I'm waking up, I feel it in my bones ("Challenge")
11-19-2018, 01:41 PM
(This post was last modified: 11-19-2018, 02:01 PM by Chaos.)
It was part whimsy, part frustration that had led Chaos off on this adventure. With Rhythm and Rhyme back, with the knowledge Valen had laid on him about their kidnapping, it had brought back a lot of memories. About Imperium, mostly, and how happy he'd been there before his dad had disappeared to try to find his mate and her kids. Then everything had fallen apart, and it hadn't been until he'd unexpectedly been landed with Crew that he'd found something that gave him that sense of really belonging again. He'd been an idiot to give that up and leave Artemis and Valdis and the others without a home. He hadn't really told his dad about that, because it made his fur prickle with shame. He'd have made his dad proud as an alpha, he was sure of it. But he'd gone and ruined it by walking away from Crew. He'd let them down, let his family down, hell he'd let himself down by assuming he couldn't hack it as a real alpha. He'd just been playing at it.
Maybe it was time to get serious.
He'd gone north to see if he could find Leto, or Artemis and any of their old group, but instead he'd found the border of a pack. A spurt of excitement flowed through him. He didn't believe in signs but hell maybe this was one if ever there had been one. He paced the border for a few minutes of thought while his owls found perches in the pines overhead. The right way to do it, the traditional way, would be to go to the battlefield and call the alpha there, challenge him all officially and traditionally where anyone who wanted to could come and gawk, but he'd bucked the system his whole life so why conform now? If gawkers wanted to gawk they could come here and do it.
With a devil's grin and his feet planted wide in the snow, he threw his head up and sent out a challenge to the alpha to defend his title.
OOC: Since this isn't going to be a judged, real challenge there's no point in putting it in the battlefield. Anyone is welcome to show up who wants to but I won't be waiting long because I want to get this played out one way or another.
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Chaos speaks in a strong lisp, which I am usually too lazy to write