Pack Mentaility Chapter 8

Story by Admiral Q on SoFurry

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#8 of Pack Mentaility


They stayed off the roads to avoid travelers and did what they called 'tree hoping'. Tree hoping is where they use their speed and agility to hop from tree branch to tree branch and they can make good time and do so almost unnoticed. it does have it's drawbacks, some times the branch breaks and the fall flat on their butt, to the chuckles of the others. All of them fall at some point in their journey bringing about fits of laughter from everyone. They made occastional stops to hunt and eat. By nightfall they've gone a thousand miles and they settle down for a final meal before heading to sleep. After taking a chunk of deer meat Raceh asks the question."How long will it take to get home?" Argus puts down his piece which was the head of the deer and assumes a thinking pose while with one hand he twirls a collar that had the name Bambi on it.

"Assuming we keep this pace and don't run into any problems I'd say a month to a month and a half, right Jezeca?" Jezeca pauses eating her meal and responds without looking up.

"Sounds right." And goes back to eating.

"Oh good. I've missed the pack." Jezeca just takes another bite out of her meal.

"Nadia what was your last pack like?"

"I don't want to talk about my past. Only the pleasure of my mistress is important any else is just pain." And she goes back to eating. All conversation end for that night. After supper they settle down to sleep. Raceh and Argus cuddle next to eachother although Raceh waits for Nadia and Jezeca to join them. Jezeca takes the opposite end of the camp to Raceh's dissapointment. Jezeca starts to settle for sleep when she feels a body lie next to her and arms wrap around her. She looks over her shoulder and sees Nadia trying to cuddle next to her.

"What are you doing?"

"Please mistress I feel safe next to you,please let me?" Jezeca looks into Nadia's eyes and sees so much pain there.She then wonders what horrors Nadia went through and she couldn't refuse anything that might comfort the poor wolf. She the reaches over and strokes Nadia's muzzle before going back to going to sleep, She see's Argus looking at her with an amused look and desprately trying not to laugh.

"OW!" Argus yelps as he rubs his head from the stick thrown by Jezeca. Smirking Jezeca lays back down and closes her eyes. She feels Nadia cuddle closer to her and hear her sighs in contentment. Jezeca goes to sleep with a slight smile on her face with the though maybe helping Nadia will make this more endureable.

Nothing of importance happens for the rest of the trip which is done in a month except on the final leg when Jezeca looks in the direction of her old town and wonders how Debie was doing. Nadia notices her mistress stopping and asks."What is it mistress?" Jezeca responds by pointing in the direction she's looking.

"Over there is the town I lived in before...this." She lifts up her furred arm."I was wondering how a friend of mine was doing." Sighing she trudges onward to catch up with Argus and Rache. Nadia follows behind wondering how to soothe her mistress's emotional mood. She knows she should be the last to try, she knows she still has issues but she commited herself to serving her new mistress and wants to help her anyway she can.

Meanwhile at the den Silverback sit's on a boulder and observes his pack. A couple of pups have been born, one of them from Moonlight who she named Starlight. She and Claw were so happy to have a presious gift that is a child and the packs mood was so bright even his. It didn't last however, for 2 years Argus and Raceh have been out searching for Jezeca. He didn't think it who take so long but once again he might have underestimated her or they could have been killed by others. He just wish he had some way of knowing. His thought's are interupted when four werewolves jump out of the trees. It's is three missing wolves plus another. Silverback leaps down from the boulder to greet them. "Argus,Raceh,Jezeca welcome home." Before he knows it he flies back onto the ground with alot of pain it his jaw. He sit's up and sees Jezeca stomp off with the strange wolf following her. Argus reaches over and helps him up. Rubbing his throbbing jaw he asks Argus."Did I do something wrong? I thought she be happy to be home."

"Yes you did my alpha I'm sorry to say. She is far from happy."

"If she isn't than why isn't she tied up she's obviously not one to give up."

"She isn't trust me on that. It was essentially blackmail that got her back. She gave up something very precous to her to be here and she's only here because she hinir's her word."

"Hhhmmm. Hey who's the other one? Someone she turned?" Pointing to Nadia who is currently memorizing the layout of the den and the pack.Argus looks at his alpha with a shocked amused look.

"NO! Like she turned anyone. That's Nadia a werewolf she rescued from a criminal group that used a magic collar to enslave her. She went through alot of bad things for 20 years and the reason she's here she feels she owes Jezeca her freedom thus Ironiclly enslaved herself to Jezeca much to her annoyance." The rest of the pack is alittle hesitant to approach Jezeca after slugging Silverback. The only one she seemed to tolerate was Nadia who could sit by her without any reaction. Even Raceh didn't get that close but she was closer than the rest of the pack. Jezeca herself had found a corner of the clearing and sat down with a piece of wood facing the woods. She uses her semi-retractable claw to carve the wood while Nadia stood by waiting for an order. After a few minutes Jezeca pauses in her carving and says.

"Nadia you can do anything you want to do I am fine you can rejoin me when the pack has dinner." And she resumes carving. Nadia goes and tries to get to know the rest of the pack. Most of the pack goes back to what they were doing before except for Silverback who continues to watch Jezeca, trying to figure her out. This continues for 30 minutes when another event gains his and some of the other wolves attention. Starlight and Digger curious about the 'new' member run over to her while their parents watch with a little fear for their pups.

"What'ca doing?" Ask Starlight the more couragous of the two.

"Carving."

"We haven't seen you before."

"That's because I left before you were born."

"Why?"

"Because I didn't like it here, what they did to me. I had to go."

"Then why are you back?"

"Because I gave my word to do so for their help in saving someone very important to me."

"How do you give a word? Don't you just say it?" Starlight confused by that last statement.

"Do you know what a promise is?"

"Yes, it's like when mom tells me not to go beyond the clearing at night."

"Do you want to go farther?"

"Yes."

"Then why don't you?"

"Mom and Dad would punish me if I did."

"It's the same thing for me except the punishment wouldn't be from the parents it would be from me.And I would not be trusted the next time I made a promise."

"Okay."

"What are your names?"

"I'm Starlight that's Digger." She points to the other pup who was digging a little hole during all of this.

"I can see why. I'm Jezeca." She goes back to her carving while the pups play around her for a while. She even manages bend her head out of the way as the pups jump around her withour looking up or even pausing her carving. An hour later the pups go off to explore while there's still light. With shavings around her the wood was rounded on one side and still flat on the other. Silverback walks up to her and peers down.

"You surprise me yet again."

"Why?"

"Given how much you obviously still hate us I thought you would have yelled at the pups to leave you alone."

"They weren't born when you did this to me so I hold them blameless. I'm sure your glad Argus and Raceh are back though they should've been here earlier but they were stubborn."

"I'm glad your all back never doubt that." He looks up and judges the time."It's time for the evening hunt."

Jezeca gets up and puts the wood in a spot in the den and heads back out."And what are you doing?"

"Hunting, If I'm going to be here I will contribute, besides I'm the best you've got."And she was proven right. They took down a whole herd of deer in minutes. At the den a fire is started to cook the meat before it's spread aroud the pack. Jezeca and Nadia the most isolated of the group by Jezeca's choice. As the pack eats Silverback goes to Raceh and asks.

"What did you do to get her to come back?"

"Well the first time we found her she was in a town not far from here. She kicked Argus's butt that time before running again and with a broken knee Argus couldn't follow and I could win against her. It took us a year and a half to find her again. This time with a human family. This time we both tried to subdue her, but once again she kicked our butts and tied us up. She came back to us because the daughter of the family had been kidnapped and she need our help. Argus said we'd help only if she came back and that's it."

"Really?"

"Well she really liked that girl and that girl made even me second guest our goal before she was kidnapped."

The rest of the dinner came and gone and the pack breaks up for alittle while. Argus and Raceh with their quest now behind them decide to become mates. They lie down together and Argus starts to grope her breasts and milk a nipple. Raceh holds his head there moaning in pleasure from the stimulation. After a few minutes he then switches nipples while she strokes his cock out of it's vent. Finally he enters her taking her virginity and begins pumping whiles still milking her nipples. Soon the grunts, groans, and moans are hear throughout the den. It all stops with a dual howls as the both cum then collase together and the resumes its usual night nosies...at leat for a few minutes before the two go at it again. This time by other couples. The pack finally heads to bed, Silverback walks over the typical dogpile the pack turns into when sleeping when he looks to the left and finds Jezeca lying alone minus Nadia who starts cuddling with her. His featues droop at the site that she still won't sleep with them but he knows when not to push and settles down to sleep noticing that Argus's cock was still embedded in Raceh's pussy. He falls asleep with a smile on his lips and the wackyness of the couple.

Two years pass by. Raceh gives birth to twins. The female they named Crescent and the male Bob. Their birth even brought a smile to Jezeca's face, something she just doesn't do at all. The biggest highlight of the time was when one of the males, Brutus tries to make Jezeca his mate. Now usually mates choose eachother in the pack, but sometimes a male or even female will force themselves on an unwilling mate and if they win the chosen mate has to submit. So Brutus tries to court her the usual waybut is rebuffed by her and she goes back to her carving. After multiple attempts Brutus tries to force her. He tackles her to the ground but she manges to push him off then lashes out with a sweeping kick to the legs. Nadia tries to rush to the aid of her mistress, but his held back by other pack members."This is a mating challenge you can't interfere." Says one of them.

"But she's my mistress! I have to help her."

"No you can't." Their argument is interupted by the fight. Brutus and Jezeca our on their knees her arms pinned."I'm going to enjoy putting my cock in your pussy and see your belly grow with my pups in it." He whispers in her ear. She manages to get off her knees and push with her feet sending them both in the air. She adjustes her torso so his back is facing the tree their heading towards. They hit hard and Brutus looses his grip on her. As they fall she grabs his neck and throws him over her head. He falls hard on the ground in the clearing with the wind knocked out of him. As he tries to catch his breath Jezeca looms over him.

"Your pups will NEVER be in my belly." Then she grabs male organs and rips them off and throws them into the woods. His Howl has a noticable higher pitch and all the single males, who had until this point and the cocks out in arousal. For werewolves a strong female can be a huge turn on for a strong mate means strong pups.After her last act however those cocks slip back into their sheaths in fear and the males they're attached to have wide eyes. Jezeca leaves her opponent..no scratch that, victim and heads back to her carving while he squrms and howls. It took him a whole month to regrow him male organs and it was impossible to get Nadia to leave Jezeca's side for months afterwards. Jezeca had finished the first carving which was a figureing of a girl which keeps near at almost all times. Despite all of this however she shows no change in her attitude towards the pack only tolerating Nadia,Raceh, and the pups. She still sleeps away from the pack with Nadia as her only company. the pack has tried at numerous times to incorperate her into thair activities only to be refused. Hunting and eating are the only things she joins the pack in. As a result pack morale has fallen with these failures and Silverback is very concerned by it. He approaches Jezeca who was stretching to loosed up her muslces.

"Jezeca I need to talk to you." She stops her stretches and looks at him with a cold look. "I know you were forced here, I gave the order to bring you back. But your unhappiness is affecting the pack in dangerous ways. Why can't you learn to at least be content here?"

"After what you took from me you ask me that!? You are a born wolf aren't you?" He nods."Then you don't know what it's like. What it's like when your invaded by something under your skin invading your very skin. And if that wasn't enough your own mind isn't just yours anymore. I just can't help it I feel that I've lost who I am and I try do hold on to what's left with everything I've got. The wolf's tried to help and I think we to the most part have come to an agreement, but it's not enough." Silverback sighs at a lost on how to fix this when he sees the figurine. He takes it with Jezeca eyeing him causitiously as he looks over the figurine. It is a very detail figurine of a smiling girl in the mid teens.

"You based this off of something didn't you?"

"Yes, Pup, She tooked to me at the very beginning and treated me like a sister. Even after she found out about the wolf she treated me no different. She even joined me during the full moon until she fell asleep."

"How did your wolf feel about it?"

"She didn't make much of a fuss. She missed you not me but she was content there. She even confided in me that she liked pup as well." Silverback looked down at the figurine as he thought. After a few minutes he puts the figurine back and looks at Jezeca.

"An alpha's job is to ensure the safety and happiness of the pack. As a result I have an offer to you." Jezeca perks her ears up at this."I'll let you go back to that family for half a year then you come back and live here for half a year and so on."

"You would actually do that?" He nodds."When will this start?"

"When would they need you the most?" Jezeca thinks for abit before answering.

"Spring through summer and maybe a tad of early fall."

"Okay how about you go there late spring to early fall then here late fall to early spring?"

"Deal. I'll leave the figurine as a sign that I will return." Silverback then gets up and bellows.

"Hear me my pack! for now on Jezeca will spead half a year with a human family she cares for the other half here with us. Has the pack witness this deal?" They respond.

"The pack has witness." But before Jezeca could take off Nadia rushes to her.

"You're leaving?"

"Yes only for half the year then I'll be back again okay." Jezeca strokes Nadia's muzzle to comfort the wolf.

"Take me with you."

"I can't I'm going back to Veli's family."

"I promised to serve you and I will no matter were you are." Jezeca thinks for a minute before responding.

"If you come you'll have to be in human form for nearly the whole time."

"That's fine with me. Please." She gives her the most pathetic but cute sad puppy look in here eyes.

"Silverback, Can Nadia join me?" Silverback fortunatly did not leave so he witness the entire discussion.

"Your her alpha she only obeys me because you don't counter it so if she wants to go then I can't stop her." Jezeca then puts the figurine at the spot where she sleeps in the den and with a gleeful look she and Nadia head straight into the woods and Veli's home.

"What's the plan Mistress?" Nadia asks the next day as they tree hop towards Veli's home. As Jezeca's foot lands on a branch and coils in preparation for the next leap she replies.

"Well our first problem is we can't walk around naked, thankfully I left a cache behind that has a spare armor for me but nothing for you." She leaps to the third tree and continues. "You'll have to wait outside of town until I get you something until then stay out of site Veli and her family might accept us but the rest of the town if they found out...not likely. It shouldn't be more than a day, Okay."

"Yes mistress, see I knew you'd look out for me." Jezeca shakes her head. She had long since given up on trying to reform Nadia's need for a mistress even trying to stop her from calling her mistress.She insteads strive to deserve the title in her eyes. The month and a half journey from the den to Veli's home was both too fast and unbearibly slow at the same time. They were still a mile away from town when they heard commotion and they went to see what is was (Deja vu huh?).

"Little girls shouldn't be out here. they should be at home serving the men." They see 3 teenage boys surronding someone, they couldn't tell from there position.

"We'll see who should be in town!" A girls voice yelled out. One of the boys falls to the ground his hand covering his fore head to reveal Veli of 14 years with her fist out. Jezeca motions to Nadia to stay put, she wants to see what pup can do. She isn't dissapointed, after one boy swings his fist Veli ducks, elbows the said boy in the gut then rolls to the left as the third boy tries to kick her. As the second boy falls to the ground clutching his gut and groaning Veli and the third boy face off. The boy throws a series of kicks and punches( well what could be consider kicks and punches for untrained kids). Although not a werewolf Veli did watch Jezi train and has done her best to copy it, she manages to dodge most of the blows and kicks him in the shin and stomp him in the other foot.

"Go on get outta here you little boys." After a brief hesitation the boys limp back to town..for now. As Veli sees them limp away she wishes Jezi could have seen it. She feels tears forming in her eyes her big sister was force to leave in order to save her from a horrible fate at the hands of a Black Star boss. Before those thought could get any further they're intrupted.

"A little clumsly but fast. Not bad Pup." Veli looks over and see's her big sister leaning against a tree arms crossed and a grin on her muzzle.

"JEZI!!!!!!!!!" She races over and hugs her long lost sister.

"Hey Pup. Miss me?"

"Yes! Wait what are you doing here? Did you run again?"

"No, I'll explain later with your parents. Come on I have to stop by my cache I left behind." Jezeca puts her arm behind Pup's back and directs her to the cache as Nadia follows behind. Veli notices Nadia.

"Uh, Jezi! behind us."

"Huh?" she looks back and sees Nadia."Don't worry about Nadia she's with me." They reach the cache in 10 minutes, this time her cache was a large boulder with a hollowed out area blocked by a rock. Jezeca pulls out the chest hidden inside and puts it on the ground and starts to open it.

"You kept this here?" Veli asked.

"I learn a long time ago. It's good to have a emergency supply if you had to leave a town in a hurry." The chest opens to reveal doubles of her warrior equipment, a bag of coins, and a second set of dragonscale armor she had made durning her last stay (and yes it's bikini style to). She puts on her armor and grabs her bag of coins and puts the chest back.

"Nadia you wait here as I get clothes and you Pup head home but don't tell your parents I'm back I want to surprise them."

They both say "Okay."

Jezeca heads into town and enters the tailors shop. The tailor who was getting ready to close up shop is surprised to Jezeca after so long.

"Jezeca can I help you?"

"Ah ! Sela good to see you. Yah I do you got any plain female clothes about my size?" Sela looks at her a bit.

"I think I have something." She goes over to some clothes on hangers and after a second or two comes back with a brown tunic and green pants. "I assume you needed it quickly I know it's not your usual style."

"that's okay this is for a...a cousin of mine and her clothes were ruined I'll come by tommorrow with her for a more detail outfit. How much?"

"2 centaurs." Jezeca hands over two copper pieces with any image of a centuar on them. She then leaves the shop and joins Nadia at the cache and hands her the clothes.

"Here, they may not fit right but we can go in tommorrow to get a better set." Nadia changes to her human form. As a human her skin is like a native American but has green hair the same as the hair in wolf form and she has deep voilet eyes that are slightly less gold in this form. She gets in her clothes which are a little big but doable. They then head to Veli's house.

Meanwhile Veli returns home and yells. "I'm back!" Lela yells back. "Good dinner is nearly ready wash up." Veli goes outside to the water pump and washes her hands and face. The bath in a pond not to far from the house during the summer and use an old water tub during the winter. She heads back in and sets the table with a smile on her face at the thought of Jezi eating here again. Lela notices her daughter is so cheerful and asks.

"Why are you so happy Veli?"

"I saw some good news."

"What?"

"Can't tell."

"Why?"

"I promised not to. Don't worry you'll find out soon enough mom." Frustrated Lela carefully looks at her daughter and notices the brusies she got in the fight.

"Veli! What happen to you!?"

"I'm fine mom just a couple of bruises." Pat opens the door to his office and asks.

"Lela what are yelling about?"

"Veli has bruises."

"Mom it's nothing big."

"Let me see young lady." Knowing an order when she heard it Veli approaches her father as he kneels down to inspect is daughter.

"Okay now how did you get these?"

"Dylan and his buddies tried to bully me."

"Tried?"

"I beat them down."

"And this is after a victory!?" Lela states pointing to the bruise on Veli's cheeck.

"Actually I thought she did well against three opponents untrained." Veli's parents to look over to see Jezeca and Nadia by the now open door.

"Jezeca!" They both exclaimed. "How...?" Jezeca hold up her hand.

"I'll tell you during diner. I hope you have enough for five sorry for dropping in unexpected but I had no way to let you know I was coming." Lela waves it off and replies.

"I'll just throw some more meat in for you. You're family your always welcome." The'you're family' thing throws Jezeca off guard but she recovers quickly.

"Allright Nadia find a couple of seats for us while I get more plates and silverware." 20 minutes later all five of them are sitting at the table eating the stew Lela cooked. Pat finally gets the courage to asked the question.

"So should we expect the pack to come after at some point?"

"Nope Silverback let me come back. We made a deal, I stay hear from late spring to early fall then head back to the den for awhile and come back again."

"Really? you can stay?" Veli asks hopefully. Jezeca nods.

"Yes every year for half that year."

"YEEEAAAAHHH!" and Veli tackles Jezeca to the ground thankfully not spilling any of the stew.

"What about your....companion, Nadia? Remember that fourth room is my office." Pat states his concern.

"Don't worry about Nadia. She suffered alot under that Black Star woman and feels the best when she sleeps with me." Nadia nods her head in agreement.

"Yes this mistress is much kinder than the last one and I feel safe next to her." Pat and Lela look at eachother a bit then shrugged their shoulders. Soon they all head to bed after such a day. Pat and Lela fall alseep with the toughts on how Jezeca's return will both affect their lives and how it's made Veli so happy. For Jezeca it's the thought of finally being back here, Nadia feeling safe so close to her mistress and the fact her mistress is allready so happy. For Veli it's the thought of her big sister finally back and the feeling of no longer being alone. They all dream of the days to come.