{"sf1_id":819810,"sf2_id":null,"title":"Wolves' Legacy 2: Chapter 2","author":"seraphor12","words":1462,"posted_at":"2015-02-15T06:35:00.000Z","tags":["Action","Death","Demon","Human","Story Progression","Story Series","Violence","hellhound","town"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/819810-wolves-legacy-2-chapter-2","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/view/819810","image_url":"https://www.sofurryfiles.com/std/thumb?page=819810\u0026ext=.jpg","description":"","content":"Chapter 2\n \n \n \n \n \n          The\ndarkness gave away, and Ifrit now walked in a plain of meadow. He thought that\nit finally be it, that he lost his life when he fell from the cliff, and that\nhe knew he was in peace. Yet, it didn't feel right. He was a hellish creature;\nthere was nothing of a definition of a surface race's heaven in his mind. He\ndidn't believe in that.\n          Everything\nthen came back to him, and he realized that if he died, Eshdar would be there,\nin the plains of tranquility and peace. But then, he also knew that heaven was\nalso another realm, and it wouldn't be possible.\n          \"(Guess\nI don't have anything to do in here. I am still tired, though, and sleepy...)\"\n          He\nhated to admit it, but never before he felt so sleepy before. Yet, when he\nslept, he woke up, surrounded by rock and marble, and torch? Wait, it looked\nlike he was...\n          Before\nhe could realize where he was, there was a loud explosion sound just some\nposition away from the place he was laid, yet it was muffled, meaning that it\nwasn't inside the rocky room. Trying to stand, he realized his legs were not as\nit used to be as they felt weak, and he couldn't even focus. Trying a way to\nwalk, he forced his hands and claws to move his body to a nearby archway. His\ninstinct wild, he tried to find the source himself when in front of him, a\nfigure flew from the left side of the corridor, and a moment of concentration\ndid he saw the figure had many features akin to a hellhound, like a canine\nface, horns, and long prehensile tail. He was stunned. Just some minutes after\nwaking up and he was faced with another problem.\n          He\nwent to the hellhound just as the hellhound stood up and stared at him. As he\nwatched, the hellhound said, \"(Stop trying to be useful if you're useless at\nthis moment! We'll get you out of here, Schelkz!)\"\n          This\ngave a sudden surprise to Ifrit. \"(W...wait a sec. How did you know my name? Are\nyou a rebel or a loyalist?)\"\n          \"(Like\nthat's the main problem now! Keep your head down!)\"\n          Another\nexplosion and a shot came at the same time, and there was a strong gust of wind\nbefore a wave of heat hit both of them. The hellhound jumped forward in a\nblink, and the next moment, Ifrit saw an opening at the wall, with so many dead\nhellhounds all around the hellhound.\n          Just\nthen, he realized that this hellhound didn't feel right, and compelled to ask,\nhe said, \"(Just what are you doing desecrating a grave, huh? I am dead\nalready!)\"\n          \"(Nope,\nyou're just in a coma).\"\n          Ifrit\nrealized that the voice was high-pitched, and realized at the same time that\nthe hellhound was a she, and he gasped when she quickly moved to him and carry\nhim on her back.\n          \"(H...hey!)\"\n          \"(You're\nnot fit to walk yet, hound. Damn those rebels. They got so many steps ahead of\nus. With Winsel, they have killed four royal hounds....)\"\n          The\nmention of Eshdar's family name jolted Ifrit's mind, and he exclaimed,\n\"(Eshdar! Where is he? Just take me to where he was put to rest!)\"\n          \"(Calm\ndown, Schelkz, you're not as light as you thought to be!)\"\n          \"(First\nof all, my name is Ifrit, and this situation is not what it's supposed to be!\nDon't you have any goddamn ally?)\"\n          Without\nheeding his comment, the female hellhound quickened her pace, and with no time\nat all they reached a wagon, where she put down Ifrit inside it. Just then,\nthere were gunshots that pierced the wagon, and Ifrit felt the wagon was moving\naway, yet they were still under heavy fire.\n          \"(Fuck!\nCan't this thing go any faster?)\"\n          \"(Wagons\nlike this can't move as fast a car, you know! The acceleration is not even\nfaster than a fucking horse carriage!)\"\n          \"(How\nthe hell do you know that?)\"\n          \"(I\nam travelling in one for almost two years! Step on it, c'mon!)\"\n          Yet\nit still travelling very slowly despite of a jolt indicating a higher speed.\nThe gunshots started to get to Ifrit, and pushed with instinct, he pushed\nhimself up and breathed fire to the bushes, setting them on fire and halting\nthe progress of the pursuing hellhounds. He exhaled a relief, so as the female.\n          \"(Damn,\nthat was close. Retrieving you from the house of the dead really is a suicide\nif not for your part. I feel bad, though. You've just recently woken up from\ncoma).\"\n          \"(Well,\nI'll be damned. My life is on the hands of a female hellhound and the one\nsupposed to be protecting both of us is in this state. Damn...)\"\n          \"(Don't\nblame yourself. Being in a middle of a heavily guarded mausoleum playing with\ndeath makes your priority far exceeds the other hellhounds still royal to your\ncause, despite on how your 'death' seems legit).\"\n          Ifrit\nwondered on how long had he slept, and asked it. The hellhound, despite of\nseemingly didn't care, finally said, \"(I'll talk about it while you're\nrecovering. It will be a half day trip to Aushagen from here).\"\n          They\nwent on silently along the paved road (something that wasn't normally seen by\nIfrit). She occasionally stared back at Ifrit, but didn't start any\nconversation until halfway through the day, in which they stopped in a petrol\nstation to fill the fuel.\n          \"Diesel\nengines,\" said the hellhound with a rather thick accent. \"It's good for long\ntrip, but not very cheap.\"\n          \"Do\nyou know where to find a food? I never felt this hungry before. I'm famished\nnear death.\"\n          \"C'mon,\nit's on me.\"\n          After\nordering two foods, the hellhound said, \"(Some hellhounds found you by the\nriver with a bunch of other dead hounds. Apparently, you were washed from the\nsouth and the way I see it, it's around Adaline, right near a cliff. Those\nbodies were in a very bad shape, and it was then one morning when they found\nyou and Eshdar's body among the bodies. I'm sorry about Eshdar Winsel, though.\nThe Winsel family is an honorable royal line with long tradition of bestiary\ncollection, or so I was told. Of course, with a boat nearby, we gave him a boat\nfuneral, so don't worry, he will rest easy).\"\n          Ifrit\nthen remembered about his surviving friends, and a sudden wave of guilt hit\nhim. If he found them and told them that Eshdar was killed, they would know the\nblack hellhound was alive while his best friend died horribly. Thinking about\nhow Sammael would react to his master made him shiver, as he never would think\non what a demon dog would do if he was angry.\n          \"(So...the\nthing is, while I want to say that you're in Dusdolf, we're not going to the\nheart of the place. We're going to Tanah region along the east.\"\n          \"(Tanah?\nIt's a very isolated place, right? The way I was told made me think so).\"\n          \"(Don't\nget cocky now),\" said the female with a small laugh. \"(That place is not as it\nlooked like from outside, and there are many hellhounds living there, too. It's\nthe royalist's main base of operation).\"\n          \"(But\nI need to find my friends! They must be in this region! I remember we are\ntrying to trade to this place after we completed a run in Adaline, and Albreich\nsaid he wanted to stop by his home. Do you know where they are now?)\"\n          \"(How\nshould I know? The one with the most intel is my commanding officer. And then,\nI doubt if they still want you, given that it has been long day after you are\nlost from us).\"\n          This\ncaused Ifrit to become suspicious, and then, thinking of the worst, he asked,\n\"(W-what year is this?)\"\n          \"(It's\nyear 2455 First Alliance. Why?)\"\n          He\nremembered one sentence Albreich said when he referred to the summer in their\ntravel, and it was just some hours before they were attacked.\n          \"It's\nsummer of the year 2453 First Alliance, and counting from when we met, I guess\nit has been two years since we met, Ifrit.\"\n          And so, Ifrit realized that they would\nbe horrified that a dead hellhound would come back to life after being lost for\ntwo years, and two years was a long time to start forgetting on those that had\nbeen lost","next":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/885749-wolves-legacy-3-prologue.json"}