The young husky couldn't win with his nature, as while watching the members of the tribe singing, laughing, and dancing, his eyes involuntarily turned the lights off, stealing this heart warming view from him. He slept soundly, being only wrapped by the thin layer of his own made clothes, and surprisingly warm waves of the quickening frisky fall air. It was that no one saw him cut from the awakened ones. Some furs in his age were taking a little travel under the feet of the snoring cub, and watched his cuteness escaping from him with every air exchange, sometimes even soft sounds, something like whimpers, but rather for the good reasons than any unpleasantness. The various voice timbres couldn't help themselves from not commenting on the view, like, "He is so cute!", "I can't how adorable he is...".
All the party sounds were slowly descending with time, until they completely faded away, leaving the area to be surrounded by only the sounds of sleeping nature. No touched the boy, because they knew he needed the unbroken rest before he would set off on his lonely journey. Well, maybe not exactly...
Suddenly Levi felt something nudged his shoulder. His head moved lightly, with a little whine escaped cub muzzle, before he stealthily opened his eyes and turned his blurry vision at the posture above him. He had to blink twice before he could finally recognise his tribe leader, the well-sculpted dark wolf.
"Come on Levi, it's time for you", the sharp and hoarse voice said, turning the first wheels inside his probable heir to the throne .
The boy nodded, firstly stretching his body with a river of sounds telling of the pleasure of these family bounding movements. "Yes master, I'm ready", Levi said with a sleepy voice, but the leader could already hear the assurance inside the words he let out in the world.
"Splendid", the old wolf said, sticking out his paw to help the young husky stand upright.
The pup without any hesitation grabbed lustily the large paw, letting his leader lift him up.
"Follow me", the wolf said as he turned around from the young husky.
Levi without words complied with the request. The older canine led them both under the gate of the main hut, which he opened and entered inside with Levi on his back. Levi noticed that in the middle of the house were scattered a bunch of items with various uses.
"Your journey must be filled with your own decisions, which one of them, you have to make now", the leader said, as his paw pointed beside him at the floor. "Choose what's gonna be your companions, for better and for worse", he added, glaring at the cub with head held high.
Levi nodded, and yet again scanned the floor full of benefits. Most of the part we're taking the weapons like spear and bows, along with the tools like axes or flint and steel. Everything looked very interesting, but Levi already had the plan in his head, which contains as few loads on himself, as it could be possible. His sight quickly spotted a small leather bag, with a long tightly braided linen cord, allowing it to be worn on the shoulder across the body. This was his first pick, and it didn't last long to choose another item, which was a wooden water canteen, nicely decorated with beautiful paintings and patterns carved with carpentry skill. Now it was time for the big part, the heavy part.
His eyes started roaming over all the velvety looking handicrafts, starting one by one rejecting them. All of the bigger things like axes, or spears landed on the black list, worrying that they would only slow him down. His heart malted as he also had to leave his dear bow, which was specially made for him for insane aiming skills, but his sorrow didn't last long, because he knew that on the way he could simply make his own one, along with the arrows. Finally his gaze locked on this only one, perfect object, which was not a little surprise for him.
On the far corner was a knife, but not a normal one. From generation to generation, for over a hundred years this knife was passed through the paws of the leaders of the tribe he lived with. He grabbed him, noticing what kind of high details he was made of. The handle was made of red wood he never saw before, the blade itself had the inscription "Born strong to defend the weak" engraved on it, and as Levi turned him around, another sentence said "Follow those who have suffered death".
Levi's paws began lightly shaking, as he stared at this breathtaking melee weapon. Suddenly he felt a light press on his shoulder, and when he turned his head, the almost black paw was settled gently on his left shoulder.
"I have high hopes in you, boy. No one ever here saw anyone as perfect, good and intellect as you Levi", the old wolf said with admiration and pride noticeable from a great distance. "I hope you take this knife, and soon come back here with him, but not as a talented boy you are now, but as a grown up man, who will be ready to take my place, even on the same day if you're returning ", the leader voice softened to this point, as could be heard in him the growing wetness, which clogged his throat, and made the words feels heavier.
Levi hearing it all couldn't fight anymore with his stoic nature. His eyes bore a couple of wet streaks that ran down his cheeks as he clenched his around the red handle. Moment later, all the defences collapsed, causing him to burst out crying, and hugged the old black wolf. "I-I won't let you down, master...", he said along with the sorrow song of happiness flowing out his muzzle along with the words. "I w-will come back... I-I will be better, stronger and prepared, master...", Levi added, as he felt paws sliding on his back and soon one on his hair.
"I will ha-ng on your words son...", the leader replied, himself giving in to tears.
Both males stood there, accompanied with the sounds of whines, sniffing and haotic breathing eliciting from them both, holding each other in tight, full of hope hug. After a longer moment the only thing they could hear was a slowly soothing mutual breath, which was spraying into the air. The older one was the one which broke the hug.
"Alright my little leader, it's time for you", he said, placing paws and both pup shoulders. "I wish you luck, always being a yard from death, and watching things, places and unknown to this moment communities", he smiled brightly.
Levi put on similar smile. "Thank you master, it means a lot to me!", he said a bit louder than he normally speaks. Even his tail turned to life behind him.
The old wolf chuckled. "No problem son", he said, and withdrew his paws from cub shoulders. "Okay, ready?"
"Yes I am!", Levi shouted out.
"Then go! Get the knowledge, become a male with strength of thousand bully, and don't die!", the wolf laughed as he pushed the boy towards the exit.
"I hope of that!", Levi shouted back, sprinting towards the gate.
"And and one thing!", the leader yelled.
Levi froze in place and turned around. "Yes?"
The wolf pointed at the knife in the pup's paw. "He has to come back here", he said with noticeable amusement in voice. "If my father were still with us, I bet we both would end up hanging upside down from a tree.", he laughed loudly.
Levi followed the wolf amusement. "I promise he will head back with me! He is a part of me now!", the cub exclaimed laughing.
"Yea you are right, now you are one...", the dark canine shoot a warm smile at the pup.
Levi smiled back. "Yes we do...", with those words he turned around and set forward himself into the unknown....
_______________________________ Hello! For today I had other plan. On telegram I sheared with different image from my Tribe collab them with friends, but while writing the continuation, I didn't managed to reached the point of the image I made for today. I didn't have to write longer, because the day is ending for me (I should sleep two hours ago actually lol), so I will try to make this on tomorrow. If you like spoilers, then I invite you to check about which image I'm talking about: https://t.me/+0lTg948civM0Njg0
I hope you like this part. Thank you if you read the story, and I'm sorry if there are any errors inside, because I don't have much time to check for any issues (this might be my first time uploading any story without at least checking once heh). So, see ya tomorrow!
