The Main Den

Jeamesero giggled when suddenly Navin came around and glomped to Kanaya. His nervous feeling disappeared as the pup gave him the courage to stay; this pup still loved him, even though Jeamesero kept his distance from them because he was afraid to hurt them.
"Haha, Navin. Well, Kanaya is sure going to stay, so you don't have to worry about that.", Jeamesero said to Navin, before looking at Kanaya, smiling at her. "Right, Kanaya?"
Looking back at Navin he giggled again, and wagged his tail amused. "Since your father is busy, could you give Kanaya her rank? Pleaseeee?"
Jeamesero looked up when he heard paw steps and smelled the scent of an unfamiliar wolf, his eyes met those of another wolf. He didn't know who it was, but this male didn't seem dangerous.
The Hudson Bay wolf smiled at the newcomer, a quick wag of his tail.
"Um hello, nice to meet you, Scout."

‘’What I find amusing is that you're so proud that you'd rather die of infection than except help from a pack. And to be honest I'm thinking about calling out for a healer whether you want one or not.’’, Gravity responded to the wounded stranger male, his smile had gotten even bigger. BM100 looked confused at Gravity, wondering how the male wasn’t angry but could stay so calm, even happy.
‘’That's not a very nice thing to say! I'm sure he meant no harm. I’m Evangeline.’’, suddenly a female spoke, a wolf BM100 hadn’t seen before. He eyed her nervously as she looked their way, smiling at them. BM100 looked nervously at Gravity, wondering what he would do, and it seemed like the male was quick to respond to this other newcomer.
‘’Well I quite agree with you, Evangeline. And I'm thankful for your input on this situation, but this wolf has insulted me and I would like an apology. Though if he doesn't give me one it's his choice, it doesn't really affect me. Though it might prove me wrong that his pride is effecting his level of intelligence.’’, the male spoke and BM100 shivered again, pressing his ears firmer against his head. He took a few more steps back, eyeing every wolf one by one, shyly, nervously, afraid.
‘’T-there are too many wolves, w-way too many wolves…’’, he thought as he tried to isolate himself, stepping away from the scene slightly; still close enough to hear them speak but far enough to feel more safe and less surrounded, locked up. ‘’I… I don’t like s-so many wolves at o-once… I wonder… h-how big this p-pack actually is…’’


‘’Help me, please! aidez-moi! aidez-moi!’’, sudden muffled cries sounded in the distance. BM100 lifted his head, his body shivering as he perked his ears to locate the sound. He didn’t recognize the voice, he didn’t know who was calling; neither did he know if he should actually check out who it was. It could be a trap, a dangerous wolf luring others for whatever thing. But then again, BM100 was quite curious, and curiosity would win from fear, that was mostly the case.
The male looked with a worried expression and eyes filled with fear at Gravity and then at the other two newcomers, the wounded male and Evangeline, before slowly moving away from the group, following the sound of the screams. It indeed sounded muffled, like someone was stuck. Maybe that was the actual case; maybe BM100 should stop worrying or being scared.
When he left the area and went a bit deeper into the forest, the shaggy coated male found something weird; a wolf’s body sticking out of a hole, its head missing. It was a wolf, and it sounded like a female, she seemed to be stuck in the hole wither head; pulling had no effect, BM100 soon realized.
He looked worried back at where he had come from, before staring at the stuck wolf, moving a bit closer, ears pressed against his skull, completely flattened. ‘’H-hello…? A-are you o-okay…?’’

‘’Oh yes! Hello? Hello? Uhm, excuse me... but I've got a rather large problem, my head, it's, you see is well.... stuck. Could you help... please?’’, the wolf stuck in the hole spoke, she wagged her tail. She pulled and tugged some more but nothing seemed to work.
BM100 stood there watching her in fear. She seemed to be nice, but since this was the actual wild, a dangerous place, BM100 ought not to trust others too quickly.
‘’Oh w-what do I do...? W-what do I d-do...?’’, he thought, looking nervously at the hole. Maybe it was best if he would get the others, but how in the world was he ever going to survive in this place if he didn't start acting first?
‘’I... I w-will get the o-others...’’, he said before turning around and running off, but suddenly he stopped and dashed back towards the stuck female, correcting himself. ‘’N-no, I w-will h-help...!’’


The mala reached the female's side with his ears pressed against his skull. Staring at the hole his eyes started twitching slightly and a sudden ich arrived all over his body, causing his back legs to randomly scratch as he stood there. ‘’H-how am I g-gonna do t-this...? Umumum... d-dig, I w-will dig...!’’, he told himself and he started clumsily pawing at the dirt around the wolf's neck, trying to free it's head.
Every time he touched the earth with his paws he pulled back rapidly, like he was challenging an aggressive rattle snake, or whatever dangerous creature he was attacking. Fear in his bright amber eyes as he did so. It was a dance of jumping in and pawing, jumping back and whimpering while showing unsure body language; exactly like a playful puppy trying to play with something or challenge something they are scared of or which they are unsure of.

BM100 kept on jumping back and forth, pawing at the dirt and whimpering and whining like a little puppy, his ears pushed back and his tail slightly tucked between his legs.
When the female stuck in the hole told him that it was working and that he had to keep on digging, he whimpered but did what she told him. It didn’t take long before he saw the sand moving himself, crumbling onto the ground.
He kept on digging, actually pawing at the dirt, until he pulled back, watching the female pull her head out with one strong tug. It was then when he finally saw her face as she stumbled back and fell on her back. BM100 yelped at her actions and jumped away from her, staring down at her in confusion and fear.
The male eyed the female nervously as she got up and looked at him, bowing her head in a thanks. She took a step forward but then stopped., she seemed to hesitate.
‘’Thank you, that would have been really bad if you hadn't come along...’’, she said and BM100 nodded, whimpering again slightly; he was glad she was out, that he had been able to help her, but he didn’t really know what to say to her. So instead he shifted on his paws uncomfortably before staring at the sandy ground and muttering under his breath, still hearable for the female: ‘’I-it’s okay… Y-you have b-beautiful eyes.’’
He glanced back up at her, his tail wagging slightly. There was a weak smile on his face and his teeth showed on the edges of his lips, making it appear as a rather sheepish smile, almost a grin; unsure, nervous, just like him.


Suddenly he heard paw steps coming their way and BM100 looked up to see the wounded male from earlier. He seemed to be limping slightly, and the look in his eyes showed he was definitely in pain. BM100 eyed him nervously and took a step back from the two wolves that were with him in the area; feeling rather surrounded with two more wolves near him. He felt more comfortable on his own, or with at least one wolf at his side, but not standing too close near him.
‘’I believe we got off on the wrong paw earlier. I meant not to scare you, my little one. My name is Hikaru. What is your name little one?’’, the male asked, his eyes on small shaggy coated male. BM100 swallowed, not sure what to respond. But he sighed slightly in relief when the male called Hikaru turned his attention to the female BM100 had saved from the hole not too long ago. ‘’Greetings my name as you have heard is Hikaru. What is the name of such a beautiful female and why if I may ask are you covered in dirt?’’
‘’Why did h-he call me l-little one…? And w-what does he mean w-with ‘got off on t-the wrong p-paw’…? I didn’t d-do anything w-wrong… did I…?’’, BM100 thought and his heart started to race in his chest; he didn’t know what to think, he felt really uncomfortable, thinking he had done something wrong to this wolf.


With this male speaking to the female he gave BM100 some time to think about his possible answer. As Hikaru introduced himself to the in dirt covered female the shaggy coated wolf shivering all over his body opened his mouth to speak. He shut it once, however, feeling ashamed and scared, but it didn’t take long before he opened his jaws again, speaking.
‘’W-what do you mean…? Wrong p-paw…? Y-you didn’t s-scare me… I… I’m just like this… I’m not from the w-wild…’’, he finally spoke, glancing at the ground and shivering again; his eyes twitched. ‘’I’m BM100… but you can n-name me a-anything you want… T-that male you had an argument with e-earlier… he calls me Ash.’’
BM100 fell silent for a moment, thinking and staring, flicking his tail and moving his ears slightly around so he could hear every sound in this area. His heartbeat still went like crazy, but now that he had spoken he felt less scared, less insecure. But he was still very much insecure.
His amber eyes had been dull, but as soon as he realized something they became bright and he looked up at Hikaru with big eyes, his ears perked, his head fully lifted; a strange sight to see when you knew this always-frightened wolf. ‘’Did you and Gravity speak about the argument? Did you become friends again…?’’, he asked, his sentences full and steady, words not choppy, not stuttering nor shivering nor twitching anymore. His voice sounded like a puppy’s; a curious one.

‘’Nice to meet you Hikaru. My name is Mirage.’’, the female called Mirage spoke to Hikaru, after she had introduced herself to BM100. When Hikaru asked her how she had gotten that dirt on her face, Mirage looked quite embarrassed. ‘’Well... I got my head stuck into a dirt hole and… and luckily my rescuer showed up, and got me out.’’
That’s when Mirage looked at BM100, and the male swallowed and smiled weakly at her before pressing his ears back slightly and staring at the ground for a while. However, he soon looked up again as he heard paw steps coming their way, and he saw it was Gravity entering the clearing.
The male walked over to him and sat down beside him quietly and BM100 watched the wolf as he started plucking twigs and dirt from his coat. BM100 looked him up and down, amber eyes filled with curiosity.
‘’Shall… shall I h-help you with cleaning y-your c-coat…?’’, he asked Gravity politely, trying to look at him, in case he would glance back. He sat down and scooted a bit closer but didn’t do anything in case Gravity wouldn’t want him to touch him.
BM100 looked from Gravity to Hikaru and back at the wolf beside him, glancing up slightly. ‘’Did you two talk…? Are you two f-friends again?’’, he asked Gravity, because he had left the group of wolves when the two were still arguing about things, about how rude Hikaru was and etcetera. BM100’s voice sounded like a puppy’s again, hoping everything was fine now and that the two weren’t mad at each other anymore.

Roki continued to stare at ground as thoughts of his previous pack and his father came to mind. He whimpered as he remembered what happened to his mother because of his foolishness. But even thinking and remembering it all he still felt like he had been in the right. Being a puppy he was just like every other pup. He wanted attention and wanted his way. Deep down inside he felt like everyone was always trying to push him away and pump his brother who was born to be leader. All his life he had been a shadow and he hated it.
Suddenly several pops to his face with a paw shook him from his thoughts. He looked up in confusion at Navin who began to speak to him.
“I will go get you some food, Roki. I can't hunt yet but I can try.”
Roki smiled and slowly started wagging his tiny tail. He couldn't really hunt either but he remembered Shun had caught a tiny mouse for him and it hadn't taken him that long. 'Sooo...if he can do it and he's a big wolf then so can I! I can't be a pup because I have to be a wolf and hunt for food!' He jumped up on all fours and wagged his tail rapidly. Roki smiled happily at Navin until he saw him looking around. 'Oh right we gotta find something to hunt first...but how did he find something? How do adults find food anyway? It's like...like smelling for it really hard right?'


Roki lowered his nose to the ground and started sniffing loudly as he turned in quick circles. He started to get tired and very dizzy as he heard Navin speak.
“I will get that for you to eat! Not sure how a butterfly tastes but its probably good.”
Roki stopped turning in circles and sniffing as he fell onto the ground in a dizzy heap. “But...I an't never had a butterfly before and I might not like it. Wait if you try it first when you catch it then you can tell me how it tastes.”
Roki pushed himself up onto his tiny paws and shook his head still a bit dizzy from all the turning. Plus his nose hurt a tiny bit from all that loud forced sniffing. “Don't understand...how come adult wolves can track stuff to eat without getting dizzy? I didn't know they had it so bad no wonder they are always tired and busy...”
“No! Come back, Roki needs to eat you to grow stronger!”
Roki giggled and yipped happily rushed after Navin following his voice. He heard a yelp that sounded a lot different then a pup like Navin would make. As he rushed over he bumped into Navin on the ground and rolled onto his back. He sat up as he heard a soft voice speaking and looked around until his eyes fell onto Navin and a wolf beside him. Roki just stared at the while wolf whose voice was so gentle and calming.


Roki pushed himself to his feet and padded slowly up to the white wolf as he spoke. “Navin...you found a beautiful angel...” He shook his head slowly stopping his words once he realized how rude he might have sounded just now. Here a beautiful butterfly was in from of him and he had spoken to Navin as if she couldn't hear him. He tucked his tail in between his legs and stared up with tears in his tiny orbs.
“I am sorry miss. I didn't mean to say about you like you wasn't here. My name is Roki and I was trying to find Navin because my bestest friend Shun isn't here anymore and Navin said he wanted to be my friend. Right, Navin?” Roki looked at the pup and noticed he too had tiny tears in his orbs. Seeing this made Roki even more upset and he blinked as the tears started to slowly fall down his cheeks.
“Navin, what's wrong? Miss what's wrong with, Navin?” Roki looked around trying to stop his tears. Really he didn't know why he was crying. He was just scared and being a puppy when he got scared he started crying. Since he was still learning about his emotions and wasn't in control of them all the time.

BM100 sat there in silence next to Gravity, eyeing all the wolves that were gathering around them with a nervous glance. He didn’t feel comfortable being near so many wolves at once, he had never really been the social type and it just made him feel surrounded, like he couldn’t go anywhere.
‘’Oh, what a darling you are! I hope you're alright, dear. You must have been frightened! Good thing you're alright, though. I'm Evangeline, but you can just call me Eva!’’, a sudden voice called out, almost screaming with excitement and BM100 flinched, almost jumping up from his seat as he looked in the direction the voice came from. It was Evangeline, the female they had met earlier near the den.
Now she was speaking to Mirage, treating her like a little puppy. She seemed nice, really nice, but her overexcitement made BM100 feel really uncomfortable and shy, so he hid behind Gravity a bit, feeling like this male was the only wolf in the pack which would ever protect him, which he would feel safe near.
‘’Hello Evangeline, it's nice to meet you. I'm okay, thank you. My name is Mirage.’’, Mirage responded, a grin on her face for a part of her response. She seemed happy, she seemed alright; good. BM100 felt a bit better now, knowing that he probably had done a very great thing getting her out of there. Mirage had just arrived near the den, and she was already fitting in greatly, same went for Evangeline. If BM100 was already fitting in as well, he wasn’t exactly sure about that.


The others had been silent after entering this part of the den area. Gravity, Hikaru, they hadn’t really spoken much, except for Hikaru whispering something to BM100 about Gravity before Gravity arrived, after BM100 had asked him about their argument.
The silence made Bm100 feel safe, he felt more comfortable because he didn’t have to speak. He just looked around him, deeply in thought, his eyes on the different wolves. Gravity was sitting beside him, a bit I n front of him, because BM100 has scooted behind him a bit when he had felt less comfortable around all these wolves. Evangeline and Mirage were talking, and Hikaru was licking his wounds, which seemed to be infected; BM100 guessed he needed a Healer after all, at least the black coated male knew that Hikaru was in pain, and he needed help, even if he didn’t want to accept it. But BM100 was too shy, he wasn’t one to talk about such things, ask if maybe they wanted something after all. No, instead he kept quiet and kept looking around, being in his own world. ‘’I wonder if t-there are more m-members in this pack… There already a-are a lot of w-wolves around here…’’
‘’Your know what. You’re so much like a innocent pup. You just a sweet kind big old wolf pup. Sooo...as for what I will call you it shall be...Koinu! Yes Koinu which means pup. Does that suit you little one?’’, Hikaru suddenly said and BM100 looked at him in confusion, before smiling weakly and nodding slowly.
‘’Yeah, that’s f-fine… I like t-that, t-thank y-you…’’, he responded. After his words he glanced at the ground, shyly and nervously.

‘’I could use a little help with the mats, if you can't get them it's fine though, I myself have some trouble with them sometimes.’’, Gravity spoke and BM100 looked at him, nodding once. He nervously looked at the male’s coat, not really sure what to do or how to start. He saw a few small twigs and carefully grasped them between his teeth, slowly pulling them out. After that he nibbled at a few small knots of fur on the back of Gravity’s body, untying them. He was afraid he might do something wrong or hurt Gravity, so he took very much time with it.
When he heard someone speak he looked up, one ear pressed back slightly while his other eat was pushed forward to catch the words that were said to him. It was Hikaru, the male Gravity had had an argument with.
‘’Your know what. You’re so much like a innocent pup. You just a sweet kind big old wolf pup. Sooo...as for what I will call you it shall be...Koinu! Yes Koinu which means pup. Does that suit you little one?’’, the male asked and BM100 looked at him, blinking a few times in confusion. The male spoke about a name for him so suddenly, it didn’t quite progress to him at first. But after a few seconds of thinking he looked at him smiling weakly and nodding, shyly glancing at the ground afterwards.
‘’Y-yeah. That’s sound… g-good.’’, he responded, too terrified to look up. He knew Hikaru was probably looking at him and that’s why he didn’t dare to look up, himself; he was too shy, too nervous around many different wolves.


BM100 then glanced up to see the female Healer from earlier coming his way; Feather. She didn’t stop near the others, but in fact had her eyes focused on the black shaggy coated male. BM100 wasn’t sure what to do and the insecurity made him scoot back a little bit, pressing his ears against his neck. But this didn’t stop Feather from taking her distance. In fact she even came closer, and eventually nudged him. BM100 looked up at her and tried to force a smile on his face. He shouldn’t be scared, after all everyone was friendly here and trying to help each other in any way possible, not?
‘’BM100, I've come up with your name. I will call you Wahya. It means wolf in my old pack's ancient language. Because you are a true wolf, with a pack, in the wild. Welcome to Riadven, Wahya.’’, Feather said and BM100 listened carefully to her words, taking in every one of them. Her words were kind and caring, they were accepting; she accepted him, as a true wolf, just like the others were. He blushed for as far as his face could show off the innocence and glanced at the ground again, shifting his front paws as he sat there.
‘’T-thank you… Feather. I l-love the n-name.’’, he said to her, smiling again weakly, but this time it wasn’t forced. His dull amber eyes turned a bit bigger when she licked his cheek smiling, and he watched her walk off in silence, blinking a few times.
‘’Please forgive me, but I dont think we've had the opportunity to talk just yet. I understand that you need me to give you a name? How do you like BMO?’’, a sudden voice spoke and BM100 almost screamed, turning his head to face a female; it was Verine, the Alpha female to be more exact. BM100 lowered his head slightly as he looked up at her, taking in her words and replaying them in his mind.
‘’B…M…O…?’’, he murmured, thinking again. Lifting his head slightly he moved his ears, and questioning look in his dull amber eyes. It actually sounded pretty funny, that name, BM100 liked it. He looked at Verine and nodded slowly, a weak smile on his face again. ‘’S-sure, that’s fine w-with me.’’