Wake me up inside {Astraea}

[~Ice Blitz~]

Blue-gold eyes followed carefully the spasmatic path of a tiny orange insect, a butterfly. The body, and gangly paws and legs attached to the owner of the eyes followed suit, tripping over themselves as if poorly controlled. The pup scrambled after the bug in excitement. Finally he had managed to sneak away once again from his caretakers, and now? Now he was exploring, on his own. Firefly paused, wolfish grin plastered crrokedly upon his maw. His tail wagged so fiercefully that his rump along with it. Then, admitting a 'fearfull' bark, the pup leaped into the air, swiping a paw and snapping his jaws at the dancing, fragile creation. His ivory fangs missed it by inches, a small amount of orange powerd sticking to his nose on the creature's down-swing.

Wasting no time, the pup barrled after, excitement in every bone in his body. He tromped through the ferms, and the grasses, not noticing how dangerously close to Rafaern territory he had come. Finally, the butterfly left, flittering up high into the bows of a deciduous tree, just now putting its leaves back out. The pup yipped, and flopped over on his side, wriggling in the foilage in excitement. Never had he strayed so far from home, but yet, he was having so much fun! Firefly grinned from ear to ear, and snorted as a bit of pollen got up his snout. Yes, this had been totally worth it. He lay back, glancing up at the sun that shone down through the trees, and let his eyes drift slowly closed. Before he knew it, the pup was fast alseep.

OOC: Sorry its short, got a million and one things to do to-day. XD But I've been wanting to start this for a while...so here it is.

[kai]

White arctic tundra pup carefully padded out of the Rafaern territory. She had never been outside the pack lands since she came here. She never truly knew why she hadn't decided to explore outside the borders. But maybe it had to do that within the pack she had some sort of protection, though it was little. It wouldn't stop a bear or such coming after her. Blue eyes scanned the area around her carefully. If there was anything the pup had learned, was to be alert and light on her paws.

Time was spent being on the alert and exploring. At last she relaxed her small muscles in her body. With a thud she sat down and looked around. There wasn't much out here to do, unlike in the pack she had at least been able to find someone to bug of something. Silently she smiled and wagged her tail, pleased with her progress within the pack. She had last Raji her protector who had been alpha, but gained Kain's something she could name really, and maybe even Tempest. Slowly she was learning more about pack life and to fight. Astraea saw fighting as her only hope against an enemy or such, having the thought many in her pack would come to her rescue.

With a grumble of her stomach the white Rafaern pup got up in search of food. She had become very good at hunting rabbits now, and that's what she planned to get. Silent as a butterfly's wings she moved on. Blue eyes caught the tail of a rabbit twitch. Grinning she started her hunt in a mad chase. Paws flying both creatures moved with skill. But the darn little brown rabbit turned sharply to the left and then leaped over something. Snarling Astraea pulled back as she saw the sight of what laid within the leaves. She barely made it before running over the other pup. Her throat still erupted with growls of surprise and displeasure.

Looking down at the other pup who could be any older than her, she snorted and poked him in the side."You ruined my hunt." She said in a flat tone.

[~Ice Blitz~]

The young brute slept gently, not much for a care in the world, his little chest drifting gently with each breath. His dreams were light, but untroubled, being nothing more then interesting flashes before his closed, blue-gold eyes. It was in this dreamy, peacefull state, that the pup was nearly trampled by Astraea.

Young ball of fluff jolted away, terrified at the growling and the poking that came from close by. Without a second thought, he had left in a near perfect 180, and faced the white femme, petit hackles up as much as they would go, molten eyes churning with fear and...surprise?

It was made almost instantly clear to Firefly, as soon as his brain made the connection with his optics, that the thing that had so disturbed his rest, startling him up in a fearful rage, was another pup, one that looked to be roughtly in the same age group as he. He relaxed almost instantly, seeing there to be no harm in a fellow youngster, and dropped down, paws stretched out as far as they could reach in the standard "Hi, wanna play?" gesture. Jowels hung lose, pink appendage flopping in cheer. His stump of a tail, that still had yet to grow into bush adolescence, wagged in excitement.

In his obvious excitement, Firefly completely missed the snowy pup's flat tone, or obvious annoyance at his have ruined her hunt by sleeping in the middle of a field (where one would choose to walk, no doubt). Instead, he was simply overcome with the joy at finding another pup to play with other then Trigon. Not that the youngster had anything against Trigon, but the pup wasn't nearly as adventerous, preferring to hang around with either the strange human boy, or Kai, the pack's beta female.

Firefly nearly lost his balance in excitement. Here was not only a pup, one that seemed as adventerous as him, but a girl too. Unfortunately (or fortuneatly) the young brute had never leared of the terrible diesease known as 'cooties' that girls around this age tended to contract and carry, and being so ingornrant, was more then willing to play, romp, or explore with Astraea.

"Hi," he said, breathless with excitement. "I'm Firefly."