Ariel by Mae (best e book reader txt) 📕

I'm wondering, in the black forest. Were the sun's barely shining. Searching for a mate. One wolf to call my own. I'm Ariel. I am three years old, young adult; still waiting for a mate. Sad isn't it? I'm light gray with white, blue eyes and black ears. I'm a wolf searching... wondering for a mate. A male to love me, well a lot of males love me but...I can't love them, I haven't fallen head over heels in love with anyone. All of the males in my pack are mean, only liking all the out going, away from home females. I still stay with my parents, try to impress them at all possible times, sense I was the only pup who survived the famine a couple years back, I try to be everything they want me to be, make them proud. As I walk along this trail, this scent I picked up, I wander what type of male I'll find at the end of this trail. I'm scared. Because I'm in unknown territory. Lost maybe, and I don't want to run into a mean aggressive male, that's apart of no pack for a good reason. As I walk along I dream of all the perfect males I meet and can't love, why won't my heart open? I want it to so badly.
I've found myself In this clear opening, were did all the trees go? I feel so exposed out in the open in a place I've never been, i'll head ba-! There he is, the male at the end of the trail! I put my tail between my legs, put my head down; and crouched to the ground as he came. I got a real bad feeling and started to back away to the woods.
"Hey female, wait a minute come here!" I felt a lump in my throat, and a shiver down my spine.
"I have to go."
"No you don't." I felt the fear swell and I growl in warning. He snarls in return and the scruff on his neck raises. Great not only am I in a unfamiliar place, but I'm in the territory of a aggressive male! I stopped growling and lied down preparing for the worst torturer. I look behind the male at a shadow, is it another wolf? As I tried to see it, it disappeared as quickly as it appeared. The male turned around to look at what I was focused on. This was my chance. I leaped at his throat and teared at it, whipping my head side to side tearing at the fresh wound, feeling his blood drip down my jaw, neck, to my feet. I am no killer but in this case, it's an exception.
The male grew tired of the struggle and feel to his side panting, so I took my chance and ran; blindly through the forest. I felt as if something was following me and a shiver went down my spine. I knew it wasn't the male, he would be suicidal to follow me with that wound, but what or...who is following me? I found my way back home some how, and worried about what my mother would think.
"What happened" Yelled my mother as she saw me, a bloody mess.
"A male attacked me." I whined. She let out a deep snarl.
"Where?"
"I took care of it, I'm not hurt it's okay." She sighed and licked my cheek.
"Ok go clean up hun."
"Okay"
"Were going to hunt with a nice young man, will you come?" Her tail wags.
"Okay I will" I walk off looking forward to tonight, I jump in the river like a playful young pup. I returned after I dried off and saw my father and the male talking, I could tell he liked him. Hopefully I'll like him to, dad has good judgement. I walked up and wagged my tail.
"Hello." I look at him thinking he was familiar.
"Hello I'm Leon, and your Naomi?" Suddenly lots of fond memories pop into mind, I used to play with him when I was a pup.
"Oh Leon, I remember you." His tail waged at that, and his eyes brightened.
"Oh, yea I remember you to." I felt my parents stare happily thinking wither he is the one or not. The one I will finally fall in love with? We went on the hunt and ended up catching a doe. After we ate he left and I thought, maybe I had felt something. Not love yet, but in time maybe I'll fall for him. Today I'm going to go into the woods and try to find what was watching me. Who was watching me. I walked to the woods and trotted along the trail I did yesterday, maybe I'll find the shadowy figure from before and thank them for distracting the male. I'm walking along and I hear a twig snap, I whip around to find a female my age, all black with dark brown legs and tail, she stood the looking like the dark angel who saved me yesterday.
"He-Hello?"
"Hello." She speaks with a warm soft tone.
"Are you the person from yesterday, who distracted that male?" Her tail wags.
"Maybe...yea I was." She laughs and I feel my heart jump and I laugh along with her.
"Thank you, I'd be dead without you."
"Common don't be gloomy, let's be positive."
"Okay" I smiled and my tail was wagging, I wonder... what do I feel in my heart at this moment? I'll figure it out later, I want to talk to her I decided.
"Hey were do you live?" She said.
"With my pack, over by the river." I saw her ears perk at that statement.
"Your in a pack?"
"Yes your not?"
"No. Never been."
"Want to come see it?" I saw her pause but not show her worry.
"Okay." We trotted to my pack, me eager to talk to her, felling my heart skip as I look into her eyes.
We got to my pack and everyone's ears perked and noses twitched at her. A new comer always gets this treatment and she seemed fine with being stared at, but I slightly hid behind her still leading her to my den. When I got there my parents were eager to find out about her, we all talked and She told us how she grew up with no one but her uncle who died two years ago...so that means she's been on her own sense she was only a year old. How much bravery that would take, I thought. Time flew and it was night, I walked her to the end on our pack grounds.
"I loved meeting your parents, your pack feels...safe." I thought about her pause.
"Is something wrong?"
"No,I'm just used to being on my own."
"Oh okay. Do you have to go?"
"Yes, want to see my den, and sleep over?"
"Yea." We left to her den, I lost any scent of my pack after awhile and I got timid, thinking about changing my mind and heading back.
"Something wrong Naomi?" I felt my heart jump and decided to stay.
"No. I-I'm just not used to packs that's all" She smiles making my heart felt and I continue to follow her to her den. When we get there I wonder in as she goes to get water, It smells like her. I sniff around and find a spot to lay down. Naomi came back, and lied down a crossed from me. I had the urge to go and lay with her but I held back and struggled to fall asleep, when I did I herd birds chirping. I woke up to find myself alone and I whimpered wanting Naomi. When I got up Naomi walked in with a fresh rabbit in her mouth, she dropped it to free her mouth.
"Oh good your up, I got us breakfast." She pointed her muzzle to the rabbit and I went to eat it.
Soon we were both eating it and our mouths were so close, my face felt hot. I wanted to lick hers, but I held back and ate. Is this love? In my heart right now...what was that loneliness I felt when she wasn't in my sight. Maybe I'll find out if i stay with her. Soon we were walking to drop me off at my pack, I felt my heart ache as I knew we were going to be separated again. Naomi go a hint of something strange in the forest and she trotted off to find out what it was, I sat there feeling danger and I whined like a pup. Then I heard her yelp and I my heart stopped, I ran to the sound whining, hoping she's okay. She wasn't, she was caught in a bear trap with a dead pig leg ahead of it.
"Ariel, go get help, please."
"No I'm not leaving you, there's hunters." As soon as I said that a big human male in a lab coat came out with a weird armor vest on and he put a muzzle on me as I tried snapping at his hands.
"Don't touch her!" Naomi snapped as she bared her teeth.
"Shut it mutt, you guys are perfect from the project." He put a needle in her and after several she lay'd down and started falling asleep. I cried and whined as we were put in cages and stuffed into the back of a van with other wolves, all female...were's all the males? Where are we going? I keep asking but they were to busy either crying for there loved ones or trying to kill these metal dens.

When I woke up I smelt salt water and knew I was on what the elders called a Ocean. I felt us move as if we were on a log on a river. I suddenly remembered Naomi and yelped for her.
"Naomi!"
"Oh good your up, I'm here don't worry; I'll protect us."
"Your wound!"
"It's already healed."
"What?!"
"You've been out for awhile." The human must of poked me with a needle to. I stayed quite afraid of what I might say to her through my panic mumbling. When I felt us finally stopped I was starving and so was Naomi, I feared we were going to die here; never to see each other again. Who knows how long it's been. We finally were let out of the creates and into the cage. I saw Naomi for the first time in what felt like years and saw her as skin and bones, then imagine what she saw on me, we whined for each other; I didn't stop myself this time. I just went with my heart and...she went with hers?