There was a long howl as a new life slipped into the world.
A single heart beat was heard.
One.
One of an Ancient.
That is the prologue of Ancient. It is about a black wolf named Kolta. He has makings on his legs. Swirls that show he is one of the Ancient's.
The Ancient's are the wolves that decreed the Wolf Law. They created it and honored it. If a wolf is born with those marks,then that means the Wolf Law is falling apart,and the Ancient One must rebuild it.
Civilization is moving into the Wolf Land. Making wolves vicious and out-spoken. The Night Track them. Watch them. It is the Night that is destroying the Wolf Law. Making it fall apart. Making wolves forget what they have been taught.
If an Ancient One is born,they are born marked,and pure white. Then they grow and turn pure black. That always happens. The mother dies giving birth to this pup. The mother always dies. The stress of giving birth to an Ancient One kills the mother. The pressure it puts on the mother trying to get this pup into the world. It is also needed for the mother to die. The pup has to be solitary as it learns why it is on this planet. Only once it learns shall other wolves be allowed to be around the Ancient. But if the Ancient starts to forget why it is here,the wolves it is with will pay. Those wolves will be killed. No matter what.
Kolta is an Ancient One. He started to forget why he was living. The wolf who was with him died. But only one wolf was ever around Kolta. But that wolf payed the price.
The Night's are humans. Kolta believes that once they start Tracking you a few Full Night's later,you die.That is what happened to Kolta's friend
Kolta must survive. For only Ancient Ones come one at a time.And when they come,and they die,it takes another few hundred years for an Ancient One to come again.
So that tells a little bit about my short story Ancient!
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