THE GREAT WHITE WOLVES! SPIRIT OF THE FOREST! - Forest Ostraner (best book club books for discussion TXT) 📗

Characters

F e a t h e r:
(Fae||Purple markings||Crushless||Mateless||Pupless)
 

A d d e r:
(Brute||Red markings||Crushless||Mateless||Pupless)
 
L e a f:
(Fae||Green markings||Crushless||Mateless||Pupless)
 
H e a t h e r:
(Fae||Brown markings||Crushless||Mateless||Pupless)
 
J e w e l:
(Fae||Aqua markings||Crushless||Mateless||Pupless)
  
A s h:
(Brute||Gray markings||Crushless||Mateless||Pupless)

 

Kai:

 (Fae||Acid Green Markings||Crushless||Mateless||Pupless)

 

Luke:

(Brute||Aero Blue Markings||Crushless||Mateless||Pupless)

 

Anabelle:

(Fae||Violet Markings||Crushless||Mateless||Pupless)

 

Forest:

(Fae||Sky Blue||Crushless||Mateless||Pupless)

 

Mindi:

(Fae||Yellow||Crushless|| Mate Ryan|| Pups Forest, Terry, Dakota, Alyssa)

 

Ryan:

(Brute||Red||Crushless|| Mate Mindi|| Pup Forest)

 

Shane:

(Brute||Silver Markings||Crushless||Mateless||Pup Alex)

 

Alex:

(Fae||Orange Markings||Crushless||Mateless||Pupless)

 

Brenda:

(Fae||White Markings||Crushless||Mate Paul||Pups Shane, Ben, Ryan, Paulette, Keri, Jodi, Dawn)

 

Paul:

(Brute||Gold Markings||Crushless||Mate Brenda||Pups Shane, Ben, Paulette, Keri, Jodi, Dawn)

 

Marty:

(Brute:||Pink Markings||Crushless||Mate Sandy||Pups Ryan, Greg)

 

Sandy:

(Fae||Dark Red Markings||Crushless||Mate Marty||Pup Greg)

 

Greg:

(Brute||Air Force Blue Markings||Crushless||Mateless||Pupless)

 

James:

(Brute||Blue Markings||Crush Forest||Mateless||Pupless)

 

Ben:

(Brute||Black Markings||Crushless||Mateless||Pupless)

 

Paulette:

(Fae||Clear Red Markings||Crushless||Mate Eric||Pup Kyle)

 

Eric:

(Brute||Piolet Light Blue Markings||Crushless||Mate Paulette||Pup Kyle)

 

Kyle:

(Brute||Peach Markings||Crushless||Mateless||Pupless)

 

Keri:

(Fae||Amber Markings||Crushless||Mate Sean||Pup Connor)

 

Sean:

(Brute||Burgundy Markings||Crushless||Mate Keri||Pup Connor)

 

Connor:

(Brute||Celestial Blue Markings||Crushless||Mateless||Pupless)

 

 Jodi:

(Fae||Coffee Markings||Crushless||Mate Russel||Pupless)

 

Russel:

(Brute||Daffodil Markings||Crushless||Mate Jodi||Pupless)

 

Dawn:

(Fae||Fawn Markings||Crushless||Mateless||Pup Dylan)

 

Dylan:

(Brute||Cyan Colors||Crushless||Mateless||Pupless)

 

Dorothy:

(Fae||Lava Markings||Crushless||Mate Sam||Pups Cody, Addyson, Eli)

 

Sam:

(Brute||Mint Markings||Crushless||Mate Dorothy||Pups Cody, Addyson, Eli)

 

Cody:

(Brute||Lemon Markings||Crushless||Mateless||Pupless)

 

Addyson:

(Fae||Neon Green Markings||Crushless||Mateless||Pupless)

 

Eli:

(Brute|| Psychedelic Purple Markings||Crushless||Mateless||Pupless)

 

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F e a t h e r: (Fae||Purple markings||Crushless||Mateless||Pupless)

 

Feather tilted her head and she stood on her haunches as a scarlet leaf fluttered down, landing on her nose. She sneezed and fell backwards off of balance. As she lay on her back beneath the orange and brown leaves, she felt them crunch and crackle beneath her white fur. Her purple markings glowed in the darkening day, and the stars looked like glitter that was thrown across it, as the moon shone on them brightly. A smile danced apon her muzzle, and she sighed with content, happy. Her life was perfect, she wished nothing more. Everythings so beautiful. I love the night, it dazzles me, takes my breath away.. Feather thought, as she drifted into a light sleep.

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A d d e r: (Brute||Red markings||Crushless||Mateless||Pupless)

Adder grunted as he moved swiftly through the forest during midnight, his bright red markings neon. Many wolves thought of him as evil, but he wasn't. "Just because I'm cold and distant at first, doesn't mean no-one can approach me! Oh how I wish, just wish, that other wolves would talk to me without being feared. My size may make me stronger, but that doesn't affect me.. my soul. All the females run away, scared. Its not fair!" Adder howled loud and clear, snarling with agony as his claws scraped the cold earthy ground. Feeling something squirm, he jumped back, alerted. Within his giant paws was a sparrow, shivering with immense fear. Adder sighed, his tension relaxing as he stared at the tiny thing within his huge white paw. A smile crept up on his lips, and he made a calming noise, "Shhhhh little one.. there is no need to fear me. I won't hurt you." His tone was soft and gentle, a gentle giant. The sparrow peeked an eye open, his shivers lessening as he looked upon the biggest creature he had ever seen. Adder sat down, and put his paw to the ground backwards, his palm towards the black sky. "Go little one! Be free! Fly away, have freedom!" He barked, and the sparrow flapped its wings, going high and vanishing within the trees and the dark night. The big wolf watched it go, and it pierced his heart. "I'm a monster.."

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L e a f: (Fae||Green markings||Crushless||Mateless||Pupless)

 

Leaf gracefully leapt down from a leafless oak tree. Her paws landed on the frosty earth, and she sat for a moment, staring at the large tree. It used to be a dark hazel and your claws would become all sappy if you clawed it to hard. But now, it has lost its color, as if it had been drained by the cold, leaving it with a dusty brown, it's bark peeling. Leaf sighed happily, her green markings glowing with glee. "Oh joyful day, what do you bring on thee?" She asked, talking to the blowing wind as it billowed through her fur. With a soft, clear howl, Leaf bounded around the forest, a smile plastered on her face as her green eyes shone.

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H e a t h e r: (Fae||Brown markings||Crushless||Mateless||Pupless)

 

Heather sat at the lake's shore. The lake was a decent size, not to large or small. It was in the middle of the Great White Wolves' territory, it was like a water hole. She lay down upright, and she put her head on her paws. Letting her nose touch the Silvery water, it rippled throughout the pond, bouncing off of others and a few rocks. Heather scooted closer to the water, as she felt it summoning her. But this she-wolf wasn't a fool. What if she drowned? "Should I go for a little swim?" She asked herself. But this lake wasn't shallow, it was deep, and if you weren't careful, you could get knocked out by the rocks or currents. She pondered weather to take a swim as her tail swept the cold earth before her.

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J e w e l: (Fae||Aqua markings||Crushless||Mateless||Pupless)

 

Jewel ran swiftly through the forest as her paws were like they were flying. "What do you bring today, beast?" She said, leaping up a tree and down it again, slashing the tree as she did. Her face was serious but attractive. This she-wolf was a decent size for her age and gender, as she wasn't overweight or to small. Her fur was silky and white, from tail to muzzle. The aqua markings that she was born with in her species, took a place in her kind. Every wolf had their own color, their own markings. No wolf had the same, that's why it was easy to tell one wolf apart. Many wolves memorized by their scent, but not the Great White Wolves. Jewel howled as she ran, and the howl drifted into the air, loud and clear as it rung out.

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A s h: (Brute||Gray markings||Crushless||Mateless||Pupless)

 

Ash sat, bored out of his mind. "Ugh what do I do now? Now that I have no crush, no mate, no friends, what? I ran away for a while, but I came back. And now I still don't know what to do, because I have no one to talk to! Look at me, I'm talking to myself!" He growled and slashed the frosty ground with his claws, making a giant paw print and claw marks. Ash grunted and stood up, swaying as he walked, his muscles tensed at every step he took.

 

CHAPTER 1

Kai woke up in her den, saved from a nightmare she had been revisiting only minutes before in her sleep. She lay there, gasping, for what seemed like hours, unable to open her eyes in case what she saw before was still there. The smell of dirt and herbs calmed her down; these were smells that were specifically unique to a healer’s den. There had been no healer’s den in her dream. Once she was able to look out upon the waking world again, the first thing she noticed was a pile of moldy leaves, so close to her face that she had to cross her eyes to focus on them. The smell wasn’t pleasant, unless you were a mouse or some other kind of burrowing animal. I need to get rid of all this dead stuff... and that’s about, what, every herb in this den? Kai thought, with all of her infamous bitterness. She could feel one of the dried-up leaves poking the corner of her eye. Kai groaned and got up, not intending to do anything close to cleaning up her den.

She walked briskly out of her den, wondering if any of the other wolves would think it strange for her to be up so late and wandering around. Judging from the sky, it had to be slightly after midnight. Heh, I really slept that long? Kai thought, almost to the tree line now. It was hard to move without crushing enough leaves to wake a bear, but she hoped that the wolves would ignore the noise. It would have been very naïve for her to assume that no one had heard it at all. The dream happened quite fast for something that took hours... She thought, continuing her previous rhetoric inquiry. As soon as her front paws touched the forest floor, she almost howled with glee. Kai was glad to be rid of other wolves, and to spend the rest of the night on a quiet adventure. She continued walking until she was out of earshot, then broke into a dead run.

  Kai’s paws pounded the underbrush like a war drum; her claws digging up clumps of dirt and leaves, seemingly left on the ground as if a mole had tried to make a den there, but discarded the project after the location turned out to be unsatisfactory. The cool night air, once refreshing, started to burn Kai’s lungs like acid every time she took a rushed breath. It was then that she knew she couldn’t run any farther, yet, she wanted to push herself farther just out of curiosity. Kai would remember only one thing that she liked about the she-wolf who had taken care of her many moons before, and of how she taught Kai to never give up on anything. Once you have chosen to do something, you can’t get scared and go back on it. Even if it’s going to kill you. Disastrous to her health or not, that was Kai’s philosophy on the subject. So she ran on, even after every instinct told her to stop.

  Her run ended not of her own choice, but because of a poorly placed log. Kai was concentrating so hard that she never saw it until she was tumbling over the side, rough bark scraping sore paw pads and catching in fur. She sat up and glared at the annoying object that caused her failure, then grinned crazily and laughed at it. It was a strange kind of howling laughter; the type that is usually contributed to hysteria or insanity, both of which were probably present in Kai at the moment. She was silent again as soon as she could get control over herself; she still did not want company of any kind; not even small animals that could be killed for food. She didn’t have to worry about anything other than predators coming her way. To anything scuttling on the ground, she would look like a leviathan creature made of strange growls and glittering night-blue eyes. Had she been in their place, Kai might have even scared herself.

  After the strange laughing fit, she grew bored of this place. Kai stretched her back and leaned onto her hind legs in an almost cat like way, grimacing when she realized that the majority of her muscles had been made sore from her wild run. She tentatively stepped over the log, quite sure that it would be a one-way trip if she decided to go on a return visit to the ground, and made her way in the direction she had intended to travel in before she had been so rudely interrupted by that dead tree. The night was still strong; no light of the day was in sight yet. Still, Kai knew that she would have to find someplace to rest before morning. She would never go back to the