Mister Ōkami

“I don’t think I could fit… However… Pip is the perfect size,” I say.

“Pip? You’re getting Pip involved in this?” Frostt asks with a growl.

“If it means saving Presha’s life, wouldn’t it be worth it?” I ask.

“Fine, go fetch Pip,” Frostt says. “I might be able to make this work.”

I jump over Presha who is still wailing in agony. I dash past Kurai who is trying to figure out what is going on. Quickly, I find Pip with the other pups and Walk who is looking after them currently. Pip wakes up with a yawn as I frantically lick her head.

“What has happened?” Pip asks.

“I need your help,” I say, grimacing.

“Me? My help? What could I possibly do?” Pip asks.

“You’re gonna help us save Presha’s life,” I say.

“Ummm, okay, how?” Pip asks.

“I need you to crawl into Presha’s bum and find the stuck object…” I say.

“WHAT?! That’s insane!” Pip wails.

“I’ll do it if she doesn’t want to,” Kurai volunteers.

“Okay, never mind, I’ll do it…” Pip says with a sigh.

I take Pip by the scruff and carry her to the healing room. Frostt is trying to keep Presha calm. I set Pip down. As I thought, Pip is less than 1/4 the size of Presha.

“Okay, you somehow managed to convince Pip to do this, here,” Frostt says.

Frostt gently bites Presha’s leg and lifts it up. I lick Pip until she is soaked. Then, she squiggles her way up Presha’s bum. We wait anxiously as the new tiny lump in Presha’s belly shifts, moving deeper.

Presha groans in agony, clenching her jaw. The lump stops moving. Uh oh, that can’t be a good sign! Frostt begins licking Presha’s belly, hoping to get some reaction out of Pip.

“Pip, Pip! Don’t die in there!” I cry out.

Frostt keeps licking Presha’s belly. What have I done?! Pip’s gonna die in there! Presha’s belly groans loudly, rumbling aggressively.

“Uhhhh, send someone else in and rescue Pip…” Frostt says. “She’s not going to make it if we don’t get her out of there!”

“You called?” Kurai asks.

I look over. There she is. The smallest wolf of all. The tiny black fluff ball stares up at me, a smirk on her face.

“Yes, we need you. Pip got trapped inside Presha somewhere while trying to find the source of Presha’s pain,” I say.

“You need not ask twice!” Kurai says.

I lick Kurai throughly and she’s sent on her way. Presha wails in agony again. This time, this time for sure! The even smaller lump moves much quicker and reaches where the last lump stopped.

“I’m dying!” Presha wails.

At first, it appears Kurai is stuck as well. Then, however, both lumps begin moving. Presha’s sides heave. She squeezes, pushing herself up into a squatting position.

POP! Out comes Kurai biting the heel of Pip who has a decently sized bird bone fragment in her mouth. Presha pants, breathing heavily. Kurai lets go of Pip and grins. She finally got what she wanted most; to be inside a butt.

“I got stuck, sorry…” Pip says, taking deep breaths to replenish the air she lost.

“We thought you were dead, we were worried,” I say.

“Man that hurt…” Presha says, licking herself. “Thanks. You guys saved my life.”

Frostt resumes tending to her other patients. I clean Kurai and Pip before returning them to Walk. Man, what a crazy day already. As I am heading back to Kurai’s Cozy, Alpha sees me and glares aggressively.

I quickly scuttle away, tail tucked between my legs. I can’t have Alpha know what I’ve been up to. I hear him scoff in disdain. Will I even be allowed out to talk with Sage? Probably not.

“Ahem, my pack!” Alpha announces suddenly.

Great. Looks like I’m not going back to bed… I sigh and scurry back out followed by the other Omegas. Alpha glances at us all, probably trying to decide how to break us up today.

“Next ranking day will be here before you all know it. Every time I send you guys out is a chance for you all to prove your skills. To grow, and develop…” Alpha says. “As of currently, I’m NOT impressed. At all. Not even Suisen impresses me anymore! Shame on you, Suisen! Anyhow! We’re doing another big hunt today. Hill, Ziff, Walk, Yola, Vicious, Umami, Presha, Ivory, Space, Dilly, Frostt, Ava, Bella, Clementina, and Ellie, you guys will be hunting today!”

Dang. No visits with Sage today… Poor Presha, though. She’s already had a rough morning and now she has to go hunting to prove her skills…

“Hash and Chain are still injured, they will be excluded. Viper, Bounce, Jewel, Dollop, and Arch are excluded for pregnancy… Boarder Patrol, I’ll take Oil, Moov, Bound, Crusty, Earless, Cuttoe, Jell, and Peppy,” Alpha announces. “Edge, Gargle, you two are in charge of Ressa, Noise, Toosh, Kurai, Pip, Acorn, Hoop, Iddi, Kibby, Lost, Pooper, Cotton Mouth, Snotty, Loop, and Stubtoe.”

Oh boy. I’m not leaving the den today… Nor am I on pup duty… I lie as still as I can in the crowd, hoping for at least SOMETHING to do.

“Hmmm, let’s see… Split, Grammy, Bat, Squirrel, Suisen, you’re on clean up duty today. If you can get this place cleaned up, then you can rest,” Alpha says. “As for Rip, Wall, and Boogerbum… I don’t know. Do whatever your heart desires as long as you don’t touch my women.”

“Ooooh!” the boys says, glancing at each other.

“Alright, let’s go!” Alpha commands.

Boarder patrol leaves first, followed by hunting patrol. Boogerbum wanders off, probably to eat more poop. It’s no longer that he has to in order to survive, he’s doing this out of pure enjoyment. Dollop exits the nursery, she’s doubled in size.

“It’s time to play! The scary guy is gone!” Loop exclaims, running around excitedly.

“As long as we don’t get in the way of clean up…” Snotty says and sneezes all over the floor.

“Ooh! I’ll join you guys!” Ressa exclaims and then she steps in the snot. “EW!”

“Sorry,” Snotty says.

I watch the pups run and play. I wish I was on pup duty… I guess this is what I deserve for messing up so badly. Split, who is almost twice as old as Grammy, approaches me for guidance on how to clean up.

“Hey, let me help,” Kurai offers.

“You’re not on clean up duty today,” I remind her.

“Yeah? So what? Alpha doesn’t have to know,” Kurai says with a smirk. “I can show everyone how to properly scrub.”

“Well, okay, but you could be playing with the other pups,” I say.

“We’re friends, aren’t we, Suisen? Friends help each other out,” Kurai says, wagging her tail.

Kurai is very helpful at providing us tools and strength to clean the entire den. In my cleaning, I happen upon one of the other sleep rooms. I step in, scrub brush in my mouth and…well… Rip, Wall, and Boogerbum are in a pile enjoying themselves. Let’s just say Boogerbum is definitely an Omega. I leave awkwardly as Rip stares me in the eyes.

Hunting patrol returns before border patrol as usual. The boarder patrol is likely checking out deeper Feral Land. Hill, Walk, Yola, and Ava return without any prey. Bella caught 3 mice, Clementina caught 1 sparrow, and Ellie caught 2 rabbits.

Ivory caught 2 really big fat hares and Dilly caught 4 lambs! Then comes the greatest hunters… Ziff caught 3 adult sheep, Vicious caught 1 goat, Umami caught 3 young turkeys, Presha caught a pig despite her internal trauma this morning, Space caught 3 young deer, and Frostt, of course, drags in 3 whole cows!

“Easy peasy. Even staying in the nursery for so many days hasn’t ruined my skills,” Frostt says, casually.

Counting yesterday’s leftovers, we have enough for at least 118 wolves. We are certainly doing very well. The meat is all dragged to the center of the main room of the den, stacked so high it looks about to topple.

“Very good work, girls!” Vicious says, beaming proudly.

“Ooh! That’s a LOT of meat! That’s what they deserve for treating us so poorly!” Arch says.

Unlike the other mother wolves, Arch actually has decreased in size almost immediately. As far as I know, she didn’t have any duplications. I wonder if it has anything to do with the fact that the pup she took in was her own. Snotty runs in, smashes into the meat pile, and begins eating too soon.

“******* idiot! You’re not supposed to ******* eat yet!” Mouth yells, running in to stop Snotty.

“That’s okay, we can just tell Alpha that Kurai ate early,” Dilly says, laughing as she cuts ahead of Mouth to pull Snotty away.

“Wait, what?!” Kurai exclaims. “Do you WANT Alpha to kill me?!”

“No, but he definitely would kill Snotty because he’s a boy,” Dilly says.

“What?” Snotty asks, his silver and brown fur wet with the prey blood.

“Alpha hates other males than himself,” Dilly says.

“Uh oh…” Snotty says, licking himself clean.

Shortly after, border patrol returns! No deaths this time! GOOD. Nora, Crisp, Crusty, and Earless are slightly injured, but it’s not the worst I’ve seen, obviously. Crisp is the most injured as I had predicted.

“My pack!” Alpha announces. “Another successful rescue mission. Ten more wolves found. Ten more lives saved. Well, three of them might die because, again, we don’t have enough Omicrons to support them. Unless I have three volunteers?”

“Me,” Jell volunteers.

“Ah yes, another Omega…anyone else?” Alpha asks.

“Me!” Springy volunteers.

“Okay, one more,” Alpha says.

“And me,” Grammy volunteers.

“Great. That’ll make 8 pregnant wolves,” Alpha says. “Anyhow, back to the report… Once again, we picked up some stragglers in the main city. We went down a road we don’t usually go down and found five more wolves. We have a 7 year old male and his 6 month old daughter whom is nearly dead, I’ll give that one to Jell.”

“Oh my gosh!” Viper exclaims, peering out from the nursery.

“Big sis?!” the 7 year old male exclaims.

“Cobra!” Viper exclaims, plodding over to greet her brother.

“Oh hey, a family reunited,” Alpha comments.

“Awwww, so cute…” Rip comments.

“The reunion or the man?” I ask, teasingly.

“Shhh, nobody needs to know about that,” Rip shushes me, looking flustered.

“Next, we found a young female wolf, about 2 years old,” Alpha says, waving at a young wolf with completely gray fur.

“THAT’S MY MOM!” Noise barks, wagging her tail.

“Noise!” the young she wolf exclaims, bounding over to the pup.

“Wow, I wonder if any of my family is still out there somewhere…” Vicious murmurs.

“Maybe. We can only hope,” Peppy comments.

“The last two from the city are these two five month of pups we found. One male, one female. Neither are injured,” Alpha says. “Nobody saw us escape the city with five wolves in tow. At the outskirts, we found three more she wolves. This set of two 4 month olds where one is nearly dead, I’ll give that severely injured one to Springy.”

“I think those are my cousins,” Ivory says, staring at the little pups.

“Oh cool,” Grammy says.

“Before we reached the edge of The Feral Lands, we met this 12 year old she wolf who’s got a few injuries,” Alpha says.

“SNOWW!” Frostt exclaims.

“Mom!” the 12 year old she wolf exclaims.

THAT explains why Frostt has been so grumpy! I think I would be grumpy too if my daughter was missing and potentially dead. I, however, don’t have any kids. Maybe she’ll be nicer now…

“Woohoo! Let’s go!” Presha cheers.

“I’ve never seen Frostt this happy before,” Yola comments.

“Then we found two unrelated ferals when we ventured deep into The Feral Lands. This one year old female who was guarding a nearly dead 6 month old male. I’ll be giving that pup to Grammy,” Alpha says.

“Biiiiiig family,” Space comments.

The three damaged pups are returned to the wombs. After that, Alpha turns his attention to our massive meat pile. I’m pretty hungry, though I don’t expect Alpha to let me eat as soon as when I had favor. He stops and sighs heavily, shaking his head.

“Alrighty, clearly someone was hungry. Speak up. I must know who sampled the food. And, yes, I can tell this isn’t the leftovers,” Alpha says, casually checking his paw for splinters.