{"sf1_id":108707,"sf2_id":"A1pdx3q1","title":"Intro","author":"Deserted_wolf","words":1631,"posted_at":"2009-11-13T07:48:00.000Z","tags":["Dog","No-Yiff","Non-Anthro"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/108707-intro","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/s/A1pdx3q1","image_url":"https://cdn.sofurryfiles.com/submissions/thumbnails/32/da/32da8d1c-925b-4c60-8f00-5b1df1b3c3d3","description":"","content":"Tears came to his eyes as he fell, collapsing on the blood-stained ground.  \nLife passed to and fro, fading just moments after. The dark-brown M-4 rifle lay in  \nfragments inches away from the humans body. Bloody, torn, his face barely   \nrecognizable. The black and brown pit-bull lay a few feet away, his mate by his side.  \nThe bullet wounds were deep but didn't exit his body, the cold hard steel embedded  \nin his muscles. He was paralyzed, moving only to see his mates tear-soaked,   \nblood-caked face trying to comfort him. His breath was labored and weak, so was  \nhis heart. His mates tongue caressing his face and wounds, \"Fen, please don't leave  \nme...\" She forced out between sobs and licks. \"I don't know if I can make it without  \nyou...\" Fens breath quickened it's pace as his skin turned colder and his eyes started  \nto fade, \"Lara I-\" Fen stopped mid-sentence, as he exhaled the last of his breath and  \ndied.  \n  \nShe wiped the tears from her eyes as she walked through life, and the cold  \nand lonely woods. It has been 6 months since she saw him... His bright, energetic  \neyes, his comforting smile and heart-warming way he calms her down. Her mate was  \ngone... faded away, he had saved her life but sacrificed his instead... The pain, regret  \nand remorse never left her side. Still she continued on walking, silently as a graveyard.  \n\"Wait Up!!\" She flipped around and searched, \"Fen?!\" No one was there. The forest  \nfloor was as empty as she felt her life was. She stared at the open area in front of her,  \nleaves, rocks and trees. She sighed, her voice shakey, \"I guess not...\" Staring at the   \nground. Memories of her past exploded out as she raised her head and howled and  \ncried out to the world of the dead, \"Fen!!, Why?! Why did you leave me?!\" Tears  \nFlowed out as she sobbed, soaking her face and muzzle. \"It should've been me!\"  \nShe groaned, her heart and soul burned and ached as she cried, \"It's all my fault,  \nFen... It's all my fault\"\n\n\u0026nbsp; She sat on the ground, tears still in her eyes and sighed. \"Lara\" She looked  \naround as she heard a voice, much like the one she heard before...Much like Fens...  \n\"Lara...\" She looked around again, more eager, the voice was closer and more forcefull  \n\"LARA!\" She flew sideways and crashed into a tree a few feet away, landing on the   \nground. She moaned, weary and full of pain, \"What the hell?\" She got up, wobbly from  \nthe crash and spotted a giant boulder pertruding out of the ground where she once stood.  \nStumbling, she made her way to the boulder and examined it, \"did...did someone save  \nme?\" She thought as she circled her silent killer, \"Hello? Anyone there?\" She questioned  \nout to the dark woods, \"I just want to thank whoever saved my life!...\" She listened and  \nwaited for a reply. \"I did.\" She turned around and rested her eyes on a brown and black  \npit-bull. It was Fen.  \n  \n  \n  \n\"Fen, Your alive?!\" She started to tear as she rushed up to her mate, \"how...  \nHow are you still alive? I thought you were-\" Fen smiled and cut her off, \"Dead? Well  \nI'm not.\" He smiled again and approached Lara. \"But, I saw you!...The blood, the  \nbullets! How is it your alive?!\" Fens smile faded as his head and tail drooped down,  \n\"I...I don't remember much, just pain. Then nothing but a bright light and your voice.  \nI followed it.\" Lara lowered her head and listened intently.  \n  \n\n\u0026nbsp; Fen told her the story as he closed his eyes, Lara mimicked him, closed her  \neyes and pictured everything in her mind. The area was white, pure white. She found,  \nno sound was present. \"Fen!\" A voice shot through the thick silence, \"Lara!\" Fen  \nanswered back. \"Lara!\" Yelling one more time, hoping to get an answer. He stopped and  \nlooked around, \"Where are you?\" Nothing but white and the resonating sound echoing  \nfrom the direction in front of him. Fen stopped narrating, raised his head and stared at  \nhis mate, \"I wandered for days with nothing but your voice to follow...\" Lara looked up  \nand stared into her loves eyes. Fen continued on, \"One day I spotted a White wolf. His  \nfur was as white as the surrounding terrain but he was easy to see. He stood tall, and  \nproud. His eyes were blood red, yet comforting. He had a bright red scar under his right   \neye, and on his back and shoulders.  \n  \nSomething told me to stay. To stop walking and wait for the wolf to   \napproach.\"Fen,\" The wolf spoke, his voice strong and stern yet, re-assuring and gentle.   \n\"I've been expecting you. We have much to discuss and little time...\" I stood there,   \npuzzled, thinking,Who is this wolf? How did he know my name? I shook off that feeling  \nand went straight to asking, \"Who are you-\" The wolf cut me off. \"My name is not   \nimportant, getting you back to the world of the living is.\" Fen stopped narrating again.  \nHe stared at Lara as she turned to face him, staring deeply into her eyes as he spoke,  \n\"This wolf told me everything about my death...How I died...And how much it hurt   \nyou...\" Tears trickled down his cheek, glistening in the red-orange of the low sunset light  \nstreaming through the branches of the trees. \"Fen, please...Don't cry.\" Lara leaned   \nforward and placed her paws on his shoulders, her face inches away from his. \"Yes, I   \nfelt like my life was over...That I had nothing else to live for...no reason to continue on...  \nBut you have to Understand that if it wasn't for you, we would've both been gone...\"   \nLara started to rub her face with Fens to comfort him and let him know that she would  \nalways be there. Fen moved in rythm with Lara and smiled, Feeling her caring,   \ncaressing touch and the warm sensation called love. Seeing Fen was alright, she   \nstopped, licked his forehead and took her paws from his shoulders. \"Thanks Lara, you   \nalways know what to say...\" Fen said as he wiped away the tears of pain, remorse and   \nsadness that was his past.  \n  \n\n\u0026nbsp; \"But, there's something I have to say...\" Fen said, \"The wolf told me   \nsomething disturbing...\" Lara looked puzzled, but didn't interrupt him. \"He told me that  \nI wasn't dead...that I was just in a suspended state between the two spaces...And that I   \nhad to retrieve my soul within 72 hours or I would remain an empty, hollow shell...\"   \nLara looked at her mate, puzzled and shocked,\"Retrieve your soul?\"Fen looked at the   \nground and closed his eyes, \"I Know...I Could'nt beleive it either...\" Lara lowered her   \nhead, \"Believe what? the fact that you were dead? Or the fact that you had to retrieve   \nyour soul and only had three days to do so?\" Fen paused...quiet...then answered, \"Both\"  \n  \n  \nFen continued on after an unruly silence, Lara closed her eyes again. The   \narea, the wolf and Fen came into view. Fen seemed breathless and shocked. \"I...This   \ncan't...Be...Happening...Can It?\" He closed his eyes and tried to think...To wake up from  \nthis nightmare...To get back to Lara...\"Fen\" He looked up to see the wolf staring at him   \nwith concern, \"I'm sorry, but time is of the essence, you need to hurry if you want to   \nreturn.\" Fen didn't know what to say...He nodded  \n  \n\n\u0026nbsp; \"My 72 hour trek led me across a mountain range and, eventually a forest.\"   \nWhat Lara saw was a large mass of trees, bushes, rivers and a blinding amount of   \nwhite...there was no color still...\"Then I saw a beautifull sight...You.\" Fen shook with   \nexcitement and began to run,\" Lara!, Wait up!\" Fen started to tear, \"You turned   \naround...you stared right at me and ignored me completely...\" Fen choked...his voice   \ncracking up and the tears streaming fast. \"It broke my heart to hear you howl my   \nname...and ask me...ask me why I left you. That's when\"IT\" appeared.   \n  \nA black shadow seemed to melt the ground. The air eminating and swirling   \naround it seemed to claw out and latch onto the environment, sapping it of life.   \n\"HAHAHA!\" Fen, shook as a cold chill seemed to creep up his spine. \"Congradulations,  \nbrother! It seems you have reached your destination!\" Fen stood, quiet...his voice has   \nleft his body, leaving it for only a moment. \"W-What do you mean?, What are you?\" He  \nmanaged to choke out. \"HEHEHE, This is what it means.\" The shadow bursted in a   \nblack inferno it's eyes burning bright red. \"HAHAHA!\" A loud burst forced it's way into  \nhis body, squeezing his skull making him howl in pain. \"Now, the rest is up to you,   \nbrother!\" Fen struggled to lift his head as he watched the shadow fade.  \n  \n\n\u0026nbsp; His head pounded and throbbed as he stumbled to his paws, \"What...just   \nhappened?...\" He moaned. A louder burst rang in his ears making him claw at the   \nground to keep himself from completely collapsing. His head shot up and saw to his   \nsuprize a large chunk of rock hurdling down the mountainside, heading straight for   \nLara. \"The next thing I remember was waking up in the shadow of a tree. The birds   \nchirping and the suns warmth awoke me to a world full of life. I was home.\" Fen's face   \nenlightened and his voice warmed up,\"I heard your voice and went to meet you, and   \nwell, here we are.\" Lara nuzzled his fur, \"I thank who or Whatever brought you back to  \nme,\" Fen rubbed his head on hers and smiled, \"Me too.\" A cold wind brushed over both   \nof them, making their ears and fur stand on end. A faint voice whispered through the   \nbreeze, \"Don't Celebrate just yet brother, HAHAHA\"  \n  \n\n"}