S.H.I.E.L.D. C.1 "Stay calm!" My teacher said. I heard my classmates asking the same questions that I was thinking, "Is this a drill? Am I going to die? Do my parents know what's going on?" We huddled flat against the wall of the door. I was nervous but I could come up with a way for the intruder to get in our classroom when suddenly the was a deafen sound and smoke. I looked toward the door an the intruder walked into the room holding a sound gun. He scanned the room looking for the youngest, smallest child, looking for the weakest in the pack. He spotted the youngest, smallest, whom I identified as Cassandra. She had short, strawberry hair and when they locked eyes she started to sob but he pulled the trigger on the sound gun before a tear even came out of her eye. The sound paralyzed her and everyone could tell she had died. The intruder looked around some more his eyes scanned my and I held my breath, but he passed me then stepped toward my best friend, Prim. Then my heart rose to my throat. What happened next happened so fast, but in slow motion. He pulled the trigger but I leaped in front of Prim. I wasn't trying to be a hero but after seeing what happened to Cassandra... I'm not letting that happen again. My ears were still deaf from the sound. The window shattered and a women with long, curly, bleach blond hair jumped through and kicked the gun so the sound hit my left leg from the knee down and I was paralyzed. It wasn't painful but I couldn't move it. She mouthed "follow" to me. I tried to say I couldn't but Prim helped me up. I heard nothing but I felt the ground vibrated and Prim lay on the ground in a crumble. "No!" I tried to scream. The women stabbed the intruder. She hoisted me over her shoulder and carried me out the window. I sobbed.

S.H.I.E.L.D School, of all places, was where I was recruited. The alarm sounded. Not the fire, tornado, or earthquake alarm. It was the alarm from my worst nightmares. The intruder alarm.

Gone To Wolves C.1 Chapter 1 Tail Lessons and Trust Lessons "Ok, Whispen, flick your tail up," I told my little sister. She obediently flicked up her little white tail. She had a white except for the tip of her tail and she had some white on her mouth. "That means forward!" She cheered. I licked her ear. "Good now to the right!" "Byrrgis slant right," Whispen said in the most serious voice her little body could muster. Then, without me having to tell her, she flicked it left. "Byrrgis slant left, now right, straight. Byrrgis slant right again," she flicked her tail to the left, then swished to the right. Her tail flashed up, then once again to the right. I stood up and nuzzled her pink nose. The sun was just rising on the ocean. "Will I ever be a byrrgis leader like mum?" She mumbled cocking her head to the right. Suddenly Skye flashed past us. I turned around to check out what Skye was doing. She climbed half way up a tree then did a back flip! Her white pelt was gorgeously clean. She shook herself after landing. Her paws seemed to touch the sky. Like her name... "I'm working on stunting big sis!" She said proudly. "I noticed," I laughed. Skye beamed at me. We started to head back to the den when I spotted Skage, my best friend. "Ok Skye take Whispen back to the den. I be with Skage if you need me. Mom will be back before night meal," Skage had a little brother named Koby that was giving my big brother, Nodakh something to do. We trotted off past our den, away from the ocean, into the woods. "We should have a contest!" Skage blurted out. "Ok... Um...." I started. "Digging" a distinctive male wolf voice said. A red/brown leaped down from atop a Willow tree. Skage and Fastilla ears shot forward. "Who are you?" Skage said deeply with a hint of a growl. My hackles settled a bit. Hurt flashed across the wolf's eyes. "I uh... I didn't mean to barge in on you guys... I just," "A digging contest....." I ruminated on the idea. The weird thing was that the wolf didn't go into a submission posture at the harsh comment. He stood there almost a little defiantly. "Ok, well my name is Aledh," he flicked his tail slightly. "Why were you in a willow tree?" Skage step closer. She was being really suspicious. "He's just another wolf Skage gosh!" She shot me a look and I sunk into a submission posture. She nudged me. I stood up. "We can try it... Aledh" I said trying to pretend Skage wasn't gonna have a fit. "All you have to do is digging as far down as possible, who ever digs deepest wins," Aledh said. He was a decent wolf. He wasnt from our clan. He looked like he was from the JefferClan. It was near a lake, unlike our clan MadiClan that was in the middle of no where. I stroked Skage with my muzzled. Something about that settled her. She grinned, "Ok," Skage pressed her paws to the ground. "Three, two," Aledh started. "One," we all said at once. I started digging out of the corner of my eye I saw Aledh was digging really close to me. I just kept digging. Suddenly something brushed under my paws. I jumped up startled. "Pause the contest!" I screeched. "Fastilla?" Skage came over to me. "It's ok, I think.... something soft is down there," I stuck my nose down the hole. It was a pelt. "It's a pelt but... Uh... it's not exactly wolf or a creature we hunt," We should widen the hole and gently lift it out," Skage suggested. We all started digging, and by the time we finished it looked like an evergreen was uprooted. We lifted out a a miniature wolf pelt. It wasn't a baby wolf. The color was bright bright red. "I've seen one of these before," Aledh said, "Over by the tall grasses on the other side of the Distant Blue!" He puzzled. "It's called a fox!"

Gyre Souls Kayla and Mary (all wolves of the beyond references go to Kathryn Lasky) Prologue I loved wolves. It was as simple as that. And I understood them like no one else. Well no one else besides my best friend Mary. The day after my mother left for Europe I discovered something that changed my #life forever. Reborn as a human I had a gyre soul. I was once a wolf. I was a blonde wolf with one gold eye and one navy blue eye named, Fastilla. I also had a disability. I was a malcadh. Sadly this disability stayed with me after I died as a wolf. I had an extra bone in both my human ankles. My gyre wolf soul had an extra bone in bone of her back paws. I think Mary has a gyre soul.... I have to tell her! I know her gyre name and and appearance from a dream. Skage. A white wolf with electric blue eyes.

Gone To Wolves Fastilla and Skage (all wolves of the beyond references go to Kathryn lasky) Prologue Her eyes were so milky blue you would have forgotten she was a wolf. Most wolves eyes were green. Not Fastilla's. And I guess that is how she convinced a pregnant wolf to take care of her. Kydeih was a black wolf with a white tail and green eyes. Kydeih was an amazing byrrgis leader. A byrrgis is when wolves get into a formation to take down an animal. She was kind and helpful and beautiful. She genuinely loved Fastilla. When her pups were born Fastilla was a couple moons old. Fastilla had already competed with the other wolves in running races and was undefeated. She loved it in the Distant Blue. She had heard many stories about when some wolves, Grizzlies and an owl survived a tornado and started a new clan. She was thankful they exalted the malcadh law. All wolves born with a physical disability were called malcadh and were treated terribly. Fastilla had a small extra bone on her paws. Her friend Skage had the same disability. But it seemed to make them faster.