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Sigh.

It had been so long since she had gotten a good look at the sky. The stars. The forest sky had been cloudy for what seemed like ages, and any break of the constant cloud cover was always during the day. No opportunities to go stargazing presented themselves to the aging she-wolf. Yet still every night, just as she had been doing for two years now, Zanix went to the rocky outcrop and looked to the skies, talking to the spirit of her dead mate. She still clearly remembered the devastation she felt when Bloodwolf had died, and the same passionate determination to lead his pack for him.

Of course, the leadership had not been easy. Although she had been acting Beta for Bloodwolf, many of the wolves in the pack believed that the deceased’s mate was too broken inside to properly care for the pack. She had been very insistent, though. Zanix had taken over leadership and appointed her adopted son, her only son, as her Beta. And they had cared well for the pack, often talking over large decisions with each other and with the pack. It had been a very peaceful time for them. At least, until the drought had come.

”It’s been a while since we’ve had any rain, Bloodwolf. Thank the stars there are no young pups in the pack. They wouldn’t survive a week in this terrible drought. I can only pray rain comes soon. There are now only trickling streams where quickly flowing creeks had once been. The plants are dying out, and when the plants go, so do the things that eat them. The rabbits, the deer, even the small chipmunks and squirrels. And we eat those. How much longer can this go on, really, until we’re forced to leave? Until we have to go on some long and perilous journey to find somewhere that’s inhabitable?”

04-Dec-2014 01:46:31

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With another sigh, the beautiful gray wolf lowered her head. She stopped, staring through the forest. What was that, winding its way through the trees? Squinting her ice blue eyes, Zanix peered ahead. It was gone now. Whatever it was, she must have imagined it. Or maybe it was hiding. To be safe, the wolf sniffed the air. Immediately her heart jumped and panic pumped through her veins. ”Fire!* she howled, jumping to her paws.

With speed she had not shown in the two years since her mate’s death, the Alpha raced back towards her pack*s home, howling a warning as she went. As soon as she reached the den clearing, she was met with confused and scared wolves clambering for an escape. ”Everyone, listen up! Find a buddy, and stick with them! I want you all in pairs, and all wolves younger than a year are to stick with someone older! Don’t lose sight of your partner, no matter what! I want you to cross the Eastern Brook and seek out Seth’s pack! Wait there for Azure and I. You should be safe from the fire once you cross the brook. It cannot cross the water!”

All around wolves were turning to those beside them, partnering up, and going east. Blue eyes scanning the crowd, the wolf looked for her son. ”Zanix! Over here!” His voice called from the edges of the panicked group of canines, and the Alpha fought her way through to the male.

”We need to stick behind and make sure no one is forgotten, Azure. Keep your head down. Smoke rises. We don’t have long before the fire is here. I can smell the acrid smoke on the breeze. Come on, let’s start checking dens.” Each wolf took a different side of the clearing, sticking their heads the into dens and making sure no wolf was still inside. By the time they were halfway through, the large crowd of wolves had dispersed and gone from the camp, and the pair were alone. The only sound came from the raging wall of fire that was rapidly approaching their home.

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”All my dens were clear, Azure!” Zanix called with a voice hoarse from smoke. It seemed the entire pack had cleared out, because Azure nodded to show that his search had yielded the same results.

”Let’s get out of here!” he called, squinting against the heavy smoke. The fire was beginning to eat at the trees around the dens on the west side, and it wouldn’t be long before the entire camp was consumed in flames. He turned to leave, but a large crack over his head startled the male. Lunging forward, he tried to dodge the falling branch with a yelp.

For the most part, his evasion technique had worked. The large branch had not hit his back, its initial target. He wasn’t, however, fully successful. It had landed on his hind leg and pinned him to the earth. With another pained yelp Azure squirmed, trying to break free of the flaming wooden prison. Again it was futile.

Seeing her son pinned, Zanix wasted no time in racing over and thrusting her shoulder against the tree branch. Azure’s wide eyes met hers and he whimpered, ”No, Zanix... Go on without me. I’ll get free on my own. This smoke is going to kill you. Please. I’m younger, my lungs are stronger… I can get out.”

Zanix turned a sad gaze to her son and Beta, and the grey wolf slowly shook her head. ”I’m not leaving you here to die, Azure. Never. As a mother, I made a promise. And that was to put my children before myself in everything. If I have to die to save you, so be it. It is my obligation to die for you. That is what being a parent is about. It is what being a pack leader is about. Doing whatever it takes to give your pack, your child, the best shot at life. Even if it means ending your own.”

04-Dec-2014 01:49:46 - Last edited on 04-Dec-2014 02:21:43 by WolfpawOfWC

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It took several minutes for the beautiful grey wolf to finally free her Beta's leg, and by that time the fire was almost on top of them. Supporting Azure with her shoulder, the Alpha led her son away from certain death, towards the east, towards the territory where their pack would be waiting. Fortune was with them, as the fire did not catch up on the slow-going pair. They reached the Eastern Brook long before the flames did.

By now Azure was supporting Zanix almost as much as she was supporting him. Every few steps the female would cough, and their traveling became painfully slower. As soon as they hit the shore on the other side of the shrivelled up stream, the pair collapsed. Azure’s leg was broken, cut, and badly burned. Zanix was dying of smoke inhalation.

With one look, Azure knew. Closing his eyes tightly, he held back bitter tears. ”Why, Zanix? Why did you save me instead of yourself? You have so much experience leading… You could’ve found a new Beta. The pack would’ve been better off with your experience after this devastation. So why did you give it all up to save me?”

Zanix fixed her ice blue gaze on the young wolf and offered a sad smile. ”Azure, long ago, a friend who was very dear to me told me something. He’d just made a very tough decision, too, you see. He said to me, ‘Decisions will always be made. It is only afterwards we look back to see, was it the right choice?’. Azure, looking back, I see that in my life many decisions were made. The decision to take you in as my son. The decision to lead the pack after Bloodwolf’s death, even though they believed I was too frail. The decision, even after realizing we could not both survive, to save you anyway, even if it cost me my life. We always make decisions, Azure. Always. And it is only afterwards we will know if they were the right choices. Looking back now, at all of those decisions, I know the answer. Yes, they were the right decisions."

04-Dec-2014 01:49:51 - Last edited on 04-Dec-2014 01:58:20 by WolfpawOfWC

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”Look what you’ve done for your pack, Azure. If Bloodwolf and I had never taken you in, would you have ever found it in your heart to help a pack that had denied you? If I had not still led, would I have ever felt the obligation to watch over my pack every night? Would the fire have ever been noticed before it had trapped us? If I had left you to burn with the forest, how much longer would I have to lead? I know you will make a great and worthy leader, Azure. And I know Bloodwolf would be proud of you. I’ve made my decisions. I can*t go back now, so we must all live with the choices. I believe, in my heart, that they were the right decisions. But, I guess, only time will tell.”

Smiling once more at her son, Zanix took a deep breath. Her last breath. A sad stillness spread over her beautiful, scarred body, which would never again move on its own accord. A heart stopped beating, never to again pound a steady pace against her ribs like a drum. Never again to feel love, loss, grief, fear, or pain. A muzzle that relaxed against the forest floor, that would not shout out commands to her pack or comfort them with soothing words. That would cease to give wise advice and speak to the soul of her dead mate from the living. Now, though, she could speak with him for eternity. Even as her eyes had closed at last, the wolf had seen the face of her deceased love standing over her, ready to guide her.

Azure bowed his head, grief overtaking him. ”He would’ve been proud of you too, *anix. For everything you’ve done. You kept his pack safe, you guided them all. You guided me when he could not. You’ve loved us all selflessly, and you’ve given your life selflessly for us. Your friend was very wise. We cannot possibly know the impact of our choices when we make them. Neither of us knew what would happen when you saved me. But, I guess you were right. Decisions must be made. Only time will tell if they were right.”

04-Dec-2014 01:49:56 - Last edited on 04-Dec-2014 01:59:24 by WolfpawOfWC

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Hello, and welcome to the Forest. Long ago, a young girl running from false accusations stumbled upon this magical place. It is, in ways, connected to the world as we know it. It is, at the same time, completely unconnected. The timelines cross and weave at different points, and it is unknown how exactly time compares between the worlds. Throughout six threads this young girl grew and developed into the strong pack leader known as Zanix. Many times evil tried to take the forest, but Zanix and her friends managed to save their home.

Over time many friends were gained and lost, and many times good and evil exchanged players in the game. Zanix fell in love with two wolves and was forced to choose. After her first choice abandoned her, the heartbroken female discovered her second choice was still willing to love her, and in him she found the love of her life. This male turned into a strong and noble leader by the name of Bloodwolf. Together they forged their pack from the scattered and frightened wolves who turned up out of seemingly no where.

In the six and final installment of the Forest of the Wolves, the pack combated with a terrible force known as Nightwolf. He compounded and army to wreak havoc and cause disaster. Only when Bloodwolf intervened did the forest find sanctuary from this evil wolf. In the battle, blood was shed from both wolves. While Bloodwolf succeeded in saving his pack, he would not live to see them again. After his death, his mate returned to her pack and their adopted son grief-stricken and emotionally unstable. However, Zanix insisted on caring for her mate’s pack, and took on the role of Alpha. She appointed Azure, the young male who had been adopted by Zanix and Bloodwolf, as her Beta.

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Two years after Bloodwolf’s noble demise, the forest caught on fire during a terrible drought. Zanix’s wolves survived, but she did not. Her pack fled to the forest where her brother, Seth, resided with his own pack. However, a traitor rests in the midst of this seemingly peaceful pack, and the fire has caused widespread devastation. When trouble stirs between Seth’s pack and the pack of his brother, Jaro, the entire forest will find itself at odds with it’s brethren.

Table of Contents:

[Page;Post]
1;1 to 1;5- Prologue
1;6 Introduction & Summary
1;7- Table of Contents
1;8- Rules and Information
1;9- Information Continued
1;10- Character List, People of Power, Application Format

2;1- Seth’s Application
2;2- Seth’s Application Continued
2;3- Jaro’s Application
2;4- Jaro’s Application Continued
2;5- Clair/Delaisse’s Application
2;6- Clair/Delaisse’s Application Continued
2;7- Reserved
2;8- Reserved
2;9- Reserved
2;10- You May Now Post

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Rules & Guidelines:

1.All standard forum rules apply
2.No godmodding, autohitting/killing, one-army wolves, etc.
3.You’ll be removed from the active member’s list after one month without notice, and will have to reapply. Don’t worry, though. You’ll probably be re-accepted.
4.Try to remember to use (( )) for speaking OOC (Out of Character). You can decided how you want to format speech and thought, as long as we understand what’s happening.
5.Try to keep all the roleplay to PG-13 or below
6.No excessive swearing. It’d also be appreciated if you censor your words, because they may offend someone.
7.Characters in this roleplay are normal, four-legged wolves, not bipedal werewolf types. They can be any type of wolf you’d like.
8.Because there is no distinct timeline between the regular world and the forest, your character can come from any time period you choose. They can even be born in the forest.

-Information-

Because there are three different packs, you will have to option to choose which pack your character resides in. Keep in mind that currently all three packs are friendly with each other. That may change over the course of the thread, but that relies on you and your characters. Their names are also currently lame and obvious, and if you have any ideas for new pack names, feel free to bring them up.

Zanix’s pack is led by Azure, who has yet to appoint a Beta. They currently reside with Seth’s pack in the eastern part of the forest, in the foothills of a mountain range that lies south of them. The territory originally belonging to this pack was mainly forest land. After the army of Nightwolf was defeated, they discovered plains that led to sandy beaches lining what seems to be an ocean.

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Seth’s pack is led by Seth. His Beta is his son, Malaban. They reside in the forested foothills east of the plains forest. A stream seperates his territory from Azure’s, though those lands west of the stream are currently burned and blackened. Further east, a thin strip of mountains divides these foothills and more ocean. A larger section of mountain lies to the south.

Jaro’s pack is led by, of course, Jaro. They reside in the southern mountains. After Jaro seperated from his siblings, he joined another pack. The majority of them, including the leader, joined Nightwolf. Jaro led the few remaining wolves into the mountains where they now reside. In the higher parts of their territory, snow is always on the ground and the air is cold. High up on the mountains, past the area where this pack usually hunts, is a small clearing-type area that has one steep path leading to the peak. Resting on the mountain’s peak is a rock with a slight dip, as if made for sitting. Several wolves swear if a wolf sits long enough staring at the stars, the heavenly bodies will move down to meet whoever awaits them on the mountain’s top. It is believed to be a sacred area, though the journey up is difficult and lengthy, meaning few actually make the pilgrimage. Jaro has selected a series of caves as his pack*s home, and they reside just below the snow line. The pack still keeps in contact with the other packs, though not as frequently.

To the north and slight east lies what is now known to be a very large caldera. This rocky wasteland is where Nightwolf’s army marched towards a set of large, stone gates place along a sheer, rocky wall. Clouds seem to always be covering this part of the land, and some swear an eerie reddish glow can be seen beyond the walls. This area belongs to no one, though many feel belongs to the evil spirits that reside there. No one has ventured beyond these gates, though many believe an ocean will be found residing on the other side, making this land an island.

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-People of Power-

Owners [Have total control over the thread]
WolfpawOfW*
Na*Bloodwolf

Co-Owners [Have all the power of lower ranks, with the addition of creating temporary threads if the owners are unavailable]
None

Moderators [Can accept applications, temporarily ban players, and reprimand roleplayers on rule-breaking]
None

-Character List-

Zanix’s Pack:
[Azure/Male/2]

Seth’s Pack:
[Seth/Male/~4]
[Malaban/Male/1]

Jaro’s Pack:
[Jaro/Male/~4]

Loners:
[Delaisse/Female/~2]

-Application Format-

[Fill out both parts, please]

Human-
Name:
Age:
Gender:
Time Period: [At point of disappearance, you can generalize (Medieval, ancient greek, etc.)*
Appearance:
Personality:
History:

Wolf-
Name: [It doesn’t necessarily have to be different]
Approximate Wolf Age: [Two years is fully mature for a wolf, and because wolves in the wild live between 6-8 on average, I’d recommend equating 1 wolf year to 10 human years*
Appearance:
Personality: [If it differs from their human personality]
Pack Alliance: [They can be loners/Brand new]
Other:

Wolf Name/Gender/Wolf Age

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