5These woods are dark and quiet. Not a cricket chirps.
Many trees are bare. If not, their leaves are so green, they're almost black. Here and there, an owl hoots. A wolf howls...
Here and there, fallen logs lie. Mushrooms sprout from them...
Leaves cover most of the ground. They're gradually becoming the soil of this forest...
As a she-wolf forages, she steps on a twig. Its echo can be heard far and wide. At least no one rallies to its sound. Rather, everything in this forest runs from it, if they can tell what caused it to snap...
She's surrounded by the security of her pack. If only her alpha would show up to do that every once in a while...
Most of these wolves are either blonde or red. Most are female...and enhanced.
This female raises her nose, and smells the air. She smells something. It smells good. It smells like food...
She follows it. Up ahead, there's a dead rabbit lying up against the base of a tree trunk. Her stomach growls. She creeps up on it, and scoops it up in her jaws...
Ouch; that hurt. She whimpers, as sharp points go into the roof of her mouth. She staggers back...but realizes she's stuck. Something's got her bound...
She looks around. The rabbit is gone. She's been caught. A human, or wizard, has left a baited wolfsangel tied to a tree, for her and her packmates' consumption...
Near her, her fellow wolves flee. They leave her for the humans...it seems...
While struggling, the wolfsangel's chain releases a green rocket into the sky. Aloft, it explodes, and leaves a glowing signal in the sky...
Before she knows it, three black horses have arrived. Simultaneously, they dismount. One at a time, they draw weapons. They close in on the she-wolf, from behind.
They call themselves Moonstone, Bulldozer, Lt. Belial, Ironclad, and Militant. Bulldozer puts on his helmet, and punches himself in the forehead. Ironclad turns into metal. Moonstone lights up, and hovers. Lt. Belial casts a spell, and hovers. Militant turns off the safety of his submachine gun, and keeps his vibranium shield at the ready...
She struggles. She can't get free...
Simultaneously, the five Hydra warriors aim their weapons. Lt. Belial takes point, and generates orbs of energy, holding them in both hands. Militant and Ironclad guard both of his flanks. Bulldozer stays in reserve, and Moonstone prepares for air support...
Alas, a black wolf lands between them, flying unaided. He raises the hair on his back, and growls.
THIS is her alpha. He lacks eyes. He's got a lightning bolt-shaped scar carved into his forehead. It glows green, with an eerie halo...
A master legilimens, the alpha enters the five warriors' minds. He shows them what will happen, if they proceed...
Unable to spook them, the alpha then subdues them, and forces them to aim their powers at themselves. Now, they all shiver in fear, as all the alpha has to do is command them to fire...
Behind the alpha, the she-wolf whimpers...in a stranger tone. Her alpha hesitates.
Militant's got the barrel of his submachine gun in his mouth, sweating, and waiting for his end. Bulldozer hangs from a tree, right over his helmet, prepared to fall on his head, and smash it against his helmet. Lt. Belial's throat is surrounded by his own cloak, in a noose. Ironclad has turned his hand into metal, and is prepared to rip his own heart out of his chest, while the rest of his body is non-metal...
Moonstone's in orbit. She's prepared to blow herself up with her own power, as soon as the alpha wolf gives the command...
She's begging her man not to go through with it. He's better than this, after all...
The alpha growls, and relieves them of his control over them. With that, they hop back onto their horses, and ride away. Moonstone and Lt. Belial fly away.
The alpha stands tall, rears, and howls. He swings his bushy tail around, victorious...
Above, the green cloud dims, and vanishes. Tonight, the threat is passed.
A red she-wolf attends the blonde one, and helps her off the hook. Another blonde wolf arrives, generates an atomic ball of fire in her jaws, and spits it, destroying the wolfsangel once and for all.
The blonde wolf that got caught is actually a hyena. And she's a bit of a quick healer, thankfully.
The four wolves check up on one another. All are in good shape...including Patsy, the hyena who got caught. With their alpha in the lead, they run back through the forest. They find the pack, and rejoin the hunt.
Once, their alpha was a boy wizard, named Harry Potter. It was often rumored that he was destined to slay a great wizard villain; the darkest of all time. But then, something happened to Harry along the way. His name is Fenrir Greyback...and his bite was, and still is, MUCH worse than his howl...
