day I had that dream about the white wolf… but I really can’t remember doing anything different.” He stops talking for a moment to think something over, he looking back to Dolly. “Hey, how did you know that I’m supposed to see the future?”

Dolly shrugs her shoulders. “It’s more of an assumption really… you have white eyes right? My parents would always go on about how those with white eyes have the power to see the future.” She looks around at the building they are in. “And though you’re regarded as a test subject they never actually do any tests on you, they just ask you about the dreams you had. I just put all that together.”

Yula walks alongside her. “Wow, I didn’t figure it out until that one day I actually had a different dream. For the longest time I couldn’t figure out why I was here.”

*******

Across the city in the main facility Zack tries to stop a bloody nose while Teddy leads Iuana into a room that they had been called to bring her to, Teddy sighing as he mumbles over to Zack after several guards take Iuana from him, closing the door and keeping her two guards out. “You know I’m sure that wouldn’t have happened if you were a little bit nicer to her.”

“Don’t lecture me Conner.”

Teddy is about to say something else but stops immediately when he sees General Mort approaching them. The two of them quickly composing themselves and standing in attention, Mort looking the two over before approaching Zack and speaking to him. “Come to my office when your shift ends. I need to speak with you.”

Zack lets out an aggravated groan at the order, he quickly brings his hand back to his nose when he feels blood run down his muzzle. “Yes sir.”

Teddy frowns as he watches general Mort leave. “Don’t be surprised if you’re in trouble because of how harsh you are on her.”

Zack grumbles to himself, Teddy looking away from him and towards the room that he had brought Iuana to, this one was different from the rooms he had brought her to before, up until now Iuana had only been questioned. This was the first time she was ever taken to a room where something else happened.

The room in question was one that did very light medical procedures, health checks, small checkups, an injection, little things like that, nothing to really be alarmed about.

He looks back to Zack questioning him about this. “I don’t quite understand the situation with her. They keep trying to get answers from her but the military is being so light footed when it comes to questioning her, after two weeks of this you would think that they would start getting a little more drastic with her.”

Zack shrugs his shoulders, he not knowing a thing about it. “I see where you’re going, that fact confuses me as well. They have to have some reason for not pushing any harder than they have with her though.”

*******

Teddy and Zack’s shift for the day ends, Zack going to General Mort’s office while Teddy heads to the lockers, intent on going home after changing out of his uniform, he coming to a stop when he sees a familiar face, his sister Dolly standing outside of the room that held the lockers in wait for him, she grinning when she sees him. “So you respect me do you?”

Teddy laughs at the question, what a thing to say to someone after not seeing them for years. “Yula’s been talking to you hasn’t he?”

Dolly gives a frustrated grumble. “The kid likes to talk, he never gives up trying to start up a conversation with me.”

Teddy nods his head. “Can you really blame him? It’s not like he lives a very exciting life. He needs someone to talk to or else he might just go crazy.” He chuckles to himself. “Also, I’m not so sure if it’s appropriate to call Yula a kid when he’s three hundred or so years older than you.”

Dolly frowns. “I don’t care what his age is, if he’s going to act like a kid he’s going to be called a kid.” She begins walking down the hall towards the entrance of the building. “Come on, let’s go grab a bite to eat before you head home for the day.”

Teddy follows after her happy to oblige. “Are you going to pay for my meal?”

Dolly laughs at the comment. “Of course not, I was hoping that you would be a gentleman and treat me to a meal.”

“What? You’re the one that invited me!”

“I was just kidding, no need to get so pouty about it.”

The two make their way to a café near the building Teddy worked at, it a common place he would go to after work, the two taking his usual table and ordering some food as they caught up, the brother and sister not seeing or really speaking to one another in years, most of this catching up being a series of questions for one another, the first topic to come up how they were doing at work.

Dolly bares her teeth at the mention of Zack Magellan’s name. “You’re working with Magellan now? Well isn’t that a stroke of bad luck? Honestly that guy is one of the worst. I couldn’t stand it every time General Mort brought him along with him. If there’s anything for me to like about being taken out of the action and being demoted to a stupid guard dog is that I don’t have to work with the likes of him anymore.”

Dolly crosses her arms continuing to go on about him. “I always found it creepy how General Mort always keeps Magellan by his side or keeps calling him to his office. Just what kind of relationship could General Mort possibly have with Magellan to be doing that all the time?”

Teddy nods his head, he also noticing that. “Maybe Magellan is some kind of relative of his, something like the son of the brother of a sister in law or something crazy like that. General Mort does seem to play favourites with him a lot. Though I guess that explains how Magellan gets away with as much stuff as he does.” He too saw exactly what Dolly was talking about when it came Zack and how he would so rudely voice his opinions on wilds. “He’s very… I don’t know the word for it… I guess ignorant, at least when it comes to wilds.”

Dolly slams her fist against the table, startling the people that were currently eating at the table behind them. “That’s the worst part about him! You think that he would watch what he’s saying when decedent’s, ex-wilds or even half wilds are around, but no! He thinks he’s obligated to talk to them like they’re garbage. It’s completely unacceptable! I don’t know how many times I’ve or someone else has reported him but nothing is ever done about it because he’s General Mort’s favourite little pet.” She bares her teeth at the thought. “What burns me the most is that someone like him is still a soldier, while I say one stupid thing and get demoted right then and there!”

Teddy nervously looks back at her. “From what I understand you did more than just say something…”

Dolly frowns at the comment. “Alright so maybe I acted my threat out, but still! Demoting me to the most boring job they can think of?? A desk job is more exciting than guard duty.”

Teddy laughs at his sister’s reaction. “Yeah, I can hardly stand the job and I’m pretty easy going, if I can’t stand it then there’s no way someone as short fused as you could put with it.”

“You’re right about that!”

“You know being called short fused isn’t a complement.”

“Hey I can admit that I have one, and for your information I think it’s a trait to brag about. If you ask me being called ‘easy going’ is more of an insult. I mean come on what are they implying by saying something like that?”

Teddy laughs at the comment while Dolly sits back in her seat. “So, are you still dating Sara?”

Teddy shakes his head no. “We broke up almost five years ago.”

Dolly crosses her arms. “Shoot… five years hu? It really has been a long time since the two of us talked…”

“Hard to believe isn’t it?”

Dolly smiles back to him. “Mom called me a few days ago, said that you had come over to visit them for a bit, and that you had a talk with dad about some stuff concerning your native heritage.”

Teddy sighs at the reminder. “Don’t think too much into it… it was just some stuff related to work that’s all.”

A disappointed look fills Dolly’s face. “Are you really that embarrassed to be a wild? If you ask me it’s great to have such an interesting history to make me stand out, most domestics have hardly any family culture to brag about you know.”

Teddy nods his head. “Yeah… standing out is exactly my problem. Unlike you I don’t want to stand out, I much prefer blending in and being thought of as normal thank you very much.”

“Different is interesting!”

The waitress drops the food off at their table, Dolly digging right into it. “You know Teddy, I bet if you gave yourself the chance to learn about our culture you would like it. You can still be in tune with your heritage and be discrete about it enough to not be seen as weird.”

Teddy rests his head in his hand. “Say, have you heard of the Raven Wolves?”

Dolly nods her head. “The packs name is actually called Raven Wolf. It was both the Raven and the Wolf spirit that cursed them, you can’t change it into a plural form it just doesn’t work that way.”

“So I’m gonna guess that you know about them.”

“Yeah, the cursed tribe and all that stuff, really interesting story if you ask me.”

Teddy begins to question her about them, Dolly perhaps knowing something more useful than his parents did about them. “Do you believe in curses?”

Dolly nods her head. “Of course I do.”

“Seriously?”

Dolly again nods her head. “If I believe that the animal spirits exist then I believe that they are capable of granting both fortune and misfortune, and yeah sometimes even curses. Though, animal spirits don’t often lay a curse on someone… they have to be pushed pretty far before they do something like that.”

Teddy seems confused. “The way I heard the story… the Raven Wolves… or I guess the Raven Wolf tribe didn’t do anything bad to receive the curse they got.”

Dolly points her spoon over to Teddy. “Hey, just because we sometimes don’t understand their actions does not mean that is without reason. The reason the raven spirit picked that tribe may not be clear to any of us, but it was defiantly clear to him.”

Teddy shakes his head. “It all sounds pretty sketchy to me. If the spirit was really that angry couldn’t they just have handled everything themselves? They being all powerful and everything?”

“They’re not all powerful, they’re keepers of great wisdom and guides. It’s true they are not without power but that power is not why they exist. If the spirits ruled only by showing power the world would be a sad place indeed. We are to respect them of course, and when they show themselves to us we are also to make understanding of the guidance they are trying to show us and learn from them.”

Teddy shrugs his shoulders. “So have you ever seen one of these animal spirits?”

Dolly shakes her head no. “Not yet, I guess I don’t need any guidance right now. I suppose short fused is the path I was meant to lead.”

Teddy lets out a sigh, his sister not helping to figure out why Iuana would be so important to the military either. “I somehow doubt that.”

After finishing his meal and catching up with his sister Teddy heads home, he rubbing the back of his neck as he enters his apartment kicking the mail that was laying in his doorway to the side and making a note to himself to look through it before going to work tomorrow. It had been nice to catch up with his sister, though all the spirit mumbo jumbo he could have done without, even if it was his fault for bringing it up. He lays himself down on the sofa and closes his eyes drifting off to sleep.

A faint whistle fills Teddy’s ears waking him up with a start, Teddy quickly sitting up and looking around him. His eyes move to the clock on the wall, he having only dozed off for about ten minutes, he looks over towards the window in his apartment, the wind that was blowing through it causing the faint whistling that had woken him. He lets out a sigh of disbelief as he walks over to the window and closes it, a little embarrassed that the spirit stories his sister had been going on about had cause him to jump at a sound as common place as that.

Teddy pauses for a moment thinking to himself, something wasn’t right about this. He had never opened the window and he was sure that when he had arrived at home it had been closed. His ears perk up as his body now stands alert, he paying attention to his surroundings. Instinct was kicking in now as Teddy scans his apartment, the room he is in dark, the vision in his right eye still a little fuzzy, trying to focus on its surroundings after waking up so soon.

That was when it happened, there was a white blur that he could barely make out to his right, and then just as suddenly as he had seen it Teddy was hitting the floor as someone leaps at him and throws him to the ground.

Teddy fights with the figure upon him, managing to force them off of him and throwing them to the side, knocking over a table and hitting the back of the sofa causing it to tumble over, the intruder hardly taking a moment to turn back towards him and leap at him again forcing him to the ground before he could get back up. Teddy again fighting back against them, forcing them off of him and this time throwing them into the stand that held his TV, a loud smashing sound filling his ears when it hits the ground, the figure letting out a painful moan as they lay there for a moment, this one having gotten to them.

The intruder though manages to force themselves back to their feet and once again attack Teddy who had just managed to get back to his feet, the figure darting to Teddy’s right and leaping at him to tackle and bring him to the ground again, Teddy this time prepared for the attack catching onto his opponent’s arm, twisting it behind their back and then holding them in place. His opponent not yet taking this as a loss as she forcefully pushes back against Teddy, forcing him to back down a short hall and crash through a closet door at its end, both of them falling and hitting the ground after going through the door, Teddy of course a lot more dazed by the blow then his opponent was.

The intruder pulls free before Teddy could compose himself, sitting down on his chest and pinning both of his arms down so that he could no longer get up to attack. “Yula! Take me to Yula!!”

Teddy opens his eyes recognizing that voice. “Iuana…?” He stares up to find that it was indeed Iuana, the test subject that was right now supposed to be locked in her cell at the labs, in his house and pinning him down. “What… are you doing here? How did you escape?”

Iuana narrows her eyes. “Yula! Where is he!? Two weeks ago you said the name Yula when speaking about someone that had seen me in their dream. Take me to him!”

Teddy lets out an annoyed growl. “You jumped at me from my right too! I should have known it was you!” He struggles against her, Iuana in turn struggling to keep him down. “I don’t know how you managed to get out, or how in the world you managed to find out where I live-”

Iuana speaks up answering his concerns. “I found the opening I needed to free myself and forced my way out of that building, when I was outside I saw you leaving another building nearby and I followed you here.”

Teddy looks up at her. “Ok… so I guess that explains how you found this place… but why!?”

Iuana growls at him impatiently she having thought that much to be clear. “You’re blind in one eye not deaf in both ears!! Yula! The day you became my guard you spoke of him so you know where he is! Take me to him!”

Teddy manages to force and throw Iuana off of him, Iuana letting out a threatening growl as she prepares to leap at him again, Teddy quickly pulling his gun out and pointing it at her, causing Iuana to stop dead in her tracks. “Contrary to what you might think I’m actually not blind in one eye, and as for Yula, what would you possibly want with him?”

Iuana glares at the weapon that Teddy now has pointed towards her. “So then I heard right? It was Yula’s name you said.”

Teddy frowns at the reaction Iuana had given to what he had said. “What!? You attacked me asking about him when you were unsure as to if that was the name I said or not?”

Iuana begins to explain. “I heard Yula’s name clearly! I just didn’t know if it could possibly be real… Yula has been thought to be dead for three hundred years.”

Teddy sighs to himself, they defiantly talking about the same person, he not knowing of any other three hundred year old wolves named Yula. “Alright then… so I know the guy you’re talking about. But what does that have to do with you?”

Iuana suddenly leaps forward catching Teddy off guard, grabbing onto the weapon he held pointed towards her and prying it from his hands, turning it around and now pointing it towards him. “No more questions! You will take me to Yula now!”

Teddy stares down the barrel of his gun, though he wasn’t entirely sure if Iuana knew how to use it or not he wasn’t about to recklessly find out. “Ok! Ok! I can take you to Yula, just calm down will you?”

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