Growing Tensions (Open Forum)

[Calyx]

At daybreak, a new beginning has stirred, along with the new day.

Plans have been trashed, and regardless of the fact that the testing has been put on hold, there is still unrest and uncomfortable shifting.
Each day, a poor new soul is brought in, and thrown into the same small cage as the rest of them. Somehow, though, fights manage to stay contained, and warring between the inhabitants has not broken out. Blood has not been spilled.
Fur has not flown.








"Doctor, the new shipment has just come in..." A man's voice broke over the intercom, causing the man in the white coat to start, looking up from his paperwork and shifting his glasses up his nose.
"Very good," he said, his lips parting into a smile. "Have the men bring it around to the factory door.

The building was large and gray- a metallic color- with echoing rooms filled with scientific supplies. There was a constant high pitched whine, screaming even more as the doctor stood up and checked the wires attached to a large machine. He smiled again, and nodded to himself, and set forward to meet the delivery truck.

The first thing Calyx noticed when she regained consciousness was the vile smell of antibacterial. It trailed into her nose, heavy and stiff, and she almost gagged on the stench.
Her cage shook as she opened her eyes and stood, waving slightly, as if hovering midair.
As Calyx looked over the edge through the bars, she realized that this was the case. She wasn't far off the ground, only a few feet, but the swaying movement was unsettling, and she dropped into a crouch again.

Suddenly her memories came flooding back to her, and terror made her fur stand up on edge. They had been drugging her! And not only her, but...

She looked around. When they had cut through her pack, she knew that others had been taken... But she could only see one figure in a cage below her.

"Zero," she barked shortly, her voice raspy and harsh to her own pointed ears. "Zero, is that you?"
She winced as she moved to the other side of the bars. Her shoulder throbbed, and as she looked over at it, she saw blood start to seep from her fur.

She could remember some of what went on in the gray place. The man in the white coat would come in, with a sharp, silver stick, and stick it into her shoulder. He would take the knife-like thing and press it into her fur until she bled. But strangely enough, she didn't feel anything...
She smelled many other wolves come and go, and the room frequently smelled of death. Did the man in white kill them?

She'd heard the words "strong," and "able" many times, and had understood them. She knew they were talking about her and Zero...

There were other rooms too, with other wolves experiencing the same, or different treatment. She heard mournful howls sometimes. But she wasn't really aware enough to respond, or fully understand them.

"Zero, wake up! Please wake up!"



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Name: Calyx
Age: 16 moons
Gender: She-wolf
Personality: Fiercely proud and loyal, she has a short temper and is quick to make assumptions. She judges harshly, and is difficult to gain the trust of. She knows how to study the enemy and is incredibly thoughtful and deductive in combat, and is a difficult adversary. Calyx has a strong sense of right and will do anything she can to back up her moral ideas.
However, she is not a cruel wolf, and has a weak spot for family members and cubs. She rarely lets her guard down, but she is deeper than her coarse exterior.
Befriend her, and she will extend her fierce loyalty to you, and defend you for life.
Appearance: Calyx is a slender gray she-wolf. Her fur is flecked with black and white streaks. Her muzzle is white, and she has white socks on all four paws. Her chest has a black flash across it, and she has black-tipped ears. Her eyes are green flecked with gold. Her ears are scarred and have long divets into the flesh. She has many long scars across her flanks, and wears them proudly.


Name: Zero
Age: 16 Moons
Gender: Male
Personality: Zero is a determined wolf, who refuses to give in. He fights with will and passion, he has an understanding of others and hears them out before tearing them a new one. Zero, doesn't care much for conflicts, but will risk life and limb for the ones he loves. He's easy to befriend, but isn't willing to trust until he knows them better.
Appearance: Zero is a light shade of brown with, a wet soft black nose. He is a little on the heavy side but is still in shape.
Zero has two scars; one right behind his left ear that has been there since birth, and the second is on his left knee, on the inside.
His eyes are a light shade of blue with a hint of dark green on the inside. The way that they are positioned makes any one who looks at them, it makes them feel safe and warm, they are comforting.


Name: Gi
Age: 15
Gender:He-Wolf
Personality: A hot-blooded warrior, his passions sway his motives, leaving him unpredictable on the battle field. He knows what his enemy will do before they do it, and fluidly fits into the battle sliding in and around it, as if a part of the ebb and flow. However, he is a truly kind wolf, able to slide into any situation comfortably, and bring someone to let him through their guard, he has a soft spot for the injured, and the weak, and would die to protect those he cares about.
Appearance: He appears as snow, white, but with the shadows of grey, almost like a walking snow bank, his eyes are a warm gold. His ears are a bit small, embarrassing at times, but he has grown to appreciate them. He only has one scar, a deep gash along his belly, an ugly, twisted scar, a testimony to a time he spent in captivity.

[Zero]

Name: Zero
Age: 16 Moons
Gender: Male
Personality: Zero is a determined wolf, who refuses to give in. He fights with will and passion, he has an understanding of others and hears them out before tearing them a new one. Zero, doesn't care much for conflicts, but will risk life and limb for the ones he loves. He's easy to befriend, but isn't willing to trust until he knows them better.
Appearance: Zero is a light shade of brown with, a wet soft black nose. He is a little on the heavy side but is still in shape.
Zero has two scars; one right behind his left ear that has been there since birth, and the second is on his left knee, on the inside.
His eyes are a light shade of blue with a hint of dark green on the inside. The way that they are postioned makes any one who looks at them, it makes them feel safe and warm, they are comferting.




"Mmmmm, hey Ca, give me five more minutes, I'm trying to sleep." says Zero with a groggy voice."Eck, whats that smell Calyx? It's discusting." This time his voice has more consciousness to it, as he awakes.

Zero slowly opens his eyes and see's that he is hanging in a cage, with a sharp pain in his right shoulder. He looks down at his shoulder to find that his nice light brown fur has been tanted with the deep dark red that of blood.

In his panic, Zero swiftly moves left and right to try and escape, only to end in failure. He sits back and lets out a long painful howl. He lies back down and tries to figure out whare he heard Calyxs' voice. While he was looking around he saw a glimps in his beautiful right eye, now filled with fear, the source of the voice.

[Gi]

Name:Gi
Age: 15
Gender:He-Wold
Personality: A hot-blooded warrior, his passions sway his motives, leaving him unpredictable on the battle field. He knows what his enemy will do before they do it, and fluidly fits into the battle sliding in and around it, as if a part of the ebb and flow. However, he is a truly kind wolf, able to slide into any situation comfortably, and bring someone to let him through their guard, he has a soft spot for the injured, and the weak, and would die to protect those he cares about.
Appearance: He appears as snow, white, but with the shadows of grey, almost like a walking snow bank, his eyes are a warm gold. His ears are a bit small, embarrassing at times, but he has grown to appreciate them. He only has one scar, a deep gash along his belly, an ugly, twisted scar, a testimony to a time he spent in captivity.

The smell of blood had brought him here, to foreboding walls of grey and silver in his world of white.
"Humans" he seethed, they had come, and brought with them destruction and pollution. The tang of gunpowder now lingered everywhere in his woods, the smell of blood filled the air, even as he starved. This was a new blood smell, other wolves were in there, and they were bleeding.

He stood in the shadow of the wall, watching, silently waiting for his opportunity, night had fallen, and the humans were beginning to become sluggish, it was only a matter of time till he could sneak in.

As the night progressed, the sounds of humans died off, to be replaced by the sound of panic, and it pained him that he could do nothing yet, waiting for the opportunity to come, the guard by the gate was begging to drift off.

Gi ghosted forward, silent and invisible in the night and shade, he dashed through the gate, closing after a truck had entered, the acidic smell of exhaust burned his nose, but he persisted, following the blood to a small building to the side, the lights were off.

"You brought me hell, now it's my turn," he breathed, preparing himself. He launched himself in, breaking through the door, finding two wolves locked in cages, fear and anger mixed in their eyes.

[Calyx]

Calyx stared at him, her eyes willing him to quiet for a moment.
"Zero- shhhh!" her voice was sharp, and she willed the haziness to fade from her eyes. She shook her head furiously for a moment, trying to clear it, and peered through the falling darkness towards the sound.

In the distance, she could hear the man in white clanging around and talking, and the thud of something heavy hitting the ground.
But there was something else too...

Calyx snorted, frustrated. The heavy smell in the air made it impossible for her to distinguish the new sound.
Angrily, she paced around the edges of the bars, peering with dark eyes. They were completely metal, with a thick, heavy padlock clicked into place across the only possible entrance...
Calyx could have sworn that she'd seen the key- The metal was obviously too thick for her to gnaw through...

"Zero, what does your cage look like? is there anything nearby that could help...?"

Calyx was on edge, and could hear a thick tread coming her way...

[Gi]

He crept in the shadows, unseen, as the heavy foot steps drew near
"Hello mangy bitches," a high pitched voice said, cruelty making it even more ugly.
The clang of a lock opening drew his attention, it was make or break time, he had to go for it, whoever it was that was freed was the only one that would get free. The tools of man were beyond his ability to figure out.
"Into the box with you, then we'll get your boooooy friiiieeeend in a box too," the voice drawled.
Perfect. A box could be more easily broken.
"Don't fight" he willed.
Shortly the sound of the case closing shut sounded out, and the other cage unlocking.

He sprung then, with a vicious growl, he launched himself at the man, grabbing him around his throat, cutting off his air and blood circulation, and with a horrid crunch, he snapped it.

"Lets get you out of here, love." Gi whispered softly, before viciously ripping off the door to the crate. "Run! both of you!"

Gi paused, looking back, throwing his head back and letting loose a blood curdling howl, before ghosting into the night, out of the smothering, toxic air.

[Zero]

As Zero sprinted across the coridors listening to that last long howl, he couldn't stop thinking of all those poor other wolfs that had to go through the suffering that they he went through. It brought a tear to his eye, and with a soft wisper so no one could hear him, he whined "I'm so sorry, truly sorry."

Zero looked forward, and saw that he was falling behind, so with every ounce of musle that hasn't been too druged, he pushed forward wincing at every stride.

As soon as Zero made it out of the seeming never ending coridors he let out a high piched howl and scheeched to a stop, feeling the cool breezy snow underneath his burning paws. "Ahhh, that feels so, good I love the nice cold feeling of snow."

As soon as Zero was done fondling the snow, he looked around to try and find Calyx and the stange wolf that saved their lives. With the stench of antibacterial, still in his nose, he tried to smell them out.

[Calyx]

Calyx started after Zero, casting one hesitant glance over her shoulder at this strange new wolf, their savior.
The corridors drug on, and Calyx quickly fell behind, losing Zero among the twists and turns. She could have sniffed him out, but not only were her nostrils clogged, but she suddenly came to the realization that she wasn't finished there.
Her paws skidded to a stop on the cold white tile, and she spun, retracing her steps till she was in the big room again.
She didn't have much time- that much she knew. The man in white had let out such a guttural cry, that the others in the building would have heard. And there were without a doubt others in the building.

Calyx growled under her breath, and paced around the length of the room, her ears angled this way and that, trying to pick up the slightest noise.

There it was! The scuffle she was looking for! She braced herself, grit her teeth tightly and charged the door. She would have to make it fast- for all she knew there could be humans in the room.
But Calyx was lucky, and the door opened to a long room of bars, each tiny cage holding a wolf- some as old as the stars, others mere pups.

Calyx flinched, her eyes narrowing in sorrow. The stench was worse in here, and was mingled with the rot of feces.

A pup looked up at her, and was silent, his little white face terrified.

Calyx let out a soft growl. "Don't worry little one..." She looked at the bars. These weren't padlocks, but simple lift-and-push locks. She kicked her paws against the lock, managing to free the pup, but the racket she made was sure to call attention to herself. Quickly, without hesitating, she moved to the next, the crash of her paws against the bars chastising her ears like a beating.

The wolves in the cages stared at her, and as she began to make slight progress down the line of cages, excitement rose a shine in their otherwise dull eyes.
Calyx looked down the long row, disparity heavy on her heart. She wouldn't have enough time to free all of them.

The group behind her were greeting each other enthusiastically, but shakily, their ribs etched against their sides.

Calyx whipped around on them. "Don't just stand there- start opening-" she broke off as she heard boots rapidly approaching from the other end of the hall. Calyx's eyes widened, and she grabbed one of the pups by the scruff, turning tail and tearing out the other door. "Follow! Hurry!" She cried through the pup's fur, and the small freed group followed close behind, their claws scrabbling desperately against the slippery floor.
Behind her, mixed with the horrible betrayed cries of the ones left behind was the shout of the human, and the scream of an alarm.

[Gi]

The group of humans ran by him, chasing the escapees, not even noticing him, sitting in the shadows by a corner.

He hacked in amusement at their neglect, pausing for a moment to check around, he could hear no one coming.

"Be silent," he ordered, "this will not take my long."
With a single sweep of a paw, he destroyed a door, working his way down, freeing the remaining ones.
"The strong will carry the young ones, don't let anyone fall behind," he commanded, dashing through the door, followed by the silent wolves, fear and pain heavy in the air. At the very edges of his awareness, he could smell the open air, he knew that everyone could sense his excitement, and they surged forward.
They rounded a corner, finding a giant steel gate being lowered. Panicked, their speed increased, but they knew not all of them would make it. Gi was out first, followed by 3/4ths of the wolves. but the gate had lowered too low for any others to get under.
"I will come back for you. I promise." Gi whispered to them, underneath the door, "go back to your cages, and act like you never left."
He stood, and with a single sad look back, he led the newly freed wolves out of the hell hole, headed for the center of his territory, the safest part of the forest.

[Zero]

Pacing back and forth, Zero contemplates running back into the hell hole, until he hears a sign of hope. As he looks up to the sound of harding paws thuding against the tuff steel floors, he sees' a familiar face, the one of Calyx and the strange wolf.

"Hey whare have you, been? I've been woried sick, first you were in front of me and then you just disappered." Looking at Calyx not expecting an answer, due to the puppy in her mouth.

With adrenalin running through his veins he spots the wolf with no name sprinting for the forest, so Zero takes his "advise" and helps with the young pups, that were lucky enough to make it out of there, and books it twords the forest.

Once in the forest he finds Calyx, and tries to find the other wolf. Zero lets out a prolonged howl to try to get the attention of any near by escapies. While waiting for the others, Zero rubs his nose aganst the fresh powder snow to get the stench form out of them.

"AAACHHHOOO, huh the smell is finally out of my nose." He says with joy. Zero throws up his nose to try to find a sent of wolf instead of that awful smell. With a huff and a puff he tries to find the sent of the other wolf but with no luck he lies down in the snow and calculates the damage and how many wolfs were hurt and how many were saved.

[Gi]

Gi led the escapees deep into the forest, to the heart of his domain, in the distance he hears the howl of a wolf, but he ignores it for now, the humans were on the hunt, and he was not letting them get a pinpoint on his home, the free wolves had already made a trail, and it worried him greatly that this would be his downfall. Amid his thoughts, he finds his home area, a clearing in the middle of the thickest part of the forest, with a cave and cliff on the far end, and a warm water lake in the middle.

"Go into the cave, and find the warm water springs, you aren't going to make it through the night in your state if you don't get warm," he growled to the freed wolves, before vanishing into the forest, headed for the howl.

Dashing, almost bluring, his way through the forest, dodging trees and hunting parties, silent like a shadow, he headed for them, worried as it began to snow, quickly worsening. This blizzard was going to be the death of a lot of wolves if he didn't hurry.

As soon as he had that thought, he ran into the wolf named zero, tripping over him, and flying into a snow bank.

[Zero]

"OUCH!!!!!!!! WHAT THE...... oh it's you. How did you find us?" says Zero with a confused expression on his face. He was grateful that this strange wolf, that he didn't even know, saved him, but a little pissed that he was basicly used almost as a welcome matt.

As Zero stands up from his little power nap with a rude awaking, he begins to wonder if he really can trust this wolf, "Hey Calyx" he wispers " are you sure we can trust this guy? He hasn't even told us his name."

Zero, then looks up to meet the eyes of his savoir and, even to his suprise he blurts out "Thank you for all you've done, I don't think I could have pulled this off all by myself."

[Calyx]

Calyx let out a sharp growl, wanting badly to hit Zero upside the head.
She looked over at the white wolf, her eyes half narrowed. Somehow he had gotten them out, and without even a scratch.
"Yes," she said softly." "Thank you. But why?"

Her paws itched with the urge to run, but she withheld and forced herself to sit down, and tuck her tail neatly by her paws.

The puppy scrambled over to her, pressed closely to her flank, trembling softly. Before the white wolf responded, Calyx gazed down at the pup, her eyes softening. "Shhh little one. We're safe now."
The pup looked up at her with trusting eyes, and whimpered slightly, crawling to lay between Calyx's paws.

Ooc// Heh heh CRAP! Sorry >///<

[Gi]

"You are welcome, but time is short," he breathed, "I found you by your howl, others will have heard that too."

He started back into the forest, pausing to look back, "I did it because you are in my territory, the whole forest, and miles around is mine, you are welcome to join, now follow me quickly, i can smell humans head this way. Be stealthy."

At that, he wandered into the thickening trees.

[Zero]

With all the muscles aching in his body, Zero starts sprinting at the thought of being cought again. He sprints with all his might, while holding one of the few lucky escaped pups in his mouth trying not to hurt it.

"So we're in your territory, right? How long have you been living here by yourself?" Zero manages to breath out from behind all the fur and pain. He was doging past trees trying not to hurt himself or the tiny pup that he had by the scruff.

As he runs he looks over at Calyx and gives her the look of "I hope you know what your doing," and then turns his attention back onto the forest. To his suprise, it seemed that this forest that they were in, was coming to a close.

"Does this forest have an opening or a feild in it?" said Zero with a confused look on his face. Just then he lifted up his nose to the smell of other wolves, and their blood, even through the fur of the pup.

[darkshadow2]

Name:Horo
Age:13 Moons
Gender: She wolf
Personality: A young wolf, lost from her pack she tends to be a loner, but being alone most of her life forced her to be somewhat lonely, and sad. She is a very caring quiet wolf, her job she feels is to protect those whom are in trouble. she is serious untill someone starts joking around.
Appearance: A dark grey coat with a brown nose and lighter grey around her green eyes
Horo lifted up her nose smelling a distent battle field of wolves. She came to her sense's shacking her head to dislodge the bad memories of her past. Humans other wolves? who knows somthing awful is going on. she sighed thinking of how she wished a wolf would have saved her in her time of need, "who am i? just a pup... i cant help anyone..." Horo mumbled to herself turning the other way.