Daisy and the Wolves Chapter One: I'm not the same

~Chapter One~


     A small girl about the age of three peeked around the cave she called home. Her raggedy short hair was affray along with her equally raggedy clothing she had been given as a baby. An old wolf snuck up behind her, causing the girl to jump. " Gah!" The wolf nuzzled the girl's head, causing the girl to whimper like a pup. " Mama, why I can't go outside?" The old wolf gazed into her small purple eyes and sent her the message through a thought.


" It is dangerous for you to leave the cave. I'll let you go to the lake, but  no farther without my permission. You are my child, I wish for your safety to be ensured."


"Ai Mama, I go no farther. I go with other pups too?"


" As long as they don't roughhouse and you don't get in trouble with them, it is okay. Ask their guardians for permission before you depart and bring a guardian with you."


"Ai! I go ask now!"


She ran through the cave asking every pup and guardian to go, most allowing their pups to go with, and the few guardians coming with on the journey were decided. As she left with the wolves, she turned around and waved to her mother wolf, the wolf nodding her off after. As she walked to the lake, she talked to the other pups in wolf, then translating what they said and responding. One of the pups was able to hold up a conversation via telepathic message.


" Daisy, why you look so different? We look fuzzy, you look smooth. We got pointy ears, you got smooth ones. We got tails, you don't. Why that?"


" I guess I'm hybrid wolf who is a mutant, I special."


" Are you even a wolf at all?"


" 'Course I am! I born with you in cave yes?"


" Actually, your guardian found you outside the cave. You not like us."


The wolf walked away from her, she pondering what he had said. Am I really different? Am I really a wolf? What am I then? She was shot from her mind conversation with herself after stepping in some water. "Water?" She looked ahead of her. A lake, she was here. She hopped in the water and swam the doggy-paddle about the shallow parts. She ventured a bit farther, but stopped. What was that? A flash of black and white passed her eyes.  She followed the thing she saw, stopping at a rock. She gazed over the rock, seeing what she had been following. A boy, about a year older was right at her paws. Who was this? A human boy? She had never seen a human. She was a curious pup. She moved a bit closer, but was stopped when she saw his face. He looks like me, am I a human too? She backed away from him, a bit scared of what he would do if she was found spying on him. A human, a real human. I've never seen one before this. Am I like him, a human? Why am I with wolves then? Her curiosity left her but one more question. Who am I really?