A Kind Heart and a Wolf's Courage (Semi literate) Filled

[Darth Revan]

Wolf hated the thought of pulling the toboggan with two other people on it. "Well... then let's hope the village really is around the corner."

Tyr shook his head in an unsaid disappointment. Wolf lacked character, when he mentioned pulling the toboggan, all Wolf could do was outwardly pray that it didn't come to that. With a sigh he laid back down under the tarp and resumed watching their backs.

((As this is your RP, I'll leave the story progression to you, as far as when we reach the town, or if we run out of gas, etc.))

[Midnight_Huntress]

~~Haha, I appreciate that, but remember I siad I am a free-maker. I let things go where they go. I don't care what you do, so long as it stays within the story-line. (=^_^=)~~
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Natalya rolled her eyes as she felt the tension between the two. "Men." she thought and gave an inward sigh. Then a scent hit her nose and she was sitting up again. She was looking around alertly as well. Only she didn't look frightened, she looked a bit excited at the scent. "Wolf..." she began as she looked for where it came from. "Turn left here around this rock.....then turn right and keep going straight." she told him. She wasn't sure how she knew but she did.

[Darth Revan]

Wolf looked confused as he follwed her direction, "What is it? Where are we going?"

When Tyr felt the sudden change in direction, he called back through the tarp, "What's going on back there? We're in the clear, there's no reason to take evasive action yet."

[Midnight_Huntress]

When they reached a certain spot, Natalya felt a deep chill go through her body that had nothing to do with the cold winter snow around them. "Stop here, and cut the engine." she said. After a bit she listened and tested the air with her nose. Her ear gave a slight twitch before she told them, "Stay quiet, not a sound." and she watched a section through the trees with wide eyes. Within minutes a group was in and out of sight through the trees on the main road. Though the road had not been traveled - since she had taken them through the trees - they wouldn't find the snowmobile tracks for a while, though it was snowing they robably wouldn't find them then, either. Once the last one as gone and she was sure they could make noise again, she let a sigh of relief and hung her head as if it weighed a ton.

[Darth Revan]

After the sleds came to a stop, Tyr stayed under the tarp and didn't move. After a time he asked softly, "What is it?"

Wolf looked around the immediate area with curious eyes. When Natalya lowers her head, he leans a little her way and whispers, "What's wrong? Did I miss something?"

[Midnight_Huntress]

Sh looked at them both suriously. "You didn't feel that? I heard, smelt, and felt them coming from back there. They are looking for us." she told them.

[Darth Revan]

Tyr answered through the tarp, "Uh, I'm rather surrounded by a barrier here. Food, cloth, and other fibers;" he pokes at the tarp, "the only thing I can sense is what I see through the scope."

Wolf looked away, "I.. was distracted on my thoughts, sorry." He smells the air, the constant change in wind direction was throwing him off, but after a few seconds of concentrating, he smelled them. His eyes widened, "No, no this is too soon. We have to make it to the next village at least. There's nowhere to hide here."

Tyr, threw the tarp open with his arm as he laid on his side and glared at Wolf, "Really? No where to hide? Look around you. We're already hiding. There's probably four feet of snow underneath us, you can't think of any place to hide?" With the tarp off of his person, Tyr begins to smell what the others could. His eyes widen with surprise and realization, "Oh, that's what you smelled." His eyes narrowed as he sniffed more his eyes move around inside their sockets, searching for something, but not actually focusing on anything, "This group is bigger than a regular scouting party. I think they think they know where we are."

Wolf looked confused, "But wouldn't that mean that they do know where we are, you know, since we are here?"

"No, they only think we're here. If we can hide ourselves, they might pass over us; or..." Tyr's voice trails off in thought.

[Midnight_Huntress]

"Or...what?" Natalya asked turning to look at him.

[Darth Revan]

Tyr looked in both of their eyes with determination, "We set up an ambush and kill them. If this is a branch of the search party, it would hugely hinder their efforts to find us. The problem is that we know they're armed, and we don't know how many they have."

[Midnight_Huntress]

Natalya's expression went from surprise to determination of her own. She straightened her back and closed her eyes as she twitched her ears a bit. She turned her head to the right a little then slightly tilted it before she said confidently, "Seven."

[Darth Revan]

Wolf had a worried look about his face, when he heard the number of men they had, his face lifted a tad, "Seven, that's not bad. We two took out four, what's another three? Especially since we have another person on our side." Wolf motions to Natalya needlessly as he spoke.

Tyr tilted his head in frustration and glared at Wolf with inqury, "Are you serious? The last fight was a fluke. We didn't take out four people. We took out two; the other two took each other out. I was surprised those two were dumb enough to shoot each other. What happened was luck. Now wer're going against a hunting party. They're prepped for a fight. We have guns with stock ammo, acouple clips, and that's it. They most likely have extra clips and who knows what else.

"I'm not saying we shouldn't do this, I'm just letting you know the whole situation so you can make a clear decision." Tyr looks to both Wolf and Natalya, "It's up to you, stand and fight, or duck and hide?"

Wolf looked around with a painful worry in his eyes. After a moment of silence, he said, "I say we hide. Wait 'em out. If we fight, someone could get shot, and this time there's no cabin to retreat to."

Tyr looked to Natalya with an expectant expression, waiting for her answer.

[Midnight_Huntress]

She looked back at him with a gentle look. "There will be a time to fight, but not now. the time isn't right." she said to him. "We hide for now. And you seem to forget an awful lot that we are more than just humans here. They are humans, we are Wolves. Our senses are more keen than theirs and given the right supplies, we are stronger, smarter." she said this to both of them.

[Darth Revan]

Tyr looked insulted, he responded, "I know we're wolves, that's how I saved your life last time from those three scouts. But wolves aren't bullet-proof, especially when seven men with automatic weapons are firing at us. These aren't amateurs Natalya. They know strategy. They know to concentrate on one target at a time. The only reason I'm hesitant is because I don't want you to get hurt further. In any situation of gun play, there's always going to be someone who gets hit."

Wolf interjected, "The innkeeper was killed by the sniper that shot after me. That's how I was able to get the drop on him; I distracted him with the innkeeper's body as a decoy."

Tyr's facial expression softened to a pleading worry, "See, I don't want the next stray bullet to hit either of us. I know we're superior to humans, but they have one thing we no longer have... numbers. You can be the greatest civilization in the planet, but if your enemy are 5x your numbers, you're lost.

"Don't get me wrong here, I know we could beat them. I know we'd defeat these seven, but we wouldn't come out without a scratch. And if we fought, we couldn't afford any wounded. So I agree with your idea to hide; I just wanted to give you both a choice."

[Midnight_Huntress]

"No one goes to war and comes home unscathed, I know they have numbers and what they are capable of. I spent plenty of years with the disgusting creatures." she said. She looked out over the snow, listening again. They should be far enough now that we can go again." she said turning back around in her seat and was then lost in her thoughts and memories.

[Darth Revan]

Wolf had finished shifting when Natalya gave the all clear. "Are you sure?"

Tyr looked through his scope and confirmed, "Yeah, they passed us up. The snow covered our tracks when we entered the wood."

Wolf stood still, not sure what to do, "Well, wouldn't they be circling back to cover this area?"

Tyr shrugged, "I don't know, they should've searched this area before moving on. I guess they're getting weary. They probably haven't slept any like we have. Either way, we're clear to keep going, like she said."

Wolf nodded and shifted back. He got back on the snowmobile and started it back up. Tyr laid back down on the toboggan and pulled the tarp over himself. He called out from under the tarp, "Ready."

Wolf looked to Natalya and waited for her to situate herself before asking, "So which way should we go? Back the way we came? They already searched the town, maybe they won't look there again?"