{"sf1_id":187877,"sf2_id":"WelMEgGm","title":"Paws of Fire: Unwritten Story - Chapter 5","author":"Ambelsyn","words":2004,"posted_at":"2010-10-21T17:09:00.000Z","tags":["Dragon","Fantasy","Human","M/F","No-Yiff","Romance","Slavery","Story","Tragedy","Wolf"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/187877-paws-of-fire-unwritten-story-chapter-5","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/s/WelMEgGm","image_url":"https://cdn.sofurryfiles.com/submissions/thumbnails/e5/f8/e5f8c261-ad5f-4d41-975c-35f635c8b0d5","description":"#16 of Paws of Fire: Unwritten Book","content":"_This entire chapter is Nick telling his story.\u0026nbsp; Enjoy!_\n\n_M/F will only apply to chapter 5.\u0026nbsp; Nick is straight, so it seemed appropriate.\u0026nbsp; We'll be returning to M/M in chapter 6!_\n\n_Revision Note: Call it laziness if you want, but since Nick is telling this story, I only fixed spelling and grammar errors.\u0026nbsp; It will remain a short chapter to reflect the length it took in class to speak._\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\n**Chapter 5: Paws of Ice**\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\n\"When I first found this book, it was empty.\u0026nbsp; I touched the paw print, and felt the world change around me.\u0026nbsp; I remember being thrown out of a ball of light into a group of wolves that stood upright.\u0026nbsp; They had the hands of humans, and the females had the breasts of humans, but every other part of their bodies was wolf.\u0026nbsp; They all gave me a quick look before they kept marching toward a large mountain.\u0026nbsp; I looked to see where the wolves were marching and saw the red dragon that I would live to hate even to this day.\u0026nbsp; His name is Drayak, the ruthless ruler of the desolate world I was in.\u0026nbsp; The atmosphere was so hot; I rushed to take off my overcoat.\u0026nbsp; I walked in the direction that the wolves were walking from, only to be stopped by a large armored alligator.\u0026nbsp; He ordered me to take off my clothing and put on a loincloth similar to the ones the wolves were wearing.\u0026nbsp; I did as was ordered, fearing the alligator might punish me with his barbed whip.\n\nI remember being kept awake for so long as I made my way into the cavern under Drayak...about 40 hours of mining for a special ore that he wanted, that I don't even know to this day.\u0026nbsp; I didn't understand why a dream could feel so real, and I prayed and prayed to wake up.\u0026nbsp; That's when...she...came.\u0026nbsp; The most beautiful creature I had ever seen...a white wolfess dressed in what looked to be a cyan prom dress, came down from a flying ice platform and started freezing the alligator guards that made us work.\u0026nbsp; The wolves were cheering, each one making a sprint for escape as she unlocked the binding chains we had on.\u0026nbsp; I was the last one to be freed, and I ran after the wolves, hoping they knew a safe place.\u0026nbsp; I could hear the weight bearing down on the rocks above me shift, the rocks seeming to sigh in relief as a great burden left them.\u0026nbsp; The latter half of the wolves was crushed under the mighty stomp of the great red dragon, sending a chill through me.\u0026nbsp; Me and the wolfess were separated from the escaping wolves.\u0026nbsp; The dragon reached his giant arm into the cave.\u0026nbsp; 'Aveyi!\u0026nbsp; You can't escape me now!\u0026nbsp; Surrender!'\u0026nbsp; I looked up at the wolfess I now knew as Aveyi.\u0026nbsp; She looked back at me with fear in her eyes.\u0026nbsp; I wanted to impress her.\u0026nbsp; I was young, and even in the midst of facing death I wanted to get a beautiful girl to desire me.\u0026nbsp; I watched the pattern that Drayak reached and grabbed for everything, noticing a pattern after about a minute of studying.\n\nI picked up a pickaxe and waited for the right time to shove the handle into the mushy ground, aiming the sharp points just right to achieve what I wanted.\u0026nbsp; I ran back to the side of Aveyi, smirking with pride from her look of awe.\u0026nbsp; I felt excited, thinking that my plan might actually be of some good.\u0026nbsp; I remember Drayak reaching for that same spot, crushing his hand around the pickaxe before the arm quickly pulled out of the cave.\u0026nbsp; The pickaxe was gone too, and I knew what happened.\u0026nbsp; I told Aveyi that now was the time to escape, and she quickly picked me up in her arms and made a new ice platform that we sped out of the cavern on.\u0026nbsp; I looked back at the dragon, smirking as the giant fucker was desperately trying to get the pickaxe out of his claw.\n\nMy joy turned to grief as I looked down at the cities of wolves just a bit below us.\u0026nbsp; They were all malnourished, depressed, howling in despair.\u0026nbsp; The homes were all broken down.\u0026nbsp; There was little vegetation, hardly enough to sustain the populations I saw.\u0026nbsp; Aveyi took me to a small hut in one of the desolate cities.\u0026nbsp; She asked me so many questions about what I was, where I came from...I don't remember much else, but after I answered them all she seemed satisfied.\u0026nbsp; She told me about herself, how her entire race was killed by Drayak and his alligator minions, and she was the only survivor left.\u0026nbsp; They had been at war for years, and the side of righteousness had fallen.\u0026nbsp; She hated herself for always running when Drayak would come to kill her, but I knew that if she had perished too, then there would be no hope.\u0026nbsp; I comforted her as she wept in my arms, mourning over how evil had prevailed.\u0026nbsp; I asked her if I could help.\u0026nbsp; I was the only other one capable of fighting besides her.\u0026nbsp; The other wolves were all weakened from malnutrition.\u0026nbsp; How she managed to stay fit...I will never know.\n\nShe offered to teach me how to fight without hesitation.\u0026nbsp; She was desperate for help, wanting to make the world right.\u0026nbsp; I accepted.\u0026nbsp; I noticed that every night I slept in the hut, I woke up in my room.\u0026nbsp; Every time I touched the paw again, I went back to where I would have waken up in the book.\u0026nbsp; Several days I spent training with her...and we grew close.\u0026nbsp; I fell in love with her, and on the fourth night she invited me to stay in her room with her.\u0026nbsp; She was...for lack of a better expression, a freak in the sheets.\u0026nbsp; I never knew how much fun ice could be until she used her powers to drive me wild with passion.\u0026nbsp; We sealed our love that night.\u0026nbsp; I won't go into details, since I'm sure you don't want to hear about my sex life.\n\nI became a competent fighter, knowing special ways to take on the alligator henchmen, and how to best avoid Drayak should he ever show up around me.\u0026nbsp; I was able to apply these techniques in this world too.\u0026nbsp; I became more physically fit, and my charisma sky rocketed.\u0026nbsp; The day came when we decided to attack Drayak himself, and end the nightmare.\u0026nbsp; The only thing we didn't have was a plan.\u0026nbsp; That's where I came in.\u0026nbsp; I had noticed that whatever I wore whenever I would enter the book would be on my person when I made it inside.\u0026nbsp; Drayak was always surrounded by thousands of wolves, and although they were tired...they could be given guns to join the fight against Drayak.\u0026nbsp; After I went to sleep that night, I brought two liters of coffee and some sleeping pills so i could quickly come in and out of the dream.\u0026nbsp; I'm not allowed to give you the details on how I racked up fifty shotguns and three-hundred handguns, but I did.\u0026nbsp; I would later regret the sleeping and waking up time and time again to transfer the weaponry into the book.\u0026nbsp; The side effects were atrocious...but they were worth it in the end, I guess.\u0026nbsp; I made my final transfer into the book, and Aveyi and I took flight on her ice platform, each weapon being hauled by tightly knit nets.\u0026nbsp; We looked for the trail of slaves who would enter the mine today and quickly slaughtered the few guards around the vicinity.\u0026nbsp; We untied our nets and we'd pass out the shotguns first to each wolf walking by, then the handguns.\u0026nbsp; We made sure the safety was off and the guns were ready to fire right away, showing each wolf how to fire the gun.\u0026nbsp; None of them fired prematurely, thankfully, or the whole operation would have been blown.\n\nAfter the last gun was handed out, I pulled out the bomb I had brought.\u0026nbsp; I figured the guns may not have been enough to take the beast down, so I'd have a backup plan...throwing the bomb into the beast's throat and blowing it from the inside.\u0026nbsp; Aveyi and I skidded along the ground with the ice platform.\u0026nbsp; Every time a wolf saw us pass by, the started sprinting with all their remaining strength towards the dragon that they hoped to finally bring down.\u0026nbsp; The plan had already fallen apart as I realized I made a terrible mistake.\u0026nbsp; The wolves carrying the shotguns in the front had to use their shells to kill the guards further along the path.\u0026nbsp; How could I have forgotten the damn guards that were ALWAYS there!?\u0026nbsp; Precious deer slugs were used on small fry.\u0026nbsp; Drayak had appeared after several loud shotgun blasts, the dragon raging as he started stomping huge groups of wolves.\u0026nbsp; Every armed wolf laid fire on Drayak, the beast screeching with pain, but not getting taken down.\u0026nbsp; Aveyi flew me up above the dragon's maw, and I activated the timer.\u0026nbsp; The bomb would go off in 5 minutes.\u0026nbsp; I threw the bomb down, praying it would go into the maw.\u0026nbsp; I cringed in despair as Drayak flung the dynamite away at a nearby mountainside.\u0026nbsp; So this was it...he couldn't do the same thing twice.\u0026nbsp; And they wouldn't be able to escape him this time.\u0026nbsp; I fell to my knees and wept, and the last thing I felt was the sharp claw of Drayak bearing down on me.\u0026nbsp; I was slain...\n\nI thought I had died for true, but I woke up in...Well...the place where I acquired the weapons.\u0026nbsp; I tried to go back into the book, desperately trying to help my love and her people.\u0026nbsp; It was too late.\u0026nbsp; I was dead in the book, and I couldn't come back.\u0026nbsp; I opened to the last pages, watching as the book finally started writing on its own.\u0026nbsp; Before, the book only made text if I was in it.\u0026nbsp; Now it was finishing the story without me...from Aveyi's perspective.\u0026nbsp; She was lost in despair, and longed to be with me again.\u0026nbsp; She dodged the strikes of the mighty dragon, rushing for the bomb.\u0026nbsp; She picked it up and kept a close eye on the timer.\u0026nbsp; I could tell what she was doing...it was brilliant.\u0026nbsp; She kept running from his strikes, dodging the deadliest of blows while staring only at the clock.\u0026nbsp; At five seconds till detonation, she jerked around and threw the bomb with all her might into Drayak's clamping jaw.\u0026nbsp; Drayak began to choke for a bit before the bomb went off, dragon scales and blood splattering the desolate lands around them, fiery wrath expanding from where the bomb went off.\u0026nbsp; I was overjoyed that she had done it...but I would never be able to see her again.\n\nSo now I have an enormous debt to pay for losing all of those guns, and I'll never get to see my lover again.\u0026nbsp; She still mourns for me...I read it in the story.\u0026nbsp; She's helping the wolves regain their world, and it is rapidly changing for the better.\u0026nbsp; The alligators are no match for her, and soon she'll have an army of trained wolves to exterminate the remaining filth in the world.\u0026nbsp; I hope, one day, to return to the book.\"\n\nNick pulled a small vial from under his overcoat, showing the tuft of white fur in the vial.\u0026nbsp; \"This is all I have left of her in a physical form.\"\u0026nbsp; Nick was hiding his despair well for so long, but now he let tears flow from his eyes.\u0026nbsp; Still, he held back his sobs and snorts well.\n\nThe classroom was filled with teary-eyed and awe-struck students who applauded the enticing tale.\n\nOnly Daniel remained seated during the standing ovation.\u0026nbsp; His jaw was dropped and he stared at Nick like he had just revealed he was actually a woman.\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\n  \n  \n\n","series":{"name":"Paws of Fire: Unwritten Book","previous":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/187864-paws-of-fire-unwritten-story-chapter-4.json","next":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/188014-paws-of-fire-unwritten-story-chapter-6.json"}}