The Plague

The night was still,Xiax padded through the woods,looking around he never felt any dangers. He sniffed around and padded towards the city,to see if it's changed any. He got to the outskirts of the city,noticing not much happening,no cars on the roads not many people walking the streets. What is this? He thought to himself not knowing what may had happened or is happening. He padded through the city noticing people who were there just looked at him they never ran,some even bowed down to him. He felt strange vibes coming from all different directions. He looked off into the distance towards the woods, seeing blackness making the night become pitch black. Soon he didn't see much but little specks of light from buildings and candals. He padded cautiously through the city even more,he saw blood red smoke in the air not knowing exactly what it was. He sniffed it and soon his evil sparked. He shook his head rapidly trying to get rid of the red smoke out of his nose,but it was too late,the smoke had already gotten into his body but only a little so it didn't have a lot of effect but enough to make his eyes red. He thought nothing of this smoke,he actually thought of it as being harmless. He turned and padded off back towards camp to see if anything had changed there.

X lay in a tree branch, half asleep. She was on her back, limbs dangeling. Aspen and Fable were yipping and playing below.
Xiax had left camp a few days ago, and there had been no signs of him. X was worried and haden't gotten mich sleep in the past few days. She wined and tried to stay fully awake, but sleep kept overtaking her.

He padded up into camp,sniffing the ground then the air. He looked around then noticed X in a tree and the pups below playing. He ran towards the pups who now jumped towards him getting on top of his head. He started to laugh and looked at the pups,and rolled to his back. His smile slowly vanished when he remembered why he was there. He got up,the pups fell off of him and he sniffed everywhere in the camp.

X looked at Xaix couriously. "What are you doing?" She had scenced some black energy in the air, but couldn't make anything of it. She looked at the ground nervously, trying to disipher the feeling.
"Mommy... it feels like something's wrong...Something inside me hurts..."
X stared down at Aspen, "That's your magical intuition trying to tell you something.. Don't worry, mine is too. But i'm not sure why.." She looked over at Xiax. He was sniffing around the dens, Fable was jumping in circles and chasing his tail happily. X wined and stared at Xiax, hoping he could give her an answer.

He padded through the woods when he noticed Xiax run by,he followed where he was going. Towards camp. He looked at Xiax as he played with his pups. "Hm...what a nice family..." He said kinda in a mysterious way. He still looked at Xiax as he got up and sniffed the camp. He looked at X giving her a questioning look and whispered, "Is he okay?" then he transformed anthro and walked around towards Xiax. "Whatcha doin'? Sniffin some rats?" Assassin started to laugh,but suddenly stopped and looked around as well. He hadn't noticed he as well had sniffed it. "This....plague I suppose has spread throughout the lands,including the humans territory. If not mistaken this blood red smoke is nothing but The Red Syrikus. Known as something to spark any evil in any living being,meaning if anything is half evil,or even a little evil. This Syrikus will spark it,but with humans and some animals it's very deadly. Being as how I know, is not of any concern to anyone................yet." He looked at Xiax seeing he recognized it as well,seeing the pups and X a bit off track of what he was talking about. "To put it straight forward, say if Xiax had sniffed it which...I wouldn't be surprised,any evil would spark having him become more evil and less like himself. This plague can also be very deadly to him if he had smelt too much of it and his evil controlled him,it would kill off the Xiax you know and love and that Xiax would never be his old self,of course there could be a way of treating it but certain herbs would need to be found,and there is a way to get rid of this plague that's in the air,but we'd have to travel far and I'm sure we don't have that much time in retrieving a book for a spell. No magic can get us there,and even if we make it there by the time we come back Xiax would be changed."


(Wow...I made my character seem smart >< Didn't mean to do that lol he's I guess someone who's travelled to many places on missions and knows a lot about exotic things XD He's actually suppose to be a tough guy with little emotion towards anyone with no simpathy for anyone. Anyways....)

X listened intently as to what Assassin had said. She wineds and asks, "Any way to stop it?"

"I'm taking a guess you've already heard about the Plauge then." Xorn shook her fur that was covered in snow; Earlier she'd been ambushed by humans' and she had to hide somewhere. "And I'm also guessing Xiax has it already."Xorn watched Xiax sniff around constantly.

X snorts, "Boys! It amazes me how much trouble a male can get into in a matter of munites!" She shakes her head and goes silent, staring at Xiax as if he were from another planet. Of corse most boys are from another planet... She giggled.

(lol, no offcence to the boys XD)

He sighs and rolls his eyes. "It's not that we get into trouble every minute we actually help in protecting the pack as do you girls." He started to pad around in a circle around the others. "Many years before any of us were on this earth,before humans. A red plague had been around in that time. No body knew what it was giving that it was only our ancestors living then. The plague has always been around,past from many wolves ancestors. Including mine,now that it's been past down I am hopfully the last to have it." Though he knew more to the story he would have rather not said the rest. He sighed and looked off away from the pack and started to walk off.

X stared at Xiax, dumbfounded and confused. She wines and barks a command at the pups, who come rushing to her. "I'm going for a walk. You can come of you can't." She starts to leave.

He sighed as he padded through the woods his head bent down and his ears bent back. He climbed up into a tree and padded through them.

Why did god place me with, probably the most stubbornly painful wolves on this earth? Xorn sighed and walked off toward the lake.

He watched as everyone was walking away,leaving him alone in the middle of camp. He sighed and walked off as well in anthro form having his hands in his hoodie pockets. He as well had walked towards the lake only going a different way leading onto a different side of it that only he knew of. He poked at the ice with his feet seeing how stable it was then he sat down in the snow then laid back his bottom half on the ice the upper half on the snow.

X sat in a large clearing. The pups had followed her out and had asked to practice their abilties. X had nodded and said, "If you want to be powerful, break through my berrier."
So there she sat, a blue bubble of power pulsing around her, the pups hitting it with everything they had. X was somewhat bored. Ocasionally Fable or Aspen would do something amazing, she'd smile and praise them. BUt the bubble only took a up a small fraction of her energy, while what the pups were doing took almost all of theirs. She rolled over to them and huffed.
Aspen stopped, "What mommy? What's wrong?"
"You need to focus on extending the range of your power. Try and use little of of your power as you can. Target in small doces. If you give it all at once, you'll have nothing for other oposing threats that might target after."
They listened intently, even Fable, who hadly listens at all. "Ok.."
"Now, try this.." Her eyes began to glow a bright blue and her lips moved quickly. Roots from the trees ripped from beneath the ground and flew stright toward the pups. They readyed themselves and began attacking.

Xorn looked down at her reflection on the ice. Her black fur was smooth and fluffly. She looked up and saw a shadow across the lake. She did a warning howl, but didn't get one back and the shadow kept walking towards her. Then in one swift moment it was gone vanished in to thin air.
From the other side of the lake Assassin saw the same thing.





(sry I put you in my rp Assassin)

(It's okay)

He got up staring at the place where the black figure vanished. He walked to the spot seeing if anything was in the ice such as holes or broken parts. He looked up noticing Xorn and he walked over towards her. "Tell me you saw that too." He looked behind still looking at the place where the figure vanished then directed his attention to Xorn.

"Uhh... Ya I did but what was it?" Xorn asked very suddenly, she looked shocked. She looked around expecting a hole through the ice like Assassin.

He looked back out towards the ice and started to walk onto it then walked towards where the black figure vanished. He remembered the look and the feeling of the vibe coming off it. "A Jarjock." He said looking down at the ice then up towards Xorn who had a questioning look. "Let me clear it up. A Jarjock being something dead but yet not dead also known as an undead. They can appear at random moments when they want someone to see them,as if they need help. Because really they're trapped in our world and some of them know me like as friends and such." He chuckled a bit then stopped. "I once had a friend but they were murdered and now I have to figure out a way to help them into the next life,and they're not ghosts they are a lot different then ghosts they can actually show themselves completely as in humans or what ever they were in they're normal life. They can walk amongst us like normal things they can talk to us normally as I am to you."

X dismissed the pups after a while of training. She'd tired them out and scent them to bed. She herself, wasn't the least bit tired.
Boredom overtook her and she padded off in a random direction, ending up around the large sheet of ice. She whispered a few words, then placed a paw on the ice. It immeditly began to soften, to melt. As it spread out, the rest of the ice began to melt aswell. Not noticing the figures of wolves on the ice, the words of the spell sped up on her lips, continuing to melt on the ice.

He looked down at the ice about to finish what he was about to say then he quickly looked at Xorn then looked behind. He grabbed Xorn throwing her towards the snow away from the ice. Assassin started to slip as he tried to run off the ice and he fell making the ice break seeing he now saw the ice was being melted by someone then he went underneath the water. He swam to the top but the ice peices were coming together blocking the way for Assassin to get back up.

X watched as the ice melted. She wined and slamed her head to the ground when the signal of Assassin hit her. Cold. She barks a few words of a spell and the ice peices disapear. She then quickly moves onto another, transfroming the water into something you could walk on. She leaped forward onto the ice and looked around, searching for her packmate.

He swam helplessly in the icy water,as it slowly was slowing down his heart. He saw the ice pieces vanish,and he tried to swim to the top but lost so much energy from swimming but he kept trying to swim to the top. He looked around in the water then looked down at his pants remembering he had something that could perhaps help. The Lexron. He thought but he couldn't get it out for his pants were weighed down by the water. He kept swimming till he made it to the top and swam towards X where she was standing. He transformed into wolf form and padded to the edge of the snow line and shook his pelt being sure of not getting anyone else wet. He looked over at Xorn then towards X. He padded towards the closest tree climbed it and curled into a ball trying to keep himself warm.

"Sorry.." X mumbled to Assassin. She shrugged as he gave he a questioning look as to why she melted the ice. "I like swimming.."
She padded up to him and set a small fire, than inclosed it in with Assassin in a bubble, blocked out from the outside winds. She nodded to him and turned away, mophing her tail and paws into fish-like fins, and jumped into the water.

"It's fine X." He smiled and jumped out of the tree shaking his pelt being sure it was dry. He looked at Xorn then he looked towards the forest and started walking off.

She dove deeper down into the water, opening her mouth and alowing herslef to form gills. She twisted and twirled, enjoying the freedom of being under the water, than hit something. SHe turned sharply and tried to see what it was, but it seemed to be a blury black figure. Transfixed by this sight, she swam closer.

He padded towards the lake and laid down on the edge close to the water watching as X swam. "Having fun I see." He smiled towards her and then rolled over onto his back.

Xorn stared at the spot where the figure dissapeared. She saw X plundge into the river. She was suspicios that X hadn't come up for even a dive in a long time. And she loves diving. Xorn went to the edge of the river, she saw not the usual dark blue, but she saw black. Pure black.

He looked over at Xorn and padded towards her with a questioning look on his face. "What is it?" he asked jumping Xorn only a little.

"It's called a Jarjock. That's what Assassin called it. That's also what I think is causing the black water." Xorn saw Xiax give her a questioning glance. "He didn't give specific details. You'll have to ask him."

X struggled and squirmed. Something had latched it'self onto her leg and was dragging her down. She tried to get the thing off but it wouldn't budge. The blackness she saw had expanded and was beginning to cover the whole lake. She wined and continued to try and pull away,