// OPEN RP...ANY CAN JOIN!! WRITTEN AGES AGO BUT LIKED THE STARTER

her early morning run started off well enough. A crisp clear morning, with hardly a bite in the air, the forest around her echoed with bird song and smells of other animals. She went for a good long run, and then getting a drink at the lake nearby, turned for home. She was checking her boundaries, when her fur went puffy suddenly as she entered a small clearing. Something was wrong! She sniffed the air but couldn't smell anything out of the ordinary, yet even the birds had suddenly gone quiet. Her ears twisted and turned, trying to locate any sound, but she heard nothing. Taking a few tentative steps forward, she heard the snap of the spring and jumped clear of the net that swooshed up beside her! Her hackles raised as human voices shouted all around her, baring her fangs as one by one, they came out of the forest, surrounding her.

They rattled chains at her, some had clubs a few even had nets which they shook, trying to keep her attention divided.

"Here wolf!" "No, here wolf!" "Don't let it get away!" "I want the skin!", "Holy shit, that wolf is huge, take it down!"

 They were planning on killing her! Enraged, she drew back, snarling and snapping at the pokes from the clubs and pitchforks. She turned one way, then another, lashing out as first one distracted her, and then another. She couldn't flee, they surrounded her, Hurting her! Her forepaw caught a man across the chest, another she lashed out at as he bent forward to poke her and grabbed him by his shirt and threw him! Seeing a break in the men, she put her ears back against her head and darted away! Keeping to the underbrush. "Don't you let that animal get away!", "Kill it!" Shouts followed her as she ran, till they faded away completely.

Only when she was safe in her hidden cave, did she stop to rest. Her side hurt. turning her head, she saw she was bleeding, and she reached to lick at her wound, whining softly. She would heal up soon as she changed back, and she did so, curling up behind a rock, trying not to let Hate and Rage rule her. Silent tears drifted down her cheek unbidden as she stared out into the afternoons light. She waited, giving the humans a few hours to clear out before she began her way towards home again. Her running, for a while, was at an end it seemed. She would fight for her home, and kill any who tried to stop her!