The Little Wolf

Since the beginning of time, a huge feud came within the animal kingdom. Canines from two different worlds fought against each other saying that the other team were enemies and informed to nevermore trust each other at all. Everyone in both the wolf clans and the dogs knew and want it to remain the same. The two creatures that would like to have a change within would be Aaron and Alexander, the youngest pups in the wolf clan. Since they were brothers from a royal wolf clan, they did everything together. When they are together, they look-alike, but the difference you can tell from them was their marks on their fur. Aaron would have the mark on his forehead and Alexander would have his on the back hind leg. Their dream was the beginning as their journey had begun.

One day, a few dogs were walking down the garden that was near the forest with their humans. While they started to turn towards a corner, a beautiful butterfly caught her eyes and tried to capture the butterfly. She chased the beautiful insect towards the forest, one of the dogs stopped her dead in her tracks.

“Emily,” he stated as she stopped in her tracks. “Let’s go.”

She stood there with a confused look in her eyes and looked towards the woods seeing why he stopped her. As she glanced at the forest, her friend came to her by the side.

“There are wolves over there and will kill us alive, Emily. You must be careful and cautious.” her friend May stated in a cautious tone.

Since Emily understood what her friend meant, she continued with her group while leaving the butterfly fly towards the woods. The butterfly that she was chasing flew deep into the woods and ended up inside the place where the wolf clans have lived and where Aaron and Alex’s journey will begin.

Meanwhile, a huge ceremony was in honor of the deceased king. Queen Tabitha and her sons walked to them to show respect to their father. When the queen’s supervisor, Starlight, was looking towards each prince for a count, she found that five sons came present while the two boys were missing. The pups missing from the group were the youngest sons as usual. She flew towards the sky as she located the pups and bring them back since the queen in the least little discovered them missing. As she searched high and low for the two pups, Aaron and Alexander were playing in the outlands, which was commonly known as the junkyard for humans, finding the unknown objects from the dog’s clans. Several things undiscovered for them to collect as much as they wanted. From the junkyard, it contained: squeaky toys, collars, and other things. Since they were coming back from the junkyard, Starlight had found them and flew towards them.

“Where have you two pups went off to and what on earth are you carrying in that bag?”

“We’ve been wandering around the forest and the bag has our treasure that you cannot see.” Alexander, one of the pups mentioned.

“Really?” she stated, without conviction, “Then why would you be doing on this side of the forest when you should be at home!?”

Aaron, the other pup, stood there silent and quiet.

“Well?”

“You don’t need to push us around, Starlight,” Alexander started, “even if you are the supervisor from our mother.”

“Do not give me that type of tone to me, sir.” she argued by pointing her wing to Alexander.

“What’s going on, Starlight?” a voice replied.

“Mom,” Alexander spoke.

Aaron was in shock and bowed to her.

“Your highness,” Starlight spoke falteringly as she bowed to the ground, “What a surprise to see you here!”

“No need. I was about to ask you something about my sons, but for some reason, you were not where you were from the beginning and I followed you here.”

Starlight gulped and began to speak in an apologetic tone.

“No need to apologize. Just found my answer in front of me.”

Aaron and Alexander looked at each other in the eyes thinking: ’We’re in trouble’

As the two pups, the mother and the bird started to walk back to the village, two snakes that followed them outside the area. As they came towards the throne room area, the snakes fled towards the deepest part of the forest where a cougar had laid. Outlawed from the wolves in regards of taking the royal’s power which was unlike anything that the forest has ever seen, the cougar noticed the snakes as they slithered towards him.

“What new have you brought me, my snakes?” the cougar called.

“The pups,” claimed one of the snakes, “have run away from home again.”

“Really?” the cougar mentioned in a sly tone. “Which ones?”

“The youngest twins.” replied the other snake.

“The twins, eh? They seem to always get into some sort of trouble, don’t they?”

The two snakes nodded.

“Well, then,” he spoke slyly, “We would need to keep continuing every move. They may have the way for me to contain the power. Bring me more news about them and do not lose sight of them.”

“It shall be done.”

Meanwhile, in the courtyard deep in the forest, the queen, Starlight, and the twins were discussing what has happened this morning. Five older brothers and the queen stood there with different marks on them which rumored for containing their father’s power. Eldest pup contained the mark streaked on his chest, the second contained the mark all his tail. Third and middle pup received a mark on his front leg, while the fifth brother across the hind leg. Queen Tabitha had received two different marks streaked on both of her paw and eye.

“What do you have to say for yourself for you two?” the queen requested as the twins stood there with such disappointments.

The two pups stood there with no words to state towards their mother.

“You were told to be at the ceremony to honor your father’s death and this is how you repay his respect? Leaving the area and getting things far from the palace? Well?”

Aaron stood there silent as Alexander moved towards the group to speak.

“It is my fault, mother. Please do not punish my brother. It is my responsibility and...”

“You have no right to speak!” snapped his eldest brother, Adam.

“Neither do you, Adam.” Alexander argued back. “You are not king yet and the punishment will go in behalf of mother, not you!”

“Silence, both of you!” the queen replied.

The two sons silenced each other as Queen Tabitha regained her control.

“Now, as punishment for you two, you are never allowed to access towards the outlands again. It has become dangerous for you two pups and as the queen of this clan, I will not allow you two to become fur skins for the humans and the wolves.”

“They are not wolves, mother!” Alexander barked at her.

“Don’t back talk with that tone!” the second one, Abraham argued to Alexander, “This is something that you pups wouldn’t understand.”

“Yeah,” the third one, Alpha agreed.

Alan and Andrew looked at the brothers and the twins. Since they talked so little to mother, their three eldest brothers, Starlight, or the twins anything, they had sat there still while they had permission to speak.

“Alexander and Aaron,” the queen decreed, “I forbid you to contained any contact in regards of those mongrels ever. Is that clear?”

Alexander couldn’t agree nor disagree as he fled beyond the throne room as the queen turned to speak to them.

“Alexander, return here at once!” the queen commanded.

He didn’t reply as he ran towards the door. Aaron, on the other hand, decided to stay there. He knew that if he ran too, his family will chase them down. The queen calmed down and glanced at the remaining sons in the throne room.

“My sons, you are all dismissed. Except you, Aaron.”

Everyone except Aaron and Starlight abandoned the premises of the throne room.

“Well, are you and your brother going to accept my decree?”

Aaron stood there and didn’t respond.

“The silence doesn’t speak, my boy. You need to be able to respond soon enough. You may be dismissed.”

He bowed and ran towards his brother for comfort. While he disappeared from the throne room, Starlight and the queen remain still in an empty room.

“You have done the right thing, your majesty.” Starlight spoke during the long silent moment.

“Did I?” she questioned Starlight. “Then why do I not feel powerful to my children like I would have with my people?”

“Well, your grace, that is what happens when a child is close to the mother. If you have a way to break their ice to get to their place, they may open themselves to you.”

“You believe so?”

“Yes ma’am.”

“Then, I decree that you will watch my children.”

“Why, ma’am, I would be delighted, however, I am your supervisor, not a nanny.”

“True, but you know how to keep things in order. Report to me if there is anything that they have done that is incorrect that I have told them.”

“Yes ma’am.”

The queen dismissed her supervisor and Starlight flew above her area to find the seven children. She went to them as they roamed in the wolf kingdom and saw that everyone was enjoying life in the wild and felt such peace.

“Why would the queen allow me to take charge of the children?” she asked herself while viewing in the sky. “I normally would accept other wolves to take in charge of this, but me? I couldn’t handle watching the twins very long.”

As the evening started to set, she noticed that the twins had disappeared again. The assistant went to go find the twins by starting at the most common places that they would’ve gone. When the moon rose, Starlight still was unable to find them, as she heard a whimpering sound by the mountainside. Starlight flew towards a hole that lead to the caves. Her wings flapped downward to her body in a delicate manner landed in silence towards the ground. Some toys and things human-related dangled towards the ceiling, the owl became all astonished at the sight of it. While she glanced the items, Starlight looked below the base of the cave and noticed the dogs organizing several items they had discovered prior that day. During the time that the white owl had noticed Aaron looking at the baseball as Alexander was finishing organizing the things that they have found on the outlands today.

“I can’t believe that mom would take that right away from us!” Alexander complained. “That doesn’t seem right for her to take that away. If dad was here, he would allow us to go as we pleased.”

Aaron had nodded and sighed as he looked at the baseball he had found.

“Are you alright, Aaron?”

Aaron nodded.

“You don’t seem like yourself. What’s wrong?”

“It’s just,” Aaron replied as he looked at the moon, “why wouldn’t Mother see what we see?”

“What do you mean?”

“I mean, yes, wolves out there are dangerous, but they are still us. Why can’t she see the similarities from there?”

“I know.”

While he glanced at the stars, Aaron glanced at his brother.

“Do you remember our wish, Alex?”

’Wish?’ Starlight questioned as she was eavesdropping, ’What wish?’

“Yes, I remember. What about it?”

“I want that wish to come true. To be equal with the dogs.”

’What?!’ Starlight thought as she flew upwards to warn the queen.

However, the leashes, which hung above her head, caught her wings as she started to fall towards their level. The pups heard the commotion and went towards the noise. At that moment, they saw Starlight in the premises. She was trying to escape without the pups’ knowledge, but the leashes got a hold of her and was unable to flee.

“What are you doing here, Starlight?” Alexander asked in shock.

“I was about to ask the same thing here, you two.” Starlight responded as she started to get up and remove the leashes from her wings.

“It seems as though you now know.” Aaron responded.

“Indeed, I do. Now if your mother knew about this place, she—” Starlight started to command.

“You were about to tell her?!” Alexander blurted.

“Now, what made you think that I would say that?”

“You are the queen’s supervisor,” Aaron stated, “you report to her about anything.”

“True.” she replied, “but just because that I am the supervisor, doesn’t mean that I—”

She was intending to finish her sentence when the sound “Boom!” exploded throughout the inside of the cave and light started to shine in the sky with color. Aaron heard the sound and started to walk to the top of the cave.

“Now, where do you think that you are going?” Starlight asked him.

He didn’t respond. Starlight and Alexander started to follow him. As Aaron reached the top of the cave entrance, he saw fireworks shooting the night sky. Sparkles were floating towards the ground; colors were sprouting from the explosion. Alexander and Starlight saw the same thing that Aaron had noticed.

“That’s not good,” Starlight feared, “Man has found our land. We need to report this at once to the queen.”

That didn’t stop Aaron as he started to follow the area where the fireworks were shooting at. Alexander followed him and abandoned Starlight as she noticed that they were willing to break their mother’s order.

“Alexander! Aaron! Get back here!” Starlight commanded, but they didn’t listen.

From the sounds of fireworks, below the hill contained a celebration and specific competition. Dogs celebrated their show ball at the full moonlight. Canines from different states were attending at the tenth annual dog show competition and were showing their glamour, their tricks, and their styles.

Aaron and Alexander hid in the bushes close to the party and made it on time for the celebration to begin. They have merely seen dogs this close before, they were pretty cautious throughout their surroundings and were watching their every move. Since the area that they were at was dark and the dogs were unable to see them, they were pretty safe from there. For some reason, Aaron wanted to look at the food and Alexander wanted to look at the dogs a little longer, they started to separate and would meet at a specific place.

Aaron saw the food buffet across the area, but was careful that the humans and dogs were unavailable while he started to take the food near his area. From what Aaron has seen, the table contained turkey strips, chicken strips, ham, sandwiches, and steak. With extreme caution, he tried to avoid other dogs or humans near and took a bite of different foods available. As he stretched towards the steak, a touch on his forehead laid towards him by mistake as Aaron fled underneath the table. At the exact time, a woman in her mid-twenties touched Aaron by mistake.

“I’m sorry,” she apologized as she held the exact steak that Aaron reached towards, “I didn’t mean to scare you.”

When he noticed that a human was at his presence, he walked back towards the woods. She was coming close towards the bush trying to find him when she heard a voice at the back of her.

“What are you doing, Marianne?” a man spoke towards her.

“Nothing, Louis.” she said as she hid the steak secretly.

Aaron looked towards him and noticed that he was proper with high standards and in every respect prideful. Though he dressed in a royal manner, he still was pompous and strict. Aaron unapproved the man, because he smelled like a hunter.

“If you are not doing anything, then why are you looking towards the bush?” Louis implied, “You should seriously be focused with the competition around here. You may never know if someone can take the prize away from you.”

“There are no certain canines who would take the prize away from me. Besides, I was feeling the patterns of the bushes around here and wanted to know which one would be great for my dog.”

“Okay. But—”

“There you are, master.” a young man interrupted.

Aaron was looking at the young man who came to find her. He was young sturdy stable boy who looked like he was acting like a butler. Though his ragged hair was different, he seemed kind and caring to his master. Aaron liked the boy.

“Claude?”

“What’s a stable boy doing here?”

“I’m here to help my master as her guide to her seat.”

“Well, I can lead her to her own seat, since she is entirely going to be my wife.”

Aaron heard those words from Louis’ mouth. He was a bit shocked at the time when Marianne turned aside as she walked towards Claude.

“I did not agree to your proposal in the first place, Louis.” Marianne argued as she started to turn to Claude, “Let us go, Claude. I need you to lead me towards Emily.”

As they have left, Louis found the steak that fell on the ground. Since he was so disgusted of the meat, he tossed it into the woods and departed the premises. Aaron was walking to the steak and started to eat the meat. Alexander, meanwhile, heard Marianne and Claude close towards his area as they were walking towards their seats.

“Thank you, Claude.”

“It is my duty to help you, ma’am.”

“You know, you do not need to keep calling me ma’am all the time.”

“Yes, but it is very proper for me to call you that, ma’am.”

“I know, but I would like for you to call me by my first name.

“I . . .” Claude started to say as a dog started to come close to them.

Alex looked towards the female creature and by the beauty of her light tan fur and the sparkling blue eyes that shined like the northern skies struck his heart all the way.

“Emily,” Marianne responded as she stretched towards her hands and touched her neckline of her collar, “Claude, is this Emily?”

“Yes ma’am,” he replied, “This is her.”

“That is good.” she replied with a smile on her.

Emily started to leave her area for a moment to see her friends and started to speak to them.

“It seems as though the Master loves you, Emily.” her friend May speak.

“Indeed,” she replied. “My Master loves me so much that I do not want anything else in the world.”

“Really?” a voice replied.

Alex saw a tall, thin Doberman that was coming towards her area and was carrying a rose on his mouth and laid it on the ground.

“I’d say that you love two things.”

“Victor,” Emily disgustingly replied, “I have told you that you are not the one.”

“That is because you haven’t given me a chance.”

“You had your chance, but you were stubborn enough to take that chance.”

“I didn’t know that you wanted me to impress you when you push me away. My Master would be thrilled when you and I are officially married then.”

“Not interested. Come on, May.”

As May and Emily started to leave, Alex started to follow them trailing in the bushes, but bumped Aaron’s side during the process.

“Sorry, Aaron.”

“It’s okay.” he replied as he started to lay down, “so, what do you think?”

“These dogs are amazing, Aaron.” Alex replied silently, “they truly contain abilities to live freely without problems and…”

He sighed a deep sigh as he looked at the dog across from them.

“I have just seen the most beautiful dog that I have met in my life and I want to spend the rest of my life with her.”

At those words, that exact event changed the twins’ lives for all eternity. During the competition celebration, a single match used to start the fireworks had fallen towards the ground and started burning the scheduled papers. Wind started to catch the fire and started to burn towards the table sheets, the trees, and the strings. It became so violent that the area the twins were in separated them included. Alex was on the half of the fire, while Aaron on the other. Few dogs and their trainers came towards the road alive while Marianne and Emily had disappeared.

“Where’s Marianne? Where did she go?” Louis asked several people as they have come aside of the area.

“She’s not here?” Claude asked as he looked towards the flames.

His eyes contained tears as he feared his master’s death. Because the flames become so severe, he had no choice and started to run towards the flames.

“Claude, no!” a person shouted as he grabbed Claude as the flames grew hotter.

Claude pulled as hard as he could from Louis while attempting to rescue Marianne, but stopped as tears fell towards the ground. Meanwhile, in the fire, Alexander started to try to find his escape route from the flames and every time he tried, either the exits contained flames or burnt tree branches.

“Aaron!” yelled Alexander, “Aaron, where are you?!”

As he started to run faraway from there, he heard a cry by a non-burnt tree. He looked by the area and saw the woman from the party. She was shaking in fear and crying. Since Alex heard that people were dangerous, he didn’t want to lose his life for a woman, but as he started to turn away, he heard:

“Claude...”

He turned his head and heard the woman cry a name.

“Where are you...”

She coughed and coughed since the flames were getting worse. He had no other choice that he grabbed the cloth of her dress and pulled it bit by bit. Marianne, unable to see and crying, felt the tug and started to move in a sluggish manner as Alexander started to lead her towards sanctuary and find somewhere safe.

Aaron, however, was somehow without any luck of escaping, but found a lake that could get him as distant as he could from the flames. While he prepared to jump towards the lake for an escape when a whimpering noise caught his ears. The sound that caught his attention was Emily as she laid there unconscious and covered with soot. Aaron didn’t want her in the flames all alone, but according to law, he nevermore needed to interfere with other canines. As Emily started to wake for a moment, she saw a bit of blurry for a moment and saw Aaron. Though she could most see his wolf form, the flames were intense and fell asleep. He grabbed her from the ground up to his back and started to run towards the lake.

As they were close to the area, a huge tree branch started to fall from the block, but that didn’t stop Aaron. He ran as quick as he could and as he jumped into the air, the moon hit the front of his face. Emily looked for a moment and saw his facial picture. His blue eyes that show the crescent moon, his marked bolt on his face, and his fur as the silver starlight. By the time they made it to the other side, they both fell towards the water.

The next day, when the fire had died, Aaron finished grabbing certain fruits and berries and prepared to leave the area with her alone on the ground. Carefully, he looked one last time and saw her as beautiful and elegant excluded the ash. Though the young prince intended to fall in love, his heart started to beat. It was a type of love that he had ever felt for Emily. He walked to her silently, bent his head towards hers, closed his eyes and gave her a kiss on the side of her nose. In a few moments, he noticed that she was starting to regain conscious while he hid in a close-by bush.

Emily woke up a few seconds and saw food by her side and didn’t know where it came from. As she took a bite for a few moments, the star looked throughout her area to see if she can hear her Master’s call. However, on her mind, she felt on her nose where he kissed her towards. The questions were on her mind:

“Who kissed me? Who saved my life? Who was that dog that rescued me?”

“Marianne!” a voice rang in the middle of the woods.

It was her Master’s servant, Claude. She followed the sound and forgot the kiss. Aaron, however, saw her leave while he hid in the bushes and started to leave. He saw Alexander across the distance and started following him as he covered himself with mud since he has the tendency to suspect something.

“Alex!” he called.

“Aaron!” Alex replied, “Where have you been? I’ve searched all over for you.”

“I’m sorry. It seems that you are okay.”

“Yeah,” he mentioned as he looked at Aaron, “but it looks like someone isn’t.”

“Sorry. We should go before Starlight starts to tell mother again.”

“And what makes you believe that I will tell?!” a voice yells.

The twins look up and found Starlight in the air.

“I was searching for you two since that fire incident. You are lucky to find both of you alive, or I would have told the queen regarding this.”

“Then,” Alexander replied to her, “make a promise. Not to mentioned about what happened before and at the fire.”

“I cannot keep that promise long, but I will do whatever I can.”

“Thanks. Let’s all go home.”

As the Alex and Starlight started to walk towards the forest, Aaron walked a bit and looked at the heels of the location. He regarded her for a moment that he ran towards the rocky bolder and looked below. As he watched from the boulder, he can see Emily find her Master all close-by her area and spot her from a distance.

“Aaron,” Alexander called, “come on.”

Aaron looked at Alexander and started to walk from the area and followed the group towards the village. In his heart, he vowed to see her again. Louis stood on top of a rock and looked round. He desperately was looking with Victor on one side while Claude the opposite side. As Claude and May found Marianne and Emily underneath a strong round tree.

“Marianne!” Louis yelled as they searched since the fire died that night, “Where are you?!”

“My mistress!” Claude shouted with joy as he hugged her desperately.

Marianne was a bit shocked at first. She contained a hug by her own stable boy that he treated her as a friend. Though anxious and shook desperately, she hugged her servant back with tears rolling down her face. May, however, saw Emily looking a bit sad and was looking for something.

“What’s wrong?” May asked Emily.

“What do you mean?” Emily asked.

“I mean; you haven’t been yourself since the fire.”

“I have? I guess I haven’t noticed.”

“What is it?”

“Well, you wouldn’t believe me if I told you.”

“Try me.”

“I’ll tell you when we get home.”

“Okay.”

As they started to leave, Marianne and Claude had noticed their hug and looked at each other. It seems that Claude was wanting to say something, but he didn’t have the courage to say something to her. As he prepared to speak his voice out, another voice interrupted his thought.

“Marianne, my darling.” Louis cried with joy as he started to run towards her hug.

As he had a close chance to hug her, she pushed him aside.

“Louis,” she demanded, “I am alright and safe and I am glad that both you and my guide, but at this time, I would like to rest, so…”

“I will take you home, my lady.” Claude replied.

“Thank you, stable boy,” Louis answered, “but I will take care of her from here.”

“I would refer Claude to take me.” she snapped at Louis as she grabbed Claude’s arms and started to walk towards the mansion.

As Claude looked behind, Louis was mad rage upon his eyes that he turned his head moving towards the mansion scared yet relieved that she chose him than Louis.