Well, he at least had taken her seriously... it somehow gave her a different view on him."So we're talking nice now, hm? ... Well I'll just have to humor you and hope you don't try to bite my balls off... What are you confused about?"
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"It does stop, eventually. Humans aren't as innately evil as they might seem to you - see?"
Appearantly... she COULD ask him questions, if need be. That could be a serious advantage, in the future...
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As she collapsed in her cage, one ear turned to Cardinal. Her support meant a lot to Shade; she wished she could send her a smile. But instead, she was only capable of a short wag with the very tip of her tail, as she panted like mad, wanting nothing more but to fill her lungs and calm her heart that seemed to pound too hard, to fast..."Come on, girl."
As a response, Shade turned her ears to him."You did good, if that means anything. You need practice, but..."
He stopped.
Had Blood just made her a COMPLIMENT? Once more, she gave a short tailwag, her whole body pumping with her heavy breathing.
Well, that DID mean something. More then Blood could know... especially after Dice's remarks.
Maybe she wasn't as weak and worthless as she had feared... as Dice had sáid...
She had no idea that those hopes would be shattered quickly.
It took Shade a long time to catch her breath, but as she was slowly coming around, she was becoming more sensitive to her envoirnment again. She listened to the sounds of running paws, panting, talking humans...
Someone else was running... Cardinal? She tried to lift her head, but it sunk back down. She needed a little longer to recover....
It wasn't until the bang of a cage told her it was done, that she finally lifted her head to see. Cardinal had to be exhausted... yet, she was hard on herself.
She perked her ears. Was she KIDDING? She had done great... right?"Not good enough," she said bitterly, more to herself than to Spax.
She suddenly realised, with a bit of shame, that she had missed her entire run. She hadn't seen her preformance... as she had been to exhausted to lift her head.
Maybe she WAS weak...
She sighed, and flopped back down. Slowly, the feeling in her legs began to return, and the aching of her lungs and troath began to fade. But she was still glad she could just lay there... curled up in the small cage.
Her eyes travelled to Bloodhound, but she didn't say a word.
Dice had also seen the preformances of both females.
He had been very displeased to see Shade preform so amazingly. Damned bitch... he wanted her to feel worthless, to feel less then any of the others... he had to slam her down next training. He had to make her feel that she might be fast, but that she was WEAK. A weakling, a feeble little girl, unable to survive around here... before she'd be too confident.
And worse was; he had to do it carefully, unnoticed...
Cardinal had been doing extremely well as well. He had expected great things from her, of course, being Mistress's favourite... but she still amazed him. She showed all the makings of a warrior. She had probably been one, before she was captured...
He had loved to see her red body move; what a sexy piece of tail. He smirked to himself. He could at least rub it in that Cardinal had preformed amazingly as well, thereby putting the earthcoloured female down once more... later.
He was almost sorry as Cardinal's run was over. The sight of her running was a bit of a turn-on...
It was Tsuna's turn; Xor's voice echoed through the room as he told Tsuna to take position.
Dice watched him with interest. As before, Tsuna seemed determined to shine, to stand out... and he did a very nice job at it, too. He licked his lips and nodded. That boy could come far, if he kept this up. He WANTED to be topdog... and that was rare. Most wolves just despised it all... but Tsuna seemed to want to be a champion. He would make sure to encourage that... to train him hard and fair. He knew Xor would probably be in charge of him, and that his own training would only be a part of forming the boy. But he would make sure to do that part well...
He let his eyes stray to Jolene again; hopefully, she'd notice him.... He licked his lips as she stretched, his eyes on her lushious rear. Whát a girl....
Shade's ear turned towards the sounds as Tsuna ran. Time passed, and the longer it took, the more relaxed she became. He was doing well....
Dice felt a response in his loins the minute Jolene chose to come his way. He wagged slightly in anticipation; whát a girl...Making up her mind she trotted over to him, smiling and curling her tail as she did.
“hay baby hows the show”, she said curling around him like a cat then laying down along side him.
He smiled at her and respectfully dipped his head slightly, but his nose twitched as he took in deep breaths of her feminine scent. Ah... heavenly!
- ''Well hello, beautiful...'' He complimented her. ''So good to see you here, Jolene.'' He enjoyed her presence, circling him, surrounding him with her scent, before laying down next to him. ''A show indeed, huh? The new batch is rather promising... still just wolves, of course...'' His eyes where glued to her. ''Tell me... what do you think of them?''
Shade still panted slowly, but rolled to her side now, to look around. She had regained energy pretty well, and she felt stronger again.
Tsuna had finished... they had all done well. So, they where done now, right?
She expected the cages to be covered once more. To be taken back to the cells. But to her surprise, the humans began to move around... and the next moment, Eight was released.
She gasped and perked her ears. There would be MORE?!! Oh NO...
She stared at Eight. He showed no signs of being tired after the run; he refused to show weakness. She could respect it, but wondered if it would do him any good... how much could they EXPECT of him, in his state?!
She frowned as he put his head through a hoop. What was this about?! It confused her greatly...
But the next moment, it became clear.
Eight suddenly began to pull. He threw in his weight and slowly pulled out the strong bar holding the hoop; he came closer towards them, step by step...
She gulped. So... a test of STRENGTH. This wasn't a good thing for her...
The hoop cut into Eight's skin, she could see it. Drops of blood began to fall to the ground. She turned her ears backwards; this would be painful... scary... And no matter how much force Eight put into it, he couldn't pull forward anymore.
He then slipped; the harness pulled him back with a jank, slamming him into the wall.
She shivered; another human-made torture devise. Nothing to gain... just pain and shocks... all to amuse those terrible humans. To test their ''pets''....
She softly growled to himself. THAT LOWLIFE DOG... she despise Spax more then anyone. Even more then Dice. Spax ENJOYED humiliating them... that BASTARD...“blood get the harness of his neck”, he said to blood who he had ghestered to accompany him into the arina, the harness had sank a little way into his flesh and as it was pulled off of him it showed a buld and bleeding mark around the front of his chest. Spax grabbed him by the scruff and dragged the parlised eight back to his crate and throw him rufly into it. He suprsed a grunt of effort thow eight was under weight it didn’t change the fact that he was a massive wolf.
Once the crate door slammed shut again the collar turn off allowing eight to move again, stayed were he was panting, once again trying to regain him self throw his sher exusten.
And worse was; even if you did well, they would paralize you. The feeling she hated the most...
There was no gain in this...
Her nose was wrinkled in a silent snarl, but she refused to growl at him openly. He would just punish her for that, she supposed. Besides, she was already on his bad side after her talk with Blacklight...As spax passed Shades door he stopped and looking in with a sneer.
“your turn little wolf”
The memory already seemed so old. As if it happend months ago...
But her cage sprang open, and she knew it was her turn. Damn... she was so unwilling to do this!!
The zap of her collar was a sign to go, but it just made her flinch for a moment. She then hurried towards the hoop, knowing she had no chance to do any good at this. Better get it over with... there was no way she could refuse this test, anyway.
She took a deep breath and pressed her eyes shut; she then put her head through the hoop.
The hoop was large for her small body; it pressed against her chest, not her troath, as she dug her paws in the ground, getting ready to start pulling...
With all her might, she pushed herself forward.
Unlike Eight, she didn't have much weight or size to throw into it. She didn't have much strength either... and as expected, the bar didn't come out, at all.
She snarled to herself and forced herself push harder. Her entire body trembled under the tention she was putting upon herself; she hung forward, her legs stretched out underneath her, as she kept trying to stretch that bar, to go forward...
A mean zap of her collar was a signal to try harder, but instead, it broke her concentration. She let out a yelp of surprise, backing down for a second, but then quickly retook herself.
She slammed herself forward again, struggling, her paws slipping. The hoop pressed painfully into her chest. She took a step forward, but she still didn't manage to make it move...
She then took a deep breath, puffed her chest up and went for it. With all her might, all paws stretched behind her to get as much power as she could, she finally managed to move the bar... but not much. The moment it began to slide out, no further then half an inch, she was suddenly pressed backwards so hard that her paws slipped on the ground as she helplessly tried to push forward once more. Her paws scratched the ground as she slipped and slipped, trying to go foward, but only ending up on the same spot she had begun right away.
- ''Let's stop it. She's not going to move it.'' A human stated, calmly. ''Worthless. Absolutely worthless. Not strong, at all.''
Shade suddenly felt a painful shock hitting her; she collapsed to the ground, shaking, unable to regain control of her muscles. It lasted for quite a few seconds; a punishment for her lousy preformance. The moment it ceased, she scrambled back to her feet and hurried to her cage as fast she could, the hated, cramped space suddenly feeling like a save haven, a place where the humans would no longer have their attention on her...
The cage slammed shut; she was done.
As expected... she had done absolutely terrible.
Her ears turned backwards, her body still trembling slightly from the huge efford and the shocks, as she sat there, silently, dissapointed, her hopes of meeting expectations crushed, and therefor her confidence painfully slammed into the ground.
Maybe she had done good at the run... but she was, indeed, worthless in the end it seemed...
Dice was right....
